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Radio and Your Calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Twenty four minutes away from the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: the Power hour, that is. I'm Chuck Douglas numbers A
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  Speaker 1: two one nine eight eighty six A two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: in or one eight hundred six' TEN, wtv And i've
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  Speaker 1: got some calls standing. By let's get to. Him, tom
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  Speaker 1: you're on The Legacy Retirement group dot com phone.
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  Speaker 2: Line. Hi, Hi i'm just heard you guys talking about
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  Speaker 2: in mechanics last, night AND i could use someone like.
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  Speaker 2: That i'm just calling to get.
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  Speaker 1: Some information talking about the. Mechanic who was?
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  Speaker 2: That, yeah the guys that comes to your house fixed
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  Speaker 2: your car last. Night you guys were talking about air
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  Speaker 2: conditioner for the weather.
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  Speaker 1: Girl oh, Yeah sarah head needs a new, COMPRESSOR i,
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  Speaker 1: think OR i am not sure if she needs a new.
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  Speaker 1: Compressor and all, right hang, On, Tom i'll Have i'll
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  Speaker 1: Have zach get your contact. Info i'll put you guys. Together, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: chad you were on six TEN Doubletvn, Yeah, Hi, Chuck, HI.
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  Speaker 3: I JUST i just wanted to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 3: about the holiday programming Because i'm a diehard. Listener and
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  Speaker 3: maybe the reason that you heard that song so many
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  Speaker 3: times was the loop that happens on the weekend or
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  Speaker 3: on the on the.
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  Speaker 1: Holidays well this was this was on one of our,
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  Speaker 1: streaming on our yacht rock stream which you, know there's
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  Speaker 1: no no tapes involved or. Anything everything's digital these. Days
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  Speaker 1: SO i just couldn't figure out WHY i was hearing
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  Speaker 1: that song so.
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  Speaker 3: Often, WELL i, mean What i'm getting at is the
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  Speaker 3: rory or. Whatever whoever does that on the. Holidays it
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  Speaker 3: it we don't hear any of your, personalities which WHICH i,
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  Speaker 3: hate BUT i, MEAN i understand you got holidays, too
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  Speaker 3: but h you, know sometimes Like sterling back in the
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  Speaker 3: day would come on or something like. That but, YEAH
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  Speaker 3: i know it's through. iHeart i'm not mad at you
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  Speaker 3: guys or any of the personalities or, anything BUT i
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  Speaker 3: know it's. Ihearts it's probably doing. It but then they
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  Speaker 3: loop it, again so it just gets. Frustrating it's All
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  Speaker 3: i'm trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, YEAH i understand that, Too and there are you,
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  Speaker 1: know different theories and, philosophies but decisions like, that quite,
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  Speaker 1: frankly chat are all made by people that are farther
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  Speaker 1: up the food chain THAN i ever managed to. Get
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  Speaker 1: one of my problems in this business was THAT I
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  Speaker 1: i'll just be honest with, You i've been pretty good
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  Speaker 1: at WHATEVER i. Did and keeping somebody like, me a
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  Speaker 1: utilitarian guy who can do, anything, anytime, anywhere keeping him
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  Speaker 1: there instead of advancing him to higher levels in the
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  Speaker 1: industry doesn't make sense to a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: are in. Charge they'd rather keep you where you're most
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  Speaker 1: valuable to, them not really where you're getting the most.
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  Speaker 3: Done so, YEAH i, MEAN i guess maybe the POINT
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  Speaker 3: i was really trying to make is that that holiday
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  Speaker 3: listening is difficult Because i'm so used to hearing local
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  Speaker 3: personalities and then they go to the to the roor
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is that the other personalities are NOT i
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  Speaker 3: can't remember the.
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  Speaker 1: Name, yeah they're nationally they're nationally.
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  Speaker 3: Syndicated, yeah, yeah, Yeah and that just you, KNOW i
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  Speaker 3: don't look forward to hostas When i'm to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: That. Yeah AND i appreciate the loyalness to those of
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  Speaker 1: us do it, Locally, CHAD i really. Do it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you, know the business is.
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  Speaker 1: Different it's. Different WHEN i started, off, man even the
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  Speaker 1: smallest stations probably had you, know at least a dozen,
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  Speaker 1: people and the weekends and the, overnights that's where you
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  Speaker 1: brought in the. Newbies that's where they kind of learned the. Craft,
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  Speaker 1: well everything's off of satellite, now it's the jobs in
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  Speaker 1: this industry are a few and far. Between i've said it.
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  Speaker 1: Before I'M i am, blessed not just, FORTUNATE i am
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  Speaker 1: blessed to actually be able to come in and do
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  Speaker 1: this because there aren't a lot of people who get
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  Speaker 1: to and you never know what the future. Holds it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things where if you love, it if
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  Speaker 1: you love it too, much it hurts too much when
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  Speaker 1: you lose, it but you can't help. It love it
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  Speaker 1: because it's what you. Do it's What i've always it's.
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  Speaker 1: BEEN i told my story many. Times twelve years. Old
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  Speaker 1: twelve years, OLD i knew this is WHAT i wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do as crazy AS i had my like many of,
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  Speaker 1: it and many guys in the spistles to tell you
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  Speaker 1: the same. Thing used a hair brush as a, microphone
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  Speaker 1: stood in front of the mirror in the, bedroom and
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  Speaker 1: you announced fake stuff just to. Practice AND i did
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  Speaker 1: not do it, immediately you, know becoming a. TEENAGER a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys started when they were, sixteen seventeen years,
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  Speaker 1: old didn't do. It WHEN i got out of high.
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  Speaker 1: SCHOOL i tried to be, normal went to, college worked
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  Speaker 1: For Corporate. America and it wasn't UNTIL i was twenty
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  Speaker 1: six years old THAT i finally, Decided i'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do What i've always wanted to. Do i'm sick of
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  Speaker 1: going through all this other. Garbage If i'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go through, Garbage i'm going to go through garbage doing
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  Speaker 1: WHAT i want to. Do so it WAS i was
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  Speaker 1: twenty six WHEN i got the first, job and, Oh february,
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  Speaker 1: ninth nineteen Ninety i'll never forget that day BECAUSE i
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  Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be on the, air AND i ended
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  Speaker 1: up on the air anyway because the girl who was
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  Speaker 1: training me was extremely. Pregnant and we, have you, know
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  Speaker 1: what we call a. Clock so here's where this. Happens
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  Speaker 1: here's where you, talk here's where you play, commercials here's
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  Speaker 1: where you do your news. Whatever so on the. Clock
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  Speaker 1: the next time was twenty after the, hour when she
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to turn on the, microphone identify herself in the,
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  Speaker 1: station do a little relatable something or, other talk to the,
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  Speaker 1: audience and then go into the commercial. Break well about
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  Speaker 1: four minutes before, that she, GOES i have to go
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom and she didn't come. Back there were
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds left before the music was going to be,
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  Speaker 1: over and somebody had to be on the, Air and
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  Speaker 1: SO i sat in the chair AND i put on
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  Speaker 1: the headphones AND i flipped on the microphone AND i
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  Speaker 1: did the break and then the hotline lit up in the.
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  Speaker 1: Studio i'm, Like i'm about to get fired BEFORE i
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  Speaker 1: even get. Started and the program director, Said, chuckie he's
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  Speaker 1: a big. Guy he's a former, marine built like A sherman.
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  Speaker 1: Tank talked, like Mister. Rogers, Ah, chackie you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be observing, today aren't. YOU i, said, well YES i.
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  Speaker 1: Am he, Goes why why DID i just hear you
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  Speaker 1: on the? AIR i, said because she didn't come back
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  Speaker 1: from the bathroom and somebody had to Be he, SAID
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  Speaker 1: i like, That let's just put you On saturdays And
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  Speaker 1: sunday's noon to. Six so that was HOW i went
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  Speaker 1: on the air the first. Time and it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those things where you, know you watch somebody do
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  Speaker 1: something and then you just go in and replicate the
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  Speaker 1: mechanics and do it. YOURSELF i did the same thing
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  Speaker 1: driving a truck for The columbus. Dispatch you remember the
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  Speaker 1: big white and orange trucks that used to have that
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  Speaker 1: dropped the. Papers, well there was an. OPENING i worked
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  Speaker 1: in the circulation. Department there was an opening. Driving it
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  Speaker 1: was a teamster job and doing downtown newsstands and racks
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like, that filling the old newspapers racks on
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  Speaker 1: the street and dropping off to the stores and you,
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  Speaker 1: know doughnut shops and things like. THAT i wanted this.
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  Speaker 1: Job so they, said have you ever driven A standard?
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  Speaker 1: TRANSMISSION i, said, YEP i had never touched a stick
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  Speaker 1: in my, life but they sent me. OUT i had
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  Speaker 1: three nights of Training, Jack ralph And. CADOBAS i can't
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  Speaker 1: Remember cadova's first, name so. Ted, ANYWAY i rode on
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  Speaker 1: the truck with them and watched, them and then my
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  Speaker 1: first NIGHT i jumped up in their turn that key.
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  Speaker 1: Started that truck didn't grind a single, gear man drove,
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  Speaker 1: it just watching their. Mechanics i've always been like. That
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  Speaker 1: i'm kind of a mimic in a lot of, ways
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  Speaker 1: and radio is mimicking a great deal of WHAT i
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  Speaker 1: do is pieces and parts of all of the people
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  Speaker 1: THAT i really loved listening to over the years and
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  Speaker 1: AS i said in the very, BEGINNING i am blessed
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  Speaker 1: to be able to still do. It that's. Simple, zach
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  Speaker 1: on the other, hand was wandering by one, day filled
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  Speaker 1: out an application and we needed. Somebody, yeah just walk.
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  Speaker 4: BY i just walked by AND. PD i was, like
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  Speaker 4: what's The PD's, like how are you busy? That if
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  Speaker 4: you got some time here you.
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  Speaker 1: Go that's, it you. See did you, have, seriously, though
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  Speaker 1: did you have any any inkling ambition toward going into
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  Speaker 1: ranks you were working in an, Airport.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah one hundred. PERCENT i just never THOUGHT i could
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  Speaker 4: actually do it in any, way shape or. Form and
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  Speaker 4: then you get sometimes with me and some, people you
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  Speaker 4: GET i don't want to say it wasn't definitely wasn't
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  Speaker 4: a rock CAUSE i was making decent. Money BUT i
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  Speaker 4: was just doing. Something it was the same thing over and,
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  Speaker 4: over And i'm, Like i'm going to, be you, know
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  Speaker 4: seventy doing the same, thing which is. Fine and THEN
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  Speaker 4: covid hit and nobody was flying and it was just.
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  Speaker 4: Nothingness so THEN i went to. SCHOOL i, SAID i
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  Speaker 4: got some time maybe, Maybe and THEN i got out
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  Speaker 4: of school and luckily right at that time they were
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  Speaker 4: they were hiring here AND i Conned elliott and they
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  Speaker 4: let me get a.
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  Speaker 1: Chance, Please i'll sweep up around the. Place anything that
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  Speaker 1: and that's you, know that was something. Else in the early.
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  Speaker 1: Years they used to tell us all the time at
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  Speaker 1: The Bailey Broadcast, institute take any, job, yeah internally ANY
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  Speaker 1: i don't care if it's an all polka. Station take the.
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  Speaker 1: Job and, uh you, know some people, said NOW i
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  Speaker 1: can't do. THAT i want to work at a. Station, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well then good luck to, you because it's not about
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  Speaker 1: the music you're. Playing trust. ME i used TO i
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  Speaker 1: was doing hip hop, mornings and while the audience was
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  Speaker 1: listening to to you, Know Bell Biv, DEVAU i HAD
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  Speaker 1: i Had simon And garfunk call on my. Headphones it
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  Speaker 1: was a very strange situation BECAUSE i really wasn't into
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  Speaker 1: that music at the time THAT i was wor then,
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  Speaker 1: AGAIN i wasn't into country music WHEN i started doing.
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  Speaker 1: Country but you you, know you either develop a love
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  Speaker 1: or hate for what you're. Doing the STATION i was
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  Speaker 1: working at was Called The. Mix it was adult, contemporary
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  Speaker 1: AND i was Doing Mixed Midnight, request which was a
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  Speaker 1: request and dedication. Show every single. Night the same people
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  Speaker 1: would start the show every But Hungry eye From Eric
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  Speaker 1: carma From Jeff, Titania disc one, five cut. SEVENTEEN i
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  Speaker 1: can still see it on the.
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  Speaker 4: Wall so, anyway it's just the same, thing just the same.
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  Speaker 1: Thing, yes every NIGHT i would get the, call so
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  Speaker 1: the mix was purchased by. Another SO i go from
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  Speaker 1: playing you, know Hungry eyes to playing country. Music they
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  Speaker 1: we flipped the switch at midnight and became a country.
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  Speaker 1: Station and the killer of that was, see this is
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  Speaker 1: another one of those things WHERE i was talking about
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  Speaker 1: people who are higher on the food chain aren't always
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  Speaker 1: there because they're really. Competent sometimes they are there just
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  Speaker 1: because nobody else was there to go into that slot
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  Speaker 1: and they were. Available they walked by and, Like zach
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  Speaker 1: got a. Job we had this big recorded stager thing
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  Speaker 1: as they call, it to kick off the station at
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  Speaker 1: midnight at the stroke of midnight when we flip formats
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  Speaker 1: and it's, like well you're. Listening you are listening to the,
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  Speaker 1: new the. New we are At, Columbus columbus's. Country he,
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  Speaker 1: SAID i love. You i'm like you. Seriously we started
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  Speaker 1: after this big giant opening. Number we started with That
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  Speaker 1: George jones sad. Song this was the age Of Garth
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  Speaker 1: brooks And Travis. Tritt this was the some forgotten. Artist
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  Speaker 1: do you Know mel McDaniels still out? There, baby he's
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  Speaker 1: got a blue. Jeans there was so much hot country
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  Speaker 1: going on at the, time and after this big giant
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  Speaker 1: intro piece with all the lasers and flashes and. All
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  Speaker 1: as To George, jones he stopped loving. Her today was
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  Speaker 1: the first song we.
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  Speaker 4: Played coming out fire and hunh.
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  Speaker 1: Because somebody way up on the food chain, said y,
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  Speaker 1: know we need to play a. Classic, well there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of classics that don't put you to. Sleep it, was
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  Speaker 1: as far As i'm, concerned one of the most, awful
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  Speaker 1: awkward starts of any radio station in any, format anytime.
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  Speaker 1: Ever and it didn't last. Long the station didn't stay around,
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  Speaker 1: me but it. Was it was a sad night because
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  Speaker 1: all of us who worked there as an adult contemporary,
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  Speaker 1: station we were all gathered in the studio at midnight
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  Speaker 1: to say goodbye to our radio. Station and, uh there
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  Speaker 1: used to, be you, know a big family type mentality
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  Speaker 1: about this. Business i've talked before about When Desert shields
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  Speaker 1: started AND cnn breaks in with the missiles flying and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of. Stuff that was WHEN i was
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  Speaker 1: working at that adult, station nobody called. Anybody it was
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  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock at, NIGHT cnn wolf blitzers on and missiles
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  Speaker 1: are being launched INTO i went to the station because
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  Speaker 1: as a, broadcaster that's What i'm supposed to. Do and
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  Speaker 1: WHEN i got, there everybody else was getting there. Too
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  Speaker 1: nobody called. Us it was the nobility of doing what
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  Speaker 1: we did and doing it, well and we just knew
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  Speaker 1: we had to show. Up that's what the listeners. Expect
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  Speaker 1: they need us to be. There man, knows one of
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  Speaker 1: the days