Sharing Our Radio Journeys

Danielle's classmate from St. John's joins us to talk about her journey to Z100.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Four. What would you talk about on your on your
podcasts show? Here we go, let me have a seat.
It's gonna be a Buffy ride. The fifteen Minute Morning
Show podcast with Nate and Scotty b And it was

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Gandhi and Scary and Danielle and our special guest, Joe.
Tell everyone who is so Joe? It's Joe Millerba. He
went to St. John University with me. He was part
of the radio station, part of the TV club. He
was program director, I think of radio program director. So
at one point he gets up there and he's like, Hey,
we've got internships for Z one hundred. Does anyone want

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to apply? I say I do, And the rest is
history and she and she's here, She's all yours. Can't
get rid of it? Thanks Joe. Hey, So, I mean,
were you a fan of Z one? Oh my gosh.
I listened every single day, And actually I used to
call in. Not as crazy as Scary, but I used
to call in. And I remember Elliott who used the

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work here. He invited me up one day to come up,
and I never came up. I wound up coming up
once I got the internship. But yeah, I us don't
listen every every single day. Of course, thanks Joe, You're
very welcome. I'm saying that with Sarah, you don't we
love our Danielle most of the time. Well, the funny
thing is, I too was very obsessed with Z one hundred.
If Danielle remembers, I used to have in my bedroom,

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I had a Z one hundred sign that I had
made and and had it up on the wall and
I would pretend that I was on Z one hundred.
This going back, you know, prior to to your days
Elvis and of course creepy, Yeah, I know it is.
It was creepy, borderline obsessive. But um. And so in
college on our TV side, they said, you know, go
out and get some interviews of people who were in

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the in the broadcasting industry. And so I reached out
to the folks at Z one hundred when you guys
were in Secaucus, New Jersey, and I got to spend
the day with the morning show at one hundred, and
that was like the highlight of my life. So I
don't remember that. Yeah, And and somewhere it's on like
a you know whatever they used to call those things
one and a half inch tape or something. Um, but

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that was, like, you know, one of my big highlights.
So obsessed with this one hundred till this very day.
I listened to you guys every morning, and you know
when I was like at that little rinky dink station
with with Danielle. I. I was the morning guy, right,
I had the morning show and then Danielle would saunter
in and she would do her her country music. I
had lots of music show, the Mow and Turtle show

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with my one of my best friends still I was
mo Mon Narrow, she was Turtle. And then um, I
did a heavy metal show. I did what was your name?
On the heavy metal? I did a hip hop show.
I like that, mate. I remember um playing like heavy
metal and not like the song was. And I remember

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putting the mic on and going, yeah, I don't know
what that was, but it was awful. And then I
remember whoever the program director at the time ran in
and said, you can't say that you have to the
music is we also like the music. I'm also I'm
sorry you're back to hating the music. No, I love
the music. Interesting point here, Joe to the one hundred,
you know internship point uh Scary started here as an intern,

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didn't you. Basically, I might as well have been because
there was really no money there. That's how you started
to right, yes, but not well. In other words, you're
all you're you're all radio geeks. I started as an intern.
Yeah I wasn't a radio geek. Yeah I liked it,

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But I started. There was an internship opportunity at my
high school and I had to go. Uh it was
a private prep school, and so we had an open
house and I got chosen to go read the commercial.
So I went to the radio station. I read the
commercial and the DJ I think it was intern That
was J. J. Fox if I remember, not his real name.

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He was the proud guy and he goes, hey, man,
you seem like you know you you're outgoing if you
ever wanted to do an internship like okay, I mean,
I never had any answer. Took this stuff for granted.
You fill into this. They gave me the morning I
was fourteen years old. Just needed a job. You were
able to work. This was all I ever dreamed of.

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I used to play radio too. When when Zee one
hundred came to my middle school when I was a kid,
Duran Durant was there was one rules your school contest,
and I was like, oh my god, a radio station
isn't a schoolyard. I was freaking out. No wonder you
didn't have sex until your twenties. I'm the opposite. I
never wanted to do radio until college. I wanted to

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do television, and I was going to do television and
Broadway and Walt Disney. I auditioned for Disney, and then
I was in the elevator at St. John's. Some girl
came up to me. She said, Hey, do you want
to do news on the radio station? And I go,
I guess. So I went to the radio station, fell
in love, never left, never even went near the TV stations.

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So Joe, funny enough, It's still in this business in
a in a weird way. So so here's the thing.
I'm listening to all your stories about how you kind
of just fell into it or you didn't want to
go into I till this day, I am a radio geek,
like to the point where I can give you the
names of like personalities all across the country. And yet
most of my day is spent in television, which is

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so weird. And you know, from from television news to
local affiliations and and I'm now I just turned fifty,
and you know we're gonna we're in the fifty club.
And I've always wanted to do radio. Well, I guess
this is about as close as I'm going to get
to it. We know a guy like Joe in our
college radio station because it was complete anarchy. I mean,

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we all did our own thing, but you, like you
seem like you have a sense of I want this
to act and operate like a true professional radio. Was
it like that? It was? I think we we literally
went from you know, the the the program director that
Danielle is talking about used to walk around with like
dog collars and you know, cut off shirts. And then
here came this like little dorky, nerdy kid and said,

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we're gonna make this a real radio station and we're
going to operate, you know, in some type of a format.
We need that here? Yeah that when do we get
one of those seriously gave good prizes the way. I
was the pro promotions director at one point, and I
remember calling Universal and all these different movie companies and
actually getting prizes and movie tickets to give away. And

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we did real giveaways on the radio, which that is
unusual for a college radio. We used to be perstance.
I mean we we We would go up to Syracuse
every once in a while and visit. Their radio station
was probably better than almost any radio station I ever
worked in. They had more resources, they had great studios.
It was like the pride and joy of Syracuse University

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we had in Caucus falling into the swamp. Laugh. You
had an FM radio station in our high school. And
the one contest I ever had to give something away
was a single of con Can's I Beg Your Pardon?
Do you remember that song? I don't know why? A
cassette which is not even it was electronica electronica song

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and how used to play ladies? So can I can
I ask Joe a question? No, okay, why why didn't
you pursue radio? Like did you just fall into something else?
Or I just kind of, like, you know, stayed with um.
We had a professor Danielle and I had this great professor,
Mark Smith, Marvin Smith, God Rest his soul and m

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and he would say to me, He's like, you know,
if you really want to make money in this business,
get on the sales side. So and so, you know,
I I dabbled in things like some some voice over work,
and you have a podcast. I have a podcast. It's
actually on my Heart Radio's app. It's what it's called
The Morning Brew with Joe Malley. What do you talk about?

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And um, I talked about everything from like you know, family,
family values, uh, friendships, you know, I'll pick a topic.
And then what I decided to do was, Okay, I
can't just babble for eight minutes by myself, so I
bring guests on the show. I've never been invited, you
will be, but you know, like a health and fitness

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instructor has been on the show, and a spiritualist was
on the show, and you know, we talked for about,
you know, ten fifteen minutes, and then I edited all
together on like a one man show, and then I
pop it up there. And one day I just went
on too the I Heart Radio app and I was like,
wait a minute, it's it's on here, and it was awesome.
So it's weird how podcast work. I mean, it's on

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how many different streaming services. They're everywhere platform. You're a superstar.
Didn't even know it. That's right, look at you or wherever, yeah,
wherever you get your podcasts, right, as they say, well,
that's what they do say. And this is the great
thing about podcast. I happen to love it. Where you know,
when podcast first started, people go an't you a little nervous?
I don't know, I'm not nervous. But whatever, podcast it's

(09:06):
just another place to be entertained using your ears. Right.
Of course, this one's a little different because we also
have a camera, but we do have a lot of
people listening to this podcast as well. I mean, the
more we can make people rehearse and practice listening audio,
that's where it's at. You know, you're in the TV end.
That TV is a fat it will go never going

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to stick around. You'll never say what do you think podcast?
Should we be afraid of podcast? I think podcasts are amazing.
I think it gives people lots of opportunity and it's
kind of I don't want to say evening the playing field,
but you get a lot more diverse talent. That's it.
You have a lot more people to choose from and
it's gonna get to the point where you know that
the cream still rises to the top, to the crop.

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Whatever they call it. I think it's great. I love it.
I like competition niche they are too. Yeah, Like I
have a lot of very diverse interests, Like I love history.
I listened to a podcast yesterday about h you know,
stuff from World War two or World War one or whatever. Right,
and you learned something about somebody that's talking about something
that you're interested about that nobody else cares about. Like you,

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guys would not even it wouldn't even be on your radar.
You're not. You're not as much of a freak as
people making. There's another freaks, you know. Did you ever
listen to mo Rocca's mobituary? Every single one there's anyone today?
Mobituaries by Morocca, he works at CBS News, fascinating. He
has a fascination with people who have passed away but

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what they left for the rest of us. And Benedict
Arnold before he went bad. There you go. I'm gonna
have to listen. I'm gonna have to add that one
to my library. But the thing is it sort of
feeds into what Nate saying is he's always had a
fascination for obituaries. His dad would wake up in the
mornings and open the paper to see who died and

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what they were known for. In their town, and so
he decided, well, let's do mobituaries. Let's talk about these
people that definitely made a difference in our lives without
us recognizing it, and let's celebrate them. So, if you're
on mobituaries, it means you're probably dead. The FCC can't
funk with us in the podcasts. We can. We can say,

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don't think. I really don't. I don't have a potty mouth,
but once in a while I like to throw a
good one out there, but I won't do it on
the podcast. Only do it when it needs to be done.
It needs to be done, yeah, Otherwise if you say
the effort all the time, it just loses, just like
it uses it slice, it loses its dicey. Anyway, Well, so, um,

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I haven't started my podcast yet. I'm supposed to do
my own podcast. It was Danielle. I know, Sheldon and
I are doing one, but every time we yeah, we're
gonna start today, we have something else going on. You know.
I asked Matthew Us about that because he's like, yeah,
why did you do a polkast? I don't know if
he really sounds like that. He's like, and uh, I
don't know what it's about he goes just started. Yeah,

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you can figure it out along the way. You'll get
feedback and you'll figure out what you're like. Just stop it.
You're not starting a big budget show and you have
to have it all perfect and all the scripting right
in the lighting right the first time. You just start.
That's the beauty about a podcast. I started mind, recorded
five episodes, hated four of them. Starting over. Yeah, I
don't know the name of it. I came up with
the name. What did I tell you? Sauce on the side. Yeah,

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that Sauce on the side. She's she's into sauces. So
this is this is an extension of your you know,
character of Baby Hot Sauce or or the show. I
was gonna say that, I think podcasts are an extension
of radio and and as long as you know, we
have both of those those mediums working. I mean, I again,

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I'm a radio geek and I will I I want
radio to be around forever, and you know, I have
you know, Danielle and I talked about this. We have
teenagers and it's like when you talk to them about
on their personalities and you know, I'll reference you know,
Elvis Duran a hundred times in a versation in a week,
and you know they would there at first, they would

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be like, who are these people you're talking about? But
but because of that, they're now listening. I can't say
they're listening every day, but they're listening. And to me,
to have a fourteen year old say to me, hey, dad,
did you hear Elvis Duran in the morning show this morning?
They were talking about blah blah blah. And I'm like,
you were listening on the bus on the way to school,
Like that's awesome because we need we need that generation.

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We do. But but going back to what you said
originally they're podcasting is you know it's our show. Every
day is a podcast basically, you know, it's it's sort
of the same thing. But well, that's how I can
see why you Gandhi and Danielle have a tough time
figuring out or doing one. You guys talked for four
hours a day. I thought, we don't have a podcast

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because we just don't know ourselves. Well, I can't do it.
I've been wanting a tattoo for years. I can't commit
to one because I don't know what I'm about. Your
tattoo in my opinion, needs to sort of reflect what
your vibes about. Right. Obviously, I don't know me, get
to know myself. I'm worried that some of the things
I want to do are gonna get me canceled. But
I also think canceling is done. I think canceling got canceled.

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So maybe we'll be saying I hope so, no, we
can so cancel you depends on what you're doing. There's
one I think is definitely gonna get me canceled, but
I'm gonna I'm gonna roll the dice everybody. I can't
wait to hear that one minutes. Joe, what a pleasure
to meet you, and thank you. Thank you for the
gift of Danielle, the gifts that keeps on giving. It does. Yeah,

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I guess that's for at least having more us on
your contract. Awesome fifteen minute morning show