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Best Question - 40 Year Timeline from May 22nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Open up your pocketbook and put a few shuffles out there.
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  Speaker 2: It's best question of the week. We like your questions
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  Speaker 2: and you can ask us just about anything. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: answered just about anything, but you have to email it
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  Speaker 2: to us. Radio from Hell at X ninety six dot
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  Speaker 2: com put the best question in the subject line, and
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  Speaker 2: we got this one from Whitney. Whitney says, Hello lords,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for letting me listen.
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  Speaker 3: Hie Whitney, please help me make.
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  Speaker 2: The math make sense. Your fortieth year anniversary party is
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  Speaker 2: coming up. Can you please go over the timeline of
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  Speaker 2: Radio from Hell? By my calculations, Gina would have been
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  Speaker 2: ten years old when the show first.
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  Speaker 3: Started, all your sweetness, No, Gina, you were twelve, weren't you.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a longtime listener, so I should know all
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  Speaker 2: of this information, but I can't recall. And maybe there
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  Speaker 2: are others out there listening who are curious as well.
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  Speaker 2: Stay care, Whitney.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe we had to have Katie tell us.
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  Speaker 1: I forget what year we decided to start it was it?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was.
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  Speaker 2: From the fortieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 4: I think it was from when we first started working
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  Speaker 4: together eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Six, nineteen eighty six Carrie and I.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and was that Radio from Hell that might have
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  Speaker 1: not been?
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  Speaker 2: You might have been You were fun pigs for a
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  Speaker 2: minute there for a.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of minutes. Yeah, we were. Essentially we became Radio
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  Speaker 3: from Health pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: So forty years ago, I was sixteen and I was
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  Speaker 2: in high school, and I was a fan of Carry
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  Speaker 2: and Bill on the Radio from Hell show. I started. So,
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  Speaker 2: it's the show's fortieth anniversary. It's my thirtieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And it's the fortieth anniversary of the show roughly.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're not trying to hit the exact date.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like sometime this year, within these within these
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  Speaker 1: few months here this is it's forty years of doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And that makes me feel really weird. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: just I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Does all this talk about forty years it's made me tired.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but whenever somebody starts talking about it, I get tired.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's although it's interesting, I know what you're saying. And
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  Speaker 1: I felt that way too when I'm not on the air.
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason, I seem to have more energy
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  Speaker 1: lately on the air that I've had in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know where that comes from either, because
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  Speaker 1: I really should just lay down and give up.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank Pallick Jay's Wall from the Celtick Tribune.
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  Speaker 2: She interviewed us a couple of weeks ago, and an
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  Speaker 2: article that she wrote about the show is in the
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  Speaker 2: Celtic Tribune online this morning. Sean Means today was saying
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  Speaker 2: that it'll be in the print version. I think on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday I posted a link on Twitter and Facebook if
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  Speaker 2: you want to.
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  Speaker 4: I think Katie's put it on all of our socials
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  Speaker 4: and I put it on my Twitter and my Facebook.
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  Speaker 3: You can read it.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess that's the timeline. Is that all that
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  Speaker 1: she wants to know? And then we're ending up here.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean the timeline. You know, people might not
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  Speaker 2: know that Carry and Bill and Radio from Hell started
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  Speaker 2: at a different radio station. X ninety six is a
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  Speaker 2: a morphing of that earlier started at KJQ in Ogden
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  Speaker 2: and really crappy signals, and.
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  Speaker 3: But there we were.
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  Speaker 2: You used to have to if you wanted to keep
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  Speaker 2: listening to KJQ. If you're driving from Ogden to Salt
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  Speaker 2: Lake to Provo, you had to on your radio tune
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  Speaker 2: it to a different frequency.
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  Speaker 3: Depending on the count.
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  Speaker 2: And believe it or not, people bothered to do that.
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  Speaker 3: What did we say?
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  Speaker 1: It was three lousy signals and one great radio station
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  Speaker 1: or something something like that. And uh, what really has
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  Speaker 1: sort of kicked Carrie and I into high gear or
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  Speaker 1: exposed us was the introduced introduction of the what we
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  Speaker 1: called at the time the modern music format. Yes, people
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  Speaker 1: were crazy for it, uh. And it was very unique
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  Speaker 1: and there was no you couldn't get that music anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in Utah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the rest of the radio programmers were not playing
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  Speaker 4: it because they didn't consider it mainstream enough.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there were lots of not a lot of stations
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  Speaker 2: in the country that we're doing, you know, there.
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  Speaker 3: Were like four or five others. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And and the guy who owned the station at the time,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Greenley, Thomas Valentine Greenley. How do you remember that, Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: Because if his middle initial is V and it stands
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  Speaker 1: for Valentine, how would you forget? I guess Anyway, he
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  Speaker 1: saw that the people who listened to this kind of
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  Speaker 1: music were rabbit for it, and he said, let's start
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  Speaker 1: playing this exclusively. Let's play this music twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: a day and that's what sort of kicked Carry and
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  Speaker 1: I in the ass and put us in front of them,
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  Speaker 1: that rabid crowd who hated us at the first. At first, well,
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  Speaker 1: there was.
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  Speaker 4: A group there was a group of people who were
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  Speaker 4: doing the modern music what was called modern music then
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  Speaker 4: at a different radio station, and Tom said to them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they got kicked out of that station, I
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  Speaker 4: think is what happened. Tom said to them, tell you what,
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  Speaker 4: I'll rent you my airwaves from six pm to six am.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of like what they're doing with Colbert's Time Slow, Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 3: And they said, great, we'll take it.
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  Speaker 4: And then Tom said, wow, he saw what was they're
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  Speaker 4: doing really well, and so he says, I want to
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  Speaker 4: do it twenty four hours a day. And the people
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  Speaker 4: in charge of the modern music format said, well, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to fire all of your people.
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  Speaker 3: You get rid of Carry and Bill. We can't have
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  Speaker 3: them doing this.
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  Speaker 4: And Tom said, I will get rid of all my
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  Speaker 4: people except for the morning show, insist that they stay.
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  Speaker 3: And that did not sit well.
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's interesting to me that Tom had some
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  Speaker 1: I guess he really thought we were something well.
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  Speaker 4: I think that he felt that we were a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more qualified slash skilled professional radio people, which is sort.
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  Speaker 1: Of what they didn't what the people didn't. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people didn't like that we were a little more
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, it didn't take too long for the audience
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  Speaker 1: to kind of although there are still some people out there,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, who used to go to the Ritz Club,
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  Speaker 1: who still who if they if you were to ask them,
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  Speaker 1: they'd say, I stopped listening the minute those guys came
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  Speaker 1: on the air.
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  Speaker 3: I hated years ago.
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  Speaker 4: I hated the man, and I hate them now that
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  Speaker 4: there are some members of that audience who do hold grudges.
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  Speaker 1: Which is fine with me because I hold grudges too.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, we sort of went along and
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  Speaker 1: it just got to be where I felt that we
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  Speaker 1: were really just we were just kicking ass. We were
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  Speaker 1: doing well, and then something came along that sort of
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  Speaker 1: well busted up the party.
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  Speaker 3: That's when the asshole from El Paso.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, he came along, bought the place out. He was
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  Speaker 4: a he was a silent partner of Tom's. Tom he
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  Speaker 4: decided he was going to become a big partner and
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  Speaker 4: ruined it. And I immediately was suspicious of him when
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  Speaker 4: he said, look, I won't lie to you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Christian. That's when I immediately and and I
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  Speaker 3: want you to know. We're all family here. We're family.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we are. We're family.
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  Speaker 4: And he kind of ruined it because he brought in
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  Speaker 4: other people and and then that's when everybody left.
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  Speaker 2: But Carrie couldn't because he had the cancer.
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  Speaker 4: I had the cancer and I needed the insurance, so
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  Speaker 4: I had to stay.
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  Speaker 2: We all we all left. I was working over and
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't on the morning show. Then I was working
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  Speaker 2: overnights at the.
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  Speaker 3: Time I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was the last one to leave because we're still
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  Speaker 1: still doing the show with Kerry and these people outsiders
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  Speaker 1: came to me and said, we want you to sign
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  Speaker 1: a non compete and I said or, and they said or.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't sign it, we'll fire you. And I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: fire me, and they did. It's the only time I've
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  Speaker 1: ever been fired from a job in my life. And
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  Speaker 1: they and I wanted them to fire me because I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be able to get unemployment and so I
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  Speaker 1: started collecting unemployment and you know what, they called the
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  Speaker 1: unemployment office and tried to claim that I was defrauding them,
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  Speaker 1: and I had to go in and go to all
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  Speaker 1: of these hearings.
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  Speaker 3: Oh they were a vindictive bunch. They were awful, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they really were so.
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  Speaker 4: And then that's when Jim Facer said, well, we're just
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to find someplace new. He was a sales manager, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and that's when he found some investors and ponied up
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  Speaker 4: his own to buy it was K ninety six at
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  Speaker 4: the time, and it and changed it.
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  Speaker 3: And then then I started working there elapsed.
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  Speaker 4: You started working there with Dom doing the morning and
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  Speaker 4: that's when I went to ZHT and did mornings by myself.
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  Speaker 2: I was on K Bear and Can I did sports
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  Speaker 2: talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: And then Dom Casual left and you know, I like Dom,
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  Speaker 1: and it was we had a pretty good working relationship.
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  Speaker 1: But he he left. He thought he had better opportunity
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the South, as I recall, and so I said,
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  Speaker 1: who will we get to be on the morning show
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  Speaker 1: with Bill? And everybody who worked for us at the
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  Speaker 1: time wanted to do that, which surprised me. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Chad and Laura and they all wanted to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And I talked to all. Jim said, it's it's up
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  Speaker 1: to you. It's up to you. You decide just talk
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  Speaker 1: to him. So I talked to everybody individually and I
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  Speaker 1: just felt kind of and then I said to Jim,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let's see if we can get Carrie
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  Speaker 1: to come over from well.
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  Speaker 4: I had heard about Dom leaving, and I immediately called
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  Speaker 4: Jim and I said, Jim, it just makes sense that
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  Speaker 4: I come back.
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  Speaker 3: It just makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: And he says, you know, Son, I understand that, but
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  Speaker 4: everybody here hates you.
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  Speaker 3: He said that, and it was true, and it was true. No,
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  Speaker 3: it was true. Do you want to talk holding grudges?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody liked Carrie? And when I said no, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know about that phone call. I just said to Jim,
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  Speaker 1: we ought to get Carrie come back and he and
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  Speaker 1: he said, are you sure that's what you want?
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  Speaker 3: You know, everybody hates him. And she said.
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  Speaker 4: They held grudges against me because I didn't walk and.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I said, yes, that's that's what I that
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  Speaker 1: is what I want.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, well, okay, it's up to you. I
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  Speaker 3: told you it was up to you. It's up to you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and uh. And so that's that's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Kerry and I maintained a little bit of a relationship
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  Speaker 1: During that.
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  Speaker 3: We were doing Smith and Edwards.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, commercials and uh you'd come over to the HD
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  Speaker 4: studios would produce those.
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  Speaker 1: And uh so anyway, was that's how we got back,
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  Speaker 1: and it was I think it was about almost two
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  Speaker 1: years that we were uh not together and then it
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  Speaker 1: came back and uh and I think everybody sort of
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  Speaker 1: got used to carry No I just did they stop
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  Speaker 1: hating you.
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  Speaker 3: No, they still they still do the ones that are
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  Speaker 3: still alive. Well it was a long time ago. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Well there you go. That's sort of the best question
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  Speaker 3: a week and then it goes on from there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's more to be continued, and we'll do it at
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  Speaker 3: the Cafe Molise if you want.