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Hoo-Ha... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, friends, welcome into the after show podcast justin here.
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  Speaker 1: I hope your day is awesome. Let's get this thing going.
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  Speaker 1: I'm solo today, do not have a guest. H To
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, I did not put much effort
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  Speaker 1: into it. It's been a busy morning, lots going on,
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  Speaker 1: always busy, always doing stuff. I had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: commercials to produce after the show and didn't sleep that
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  Speaker 1: good last night. I've been tracking my sleep on my
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  Speaker 1: Apple Watch, which I don't know how accurate that is
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  Speaker 1: if anybody out there uses an Apple Watch. I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of torn on getting like a Whoop or an
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  Speaker 1: oor Ring or any of these fitness trackers that also
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  Speaker 1: track your sleep. But I got an Apple Watch because
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  Speaker 1: I could just add it to the plan that we have.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have to pay much out of pocket, so
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  Speaker 1: it just made more sense. And so now I'm like
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  Speaker 1: obsessing about it. And you know, when I don't get
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  Speaker 1: good sleep, it messes me up because I'm thinking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's because of the sleep that I'm so tired, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: or that my brain is not functioning correctly. But I've
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  Speaker 1: been up like every the last couple of nights. Part
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  Speaker 1: of that is my cat, who I love. We have
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  Speaker 1: a cat, an orange cat named Jacks. But Jack's will
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  Speaker 1: meow outside the door because I can't let him into
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom because he likes to jump up and down
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  Speaker 1: off the bed. He's very active and which I heard
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  Speaker 1: about orange cats that they are like that. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: he won't sit in one spot. He wants to be
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  Speaker 1: able to go outside and inside, and I like the
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  Speaker 1: door shut, so I keep him locked out, and so
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  Speaker 1: he sits at the door and myows, and even if
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  Speaker 1: I let him in, he'll just go back out. So
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  Speaker 1: I guess the solution would be to leave the door open.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I go to bed so early
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  Speaker 1: and the light and all that stuff, so I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been sleeping good. But other than that, I feel just fine.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a Wednesday. I had the Power of
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  Speaker 1: Recovery Guys on yesterday. That was fun, and then we
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  Speaker 1: had Damon on the show today because by chance, he
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  Speaker 1: had a money counter. If you missed it, one of
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  Speaker 1: the secret sound guesses was a money counter, and that
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  Speaker 1: got us talking like who has one of those besides it?
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  Speaker 1: And turns out Damon has one. You might be asking why, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you heard them yesterday. They own like twelve or thirteen
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  Speaker 1: sober houses and a lot of their payments, their rent
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  Speaker 1: payments comes in the form of cash. So every Friday
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  Speaker 1: for years, Damon, who oversees all of that, would take
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  Speaker 1: the cash in and you'd have to count it by hand,
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  Speaker 1: and he got smart and got a money counter. But
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  Speaker 1: how funny was that they were on the podcast yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and on the show today, So that was cool. I
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  Speaker 1: love those guys so much. And again, if any of
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  Speaker 1: your needs addiction related, any help that you need. I
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  Speaker 1: did hear from the person that left a talk back
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  Speaker 1: for them yes on the show if you missed it
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  Speaker 1: about her father who is an alcoholic who they want
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  Speaker 1: to get help for, but he's kind of resistant to
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  Speaker 1: getting the help. They are going to take their advice.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to reach out to Power of Recovery, which
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  Speaker 1: they can assist and guide them on the intervention if
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  Speaker 1: they want to go down that route. So I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 1: the addiction stuff, the work that I do is so
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  Speaker 1: important and it means so much to me obviously because
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  Speaker 1: of where I come from. It's crazy. So on my
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  Speaker 1: Facebook memories, I don't like Facebook, but I do check
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  Speaker 1: the memories, because you know, it's a trip down memory lane.
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  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. But I found an old blog that I
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  Speaker 1: created as a senior project my senior year of college,
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  Speaker 1: and it documented the entire like two years, two or
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  Speaker 1: three years, my first two or three years as an intern,
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  Speaker 1: and so it has audio, it has pictures, and it
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  Speaker 1: has me writing about my experience coming into the radio
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  Speaker 1: business and working at JAM of ninety four or five.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild, like to read that back and where I
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  Speaker 1: was at. But then also to listen to the audio
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  Speaker 1: of the first time that I was on the air,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy. I was going to post a link to
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  Speaker 1: it on my Instagram, but I'm like really embarrassed by
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  Speaker 1: it because if you listen to me, I sound like
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  Speaker 1: I just got off parole, like which I did, Like
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  Speaker 1: I just got out of jail. I sound so so
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  Speaker 1: Boston and so Street because that's what I knew, so
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  Speaker 1: much different than than now. And the first time I
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  Speaker 1: was on the air, So I had started as an
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  Speaker 1: intern with Romero and Santi and Pebbles and Melissa, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Romero and Santy would they would talk to
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  Speaker 1: the interns, they would talk to people after the show
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  Speaker 1: and try to see where they were at and see
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  Speaker 1: if they could get any good stories from them. So
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  Speaker 1: that happened with me. So I think I was probably
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  Speaker 1: here for a week or two, and you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got to chat and they could tell that something was
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  Speaker 1: not off with me, but that I had something going on,
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  Speaker 1: probably by the way that I talked and the way
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  Speaker 1: that I dressed, because I also dressed kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: baggy shorts. It was you know, it was really big
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  Speaker 1: and fat. And so they got to talk to me
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  Speaker 1: after talking to me after the show, and I started
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  Speaker 1: telling them some stories. Now I didn't say that I
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  Speaker 1: was a former addict, that I was in recovery. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't say any of that stuff, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: told him some of the fun the fun stories, like
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  Speaker 1: the first one I told. Well, so I told him
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  Speaker 1: the stories. But then I also, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: it came up that I was a spelling bee champ
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  Speaker 1: in elementary school, fourth fifth grade. I had won the
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  Speaker 1: spelling bee at my school. So that came up and
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  Speaker 1: they decided to do a bit a spelling bee me
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  Speaker 1: versus Romero, And that was the first time they put
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  Speaker 1: me on air as an intern. Justin and if you
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  Speaker 1: listen to it, I sound so young. I sound very nervous,
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  Speaker 1: but I also sound very street, you know. And before
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  Speaker 1: we started the spelling Bee, he said, so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this guess kid Justin has a past. But we're not
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  Speaker 1: really sure what's going on, but he's got some cool
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  Speaker 1: stories of when he thought he was a criminal. Because
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  Speaker 1: that's how I positioned it. I didn't position it as
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  Speaker 1: hey like, I got arrested many times, I had been jail,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm in recovery. None of that. It was
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  Speaker 1: more of a jokey thing like, hey like, one time
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  Speaker 1: I tried to be a criminal and this happened, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the story of I was. I was a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't twenty one yet, but where I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in Malden, we had Pumpsy's Liquors, which was right near me,
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  Speaker 1: and they knew my family just like the convenience store,
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  Speaker 1: so they would sell me cigarettes for my mom. Before like,
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  Speaker 1: I was eighteen, and I could buy beer as well.
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  Speaker 1: And so my dad had injured himself and so he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't like walk, and so one day he asked me
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  Speaker 1: to get him beer. Now, mind you, I was strung
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  Speaker 1: out on opiates. So I had a physical habit, and
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  Speaker 1: this day that he had asked me to do it,
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  Speaker 1: I was sick and I had no money, and I
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  Speaker 1: was literally in the basement like plotting on how I
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  Speaker 1: could get forty dollars to try to get high. And
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  Speaker 1: so he called me upstairs and he said, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: need you to get me some beer case a bud
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  Speaker 1: light or whatever. No, he drank drank ready for this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what was it? Was it bud ice? It was
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  Speaker 1: one of the buds. Anyway, he goes, I need you
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  Speaker 1: to get me some beer, but make sure you bring
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  Speaker 1: me my change. And I was like, okay. So he
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  Speaker 1: gave me a fifty dollars bill. I remember that. So
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  Speaker 1: I left the house and I went and got high.
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  Speaker 1: And on the way back, I was like, I got high,
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  Speaker 1: I had some more left, and I thought to myself,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fucked, Like what am I gonna do? I don't
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  Speaker 1: have change for this dude, and I don't have beer.
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  Speaker 1: Most importantly, I spent the money. So as I'm walking
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  Speaker 1: down Highland Ave in Malden by Pumpsy's, there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: unloading beer from a beer truck. You know, they have
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  Speaker 1: the truck park with the door open. He goes in,
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  Speaker 1: he comes out, and so I'm looking and then like
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  Speaker 1: a bell went off, and I'm like, I could just
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  Speaker 1: grab a case of beer. So I kind of walked
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  Speaker 1: by and looked to see what kind of beer was
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  Speaker 1: in there. When the guy went in, and I saw
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  Speaker 1: bud but I really wasn't sure, but something was better
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  Speaker 1: than nothing. So when the dude went in one of
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  Speaker 1: the times, I ran up, grabbed the case off the back,
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  Speaker 1: and ran home. So I get home, I go in
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  Speaker 1: through the front door. I put the bear down. I
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  Speaker 1: think my dad was like in the bathroom or something,
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  Speaker 1: and then I went downstairs to continue using whatever I
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  Speaker 1: had left a little while I went by, I hear
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  Speaker 1: him screaming my name at the top. So I went
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  Speaker 1: upstairs and he's I just remember the look on his
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  Speaker 1: face of like complete bewilderment. The case was empty. It
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  Speaker 1: was all empty Bear bottles, because not only do they
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  Speaker 1: deliver the beer full, they also would take back the
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  Speaker 1: empties for recycle. So I didn't know. I was full
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  Speaker 1: of adrenaline. I mean, I mean, they weren't clinking. I
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  Speaker 1: just didn't really realize it. I was also high as
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  Speaker 1: a kite and so he was pursed and kicked me
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  Speaker 1: out of the house. So that was the first story
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  Speaker 1: I told. And the other one was the fake ID story,
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  Speaker 1: which I think I told on the show recently, so
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  Speaker 1: I won't tell that again. But that was my first
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  Speaker 1: time on the air, and then I was on a
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  Speaker 1: lot after that because they would have me do stunts.
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  Speaker 1: They would send me out to do things. Obviously, this
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  Speaker 1: is a story where they made me go down to
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  Speaker 1: the Bruins parade or it was about to be the parade.
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  Speaker 1: The news was down there. I had to get on
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  Speaker 1: TV on the news take my shirt off right on
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  Speaker 1: my chest. It was completely embarrassing, but I did it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they would like send me to do different things, and
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  Speaker 1: that was like the first time I had been on
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  Speaker 1: the air. So just to read back on where I
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  Speaker 1: was at, kind of new in the business. I had
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  Speaker 1: some production work that I did, you know, some audio
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I had produced, which I listened back to
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  Speaker 1: now and I'm like, man, I could have done way
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  Speaker 1: better than that, because I didn't know. I was just learning.
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  Speaker 1: But back then it was so it was so fucking
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  Speaker 1: cool to me. You got to imagine that it was
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  Speaker 1: so cool, like I always tell the story my first
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  Speaker 1: day as an intern. I came in, I sat down
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  Speaker 1: five am. I was watching little Ashley, who works on
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  Speaker 1: the gym in morning show. Now she was an intern.
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  Speaker 1: She had been there for about a year, and she
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  Speaker 1: was show me different things. And then the show started
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  Speaker 1: at six and the intro music for the Romero show
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  Speaker 1: started and I just couldn't believe it. I started to
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  Speaker 1: well up, and they get emotional about it because think
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  Speaker 1: about where my life was and where it was now
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  Speaker 1: this was really happening. I was really in a radio
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  Speaker 1: station on a morning show. I grew up listening to
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  Speaker 1: these shows. Two Kiss Went Away, Maddie in the Morning, Romero.
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  Speaker 1: So it was just a wild moment, and I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of was in that moment where I was
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  Speaker 1: yawning and trying not to seem like I was crying,
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  Speaker 1: and she goes like, you, okay. She could tell something
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  Speaker 1: was up, and I'm like, yeah, I'm just just really tired.
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  Speaker 1: I used to getting up this early, so yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just cool. If you want the link,
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  Speaker 1: I'll send it to you so you can read it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fascinating look into the early days of justin.
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  Speaker 1: So other than that, things are going well on the show,
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  Speaker 1: busy as ever, there's always stuff going on behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 1: stuff that is not for the podcast, but just not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily with our radio station, but just all of the
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  Speaker 1: radio stations. It's a workplace. So there's always drama going
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  Speaker 1: on with different things that I try to stay out of.
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  Speaker 1: But I seem to be the one that everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to tell, if that makes sense, as if I'm like
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  Speaker 1: something kind of confidant. And I think that's because they
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  Speaker 1: know I'm a lock box. You know, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to tell the secrets of whatever they're telling me. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I like to think that I'm easy
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  Speaker 1: to talk to. I'm non judgmental, because who am I
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  Speaker 1: to judge anybody about anything? All the bullshit that I've
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  Speaker 1: done in my life and mistakes that I've made, I
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  Speaker 1: judge nobody. I'm really good at like when someone does
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  Speaker 1: something really messed up, you know, giving them the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of the doubt. You know. I do my best to
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  Speaker 1: do that because look where I came from. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's always stuff going on, people coming into my studio
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  Speaker 1: and talking to me about different different things going on.
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  Speaker 1: We also had Katie on who is the phone screener here?
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  Speaker 1: We had around last week and it was really cool,
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  Speaker 1: like hearing her story and where she came from.
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  Speaker 2: People like that, Hey, Justin leaving you a talkback for
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  Speaker 2: the after show. I just listened to that interview with Katie.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm sixty five years old now, but I
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  Speaker 2: used to work in a theater and I was a
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  Speaker 2: manager of a theater company in Boston for many, many years,
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  Speaker 2: and I have to say she would have been top
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  Speaker 2: of my list to hire. Oh my gosh, what a
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  Speaker 2: go get her. What a positive attitude. Oh Katie, You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go far. Just keep it up, girl.
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  Speaker 1: M Yeah, Katie's cool. Man. She's very young, very very
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  Speaker 1: well spoken for her age. I think she's only twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years old, twenty three, maybe just got out of college,
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  Speaker 1: kind of making her way, got an opportunity, met McKay
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  Speaker 1: McCabe hired her. So she's here. She's part time. She
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  Speaker 1: answers our phones. She's gonna be working kind of at
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  Speaker 1: all the radio stations. And Yeah, she was really cool,
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed her.
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  Speaker 3: Talkback is for Justin and Katie. I just listened to
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  Speaker 3: the welcome Katie after show podcast and you guys saying
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  Speaker 3: huh back and forth. It's sending me because who up
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  Speaker 3: here means like the woman's downstairs area. So there's actually
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  Speaker 3: an underwear brand called Huh as well. So yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: it does not mean like rendezvous or a big party
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  Speaker 3: or anything. The woman's lady bitch.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Katie used the phrase ho ha when she was
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast, so that's what she's referring to. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have her back. We'll have producer Riley on soon.
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  Speaker 1: Billy's on the phone in there doing lord knows what.
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  Speaker 1: But Billy and I are going on a guy's night
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, Saturday night. We're going to a cage fighting event.
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  Speaker 1: He invited me to because it's up near me. It's
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  Speaker 1: in Manchester, so I think I'm gonna be like ringside
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  Speaker 1: or right up close to watch people smash each other's
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  Speaker 1: faces in. So that should be fun. We'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: about that on the show this week and then next
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  Speaker 1: weekend going to laugh Boston to see Vinnie from the
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore. I like the Jersey Shore. I like them all.
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  Speaker 1: I watched it when it was first out. But my
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  Speaker 1: wife is a super massive fan of all of them.
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  Speaker 1: And now Vinnie's a comedian, so he's got to show
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  Speaker 1: at Laugh Boston. So we're gonna go double date with
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  Speaker 1: two friends of ours and we're gonna go check out
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  Speaker 1: Vinnie and hopefully hopefully stay out for the night again
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  Speaker 1: and get a hotel room and spend some quality time together.
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  Speaker 1: So that should be fun. So I got things coming up, man,
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  Speaker 1: And then at Ruba. Ruba's coming up March sixteenth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so excited for that as well. A lot of good
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  Speaker 1: stuff coming up, a lot of things to be grateful for.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the world's a really fucked up place, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but we do our best to navigate through it. And
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  Speaker 1: I think a positive attitude is the key, that's the ticket.
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  Speaker 1: You know. You could think negatively about everything, but then
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  Speaker 1: what does that do? Doesn't make anything better? But if
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  Speaker 1: we can try to think about the glass half full
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  Speaker 1: that kind of perspective, it makes things a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'll say about that. So send you talkbacks
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  Speaker 1: in as always. Tomorrow there will be an apt to
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  Speaker 1: show podcast and we'll chat, So leave you questions, comments,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and I love you guys. Popeye