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Best Question of the Week from June 26th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's time for Best Question of the week.
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  Speaker 2: We need your questions.
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  Speaker 3: We do this so almost every Friday, email us about
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  Speaker 3: anything you like. Any question you have for US Radio
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  Speaker 3: from hell at x ninety six dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Put best question in the subject line.
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  Speaker 1: So this this question we're going to do now? Is
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  Speaker 1: this from Is this a legitimate question or is it
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  Speaker 1: from Katie?
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  Speaker 2: It is a legitimate question. Katie wouldn't do that. Katie's
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  Speaker 2: busy doing tame.
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  Speaker 4: I have so many other things to do right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is good morning. Lords.
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  Speaker 3: Can y'all talk to Katie this morning about her journey,
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  Speaker 3: how she was an intern? Why did you recommend her
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  Speaker 3: for her promotion? Does she like her job anyhow?
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  Speaker 2: Let's have Katie on best Question?
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  Speaker 1: So, Katie, when did you become an intern?
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  Speaker 4: August seventh, twenty seventeen is when I when I took well,
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  Speaker 4: when I became an intern. Right after I graduated college,
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  Speaker 4: my or my sister was catering an event for ice
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  Speaker 4: for Coldstone and Richie.
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  Speaker 1: Was MC producer at the time, and she.
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  Speaker 4: Talked me up. I got his email and then, as
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  Speaker 4: I live by the statement, I was a squeaky wheel
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  Speaker 4: that got the oil because he was horrible by emailing,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, cool, send another one and another one.
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  Speaker 2: You did college radio like I did?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we both did KUT Radio at the Une Reggae Show.
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  Speaker 1: And so, but you were working at Coldstone Creamery or
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  Speaker 1: your sister.
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  Speaker 4: I had previously worked at Coldstone Creamery and my sister
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  Speaker 4: was still working there because she was like one of
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  Speaker 4: the managers.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to work there again?
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  Speaker 2: No, when I.
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  Speaker 4: Was a cake decorator, yes, I was just actually helping
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  Speaker 4: the public.
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  Speaker 1: Know I was helping. You would because I would like
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  Speaker 1: to go to cold Stone.
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  Speaker 2: The free ice cream was great.
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  Speaker 1: So you get your job as an intern, and what
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  Speaker 1: were some of your first impressions? Is working here as
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  Speaker 1: an intern?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was excited.
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  Speaker 4: When I was a kid. I told my mom in
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  Speaker 4: the backseat of a car that I wanted to be
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  Speaker 4: like you guys because we would listen. Uh, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: when I got my internship.
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  Speaker 2: She was like, look at you go.
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  Speaker 4: But I was. I was really excited just to be
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  Speaker 4: in the industry rather than just internet radio, but actually
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  Speaker 4: be a part of FM radio and see how everything
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  Speaker 4: on the bigger scale runs. I still really enjoyed it
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  Speaker 4: as an intern back in the day. We had like
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  Speaker 4: three interns that we rotated through, so I worked like
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  Speaker 4: one to two days. Well, i'll tell you, Nick and
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  Speaker 4: Festus were the ones that actually trained me as an Internally.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't get paid back then, I didn't. By then
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  Speaker 1: we started by that, which I which I maintained to
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  Speaker 1: this day, is a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: It's a legal situation.
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  Speaker 4: But anyways, so yeah, and then I stuck around in
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  Speaker 4: UH for about a year and then I rotated out
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  Speaker 4: and I went into promotions just like I try and
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  Speaker 4: get all of our other interns to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's when we do events and remotes and things.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to do all the stuff with you
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  Speaker 4: guys and everything else that was going on. And then
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  Speaker 4: I because I was in the station and I was
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  Speaker 4: still here, I got pulled in to help cover every
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  Speaker 4: so often in the in the producer's booth. It was
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  Speaker 4: really cool, it was really fun. And then one day
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  Speaker 4: I got noticed of hey, you're producing on Monday, and
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  Speaker 4: I went.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, it was not. I mean, so we lots
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  Speaker 1: producer and then we so we needed to get another one,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked to a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, this was prior touring.
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  Speaker 4: I took over. I was covering and I came in
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  Speaker 4: on a Friday and it was like, oh, hey, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, today's my last day. You're producing on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: I forgotten how long did that go on?
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  Speaker 4: I took over at the end of February and I
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  Speaker 4: became official producer in April.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she did. She that's that's why.
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  Speaker 1: Why Why did we then ever interview a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: others too? Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because you have to go through the motions legally, you
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  Speaker 3: have to open it up and interview other people.
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  Speaker 1: Again another rule I'm against. You should just be able
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  Speaker 1: to hire who you want when you want.
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  Speaker 2: And we did. We interviewed several.
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  Speaker 4: People for even those in the station that had been
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  Speaker 4: here before means yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there and people that we thought were pretty qualified.
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  Speaker 1: And we actually we and this I don't mean this
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  Speaker 1: to be negative, but we had uh, a considerable conversation
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  Speaker 1: about you whether really now, really, what do you think? Really?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? Okay? You know? And uh, and
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  Speaker 1: then we said, well what about so and so? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they do a really good job with social media,
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  Speaker 1: and what about this? And and uh and then it
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  Speaker 1: was finally and then I and then I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: then Katie. If you guys want Katie, and then that's right.
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  Speaker 3: What can I say, because because when she stepped up
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  Speaker 3: when we needed her to, she didn't have to do that.
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  Speaker 4: I had plans, man, I had plans at the time
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  Speaker 4: I was moving.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I was going to be going to Colorado.
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  Speaker 4: I had plans in the August of that year to
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  Speaker 4: move to Colorado. I had a house set up with
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  Speaker 4: my friends. Everything that's right.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say that Katie has exceeded our expectation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say what we didn't realize I
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  Speaker 1: didn't at least was how damned organized you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's frightening how organized you are.
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  Speaker 2: That OCD, Bill adhd OCD.
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  Speaker 3: And you can count on her. I don't think. I
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  Speaker 3: can't think of a time you've called in sick.
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  Speaker 4: I've never called in sick. But you guys have told
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  Speaker 4: me that I need to leave and go and I did,
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  Speaker 4: and then I went to the instacare and then later
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  Speaker 4: that night I went to the emergency room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but like once that's happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if we and what what I think is
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  Speaker 1: remarkable to you're not afraid to do I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: we ask you to do something, you're not afraid to
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  Speaker 1: do it. You will just say okay, as.
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  Speaker 4: Long as it whatever it is, as long as I
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  Speaker 4: either have a contact information that I can find and
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  Speaker 4: even if I have to go find it, I will
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  Speaker 4: do my best. If it has to do with anything
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  Speaker 4: in the studio, I have good relationships with most people
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  Speaker 4: in this place, and so I like to keep it
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  Speaker 4: that way. Because you scratch my back, I scratch your
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  Speaker 4: back kind of a deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's what? What do you? Is there anything
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  Speaker 1: that you wish was different?
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  Speaker 4: I I do miss the way that older radio used
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  Speaker 4: to be with you know, when everybody had money and
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  Speaker 4: all that good stuff and.
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  Speaker 2: We could go do things.
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  Speaker 4: I really wish I could have been a part.
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  Speaker 2: Of that time when we were doing ten cities in
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  Speaker 2: ten days.
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  Speaker 4: Ten cities in ten ten days, when we could do
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  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff, when we when you guys
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  Speaker 4: went to Las Vegas and stuff like that. Like, I
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  Speaker 4: wish I could have been a part of that kind
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  Speaker 4: that time. But I mean, as I started and radio changes,
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  Speaker 4: it's it is what it is exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And what what are your what are you? What
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  Speaker 1: do you hope for the future? You think about what.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I have wolves, So I mean, like obviously
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  Speaker 4: you guys always sit here and go well maybe so
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  Speaker 4: it always has to be in the back of my mind.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm sticking with you guys until the end, and
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  Speaker 4: then from there at that point, you know, depending on
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  Speaker 4: where that is with our house and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yet just got a house.
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  Speaker 4: Did we just bought a house a couple of months ago?
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  Speaker 4: You know, maybe sell the house, move east like we
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  Speaker 4: wanted to, or you know, try and actually get one
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  Speaker 4: of my own shows started.
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  Speaker 2: I love you can hear Katie on Here She Goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I do my weekend times Saturday and Sunday, Saturday seven
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  Speaker 4: to midnight, Sunday three to seven pm. I do a podcast.
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  Speaker 4: We've you know, it's really hard when your best friend
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  Speaker 4: lives in Germany and times don't add up. So we're
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  Speaker 4: trying to get our podcast back on track. But I
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  Speaker 4: love editing the audio. I love being in the industry.
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  Speaker 4: I do DJ every so often and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: But I would love to see radio grow and maybe
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  Speaker 4: come back to what it used to be in a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of a way. And if I could be
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  Speaker 4: a part of that, or if I can not I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to lead that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be honest.
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  Speaker 4: I don't love being a leader too much pressure.
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  Speaker 1: But that's true. Is that that's true? You would you
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  Speaker 1: like taking orders rather than giving them.
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  Speaker 4: Not necessarily. I like having a point where I can
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  Speaker 4: give certain orders. But I also don't want to be
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  Speaker 4: lead of everyone else because then it comes back to you.
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  Speaker 4: I already handle enough when it comes when it's when
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  Speaker 4: it's Radio from Hell, and then it all comes to
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  Speaker 4: me first. So but I do enjoy it, and I
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  Speaker 4: love being behind the scenes. I love being a part
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  Speaker 4: of covering for you guys when I have to. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: up until this year, I was actually I had actually
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  Speaker 4: run the show from the board longer than just producing itself,
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  Speaker 4: so that was always really fun. I love being able
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  Speaker 4: to cover for Carrie. That's what I wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: intentionally when I first started in radio, and so being
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  Speaker 4: able to know the old board and then learn this
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  Speaker 4: new board with Carrie was really cool and all that.
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  Speaker 2: What you do, you do a great job and we're
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  Speaker 2: lucky to.
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  Speaker 1: Have And I would just tell you I'm exceptionally fond
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  Speaker 1: of you. Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm fond of you Tube, I'm you look lovely today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I remember what.
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  Speaker 4: But I appreciate you guys, so thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That was a good very much, thank you our good friends.
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  Speaker 2: Zane wanted to buy Texas is good. If you have
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  Speaker 2: a question, email US Radio for mail at X ninety
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  Speaker 2: six dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much,