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Congratulations To Our Midday Host, Helen Little! · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Light FM, Cubby, we got Christine here, we got producer Kristen,
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  Speaker 1: and we have live from her home studio, a woman
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  Speaker 1: that we love very much. She's a colleague and a
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  Speaker 1: friend and you hear every day on light FM from
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  Speaker 1: ten am to three pm. And she's on quite the streak.
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  Speaker 1: I know, a lot of great things have been going
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  Speaker 1: her way. Hella Little, are you there?
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  Speaker 2: I am?
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  Speaker 3: I am, good morning, Good morning, Helen Little.
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  Speaker 4: What's up? So?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning?
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  Speaker 3: You much to congratulate you about?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, we just wanted to get you on the
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  Speaker 1: air because Christine, you have a list of like her
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  Speaker 1: current streak.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, she's on fire. What's been going on in
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  Speaker 4: her world?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want do you want me to start off
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  Speaker 3: with the personal or the accolades?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 2: First of all the acts wherever we want to start, wherever.
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  Speaker 3: We want to start. Well, first off, congratulations, Helen, you
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  Speaker 3: have been nominated for the Radio Hall of Fame. That
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  Speaker 3: is incredible, my friend. That is so well deserved.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
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  Speaker 3: If there's a way for Cubby and I to producer
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  Speaker 3: Kristen to vote you in there, we will because you
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  Speaker 3: deserve this.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 5: That would be great because it's you know, if I
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  Speaker 5: knew you guys were voting for me, I would probably
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  Speaker 5: surely get in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know who votes this vote.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we all know who votes now, but nominated?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know one voter, you do, I know one voter,
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  Speaker 2: Jim Kerr. Yeah, he votes. He told me he votes.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Kerr votes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's right there. We can bang on the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's give him a wall.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean it's quite the accomplished accomplishment, Helen, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: how incredible. How long have you been doing radio?
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  Speaker 5: I started in radio in nineteen eighty three. I was
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  Speaker 5: still in college and I got my first job by
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  Speaker 5: answering an ad in the newspaper at a local radio station.
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  Speaker 5: And I was the only person who showed up with
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  Speaker 5: an air check a tape.
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  Speaker 2: And it was terrible.
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  Speaker 5: The guy laughed at it and I cried and I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I'm never going to make it. And he said, I
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  Speaker 5: hired you because you know, you showed initiative. You were
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  Speaker 5: the only person to show up, and you know he
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  Speaker 5: believed in me. Yeah, and look at that.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And how many all these years later, So, how.
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  Speaker 4: Many radio stations have you worked at? Can you name
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  Speaker 4: all your radio stations.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I can, but it's a whole lot. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be here a hour.
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  Speaker 3: But you've been with those at light FM for how
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  Speaker 3: long now.
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  Speaker 2: Since two thousand and eight, so what's that eighteen years?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And you can do math better than we can.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you used you used to program Power one five
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  Speaker 1: point one. You help launch that radio station back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, and that's still going strong.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I programmed won Power one five one. And I
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  Speaker 5: also my first job in New York was at WBLS,
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  Speaker 5: and I also worked with the legendary Frankie Crocker in
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  Speaker 5: the afternoon drive, so I was his partner there and
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  Speaker 5: I was also a music director there. I was been
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  Speaker 5: a program director and operations manager. I've done everyday part.
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  Speaker 5: I've done news director, production director, program director, all the
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  Speaker 5: directors except for promotions. Too much work, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: and have worked in Dallas. I started in North Carolina
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  Speaker 5: and Chapel Hill, and I worked in Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham,
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  Speaker 5: and then I came up here. I went to Philly
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  Speaker 5: and worked in Philly at two different companies there and
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  Speaker 5: came back to New York.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible, and that's why Helen, you're also in the association
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  Speaker 3: in North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four. Inducted there National Black Radio Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five. Congratulations. Someone listening to Helen Little right
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  Speaker 3: now who says I would love to have a career.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, What would be your advice?
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  Speaker 3: I know that's always a tough one.
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  Speaker 5: I think you just mine stemmed from love. I mean
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  Speaker 5: I fell in love with the radio before I could
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  Speaker 5: read or write. So you know, this is a long
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  Speaker 5: journey for me. My little sister used to tease me
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  Speaker 5: about the fact, my younger sister now about the fact
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  Speaker 5: that I listened to the radio so much.
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  Speaker 2: She said, one day you're going to end up inside
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that, and you were inside of it, and
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  Speaker 1: so you had the radio and the Radio Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about just a moment ago happened this week,
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  Speaker 1: the nomination, and we hope you get in. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something huge happened last week and we've talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: but let's make it official.
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  Speaker 4: What happened last week?
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  Speaker 2: I got married.
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  Speaker 3: And that was a complete surprise. Such a beautiful Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: telling your pictures are gorgeous.
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  Speaker 4: Would you consider it an elopement? Is that what it was?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we decided we wanted to a lope And it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: We started out, well, we're going to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: We were going to go to Lake Tahoe, and then
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  Speaker 5: we had such a cold winter and it still snows
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  Speaker 5: in Lake Tahoe this time of year, so I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I can't do any more snow.
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  Speaker 5: So then we're going to go to Las Vegas, and
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  Speaker 5: we were planning another trip and trying to plan two
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  Speaker 5: trips at one time. Just was like I can't do
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  Speaker 5: any much. I said, let's just go to City Hall,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm so glad we did. It was I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 5: Getting married at you know, well, it's really the clerk's
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  Speaker 5: office in Manhattan was like like it was very dreamy.
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  Speaker 5: It really was cool, and you were there with all
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  Speaker 5: these other people who were getting married. So it's such
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  Speaker 5: a good energy and we had such a beautiful day
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  Speaker 5: and a great time and and it was so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you and George are a wonderful couple. And like
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  Speaker 3: I said, the I love seeing the pictures. I love
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  Speaker 3: your beautiful smiles and your energy and the love and
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  Speaker 3: the cherry blossoms behind you. It's like you had the
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  Speaker 3: most gorgeous day. Oh yeah, we did well.
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  Speaker 4: Look we love you, We love George.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll still have the last name little on the radio, right,
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  Speaker 1: you're changing your last name?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I changed it a little different than most people.
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  Speaker 5: I changed it to Junta Little, as opposed to little
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  Speaker 5: Junta really.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so yeah, okay, so you hyphenated.
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  Speaker 2: I did not hyphenate.
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  Speaker 5: It was just too last names. So I kept my
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  Speaker 5: middle name. Okay, and my last name is legally Junta Little.
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  Speaker 1: All right, are you gonna say that on the radio? Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: still had a little from ten am to three pm
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  Speaker 1: I LIGHTFM, Yes all right, yes, Well, Helen, you've been
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  Speaker 1: winning life the last.
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  Speaker 3: Couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: We're very proud of you, and thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to get you on the air and just say
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  Speaker 1: we love you.
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  Speaker 3: And and hell a very very positive, inspiring person, just
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful person to be around. We're so happy you're here, Helen, Thank.
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  Speaker 2: You, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Helen Little, be on at ten o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you later, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Light FM