April 29, 2026 • 34 mins
In this engaging Season 3 episode of Teach Me Something, hosts DJ Prostyle and Penny Dellas welcome Astra, a renowned radio personality with over two decades of on-air experience. Currently heard weekdays from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM on KTU 103.5 FM alongside the Hollywood Hamilton crew, Astra has become a familiar and trusted voice for listeners across New York.
Her impressive career spans major stations including Party 105, Mix 102.7, 106.1 BLI, SiriusXM, and 92.3 AMP, showcasing her versatility and longevity in the ever-evolving radio industry. Adding an exciting twist to her already dynamic career, Astra recently stepped in front of the camera as a video vixen, appearing in Shaggy’s new video for “Sexy Lady.” Beyond her professional achievements, Astra enjoys walking red carpets and spending time with her beloved fur baby, Nyla.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny Tellas,
and this is Teach Me Something.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Are you ready, Penny?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
This is I was starting in Born right.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is how we're starting this episode. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
We had to come correct today because of the guests
that's here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Because she is friendly for us.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
She's family, but she's also so much more experience than
we are. We really have to come correct.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, so listen, this is how it's starting. Welcome to
another episode of Teach Me Something, presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am DJ pro Style and I am Penny Dallas,
and let's get right into this amazing spectacular guess we
have today.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know, we have this whole script, and we do
these scripts all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You do these scripts all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I really, I see we're a team. I was giving
us credit. It's true, you do nothing. I do the
scripts and I do the producing, I do the editing
all the thing. But now so in the episode, really
honored because we have a family member with us from
the k t U one O three five f M family.
(01:07):
We have Astra in the building.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Thank you guys for having me. Right, I love that
introduction f f M f M radio.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well because people listen to us all over the country,
so yeah, you need to clarify.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, that would I would, that would be on the
iHeartRadio app. That's right, that's in the building. Thank you
guys for having me. I'm so excited. I've been wanting
to come on so bad.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know, but your busy schedule, you know, just kept
pushing our Well, yes, you.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Know, my people had to make room and now we're here.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm so happy your people got with pennies people.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, yes, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Have the people.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
The people negotiated and we were able to make it moorgotiated.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We were able to make schedules because some of us
got yelled at at a public event. You know, it's fine, bye,
my people. Astra has blessed us with her presence today because,
as y'all know, she's on the morning show.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes morning.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I'm surprised I'm even awake for this right now.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So she came back to the studio just to be
with us. So we appreciate you being here.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Anything for you guys.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Between your morning shows being video vixens for Shaggy, there's
a lot going on in the world of Astra. That
was because of your great idea. Yeah, that was that
was really fun.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That was a great event. That was a great event.
And if you haven't seen that kickoff to season three
with Shaggy, Ashle was there for that. Yeah, I'm saying
and shot to Shaggy she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
If you haven't seen it, go to Astra's social Oh true.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, on my TikTok or Instagram, Astra on the air
and you can check out.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You do it all, Astra. You do it all.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I mean, I try.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Aside from being on the morning show, of course, here
a k to you. Your incredible career include stops at
party one, O five Mixed, one O two point seven,
one O six point one, BLI serious XM page six
ninety two three am. I mean, hello, you're everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I like it when you guys say that it's crazy.
I believe how long that resume is.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's actually a pretty hard stop. It is is begin me.
Let's go back to the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We need to go to the beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
We need to get into radio. How did this how
did this passion for radio and entertainment start?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Like question it actually started. I wanted to do television,
so when I was in college, I went to school
for television broadcasting. So my dream was always to be
a television reporter. So that's really what I had wanted
to do. And I actually worked at our local news station.
I'm from Long Island, so I worked at New twelve,
Long Island. I was there. I wanted to get on
the air, and then I know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Terrible research broway, you.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Know, somebody's got to get fired. Now someone's getting fired.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I have no podcast if I leave anyways.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That's right, that's right, could do this, nohow, So you
know I was. I was actually while I was in college,
I was in so I interned at MTV. I interned
with the New twelve Long Island, and I also interned
with the radio station, so just to see what radio
was all about, because to me, I was like, I'd
rather always be seen and heard, not just heard. And
(04:20):
I don't know next thing, you know, I kind of
just got my break in radio. I worked at News
twelve for about two years and they weren't putting me
on the air, and I was just like, well, I
need to be somewhere where I'm going to be heard.
So I went to the radio station and they were like,
we'll put you on, and within a month I was
on and I haven't looked back ever since. Although I
still have that passion for television.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I love that you know, yes, and you've been on
all the apps before apps were apps. Right, yes, let's
say that, ye. Showing the behind the scenes, looking at
what you do in the studio and doing all of that,
so you know, the TikTok and twitch and all of
that is not new to you because you've always been
taking peop kind of scene. So your passion for a
TV shows through that.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
From back in camera was just webcams, remember webcams Like
that was what I used to do and people would
just log on yep. So that's where I had started
with all that stuff. And uh, I mean I got
my break on camera with Page six. So I did
that audition out of four hundred people landed that gig.
So that was pretty awesome. In such a big part
of that, it felt like I won the lottery, Like
(05:21):
it felt like when Miss America wins, you know, it's
like you never know the winner. And I was like,
I actually won, Mick and I did the wave everybody world,
Queen is here.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I love that working with so many different modalities and
stations across markets. How have you seen your journey in
terms of adapting to the evolution of where we were
and where we are today.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well, when I started, we used to have cart machines
back in the day, yep, carts CDs had to pull
the CD. So going from that to now everything on
computer incredible. Obviously, I've been able to see that. I
wasn't you know, I wasn't in a radio back when
people were doing I guess the cutting of the tape
and like that. So I hear those stories and I'm like,
(06:13):
how does that work? Like that would have cut tape
because I mean we had cassettes growing up, and.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I used to if God forbid, when it was cards,
I didn't know I heard about like the test, yes.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And the only tape I know is a cassette tape.
And I know there were times where it would get
like but like boggled into the machine. It gets eaten,
so you have to cut it and then fix it.
And I'm like, is that what they mean by cutting tape?
Because you'd get a blank space. So that's why I'm
just like.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Being on radio incil and sometimes so you have no idea,
like with the carts, like you ever have like a
cart skip.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
On airthing like that, like or that it just dies like.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
A song's playing and then it starts going this on
air and you have to like hit it or like
immediately go to not hoop it out.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah something. It's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It was way more hands on versus now. And then
it became this. Yeah, I never forget when it switched
and I was like, wait a second, so you're saying
it's already here, right, and I just got to hit
this butnon right and then go to this button.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Because remember we would have to cue the song to
a certain time. You know, you had to do everything manually.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Commercials so commercial breaks you you had to get it ready,
so you'd have to put each commercial in and depending
on how many slash Day had available, you'd have to
rotate them and keep it moving and as one after one,
once to the next one. Remember they're like thirty seconds
or a second sixty seconds long. You'd have to go
to the next one and put them in. It was crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It was definitely more of a manual job. Now I
feel like it's like coasting literally just yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's crazy. Literally you can automate your whole show, right.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And knowing that once everything got onto computer, I was
just like, well, what if the computer dies? Like that's
always been my fear. I even even to this day,
I still sometimes think when they're just like, oh, you know,
you could reset the computer, I'm like, what do you
mean reset? If you reset, it turns.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It off, doesn't the show?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Like, aren't you going to lose the song?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
No, it's playing in the backup server. I'm like, well,
where's the backup server? So I know it's actually on.
So I still kind of freak out about it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's weird radio drama. Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It is because I because we've both been there where
there everything goes black. Oh yeah, so the song's playing,
but when it when it ends, did the is the
next song? Or when the whole log just clears out,
like everything you're looking on the screen just acts like
there's nothing there yep, oh my god. But they're like,
don't worry, it's it's in the back, it's it's behind it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And the dead air is a nightmare for any radio jock.
That is the one thing that you just don't want happening.
And the one thing I always hear is even if
there's like a one or two second laps of dead air,
to me, that's like twenty seconds. It's wild.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Have you ever been in the car and listened yeah
to the radio.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yes, and I'm like, somebody's getting fired.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I'm calling the radio station like this dead air?
Is there air? Yep? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
But meanwhile, the average listener doesn't really pick up on it.
It's us, we hear it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh, they pick up it's really.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
If it's too long, if it's like a good show, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I've been in the car, what I've been in the car? Wait,
and then you have to wait for the backup servers
to kick in.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That means it's been off the air for like a minute,
which a minute off the air is it's like ten,
it feels like twenty minutes. Yeah, listening to that, yep.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
There have been times people would put a station on
and there's just nothing happening. It's just like or the.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know, things happened. There's been times where like the
antennas or something goes completely out, so all the radio
stations will be out and it's nothing. So you're in
the studio, you're playing music, so for you, you think
you're on the air, right, no one could hear it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I remember though, back in the day, we used to
have in my other stations, we had a little alarm
that would like go off, so you'd see a light
start flashing, so you know you're off the air, even
if you're playing music.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, I didn't even realize it.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, I'm actually worried sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm like, they always had a dead air alert that
went off in the studio.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
YEP, this is this is the transitions of radio, the
evolution of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It is.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And then if you're doing you live through that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It can still happen, you know, we don't want it
to happen.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Back radio days, it was so I had a Saturday
show and it was nine to twelve, and I did
this for four years, and one day the DJ didn't
show up. He's like, I had a family emergency. I
can't show up. And I'm like, I go live in
five minutes. What did you do? What am I going
to do? Like, I don't have a pre mix, I
didn't have anything. What did you do? I'm like I yes,
(10:15):
I'm like this is a problem. No, I'm like this
is a problem. So no, and it was Yeah, it
was probab it was right. Yeah, it's like live right, webcam,
all the things right what we were talking about earlier.
So I had to call like one of the other guys,
O Angel that was here on the pod. I was
called Angel did it and he was like, Okay, I'm
going to walk you through this. And then after that,
I'm like, I'm taking a DJ class and I'm learning
(10:37):
how to do this and that's what I forced myself
to learn.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I was like, that's I never want to go through
this again. So for the first ten minutes I had,
like the intern on the mic. It was really bad.
We're like, well, we're right, this is what we're doing.
Like we're just we're going through this so yeah, can't
even Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Got improvise sometimes you got to make a way. H
you never know, crazy, I know I know that that's
like Honestly though, I do like the adrenaline rush of
being live with that sometimes sometimes when you're thrown into
the fire like that, that's what just gets you, just
gets you going, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I like it it's what are you gonna do? You
know you have to be liquid? Do you have a panic?
Kicks it?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We don't have a problem. I would have found a
way to get some backup music on or something that
you got to figure out something. You had to have
a CD to play something.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We did. After that, there was backups. After that, there
were incentives, which brings us to you know, you need
energy in what you do and you need consistency. So
what fuels you to do what you do every day?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Actually, no, it gives you wings. But no, Actually what
fuels me is everybody else's drama aka the entertainment world.
That is what fuels me because there's always something happening,
something going on, there's always something to talk about. So
that's what I love about this job is that every
day is always a new adventure. You never know what
you're getting into the next day. You can't always planet
(12:01):
because there's always some breaking news. There's always something that happens.
There's always something to keep you on your toes. So
if you're like, oh my gosh, like you know you
work at nine to five, Oh my day's boring, or
do the same thing over and over, we don't We
might do the same thing over and over, but with
new and new information.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
So that's why I love it so much, because it's
not repetitive. I love that fuels me a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I love that. And what keeps you connected with your audience.
You're so active on social social.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Media for sure. I love talking to everybody, you know,
and I love seeing people's comments. I like to respond back.
I like my thing. I love going live on TikTok so.
I love doing that because that's like a way to
interact because you have the live chat going so you
could talk to them in real time. So that's perfect
because sometimes, you know, the messages get buried in the
side dms and unless you're actually checking them, you don't
always see Sometimes I'm like, oh my god, I haven't
(12:48):
seen this message in like months or even years. Yeah,
like sorry, but like I try, you know, I try
to keep up. But if you leave a comment, I
always try to respond.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh that's awesome, se pro engagement, Yeah responsive, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I mean. The man's busy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, the man has twenty jobs.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I've been there before. I know how it is. But
you can still find time while you're you know, maybe
in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You could just respond. She do respond. Majority of the time,
I just respond with you.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The emojis a lazy response, are responsive.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I love write a whole message.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Emojill me and my wife.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
If we're arguing, she sends me a long text, I'll
just hit her back with like, Okay, oh you're the worst.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That's it. When you get home, that's it. Drama.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Oh no, that's the worst you can do. Okay, no, no,
don't do that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
No dinner for you when you come home.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's for your smiley face, or like a little heart, yea,
the heart.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You know, depends what the response is.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, for sure, happy wife, happy life, and we have
to come with some of the kids too, like happy kids,
happy life, happy marriage, happy kids.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Happy everybody around me. And I'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So don't DM pro because he's not gonna get it exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But if you want or if you want to message me,
I will respond with sometimes with emoji, but mostly I
will try to.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
People.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I love when we post something dms are open. I
love when we post something about the pod because like
pro and minds, our moms have like I don't know
if it's like an unwritten battle of like who's going
to comment first?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
My mom always kind, well, my mom's always up, like
at three or four in the morning. You think that's
when she starts writing that. She said, my mom, I
think forgot that she could actually text my phone. She
sent me a.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Beautiful Easter DM and I was like, oh, that's so nice,
and she's like, I thought it was a comment. I'm like, no, it's.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The worst.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Also, like thinking she's texting me.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
My mom will comment on my things thinking it's a
private message.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That's what I was going to say. That's the way
like parents nowadays, they don't understand, like you know, how
social media works, so they'll be trying to write you something.
They'll write it on your wall and it's like that
was supposed to be private.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
My mom send me a message the other day and
I realized she she added like six other people, like
it was like a group message to myself, a group DM. Yeah.
I was like, why is there other people? Test this?
And I raced it and I told her and she's like,
what what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Like, just stay off of off Instagram right at.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Three or four in the morning when you woke up
for some reason, because the in your mind you're like
all over the place.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Parents, they just stand.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Exactly, They just which brings us to Malcolm in the middle. Oh,
life is so unfair.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, I just I was just at
the carpet for that. That was incredible. I got to
meet a couple of the cast members. That was awesome.
I remember like growing up to that show.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah, So I didn't really remember the whole premise of
the show until they showed us the first two episodes
and I was like, I do kind of remember this now,
but now it's like the older version of them. So
now Malcolm is a parent. It's actually really cool. Like
I'm not going to give any spoilers or anything. You
have to watch it, but.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So Astra influenced me and I watched the first couple
of episodes. It's hilarious. It is, it is, it really is.
It's interesting. It's an interesting that character as an adult
is still the same character. And how many guest appearances.
It's so funny.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yes, and now his child is like him.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yes, but it's a girl.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yes, So it's a girl version of him, and it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's hysterically the parents. Oh, it's funny. How growing up
we were like, Wow, this show is so dysfunctional, and
now as adults, I'm like relatable.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It's so real, very relatable. Yes that I'm just watching Yes,
and I'm like wow. I was like, so, I'm not
the only one that has messed up family. Okay, everybody does.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
You see something in everybody there that like is so relatable.
It's a pretty cool show. I like covering carpets and
things like that. That's like my thing.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was about to say, so, what do you like?
Do you like the in person, live aspect of doing
entertainment versus behind the scenes on the radio or which
one do you like better?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
A little like a little mix of boths because behind
the scenes on radio, I can actually prepare it so
that I can deliver it properly. But then in person,
I do like just being able to talk to somebody
and like improv you know, you're kind of just going off.
It's almost like when you're doing an interview. You might
go in with your questions, but then based off what
they say, it kind of diverts into something different that
you weren't even maybe expecting to talk about that it's like,
(17:08):
oh my goodness, let's talk more about that, and you
kind of get into things that you never even thought
about maybe prepping for, you know. So I do kind
of like that too, because that's when you get the
dirt out of them. Sometimes they come in not wanting
to talk about something, and then they're spilling it all.
You know how that goes. They're like, I'm not the
don't ask about this, we're not talking about this. They'll
be like did you hear yeah, tell us more please,
(17:30):
And that's the way it comes out.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The first thing I guess could do is tell you
in advance what not to bring up, right, because.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Then that's what you want to be.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The thing is is a lot of these reps tell
you like they'll pull the interview if you bring it up,
so you have to let them bring it up. But
if you're really good at interviewing, you know how to
get it out of them without bringing it up. So
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
That's awesome. How about that? How about the morning show hours?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I mean you never get yeah, you never get used
to the hours, the hours, and people I know that
did mornings for like many many years, they're always like,
you never get used to it. Because I'm like I
would think that your body finally gets conditioned. It's true,
like you just never do because you're always tired. So
I find myself taking naps now during the day. I
(18:13):
love a good nap, but my naps are not like
my naps are not those like twenty minute thirty minute naps.
Like I'm like a two to three hour napper.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's not even like I'm asleep. I'm a sleep napper.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I can through like a power nap, sleep like a
fifteen minutes. If I put an alarm, I just forget it.
Then your whole sleep schedules off because I'll sleep like
three hours and you're like, oh, it's eleven pm. I'm
Wired's content.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
When you take a small nap like a power nap,
they consider it really energizes it versus if you seek
too long, suppose that you stay tired.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
See, and the opposite for me and power nap does
not exist. Like I've tried those twenty thirty minute naps,
I wake up more tired than I was, and I
was like, why did I do that to myself? I
would rather do like one to three hours, let's say,
of a nap and then continue along with my day.
And then I can go back to sleep later because
I just love sleeping. Like if somebody would be like,
do you want to go to go to sleep? I
want to go to sleep. I'd rather sleep than go.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Out astroes that meme your friend cancels the plants and they're.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Like, okay, buy no problem, my shoes are already off,
and I'm happy that you know the meme.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That's like, or what time we're we meeting up? They're
like nine pm, He's like at nine right at nine pes.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
That's where I'm at now. I'm just like dinners have
to be at like seven, seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Like, who am my events in one day? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Who am? I? I'm just like I gotta be in
bed by a certain time, like and I know that
if I go to events earlier in the week, it
messes up my whole week. Like I tell people, I
cannot do anything till like Thursday, maybe Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I can push it.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Every threadit Thursday's decisions.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yes, that's meal of clubs. Yeah. If I stop doing
clubs from I don't do I don't take bookings from
Sunday all the way to Thursday. Because I realized that
either nine night ten times I'm going to cancel yep, myself,
like I'm just not gonna be able to make it
because then I get so tired and I start thinking
of the next morning. Yeah, you know, because I help
with the kids and going to take them to school.
I'm like, I can't get home at five seven, no,
(20:04):
so and the nap stuff doesn't work for me either,
Like that's it's terrible because I don't leave my house
till like one in the morning to go to the club.
So see.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
But now the crazy thing is when I was working
page six, I was doing page six and doing mornings here.
So I was working from six in the morning till
about seven thirty at night, in bed at eight thirty,
up again at five in the morning. I had forty
eight hours of freedom a week.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So I was on like autopilot at that point. So
I feel like now I'm catching up on all the
sleep that I missed out on. Yeah, I'm always tired.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, beautiful, but the day's probably sleep. I just want
to relax.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I just I just talk to me, and Nyla loves
to sleep next to me.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I was just about to bring that he's like color.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
She is until she doesn't want to be cuddled anymore.
She's like a cat. Ye, I don't want to be
bothered with you. And I'm like, okay, whatever. Yeah, she's
the best.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I love it. She's so cute.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I was gonna bring her in today too, but then
I didn't want to distract her.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You should have that would have been cute. Well, let
me know, all, bring Susan and they can have a
little poppy.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
She she is anti animals, like she's a human person. Yeah,
she doesn't like dogs. She doesn't think she's a dog.
My dog is a human.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
He doesn't mind them.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But crazy like vicious vicious.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
She's three pounds.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No doesn't I'm taking her?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh no, no, she just is like what is that thing?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Our dog? So? Our dog, Yorkie. Her whole life is
the perfect dog as far as for us inside the house,
never makes a mess. Quiet, people come over, she'll like
roll like everyone loves her. You bring another animal and
she turns into a maniac really and will bite the animal.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Like really, her whole life, How big is your Yorkie?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Though? This big?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We used to take her when we lived in the
city to like dog parks and we had to stop
people be like, I try, your dog's gonna get killed.
I tried to take her to try to like attack
rock whilers and pit bulls and stuff, and they're just
looking at like damn.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So she thinks she's like a pit bull, Napoleon.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'm talking to the point where you're holding her back
on a leash and she's scraping her hands trying to
get to the animals to wear her her pores are bleeding.
No way, yeah, something in her head.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I don't know, Oh my gosh, No, not Nyla. Nyla
literally thinks she's a human. She'll look, she'll she'll like
sniff and be like, hey, what's up. But then like
keep going.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
On her waiting to like not waiting. But like I
always say, like she's gonna get killed outside because we
let her outside, and like she's ran up on like deers.
And you have ever seen those deers where they like
she's going to catch a two pieces in a biscuit
from a deer and be it for her. She's like
fourteen years old already, oh wow, in our years, so wow.
(22:43):
So she's like one elderly one away from elderly, one
deer attack from being over we lost her twice where
I thought it was over for her.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
But it was like he cannot be trust He cannot
be trusted because if he's not, only she will run
and leave a strangers. He has left with other.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
People, feeling you like that.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
No, he's just he loves people get from so he
won't go with their dogs, but he'll go with the Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, Nyla won't leave like I can actually walk her
off leash too at times like she'll be fine and
then I'll call her. She'll come right over. But she
wants to say hi and talk to everyone, and I'm like,
not everyone wants to be bothered. But the craziest part is,
you know how tiny our dogs are. What bothers me
is when somebody's like, oh my god, I'm like, what
are you scared of? You could kick it. It's like
a little rat.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, so I avoid the more scared of.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
My dog is a little under three pounds.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You have to find it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Have a ring video of a girl. A girl was
dropping off a lady older lady actually not old, but
a woman was dropping off like a door dash liver
or something. And when we opened the door, our dog
ran out. This lady screamed so loud and backed up
and almost thank god she knew full because I thought
she literally she was wearing sandals and sometimes she jumped
out of her sandals and ran back to her car
and had to bring her her sandals. That's crazy. I
(23:56):
had apologize to her, and I was just like, but
that I don't get.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm like, yeah, there's people that I really have a
we have a grammar school, you know, across the street,
so I have to avoid the times. So like, you
know when he's elderly, right, he's he just turned eleven,
and he has moments where he doesn't want to go
out at six am for the run, so he wants
to go out at like eight when I have to
(24:21):
run out the door. And I'm like okay, And then
half the kids and the other half are like like
they're like throwing the book bags in the air running
and I'm like, I'm like, guybody like an.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Adult that but that blows my mind. I'm like, what
are you scared of? I was like, her teeth are
not even the size of chick lits, Like she can't
even even if she tried to bite.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Maybe they hadn't encounter with you know, terror Yorky in
their life and maybe not their'scard it happens, Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I'm saying it startled like in the moment because you
weren't expecting something to jump out, but then you realize,
what the hell, Well, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
What people think? They think my dog is a New
York City rat because she's so tiny. They're like, oh
my god, I thought it was a.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Round like in a dress and too.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah, a rat and a dress. Okay, we're gonna run
from that.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'd run from a rat and address.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Imagine that's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So we're leaning into the next question, which is who
has askedra off the airwaves. Well, she's a fierce mama.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I mean, not to any actual child, but to a
fur baby.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It's a child. It is the amount of money that
they cost us.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean, I will say she's very low maintenance. My
dog doesn't need to get walked. She's inside on pad. Yeah,
she's an indoor dog, so she gets excited to go outside.
I don't have to walk her. So during the winter months,
I'm home, napping, sleeping, whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That's why I would never do a big dog. So
like when I'm leaving in the winter to take the
case to school whatever, and I'm seeing people walking their
dogs because you have to write. I'm just like, this
is why I would never get a great dogs. Well
that's too, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
But never underestimate the size of a I.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Would say, the biggest, big one. Sometimes that responsibility that
comes with it too. And this has become like a
whole dog.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I know, but it is. It's a lot of response.
The whole mom is not an easy it's.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Not I finally flew with her for the first time.
I was it was great her first flight. And I
hate to even say this because it sounds so like braggadocious,
but like her first flight was private.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Of course it was okay, astra, I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
My friend had the plane. I just you know, I
went along for the ride.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But she was like, I don't do pedestrian flight.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
We don't do domestic, you know, we don't do domestic here,
we do private. And that was her first flight ever.
And I said, only this dog would fly private for
her very first flight.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That's so cool. But she did go. We flew back
commercial and she was like, this flew commercial.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I saw the attitude and I saw the adage first flight.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh yeah, we went to go visit Grandma in Florida.
Oh n, you don't like the fight, but he loved.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's fine. We all have. We've traveled a bunch of
times with our dog, and depending on where we were sitting,
if there was another animal, we had to like enclose
the whole bag that she was in. Yeah, because then
once she realized it was an animal, Oh, hears the
whole flight in the bag and people, Oh, yeah, that's crazy.
She has like something cycle in her head. I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
The good thing about flying private is they could roam
around the plane so.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
As there's not another dog there.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Well, my friend had her two dogs on the plane,
so I.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Would have worked for my dog. It would have been
stuck in a private plane with a vicious dog in
the bag. Yeah. It's funny because we've let her run
up on dogs and she acts crazy and sometimes we
don't know. She just wants to play and that's her
way of like communicating.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Oh it just sounds aggressive.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, but she comes across like if I had if
she ran up on our dog, I'd be like, keep
your dog, like this maniac dog away from us. That's
how she is.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I'm always afraid other dogs might do something to my dog.
So I'm like, is your dog nice, because like she'll
just run up.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
So I took him to this episode. Has really become
a petist.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
But I get back to his career and.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, I think it's a dog run and we're going
need a part too. There was a pip and he's
like so curious and inquisitive and he goes up to
the piple. The pile smells him and he's like, oh, mom,
my friend. He looks at me and I'm like whatever.
The dog like lifted the leg and pete on him
and he started crying. So he started crying, looked at
me like and then he did not like every time
(28:18):
he would see the dog run, he would start like
pulling to go the opposite way of like I don't
want to go there.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh my god, that's the last day we went to
that dog. Oh no, yeah, I mean, well, I do
have other kids. They're not alive though they're eggs. I
have frozen eggs. We could talk about that. It's interesting. Yeah,
I mean a nice little segue. I know, you know
we're talking animal baby.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How was that process?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It was incredible.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I thought about it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You should do it. I highly recommend it. That's one
thing I was a.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Girl art asked her an IDM about our our men's situation,
men's situations, our journeys looking for men some of those
right now, dating we are not going to.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It's just in general, like how dating is horrific in
this you know day and.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Eight it is when we start with girl.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah, girl, yeah, you know something's about to come exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well we're need a part two.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, we definitely are.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We're wrapping up already.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well yeah, Liam's like, you guys are way over already?
Are we way over on time already? See? Well it's finished.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
So how is that process?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So basically, obviously you have to do shots for a while,
you have to pretty much harvest your eggs, and then
what I like to call it is when they go
and they do an egg extraction, so they take out
the eggs that were harvested and they freeze them. So
I had, I had, I was begging for at least
ten eggs because you know, I did it when I
was a little bit older than like normal. But the
(29:46):
lady was like the doctor, she was like, if your
insides are as good as your outside, because she goes,
you look younger than you are. She goes, we'll be
in business. She told me at the insides of like
a twenty five year old. So I had a lot
of eggs. So they got out twenty one and they
saved nineteen of them. So they're all frozen. They told
me that by the time they defrost, they'll probably bring
them down to about fifteen because you know, you lose
some in the defrosting process. She goes, it'd probably be
(30:07):
a guaranteed three embryos. And I'm like, oh, that's good
to know. So how many years it's now been ten
years that they've been frozen. It's actually this year is
ten years. And I pay for them every year. You
literally have to pay like storage fees for them. So
I'm paying. But you know what it is there like
a shelf life. No, they can last forever. Really, yeah,
they last forever as well as you keep paying, right,
(30:28):
you know.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
But what if that like let's say the facility you
went to, what if that facility closes, they'll transfer.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Them to another facility that has like cry, oh yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Is so I feel like we could do a whole episode.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Just I would be so totally down to talk about
that because I'm so.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Croz Like I've thought about it.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah, I think, I honestly think you should do it
no matter what, because to me, it's an insurance policy.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Look at it as if you don't have a man
right now, which you know we've talked about this New
York City and if you and part of it is like,
do you do you want to be a single mom.
I have a friend that actually did do that. You know,
you get the sperm donor and you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Know you yeah, something to think about it, right, because
I really thought about it when I got diagnosed, you know,
with kinney failure and lupus and everything, and I said,
you know, let me. I thought about it because I said,
you know, if you decide to have a surrogate or
whatever the case later on in life. But then because
I was on treatment, I couldn't do it, you know,
Manama Gucci, Now.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, look look into it. I honestly say, get it done,
because the older you get, the lower your egg count becomes,
and that's why you have to do more rounds, they say.
So I have friends that have tried it. They'll get
out maybe three or five eggs in one round. So
for me to get out twenty one, that was like incredible.
I'm like really blessed about that. That's why I say, like,
definitely look into it. It's something worth doing, for sure. Interesting,
(31:40):
you never know. It gives you the option. So if
you get to a certain age and you're like, you
know what, I don't want to have kids, at least
you know you have that ability to use the young
because at this point that my age, now, if I
were to go have kids, I'd want to use my
younger egg right, just for safety's sake. You just never know.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Interesting. Yeah, I'm sure we're gonna get a lot of
comments about this, So if y'all have done the journey,
let ask her.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And I know, yeah, I'd love to hear about it.
I wonder how many eggs you got and if you
ever got them fertilized.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, put in the comments how many it just put
the egg emoji and just.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
And how many babies out of those eggs?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Put the little.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
No, this is it's some women don't have options. Worlds Like,
how did I end up in this conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Into like a dog pets.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, but you as a man, you as a
man can have a kid up until the day you die.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
As women, as women, there's limitations unfortunately. Yeah, depending on
genetics that there's a way factors something.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I always say, definitely look into it and do it
if you can do it.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Well, this episode took a lot of turn and so
this felt like, you know, an interesting role.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Welcome to my world.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Ride, but we are going to end, and she would
teaching me something. Fashion asked her if you could describe
what you'd want your leg seem to be in one word,
what would that word be?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Memorable?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Mm hmm memorable? I like it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, that's beautiful. Well, this podcast episode is definitely and
so is Astra.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We're gonna we're gonna have to have a part to
because we want to get to what you have coming
up further plans that everything we haven't even talked really
got too deep with the morning show here, that's going
how you ended up, how you ended up in the morning.
There's a lot of questions that we have to get to.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
A lot we spoke about, but then.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
We veered off and that was once we went off road,
what happened. I was just in the back seat watching
this just to how we go away, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
So guys, you were like turn left ten miles ago.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I'm just in the back whatever passenger.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Now I think people connect with this well.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I'm happy to come back and talk more about it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
His family, so of course you know you have to
come here.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I love it. No, you have to do a part two.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I'm in.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, Maxwell came in. You have to come back.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Done, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
It's a competition, healthy competition.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Part two coming soon.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Oh yeah, she brought that up. What she was like,
Max was already been on twice.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah once, I know. I got yelled at at the
live episode, like how did he get share with Shaggy? Okay, Liam,
we see the finger.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Liam Relliams like the battery is gonna cut out now.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
It's like he goes in my getting over time.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
No, but you follow Astra on all of the social
same handle of Rostra on the air, across the board. Yep,
Extra on the air. She's always somewhere, so keep up,
keep up with her on socials, and keep up with
us pod dot. Teach me something there.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It is thank you guys for watching listening to Teach
Me Something, presented by Berkeley College. I am pro Style.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
And I am Penny Della and we will see you
guys next time. Bye, guys, Hey, thanks for listening. Tune
in next week.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
For all new episode of Teach Me Something
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Brought to you by Berkeley College
Hey, what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny Tellas,
and this is Teach Me Something.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Brought to you by Berkeley College.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Are you ready, Penny?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
This is I was starting in Born right.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is how we're starting this episode. Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
We had to come correct today because of the guests
that's here.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Because she is friendly for us.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
She's family, but she's also so much more experience than
we are. We really have to come correct.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, so listen, this is how it's starting. Welcome to
another episode of Teach Me Something, presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I am DJ pro Style and I am Penny Dallas,
and let's get right into this amazing spectacular guess we
have today.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know, we have this whole script, and we do
these scripts all the time.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You do these scripts all the time.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I really, I see we're a team. I was giving
us credit. It's true, you do nothing. I do the
scripts and I do the producing, I do the editing
all the thing. But now so in the episode, really
honored because we have a family member with us from
the k t U one O three five f M family.
(01:07):
We have Astra in the building.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Thank you guys for having me. Right, I love that
introduction f f M f M radio.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well because people listen to us all over the country,
so yeah, you need to clarify.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, that would I would, that would be on the
iHeartRadio app. That's right, that's in the building. Thank you
guys for having me. I'm so excited. I've been wanting
to come on so bad.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know, but your busy schedule, you know, just kept
pushing our Well, yes, you.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Know, my people had to make room and now we're here.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm so happy your people got with pennies people.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, yes, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Have the people.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
The people negotiated and we were able to make it moorgotiated.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We were able to make schedules because some of us
got yelled at at a public event. You know, it's fine, bye,
my people. Astra has blessed us with her presence today because,
as y'all know, she's on the morning show.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yes morning.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I'm surprised I'm even awake for this right now.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So she came back to the studio just to be
with us. So we appreciate you being here.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Anything for you guys.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Between your morning shows being video vixens for Shaggy, there's
a lot going on in the world of Astra. That
was because of your great idea. Yeah, that was that
was really fun.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It was amazing.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
That was a great event. That was a great event.
And if you haven't seen that kickoff to season three
with Shaggy, Ashle was there for that. Yeah, I'm saying
and shot to Shaggy she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
If you haven't seen it, go to Astra's social Oh true.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, on my TikTok or Instagram, Astra on the air
and you can check out.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You do it all, Astra. You do it all.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I mean, I try.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Aside from being on the morning show, of course, here
a k to you. Your incredible career include stops at
party one, O five Mixed, one O two point seven,
one O six point one, BLI serious XM page six
ninety two three am. I mean, hello, you're everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I like it when you guys say that it's crazy.
I believe how long that resume is.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's actually a pretty hard stop. It is is begin me.
Let's go back to the beginning.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We need to go to the beginning.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
We need to get into radio. How did this how
did this passion for radio and entertainment start?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Like question it actually started. I wanted to do television,
so when I was in college, I went to school
for television broadcasting. So my dream was always to be
a television reporter. So that's really what I had wanted
to do. And I actually worked at our local news station.
I'm from Long Island, so I worked at New twelve,
Long Island. I was there. I wanted to get on
the air, and then I know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Terrible research broway, you.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Know, somebody's got to get fired. Now someone's getting fired.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I have no podcast if I leave anyways.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That's right, that's right, could do this, nohow, So you
know I was. I was actually while I was in college,
I was in so I interned at MTV. I interned
with the New twelve Long Island, and I also interned
with the radio station, so just to see what radio
was all about, because to me, I was like, I'd
rather always be seen and heard, not just heard. And
(04:20):
I don't know next thing, you know, I kind of
just got my break in radio. I worked at News
twelve for about two years and they weren't putting me
on the air, and I was just like, well, I
need to be somewhere where I'm going to be heard.
So I went to the radio station and they were like,
we'll put you on, and within a month I was
on and I haven't looked back ever since. Although I
still have that passion for television.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I love that you know, yes, and you've been on
all the apps before apps were apps. Right, yes, let's
say that, ye. Showing the behind the scenes, looking at
what you do in the studio and doing all of that,
so you know, the TikTok and twitch and all of
that is not new to you because you've always been
taking peop kind of scene. So your passion for a
TV shows through that.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
From back in camera was just webcams, remember webcams Like
that was what I used to do and people would
just log on yep. So that's where I had started
with all that stuff. And uh, I mean I got
my break on camera with Page six. So I did
that audition out of four hundred people landed that gig.
So that was pretty awesome. In such a big part
of that, it felt like I won the lottery, Like
(05:21):
it felt like when Miss America wins, you know, it's
like you never know the winner. And I was like,
I actually won, Mick and I did the wave everybody world,
Queen is here.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I love that working with so many different modalities and
stations across markets. How have you seen your journey in
terms of adapting to the evolution of where we were
and where we are today.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well, when I started, we used to have cart machines
back in the day, yep, carts CDs had to pull
the CD. So going from that to now everything on
computer incredible. Obviously, I've been able to see that. I
wasn't you know, I wasn't in a radio back when
people were doing I guess the cutting of the tape
and like that. So I hear those stories and I'm like,
(06:13):
how does that work? Like that would have cut tape
because I mean we had cassettes growing up, and.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I used to if God forbid, when it was cards,
I didn't know I heard about like the test, yes.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And the only tape I know is a cassette tape.
And I know there were times where it would get
like but like boggled into the machine. It gets eaten,
so you have to cut it and then fix it.
And I'm like, is that what they mean by cutting tape?
Because you'd get a blank space. So that's why I'm
just like.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Being on radio incil and sometimes so you have no idea,
like with the carts, like you ever have like a
cart skip.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
On airthing like that, like or that it just dies like.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
A song's playing and then it starts going this on
air and you have to like hit it or like
immediately go to not hoop it out.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah something. It's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
It was way more hands on versus now. And then
it became this. Yeah, I never forget when it switched
and I was like, wait a second, so you're saying
it's already here, right, and I just got to hit
this butnon right and then go to this button.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Because remember we would have to cue the song to
a certain time. You know, you had to do everything manually.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Commercials so commercial breaks you you had to get it ready,
so you'd have to put each commercial in and depending
on how many slash Day had available, you'd have to
rotate them and keep it moving and as one after one,
once to the next one. Remember they're like thirty seconds
or a second sixty seconds long. You'd have to go
to the next one and put them in. It was crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
It was definitely more of a manual job. Now I
feel like it's like coasting literally just yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
It's crazy. Literally you can automate your whole show, right.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And knowing that once everything got onto computer, I was
just like, well, what if the computer dies? Like that's
always been my fear. I even even to this day,
I still sometimes think when they're just like, oh, you know,
you could reset the computer, I'm like, what do you
mean reset? If you reset, it turns.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It off, doesn't the show?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Like, aren't you going to lose the song?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
No, it's playing in the backup server. I'm like, well,
where's the backup server? So I know it's actually on.
So I still kind of freak out about it.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's weird radio drama. Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It is.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It is because I because we've both been there where
there everything goes black. Oh yeah, so the song's playing,
but when it when it ends, did the is the
next song? Or when the whole log just clears out,
like everything you're looking on the screen just acts like
there's nothing there yep, oh my god. But they're like,
don't worry, it's it's in the back, it's it's behind it.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And the dead air is a nightmare for any radio jock.
That is the one thing that you just don't want happening.
And the one thing I always hear is even if
there's like a one or two second laps of dead air,
to me, that's like twenty seconds. It's wild.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Have you ever been in the car and listened yeah
to the radio.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yes, and I'm like, somebody's getting fired.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, I'm calling the radio station like this dead air?
Is there air? Yep? Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
But meanwhile, the average listener doesn't really pick up on it.
It's us, we hear it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh, they pick up it's really.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
If it's too long, if it's like a good show, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I've been in the car, what I've been in the car? Wait,
and then you have to wait for the backup servers
to kick in.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That means it's been off the air for like a minute,
which a minute off the air is it's like ten,
it feels like twenty minutes. Yeah, listening to that, yep.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
There have been times people would put a station on
and there's just nothing happening. It's just like or the.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know, things happened. There's been times where like the
antennas or something goes completely out, so all the radio
stations will be out and it's nothing. So you're in
the studio, you're playing music, so for you, you think
you're on the air, right, no one could hear it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I remember though, back in the day, we used to
have in my other stations, we had a little alarm
that would like go off, so you'd see a light
start flashing, so you know you're off the air, even
if you're playing music.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, I didn't even realize it.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, I'm actually worried sometimes.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm like, they always had a dead air alert that
went off in the studio.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
YEP, this is this is the transitions of radio, the
evolution of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, yeah, that's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It is.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And then if you're doing you live through that.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It can still happen, you know, we don't want it
to happen.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Back radio days, it was so I had a Saturday
show and it was nine to twelve, and I did
this for four years, and one day the DJ didn't
show up. He's like, I had a family emergency. I
can't show up. And I'm like, I go live in
five minutes. What did you do? What am I going
to do? Like, I don't have a pre mix, I
didn't have anything. What did you do? I'm like I yes,
(10:15):
I'm like this is a problem. No, I'm like this
is a problem. So no, and it was Yeah, it
was probab it was right. Yeah, it's like live right, webcam,
all the things right what we were talking about earlier.
So I had to call like one of the other guys,
O Angel that was here on the pod. I was
called Angel did it and he was like, Okay, I'm
going to walk you through this. And then after that,
I'm like, I'm taking a DJ class and I'm learning
(10:37):
how to do this and that's what I forced myself
to learn.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I was like, that's I never want to go through
this again. So for the first ten minutes I had,
like the intern on the mic. It was really bad.
We're like, well, we're right, this is what we're doing.
Like we're just we're going through this so yeah, can't
even Yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Got improvise sometimes you got to make a way. H
you never know, crazy, I know I know that that's
like Honestly though, I do like the adrenaline rush of
being live with that sometimes sometimes when you're thrown into
the fire like that, that's what just gets you, just
gets you going, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I like it it's what are you gonna do? You
know you have to be liquid? Do you have a panic?
Kicks it?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We don't have a problem. I would have found a
way to get some backup music on or something that
you got to figure out something. You had to have
a CD to play something.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We did. After that, there was backups. After that, there
were incentives, which brings us to you know, you need
energy in what you do and you need consistency. So
what fuels you to do what you do every day?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Actually, no, it gives you wings. But no, Actually what
fuels me is everybody else's drama aka the entertainment world.
That is what fuels me because there's always something happening,
something going on, there's always something to talk about. So
that's what I love about this job is that every
day is always a new adventure. You never know what
you're getting into the next day. You can't always planet
(12:01):
because there's always some breaking news. There's always something that happens.
There's always something to keep you on your toes. So
if you're like, oh my gosh, like you know you
work at nine to five, Oh my day's boring, or
do the same thing over and over, we don't We
might do the same thing over and over, but with
new and new information.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
So that's why I love it so much, because it's
not repetitive. I love that fuels me a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I love that. And what keeps you connected with your audience.
You're so active on social social.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Media for sure. I love talking to everybody, you know,
and I love seeing people's comments. I like to respond back.
I like my thing. I love going live on TikTok so.
I love doing that because that's like a way to
interact because you have the live chat going so you
could talk to them in real time. So that's perfect
because sometimes, you know, the messages get buried in the
side dms and unless you're actually checking them, you don't
always see Sometimes I'm like, oh my god, I haven't
(12:48):
seen this message in like months or even years. Yeah,
like sorry, but like I try, you know, I try
to keep up. But if you leave a comment, I
always try to respond.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh that's awesome, se pro engagement, Yeah responsive, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I mean. The man's busy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, the man has twenty jobs.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I've been there before. I know how it is. But
you can still find time while you're you know, maybe
in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You could just respond. She do respond. Majority of the time,
I just respond with you.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
The emojis a lazy response, are responsive.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I love write a whole message.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Emojill me and my wife.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
If we're arguing, she sends me a long text, I'll
just hit her back with like, Okay, oh you're the worst.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
That's it. When you get home, that's it. Drama.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Oh no, that's the worst you can do. Okay, no, no,
don't do that.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
No dinner for you when you come home.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's for your smiley face, or like a little heart, yea,
the heart.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
You know, depends what the response is.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, for sure, happy wife, happy life, and we have
to come with some of the kids too, like happy kids,
happy life, happy marriage, happy kids.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Happy everybody around me. And I'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So don't DM pro because he's not gonna get it exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But if you want or if you want to message me,
I will respond with sometimes with emoji, but mostly I
will try to.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
People.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I love when we post something dms are open. I
love when we post something about the pod because like
pro and minds, our moms have like I don't know
if it's like an unwritten battle of like who's going
to comment first?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
My mom always kind, well, my mom's always up, like
at three or four in the morning. You think that's
when she starts writing that. She said, my mom, I
think forgot that she could actually text my phone. She
sent me a.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Beautiful Easter DM and I was like, oh, that's so nice,
and she's like, I thought it was a comment. I'm like, no, it's.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
The worst.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Also, like thinking she's texting me.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
My mom will comment on my things thinking it's a
private message.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That's what I was going to say. That's the way
like parents nowadays, they don't understand, like you know, how
social media works, so they'll be trying to write you something.
They'll write it on your wall and it's like that
was supposed to be private.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
My mom send me a message the other day and
I realized she she added like six other people, like
it was like a group message to myself, a group DM. Yeah.
I was like, why is there other people? Test this?
And I raced it and I told her and she's like,
what what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Like, just stay off of off Instagram right at.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Three or four in the morning when you woke up
for some reason, because the in your mind you're like
all over the place.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Parents, they just stand.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Exactly, They just which brings us to Malcolm in the middle. Oh,
life is so unfair.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, I just I was just at
the carpet for that. That was incredible. I got to
meet a couple of the cast members. That was awesome.
I remember like growing up to that show.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah, So I didn't really remember the whole premise of
the show until they showed us the first two episodes
and I was like, I do kind of remember this now,
but now it's like the older version of them. So
now Malcolm is a parent. It's actually really cool. Like
I'm not going to give any spoilers or anything. You
have to watch it, but.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So Astra influenced me and I watched the first couple
of episodes. It's hilarious. It is, it is, it really is.
It's interesting. It's an interesting that character as an adult
is still the same character. And how many guest appearances.
It's so funny.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yes, and now his child is like him.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yes, but it's a girl.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yes, So it's a girl version of him, and it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's hysterically the parents. Oh, it's funny. How growing up
we were like, Wow, this show is so dysfunctional, and
now as adults, I'm like relatable.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
It's so real, very relatable. Yes that I'm just watching Yes,
and I'm like wow. I was like, so, I'm not
the only one that has messed up family. Okay, everybody does.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's true.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
You see something in everybody there that like is so relatable.
It's a pretty cool show. I like covering carpets and
things like that. That's like my thing.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was about to say, so, what do you like?
Do you like the in person, live aspect of doing
entertainment versus behind the scenes on the radio or which
one do you like better?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
A little like a little mix of boths because behind
the scenes on radio, I can actually prepare it so
that I can deliver it properly. But then in person,
I do like just being able to talk to somebody
and like improv you know, you're kind of just going off.
It's almost like when you're doing an interview. You might
go in with your questions, but then based off what
they say, it kind of diverts into something different that
you weren't even maybe expecting to talk about that it's like,
(17:08):
oh my goodness, let's talk more about that, and you
kind of get into things that you never even thought
about maybe prepping for, you know. So I do kind
of like that too, because that's when you get the
dirt out of them. Sometimes they come in not wanting
to talk about something, and then they're spilling it all.
You know how that goes. They're like, I'm not the
don't ask about this, we're not talking about this. They'll
be like did you hear yeah, tell us more please,
(17:30):
And that's the way it comes out.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
The first thing I guess could do is tell you
in advance what not to bring up, right, because.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Then that's what you want to be.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The thing is is a lot of these reps tell
you like they'll pull the interview if you bring it up,
so you have to let them bring it up. But
if you're really good at interviewing, you know how to
get it out of them without bringing it up. So
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
That's awesome. How about that? How about the morning show hours?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
I mean you never get yeah, you never get used
to the hours, the hours, and people I know that
did mornings for like many many years, they're always like,
you never get used to it. Because I'm like I
would think that your body finally gets conditioned. It's true,
like you just never do because you're always tired. So
I find myself taking naps now during the day. I
(18:13):
love a good nap, but my naps are not like
my naps are not those like twenty minute thirty minute naps.
Like I'm like a two to three hour napper.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's not even like I'm asleep. I'm a sleep napper.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I can through like a power nap, sleep like a
fifteen minutes. If I put an alarm, I just forget it.
Then your whole sleep schedules off because I'll sleep like
three hours and you're like, oh, it's eleven pm. I'm
Wired's content.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
When you take a small nap like a power nap,
they consider it really energizes it versus if you seek
too long, suppose that you stay tired.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
See, and the opposite for me and power nap does
not exist. Like I've tried those twenty thirty minute naps,
I wake up more tired than I was, and I
was like, why did I do that to myself? I
would rather do like one to three hours, let's say,
of a nap and then continue along with my day.
And then I can go back to sleep later because
I just love sleeping. Like if somebody would be like,
do you want to go to go to sleep? I
want to go to sleep. I'd rather sleep than go.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Out astroes that meme your friend cancels the plants and they're.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Like, okay, buy no problem, my shoes are already off,
and I'm happy that you know the meme.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That's like, or what time we're we meeting up? They're
like nine pm, He's like at nine right at nine pes.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
That's where I'm at now. I'm just like dinners have
to be at like seven, seven thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Like, who am my events in one day? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Who am? I? I'm just like I gotta be in
bed by a certain time, like and I know that
if I go to events earlier in the week, it
messes up my whole week. Like I tell people, I
cannot do anything till like Thursday, maybe Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I can push it.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Every threadit Thursday's decisions.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yes, that's meal of clubs. Yeah. If I stop doing
clubs from I don't do I don't take bookings from
Sunday all the way to Thursday. Because I realized that
either nine night ten times I'm going to cancel yep, myself,
like I'm just not gonna be able to make it
because then I get so tired and I start thinking
of the next morning. Yeah, you know, because I help
with the kids and going to take them to school.
I'm like, I can't get home at five seven, no,
(20:04):
so and the nap stuff doesn't work for me either,
Like that's it's terrible because I don't leave my house
till like one in the morning to go to the club.
So see.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
But now the crazy thing is when I was working
page six, I was doing page six and doing mornings here.
So I was working from six in the morning till
about seven thirty at night, in bed at eight thirty,
up again at five in the morning. I had forty
eight hours of freedom a week.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So I was on like autopilot at that point. So
I feel like now I'm catching up on all the
sleep that I missed out on. Yeah, I'm always tired.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, beautiful, but the day's probably sleep. I just want
to relax.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I just I just talk to me, and Nyla loves
to sleep next to me.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I was just about to bring that he's like color.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
She is until she doesn't want to be cuddled anymore.
She's like a cat. Ye, I don't want to be
bothered with you. And I'm like, okay, whatever. Yeah, she's
the best.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I love it. She's so cute.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I was gonna bring her in today too, but then
I didn't want to distract her.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You should have that would have been cute. Well, let
me know, all, bring Susan and they can have a
little poppy.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
She she is anti animals, like she's a human person. Yeah,
she doesn't like dogs. She doesn't think she's a dog.
My dog is a human.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
He doesn't mind them.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
But crazy like vicious vicious.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
She's three pounds.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No doesn't I'm taking her?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh no, no, she just is like what is that thing?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Our dog? So? Our dog, Yorkie. Her whole life is
the perfect dog as far as for us inside the house,
never makes a mess. Quiet, people come over, she'll like
roll like everyone loves her. You bring another animal and
she turns into a maniac really and will bite the animal.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Like really, her whole life, How big is your Yorkie?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Though? This big?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We used to take her when we lived in the
city to like dog parks and we had to stop
people be like, I try, your dog's gonna get killed.
I tried to take her to try to like attack
rock whilers and pit bulls and stuff, and they're just
looking at like damn.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So she thinks she's like a pit bull, Napoleon.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I'm talking to the point where you're holding her back
on a leash and she's scraping her hands trying to
get to the animals to wear her her pores are bleeding.
No way, yeah, something in her head.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I don't know, Oh my gosh, No, not Nyla. Nyla
literally thinks she's a human. She'll look, she'll she'll like
sniff and be like, hey, what's up. But then like
keep going.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
On her waiting to like not waiting. But like I
always say, like she's gonna get killed outside because we
let her outside, and like she's ran up on like deers.
And you have ever seen those deers where they like
she's going to catch a two pieces in a biscuit
from a deer and be it for her. She's like
fourteen years old already, oh wow, in our years, so wow.
(22:43):
So she's like one elderly one away from elderly, one
deer attack from being over we lost her twice where
I thought it was over for her.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
But it was like he cannot be trust He cannot
be trusted because if he's not, only she will run
and leave a strangers. He has left with other.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
People, feeling you like that.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
No, he's just he loves people get from so he
won't go with their dogs, but he'll go with the Oh.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, Nyla won't leave like I can actually walk her
off leash too at times like she'll be fine and
then I'll call her. She'll come right over. But she
wants to say hi and talk to everyone, and I'm like,
not everyone wants to be bothered. But the craziest part is,
you know how tiny our dogs are. What bothers me
is when somebody's like, oh my god, I'm like, what
are you scared of? You could kick it. It's like
a little rat.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, so I avoid the more scared of.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
My dog is a little under three pounds.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You have to find it.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Have a ring video of a girl. A girl was
dropping off a lady older lady actually not old, but
a woman was dropping off like a door dash liver
or something. And when we opened the door, our dog
ran out. This lady screamed so loud and backed up
and almost thank god she knew full because I thought
she literally she was wearing sandals and sometimes she jumped
out of her sandals and ran back to her car
and had to bring her her sandals. That's crazy. I
(23:56):
had apologize to her, and I was just like, but
that I don't get.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I'm like, yeah, there's people that I really have a
we have a grammar school, you know, across the street,
so I have to avoid the times. So like, you
know when he's elderly, right, he's he just turned eleven,
and he has moments where he doesn't want to go
out at six am for the run, so he wants
to go out at like eight when I have to
(24:21):
run out the door. And I'm like okay, And then
half the kids and the other half are like like
they're like throwing the book bags in the air running
and I'm like, I'm like, guybody like an.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Adult that but that blows my mind. I'm like, what
are you scared of? I was like, her teeth are
not even the size of chick lits, Like she can't
even even if she tried to bite.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Maybe they hadn't encounter with you know, terror Yorky in
their life and maybe not their'scard it happens, Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I'm saying it startled like in the moment because you
weren't expecting something to jump out, but then you realize,
what the hell, Well, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
What people think? They think my dog is a New
York City rat because she's so tiny. They're like, oh
my god, I thought it was a.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Round like in a dress and too.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah, a rat and a dress. Okay, we're gonna run
from that.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'd run from a rat and address.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Imagine that's funny.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So we're leaning into the next question, which is who
has askedra off the airwaves. Well, she's a fierce mama.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I mean, not to any actual child, but to a
fur baby.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
It's a child. It is the amount of money that
they cost us.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I mean, I will say she's very low maintenance. My
dog doesn't need to get walked. She's inside on pad. Yeah,
she's an indoor dog, so she gets excited to go outside.
I don't have to walk her. So during the winter months,
I'm home, napping, sleeping, whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
That's why I would never do a big dog. So
like when I'm leaving in the winter to take the
case to school whatever, and I'm seeing people walking their
dogs because you have to write. I'm just like, this
is why I would never get a great dogs. Well
that's too, you know.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
But never underestimate the size of a I.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Would say, the biggest, big one. Sometimes that responsibility that
comes with it too. And this has become like a
whole dog.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I know, but it is. It's a lot of response.
The whole mom is not an easy it's.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Not I finally flew with her for the first time.
I was it was great her first flight. And I
hate to even say this because it sounds so like braggadocious,
but like her first flight was private.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Of course it was okay, astra, I mean.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
My friend had the plane. I just you know, I
went along for the ride.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But she was like, I don't do pedestrian flight.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
We don't do domestic, you know, we don't do domestic here,
we do private. And that was her first flight ever.
And I said, only this dog would fly private for
her very first flight.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That's so cool. But she did go. We flew back
commercial and she was like, this flew commercial.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I saw the attitude and I saw the adage first flight.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh yeah, we went to go visit Grandma in Florida.
Oh n, you don't like the fight, but he loved.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's fine. We all have. We've traveled a bunch of
times with our dog, and depending on where we were sitting,
if there was another animal, we had to like enclose
the whole bag that she was in. Yeah, because then
once she realized it was an animal, Oh, hears the
whole flight in the bag and people, Oh, yeah, that's crazy.
She has like something cycle in her head. I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
The good thing about flying private is they could roam
around the plane so.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
As there's not another dog there.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Well, my friend had her two dogs on the plane,
so I.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Would have worked for my dog. It would have been
stuck in a private plane with a vicious dog in
the bag. Yeah. It's funny because we've let her run
up on dogs and she acts crazy and sometimes we
don't know. She just wants to play and that's her
way of like communicating.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Oh it just sounds aggressive.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Yeah, but she comes across like if I had if
she ran up on our dog, I'd be like, keep
your dog, like this maniac dog away from us. That's
how she is.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I'm always afraid other dogs might do something to my dog.
So I'm like, is your dog nice, because like she'll
just run up.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
So I took him to this episode. Has really become
a petist.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
But I get back to his career and.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Yeah, I think it's a dog run and we're going
need a part too. There was a pip and he's
like so curious and inquisitive and he goes up to
the piple. The pile smells him and he's like, oh, mom,
my friend. He looks at me and I'm like whatever.
The dog like lifted the leg and pete on him
and he started crying. So he started crying, looked at
me like and then he did not like every time
(28:18):
he would see the dog run, he would start like
pulling to go the opposite way of like I don't
want to go there.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh my god, that's the last day we went to
that dog. Oh no, yeah, I mean, well, I do
have other kids. They're not alive though they're eggs. I
have frozen eggs. We could talk about that. It's interesting. Yeah,
I mean a nice little segue. I know, you know
we're talking animal baby.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How was that process?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
It was incredible.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I thought about it.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You should do it. I highly recommend it. That's one
thing I was a.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Girl art asked her an IDM about our our men's situation,
men's situations, our journeys looking for men some of those
right now, dating we are not going to.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
It's just in general, like how dating is horrific in
this you know day and.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Eight it is when we start with girl.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Yeah, girl, yeah, you know something's about to come exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Well we're need a part two.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, we definitely are.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We're wrapping up already.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well yeah, Liam's like, you guys are way over already?
Are we way over on time already? See? Well it's finished.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
So how is that process?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
So basically, obviously you have to do shots for a while,
you have to pretty much harvest your eggs, and then
what I like to call it is when they go
and they do an egg extraction, so they take out
the eggs that were harvested and they freeze them. So
I had, I had, I was begging for at least
ten eggs because you know, I did it when I
was a little bit older than like normal. But the
(29:46):
lady was like the doctor, she was like, if your
insides are as good as your outside, because she goes,
you look younger than you are. She goes, we'll be
in business. She told me at the insides of like
a twenty five year old. So I had a lot
of eggs. So they got out twenty one and they
saved nineteen of them. So they're all frozen. They told
me that by the time they defrost, they'll probably bring
them down to about fifteen because you know, you lose
some in the defrosting process. She goes, it'd probably be
(30:07):
a guaranteed three embryos. And I'm like, oh, that's good
to know. So how many years it's now been ten
years that they've been frozen. It's actually this year is
ten years. And I pay for them every year. You
literally have to pay like storage fees for them. So
I'm paying. But you know what it is there like
a shelf life. No, they can last forever. Really, yeah,
they last forever as well as you keep paying, right,
(30:28):
you know.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
But what if that like let's say the facility you
went to, what if that facility closes, they'll transfer.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Them to another facility that has like cry, oh yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Is so I feel like we could do a whole episode.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Just I would be so totally down to talk about
that because I'm so.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Croz Like I've thought about it.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yeah, I think, I honestly think you should do it
no matter what, because to me, it's an insurance policy.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Look at it as if you don't have a man
right now, which you know we've talked about this New
York City and if you and part of it is like,
do you do you want to be a single mom.
I have a friend that actually did do that. You know,
you get the sperm donor and you.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Know you yeah, something to think about it, right, because
I really thought about it when I got diagnosed, you know,
with kinney failure and lupus and everything, and I said,
you know, let me. I thought about it because I said,
you know, if you decide to have a surrogate or
whatever the case later on in life. But then because
I was on treatment, I couldn't do it, you know,
Manama Gucci, Now.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, look look into it. I honestly say, get it done,
because the older you get, the lower your egg count becomes,
and that's why you have to do more rounds, they say.
So I have friends that have tried it. They'll get
out maybe three or five eggs in one round. So
for me to get out twenty one, that was like incredible.
I'm like really blessed about that. That's why I say, like,
definitely look into it. It's something worth doing, for sure. Interesting,
(31:40):
you never know. It gives you the option. So if
you get to a certain age and you're like, you
know what, I don't want to have kids, at least
you know you have that ability to use the young
because at this point that my age, now, if I
were to go have kids, I'd want to use my
younger egg right, just for safety's sake. You just never know.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Interesting. Yeah, I'm sure we're gonna get a lot of
comments about this, So if y'all have done the journey,
let ask her.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
And I know, yeah, I'd love to hear about it.
I wonder how many eggs you got and if you
ever got them fertilized.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, put in the comments how many it just put
the egg emoji and just.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
And how many babies out of those eggs?
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Put the little.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
This is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
No, this is it's some women don't have options. Worlds Like,
how did I end up in this conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Into like a dog pets.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know, but you as a man, you as a
man can have a kid up until the day you die.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
As women, as women, there's limitations unfortunately. Yeah, depending on
genetics that there's a way factors something.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I always say, definitely look into it and do it
if you can do it.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Well, this episode took a lot of turn and so
this felt like, you know, an interesting role.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Welcome to my world.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Ride, but we are going to end, and she would
teaching me something. Fashion asked her if you could describe
what you'd want your leg seem to be in one word,
what would that word be?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Memorable?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Mm hmm memorable? I like it.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah, that's beautiful. Well, this podcast episode is definitely and
so is Astra.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We're gonna we're gonna have to have a part to
because we want to get to what you have coming
up further plans that everything we haven't even talked really
got too deep with the morning show here, that's going
how you ended up, how you ended up in the morning.
There's a lot of questions that we have to get to.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
A lot we spoke about, but then.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
We veered off and that was once we went off road,
what happened. I was just in the back seat watching
this just to how we go away, and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
So guys, you were like turn left ten miles ago.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I'm just in the back whatever passenger.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Now I think people connect with this well.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
I'm happy to come back and talk more about it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
His family, so of course you know you have to
come here.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I love it. No, you have to do a part two.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I'm in.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, Maxwell came in. You have to come back.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Done, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
It's a competition, healthy competition.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Part two coming soon.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Oh yeah, she brought that up. What she was like,
Max was already been on twice.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah once, I know. I got yelled at at the
live episode, like how did he get share with Shaggy? Okay, Liam,
we see the finger.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Liam Relliams like the battery is gonna cut out now.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
It's like he goes in my getting over time.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
No, but you follow Astra on all of the social
same handle of Rostra on the air, across the board. Yep,
Extra on the air. She's always somewhere, so keep up,
keep up with her on socials, and keep up with
us pod dot. Teach me something there.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
It is thank you guys for watching listening to Teach
Me Something, presented by Berkeley College. I am pro Style.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
And I am Penny Della and we will see you
guys next time. Bye, guys, Hey, thanks for listening. Tune
in next week.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
For all new episode of Teach Me Something
Speaker 3 (34:45):
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