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The Gift of Talkbacks... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, friends, what up after show? In effect, it is Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: May fourteenth, wrapping up the show. I actually have the
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  Speaker 1: Today Show on now to see if Jenna bush Hagar
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  Speaker 1: talks about Lisa's book club last night, that would be cool.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe she'll show some pictures or video because she was
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  Speaker 1: here with cameras I believe. I'm not sure. I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: I watched the stream, but we got to jump into
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  Speaker 1: a meeting in a couple of minutes. So if you
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  Speaker 1: watch at ten o'clock to Today Show with Jenna and
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  Speaker 1: she does hit me on the DMS, I know you
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  Speaker 1: guys probably will anyway. So it was a great event
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  Speaker 1: last night. I mean, I wasn't there, but I got
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  Speaker 1: the full recap. But everyone that did go, they had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So shout out to Lisa. I
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  Speaker 1: know she said she would come on the podcast today,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, there's a lot going on. She's obviously
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  Speaker 1: very tired. She just finished the show. Now she's taken
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes before the meeting, and then she
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  Speaker 1: just hosts of another event tonight, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on. So we'll get her on shortly. But I
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  Speaker 1: do not make it to the book Club. It's tough.
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  Speaker 1: My son had baseball. I am going to the PORTNOI
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  Speaker 1: won for sure, and I might go to the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mesick one too because I want to read that book
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  Speaker 1: that Ben has coming out about the anal beads scandal
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  Speaker 1: in Chess, which we covered on the show. But Portnoy
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  Speaker 1: one percent going. I'm bringing my friend Mike and his
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  Speaker 1: brother in law is a big fan as well. I
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  Speaker 1: asked Lisa, is there can I bring a couple of
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  Speaker 1: people to friends and she said, yeah, so looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that. That's coming up in July, right before our vacation,
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  Speaker 1: so looking forward to that. Otherwise, yeah, we have a
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  Speaker 1: meeting coming up at ten o'clock this morning in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes. It's basically like a programming meeting where
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  Speaker 1: they go over things like ratings and digital and things
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  Speaker 1: going on at the radio station, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: like promo stuff on contests. Obviously Olivia Rodrigo is a
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  Speaker 1: big one now, but that's going to end, and then
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  Speaker 1: we obviously we have a thousand dollars to give away
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  Speaker 1: every hour starting at nine, and then we go into
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  Speaker 1: like best summer ever, So that's going to be big,
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  Speaker 1: big shows coming Ariana Grande, Noah Khan. So there'll be
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  Speaker 1: some really really cool stuff going on there. It's just
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  Speaker 1: very cool to talk back thing, I think. You know, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's to get people to listen on the app. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a secret. You know, that's the future of
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  Speaker 1: radio listening is listening on the app. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: where most of our listening comes from. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that is because of the talkback feature, right, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you can leave a talkback, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: really it's you can listen anywhere, obviously, and we found
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people are even plugging their phones
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  Speaker 1: into their car and listening on the app instead of
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  Speaker 1: listening on the regular radio because of the added benefit
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  Speaker 1: of leaving a talkback. So that's something that this company
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  Speaker 1: really was ahead of their time with the fact that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you had this feature where you can send
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  Speaker 1: in messages to the person, but then you have a
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  Speaker 1: show like ours where you know, I've said this before,
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  Speaker 1: This was like a gift to me, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: I've always been an audio guy. You know that before
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  Speaker 1: I was on the air talking every day, I was
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  Speaker 1: doing audio. That's what I did. That's my specialty is
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  Speaker 1: pulling audio, playing audio, making it funny, making it creative,
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  Speaker 1: making mashups. So the fact that they developed this talkback
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  Speaker 1: feature share was like a gift to me because no
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  Speaker 1: other show does what I do. And I don't say
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  Speaker 1: that in a bragging way at all. It's just that's
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  Speaker 1: the way it is, right, That's the way it always was.
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  Speaker 1: They really besides, I don't know if this is true,
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  Speaker 1: but besides, like Howard Stern, for example, Howard had Fred. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you're familiar with the Howard Stern Show, Howard had Fred,
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  Speaker 1: who's the sound guy who puts drops in, right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: Matt had me, you know, before me, it was Rich
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  Speaker 1: the sound guy to feed Maddie sound. So that was
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  Speaker 1: the job when I took this job, that was it, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like we used to have teams of people that helped
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  Speaker 1: Billy interns. Billy had like six or seven girls every
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  Speaker 1: day or boys too, not just girls, but six or
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  Speaker 1: seven people helping with entertainment, helping with news, and they
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  Speaker 1: all went away the internship program ended. Obviously, radio started changing.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of layoffs. They kind of like
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  Speaker 1: trim the fat, and then I was left with literally everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know, So it's crazy to think about that. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: I took the job of upwards of six people. You know,
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  Speaker 1: not only do I do the show stuff, I do
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  Speaker 1: the sound for the show. I do all billy stuff,
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  Speaker 1: I do commercials, I do the countdown. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: a whole list of stuff that I do, but the
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  Speaker 1: sound thing is my specialty. So when I started here
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  Speaker 1: and I took the job from rich Or, rich left
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  Speaker 1: that was his only job. That well, the countdown too,
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  Speaker 1: but his only job was pulling sound. So the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the talkbacks came out and I naturally insert them
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  Speaker 1: into the show. And then obviously when Maddi retired, it
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  Speaker 1: became the Billy and Lisa Show, and then I became
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  Speaker 1: a co host of the show. I was able to
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  Speaker 1: talk on the show and play talkbacks at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's a big it's a big benefit,
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  Speaker 1: and you really see it because we don't get phone calls,
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  Speaker 1: which typically in a radio show would be a bad thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's because we've kind of not trained our audience
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  Speaker 1: that the talkbacks are open. And think about today world.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody talks on the phone, right, Everybody texts, everybody's glued
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  Speaker 1: to their phone, So the fact that you can leave
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  Speaker 1: a message on your phone and don't have to literally
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  Speaker 1: talk to the person. I mean, that's like a dream
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  Speaker 1: for some people. I mean, obviously we do get calls too,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just much easier for people to leave the message,
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  Speaker 1: and it's also better for us. It's bad in the
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  Speaker 1: sense where we can't ask questions back, but it's good
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  Speaker 1: because I can edit them. I can chop them. Think
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  Speaker 1: about this. We get a phone call, right, that's a
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  Speaker 1: bad connection. Let's go to Brian and Waltham. Brian Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Then Brian starts talking, his phone starts breaking up. We
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  Speaker 1: got to like waste ten seconds of trying to get
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  Speaker 1: Brian on. Then he finally clears up and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is Brian and Waltham. So that's two or three
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  Speaker 1: more seconds before Brian says what he wants to say.
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  Speaker 1: Or as a talk back, I can edit it and
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  Speaker 1: get right to what they want to say. So you
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  Speaker 1: might notice that if you leave a talk back and
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  Speaker 1: then you hand me play it back, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times it's cleaned up. I edit it to get to
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  Speaker 1: what you are saying. So it just makes it clean
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  Speaker 1: air and it makes for a better listening experience, that's
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  Speaker 1: all I'm saying. So we love the talkbacks and we
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  Speaker 1: love and I love using them, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's the future of radio for sure, and I just
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  Speaker 1: hope to have a future in radio, like that's what
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  Speaker 1: I hope. I mean, I don't really know if there's
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  Speaker 1: an end in sight. I don't, you know. I just
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  Speaker 1: keep showing up and we're doing very well in ratings
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  Speaker 1: and everybody seems to be happy. We're lucky because we
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  Speaker 1: work at Kiss one o wait, which is one of
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  Speaker 1: the top stations in the country. You know. I Heart
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  Speaker 1: Media owns like eight hundred and fifty radio stations and
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  Speaker 1: kisses number five, so that's really good. New York, LA, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: Boston is in there somewhere. So that means we're a
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  Speaker 1: radio station that does well and we generate money and
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  Speaker 1: we do well. And that's all thanks to the people
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  Speaker 1: in Boston who grew up listening to Kiss one oh
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  Speaker 1: eight and continue to listen. So it's always great when
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  Speaker 1: we get new listeners too. We love that so much.
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  Speaker 1: Like Lisa said, with the book club last night, people
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  Speaker 1: showed up that had never been before. Obviously, she has
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  Speaker 1: her core book club members they go to every single event.
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  Speaker 1: They are dedicated. We love them. But it's always great
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  Speaker 1: when new people show up. And it's the same with
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  Speaker 1: our show. It's always great when people listen for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. And I can always tell right when it's
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  Speaker 1: their first time, because they'll leave talkbacks in succession several
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  Speaker 1: a day or several days in a row. And just
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  Speaker 1: a heads up, if you're listening to this podcast, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't play your talkback, do not take offense.
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  Speaker 1: Do not I take it them all. I store them
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  Speaker 1: away and I try to place them the best places
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  Speaker 1: that I can. So if you leave one, please keep
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  Speaker 1: leaving them. Don't get discouraged. If I don't play it,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can. You know what, You can leave
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  Speaker 1: another talkback and complain that I didn't play your first one.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take that. The Mayor of the South End does
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. So anyway, a couple of rainy
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  Speaker 1: days today and tomorrow. The weekend is looking nice. Thank god.
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  Speaker 1: I think my pool will be ready by then. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: I got all the green out. Shout out to Bob,
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  Speaker 1: my pool guy. He's the man put a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: chemicals into it. It's just a little bit cloudy right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I'm gonna look into making it a
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  Speaker 1: salt pool. Shout out to my buddy Walid, the most
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  Speaker 1: connected man in Boston. He texts me when we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about it and said, dude, you got to switch
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  Speaker 1: to salt. It's like fifteen hundred bucks and you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to put all the chemicals in and deal with
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  Speaker 1: all the bullshit. I don't. I've never had a saltwater pool,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know, but I did hear that it
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  Speaker 1: is better, and if it is, I'll invest the money
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  Speaker 1: in it because you know, the kids love the pool.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. Anyway, have a great day everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Friday. Jason Derulo will be here. That's a
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  Speaker 1: really really cool story. So behind the scenes, I did
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  Speaker 1: kind of talk about this a little bit on the
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  Speaker 1: show today. So you know, I got hooked up with
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  Speaker 1: Derulo's label guy manager I'm not sure who he is,
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  Speaker 1: and basically he said, yeah, Derulo is going to be
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  Speaker 1: there on Friday. He's coming to Kiss One await. He
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  Speaker 1: wants to come to Kiss One to wait, And I said, cool.
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  Speaker 1: I know he has a new song out. He's promoting
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  Speaker 1: the song. He said, yes, he's promoting the song, but
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  Speaker 1: he's doing the Today Show. And then it was his
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  Speaker 1: idea to come to Boston because he loves Kiss Went Away.
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  Speaker 1: He loves you guy, he loves the radio station, and
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  Speaker 1: he loves doing radio. So would it be alright if
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  Speaker 1: he comes and joins you in the studio, talk to
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  Speaker 1: the song, talk about you know anything else. I'm like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because I did see that. He was in Atlanta earlier
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  Speaker 1: this week and he surprised Ti, the rapper Ti. He's
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  Speaker 1: doing a live interview I think on the morning, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, and Jason Derulo walked in. So he's doing
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  Speaker 1: a whole big radio tour. So that'll be really funny.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions or comments about Jason Derulo,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, leave a talkback and maybe I'll play it
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  Speaker 1: for him when he's in studio tomorrow at nine ten.
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  Speaker 1: See how that's a full circle show man. See that
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  Speaker 1: the talkbacks came through at the ENDC How does it happen?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll talk tomorrow By