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Email of Interest From February 19th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have here in front of me an email of interest?
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  Speaker 2: Is it of interest?
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  Speaker 1: It is indeed? Okay, all right? Email oh in trap.
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  Speaker 1: This is from Clay and it says Bill really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: the interview with Eli McCann about his book. I drive
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  Speaker 1: about three hours a day between different projects. I downloaded
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  Speaker 1: it yesterday and have listened to about two of the
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  Speaker 1: four plus hours, and this is what I know so far.
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  Speaker 1: Now I think what he's down.
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  Speaker 2: He's downloaded the book the book because Eli recorded and
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  Speaker 2: you can buy a physical copy, but he also recorded
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  Speaker 2: an audiover.
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  Speaker 1: So I've listened to about two of the four plus
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  Speaker 1: hours of the book, and this is what I know
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  Speaker 1: so far. Outside of the gay part, he just nailed
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  Speaker 1: my childhood and the respect I have for the ward
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  Speaker 1: members that gave their time to the youth. In my word,
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  Speaker 1: it is dead on about growing up with road shows
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  Speaker 1: and other youth activities. And I would recommend this to
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  Speaker 1: anyone who has elapsed Mormon but still loves their family
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  Speaker 1: and that is still in the faith. In addition, you,
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  Speaker 1: Gina and Carrie Can, all sorts of f off were
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  Speaker 1: playing sticks today. It's not my fault. In Dynasty Young's
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  Speaker 1: birthday I went down a rabbit hole on Spotify. After
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  Speaker 1: you're farting around, that's your fault. Now I have earworms
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  Speaker 1: that will require me to listen to Dennisty Young and
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Shaw for the next several days. That's your fight me.
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  Speaker 1: That's your fault. Use my name if so needed. Best regards,
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  Speaker 1: Clay Woodward. Thanks, sorry all your fault play. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: I listen. I would. I tried to put a stop
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  Speaker 1: to it. I didn't want it to happen, but there
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  Speaker 1: you go, and I did. I do remember saying, you
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  Speaker 1: know how much I loathe those stick songs and that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna make people, some people really unhappy because they love them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: There and after we did, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: love coming in be a text.
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  Speaker 1: So I remember it. So, babe, babe, I'm leaving, babe,
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  Speaker 1: say it once again. Yeah. I remember that song for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, and I associate it with being what year
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  Speaker 1: was it, Oh, I don't know, nineteen seventy nine it was, yeah, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Does that make sense to you? Yes? Yes, because I
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  Speaker 1: remember it being a song I heard over and over
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  Speaker 1: again when I first started working at KJQ and Radio,
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  Speaker 1: and I wasn't on the air. I was there from
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  Speaker 1: eleven o'clock at nine to six in the morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I was the only person in that asshole of a
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  Speaker 1: building in West Ogden and h and that song. I
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  Speaker 1: just remember that song being on all the time. It
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  Speaker 1: was a hit then, Yep, And that was nineteen I
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  Speaker 1: always tell people I started in radio in nineteen eighty,
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  Speaker 1: but it was really it was really ninety seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was November. I think I had
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  Speaker 1: on my on my FCC license. Yeah, we used to
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  Speaker 1: have to have license. I think it's we still we
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  Speaker 1: are we supposed to be. I think our engineering staff
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  Speaker 1: probably still has them. Does Trent still have them? I
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  Speaker 1: bet he does. I don't think he does. I bet
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  Speaker 1: he does. I know they had them at Simmons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know they had him in a file at Simmons,
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  Speaker 2: the original one.
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  Speaker 1: They do, the original one that I signed in November
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy nine. Yeah, let's ask Trent if he
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  Speaker 1: has those in the name.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they make you have them, like Katie
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have them anymore now.
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  Speaker 1: Before it before so this was I forget what they called.
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  Speaker 1: It was a third phone. They called it the third
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  Speaker 1: phone operator's license. And the way you got your license
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  Speaker 1: was you send in and ask for it, and now
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  Speaker 1: that's how we did it. Yeah, but that used to
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  Speaker 1: be my dad when he wanted to be in radio
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  Speaker 1: in California. Oh yeah, he had to.
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  Speaker 2: You had to get an engineering license called because you
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  Speaker 2: had to be able to not only be on the air,
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  Speaker 2: but you had to.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to fix stuff. If been broke, you were
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  Speaker 1: you were the guy. So he had to go to
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  Speaker 1: engineering school to get his license. Yeah, it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was not quite as as as dier as you make
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  Speaker 1: it sound. You had to take some some classes. You
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  Speaker 1: read a book and then answer some class questions. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was a lot harder than what we had.
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  Speaker 1: You had to actually be able to fix stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: had to know what to do if if if they
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  Speaker 1: said take the station off the air immediately, or the
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  Speaker 1: station is off the air, put it back on the
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  Speaker 1: air immediately, if you can. You know, it's not much.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have to know much.
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  Speaker 2: Our attorney, Ed Brass says that your licenses used to
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  Speaker 2: be taped to the wall in the studio that was
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  Speaker 2: in the cow pasture in Provo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he remembers there oh were they there. I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember them being there, but I'm sure and I know
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  Speaker 1: it was. They used to be. You had to have
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  Speaker 1: them displayed. So at the old KJQ they were stuck
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  Speaker 1: on a wall somewhere. I remember just having a little card. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a little It was just a little Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a little yellow card, not even as
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  Speaker 1: big as an index card.
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  Speaker 2: It had a stamp on it in a place where
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  Speaker 2: you signed it. Yeah, and it's but now they just
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  Speaker 2: let anybody walk in here and do things.
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  Speaker 1: But I had I had to. I mean I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to take any classes, but I had to, uh
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  Speaker 1: power the radio station up and down. It was an
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  Speaker 1: a so so KJQ at that time was just an
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  Speaker 1: AM station and it was I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember the wattage anymore. Ten thousand watts were
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  Speaker 1: you pumping wattage to people's cottage And that's at sundown.
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  Speaker 1: You had to power it down to low power so
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  Speaker 1: that you wouldn't interfere with the higher power stations that
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  Speaker 1: were allowed to you know, like so KSL, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: is a is a hundred you know, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: One hundred thousand watt full channel Yeah, that's just the AM. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's and that's yeah. FM is a different animal,
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  Speaker 1: but the AM signal is strong enough. I mean people
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  Speaker 1: can hear it at night, they can listen to it
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, and you know, and you had to power
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  Speaker 1: down the lower stations, the smaller stations to not interfere
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  Speaker 1: with that signal. I still had to do that when
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  Speaker 1: I was there. Ye. Yeah, you had to power it down.
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  Speaker 1: The part of my part of my job.
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  Speaker 2: And the first job I had was at an AM daytimer.
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  Speaker 2: You had to shut off overnight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some even smaller stations had to just go dark
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  Speaker 1: and tell sunrise YEP, sundown to sunrise. So you'd shut it.
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  Speaker 2: Off and it was at different times all the time
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  Speaker 2: because of the sundown.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And we got our we got our news
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  Speaker 1: from a teletype machine and it was actually a type
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  Speaker 1: an automatic machine that typed on a roll of paper.
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  Speaker 2: It came from the Associated Press or the UPI.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, United Press Internet.
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  Speaker 2: You hook it up to a phone line and they
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  Speaker 2: would send you news story and then every once in
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  Speaker 2: a while you'd hear this bells going off and it
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  Speaker 2: would be some sort of an alert and then you
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  Speaker 2: had to go so the way, so every once in
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  Speaker 2: a while, now you'll hear us do this thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is a this has been an alert
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  Speaker 1: of the emergency broadcast system. Well, you had to go.
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  Speaker 1: There was a big envelope on the wall, and for
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  Speaker 1: each month there was a different authenticator code, and you
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  Speaker 1: had to go and make sure that the that the
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  Speaker 1: word that they had sent you on the teletype. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you'd had to You had to make sure that the
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  Speaker 1: word that you that they sent you on the teletype
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  Speaker 1: was the same as the one in the envelope and
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  Speaker 1: it just be a random one like snowstorm. And if
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't, that meant that the communists had taken over.
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  Speaker 1: That meant that time. Do we know now when it happens?
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  Speaker 1: We don't. We don't. Well, we we don't need to
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  Speaker 1: know because it happened already.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're too busy keeping Stephen Colbert from talking about things.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the FCC does now. The FCC we used
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  Speaker 1: to have to. Here's another thing that the FCC required,
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  Speaker 1: and part it has to do with part of what
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  Speaker 1: they're talking with Stephen Colbert about is that because we're
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting on the airwaves that are that are owned by
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  Speaker 1: the public there, So, so the people of the United
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  Speaker 1: States own the airwaves that we're broadcasting on and technically
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  Speaker 1: we're we're just free loading on them on that we
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  Speaker 1: get to make money such as it is, off of
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  Speaker 1: using the public's airways, So why can't well so make
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  Speaker 1: that seem legit. The FCC was required or would require
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  Speaker 1: everybody to make sure that you do something to serve
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  Speaker 1: the public interest. We do that every day, and we
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  Speaker 1: had to do these things called assessments, and I think
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  Speaker 1: it was once a quarter. You had to actually go
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  Speaker 1: out to businesses and other places and ask them certain questions,
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  Speaker 1: what what what are the most important issues in this community?
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  Speaker 1: And you had to go and do that and put
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  Speaker 1: it on file, and then periodically the FCC cops would
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  Speaker 1: come and examine your files to make sure you've done that,
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that all the licenses were up to date. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: email of interest, thanks a lot, Clay