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What Are Your Thoughts... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, checking in on a Wednesday, the After Show
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  Speaker 1: podcast is on. Hi, everybody. I'm Justin, and yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is the After Show. The show just ended, and that's
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  Speaker 1: when this little whatever it is starts. Every single day,
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  Speaker 1: five days a week. It can be found anywhere you
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  Speaker 1: get your podcasts. The iHeartRadio app is where you can
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  Speaker 1: leave talkbacks. I like to kind of reiterate that. You
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  Speaker 1: can find this podcast on Spotify, on Apple, but on
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  Speaker 1: the iHeart app, you can also get it, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where if you're listening to the podcast, You can tap
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  Speaker 1: that red microphone button. I can hear your beautiful voice.
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  Speaker 2: Justin, ignore the freaking haters. You did a fantastic job
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. I meant to leave a talkback, but I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to liken it to Kylie Jenner walking
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  Speaker 2: in the Victoria's Secret, having the, I don't know, $ 150
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  Speaker 2: million bra or whatever. There's so many haters. She was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No one has time for the haters. They just
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  Speaker 1: want to bring the room down. It's like life's too
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  Speaker 1: short to be hateful. It really is. And I hate
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  Speaker 1: to spend as much time as I did on it.
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  Speaker 1: But Monday was a really tough one because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had the mass port and Governor Healy in and
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  Speaker 1: it was such a big moment. I mean, I talked
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  Speaker 1: about that. But, you know, to have people like come on,
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  Speaker 1: coming at you for having the governor on. She's the governor. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a re-election season. And yes, I know
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  Speaker 1: that the governor, you know, ulterior motives probably, right? It's
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  Speaker 1: a re-election. She wants to be a part of this.
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  Speaker 1: But also, she also is the governor of Massachusetts. And
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  Speaker 1: this is a big, big Boston thing that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: And her voice is at Logan. So the new voice
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  Speaker 1: of Logan is going to join her voice. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's so stupid, man. People are so crazy. I think
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  Speaker 1: also it's the fact that I've spent so much time
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  Speaker 1: in my life surrounding myself with positive people because, remember,
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  Speaker 1: I was in a negative spot for many, many years.
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  Speaker 1: And so I've spent so much time building a circle
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  Speaker 1: of people who only want the best for me and
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  Speaker 1: I want the best for them who are positive and
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  Speaker 1: who are progressing in life. Those are some of the
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  Speaker 1: main things that I like, good people, compassionate people, but
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  Speaker 1: people that are going places. You don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: stuck or surrounded by people that are stuck in life.
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  Speaker 1: Just what I think about that. And, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: those these people come around, you're like, oh, man, I
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  Speaker 1: want to be around these people. And, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: to say that someone that leaves a bad comment is
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  Speaker 1: a bad person. I'm not I'm not trying to put
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  Speaker 1: them all in one box. The fact of the matter
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  Speaker 1: is the world's not all positive and there's negative as well.
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  Speaker 1: I just know that for years, man, I was always
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  Speaker 1: around people or in situations that I did not want
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  Speaker 1: to be in by choice. By the way, that was
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  Speaker 1: my choice. Everything that I ever did. Any situation I
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  Speaker 1: put myself in, that was my choice to be there, right?
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  Speaker 1: I'll never not believe that. But I was always around
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  Speaker 1: people that I just didn't like, right? Just didn't like.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember when I finally cleaned up my act,
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  Speaker 1: it was such a profound thing that after many months,
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  Speaker 1: after a year or two, when I kind of made
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  Speaker 1: new friends and built this circle, it was such a
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  Speaker 1: relief to be around people that didn't want anything from me.
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  Speaker 1: And they weren't negative. They didn't Think about that. Every
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  Speaker 1: single day, right, in active addiction, you're around people that
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  Speaker 1: only want something from you. They don't care about you.
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  Speaker 1: They care about the next one. I didn't care about
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  Speaker 1: them either. So it goes both ways. But I just
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  Speaker 1: had spent so much time around people like that. That's
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  Speaker 1: just the world of active addiction. And there were so
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  Speaker 1: many times that I was like in these places where
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  Speaker 1: I just had the thought in my head, what am
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  Speaker 1: I even doing here? Like, what am I doing? There
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  Speaker 1: were so many moments. I'm going to share one with you.
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  Speaker 1: It just popped in my head. I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: Billy in here in a second. I'll try to. We
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  Speaker 1: have a meeting in like 15 minutes. But I was
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  Speaker 1: really not in a good place and I was buying
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  Speaker 1: drugs from a kid and he got arrested. He had
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  Speaker 1: a girlfriend and the girlfriend was pregnant. So he was
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  Speaker 1: selling drugs out of their home. And he got arrested.
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  Speaker 1: So he went to jail. He wasn't getting out. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I reached out to him to try to buy.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know. And his girlfriend answered and she said, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's in jail, but I'm taking over for him.
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  Speaker 1: What do you need? You know, come by. So I
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  Speaker 1: went to the house and mind you, she is probably
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  Speaker 1: eight months pregnant. Okay. I'm just going to warn you
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  Speaker 1: in the story. It is pretty graphic and I do
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  Speaker 1: apologize for this, but this is the after show. We
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  Speaker 1: get the raw stuff. So I go to the house
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  Speaker 1: and I go in and she's eight months pregnant and
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  Speaker 1: I buy my drugs from her and she says to me,
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  Speaker 1: do you want to smoke? So I said, okay. It's free.
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  Speaker 1: So we sit down at the table and she pulls
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  Speaker 1: out a crack pipe and she– it's not even registering
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  Speaker 1: to me in this moment that she's pregnant. Like I
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  Speaker 1: see it, but the two things are not like being
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  Speaker 1: put together yet. So I sit down and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for getting a free high. So I sit
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  Speaker 1: down and we're talking and she takes out the crack
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  Speaker 1: pipe and she starts loading it or whatever. And then
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  Speaker 1: she puts the thing to her mouth and she takes
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  Speaker 1: a hit. And as she's smoking the pipe, it was this–
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  Speaker 1: it was like– it was like I was living in
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  Speaker 1: a world of darkness and it finally– a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of light shined in. I know that kind of sounds weird,
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  Speaker 1: but it was this really profound moment. Or I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at her and what she was doing. And then
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  Speaker 1: I looked down at her belly, you know, being eight
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  Speaker 1: months pregnant. And I was like, what am I doing here?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: How did I get here? You know, it was like
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  Speaker 1: the most horrifying feeling. But the power of the disease
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  Speaker 1: of addiction is I had that thought as I'm looking.
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  Speaker 1: And then once she was done taking the hit, she
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  Speaker 1: passed the pipe and the lighter to me. And when
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  Speaker 1: she did, I just took it and I just got
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  Speaker 1: high with her, you know. Because that takes precedence over
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  Speaker 1: anything else. And so we finished up and I ended
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  Speaker 1: up leaving and I thought about that for days afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously after the high wore off, I was thinking about
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  Speaker 1: that and thinking about like how did I get myself
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  Speaker 1: into this situation? Now, that's kind of a messed up story.
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  Speaker 1: I do have a happy ending to that story, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is that he and her are no longer together but
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  Speaker 1: they are both clean now still for many years and
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  Speaker 1: their daughter– who is, let's do the math on this,
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  Speaker 1: is I think probably 16, no, probably 18 or 19
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  Speaker 1: years old, roughly, maybe 20. And I see him on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: I see her on Facebook. I see the daughter on Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: They're not together, but they split custom. Well, the daughter's
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  Speaker 1: older than 18 now. So that's a good thing. She
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  Speaker 1: was born. She didn't have a lot of bad effects
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know. But that's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: good ending to the story. But it just really goes
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  Speaker 1: to show you those are the situations that I was
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  Speaker 1: in all the time. I know I kind of took
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  Speaker 1: a right turn there, but things just pop into my head.
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  Speaker 1: That's just how it works. So we're onwards, baby. We
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  Speaker 1: are onwards. So today is Wednesday. We're halfway through the week.
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  Speaker 1: This weekend, obviously, I'm going to the show Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Billy has Wicked Night at
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  Speaker 1: Salem Waterfront Hotel, which I've never been to. Every year
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  Speaker 1: I say I'm going to go, and then I can never,
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  Speaker 1: ever make it. It sucks. But I'd like to go
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  Speaker 1: one year. Because, you know, I love the Salem Waterfront Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: That's my spot. Love it. All right, let me see
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  Speaker 1: if I can get Billy home. All right, I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: And Billy is nowhere to be found. We have a
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  Speaker 1: meeting with the boss in a few minutes to go
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  Speaker 1: over some stuff. And I got a lot of DMs, actually. Well, several. About,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was Monday's podcast or maybe yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But people really liking the behind-the-scenes stuff of the show,
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  Speaker 1: of the radio station. You know, how... I think it
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  Speaker 1: was the mass sport thing, how that was put together.
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  Speaker 1: They really liked that. So that actually warms my heart because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I do this podcast as a companion to
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  Speaker 1: the regular show, but always remember I'm a fan. Like
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  Speaker 1: I was always a radio guy growing up. I know
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to listen to a show and wonder
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  Speaker 1: what happens behind the scenes, you know, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: complete fluke that I'm even here. We know that. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously I worked hard, but based on where I came from,
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  Speaker 1: I think about how did this happen? How did I
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  Speaker 1: end up on the radio? This is wild. But I
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  Speaker 1: remember listening to this show and as a kid growing
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  Speaker 1: up and wondering and having all these questions about the
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes. So a really cool thing is when
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  Speaker 1: I got a job here and I worked my way up,
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  Speaker 1: I got to learn all of those things about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. So yeah, so I like to dish out
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  Speaker 1: on that. I like to be honest with people and
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  Speaker 1: kind of give them a glimpse into what happens and
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  Speaker 1: what goes on. So the meeting that we have today,
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  Speaker 1: it's about the vacations for next year. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we get four weeks vacation as a show, all of us, right?
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  Speaker 1: So we take the same vacations every year. This goes
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  Speaker 1: back to Maddie, you know, Maddie in the show, that
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  Speaker 1: was the way he always did it. The show was
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  Speaker 1: off at the same exact time, right? So that's different
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  Speaker 1: than a lot of other morning shows, other morning shows,
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  Speaker 1: One host will be off. So the show is always live,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is a huge benefit to the listener.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't have to hear my stupid voice talking
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  Speaker 1: into stupid best ofs pretending that it's live, OK? And
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, you know, right? That's
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  Speaker 1: for the casual listener. because it never fails, right? I
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  Speaker 1: come back from vacation, a million talkbacks. I get DMs
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  Speaker 1: with people that think it's live, that think we're really
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  Speaker 1: there when we're not. So the real true fans that
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  Speaker 1: listen every day know, but for everybody else, that's why
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  Speaker 1: we do the best of thing. But I understand the
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  Speaker 1: benefit of having a live show year round. So four
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  Speaker 1: weeks vacation, it's always the same weeks, right? March, July, August,
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  Speaker 1: and then Christmas, which ends up being a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more than four weeks. You know, we have extra days
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  Speaker 1: and all that, but it's always the last two weeks
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  Speaker 1: in December around Christmas. We have off every year, but
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  Speaker 1: the boss wanted to change that up and he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to start having separate vacations and kind of just sticking
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  Speaker 1: people in. But then on top of that, Billy just
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  Speaker 1: signed a new contract with, for a couple more years.
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  Speaker 1: And what they offered him was a couple more years,
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  Speaker 1: but then also he can take as much time as
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  Speaker 1: possible because he's earned it. And obviously he's getting towards retirement.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's past retirement age right now, but he's
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  Speaker 1: getting to that point. So he's going to start taking
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  Speaker 1: like a day here, a long weekend here. And he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do that more and more over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. So the idea is to kind of
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  Speaker 1: put people in and kind of see where the show
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  Speaker 1: goes because, you know, once Billy goes, it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And what is the plan next? I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: hope I'm going to be a part of it, but
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  Speaker 1: who knows what's going to happen. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: what we have to meet about. Are we going to
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  Speaker 1: stick with the, everyone takes a vacation at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: or are we going to switch it up and stick
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  Speaker 1: people in, but then also who's going to fill in
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  Speaker 1: when Billy's off? That's another big question. So these are
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  Speaker 1: things we have to tackle. And I booked a cruise
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  Speaker 1: because the boss said it was changing over the summer.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to the boss and I said to him, listen,
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  Speaker 1: these best of things that I do, it's getting to
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  Speaker 1: be too much. I've been doing it for over 10 years,
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  Speaker 1: going way back. So I've been hosting the best ofs.
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  Speaker 1: It's way too long. I'm doing too much. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that Riley would be great to take over because
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  Speaker 1: that's how I got my voice heard more on the
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  Speaker 1: radio in the morning. People knew that when the show
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  Speaker 1: was on vacation, they would hear my voice. And By
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  Speaker 1: the way, I cleared it with producer Riley. She's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm 100 percent in on that. And so the boss
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  Speaker 1: said over the summer, he goes, listen, August will be
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  Speaker 1: your last week. OK, that'll be the last one, because
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  Speaker 1: Jan one, you're all taking separate vacations. That was the plan.
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  Speaker 1: So we started looking at dates and times for our vacation.
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  Speaker 1: Jen found a cruise. She convinced me the cruise is
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  Speaker 1: happening on school vacation for New Hampshire, which is the
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  Speaker 1: last week in February. So we booked it. That thing
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  Speaker 1: is bought and paid for, signed, sealed, delivered. I am
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  Speaker 1: not changing that. I cannot change that. I will not.
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  Speaker 1: So Billy is going to Africa in February, but not
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  Speaker 1: that week. He's going a different week. So, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: have some stuff to talk about. Is he going to
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  Speaker 1: want to keep it the same or not? So that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're meeting after that, after this podcast. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to meet with him and go over that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to know what the listeners think, right? I'd
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  Speaker 1: love to know what you guys think. Would you rather
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  Speaker 1: the show be live all the time but different? Because
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  Speaker 1: that's where the change came in. Because a month ago
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  Speaker 1: we had a meeting and that was the plan. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Riley who said, made a really
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  Speaker 1: good point. She said, if that's the case, each of
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  Speaker 1: us have four weeks of vacation plus Billy's extra time.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be 16 weeks out of the
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  Speaker 1: year that the show will be different. And the boss
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like, I don't know about that. Because
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  Speaker 1: one time he gave an example when he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about the show and being familiar with the people and
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  Speaker 1: wanting to hear the same people every day. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: when I get up in the morning, I turn the
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  Speaker 1: news on at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. And I
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  Speaker 1: see that the anchor, one of the top two anchors,
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  Speaker 1: are not there. He goes, I get annoyed. If they
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  Speaker 1: have a feeling, I get annoyed because I want my two.
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  Speaker 1: Those are who I listen to every single day. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the same on the morning show on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Like people want to hear Billy and Lisa and Justin
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  Speaker 1: and Riley. And you start switching things up too much.
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  Speaker 1: People get annoyed at that. They don't like it. And
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  Speaker 1: they may change the station, which is what we don't want.
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  Speaker 1: So once she said that in the meeting, boss was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, maybe I need to rethink that. So
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  Speaker 1: I would love to hear from you. Do you think,
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  Speaker 1: is it okay if we took separate vacations, but put
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  Speaker 1: people in? So for example, if, Lisa's out, Gianna would
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  Speaker 1: fill in. If I'm out, see, when I'm out, it's
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  Speaker 1: more of an issue. When I'm out, Riley would fill
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  Speaker 1: in for me, and then Mikey or McCabe would fill
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  Speaker 1: in for Riley and run the equipment. Or Ashley at Jammin'.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she could come down. But the show would
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  Speaker 1: be different. Or would you rather us take our four
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  Speaker 1: weeks all together and just be off for four weeks
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  Speaker 1: completely with the best of hosted by producer Riley? Hit
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  Speaker 1: the talkbacks and let me know. I'd love to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. All right? Well, we're out of time today, family.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what? Tomorrow's another day, and I'll see
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  Speaker 1: you then.