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The Birthday Boy... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: How about this? An after show podcast on my birthday. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is my birthday. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the after
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  Speaker 1: show podcast. I am Justin. And yes, September 22nd. It
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  Speaker 1: is my birthday and a lot of love being shown.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that happens every year, but every year
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  Speaker 1: it is very cool. Love from, well, my friends and
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  Speaker 1: my family, of course, but also all of you guys,
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  Speaker 1: all the listeners, you know, I have a job where
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  Speaker 1: I am kind of front and center with the show
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  Speaker 1: every single day. You can hear me on the radio
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  Speaker 1: or the podcast. And being a part of people's lives
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  Speaker 1: is something I will never take for granted. So the
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  Speaker 1: fact that people wish me a happy birthday, take time
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  Speaker 1: out of their day, really makes me feel special. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful to be alive and grateful to be here
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  Speaker 1: for all of you to do this podcast today. Anyway, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a Tuesday. Busy show today. Fun show. Check it
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  Speaker 1: out if you didn't. We had a great topic about proposals.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I love about this show is the conversations, especially, well,
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  Speaker 1: most times we do differ in opinions. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this one came from kind of an off-air discussion about proposals.
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  Speaker 1: Billy's anniversary is coming up, his wedding anniversary, October 1st. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, producer Riley, who's as genuine as they come,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she tells it like it is. She said, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want a surprise. I don't want a surprise ring.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want a surprise proposal. I want there to
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  Speaker 1: be some discussion about about, you know, getting married, what
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  Speaker 1: the plan is, and, you know, the ring too. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Listen, that's her opinion. I understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I see it both ways. Although mine was a surprise
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  Speaker 1: as well. You know, I told that story on the air.
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  Speaker 1: Check that out on the podcast. And also mascots. We
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  Speaker 1: were talking about salaries from mascots, which is weird because
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  Speaker 1: a friend of mine recently pitched Lucky the Leprechaun on
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  Speaker 1: the show. They said, hey, you know, Celtic season kicking off.
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  Speaker 1: You want to have Lucky on? All the fans love him.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I'll get back to you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you know. And sure enough, today we had
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  Speaker 1: a list of the top paid mascots. He's not on
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  Speaker 1: the top paid. I'm sure he's doing just fine. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll book him on the show. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: goes along with the Celtics season. Why not? And you
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  Speaker 1: can talk about what it's like to be a mascot
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  Speaker 1: and be lucky the leprechaun. It's an interesting job, I think.
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  Speaker 1: But it did ruffle a lot of feathers. We weren't
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of go back to all the talkbacks
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  Speaker 1: and messages about it. But when Lisa read the salaries
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  Speaker 1: of some of these mascots, I mean, it's upwards of $ 600, 000.
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  Speaker 1: you know, $ 200, 000, $ 400, 000. And like, we were getting talkbacks
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  Speaker 1: from teachers and people and they're like, I'm a school
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  Speaker 1: teacher teaching kids every day. I don't make a fraction
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  Speaker 1: of what these mascots are making, but I guess it
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  Speaker 1: goes along with professional athletes. I know they're not professional athletes,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, athletes are paid a shit ton of money.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the way of the world, I guess. So, Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's start with some birthday shout outs. I do appreciate
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  Speaker 1: everyone checking in. Justin, it's Mo.
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  Speaker 2: Happy, happy birthday, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the world is a better place because you're in it.
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  Speaker 3: Believe that.
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  Speaker 1: Your army loves you dearly.
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  Speaker 2: And I truly feel like we are close friends. I
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  Speaker 2: just love listening to your wise advice.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Growing old is a privilege.
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  Speaker 1: And we are so lucky to be able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And I love you. Oh, Mo, I love you too. Salem,
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire, let's go. She's under us as well, just
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  Speaker 1: like my wife. But thank you very much. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: we have to be grateful for what we have. Grateful
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  Speaker 1: for this life, this short time that we have. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the quality of your life is going to be on
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  Speaker 1: how positive you are. You know, that's just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is. You know, I was watching this podcast clip
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  Speaker 1: the other day about money. And it was something like,
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  Speaker 1: if you're miserable and then you get money, you're just
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  Speaker 1: going to be miserable with money. But if you're happy
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  Speaker 1: and then you get money, you're going to be happy
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  Speaker 1: with money because money doesn't buy happiness, which is a
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  Speaker 1: saying you hear all the time. It does improve life
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  Speaker 1: for sure. I like money. I like having money. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I had more money. But I also know what
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  Speaker 1: it's like to be truly happy without it because I've
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  Speaker 1: only started making money in the past, I mean, four years,
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  Speaker 1: which sounds crazy. But it's been a long journey. a
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  Speaker 1: long journey in this. And I think that people that
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  Speaker 1: are close to me, my friends and my family, they know,
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  Speaker 1: they know the grit. And that's why when new people
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  Speaker 1: start at the radio station, like producer Riley, like there's
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people here that, you know, are new
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  Speaker 1: in their careers and they're making no money. And it
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  Speaker 1: sucks to hear, you know, all I've been through the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. I know what it's like. You got to
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  Speaker 1: wait it out that you don't want to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: Those are things that I heard as well, but it's
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  Speaker 1: so true. You got to put your time in, you
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  Speaker 1: got to keep grinding and, As best you can. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the hope is eventually it will work out.
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  Speaker 1: And it did for me. It did for me. And
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  Speaker 1: I remember there being no hope that something would open up.
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  Speaker 1: There was zero hope. And then out of nowhere, there
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  Speaker 1: it was, an opportunity which I grabbed. And now here
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  Speaker 1: I am today. So I can't believe it, too. It's wild.
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  Speaker 1: I've been working at the radio station, including my internship,
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  Speaker 1: for 17 years. That's wild.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's good. Birthday celebrations today. Well, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the gym. I have a class at
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  Speaker 1: noon at my gym, Drive Custom Fit, Salem, New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 1: preparing me for the High Rocks race in Boston, which
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  Speaker 1: is in three weeks. So I will be there for
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  Speaker 1: an hour class and then an hour on the bike
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  Speaker 1: for endurance. And look who just walked in. Yes, Riley.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's your birthday. So I was coming in here
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  Speaker 2: to ask if you were doing a little birthday special.
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  Speaker 2: And you said yes.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: Say happy birthday. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We love you.
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  Speaker 2: You said that earlier.
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  Speaker 3: You were like, love you guys.
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  Speaker 2: And then nobody said it back.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of hated that.
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  Speaker 3: So love you. We appreciate you. Good point.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy that you're my mentor. I could not
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  Speaker 2: ask for somebody better to learn from.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I did see your post on it. I reposted
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  Speaker 1: your post on Instagram there. And I'm shocked you had
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  Speaker 1: this picture in your camera roll of me underneath your desk.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even remember that.
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  Speaker 2: It's from a while ago.
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  Speaker 1: And what prompted you to take a picture?
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  Speaker 2: Because I thought it was funny. And I think I
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  Speaker 2: remember because I took that picture. It was that's from
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  Speaker 2: a while ago. And I was like, I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: post it for something else, like maybe your birthday last year,
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  Speaker 2: and I couldn't find it in my camera roll. And
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  Speaker 2: then one day, like after your birthday, I found it.
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  Speaker 2: So I saved it into my likes. That way for
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  Speaker 2: the next time I ever wanted to post it, because
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  Speaker 2: I've been sitting on this photo for like two years
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  Speaker 2: being like, eventually this.
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  Speaker 3: Is going to go.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny, but you're just.
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  Speaker 3: Like half under the desk.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what I was doing.
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  Speaker 2: I was having, like, issues with the computer or something,
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  Speaker 2: I think, because it's, like, all greened out. And I
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  Speaker 2: think I was like, can.
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  Speaker 3: You come and fix this for me or something?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do it all, you know?
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  Speaker 2: You truly do it all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do it all.
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  Speaker 2: You wear many hats. So I just wanted to come
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  Speaker 2: in and say happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking about you.
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  Speaker 3: You're the best. Me?
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  Speaker 1: Like, a minute before you walked in.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was talking about, you know, for some reason, money.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about how money doesn't buy happiness and jazz. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I was talking about how I didn't make any
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  Speaker 1: money here for, like, the first 13 years. And I
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  Speaker 1: was saying how that's why when newer people start and
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  Speaker 1: they're not making any money, it sucks to hear from
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  Speaker 1: somebody else like, oh, it takes time. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're in that position now. And it's like you got
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  Speaker 1: to wait it out. You got to grind and then
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  Speaker 1: hopefully it will come. No guarantee. But if you keep grinding,
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  Speaker 1: there's a good chance it will. And you are progressing. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You got a nickel raise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was like $ 1.
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  Speaker 2: 50.
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  Speaker 3: It was $ 1. 64. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But full time and vacation.
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  Speaker 3: Vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is nice. And hopefully 401K.
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  Speaker 3: We do get the 401K.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you want to add to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me on that. Because if you start now, it
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  Speaker 1: can carry through your life. Trust me, I know. Okay, good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the birthday wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: So anyways, happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're the best.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I know you're very busy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy to have you.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're very busy. So, all right, go do
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  Speaker 1: the podcast because they're going to yell at me if
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  Speaker 1: it's not up. Oh, another special guest. Wow, one walks out,
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  Speaker 1: one walks in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Well, I couldn't believe that I wasn't invited to
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  Speaker 3: your birthday tribute show.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know you wanted to be invited.
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  Speaker 3: Riley came in. She said, oh, yeah, Justin's doing a
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  Speaker 3: birthday tribute show. I said, and I'm not invited?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, welcome. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You're my main man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, baby. Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say something serious, even though it's a birthday
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  Speaker 3: tribute show?
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Is it about the birthday?
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  Speaker 3: It's about the birthday, but it's about you as a person.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. I'm all ears.
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  Speaker 3: You amaze me every single day. Your life amazes me
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  Speaker 3: every single day, what you've done with your life, where
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  Speaker 3: you've come from versus where you've come, the incredible, beautiful
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  Speaker 3: family that you've created, the career that you've created. You're
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  Speaker 3: so respected in this industry. Beautiful children, beautiful home. You
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  Speaker 3: do everything right and you keep yourself beautiful. And physically beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: And you're just a great person. And I walk this
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  Speaker 3: earth every day knowing that I'm your friend. Wow. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God.
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  Speaker 1: And that I get to work.
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  Speaker 3: You always talk about how exciting it is to work
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  Speaker 3: with me. This was your dream job.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I feel so privileged to be able to come in
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  Speaker 3: here every day and work alongside you.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that means a lot to me because you've
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  Speaker 1: had a long, very long career, right? Very well accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: And you've worked with probably millions. a lot of people, right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of people.
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  Speaker 3: None compete with you.
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  Speaker 1: To say that, yeah, I know. And I really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: And I love the fact that Don't take this the
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  Speaker 3: wrong way. I love the fact that you're the first
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  Speaker 3: person I see every morning. It's still dark when I
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  Speaker 3: leave the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Michelle doesn't even know I left the room.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So you're the first person I see every single morning,
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  Speaker 3: and I couldn't be happier about that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the same exact way. Thank you for those words. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, I used to be locked up in jail,
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  Speaker 1: and I would listen to your reports, both of them,
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  Speaker 1: every single day.
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  Speaker 3: Day. Talk about full circle.
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  Speaker 1: I know. And in my head, I wasn't listening, thinking
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  Speaker 1: I would ever get that job. I just had a
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  Speaker 1: passion for radio and a love for what you did
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  Speaker 1: and how you did it. And I loved the way
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  Speaker 1: you did the report. I love the sound. I loved
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  Speaker 1: everything about it. And then here I am.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing it together.
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  Speaker 1: Doing it together.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, nobody, nobody comes close
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  Speaker 3: to doing what you do.
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  Speaker 1: I think that when I give advice to other people,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot of the basics of like showing up
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  Speaker 1: on time, right? Oh, yeah. But also always being on
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  Speaker 1: and putting the show first, right? And just grinding and
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  Speaker 1: giving it 100% every single time.
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  Speaker 3: And not just showing up on time, but anxious to
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  Speaker 3: get there early.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like– It's still one of the best things I do
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  Speaker 3: in the day is get up and come in here. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I still enjoy it that much. And you're a big
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  Speaker 3: reason why.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I'll always remember this. And you shared it on the
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  Speaker 1: after show too. For the army to hear. Wonderful. All right. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to celebrate today by going to the gym
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  Speaker 1: and workout.
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  Speaker 3: Of course you are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to the gym directly after the show this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been crushing it in the gym.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and I'm doing stations with my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, which is what High Rocks is. It's stations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm loving it. I feel stronger than ever, and
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  Speaker 3: I just started a week and a half ago.
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  Speaker 1: See, we joke a lot about how much I love
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  Speaker 1: your wife, right? We call her my wife, and it's
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  Speaker 1: really because we are very alike in our beliefs.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Especially when it comes to health. And she gets it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why she's having you do these things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is to, you know, you want to keep your body fit.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. And she doesn't let me walk away from it.
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  Speaker 3: And I love working out. I've done it my whole life.
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  Speaker 3: But it's different doing it with her and under her guidance.
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  Speaker 3: She knows so much more than I will ever know. Right.
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  Speaker 3: About health and staying fit.
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  Speaker 1: And the human body. And the food.
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  Speaker 3: The food.
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  Speaker 1: Healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, she's a wonderful cook. But everything she
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  Speaker 3: makes is good for you as well as good tasting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You chose a good one there, bud.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if I was going to have anybody else,
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  Speaker 3: there's no one else in the world I'd be proud
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  Speaker 3: to say that you're my wife's other husband.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny. When she texted me this morning and
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  Speaker 1: then she called you, you were in here a couple
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago, and you're like, oh, honey, I'm here with
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  Speaker 1: your husband. She goes, which one?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Happy birthday, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Bill, and thank you to the
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  Speaker 1: After Show Podcast Army. I appreciate everything that you do
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to listening every single day. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be back tomorrow. Jingle Ball announcement on Friday. You excited?
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited. It's what makes the season festive. I really
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  Speaker 3: believe that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a concert. It's something else.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 3: It's an experience that you'll remember always.
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  Speaker 1: I got to share this real quick before we go.
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  Speaker 1: I am hosting a gala on Friday night for the
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  Speaker 1: Merrimack Valley YMCA. It's going to be an amazing event. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of preparing for it. I'm taking notes.
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  Speaker 1: And stupidly, I went on YouTube last night in bed
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  Speaker 1: and I searched Billy Costa Gala. And so you've been
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  Speaker 1: doing them forever. So there's a whole bunch of them
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  Speaker 1: on there.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I went to the live auction one. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was Big Brother, Big Sister.
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  Speaker 3: Probably. I do two a year for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So you were on stage doing a live auction
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  Speaker 1: and you got to see this thing. You are a
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  Speaker 1: master at what you do. And I'm watching it and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like so on one side impressed. On the other
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  Speaker 1: side thinking, I am fucked.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: And what's your live auction for? What's the cause, the charity?
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  Speaker 1: The YMCA.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So all of the things they run. Summer camps. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Summer camps, the Y, after school programs, all those things.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: You couldn't do it for a better cause. The Y,
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: I'm a Y kid.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: I grew up as a Y kid. If my brother
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: and I didn't have the Y in Cambridge, I don't
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: know how we would have ended up. Yeah.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He used to swim naked as a young boy there.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Well, it was the rule. I don't want you to
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: make it sound weird. I still can't figure out why
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: it was a rule.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Different times.
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: But when you swam in the pool inside the Y
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: in Cambridge, you had to be completely naked.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: That's wild.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: And then guys are walking around, old guys.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: But nothing weird happened.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: No.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: It's the way it was. Yeah.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: And the Y has come such a long way. I
• 14:11
  Speaker 3: don't know if you've seen any of the new Ys,
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: the new world Ys. It's amazing how beautiful they are.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: And it's still a really good deal. And it's a
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: deal that's not that easy to beat. Yeah.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: One thing that I picked up from your live auction
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: skill is, you know, if you have an item, right,
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: a trip, say, okay, in the bidding, you're going through
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: the bidding. Let's start at $ 3, 000, right? And then you say,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: let me get $ 3, 500, $ 4, 000. Then it gets to like $ 4, 500, right?
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: And then in between, you'll add things about, the prize.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: So don't, for 10 people, 10 people.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: You have to keep reminding them. You understand this is
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: like a family getaway. It's a family reunion. It's a,
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: you know, a bunch of friends getting together and traveling
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: together and living together. It's like, you have to keep
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: throwing things that are in your imagination. You're trying to
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: picture it in your own mind. Like I think you're
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: taking your whole family, extended family on a trip. Everybody's
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: got their own place and you're spending a whole week.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: It's amazing, but you have to paint a picture.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: But it works. Oh, yeah.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: I can see it. A lot of times they'll have
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: pictures of it up on a giant screen. Yeah. And
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: you can occasionally refer to the picture. Am I lying?
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Take a look at this. Look at this beach. Yeah.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I guess the one takeaway I took from it is
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: just immaculate crowd control is what you have. And I
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: think that's what makes a great host. You are controlling
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: that crowd. They are just in awe of you. Well,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, and I told you off the air.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Get there early for the cocktail reception.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: There's always a cocktail reception that precedes the main ballroom,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: so to speak. Because you'll meet people, get to know
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: certain people, and you'll pick up anecdotal stories along the
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: way that you can share on stage. And then you'll
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: be looking out in the audience and say, oh, yeah,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: I talked to him before the ballroom.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: That's a good tip because I don't have to be
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: there until 7 o'clock, but the cocktail is 6 to 7.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Always.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I'll get there early.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: And get out there on the floor, too.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: During the auction. Oh, walk out there?
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Well, I call it a showdown. Oh, we've got a
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: couple of gunslingers here. They're like a showdown. If it
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: gets to that, go out there and get right between
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: the two bidders.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: And work it up. And then it becomes fun for everybody. Yeah. Wow.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: You really are the master. Oh, I don't know about that,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: but I enjoy it. I really do. I've got two
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: of them this weekend.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I know, and the weather. Yeah, the weather's not going
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: to be good.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: They're both outdoors, so hello, Loveland.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is what it is. All right, thank you, Bill,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: for the words. I appreciate it. Everybody, we'll talk tomorrow.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: See you.