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It Could Have Been The Big Apple... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Check one two. It is Friday, and oh do I
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  Speaker 1: feel good? The weather is good, weekend looking so so.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm in a good mood. I am feeling well.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you are too. I hope you had a
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  Speaker 1: great week. I hope everything in your life is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Things are going good. Here. I'm on the After show, man,
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  Speaker 1: it could be better. It's a little after show.
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  Speaker 2: Does Justin still do his little after show? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: I love that it is little. It's so funny because
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  Speaker 1: I've been teasing it at the end of the show
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  Speaker 1: when we do the wrap up, which typically I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: not that I'm not proud of this after show, but
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  Speaker 1: we were in a meeting with all the bosses and
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  Speaker 1: everybody and they were kind of going through, you know,
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  Speaker 1: different parts of the show, and our boss said, you know, Justin,
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  Speaker 1: when you're teasing to the podcast for the show, why
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  Speaker 1: aren't you teasing the after show? And I said me, really,
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  Speaker 1: you want me to tease the after show? He's all
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  Speaker 1: into it, So that's cool. That's that's what we have built.
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  Speaker 1: We have built this after show together through all the
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  Speaker 1: years that I've done it, which is hm eight years,
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  Speaker 1: eight years. See, it started with Becks, not Gandhi, although
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  Speaker 1: it was talked about, but then Gandhi left to go
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  Speaker 1: to New York and then it was Beck's. That's how
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  Speaker 1: it started in twenty eighteen, because I think that's when
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  Speaker 1: Gandhi left. Speaking of Gandhi, we called her this morning, Billy,
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  Speaker 1: Lisa and I. We had a question about something going
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  Speaker 1: on in New York, so we hit her up at
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  Speaker 1: like five in the morning, and it was so good
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  Speaker 1: to talk to her and check in with hers. She's amazing, man.
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  Speaker 1: She really, you know, super humble. If you know Gandhi,
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  Speaker 1: if you remember Gandhi like super successful on the Elvis
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  Speaker 1: Durand Show. You know, she's a national radio personality. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you follow her on Instagram, she is doing all
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  Speaker 1: types of stuff. I mean, she was on a private
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  Speaker 1: jet with Elvis to go to a Charlie Sheen event
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  Speaker 1: that Elvis Durand was hosting. I mean, that's just one
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  Speaker 1: of many different things that she does. You know, she's
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  Speaker 1: the face of our company. She's one of the big
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  Speaker 1: faces of our company, so she's at all the big events.
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  Speaker 1: They fly her around everywhere. But then you talk to her,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what I like about her. She's literally
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  Speaker 1: so humble, like such humility. It's like she's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: who am I? You know, she never ever let the
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  Speaker 1: fame get to her head, never ever, And she's super talented.
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  Speaker 1: I learned so much from her and I miss her.
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  Speaker 1: And she's been trying to recruit me since the day
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  Speaker 1: that she left. That's a little behind the scenes. She
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  Speaker 1: has tried endlessly to get me to New York, so
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  Speaker 1: much so that she has gone to Elvis Duran and
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  Speaker 1: pitched me to him. Now, Elvis doesn't know who I am,
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  Speaker 1: but he trusts Gandhi and he said, if he's willing
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  Speaker 1: to come, we'll find a spot for him, basically is
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  Speaker 1: what they said. But I'm not going to New York.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. That was the time in my life that
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  Speaker 1: would have happened, you know, twenty I want to say,
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. I was doing the Breakfast Club. I was
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  Speaker 1: board opping. So in twenty yeah, twenty fifteen, that's when
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  Speaker 1: the gem and shakeup happened. Okay, so then they had
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  Speaker 1: the Frankie and Ashley Show and then I was a
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  Speaker 1: part of that as the executive and then that lasted
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  Speaker 1: about nine months. They canned that show out of nowhere
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  Speaker 1: and they syndicated the Breakfast Club, and so Frankie went
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  Speaker 1: back to California, Ashley went to mid Days, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was the board op for the Breakfast Club. So
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  Speaker 1: I was doing that while kind of showing Ashley how
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  Speaker 1: to do mid Days, how to do the equipment and
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  Speaker 1: record with her and all that stuff, and the boss
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  Speaker 1: came to me and said, they have an opening on
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club for an executive producer position and I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to recommend you if you would go. So I
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  Speaker 1: went home and I talked to my family, my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is before we bought our first house, which
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  Speaker 1: was in twenty seventeen, so we were just renting an apartment.
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  Speaker 1: So I went home and we talked extensively about it,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a big opportunity. So I went and interviewed.
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  Speaker 1: I took the trains in New York. I met with them.
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  Speaker 1: It went really really good. And I know the person
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  Speaker 1: that was interviewing me, you know, not super well, but
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  Speaker 1: he knew who I was, he knew all my people.
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  Speaker 1: Had a great interview and he said, look, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be hones with you, like it's between you and another guy.
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  Speaker 1: The other guy already works here. He's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: regular producer, so he wants to be promoted. So it's
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  Speaker 1: either you or him. He's like, I'm gonna be honest.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you could be the guy like besides him,
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  Speaker 1: you are it, but if you don't get it, it would
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  Speaker 1: because we are just going to promote him. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: what should I do? Like, should I start looking around?
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, I would start, don't do anything, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, start looking around the area, maybe in Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we did. We started looking in Jersey
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  Speaker 1: at apartments, condos and all that. Really like we were.
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  Speaker 1: I was really banking on getting this position. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember at the end of the interview. Now mind you,
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  Speaker 1: at this time I was making probably I would say,
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  Speaker 1: maybe thirty five to forty thousand dollars a year. It
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  Speaker 1: was not a lot of money, maybe fifty I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So I go there. Interview went great. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the interview, he said to me, is there any
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  Speaker 1: other questions? And I kind of hesitated because I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to ask the salary, but I did. I felt weird
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  Speaker 1: about it, and he saw me hesitating, he goes, what
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  Speaker 1: are you I want to know. Oh the salary said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, I think it's he's looking at his paper.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I think it's don't quote me, but it's
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  Speaker 1: I think it's one to seventy. I go one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy thousand dollars. He's like, yeah, is that is that? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like yeah, So now my brain's going right. So
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  Speaker 1: now we're looking at like places. Now, mind you, this
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  Speaker 1: is New York. The cost of living is much much higher.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously living in Jersey would be cheaper, but still, to
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  Speaker 1: go from forty to fifty thousand to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy thousand, to me, that would change my family's life.
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  Speaker 1: So we started looking at places and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: about a month went by, I got the call. They
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  Speaker 1: did promote the guy from within the show, so I
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  Speaker 1: did not get the position. So fast forward, I ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting on Kiss went Away, getting on the Maddie Show,
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  Speaker 1: bought my first house now or in our dream house.
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  Speaker 1: We're not moving. I am not uprooting my family. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what the money is to me. Money is
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  Speaker 1: not everything, you know, and I know it would be
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  Speaker 1: a big opportunity to go to New York to go
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  Speaker 1: to the number one market in the country, not just
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  Speaker 1: money wise, but you know, recognition and all the stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all the perks that come with it. And I would
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  Speaker 1: love to work with Gandhi again there, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna pull, you know, I'm just not gonna do that, man,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm not gonna pull from our roots here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my family's here. You know, we've built roots in the
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  Speaker 1: community here. I love my house so much. Yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I could buy a better house, that is true, but
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  Speaker 1: we're not leaving. So Gandhi, I love you. And if
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  Speaker 1: you ever decided to come back to Boston, we're here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why you would because you know we're
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  Speaker 1: in market ten. You're in market one. I think New
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  Speaker 1: York is market one. Market just means city, right, So
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  Speaker 1: we are a top ten market, top ten city in
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  Speaker 1: for radio, for media. So Boston is number ten and
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  Speaker 1: she's at, you know, number one, So she wouldn't. But
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  Speaker 1: I love her so much, and she was such such
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  Speaker 1: a huge impact on me, such a she is actually
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  Speaker 1: responsible for getting me on Kiss one of eight. That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the It's it's complicated, right, So Maddy wanted
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  Speaker 1: me on right because I had filled in. Maddie knew
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  Speaker 1: he wanted me on his show, but there was no
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  Speaker 1: like real openings. So when the opening was happening, before
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  Speaker 1: I guess, before Mattie could say, oh, I want Justin
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  Speaker 1: in that position, Gandhi had gone to bat for me
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  Speaker 1: and said I want Justin, Like that's who I want.
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  Speaker 1: So she really put her step forward, and of course
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  Speaker 1: matt was like, yeah, definitely Justin. But I will give
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  Speaker 1: her the credit because she did do that. She always
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  Speaker 1: went to bat for me. So anyway, Uh, what else?
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  Speaker 1: What else is going on on this Friday? Why did
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  Speaker 1: I bring up Gandhi? God? I forget. This is like
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  Speaker 1: a confessional. If you're listening, you know what else is
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  Speaker 1: going on?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Justin, it's Justine. I just gonna let you know.
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  Speaker 2: I've been thinking so much about some of the stuff,
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  Speaker 2: even saying and some of the twelve Step fits twelve
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  Speaker 2: step things, and even like the story with your friend
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  Speaker 2: relapsing and you're helping him out, and anyway, it's just
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  Speaker 2: been top of my mind to do something good for
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  Speaker 2: someone else lately, and that's some because of you. So
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  Speaker 2: keep it up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much, Justine, Justine and Justin. I
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  Speaker 1: ask my mom if I was a girl, if I
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  Speaker 1: was going to be named Justine. She said, no, your
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  Speaker 1: name was going to be Love if you were a girl.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine that's true. Yeah, because they were like hippies my parents.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she was like a flower child. And if
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  Speaker 1: I was a female, my name was going to be Love.
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  Speaker 1: But instead it was Justin, which I guess was a
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  Speaker 1: pop and name in the eighties. Who knew, But shout
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  Speaker 1: out to you, Justine, Thank you so much. You know
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  Speaker 1: I listen, I talked endlessly about all this stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: love too. I love talking about recovery, and especially for people.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there are so many of you that
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  Speaker 1: listen to this that are not like in recovery, but
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  Speaker 1: you still appreciate it and you like listening to it.
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  Speaker 1: But for the people that are in recovery or really
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  Speaker 1: even deeply affected by it, I know that it kind
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  Speaker 1: of hits differently to hear somebody talk about it on
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  Speaker 1: a public platform like this. You know, think about it, man,
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  Speaker 1: for years, it's been kind of shame not not frowned upon,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, people weren't like proud to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in recovery. You know, I was a drug addict,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we need to change that narrative, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think we need to change that and really get
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  Speaker 1: the word out that recovery is possible. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: so many, so many people struggling. There's a guy I
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  Speaker 1: think he's homeless. I don't know. He stands over near
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  Speaker 1: the radio station. Every day he's at this light, and
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  Speaker 1: every day I pull up, and you know, every day
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  Speaker 1: I see him there and I think to myself, like
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  Speaker 1: I want to just roll down the window and be like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: do you need help? Like can we try to get
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  Speaker 1: you help now? I don't know if he wants it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know anything about him. I don't ever because
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  Speaker 1: of where he stands, and when I go, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of I can't just stop, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's one of those like kind of I
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  Speaker 1: take a RTE, so I kind of go buy him.
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  Speaker 1: But I see him every day, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think to myself, Okay, chances are he is he struggles
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  Speaker 1: with some kind of mental health slash substance abuse. Does
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  Speaker 1: he want help? I don't know, But I just feel bad, man,
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  Speaker 1: And there is help available. That's the thing, man. There
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  Speaker 1: is so much help available. Massachusetts is huge for recovery.
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  Speaker 1: And trust me, like my wife works in New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 1: it's much different in New Hampshire. They have limited resources.
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  Speaker 1: In Massachusetts. Like you can check in anywhere, literally if
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  Speaker 1: you have insurance or not. There is help. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to like position a different way, but
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  Speaker 1: there is help out there, you know. And I see
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  Speaker 1: him every day. He's out there every single day, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, man, like it's gotta get tired, like it's
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  Speaker 1: gotta get old. And I get it, like I know,
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  Speaker 1: being an active addiction, I get it. I just hope
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  Speaker 1: that like he reaches his point where he's I got
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  Speaker 1: to check in somewhere and like we'll go to a
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  Speaker 1: hospital or call of detox and try to get clean.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a such a better life. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: this weekend tonight, going to Kid Cuddy with my buddy,
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. I got the tickets through the
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  Speaker 1: radio station. They are pit tickets. It's gonna be super hot,
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  Speaker 1: so that should be interesting. But well, I'll go with
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  Speaker 1: my friend, we'll get dinner, we'll drive down at the
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  Speaker 1: Expinity Center. So if you're going by chance, look out
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  Speaker 1: for me. Cause I'll be send me a damn if
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  Speaker 1: you're going, I'd love to say hi. So I like
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  Speaker 1: Kid Cuddy. He's he's good, He's got some good songs.
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  Speaker 1: And then this weekend I don't get much going on. Man,
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  Speaker 1: the pool is it's making progress. I did, you know,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to my pool store. Man, I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I went there. I'd been going multiple times with the
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  Speaker 1: chemicals and stuff. They've been doing different things. But then
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  Speaker 1: I had it. I had it like mostly clear, and
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  Speaker 1: then it went green. A lot of that is the
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  Speaker 1: fallen and the weather too. I kind of stopped paying
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  Speaker 1: attention to it because it's been so cold and rainy
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  Speaker 1: and no one's going in the thing. So I let
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  Speaker 1: a few days go by and it turned green. So
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  Speaker 1: I went back there yesterday for a water test and
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  Speaker 1: they're like, listen, we're gona give you a whole new protocol,
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  Speaker 1: all new chemicals. I went to pay and they were like,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry about it, like, do the do the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Put all the chemicals in water tests come back after
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  Speaker 1: you do it all. So that was really cool because
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  Speaker 1: I've spent so much money on the chemicals this year,
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  Speaker 1: and I know part part of that is my fault
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  Speaker 1: for not keeping up with it. The weather's been tough, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: It's been really tough, so it's mostly mostly still green,
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  Speaker 1: but it is clearing up. Hopefully by tomorrow it'll be
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  Speaker 1: clear because tomorrow it's gonna be hot. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: much planned this weekend. I have a birthday party on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: not that much. I want to try to go to
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  Speaker 1: this thing in Milford. If you listen to the show today,
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  Speaker 1: the stone lifting event looks insane, like I should bring
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  Speaker 1: my son there next weekend. It's next Saturday and it's
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  Speaker 1: right up my alley. It's a lot of weightlifters, but
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  Speaker 1: they're lifting stones and throwing stones and squatting too, and
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  Speaker 1: it looks really it sounds really cool. If you missed
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  Speaker 1: the interview with the guy Josh who puts it on
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  Speaker 1: in Milford, it's on the podcast. Go check it out.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he did a really really good job, super
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  Speaker 1: super informative, So check that out on the podcast. If
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  Speaker 1: you missed any of the after shows this week, catch
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  Speaker 1: up on that. Catch up on the show too. Why
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  Speaker 1: not listen to both, especially on Sunday. It's gonna be rainy,
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  Speaker 1: but anyway, you've been listening to the After Show, this
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  Speaker 1: is what you get behind the scenes of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Hit up the talkbacks for anything. Whatever you doing this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: hit me up. And I did not forget about my
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  Speaker 1: blind friend. I have to reach out to him. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to get him, and I think that would
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  Speaker 1: be super interesting and interesting. He's a very very good speaker.
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  Speaker 1: He has spoken many many plays. He's told his story
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  Speaker 1: so many times, and I think you guys really really
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  Speaker 1: like it and be inspired by it. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to reach out to him. So good things are coming
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  Speaker 1: on the After Show. Peace