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It's A Great Monday... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: When I say I'm so glad this Monday is over,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad this Monday is over. What up, everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a Monday After Show podcast. The show has ended.
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  Speaker 1: I've had so much anxiety this whole weekend. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: you behind the scenes on everything that went down today
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  Speaker 1: and the days leading up to it. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the voice of Logan, if you did not know. That
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  Speaker 1: was today. We had the eight finalists in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: There was so much preparation and so many meetings and
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  Speaker 1: so many calls. And so many texts and Zooms. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big deal. There's a lot of moving parts
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  Speaker 1: to this. It's not just the eight finalists. You also
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  Speaker 1: had news here, national news. The governor, Maura Healey, was here.
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  Speaker 1: So there was a lot of different teams that were working. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm the executive producer of the show. So
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  Speaker 1: it kind of all falls on me. So I have
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  Speaker 1: to be in on these meetings and in on the planning.
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  Speaker 1: And then comes, of course, the executions. Making it all
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  Speaker 1: happen and making it sound good. And I'm happy to
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  Speaker 1: report that all went good. If you missed it, you
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  Speaker 1: can check it out on the podcast. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it went very smoothly. Let's take it back to the beginning, okay? Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I want to say I hope you
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  Speaker 1: had a great weekend. And I had a good weekend
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  Speaker 1: and I'm back to work. Besides the anxiety, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: really do much. I just thought in my head. I
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  Speaker 1: only slept about two hours last night. No, literally two hours.
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  Speaker 1: I went to bed at... I got in bed at
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  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock and I lied awake until 11 o'clock. I
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  Speaker 1: woke up at 1 o'clock having slept two hours and
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  Speaker 1: then I just tossed and turned for another hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half, two hours. So total probably two and a
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  Speaker 1: half hours I slept and then I got out of
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  Speaker 1: bed at like 2.45 a.m. and I just came to
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  Speaker 1: work to start preparing because it was the anxiety of
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  Speaker 1: having these important people here, but it was mostly about
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  Speaker 1: making sure it sounded good on the air. Because that's
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  Speaker 1: my job. And when you have that many people in,
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  Speaker 1: when you have eight finalists, live radio, it can be tricky.
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  Speaker 1: It can be very tricky. But I think I did
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  Speaker 1: a good job. Actually, I know I did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Because I planned it and I executed it and I
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  Speaker 1: made sure everybody knew their role, knew their position. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote out scripts, all that stuff. So all went good.
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  Speaker 1: I only slept a couple of hours. So I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of wired on coffee. They brought a bunch of Dunkin' here.
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  Speaker 1: I was pounding it all morning long, including just now.
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  Speaker 1: But the boss did text me. He was very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very happy. So, yeah, the Voice of Logan started about
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  Speaker 1: eight weeks ago. This has been in the planning for
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  Speaker 1: a year. So I don't know if I mentioned this.
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  Speaker 1: I may have. Forgive me if I did. But this
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to start way back at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the year. But then the government shutdown happened. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: the TSA workers were not getting paid. So they put
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  Speaker 1: it on pause because, you know, it was really a
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  Speaker 1: rough time. You know, they weren't paying TSA workers. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to start this big contest. It's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a positive thing. Become the next voice of Logan.
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  Speaker 1: So they put it on pause through the summer and
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  Speaker 1: then picked it up kind of at the end of August.
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  Speaker 1: It came back and, you know, I'm sure you've heard
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  Speaker 1: of the contest, right? Become the next voice of Logan,
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  Speaker 1: the voice you hear by 43 million people at Logan airport.
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  Speaker 1: You submit at voice of Logan.com. We had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun with the contest. They, um, It's funny because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, listen, the show is Billy and Lisa in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. That is the show. That's the draw, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's Billy and Lisa. And then I'm a part of
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  Speaker 1: the show as well, right? I'm the executive producer. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a co-host. I do a lot of talking on the show,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't mind because, you know, it's like Bill
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  Speaker 1: does the news. He does the entertainment. He gets here
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  Speaker 1: so early and he puts so much work into that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind helping him out and helping Lisa out
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  Speaker 1: and kind of. Help guide the show. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's the talkbacks and the audio. And that's another whole
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  Speaker 1: part of the show that I bring. And I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a different studio. So it kind of makes sense that
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  Speaker 1: I kind of lead in some ways because I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: into audio and I'm playing clips. And I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I like having the best of both worlds, right? I
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  Speaker 1: like being on the air. And then I also really
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  Speaker 1: like the production part. And I think that's something that
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  Speaker 1: I bring that other shows don't. It's kind of an
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  Speaker 1: advantage to have a person like that, like myself. And
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  Speaker 1: I say that with complete humility, right? I'm being 100
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  Speaker 1: percent honest. I really, really like that. So the show
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  Speaker 1: is Billy and Lisa. That's the way it is. So
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  Speaker 1: when the Massport thing came about, they pitched it, obviously
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  Speaker 1: partnered with Kiss 108, iHeartRadio, all that stuff. Billy and
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  Speaker 1: Lisa were going to lead it. And at first, like
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  Speaker 1: I was not involved. Like I wasn't going to get
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  Speaker 1: paid for it or anything. And then I was sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the meetings and– Obviously, a big part of our
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  Speaker 1: show is the talkbacks. And so, you know, I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: people are going to leave talkbacks on this. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they do, right? They leave talkbacks. They're going to want
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  Speaker 1: to do their own auditions. They're going to have some
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  Speaker 1: fun with the script. They're going to do all that stuff. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to play those things. And they
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  Speaker 1: were like, oh, my God, we love that. Everyone loved that, Massport, everybody. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like that's great. And then I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I should be paid for this too, like
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  Speaker 1: as an endorsement, you know, like they are. And they
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  Speaker 1: were like, yeah, actually you should. So if I never
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  Speaker 1: spoke up, you got to speak up for yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: really do. So I'm glad I did because then I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting paid like Billy and Lisa because it is an endorsement.
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  Speaker 1: And we were so grateful to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I spoke up about that. So I knew that
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  Speaker 1: it would be me playing all the talkbacks and kind
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  Speaker 1: of guiding it as best as I could. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that it worked out in that sense. So– It
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  Speaker 1: started back in August and we launched it and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we had a lot of fun with it from thanks
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  Speaker 1: to all of our listeners. People were coming up with
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  Speaker 1: their own scripts and having fun and making up their
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  Speaker 1: own copy. I had Nani do one. It was just
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  Speaker 1: a really, really fun contest, but no one could predict
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  Speaker 1: that it would explode the way that it did and
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  Speaker 1: the way that it has on a national level. You
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  Speaker 1: only have like Jimmy Fallon and Ben Affleck and Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel and the Bruins, all doing it Gronk and Edelman
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  Speaker 1: it was crazy crazy crazy crazy Massport had no idea
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  Speaker 1: no idea that it would that it would be this
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  Speaker 1: big so yeah they had to they had to narrow
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  Speaker 1: it down to it was supposed to be five finalists
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  Speaker 1: but they had to bump that up to eight finalists
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  Speaker 1: so today was the day we were bringing them in
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  Speaker 1: so yeah in the last week week and a half
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  Speaker 1: you know it's been constant constant like meetings and planning
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  Speaker 1: about how are we going to execute this and Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to our boss because we had a meeting last
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  Speaker 1: week and he was very concerned about live radio with
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  Speaker 1: eight people because you go too long with one, before
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  Speaker 1: you know it, it just gets crazy. So we came
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  Speaker 1: up with a plan. I think I explained the plan
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  Speaker 1: last week, but basically just have the governor in here,
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  Speaker 1: have Massport CEO, Rich Davey, talk to them real quick
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  Speaker 1: and then start getting them in one by one. And
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  Speaker 1: I had a little bit of their audition that I pulled.
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  Speaker 1: And so what I did was I had them send
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  Speaker 1: me the eight finalists over the weekend. And so I
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  Speaker 1: had all of their auditions. And the way I did
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  Speaker 1: it was I would have– so there were eight contestants.
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  Speaker 1: So the first one, I'd have– I pulled the first
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  Speaker 1: part of the script. And the next one, the next part.
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  Speaker 1: And so then I kind of repeated that. So it
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  Speaker 1: kind of– they all read a different part of the
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  Speaker 1: Voice of Logan script, which I thought was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: But then they also sent me written statements from each person.
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  Speaker 1: Just a quick blurb about where they're from and what
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  Speaker 1: they do and why they want to be the voice
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  Speaker 1: of Logan. So what I did was I took that
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  Speaker 1: and I wrote basically a little script for Maura Healy
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  Speaker 1: and for Rich Davey. And so they went back and
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  Speaker 1: forth introducing them. And I wrote it in a way
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  Speaker 1: that sounded kind of, I guess, game showy, but not
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  Speaker 1: in a corny way, right? Like, do I have it
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  Speaker 1: in front of me here? Okay. Yeah, I have it here. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So like Rich Davey, for example. was the first one. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I said to Billy, okay, now this is
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  Speaker 1: like behind the scenes of an executive producer. So Billy
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  Speaker 1: and Lisa, obviously Billy's nervous. Lisa's nervous. Like, how is
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  Speaker 1: it going to work? I said, this is, you have no,
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  Speaker 1: no worries about this. Okay. We're going to start with
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  Speaker 1: the governor and rich Davey. You're going to start with rich.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we doing this rich? You know, where did
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  Speaker 1: this idea come from? Did you ever expect it would
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  Speaker 1: become this big? He's going to answer. Then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to governor Haley governor, you know, why did you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of this? You know, what, what,
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  Speaker 1: You're here. We love having you here.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: She has her answer. Okay, so we have eight contestants.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to do four and four. The governor's going
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  Speaker 1: to do four. Rich Davey's going to do four. Rich,
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  Speaker 1: you go first. Let's go. And then they have the
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  Speaker 1: blurbs that I printed out for them. So Rich's first
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  Speaker 1: one says, our first finalist was born in Malden and
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  Speaker 1: raised in Everett. Generations of her family have worked at
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  Speaker 1: Fenway Park, and she even sang the national anthem there
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  Speaker 1: when she was 12 years old. Please welcome Megan Lewis Mickelson.
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  Speaker 1: And I played a drum roll underneath it. And then
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  Speaker 1: right when they introduced the name, I played the little
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  Speaker 1: audition clip. Actually, I should have done one that I
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  Speaker 1: had here. Okay, hold on. So I didn't pull Megan's one.
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  Speaker 1: So which one do I have? I have Christopher. Christopher
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  Speaker 1: is actually one of my favorite ones. Okay. So the
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  Speaker 1: governor says, our next finalist hails from East Arlington. He
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  Speaker 1: says he knows this city and its roots, and he's
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  Speaker 1: always been told he should do voice work. Let's meet.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Denisey. And then I play this. Boston Logan International Airport.
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  Speaker 1: Front door to the capital of heart, hustle, and hometown pride.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And then I play some music. And as I'm playing it,
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  Speaker 1: I have our team bringing them from the other studio,
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  Speaker 1: the phone screener studio, in there. So once that ends,
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  Speaker 1: they're right in front of Billy and Lisa and the
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  Speaker 1: governor and Rich Davey. So that's how it worked. And
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  Speaker 1: it was seamless. And then Billy, I said to Billy, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cause Billy's long winded. I'm like, dude, just
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  Speaker 1: one or two questions. If they're really, really great, you
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  Speaker 1: can have some fun, but let's just keep it moving.
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  Speaker 1: And he did, he nailed it. It went exactly how
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  Speaker 1: long it should have went. So it was perfect. We
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  Speaker 1: did all eight and yeah, if you missed it, it's
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast. Just search Billy and Lisa in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: If you're here, you probably know how to get there.
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  Speaker 1: And then you can also go to voiceoflogan.com because the
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  Speaker 1: voting kicks off on Saturday, on the 24th, and it
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  Speaker 1: runs for four days until October 28th. But if you
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  Speaker 1: go there now, I don't know about like right this second,
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  Speaker 1: but shortly, they might actually, they're going to have all
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  Speaker 1: the auditions up there. So you can watch them, you
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  Speaker 1: can see them, listen to them, and then cast your vote. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I liked Christopher. They were also good. It's hard to pick,
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  Speaker 1: but just to point out a couple. Christopher was good. Kristen.
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  Speaker 3: Whether you're grabbing a lobster roll by the harbor, waiting
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  Speaker 3: in line for a cannoli in the north end, heading
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  Speaker 3: out to Gloucester for a little salt air.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she sounds Boston, 100%. Max came in looking
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  Speaker 1: like a Boston. He had the Red Sox hat with
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  Speaker 1: the flannel with the white T-shirt underneath.
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  Speaker 3: Whether you're grabbing a lobster roll by the harbor, waiting
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  Speaker 3: in line for a cannoli in the north end, heading
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  Speaker 3: out to Gloucester for a little salt air. or paying
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  Speaker 3: your respects to the green monster like it's a sacred landmark,
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  Speaker 3: because it is, we're wicked glad you're here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so voiceoflogan.com. I feel like a weight has been
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  Speaker 1: lifted off of me. I had so much stress, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I just think in these moments,
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  Speaker 1: what makes you successful is to have a plan, to
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  Speaker 1: execute the plan, to not freak out, to not have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to have positive thoughts. So as much anxiety
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  Speaker 1: as I had, I kind of knew in the back
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  Speaker 1: of my head, like I'm going to nail it. Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to nail it. And the boss texted us
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  Speaker 1: right after it was done. And he's like, that was,
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  Speaker 1: that was insane. That was so, so good. And obviously
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  Speaker 1: he means like the, you know, the break itself, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like the whole thing of the reveal, but also what
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  Speaker 1: he means is kind of keeping it tight, right? Because
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  Speaker 1: it is radio. That's, it's not like a podcast or
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have commercials and we have times we
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  Speaker 1: have to be in and out that it is all
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  Speaker 1: research based. So, you know, people listening, it's, it's, it's
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  Speaker 1: done a certain way and it's programmed a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really important that we hit those times. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't noticed, we go into the commercials mostly around
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  Speaker 1: like the 20, 27 of the hour. So like seven, 27, eight,
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  Speaker 1: not seven o'clock. There's no commercials, but like six, 27, eight, 27, nine, 27.
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  Speaker 1: That's a time that we go into commercial. So once
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  Speaker 1: you start going to like, Uh, 28, 20, 28. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: 29.
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  Speaker 1: Once you get to like 38, 30, nine 30, and
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  Speaker 1: you're still talking and not into, you know, what's called
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  Speaker 1: the stop set. That can be a big issue because
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  Speaker 1: ideally what you want is, uh, you want the first
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  Speaker 1: half of the commercial. So say the commercials are five
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  Speaker 1: or six minutes. Typically in the morning, they are, you
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  Speaker 1: want to play the first half over the, the, the
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  Speaker 1: 30 and then the second half after same thing at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the hour, you want like to be
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  Speaker 1: in at 27, Or let's say 57, for example, just
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  Speaker 1: to make it easier. You want the first half of
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  Speaker 1: the commercials to run from 57 to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the hour and then the other three minutes to run
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  Speaker 1: the first three minutes of the hour. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. It makes sense to me. When
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  Speaker 1: I first started on the radio, it sounded so weird.
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  Speaker 1: You could have been speaking French. So I'm sorry for
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  Speaker 1: confusing you there. But that's just how it works. So
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  Speaker 1: all is good. It's all over. And now we move on. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's check in with the talk backer first and see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Justin. Hi.
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  Speaker 2: I left to talk back not long ago about how
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  Speaker 2: I was, I think, 50 days sober or 60. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I'm at 66 now. Last night I had
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  Speaker 2: a dream about drinking and I had one drink. And
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  Speaker 2: the disappointment I felt in myself, I woke up and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I can't believe I drank.
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  Speaker 1: It felt so real.
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  Speaker 2: And it just made me wake up and be so
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  Speaker 2: happy that I haven't. Did that ever happen to you
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  Speaker 2: when you were getting sober?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Still happens.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It still happens. Much worse early on. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: when you first get clean, it's top of mind, right?
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  Speaker 1: You're just coming out of it. You're just getting clean.
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  Speaker 1: And your brain tricks you by basically putting you in
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  Speaker 1: these drug dreams where you picture yourself. You're having a
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  Speaker 1: dream and you're drinking or you're buying drugs. For me,
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  Speaker 1: it was always the chase of drugs, right? Because that's
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  Speaker 1: what my life was. It was waking up every day
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  Speaker 1: and chasing down. So I'd have these dreams of me
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  Speaker 1: like back on the street. of me ripping and running
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  Speaker 1: and like trying to get it. And it would always
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  Speaker 1: end like as I use the drug or even worse
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  Speaker 1: right before I use it. So I do all this
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  Speaker 1: work and you know, it's, you know, dreams are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're running around trying to like say get drugs, but
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  Speaker 1: then you see weird people that shouldn't even be there.
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  Speaker 1: You're in like weird places, you know how dreams are.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it happens all the time. And it's especially
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  Speaker 1: bad when you actually do use in the dream because
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  Speaker 1: you Well, first of all, they call it a free lapse.
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  Speaker 1: That's like a funny recovery term because it's like you
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  Speaker 1: relapse in the dream but not in real life. So
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  Speaker 1: they call it like a freebie. It's kind of weird.
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  Speaker 1: But you wake up sweating. Palms are sweating. Sheets are
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  Speaker 1: all soaked. At least that's what's happened to me. And
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  Speaker 1: you think that you actually did relapse when you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But very normal, very normal to happen. Listen, I've been
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  Speaker 1: clean for 18 years and it still happens to me.
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  Speaker 1: It always freaks me out, always. I mean, I've had
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: vivid dreams where I wake up and I'm convinced that
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I relapse. But nope, it is just a free lapse,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: very normal, and can even happen many, many years after
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: you get sober and you get clean. So that happens.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Pretty low-key weekend for me. But next weekend, I am
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: going to my second hardcore show.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: You may remember I went to a show with a
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: band called Blood for Blood. Now, I have a really
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: good friend of mine, one of my closest friends, Alan
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: the Plumber. You might have heard his name before. And
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Alan is a hardcore fanatic. This guy loves hardcore shows.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: He loves music in general. His favorite band is the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Smiths from like the 80s. And Morrissey, who was the
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: lead singer of the Smiths, who is still touring. He
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: was just here in Lowell. Alan was there. But he
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: loves hardcore music. And he goes to shows every single weekend.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: And so he had been asking me to go with him.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I went to Blood for Blood. And I don't know
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: any of these. I do now because of him, but
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't know any of these bands. But I went
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: to Blood for Blood at the Middle East, and I
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: had a lot of fun. It was a great time.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It's an experience. It really is. But you know what?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I found myself adding some of their songs to my playlist.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: They had some, like, good gym pump-up songs. So then
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: he says to me a few months ago, actually many
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: months ago, he said, there's another show. This is the one.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: that you need to go to. The tickets sold out
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: in literally five seconds. I don't have tickets, but if
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you could get tickets, it's at Big Night Live. Obviously,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Billy Costa, his nephew, Buddy, who we know and love,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: runs Big Night Live. So I said to him, to Alan,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: now this is, I think it was over the summer.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, it was in July. It was actually
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the day of Portnoy at Big Night Live. I said
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to him, listen, I'm going to see Buddy at Big Night.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I'll ask him. I'm sure it won't be a big deal.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: And this was like a huge deal to him, to Alan.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: He's like, you don't understand. This is the show of
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: the year, maybe the past five years. Insane, sold out.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: No one can get tickets. I'll see what I can do.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: So I went to Big Night. I saw Buddy. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I go, dude, can I get some tickets to a
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: show in October? He's like, whatever you need. I got you.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I said, have heart. And he goes, oh, my God. Yeah, yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: no problem. He's like, dude, that show is going to
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: be insane. It's sold out. I'm like, I know. My
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: friend told me. He goes, dude, just text me the
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: week of. I'll put you on the list. So I
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: went back to Alan and he's like, are you serious? Like, no, no. Like,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: are you? So to me, it's not a big deal
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: because I don't even know who Half Heart is. But
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to him, it's a big deal, especially in the hardcore
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: punk world. So I'm sure for the past several months,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: he's had this anxiety that it wouldn't happen. Probably had
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: high hopes that it would happen. But I saw him
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: over the weekend on Saturday and, you know, I go, oh,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I'm going to text Buddy on Monday. Don't worry about it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And he's like, dude, I'll send you the reminder. Like,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: do we think it's going to happen? Do we think? Now,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I wanted to go with my friend Adam, too. So
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask for three. So myself, Alan,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and Adam. So this morning we're at the Voice of Logan, okay?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And there's a million people here. The governor's here, all
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: her people. Matt Shearer from WBZ, who we know and love,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: big hardcore fan, was here doing a piece for the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Voice of Logan that's going to be on his Instagram page.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: If you don't follow Matt Shearer, go follow him. So
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I know that he's a big hardcore guy. So I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: see him in the hallway, say what's up to him.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And I go, dude, are you going to have heart?
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, my God, no, I can't get tickets.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Nobody can get tickets to this show. I was like, oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: he goes, why do you? I said, well, I'm going
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to text Billy's nephew for tickets. Do you want me
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to ask you for one? And so Billy's right there.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Right now, mind you, in this moment, we have a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: new digital head of digital. Right. Her name is Jen.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And she's been here for a couple of months. She's great.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: She's a hardcore girl. Okay. She goes to the hardcore shows.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: So she's standing by and she's like, oh my God,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: have heart. You have tickets to have heart. I couldn't
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: get tickets to have heart. So Billy's standing there and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: he goes, what are you guys talking about? So I
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: explained it to him and he's like, my nephew. Oh,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I'll handle this. Now I'm like, dude, I'll call, but
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: he's no, no, no, no. So, you know, Billy is right.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Get it done.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So we go into my studio, and he's like, Lise,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: come on in. So it's myself, Billy, and Lise. And
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I had asked Matt and Jen, I go, do you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: want me to ask you just one ticket? And they're like, yeah,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: just one ticket. One for her, one for him. So
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Billy comes in my studio he's a call buddy put
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: him on speaker so i call buddy picks up now
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: he just woke up right because he works late he's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a dj obviously and he picks up buddy yeah it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: your uncle you never talk to you never call and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: so he's laughing and And he goes, dude, you got
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to make the family proud. Okay. There's this thing going
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: on at the radio station. We have multiple employees here
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: that need to go to this show at Big Night Live.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: You got to make it happen. And Buddy's like, that's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: why you're calling? He goes, yeah, whatever you need. What show?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And he's like, God Heart. I'm like, no, it's Have Heart, Billy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: He's like, Have Heart. Okay. Matt Shero wants to go
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: from BZ. We got Jen, the digital girl, Justin, his friends.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: And Buddy's like, uncle. Just tell Justin to text me
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the names. No problem. And he's like, there we go.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: That's my nephew. And then I jumped in. And, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: my friend Alan had told me because he was at
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Big Night Live this past Saturday at a hardcore show.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And he texted me from the event. Now he knows
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to the mosh pit. Okay. I don't
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: want to go in the mosh pit. I don't want
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to be near the mosh pit. I cannot get hurt. Okay.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: He goes, make sure if you can, if he's willing
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to give tickets, that you get tickets at the tables.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: They have these like VIP tables that kind of look
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: over everything. He said, because this is insane today. Next
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: week is going to be complete madness. I said, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: got you. So I said to Buddy, can I be
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: at a table? I'm not going to be. I don't
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: want to be in the mosh pit. And Buddy's like, dude,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: just text me the names. I'll put you at a
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: VIP table. You're all set. So I was riding a
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: high from the Voice of Logan contest and that all
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: going well. And then I was able to text my
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: friend Alan, my friend Adam, Jen, and Matt Sharer and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: tell them they're all set. They're going to be at
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the VIP table for Have Heart, hottest hardcore show of
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the year. And I just feel like– I feel good.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I feel good helping people. It's going to be a
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: fun night. We'll get dinner. And actually, Alan really wants
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: to meet Matt Scherer because obviously he knows who he is.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And the hardcore people are very, very close and very–
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it's a scene. It's fun. It's like a gang, you know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: but in a good way because a lot of them
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: are straight edge. That's what's cool. That's actually the really
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: coolest part about it that I learned from Alan is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: if you listen to the music, it's screaming and it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: moshing and it's stage diving. And I can't understand the lyrics.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can now a little bit now that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I listen, but a lot of it is about being
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: straight edge and being clean and being sober, which I
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely love. And that's what their message is. So some
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of them drink, but most of them do not. You know,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: where are you going? You just walk in and then
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: walk out? What are you doing?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Is it the after show?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Hi, McCabe. Hi, McCabe. Yeah, I was just telling them about– Yeah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: it sounded really intense. I didn't want to– What?
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Well, I was talking about– Sorry. So there's a– actually,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you're the show guy.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: You go to a million shows.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: There's a hardcore show at Big Night Live that you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: would never go to most likely. Maybe.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So I guess it's like one of the biggest shows
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: of the past five years. And so my good friend
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Alan is a hardcore guy. He had asked me to
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: get tickets for myself, him, and our other friend.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: So this morning, Matt Sherry was here.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: He's a big hardcore guy.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And Jen, the digital girl.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Jen's a big hardcore girl.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: So I asked them.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: They probably know the people in it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Definitely. But I asked them, I said, are you going
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to have heart? And they both were like, you're going?
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: You have tickets? I said, well, not yet. I'm going
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to text Buddy, which is Billy's nephew. And so I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: was able to text them and got five tickets for
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: all of us. Let's go. All right. So I was
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: just saying.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Jen was in the studio when Lisa told her and
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: she freaked out.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: So I was explaining how I'm riding a high from
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the Voice of Logan contest.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what a blast.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That it went well.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: A lot of anxiety.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And then on top of that, I was able to
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: get tickets for all my people. That's awesome. Congratulations. Thank you.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Clear my throat. Go ahead. Let me try
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: to shut up your mic. You all good?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Usually there's a button down here for me to do that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: It's on the other side there.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: It won't work.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Look, I'm hitting it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So, McCabe, you filled in for producer Riley who had
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a scheduled day off today.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I love that job.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You crushed it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I had no doubts.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: That's my favorite thing is running the board.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: It's like magic, you know?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I do like it too.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: It's like creating a piece of art, but live. Yes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Like you can't go back. Yes.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: You fuck up, it's done.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I also feel like- I did fuck up once. Did
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you hear it?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: The running of the live board, I did. I'll tell you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I don't think you were even in the studio.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I heard it. The running of the live board is
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: kind of a forgotten thing sometimes. It is.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: It's an art form that nobody does anymore.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: No, they really don't. I heard you mess up unless
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: it's a second time.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what was yours?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: No, you fucked. I knew you. You're a mess up.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: What was your notice of my fuck up?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: You were doing some production stuff with the pot up.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I fucked up twice actually. You didn't hear
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the other one.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, what was the other one? Yeah, even Dylan, our
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: number one boss, texted me.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Hey, I hear that. I'm like, hey, consider it a preview.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So people listening that don't know, the commercials are playing
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and McCabe was doing some like setting up of our
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: music and production and he had that caught up. So
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: all you heard in the background of the commercials was
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Kiss 108. Right when I heard it, I knew what
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: it was. I go, dude, put it down. Put it down.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: What was the other one?
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: The other one was I flipped the Olivia Rodrigo clips
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: in the first entertainment report. Played Deja Vu when it
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: was supposed to be Expectations and the other way around.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, how did I miss that?
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: You were dealing with something else.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. All right. Yeah. That happens too. Listen,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I always tell producer Riley, I've trained her as best
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I can. And you know this more than anybody else.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: When you mess up, you can't let it snowball.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I forgot about it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: You got to forget about it. You can never get
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: it back. You know who told me that? DJ Pup Dog.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: That's true. When I started as an intern for him.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And one time I messed up and he goes, listen
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to me. I'm going to tell you this right now. Radio,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: once you mess up and it's out there, You got
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: to let it go.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: You can't get it back. You cannot do anything.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: And you're not going to– don't wait. This goes for
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: any job.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Honestly, if you mess something up, you can learn from it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: You're like, okay, I see what I did there. But
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: you can't dwell on it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: All it's going to do is just take away the
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: energy you could spend making shit better.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And also what happens is it can snowball.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You get so caught up in it, you start messing
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: up other things. And then it goes really, really bad. Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Especially in radio, like live radio. Yeah. Oh, man. If
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: you're on the air and doing the board and all that,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: you mess one thing up and the whole train goes
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: off sometimes.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: What did you think of the show, like the running
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of the show? This is great. It's pretty busy, right?
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: In general?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Today was actually really busy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I actually thought today was kind of chill.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't think. It got a little crazy at
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock, but I think.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: You guys are pros. There's nobody who doesn't like you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: You think so?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, maybe some others, but not in this market.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Definitely not in this market. No, I like that. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: was explaining to Dylan. Dylan's our boss. He was in
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: my studio last week and he was talking to me
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: about something, about the talkbacks. And then I had it open, right?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And so I go, I go, well, look right now.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And I was showing it to him. He goes, oh,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: those are the, oh, let me take a look. And
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: he goes, wait, so all of these are from this morning?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And I go, no, that's one page. And I went two, three, four.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: He goes, those are all? And I go, yeah. And
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: he goes, okay, so let me get this straight. When
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: they come in, you like roll them into our computer
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: system and then you play them. And I go, yeah,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but I also play them live. And he goes, let
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: me get this straight. You play it live from your
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: computer over the radio. I go, yeah. He goes, that's risky.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I go, but does it sound good? He goes, it
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: sounds good.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And today.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Is that what you were doing today?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I played a talkback that had come in right when
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: we were ending and I played it over an intro
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of a song.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, it was so good.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And I timed it perfect. Oh, God. I love that. Yeah.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: That was really good.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Good shit.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. I love that. So
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: thank you very much for filling in. I really appreciate it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I can't believe I got to fill in today. You
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: can fill it anytime you want. All days. Yeah. Well,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: producer Riley's very nervous. She was very nervous about taking
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: time off. She didn't because she should take some time.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: She should take some time to take time off. It's
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: only because she's afraid that there's nobody else to cover.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But I'm like, McCabe can do it. Mikey could run
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the board. Mikey. Yeah. Gianna does not know the board.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Does she?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: No. She came up in a new era of just
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: being the co-host. You need to teach her.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You got to teach her. She should know. No?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: You don't really have to anymore.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I guess so.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: If you're like her, her job is like Co-host.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: She doesn't have to.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess if you have you and then Mikey,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: then it's fine.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: If you have you, there's a good producer.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Come on, baby.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: The Billy and Lisa show is kind of crazy because
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: there's really two board operators.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: And that's why it sounds so fast.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Like Riley is running the board, but you're also running
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: a whole separate board that we pump into the board.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Like there's so much happening.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Like if we ever.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Explained it technically, I think people's brains would melt.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard to explain. But you know what
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: other famous show runs like that is the Howard Stern show.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Howard Stern has his own. Howard has his own. And
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: then Fred has his own. And they kind of work
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: off of each other. So I think that's cool.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Plans for today?
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I got to do some work and then I'm going
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: to go fuck to sleep.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Are you tired?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I'm very tired.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, you had to get up early. You don't get
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: up early. That's what it was. Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Well, I also stayed out late. I went to, yesterday
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: was a busy work day too. Sunday, I came in
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: to get ready for all this.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: You were cleaning. I cleaned this. Oh yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: This is a great opportunity for me to go off
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: on everyone who works here.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. You're all slobs. Not me.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: This is your door too.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, the door.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I cleaned the doors.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I've never cleaned the door.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: In this studio.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Nobody has.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: And we have, I was telling this to somebody last
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: night and he was like, don't you have like a
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: cleaning staff?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, yeah, we do actually. All they
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: do is change the trash. All they do is change
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the trash. That's all they do.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: I had the vacuum in there.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: And by the way, our vacuum doesn't work. So you
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: turn the power on. It works for five seconds.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: You got to use Billy's vacuum.
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: No, that doesn't.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: No, it does. No, it does. It's okay.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: It's a roller.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: It's not a power vacuum. Old school. But anyway. You
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: did a great job. The doors were black.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Now they're white again. So anyway.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Can I be honest about something in my studio?
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: So famously for the past 10, 12 years, I would
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: pay the phone screener. To clean my studio.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I asked Riley and she was like, no, I'll pay
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: you a lot.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I don't pay her anymore because I feel weird. I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I don't like didn't Maddie used to pay our engineer.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: To come clean his board in the board. Yes.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: We need that desperately.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: You should actually ask him if he'll do it. He
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: probably will.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: I don't think my budget is high. It's as high
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: as Maddie's budget might have been.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. But yeah, you
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: did a great job. You were here. Oh, but then
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you had the Olivia Rodrigo play.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: That was awesome. Like, shout out to anyone who came.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: We had an awesome crowd there. I love that event.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: That space is so good. And every time I talk
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: about it, I genuinely use that hack. of like go
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: hang out at play and you can walk in right
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: when the show starts.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I gave you a plug last week because I think
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you did the video on Thursday, but you did a
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: video on the Instagram explaining how to do it. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thought it was very well done.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: People were like quoting it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. People were like, I saw this.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It was great. It's always, I always love hearing
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: from people at the event, like who really heard about it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Like we had a lot of people saying, I heard
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: it on Billy and Lisa. I heard you talking about
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: it on the way in. Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It's just fun.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Like it makes us like, you know, we're out there.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: It's also visual. So we can explain it a million times.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: But I'm like, I finally, I just said, go to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the kids Instagram. McCabe did a perfect video. Cause remember
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the Ariana that was.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: It was weird.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: That's why we're like, that's why we partnered with them. Honestly,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: it's like to tell people how to get there.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So do you spot when you get up there? Do
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: we have a, what's the next big show coming?
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: I think it's the next big one.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a next week.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Jingle ball alums. Yep. And then 28th or something like that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: The 28th. That's it. Okay. So we'll be a play
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: for that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: We'll be at play for that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Did you go to the show, too, last night?
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you went Thursday. You didn't get tickets.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Really? Yeah. I did go Thursday. She's so good.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looked really good. She sounded really good.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I thought we were going to have everyone from the
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: morning show there. We got everyone tickets, and then everyone's like, oh,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: can't go.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't go.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Wednesday's coming up.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I couldn't go. Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Cat's Eye is Wednesday the 28th. Yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And Harry Ween.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I put Harry Ween in my calendar. As a manifestation thing. Oh,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: because you already went to Harry. I went to opening night.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Can you imagine if I went to closing night?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, that would be sick. Dude, you have all the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: connections in New York.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: That's why I put it in.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I'm like, if there's a ticket on the floor in
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: some office somewhere, I don't care if they're like, hey,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: the show's in three hours. I'll be like, okay.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Dude, it might happen. It might happen. And by the way,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the Harry Ween contest is like, Yeah.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: How was it today?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: You said there's no way it was 10,000.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. Probably it's got to be over
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: 1,000 now.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: 1,000 for one time seems right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're coming in hot. I mean, looking at
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: it right now, look at this page. So many.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: I think we just played another one.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So every time we play Harry Styles, you leave
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a talkback and tell us why you need to be there.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: That's how the talkback for tickets work. It's called Harryween.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And you win tickets to both shows. The final weekend, Halloween.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday. Yeah.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: And then train tickets, hotel. That's insane, dude.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Billy literally stopped courting me in the hallway on Friday
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: and was like, this is amazing. Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: He was so impressed just with the– and then I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: can't even talk about the contest coming next week. That's–
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: we'll announce that later on this week.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: The money one? Yes.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, Jingle Ball– oh, oh, oh, oh. So that's going
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to be crazy next week because we're going to have
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: two things going on at the same time.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: It's going to be fun. Oh, yeah. It starts on Monday.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It starts on Monday. You're getting a real– Real insight here.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: This is where you get all the truth. Inside baseball.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I love when I meet people and they go, I'm
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: an after show army member.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Because you're inside.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: That's the best. You know what else? Before you go,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: which is, it's always great when people listen to the
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: show and they see me in public and they say
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: hi to me. It's always phenomenal.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: And they say, look at those quads.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Well, Billy had me pulling my pants down to Bobby
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Kelly on Friday.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: He went to me once. It was scarring. They're scary.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Bobby loved it. He loved it. Anyway, what's weird about
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: radio is being recognized by your voice. Yeah. That's happened twice.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It happened at my High Rocks event and it happened
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: with Mikey V at Fenway for Noah Khan. But at
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the High Rocks event, the race that I did, I
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: went the day before my race to watch. I was
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: spectating and I was cheering on my friend and there
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: were these girls right next to me and they weren't
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: even looking at me. And when I started speaking, they
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: both looked like, are you Justin? And for my voice,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: that's weird. You have a very specific voice though. You think?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah. You've got that little accent.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: You kind of talk a little fun.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I talk funny, but like not like.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I know what you mean.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Not like bad.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I have no training. You sound like you're from Boston.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I have no training.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: I sound like a, like Romeo.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Romeo.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Romeo.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Want to hear a good one? Oh,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: my God. You don't even know this story, dude. I
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: didn't even tell the story. I know you have to go.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I have a meeting at 11. How long do I have? Okay.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: My wife backs into a car in Stoneham. Okay. Not
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in the car. The other person, Tesla, leaves a note. Okay.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: And leaves with her phone number. She calls me. I go, oh,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: my God. Our insurance is going to go up or whatever.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: She goes, I know. I'm sorry. I get a text
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: from Romeo who used to work on Kiss 108. And
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: it's a picture of my wife. Taken from his license
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: plate or wherever the camera was on a Tesla. Oh,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: my God. It was Romeo's car. That's hilarious. Yes, dude.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I go, what are the chances? He goes, dude, I
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: can't believe it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: When was that?
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Like two weeks ago.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: What?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Yes. That's crazy. Yes. He realized it when he saw
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: her name and realized who it was.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I always forget he's still in Boston because he's always
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: JetBlue flying now.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: He's a pilot and he owns the Libs juice bar.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Which I give so much money to.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: It's really good. It's really good. So, yeah, that's funny
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: you said Romeo. That's a real thing. All right, your
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: meeting starts in 15 seconds. It's the Kiss Music meeting.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: What should we play? Oh, I don't know.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Or Harry Weem music?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: One request. I like Baby Doll. It's a good song. Dominic,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: it's a minute and a half.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: You need a longer one?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Please. Anyway, thank you, McCabe.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. All right. Why did they come
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: in here? I don't know, but now you're leaving. Bye.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: All right. That was fun. McCabe popping in. Yeah, Producer
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Riley was off today, so as we talked about. So
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: she'll be back tomorrow. But McCabe did a great job.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: He's like a radio OG. I mean I'm not worried
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: about McCabe. I was telling him kind of when we
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: got done with the show. I go, dude, you crushed it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: But I had– listen, he knows this stuff inside and out.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And I go, you know what? Really, you're great at
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: your job. But I love how much pride you take
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: in your job. And I said, I think that is
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: an issue with people, not just here at the radio
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: station but in any job, right? I know this is
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a cool job and it's a fun job. It's stressful,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: but listen, it's a cool, fun job. But you want
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to take pride in your work no matter what you do.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: And it's even worse when people that work here and
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: they take it for granted and they don't take any
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: pride in what they do. It really bothers me because
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: if there's ever a job that you should take pride in,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: it's this because we're very lucky to be doing this,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to work on the radio. Are you kidding me? To
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: be able to do what we do? And listen, it's
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: not all sunshine and roses, right? Like a lot of
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: us are underpaid, overworked, like any job, right? We're doing
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: multiple things. That's just the way radio works. But at
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's still radio. And we're
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: still able to do it. And we should be grateful
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and take pride. And that's what McCabe does. And I really,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that. I mean, look, I texted him about
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the voice of Logan at 5 o'clock on a Sunday yesterday.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: And he goes, I'm already here. I'm already here. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: he sent me a picture of him cleaning. He cleaned
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: all the studios. He wiped the doors down. No one
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: asked him to do that. He just knew. that, you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: stuff needed to be done, and he was going to
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: do it. So very grateful to him. Thank you to McKay.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Producer Riley will be back tomorrow. Oh, God, 37 minutes
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I've been talking. After talking for four hours straight. But
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm grateful to be here, baby, and
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I take pride in my work. We'll talk tomorrow, Army.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: See you.