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Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: What's Up Friends, Welcome after show podcast, wrapping up the week,
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  Speaker 1: and it's Friday. Today is April twenty fourth. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: what a crazy week. I feel like I say that
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  Speaker 1: every single week, but it really is. It's very busy.
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  Speaker 1: Lot's going on, but I'm still dying over the able
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  Speaker 1: to talk back.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We played this morning. So the story with that is
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  Speaker 1: obviously Billy's cookbook the three Dollars on Amazon. That was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a whole segment that we did yesterday. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the book was fifty bucks, and then someone left the
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  Speaker 1: talk back and said that the book was for three
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  Speaker 1: dollars and seventy seven cents. Turns out that was the
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  Speaker 1: used one and it's listed for like twenty seven dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So Billy had donated to my son Abel's Hitethon, which
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  Speaker 1: is to raise money for Salem youth baseball. It was
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars goal. So, you know, my wife sent
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  Speaker 1: me the link and I was with Billy and he's
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  Speaker 1: always good for that stuff. Said, hey, you want to
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  Speaker 1: donate to Abel's thing. He's like, yeah, what's the goal?
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  Speaker 1: He said, one hundred bucks. He goes, that's it. He
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  Speaker 1: has one hundred bucks. So he gave me his credit card.
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  Speaker 1: Boom done. So Able had a baseball game last night.
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  Speaker 1: They lost, but he went three for three. He had
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  Speaker 1: a good game. He's smashing that ball. And so on
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  Speaker 1: the way home, I told him, I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: uncle Billy donated one hundred dollars to your hit athon,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, oh, well, can I say thank you
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  Speaker 1: to him? And then the idea popped in my head
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  Speaker 1: he could do it on the talkback, So I had
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  Speaker 1: him leave a talkback, and of course I coached him
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  Speaker 1: up about the book, because why not. It's hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, uncle Billy, it's Able. Thanks for donating to my hitathon.
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  Speaker 3: As a thank you, I bought your book on Amazon
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  Speaker 3: for three back.
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  Speaker 1: Now he might have a future in some kind of broadcasting.
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  Speaker 1: I mean by the time he becomes of age. Who
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  Speaker 1: knows if broadcasting will be a thing. Well, podcasting definitely will,
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  Speaker 1: and radio of course, but he might have a future
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  Speaker 1: of that kid telling you it's pretty funny. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the book is twenty seven dollars. It's not three dollars,
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  Speaker 1: just so you know. Also, this morning on the show,
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  Speaker 1: I was surprised Billy did this. Not that I'm opposed
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  Speaker 1: to it, but we did get a text from our
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  Speaker 1: boss about the ratings, and they're like crazy and for
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  Speaker 1: the boss to text us that, it's a big deal
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  Speaker 1: because in radio, in radio is different demos, right, everything
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  Speaker 1: is different age demos. So you have like women eighteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty four, men eighteen thirty four, people eighteen thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: It's very confusing. Then you have people twenty five to
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  Speaker 1: fifty four, women twenty five fifty four. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have our target demos that we hit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five to fifty four people, that's the big one
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  Speaker 1: we get bonused on. But the other ones are good too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean some people might have bonuses on the other ones.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Mine is people twenty five to fifty four,
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  Speaker 1: which we have not hit since I think two thousands.
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  Speaker 1: It was right after Gandhi left, so maybe like two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: I think we hit one in twenty eighteen and that
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  Speaker 1: was the last one. So you know, for the past
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  Speaker 1: so many years we have not We've always been up
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  Speaker 1: and down with the ratings. It's always been like number one,
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  Speaker 1: number two, number three, number four, like right in that
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  Speaker 1: top five thing. You know, it's kiss one away people
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  Speaker 1: listen to it, but it's it's it's wacky now, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And this started back when when Matt he was kind
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  Speaker 1: of wrapping up his career. You know, people are doing
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  Speaker 1: different things. They're distracted. You have podcasts, you have people's
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  Speaker 1: phones ringing when they're in the car. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: like distractions that it's hard to get people to stay
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  Speaker 1: and listen. And we get you know, we get rated
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  Speaker 1: on how long people listen. Right, So to get the
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  Speaker 1: text from the boss saying, listen, this is a big deal,
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  Speaker 1: not just because of you being number one in this
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  Speaker 1: demo or that demo. This is overall. This is everyone's
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  Speaker 1: six plus six, six and older, right, every demo, number one,
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  Speaker 1: biggest morning show in Boston. Be proud, brag a little.
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  Speaker 1: This is a huge deal, and thank you for what
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  Speaker 1: you do. It really was an amazing text. So that
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  Speaker 1: came into like eight o'clock last night. Obviously we're celebrating,
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  Speaker 1: yay y I'm making jokes about it, and then this
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  Speaker 1: morning Billy was like, I want to do it on
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  Speaker 1: the air. And I really feel for Billy man, I
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  Speaker 1: really do. I'm I'm happy and I'm proud of what
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  Speaker 1: we do every day, and I'm happy about the ratings.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm especially happy for Billy in particular. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously him and Matt ended badly. You know that friendship
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  Speaker 1: Lisa to and Matt ended very badly. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: talked endlessly about that. And I don't think it's not
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  Speaker 1: so much a sense of like feu'd it to Matt
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  Speaker 1: per se, but it's the fact that Billy took the
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  Speaker 1: show over, which was always the plan, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: it just wasn't supposed to happen. When it happened, Matt
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  Speaker 1: went a little crazy. You know, we know that story.
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  Speaker 1: So it ended early. He retired and moved to Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Well he was already in Florida, but he retired, and
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  Speaker 1: Billy took over the show with a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do you follow up that? And he
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  Speaker 1: knew that, he knew the pressure was on. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we get these ratings, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a full circle feel good moment for Billy because I
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  Speaker 1: know in the back of his head he's like he's
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  Speaker 1: always thinking, am I doing a good job? I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's been a radio for I think almost fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he started many many, many many years ago.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, in the back of his head, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: am I doing good? Am I doing good enough? And
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  Speaker 1: to get that text, I think he just really feel
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  Speaker 1: feels good, you know. And I mean, I'll be honest man,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, Matt used to say things to him
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  Speaker 1: on the air, on the air like you'll never get
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  Speaker 1: the show. You know, they're not gonna give you the show,
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  Speaker 1: You'll never be successful. Those were perceived as jokes, but
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  Speaker 1: I know Billy probably took them to heart. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just really happy for Billy. I really am. He's such
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  Speaker 1: a good dude man, such a good person. So he's
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  Speaker 1: a great leader, but he's a better friend too. He's
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  Speaker 1: a better friend. So great leader but also a good
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  Speaker 1: friend and even a better friend. So I'm lucky to
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  Speaker 1: work with him every day. So we did a segment
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  Speaker 1: on that about how grateful we are to our listeners
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  Speaker 1: and the people that you know, listen every single day,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the truth. Right. We can go on and
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  Speaker 1: we can do a little humble brag and be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, look at us, we're number one, but
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  Speaker 1: without our listeners, our talkbackers, people that turn the radio on,
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  Speaker 1: turn the iHeart app on every single day and give
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  Speaker 1: us a chance and join our show. It would not
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  Speaker 1: be possible. So you know, the first half of the
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  Speaker 1: segment was a look at us, and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the segment was, well, we're only here because of you
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  Speaker 1: and thank you. So I'm proud to be a member
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  Speaker 1: of this team. I give everything to this show. I
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  Speaker 1: really do. And I'm not saying that in a way
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  Speaker 1: of look at me, look what I'm doing. It's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm thinking about the show all day long.
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  Speaker 1: I wake up thinking about the show. How can I
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  Speaker 1: make the show better? What can I add to the show.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's a dream to even work here, right this
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  Speaker 1: is I grew up in Malden, right down the street,
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  Speaker 1: literally a half a mile down the street, and all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that I've been through, you know, to work here,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been here for a while, but it never
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  Speaker 1: gets old. I never take it for granted. And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's something I tell other people here, especially people that
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  Speaker 1: are coming up in the business. Never ever, ever take
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  Speaker 1: this for granted. It could be taken away in a second.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get lazy, don't you know. Mail it in always
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent effort and really just enjoy the time
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  Speaker 1: while you're here. That's my belief in this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: radio is a really, really, really tough business. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's been well documented. Look at all the changes that
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  Speaker 1: have happened here. There's been many. Look at the changes
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  Speaker 1: down the hall at JAM and I mean everywhere ZLX
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  Speaker 1: and across the country. Radio is always changing. So I
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  Speaker 1: just enjoy the time while I'm here. I have fun,
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  Speaker 1: I show up, I do a good job, and if
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  Speaker 1: when and if and when it all ends, I will
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  Speaker 1: be sad, but more so happy that I got to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I got to live out my dream, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because the people that I work for here are not
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  Speaker 1: my bosses. God is my boss, and I will live
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  Speaker 1: and die by that. You know. I may have a
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote boss here that oversees everything, but that's not
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  Speaker 1: my real boss. Like my real boss is me and
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  Speaker 1: my higher power, the person that looks over me, watches
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  Speaker 1: out for me, and who I talk to and go
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  Speaker 1: to for help. Not to get too spiritual here, that's
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  Speaker 1: just a little personal thing. So very good. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you have a great weekend. We're trying to go see
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  Speaker 1: the Michael Jackson movie tomorrow night, hoping for a babysitter.
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  Speaker 2: Justin going to see Michael Jackson movie Sunday at noon,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm going to Waves and Wakefield to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: my friend John's birthday, which they didn't want to have
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  Speaker 2: me celebrate my birthday there even though mine's the day
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  Speaker 2: after his. His is the twenty eighth, mine's the twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: But oh well, so I hope you get a babysitter.
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you know how it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we are trying. I really want to go see
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  Speaker 1: this movie. It's looking really, really good. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a weird story though, because I had said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I questioned, are they going to cover the sexual abuse
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  Speaker 1: allegations things like that, and apparently they pulled it all out,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm going to see how it is.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully I can watch it and then review it and
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, get a date night with my wife. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Date nights are so important, they really are, and they're
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  Speaker 1: hard to come by. Raising kids is not easy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Keeping the marriage going, keeping the spark going is something
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  Speaker 1: that we both really put an effort into. But it
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  Speaker 1: gets hard, man, It gets hard as the days roll
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  Speaker 1: into each other and it's all about the kids, kids, sports, kids, school,
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  Speaker 1: taking the kids there, taking the kids here, you know, bedtime.
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  Speaker 1: It's all gets in the way of keeping the spark alive.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't let it. We don't let it. So
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we'll go on a day tomorrow and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll gonna luck you. Yeah, I don't. Maybe. If
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  Speaker 1: my wife is listening, I'm ready, baby, I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: I'm God, if she ever heard this, she'd be so pissed. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: have a great weekend. Leave a talk back for the
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  Speaker 1: after show Monday. We'll be back another week full of
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  Speaker 1: regular shows and then of course after shows. See you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, uncle Billy, it's able. Thanks for donating. Come my
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  Speaker 3: head ups on. As a thank you, I bought your
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  Speaker 3: book on Amazon for three bucks