May 28, 2026 • 43 mins
In this episode of Teach Me Something, hosts DJ Prostyle and Penny Dellas sit down with Josh Martinez, on-air personality for Z100, heard weekdays from 6 PM to 10 PM.
Born in Sunset Park and raised between Brooklyn and Staten Island, Josh’s journey into radio didn’t follow a traditional path. After leaving college, he pursued his passion through broadcasting school, internships, and overnight shifts—working his way up to one of the biggest stations in the country.
Now heard in over 40 cities nationwide, Josh shares his journey, the grind behind the mic, and what it takes to build a career in today’s evolving media landscape.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Pennydellas and
this is Teach Me Something, brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome back to
Teach Me Something, presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I am DJ Prostyles and I am Pennydellas. And it
feels like we've been here for twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We have, yes, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
He've been recording all.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Day, but to this episode is going to be energetic, fun,
just like all of them.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
By the way, I'm so excited about this guest because
this guest actually slid into my DMS and was like, oh, hey,
when are we gonna be on the pod? And I
was like, I'll tell you gonna be else. Tell your peoples,
hit up my people. And then they stop me in
the hall and they're like, the pod is on high demand.
When are we going to be on the pod? And
we need to happen.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
That's a fact. Hello, it's true.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome Josh Martinez from one hundred episode.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And Josh, by the way, didn't have to stop. He
could just walk like next door to oh he did.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
After he's like, did you see my dam Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I sat in the hall where I was like, hey, dog,
what's hop the DMS or not? Don't ignore me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
At first I thought it was going somewhere else. I
was like, wow, we grab SIPs tea, SI. No, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We're all fam and it's cool that everyone wants to
be on the pod.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And we want everybody on the pod.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
More importantly, I also also think that, like the the
idea of this pod is kind of dope because it
gives everybody, even though like a lot of us may
be in the same like industry, everyone has all these
different unique stories, and I think it's so dope to
like talk about people stories, explore people stories, so that
as people come across the pod, they could realize like,
oh I can I can see myself more in her,
(01:40):
in that guest or damn that guest.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Kind of there's something for everyone, and it's teach me something.
This is the classroom, and whether you had a traditional
education path or not, we're still learning from each other.
So it's pretty cool. Absolutely, it's pretty cool, which brings
us to Josh. You had a non traditional education path
which led you into radio, So let's talk about how
(02:03):
that journey became.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
So I wasn't always the best student.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
My sister, who was a year older than me, she
was like ap scholars, like just her weighted average was
like over one hundred.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
She was one of those students.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
And I was always funny because teachers would always like
compare us, which I always hated that, and much love
to my sister because she would always like, stop my
mom when my mom would try to compare us, or
stop the teachers when they would try to compare us,
because that could give you like such a complai hole.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah when you're close in age.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah. My brother and I a year and a half apart,
it was always it was like straight comparison between professors, parents, everything.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And so much love to my sister full up specifically
that in this moment. But now I went to the
College of Staten Island. I wanted to be a theater Majia.
And then midway through my third semester, I'll never forget it,
I was in the middle of a science class. Samantha
Gomez was sitting in front of me, and I was
like yeah, and I was just like why am I here?
Like why am I taking like math and Spanish when
I want to be in theater. So I literally like
(02:56):
told the professors I can excuse myself.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
He's like, yeah, go ahead. I went straight to bursar
and like dropped out.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Mind you, I was getting paid to go to college
like the way you know, the FASTFA and student loans
were set up. Like, I ended up making money just
by and that wasn't enough to keep me there, so
I just dropped out. And then at that point it's like, Okay,
well I got to make the acting thing really happen.
And what I would do when I was younger, I
would always play video games on mute and listen to
the radio instead. So I grew up listening to like
(03:23):
La Mega Z one hundred and Hot ninety seven. Those
were like the three that I always would listen to.
And then I discovered sports radio, which was like, wait,
I could just like someone's talking sports twenty four to
seven and in middle school, that's like the coolest thing ever.
So then ESPN New York launched at the time, and
they had like this commercial all the time for the
Kinnecticus School of Broadcasting eight week program hasbro Kites, New Jersey,
(03:45):
and I was like, yeh, I'll just go there or whatever,
and it was allowed eleven four hundred and forty dollars
for eight weeks, and I was like, yeah, I'll go.
And I met this kick cause I lived on Staten
Island at the time. I met this kid who lived
like ten minutes from me, who was driving every day.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So instead of taking like a two and.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
A half fower public transportation commute to Jersey where because
I got living on sant Island, you got to take
you know, the ferry to Manhattan, get on a bus.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Whatever to jerseys It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And so I was like, yo, like, i'll you know,
I'll give you gas money, I'll give you toll money,
whatever you needs. Like now, I don't worry about it.
My dad pays for my car. So I was like,
all right, it must be nice, but I'll go at
you every day.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So I did that for eight weeks. I met Bartel.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
He was an instructor there legend in the game works, ok, obviously,
and he just took a liking to me and kind
of assigned me to an internship. And that was eighteen
years ago, this summer when I did my internship here
at KTU and then like just been hustling.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And Bartel and then you guys crossing paths in the
hallways over here.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, it's it's luckily with Bartel we've been in contact
all these years that like it wasn't that weird. I
will say, like the old building where we were at
down by Tribeca my first ad Z one hundred, I
like made it a point to go down to Bartel
and just like thank him again because he like literally
broke me into the industry, and I like just being
outside of that KTU studio got me emotional or whatever
(05:04):
because it was like, this is what I've always wanted.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'm here now with a key card because that's all
I wanted.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Ye, all I wanted was get me in the building. Dude,
that's it because at the time, like I got an
internship to the dude's name was Jagger, former night host Jagger. Yeah,
he's a man, and he would I would have to
call him to come downstairs and get me. So sometimes
you know this, like you're in the middle of editing
a call show prepping, you might just forget Yeah, so
I'm just down to like up in there hopefully a
half hour, just like waiting in the lobby and you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Want to, like but then you don't want to call
that person like.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
So that happened a lot, and I would I would.
I was just hustling during that internship. I was supposed
to be there from like seven PM to eleven PM,
but I would stay till like three four five in
the morning. That's how I ended up meeting like members
of the Elvis Durant show, Cubby, because I would just
stay whoever was willing to let.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The coming show and you're still there from the night.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Whoever to me is like whoever is willing to let
me like kick it with them to just learn.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
That's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I didn't have a day job like that, so it
was like, I say, you know, I get a random
call from my mom at three in the morning, were
you at because I'm not in bed. She'd always peak
her head make sure I'm alive radio, and I'm so
at the radio station.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I promise you know she I was.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I was always a good kid, so I wasn't like
she thinks I'm out with the tits or anything like that.
Straight up like where are you at magiestation? Okay, boy,
just knocking my door when you get here?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I was like, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So I did that, and then once the internship was done,
I got a street team gig with KTU, and then
Wendy Wild helped me with my first on air demo
tape or whatever your air checks.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, my first one.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
She lived in an airport hangar at the time, she's
like a wild ass apartment. She lived in an airport
hanger on the island.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what tracks for Wendy. No, she did not
mention this.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
We're going to bring us up. We have to bring
her back, by the way.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, she lived in an airport hanger. So we recorded
everything in two and a half hours, and I treated
her to California pizza kitchen. Like I remember this stuff
because this is like so vital to like my career.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And then she helped me.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Get a job at one oh six point one WBLI
on on Long Island. I did overnights there, but I
didn't have a car, so I took every form of
public transportation in New York. So it was three hours
one way, so six hours round trip. I'd leave the
crib at eight thirty. I tell the story to anyone
who's willing to listen, because this is all part of
like you want to be in radio, you want to
be in entertainment. This is the type of stuff that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The sacrifice discipline.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, thousand percent.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Leaving the house at eight thirty, walking to the bus stop,
taking the bus to the ferry, the ferry to the
one train. That's why I got a tattooed on me.
Take the one train to Midtown, take the L double
R to Babylon, and then get in a cab. There
was a dude named Teddy who was just always hang
out there with his guitar, and he would just charge
me five dollars cash to just drive to the radio station,
which is like a mile and a half away, and
then I'd be on air from twelve am to five am,
(07:35):
and then I'd be home by like eight in the morning.
So I did that for about a year.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Insane.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's what you call grind though, Yeah, that's what you
call it. See now, everyone's built for it. That's one
thing we always talk about the industry. Are everything could
sound like it's great and look amazing from the outside,
but are you really ready for the grind?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's lifting the veil. Not everyone sees what really happens
behind the gliss glass, And.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
People could sit there all the water like, oh, I'm ready,
I want this, I want this, And it's like there's
a difference between wanting it and needing it, just that
extra gear in your system, not to get into like basketball,
But I feel like that's the difference between MJ and Lebron.
Lebron's more talented than MJ ever was, but there was
another gear that Michael Jordan had that Lebron in my
in my opinion, just doesn't have. Yeah, which is why
I think Jordan's better than Lebron, because there's like that
(08:15):
championship mentality.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Insert the comments underneath right here, Yes, who do you
think the viral clips was better Lebron or Jordan?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
But I feel but I feel like, and I'm sure
the two of you see this all the time with people,
you know, who are trying to come up whatever the
industry is that they want to be in, it's like
the moment things get tough and I've been let go
to I was let go twice within my first like
two years of radio due to like budget cuts or whatever,
and like that could have deterred me and I could
have got into health insurance with you know, the other
seventy percent of my family members or whatever working for
(08:45):
like health Plus at the time.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
What it is now, but it was like now, just
all right, back to the drawing board. We go and
send out emails and bro, I tell everybody the same thing. Now,
send emails, send dms. The worst that could happen is
you get ignored. We get ignored at least thirty times
a day. You walk into Starbucks. Not everyone's gonna look
at you. Not everyone's gonna say hi. What's the difference
between an email? And then all you gotta do is
(09:09):
follow up two weeks ater, following up on below. Then
he just become the annoying person. Yeah, And then they're
gonna write back.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know, at some point someone's gonna respond, whether it's
a yes orday.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I know I've said this before on a few of
our episodes, but one thing I tell everybody is my
thing is the answer is always know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
If you don't ask yeah, m hm, the answer is
always gonna be no, yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
And I think, and I think that's something that a
lot of and I feel like so old saying this nowadays,
but a lot of like the younger generation doesn't understand,
like just because they say no, doesn't mean it's over.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, Like you just go.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Back and follow up again, let them know, like I'll
never forget. When I was super young in the industry,
I sent an email randomly to EBRO because I was like,
he's a program director, was one of Hot ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I'm just gonna send them something and just who cares.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
And he within like two hours he wrote back, and
he basically said like I don't think you're ready, but
keep it coming. And I like that one little interaction,
which was like she's like fifteen years ago now energized you. Yeah,
because it's like, who is he to be riding back
to me? All right, cool, it's gonna keep me going.
And it's like those little things. You'd be surprised how
many people just need a semblance of like acknowledgment of like, yeah,
(10:14):
I got your email, we don't have anything available right now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You're seeing people want to be seen, they want to
feel heard, and sometimes a no is not a no.
It's a no for right now. Maybe it's not meant
for you for right now, but keep doing it, keep
doing the hospital and come back.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
So it's been I've been doing this, like I said,
eighteen years, been let go twice. My journey's taken me
to uh so I lived. I moved to Long Island
at one point like exit sixty three on the on
the lie, so I was deep out there, got let
go from that.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Job that I was at. So then I worked at
the Marriott. I was a bellman at a Marriotte.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
So I went from like hanging out at Radio City
Music Hall with Jason Derulo when he opened up for
Lady Gaga to being a bellman and holding your bag
hoping you give me three dollars like that? What that
does to your brain from a like motivation standpoint, you
go one of two ways. You either just sink into
that depression of like you know it's over for me,
or you just say I get like a visceral reaction
(11:13):
to thinking of like the red bellman jacket that the
Marriouts used to have, like it is od like PTSD.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Dog, like it is bad. How much I despise myself
at the time.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah, but then I just started That's when I just
started sending emails to random people.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And then I got a job in west Chester to
do weekends.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
So I was driving two hours from Eastern Long Island
to west Chester and then that helped me get my
foot back into radio to get me a gig iHeart
and de Moine and that was November twenty twelve, and
I've just been with iHeart ever since, through all these
different cities that I've worked in stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah cause remember it. So I remember.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I've seen your posts where like you're calling your family
members to tell them and you're like, I'm coming back,
you know, home basically.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Because everybody knew like that. I to this day, it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
My my first iPhone, I worked at the Marriout so
this might have been like twenty eleven and like that.
This was like the first phone that you could make
a note on your alarms. So I was like, all right,
I have two alarms. To this day it says one
says I will be at Z one hundred. The other
one says I will be at WWA in ww Those
are the two alarms I still have. I accomplished one,
still working on the other one because that's like my
(12:15):
real passion. Like Z one hundred was like the adult dream,
WW is like the kid who grew up on welfare
obsessed with wrestling, Like ADHD took over his life unless
wrestling was involved. And then so for that kid, that's
the dream. But everybody knew, like I'm going to des Moines, Iowa,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dayton, Ohio. I'm going to these obscure
(12:36):
cities that nobody even knows about or will go to.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
But I'm going for a reason.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Everything was a chess move to get to Z one
hundred or at least increase the odds to get that opportunity,
and that worked.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, and building your air checks and people in pds
and things, they look for that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You hope, you hope that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That people when the opportunity opens, right.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And it took me.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
It took me thirteen years to get my audition at
Z one hundred, you know, And I say that's people
all the time, like it took me thirteen years just
to get a chance to be here. Right. So to me,
it's like when I was driving into that audition, I
have never been more like laser focused and intent in
my life.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Maybe when my daughter was born.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
But that that's just like a whole other level of
like you good everything okay, you know, because everybody's focused
on the baby. No one's really focused on like the
mom So I was just like honed in on, you know, her,
making sure she was okay. But literally the intensity I had,
and I was just playing one like video over and over.
It was a wrestling video to like keep me in
the mood, keep me zoned in. I killed that audition.
(13:37):
I don't care what anyone says, like, bro, if I
if I didn't get the job at Z one hundred,
as wild as as it sounds, I would have been
okay because I know that, Like I killed it.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
It wasn't at that point. If you don't get it,
it's not a talent.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It could be a fit thing, it could be it
could even be a gender thing, like actually we wanted
a female, all right, cool, Yeah, at that point, you
just there's no chance of me right. So but yeah,
I had the audition late February. It was from twelve
am to six am on a Sunday technically Saturday night,
Sunday morning, and it was I still remember so many
things of that, like so vividly because it was like
(14:11):
that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
That was the dream.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm in here now the first time about to hit
that on. Yeah, the microphone right and.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
During the top of the hour into you know, thirty
four to thirty five by Ariana Grandee, Like I still
remember all these like little things and I had I
had like five or six different family members and friends
stay up and listen the whole time. And literally, like
when I did my like sign off, the I got
like four or five different texts, Yo, you killed it,
love you.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And I'm like two cousins showed up downstairs. They're like,
oh where you are?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yo?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Were outside? I'm like what?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
And then so I got you know, sandwiches on the
corner of Canal Street and West Broadway and ate it
in the car and then we all went our separate ways.
But like that love and support dude, Like and you
guys know this first hand. Yeah, three four people just
get behind you, forget about it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You can think, you think you could do anything at
that point.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
So having a good support system is really porn for
anything you're trying to do in life.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, that's awesome. Man.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
My mom watches this podcast every time it's released. She'll
like call me be like, you guys changed it used
to be because we used to go out on Sundays
now it's Wednesdays. She's like now my whole Sunday is
has shifted. I'm like, you'll survive. It's Wednesdays and.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Then shout out, shout out to your mom.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, mom may be watching every episode.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
So my mom listens to me a lot too. She'll
call me, Pappy, you sick, like, well.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
She could tell your voice she sounds either.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That or I'm not on air.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Oh if I'm not, like, she might tune in like
seven o'clock or whatever and like I was.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Because you missed.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You normally talk right after the top of the alue
literally be like, I know you're always on the radio
six out three.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'm like, no, but I'll let it slide, like if
you think it's six oh three, I should never be
three minutes late on the top of the hour. But okay, yeah, no,
She'll she'll like text me, Pappy, okay, you're not on
like feeling for Crystal earlier.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well you should have told me, Like, I'm sorry, lady,
I just slipped my mind. Sorry, but my mom. You
know she's great though, dude.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
She worked.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
She so she works from home health insurance or whatever
customer service, so she'll have the radio on.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Sometimes I'll come home she'll have like lamega on. I'm like, hey,
what is this?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
She'll laugh or whatever, but it's the mix shows. Man,
Damn DJ's were getting her.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Don Alex holds it down telling you, I'm telling you,
but that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
The ending always dude, always Joe like randomly will tell me,
like what, I'm proud she is, Bro, I've gotten d MS.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I'm not kidding, I've gotten DMS.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yo.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Your mom is my customer service agent for for you know,
health insurance or whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
She just talked a lot about you. Just wanted to say,
what's up. Your mom's amazing, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
My mom My mom will tell my story to anybody
she meets, even if you don't ask.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I will attest to that. I get DMS mom. Yeah,
your mom is sending.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Me blessing social media of the thing three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Send you the blessing, Yeah, three in the morning. And
then my mom yeah seven. And I'm like, do you
guys have a competition because I see the comments, like
on all the episodes. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's awesome. Man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But wasn't. If it weren't for our mothers, we wouldn't
be here. We wouldn't exist a thousand percent.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And I think, and I think that's where I got
to drive from right like my mom, you know, first
ten and I'll get personal.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I have no shame. If it's too much for the pod,
let me know.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
But like growing up, my dad was an abuser, drug addict,
all that type of stuff, like physically would abuse my
mom in front of us. And she always kind of like,
for lack of a better term, like thugged it out,
just kept going working three jobs. She didn't even have
her gd doesn't even have her GTD, so she was
working like all these odd jobs or whatever just to
make money. There were times where she would hide money
(17:35):
in like my draw because she was afraid that Poppy
would take it and run off and get drugs, did
or whatever. There was one time, remember I opened the
drawer there was like one hundred dollar bill in there,
and I got so hyped, thing like the tooth ferry
left it there.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
She was like, shut up, don't say nothing, and I
was mad tight.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I was like I was thinking of like what I
was gonna buy with that money at Alan Houston.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Jersey or whatever.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah, but no, but she she finally left my dad
around my tenth birthday, and then we went to Staten Island,
lived in my cousin's basement for a few months, and
then my cousins moved out, so we took over the
home and you know, single mom just just hustling and
working and got into the company that she's at now
(18:13):
because my uncle was like a director there, helped her get.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
A job and just kind of.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
That Me and my sister like we're kind of fending
for ourselves for the most part, you know what I'm saying,
being ten, eleven, twelve years old, cooking for ourselves, figuring
things out on our own, which helped us out now
because we're a super independent almost two independent sometimes because
then you get to that point where you don't ask
anybody for help. Yeah, Like that's really toxic when you
get to like the mental health issues or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's probably been me my whole life.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yeah, so because you just like you're show used to
doing everything on your own or thinking like everyone's got
their own issues. I'm not going to burden you with
my problem, so I'll just suck it up and I'll
deal with it.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's definitely me.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, and I'll never forget I came home for Christmas.
This was like twenty nineteen maybe, and I told my
we were right by a Lutheran hospital at a red light,
and I told her.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I was like, oh, I'm going to start therapy after
the new year. Like I'm really excited.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
She was like why, And I remember just being like mad,
slow motion looking at her, like, lady, you were there
for ninety percent of my childhood trauma, Like what.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Do you mean why?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
The fact that that me and my two older siblings
are like, you know, positive members to society based on
the statistics that I'm constantly looking up, like there's no
reason why the three of us should be as successful
as we are right now, you know what I'm saying.
My brother's a principal out in California. He got his PhD.
He got a double master's degree from Columbia University. My
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sister got her master's from Hunt. She works, she's a
high ranking official for like Goodwill, so she does the
nonprofit stuff. She has her own nonprofit because of my
six year old nephew, who's nonverbal autistic changed her life
and so she created this nonprofit. And then I'm just
here like I ain't doing nothing in the grand scheme
of like life compared to like the impact that they're making.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
So I'm like, dude, I'm blessed. I don't have student loans,
but you are making impact. It's hard to see it though, Yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You don't know what people are going through. You will
turn on and hear a friendly voice and maybe you
change the decision, and it's maybe things that you won't
know right there.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Go places and you're talking to somebody and then they say, hey,
are you this person?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Because yeah, either that or they'll figure it out by
the name or in conversation. It just comes up and
then like seeing their reaction, Like actually, I was hosting
a brunch on Staten Island this past Sunday, and I
just anytime I am see and I actually like, I
hope you could appreciate this. It's never about me. It's
always about the music and the DJ. I will say
the DJ's name twenty times before I say my name
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because it ain't about me.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
It ain't about me talking over lyrics. I'm not going
to talk over lyrics.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Just if you could give me twenty seconds to talk
real quick, I'll talk ten seconds.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
If not, I would just hold the mic and shut
up because ain't nobody there to hear me. It's all
about you, It's all about the lyrics. It's all about
feeling good. So I will hype you up, but I'm
not stopping the music. I'm not talking over lyrics. And
if I do, my first thought is where are we
talk about the location the next party?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
And then just say the DJ's name so many times
so I said my name and it was like a
long beat and I knew that. So I was like,
you know, I said my name from Z one hundred,
and there was like three different women like had an
immediate reaction to me just saying.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
My name and being on Z one hundred, And I
was like, oh, it's got a dope. That makes me
feel good. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yeah, because I say, listen, I say all the time
I play for the Yankees. That's what I tell people.
Everybody knows the Yankees. Everybody knows Z one hundred. You
don't know every Yankee player. You know Aaron Judge, you
know Elvis Durant. You know what I'm saying, Like, you
know the superstars.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Those are the superstars. You may not know every player.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
But if you watch the Yankees enough, you're gonna know
that random relief pitcher.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That's how I fit into the equation. I feel like,
so again, if you're a.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Diehard Z one hundred fan, you might know me, but
you know my team, and that to me is kind
of more important than anything else.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Really.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
To me at least, it's like support the team. That's it,
That's all that matters. That's why I like the KTU stuff.
You guys have your thirtieth anniversary party going on. I
posted about yesterday on my Instagram story because I was like,
this is dope you posted when you guys announced it.
I'm like, yoh, it's all one big family.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I've been seeing more and more of that lately in
the building, which is dope, which is like the interact,
like that, everyone helping each other out to make it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I see that promo everywhere. Len has been posting, well,
it's everywhere.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
And I think I think a large part of that
is once you get into like New York City Radio,
like you've made it, you know what I'm saying. So
it's like you're comfortable in your position, You're comfortable where
you are, so there's there's still competition healthy competition, right always,
But it's no, there's not like backstabbing and undercutting the
way it is maybe in other markets because they want
to get to a New York City yeah yeah, yeah.
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So here it's like everyone's just chilling, comfortable where they
are showing love to each other. And honestly, like I
was just saying this less than a month ago, I
was talking to a group of college students and they
were like, have you like, who's the worst person you've
ever met in this industry? And I was like, Honestly,
the people I've always had issues with we're in smaller markets. Yeah,
I haven't had a single problem with anybody here in
this market. I haven't felt like disrespect, I haven't felt
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like someone talk to me sideways. I haven't felt like
just like a pushed upon or anything like that. Like
everyone shows everyone love around here, super dope. People don't
even know who I am because of like scheduling. Obviously,
if I'm on at six o'clock at night, I'm not
going to see anyone from the breakfast club or anyone
like Cubby or whatever in the morning on light FM.
But like you see each other in the hallway, you
say what's up you talk. Social media makes it a
(23:20):
little easier part of the same family.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So yeah, we've said that a couple of times here
in the pod. The camaraderie that everyone has here, it's beautiful.
Everyone's so open minded and willing and like for me
coming in and it's been so nice because everyone's warm
and welcoming and you know, let me show you this,
how to do this, and it's been really cool. And
how you guys are.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Yeah, and the thing is too, like we're all busy right,
Like right now is a good example. Right, You're we're
in the middle of a work day. We're all doing
this and then we got to go. We're still working
after that. Yeah, there are still things going on after same, right,
Like you have an ending to the day.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I have to sleep at some point because this right,
and think I always thank God at all times about
the day. But there's no really set schedule for this
for like when people always ask me, like what are
your hours like, because like what makes me think about
this is I'm always with my kids at their sports,
you know, and I feel bad that I can be
that coach because everyone's like you should be coach because
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I'm always helping out, but I can't commit to it.
I would love to write to be able to commit
to be like I would one hundred do it for
my kids and be part of the coaching staff and
all that kind of stuff. But I'm like, you gotta
understand that the schedule we have outside of our shift
is NonStop, especially with me on the programming side. It
could be a phone call at eleven PM, it could
be one o'clock, it could be somebody somebody dropping an
(24:42):
album at midnight, everyone's in an email talking about a
song or something or prepping for the next day and
make sure this is right for this show or bubblah
or you for your own show or it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Just so the music industry is like that.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'm sure Josh understands that, Like there, we have our
schedule and then we have an uh ye but even
but he even like CLO but never clock out.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Yeah, Like I obviously I do night so I'm on
every weeknight six to ten on Z one hundred. But
I'm also on four hours a night on one of
three five Kiss FM in Chicago, so I pre record
that a couple hours in advance. Oh and by the way,
on the weekends, I'm on in Tucson, Arizona, Cincinnati, Ohio,
so I got to pre record those. But I also
take a lot of pride in my pre recorded stuff,
where like, if you listen, you think it's happening. I'm
(25:22):
talking about Cincinnati Bengals, Cincinnati Reds, and Cincinnati, I'm talking
about the Arizona Wildcats and Tucson. I'm not one of
these people that's just gonna tell you the name of
the song, the radio station and keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Hey that was this, this is this.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, I take a lot of pride in my show,
in my show stuff, but that takes that takes work, right.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Like I just saw someone in the Hoobi. They're like, oh,
you're here early, and I'm like, not really two o'clock.
I usually get here three or four maybe.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Even though I'm not on untill six, because there's show
prep involved, Chicago's involved. Like, so you hear me on
the radio four hours a day. I love when people
are like, oh, it must be nice to work four
hours a day. I'm always like, ah, bro, especially especially
if and I know you live far, especially if you
take muting into your workday account.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh yeah, you take that into account. It isn't even
longer day.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, well that goes back to what I said,
there really is no hours. It could be it could
be a quick day, or it could be like an
extremely long day.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I just got a call the other day that you're
always working, Penny.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I'm always working. I have like five jobs, but I'm
always always working. No, And then, you know, the other night,
I got a call at twelve thirty at night, m M.
There was something going on in Berkeley and a flag
came up with media, so we had to automatically go
into you know, crisis management, wasn't us. We get a
lot of Berkeley, you see stuff happening, and then we
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get tagged in media, so then we have to reach
out to those outlets and say, you know, so it's
a lot of things that happen. Marketing does not sleep,
and you can't, No, honestly, you really can't.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You know you when you do, that's when the big
story breaks and then you're asked out and then you
can't recover in time.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
No pro keeps me busy, you know. With this podcast,
I'm editing it like one in the morning.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm the most laid back dude let me tell you son,
I was okay so in that dire tribe. When I
was telling those people that there's no issues here, I
was also talking about.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
How like there isn't there isn't egos either.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
We all have egos because I think ego takes you
to a certain level of success because you know, if
you think you're the best, you gotta perform at that
pass and that that mentality keeps you focused. But I
was saying, like there's no over the top egos where
people are like will ignore you or not want to
talk to you or anything like that. Like first time
I met Angie Martinez, I was like thea our boss boss.
She was like, oh, come meet Angie and I was like, naa, no, chill, chill,
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She's on air, like I don't want to. I felt
like a fangirl interrupting a celebrity in that moment. Like
it still blows me away that I'm colleagues with Angie Martinez,
DJ Clue, DJ pro Style, Like these are people that
I listened to at various points of my life, not
even like my career, to study certain things like my life,
like I had the professional mixtape with DJ Clue to
(27:54):
this day. I think Fantastic four is one of the
greatest hip hop songs of all time. I told him
that one time and he looked at me like that
and heads because it's like this one hundred guy is
talking about a song with cannabis. This is weird, but
like clues driven me home to Staten Island before and
it's like I'm sitting in his car and I was
just like, so then hip hop at the anniversary, man,
(28:15):
and You're like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Living here, by the way, Yeah, I can get cool
on the podcastory.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I can't imagine the stories.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
That's what that's what we want to get.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So yeah, listen. I used to watch prox Apart okay,
and now I can sit with him and some random
stuff and talk about the kids and it's it's cool.
They say like, don't meet you know the people that
you are whenever do it?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Bro cool. Yeah, I'll never forget. We were still in
the old building.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
So I was a couple of months in and I
got a random phone number texting me or whatever, and
I'm like, who is this? And I opened it up
and it's like, Hey, it's Elvis. You sound amazing. We
are so lucky to have you dog. I screenshot of
that thing sentence everybody I knew, Like and Elvis Durant
is a colleague. Every time he sees me, gives me
the biggest hug, asks me about my daughter, calls me
(29:04):
big daddy like look, makes eye contact with me when
he's talking. It's not like hey, what I meant? And
like goes, no, It's all about me in that moment,
and I'm like, what I have that? I still have
it saved in my phone out photo because like, again
these people I don't. This is another issue, but like
that imposter syndrome is so serious.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It is so serious, and I have it a lot.
You know what I'm saying. I'm constantly like, oh no, no, no,
I'm good. I'll let so and so do it.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
And it's like no, like I need to my My
therapist tells me a lot like talk my ish like
a good example of that.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
As ratings, like you know this first hand, ratings could
be fickle as hell.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
One month you're number one, the next month you're eight,
the next month you're four, the next month you're one.
So then when you brag about being number one, are
you gonna talk about being number eight next month?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Are you going to talk about number four?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
And in the radio industry we know that, but then
somebody who may not be in the radio industry, it'll
be like, damn, you're number one. That's dope, which opens
up doors for like multimedia, opens up doors for like
other endorsement opportunities because people outside of the radio don't
realize how fickle the Nielsen.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You never know, like I've never been the type of
post stuff right, but at the same time, but I'm
a little different, like I I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I have taken the backseat of like the I don't know,
like you know what I'm trying to say, Like I'm cool.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, I'm cool, just like I've done it for so
long not to not to take the foot of I'm
not saying I'm taking the foot off the guys, clearly,
I'm doing a million things. I just do it quieter, right,
But back to the post's great because it could somebody else,
somebody else could get forwarded that or seeing it who
doesn't check in, They're like, well, let me start checking
in to see.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You know some more of more. I keep telling to.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Post all the things. Yeah, I'm like, let's do your
link tree, let's do that, Like, but.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
The thing about like you mentioned one oh six and park,
if I tuned it in and there was a song
that was number four on the Countdown and I never
even heard it before the fact that it's number four,
I'm gonna go, oh, what is this?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I feel like I'm missing something.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Yeah, So now all of a sudden, if I'm posting
that I have an number one night show and all
these demographics, people might sit there and go, oh, I
feel like I'm missing something.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Now I'm going to tune in.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
But it's like this weird mind screwing of like you know,
people that know know, like dog, you could be number
seven in two weeks, like stop it. And being a
former program director who used to run radio stations, I
know that firsthand. But then it's like people meters, Yeah,
are we Are we posting for people that follow us
or are we posting to get people to follow us?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It depends on what your strategy is exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
But you could also be posting because yeah, but by
the way, some people don't.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
You don't even need to answer that, Like it could
literally just be for yourself, Like I'm posting for myself,
Like I come to work every day and putting a
lot of work in soot.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Videos are for me.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
If I'm putting it off, it's like if you win,
like whatnot. You know, I think nobody else is gonna
do it right, Pat myself on the back.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
That's how I feel. Yeah, well, my therapist is trying
to get me to do that more often.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Great, I go, I go.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I started slowing down a bit because I've been feeling
good by the way. I know, we got to wrap
this up.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
But I started taking something called Saint John's Wart, the
most unattractive name.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Ever, but look at up Saint John's Wart.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah you can find it.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Like, yeah, it's like an organic herb that helps with
like miles to moderate depression.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Okay, pro still gonna google this after we do.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I've done that.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah, they have it at like CVS Dwayne Reid any
pharmacy or whatever. Again, terrible name, easy to remember. But
I started taking it. My sister put me onto it.
I started taking it maybe December, and when those two
blizzards came in February or whatever, like the crippling seasonal depression,
I get I did not have it, and I literally
like attribute that to this over the counter Like I said,
(32:35):
it treats mile to me herbal remedy two pills in
the morning gives me a little energy as well. I
also take vitamin CND started focusing on my gut health.
I'm down forty pounds and eleven months. Wow, everyone, everyone's
down by the way, you look great looking over your
shoulder and seeing that photo up there.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, thank you pictures after this, I'm down right, well,
I was down forty. I think I'm down third. I
think I put ten back on. But that's fine.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Yeah, something's coming.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
They keep saying, Yes, Golden Corral, shot to gold and
around the Bronx, but yeah, we we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Josh, I really appreciate your authenticity and your vulnerability. You're
so you and all of the personalities here you know,
are are in that same lineage. But from your social
media to talking to you in person, who on the air,
you are the same person across all of those modalities,
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and it shows I.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Try to be because if there's one thing we know
growing up in New York City, no one likes those
fake ass people, those used car salesmen. We all have
them in our lives, like we all probably have a
family member, whether it's a cousin, an uncle and aunt
that you're just like, oh, hi, Many's young because you're like,
you know what I love.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
With your story and a lot of the stories we're
getting from the people in the building, right, and we're
getting from everybody, all the different people that come in.
But what I love about what we're doing with everybody
in this building is you're really getting to know the
person behind the mic, right, and everyone here has such
an incredible story, and it's just it's it's great because
you know.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I feel like thirty minutes is not enough.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
We let everyone needs to come Yeah everyone, well Maxwell
first boy, he's like ready to come back in for
the third time or but everyone has their story and
their journey of how they got to where they're at.
And I love it because nobody's like this overnight or
like hand me down. You know, there's gonna be those
people who are like, well, this person's the boss and
just likes this person so kind of like it's like
(34:28):
you should do this right, hard work. Yeah, all these
people worked hard to get where they're at.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I love it, and I take a lot of pride
in talking about my story because I feel like there's
a lot of people that grew up the same way
I did. That feel like there's no way out, that
there's no nobody's there to like help them out, there's
nobody to look up to, Like I say it all
the time, Like the Andre Martinez, just her name alone
made me realize, Wait, there's a Latino and radio that
doesn't have to be over the top, Like.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Wait that shit mag with that fake ass voice.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Like all of a sudden, there's, all of a sudden,
there's a Martinez Spanish.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Actually post that one.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
In the industry.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
It's called puking and it's not that but but like
they but growing up, if you automatically think Martinez, it's
got to be Spanish, you gotta speak Spanish.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I didn't speak Spanish.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Typical New York ekan right where it's like, oh wait,
there's somebody that's got my last name that isn't trying
to speak Spanish. They're just themselves. Like that's kind of dope.
I don't have to because that was just my misconception
of radio at the time, growing up, and then just
through the years looking at at a lot of different
people's stories and you know, growing up on welfare and
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like I said, dude, just just hustling and grinding and
not taking anything for granted because the mindset of like
I don't know when that next thing is gonna come,
you know. I remember like my mom giving me hand
me down sneakers that were like two sizes too big,
and she was like, oh, you'll grow into them. They're
like clown shoes on me dog. And I'm like when
in two weeks. I hope so because and like that's
not how it works for tonight.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It was bad, but no, I was, like we were
talking about.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Before, like I think there's a lot of people in
this building that have dope stories, and you know, I
tell everybody the same thing, Like, not everybody's story is
the same. Good example I always use is like Wendy
Wild grew up on Long Island, started radio on Long Island,
went to New Haven, Connecticut, back to Long Island, New
York City, so she stayed right in her region.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
And then you'll have someone like me, who did.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
You know New York, west Chester, Long Island, the Moye, Iowa,
see the Rapids Iowa, Dayton, Ohio, Maxwell from San Diego,
Crystal from San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
But if that's the beauty of.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Like, if you work hard and you make the right connections,
you'll get to where you want to get to.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
And in our case, this is the time I started
in Florida. Yeah, start in Orlando to make it here,
to make it actually on TV before I've even made
it here.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
On radio.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Really yeah, you were on one oh six before Yeah,
I got on. So the story of that is, well,
that would be like a whole nother podcast. But what
I made so much noise. And this was when I
was like nineteen twenty that when b ET started going
down and they were filming spring Bling in Daytona Beach,
you had to come to.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
They would have to.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
They would send their talent scouts to Orlando where I was,
to like recruit people to go down there.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
They needed. They were getting the girls again.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
And I started hooking up with those people and they
were like, Yo, They'd go to the parties I was
at because at that point I had all the parties
on lock, so they were everywhere they went to try
to recruit. I was there, and they were you know,
they were like, Yo, who's this? Yeah, Like Yo, you
know what I'm saying. And so I hooked that with them.
I met the right people and they were like, Yo,
we need an opening DJ. Like they saw me killing
the killing it, you know what I'm saying, And they
were like, Yo, we need DJs to DJ when the
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in between, like when the cameras were off, are you down?
I was like, say less. They're like, they're like, we'll
hook you up. We'll bring you up there for Rap City.
That's what it was at the time. They're like this
one Rap City had guest DJs. So I was like,
hell yeah, So I went. I killed it on the
beach to the point where like they were like, we're
gonna turn the cameras on. Just keep doing what you're doing.
I was playing like bone Crusher. We ain't never scared,
like all these records that I just came out because
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I was cool with them past to Troy and like
I was in the South, I was like in the
streets like I you know, you know, the whole background.
So so they went crazy to make a long story
shout outs.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I got BT.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I met with execs there, you know, obviously kept it
very professional nights with them, We talked. They brought me
up for Rahap City. Me and Tigger hooked up like
mad cool. I started DJing some of his parties. He'd
bring me to do his parties and that led into
DJing the b the BT Awards in La before I
dj for AJ and Free for one O six in
(38:37):
Park when they filmed it in La. That's the first
time I dj for one O six in part and
then I never DJed with them in the studio. I
dj for them on the road and then they left,
and then they brought me in to dj for I
did the whole Tigger and Jalisa run and then obviously
Roxy and Terrence, but that names and like so long,
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so I dj for the the one of six some
Park episodes for them because.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
I remember you from like those days.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
But I guess maybe probably because you've been in radio
so long, my mind just probably warps it into It's
also the.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Amount of time that's passed right. Time is really flying,
so like we're talking like twenty years ago almost at
this point.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Don't bring it up, but no, like it really is.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Like our youngest is turning ten. When I tell people that,
they're like, there's no way that Alexander's turning ten years old.
They're like, you guys just got married. I'm like, no,
we've actually got married like thirteen years ago, and they're like.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
What crazy.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
So time is really like I'm feeling that now with
my two and a half year old dog, which is
the greatest thing that's ever happened in me.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It's the best part of your social media.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, oh dude, I just soak it all that because
it goes by so fast.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
So the cliches are true, and that's why they're cliche,
and that's why you hear them all the time.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
It goes by.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
It only goes by fast when you're looking back, right,
that's you know, because there's always things.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Happen as of disadvantage. My daughter lives in Ohio, so okay,
I go out there every like two to three weekends.
I'll fly out Saturday morning, come back Monday night just
in time to be on air. Sometimes I'll make it
a three day weekend or whatever. Yeah, but I'm constantly
out there, FaceTime with her every single day, twice a day,
sometimes FaceTime this morning.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
We're gonna FaceTime again tonight.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
And then her mom does a really tremendous job of
like videos, photos, sending me all that stuff so that
I could update social media because to me, it's like
so many of my family members aren't going to get
to see her because I'm the one that's going out
there because it is so much easier for me to
literally go to La Guardia dress like this right now
because I have clothes at the crib or whatever, so
I don't have to worry about anything compared to you
packing up a two and a half year old to
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fly here. So yeah, my family members aren't going to
get a chance to see her. So I started posting
for my family members to stay up on her, and
then like a lot of people have hit me up
to be yo, your daughter, like makes me smile, makes
me good, makes you feel good, positive aspect of my day.
And I know we got to wrap up. But best
thing that's ever happened to me changed my life, which
again it's all cliche stuff. But I don't talk about
(40:56):
her a lot because I get emotional. She's dope, she's
so smart and I miss her all the time. But
like I said, much love to her mom because she
keeps me in the loop on everything and I'm constantly
reaching out, does she need anything? Does she you know
you're looking at whatever? Like I try to be as
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involved as humanly possible.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And in the halls here we bumped into the baby.
In the halls here, she was taking over the halls. Yeah,
walking around.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
Yeah, it's like every time we meet, she talks, she
learns a different word or she learns a different statement
and she uses it in perfect context and it is
the wildest thing ever.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
And she's just like I said, I say it all
the time.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
I many time somebody asked me about her, I guessaid,
I can't talk about her too much with not getting emotional.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
So I always say, dude, she's the best, She's the greatest.
That's what I always tell people.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
And then I just kind of keep it moving because
I talk about her for more than twenty seconds and
I start getting emotional.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
She just makes me so freaking happy. All right, Sorry,
well I get I get emotion.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
If I talk to Penny too much, too, it's like
more like a anger. It's okay, It's okay, No, it's
like an anger, Like yeah, yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Glossing over that.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
We didn't hit have the questions that we had today,
But I love part two. I love where the conversation
went and in true teach me something fashion, we are
gonna end with our one word, So Josh, in one word,
what's your legacy?
Speaker 5 (42:24):
My legacy, Genevieve, that's gonna be my legacy, my daughter.
Nothing I do matters.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
When you have a son.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Nope, Nope, nope, Genevieve, that's that's my legacy.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
None of this stuff matters. And you know this better
than I do.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
Obviously you have you know, multiple kids, you've been doing
it for he is. Yeah, that's my legacy. So that's why,
you know, trying to balance this all out, it ain't easy.
But Genevieve, that's my legacy. Whatever that girl does, and
she's gonna do a lot of great things. She's gonna
she's gonna make history. She's gonna be a pioneer and
what we'll find out whatever she wants to do. Boppy's
gonna be there to support her one hundred percent. But
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my legacy, that's her.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I love that the penny will be here to babysit
all the kids because I don't have any of my own.
There you go, Uncle Pro, You alrighty nose, Thank y'all
for tuning in to another episode of Teach Me.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Something, presented by Berkeley College. I am pro Style and
I'm Penny Tella. We will see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Bye, Hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next week for
all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought to you
by Berkeley College
Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Pennydellas and
this is Teach Me Something, brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome back to
Teach Me Something, presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I am DJ Prostyles and I am Pennydellas. And it
feels like we've been here for twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We have, yes, we have.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
He've been recording all.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Day, but to this episode is going to be energetic, fun,
just like all of them.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
By the way, I'm so excited about this guest because
this guest actually slid into my DMS and was like, oh, hey,
when are we gonna be on the pod? And I
was like, I'll tell you gonna be else. Tell your peoples,
hit up my people. And then they stop me in
the hall and they're like, the pod is on high demand.
When are we going to be on the pod? And
we need to happen.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
That's a fact. Hello, it's true.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome Josh Martinez from one hundred episode.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And Josh, by the way, didn't have to stop. He
could just walk like next door to oh he did.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
After he's like, did you see my dam Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I sat in the hall where I was like, hey, dog,
what's hop the DMS or not? Don't ignore me.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
At first I thought it was going somewhere else. I
was like, wow, we grab SIPs tea, SI. No, it's cool.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We're all fam and it's cool that everyone wants to
be on the pod.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And we want everybody on the pod.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
More importantly, I also also think that, like the the
idea of this pod is kind of dope because it
gives everybody, even though like a lot of us may
be in the same like industry, everyone has all these
different unique stories, and I think it's so dope to
like talk about people stories, explore people stories, so that
as people come across the pod, they could realize like,
oh I can I can see myself more in her,
(01:40):
in that guest or damn that guest.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Kind of there's something for everyone, and it's teach me something.
This is the classroom, and whether you had a traditional
education path or not, we're still learning from each other.
So it's pretty cool. Absolutely, it's pretty cool, which brings
us to Josh. You had a non traditional education path
which led you into radio, So let's talk about how
(02:03):
that journey became.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
So I wasn't always the best student.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
My sister, who was a year older than me, she
was like ap scholars, like just her weighted average was
like over one hundred.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
She was one of those students.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
And I was always funny because teachers would always like
compare us, which I always hated that, and much love
to my sister because she would always like, stop my
mom when my mom would try to compare us, or
stop the teachers when they would try to compare us,
because that could give you like such a complai hole.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah when you're close in age.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah. My brother and I a year and a half apart,
it was always it was like straight comparison between professors, parents, everything.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And so much love to my sister full up specifically
that in this moment. But now I went to the
College of Staten Island. I wanted to be a theater Majia.
And then midway through my third semester, I'll never forget it,
I was in the middle of a science class. Samantha
Gomez was sitting in front of me, and I was
like yeah, and I was just like why am I here?
Like why am I taking like math and Spanish when
I want to be in theater. So I literally like
(02:56):
told the professors I can excuse myself.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
He's like, yeah, go ahead. I went straight to bursar
and like dropped out.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Mind you, I was getting paid to go to college
like the way you know, the FASTFA and student loans
were set up. Like, I ended up making money just
by and that wasn't enough to keep me there, so
I just dropped out. And then at that point it's like, Okay,
well I got to make the acting thing really happen.
And what I would do when I was younger, I
would always play video games on mute and listen to
the radio instead. So I grew up listening to like
(03:23):
La Mega Z one hundred and Hot ninety seven. Those
were like the three that I always would listen to.
And then I discovered sports radio, which was like, wait,
I could just like someone's talking sports twenty four to
seven and in middle school, that's like the coolest thing ever.
So then ESPN New York launched at the time, and
they had like this commercial all the time for the
Kinnecticus School of Broadcasting eight week program hasbro Kites, New Jersey,
(03:45):
and I was like, yeh, I'll just go there or whatever,
and it was allowed eleven four hundred and forty dollars
for eight weeks, and I was like, yeah, I'll go.
And I met this kick cause I lived on Staten
Island at the time. I met this kid who lived
like ten minutes from me, who was driving every day.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
So instead of taking like a two and.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
A half fower public transportation commute to Jersey where because
I got living on sant Island, you got to take
you know, the ferry to Manhattan, get on a bus.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Whatever to jerseys It's a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
And so I was like, yo, like, i'll you know,
I'll give you gas money, I'll give you toll money,
whatever you needs. Like now, I don't worry about it.
My dad pays for my car. So I was like,
all right, it must be nice, but I'll go at
you every day.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
So I did that for eight weeks. I met Bartel.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
He was an instructor there legend in the game works, ok, obviously,
and he just took a liking to me and kind
of assigned me to an internship. And that was eighteen
years ago, this summer when I did my internship here
at KTU and then like just been hustling.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And Bartel and then you guys crossing paths in the
hallways over here.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Yeah, it's it's luckily with Bartel we've been in contact
all these years that like it wasn't that weird. I
will say, like the old building where we were at
down by Tribeca my first ad Z one hundred, I
like made it a point to go down to Bartel
and just like thank him again because he like literally
broke me into the industry, and I like just being
outside of that KTU studio got me emotional or whatever
(05:04):
because it was like, this is what I've always wanted.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I'm here now with a key card because that's all
I wanted.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Ye, all I wanted was get me in the building. Dude,
that's it because at the time, like I got an
internship to the dude's name was Jagger, former night host Jagger. Yeah,
he's a man, and he would I would have to
call him to come downstairs and get me. So sometimes
you know this, like you're in the middle of editing
a call show prepping, you might just forget Yeah, so
I'm just down to like up in there hopefully a
half hour, just like waiting in the lobby and you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Want to, like but then you don't want to call
that person like.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
So that happened a lot, and I would I would.
I was just hustling during that internship. I was supposed
to be there from like seven PM to eleven PM,
but I would stay till like three four five in
the morning. That's how I ended up meeting like members
of the Elvis Durant show, Cubby, because I would just
stay whoever was willing to let.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The coming show and you're still there from the night.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Whoever to me is like whoever is willing to let
me like kick it with them to just learn.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
That's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I didn't have a day job like that, so it
was like, I say, you know, I get a random
call from my mom at three in the morning, were
you at because I'm not in bed. She'd always peak
her head make sure I'm alive radio, and I'm so
at the radio station.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I promise you know she I was.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
I was always a good kid, so I wasn't like
she thinks I'm out with the tits or anything like that.
Straight up like where are you at magiestation? Okay, boy,
just knocking my door when you get here?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I was like, all right, cool.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So I did that, and then once the internship was done,
I got a street team gig with KTU, and then
Wendy Wild helped me with my first on air demo
tape or whatever your air checks.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, my first one.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
She lived in an airport hangar at the time, she's
like a wild ass apartment. She lived in an airport
hanger on the island.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what tracks for Wendy. No, she did not
mention this.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
We're going to bring us up. We have to bring
her back, by the way.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, she lived in an airport hanger. So we recorded
everything in two and a half hours, and I treated
her to California pizza kitchen. Like I remember this stuff
because this is like so vital to like my career.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And then she helped me.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Get a job at one oh six point one WBLI
on on Long Island. I did overnights there, but I
didn't have a car, so I took every form of
public transportation in New York. So it was three hours
one way, so six hours round trip. I'd leave the
crib at eight thirty. I tell the story to anyone
who's willing to listen, because this is all part of
like you want to be in radio, you want to
be in entertainment. This is the type of stuff that.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
The sacrifice discipline.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, thousand percent.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Leaving the house at eight thirty, walking to the bus stop,
taking the bus to the ferry, the ferry to the
one train. That's why I got a tattooed on me.
Take the one train to Midtown, take the L double
R to Babylon, and then get in a cab. There
was a dude named Teddy who was just always hang
out there with his guitar, and he would just charge
me five dollars cash to just drive to the radio station,
which is like a mile and a half away, and
then I'd be on air from twelve am to five am,
(07:35):
and then I'd be home by like eight in the morning.
So I did that for about a year.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Insane.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's what you call grind though, Yeah, that's what you
call it. See now, everyone's built for it. That's one
thing we always talk about the industry. Are everything could
sound like it's great and look amazing from the outside,
but are you really ready for the grind?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It's lifting the veil. Not everyone sees what really happens
behind the gliss glass, And.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
People could sit there all the water like, oh, I'm ready,
I want this, I want this, And it's like there's
a difference between wanting it and needing it, just that
extra gear in your system, not to get into like basketball,
But I feel like that's the difference between MJ and Lebron.
Lebron's more talented than MJ ever was, but there was
another gear that Michael Jordan had that Lebron in my
in my opinion, just doesn't have. Yeah, which is why
I think Jordan's better than Lebron, because there's like that
(08:15):
championship mentality.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Insert the comments underneath right here, Yes, who do you
think the viral clips was better Lebron or Jordan?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
But I feel but I feel like, and I'm sure
the two of you see this all the time with people,
you know, who are trying to come up whatever the
industry is that they want to be in, it's like
the moment things get tough and I've been let go
to I was let go twice within my first like
two years of radio due to like budget cuts or whatever,
and like that could have deterred me and I could
have got into health insurance with you know, the other
seventy percent of my family members or whatever working for
(08:45):
like health Plus at the time.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I don't even know.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
What it is now, but it was like now, just
all right, back to the drawing board. We go and
send out emails and bro, I tell everybody the same thing. Now,
send emails, send dms. The worst that could happen is
you get ignored. We get ignored at least thirty times
a day. You walk into Starbucks. Not everyone's gonna look
at you. Not everyone's gonna say hi. What's the difference
between an email? And then all you gotta do is
(09:09):
follow up two weeks ater, following up on below. Then
he just become the annoying person. Yeah, And then they're
gonna write back.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know, at some point someone's gonna respond, whether it's
a yes orday.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I know I've said this before on a few of
our episodes, but one thing I tell everybody is my
thing is the answer is always know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
If you don't ask yeah, m hm, the answer is
always gonna be no, yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
And I think, and I think that's something that a
lot of and I feel like so old saying this nowadays,
but a lot of like the younger generation doesn't understand,
like just because they say no, doesn't mean it's over.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, Like you just go.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Back and follow up again, let them know, like I'll
never forget. When I was super young in the industry,
I sent an email randomly to EBRO because I was like,
he's a program director, was one of Hot ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I'm just gonna send them something and just who cares.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
And he within like two hours he wrote back, and
he basically said like I don't think you're ready, but
keep it coming. And I like that one little interaction,
which was like she's like fifteen years ago now energized you. Yeah,
because it's like, who is he to be riding back
to me? All right, cool, it's gonna keep me going.
And it's like those little things. You'd be surprised how
many people just need a semblance of like acknowledgment of like, yeah,
(10:14):
I got your email, we don't have anything available right now.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You're seeing people want to be seen, they want to
feel heard, and sometimes a no is not a no.
It's a no for right now. Maybe it's not meant
for you for right now, but keep doing it, keep
doing the hospital and come back.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
So it's been I've been doing this, like I said,
eighteen years, been let go twice. My journey's taken me
to uh so I lived. I moved to Long Island
at one point like exit sixty three on the on
the lie, so I was deep out there, got let
go from that.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Job that I was at. So then I worked at
the Marriott. I was a bellman at a Marriotte.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
So I went from like hanging out at Radio City
Music Hall with Jason Derulo when he opened up for
Lady Gaga to being a bellman and holding your bag
hoping you give me three dollars like that? What that
does to your brain from a like motivation standpoint, you
go one of two ways. You either just sink into
that depression of like you know it's over for me,
or you just say I get like a visceral reaction
(11:13):
to thinking of like the red bellman jacket that the
Marriouts used to have, like it is od like PTSD.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Dog, like it is bad. How much I despise myself
at the time.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah, but then I just started That's when I just
started sending emails to random people.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And then I got a job in west Chester to
do weekends.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
So I was driving two hours from Eastern Long Island
to west Chester and then that helped me get my
foot back into radio to get me a gig iHeart
and de Moine and that was November twenty twelve, and
I've just been with iHeart ever since, through all these
different cities that I've worked in stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah cause remember it. So I remember.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I've seen your posts where like you're calling your family
members to tell them and you're like, I'm coming back,
you know, home basically.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Because everybody knew like that. I to this day, it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
My my first iPhone, I worked at the Marriout so
this might have been like twenty eleven and like that.
This was like the first phone that you could make
a note on your alarms. So I was like, all right,
I have two alarms. To this day it says one
says I will be at Z one hundred. The other
one says I will be at WWA in ww Those
are the two alarms I still have. I accomplished one,
still working on the other one because that's like my
(12:15):
real passion. Like Z one hundred was like the adult dream,
WW is like the kid who grew up on welfare
obsessed with wrestling, Like ADHD took over his life unless
wrestling was involved. And then so for that kid, that's
the dream. But everybody knew, like I'm going to des Moines, Iowa,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dayton, Ohio. I'm going to these obscure
(12:36):
cities that nobody even knows about or will go to.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
But I'm going for a reason.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Everything was a chess move to get to Z one
hundred or at least increase the odds to get that opportunity,
and that worked.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, and building your air checks and people in pds
and things, they look for that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
You hope, you hope that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That people when the opportunity opens, right.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
And it took me.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
It took me thirteen years to get my audition at
Z one hundred, you know, And I say that's people
all the time, like it took me thirteen years just
to get a chance to be here. Right. So to me,
it's like when I was driving into that audition, I
have never been more like laser focused and intent in
my life.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Maybe when my daughter was born.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
But that that's just like a whole other level of
like you good everything okay, you know, because everybody's focused
on the baby. No one's really focused on like the
mom So I was just like honed in on, you know, her,
making sure she was okay. But literally the intensity I had,
and I was just playing one like video over and over.
It was a wrestling video to like keep me in
the mood, keep me zoned in. I killed that audition.
(13:37):
I don't care what anyone says, like, bro, if I
if I didn't get the job at Z one hundred,
as wild as as it sounds, I would have been
okay because I know that, Like I killed it.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
It wasn't at that point. If you don't get it,
it's not a talent.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
It could be a fit thing, it could be it
could even be a gender thing, like actually we wanted
a female, all right, cool, Yeah, at that point, you
just there's no chance of me right. So but yeah,
I had the audition late February. It was from twelve
am to six am on a Sunday technically Saturday night,
Sunday morning, and it was I still remember so many
things of that, like so vividly because it was like
(14:11):
that's what I wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
That was the dream.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm in here now the first time about to hit
that on. Yeah, the microphone right and.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
During the top of the hour into you know, thirty
four to thirty five by Ariana Grandee, Like I still
remember all these like little things and I had I
had like five or six different family members and friends
stay up and listen the whole time. And literally, like
when I did my like sign off, the I got
like four or five different texts, Yo, you killed it,
love you.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And I'm like two cousins showed up downstairs. They're like,
oh where you are?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yo?
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Were outside? I'm like what?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
And then so I got you know, sandwiches on the
corner of Canal Street and West Broadway and ate it
in the car and then we all went our separate ways.
But like that love and support dude, Like and you
guys know this first hand. Yeah, three four people just
get behind you, forget about it.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You can think, you think you could do anything at
that point.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
So having a good support system is really porn for
anything you're trying to do in life.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, that's awesome. Man.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
My mom watches this podcast every time it's released. She'll
like call me be like, you guys changed it used
to be because we used to go out on Sundays
now it's Wednesdays. She's like now my whole Sunday is
has shifted. I'm like, you'll survive. It's Wednesdays and.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Then shout out, shout out to your mom.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, mom may be watching every episode.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
So my mom listens to me a lot too. She'll
call me, Pappy, you sick, like, well.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
She could tell your voice she sounds either.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
That or I'm not on air.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Oh if I'm not, like, she might tune in like
seven o'clock or whatever and like I was.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Because you missed.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
You normally talk right after the top of the alue
literally be like, I know you're always on the radio
six out three.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I'm like, no, but I'll let it slide, like if
you think it's six oh three, I should never be
three minutes late on the top of the hour. But okay, yeah, no,
She'll she'll like text me, Pappy, okay, you're not on
like feeling for Crystal earlier.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well you should have told me, Like, I'm sorry, lady,
I just slipped my mind. Sorry, but my mom. You
know she's great though, dude.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
She worked.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
She so she works from home health insurance or whatever
customer service, so she'll have the radio on.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Sometimes I'll come home she'll have like lamega on. I'm like, hey,
what is this?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
She'll laugh or whatever, but it's the mix shows. Man,
Damn DJ's were getting her.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Don Alex holds it down telling you, I'm telling you,
but that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
The ending always dude, always Joe like randomly will tell me,
like what, I'm proud she is, Bro, I've gotten d MS.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I'm not kidding, I've gotten DMS.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yo.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Your mom is my customer service agent for for you know,
health insurance or whatever.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
She just talked a lot about you. Just wanted to say,
what's up. Your mom's amazing, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
My mom My mom will tell my story to anybody
she meets, even if you don't ask.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I will attest to that. I get DMS mom. Yeah,
your mom is sending.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Me blessing social media of the thing three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Send you the blessing, Yeah, three in the morning. And
then my mom yeah seven. And I'm like, do you
guys have a competition because I see the comments, like
on all the episodes. It's funny.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
That's awesome. Man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
But wasn't. If it weren't for our mothers, we wouldn't
be here. We wouldn't exist a thousand percent.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
And I think, and I think that's where I got
to drive from right like my mom, you know, first
ten and I'll get personal.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I have no shame. If it's too much for the pod,
let me know.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
But like growing up, my dad was an abuser, drug addict,
all that type of stuff, like physically would abuse my
mom in front of us. And she always kind of like,
for lack of a better term, like thugged it out,
just kept going working three jobs. She didn't even have
her gd doesn't even have her GTD, so she was
working like all these odd jobs or whatever just to
make money. There were times where she would hide money
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in like my draw because she was afraid that Poppy
would take it and run off and get drugs, did
or whatever. There was one time, remember I opened the
drawer there was like one hundred dollar bill in there,
and I got so hyped, thing like the tooth ferry
left it there.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
She was like, shut up, don't say nothing, and I
was mad tight.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I was like I was thinking of like what I
was gonna buy with that money at Alan Houston.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Jersey or whatever.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yeah, but no, but she she finally left my dad
around my tenth birthday, and then we went to Staten Island,
lived in my cousin's basement for a few months, and
then my cousins moved out, so we took over the
home and you know, single mom just just hustling and
working and got into the company that she's at now
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because my uncle was like a director there, helped her get.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
A job and just kind of.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
That Me and my sister like we're kind of fending
for ourselves for the most part, you know what I'm saying,
being ten, eleven, twelve years old, cooking for ourselves, figuring
things out on our own, which helped us out now
because we're a super independent almost two independent sometimes because
then you get to that point where you don't ask
anybody for help. Yeah, Like that's really toxic when you
get to like the mental health issues or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's probably been me my whole life.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yeah, so because you just like you're show used to
doing everything on your own or thinking like everyone's got
their own issues. I'm not going to burden you with
my problem, so I'll just suck it up and I'll
deal with it.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
That's definitely me.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, and I'll never forget I came home for Christmas.
This was like twenty nineteen maybe, and I told my
we were right by a Lutheran hospital at a red light,
and I told her.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I was like, oh, I'm going to start therapy after
the new year. Like I'm really excited.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
She was like why, And I remember just being like mad,
slow motion looking at her, like, lady, you were there
for ninety percent of my childhood trauma, Like what.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Do you mean why?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
The fact that that me and my two older siblings
are like, you know, positive members to society based on
the statistics that I'm constantly looking up, like there's no
reason why the three of us should be as successful
as we are right now, you know what I'm saying.
My brother's a principal out in California. He got his PhD.
He got a double master's degree from Columbia University. My
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sister got her master's from Hunt. She works, she's a
high ranking official for like Goodwill, so she does the
nonprofit stuff. She has her own nonprofit because of my
six year old nephew, who's nonverbal autistic changed her life
and so she created this nonprofit. And then I'm just
here like I ain't doing nothing in the grand scheme
of like life compared to like the impact that they're making.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
So I'm like, dude, I'm blessed. I don't have student loans,
but you are making impact. It's hard to see it though, Yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
You don't know what people are going through. You will
turn on and hear a friendly voice and maybe you
change the decision, and it's maybe things that you won't
know right there.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Go places and you're talking to somebody and then they say, hey,
are you this person?
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Because yeah, either that or they'll figure it out by
the name or in conversation. It just comes up and
then like seeing their reaction, Like actually, I was hosting
a brunch on Staten Island this past Sunday, and I
just anytime I am see and I actually like, I
hope you could appreciate this. It's never about me. It's
always about the music and the DJ. I will say
the DJ's name twenty times before I say my name
(20:38):
because it ain't about me.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
It ain't about me talking over lyrics. I'm not going
to talk over lyrics.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Just if you could give me twenty seconds to talk
real quick, I'll talk ten seconds.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
If not, I would just hold the mic and shut
up because ain't nobody there to hear me. It's all
about you, It's all about the lyrics. It's all about
feeling good. So I will hype you up, but I'm
not stopping the music. I'm not talking over lyrics. And
if I do, my first thought is where are we
talk about the location the next party?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
And then just say the DJ's name so many times
so I said my name and it was like a
long beat and I knew that. So I was like,
you know, I said my name from Z one hundred,
and there was like three different women like had an
immediate reaction to me just saying.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
My name and being on Z one hundred, And I
was like, oh, it's got a dope. That makes me
feel good. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yeah, because I say, listen, I say all the time
I play for the Yankees. That's what I tell people.
Everybody knows the Yankees. Everybody knows Z one hundred. You
don't know every Yankee player. You know Aaron Judge, you
know Elvis Durant. You know what I'm saying, Like, you
know the superstars.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Those are the superstars. You may not know every player.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
But if you watch the Yankees enough, you're gonna know
that random relief pitcher.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
That's how I fit into the equation. I feel like,
so again, if you're a.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Diehard Z one hundred fan, you might know me, but
you know my team, and that to me is kind
of more important than anything else.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Really.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
To me at least, it's like support the team. That's it,
That's all that matters. That's why I like the KTU stuff.
You guys have your thirtieth anniversary party going on. I
posted about yesterday on my Instagram story because I was like,
this is dope you posted when you guys announced it.
I'm like, yoh, it's all one big family.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I've been seeing more and more of that lately in
the building, which is dope, which is like the interact,
like that, everyone helping each other out to make it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I see that promo everywhere. Len has been posting, well,
it's everywhere.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
And I think I think a large part of that
is once you get into like New York City Radio,
like you've made it, you know what I'm saying. So
it's like you're comfortable in your position, You're comfortable where
you are, so there's there's still competition healthy competition, right always,
But it's no, there's not like backstabbing and undercutting the
way it is maybe in other markets because they want
to get to a New York City yeah yeah, yeah.
(22:38):
So here it's like everyone's just chilling, comfortable where they
are showing love to each other. And honestly, like I
was just saying this less than a month ago, I
was talking to a group of college students and they
were like, have you like, who's the worst person you've
ever met in this industry? And I was like, Honestly,
the people I've always had issues with we're in smaller markets. Yeah,
I haven't had a single problem with anybody here in
this market. I haven't felt like disrespect, I haven't felt
(23:00):
like someone talk to me sideways. I haven't felt like
just like a pushed upon or anything like that. Like
everyone shows everyone love around here, super dope. People don't
even know who I am because of like scheduling. Obviously,
if I'm on at six o'clock at night, I'm not
going to see anyone from the breakfast club or anyone
like Cubby or whatever in the morning on light FM.
But like you see each other in the hallway, you
say what's up you talk. Social media makes it a
(23:20):
little easier part of the same family.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So yeah, we've said that a couple of times here
in the pod. The camaraderie that everyone has here, it's beautiful.
Everyone's so open minded and willing and like for me
coming in and it's been so nice because everyone's warm
and welcoming and you know, let me show you this,
how to do this, and it's been really cool. And
how you guys are.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Yeah, and the thing is too, like we're all busy right,
Like right now is a good example. Right, You're we're
in the middle of a work day. We're all doing
this and then we got to go. We're still working
after that. Yeah, there are still things going on after same, right,
Like you have an ending to the day.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
I have to sleep at some point because this right,
and think I always thank God at all times about
the day. But there's no really set schedule for this
for like when people always ask me, like what are
your hours like, because like what makes me think about
this is I'm always with my kids at their sports,
you know, and I feel bad that I can be
that coach because everyone's like you should be coach because
(24:20):
I'm always helping out, but I can't commit to it.
I would love to write to be able to commit
to be like I would one hundred do it for
my kids and be part of the coaching staff and
all that kind of stuff. But I'm like, you gotta
understand that the schedule we have outside of our shift
is NonStop, especially with me on the programming side. It
could be a phone call at eleven PM, it could
be one o'clock, it could be somebody somebody dropping an
(24:42):
album at midnight, everyone's in an email talking about a
song or something or prepping for the next day and
make sure this is right for this show or bubblah
or you for your own show or it.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Just so the music industry is like that.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I'm sure Josh understands that, Like there, we have our
schedule and then we have an uh ye but even
but he even like CLO but never clock out.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Yeah, Like I obviously I do night so I'm on
every weeknight six to ten on Z one hundred. But
I'm also on four hours a night on one of
three five Kiss FM in Chicago, so I pre record
that a couple hours in advance. Oh and by the way,
on the weekends, I'm on in Tucson, Arizona, Cincinnati, Ohio,
so I got to pre record those. But I also
take a lot of pride in my pre recorded stuff,
where like, if you listen, you think it's happening. I'm
(25:22):
talking about Cincinnati Bengals, Cincinnati Reds, and Cincinnati, I'm talking
about the Arizona Wildcats and Tucson. I'm not one of
these people that's just gonna tell you the name of
the song, the radio station and keep moving forward.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Hey that was this, this is this.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, I take a lot of pride in my show,
in my show stuff, but that takes that takes work, right.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Like I just saw someone in the Hoobi. They're like, oh,
you're here early, and I'm like, not really two o'clock.
I usually get here three or four maybe.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Even though I'm not on untill six, because there's show
prep involved, Chicago's involved. Like, so you hear me on
the radio four hours a day. I love when people
are like, oh, it must be nice to work four
hours a day. I'm always like, ah, bro, especially especially
if and I know you live far, especially if you
take muting into your workday account.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Oh yeah, you take that into account. It isn't even
longer day.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, well that goes back to what I said,
there really is no hours. It could be it could
be a quick day, or it could be like an
extremely long day.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I just got a call the other day that you're
always working, Penny.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I'm always working. I have like five jobs, but I'm
always always working. No, And then, you know, the other night,
I got a call at twelve thirty at night, m M.
There was something going on in Berkeley and a flag
came up with media, so we had to automatically go
into you know, crisis management, wasn't us. We get a
lot of Berkeley, you see stuff happening, and then we
(26:36):
get tagged in media, so then we have to reach
out to those outlets and say, you know, so it's
a lot of things that happen. Marketing does not sleep,
and you can't, No, honestly, you really can't.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
You know you when you do, that's when the big
story breaks and then you're asked out and then you
can't recover in time.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
No pro keeps me busy, you know. With this podcast,
I'm editing it like one in the morning.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm the most laid back dude let me tell you son,
I was okay so in that dire tribe. When I
was telling those people that there's no issues here, I
was also talking about.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
How like there isn't there isn't egos either.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
We all have egos because I think ego takes you
to a certain level of success because you know, if
you think you're the best, you gotta perform at that
pass and that that mentality keeps you focused. But I
was saying, like there's no over the top egos where
people are like will ignore you or not want to
talk to you or anything like that. Like first time
I met Angie Martinez, I was like thea our boss boss.
She was like, oh, come meet Angie and I was like, naa, no, chill, chill,
(27:32):
She's on air, like I don't want to. I felt
like a fangirl interrupting a celebrity in that moment. Like
it still blows me away that I'm colleagues with Angie Martinez,
DJ Clue, DJ pro Style, Like these are people that
I listened to at various points of my life, not
even like my career, to study certain things like my life,
like I had the professional mixtape with DJ Clue to
(27:54):
this day. I think Fantastic four is one of the
greatest hip hop songs of all time. I told him
that one time and he looked at me like that
and heads because it's like this one hundred guy is
talking about a song with cannabis. This is weird, but
like clues driven me home to Staten Island before and
it's like I'm sitting in his car and I was
just like, so then hip hop at the anniversary, man,
(28:15):
and You're like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Living here, by the way, Yeah, I can get cool
on the podcastory.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I can't imagine the stories.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
That's what that's what we want to get.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
So yeah, listen. I used to watch prox Apart okay,
and now I can sit with him and some random
stuff and talk about the kids and it's it's cool.
They say like, don't meet you know the people that
you are whenever do it?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Bro cool. Yeah, I'll never forget. We were still in
the old building.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
So I was a couple of months in and I
got a random phone number texting me or whatever, and
I'm like, who is this? And I opened it up
and it's like, Hey, it's Elvis. You sound amazing. We
are so lucky to have you dog. I screenshot of
that thing sentence everybody I knew, Like and Elvis Durant
is a colleague. Every time he sees me, gives me
the biggest hug, asks me about my daughter, calls me
(29:04):
big daddy like look, makes eye contact with me when
he's talking. It's not like hey, what I meant? And
like goes, no, It's all about me in that moment,
and I'm like, what I have that? I still have
it saved in my phone out photo because like, again
these people I don't. This is another issue, but like
that imposter syndrome is so serious.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It is so serious, and I have it a lot.
You know what I'm saying. I'm constantly like, oh no, no, no,
I'm good. I'll let so and so do it.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
And it's like no, like I need to my My
therapist tells me a lot like talk my ish like
a good example of that.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
As ratings, like you know this first hand, ratings could
be fickle as hell.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
One month you're number one, the next month you're eight,
the next month you're four, the next month you're one.
So then when you brag about being number one, are
you gonna talk about being number eight next month?
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Are you going to talk about number four?
Speaker 5 (29:55):
And in the radio industry we know that, but then
somebody who may not be in the radio industry, it'll
be like, damn, you're number one. That's dope, which opens
up doors for like multimedia, opens up doors for like
other endorsement opportunities because people outside of the radio don't
realize how fickle the Nielsen.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
You never know, like I've never been the type of
post stuff right, but at the same time, but I'm
a little different, like I I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I have taken the backseat of like the I don't know,
like you know what I'm trying to say, Like I'm cool.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah, I'm cool, just like I've done it for so
long not to not to take the foot of I'm
not saying I'm taking the foot off the guys, clearly,
I'm doing a million things. I just do it quieter, right,
But back to the post's great because it could somebody else,
somebody else could get forwarded that or seeing it who
doesn't check in, They're like, well, let me start checking
in to see.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You know some more of more. I keep telling to.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Post all the things. Yeah, I'm like, let's do your
link tree, let's do that, Like, but.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
The thing about like you mentioned one oh six and park,
if I tuned it in and there was a song
that was number four on the Countdown and I never
even heard it before the fact that it's number four,
I'm gonna go, oh, what is this?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
I feel like I'm missing something.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Yeah, So now all of a sudden, if I'm posting
that I have an number one night show and all
these demographics, people might sit there and go, oh, I
feel like I'm missing something.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Now I'm going to tune in.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
But it's like this weird mind screwing of like you know,
people that know know, like dog, you could be number
seven in two weeks, like stop it. And being a
former program director who used to run radio stations, I
know that firsthand. But then it's like people meters, Yeah,
are we Are we posting for people that follow us
or are we posting to get people to follow us?
Speaker 2 (31:27):
It depends on what your strategy is exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
But you could also be posting because yeah, but by
the way, some people don't.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
You don't even need to answer that, Like it could
literally just be for yourself, Like I'm posting for myself,
Like I come to work every day and putting a
lot of work in soot.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Videos are for me.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
If I'm putting it off, it's like if you win,
like whatnot. You know, I think nobody else is gonna
do it right, Pat myself on the back.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
That's how I feel. Yeah, well, my therapist is trying
to get me to do that more often.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Great, I go, I go.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I started slowing down a bit because I've been feeling
good by the way. I know, we got to wrap
this up.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
But I started taking something called Saint John's Wart, the
most unattractive name.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Ever, but look at up Saint John's Wart.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah you can find it.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Like, yeah, it's like an organic herb that helps with
like miles to moderate depression.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Okay, pro still gonna google this after we do.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I've done that.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Yeah, they have it at like CVS Dwayne Reid any
pharmacy or whatever. Again, terrible name, easy to remember. But
I started taking it. My sister put me onto it.
I started taking it maybe December, and when those two
blizzards came in February or whatever, like the crippling seasonal depression,
I get I did not have it, and I literally
like attribute that to this over the counter Like I said,
(32:35):
it treats mile to me herbal remedy two pills in
the morning gives me a little energy as well. I
also take vitamin CND started focusing on my gut health.
I'm down forty pounds and eleven months. Wow, everyone, everyone's
down by the way, you look great looking over your
shoulder and seeing that photo up there.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah, thank you pictures after this, I'm down right, well,
I was down forty. I think I'm down third. I
think I put ten back on. But that's fine.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Yeah, something's coming.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
They keep saying, Yes, Golden Corral, shot to gold and
around the Bronx, but yeah, we we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Josh, I really appreciate your authenticity and your vulnerability. You're
so you and all of the personalities here you know,
are are in that same lineage. But from your social
media to talking to you in person, who on the air,
you are the same person across all of those modalities,
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and it shows I.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Try to be because if there's one thing we know
growing up in New York City, no one likes those
fake ass people, those used car salesmen. We all have
them in our lives, like we all probably have a
family member, whether it's a cousin, an uncle and aunt
that you're just like, oh, hi, Many's young because you're like,
you know what I love.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
With your story and a lot of the stories we're
getting from the people in the building, right, and we're
getting from everybody, all the different people that come in.
But what I love about what we're doing with everybody
in this building is you're really getting to know the
person behind the mic, right, and everyone here has such
an incredible story, and it's just it's it's great because
you know.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I feel like thirty minutes is not enough.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
We let everyone needs to come Yeah everyone, well Maxwell
first boy, he's like ready to come back in for
the third time or but everyone has their story and
their journey of how they got to where they're at.
And I love it because nobody's like this overnight or
like hand me down. You know, there's gonna be those
people who are like, well, this person's the boss and
just likes this person so kind of like it's like
(34:28):
you should do this right, hard work. Yeah, all these
people worked hard to get where they're at.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
I love it, and I take a lot of pride
in talking about my story because I feel like there's
a lot of people that grew up the same way
I did. That feel like there's no way out, that
there's no nobody's there to like help them out, there's
nobody to look up to, Like I say it all
the time, Like the Andre Martinez, just her name alone
made me realize, Wait, there's a Latino and radio that
doesn't have to be over the top, Like.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Wait that shit mag with that fake ass voice.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Like all of a sudden, there's, all of a sudden,
there's a Martinez Spanish.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Actually post that one.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
In the industry.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
It's called puking and it's not that but but like
they but growing up, if you automatically think Martinez, it's
got to be Spanish, you gotta speak Spanish.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I didn't speak Spanish.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Typical New York ekan right where it's like, oh wait,
there's somebody that's got my last name that isn't trying
to speak Spanish. They're just themselves. Like that's kind of dope.
I don't have to because that was just my misconception
of radio at the time, growing up, and then just
through the years looking at at a lot of different
people's stories and you know, growing up on welfare and
(35:41):
like I said, dude, just just hustling and grinding and
not taking anything for granted because the mindset of like
I don't know when that next thing is gonna come,
you know. I remember like my mom giving me hand
me down sneakers that were like two sizes too big,
and she was like, oh, you'll grow into them. They're
like clown shoes on me dog. And I'm like when
in two weeks. I hope so because and like that's
not how it works for tonight.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
It was bad, but no, I was, like we were
talking about.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Before, like I think there's a lot of people in
this building that have dope stories, and you know, I
tell everybody the same thing, Like, not everybody's story is
the same. Good example I always use is like Wendy
Wild grew up on Long Island, started radio on Long Island,
went to New Haven, Connecticut, back to Long Island, New
York City, so she stayed right in her region.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
And then you'll have someone like me, who did.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
You know New York, west Chester, Long Island, the Moye, Iowa,
see the Rapids Iowa, Dayton, Ohio, Maxwell from San Diego,
Crystal from San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
But if that's the beauty of.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
Like, if you work hard and you make the right connections,
you'll get to where you want to get to.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
And in our case, this is the time I started
in Florida. Yeah, start in Orlando to make it here,
to make it actually on TV before I've even made
it here.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
On radio.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Really yeah, you were on one oh six before Yeah,
I got on. So the story of that is, well,
that would be like a whole nother podcast. But what
I made so much noise. And this was when I
was like nineteen twenty that when b ET started going
down and they were filming spring Bling in Daytona Beach,
you had to come to.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
They would have to.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
They would send their talent scouts to Orlando where I was,
to like recruit people to go down there.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
They needed. They were getting the girls again.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
And I started hooking up with those people and they
were like, Yo, They'd go to the parties I was
at because at that point I had all the parties
on lock, so they were everywhere they went to try
to recruit. I was there, and they were you know,
they were like, Yo, who's this? Yeah, Like Yo, you
know what I'm saying. And so I hooked that with them.
I met the right people and they were like, Yo,
we need an opening DJ. Like they saw me killing
the killing it, you know what I'm saying, And they
were like, Yo, we need DJs to DJ when the
(37:45):
in between, like when the cameras were off, are you down?
I was like, say less. They're like, they're like, we'll
hook you up. We'll bring you up there for Rap City.
That's what it was at the time. They're like this
one Rap City had guest DJs. So I was like,
hell yeah, So I went. I killed it on the
beach to the point where like they were like, we're
gonna turn the cameras on. Just keep doing what you're doing.
I was playing like bone Crusher. We ain't never scared,
like all these records that I just came out because
(38:07):
I was cool with them past to Troy and like
I was in the South, I was like in the
streets like I you know, you know, the whole background.
So so they went crazy to make a long story
shout outs.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I got BT.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I met with execs there, you know, obviously kept it
very professional nights with them, We talked. They brought me
up for Rahap City. Me and Tigger hooked up like
mad cool. I started DJing some of his parties. He'd
bring me to do his parties and that led into
DJing the b the BT Awards in La before I
dj for AJ and Free for one O six in
(38:37):
Park when they filmed it in La. That's the first
time I dj for one O six in part and
then I never DJed with them in the studio. I
dj for them on the road and then they left,
and then they brought me in to dj for I
did the whole Tigger and Jalisa run and then obviously
Roxy and Terrence, but that names and like so long,
(38:58):
so I dj for the the one of six some
Park episodes for them because.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
I remember you from like those days.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
But I guess maybe probably because you've been in radio
so long, my mind just probably warps it into It's
also the.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Amount of time that's passed right. Time is really flying,
so like we're talking like twenty years ago almost at
this point.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Don't bring it up, but no, like it really is.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Like our youngest is turning ten. When I tell people that,
they're like, there's no way that Alexander's turning ten years old.
They're like, you guys just got married. I'm like, no,
we've actually got married like thirteen years ago, and they're like.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
What crazy.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
So time is really like I'm feeling that now with
my two and a half year old dog, which is
the greatest thing that's ever happened in me.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It's the best part of your social media.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, oh dude, I just soak it all that because
it goes by so fast.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
So the cliches are true, and that's why they're cliche,
and that's why you hear them all the time.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
It goes by.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
It only goes by fast when you're looking back, right,
that's you know, because there's always things.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Happen as of disadvantage. My daughter lives in Ohio, so okay,
I go out there every like two to three weekends.
I'll fly out Saturday morning, come back Monday night just
in time to be on air. Sometimes I'll make it
a three day weekend or whatever. Yeah, but I'm constantly
out there, FaceTime with her every single day, twice a day,
sometimes FaceTime this morning.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
We're gonna FaceTime again tonight.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
And then her mom does a really tremendous job of
like videos, photos, sending me all that stuff so that
I could update social media because to me, it's like
so many of my family members aren't going to get
to see her because I'm the one that's going out
there because it is so much easier for me to
literally go to La Guardia dress like this right now
because I have clothes at the crib or whatever, so
I don't have to worry about anything compared to you
packing up a two and a half year old to
(40:32):
fly here. So yeah, my family members aren't going to
get a chance to see her. So I started posting
for my family members to stay up on her, and
then like a lot of people have hit me up
to be yo, your daughter, like makes me smile, makes
me good, makes you feel good, positive aspect of my day.
And I know we got to wrap up. But best
thing that's ever happened to me changed my life, which
again it's all cliche stuff. But I don't talk about
(40:56):
her a lot because I get emotional. She's dope, she's
so smart and I miss her all the time. But
like I said, much love to her mom because she
keeps me in the loop on everything and I'm constantly
reaching out, does she need anything? Does she you know
you're looking at whatever? Like I try to be as
(41:17):
involved as humanly possible.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
And in the halls here we bumped into the baby.
In the halls here, she was taking over the halls. Yeah,
walking around.
Speaker 5 (41:27):
Yeah, it's like every time we meet, she talks, she
learns a different word or she learns a different statement
and she uses it in perfect context and it is
the wildest thing ever.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
And she's just like I said, I say it all
the time.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
I many time somebody asked me about her, I guessaid,
I can't talk about her too much with not getting emotional.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
So I always say, dude, she's the best, She's the greatest.
That's what I always tell people.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
And then I just kind of keep it moving because
I talk about her for more than twenty seconds and
I start getting emotional.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
She just makes me so freaking happy. All right, Sorry,
well I get I get emotion.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
If I talk to Penny too much, too, it's like
more like a anger. It's okay, It's okay, No, it's
like an anger, Like yeah, yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Glossing over that.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
We didn't hit have the questions that we had today,
But I love part two. I love where the conversation
went and in true teach me something fashion, we are
gonna end with our one word, So Josh, in one word,
what's your legacy?
Speaker 5 (42:24):
My legacy, Genevieve, that's gonna be my legacy, my daughter.
Nothing I do matters.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
When you have a son.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
Nope, Nope, nope, Genevieve, that's that's my legacy.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
None of this stuff matters. And you know this better
than I do.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
Obviously you have you know, multiple kids, you've been doing
it for he is. Yeah, that's my legacy. So that's why,
you know, trying to balance this all out, it ain't easy.
But Genevieve, that's my legacy. Whatever that girl does, and
she's gonna do a lot of great things. She's gonna
she's gonna make history. She's gonna be a pioneer and
what we'll find out whatever she wants to do. Boppy's
gonna be there to support her one hundred percent. But
(43:05):
my legacy, that's her.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I love that the penny will be here to babysit
all the kids because I don't have any of my own.
There you go, Uncle Pro, You alrighty nose, Thank y'all
for tuning in to another episode of Teach Me.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Something, presented by Berkeley College. I am pro Style and
I'm Penny Tella. We will see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Bye, Hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next week for
all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought to you
by Berkeley College
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