Rally Point 69

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Rally Pointers fall.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Okay America, It's Friday. It's time to get happy with
their host Jay the Sorry having away with his co host,
a man of Micano and of course the man Macon.
All sounds real great, zaying the brain.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yo, Happy Friday. Let's get at this all right, sargere
jump right in.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You already know. Okay America. On this segment, we have
Paul Poleshi back on our show.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Hello, Paul, good morning, glad to be here.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
All is a pleasure, Paul winch Er. We introduce yourself
to sum are some of our new listeners, and tell
America about yourself.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Well, I'm an ex military Army. I was a spec
for in Vietnam, and through you guys, I've got to
make more connections with the old troops that I was with.
So it's a fantastic organization to be with.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, it's a pleasure for us to have you in America.
We met Paul almost a year and a half ago
and we have on our show. We were talking about
his experiences in Vietnam, and since that time, Paul has
been a rally point media correspondent with other veterans in
our area and in throughout the United States, and like

(01:20):
our core mission is is to make connections with other
veterans nationwide and locally. Paul has taken in that like
a fish to water. He's a natural folks, and we're
thank for the many guests. He's actually allowed us to
find an interview on our show, so he's part of
our rally Point family. So we've been up to Paul.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well. Just lately we did a rock walk which has
you guys have been really covering for the last about
the month last month or so.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah. So, and our producer is Zane. I think you're
on that same rock walk.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
I decided to come out because Amanda sent me a
text then reminded me because I forgot, and I said, yeah,
I wanted to go to this. So we did and
it was yesterday afternoon at about one thirty yep. And
we started out and the weather was wonderful. As everybody knows,
it was pretty hot out there and if we didn't
have the breeze, it would have been really hard. But
you know what, it was an easy walk. And for

(02:18):
those who don't know what rucking is, rocking is when
you take a backpack and it can be a barbie backpack.
It doesn't matter. It could be your military backpack that
you had in service. If you're a veteran and you
put a weight in there. It could be five pounds,
ten pounds, forty pounds if you want, or no backpack
at all. That's what. But rucking is a chance to
not only get some great exercise, but also to share

(02:41):
stories about your service and about you know, just whatever.
It's a really great bonding experience. So it was me, Paul,
Paul's wife, Amanda, Amanda's dog, and my dog. So we
had a great time.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Definitely, one of these days I'll get out there. I
still have my old I may issue you come and
dear my rouck from the army, even though I had
to pay for it down the road. But that's fine
for me. I had that ruck for about ten years
and it was going to go into but no one else.
So I sucked it up and said, here's eighteen dollars.
Not a problem in the United States government. I'll pay

(03:17):
for my ruck. That's my ruck. But one of the
things I do, and I believe you can correct me
on this, guys, I think the Southwest Rock Club.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I think it's called Legacy Rock Club.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Legacy Rock Club, and I believe that's on Facebook America
if you want to look it up. It was initiated
by a Dane Dane Boil Dane.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, that's our positively caffeinated.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Guy, another rally pointer folks.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
And he in Texas, Yes, yes, yes, And it inspired
us to do too, definitely.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I want to ask you to kind of an
open question. It's not just the walking. You have conversations
and you make connections. It's not about the right atmosphere.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Oh yeah, it's one of the nice parts about it.
Yesterday was kind of a casual walk because it was
eighty eight degrees, but like Zane said, the breeze just
made it bearable, so we had a good walk. We
walked further than I thought we would walk because of
the heat. But it was a great trail to be on.

(04:21):
And trail is a loose term.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, it was paved.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
It was paved.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
And Amanda even brought up the fact that before Ian,
before Hurricane Ian, the path was very well shaded by
the trees. It was a canopy of trees above, but
there weren't so many now. But it's where we went,
is the preservation trail behind the Publics, Rotunda, Florida. So
this is where if you know where super Day Express

(04:47):
is on the right, it's seven seventy one. You take
a left and an immediate right behind Publics and that's
where it is. It's a historic trail.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Well, this is the second one I went on.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Ok, this is the first one.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
My wife went on because of the the heat was
just where she could do it. But it's great because
we had at the first one, we had what I
call the you young guys, and but we had both
military and non military. We had some people that just
wanted to do the walk get to meet the military

(05:19):
people that were on there. So it's it's yeah, So
you don't have to be in the military. You just
have to want to and you go at your own pace.
What's nice about it. You can walk as far as
you want or go a little further. There's no there's
no you don't have to check in at any spot.

(05:40):
We just go and then when everybody gets back, we
sit down and just have a little more social time.
This one was I this one, I brought my Vietnam rucksack.
I took it out of the display and I brought
it with me just to show to show off. So
that one's well, I guess about sixty.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Years old now, God bless it, and what was.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Fun to put it on. I did have to loosen
the belt up a little bit, okay, so that's why
I'm on these walkses so I can tighten that belt
up again. But if you're interested in getting some not
necessarily casual exercise, but you can do whatever you'd like
to do and build up from just a casual walk
to a really building up the way if you have

(06:25):
a rocksack or if you don't want to use one.
So that's the neat part about it, as everybody does
as a group what they want to do, and it's
just a wonderful opportunity to meet and to talk.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, guys want to say thank you on this segment,
and Paul thank you as always, and folks, you'll be
seeing a whole lot of Paul and hear a whole
lot of Paul. He's of our Rally Point crew and
hopefully one day it might be behind the microphone on
his own segment.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
We're back and in this next segment, we have with
us a fellow radio are in the host of Charlotte
County speaks on WCCF, same station that you hear our
show on. Ken love Joy, thank you for coming to
the show. Can we appreciate you? Invite me absolutely? And
Ken's show can be heard Monday through Thursday on one
hundred point nine FMWCCF from nine to eleven am, and

(07:18):
it is a live radio show. We were kind of
talking about that because the Rally Point Show is lovely
pre recorded radio, which is nice. If I guess you're
breaking into radio, it's a good way to kind of
start so that maybe the pressure is not there of udio.
But have you always done live radio?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well? No, I yes, I mean since I got into radio,
it's all been, it's all been livery wow.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
How long have you been in radio?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I did ten years in the Navy. I was a
radioman in the Navy night ten years, and then I
got out and went into radio, So I've been in
radio since nineteen ninety.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Cool. Thank you for your service in the Navy and
also for the service you do through mass communication. That's
an important role, so that's really cool. Thank you. Yeah,
we were kind of talking about how like it's nice
if a show is prerecorded, because if it's live, the
phone is kind of like that No Blonde Stars, like,
you never know what's going to come through the other
end of that phone.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
You got to be ready for anything because it's a
small market, so I don't have call screeners or producers.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Exactly block of the draw. Yeah, you're just kind of
like pick up the phone and who's there. So yeah,
it's definitely I would think it's something where you really
have to think fast on your feet, especially if it's Yeah,
I would say if somebody kind of throws you for
a little bit of a loop, you kind of have
to regroup and press forward with it. But yeah, very cool.
So tell us a little bit more about your time

(08:38):
in the Navy. So what years did you serve, where
were you stationed, what ships were you aboard? So, because
that's a big thing in the name, I went to
the Navy Senior and Listed Academy. I was Air Force
for twenty years, but when it came time for Senior
Enlisted Professional Military Education, which that's such a mouthful, we
just say Senior Enlisted PM because we all speak in code.

(08:58):
So when I went there, I got an opportunity to
attend a sister service school and I went to Navy
Senior and Listed Academy up at Newport, so I changed
over from the world of calling everybody by rank and
last name. I said it to somebody the first day.
I was like, hey, Senior Chief Williams or whatever the
guy's name was, and he looked at me. He's like,
please don't curse at me. And I was like, what
do you mean. He's like, he's like, my name is

(09:20):
r J. He's like, what's your name. I was like Amanda.
He's like okay, great. He's like when we're in the
chief's mess like first names, like, please don't ever call
me by my last name again. And I was just like,
oh wow. I'm like yeah, in the Air Force, if
we don't call you by your rank and last name, like,
somebody's gonna yell at us for being quote unprofessional. So
I already liked the Navy way of thinking. I was like,
this is great, like we will just be people.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well, you know, that's funny because the only problem I
ever had with addressing someone properly was with a Navy officer, because.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
You said the officer, no offense to the officers out
there listening, but from them listen to officers different.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
In the Navy, Like all the uniforms are shiny, like
everyone's shiny, so.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
They wear anchors on their hats and so yeah kind of.

Speaker 6 (10:05):
So yeah, so I had an incident like walking out
of the commissary and the guys.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Like, sergeant, we don't salute anymore.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
I'm like, oh, sorry, sir. To this day, I have
no idea what that person's rank was, no idea like that.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
It was probably an ense and they're a lieutenant JG.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, they're demanding.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:24):
I was in joint assignments, you know, multiple times, in
Space Command or White House Communications and just different things,
and yeah, like the Navy was the one that I
could never get.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh that's funny. Well we had a Navy So I
was stationed at Andrews for a long time and we
had the Navy side of Andrews. Now it's like Joint
Base Andrews Naval Air Facility, Washington is what they call it.
Well it's what they called it when I left in
twenty fifteen now and that I'm dating myself. But anyways,
the Navy side had a clinic and we would have
people coming out of that clinic and they would have

(10:56):
khakis and they would have something shiny on their flight cap,
and so we would salute them because we automatically in
the Air Force. If you got something shiny on your hat,
like you said, justin, it's like that's an officer ATY.
Better sleep. And these chiefs would laugh at us. I
was like a little staff star E five and they
would laugh at us and be like, really, are you serious.
And we're like, look, man, if we see something shiny

(11:17):
on hat. Once we realized they weren't listen, We're like,
we see something shiny on a hat, we assume it's time. Yeah.
They told us. They were like, look, if it's an anchor,
you don't need to salute. We're one of you. I
was like, okay, fair, so yeah, so tell us about
your time in the Navy and your experience.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I really had a blast. I was senior in high school.
Didn't know what I wanted to do. You know, I
had a job, but you know, outside of high school,
but had no no idea. My uncle was in the Navy.
He used to come home on leave, you know, once
in a while. And I saw a recruiting commercial on
TV and the next day I was at the.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
At the recruiter's office.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, it all happened pretty quick, and I went in
in August of nineteen eighty. Nice, and I wasn't. I
was guaranteed a school, but I wasn't. So I was
already a designated striker when I got to my first ship,
which was the USS Long Beach. Okay, you got a
missile nuclear cruiser.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
It sounds nice. Was it as nice as?

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It was? Well, it was in Bremerton, Washington, in the
in the shipyard in Bremerton at the time. Very beautiful
place now, but back then not a great not a
great town. But they Fortunately I was able to go
tad on a bunch of different ships. Nice for training,
very cool, and so I got to go on a
fast frigate. I was on the Sacramento, which was an

(12:42):
AoE it's a big supply AMMO and oiler cool. I
got to go on the USS Ares, which was a hydrofoil.
I got to ride that from Bremerton down through the
Panama Canal to Key West where it was getting on
the commissioning cruise. They needed an extra radioman for that,
so that was a blast. And then I really wanted

(13:03):
to stay at sea, so I got a hold of
my detailer and got off the Long Beach and went
to the usns Coishiwe, which was a merchant marine ship
under the Military Sealift Command, and it was an oiler
with a twenty man naval detachment. We handled comms and
ops for him, and we were always underway, but we

(13:26):
were right off. We refueled chips that were going through
refresher training before they'd go on the Westpac Okay, and
so we're always off the coast, about three hundred miles
off the coast of La and San Diego, just going
in a big square nice for about five weeks at
a time, and then we'd come back in. So I
had a blast.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
That's awesome. Yeah, I wud say, fresh out of high school,
early twenties. Yeah, it was fancy free whatever.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, And then I was on that until I re enlisted.
I relisted a little bit early and re enlisted for
six and became an AS comm operator. I worked in
ASWNI Submarine Warfare Operation Centers or as walks nice and
I was in Aidak, Alaska for two years. From there,
I went to an MCB five, a nable Mobile Construction

(14:15):
Battalion five as a tactical communications officer, and then my
last two years I was on admiral staff at comnav
Airpac in San Diego.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Very cool. And so then you transitioned from the and
you went into radio, And so tell us how path
to radio led to Southwest Florida.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well, I was in San Diego my last two years
at comnav AIRPAC, and I took some communication classes and
I was able to intern at a couple of radio
stations there, and I got the bug. I said, Okay,
if I get I'm either going to get a good
school and a good set of orders, I'm going to
get out and try radio.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
I got out and tried radio. Didn't get that good.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Set order history right here you are, But.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
I wound up my first I went to Phoenix, Arizona,
and stayed with my little brother and worked at his
bar for a while while I sent tapes and resumes
every place. Yeah, and I had a mentor in San
Diego who got me a gig in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
It was my first cass.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
I sounds very.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Surface of the wind. Yeah, yeah, town of about twenty thousand,
Rock Springs and Green River. But it was a great
learning experience. You did it all and This was back
before digital, so you know, you're splicing tape and recording carts,
and it was more whereas this is all digital, it's

(15:51):
just you're just waiting around all the music's played. You
had to manually start each song, each commercial. Wow, it
was a little more intricate, little a little more hands on. Yah.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, you had to be a little more engaged in
what was going on to kind of keep everything moving.
I can I remember as a kid listening to the radio,
because we listened to it, gosh all the time. There
would be times where you could tell when something might
have kind of gone arrived because like there'd just be
either dead air or like an ad would play twice

(16:23):
in a row or something like that. So I see
what you're saying, Like you really had to be engaged
and on your you know, on point.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
So well, very cool. So now your show Charlotte County Speaks. Well,
did you do shows before Charlotte County Speaks or were
you like a typical DJ, like playing music?

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, it was mainly music music morning shows from Rock Springs.
I went to Youngstown, Ohio for six and a half years,
and I did morning radio up there, mainly rock stations
and country stations nice. And then when I moved down here,
I worked at a Kicks Country here. That's where I started,
and then I went into sales, and so I sell

(17:08):
advertising for all of our stations as well as doing
on air Wow. And in two thousand and one, Jeff
Collins used to work here. He was going to be
the head of the Boys and Girls Club. So I
took over his show, and then someone else came in
took that, and I moved over to what's now Big

(17:29):
ninety eight point nine, the classic rock Back then it
was Beach ninety eight point nine.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh ok.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
And then Anne Henderson had my show. She'd had it
for about twenty six years, and the show Charlotte County
Speaks has been on since the sixties. WOW station came
on and she wound up getting sick and going into
the hospital with pneumonia, and so I asked if I
could just I'd never done talk before I go. Can

(17:53):
I take over her show while she's in the hospital,
you know, just sub for ye she wound up passing
away in the hospital. I've had this show ever since,
so I was in seven.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
So I hope this isn't a loaded question since you
have talk radio show, So which do you which did
you prefer? Because the talk radio show kind of fell
in your lap and you were you had always been
a music DJ up to that point.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
So but I well, talk is definitely a challenge. You know,
music radio, even when you're doing a morning show, you're
only talking for you know, maybe forty five seconds to
three minutes tops, you know, a couple of phone calls
YadA YadA, horn honk, and then you're off commercials, you know,
but and you're filling up a lot more time when

(18:38):
you're doing a talk radio live and so yeah, it's
a lot different. It was. It was definitely a learning curve,
but I enjoyed a lot more because I still can
play music, you know, the bumpers coming out of the commercials,
you know, I pick all those, and I love music radio.
It was it was my it was my first passion,

(18:59):
and I really enjoyed doing it. But talk radio has
definitely become my first love, just for the opportunity it
holds to, you know, have a conversation with other people, because,
like I say, you never know who's calling in.

Speaker 6 (19:10):
Yeah, I love talk radio actually, like it drives my
wife insane, but to me because she thinks, you know,
she thinks it's boring, but you know, to me, like
hearing the same twelve songs over there again, like that
puts me in a trance. Like if I'm on a
road trip, if I'm listening to talk radio, then you know,
I'm engaged in you know, whatever is coming next?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
What have we got about? You know, my husband essentially
listens to like he watches YouTube a lot, and that's
a lot like talk radio, especially for the content that
he listens to. It's all, you know, talk about you know,
maybe current events or finances or you know, just all
different kinds of topics. So it's funny because after a

(19:53):
while I'm like, wow, you know, it's it's definitely you
have a lot of room, I guess, like flexibility, Yeah, yeah,
where with music, I think sometimes from what I understand,
sometimes you get told this is a list of songs
you can choose from. At least it felt that way
being a listener on the other end of the radio
because I used to have a job where I was
a contractor for the Navy before I joined the Air

(20:14):
Force at Dohlgren and I had to sit at a
desk at the EIS Control Center and basically watch people
come in and out check their media in and out.
There's a lot of downtime, so they would let us
have a radio. And one day I got so bored
I started counting how many times certain songs played while
I was on shift because it was an eight hour shift,
and I found that the average was about three to

(20:35):
four times in an eight hour.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well, you're picking the A rotations. Those are the top
five songs.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
That was crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Oh, and back then, that's how they would play. You know,
you'd have a wheel. You know, you're the top five
songs on the record chart. You know, for your genre,
country or rock or whatever it is, those would get played.
Those would being a hot rotation, so you would hear
them a lot more. But that is that's kind of
also the same way. I love classic rock, same but

(21:04):
I really wish that they would open up the format
to more than six hundred and fifty.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
So okay, however, Calma, the one the one bone I
have to pick with classic rock is like they're kind
of changing the definition. There is something inherently wrong when
you turn on a classic rock station and you're hearing
music from the eighties. I'm sorry, but that makes me
fully offended.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
I'm like, no, years old.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, rock is like the sixties and seventies.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Now, it's like that's now, that's now classic hits.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
My goodness.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Yeah, might be a.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Problem, dude, probably, But when I turn on the radio
and I hear Poison on a classic rock station, I'm like, nay, nay,
Bunny Rabbit, this is supposed to be like led Zeppelin,
this is supposed to be Rush. You'll still you know
some of the later Beatles music.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Led Zeppelin, Rush to Seven and Midnight Poison.

Speaker 6 (21:55):
Yeah, they put that on during the day and I'm like,
it's like that's fresh prints being on Nick at night now.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Oh my gosh. Right, yes, that hurts stuff from the
nineties where we're or like or our kids because like
Justin and I have kids who are like the same age,
and they do your kids say this will be like
in the nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
They just started that.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I'm like, y'all, don't bad stop. Yeah, they act like
it was forever ago.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
So yeah, well, now we know how our parents felt, right.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well know right, they probably felt some kind of way
about hearing the stuff they grew up to listening to one.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
You hear a lot of younger kids listening to Like,
I've got a step son that loves classic rock. Yeah,
that's all he listens to.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
My son listens to.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Going through my old CDs. He went out and bought
an old sound system, no one of those old rases. Yeah,
and he's been going through all my old CDs every
time he comes home. He's in the army. Every time
he comes home, he's sifting through my CDs.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh that's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I love it so because I think music is other
than country. A lot of the new music that's coming
out isn't really.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I hate to say it, but a lot of newer
music just all sounds the same. Even new country kind
of has all to me. A lot of it has
sounded very similar over the last like ten to twelve years,
with the exception of a few artists who really try
to stay true to the genre, but a lot of
it just all sounds the same. So anymore, I'm like,

(23:23):
I'm very much a Spotify person. I don't know if
I can even say that. I like, Yeah, I love
I love the streaming apps. I should say I love
the streaming apps where you can kind of take and down.
You know, you can save whatever songs you want. And
I make playlists of course, idea, Yeah, sure, and I
make playlists so that way, when I drive, I have
a road trip playlist and that's what we listen to

(23:44):
and that has everything on it. So yeah, but it's
it's kind of neat how radio can also be pretty multifaceted.
But I guess too, like what are what are some
of Like how do you feel that your time in
the Navy prepared you for your career? How do you
feel that certain aspects of military life have kind of

(24:07):
helped bring away?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
There was an exit curve, you know.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, what was your transition like back then? Because the
transition program has really evolved even over the last fifteen years.
So and you you separated the Navy.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
I got out in ninety and they at least then
maybe they were just starting it. But there was like
a week long course. Okay, Gett went to We had
like reps from the highway patrol came in and said, hey,
if you're looking for a job, you know that type
of thing. We were told what our resources were. So

(24:45):
there was like a it was like a week.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Long Okay, good, So they didn't just shut me out
on that case.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
You know that you had to attend got it? So
and I kind of I knew what I wanted to do.
I you know, I knew it was going to take
a little while to get you know, find out where
I was going to start.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, that's that you were able to intern on active duty.
That's almost like the modern stately weekends.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, because today we have a skie Bridge program where
people can take their last well and I have to
say this when I retired, because this program is ever evolving.
But when I retired, it was you had six months
that you could intern with a company, and you had
to burn all your terminal leave, but you had one
hundred and eighty days and so you could if you
could get approved for an internship. It still had to

(25:29):
go through all the rungs of you know, the military hierarchy,
but you could go intern. So I interned for my
last six months on active duty down here in southwest
Florida in the real estate realm because I knew it
would get me out of where I was stationed. At
the time. I'll be honest about that. I was like,
what can I intern in that I have to relocate
because I can't do it where I'm stationed, because sometimes

(25:52):
if you were stationed there and that job was available
in that area, they'd be like, oh, well, you can
just intern locally, and then they still kind of had
their hooks in you. So I was like, no, real
estate is region specific, I must.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
Go oh bummer. And it worked out.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
It did.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
It did like this. I never in a million years
expected that I would get this opportunity. Like I grew up.
My mother was good friends with a radio station staff
in Virginia Beach where I lived, a country station, go figure,
and they told my mom when I was ten years old, like,
you got to get her into radio, like obvious reasons.

(26:29):
I guess I like to talk so anyways, But yeah,
so they said that, But it was the path to
getting into radio really seems kind of muddled, Like it
doesn't seem very direct.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's it's so different now than it was when I
got into it.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, because you were sending out demo tapes and stuff
like that, right, tapes.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
And resumes and for the most part, I mean, you
had hundreds of cassette tapes. You're sending them and you
just send them to R and R in the back pages,
you know, looking for middays, looking for overnights. You know,
you're just sending them into the black hole because for
the most part, unless they want you, you're never going
to get a rejection letter. You just never hear from them.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, sending out won't.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
So did you find when you were transitioning? Did you
find it harder than expected to find a job, because, like,
I know, when I retired, you know, coming out, I
was like, oh, I got all this experience. You know,
they're going to see twenty two years in the army,
and yeah, it wasn't like that at all.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, and going into radio. That's why I decided not
to do twenty because I thought that I was going
to be a lot more marketable at twenty eight than
I would have been at thirty eight for what I
was getting into. But yes, it was, it was. It
was a little tough. It took a few months to
get it, and your first radio gig back then small market.

(27:52):
I could barely make my truck payment, right, you know,
it was it was definitely the first three years I
was at that too. Back then I could stay out
for two years, go back in and just lose one strike.
Got it, and so at that two year mark, I
was yeah, man, And then slowly, you know, things started

(28:15):
to just getting better and better. And then once I
moved down here, you know, the people that's you know saying,
was working there already, we had just some great managers
and great owners at the time we've been I've been
blessed through all the ownerships that we've gone through here,
We've always wound up with great managers, great sales managers.

(28:35):
So it's been been very blessed to be here for
twenty eight years.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's awesome, does it? I would say it probably doesn't
feel like twenty No, because it's.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Kind of like groundhog Day. Yeah, you're kind of doing
the same thing, you know, a lot. But yeah, it
is fun. I don't think I could. I don't think
I could be accepted at a real job in normal society.
Why expound just because I've done this too long? You know,
this this job gives me creative freedom, creative autonomy, and

(29:12):
I tend not to really hold my tongue right, so
I've heard, so I think this is a perfect place
for me.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, I think, and I think honestly, it's nice when
people kind of don't hold their tongue. It's nice to
be able to just say what you mean and mean
what you say, and I think that is kind of
inherent in this area. When I moved down here, I
was like wow, Like at first, it's a little bit
jarring if you've had to live outside of that where

(29:43):
you know, we did, because at the point, I think
Justin and I retired within a year of each other,
and so it's like at that point in the military,
oh yeah, you had to be extremely careful what you said.
Like I envied the Navy because they were so much more.
When I went to a Navy senior enlisted academy, some
of the conversations place in that chief's mess I was
just like wow, in the sense that people were just

(30:05):
they were straightforward. And this was to the Mickpon, like
he came to visit, and at that point that was
the part in time. It was twenty sixteen and they
had tried telling the Navy you no longer have rates,
We're just gonna go by your rank, and they were like,
I mean, you heard that record screeched throughout the DoD
They were like what. And so the Mickpon came to

(30:28):
visit and talked to our class. And I mean some
of these chiefs stood up and really gave him like
a piece of their mind, respectfully, but still they were like,
what do you think you're doing? And I was just like,
if I ever spoke that way to the Chief Master
Sergeant of the Air Force, no matter how many stripes
I had on my arm, I'm pretty sure someone would
have had something to say about it. But they were

(30:48):
just able to be straightforward and to the point, and
I was like, this is great. Like I almost started
thinking I joined the wrong branch of the military. I'm like, dang,
I had to put a filter onto being the Air Force.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
I'm glad to hear in twenty sixteen it was still
the same as it was when I was in Yeah.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
So when I was in DC and three to seven,
I lived on Bowling Air Force Base, which is I
don't know, joint base.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I almost got station at Bowlings Joint Base in a
costia Bowling. Yeah, I almost got stationed there, and then
they diverted me to him.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
So the Mickpond at the time was my next door
neighbor in housing.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
And mind you, I just made E five, so.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
I've slightly intimidated.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
No, you know why, because I thought that was his
last name for like two years.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
I did, Like I had no idea that this mcpong
guy that lives next time, I thought his last name
was Mickpoon. That's awesomely funny because like, once again I
knew nothing about the Navy.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
But, uh, it's definitely a different world. I mean, I
think each branch kind of is because sometimes later they've.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Got and I think it should be.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
I love the trip because each has their own.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
True, our own culture heritage.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I mean
the Marines, I mean, you've talked to a few of those.
I'm sure, uh we we actually get along swimmingly.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah. I mean when I was literally and figuratively, I
see what you did there with the Uh.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
When I was with the CBE Battalion, I worked directly
for We had a gunny marine advisor for when I
worked directly for him nice and just yeah, I had
a really good time working.

Speaker 6 (32:31):
I've actually talked to more Marines in the last six
months than I than I did my entire career. Normally,
you're on deployment like you're in Kuwait in passing waiting
to go to the next place.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
And then this marine unit shows up at what was
that place in kuwait A.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
So you're in the transition barracks and alioslem waiting to
go to the next place, and then the marine unit
comes in from wherever they come from. It's like, why
are you here?

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Come on, man, we're in a desert and there is
no water, you know.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
And yeah, so in the army unit, the marine show
up and like, hey, we got this, why are you here?
And then they're like we got this, you can leave,
and it's just like a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
But yeah, I was gonna say, so, now, you guys
had two enemies, the Marine Corps and the Air Force.

Speaker 6 (33:24):
Geez, we didn't really consider the Air Force.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Whatever I hear you.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Well, I grew up in Spokane, so we had fair
Child Air Force Base yep there, so I was always
used to we'd always go to the air show out there.
So I was in second grade walking through a B
fifty two. Pretty cool, very cool. Yeah. They would just
they'd be doing touch and go, so they'd be flying

(33:54):
over overhead all day.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh yeah, I never hesitate to use the line on
people that I'm I'm like, I fully ascribed to the
belief that the Navy and the Marine Corps navigate by
the stars, the Army and the Marine Corps sometimes sleep
under the stars, and the Air Force judges their TDY
hotels by the number of their stars. I'm perfectly okay
with that statement. I am perfectly okay with that. There

(34:17):
are some Air Force people who will probably feel some
type of way about that, but I'm like, no, that's
why I joined the Air Force. Well, and my father
told me, He's like, you can join any branch of
the service you want. He was a Vietnam veteran of
the Navy, and he goes, you can join any branch
you want, except the Marine Corps, the Army, the Navy,
and the Coast Guard don't count. And I was like, well,
that kind of only leaves me one option because the

(34:37):
Space Force didn't exist. So but to the Coast's listening,
yes you do count. I always I always make sure
to have besides that. Now, yeah, I'm like, I'm like,
we still love you, Coast's. But yeah, that's just what
my daddy said. So it's a direct quote. Sorry, but
that's cool that you grew up. I didn't know that
you grew up in Spokane, so you had air force,
you know, exposure sometimes marine and very cool. So it's

(35:04):
generational and your step son's in the army, so it continues. Yeah,
very cool. Well yeah, so so with radio and everything,
like what are like probably what's one of the craziest
stories I guess that you've either had come on your show.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
I'm sure people catch you off guard.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, Blakely, can you can you tell us any of
those stories?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
A lot? I can't, right see, but uh well there
was one and I forgot I'm trying to think of
his name. He was a comedian. He used to appear
on the Letterman Show Wow quite a bit, and he
was coming to a hotel in Boardman, Ohio that was

(35:49):
that was going to have a little comedy club in
there too. And so he comes on our show, my
show at the time, and just hilariously is lambatting this hotel,
just all kinds of jokes, you know about the phone,
you know, it was bolted down to the desk, just
slamming this hotel, to the point by the end of

(36:09):
the show they had called the station to tell him
to come get his stuff. He was no longer welcome
at those.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
That's a little bit of drama. How did he handle that?

Speaker 3 (36:23):
He laughed it off, He still did that. He still
did the show because it was like the hotel was
separate from the club.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
That oh got it.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
So he still did the show, but they wouldn't let
him stay at the hotel. And that was that was
hilarious and we got in trouble for it. It was
like it was our fault.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
They were like, how dare you not edit that? And
what was your delay?

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Live you?

Speaker 1 (36:41):
But did you have a delay at the time, because
some light shows still have a little bit of a lag.
That wow, everything was just in real time.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Only only the news talks had back then had delay.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Oh wow? What was like how long of the delay
was it back then?

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Uh, it's still standards usually about.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Eight to ten seconds, That's what I thought. Ten seconds.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Well some of like well rush his was close closer
to forty oh wow, just to be if they want to,
you know, callers twenty seconds in before they got a
before he winds up having to get bailed on.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Oh yeah, like try and edit out the entire call,
the whole call got it?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, so like who are some of the more notable
folks that you've been able to interview or have on
a radio show, like anybody. Wow, that's a mean you
had a comedian, So, I mean people might.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Be weekly comedians of the best comedians in the business
I get to talk with every week. You know, they'll
come in mainly just a lot of our local politicians.
Rick Scott had him on the show several years ago.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Did you have Carlos Mencia on your show?

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Y been on a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
That is so cool. So he came out to my
deployed location in two thousand and nine. I have to
find the photo because either he came out him and
Kid Rock came out. So I'm totally again dating myself whatever,
I don't care. It was two thousand and nine. Say so,
this was two thousand and nine that they were touring
together on a USO tour that came to my deployed

(38:20):
location and we took a group picture. It was several
of us that worked in the mid group and either
myself or my one friend ended up sitting on Carlos
Mencia's lap. I think it was her. She ended up
sitting on his lap, but I have a picture of
it and It's hilarious because we're just sitting in this
group photo with Carlos Mencia and Kid Rock and then
at one point they were like, make a stupid face,
and I wish, I hope I can find that picture

(38:42):
because that was hilarious. Carlos Mencia's face is like, it
was priceless.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
You got to bring that picture next time he's here.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Yeah. Absolutely, We're We're actually going to try to see
if we can do a comedy show at Vasani for
Rally Point Media for like our one hundredth episode and
to raise funds because rally Point Media group supports so
many different nonprofits in the community. We have Helping Hearts
for Heroes, which is the group that helps take veterans

(39:10):
who are in transit, like homeless veterans who are in
transitional housing, helps to get them settled into stable, long
term housing situations and they provide them with all the
necessary home comfort items to get them settled.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
And then there's also Warrior Wellness, which Justin leads and
I'll let him expound a little bit on what Warrior
Wellness is about.

Speaker 6 (39:31):
So Warrior Wellness is designed to get veterans mobile, get
them up moving the older the older generation, instead of
you know, just wilting away, Get them up, get them active,
you know, go on hikes, get them gym memberships, personal training,
swim lessons, whatever the case may be. I'm just trying

(39:52):
to get them out there and get them, get them
active and let them know that they still matter and
you know that they don't have have to withdraw and
just be in their shell. That they can get out
there and be moving, be an active part of society.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Definitely good.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
So as a veteran yourself, how do you how do
you view the current situation for how we as veterans
are are being taken care of or lack thereof, or
you know, how do you feel about that now as
a veteran knowing when you got out what they told
you about what life would be like as a veteran
versus reality.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Oh, completely different. But I you know, you can't really pinpoint,
you know, a president that the VA to blame, you know,
because it's happened. The problems with the VA have spanned
several I think the presidential administration, yeah, I think.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
The problem transcends politics and it's more bureaucrazy. Yes, the
bureaucracy that is killing it.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah, I would, I would agree, But again, I don't
use you know, I have good benefits here and I haven't.
I haven't need to use the VA since getting out,
and so I've been very happy about that. But what
I have heard, you know, you hear horror stories about
what happens in other states, but everybody, all the vets
I know that are here that use the VA locally,

(41:14):
have nothing but good things to say about it.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah. I do think we're fortunate in a lot of
ways that the VA here. Like I go to the
one and keep Coral, but I also sometimes use the
one here in Port Charlotte. I've had great experiences. The
only thing I wish is that they would kind of
streamline things a little more across the board, because I
have a sister who is also a veteran. She lives
in Denver, and she has access to certain services and

(41:36):
treatments and things like that that we can't get here
for whatever. And I'm like, well, how does that work?
Because she's using the VA in Denver and they have
this stuff and we're out here and we don't. And
they're like, well, not every VA gets allotted the same stuff.
And I'm just like what and then they.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
Say, particularly here because we got one of the rgious
veterans populations of ya.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Like my sister is able to get like therapeutica is
the big one that sticks out to me. She's able
to get a lot of service and treatment for that
acupuncture like regularly where I've done acupuncture, but it had
to be through community care. And then they only give
you like twelve segment sessions and then once that's done,
they give you i think twelve sessions over four months,

(42:19):
and then after that they'll give you like six sessions,
but they make it last six months, so then you
know what I mean. So then it's like by the
time that six months are over, you're almost back to
square one from where you were when you got the
twelve appointments that helped kind of set you on the
path to good. So yeah, I think there's just a
lot still to be done, and the veteran population is

(42:41):
only kind of growing or like folks are living longer,
and so you know the number of veterans who are
being served by the VA and who are relying on
it because at some point people were told when you retire,
get free try care for life. You get free health
Care for Life and free try Care and pan out,
Thanks Congress. So with that, we had to go back

(43:05):
to the VA and make the VA our primary healthcare
because we're like, well, try Care isn't handling it unless
we want to fork out a lot of money every
time we go.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Well, one of the problems that I've noticed is that,
you know, because I have the VA, but I also
have Tricare, and tri care is like super inexpensive for
my family of six. But then what you run into
is that since it's so inexpensive, it's.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Hard to find find a provider.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, well, I just think it takes you know, people
like you. The network that you're with is keeping keep
getting the word out and keep getting people to, you know,
start making some noise about yeah, and the treatment.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
You said you have politicians on your show. Have you
had representatives to be on your show yet?

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Okay, very cool because he's a veteran too. He's an
Army veteran, so he was an officer. I know, we'll
forget that. I've met him before. He and his wife
are really nice, down to people. Yeah, he's very approachable.
Hopefully he'll come on our show one day. So hopefully
his staff is listening and will help us arrange that.

(44:10):
But yeah, he I've spoken to him personally and he
is very very much aware and engaged and concerned.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
But he did tell me he's only one voice.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
That's exactly it. I told him one time. I was like,
what gives men? And he goes, I am one of
over four hundred people in my Chamber of Congress. He's like,
I'm trying, he said, but support and you know, the
whole wheeling, the politics it.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Comes down there. He's actually you know, I've seen some
of the bills he's been behind. I get his weekly
updates and stuff. You know, he's doing it. He's doing
what we're What we would want more congress people and
senators to do is to make sure that our vets
get funded right and that this bureaucracy gets thinned out,
which is eating away. A lot of the money that

(44:57):
the VA gets is being lost in the bureau.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I would agree with that. Yeah, it's not By the
time it funnels and trickles down, there's not much getting
to the veteran, even though some people view that differently.
But but yeah, so so with that, I guess so
as a veteran. You don't really use the VA programs
and stuff, but but you have veterans on your show,

(45:20):
and so what are some of the issues that you
hear from them.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Just again, it's more just accountability, you know, from from
the VA of you know, stepping up and doing what
they told you and me and all of us when
we joined, what we were going.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
To get, Promises made, promises can exactly.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Exactly, and that and that's and most and some I
know some that have lifelong injuries because of their service.
And again around here, I'm hearing good things about the
way they're being treated. Yeah, so some people are getting
denied on some stuff. But for the most part, all
the vets in this area southwest Florida are very happy with,

(46:05):
you know, the way the VA streetom. I'm sure there's
probably a few who are.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Some of it is just procedural. You're crazy that they
can't they can't get around like the community care referral
issue exactly. They can't do anything about that because it's
the same way everywhere across the country. Unless Collins is
his name, and he is, if I'm not mistaken, he's
actually a chaplain in the reserves. So he is himself

(46:33):
still serving in the reserves as a chaplain. I think
he's a he was a representative from North Carolina. I'm guessing.
I don't know, but but he understands what it's like
to wear the uniform. So that's a very important piece
of the pie. But hopefully, you know, again, he's one person,

(46:53):
So hopefully he and his staff can articulate to Congress
in such a way that transcends all the part lines
and all the whatever to help them understand at the
end of the day, it doesn't matter if you're red, blue, purple, white, whatever.
Just take care of the veterans. It does not matter.
Just take care of the people who have made sure

(47:15):
that we stay free, that we can have this country.
Like there's a statistic out there I think that says
it like maybe one in five or one in six
have ever worn the cloth of our nation. That's that's
pretty crazy when you think about it.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
So, but luckily, recruiting numbers are going up across.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
The board from what I thankfully yes, because there were
a couple of years where every single branch missed their
goals and so now it's it's the upswing is coming,
and so people are feeling more led to serve yes,
which is a wonderful thing. So to kind of back
up to a I guess a probably a more lighthearted thing.
So you mentioned that you do musical bumpers on your show,

(47:55):
so you do like introm music as you're coming back
from a break or whatever. What's your favorite genre of
music to use?

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Blues? Okay, I'm a blues man. Blues, classic rock, but
I'll have jam and days, which it's a category that
we have in here. Jam and it's like old disco nice,
you know, does stuff from the seventies, I'll do that.
And and classic country. I'll have a day. We're all,
you know, pick old old songs. So but for the
most part it's rock and blues.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yeah, yeah, anything like pre nineties is good. So well cool.
So as far as like your listeners and you know,
people that you have on the show, what are some
topics that you find people are typically pretty fired up about,
Like what gets your your board? You know, your phone
lines lit up locally.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Insurance and home owners insurance, homeowners insurance of premiums. Property
taxes are a big thing. I think this tax issue
that Tallahasse's working on right now. Uh, Governor DeSantis wants
there to be no price property taxes and just go
to like a like a value added tax. But it

(49:04):
doesn't seem like they're going to go along with that.
But they were not going to get any tax holidays
in this new budget. But they want to lower sales
tax rates.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Really, so what percentage? I don't know, I'm terrible.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
I would say, I'm we're at seven here, six percent
plus the any sales tax for and that money goes
to local stuff. Got it normally wouldn't get funded through taxes.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Interesting, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
See how that goes. But mainly, insurance is a big thing.
I mean, particularly you know people in Ponta Gordon now
flood insurance. Yeah, I mean, it's insane. It can be
almost in some cases equal to your mortgage.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah, we got when we got here, we got a
letter because I live in a waterfront community as well,
and they sent us a letter from FEMA that said
you can expect that your flood insurance rates are probably
going to quadruple in the next five years. And thankfully
they haven't quite quadrupled, but they've doubled, which is still
bad enough, especially if like my husband and I are retired, Like,

(50:12):
we live on a fixed income. So it's like you
know when when you live on a fixed income and
they're like, oh, your rates are going to go up,
Like that's awful. So I know, I've been contacting our
state representatives a lot about things pertaining to agriculture, keeping
agriculture in the state of Florida and not ditching all

(50:32):
of our agricultural land to build all of these massive
communities of shoddily built homes for lack of a better term.
So we need food, Like, we've got all these people
coming to this state, we got to feed them. And
infrastructure as well. Yep, I've called on that. I think
I don't know. I think kind of like the local
level of government and state is just as important.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
I think it's more fatal really, because all of the
local pol all of the big politicians that nobody really likes,
started out as local politicians. Correct, So if you can
prevent them from happening, like.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
The military, you mess up, you get promoted.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Yeah, how many of those did?

Speaker 7 (51:13):
We know?

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Kind of wonder because it's like some people you look
at and you're.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Like, I can still remember their names.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Yeah, some of them. I'm like, how do you get reelected.
And furthermore, why have we not voted in term limits?

Speaker 3 (51:26):
I do think well, And at the same time, you've
got the we the voter is the term limit. You know,
if the voter starts paying more attention correct to who
they're voting for, maybe they'll choose somebody else. And when
you stick term limits on somebody, I might sound all
well and good, but you got a great guy who
was actually making some changes that the next guy could

(51:47):
wind up be racing. So that's careful what you wish for.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Yeah, But at the same time, I totally see your point. However,
I think there's got to be some kind of limitation
in there, because we're seeing some politicians get a point
where they're not even cognitively aware of what they're doing.
And that is that is a problem.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
That's that's a problem with whose fault is that it's
our fault, it's the voter's fault.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
To some degree, I would say, yes, well.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
We've allowed we've kept voting. The people who would just say,
if you keep voting for someone who you know is
maybe I don't know, rigging an election, an election, let's say,
and you keep voting for them, they keep winning.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Yeah, you're disenfranchised, but I also think there's something to
be said for finding your replacement. If you remember when
we were in the military, if we were in specific roles,
they would be like, you should be looking for your replacement,
who's going to take your place when you leave? But
we've really enjoyed having you on the show. Ken, love
Joy hopefully will have you on again.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Serge, I'm miss Serge.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Yeah, he had he had something going on today that
unfortunately prevented him from being here, but that just means
you have to come on the show again so that
he's here and you can ask you the hard questions, like,
you know, stuff about what do you order from talk
gobell or something. I don't know he did write, see
there you go say. He did write some questions to

(53:08):
that effect, so we'll let him ask this next time.
Thanks again, Ken, I appreciate you being.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
On, Appreciate what you guys do here.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Thank you, sir, and once again, folks, that's our show
and right now I want to thank our guys are
being on there, and I want to thank you our
listeners out there for keeping.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Us year helping you.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
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please contact me at Hemingway at one rallypoint dot org.
That's ah g m I n g w a Y
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the mics and Amanda. I think that's pretty much for
our show for today.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Right on Rally Pointers.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Fall Out dismissed