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Who Needs Advice... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up, After Show Army? Here we go, another
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  Speaker 1: After Show podcast. Excuse me for a minute. I just
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  Speaker 1: put a piece of gum into my mouth and now
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  Speaker 1: it's hitting me very hard. I apologize. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned last week on the show, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I ever did, that I still chew nicotine gum.
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  Speaker 1: And I got so many DMs from people, especially people
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  Speaker 1: that vape and smoke cigarettes, asking my advice on it
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  Speaker 1: and whether they should or not. And look, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you. I think it can be a great tool,
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  Speaker 1: but it's meant to be just a temporary tool. It's
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  Speaker 1: not meant to be chewed for 10, 15 years. You're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to kind of wean down off of it. You
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  Speaker 1: start at a higher milligram because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: nicotine in cigarettes, and then you wean down. There's all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of instructions. Like you're supposed to park it in
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  Speaker 1: your mouth. That was the big thing. You park it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't just keep chewing it to release all the nicotine.
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  Speaker 1: You chew it. And then you park it in your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next time that you want to smoke
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  Speaker 1: or have the urge, you start chewing again. And it
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  Speaker 1: kind of slowly releases the nicotine. You know, not me.
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  Speaker 1: Look who you're dealing with, right? And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I did, I'm not going to blame my mother, but
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  Speaker 1: I did get it from my mother. I did because
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  Speaker 1: she quit many, many years ago and she quit using
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  Speaker 1: the gum. And then she chewed it. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know. She probably quit in like 2000. And then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fast forward 10 years, she was still chewing it.
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  Speaker 1: So in my head, when I had wanted to quit,
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  Speaker 1: I knew that the gum was going to be my
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  Speaker 1: key to quitting smoking. So that's what I did. And
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  Speaker 1: I haven't smoked since 2009. The last time I quit,
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  Speaker 1: I used the gum. I had success with it. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the hardest things I ever did. Six
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  Speaker 1: months after I quit, we were in a snowstorm at
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  Speaker 1: my house with my room that I was renting with Jen,
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  Speaker 1: who was my girlfriend at the time. And she still smoked.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't quit for a few more years. And so
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  Speaker 1: we're in the room and I just would let her
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  Speaker 1: smoke in the house because I used to smoke in
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  Speaker 1: the house. So she's just like ripping Marlboro Lights. And
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  Speaker 1: it smells so good. And all I want to do
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  Speaker 1: is smoke. Literally all I want to do. And so
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  Speaker 1: finally I'm like, you know what? It's a snowstorm. We're
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  Speaker 1: cuddled up. We're watching movies. Let me get one. And
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  Speaker 1: I had not smoked in six months. So when I
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  Speaker 1: took a drag and inhaled it, first of all, I
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  Speaker 1: coughed because I wasn't used to it. But when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you the weirdest, best thing could have happened, I
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  Speaker 1: could feel the poison in my body. I have a
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  Speaker 1: hard time explaining it. I legit could feel the change
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  Speaker 1: like inside of me. And I was so disgusted by
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  Speaker 1: it and I hated it so much. I literally put
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  Speaker 1: the cigarette out and I never smoked cigarettes again. Never.
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  Speaker 1: And I continued to chew the gum. And then I
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  Speaker 1: vaped for a while when the vaping came around because, again,
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  Speaker 1: my wife quit using the vape a few years later.
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  Speaker 1: And we were on vacation somewhere on a beach. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we were in– we were in– oh, God. Oh, Gunquit,
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  Speaker 1: Maine on the beach. And she was ripping this little vape.
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  Speaker 1: She had just quit smoking and it was a strawberry something.
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  Speaker 1: Smelled so good. So I was like, let me get
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  Speaker 1: ahead of that. So, you know, I took on vaping
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  Speaker 1: for a little while. But the gum has always been there.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't advise it. I mean, look, it's just nicotine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it's harmless because nicotine is
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  Speaker 1: a stimulant. So, you know, I know the risks of it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's, you know, I can make every excuse in
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  Speaker 1: the world. I can justify it any way that I
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  Speaker 1: want or can. The fact of the matter is that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't do anything else. It's like what
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  Speaker 1: I have left. I don't drink alcohol. I don't do drugs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't do a lot of those things. And it's
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  Speaker 1: like the food, right? Like I love food. I used
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  Speaker 1: to be bigger. And then now I eat clean, so
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  Speaker 1: I can't eat bad food. It's like you take the
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  Speaker 1: food away. You take the fun food away. You take
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  Speaker 1: the drugs, the alcohol. Like what do I have left? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I have nicotine gum. So, yes. So I did get
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  Speaker 1: some DMs on that, on what I chew. I chew
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  Speaker 1: white ice mint, Nicorette, the official– Brand, right? The name brand,
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  Speaker 1: not the knockoff. Never do the knockoff CVS or Walgreens.
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  Speaker 1: It is bad quality. The taste isn't as good and
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  Speaker 1: it will mess up your teeth. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the hell they put in that, but the Nicorette, the
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  Speaker 1: legit one, it's a little bit more expensive, but it's
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  Speaker 1: worth it. And I get it on Amazon. That is
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  Speaker 1: the cheapest. Don't buy it at the store. Get it
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon. I get 200 pieces for $ 66. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: a commercial to get you to try to buy Nicorette. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm doing an ad right now. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just being honest about, about that. Okay, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to some stuff here. I've got some talkbacks. I love
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  Speaker 1: getting those.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Justin and potentially Riley. I just wanted to know
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  Speaker 2: if you guys have any advice for somebody trying to
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  Speaker 2: break into the media industry, particularly radio, especially someone who
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  Speaker 2: went to school for communications and media and has never
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  Speaker 2: done anything with that degree and has been graduated for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. Just wonder if you guys have any
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  Speaker 2: tips and how you guys got where you are today.
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  Speaker 1: I love this question. Thank you. I appreciate it very much.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I know I could speak to this and
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  Speaker 1: Riley could too. She's very busy today. It's Tuesday. She
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  Speaker 1: has meetings and all kinds of things going on. I
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  Speaker 1: would get her in here, but I can answer the question.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it was the internship. That was the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: And it sucks because we don't do internships here in
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  Speaker 1: Boston anymore. Some of the other bigger I heart stations
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  Speaker 1: like New York and L.A., they have paid internships here.
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  Speaker 1: happened was somebody sued there was an intern not in
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  Speaker 1: Boston somewhere I don't know where New York wherever it
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  Speaker 1: was an intern you know did a semester there I
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  Speaker 1: don't know I don't know the details but afterwards they
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  Speaker 1: filed a lawsuit which is crazy because the lawsuits was
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  Speaker 1: accusing the company of making them do work they should
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  Speaker 1: have been paid for but isn't that the whole point
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  Speaker 1: of an internship you're trading school credit instead of payment
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know that there's probably more to the
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  Speaker 1: story But when they did that, they ended the internships,
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  Speaker 1: free internships or for college credit, only paid internships. We
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  Speaker 1: don't get those here. So it sucks. But yes, internship
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  Speaker 1: is your way in. Plenty of other places do it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe other radio stations, TV stations in and around Boston.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're a communications major, you want to start
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  Speaker 1: early looking at internships. I was late. I waited till
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  Speaker 1: my senior year. because I was scared. I had a record.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that I could do it. And my
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  Speaker 1: goal was to graduate with a major in communications and
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  Speaker 1: a minor in broadcast journalism. And I was going to
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  Speaker 1: be basically, my dream was to be a writer because, well,
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  Speaker 1: my dream was radio, but I thought I'll never get
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  Speaker 1: a job because if they run my record, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a three-time loser. And shout out to Peggy Dillon
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  Speaker 1: at Salem State because I graduated from Northern Essex with
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  Speaker 1: an associates. And then I went to Salem State And
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  Speaker 1: Peggy Dillon, who has since retired, was the head of
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  Speaker 1: the communications department. And she took a liking to me.
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  Speaker 1: And I think like I had to teach from both
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  Speaker 1: of those schools.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Amy Callahan at Northern Essex. And then it was Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Dillon at Salem State. Both kind of saw something inside
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  Speaker 1: of me because I didn't talk about my past or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but I was older than the other kids, which is
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  Speaker 1: definitely a sign. And also, you know, there was just
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  Speaker 1: something about me. They both said that to me. So
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  Speaker 1: when it came like halfway through my senior year, she said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what, what do you want to do? I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm just going to write, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: she said, is that your dream? I said, well, my
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  Speaker 1: dream is radio, but I can't, I can't apply for
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  Speaker 1: radio internships. And she kind of poked and prodded me.
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  Speaker 1: And then I, for whatever reason, I admitted to her
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  Speaker 1: about my past that I was in recovery, a former
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  Speaker 1: drug addict. I had been homeless. I had a record.
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  Speaker 1: I had been to prison. all that stuff. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she really gave me the words of encouragement that I needed.
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  Speaker 1: And she told me, how are you going to know
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  Speaker 1: if you don't try? The worst they can say is no.
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  Speaker 1: And I know rejection sucks, but this is your life
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  Speaker 1: and this is your career. And say you do get it.
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  Speaker 1: And so they say they do accept you. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't try, you'll never know if they do.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So I applied for an internship here and I got it.
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  Speaker 1: And I basically okie doke the system. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: got the internship. They don't do criminal background checks. And
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  Speaker 1: so I interned through senior year and then I just stayed.
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  Speaker 1: I stayed until they hired me part time and I
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  Speaker 1: built my reputation and I, you know, have this really
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  Speaker 1: good work ethic and I hustled and hustled and hustled
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  Speaker 1: and made no money.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's the story. It's a typical radio story. I made
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  Speaker 1: no money for many, many years and I worked my
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  Speaker 1: way up. So then when I got on to Kiss 108,
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  Speaker 1: you know, 2015, 2016, around there. That's when I met Matty,
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  Speaker 1: and Matty had me on his show, and then I
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  Speaker 1: admitted that I had this past. And by that point,
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  Speaker 1: they were like, we don't even care, honestly. And also
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  Speaker 1: by that point, I had sealed my record as well,
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  Speaker 1: so it didn't even matter. It didn't even matter. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to shoot your shot, man. So for you,
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  Speaker 1: if you are a communications major, you want to look
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  Speaker 1: at internships, even like sophomore, freshman, sophomore, and try different
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  Speaker 1: things out. I know it's like added time that you
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  Speaker 1: have to spend, but it's worth it because I I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, I had a great time at Salem State
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  Speaker 1: and Northern Essex, and I did learn a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: the majority of what I've learned in radio, I learned
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  Speaker 1: on the job. I came in having never edited audio,
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  Speaker 1: and now I'm an expert at it. And I learned
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  Speaker 1: all of that, not in college. I could have taken
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  Speaker 1: audio production classes, but I didn't. I learned it all
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  Speaker 1: on the job. So internships, internships, internships. Good luck. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the talk back.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Justin. Can you please explain the difference of what
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  Speaker 4: you do compared to Riley? You always talk about Riley
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  Speaker 4: running the board, and I don't know what that means
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  Speaker 4: and how is that different than what you do as
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  Speaker 4: an executive producer? I love the behind-the-scenes look. Thanks. You're
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  Speaker 4: doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. And luckily for you, I love giving behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes. I love that question right there because I
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  Speaker 1: love to talk about what goes on here behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Because remember, I'm a fan. I'm a fan first. And
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  Speaker 1: it was so cool for me to learn the behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes of media, of radio, even TV, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I kind of have, you know, seen the best
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  Speaker 1: of both worlds. But yes, I will explain it to you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So at the radio station, we have a main studio.
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  Speaker 1: That's where Billy and Lisa are. Billy and Lisa do
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  Speaker 1: not run the equipment. When I say the board, there
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  Speaker 1: is a giant spaceship-looking board in that studio. That is
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  Speaker 1: the main on-air board. That board controls what you hear
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  Speaker 1: on the radio. It is like the command center, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. So going back to Matty, you know, Matty
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  Speaker 1: kind of didn't run his board. He would do a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things, but the majority of it needed to
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  Speaker 1: be done by a producer. And that producer was Gay Jim.
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  Speaker 1: That producer was Gandhi. That producer was Bex. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: what that person does. They're a producer, but then they
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  Speaker 1: also help with the board and they have a microphone
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  Speaker 1: too when they need it. Okay. So that's what Riley does. Riley,
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  Speaker 1: her main job is she runs the board in the
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  Speaker 1: main studio. I am in a different studio. I am
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  Speaker 1: looking at the main studio. There's a giant window so
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  Speaker 1: we can all see each other. And so Riley has
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  Speaker 1: the ability to put my studio online. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say my studio, it's much smaller and I have a
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  Speaker 1: smaller board, not a giant one, a smaller one in
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  Speaker 1: my studio. And so when Riley turns my board on
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  Speaker 1: from that main studio, that means everything that I do
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  Speaker 1: in mine goes onto the air. It goes through the
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  Speaker 1: main board, if that makes sense. So that's how I'm
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  Speaker 1: able to play sound and play music. and play sound
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  Speaker 1: clips during the show is because Riley, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: makes my studio live as if I'm on the air, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that started because of Matty. Matty needed a producer
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  Speaker 1: to help him run the board and general run of show, right?
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  Speaker 1: They do the prep sheet. They keep Matty on time,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then Billy always had interns as
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  Speaker 1: well to help him with his reports, his news, his entertainment, audio,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So I help Billy with that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Riley helps the general run of the show in the
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  Speaker 1: main studio. I am in a different studio, okay? And
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  Speaker 1: so when it was the Matty show, he had the
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  Speaker 1: producer next to him. But then also because a big
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  Speaker 1: part of the show was audio, he had another producer,
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  Speaker 1: which was me, and he needed to be in a
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  Speaker 1: different studio to be able to feed him audio. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where I started. I took the job from Rich,
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  Speaker 1: Rich Damari. So basically during the show of that show,
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  Speaker 1: the producer in here, Rich, did not have a mic
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  Speaker 1: full time. Right. He had a microphone. And if Matt
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk to him, they would put the studio live.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But generally he was off off the live air and
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  Speaker 1: he would just be in here searching sound, putting clips
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  Speaker 1: together and basically putting them on a board, a computer board.
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  Speaker 1: that Matt looks at too, if that makes sense. So
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  Speaker 1: in the studio, I have a computer screen with the radio,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what it looks like. And there's what's called
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  Speaker 1: a button bar on that button bar. You can drag
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  Speaker 1: audio onto the bar, right? So in the main studio,
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  Speaker 1: Riley and Maddie would look at that same screen and
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  Speaker 1: they were linked. So if I put a piece of
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  Speaker 1: sound up, he would see it. So that's how the
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  Speaker 1: show worked. So when Maddie was talking with Billy and
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  Speaker 1: Lisa doing the show, It was my job to kind of–
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  Speaker 1: he would call for clips in a way without calling
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  Speaker 1: for them if that makes sense. And that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the connection that Matty and I had was I was
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  Speaker 1: in his head. I knew him so well and I
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  Speaker 1: could tell where he was going. And you'd always know
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't come through for him because he literally
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  Speaker 1: would stop down and be like, did Justin take the
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  Speaker 1: day off today? Like where's my clip? Once in a
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  Speaker 1: while he would do that because he'd be annoyed. He'd
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  Speaker 1: be leading into a clip, a joke that would require
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  Speaker 1: an audio clip and it wouldn't be there for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I would use the clips to also lead the
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  Speaker 1: show in a way. Like if he was going– if
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  Speaker 1: he was talking about a subject, I could drop a
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  Speaker 1: song in there that was relevant and Or that I
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  Speaker 1: thought he could maybe use and make a joke with
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  Speaker 1: and he was a master at it. The best of
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  Speaker 1: all time. I mean I would just throw a clip
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  Speaker 1: up there and it would just change the entire segment.
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  Speaker 1: So that was kind of the magic of that show.
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  Speaker 1: But when the show changed and Matty retired, first they
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  Speaker 1: put me in the main studio because they were like,
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  Speaker 1: you're a board op. You can do it. But then
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  Speaker 1: they realized that– sorry. Let me back up here. I apologize.
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  Speaker 1: When Bex left– She was the person in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: When she left, they needed a board op in there,
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  Speaker 1: so they moved me in there. And I had said
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  Speaker 1: to them, I can be in here, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to do both. I can't search
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  Speaker 1: for audio because I'm in that studio. I need to
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  Speaker 1: be in a separate one to be able to listen
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  Speaker 1: to audio, search it, preview it, and put it up.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was in there for a short time,
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  Speaker 1: and then Matty realized that I couldn't do what he
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  Speaker 1: needed me to do. So we had to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what to do, and that's how Winnie got in there.
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  Speaker 1: Winnie was the phone screener. So then I said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I can train Winnie up. Winnie can come in. So
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  Speaker 1: then when he went in there, I came back into
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  Speaker 1: my studio. So then the Billy and Lisa show starts.
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  Speaker 1: Matty retires, and I'm in my studio, but now I
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  Speaker 1: have a full-time mic. So now I'm a co-host as
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  Speaker 1: part of the show. But I kind of combine both roles,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. So I'm still doing the sound, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm still pulling up sound. and kind of leading the
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  Speaker 1: show that way. But I also have a mic and
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to be a co-host as well. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a very, very unique position to be in. There's really
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  Speaker 1: no other radio show that does what we do here.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very unique. I remember McCabe, you know, he
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: filled in a couple of weeks ago for Riley and
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: that was his biggest takeaway. I think I mentioned this
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: after the show. He said, it's so crazy to me.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: He's like, I've worked in a ton of radio stations,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: you know, around the country. I've never seen this. He's like,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: you guys have two boards. running on the same show.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: So think about that. You have Riley's main board and
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: then she turns mine on as well. So now you
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: have my board. So when I play things, right, I
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: can adjust sound levels on the audio clips that I play.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Those are all going on the air. And then Riley
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: can also play stuff from her studio and her board.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: So it's a very unique thing. And it really is
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: just the practice and the experience that I had working
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: on the Maddie show. I was able to take that
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: and then And then kind of polish my on-air skills
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: as well and then put them together. So I like that.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I really do like that. When people ask me, you know,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: would you ever like consider being the number one on
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the show? And I always say no. And it's not
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: because I don't think that I could do it. I
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: mean I help Billy co-host. It's that I like this
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: part of it. I like being in another studio. I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: like that if we're having a conversation in my– you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: I get like a thought– or I think of a
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: funny clip or a funny song that goes along with
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: what we're talking about, I like that I can go
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and pull it up. And I think when I listen
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: to other radio shows, not to criticize them, but when
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I listen to them, they don't play any audio. And,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: you know, my boss, Dylan, he always says, it's always
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: better to play something rather than just talk about it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: If there's an opportunity to have a piece of sound
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: to go along with a story that Or a segment,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: it makes it that much better because it's radio, right?
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: This is an audio medium. So, yeah, I like that
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: part of it. And I really want to continue to
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: do that. And, you know, going back to the previous
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: talk back or about breaking in, that's another thing besides
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the internship that I should have added is learn everything.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Learn as much as possible. It is so important. You know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I could sit here and say that the reason I'm
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: still here and I haven't been, you know, laid off or,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you know, there are cuts that happen every single year.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: You know that, right? Every company, especially here in radio,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: it's a tough business. I like to tell myself, oh,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: it's because I'm really good at my job. When really
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: that is only part of it. I know that I'm
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: good at it, but I also do so much, right?
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Because I was told that early on. I was told
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: radio is not what it used to be. It's not.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Now we have streaming and we have internet and there's
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: just so many things going on. So you have to
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: be multi-talented, multi– what's the word? Faceted? Yeah, you have
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to know a lot of shit. You got to learn
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: as much as possible because we found that if you
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: only know one thing, you're more likely to get cut
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: because they could easily– and this goes for any company
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: by the way, not just this company. That you can
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: have somebody else do their job plus your job So
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I'm very busy and I do a lot of work
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and I think that that adds value. And I don't
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: think that I'm safe ever. You never know in this world,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: in this economy, you never know what's going to happen.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: But I do know that if they do let me go,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: that's a huge loss and they'll have a lot of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: holes to fill. Would they be okay?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not this amazing person, but I told Riley the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: same thing and I think that's why she's been successful.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I'm like, learn as much as possible. So she did that.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: She practiced. She got on the air. She took over
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: my 5 a.m. She took over my Saturday morning. She
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: does weekends now. She podcasts. She edits audio. She can
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: help out. She can run the board. She's done so
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: many things that she's very valuable to the company. And
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: that's just a matter of fact. Like if you get
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: laid off a lot of times, most times, it's because
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: you only really do one thing. It's just true. It's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: just the way it is. And it's really just the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: nature of the world. I know it sucks, but just
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: learn as much as possible. We have a phone screener, Marvin.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: He doesn't go on the air or anything, but he
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: helps with the phones. He works on our street team here. Nice,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: nice kid. I tell him the same thing. I'm like,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you come in. He helps me with the talk backs.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what you're doing now is great because you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: do the street team stuff. But now you're learning this
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: part of it and you're going to get faster. You're
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: going to get better at editing audio. And, you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: in turn, when things come up and they need help,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: you want to be dependable and you know what to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: do and you're dependable. So that's how other opportunities open up.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: You know, there are seven radio stations here. So, you know,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: there are always opportunities that can happen. So there you go.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: There's some advice. I love those questions, man. Any behind
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the scenes stuff that you want to know, I will
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: tell you, there is nothing Off limits for the most part.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to talk about people's personal stuff.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: But you know what? Give it long enough and maybe
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I will. Sometimes I like getting personal.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Hey, Justin.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: It's Lynn.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I listened to the after show yesterday talking about moving
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: into your new house and, you know, the adjustments you
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: had to make. You left out one small detail regarding
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: an eggplant and some stairs and Nani. Do you remember that?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe you'll want to share it with the after show
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: who may not recall that situation.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, thanks, Lynn. Get your mind out of the gutter, Lynn. Oh, boy. Yeah,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I'll share it. I was talking about my mother-in-law Nani
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: when we bought the house and the first night she
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: woke me up at two in the morning and said
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I was late for work when I didn't get up
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: until I don't get up until three a.m. But also
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: when we first moved in, she did walk in on
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: my wife and I getting it on upstairs. She didn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: give us any heads up. Mind you, as I mentioned yesterday,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: her bedroom is on the first floor. And there's a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: bathroom down there and a shower. There was no reason
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to come upstairs. Or was there a shower? I forget.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: But anyway, if you're going to come upstairs where the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: bedrooms are, you got to give a holla. Especially her.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: She's loud as anything. But not that day. That day,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: this is probably within the first week or two. She came.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I'll never forget. We were doing our thing in the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: little man cave area that I have. And then she
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: turned the corner. Oh, my God. It was quite embarrassing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: But my wife let her have it and told her, like, Ma,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: you can't do this. Like, I know we're going to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: live together, but don't announce when you're coming upstairs. So
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: get this a while later. I don't know. A few
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: months went by and same thing happened. And she kind of.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: was walking up and I could hear her coming up.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: She wasn't like hollering, but I could definitely hear that
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: she was coming. And, and you know what? I just didn't,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't stop. I didn't, I was like, she has
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to learn somehow. So then she caught us again. Like
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: she came, I don't think she saw anything, but she
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: came very close and we heard her go, Oh my God.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And she turned around and went downstairs. Like you can't
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: just be walking around the house. You can't do that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So thank you Lynn for that. All right, a couple
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: of orders of business. Today's show, very funny, quirky things
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: that you or your significant other does. This came from
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, who likes to impersonate Napoleon Dynamite or characters
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: from Napoleon Dynamite with her friend Abigail, which was a
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: good soundbite to have. All I know is I have
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: so many quirks, just like Billy. I asked my wife
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to text me different things that I have. She went
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: on and on and on. Some of these are really funny.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: My nighttime routine, which is the cold plunge in sauna.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So every night, I make sure the kids have eaten
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: dinner and they're settled down, take tubs, and then I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: take 30 to 40 minutes. But I mean, we're all
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: just hanging out anyway. Jeremy is downstairs with Nani, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I do the cold plunge in the sauna. I also
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: do all the laundry, but I have a real specific
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: routine where I listen to podcasts while I fold laundry.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I like doing that all the time. My wife says,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with flossing. Okay, that's not a bad thing,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but I do like to floss. No one can talk
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to me while I'm eating. That's 100% true. Actually, my
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: son learned that the hard way the other day. I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: was so mad. I just sat down to eat, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: he came in asking for something. And I'm like, dude,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I'm eating. And I was genuinely upset. I don't know
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: what it is. I feel like the eating is the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: sacred time. I don't like being interrupted when I eat.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I know. I'm weird. Oh, I leave crumbs in the bags.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I do do that. God, I'd like to be married
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to me. Oh, man. So that's really good. Make sure
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you check out the podcast for that. The Voice of Logan,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Thursday morning, 710, will announce the winner. There's a whole
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: story here. I'll share it afterwards. It's good, but I'll
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: give you the whole behind the scenes on this. This
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: is absolutely crazy. I mean, we're talking about, like, just
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the national exposure, all the behind the scenes that went
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: into this, the legal stuff. I mean, it's all good,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: nothing bad, all good, but it definitely was an experience
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: for being involved in something of this magnitude and having
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to like orchestrate everything. So Thursday morning, seven 10. And
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: then on Thursday's podcast or Friday, remind me, I'll give
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you the whole story on how that went down. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: then Friday, this just came down. Comics come home. Eight
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: 40 on Friday. I'm going, Lisa's going, Billy's not going.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I think he has a gala producer. Riley's going, but
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: eight 40 on Friday, we'll have front row tickets to comics.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Come home. That's pretty cool. Oh, and Turkey Toss tomorrow, 8-10,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: we'll announce the Turkey Toss. So a lot going on. Again,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: hit the talk backs, questions, concerns, comments. I'm always here
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: for the After Show Army. See you.