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Naughty Drawers, Cyberbullies & Seventh Inning Shenanigans · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and that Michelle chick.
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I'm that Michelle chick. And I'm Rick, welcome in.
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Come on in. Okay, so we've discussed how I
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in a past podcast with I think it was last episode, how I am
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busy cleaning out our storage units.
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Yeah, I'm almost done. Not quite, but that's right.
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QR codes on all the shot. This is going to be a plug for
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Costco. They're black totes with the
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yellow lids. That's what I'm putting
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everything in with the QR codes because they stack up.
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They stack up great. I know I'm crazy.
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I'm almost done. I only have a few things left.
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Some of them are my my dad's and you know, that's a little more
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difficult to go through, but I have to just do it and get it
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over with. He's been gone almost eight
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years. So it's just something I just
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need to do. And that's really all I have
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left. But sad news in the fact that
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that's all I have left. I have been able to sort through
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everything or figure out what's in everything and I cannot find
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any of my air check tapes. None of them I know.
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That's crazy. I, I, I have for sure they were
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in storage. OK.
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I even have some from my days at Skill Center.
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I think I had like one or two which, you know, they would have
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been cassette tapes. I think I had one or two of
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those at. Leah's dye had yes.
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Interesting. I they wouldn't be in the house,
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they would have been in storage and I'm so sad over this.
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That means like I have lost all of them.
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I've lost everything from skill center to like part time at KXW.
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D to. Crosser to back to KX, WDTOKF FM
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to back to KFM to the bowl. I think once we stopped using
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cassettes as air checks, air checks, that's where I I don't
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have any more so. And the bum, the bummer.
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But the the bummer now is you can't get one of those old chair
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air checks and take it to the Christmas party and make fun of
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yourself, right? Or they make fun of you, No.
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So hopefully I again, I have gone through almost every single
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tote that has been in both storage units.
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So I they probably got accidentally thrown away, I'm
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thinking, or just. Through the years, you think?
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Yeah, Did you? Yeah, now maybe it's different
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for you. No, you know, not to throw us
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off course, but it's funny listening back to your old air
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checks. When you listen back to your old
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air checks, do you, do you like it or you're like, I, I look at
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like who let this person on the air?
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Why is this person on the air? They're they're, they're
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horrific. They're horrible.
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Why are they on the radio? And how did they get a job?
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Yes, it pains me to listen to them, but it's just the fact
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that I do. If I did want to listen back to
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them or even tell my kids, hey, listen to what mom used to say
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and like, I mean, they would be torture.
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I'd be torturous for them, but. Well, but.
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It's just the fact that I don't have the choice now I don't have
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them at all. But it's interesting because,
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OK, so from a so from a male, female perspective, so when I
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first got started and I went through, I went through all
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these phases trying to find my own voice or who I was.
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And so was interested when I first got started in radio
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number one, they said that I didn't have a deep enough voice
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and all these different things. So I would puke.
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They called it puking. I don't think, I don't think we
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talked about puking. We have, yes, because you'll do
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your little, you'll do your little pill give way.
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Yeah, exactly. But I think we talked about it
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in like our definitions. I think somehow it got in there.
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Yeah. So for me, so I'm curious for
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your journey in radio or, or your personality, did you always
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sound like you sound like right now in your in your own mind or,
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or do you feel like it's refined over time?
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It's definitely, yeah, it's definitely refined for me.
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So you when I first started that would have been in the 90s like
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early, you know, 909192 and back then, you know, women were the
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sex symbol E like that's how I was told that I had to kind of
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be especially. Like, breathy kind of breathy, I
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guess. Yes, yes.
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And and because I was so young that I needed to sound older and
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so, yeah, with a combination of those two things, yeah.
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Because I can get high pitcher sometimes.
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And I think back in those days, I was especially at skill center
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when you're trying to find. How?
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You sound you're. Yeah, you're a kid.
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It's one. Of those things where people
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are, you're 15. I was 15 and 14, you know, 16 at
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skill center. We're going to give, we're going
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to give Jam and Justin a little shout out.
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Not, not everybody at 16 sounds like a 65 towering giant like
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Justin did at 16. He and and he was very
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successful, Jam and Justin very successful, able to get to a
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major market at a young age, able to program at a major
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market at a young age. And now he's an airline pilot.
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And so like at 33, he left the business even though he'd been
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in the business for almost 20 plus years.
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But he had that natural. We've talked about Justin, yeah.
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Yeah, so I went when I look listen back to those air checks,
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I went through so many different phases, Pukey phase because
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people would try to coach me and they and.
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Same for me. And and so, and then the
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coaching just went horrifically wrong.
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So here I am just sounding even worse.
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And finally, I remember year, I was probably about 2000 because
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everybody through my entire career said slow down, slow
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down, slow down, slow down because I'm a very high energy
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guy. And about 2000 after I had
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gotten a good kick to the gut a couple times in radio, I had a
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program director that he he was new to the market.
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And he goes, goes, what's wrong with you?
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And I said, what do you mean what's wrong with me?
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And he goes, you don't sound like you when, when I'm having a
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conversation with you, you don't sound like that on the radio.
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And he goes, well, and I go and I, I said to him and said, well,
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because everybody tells me to slow down.
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He's like, yeah, he goes, that's not even, that doesn't even
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sound like you. He goes, you've got to sound
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like you, period. So when you were talking about
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the high pitch or the squeakiness or the, you know,
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any of that stuff, I, I roll with it now.
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I like. And so back in the back in the
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2000s, I or early 2000s even, and it was even after you, even
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after you Michelle knowing you another radio station I ended up
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at because I remember the first day at one O 7.
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I remember the first day when everybody stood behind me and
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they go put them on good on the air.
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Let's hear. What do you what do you sound
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like? So yeah.
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And so it's like, and I think it was over, like Santana smooth
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that. Yeah, one of those songs.
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That's a long intro. Way back, way back then.
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But it's like you're instantly put on the spot.
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And I hate that each station is different.
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When you first put the headphones on, every station is
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different. Sounds how you sound.
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You have to figure out your volume on the microphone.
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And so here I had the whole cafe of him staff behind me going get
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in there. I'm like and I and I, hey, I'll
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be the first to say suck, suck city.
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And and then they're all behind me probably going this guy.
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So that's why is he my boss. So I would yeah, I was curious
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about that, that if you ever had to like find your I guess the
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question is find your voice, find who who you are.
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And then and the most amazing thing is in the early, early
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2000s, once I started just talking like I talk just like
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how I am. It was amazing that when I
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started been still sending out cassettes back in the day.
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Then I started getting morning show offers, which I had never
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expect. I'd never, I had never planned
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to do mornings ever. I know that was one of the
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things that you wanted to do, but I never aspired to do
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morning radio. And so, and then I was like, why
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are all these people trying to hire me for mornings?
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And then I realized, then I realized, oh, authentic, being
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yourself. That is who I sound like, I and,
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and so I so it's like, so even from a coaching standpoint, it
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was one of those things where you just just be yourself.
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But it took me. I know I don't know how long it
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took you, but it took me. I'm going to add up the years.
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Oh, that's probably took me at least a good 15 years to figure
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that out. So I had managed.
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Oh, yeah. How did I manage to stay in
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radio for 15 years sucking? I sure did.
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I, I don't it was a different, it was a different era now.
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They needed bodies 24/7. They probably did.
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Nowadays, Michelle, they just put you on mornings.
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They didn't. They mean if you're.
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I know we've talked about this kind.
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Of influence or hey, rock on mornings, so that's not even.
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How you sound? Well, I hope that you find this
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box of cassettes. I don't ever.
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I mean, we could share some of these on the podcast, but I am
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terrified of playing that air check from 1988.
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Maybe I'll I mean if I. Could find them.
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I would play some of them. Yeah.
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I, I think for me, it took even longer to find myself.
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You know, you were talking. It probably took you 15 years.
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I think for me, it was really hard because of some of the men
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who I worked with and were my bosses.
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And so that was, really. And we've talked about them on
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past podcasts that really made it difficult for me to just even
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be comfortable to be myself and to function at the job as myself
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the way they they were tyrants and just horrible people in
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general. So.
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Now, did you have to deal with? So what's interesting about my
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career and it it has frustrated me and I will be very honest
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about it. I am definitely.
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I think I'm a classic Top 40 disc jockey in my presentation.
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Oh yeah, who like the Rick? DI am like who I am so and so
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I've constantly been shoved into and I know we've talked about
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this into country music constantly.
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So and and there and it's and it's very and it's like it's
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very judge mental because I remember that when I first came
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to the bull in in 2001, 2002 took over the station.
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I remember that big dad and even Cephas was on his side back and
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then he's like, well, what does this guy know about country
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music? And I think you are very shocked
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that I actually know quite a bit.
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Oh yeah, right. I mean, I've talked a bit about
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all genres, whether you play with.
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Them or not, but but from my presentation, you wouldn't know
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that. Like you wouldn't know that.
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And then within a couple weeks of being on the bull, they
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realize, oh, this guy. Gee, I mean, my first station
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was country and Idaho Falls. It was country.
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KMPS. I worked in Seattle, it was
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country. A lot of country radio stations
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because I as we joke, I get shoved into them.
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So I go to a market, I'm on the Top 40 station and they're like,
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oh Nope, sorry, you're going to be country.
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So, so for you format wise jumping around, not that, does
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that ever bother you that you know, you're Top 40 or you're an
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AC? I mean, I'm sure everybody said
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that you were an AC person more than they said.
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Oh yes, right, because I'm the opposite of you.
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I'm the soft sell, slow speaking part of the duo.
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That's why the copper. Works.
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That's why the. Copper works.
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I was always speed up where you're always told slow down.
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I was told speed up, speed up, speed up.
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I think now that we're old as. Long as I was in mornings, for
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me, it didn't really matter the genre as long as it was
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mornings. But yeah, if I had to do middays
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or anything like that, yeah, I definitely was told like speed
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up. I even I I which going through
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stuff, I still have some of the critiques from Chris Kelly, from
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Chris Kelly, my boss at KX Double D when I was doing part
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time. I have some of those critiques
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on the little yellow legal tag I was reading like Oh my.
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God, so I've got a few of those from Seattle, so I'm more than
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willing to sometimes we should share those.
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It's hilarious because yeah, yeah, you'll be.
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Yeah, all the advice. So.
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So anyway, hopefully you find your air checks.
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I would love to in the future if you do.
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Let's let's play a couple for people if we can figure out how
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to work and get some up there because I think would laugh.
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I think it's more definitely. I think it's more comedic and we
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would. Cringe and they would laugh.
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And I will tell you before we get off, you know, move on.
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What really, this is gonna shock you in terms of my own
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personality and really finding my voice.
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I did it at a rock station at Xeroc 96.5 in Lewiston, ID
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because they hired, they hired me and I had gotten blown out of
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a I had gotten blown out of a PD job and I was desperate for a
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job and they hired me for weekends.
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Minimum wage, minimum wage. This is after you and I met
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after Seattle. I mean, and so they hired me and
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I did a couple weekends and the owner came to me and he goes,
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yeah, here's what we're going to do.
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And I said, what? And I, I was like, oh shit, I'm
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getting fired off the rock station because Metallica and
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Tool and Rammstein and 9 Inch Nails.
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I mean, come on. Because that doesn't sound like
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my my flavor. But he goes, yeah, he goes,
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you'd be great. He goes, you'd be great in
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afternoon drive. And so he and I said, I said
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dude. And I did.
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I said, I told the owner. I said, dude, I'm a Top 40 disc
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jockey. Goes yeah, he goes, you are.
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And I think that's going to really shake things up a little
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bit. So so I did I and he goes and
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he, and this is the best advice I ever got from friend, his name
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was Mike Ripley. Best advice.
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He goes, I don't want you to care about the programming.
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I don't want you to care about the songs we're playing.
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I don't want you to care about the imaging.
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I want you to come in for four hours a day and do a show, Do a
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show. I want to hear phoners.
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I want to hear personality. And he goes, I want you to come
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in at 2 and I want you to leave at 7.
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And that's it. That's your day.
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So yeah, so. So for that 10 months, that 10
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months, I just went in every single day and I got to say ass
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and damn on the radio when Logan.
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I was going to say a Top 40, I mean.
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Well, nowadays you probably. Would be, yeah, but.
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Right, but it was so funny was, Logan hears air check.
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And I'm like, I'm like, I'm like Xerox dot E65, the new one for
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Mötley Crüe. You know, man, my ass hurts
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after playing that or something. He's like, what?
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He goes, Dad, what's going, you know, something like that.
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Like you said, it was funny. I had gotten a vasectomy during
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during the time I was at Xerox. So that made it funny.
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You know, those are things you could talk.
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About that stuff you could talk about on a rock station where
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you could not. Yeah, I mean, you could, but you
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know. Yeah.
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So when I do country, when I get tough, it's totally different in
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terms of that presentation, right.
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And so it really opened me up, I guess as a, I'm not, I'm not
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saying I'm a personality by any means, but it, it opened it up.
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And so then I was there for 10 months and I started sitting in
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my my tapes out and that's when everybody started calling me to
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do mornings. And that's how I ended up doing
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mornings. I was not planning ever to do
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mornings. And people were like, oh, you
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should be. You're, you're a more.
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And then, and then the best compliment I ever got was from
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Jay Albright. And she goes, you're the
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quintessential morning person that for me, I cannot tell you
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that for me after all those years of being told to shut,
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slow down, you're never going to make it all.
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The list goes on. And I'll even down the road,
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we'll share all this stuff with you guys.
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Prefer to say, yeah, man, you, you are, you are a morning guy.
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You're a quintessential morning guy.
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So that was the best compliment. So I'm looking forward to
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Michelle, you digging up the air checks.
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That's going to be a fun. That'll be a fun SO.
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Far I can't find any SO. Yeah, and I'll get, I'll get.
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I even have some Zeroc ones. I'm a little puky because I'm a,
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you know, a little puky. But it's, it's, it's still fun
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to listen to it. But you hear but you hear those
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moments of like, oh, there I am. You know, you hear when you
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hear. And I'm sure when we get your
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air checks out, we'll hear those moments of, oh, there's
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Michelle, there's, there's Michelle's real personality.
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Right, right. Yeah, yeah, the 10 back to Q1KX
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double D12 in a row. That's why, yeah.
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Well, and back in the day, you were consulted pretty heavily.
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So that meant liner cards. And I don't know if we talked
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about liner cards, but liner cards were.
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Literally definitions like podcasts.
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I mean, yeah. Or radio definition.
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Yeah, so, but but when you were on there, you'd have, you know,
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you'd be like, hey, it's Michelle and here's another ten
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in a row on KXD hot cunt. I mean, you have all this crap
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you had to say before you ever got into the personality part
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of. It yeah, but yeah, you had yeah,
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you had like 2 sentences you had to say before anything, so yeah.
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Right. And nowadays with PPM, they
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don't do any of that. You just start with the, you
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know, hey, did you hear what Kim Kardashian did today?
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That's you start with that you, then you go right into it.
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Which is weird to me, which is why, like, for us, I have to
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start out. Welcome to Rick and Matt.
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Michelle, you know. Instead of instead of well,
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we're going to talk about sex toys today.
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What? What's coming up?
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OK, let's that's coming up. But let's so we talked about the
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sad news from storage. Let's talk about the happy news.
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So in Jay going through some of his stuff, he found some comic
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books. Look at that, I recognize this.
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Yeah, that he would. He would like you to have.
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There's only like I think. That, well, I recognize that
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Jimmy Olsen, that's Superman's pal.
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Jimmy Olsen. I can't tell what the number is
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where I'm sitting, but that's definitely.
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Where's the number at? It should be on the cover
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number. 124. Yeah, 120.
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Four. I mean, that's a lot.
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What's that? I mean some of them aren't in
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like grade. No, I love it.
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Oh night. And the best, Those are the
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best. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. Look at that Avengers Marvel
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triple action. I, I, I recognize it when you
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pop it up there. OK, well I don't know what the
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hell any of them are so. Well, the cool thing about OK,
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so the cool thing about those. I'll send them.
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Oh, that's so sweet. The cool thing about those is
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actually I framed those ones, those reader copies, and put
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them on my wall because they look.
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Because remember I told you I was jealous of my friend Kurt.
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Great. So, so it's like, yeah, it's
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cool. Any any comic book to me is
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awesome because it has it has it has a history.
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Right, well, I will trade you these for an autographed copy of
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your book. Oh, OK, awesome.
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Yeah. OK, fair trade.
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And a bad air check. Yeah, I mean, maybe if I can
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find mine, even if I find. You I'm giving you a bad air
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check. I'm.
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Giving you I might be like, I don't know, maybe.
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Now I will tell you this, The funny thing about these
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airchecks, so I do have a couple that I was asked two years ago,
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so Central Washington, they would host a by Hubbard Radio,
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would host a radio seminar for a couple days for for kids, for
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college students. And so the cool thing about it,
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I did it for a couple years. They don't do it now, but I got
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to go in and teach a class. So I got invited to teach a
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class. And so the cool thing is I'm
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with Fitz, you know, Fitz and and Brooke and Drubal came.
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So it was, it was really quite the honor to be this the only
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small market guy that was all on this panel about radio.
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And so I brought, so I brought in those shitty air checks to
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show to the kids, to the college students, like, hey, here's some
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shit. Right, this is where you start.
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This is where you, yeah, this is where you start.
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And so I've got some of those that we can share down the road.
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OK, Yeah, I'm sure you might have some of us together doing
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mornings too. I'm.
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Sure I do. I don't have a you know, Megan
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got rid of a bunch, but I think I've got I do.
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Oh, I do have a bull air check. It's one of my faves.
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I actually do. I do have a bull.
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Air check. No, that's a good one.
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OK, OK, what? Do you think off the top of my
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head, I cannot call, I cannot recall the bit we're doing, but
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it's a really good bit and it's a good air check.
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It's a really, it's a really good air check.
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OK, OK, That must have been the one you sent to Becky the
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consultant. Just kidding.
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Probably. Probably.
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OK. So, OK, let's move on this
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question. OK, If you're listening and you
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have kids within earshot, you might want to boot them out of
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the room for this question, which I'm going to have to mark
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us explicit this question coming up so.
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But First off, I'll lead into the story.
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So we are planning out our will. You know, what we want for a
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funeral, which we want a celebration of life.
20:10
You know, you playing out like if you want songs, what songs do
20:13
you want? Who you would want to speak?
20:15
Oh my. God.
20:17
So that our kids don't have to figure that stuff out, that kind
20:21
of thing. It's all planned out for them.
20:24
Basically. They don't have to figure, they
20:26
don't have to go, well, what would mom want?
20:28
You're not in a great frame of mind after somebody has just
20:31
died unexpectedly. And so we're just trying to
20:34
alleviate them having to deal with all that stuff.
20:37
But in planning the the will and the stuff that you put down,
20:43
like who gets what, for some reason this popped into my mind.
20:48
But I was thinking what what, what do you do with your sex
20:53
toys? Like, how do you keep your kids?
20:57
Let's say you say you die, say both, say both Jay and I die in
21:01
in a plane crash, car accident, whatever, right?
21:04
Like we're both, It's not that like he could dispose of them.
21:08
We're both gone. So what?
21:10
How do you keep your kids from finding your sex toys?
21:13
Or some people might have pictures.
21:15
Some people might have sex tapes like Tommy and Pam Anderson.
21:20
How do you? See them I mean, I guess if you
21:23
get one of those crazy videos, I'm sure it's in a vault or in a
21:25
a safe somewhere too, which got still didn't didn't help Pamela
21:28
and Tom, like you said, Pam and Tommy, they still stole it.
21:31
So OK, I guess my first question I well did.
21:37
Do your kids even know you have any of these things or not?
21:40
No. OK.
21:41
All right. I mean, we've talked like we
21:43
talk about sex and like they know, like their dad and I have
21:46
sex. It's not like this.
21:48
Like they don't. Want to think about it being mom
21:50
and dad so. Exactly like you don't want to
21:52
roll up on your mom's vibrator in the drawer, right?
21:56
Like that's in my mind, like that's what I'm picturing
21:59
happening for them. And so I'm trying to figure out,
22:03
OK, how do I make it so that if we do die, they don't find these
22:11
things. But yeah, I still have them in
22:13
my house. Like, I mean, what, what are the
22:15
options? The only thing I could think of
22:18
is to put them in like a lock box, you know, like the fire
22:21
safety looking ones and tell them like, look, if you open
22:25
this box, you're going to see things or find things, yes, that
22:32
you are not going to ever want to see again.
22:34
Because if you just tell them, hey, don't, don't ever open this
22:38
box, right? Well, curiosity's gonna kill the
22:40
cat and when we die, they're gonna open this box and you want
22:44
to scratch their eyeballs out is what is going to happen.
22:47
So that is the only thing I can think of.
22:49
Yeah. I mean, it's kind of.
22:50
Fun unless you have a better. We have, we have like a tote box
22:55
that that's up, that's up in the cupboard.
22:57
I mean, it's up in the rafters of the closet.
23:01
You know what the I'm going to tell you a funny story because
23:04
you know me, I always got a good story, right?
23:06
The hilarity. The hilarity for me is, is it,
23:10
is it a boa feather? What's the boa feather or
23:12
whatever? There's a boa feather that
23:14
sticks out. Oh, it does.
23:17
So, so so if you just want. Pull this no.
23:20
No, it's just hilarious. So if you walk into our closet,
23:22
you're just looking at our closet, you know, and way up,
23:24
way up in the corner, there's a there's the box up there.
23:27
You know, I'm saying it's a tote, right?
23:28
But you see this like 1 boa feather, black boa feather
23:31
that's hanging out. Makes me laugh when I look up
23:34
there because the two boys, I don't think at well, number one,
23:39
I don't think they've, they've I mean, I don't know, like you
23:43
said, it's it, I think it depends on where you keep it.
23:45
If you keep it in the bedside drawer, right.
23:48
But that, but I laughed, but I've laughed.
23:52
I laughed because I've seen some, some Facebook memes where
23:56
there's this couple like, Oh, she is the love of my life.
23:58
And then there's like anal cream that they didn't know.
24:01
No, that is sitting over there in the corner.
24:03
You know, I'm saying you know, and it's like 2 bubbles or a
24:06
Bubba and a you know, and they're they're in the they're
24:09
in the manufactured home. That's probably one of the
24:10
funniest memes I've ever seen with Raised Live trap.
24:12
Treat the love of my life. And then?
24:15
Then I'm like what the hell is behind him?
24:17
Looks like some. Well.
24:20
So I think, I think, I think I mean, that's up to what?
24:23
Well, it depends. I mean, if you've got the heavy
24:25
duty tools, I guess you're going to have to lock, block, lock,
24:28
you know, just depends on what you got.
24:32
Are your kids smart enough to know what you what it is?
24:35
Yes, yes, they would. Definitely.
24:37
So if they found it, they'd be like, I know like they would.
24:40
They would not be. They're not, they're not.
24:42
Little kids going well, What's this?
24:44
No, I mean Matthew's what, 28, you know, they're and Shaylee's
24:48
19. They're still little kids, which
24:52
I OK, probably this is what is going through my mind, OK?
24:56
Because I was traumatized by opening the bedside door.
25:01
Bedside drawer of near my mom's bed.
25:04
Yes. No, it was when my parents were
25:05
divorced and I don't remember what I was looking for exactly.
25:10
Where's my pencil? I want to stab my eyes.
25:12
Out don't remember what I was looking for why I was even like
25:16
in my mom's room. I was probably snooping.
25:19
This is probably what it was. I was probably snooping.
25:21
I was probably hoping to find like a birth certificate that
25:24
said like these were not my parents.
25:26
I I don't know what I was doing, but I opened the drawer and yes
25:30
there is purple vibrator like sitting right there like it
25:35
wasn't in a case, it wasn't in anything.
25:39
It's. Right.
25:41
There new person to go through her stuff.
25:42
Exactly and I. How old were you?
25:46
I was probably a teenager. OK, so, so did you know like
25:50
like you go, Oh, I know what? I knew what it was.
25:53
Oh definitely. I knew what it was and I was.
25:55
Like some little kids, some little kid will find them.
25:57
Don't know what it is You. Know you know Well, no, I didn't
26:00
find it was running around the house I was.
26:01
Gonna say it'd be funny if the dog had, if the dog had in the
26:03
mouth running around like what the heck's going on here, you
26:06
know so. No.
26:07
So that's probably part of it. Probably because I was
26:10
traumatized from finding my mom's, which is my own fault
26:14
because I was snooping. But I don't want my kids to just
26:17
accidentally find it or find it afterward dead and go.
26:22
Hang on, I have to make a provision now in my will.
26:24
Hang on. I got to make a Got to make a
26:26
note here. Got to make a little note
26:28
because I, you know, it's like I don't.
26:32
I Yeah, Well, I, I always like the fact that Megan's nine years
26:35
younger, so the, you know, the odds of me dying first are
26:38
pretty. Strong.
26:39
Yes, Yes. So.
26:42
Yeah, but there's always the chance that you both go at the
26:44
same time, so. Oh, and I'm sure, and I'm sure
26:47
that to plan for everything they'd like.
26:50
Gross. Yeah, I'm just trying to plan
26:54
for everything and keep my kids from being traumatized.
26:57
I'm just. OK, so.
26:59
Again, I don't even know why this popped into my head when I
27:01
was thinking. Lock it up.
27:03
Lock it up, Put a QR code on it. No, because they're gonna,
27:09
they're gonna scan it. And the only other thing.
27:12
And then they'll be like open that.
27:13
Then they'll be like open that shit up.
27:14
But so they'd be like. There's a treasure in there,
27:17
the. QR code that, the QR code that
27:19
thing and go what? And I know you'd pick a.
27:22
Picture because if you when you QR code it, it brings up what it
27:26
is on the picture of, like what's in the container.
27:30
I think the curiosity would get somebody if IQR code something
27:32
and it said sex toys. I'm like, oh, look on.
27:34
QR. Code.
27:35
Let's see how freaky deaky. Let's see how freaky deaky these
27:38
folks are. The only other thing I could
27:41
think of is you find like someone you trust like who's
27:45
like your right or die best friend and be like, hey, if I
27:49
die right, you need to get in my house and.
27:52
Get the toys. You need to look here, here in
27:55
here. That's so funny.
27:57
And get rid of this stuff. But then again, like the best
28:01
friend might look and be like, oh, OK, I'm going to look at
28:03
this stuff right, like. Yeah.
28:06
I don't have any contingency plan right now.
28:08
But now, now that you've brought it up, yeah, I'm looking, I am.
28:11
Better get better, better get that contingency plan plan
28:13
going. That's right.
28:14
So if anybody else has better suggestions or ideas I would I
28:20
would appreciate you. I always joke.
28:21
I don't know about you, Michelle.
28:22
I'm married, so there's dust on. You know that that box was that
28:26
box was awesome during the courtship.
28:28
But once, once I tied tied her down.
28:31
Roped her off. It's like now it's just got dust
28:33
on. It so no, you actually think
28:35
thing, you know, you got to keep things.
28:38
I know, got to keep it zesty, I get it.
28:39
Great. That's great.
28:40
OK, OK, now that I've scarred everyone who listens to this
28:45
podcast. All right, all right, kids, take
28:47
off your take, you know? You know, open up your ears.
28:48
Again right, you can unplug your ears now I we have to talk about
28:52
this mom who cyber bullied her daughter.
28:56
I don't know if you've heard. Anything about this set this up
28:59
for me so I get an. Understanding OK, so I have not
29:02
seen the new documentary on Netflix.
29:06
I know it is called unknown number The high school catfish.
29:09
It's a big. Cat.
29:12
But I do know. So yes, the unknown number, the
29:15
high school catfish. Yep, I'm looking at it right
29:18
now. OK so anyway, I haven't watched
29:23
it but I did see a clip of the mom where she is comparing what
29:28
she did and she actually went to jail but she's comparing it to
29:33
like, oh you know if you drive drunk and you don't get caught,
29:39
you're not breaking the law. What?
29:42
Yes she doesn't in this little clip that I saw, which again,
29:46
it's just a clip, there might be more, but she did not seem
29:51
remorseful or anything. I was completely shocked just by
29:57
her. Just a lack of any type of
30:00
emotion, empathy, nothing. So this cyber bullying took
30:05
place over 2 years and she sent her daughter some horrible text
30:09
messages like you should kill yourself telling her to commit
30:13
suicide. And as a parent I like what I'm
30:17
thinking. Okay, I try everything to make
30:20
sure my kids did not get bullied or if they did like please come
30:25
to me I will go beats all kids ass on the playground.
30:28
You know, like I tried everything as a parent to make
30:31
sure my kids didn't get bullied because I was.
30:35
And so to hear this mom like telling her kid, oh, you should
30:38
commit suicide in a text message.
30:41
I was horrified as a parent. How do you, how could you
30:46
consciously do that? Because as parents, we're always
30:51
trying to shield our kids from any type of pain.
30:53
And here you are. You're the parent, and you're
30:56
inflicting that pain on your own.
30:59
Your own child. Well, that's a I mean, I think
31:02
the day that at the end of the day, that's an evil person.
31:04
I just noticed that that she she still wants to have a
31:08
relationship with her daughter. I'd be like the F you will.
31:12
Yeah, there's no, but I did read so this, this once I read this,
31:16
it was like, oh, that makes sense.
31:18
I read that someone said that this mom is similar to like a
31:24
Munchausen by proxy. You know, the like Gypsy Rose's
31:27
mom, you know, who pretended like she was sick when she
31:30
wasn't to get attention. But yes, but they said like,
31:34
this is digital Munchausen by proxy.
31:40
And I thought, oh, yeah, OK, that makes sense.
31:42
I mean, not saying it's OK, I'm just saying like, oh, OK, like,
31:46
yeah, we've moved into this new era because we have social media
31:52
and phones and all that kind of stuff.
31:55
And now it's more like this digital Munchausen by proxy.
32:00
So yeah, I was horrified by this whole thing.
32:03
I'm of course I'll watch the Netflix documentary because I
32:06
can't, not now, so. Well, yeah, and and it happened
32:10
to the girl and the and the boyfriend, so they they both
32:13
yeah, and but. What about your age, child?
32:18
Yeah, but but why would you do that?
32:20
I, I, I something, it makes no sense to me.
32:23
Like none at all. Like even for attention it
32:28
doesn't make any sense. Or yeah, I don't know, but.
32:32
Well, you and I, I mean, you and I talk a lot about this sad
32:36
reality of this world, you know? It is.
32:39
Some people shouldn't have some. Some people are just, I mean,
32:42
some people are just evil. Some people are just evil.
32:44
And some people, you and I both we, we see horrific stories out
32:49
of California. The one where the family had had
32:51
all six kids tied up in the basement and they could only,
32:55
they could only, you know, go to stay at they got united to go to
32:57
school. And I mean this, the, this, the
32:59
list goes on and on. And, and they're, these people
33:02
exist and it, and it even goes a step further with animal cruelty
33:06
and different things like that. It takes, it takes a special
33:10
kind of person to want to hurt animals and to hurt people.
33:13
And there are sociopaths in this world that you have no idea, you
33:18
know, And, and it was funny, Patty, Patty on who does the
33:20
morning chores. We always talk about whenever we
33:22
do a segment of some crazy story like that, we're always like,
33:25
you don't know. And even though you say, well, I
33:28
know Michelle, I know Michelle. Oh, I know Rick.
33:31
I know Rick. You don't.
33:33
Rick would never do. That right, you don't, I mean,
33:36
isn't that, isn't that the sad reality of the world is even
33:39
when you without a shadow of a doubt, because when something
33:42
happens to someone that you're like what?
33:45
And. Or you see the serial killer guy
33:48
got caught and the neighbors are like it was the nicest nicest.
33:51
Person on the planet. I would never have suspected.
33:54
All the all these different, all these different things that, but
33:59
it, it's sad that there's such evil in the world.
34:02
And especially to do it to your own child.
34:05
Yeah. I, I don't, I don't, I don't get
34:07
that. I don't understand that.
34:10
And it messes, it messes a kid up.
34:12
It messes a kid up. Yeah.
34:13
And, and I've talked about this a million times and I'll
34:16
continue to always, I will always continue to say this.
34:19
And I say it again like I always do, you don't have to forgive
34:23
anything to anybody for what was done to you.
34:26
So I am I, I'm sorry, I, that's not a Rick rant.
34:29
Nope, not going to get a Rick rant, but I we haven't.
34:31
Talked about a Rick rant or explain what it is?
34:34
Yeah, I don't think we've talked about a Rick.
34:35
Rant. But I get sick.
34:37
I get sick of people who think you have to forgive somebody.
34:41
So let's say you, let's say you, let's say you murder my son
34:44
Logan. You murder my kid, you know,
34:47
there is no place #1 on the planet that will hide you
34:50
because I will find you. You know, you want take in real
34:53
life. Yeah, I will find you.
34:56
So it's like, and I always hate when people say, oh, you got to,
34:59
you got to forgive. You got to forgive.
35:01
No, you don't. No, you don't.
35:02
No, you don't, No. So when I see.
35:04
Yeah, or their reasoning is you have to forgive because it will
35:07
eat you up inside. Good.
35:09
And it's like, fine, it's like I'm right inside.
35:12
I don't care. Exactly this.
35:14
This. That's the whole point of
35:15
Batman. You know what I'm saying?
35:16
Batman, It doesn't, it doesn't matter.
35:19
You know, I'm going to beat the living Jeepers out of you
35:22
because because that's how I, that's how I cope.
35:25
And I've never, gosh, I've always, I've always hated people
35:28
who oh, get over it. Just we'll just get over it.
35:31
Got to move on. Got to move on.
35:33
No, that fuels my anger, that fuels my drive.
35:36
And and so when I see these stories, when that at the end, I
35:40
was just reading a little bit about it while we were talking
35:42
and it was like, oh, she still wants to be friends with her
35:44
daughter. If I was a daughter, I'd be
35:45
like, yeah, no, sit, spin, sorry about that.
35:49
Are we still in? Are we still in explicit mode?
35:52
I mean, we will be for this entire episode.
35:54
Sorry I. Can't just on and off it.
35:57
I do Margaret for the entire episode, right?
36:00
That's not how they are on the radio.
36:02
What's wrong with them? So yeah, I mean, so don't worry
36:07
those. Stories are those stories are
36:08
insane. But but, but I will go back to
36:10
this before we tie it off. I know people are not going to
36:14
want to hear this, but at the heart of it all, we are very
36:17
selfish. Mostly most people are selfish.
36:22
It's it's what benefits me. And so when you do come across
36:26
somebody who is unselfish, they are truly the most amazing
36:29
people you ever run into. Yes, because and, and most
36:32
people that I have discovered that are unselfish are
36:35
horrifically abused and taken and taken advantage of because
36:39
of their wonderful hearts. And there are people that exist
36:42
out there. So I always have, yeah, I always
36:45
have hope for mankind. But at the heart of it, I really
36:48
believe that most people are selfish and will do whatever
36:51
they can for their own, for their own gain.
36:56
So, yeah, that's that's I see stories like that and it's
36:58
disgusting. I don't, I just, I just don't
37:00
understand. And then, you know, little slap
37:03
on the wrist and they're out. What I you know how I feel about
37:05
those kind of things, but why your own kid that?
37:09
That's what blew my mind. OK, Like, yeah, you're still a
37:12
horrible person if you cyberbully, that's a different
37:16
kid, but your own child you are telling to commit suicide.
37:22
Like what would have happened if she would have actually gone
37:25
through with it or something? Like it's, it's crazy to me.
37:28
Crazy, but like but like you said, she the when when you're
37:32
like that, it's amazing how they just justify it.
37:36
Right. Or don't think about.
37:37
They don't, they don't think about, they don't think about
37:39
it. They, they, they just in their,
37:40
in their head, they, you know, they're, they're already sick in
37:44
the head, they're already broken.
37:46
And, and again, that we will not talk about it today.
37:49
But that goes back to, like you said, the right to choose.
37:55
Yeah, the right to choose. Not everybody's equipped to be a
37:57
parent. Again, that double edged sword
37:59
of of social media or cell phones or smartphones is you're
38:03
able to do these things anonymously, whereas you could,
38:07
you know, you used to have to take a newspaper and cut it all
38:11
up and send a letter. Yeah, piece together, right?
38:14
Piece it together or maybe they won't discover who I am.
38:16
But nowadays it's like that, that it just, it happens all.
38:20
It happens way too much. Yep Yep.
38:23
And the Charlie Sheen documentary will be out.
38:27
I am super excited to watch this.
38:29
I loved Charlie as a teenager so this totally tracks because he's
38:34
a bad boy. Totally, totally some some point
38:38
for me so. I, I saw an interview, CBS This
38:41
Morning did a great interview and they asked about the tiger
38:44
blood and the winning and Charlie Sheen looked over and
38:46
goes, goes, I don't know that person.
38:48
I don't know who that and he goes, I don't know who that
38:50
person was. And I thought it was, I thought
38:51
it was very telling #1 as you already know, I do believe
38:56
people get second chances and I think people can change.
38:59
And so and I and I think when he reflects.
39:01
It doesn't mean you have to forget those.
39:04
People, right, but I think when you look back at your own, you
39:06
know, when he looked back, he was like, you know, he was so
39:09
coked out and drugged out and Can you imagine?
39:12
I mean, and, and again, you and I can't fathom the kind of
39:16
wealth that someone like that has Great.
39:21
And so and so it it again, it's that double edged sword where
39:25
it's like if you're poor, you know you're homeless when you're
39:28
that way. And if you're real beyond, then
39:31
you're eccentric. Yeah, and you get to the best
39:35
rehabs in the country. So, well, interesting enough,
39:38
his his his brother Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheehan.
39:43
The dad does not want to. They're not in the book.
39:44
They're not. I mean, they're not involved,
39:46
but. They're not in the documentary.
39:47
No, they, they refuse to to be interviewed.
39:50
So it's it's yeah, it's interesting.
39:53
So. Well, I'll be watching.
39:55
And amazing. And, and again, we talk about an
39:57
amazing career and family and all that.
40:00
I I love the Sheens, I love the Estevezes.
40:02
I love all that. I love those guys, you know,
40:04
Yeah. So.
40:05
But yeah, I don't think we, I don't think you ever saw anybody
40:09
implode like Charlie Sheen. I mean, I'm sure there have
40:13
been. I can't think of any off the top
40:15
of my head, but yeah, he did like he.
40:16
Dated my favorite porn actress. But I mean, so I was, you know,
40:21
so Brie Olsen. Brie Olsen.
40:23
No, I remember, I remember when he was going through the whole
40:25
meltdown and he's like, oh, here's my, here's my 2 angels
40:28
living with me. And one of them was a porn
40:31
actress named Brie Olsen. I said, oh, she's cute.
40:34
And then you looked her up. You're like, of course I did
40:36
this girl. Of course I did you.
40:38
Better you better make sure that your kids don't find those
40:41
movies. No, no, I mean, yeah, go, yeah.
40:44
But I yeah, I don't know. For me, it's like, so when
40:49
you're when to be attracted to somebody, funny thing is, there
40:52
are unique things about people that make them attractive to
40:56
you, right? And so, so this, this actress
41:00
was her nose. I was like, she's got a cute
41:02
nose. I don't know why it would mean.
41:03
I know you're thinking he's looking at other things And no,
41:06
I wasn't. I know, I know.
41:08
No, I know we're looking. At yeah, she's got a cute a cute
41:11
nose so it was just yeah so I mean I did go look at the rest
41:15
of it too, but. I'm sure you did.
41:18
Yeah, yes, it's gonna be a fun documentary to watch.
41:20
I'm super excited. Okay, you have the story about
41:24
the baseball Karen. What are they calling her again?
41:27
I think it's Philly, Karen. So yeah.
41:31
So you know more about this than I do.
41:32
Well, I was researching a little bit about it.
41:34
I mean, it means it's all over. You already know it's all over
41:39
I. Had the volume down on the TV.
41:41
When I saw this story, I just kind of pieced it all together
41:44
that this. Well, basic basically.
41:46
Karen looking. Yeah.
41:48
Basically I thought she took the ball from the kid at the game.
41:52
No, she did not take the ball, but so it fell near her.
41:57
So it so there's a home run ball.
41:59
It fell near her feet. She reached down and a dad
42:02
picked it up and gave it to a gave it to a son.
42:05
OK. And so she thinks it should have
42:07
been hurt. Yes, and she and then she went
42:08
over and berated the dad and the little kids right there.
42:11
See if you see the photos like, Oh my gosh.
42:12
And then so she's literally well, she does a Rick well, and
42:15
I would I would not do a Rick rant over it to the ball, but
42:17
she did a rant, A rant over it and hence the reason they're
42:20
calling her Philly Karen. And then he and the little boy
42:23
ended up getting to go, you know, get to go back and meet
42:26
the player and get a bat sign and all these, you know, they
42:28
they resolved it. And then she still, she still
42:32
wants the ball. What?
42:35
Yeah. So that's the craziness is she
42:37
still thinks it's her, thinks it's her ball, but.
42:39
Oh my. Gosh, but normal people.
42:42
I love watching videos where normal people are a baseball
42:45
game. It's a home run.
42:46
It lands in their lap and they turn around and give it to a
42:48
kid. Yes.
42:50
That's that's. That's who you should give it
42:52
to. That's a normal person, but
42:54
we're going back to the original thing I talked about being
42:56
selfish. Yes, which I have a story about
42:59
baseball. Benjamin.
43:01
We took Matthew and Benjamin to their very first Seattle
43:04
Mariners game. I was like 8 months pregnant
43:07
with Jackson. We were right on the 3rd
43:09
baseline, like second row in. So I had a truck down all these
43:13
stairs like pregnant and when I had to use the bathroom I had a
43:16
truck back up. But it was so worth it.
43:19
They were playing the Texas Rangers and we got there early
43:22
because it was Brett Boone T-shirt night and I had heard,
43:26
you know, oh, you got to get there early in order to get your
43:29
T-shirts. So they got their T-shirts.
43:31
We were there probably 2 hours early.
43:33
So we're sitting there, you get to watch them practice, which is
43:37
a good thing. We got there early because the
43:39
boys got to watch them practice. And you know how all the kids,
43:43
like, line up right along the the wall there and yell at the
43:47
players or whatever? Well, Matthew and Benjamin are
43:50
just sitting there eating their hot dogs.
43:52
I told them you don't be bought. They're trying to practice.
43:54
Don't be bothering them. And one of the Texas Rangers
43:57
players, a ball comes, you know, near in the dirt, right?
44:02
Kind of near where we're sitting.
44:04
And he picks it up and of course, all the kids are like
44:06
me, me, me. And he points to Benjamin and he
44:10
goes, no, I'm going to give it to him.
44:13
And he throws it. Luckily, Jay caught it because
44:15
Benjamin was just sitting there like, what the Hell's going on?
44:19
Right? So, yeah.
44:20
And from that point on, Benjamin was a Texas Ranger fan.
44:24
In our household. We had a Texas Ranger fan and a
44:27
Mariners fan. Well, all of us are Mariners fan
44:29
except for him. And from that moment on, like,
44:33
he loved the Texas Rangers and he's always loved baseball, but.
44:38
That's a moment, though, that. We still have this ball, right?
44:41
We still have this ball. I can't imagine someone who
44:44
would, have, you know, tried to grab that ball.
44:46
Away from me, kind of what happened basically, yeah, that's
44:49
kind of sort of what happened exactly.
44:50
He's like. Yeah.
44:52
At the, at the end, I mean, again, at the end of the day,
44:55
yeah. And now she's, and now she lost
44:57
her job and she's been ridic. I mean, they, they there was a
45:00
there was a meme today where she had, there was a meme today
45:03
where she had a Frisbee in her mouth where air Bud was jumping
45:05
for it. And she had a frisbee in the
45:06
mouth and said she's she's so cruel that she she kept air Bud
45:10
from catching a Frisbee. I mean, I don't know about
45:13
people losing their, I mean, you know, people don't necessarily
45:17
need to lose their jobs over stuff.
45:19
It depends on what her job is too.
45:22
If she's working with kids, as just said, if she works with
45:26
kids, yeah, she should probably not have a job.
45:29
But she works in an office or something like that.
45:33
I mean, I don't know, you just got, I, I understand it's the
45:36
heat of the moment, but you just got to be, we just have to be,
45:39
you know, kinder people to each other.
45:41
But again, it all comes down to I think what's really changed in
45:45
society is a lot of entitlements.
45:49
Oh, definitely. That that, that people.
45:51
Just that they that they just feel the nice thing about
45:54
Benjamin's memory. That's not a that's not a memory
45:57
of entitlement. That was a genuine have a coke
46:01
and a smile memory or big Gene Green throws the the jersey at
46:07
the kid like great, great game. And he's like, yeah, kid throws
46:11
in the jury, remember? That TV and the player had, he
46:16
had on a jacket, so we couldn't see who the player was right
46:19
from the Texas Rangers. And I even tried looking, you
46:23
know, matching up their picture, but I could not because he would
46:26
have been that player's biggest fan for the rest of his life.
46:29
So yeah. It's awesome, but but that I
46:31
love that I love that story because that's that's the
46:33
memory, yeah. And you can't and you can't
46:36
replace that. I I get I get such crap about
46:40
being a Dallas Cowboys fan and I always have to explain to people
46:44
the reason why. It's 19771978 Tony Dorsett,
46:49
writer, starback. They were they were America's
46:51
team when I was 8 years old and and the Seahawks were brand new.
46:56
So I know they had large and all that, but they were brand new.
46:59
And so where I lived at at the Bogan's Oasis is we were on the
47:02
border of Oregon, Idaho and Washington.
47:05
So if you weren't a Seahawks fan.
47:07
You guys don't have A and you don't have a team.
47:09
You didn't. And so you would either be a
47:10
Seahawks fan or Broncos would be one of the, you know, would be,
47:14
would be close, I guess for the Denver Broncos.
47:17
But for me, the magic of the Cowboys, Tom Landry 1978.
47:21
That just has always stayed with me.
47:23
And so and and it's hilarious. And you know me, I'm kind of,
47:26
I'm kind of weird because once I pick something, that's it.
47:30
Right. Like football team, favorite
47:33
rock band or favorite music band.
47:34
Once I pick what my favorite is, I don't I'm like Benjamin, I
47:38
don't deviate. So I understand, I understand
47:41
the the love for that. You know that that that I
47:44
understand the emotional moment. Yes, to where you're like, where
47:47
you're like. That speaks to me.
47:49
That's that's a die hard fan. Yeah.
47:51
And then my sister-in-law, she lived in Texas and so she got
47:54
him, She would buy him Texas Ranger merchandise and then send
47:58
it to us. And he has a sweatshirt.
48:00
We still have it and it has our last name on it.
48:04
And so I think a year later, we went to the again, the Mariners
48:10
and Rangers game, which they always fell around his birthday
48:14
too. So it was extra special.
48:17
And he wore his Little Texas Ranger shirt with his name on
48:21
the back. And we were.
48:22
And then Matthew had his mayor's jacket and shirt and hat on and
48:27
Benjamin's decks out in Texas. And we're in the elevator going
48:31
up to wherever it is our seats are.
48:33
And somebody steps on the elevator and they look over and
48:35
they go, oh, your, your house is a house divided.
48:39
And I was like, Yep, this is my life.
48:42
Well, we will. You know, one of my favorite
48:44
memories, which I always put up on the Facebook is when we went
48:46
to the Seahawks game. And so you guys and include
48:50
including my wife, all had Seahawks gear on.
48:52
And then I and then I have a Cowboys jersey.
48:54
And then you had your friends come in that were also Cowboys
48:58
fans. So they had their jerseys, but
48:59
it was and we and just so you know, Dallas lost that game.
49:02
So get me a curious, you know, see, that's the memory.
49:04
It was a it's a wonderful memory.
49:07
So, so I understand where Benjamin's coming from.
49:09
And I love that the house divided and like, these are
49:11
these are, you know, this is my team.
49:13
So yeah, I. Mean we, you know, he always got
49:15
arousing. I mean, his team was better than
49:18
the Mariners, so he always had one up on us, so.
49:21
Yeah, if I ever needed to get information about the Mariners,
49:23
I just asked Todd Lyons because yeah, it's like, I mean, I know
49:26
enough. I I know enough to be dangerous.
49:29
Like I know who the Mariners are and and I've gone to a I've gone
49:32
to a game for me. I wouldn't.
49:34
So when I with Logan, when we lived in Seattle, I made a point
49:40
to do all the things that not necessarily were my favorite
49:43
thing to do with my son. But so he we went to a Seahawks
49:46
game, we went to a Mariners game.
49:48
And so I remember he was five or five years old.
49:52
We're at the Mariners game. It's in the Kingdom.
49:55
And they only shot off the fireworks when you get a home
49:58
run. And so so Logan had been stuffed
50:01
of ice cream, cotton candy. He he literally was on a she.
50:05
Trying to wait for this home. Run and and he got so bored
50:10
because guess I mean when the fireworks would go off and so
50:13
the Mariners were having a crappy game and I'm like, and he
50:16
so we never made. I don't think we made it to like
50:17
the 5th or 6th inning and left, but it was so funny.
50:20
He's like we're and he's like, daddy, where's the fireworks?
50:22
I mean, I'm like, well, they got to hit a home run and they
50:24
didn't. And so right, so I'm stuck with
50:28
this hyperactive sugar high child.
50:31
I was like. It's what happened, yeah.
50:33
So, yeah, so those are those those those great, those great
50:35
fun memories. So I love it.
50:37
I'll have to when I see Benjamin again.
50:40
Yep, except for he did get a New York Yankees hat for his
50:43
birthday, and I was razzing him about that.
50:45
I was like, Benjamin, what are you?
50:48
What are you doing? Right.
50:49
Well, that's a that's a she's like, I just want a team over
50:52
there. I.
50:52
Was like how it looks and I was like that team is the worst team
50:56
in baseball. Geez.
50:58
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
51:01
Now we're really going to get comments we got to be getting.
51:03
Well, everybody's got their favorite team.
51:04
So I was just said earlier that Cheryl, that's Cheryl's favorite
51:07
team. Todd Lyons is the Mariners.
51:09
I mean, that's the nice thing is you are allowed to have your
51:11
team. That's great.
51:13
And it's like. When our team sucks.
51:16
Yep. Yeah, the secret to NASCAR is
51:19
basically you pick your favorite driver and then you talk shit
51:21
about everybody else. That's NASCAR.
51:24
That's that's sports in a nutshell.
51:26
That's. Sports in a nutshell,
51:27
Absolutely. Whether yeah, exactly.
51:30
And, and trust me, being a Cowboys fan, I, I, I take the
51:33
punches. Yeah.
51:36
All right. Well, I think we could wrap
51:38
things up on all that fun. I think the I.
51:41
Think the best thing is gonna wrap today?
51:42
Yeah, I think the best thing we can wrap it up is the the
51:45
message of the day is be a kind person, be a kinder person, be
51:49
be a good, be a good person and lock down those toys with AQR.
51:53
Lock down your sex toys. So am I gonna so am I gonna get
51:58
the call? Who's gonna be the bestie on the
51:59
list before we go? Who's getting?
52:00
I don't know. Clear, Clear the house.
52:02
Out clear the house. I mean, you did just post on
52:06
Facebook a whole little like memory collage thing that said
52:11
one of my besties and it was. Me, I normally don't do that at
52:15
all for anybody because that because those come up every
52:17
single day. Oh yes, I know.
52:20
I came across that one. I thought, oh that's so cute, so
52:23
sweet seeing. Some of those pictures I was
52:25
like. Oh, those are great.
52:26
Cool. Fun stuff we got to do together.
52:31
So it might be you, you just moved up on the list because you
52:35
posted that so. That's nice, but well, trust me,
52:38
you don't want me me to be your first call for the toys because
52:42
be like, what's this jackhammer doing in here?
52:44
What are you doing? No, I don't.
52:48
You would look, I don't want you whenever you'd be like, yes,
52:51
what's in there? Yes, you just.
52:53
Said it. You're right.
52:55
I was. I know curiosity would kill the
52:59
cat. I would open that box up.
53:01
You would. You would.
53:02
You would not care what you were about to encounter.
53:04
You would have. You would not care and.
53:06
Then I'd probably post it online for you too.
53:08
Yes, Yeah. Look at you thought you knew
53:10
her. Look at look at what I found.
53:15
All right. OK, that's enough.
53:17
Oh. Oh.
53:18
Before we go, we are up on YouTube.
53:21
Our podcast is up on YouTube now.
53:24
So another way, yeah, that you can watch us and be horrified by
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Glorious color. I know I, I have the Spotify, I
53:34
see it, I, I, I definitely listen to it on the Spotify, the
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podcast on Spotify and then now YouTube.
53:39
That's awesome. Well, Spotify, Apple, there's a
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whole bunch of free ones that we're on.
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There's a list of stuff. I mean, we're on.
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And right now we're on different.
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followers. So I see we're at what, 93 are
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we? I think we're like 24 last time
53:59
you checked. What was it?
54:01
I think I just looked earlier today, maybe I didn't refresh.
54:06
Oh, maybe it was the Facebook. I saw the 93 so.
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Oh, yes, yes. Which we, yeah, yeah, I don't
54:11
think we have 93 subscribers on Spotify or followers.
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