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We Love Good News... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: God, it is so hot in my studio. I know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't care what it is. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: go start the after show and I am literally sweating,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't touch the thermomastad in my studio because
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  Speaker 1: it's funky and there's something going on with it and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but it's really hot. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome into the After Show podcast, everybody. It is a Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: July sixteenth, almost through the first week after vacation, which
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  Speaker 1: is always the toughest, by the way, getting back into
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  Speaker 1: your routine. And I gotta say today's show felt great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, every show feels great, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm really back into my stride. It's not easy. It's
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  Speaker 1: not easy. It's not easy doing a show four hours
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  Speaker 1: a day, being on point, you know, being engaging and
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  Speaker 1: being funny. Listen, I'm new to all of this, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm no Billy that's been doing it for forty years.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Maddie or Lisa, who's been doing it for twenty
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  Speaker 1: six years. You know, I'm fairly new to the game.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm learning. And by the way, I've always found,
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  Speaker 1: okay that Monday the hardest day of the week. Coming
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  Speaker 1: back from the weekend. I've said this before. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like Monday is the worst show. You should still listen,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like not that you would even be
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  Speaker 1: able to tell, but I guess, just like inside how
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  Speaker 1: I feel about you know, my kind of vibe, Monday's
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  Speaker 1: the worst, Tuesday is a little better, Wednesday gets even better.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and Fridays are the best. Fridays are the best
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  Speaker 1: show that you can do. I mean essentially, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: remember when Maddie was getting close to his retirement before
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  Speaker 1: he was forced to retire, but he took Mondays off
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  Speaker 1: for a year to kind of let Billy and Lisa
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  Speaker 1: and myself and kind of do the show and Winnie.
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  Speaker 1: But then you know, he took Mondays because Mondays are
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  Speaker 1: kind of the slowest day. There's less listening, it's coming
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  Speaker 1: off the weekend. You never want to take Fridays off.
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  Speaker 1: Fridays are the best. So anyway, we just wrapped up
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  Speaker 1: the show. Fun, fun, fun show, lots of stuff to
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  Speaker 1: get to. If you do not listen to it, go
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  Speaker 1: listen to it. We had some fun with the FIFA
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  Speaker 1: halftime show this weekend. Good topic time about the Jim
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  Speaker 1: Me sharing weird stories. You know, I just share what
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  Speaker 1: I see I got. That's the thing about me. It's
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  Speaker 1: like I'm an open book. Listen, I've been through so
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  Speaker 1: much shit, too much shit in my life to be
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  Speaker 1: judged by anybody. You know, there is There's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things that you can say about me that would
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  Speaker 1: hurt me, one of which is that I'm lazy. That
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  Speaker 1: would get me very upset because I work very hard
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  Speaker 1: to not be lazy, so that would hurt me. So
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  Speaker 1: if you ever want to hurt me, which I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why you would call me lazy or not good
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  Speaker 1: at my job, you know, those kind of go together,
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  Speaker 1: you know, working hard and actually speaking of which this
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  Speaker 1: is actually pretty amazing stuff. Man. Yeah, we looks like
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be number one for the entire quarter in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: number number one morning show. Looks like we're gonna hit
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  Speaker 1: our bonus, which is just an amazing thing. See, we
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  Speaker 1: would always fluctuate, right, and the same thing as Maddy did, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like Maddie was number one for so long, but then
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  Speaker 1: like the last ten years, he'd go up and down. Right,
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  Speaker 1: And how I know that it's based on our bonuses, right,
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  Speaker 1: So we are bonused on being number one in our demo,
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  Speaker 1: our certain demo. I won't go too far into it.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, when I first joined the show
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, I was offered bonuses as it kind
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  Speaker 1: of to make up for the salary that I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of a tactic that they do, not that
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  Speaker 1: they don't want you to hit the bonuses, but it's hard, right,
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  Speaker 1: so they'll offer you big bonuses instead of salary because
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  Speaker 1: salary is like a cert sure thing, the bonuses are not.
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  Speaker 1: So when I first started in twenty sixteen, I would
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  Speaker 1: We would hit bonuses pretty regularly, like two to three
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  Speaker 1: times a year, sometimes four times a year for the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of years, and then it went away and
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  Speaker 1: we did not hit a bonus for years and years.
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  Speaker 1: We only hit it one time between twenty nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, only one time we hit it, and
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  Speaker 1: then we had not hit it. Since Matti retired and
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  Speaker 1: the new show came on, we've been up and do right.
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  Speaker 1: So it's hard. There's so many things going on. We'd
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  Speaker 1: be number one, that we'd be number three, back to
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  Speaker 1: number one, that we've been number four, always kind of
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  Speaker 1: right around that area and you know, we worked super
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  Speaker 1: hard to kind of get to that number one spot
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  Speaker 1: and we did it finally, you know, finally, So it
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  Speaker 1: was really it just felt so good man to know
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  Speaker 1: that people are listening and people are loving the show.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the money, the extra money helps too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that helps too. And I was saying to
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  Speaker 1: McCabe because he was texting me about it yesterday from
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  Speaker 1: the Garden at the Bents and Boone show, and I
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  Speaker 1: said to him, you know, it's it's not just like
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  Speaker 1: the money, right for me, it's I put so much
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  Speaker 1: into the show. We all do. But I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: me personally, not that I do any more than anybody else,
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  Speaker 1: but from a personal standpoint, this show means so much
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  Speaker 1: to me. You know, this career means so much to me,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's all I think about. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I show up every sing so like you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: an exec executive producer, not just a coast on the show.
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  Speaker 1: I also executive produced the show. So when I when
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  Speaker 1: I'm not working here at the radio station, I am
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  Speaker 1: working all day, right, So even when I'm answering emails
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  Speaker 1: or talking to people, it never stops. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the job of a producer. So in other words, I'm
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  Speaker 1: always thinking about the show every single day, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and going to bed and then waking up, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: about the show. How can I make it better? What
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  Speaker 1: can we add, what can we what can we do
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  Speaker 1: to make the show better. So to have kind of
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  Speaker 1: see that hard work payoff really really really meant a
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  Speaker 1: lot to me, you know, because I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: the best. You know, I want it to be the best.
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  Speaker 1: I'm living my dream out here. I grew up listening
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  Speaker 1: to this radio station. You know my story. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to say the story again. If you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: this podcast, I'm sure that you know it. But it
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  Speaker 1: was just really cool to sit in the meeting and
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  Speaker 1: have the boss tell us this and show us the
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  Speaker 1: numbers and be like, and he did that thing okay
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  Speaker 1: where he started the meeting because the meeting was about
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  Speaker 1: something else, but he started it with with this, and
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  Speaker 1: he was very solemn. Okay, so he was doing it
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  Speaker 1: on purpose to make it look like he was about
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  Speaker 1: to deliver the bad news. So I'm like, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we might thought we might be number one.
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  Speaker 1: So he led up to it, let up to it,
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  Speaker 1: let up to it and then he read the numbers
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  Speaker 1: off and then he goes which means and I look
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  Speaker 1: up and I go, we get what what what? And
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  Speaker 1: we were all like yeah, and he was like, it's
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine percent. We had to figure some stuff out,
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  Speaker 1: but yes, congratulations, it looks like you hit it. So yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's good times. It's good times here. But anyway, back
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  Speaker 1: to the show. I'm an open book. I'll share anything.
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  Speaker 1: So we were talking about the gym, which I love
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  Speaker 1: talking about this big part of my life, you know that,
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  Speaker 1: and I talked about the zeb blowing out my neck thing.
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  Speaker 1: It is so weird. That's been a that's like a
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  Speaker 1: running joke between my friends and I with me with
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  Speaker 1: ZEB and I. So yeah, I don't know how he
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  Speaker 1: came up with it, but it really just as weird
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  Speaker 1: as it is. It really just shows like how dedicated
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  Speaker 1: we were, you know that. For some reason on that
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  Speaker 1: day when I was going for like a five hundred
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  Speaker 1: pound squat when I went down and he was squatting,
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  Speaker 1: when he was spotting me, like behind me, he thought
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  Speaker 1: at the very bottom of the squat by that blowing
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  Speaker 1: on my neck would do something, and it did. It
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  Speaker 1: was just the burst of air on my neck gave
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  Speaker 1: me some push. I know it sounds absolutely insane, but
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  Speaker 1: don't knock until you try it, I guess, is all
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  Speaker 1: I can say. You can only understand if you try it.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, there were times after that, not every time,
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  Speaker 1: but there were times where he would he would blow
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  Speaker 1: and then eventually I remember he would use his hat to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cause it kind of was, you know, should
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  Speaker 1: I keep doing this? So he would use his hat
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  Speaker 1: to kind of he take his half and fan my
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  Speaker 1: neck and it would do the same thing. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: matter if he was blowing on me. God, this sounds
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  Speaker 1: so gay, or flapping his hat. It was just something
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  Speaker 1: to give me that extra boost, you know. And shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Zeb too. By the way, his mom was
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital. She's doing better, she's recovering. I talked
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  Speaker 1: to him a few days ago and she was about
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  Speaker 1: to be transferred from Worcester back to have Roll. So
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  Speaker 1: shout out to Zeb's mom. She's a real real angel.
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  Speaker 1: I love her so much. I love their whole family.
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  Speaker 1: Their family's incredible to day family. They have like thirty
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. It's really funny. But yeah, I shared
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  Speaker 1: that on the air, which obviously is crazy, and all
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  Speaker 1: the other weird things that I do, like I've taped
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  Speaker 1: my mouth while doing cardio because I do take my
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  Speaker 1: mouth shut every night. I've talked about that.
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  Speaker 2: OMG, I'm glad you had a great vacation, but hearing
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  Speaker 2: you say that you tape your mouth shut at night
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  Speaker 2: is giving me an attack. It's I am so claustrophobic
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  Speaker 2: that I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really hard to get going on it.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I read the science behind it, and I
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  Speaker 1: kind of did some research because I was having issues
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  Speaker 1: with snoring and I knew I was. I was sleeping,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with my mouth wide open. So I decided
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  Speaker 1: to try it, and it was so weird. It took
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  Speaker 1: me a couple of nights where I would go to
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  Speaker 1: bed with it, but I would rip it off. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, once you get used to it, like
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna die or anything. If you costrophobic, then
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  Speaker 1: you could maybe could never do it. But I sleep
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  Speaker 1: with them all tape every single night, and some nights
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  Speaker 1: I do rip it off in my sleep. I'll wake
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  Speaker 1: up without it, and that's how I know it if
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  Speaker 1: I got a good night's sleep. Usually if I wake
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  Speaker 1: up with the tape still on in the same spot,
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  Speaker 1: not like on my forehead or on my cheek or
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  Speaker 1: ripped off in the bed somewhere, it usually means I
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  Speaker 1: slept well, like last night I did, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't knok it to you try it. I guess all right.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's about it for today. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: have lunch with my wife. She is still not working.
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  Speaker 1: She is interviewing, and she does start a per diem
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  Speaker 1: job soon, yeah, maybe next week. But she's been enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the time off, chilling, you know, getting the kids off
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  Speaker 1: to school. She's at home cleaning right now. And I
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  Speaker 1: just hit her up and said, you want to go
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  Speaker 1: to lunch. Take my beautiful wife, the love of my life,
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  Speaker 1: to lunch. So I'm off to do that. Tomorrow's Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Feels good anyway, We'll talk tomorrow. Bye.