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Stay Healthy... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome to the After Show Podcast. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's a Thursday, September 17th. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Yes, quick
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  Speaker 1: one today. We have a countdown tour coming in, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm on limited time. We do countdown tours that get
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  Speaker 1: auctioned off, usually at galas that myself or Billy Costa hosts, so...
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm doing a gala next week and I'm auctioning
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  Speaker 1: off Jingle Ball tickets. Not a tour this time. But
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  Speaker 1: Billy will do either or. If it's not Jingle Ball season,
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  Speaker 1: he will auction off a tour for the countdown. So
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  Speaker 1: basically they come in. Well, you know, you have to
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  Speaker 1: bid on it and he'll get as much money as
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  Speaker 1: he possibly can. Sometimes upwards of $ 10, 000. Imagine that. But
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  Speaker 1: it is a cool experience. You know, you get to
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  Speaker 1: come in, get to bring people, usually kids. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: adults can come, but typically it's meant for kids. And
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  Speaker 1: you come in and you get a tour of the
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  Speaker 1: radio station, you take pictures, and you get to host
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  Speaker 1: an hour of the countdown with Billy and myself. So
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  Speaker 1: that's really a cool thing, especially if you're a kid.
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  Speaker 1: You can talk up songs and see basically how we
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  Speaker 1: do it, how Billy hosts it, how I co-host it,
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  Speaker 1: and how I produce the countdown. And people are always
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  Speaker 1: amazed at it, which is really, really cool. So we
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  Speaker 1: have that going on today. I don't know who's coming in.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the gals that he hosted, but it's
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  Speaker 1: been in the works for a while. We have a
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  Speaker 1: lot to catch up on a lot from COVID that
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  Speaker 1: kind of got pushed back because we had to stop
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  Speaker 1: the tours during COVID, but we're back on track now.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be fun. And it's just, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a cool thing. You know, especially the kids that
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  Speaker 1: come in, you know, I know the whole thing is
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  Speaker 1: like young kids don't tend to listen to the radio much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can kind of disagree on that. I
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  Speaker 1: think that their parents are still listening to the radio and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, radio still is very important. Obviously, we can
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  Speaker 1: see how many people are listening to the radio, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot. So not as much as it used
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  Speaker 1: to be, obviously, before streaming and stuff. But I do
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  Speaker 1: think that both can exist, right? Like both podcasts, radio,
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  Speaker 1: all those things, music streaming, they can all exist together.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that radio offers that the others don't is
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  Speaker 1: the live element, right? We're live in the morning, so
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  Speaker 1: we're giving updates in real time. Podcasts are taped, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't have– When you stream music, here you're getting
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  Speaker 1: live music and you're getting content. So I think both
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  Speaker 1: can exist. I don't think there needs to be a
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  Speaker 1: war or which one is better. If you prefer one
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  Speaker 1: over the other, that's perfectly fine. We have Sirius Satellite
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  Speaker 1: Radio too. That's another thing. So there's all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: ways to listen and consume content. So yeah, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do the tour today. And then, yeah, tomorrow is Friday, man, already.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on my birthday next week. It's Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 1: my birthday. Okay. And my wife planned this birthday party,
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  Speaker 1: which is a surprise. The birthday party is not a surprise,
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  Speaker 1: but what she's doing is a surprise. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I know she made flyers for my
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  Speaker 1: close friends, but it's on Sunday and apparently it's going
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  Speaker 1: to rain and she's upset about that. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what was planned. I mean, we can do it outside.
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  Speaker 1: We have a garage, which is kind of where we
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  Speaker 1: host everything. It's like an inside outside type thing. So
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  Speaker 1: we can definitely do the garage. But she's kind of
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  Speaker 1: bummed about it. I don't care. We can just do
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  Speaker 1: it in the house. I mean I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of crazy things she has going on. She is
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  Speaker 1: a crazy person that likes to go overboard with everything,
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  Speaker 1: hence the Halloween decorations that I talked about on the show.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to it, to celebrating with my
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  Speaker 1: friends and family, whatever she has planned. And then, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my birthday is on Tuesday, another year around the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Grateful to be here. Grateful to be alive. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't hate birthdays. I think that getting older is
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  Speaker 1: a part of life. I don't look at it as
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  Speaker 1: a negative. I look at it as the longer that
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  Speaker 1: I'm here, the better. And you grow older. You can't
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  Speaker 1: fight father time. It just is what it is. But
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  Speaker 1: I will say I'm getting to an age where I
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  Speaker 1: am more conscious of different things that aging brings. One
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  Speaker 1: example is my hair, right? My hair is thinning on top.
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  Speaker 1: It's a part of life. It's going to happen. But
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  Speaker 1: my hair is very important to me. So I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: all of these things, which I don't even, they're probably
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  Speaker 1: not working because the truth is getting a hair transplant
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  Speaker 1: is the ultimate way to fix your hair. That's just,
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  Speaker 1: that's the end all be all. They have medications, obviously finasteride, minoxidil.
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  Speaker 1: I did try those and I had bad side effects,
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  Speaker 1: sexual side effects. They killed my libido. So I can't
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  Speaker 1: do those. There's also like copper peptides, which I do take.
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  Speaker 1: I put in my hair. I don't know if those work.
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  Speaker 1: I take pumpkin seed oil, which apparently stops DHT in
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  Speaker 1: the head and can slow down shedding and losing your hair.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that works. I use keto shampoo,
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  Speaker 1: which is a prescribed shampoo for your head to slow
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  Speaker 1: down that process. I don't know if that works either.
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  Speaker 1: I can see that my hair is still thinning out
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  Speaker 1: on top and it freaks me out, but it is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I need to just embrace it. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't think that I would look good bald. And
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  Speaker 1: really the bottom line is like my wife will love
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  Speaker 1: me either way. She's told me that. So that's really
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  Speaker 1: all that should matter. But yeah, things like my hair,
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  Speaker 1: my skincare, I've never paid attention to skincare. And now
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to pay more attention to my face, especially,
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  Speaker 1: you know, using different moisturizers and washing my face. Not
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like I look older, but I feel
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  Speaker 1: like these are important things. The time in the sun,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sun on your skin can make you
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  Speaker 1: look older over time, give you wrinkles. I know that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm more cognizant of wearing sunscreen. So these are
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  Speaker 1: all things that I'm kind of paying attention to as
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  Speaker 1: I get older. And then, of course, the fitness, the
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  Speaker 1: working out, the lifting weights, the high rocks, staying active.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that is like number one. You need to
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  Speaker 1: stay active, especially and not just cardio either. It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be weight training. That's like the common thing that
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  Speaker 1: I see with these longevity people that study aging and longevity.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just exercising. Walking is fine. Doing cardio is fine.
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  Speaker 1: Running is fine. Great. But as you get older, and
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  Speaker 1: I tell my father this all the time, and he
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  Speaker 1: does work out, lifting weights, keeping muscle on your body
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  Speaker 1: will help you tremendously when you get older, like much older,
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  Speaker 1: into your 70s, especially above 75, because they've learned that
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  Speaker 1: at 75 years old, that's when it really starts to
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  Speaker 1: go downhill. Once you hit 75 mentally, physically, you go downhill.
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  Speaker 1: But you can prevent that by, well, doing things like
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  Speaker 1: working out and staying active, staying busy, keeping your mind busy.
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  Speaker 1: My grandfather who passed on back in 2011, he died
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  Speaker 1: at 86 or 87. And the reason why he passed
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  Speaker 1: was he had prostate cancer many years ago, many years
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  Speaker 1: before his death. And he went through the chemo and
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  Speaker 1: he got rid of it. And then it came back
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  Speaker 1: like 15 years later, and at his age, he did
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  Speaker 1: not want to do the chemo again. So that was
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  Speaker 1: his choice. They could have fixed it, but he chose
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  Speaker 1: not to. And he did end up passing at, again,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was 86 or 87. But his mind
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  Speaker 1: was fully intact because he read every single day. He
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  Speaker 1: kept busy. I mean, he worked all the way up
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  Speaker 1: until he was probably almost 80 years old. Obviously, he
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  Speaker 1: had a career. And then he retired from that. But
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  Speaker 1: then he had other jobs. He worked like at Filene's,
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  Speaker 1: just different jobs. My grandmother too. They just kept busy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they came here from Peru. They started with nothing,
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  Speaker 1: brought their kids over and raised a family here and
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  Speaker 1: built a life here. And he was– both of them
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  Speaker 1: just the hardest workers ever. But his mind was fully
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  Speaker 1: intact all the way up until he passed. And actually that's–
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  Speaker 1: a big part of my story was the amends that
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  Speaker 1: I made to him. See, when you get clean, you
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  Speaker 1: have to do things like– Make amends to the people
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  Speaker 1: that you hurt and your family is typically at the
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  Speaker 1: top of that list. And I grew up in a
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  Speaker 1: house where my grandparents lived above us, my family. And
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  Speaker 1: so my family got it the worst. They got it
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  Speaker 1: the worst, my grandmother and my grandfather. They saw me
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  Speaker 1: through all of the ugliness and they felt the impact
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  Speaker 1: of my addiction through stealing lots of money and lying
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  Speaker 1: and just constant trouble. And they did their best. They
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  Speaker 1: never turned their back on me. Never, never. When they
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  Speaker 1: probably should have. They definitely should have turned their back
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  Speaker 1: on me. But they stuck by me all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the end. So then when I had gotten clean
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  Speaker 1: in 2008, a couple of years before that is when
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  Speaker 1: I left where I was from, which is Malden. I
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  Speaker 1: was living up in the Haverhill area and I got
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  Speaker 1: clean and I went to the process of recovery. And
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  Speaker 1: I would go back down and see them and they
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  Speaker 1: saw me doing better and they were so happy for me. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was on the list of amends. And
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  Speaker 1: so then when he got hospitalized and it was looking
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  Speaker 1: like it was not going to be good, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I went to the hospital and I sat with him
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  Speaker 1: one-on-one and I talked to him and he was, that's
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  Speaker 1: why I bring it up about him being like there mentally,
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  Speaker 1: because we had a whole conversation, you know, and I
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  Speaker 1: was able to say my piece and apologize for what
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  Speaker 1: I did to him and basically made a promise that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not just a sorry, see what making amends,
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  Speaker 1: not just, I'm sorry. That's just one small part of it.
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  Speaker 1: The more important thing is when you say you're sorry,
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  Speaker 1: it's really saying that you're not going to do it again, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's not something you're going to continue to do, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's to that person or to others. And that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of how I positioned it to him. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: told him that I loved him and that I truly
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  Speaker 1: was sorry for the things that I did in my
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  Speaker 1: active addiction. And my goal going forward one day at
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  Speaker 1: a time is to not do that again to anybody,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's my family, my friends, to any other human
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  Speaker 1: is to live a good life. And he was there
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  Speaker 1: and he responded and he forgave me and we had
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  Speaker 1: a good cry together. And a couple of days later,
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  Speaker 1: he passed. So yeah, all the way to the end, man.
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  Speaker 1: Rest in peace to my pa. I miss him a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot. Okay, well, Countdown Tour is here. They just arrived.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking out my window right now and I see
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people. They're going to watch. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to meet everybody. And then they're going to jump in
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  Speaker 1: here for the countdown. So, yeah, tomorrow is Friday. Fridays
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  Speaker 1: are always fun. The iHeartRadio Music Festival is this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa is going. We'll be celebrating that and just having
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  Speaker 1: some fun as we always do on the Friday show.
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting a lot of people to leave talkbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what to expect about yesterday's podcast, talking
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  Speaker 1: about like the political stuff and Ed Sheeran and Macklemore
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  Speaker 1: and all that. I was going to bed last night
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  Speaker 1: thinking like, man, like, what am I going to walk into?
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  Speaker 1: Not even one. And I appreciate that because really, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be in the middle of anything. I
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  Speaker 1: really don't. I don't want to be in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of anything. I'm just watching everything online. Everyone's fighting and
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  Speaker 1: yelling and screaming. It's just so much, so much drama. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: It's tough sometimes. Tough working in the media. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you. Anyway, we'll check in tomorrow. Don't worry. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be here. If you're here, I'll be here too. That's
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  Speaker 1: a promise. See ya.