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On the Mic & In the Moment with Maxwell · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny tell Us.
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  Speaker 1: And this is teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by Berkeley College. All right, welcome back
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  Speaker 3: to teach me Something with Penny Tellas.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's up? And I'm Maxwell.
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  Speaker 2: Wait where's Pearl?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying, because.
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  Speaker 5: Cels here, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to teach me something.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, I still have a.
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  Speaker 1: Job here today. My brother Maxwell has bum rush the studio.
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  Speaker 5: And the most important thing about this, let's just get
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  Speaker 5: right into this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling this episode. I'm taking control.
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  Speaker 5: Any It's it's called on the fly today with my
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  Speaker 5: guy on the flying something on the fly.
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  Speaker 1: Because you see this people at home. I mean there's
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  Speaker 1: no script.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you see this. We're just just we're just
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  Speaker 5: gonna throw this away. It's also okay, there's no script today.
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  Speaker 5: Maxwell's walking by here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want this, yeah for real?
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  Speaker 4: Like off, you were like you let's go.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I record this right now. Maxwell's the people
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  Speaker 5: have been asking for Maxwell should know you lie?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so the people.
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  Speaker 3: So they've been writing it and saying when is Maxwell
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  Speaker 3: going to take over an episode?
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  Speaker 1: So, well, here it is.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here to compliment, that's all it is. I'm here
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  Speaker 4: to compliment the vibe. That's all it is about my brother.
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  Speaker 2: So you really through our papers?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, do you have anything for this episode on
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  Speaker 1: that you did?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: You really threw off her game.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to this is how so now.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to radio?
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  Speaker 5: Right, Like sometimes you just got to be able to
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  Speaker 5: roll so speaking as a radio personality for twenty years,
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  Speaker 5: like Maxwell, right plus twenty years, we're working against it.
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  Speaker 1: This happens a lot in radio.
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  Speaker 5: So on radio sometimes they'll come and they'll open the
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  Speaker 5: door and be like, hey, so this whatever artists is here,
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  Speaker 5: can we bring them in real quick? And they bring
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  Speaker 5: them right in, and you just got to go with it.
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  Speaker 5: I've interviewed plenty of times people have no idea about nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Yo, it's happened for me to we'll chat about. But
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  Speaker 4: there's been times where it's it's a fake it till
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  Speaker 4: you make it, you know, moments you're just kind of like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta know is how to say the person's name?
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  Speaker 4: Done?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and just some generic questions and let them fill
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  Speaker 5: the ins, which is what we're gonna do with Maxwell today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: like obviously we already know how great he is and
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  Speaker 5: how long he's been on radio. But let's let's start
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  Speaker 5: this all right for the people at home who don't
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  Speaker 5: know Maxwell from in Maxwell's House on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Right, let's start from the beginning.
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  Speaker 5: What what what got you into the career that y're
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  Speaker 5: in now with Radiom.
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  Speaker 4: There was a buddy of mine. I played college football
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  Speaker 4: and there was a buddy of mine. I was on
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  Speaker 4: a football team and he was a DJ at the
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  Speaker 4: radio station in the city and San Luis Obispo, California,
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  Speaker 4: small Central Coast, California, and like, for real, for real.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, if he can do it, I can
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  Speaker 4: do it. So I bugged him a lot, my buddy DK.
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  Speaker 4: He was like my uncle, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: He was just my my big brother. And I was
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  Speaker 4: just like, get me into the studio. How do I
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  Speaker 4: get to be an intern? How do I get to
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  Speaker 4: do something like that? Like if you know what age was,
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  Speaker 4: I was like nineteen twenty, Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: And I was just like, if you can do it?
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  Speaker 4: And I just saw the way that he was he
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  Speaker 4: was moving around the city.
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  Speaker 1: Though, right, you could do it.
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  Speaker 4: I could do it. Well I didn't that way.
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  Speaker 5: I like, you can do what I can do?
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, Sam, what it was like? But
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  Speaker 4: that was our relationship, That was our friendship. It was normally.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you know, the same normally people is if
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  Speaker 1: I could do it, you could do it. If you
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  Speaker 1: could do it, I could do it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, seriously what it was for real And that
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  Speaker 6: was a that was a testament to our friendship because
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  Speaker 6: he really did take me under h under his wing
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  Speaker 6: in the way that you said pity is like.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, yo, but that was that was really
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  Speaker 4: what it was. So he he actually got me in
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  Speaker 4: front of his program director and his PD was like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: I'm catching a vibe. You're good friends with d K.
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  Speaker 4: Go and do like a little air check tape. And
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  Speaker 4: at the time, I was studying communication in school and
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  Speaker 4: we worked at the college radio station. I was doing
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  Speaker 4: like overnights, like like talking three to six in the morning,
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  Speaker 4: and I went, I made a little, uh little air
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  Speaker 4: check tape. About a week or two later, gave it
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  Speaker 4: to the PD and he was like, you know, actually
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  Speaker 4: we're looking to fill some part time people boom boom.
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  Speaker 5: So you already were doing though college radio probably a
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  Speaker 5: little bit, yeah, a little bit funny, a lot of yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Like I was blessed enough, Like it's college radio and
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry form, like is it still a thing and
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  Speaker 5: still going on?
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  Speaker 1: I hope it is because college radio has.
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  Speaker 5: Spawned so many careers for so many people, myself included.
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  Speaker 5: Like I got into radio because of you know, when
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  Speaker 5: I was in Orlando at the time, Rolin's College Rollins
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  Speaker 5: college radio shots to you guys, I was going to
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  Speaker 5: the radio with DJ Khaled yep when he was doing it,
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  Speaker 5: and that's what got me into the whole Wow, this
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  Speaker 5: is cool.
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  Speaker 2: Like it for Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 7: We have this podcast we Are We Are the Radio?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah are it? Yeah, that's what it was. And I
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  Speaker 4: was able. I was prepared to be that person when
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity came, and then like the rest is history.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, we're we got to fill the time.
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  Speaker 1: So the rest of talk about year.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty four years twenty yeah, twenty four years with it, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's so crazy. We don't get a pension plan.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: No, some of my boys saying, I'm just saying this
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  Speaker 5: right now. You know, we're going like I'm about to
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  Speaker 5: do twenty years too with a company, right and not.
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  Speaker 5: I am getting pretty close, and in mi head, I'm thinking, damn,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if I went to construction.
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  Speaker 1: Of something white, I mean I'd be set for life
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  Speaker 1: right now, right.
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  Speaker 4: Different situation with us. So yeah, it started. So I
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  Speaker 4: started doing like the overnight shift at at the radio
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  Speaker 4: station in Saint Luisibiso. It was a top forty radio station,
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  Speaker 4: and I was yo, oh my god, yo, you guys
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  Speaker 4: gotta be digging into the memory bank. I was doing
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  Speaker 4: the like the late night like dedication show. Bro. So
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  Speaker 4: imagine like a twenty year old giving shoutouts and dedications
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  Speaker 4: like I'm gonna throw a name out there.
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  Speaker 1: There's low music, like slow chilling like my show.
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  Speaker 4: My show was called Kissing after Dark.
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  Speaker 2: So you were like on the Delilah wave.
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  Speaker 5: I was on the Delilah wave to speak of, like
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  Speaker 5: the monotone kind of life. And I'm like, twenty gives
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  Speaker 5: a voice, now, give us good, okay, give us something
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  Speaker 5: to show here.
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  Speaker 4: First you played the the.
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  Speaker 1: We're going into do to to you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's like, hey, I just want to give
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  Speaker 4: a shout out to Roquel who's listening. She's in Pismo Beach, California.
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  Speaker 4: This is coming from your man Julio, who's listening at
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  Speaker 4: Long Poke. He's locked up for twenty five years, but
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  Speaker 4: just so you know, love that his heart will always
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  Speaker 4: be locked up to yours. This is moments in love.
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  Speaker 4: I'm kissing after dark and then I forget what they
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  Speaker 4: call it her but bro, but.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, Maxwell, you gotta do a series of this social
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  Speaker 2: But you gotta.
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  Speaker 4: Thing that was maybe will Yeah, yeah, yeah, we gotta
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  Speaker 4: plug in like some.
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  Speaker 5: Boys the Road the next like April Fools, just flip
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  Speaker 5: the whole show into like a whole.
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  Speaker 3: You should plugging some off for one in that I
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  Speaker 3: gotta dig and yeah, I gotta dig in crazy for
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  Speaker 3: those for those records.
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  Speaker 2: But it was bring it back because.
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  Speaker 4: The thing was I was like twenty nineteen, twenty years old,
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  Speaker 4: Like what do I know about love at that At
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  Speaker 4: that moment.
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  Speaker 2: They were sending their things and so you were just.
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  Speaker 4: Reading, Oh man, it was yeah, it was fun. So
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  Speaker 4: I did that shift for about like a year, and
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  Speaker 4: then the night Jock he ended up going somewhere else.
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  Speaker 4: I slid up and I was doing like from seven
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  Speaker 4: to ten, which was obviously like way more fit the format.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't like a specific show. It was the night show.
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  Speaker 4: We were rocking. And then that lasted for about like
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  Speaker 4: two years at that station. When the morning show position
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  Speaker 4: opened up at a radio station that was just what
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  Speaker 4: we call in the industry, we go, you know, we
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  Speaker 4: across the street. I started to go and play for
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  Speaker 4: the opposition doing mornings, and it kind of shook up
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  Speaker 4: the city for a little bit. You're thinking small town
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  Speaker 4: radio where everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Knew whoever we were.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean. So it was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: Maxwell was about to go over to you know this
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  Speaker 4: station and do mornings. What the hell do you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying? And I did mornings at CASELI. It
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  Speaker 4: was another Top forty. The thing with me too is
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  Speaker 4: I've always been in top forty radio. Yeah, like I
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  Speaker 4: never really had the chance to do I mean later
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  Speaker 4: on in my career urban rhythm CHR. But I've always
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  Speaker 4: been like a Top forty dude growing up in California.
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  Speaker 4: It was just a part of the culture, part of
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  Speaker 4: the vibe, and that's just you know, what I knew
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  Speaker 4: and how I moved. But when I went to go
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  Speaker 4: and do mornings, we had what we called the eminem show. Well,
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  Speaker 4: my buddy, it was Maxwell and Marshall and we did, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we did. You know the ratchetness that was early two
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  Speaker 4: thousands radio man. We were getting ready with like some
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  Speaker 4: of the stupidest stuff the time was what it was,
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  Speaker 4: and that was really awesome until I it was maybe
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  Speaker 4: two years into our morning show that I got the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to go to Morning Show boot Camp. And have
• 8:50
  Speaker 4: y'all heard about the like the Morning Show boot Camp.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's a conference where they bring in, you know,
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  Speaker 4: talent from all across the country. You going you brainstorm
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  Speaker 4: and all that kind of stuff. And at that time
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  Speaker 4: I met the program director of w It was B
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  Speaker 4: ninety ninety seven in New Orleans, and I, uh, this
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  Speaker 4: was probably the most pivotal part of my radio careers.
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  Speaker 4: I had brought a CD. Bro. Remember we have to
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  Speaker 4: burn CDs. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: I'm wire was not our front yo, all the corruption
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  Speaker 7: on the computers, right, So I burned a CD of
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  Speaker 7: like highlights from our morning show just because I was
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  Speaker 7: going to go and just actually share it with my
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  Speaker 7: uncle who let me crash at his place down in
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  Speaker 7: La So I drove down the coast from San Luis Obispo, California,
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  Speaker 7: Central California to LA.
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  Speaker 4: About a three hour drive. I had the CD of
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  Speaker 4: like Best of Moments, excuse me. That was going to
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  Speaker 4: get to my uncle, who was really like my big brother,
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  Speaker 4: and he was just like, yo, you know, bring me
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  Speaker 4: some stuff, nephew. It was before streaming, so it's like
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  Speaker 4: I don't get to hear the show. I see you
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  Speaker 4: do da da da dah. So I had a CD.
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  Speaker 4: But when I went to Morning Show boot camp, the
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  Speaker 4: program director that was a PDA B ninety seven, we
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  Speaker 4: met at like a cocktail hour and he was like, yo,
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  Speaker 4: you got any like you got any like air check stuff,
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  Speaker 4: you got whatever.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, bro.
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  Speaker 4: I went to my Ford Probe. I went outside to
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  Speaker 4: the parking lot. I was like, I got this one
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  Speaker 4: CD that I was gonna get to my uncle. I
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  Speaker 4: gave it to and his name is Mike Cappa, and
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  Speaker 4: the PD of the station at the time gave him
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  Speaker 4: the city and like, man, when I tell you, like
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  Speaker 4: two and a half weeks later, he was like, you're
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  Speaker 4: trying to come to New Orleans and do mornings. I
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  Speaker 4: was like yo, I was like twenty four something like that,
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  Speaker 4: and left California to go do mornings for about a
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  Speaker 4: year and a half at B ninety seven in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 4: That was dope, but also wasn't ready for like morning
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  Speaker 4: radio at that time. Still like hella young. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying, morning radio a different It's a whole different beast.
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  Speaker 4: As you all know. It comes with life experience and
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  Speaker 4: how to talk to you know, moms and daughters and talking.
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  Speaker 1: To people on the way to work. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're trying to catch all that stuff. And I
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  Speaker 4: mean we were funny. We had a good little situation,
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: but our show was was not good. But I think
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  Speaker 4: about it, it was like but we tried, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. And we ended up disbanding that morning
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  Speaker 4: show after about like a year and a half and
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  Speaker 4: then damn, I going down. I'm loving this little you know,
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  Speaker 4: going down memory Lane. Ended up in Lafayete, Louisiana, which
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  Speaker 4: is about two hours west of New Orleans, and that's
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  Speaker 4: when I started to host my night show again. And
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  Speaker 4: I got really bit at that time by the bug
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  Speaker 4: with the programmer. So I started to do assistant program
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  Speaker 4: director stuff and music director stuff, and I really started
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  Speaker 4: to get like, yo, this is the inner workings of
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  Speaker 4: the radio station. Here's how budgets wore behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, meeting with the record label
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  Speaker 4: folks and really getting to understand how the industry, the
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  Speaker 4: radio industry works, and I love that. And while I
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  Speaker 4: was in Lafayette. The weird part about it though, for
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  Speaker 4: me personally, was being in the South and being a
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  Speaker 4: California kid, you know what I'm saying, being on another
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  Speaker 4: top forty radio station. It was a culture shock because
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  Speaker 4: the South is still the South even to this day,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, There's still a lot of
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  Speaker 4: ingrained biases and stereotypes. And I broke the mold, like
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  Speaker 4: total this is California kid who grew up surfing, listening
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  Speaker 4: to you know what I'm saying, the most pop music
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  Speaker 4: in the world, and just that lifestyle that was me,
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  Speaker 4: Like I was toy smelling, you know what, I reboot
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  Speaker 4: for real, but that was my energy was just like
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  Speaker 4: this real laid back vibe. When you get to the South.
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  Speaker 4: You know, everybody saw me. Well. It also was before
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  Speaker 4: like a lot of video in multi media was in
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  Speaker 4: our industry, so they would hear my voice and then
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  Speaker 4: when they would see me, they were like, Yo, your
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  Speaker 4: black dude, how come you're not on the hip hop station?
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  Speaker 4: How come you're out on the urban station? Like, how
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  Speaker 4: come you're not da da da da? I was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: this is just who I am, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So there was some there was some tension, you know,
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  Speaker 4: within and there was a lot of soul searching, like damn,
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  Speaker 4: am I really like supposed to be this particular dude.
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  Speaker 4: Am I supposed to fit a particular way of speaking,
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  Speaker 4: broadcasting whatever? Or is it just best to be myself?
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  Speaker 4: I was being true to myself and at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day that started to actually, I mean it
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  Speaker 4: worked tremendously to my advantage because I created well I
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  Speaker 4: didn't create anything. I was being me, but I became
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  Speaker 4: that one of one, like I was like the only
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  Speaker 4: brother in top forty radio, like really in multiple cities
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  Speaker 4: across the country, and it was refreshing to a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the hip hop and urban artists that were crossing over.
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  Speaker 4: When they could come into a radio station like I
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  Speaker 4: was at and see somebody who looked like them, you
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  Speaker 4: feel a little bit more comfortable and knowing as like
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  Speaker 4: yo okay, Like I was around the time in laft
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  Speaker 4: Fae Louisiana when like Cupid was coming out with Cupid
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  Speaker 4: Shuffle and like D four l like laughy taffy, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Like them joints where it was
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  Speaker 4: like that chopped and screwed hip hop stuff. But then
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  Speaker 4: it started to move over to like a top forty
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  Speaker 4: world and they were like, Yo, so I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 4: and and meet with somebody doing interview with somebody who
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  Speaker 4: can't relate. But it's like, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: I'm still a brother, I'm still black dude, I still
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  Speaker 4: have you know, uh the skin that is exactly like yours.
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  Speaker 4: We can relate on that. But I'm just a you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm but I'm personality wise, I'm just I'm just me
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  Speaker 4: and and it was proof to me that that we
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  Speaker 4: as a culture are so multi dimensional and people started
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  Speaker 4: to catch on to that. I think I won over
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people like, Yo, this is really refreshing
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  Speaker 4: because now listeners that I had, especially even in the
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  Speaker 4: South at the time, loved the pop music that we
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  Speaker 4: were playing, but maybe felt a little ashamed, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, to go out.
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  Speaker 5: I remember I was being on an urban radio during
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  Speaker 5: those times, like even when like you had the Biaber
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  Speaker 5: records that started to cross over and yeah, you're like,
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  Speaker 5: we're playing this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, because that's just what it was.
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  Speaker 1: But you are a barrier breaker.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where I found my power.
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  Speaker 1: That's great because I knew none that. Yeah, that's amazing.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: That's where I found my power, especially down in the South,
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: because a lot of folks started to become comfortable, you know,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: relating to me because you know, I am who I
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: am and a lot of times that kind of personality,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: especially in that region of the country is sheltered or
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: it's you know, I don't want to say frowned upon,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: but it's like I said, a lot of people coming
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: in like I can't believe you should be on the
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: hip hop station, blah blah blah blah. That's when I
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: found out, like, Yo, what I'm doing here is truly
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: something special. What I'm doing here is truly something different
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: by being true to who I am and showing that
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: there are different facets, facets of the African American culture.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: And we're all we're all one at the end of
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the day.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: But back then you're right.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: It was such a separation in music, such a separation
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: where it's like even when I was growing up, remember
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: there was hip hop, but you know I was in
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: the South also.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I lived in Florida for so many years.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: Yea, down there, it was like, so the urban hip
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: hop scene for them is you know, you're talking about
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: like down south music, tricky dollars, that kind of like
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: it's totally like everyone's wearing gold tees, yeah big you know,
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: the hoop ties with the big twenty four and.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: And then you had like Wu tanging all that out
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: and they didn't wear none of that.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Nah.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: It was a set.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: It was either you listened to this or that. You
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: couldn't even mix those two types of hip hop together.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: And I was one who would, yeah, who would get
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: on the radio and go from trick Daddy to Redman
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: and Met the Man and back and front.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: But that's who you are, that's what you were, that's
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: what you represented. And then that's how I was. I
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: could deliver a pop message while I'm playing you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: records by bands like you know what I'm saying. I'll
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: throw a name out there. There's a group I remember
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: being in New Orleans as a like alternative pop rock
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: band like better than Ezra. You know what I'm saying,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: like people, but then at.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: The same cash money out during that time the radio, Yeah.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. But then and then it would be.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Like yo that to play forty, to be playing like
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: back that up.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Had to we were Yeah, you know what I'm saying,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: and it was it was refreshing for somebody like me
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: to be the one that delivers that message on a
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: pop radio station and.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Coming out of that true to yourself.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: So, speaking through the whole memory Lane, you went from
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: wanting to emulate your best friend, right, and you were inspired,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: but then you motivated, and through that motivation and perseverance
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you said, you know what, I'm just going to go for.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: It full fledge ahead. And you did.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: And it was because I sucked at everything else too.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: Because the most the most out of everything you've said today, right,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: there's one question that really has been just in my
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: head that I want to ask you in this probably
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: the most important thing you touched on is what position
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: when you were playing football did you play?
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: You know I was I was going to ask that
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: when he started lane, Damn, I played receiver.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like what did I say that?
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I say no, But you know you spoke about
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: adversity and how you dealt with that and you just
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: stay true to yourself. And we had Shelley Wage to
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Shelley Wage, she was on the pod, and we asked
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: her about that because she had a similar journey in
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: her voice didn't match what you would see and it
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: was that expectation, and she said, I'm just me and
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: if you're just yourself she was.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: She spent some time in San Diego in California, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: she was an icon of mind. She was somebody I
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: looked up to, but see like she was like one
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: of the only you know what I'm saying. And once
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I kind of realized, like, yo, if I can be
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: that person for somebody else, I want to. I want to,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: you know, be even more true to who I am
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: and be unapologetic, you know, for you know, being a
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: you know, a black dude on Top forty radio. Because
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I know that there are people who I mean, my
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: time that I spent before being with kqu was ten
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: years at Z one hundred, Like there has never been
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: anybody who looked like me who has spent that amount
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: of time on a prominent day part on the biggest
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: top forty radio station in America. Not only that, you
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: know when you think about when you peel back, you
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, the magnifying glass in the country.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm like one of like three, you
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. Personally, that didn't sit right with
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: me because I was.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Like, why aren't there more?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Why aren't there more? It doesn't make any sense.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: But you know what, you were that trail.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: But you have That's what I hope to be. And
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: it was because of people like Shelley. It was because
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: of Yeah, it was because of her just being true
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: to herself. And I was like, yeah, so, but yeah,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: it's real quick to you know what I mean, to
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: get to how I got to be here in New York.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, after laft Yete Louisiana, it was Columbus, Ohio.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: And by and by the way, and you don't you
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: don't have to go through this fast because I already
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: see that this is part one.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: This is part one.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We're gonna because I grab you. It's just the people.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: My man Max was literally walked through the hallway and
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: we were like yo, and actual here she has no
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: actual notes or what's you know.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I do just want to bring that full circle because
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: you did mention Z. Yeah, and you have brought that
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: back into mentorship because you've mentored our students at Berkeley
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: College through Z one hundred when you were with Crystal
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: shout out to Crystal rolls with on the plod he's
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Maxwell shouting what up to one of our interns here?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: But you know, you have brought that full circle and
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: you have embodied that educative perspective and giving back and
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: opening those doors, and you've connected with our interns on
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: socials and you continue to mentor both inside and outside
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: the studio.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I like to think that if I wasn't in radio,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that I would be some sort of a teacher, Like
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I really not a wide receiver dog. You know how
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: big these fools are in the NFL. That's the other
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: reason why I was like, let me get my little
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: five year I'm gonna say I was.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: You didn't want to pick a receiver on the team,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: be like if you could do that, I could do that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I tried, but these fools were like six three, two
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: twenty five, Like everybody got so big, bro, And I
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: was just like if man I was like, I need
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: to find something else because the NFL kept they're not
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: looking for like that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Sovot pivoted to radio.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: But Maxwell, you not only did ray you, but you
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: also went on and did some big screen saf.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: That's why I say this is part one, right, because
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: we know how did that come about?
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: All Right, let's just I'm gonna tell you. We can
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: discuss that in part two, but I will.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: There's a lot to talk. There's a lot you were
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: just you know.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I heard.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's so much to talk about. Maxwell's career.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: He's done so much. He's one of those talents that
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: that do a lot more than just radio. That's what
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I'm saying this this episode will definitely be able.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: It's going to be and we're just going to think
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: about the second half of Maxwell.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: This is getting to know really because we've learned first
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: all I've learned a lot about you in this episode
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: is amazing and your career.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Path and where it started. And it's like everyone, what
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I get out of all.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: These episodes from people that are successful is the stories
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: that really you say, wow, you know, the people that
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: really are successful these days have really had to go
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: through it all and and for the people listening who
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: are just getting started, just just remember that if you're
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: going through something now, that's something that you'll be able
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: to tell during your story when you're successful down the line.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: And never quit right and just keep going because look,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, you went to all these markets and and
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: then ended up in the biggest one, and it.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Really was just it was like, let's let's focus on
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: on being great, but being great by not compromising who
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: you are. And yeah, and a lot of those opportunities
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: that you know, we'll discuss more about they they came
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: about just like you said, persistence, working hard, being true
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: to who you are, being a team player, but also
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: standing up for yourself in the right moment, you know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: not being a pushover, not getting you know, uh, stepped
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: over because you you acted a particular way to a
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: particular person. I mean, it's it sounds cliche to say,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: but you know, good you know, good guys and girls.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: You know, at the end of the day, it will
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: happen for you will win. But you just got to
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: remember that it's it's a it's a marathon, it's not
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: a sprint, you know. And we all have talked to
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: so many artists that seem like they're overnight successes.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Well these days, these days, well there are some there
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: are something yeah.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's not the normal. But that's
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: not the normal situation. Yeah, that's not the norm at all.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: And that doesn't that doesn't equate nine out of ten
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: times said longevity. Right, those over how many overnight successes
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: or one hit wonders have we spoke to on radio
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: right that are not here anymore?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: And but the people that grinded it out are still
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: are still here.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: The one name that kind of sticks to my to
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: my brain real quick as we start to put a
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: button on this is like somebody like a Teddy Swims
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: like you know what I mean, an amazing pop star
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: who had a massive pop crossover whatever. Teddy, his voice
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: is crazy, you know what I'm saying. And you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: last year in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, dude
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: blew up broke record. But this dude has been doing
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: music for like fifteen years, you know what I'm saying.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: But it's like people didn't know that nobody until you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: sit down and you hear their story. Yes, it's like Coplay.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: You ever hear Coplay story? And Chris Martin.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I mean the biggest in the world, right and I
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: mean my favorite probably if not one of my favorite
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: bands ever go see perform. But then if you actually
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: listen to their story, these guys were playing back in
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: you know, I forgot you gay. Okay, they're playing and
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: they had residencies that they go play at a bar
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: every Friday for like thirty people until they broke through.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: But they would go to that residency for one hundred people,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: two hundred people. Now they're doing two hundred thousand people
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: and say, one.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Of the most recognizable bands on this planet.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we don't want to.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Hold you up.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: But you can hear Maxwell's residency.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Five in National House afternoons. It's going down three to seven. Grip.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I just I just want to, says neighbors.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Bro is shaking, like damn.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Shout out to Wendy wow, because on her episode she
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: did say that she loves you beyond capacity and her
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: and pro create a Maxwell sandwich of love.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, in the middle it sounds.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's all love.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: We've no but the synergy, the synergy though, is it's man,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: it's it's something special, Like it really is, like we
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: and this this stage in my life, in this chapter
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: of the book, it feels right. It feels right for
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: where its supposed to be. And well, yeah, we'll lead
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: into all that aspect, but right now, I mean, I'm yeah,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: I'm blessed, extremely grateful. And the biggest thing that if
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: anybody takes away from this first episode is just be you.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Do you? You know what I'm saying. You might feel
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: like it's not gonna happen for you, but I promise
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: you we will. I promise you, because there's I mean,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: getting caught up in a liar to a character, You're
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: you're gonna lose sight of who you truly are, end
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: up fumbling the bag at some point in time, and
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: you will never have that issue if you just stay
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: true to yourself.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I love it and I'm just gonna I'm gonna wrap
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: it with what you hear. Everyone is one hundred percent real.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: I've had the privilege of getting to know all of
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: these personalities and powerhouses here and kat U and Z
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: and what you see is what you get. There is
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: no facade. And it's so beautiful to work with you all,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: and you all are so welcoming and so loving and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: you guys are just amazing.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Love you guys.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: This is supposed to It's supposed to happen right now
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: for us.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have pennies, gonna be on a right, We're
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: gonna get penny on her.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Yourself.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: She has that good like she might be like a light.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: You know, it's just like you had that delivery. She
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: has like Delilah Delia. She has that the night time
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: like you did. You didn't way better than I did
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: it when I.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Was first to start.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Sure, So maxl we have we do have to end
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: with our clolos one question. So we ask our students
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: to describe what Berkeley College means to them in one word.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: So we're gonna flip it, okay, okay, and we're going
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: to ask you to articulate in one word what you
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: aim your legacy to be.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Wow, I am yeah, damn.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: See we were flowing up one word.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: All right, I want to authenticity.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: That's beautiful.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, left you speak to her. First second, she was like,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: but no, that's authenticity.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Thought he was gonna say.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, we had a bet going on because
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: we had authentically I love it. We had a bet
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: because Wendy's word was love and she defined it exactly
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the same way Crystal did on Crystal's episode We're Love.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: So he's like, if Maxwell comes in here and says
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: love and yeah on this floor, ill.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Than just it awesome?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Well listen, we know you gotta wrap, you know you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: gotta go.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: We got saying book the busy baby.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: This is episode one? Is this going to be season one?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Or is this this is season two?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Were in season two?
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: We're in season two already. Uh, and we will be
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: getting your next episode done shortly, So stick around.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: And grab me in the hallways. I'm down.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: You want to talk to you?
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: What we'll be doing all the social content?
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: And I think I think Max, Max, Maxwell, you could
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: take us out, you know you could, you know, just
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: let the people know what over.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: I hope I taught you something. You see what I'm
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: saying and I don't know what.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Damn that's Maxwell.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: He has to go.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Maxwell, thanks for listening.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: This is Teaching Me Something with pn DJ Pro Style
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and Maxwell.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: By College. Hey, thanks for listening.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Tune in next week for all new episode of Teach
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Me Something, brought to you by Berkeley College