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Jim Kerr's Experience With Roger Waters · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: New York's Christmas Station, one of six point seven Light
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  Speaker 1: of Them, Carrie Underwood an Oh Holy night, Cubby with
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  Speaker 1: Nina and for Christine this Morning producer Christen here And
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  Speaker 1: you know today is December twelfth. And when I woke
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  Speaker 1: up this morning and I saw the date twelve twelve,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, why does that sound so familiar? What happened?
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  Speaker 1: I know it's twelve twelve, that's one thing, yes, but
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  Speaker 1: something and I'm went, oh, wait, twelve twelve, twelve, thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago was that big concert for Sandy Relief? And
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  Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, I went with a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine and it was like the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton,
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  Speaker 1: Kanye West. Anyway, I bumped into Jim Kerr from Q
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  Speaker 1: one oh four point three, the Rock and Roll Morning Show. Jim,
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  Speaker 1: how are you? My friend?
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  Speaker 2: Fine? We bumped into each other as we ordinarily do
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  Speaker 2: it coffee machine.
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  Speaker 1: Right outside the door. But I was wondering, if you
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  Speaker 1: went to that concert and he goes, Cubby, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: just go. I was broadcasting live at that show. So
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  Speaker 1: thirteen years ago, and what do you remember about that day?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, it was it was an extraordinary day because
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  Speaker 2: all of those great performers, you know, donated their time
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  Speaker 2: and we had a special section set up backstage to
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  Speaker 2: do a live broadcast which was a national in scope, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I was hosting it along with Maria Melito who
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  Speaker 2: works with me. Yeah, next door killing the four point three,
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  Speaker 2: and Alicia Keyes came by. We had a real nice
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  Speaker 2: conversation with her, and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd came by.
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  Speaker 2: We had a white couch back there, and he spilled
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  Speaker 2: an entire glass of red wine on the white couch.
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  Speaker 2: Any equipment get hit, and then he looked up at
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  Speaker 2: us and he sort of shrugged and he said, and
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  Speaker 2: I quote, I'm drunk.
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  Speaker 1: But you would not have known had you seen him.
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  Speaker 2: On stage, just you know, moments before Kanye West when
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  Speaker 2: he went on. He was supposed to be on stage
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  Speaker 2: for about ten minutes, but he went on and on
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  Speaker 2: on and on and on, so Paul McCartney had to wait.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow. So that was that was a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the things that impressed me the most
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  Speaker 2: is the commitment that the artists made, because it's not
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  Speaker 2: just showing up and performing on stage in front of
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  Speaker 2: the crowd to raise money for Sandy Relief. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other work that goes into it beforehand. And
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  Speaker 2: the Rolling Stones. I mean you have to search really
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  Speaker 2: long and hard to find bigger stars than the Rolling Stones.
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  Speaker 2: Their call time for their sound check was ten am
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  Speaker 2: and they were there.
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  Speaker 1: They were there, and they were there. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: if they were getting paid for that event?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, right, because it was for charity, so they were
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  Speaker 1: donating their time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all these great artists though, who I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was incredible. Yeah, it is absolutely incredible. And it was
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  Speaker 2: put together by people who work here right with.
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  Speaker 1: Us thirteen years ago today, twelve twelve twelves.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember that show? Well? I remember the show
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  Speaker 1: for sure. It was broadcast everywhere. Everybody watched that show.
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  Speaker 1: Yea yeah, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Well it actually became a movie, a feature film.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. That's right. Well, thank you for the memories.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And listen. If you love Christmas music,
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  Speaker 1: you got the right place light f M. But if
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  Speaker 1: you want to break away, well, well, the version of.
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  Speaker 2: Holy Night that you just played is stunning.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you like that one?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's such a beautiful song. Yes, and
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  Speaker 2: she's such a good singer.
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  Speaker 1: And do you play any Christmas songs at Q one
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  Speaker 1: of four point three. Yes, okay, yes you play, Bruce.
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing Springsteen. Santa Claus is coming to.
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  Speaker 2: Town from the from c W Post Live.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want you to know everybody. We that's our neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Kerr, and we love him, and we love Q
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  Speaker 1: one of four point three.
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  Speaker 2: And we love FM.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we we give love to each other. Don't oh
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  Speaker 1: what you