April 10, 2024 • 15 mins
Priti, a Virgin Radio host in Dubai, visits to talk about living in Dubai vs NYC!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
fine show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I actually asked our digital department to move that camera
up or stop using the zoom because I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of these angles. I know it's my own fault,
but still I'm sick of it. Why is it your
own fault because I'm the one with the double chin,
but it's their fault for highlighting it.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My favorite is if I do the show from Ome.
There's a camera there now which I haven't hooked up yet, but.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I used to speak.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
They used to play the cliff and up my nose,
so you see me talking and unlike this, okay question,
are we.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Doing the fifty question altered angle of me as well possible?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
I don't like that camera sucks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know if it's that camera for it's my
whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I like the back of my head angle. That's a
nice book.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Would you like to introduce our guests?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, Dubai.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
She does Virgin Radio there. She is on the number
one show there and by the way, radio there is
more important than any other medium. We learned that today.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
You're so jealous.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Wow, but she's from Queen so well.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Welcome home. How long are you in New York?
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Thank you? I'm here just till Saturday, yeah, and then
I'm heading up.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
She's been here almost two weeks are Yeah, I've.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Been here for about a week and a half. Is
in family? My parents to live here? So what have
you done? What have I done? Just honestly, a lot
of family, Like I just have to go see all
my family. You gotta go see this uncle and that on,
this nephew, niece, all that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
When you come to the States, do you ever want
to travel to points West, maybe go other places or.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Is it just time for family? Then you gotta go home.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
We try to. So. My husband's not from the States.
He's Indian, but it was born and raised in the UAE,
so he always wants to explore. But I'm like, no,
I just want to be home and have like pizza
and bagels and we got to go.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
So right, you gotta go to the Utopia Bagel in Queens.
Get that that's the one.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Force Hills Bagels.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I believe her, she's she's moving.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Sandwich that we love from Queens Cherry Cherry Value ol
do you go to Cherry.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Value, white Stone and white Stone?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The sandwiches are ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Yeah, but that's what I do. I just I basically
relive my childhood as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I have questions.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
We have questions to make a press conference.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like question, question over here, gandhi, yes, okay, how did
you get into radio in Dubai from here?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
So? I graduated college around two thousand and seven, two
thousand and eight from Hofstra, and then I was like, oh,
I want to be on air. I'm not going to
do back in. I'm going to be on the radio,
no joke. I wanted to be. These were my references,
either going to be Oprah on TV or Danielle on
the radio. And I'm not. I'm not. I'm not like
(02:48):
blowing smoke. It is legit. So I listen to you,
you know, growing up going to school, listen to all
you guys. So I was like, I'm gonna be on
the radio. No one wanted me on the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
To the opposite end of the world to get on
the radio. I find that hard to believe because we've
heard you on the radio. You sound pretty awesome.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Thank you. You're doing it for a while, so maybe
you've been Yeah, maybe I've progressed. I hope I have,
but yeah, so I got the job while I was here.
I just applied because one of my cousins grew up there.
It's like, oh, try this and I was like okay,
and Virgin Radio just happened to launch as I graduated
and they were looking. Actually I was a news reader
when I got there, and I just started talking to
all the guys and they were like, hey, do you
(03:30):
want to come in and do the gossip? And I
was like yeah, sure, and then the gossip turned into
co host and here I am.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So, how did you explain that to your parents? Well,
I got good news and bad news mom and dad.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yes. Basically I was like, the good news is I
got a job. They're like, oh, that's amazing, Thank goodness.
And then they were like where is it and I
was like, oh, so it's Dubai. I had never been there.
I went there when I was like three, so I
don't even count it. They're like, how can you get
a job and not even go to the place. Yes,
I love it so mad.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
So such a radio thing because I used I used
to take back in the old days of being in
a very no man industry. I would take jobs in
cities I took a job in Atlanta. Never been there.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah, I needed a job.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
At least it was the same country.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
How scared were you? I mean, I moved from Pennsylvania
to California. I can't imagine moving halfway around the world.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I think the trick was I was so young. I
was twenty two, so I just didn't you just make
stupid decisions when you're twenty two, You know, this is.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
An exciting decision.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah, But I didn't even think that far ahead. Like
in my head, I was like, yeah, I'll go there,
I'll live for a year, come back, get a job
in the States eventually, and then the year turned into sixteen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
When you first got there, did you ever question, oh
my gosh, I can't do this. I'm leaving alone.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yes, yes, a hard Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
The culture is so different, so difficult about that.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, And you know, there weren't that many Americans when
I first got there, too, so it was really difficult
to relate to people. You know, I'd make references about
like saved by the Bell, and they'd look at me like, what.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
You know, like it just didn't make sense. But I
kind of stuck it out there. I was like no,
I gotta be there for a year at least I
have to. I can't quit and go back. Everyone gave
me a big going away, everyone came to drop me
at the airport. I'm like, I cannot just leave three
months in. But I got used to it and yeah,
here I am. I'm made good friends.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So Daniel, your question was did you regret it or yeah?
Were there moments of regret? As Daniel was asking, yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I think there were points in my life at that
beginning stage where I was like, I don't know anyone.
None of my friends are here, no one knows me,
no one gets me, sort of what am I doing here?
Like sitting in this shoebox studio apartment, Like what am
I doing here? But I think I'm so glad and
grateful that I stuck it out. And I was like,
(05:41):
this is gonna be worth it. That's all I just
kept saying to my I was like, this is gonna
be worth it. Even if you move back, someone's gonna
look at your resume and go, yeah, we can put
her on the radio, you know. So it worked out.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Guys, Wow, this is interesting about what's about going through
life when you're young and you're almost fearless or stupid
or whatever you are, you.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Just you just go do it.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And and then you get into this world where you're
a little older, where everything needs to be organized, we
need to be you know, buttoned down and safe.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Then you get to the point where you're my age,
you get jealous at what you just said. I would do.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I would do anything other than you know, lose my
pets and my husband and my friends at work, to
get on planes with flight somewhere and start a new career,
starting a new job.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That would be just heaven. I know that if anyone
else in this room would do, it would be youful.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh absolutely. I love that stuff because I think it's
such a good way to test yourself by yourself. Because
when you're with other people, you know, in this room,
we know how to make each other laugh. Yeah, because
we've been around each other, so I know what their
buttons are, and you can do it that way. But
when you go off by yourself, you really learned so
much about yourself because you don't have your team around you.
That just sort of feeds everything that you're used to.
(06:49):
It's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I love that. I like but when when I was
twenty two, I didn't think about any of that stuff,
you know what I mean, Like you're not thinking about anything.
You're just making decisions and you're not even thinking of consequences.
Exactly what you said, Elvis. If I was given that
position now, I would have never gone because now I'm like, no, no, no,
I'm some of my ways.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I can't be moving across the You'll be old and
crazy again.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm waiting for my mom says like when you have kids,
there's three stages of your life. Your life without kids.
You're doing whatever you want, you do it before the
kids come blo. Then the kids come and you're very settled.
Then the kids grow and get out, and then you're like,
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Ahead and travel and do this and do that.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So there's like three different stages. The first and the
last seem to be very similar.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Sometimes, you know, seeing with diapers as well.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
True you come and wearing them and sometimes you go out.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Wearing them as well.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So let's talk about what it's like being on the
radio and being a presenter as you are in Dubai
versus being a presenter here in New York City in
the States. There is a whole different set of almost
unspoken yet spoken rules and protocol when you are communicating
to a mass audience in Dubai versus here. Here we
talk about anything and everything, and there it's sort of
(08:00):
second nature after.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Sixteen seventeen years. Oh yeah, you know what road, which
roads not to go down?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, for sure. And the unique thing is is that
there's so many people from so many different countries around
the world, so sensitivities range, you know, from culture to culture.
So it's learning the nuances of that, learning what's you know,
maybe offensive in Europe or India or Thailand or you know,
Japan somewhere else around the world. So it's really cool
(08:27):
knowing that. And I think though, I relate it back
to growing up in New York City and we grow
up with so many different cultures and languages and stuff.
It doesn't phaze me. But it's really cool to see
people from places that have not interacted with so many
different cultures and they learn about it and they're like, whoa,
I had no idea, And I'm like, yeah, dude, this
(08:47):
is like a Tuesday in New York. But yeah, it's
it's really different. And as far as the sensitivities go.
I think it's just about respecting the people, the country,
their rules, the government and their rules. And as long
as you do.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That, if you're a traveler, like a world traveler Gandhi,
especially in this room, has traveled to Asia and everywhere
else and some of us other places whatever. When you
go to those cities way around the globe, you automatically
go into let's be respectful mode. We know that we
really shouldn't cross any lines that may or may not
be there in our minds. We just know they're there.
(09:21):
So I guess every day on the radio for you,
is that way you are traveling all around the world
every day in a place like Dubai.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think we can learn
a lot from that too, just being a little bit
more respectful of each other and kind of be considerate
about like, hey, maybe that person is not on the
same page as I am, and maybe I should respect
that boundary a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
We wouldn't have a show.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Also, I've watched Locked Up Abroad. That's all I need
to know to just follow every rule in every country
because nope, not happening.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Having lived in Dubai and doing radio there for sixteen years. Now, yeah,
somebody down the road, would you ever want to move
back here and do radio in the States?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Have you been talking to my parents? And I'm there,
I understand right, and my dog yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
So yeah, And I don't want to put you on
the spot, but like, is this something that maybe one
day that you'd hope for?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Are you a du Builfer or are you going to
live there forever?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
This is going to be turning into a therapy session.
So I think every year I say to myself, I
won't be there forever. But then I'm at year sixteen,
so I think I need to have a little realization
with myself. I think I'm very happy doing what I'm doing.
And you know Chris uh Fade, who I do the
show with, and Big ROSSI, who I do the show with.
The three of us, I think you guys know this.
(10:38):
When you find chemistry with people on the radio, man,
you don't want to mess that up because that's hard
to find. That's really hard to find people who really
get your mind. We finish each other's sentences without even
saying it. I know what he's thinking, what you know?
He knows what I'm thinking? Without even looking at each other.
So I think as long as I have that, I
don't want to let that go.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's a great thing.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, you also don't.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Want to be in a great position to be like, yeah,
I have plans are leaving replace her now.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Sometimes at some point you write your own ticket that
it's like, I've been doing it.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I'm a vet.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
You've been doing this forever.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yeah, you know, like I could you know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Just yeah, but it's safe. I feel like it's safe. No,
like it's nice to be with people that you trust
and you love and you make good radio.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It is, but it's safe at the same time being safe.
As you say, it is safe and it's comfortable. But
at the same time it's safe, and sometimes you're like, well, God,
is the rest of my life going to be safe?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
For?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Am I gonna take some more chances in this life
of mine?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't know. I mean, what about you guys? Have
you've been doing the show for how long? Danielle? What?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Twenty years?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Almost?
Speaker 7 (11:38):
She for her parents, She's asking for parents.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
It's like your home.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right, Well, yes, it is my home. And I love
everyone that I work with and this is my family.
I've grown up here. I mean, I went into labor,
I got engaged on the air. I mean, my whole
life has unfolded, and my family is here, my friends
are here. So I wouldn't want to leave, Like I mean,
I would love to live in the UK at some point,
you know, maybe I have a second home there. I
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love it there, but I I love it here. I mean,
I I still to this day tell people that I
still can't believe that I work here, and I still
get up every morning and I pinch myself and I go,
do I really get to do this? Do I work
with these people? Am I really at Z one hundred
or Elvis Duranto in New York City and on all
these other you know, frequencies. It's crazy to me still,
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So it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I think that's it. As long as you wake up
and you're still loving what you're doing, it ain't your
time to leave.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You know, we don't love it every day.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Of course, there are moments you can't flip the console.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
I'm sorry, can't flip it.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
We do love it every day, but we just don't
love it as much every day.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
But what's it like living in Dubai. Oh, it's a
lot of fine knowing that we don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I've only visited, I've never lived there. But what's it
like living in Dubai?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Well, I mean, I live a little bit of a
boring life. I'm a dog mom, so a lot of
my life just revolves around my dog. Wrong with that, Yeah,
so my whole life is scheduled to my dog. But yeah,
they're like amazing restaurants, and we go to malls a
lot like that, big malls, lots of malls with like
ski slopes and stuff. Instead it's pretty.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Gold bars and vending machines.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Do you have like princes and billionaires listening to you?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, Like can you call a print right now?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
If you?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Do you guys get treated like rock stars since radio
is bigger than TV over there.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yeah, it's kind of weird. It's like people, it's so
cool meeting people when you're out and about. They're like, oh,
my gosh, we listened to the show or I've grown
up listening to the show or whatever it is. And
it's like so weird but cool at the same time,
because I love radio. Man, Radio is just the coolest live.
There's nothing like live radio. Nothing will ever beat live radio.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I agree, he.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Said that are cool too, But it's just fun doing
what you're doing. Dubai is fun. You go out, you
eat a lot. There's a lot of eating guys.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh god, do they sell over there they do.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
And a lot of like a lot of health stuff,
like a lot of working out and all that jazz.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And that's.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Right now.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
I am yeah, because I feel like I need to.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I can't. I can't go.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
You were paid to originally, but now I really I'm
just doing it twice a week because I need to
just maintain because man, I don't want to go back
to where I was. But you know, that's a whole
of the story. If I came to your country, I
would eat my way through it in the minute, and.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Then I'll take you to the gym too.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
This has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And by the way, like I said earlier, I have
traveled there and it is so interesting because there's a
lot to learn about a whole other side of the world.
And that's what this life is all about, is it not. Yes, here,
thanks for coming in to see us.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Thank you for having me go and thank you for
making this the first fifteen minute morning show podcast in
many weeks. It's actually fifteen minutes. Usually we were done
by seven minutes. Yeah, we don't have truth in advertising
laws here. Everyone's taking about the fifteen minute morning show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
fine show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I actually asked our digital department to move that camera
up or stop using the zoom because I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of these angles. I know it's my own fault,
but still I'm sick of it. Why is it your
own fault because I'm the one with the double chin,
but it's their fault for highlighting it.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
My favorite is if I do the show from Ome.
There's a camera there now which I haven't hooked up yet, but.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I used to speak.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
They used to play the cliff and up my nose,
so you see me talking and unlike this, okay question,
are we.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Doing the fifty question altered angle of me as well possible?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
I don't like that camera sucks.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know if it's that camera for it's my
whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I like the back of my head angle. That's a
nice book.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Would you like to introduce our guests?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, Dubai.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
She does Virgin Radio there. She is on the number
one show there and by the way, radio there is
more important than any other medium. We learned that today.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
You're so jealous.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Wow, but she's from Queen so well.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Welcome home. How long are you in New York?
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Thank you? I'm here just till Saturday, yeah, and then
I'm heading up.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
She's been here almost two weeks are Yeah, I've.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Been here for about a week and a half. Is
in family? My parents to live here? So what have
you done? What have I done? Just honestly, a lot
of family, Like I just have to go see all
my family. You gotta go see this uncle and that on,
this nephew, niece, all that.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
When you come to the States, do you ever want
to travel to points West, maybe go other places or.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Is it just time for family? Then you gotta go home.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
We try to. So. My husband's not from the States.
He's Indian, but it was born and raised in the UAE,
so he always wants to explore. But I'm like, no,
I just want to be home and have like pizza
and bagels and we got to go.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
So right, you gotta go to the Utopia Bagel in Queens.
Get that that's the one.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Force Hills Bagels.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I believe her, she's she's moving.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Sandwich that we love from Queens Cherry Cherry Value ol
do you go to Cherry.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Value, white Stone and white Stone?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The sandwiches are ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Yeah, but that's what I do. I just I basically
relive my childhood as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I have questions.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
We have questions to make a press conference.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like question, question over here, gandhi, yes, okay, how did
you get into radio in Dubai from here?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
So? I graduated college around two thousand and seven, two
thousand and eight from Hofstra, and then I was like, oh,
I want to be on air. I'm not going to
do back in. I'm going to be on the radio,
no joke. I wanted to be. These were my references,
either going to be Oprah on TV or Danielle on
the radio. And I'm not. I'm not. I'm not like
(02:48):
blowing smoke. It is legit. So I listen to you,
you know, growing up going to school, listen to all
you guys. So I was like, I'm gonna be on
the radio. No one wanted me on the radio.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
To the opposite end of the world to get on
the radio. I find that hard to believe because we've
heard you on the radio. You sound pretty awesome.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Thank you. You're doing it for a while, so maybe
you've been Yeah, maybe I've progressed. I hope I have,
but yeah, so I got the job while I was here.
I just applied because one of my cousins grew up there.
It's like, oh, try this and I was like okay,
and Virgin Radio just happened to launch as I graduated
and they were looking. Actually I was a news reader
when I got there, and I just started talking to
all the guys and they were like, hey, do you
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want to come in and do the gossip? And I
was like yeah, sure, and then the gossip turned into
co host and here I am.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So, how did you explain that to your parents? Well,
I got good news and bad news mom and dad.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yes. Basically I was like, the good news is I
got a job. They're like, oh, that's amazing, Thank goodness.
And then they were like where is it and I
was like, oh, so it's Dubai. I had never been there.
I went there when I was like three, so I
don't even count it. They're like, how can you get
a job and not even go to the place. Yes,
I love it so mad.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
So such a radio thing because I used I used
to take back in the old days of being in
a very no man industry. I would take jobs in
cities I took a job in Atlanta. Never been there.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Yeah, I needed a job.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
At least it was the same country.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
How scared were you? I mean, I moved from Pennsylvania
to California. I can't imagine moving halfway around the world.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I think the trick was I was so young. I
was twenty two, so I just didn't you just make
stupid decisions when you're twenty two, You know, this is.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
An exciting decision.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Yeah, But I didn't even think that far ahead. Like
in my head, I was like, yeah, I'll go there,
I'll live for a year, come back, get a job
in the States eventually, and then the year turned into sixteen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
When you first got there, did you ever question, oh
my gosh, I can't do this. I'm leaving alone.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yes, yes, a hard Yes.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
The culture is so different, so difficult about that.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, And you know, there weren't that many Americans when
I first got there, too, so it was really difficult
to relate to people. You know, I'd make references about
like saved by the Bell, and they'd look at me like, what.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
You know, like it just didn't make sense. But I
kind of stuck it out there. I was like no,
I gotta be there for a year at least I
have to. I can't quit and go back. Everyone gave
me a big going away, everyone came to drop me
at the airport. I'm like, I cannot just leave three
months in. But I got used to it and yeah,
here I am. I'm made good friends.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So Daniel, your question was did you regret it or yeah?
Were there moments of regret? As Daniel was asking, yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I think there were points in my life at that
beginning stage where I was like, I don't know anyone.
None of my friends are here, no one knows me,
no one gets me, sort of what am I doing here?
Like sitting in this shoebox studio apartment, Like what am
I doing here? But I think I'm so glad and
grateful that I stuck it out. And I was like,
(05:41):
this is gonna be worth it. That's all I just
kept saying to my I was like, this is gonna
be worth it. Even if you move back, someone's gonna
look at your resume and go, yeah, we can put
her on the radio, you know. So it worked out.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Guys, Wow, this is interesting about what's about going through
life when you're young and you're almost fearless or stupid
or whatever you are, you.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Just you just go do it.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And and then you get into this world where you're
a little older, where everything needs to be organized, we
need to be you know, buttoned down and safe.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Then you get to the point where you're my age,
you get jealous at what you just said. I would do.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I would do anything other than you know, lose my
pets and my husband and my friends at work, to
get on planes with flight somewhere and start a new career,
starting a new job.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
That would be just heaven. I know that if anyone
else in this room would do, it would be youful.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh absolutely. I love that stuff because I think it's
such a good way to test yourself by yourself. Because
when you're with other people, you know, in this room,
we know how to make each other laugh. Yeah, because
we've been around each other, so I know what their
buttons are, and you can do it that way. But
when you go off by yourself, you really learned so
much about yourself because you don't have your team around you.
That just sort of feeds everything that you're used to.
(06:49):
It's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I love that. I like but when when I was
twenty two, I didn't think about any of that stuff,
you know what I mean, Like you're not thinking about anything.
You're just making decisions and you're not even thinking of consequences.
Exactly what you said, Elvis. If I was given that
position now, I would have never gone because now I'm like, no, no, no,
I'm some of my ways.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
I can't be moving across the You'll be old and
crazy again.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I'm waiting for my mom says like when you have kids,
there's three stages of your life. Your life without kids.
You're doing whatever you want, you do it before the
kids come blo. Then the kids come and you're very settled.
Then the kids grow and get out, and then you're like,
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Ahead and travel and do this and do that.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
So there's like three different stages. The first and the
last seem to be very similar.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Sometimes, you know, seeing with diapers as well.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
True you come and wearing them and sometimes you go out.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Wearing them as well.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So let's talk about what it's like being on the
radio and being a presenter as you are in Dubai
versus being a presenter here in New York City in
the States. There is a whole different set of almost
unspoken yet spoken rules and protocol when you are communicating
to a mass audience in Dubai versus here. Here we
talk about anything and everything, and there it's sort of
(08:00):
second nature after.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Sixteen seventeen years. Oh yeah, you know what road, which
roads not to go down?
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah, for sure. And the unique thing is is that
there's so many people from so many different countries around
the world, so sensitivities range, you know, from culture to culture.
So it's learning the nuances of that, learning what's you know,
maybe offensive in Europe or India or Thailand or you know,
Japan somewhere else around the world. So it's really cool
(08:27):
knowing that. And I think though, I relate it back
to growing up in New York City and we grow
up with so many different cultures and languages and stuff.
It doesn't phaze me. But it's really cool to see
people from places that have not interacted with so many
different cultures and they learn about it and they're like, whoa,
I had no idea, And I'm like, yeah, dude, this
(08:47):
is like a Tuesday in New York. But yeah, it's
it's really different. And as far as the sensitivities go.
I think it's just about respecting the people, the country,
their rules, the government and their rules. And as long
as you do.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
That, if you're a traveler, like a world traveler Gandhi,
especially in this room, has traveled to Asia and everywhere
else and some of us other places whatever. When you
go to those cities way around the globe, you automatically
go into let's be respectful mode. We know that we
really shouldn't cross any lines that may or may not
be there in our minds. We just know they're there.
(09:21):
So I guess every day on the radio for you,
is that way you are traveling all around the world
every day in a place like Dubai.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Yeah, one hundred percent. And I think we can learn
a lot from that too, just being a little bit
more respectful of each other and kind of be considerate
about like, hey, maybe that person is not on the
same page as I am, and maybe I should respect
that boundary a little bit more.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
We wouldn't have a show.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Also, I've watched Locked Up Abroad. That's all I need
to know to just follow every rule in every country
because nope, not happening.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Having lived in Dubai and doing radio there for sixteen years. Now, yeah,
somebody down the road, would you ever want to move
back here and do radio in the States?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Have you been talking to my parents? And I'm there,
I understand right, and my dog yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:09):
So yeah, And I don't want to put you on
the spot, but like, is this something that maybe one
day that you'd hope for?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Are you a du Builfer or are you going to
live there forever?
Speaker 6 (10:17):
This is going to be turning into a therapy session.
So I think every year I say to myself, I
won't be there forever. But then I'm at year sixteen,
so I think I need to have a little realization
with myself. I think I'm very happy doing what I'm doing.
And you know Chris uh Fade, who I do the
show with, and Big ROSSI, who I do the show with.
The three of us, I think you guys know this.
(10:38):
When you find chemistry with people on the radio, man,
you don't want to mess that up because that's hard
to find. That's really hard to find people who really
get your mind. We finish each other's sentences without even
saying it. I know what he's thinking, what you know?
He knows what I'm thinking? Without even looking at each other.
So I think as long as I have that, I
don't want to let that go.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's a great thing.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, you also don't.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Want to be in a great position to be like, yeah,
I have plans are leaving replace her now.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Sometimes at some point you write your own ticket that
it's like, I've been doing it.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I'm a vet.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
You've been doing this forever.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yeah, you know, like I could you know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Just yeah, but it's safe. I feel like it's safe. No,
like it's nice to be with people that you trust
and you love and you make good radio.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
It is, but it's safe at the same time being safe.
As you say, it is safe and it's comfortable. But
at the same time it's safe, and sometimes you're like, well, God,
is the rest of my life going to be safe?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
For?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Am I gonna take some more chances in this life
of mine?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I don't know. I mean, what about you guys? Have
you've been doing the show for how long? Danielle? What?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Twenty years?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Almost?
Speaker 7 (11:38):
She for her parents, She's asking for parents.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
It's like your home.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right, Well, yes, it is my home. And I love
everyone that I work with and this is my family.
I've grown up here. I mean, I went into labor,
I got engaged on the air. I mean, my whole
life has unfolded, and my family is here, my friends
are here. So I wouldn't want to leave, Like I mean,
I would love to live in the UK at some point,
you know, maybe I have a second home there. I
(12:10):
love it there, but I I love it here. I mean,
I I still to this day tell people that I
still can't believe that I work here, and I still
get up every morning and I pinch myself and I go,
do I really get to do this? Do I work
with these people? Am I really at Z one hundred
or Elvis Duranto in New York City and on all
these other you know, frequencies. It's crazy to me still,
(12:32):
So it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I think that's it. As long as you wake up
and you're still loving what you're doing, it ain't your
time to leave.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You know, we don't love it every day.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Of course, there are moments you can't flip the console.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
I'm sorry, can't flip it.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
We do love it every day, but we just don't
love it as much every day.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
That's okay.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
But what's it like living in Dubai. Oh, it's a
lot of fine knowing that we don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I've only visited, I've never lived there. But what's it
like living in Dubai?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Well, I mean, I live a little bit of a
boring life. I'm a dog mom, so a lot of
my life just revolves around my dog. Wrong with that, Yeah,
so my whole life is scheduled to my dog. But yeah,
they're like amazing restaurants, and we go to malls a
lot like that, big malls, lots of malls with like
ski slopes and stuff. Instead it's pretty.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Gold bars and vending machines.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Do you have like princes and billionaires listening to you?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, Like can you call a print right now?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
If you?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Probably not?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Do you guys get treated like rock stars since radio
is bigger than TV over there.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yeah, it's kind of weird. It's like people, it's so
cool meeting people when you're out and about. They're like, oh,
my gosh, we listened to the show or I've grown
up listening to the show or whatever it is. And
it's like so weird but cool at the same time,
because I love radio. Man, Radio is just the coolest live.
There's nothing like live radio. Nothing will ever beat live radio.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I agree, he.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Said that are cool too, But it's just fun doing
what you're doing. Dubai is fun. You go out, you
eat a lot. There's a lot of eating guys.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh god, do they sell over there they do.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
And a lot of like a lot of health stuff,
like a lot of working out and all that jazz.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
And that's.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Right now.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
I am yeah, because I feel like I need to.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
I can't. I can't go.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
You were paid to originally, but now I really I'm
just doing it twice a week because I need to
just maintain because man, I don't want to go back
to where I was. But you know, that's a whole
of the story. If I came to your country, I
would eat my way through it in the minute, and.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Then I'll take you to the gym too.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
This has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And by the way, like I said earlier, I have
traveled there and it is so interesting because there's a
lot to learn about a whole other side of the world.
And that's what this life is all about, is it not. Yes, here,
thanks for coming in to see us.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Thank you for having me go and thank you for
making this the first fifteen minute morning show podcast in
many weeks. It's actually fifteen minutes. Usually we were done
by seven minutes. Yeah, we don't have truth in advertising
laws here. Everyone's taking about the fifteen minute morning show
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