Joey Rooney on Swoop’s World Late Night

Joey Rooney

On Wednesday October 30, 2013 at 8pm/PDT (10pm/CDT, 11pm/EDT) we are happy to welcome restaurateur Joey Rooney to Swoop’s World Late Night. Joey currently owns and runs the wonderful Long Beach restaurant The Crooked Duck but this aint his first rodeo. Tune in as we get to know the ever funny and energetic Joey, his life in the restaurant business, and his take on good food and great beer. You’re sure to be entertained. Of course we’ll be up to all of our usual fun with our Brewskis beer tasting segment, TBones Timeout, as well as crazy insights into any interesting news stories of the day. We are also simulcast by AM1670 – Dewberry Jam Community Radio – San Antonio, TX. Swoop’s World Late Night is on Wednesday’s from 8pm/PST – 11pm/PST tune in at Swoopsworld.com.

Legend of The Crooked Duck
As a young boy, Joseph Rooney was told the legend of “the crooked duck” by his uncle at the family’s summerhouse on Island Lake in Illinois. The legend is about a man who accidentally hit a duck while he was out water-skiing on the lake. Everyone on the boat was horrified at what they had just witnessed, and thought for sure he had killed the duck. As everyone sat there staring at the water in disbelief, and what they thought was a dead duck, it started to move.  All of a sudden, it started to swim towards the shore in a very peculiar manner. When it reached the lake’s shore it waddled away, but it was quite obvious the duck’s neck was now crooked. The duck with the crooked neck was seen from time to time by people out on the lake, an acknowledgement to the resilience of a duck. Joey never forgot about the legend or the duck, and “The Crooked Duck” is his tribute to that duck!