The Wake Up Show Goodbye! (From The Vaults)

When Strawberry And Lizette left Seattle, there was one Wake Up Show Uncensored Podcast that never saw the light of day... Until NOW!

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Episode Transcript

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All right, so the first episodeof the Strawberry and Lazette's Mexican Ginger Podcast

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is actually going to be coming fromthe vaults. It is the final wake
Up Show uncensored podcast that we neverpublished for whatever reason. I have a
couple podcasts that are still in thevaults, but this is where you're going
to find us now, the Strawberryand Lazette Mexican Ginger Podcast, still uncensored,
still not intended for younger audiences,and follow us on all social media's

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because yes, we will be youtubingour podcasts moving forward. So let's go
to the vaults and bring you thefinal wake Up Show uncensored podcast that was
never published until now. It's theStrawberry and Lazette Mexican Ginger Podcast, not
suitable for a younger audience. It'sthe Final wake Up Show uncensored podcast.

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This is episode six twenty for Monday, June thirteenth, twenty twenty two.
We normally try to keep them twentythirty minutes. We went close to an
hour because we had a lot toexplain on what happened to the wake Up
Show, What happened to Cube whereLazette Love and I are going to be
going, etc. So with thatin mind, it's podcast time. All

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right, headphones on, headphones on, check your mike. Lazette had a
breath. There you go because shehad a walk the other side of the
building. So far. All right, that's Lazette. I'm Strawberry and this
is the final episode. This isthe farewell to the wake Up Show.
Uncensored podcast supplies surprised you're not playingboys to men. I was going to

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do that, but remember we weretold like playing music that's like unlicensed or
whatever on permission, like it'll getget you flagged and taken down. So
I don't want to risk that.Isn't not only if you play it for
like thirty seconds or more or something. I don't know. I didn't want
to risk it. So we arerecording this on Thursday, June ninth.
We're gonna post it Monday, Junethirteenth. We wanted to thank everybody for

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all the port that we've been givenand all the time with us. No
I'm not yes you are look sohaving a horrible day. Didn't even do
his hair, nothing like I didn'tdo my hair because I was wearing a
hat. So we want to thispodcast instead of like silly stuff like your
cavities all the way I talk aboutyour car. Yeah, yeah, cavities

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are not silly. I mean Imean like instead of like problems, I
want to get to our goodbye.Because for the radio listeners, we just
disappeared one day in February, right, it was present day Wow, So
we disappeared and we weren't able tosay anything. We weren't allowed to make

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a statement. We weren't able tosay anything, which which sucked because there
was a lot of people who wereleft in the lurch, like where did
you guys go? What happened?And if you were listening to us on
the radio on Cube ninety three three, it changed from different stations and now
it's a sports station, they're like, wait a minute, what happened to
Cube? Where's the wake up show? We weren't allowed to say anything,
which sucks because we prided ourselves onbeing open and honest and transparent and the

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powers that be, the higher up, says you can't say anything. So
it went against like what we normallydo. Because from then until now,
plans were in the works to keepLazette and I as a show and put
us on another station somewhere. Theyjust didn't know where yet. So we
can announce now that Monday, Junethirteenth, we are back as a show.

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It's not the wake Up Show,and it's not in Seattle. It
is Strawberry and Lazette in Sacramento onthe new Kiss one O seven point nine
one O seven point nine, whichis awesome, Which is great, yeh,
which is great. Congratulations to us. Yes, really excited. It's
going to be weird, not no, like no longer being the wake Up

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Show. It's really nice though thatwe do get to continue to work together
and continue to be a show,because that was like one of the main
things that we wanted with all ofthis stuff happening. We're like, we
put so much work into the wakeUp Show and creating a show. We
don't want it to get thrown away, Like we don't want to get separated
and have to go our separate ways, and this this be the end.

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I'll be all of everything we workedso hard for it to create. So
I am really excited that we getto stay together and continue continue our show,
even though it's not going to bethe wake Up Show, but it'll
still be us we'll do get toprogress. We'll do a lot of the
things that we would do on thewake up show. Maybe I don't want
to say cleaned it up, butit's just we we understand it's a different
audience. It's not a hip hopstation. It's a nineties and two thousand

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station. It's a great They launchedit Wednesday, June What was yesterday?
Eighth? Eighth? They launched terday? Well, our yesterday? Why because
this is Monday. I know,I'll get you're right. So they launched
June eighteenth, sorry, June eighth, and we've been listening to it since
then. It's great music, it'sit's in a great market. The people
who we are going to be workingwith are great people. It just took

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so long for this finally to gofrom Hey, we have an idea,
we're gonna do this with this station. Do you guys want to be on
board? We really want you?Yes, all right, let's work it
out, let's get the music ready, let's hire everybody, let's get you
on board. All right. Yourfirst day is going to be June thirteen.
So we haven't been able to sayanything from February eighteenth, yep,
till now. Isn't that weird?How I remember that day? Yeah,

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it's stuck in your February eighteen.Yeah. So so so we're still gonna
be able to podcast. It's notgonna be the Wakeup Show uncensored podcast because
it's not the Wakeup Show anymore.It'll be Strawberry and Lazette uncensored. And
follow us on Instagram at Strawberry andLazette, or you can follow Lazette personally
at at Lazette love l I zet t E l O v E.

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I am still at Strawberry Radio.So thanks. That was our goodbye.
All right, let's post that kidding, it's like what so let's let's start
from should we start from like ourfinal day and then we work back to
like memories to get people like whathappened our final day? Yeah, we
can do that so in radio,and we've talked about this in at least

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some of the podcasts because we tryto pull the curtain back and reveal like
what goes on in this industry.So it's literally with this industry, you're
you're there one day and you're notthere the next. Yeah, and it's
very it's extremely rare where you getto say goodbye to your audience, right,
I was. I was giving thatopportunity when I left San Francisco to
come here, and I did aswell when I left Nashville to come to

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Seattle. Was Nashville and iHeart stationas well. Yes, okay, So
I was working in a different companyand so, and I told my boss
my hey, you know I'm gonnastart at iHeart. If you need to
let me go or walk me outof the building, totally understand because I'm
I'm now a competitor. And he'slike, look, man, your contract

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doesn't start until you know, whateverday. Like, we've worked with each
other for years. We trust younot to like say dump sit up,
yeah and dump stuff on the radio. We trust you. You know.
Do you want a going away party? I'm like, nah, I don't
want to look a big thing,but you know, I'll say goodbye like
on the radio or whatever. Sothey let me work like for two weeks
and in the building they knew Iwas going to be gone, and I
think like the last couple of days, two or three days, I made

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the announcement like, hey guys,I'm leaving. I'm not gonna be in
San Francisco anymore. So it's extremelyrare where you get that opportunity. What
normally happens is what happened with Lazetteand I. We do a show,
We get off the air at ten. At ten o five, the market
manager and SVP both walk in thestudio, and to give them credit,

(07:34):
they ripped the band aid right off. They said, I remember almost word
for word. And first off,when I saw both of them walk in,
I'm like, oh no, ohno, because I've been here before,
I forget who walked in first.I think it was the person who
often comes by to say hi andcomes by to say good morning. Yeah.

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Yeah, he's the one who walkedin first. Yeah, So I
was like, hey, what up? And then point five seconds later,
the other one walks in right after, and I immediately went, oh shit.
This is never is never a goodsign when you see the both of
them walking around together. Yeah.And if they have a like a Manilla
envelope, like a file folder,if they have a file folder in their

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hand, those are your seven papers. I've learned that. I'd learned that
before. Like if if you walkin somewhere and they got a folder on
really, yeah, I watch outfor that. See, I'm never this
coming to Seattle was my first likebig girl contracts. Like I was under
contract in Nashville. I was,you know, on salary or whatever.
But when I came to Seattle,I had all these like terms that I

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didn't even like know of, thatI had never had before, like severance.
So good to know. Yeah,good to know for next time.
Hopefully there is no next time,but yeah, absolutely. So they come
in. It was it was whateverFriday that was, which again this always
happens on a Friday. So theywalk in and he said, hey guys,

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there's been some Hey guys, we'remaking changes. Today was your last
show on cubeety three. I mean, rip the band aid right off,
ripped it off, which is whichis how you do it. But it's
how you do it versus the wholebuilding. It's no point and giving a
whole speech like listen, we allknow why you're here. Just ye do
it, just laid on us.And it sucks for them because I mean,

(09:26):
imagine that's your job. You haveto like let people go. So
they said, hey, you know, we're making changes. It's the last
day on Cube, and but thenthey jumped in real quick and they said,
but you're not fired, Like nobody'sfired. You're not leaving the company.
You're still employed. You still haveyour contract. And we go,
okay, what does that mean.We're off the air, but you know,

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we're still hired. They're like,Cube is going away, it's gonna
be a different station, but we'remaking sure that you guys still have a
job. You're still gonna be together, You're still welcome in the building,
your email works fuse. They werelike, I guess the easiest way they
put it was nothing changes for youexcept all the duties you had for Cube.

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Anything that involved Cube is no longerexists. Everything else you were doing
outside of Cube you still will bedoing because both Lazette and I are on
multiple other stations independently of each other. Is on a bunch of different stations.
I'm on a bunch of different stations. So it was it was just
like, okay, so we're notgetting walked out, Like yeah, it

(10:31):
was just so weird, and thingsare just so weird. For the first
few weeks, like the first month, maybe even after that, I was
just like I don't know what todo with myself, Like everything revolved around
work and although I still had workto do. I just kind of was
like, I guess I need toget set up to work from home now,
because why why am I gonna goin when I when I now have

(10:52):
the opportunity to be home in themorning with my son and like help them
get ready for school and stuff.Yeah, like I'm probably never going to
have this chance again or have thistime off again to spend this time with
him, Right, But it wasjust for like the first month, I
didn't like I would have my dayswhere I would I would get up and

(11:13):
I would feel like productive and Iwould do things, and then I would
have my other days where I wouldjust like record the shows I needed to
record, and then I would sitback in bed and not get out.
It's definitely it was definitely a blowbecause we built a great following, an
incredible show. We were on theverge of being in talks with like putting

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our show on other stations like Syndicate, you know, syndicate our show.
We were working towards that, andit was just just one of those things
in radio, like you know,if if you can't sell advertising, you
know, what can we do?And so we did everything on our end
and the music side and the showside and everybody putting the show together and

(11:56):
the station together. It's just ifyou if you can't sell it, if
you can't get commercial money, thenthe company goes, hey, uh,
well, let's do something where wecan sell commercials. So it was a
very unique experience, like Lazette said, where they where they go, hey,
look you're no longer on air inSeattle, but you're on air everywhere
else, and we're not going tofire you. And on top of that,
we are going to work to getyou what they call it, your

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next chapter. And so we hadsome talks and they go, hey,
what about this area, what aboutthis area, what about this city?
And they go, hey, wegot a great idea this Sacramento station.
We're gonna launch it Kiss one onseven point nine. It's gonna be great.
We want to keep you two togetherand put you guys in the afternoon.
You can still do your your morningshow type stuff, you know,

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like silly, you know whatever,silly sillies, silly silly, silly sillies.
But you don't have to wake upat three in the morning, and
you can actually go out and likego to a concert at night or at
dinner, like when the when thesun sets, and so it's a great
opportunity and we just were we wereunder an NDA where we couldn't discuss it.
So now we can't because today isour first day on the radio in

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Sacramento on we've been announced, Sonow we can talk about it because everyone,
you know, obviously within the building, everyone like knew the situation with
what happened. And then like,I think you still came in every day
because you had stuff to do andyou live right down the street. But
me living twenty minutes away, Iwas like, I'm not going to drive
in every day when I can justdo this from home. So I came

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in only since February, maybe onlya handful of times. Yeah, And
when they would see us, youknow, naturally, everyone just wants to
ask questions like, oh, doyou guys know where you're going, what's
happening, what's happened, what's next? So you guys staying together? Did
you get a new station yet?And it's like, I don't know.

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It's so hard because like they're allour friends here, and it's so hard
when when you're excited about something butyou can't tell anyone you're like, fuck,
Like, I really want to talkabout it because I'm so excited,
but it can't yeh. So I'mjust happy that it's finally been announced and
everything's everything is out, so wecould just talk about it. Yes,
So our new you know, ournew show is Strawberry and Lazette. It's
not the wake up Show because we'rein the afternoon. So our our Twitter,

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our Twitter, our Instagram, andall of our social media are gonna
change. Just look for Strawberry andLazette. We got a DM because we
announced that our last podcast was oneof our final ones, and somebody said,
who's this? Uh, Midori Kudo, do you ever dream? I
say you were joy Madory. Thatwas one of my first drinks. I

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got it because it was in theCobra starship video. I was like,
that looks cool, it's delicious onit. Uh. So Midori Kudo says,
please tell me you're gonna come back. I missed the Fantasy A movie
reviews that always ended in spoilers.So fantasy And there was actually a couple
of people that said, like youshould have Fantasy A do like like another

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freestyle rap on your goodbye podcast.Fantasy A is one of the nicest people
in the world. And I trackedhim down. I tracked him down because
I saw him. I saw apost about him on Reddit. Uh,
like, oh, it's good tosee fantasy a like out putting flyers on
telephone polls. Now, I'm like, what is this guy in Seattle?

(15:09):
I'm like, let me look thisguy up. So I looked at his
YouTube. I'm like, whoa,Like, he's he's an autistic rapper.
Oh, he's a how do Isay that? Is that correct? He's
a rapper with autism. Yeah,and he he's just he is a staple
of Seattle. And so I sawthis guy and I went through some of

(15:30):
his YouTube and I'm like, dude, this guy is like people in Seattle
know this dude, Like, letme reach out to him. So I
found him on social media. Ireached out. I'm like, hey man,
this is Strawberry. Like we broughtque ninety three three back, Like
do you want to come in oneday and like be on the radio and
like like hang out and talk.And so we had him on a podcast
and then I'm like, you knowwhat we gotta do. We gotta use
this guy somehow. How can welike make him a character the show,

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and like, I know, we'llhave him go watch movies and then give
his reviews, which we're hilarious.And we would always pre record the movie
reviews and I would try to gethim to spoil it and he would like
say a spoiler like oh yeah,someone so dies in the end, but
you know, spoiler alert, andwe're like, oh, you can't say

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that. He goes, oh,I'm sorry. So yeah, he's,
oh gosh, the nicest guy.He would send us Valentine's cards so funny.
Oh my god, we're gonna missFantasy A. So full disclosure,
Lazette and I are still going tobe in Seattle for the next couple of
weeks, a couple of months untilyou know, your son gets out of

(16:33):
school. We have to break ourrelease at our building relocated Sacramento, so
you will still see us around uhSeattle for for a while. But yeah,
we're gonna be living in uh Sacramento, California. Yeah. I'm like,
I was trying to get out asap, Like, my son has a
couple more weeks of school left.Oh shit, no, one more week.

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Yeah, at this point, hehas one more week of school left
and as soon as we kind oflike knew for sure what was going to
be happening with us, I waslike, bet, the minute he's out
of school, he's out, LikeI'm out of here, only because like
Sacramento is three hours away from Selinas, which is where I'm from, which
is where my whole family lives.Like my sister just had a baby.

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It's summer vacation, like the likemy son and the cousins can all like
hang out and spend time together.We can go places and do things.
And so I was just like excited. I was like, the minute he's
done with school, we're out ofhere. I want to get down there
and spend as much time with themlike as I can before things start to
get crazy and before you know,he has to go back to school or
whatever. And then I was likegetting so stressed out because at that point,

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I gave myself what like a monthto find somewhere to live, to
get packed up, and then itwas a lot because I if you guys,
like, remember I moved here witha roommate. Yeah, so it's
not just like me that just hasto worry about moving out. I also

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have to constantly loop her in becauseshe's now trying to decide like do I
stay in this apartment and find roommatesdo I also have to move out now?
And then I'm like, you needto make a decision because we need
to know which papers were signing,like a roommate release form to take me
off the lease and you stay,or do we need to put in a
notice because we're both leaving And she'slike I don't know, and I'm like,
oh, I don't know either,yea. So it was just like

(18:30):
so much happening to the point whereI was just like fuck this, Like
I'm not leaving June seventeenth, right, you got too much to figure out.
I was like, there's too much, too much to do in so
little time. And mind you,this was like a time that I gave
myself, like nobody's told me Ihad to be in Sacramento June seventeenth,

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Like I just gave that to myself. It was like, I just want
to be there as soon as Ican. But then after I was like,
you know what, like everything isgoing wrong. Things aren't happening how
I planned them to happen in myhead. I need to just get myself
more time and take it slower andfigure things out. So that's what I'm
doing now. But I was stressed, Yeah, scressed, Yeah, I

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know, I know it's a lot. And then I'm like doing it by
myself too, Like none of myfamily or anyone can come help me,
so I'm like, fuck, yeah, my brother offer. My brother actually
lives in Sacramento, and with thismove, I'll be closer to a lot
of family. Also because I grewup in the Bay Area, Sacramentos two
hours away, and my mom stilllives in the Bay Area. My dad

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still lives in the Bay Area,but every everybody kind of moved up north,
Like my oldest sister lives in Sacknow, my brother lives in Sack.
My other sister moved to Hayward,but her the family she married into
lives in Sacks, so they're alwaysin Sacramento. So and it's been rough
the last whatever four years I've beenout here. My brother came to see

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me a couple of times, butlike nobody else did, Like nobody came
up to see me. So ifI did see anybody, And of course
we had the two years of thepandemic, so a lot of people didn't
see family and loved ones anyway.But if I ever, you know,
you know, I missed a bunchof stuff, and if we saw each
other for like a Christmas or aThanksgiving, it's because I had to fly
out or whatever. So being inSacramental, I can help my mom more,

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and you know, I could maybesee my dad, and I could
like see my niece and nephews.But like, my mom's living on her
own, and I was trying tolike help her like paint her house and
like retile some stuff. But Iwould only be able to do it like
every five six months when I wouldfly into town, Like, Mom,
you haven't finished tiling this yet.No, all right, we're gonna get
a tile person. We're gonna dothis. Dada da. I fly back,

(20:47):
you know four months later. Wellwhat about these lights? Like these
lights are still dead? All right, go to hardware store, replace the
lights, you know what I mean. So I'll be able to do that
with just like a ninety minute drivenow instead of a two and a half
hour flight. Yeah, that's whatI'm That's what I'm looking forward to,
is just being around more. Wehaven't lived like we left home when Gilanni
was two. He's about to beeleven now. Yeah, so this has

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been a good long while of notbeing home and missing birthdays and missing you
know, people having babies and theholidays that we're now going to be there
for. So when I told Gilannithat we were moving to Sacramento, he's
like sad that you know, Ifeel so bad. He's constantly having to

(21:30):
move schools and make new friends andit just like breaks my heart. I
was really set on being settled herein Seattle, yeah, and just for
that reason that I just wanted stabilityfor him. And when I had to
come in and you know, Ididn't tell him what happens like at work
that day. Yeah, but Ijust told him, I'm like, hey,
I'm working from home now, likemade it sound all fun. He

(21:52):
was like really. I was like, yeah, so now I'll be here
in the morning. He's like,oh awesome. And then he plays video
games and like I go my roomand cry. But when I told him
that we're moving to Sacramento, like, he was a little sad because like
he has friends here now, youknow, he's about to be in fifth
grade. He has friends that heplays with and hangs out with. But
but then when I showed him andexplained to him how close Sacramento was to

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like Hayward, where my sister lives, into Selena's where everyone else lives,
and how it's just like we canjust hop in the car and d and
be there in a couple hours drivingin the car, Like we don't have
to go on an airplane, wedon't have to pack, we don't have
to fly do all this traveling.And he's like, oh shit, Like
well, he didn't say that,but he's like excited that we're going to
be so much closer than that,we're going to be there more often.

(22:37):
So fingers crossed that this is wherewe can settle for a while at least
for just for him to have stabilityand like at least finish school or until
he's like older or like I don'tknow, but I just like I'm over
having to constantly move really yah.Yeah, yeah, So I'm hoping that
that this is it. I'm hopeful. I am what's the word, what's

(23:04):
another word for, like hopel I'moptimistic optimistic. Yeah, that this is
gonna be like the best thing thatever happened to us. Yeah, this
is gonna be a great opportunity Imean we get to launch another station,
which is very rare. Also inradio, it's very rare that you get
to launch and start something fresh.Like normally it's like, oh, what
happened to this guy? I don'tknow, but this is the new guy,

(23:26):
Like you know, like people listento so and so in the afternoon
and then that guy gets fired,and then like a new person comes in,
like oh I don't like you,I like the other person. This
is a fresh start. They justlaunched the radio station. Nobody's been on
air yet, kind of like CubeCube and Seattle went away for a couple
of years. Like it's so it'sso rare, and then here we are
doing it twice five years. Yeah, and it's really it's really cool and

(23:48):
we got a great team. I'mpsyched. So saying goodbye to the wake
Up Show? What do you rememberabout like the first like getting the show
ready, moving from Nashville to Seattle, Like okay, shoot, this is
a huge station, big market morningshow, Like what the hell I remember

(24:15):
when we signed on, Like Iremember sitting here in the studio and the
legal id played, so like weheard it on the radio for the first
time of it being like the wakeup show and it's saying all our names
and we're all in here, like, and everyone was here because we were
a new show. It was ourfirst day, so all the bosses were
here, all the engineers were hereto help if anything like went wrong,

(24:37):
So everyone's just like watching. We'rein the studio. And I remember the
feeling of hearing that on the radioand being like holy shit, like fish
like I'm doing mornings, yeah,and I had never done mornings before.
And then I remember our very likeour first sign in on the air,
and how like nervous. I wasso fucking nervous, like my heart's pounding.

(25:02):
I don't know if this happens toanyone else or if it's just me,
but like when I'm really really nervousand I'm talking, I can feel
my voice shaky, like I get, I get like cotton mouth conscience of
it? You're conscience? What thehell you're conscience of it? No?
What you'r? Did you just callme a conscience? You're conscience? That's
not it. You're not conscious ofit? Conscious? Conscious? You're conscious

(25:26):
of it? Why did that wordsound so weird coming up my mouth?
You're conscious? I'm unconscious? You'reconscious, conscious of it, aware use
that you're aware of it. Butit's just like I can feel like I'm
fucking my throat is dry, ican feel my voice shaky and like my
heart is pounding, and I'm fuckinghot and sweaty and shit. And I

(25:49):
remember my sister's co worker, JV. I talked to him and he was
like, how to go, Likeit was your first day, right,
everything went well? And I waslike, oh my god, I was
so nervous. And he was like, yeah, you're gonna be like that
for the first like a few daysmaybe, and then you'll get used to
it act yeah, And I waslike, oh my god, yeah so
much. But I remember that likevividly is how like nervous I was.

(26:15):
And I didn't even know I wasgonna be nervous until it happens, because
it's like you've been doing radio forso long. You've been on the radio
for so long, you don't expectto like get nervous all of a sudden
and like buckle up, and thenit just like happens all of a sudden.
You're like, holy shit, Yeah, I like it. I like
that feeling. I remember I remembersigning on the first you know, the
first I remember, and it wase forties voice the Lake Uls. Yeah,

(26:38):
man, it was hard. Iremember we were all in market,
we were all in Seattle. Actually, when did you get you got to
see it? Like a couple ofdays before the show, right, I
was here, I want to say, a week or two before launch?

(26:59):
Okay, I thought it was likeright before. Was it two weeks?
I thought it was like maybe aweek. Ltte, you gotta get out
here, like we're all out here. We're planning, we're prepping, we're
having meetings, we're going over likewhat the show didn't sound like? No,
but I can't because I got anapartment. Like you had a lot
of stuff on your plates. WhatI'm saying. I had a lot of
stuff on my plate. And everythinghappened for me so last minute, Like

(27:21):
I was the last person to geta contract, That was the last person
to even be told like all right, we want to interview you, or
you know what I mean. Likeeverybody was already out here, yeah,
and like fucking settling in and livinghere and living their fucking best lives while
I didn't even know if I hadthe job yet. Yeah, and then
when I finally like signed a contract. I was like, they're like,

(27:42):
all right, we're launching in onthis day. And I'm like, what
the fuck, Like it happened allso last minute for me that I had
to leave Nashville and just fly outhere just to like be here to prepare
with everyone and and be here forthe launch. I left everything. I
packed a bag and left Nashville justto come be here. Yeah, and

(28:07):
I didn't even have any anything situatedfor my son. I didn't even have
a place to live. And itwas like, this is fucking insane.
I can't believe. Like they're likethey're not making giving me any time,
Like what the fuck? Yeah,And like luckily in Nashville, my son's
dad lived there at the time.So I was like I have to go,
and I need you to, liketime to step up, Dad,

(28:30):
Like you have a son, youneed to take care of him while I
go try to get this new job. Like and so I was just like,
you can stay. It would beeasier if you just stayed at my
apartment while I was gone because alloff his stuff is there. You can
like take care of the cats forme. His school is down the street,
Like it just would be easier ifyou came and lived here for a

(28:52):
little while. So I think hehe was there for I want to say,
maybe like a month. Yeah,it was a while. It was
a while, Yeah, it was. It was probably about a month.
And then is September. It wasin September, end of September because we

(29:15):
launched October one. First show wasOctober one. You know what. I
was only here for about a week. Yeah, because Gilanni's seventh birthday,
his birthday September seventeenth. The showlaunched October one, and I didn't leave
Nashville until right after his birthday becauseI was like, we're gonna have his

(29:37):
birthday here with all of his friends, and then you'll go, and then
I'm going to leave right after.Yeah, so you were nervous on the
first day. I wasn't because Iwas out here. I was in the
studio in the building for a numberof weeks and we were we were when
we were still assembling the show andput in together. Then I was sitting
with all the you know, coachesand consultants and whatever, like all right,
here's what you're gonna do when andhere's this sound effect, and here's

(29:57):
this and here's that. So wehad we even had a couple of practice
shows before we went on the air, and so because and I've never done
that before. So because of that, I felt I felt real good.
I mean I felt like excited,but not nervous. I'm like, hey,
you know what, we've practiced.We got a good chemistry all of
us in here. Like I wasjust worried that we're gonna have like dead

(30:18):
air or something. And when youhave multiple people on a show, it's
always a learning curve to figure outwho's talking, When do I interrupt?
When should I not interrupt? Whenshould I fall back and let the other
person talk. Like there's a wholechemistry of having a conversation on air with
letting somebody get their point out andthen allowing somebody else to have a counterpoint.

(30:38):
So with it was three three ofus, kind of four. At
one point we had four microphones onat once, and it was it was
like whoa. And then some ofour talk breaks, like we were talking
for like six seven minutes. I'mlike, that was great. And then
by the time we you know,got taken off the air, all of
our talk breaks were down to liketwo and a half three minutes. I'm
like, this is a really tightshow. That's why I thought that the

(31:00):
wake Up Show could have been onin a number of different cities, because
I'm like, hey, dude,we're not We're not wasting anybody's time.
Like we're getting right to the conversation. We're getting right to the topic,
and if it starts getting boring,we're out. We don't beat a dead
horse. We had a really goodshow. And just thinking back, like
how long some of our conversations wereon air in the beginning, And it's

(31:22):
you don't realize, like when you'retalking to someone, you kind of get
to a point where everyone's just goingin circles and you were just like repeating
the same thing over and over again. And then sometimes people will be like,
you know what, we're not gettinganywhere with this, Like I don't
want to talk about this anymore.We're just fucking being repetitive. Yeah,
when you're doing that all in theradio, it's like sometimes hard to notice

(31:47):
that it's even happening. Yeah,And to be someone not involved in the
conversation that's listening to the conversation,you're like, everyone's just fucking going in
circles. Like the fuck. SoI think we got we We did get
pretty good at noticing when that startedto happen and then just cutting it off

(32:07):
right there and be like, youknow what, we're not to each their
own. We're not getting anywhere here, right, But it's just so funny,
Like even just to listen back,to listen back as a listener,
even though that was me in thatconversation, it's like, god, damn,
like, shut up, it's tough. I'm thinking so long, like

(32:29):
about nothing. Get to the point, whar the fuck up? Yeah,
Like you're like, we're doing thatto ourselves. So we got coached very
well and uh, and then theshow went through it we've talked about in
the podcast before, so I don'twant to dive into it now, but
the show went through several different youknow, identities and cast changes, and
each time there's a cast change,everybody else has to kind of like rework

(32:50):
on their dynamic and their chemistry.So shout out to everybody who who you
know, put in work on thisshow. And I still I missed,
you know, I missed Lou Rockand rock Wright so much because I talked
to Lou Rock the other day,did you Yeah, miss you guys.
I was like, we miss youtoo. They were brought in to do
the mix, you know, toto do the mix, and then I

(33:12):
was like sneaking them more and more, not only on the microphone, and
bring them part of the conversation orthe topic or whatever. But then I'm
like, hey, you know whatinstead of just doing like the was like
a thirty minute mix at seven thirtyor whatever it was, I'm like,
how about, like, if I'mcoming out of a song, like grab
the instrumental and like just keep playingthat song and just keep the music going.
So we had them working all allshow. It wasn't just like a
thirty minute mix. And then yeah, we turned their mic on and we

(33:35):
would bring them into topics and theyboth really delivered because they're not radio people.
Yeah, they're DJs, and wekind of coached them like they're DJs
with dope personalities, personnel that wejust stole and put on the air.
They would they would be in ourpodcasts sometimes we would use them for like
digital content like making videos, andit's just what's cool to just have like

(33:58):
an extra extra body the studio sometimesand someone with a different personality than what
we have on the show or opinion, different opinion. I'm a reference.
That's what I meant. Yeah,it was dope. What else? I
really liked our logo. I thinkour logo was hard. I really that's
what. That's one of the thingsthat I was going through, like clearing

(34:19):
stuff out. I'm like, Ican't use this logo on Instagram stuff or
YouTube videos. I'm like, oh, this is such a dope logo.
Yeah, I really liked that logothey came up with. Are gonna miss
that? No, We're not gonnamiss that. Oh man, I'm gonna
bring something else up. What Igonna bring up? I like the fact
that that it was the snow storm. First there was Snowmageddon. It was

(34:46):
that twenty eighteen, and it's likenineteen Like, we're like, what do
you mean we can't like drive towork? What Like there's snow in my
driveway. I'm like, there's likefour inches of snow. Yeah, but
it's Seattle like it it was aweird learning curve. We're like, well,
and since I lived down the street, I'm like, I can get
to the station pretty easy to me. Yeah, And it's like what you're

(35:07):
snowed in? You're like, listen, I'm I'm snowed in. I can't
leave the house, Like what,yeah, it's it's And I don't know
if during those days, if youever drove outside of Seattle, but it
was just so different, like onceyou cross that bridge, shit is not
cleared, like the way it wasn'tSeattle. Sometimes I felt like you thought

(35:29):
I was being dramatic when I'm like, bro, I can't fucking drive like
people. People were couldn't even getout of my complex. They would try
to leave and their cars would getstuck and then they would just have to
leave them and walk back to theirapartment. So there's cars scattered everywhere that
you couldn't even drive around even ifyou tried, Like people were just abandoning
their cars. And I'm just likeeveryone else got to work fine. Yeah,

(35:53):
but me saying like I can't leave, like yeah, and you being
like we'll just try. Colin Uber, I'm like, I think he thinks
I'm lying like that, or hedoesn't realize that it's this bat over here.
Well, there was also a pointwhere, and this is kind of
unprecedented, there was the snow wasthere was a point where the company's like,

(36:14):
look, well, anybody who needsto be on the air in the
morning or whatever, like we'll payfor a hotel in Seattle, Like we'll
put you up in Seattle. AndI'm like, yeah, guys, use
that. I think some of youguys were using that. But after a
while, the company's like, we'renot paying for you to live in the
hotel, Like was it you orwas it somebody else? No, they
were there for a couple of days. They're like, we can't. We're

(36:35):
not gonna like howse you permanently atthis hotel? Like you gotta get out
after a while. I I mean, nobody told me I was staying there
too long. I'm pretty sure mighthave been somebody else. I may have
stayed for a day or two orsomething like that. But at the same
time, like I can't, likeit was nice to have that option.
M it was nice to have thatoption. But at the same time,

(36:55):
like I have a kid, it'snot just me that I'm just gonna go
stay in a hotel for a fewdays, like like I don't know,
it just was a lot, Yeah, And then when thinking taking him out
of the house, and then it'slike, so we're just gonna like live
in a hotel, Like, that'smy dream. My dream is to live
in a hotel. Oh, Ilove that, like a nice one.

(37:17):
What about when when the pandemic startedshutting everything down and iHeart brought in these
like papers that they sent out fromNew York from corporate and they said,
sign this, you are now aessential essential worker, essential employee. And
then they had these laminated cards.I wonder if I still have mine?
Yeah, you still have mine.It's a laminated card. It looks like

(37:38):
it's out of a movie. Uh. It's red and white and on the
top is that like yellow and blacklike caution tape, and it's got a
hologram on it. It says iHeartMediaEmergency Response Team, and it says my
name. And they literally were like, you guys need to carry this with
you at all times and this letter, Yeah, that gives you permission to

(37:59):
leave the house. Nobody's allowed toleave the house. So if you get
caught driving around or you get pulledover, you just show them this,
Like they're like you only like you, Like, you can't leave the house
unless you're coming and going to workfrom work, yeah, or if you're
going to like the grocery store orsomething like that. But they're like,
if you are not going to thestore and you get pulled over because you're

(38:20):
out driving around, just show themthis and they'll they'll let you go.
I want to post this on Instagrambecause, Yeah, it's got a hologram.
It looks like a driver's license.It's got our picture on it.
It says our name, it saysCritical Operations employee. It's got my employee
number. It says it expires Novemberone, twenty twenty four, so I
can still use this. Yeah,it's got the address of the radio station.

(38:40):
And then it's got like the likethe emoji, like the their yellow
triangle with the explan exclamation point init. Yeah. So the idea was,
hey, we know it's COVID,we know it's the pandemic. Come
to work and if you get pulledover by a cop, give them this.
Yeah that was the weirdest thing.But how about us like not missing
a show ever, like during thepandemic or due to COVID, Like how

(39:05):
about that, Like, yeah,everyone else shut down, everyone else worked
from home and we still came in. Yeah, Like that's nuts. And
all these little things we got,like that card in that paper are fucking
vax Card's like everything that we havefrom this pandemic and that and that time.

(39:30):
Yeah, I'm like, this isgoing to be cool to look back
on in thirty years. I'm keepingit all. Yeah, I'm keeping I'm
keeping that emergency what is it again, It's it's called a like, I'm
emergency response team card. These arethings that like my great great grandchildren are
going to take to school from showand tell, like what I found?
Yeah, I know. And that'sa great picture of me too. I'm
having a good hair day on thatphotos. I'm definitely keeping it. But

(39:52):
yeah, that's nuts. It's whatelse? So crazy? Like we've fucking
have been through so much in thefour years that we've been here. Yeah,
and then they took our show,our show that was from six to
ten, and they go, okay, now go six to eleven. So
we were doing that and they gookay, now go five to eleven.
We're like what. They go okay, and you guys are on the air

(40:12):
on Saturdays also, We're like what. And then they started taking you know
people, uh you know what itcalled like lay off some budget cuts and
stuff like that. So it wasjust Lazette and night, We're like,
what we're trying to do a show? Produce more shows, have best of
shows, do all our digital content, edit vide zero help, zero help.
We're like what, Like it wastough. And then there was like
like I was I was wasn't itLike my eye was twitching for like a

(40:35):
week. I'm like, that's probablynot a good sign. Like remember when
I thought I was having a strokeon air? A lot of people said
that they thought you were also alot of people. It was. It
was a couple of days, wasn'tit. It was like two three days.
I don't remember it was because itrepeated, and You're like, I
think I'm having a stroke, AndI'm like, yeah, man, everybody's
stressed out right now. You're like, no, seriously, think about in

(40:57):
a stroke. And then we alllaughed about it. Remember those days,
Yeah, fuck yeah, And therewas a few people here that actually didn't
have like strokes and heart attacks andship because of all the work and stress
that we were under being like oneperson with the job of ten Yeah,
like it was fucking in. Itgot so bad to where we eventually,

(41:21):
like some people were like, y'allgot to calm the fuck down, Like
We're doing the best we can,but this is not worth fucking being hospitalized
over. Chill the fuck out.Yeah, two people who were working on
morning shows both had to be hospitalized. One had Both of them had surgery
too. One of them had openheart surgery. Yeah, and he didn't.
He have surgery also, the womanhad surgery. Can you like what?

(41:44):
I don't know. I feel likeyou're given out too many details.
Oh sorry, I yes, theyboth had surgery. Okay, yeah,
that's weird, but yeah, Ifucking I think it was like I was
trying to read something on my laptopon the air we were live, and
then all of a sudden, God, what happened. It was it was

(42:07):
all my vision. The vision wentblurry or it wasn't working, which is
weird. It was like I rememberI had like my peripheral vision. It
all turned kaleidoscopy. That's right,That's what it was. So like if
I was just looking at something,like my tunnel vision was clear by the

(42:30):
way, my tunnel vision was likeclear, but everything surrounding it got like
it looks like a kaleidoscope. Likeit just was like all weird, and
so I had to slow down myreading and my talking because I could only
like look at one letter at atime to see what it was. And
then we got off and I'm like, I kind of blink it, blink

(42:52):
it out of my eyes. I'mlike looking around, like what the fuck?
And I told Straw I think Ithink I didn't say anything while we
were on the air, but oncewe got off the air, I was
like, I can't fucking see likeand then I called the eye doctor.
They said that they or no,I called my doctor. They said they

(43:12):
thought I was having it sounded likea it was like a eye migraine or
eyes stroke or something like that.Uh, it was something. It was
something along the lines of that.Any other memories you want to share about
the wake Up Show before we gointo this final d M. Yeah,
when I had my first surgery.Oh, when I almost died again your

(43:37):
New Year's Eve gallbladder. You're like, hey, guys, I'm not gonna
be able to make it to theparty tonight that we're hosting. Yeah.
I also felt like you guys thoughtI was lying when I when I had
to say some that text. No, I don't think you were lying.
What did I say? I'm sureI can go back on that. Now
you didn't say you you didn't sayanything. Yeah, but I always just

(43:58):
I don't know. I'm just soparanoid it and I always just have this
like this feeling like if I'm expectedto be somewhere and something happens and I
can't go, people won't believe you. I'm always just like they probably fucking
I just think I'm being lazy orlike piece of shit, just lying and
don't want to work or something likethat. So I was like, fuck,
they probably. I tried so hardto leave that hospital to make it

(44:19):
to that show. I know youdid. And the doctor was like,
you can go if you want,but if something happens, you can't sue
us. You're gonna die. Hewas like, if if your this explodes,
like you could die. Yeah,and I'm telling you this so that
you can't sue us when that happens. Yeah. I was like, oo,
said, what are you saying itshouldn't go? Should I just do

(44:39):
the surgery instead? Do the surgeryinstead? Yeah, but this was a
great time. It's unfortunate that,you know, Seattle as a radio market
doesn't have you know, a cubeninety three three. You know it just
you know, it just didn't.It didn't go the way everybody hoped.

(45:00):
And we met a lot of greatpeople doing the wake Up Show, and
we met a lot of awesome listenerswho gave us some great support, most
of which will never know or neversee or never meet, because that's just
how it is, like, youknow, like you're out there and you're
supporting. We see the numbers comein on like the podcast downloads and streams,
and we'll get dms, but justyou know, unfortunately, like we'll

(45:20):
just for the most part, wewill never meet, which is why I
really want you guys to stay intouch with us on our personal instagrams as
well as the new instagram at Strawberryand Lazette. And we once we get
settled in Sacramento, we'll start podcastingfrom there. And because it's another iHeart
station, you can stream us inthe afternoons on the free iHeart app.
And uh, you know, we'llprobably do like a show like what do

(45:44):
we do, like the show recap, you know, when we take the
show and we take the show andtake the music out in the commercial oat
and we put it online whatever itwas called. What was it called?
Not a best of show? Recapreplay? What was that replay? Wasn't
it just the wake up show?On demand? That's what it was.
So we'll do another cot talking aboutwe'll do another on demand show, but
stay stay with us. So withthat, with our with our undying gratitude

(46:07):
for supporting us and for sticking withus while we were in Seattle. One
final DM it says, what doyou mean? Finally, what do you
mean? Your final podcast? Sowhat happened to Lazette's car? Is Strawberry
still a redhead? We need toknow? So first, yes, I'm
still a redhead that doesn't go away. It's not curable. No, what

(46:30):
happened to your car? Because wewere updating everybody on it? And then
the show got taken off the airlike we described, and then there was
no more updates. But now you'rerolling in a mom Suv. I ended
up getting a new car, soI can't remember where we left off,
but I'll just read the mechanics.Send it to the autobody shop to fix

(46:52):
a dance. You're like, no, it doesn't steer, What do you
mean fix a dent? Yeah?I was driving to work one morning and
the steering base basically like went out, I turned left, the car jerked
right, and this happens like onthe highway. I'm going at high speeds
and I'm like feeling like I justlost control, So I like freaked out.
I took it to a shop ofthat day, and that mechanic was

(47:15):
like this, this, and thisis wrong with it. This is gonna
be like forty five hundred dollars tofix, and I was like oooh,
but they said it was from aprior accident. So I called my insurance
filed a claim. They were like, do you want to take it to
a shop of your choice? Doyou want to take it to one of
our shops that we work with anduse. I was like, take it
to your shop. So they're like, okay, send it to an autobody

(47:37):
shop to fix the bumper. AndI was like cool, but can I
fucking drive it. They were like, oh, we don't. We don't
do like the mechanical stuff here.We got to send it to the dealership
for that. So it was thiswhole long thing of you know, I
only had rental coverage for like amonth and felt like half of that time

(47:58):
was wasted on them fucking repainting thescratches on the bumper, like you know
what I mean. It was likeshit that I wasn't concerned about. So
I was pissed. Yeah, Andthey took it to a mechanic, then
they called me, or they tookit to the dealership. Then they called
me and they were like, allright, your car is ready to be
picked up. And I was likeI was like okay, great, Like
what was fixed on it? Andthey were like nothing, it's not broken.

(48:20):
And I was like, I'm notpicking up that car. Right.
Meanwhile, while this is going on, you and my beautiful fiance have gone
car shopping, or at least windowshopping for cars, right. You've been
looking around lots like maybe I wantthis, maybe I can afford this,
how about this one? I waslooking at new cars, but at the
same time, that car that Iwas driving was almost paid off. And

(48:44):
you know that doesn't need to beexplained. It's almost paid off. That's
one less bill, right right.And I was just like explained to them
again, like what do you meannothing's broken? Like you can't find anything
wrong, like there's something wrong withit. I was behind the wheel and
almost like fucking drove off a bridgebecause the card just felt like driving off

(49:07):
the bridge, like something's wrong withit, and they're like, uh.
It was constant back and forth between, like it was never just me talking
to the insurance and the mechanic sothat I could just get my point across
and everyone could hear what everyone hadto say. It was constant like he
say, she say this, saidthis, they said this. Yeah,
And so I'm going through the insuranceand I'm like, they need to go

(49:29):
look at it again. They needto drive it on the highway. And
he was like, we did driveit and there was nothing wrong. And
I was like, something's fucking wrong. Take it back on the highway.
And so they did it again andthey were like, we still can't find
anything wrong. What we suggest isgetting like a steering wheel realignment and my
tires rotated. That's what they saidto do that would fix it. Yeah,

(49:53):
And I got to a point towhere I was like and by this
time all of this stuff would cubehad happened. All of these other things,
like just with work and personal lifestuff was going on that I was
like, it's already been like twomonths that I haven't had a car.
I'm very tired of fucking dealing withthis and dealing with the insurance and dealing

(50:15):
with the mechanic, who, nomatter what I do, is going to
say like, yeah, this iswhat's wrong. This is from an accident,
so that it'll be covered with insurance. Like everything they're finding, everything
they're finding, they're telling the insuranceit's not from an accident though, it's
just from fucking wear and tear fornot taking care of the car. So

(50:36):
I was like, I'm not goingto waste my time going back and forth.
If the mechanics says that it's notfrom an accident, at the end
of the day, it's not goingto be covered and they're not going to
do anything about it. So Ifinally just was like fuck it. I
went to go pick up the car. This was at the end of This
was the end of April. Thiswas April twenty eighth. Holy cow,

(50:58):
I don't know why I remember allthese days. So end of April,
I go pick up the car andmy dad convinced me to try to fix
what they said needed to be fixedand see if that fixes if that fixes
the issue, because he really wantedme to not go buy a new car,
right, So I was like,all right, fine, I'll see

(51:21):
if that's maybe that's just what itis. The whole time I was driving
the car from Seattle, it wasat the dealership on Aurora. So the
whole time I was driving the carfrom Seattle back to the east Side,
I was like freaking out, Likemy whole body was shaking. I was
like driving so slow. I wasso scared to even go fast in that

(51:45):
car, like and not even fast, just like fifty five miles an hour
yea on the highway, Like Iwas petrified. But if your car decides
to jerk and go left while you'rein a right handed turn or cross traffic
or whatever, like your square,I just was so traumatized from the way
it drove the last time I droveit that getting back in that car and
driving it on the highway again,I was so traumatized. I was like

(52:06):
shaking, yeah, like it wasso scary. And we finally get to
like the east Side and drove tothe dealership. I had my roommate following
behind me because that's how scared Iwas. Yeah, we got to the
dealership just because I wanted to golook around and see also what was there
and stuff, and the minute Istepped out of the car, like my
whole body relaxed from how tense itwas, and it was in pain,

(52:30):
Like my body hurt because it wasso tense for twenty minutes. Yeah,
like and I just like felt sick. And I was like, if that's
not a fucking sign right there toget rid of this fucking car. I
don't know what it is, like, I'm sorry, Dad, I know
you wanted me to keep it andtry to stick it out, but I
just can't. I will never feelsafe in this car again, was the

(52:52):
bottom line for me. So yeah, that day I picked it up from
the mechanic, I drove to adealership and I traded it in and got
a new car. And it's thecar after all that. Yeah, but
the car that you're in right now, the car that you traded in for,
this is one that you were lookingat and researching anyway, like you
already had your eye on. Thiswasn't just like a random like impulse by
it was. It was a randomyeah, dick, that one. So

(53:15):
I knew what kind of car Iwanted, Like, I knew I wanted
like an SUV, something with alittle more space, but nothing too big,
like not like a suburban. Ididn't want anything too that felt too
big to drive, because you know, I'm not a I'm a small person.
So I just wanted something cute,cute, little mom suv. That

(53:36):
one had just come in. Iended up getting a Volkswagen Tiguan, uh
huh, which is really fucking cute. I'm very happy with my purchase.
So cute be dazzled it, you'dbe dazzled the interior, but that one
had just came in. So basically, I walked in and I told them
I really wanted Mazdo c X five. I've already looked at those cars.
I loved them, and that's whatI want you have in here, uh

(54:00):
huh. And they were like,no, we don't have any, but
let me show you like similar stuff. Yeah. I was like, okay.
So they just showed me a coupleof things. They showed me the
Tiguan, and then I think theyshowed me one other car. I think
it was like an Explorer or so, I don't know. They showed me

(54:20):
one other car. I was like, I kind of want to see the
new Broncos. Those look cool,but they didn't have any there, and
so they showed me the Tiguan.I test drove it and I was like,
Okay, it's fine, this willwork'll do it. So yeah car
that day she got a new car. Everybody new car, new job,
new adventure, new city. Yep, big things. Time time to leave

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the past in the past. Yeah. Thank you again to everybody who went
with us on this wake Up Showjourney and uh and the Cube ninety three
three journey and uh, we appreciateso much how you embraced us. And
they're really cool. As you know, Lazette and I were two outsiders who
came into a city that you know, that had people who've been on the

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radio in the morning for years andyears and years and years. Like we
were the underdogs, and there wereseveral times when we beat them in the
ratings. And I don't really careabout ratings because ratings are flawed and sample
polled, so I really never likerely on those. But when everybody in
the building is excited that, youknow, us two newbies beat some of
the heritage shows, you know,it's good and it goes to it goes

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to the listeners that, uh,you know that that shared their morning with
us and and all that. Soas we move on to our new chapter
in Sacramento. We hope everybody stayswith us, and uh well, we'll
stay with you as well. FollowLazettes on Instagram. I am at Lisette
love l I Z E, Tc E l o v E. And

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you can follow me on Instagram atStrawberry Radio. Wow. This is it?
Huh? Is it? Until we'rein Sacramento. Until next time,
guys by They're Golden Pony Boy