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A Mentor And A Friend... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's a Monday. Hey everybody, welcome to the After
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Justin here. I hope Halloween was great. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you had a good time, whether you were with
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  Speaker 1: your family or at a party, whatever you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: But welcome back to the podcast. I'm here. I do
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  Speaker 1: have a special guest I will introduced in just one second.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very excited about this one, and so on all
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  Speaker 1: of you. I got a lot of dms this weekend
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  Speaker 1: about this person coming on. We have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. But I always say to leave a talk
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  Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take love, but I'll take hate too.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes people send hateful stuff. That's okay. Just know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm the only one that's ever going to read it.
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  Speaker 1: So there's that. But thank you everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Justin just wanted to say good job holding down that
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  Speaker 2: after show podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Been doing a great job, dude.
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  Speaker 2: If you ever want to have the twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 2: OG original recipient of the very first Talkbacker of the
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  Speaker 2: Year award on your show, I'm always available. Feel free
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  Speaker 2: to reach out and schedule at any time. But besides that,
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  Speaker 2: I had been listening to you since the very first
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  Speaker 2: days of BECKS when you guys first started.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing a great job man holding it down, do
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  Speaker 1: you think, brother? Thank you Brian. Yeah, he was the
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  Speaker 1: first Talkbacker of the Year a few years ago when
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  Speaker 1: we launched that, so thank you to him for checking in.
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  Speaker 1: But my guest today is, well, he's a very humble
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  Speaker 1: human being. Okay, even though he doesn't say that he's humble,
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  Speaker 1: he is. And if it wasn't for this person, I
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  Speaker 1: would not be sitting here and I would not have
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  Speaker 1: a career in radio. Now. I've said that those words
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  Speaker 1: to this person, and every time he says no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. You're here because of you and the work
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  Speaker 1: that you did, welcome Santi, Well, thank you, I do.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly feel like you put in all the work
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  Speaker 3: you needed to get clean, to put yourself in a
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  Speaker 3: situation to have the internship to do a good interview
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  Speaker 3: in all these things. So I can't take credit for
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  Speaker 3: that if anything. Yes, but it's only because I saw
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  Speaker 3: something within you. So when I say stuff like that,
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  Speaker 3: it's because you put on, you put the work in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna go through it all. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: go through it all. But first and foremost, you are
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  Speaker 1: a co host on the Ashley and the jam In
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  Speaker 1: morning show. Now you've worked in radio on jammin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: over twenty years. There was a period you were laid off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. I think when you add all together,
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  Speaker 3: it's something like twenty one years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so we'll go. We're gonna go back to
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  Speaker 1: where you started and all the pranks and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as with me, the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: give Santy the credit or some of the credit is yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because he mentioned getting clean. I got clean. I went
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  Speaker 1: back to school and you know, I was about to graduate,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, the teacher said to me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you need to start looking at internships. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, because I had this record right at
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  Speaker 1: criminal record, and so she kept pushing me, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe the news or something, and she goes,
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  Speaker 1: what do you really want to do? And I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: my dream, I mean, my dream is radio. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I grew up listening to jam in ninety four to
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  Speaker 1: five to kiss, want to wait? I remember being locked
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  Speaker 1: up listening to the radio, and she goes, well, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you just send an email? And I was honest
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  Speaker 1: with her and I told her, and she was like, look,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to shoot your shot. Basically, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never know if you don't try. So I looked up
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  Speaker 1: on Jammin and your name came up. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 1: that I sent my resume and you emailed back and
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  Speaker 1: you set up an interview. Okay. Now, you were known
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  Speaker 1: on Jammin the first time as Crazy Culo, which I knew,
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  Speaker 1: but I never knew your name was Santy because Romero
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  Speaker 1: never called you Santy. He called you crazy Cool on
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  Speaker 1: their on the air. On the air. Yeah, yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: when I got the interview, I remember I was telling
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  Speaker 1: people and I was telling one of my friends. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I got an interview with this guy Santy Santiago and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, that's Crazy Culo and I was like, no way,
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  Speaker 1: what And so then I ended up coming in did
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  Speaker 1: the interview, so nervous. I mean how much did I weigh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I just started my fitness journe so
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  Speaker 1: that was that was in May of twenty eleven. I
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  Speaker 1: joined the gym like in April of two thousand and eleven.
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  Speaker 1: So I just started working out and I did the
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  Speaker 1: interview and I left, and I thought to myself, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way, and you emailed me back and hired me.
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  Speaker 3: It's I don't remember scheduling everything. I don't remember that
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  Speaker 3: part of it. I do remember you coming in for
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  Speaker 3: the interview, and I think like there was something in
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  Speaker 3: your eyes that I noticed that, like you were just focused.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted to I didn't know you wanted to make
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  Speaker 3: a change, but you seem like you wanted to do
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  Speaker 3: something good. And I felt that, and I felt that
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  Speaker 3: for the minute you walked in. And you also seem
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  Speaker 3: like you were just into the entire thing. Because like
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  Speaker 3: you have to imagine how many At the time the
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  Speaker 3: internship program hey was really big. So I would do
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  Speaker 3: like probably interview twenty people a semester at the very least,
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  Speaker 3: and half the people wanted to work there just because
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  Speaker 3: they thought it was cool, right, And I could pick
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  Speaker 3: that up like instantly, and that was the last person
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to hire because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: there is work that surrounded that and I got that
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  Speaker 3: center of me that you were there for the work
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  Speaker 3: instead of like the fame part.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I think that's one benefit that
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  Speaker 1: I that being having a past and like going through
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  Speaker 1: addiction and all that stuff has helped me tremendously because
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the other side. Yeah, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Like when you've come from the bottom and you get
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity like that, like you can't fuck it up.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but I've seen so many people come through here
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  Speaker 3: and exactly it just fuck it up. Yeah, so many people.
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  Speaker 3: They're like even people I see on Facebook today, there's
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  Speaker 3: a handful. There's one in specific that had an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to be on the air at ninety four to five,
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  Speaker 3: had an opportunity to like send in his tape and
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  Speaker 3: like I kept telling him, look, put in your air track,
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  Speaker 3: put in all these things. And he always had a
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  Speaker 3: thing about him like he didn't want to do the
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  Speaker 3: like the work part about Yeah, this person DJ still
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  Speaker 3: so it's like I don't understand, Like, so you'd rather
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  Speaker 3: be doing that than then have this opportunity that you
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  Speaker 3: just completely fumbled.
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  Speaker 1: It is a fumbling, yeah, essentially what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a good example. This was after one of the concerts,
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  Speaker 3: like back in the day when we used to do
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  Speaker 3: like Monster Jam, and after the show's two things I
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  Speaker 3: either would happen. Either you would go to a party
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  Speaker 3: and have fun, or you do all the post concert work,
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  Speaker 3: like packing up like everything. When you're on the Street Team,
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  Speaker 3: your responsibility is to pack everything up, load all the vans,
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  Speaker 3: bring all the stuff back here to the radio station.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch of them on the Street Team, including me,
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  Speaker 3: got invited to a party. I couldn't go to the
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  Speaker 3: party because my mind is like listen, I have to
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  Speaker 3: pack up all the T shirts that didn't get sold
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  Speaker 3: and bring them back to the radio station. Ninety nine
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  Speaker 3: percent of the people on the Street Team at the
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  Speaker 3: time went to the party peace like by I was
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  Speaker 3: left to buy myself ye to pack up the van.
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  Speaker 3: I was so mad, But I really, honestly in the moment,
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  Speaker 3: felt like, Okay, I'm doing the right thing, So I
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  Speaker 3: was happy with that. Now you fast forward, they're all gone.
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  Speaker 3: They don't work here because their priorities here were on
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  Speaker 3: that part of the business, not the responsibility part.
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  Speaker 1: Yep yep, yeah, because it's like you know, yes, you
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  Speaker 1: will meet famous people, yeah, artists, Yeah, but there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work that goes into it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: something that I took from you. You were my mentor.
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  Speaker 1: So I got hired as an intern and I watched
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  Speaker 1: how you and you taught me so many gems, like
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  Speaker 1: so many, Like one in particular is when you're a producer,
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  Speaker 1: you pick and choose what the hosts know and don't know. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: And it's a little bit different now because now you're
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  Speaker 1: a co host. I mean you were on the air
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  Speaker 1: back then, but it was like Romero and Pebbles and Melissa,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you have to remember that they're doing
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  Speaker 1: a show. So if you say something negative to them
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  Speaker 1: or something that they're not gonna like, that could affect
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  Speaker 1: the show absolutely. So I still do that to this day,
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  Speaker 1: Like I keep like Billy and Lisa, maybe I wait
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  Speaker 1: till after the show, but I don't tell them during
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly you have to gay keep the information because
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  Speaker 3: if you tell somebody at six am about something, depending
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  Speaker 3: on who the person is, it will ruin their entire day,
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  Speaker 3: and it'll ruin the entire show. So there is also
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  Speaker 3: a way to clean up the information. If the information
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  Speaker 3: gets passed you in a very direct way, there's a
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  Speaker 3: way to like echo the information on the other end
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  Speaker 3: of things, but also couple it with some positivity, like listen,
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  Speaker 3: this may not be the news you want to hear,
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  Speaker 3: but after this, here's what we're going to do to
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  Speaker 3: solve the problem. So yeah, there's a lot of that.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people in this business who don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what takes a good producer is essentially,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And I just remember, like I don't have
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  Speaker 1: ever told you this. My first day here, I went
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  Speaker 1: in and I sat in the studio and I was
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  Speaker 1: with a little AJ. She was also an intern, had
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  Speaker 1: been there a few months before me. And I went
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  Speaker 1: in and I sat down and we were doing the
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  Speaker 1: pre show stuff, and then the music started for the show.
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  Speaker 1: And as it was playing, we're sitting there, and I
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  Speaker 1: got this overwhelming sense of like gratitude, and I started
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  Speaker 1: to like, well up, you know, and so now I'm
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  Speaker 1: like yawning, trying to hide it. I remember, like little
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  Speaker 1: AJ looked at me and goes say you okay, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm fine because it was emotional being
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  Speaker 1: here in that moment. And those early days, man, were
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  Speaker 1: like because I was an intern and I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be here, and I was only here two days
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  Speaker 1: a week, so I would come here and I would
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  Speaker 1: want to stay all day long and just learn and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: do cool stuff like meet famous people. But after a while,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, I'll tell this one story. So when you
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  Speaker 1: first start, you know, anybody that you meet, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: let me post this picture, you know, and I remember
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  Speaker 1: said to you used to get on because he's a
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  Speaker 1: motherfucking ballbuster. Okay, so you know where this is going.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was. It is about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yo, you'll remember this one. So one day, two
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  Speaker 1: Patriots cheerleaders came in. Okay, okay, And so they came
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  Speaker 1: in for like an interview or for something. And I
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  Speaker 1: walked them in and then I walked them out, and
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  Speaker 1: when I walked them out, I asked them for a picture.
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  Speaker 1: And so I got a picture standing in between them
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  Speaker 1: when I'm around them, and I posted it right to Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: I walked in, you were like, you are a loser.
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  Speaker 1: Really is this how low we're going Patriots cheerleaders And
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  Speaker 1: it's so funny because it shows up on my Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: Memories, And I guess here's my thought process behind it
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  Speaker 3: is like two things. Out of all the people I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna walk through the doors, it's them that you want
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  Speaker 3: to post it. Then also, this goes to everybody. I
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  Speaker 3: got into the point where all these people that I've
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  Speaker 3: seen so many insecurities on everybody because we all have these, right,
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  Speaker 3: But with the with just the celebrities, it's like they're
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  Speaker 3: just average people just because they do what for their
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  Speaker 3: jobs and all this stuff. I understand it, but I've
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  Speaker 3: been through it so many years that I've now seeing
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  Speaker 3: them as an average person who's broken like all of us.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I'm like, I'm not posting this person
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  Speaker 3: or like they're a weirdo. But with the cheerleaders, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, man, this dude was so happy, he's so excited.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh my god, what am I doing?
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  Speaker 1: And I said, that's another thing that I noticed with
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  Speaker 1: you is because you had been there in the business
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  Speaker 1: for so long, you wouldn't you wouldn't get excited about
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  Speaker 1: any like celebrity. No, you think it was cool. But
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, yeah, you come in, you do
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  Speaker 1: your job, get them in, interview them.
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  Speaker 3: It was always the most random ones that I wou
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  Speaker 3: get excited for, mainly because they probably did some random
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  Speaker 3: movie that I love back back in the eighties or
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  Speaker 3: something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm into the nineties hip hop, so I
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  Speaker 1: get excited for that. But you got to tell the
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  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan story. Joe Rogan, Yeah, when he was he's
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  Speaker 1: a comedian.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and at the time he was doing his comedy
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  Speaker 3: tours here in Boston, and usually at that time, whenever
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  Speaker 3: you did a tour, you would come in promote on
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  Speaker 3: the radio, so people would buy tickets. Joe Rogan comes
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  Speaker 3: in I think at the time also to people had
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  Speaker 3: known him for the UFC and for Fear Factor, so
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  Speaker 3: he was well known. But I didn't know he was
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  Speaker 3: into MMA at the time. So Rameiro's like talking about
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  Speaker 3: MMA and Joe Rogan had a friend that choked somebody
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  Speaker 3: out in a hotel room. But the guy there was
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  Speaker 3: some story like behind that. In the moment, like Rameiro's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: why don't you choke him out? And again I didn't
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  Speaker 3: really understand how these things worked, So he goes, fine,
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  Speaker 3: so this is live on the air, puts me in
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  Speaker 3: a choke hold, squeezes in like two seconds. I went
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  Speaker 3: to go tap and I passed out. He hit the floor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he choked me out live on the air. Now if
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  Speaker 3: you look on the internet somewhere out there. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: that was one of my first experiences with Joe Rogan.
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  Speaker 3: Now fast forward a couple of years like after that,
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  Speaker 3: I'm at a random UFC event and I'm sitting in
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  Speaker 3: like the press area. All of a sudden, somebody comes
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  Speaker 3: up behind me and puts me in like a choke hold.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what is happening? It was turned around and
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  Speaker 3: it's him because he remembered that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah wait is this pre podcast, pre podcast? Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: the time he came back up to you was pre
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  Speaker 1: still pre podcast, pre podcast, before he became Joe Rogan.
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  Speaker 1: Y yes, yes, oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: But still to this day one of the most like
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  Speaker 3: down to earth people I've ever met, who was just
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  Speaker 3: like a real dude.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's what I love about him. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I like Joe. I listened to his podcasts. I like
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  Speaker 1: his guests. I'm how they just talk yes, it's not
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  Speaker 1: an interview style. Yeah, you know, although sometimes it's annoying.
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  Speaker 1: Like Mike Tyson was on the.
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  Speaker 3: First I would have liked that, yeah, because I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to hear some of the stories.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but they just talked about ayahuasca. Yeah yeah, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So so you started JAM in early two thousands as
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  Speaker 1: an intern.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. My first day of my internship was June fifth
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  Speaker 3: of two thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so intern and then you get hired.
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  Speaker 3: I interned for like at least a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: because that was my sophomore year in college. So I
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  Speaker 3: interned for like three or four years before I actually
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  Speaker 3: got hired. And then when I got hired, I got
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  Speaker 3: hired like part time and I was making like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: i'll say it was two hudred bucks a week. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: it was like nothing. And I think at the time
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  Speaker 3: I was engaged, I was starting my life. I remember
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  Speaker 3: so many people telling me like how can you live
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  Speaker 3: like that? Like that's a bad move. You need to
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  Speaker 3: go find a job and stuff. And then and I
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  Speaker 3: did apply for a couple of jobs, went on some interviews,
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  Speaker 3: but I realized fast that like I didn't want to
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  Speaker 3: be like in an in your average like nine to five.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't for me, like I really wanted to entertain.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know what that meant, but I knew that
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  Speaker 3: that feeling was kind of in the back of my mind.
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  Speaker 3: So then I like stopped applying for jobs and kind
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  Speaker 3: of start at the bottom again in internships. I started
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  Speaker 3: interning that joins the street team, that Kiss went await
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  Speaker 3: fresh out of college and we kind of do it
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  Speaker 3: Kiss Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah. See he went through what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us went through, not making any money in the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a big thing for me because when
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  Speaker 1: I was an intern and I got like part time,
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  Speaker 1: I was making no money, and you told me you
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  Speaker 1: had gone through it too. But then you also get
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  Speaker 1: another thing. You told me, you go, look, you can
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: you know, you can leave, you can get another job.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: That's fine, make more money. You need to make money.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I understand that. He's like, but just so you know,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: anybody who leaves never comes back because there's always another
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: intern or something he goes. It's gonna be hard, but
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: you need to make the decision on what you want
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: to do. And I always remember that and I never left.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: I tough threw it. You eventually, I you know, was
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: able to make more money.
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: I had opportunities to leave over the last twenty years,
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: like a lot of them. I never felt like either one,
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: Like there were a few that I really considered. I
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: don't regret not taking like any of those, because I
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: needed to go through every aspect of this business to
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: get to the point where I'm at, like right now.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you get hired as a producer, and then
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: at what point do you become this crazy kul o
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: prankster character.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: I was on the air before, kind of because they
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: always put me on the air for random stuff to
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: make fun of me because I was the intern and
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: all that stuff, and I think like they saw something
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: in my personality and they were at the time the
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: radio shows were developing in a way where you had
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: to have a stunt gun on like a morning show.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: It just kind of worked. Maddy had Randy Yes, So
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: they were like, could you be the dun guy. I'm like, listen,
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: it's really not in my nature to do stuff like that,
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: but I'll do it just for the opportunity. So they
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: came up with a character there, my character name and
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: all the stuff. I hated the name. I'm like, this
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: isn't who I am. And then they play like, so
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: we're gonna have you call in and just act crazy.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: I'm like, it's not me, it's not who I am.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, let's go. Let's go to Mike here.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Hold on, Mike from the Hampshire justin. Great job with
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: the podcast every day. It's you're doing better and better
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: with it. I love the hope that. I love the
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: special guests. My question for Santi is for Monday's podcast, Santi,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: what is the greatest prank you ever played since you've
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: been at JAMN. Maybe I'm justin or someone else.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, there's a lot, well.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: So on, so you become crazy cool though you're the
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: stunt guy right now. Is this one stunt a.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Week that you were doing on Fridays? Yeah?
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, so you plan it out throughout the week and
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: execute on Friday.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I was the one coming up with all
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: the stunts.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Oh it was you.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: I was writing all the stunts. I came up with
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: ninety percent of the ideas.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's go through some of the craziest.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I would say the craziest one, the craziest one I've
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: ever done was when little Joey, who was a gorilla
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: at the Franklin Park Zoo escaped. I remember that say
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: it happened on the Wednesday. It was all over the
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: papers on the news on Thursday. I went down there
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: with a gorilla costume and I was acting like I
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: was a gorilla that got backed out when I tell you,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: and I don't exaggerate things. There was massivesteria around the zoo.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Car screech and people yelling. We were peered from people
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: on the phone because Pop Dog was there too, like
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: taking first hand accounts from people. People were yelling. Then
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: we got a phone call from somebody who worked here
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: at the radio station who's related to like a Boston cop.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: He's like, hey, if this is you, guys, you guys
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: better lead because they are going down there with intent
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: to shoot the gorilla because but also after the day
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: before the gorilla attacked some little kid. Oh wow, so
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: there was that happening. So I think that was the
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: craziest one. I remember we jumped into some random car
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: that was there that was just pulled pulled up and
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: just got us out of the whole thing. Wow. That
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: was a crazy one. But another one was April Fool's Day.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: I think about what year, and we got the idea
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: of buying a thousand balloons, and then we went down
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: to the Square one mall and we like made a
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: fake body and then we lifted the balloons up into
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: the up, up into the sky. But I pretended like
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I was on the phone, so I'm like, oh my god,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I can see the highway. This is crazy, And people
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: started calling me like I can see him. This one
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: lady almost passed out because of the pure like mental
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: connection that there was a person up in the sky
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: on a phone arrested I did. The police came up
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: and they were like, what are you doing. I'm like,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: this is just the stunt. He goes, all right, pull
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: the balloons down and please go home because like, well
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: they can arrest me for flying a balloon, right, So yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: those are the two iconic ones.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Some of the ones I remember are eating the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: bugs we talked about factor, didn't you choke on one?
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: They were these giant cock of roaches I think I
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: think they were, and I tried to swallow but it
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: was so big that the tentacles latched onto my throat.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: The show and I kind of passed out and when
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I hit the ground, the thing came out of my mouth.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you came up with that, Yes, came up
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: with that one.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. Was there anything like I remember that? I remember
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: like driving I remember listening to this driving a big
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: wheel through the Burger King drive through. I forget what
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: the rest of the bit was.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I had to I had to basically ride a big
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: wheel from like I think it was like, so I
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: guess back here to the radio station and I stopped
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: him for some drive through. It was a long day
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: of me just riding that thing. It was awful, a
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: little big wheel. Yeah, so that was that one.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Other ones I remember, oh, hijacking the intercom I think
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: at Walmart a monster Jam or Summer Jam lineup.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, I did that. And also if you look at
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: the phone at the time, they had an intercom button,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: so I would just take over the intercom and start
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: saying random things. If you look somewhere in the Internet,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: that video is out there to that one. They got
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: pissed pissed about. But I think those ones were the
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: biggest ones. And there were other ones, like that time
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I drank a gallon of milk in less than an
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: hour and I was throwing off stuff like that, but
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: I thought those ones were more funny than anything. And
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: then there was another time where Pebd Square had flooded
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: because of like all the rain, but the flooding was
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: really bad. So the news was down there, Good Morning America,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: National News, Lionel.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in in the.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Back, I'm doing it on an interview. I had to
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: go to the hospital and get a bunch of shots
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: because of it, like there was.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Bacteria. Yeah, oh my god, that's so funny. So by
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the time that I came on, you had already been pasted.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: The stunt thing kind of was yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Because like what do you do? You couldn't keep doing
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: it the same way, and I think it had run
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: its course. I just wish that at the time I
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: was doing them that video was as prevalent as it
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: is today because it would have been a different story.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So my my second week or yeah, second second
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: week on the show. So actually it was June of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, so a couple of weeks after I joined
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the show. You know, I was fat, very fat, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the Bruins had won the Stanley Cup and so one
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: day you came in you were like, look, we want
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to send you down there, you know, and you kind
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of like talk me through it. You lo like, look,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I've done it a million times. You can say, no,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it's fine. So I go down there. Now. My question,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I wandered, my question to you would be like, after
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I tell the story, did you know it was going
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to go where it went? But hold that thought. So
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: they sent me down there. Fox twenty five was on
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: TV Outside the Guard and Jean Lavanci Live and you
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and Romero go go down there and get on TV
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and call it. We want to see you on the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: TV in our studio. So I get down there. I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: get on TV behind Gene. I'm waving. I call in.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone though you see me, and you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: were Maro like, yeah, we see you, we see you. Okay,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: now go down a CBS and get a sign, a
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: post aboard and write Romero and Pebbles on the sign
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and get back. I'm like, okay, So I go and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I get it. I come back. I get on TV
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, I'm feeling so good. I'm
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: like I'm here with the sign, and then they go,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I go, can I come back now? And you guys
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: go no, there's one more thing. You need to take
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: your shirt off and find someone with that marker to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: write I love the bruins on your fat stomach. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I remember my heart dropped, dude, and I was like,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: this is my moment. I got to do it, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I did. You can see the video the pictures on
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: my Instagram at justin Beasy and see it. But did
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: you know it was going to go that way? All
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that way?
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: What?
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Like you on the news? I listen. I knew there
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: was a chance you would get on the news, but
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: you were you were so eager just to do it,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: like a good job that I knew was going to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: be really good. Yes, yeah, we would not have sent
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: any like anybody else down there who didn't understand how
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: this whole thing worked.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: No, I know, I know. And I did a couple
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of other things, like I did the Saint Patrick's Day
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Taste challenge. Do you remember that?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, you don't. So it was for J Cole tickets,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: which I never got. That was the fucking yeah, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't get them. Anyway, It's a different part of
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the story. It was Saint Patrick's Day. So what you
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: did was you got all types of like nasty food
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and colored it green and then put it in a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: blender and then I had to take a drink it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: not knowing what it was and try to guess what
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the stuff was, and it was like green spam. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: think it was like poop, like animal poop. I swear
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to God, Yeah, but I did. I definitely did some stuff.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And then there was the one with Ashley that we
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: pranked her. Remember that, Yeah, Now that was a good one.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: That took a lot of planning. We actually planned at
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: your house for Easter. It was April Fool's Day, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you know, there was a it was a running joke.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It was not serious, but kind of that you were
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: having such a bad influence influence on me. Not bad
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: but influence, which really because you were like my mentor.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I looked up to you. But that like my wife
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: was like, you need to chill out with the santy
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: stuff because you're spending too much time with him. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: we came up with this idea that we were going
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to get into a fight on April Fool's Day in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: front of Ashley and fool her, and so we planned
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it out and we ended up doing it. I actually
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: have the audio hair somewhere. I have to try to
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: find it. But we ended up. Yeah, we planned it
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: out where I was in my studio and then you
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: came in with Ashley for something and you started like
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: poking me, like come on, dude, tell your wife to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: lighten up. And then there was a queue when you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: tapped me on my left shoulder. I was going to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: stand up and tackle you, and we did. And then
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: as she's like, we went on the air. Yeah, it was.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It was really good. I have the audio somewhere, but
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I lost it. The other part of that was what
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the prank is.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I think the best Frank I've ever done off the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: air was putting the fire alarms in your bag and
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: here in the studio.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: That's recent, Yes, that's that's Yeah. That was unbelievable, Santi
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: if you missed this, but I don't even know where
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you find these on TikTok shop, These things that sound
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: like a fire alarm is out of batteries.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they go off every ten minutes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like beep, a chirp, it's a chirp. Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: And he put them in my lunch box. So I
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: went home and for days all I heard was the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: sound my whole family. All they heard was the chirping.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So I literally was searching my house every fire alarm.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I changed all the batteries. Every fire alarm sat down
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: ten minutes later. Now I was so pissed. It turns
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: out it was him. He put them in my in
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: my bag. So you're still doing pranks all this time later?
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: I am, yeah, so, and you have to imagine I
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: do them at home. Oh this doesn't end like here
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: when I'm like, this is this is my entire life.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I just think it's fun to have fun like this
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: and to you know, just enjoy life.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Okay. So so then you obviously Romero leaves, Pebbles and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Melissa leave, it becomes you know, well there was Romero,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you and Ashley came on, and then Boom laid off.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: July second, twenty fifteen.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we've talked a lot on this podcast about
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the whole things that happened with DJ Farren on Jam
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: and Winnie and all that stuff and the fallout. But
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I have been through so much and you've been through
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: even more. Yeah, So from my perspective, my first time
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: it ever happened was Melissa and Pebbles out of nowhere
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in my studio one day, just like it happened with
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Winni and DJ farre and show ends. I knew something
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: was going on, and then you come in. I'm like,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: what's going on? You're like look, and you just like
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: told me, wait what, Like they don't work here anymore.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: We're talking about You're like, yeah, you just chill out.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We'll explain more later. And then it happened to you.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: I would say. My first one like that was Balto's
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: our way back in the day. Was you would hear
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: for that? I was. I was here for that, not
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: only here for it, but it happened. Then they put
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: him in a production room with just me and him,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: and he's like, bro, do you hear what happened? I'm like, yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: it goes. What do you think. I'm like, what I think?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I'm an intern here for like a year. I don't know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry they put you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: In a room.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, I was like, this is the weirdest thing. So
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: that was a big one. And then over the years
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: there's been so many people. You see them come and
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: go there, you almost become kind of immune to the
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: whole thing. But then when it happens to you, it's
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: a whole different story. It's a whole different emotions. I
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: was there for that too. Yes, I did not see
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: that coming. And even that day, I can still remember
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the ride home. I drove all the way home in silence.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I had tickets to go see a movie that afternoon too.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: I didn't go. Got home and it was still super numb,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: and then the phone calls. Then people started, you know
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: phone calls, right, got a phone call from one person saying, hey,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: this is kind of what happens when the leader of
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: the band doesn't want to be in the band anymore.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I'm like, wow.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: I still didn't understand what was happening. I had to
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: call my boss and be like, hey, do I come
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: back to work because the way it was worried it
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: was kind of different. So I was confused on that
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: end of things. And then you walk in the house
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: and then you kind of just earn like a brain
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: fog over everything. You're kind of like, what do I
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: do now? Who am I? And at the time, like
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I had almost tied myself to the job so much
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: that it was who my existence was. But that was
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: still the summer. You still ride this high, and for me,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the load didn't come until November. That's when I started
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: to see people moving on. That's when I started to
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: see like the Instagram comments stop. That's when I started
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to like feel like there were other things happening where
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: like I wasn't going to be a part of.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So I'm like wow.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: So then I felt really alone. But at the same
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: time time, through that whole thing, I was like, I'm
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: not giving up. So that's when I started partnering with
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: a lot of like companies on the side and doing
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: like the digital stuff, the videos and all stuff, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: it kind of pushed me into a world where I
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: was familiar with and I realized that I was like
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: having a lot of fun in and I kind of
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: kind of went down a different path like after that,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: but it's not fun when.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: It happens to you. You literally taught yourself how to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: edit video like well nasty.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: I had always had a love for video, and I
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: started to kind of dabble in the video and I
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: had done stuff in college, but I was like really
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: like loving video right before that. When I kind of
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: immersed myself in that in that entire world, like listen,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna figure this out because I'm seeing that things
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: are going down that path. And then when I got fired,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, I don't have a choice besides this,
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: So then I just did it. And then I just
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: forced myself to learn as much as I can't he like,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: even to this day, every day I learned something else
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: about video. I watch a video about somebody editing like
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: a certain way.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: So if you don't follow Santy at Santi di Leo
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: on Instagram, just go scroll through his page. You'll see
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: what he does and the work that he does. It's unbelievable. Yeah,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it's really good. And that's another thing that you always
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: told me was that this isn't who you are.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: You got to have something outside of here. It can't
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: be everything, because guess what, one day could be gone
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and then who are you.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I wouldn't even say you have to have something else,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: but don't tell yourself to this existence in the sense of,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: like when it gets taken away, don't be lost on
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: who you are. So for me, I kind of did
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: that in a way, but shortly after I kind of
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: found my path. Now, if that happens again, I'm like
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: not as afraid of the whole thing, just because like
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like I have a path.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you remember what you said after you got
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: laid off and you were home what you said the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: best part.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Was, oh, I spend a time with my family.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, that you got to bring your son to the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: bust off every day. Yes, I'll never forget that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: My son is now fifteen, turning sixteen in a couple months.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: And at dinner this weekend, I started to cry because
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I was like, he's two years away from college and
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I'm dreading that day. But I was like that summer
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: that I got fired, that like I don't want to
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: say it saved me, but it really saved me. I go,
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: we would go to lunch like every like a couple
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: times a week, like all these things that I would
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: never have done if it wasn't for that. Yeah, Like
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: I'm getting like emotional right yeah now, but yeah, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: again I going back to it. I wouldn't change it
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: because I learned so much about myself and just about
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: life getting fired, Like it was probably the best thing
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: that happened to because also at the time, I wasn't
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: the nicest person. I had an ego, I had a
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: different viewpoint on a lot of things, and that was
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: so humbling in so many ways that it forced me
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: to change.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you brought that up, my God, because
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention that about my weight loss journey. Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: So I had just started, and who's to say whether
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I would have kept going if this didn't happen or not.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: But it's a fact that after I started here and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I was working with you and you and Romero wa
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: all into fitness, you motivated me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it wasn't a nice way though. If I
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: could go back, I wouldn't have done it like that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: It's okay, it's what I'll give an example. Okay. I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: would come in in the morning one day, and it
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: happened regularly. I would come in and I would walk
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to my studio and then I would walk out into
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the main studio and I would walk in and I'd
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: say good morning, and they'd say good morning, and then
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Santo would look at me and goes, you know, I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: can always hear when you're coming, and I go, what
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: do you mean? He goes The floor just kind of
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: shakes every time you walk boom boom. But listen, I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: needed that. I know I needed that, and it motivated
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: me and thank you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: For that, but well yeah, well, I mean even at
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: home too. I wasn't the best husband when it comes
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: to like being present and even comments like that about
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: just just the gym. Now I look back to the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: person that I was, I'm like, what was wrong with you?
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: You were doing crazy shit. I remember one time you
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: ate only lettuce for a week for a photo shoot.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the payoff is really good, but like
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: it's stupid.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And then you had your clothing line, clothing lines, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I used to come out and help sell the T
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: shirt I rocked. Who wore more of your Modus collection
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: than me? I wore?
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Very welcome, very welcome. So all right, speed it up here.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: So then you get laid off, you start learning other things,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: You get back into radio, not here but somewhere else
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: on the country station, and then you end up coming
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: back because Ashley got her show and she said I
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: won't do it without size.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You know what's funny about that. At the time,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I was just getting ready to leave like the whole
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: industry as a whole, because I started this company on
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: the side that started to kind of like do kind
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: of well back then, I'm like uh, this could be interesting.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: So I was gonna go all in on that because
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I felt like my talents are being wasted at the
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Country's station. I was like going in like every day
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: and being like what am I doing here? Like this
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: is like the waste of my time. I was literally
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: trying to leave, and then she called me. It's like, hey,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: so I might have this opportunity. Would you come back?
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I go, I don't want to, but because it's you,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: I'm interested. So and she got me back in and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: which was a huge thing because remember, like I got
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: to go from this company. I probably said some things
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I should not have on a few podcasts about my boss,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: all these things.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to bring that up, but okay, yeah.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which I've apologized. And again going back to changing
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: like I probably would have I would handle things much
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: different now if I was in that situation back then.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: So we were able to mend some fences there and
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: kind of get back into it. But I came back
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: into a situation that was better offten when than when
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I left, and I had fun. It was it. It's
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: been awesome and looking back the past like five to
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: six years, I've gotten better at what I do. I
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: wasn't really prepared to kind of have that position when
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I came back, and I know that now, but I
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: worked through it. I did all the reps, I did
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: everything I was supposed to. Now I feel like I'm
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: pretty good at what I do. But back then, I
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: was like, Yeah, looking back, I'm like I was probably
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: be in way over my head, which is okay, we
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: were all learning at that point, but yeah, I.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Mean listen, I watched you work every single day, yeah
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: back then, and it was like amazing to me watching
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you work, and I learned a lot. But I will
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: say that, yeah, I've seen definitely a change in you
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in a good way. Not that you were bad before.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I wasn't the nicest person. I'll look on a lot
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: of things were completely off. Yeah, it wasn't they When
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I look back on it, I wasn't as empathetic on
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of things, and and looking back, I'm like, wow.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: But I'm also being very clear. I've now been in
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: therapy for four years, which absolutely has changed my life.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Has changed my life, so I you know, there's different
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: size of every story. What's in my head is not
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: always right, so I'm always wrong, but it's just my
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: opinion on certain things. Somebody else might have a different
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: opinion and be empathetic to what they. You know, there's
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: all these things.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I just thought of one more prank that you did
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, that was pretty rough.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: You.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I left my Facebook open.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a good one.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: This was a good and he posted me as me
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: that we were expecting a child.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, this was a good one in the sense of
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: like it was funny in the time. But again, I
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: wouldn't go back and do this again because now as
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: a more moture adult, I'm like, you never know what
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: somebody's struggle is with conceiving, You never know what somebody's
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: history with all that stuff. And here I am post
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: thing and ultra sound saying their baby and what that
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: sets off on Facebook?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: So my wife's phone was blowing up. My phone started
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: blowing up. I'm like, what is going on? And then
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I see it. I go, Sadi, Yeah that was that
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: was a good one. That was a good one. So
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: it seems like you're in a good spot man now,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: right spot. You still have the side bit side thing.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: You know, Yes, And I was thinking a lot about
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: where that company have started. That company started as a
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: way for me just to kind of post my influencer
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: stuff without getting in trouble. Right now, it's grown into
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: a full agency that's.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Doing really so what what do you do?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: In a nutshell? I helped small to medium size businesses
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: find their social media footprint because it's my belief now,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: and I think it's a belief of most people that
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: a website alone is just not enough. You have to
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: have a strong social media presence as a business. But
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: not just that, you need a life to it. You
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: need to be consistent, consistently posting content on there that's
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: compelling and relates to your business. So I help people
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: do all that. I write, purdue, edit, shoot all types
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: of content for companies.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can go watch some of the stuff on
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: his Instagram. It's crazy.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: And most of the stuff people don't even know. The
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: companies that I've worked with people I might only know one,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: but it's doing really well. Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I know a bunch of them. Ok, yeah, I know
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the number one Village Home Services.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: How much money are they paying is the question?
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: You know what? The funny about them is that that
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: company kind of changed my projective, my perspective on a
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: lot of things. Yeah, because when I started working with
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: this one with a company, they believe in what I did.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: And then also it just worked out so well that
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: it was like, wait a second, I feel like I
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: can do this, like on a bigger scale.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: And you know, so any small business or medium size.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Small to medium sizes. Most of the bigger places have
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: in house people, which is completely fine, but the small
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: to medium sized businesses are are kind of like they
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: don't really know how to do it. And more so
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: service companies like blue collar type companies who are like
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: these construction guys. They don't know what the hell. They
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: don't have time that they want to work building homes,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: They want to work on plumbing, they want to work
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: on all the stuff. Work with some insurance companies too,
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Like these are like middle aged people who don't want
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: to do Instagram, but they know that they need to
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: have it in the everyday life of a business. Yeah,
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: so they come to someone like me will write their content.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: We'll plan out the entire year and kind of follow
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: like an entire map and have consistent content up on
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: their Instagram socials.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you an example with village homes. So
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: we always like, we don't make fun of it, but
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: we just laugh about it because, well, it's a lot
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of hosting. You put a lot of out there, which
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: is that's your business, right, But I'll give you an
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: example of why it works. Okay, So I'm a homeowner
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and you do all types of videos and all different
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: different things that they offer, but one in particular is
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: about your fire alarms, yes, and making sure they work,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: they're up to date, you have enough all that stuff,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and the way you did the video, I was thinking
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to myself, I need to get this done, like I
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: need to have them come to my house and check
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: because it's dangerous and I need to know what's going on.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: So that's one example. So someone sees that video and
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, yeah, okay, I need to do that.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Part of that comes from work in radio for so
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: long and like doing daily content. But it always needs
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: to be relatable and have people care. Right. I put
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: that same type of concept into my everyday business too.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: It's like why should people care? But also it needs
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: to relate to the average person. With that one is
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: pretty simple, like listen, you don't want to die, so
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: why not invest in the fire alarms. It's that simple. Yeah,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: so right now we're pushing a whole home generators. We'll
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: get you one thousand dollars off here we go.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: You might think I don't need it. We don't ever
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: lose power, which is probably the case, but it's that
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: one time when you lose power for a week and
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: your comfort's gone. You can't charge anything. Yeah, and then
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: it's unsafe for your family, your food spoils, like all
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: these things.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: This is gonna cost like one hundred bucks for this plug. Love,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Santi Man, I could talk to you forever, But thank
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: you so much for coming on.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. This a lot of fun.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: We didn't even mention your your family, your Joanne. You've
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: been with how many years married?
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I'm married twenty years.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, met at Endicott College and.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're all together, probably been together for like
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: twenty four years.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you have four kids. When I started interning,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Colin had only been born.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Really yes, Yeah, Now my daughter's are thirteen and we
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: also have an eight year old.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you have twins, twin daughters, which, by the way,
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: I'm coaching the middle school basketball team. Really try out
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: to next next week. Yeah, no way, you live in Hollis. Yep.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: When I met you, you were living in allum Pelham
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: on Litchfield Lichfield Circle, Lichfield Circle. I remember, yeah, yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I remember. I went to your house and I go,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have a house like this one day,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and then I did. Good, you know what I mean? Yeah,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And I've been to your new house. It's beautiful. It's
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: it's really nice. It's really nice. So uh, I well,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: wishes to you and everything, and thank you for all
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: you've done for me.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: No, again, I can't take credit for the work that
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: you put put in you. Thank you for everything you've
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: done for me.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: So do you get? So do you get I mean
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: I phrased this here when you when you look at me,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: do you ever think back to that that day I
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: came in and be like, oh, like you saw something
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: in me?
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: But you I think you would go to this? Yes,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I absolutely did. Justin every step of you there was
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Whenever I asked you to do anything, it just got done.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: And that was always you. So I'm so I'm definitely no,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: I'm this was expected.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean that.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of people that I can't say that.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: For so, I believe there's a saying that hard work
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: beats talent. I do believe that, not in every sense
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: of the word. I'm like a Matt Siegel. Matt Siegel
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: didn't do any hard work, but he was super talented
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: and was so successful.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: But it just makes you think though that if he
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: had the hard work part or had more of that,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: what that could have been.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: But I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, but for me,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: you know, not that I don't think that I'm talented,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: but I believe that I can work hard and I
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: can bring something to the table, like getting things done,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: going the extra mile. I remember me remember this interning, okay,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: and there would be mornings where it would be slow, right,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and I would clean the morning show office.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do remember.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Nobody would tell me I would, just it was dirty,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: so I'm like, I need to do something. I'm not
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: just gonna sit here on my phone. So I would
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: clean it, you know, not for brownie points, but because
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I was there to do it job.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I remember that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, That's what I did. So we had a lot
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of fun.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: But thank you for coming ontime and your Instagram Santi
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you have a TikToker across the board, de Olio yep,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: follow him and remember, we'll leave you with three words.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Can you guess what the three words are? No Village
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Home Services. Thanks buddy,