Mojo

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The biggest high point in my radio career has been
able to touch the lives of so many people and
to be able to start a charity that helps so
many people. You know, I never got into radio for that.
I got into radio because I thought it was going
to make me popular and fun and girls would talk

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to me. And then when I realized the influence that
we have and the ability that we have to be
life changers for some people that are having maybe a
bad day. And honestly, the greatest moment ever is when
you get that phone call from somebody that tells you
that they listen to your show every single day because

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it helps them feel better, and that's a pretty awesome thing.
I would say probably one of the coolest moments was
being able to years ago talk to Dick Clark and
to say to him, you know, thank you for the

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fact that he kind of paved the way for so
many people in entertainment. And I remember asking him a
question on the air because he owned a restaurant in
town called Dick Clark's Rocking something or another. It was
at Great Lakes Crossing, and we asked him if we
could do a promotion in his restaurant and we wanted
to fill his restaurant up with single moms that after

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school wanted to take their kids out for dinner but
just couldn't afford it. And we get off the phone
with him, and within like five minutes, the guy who
was his like head guy that ran American Music Awards
and run Dick Ran Dick Clark Productions, called us up
and said, Dick's giving you the restaurant next Wednesday. You

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get the whole restaurant to yourself. And I was like, wow,
that was pretty awesome that we asked him and he
delivered for us, and he was such a legend. I remember,
and it wasn't that long ago. At like eight ten
in the morning, we talk to a woman who just
finished her last round of chemotherapy. The toughest on air

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moment was nine to eleven, and also the Oxford High
School shootings, any of those moments that honestly are moments
where we have to give a little bit of calmness
to the listeners and not try to be goofy, and

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you know, funny, those moments are tough, but honestly, those
are the moments that I think are the difference makers
between what we do and you know what others might do.
I think it's cool that people would come to us
in some of the probably more challenging times that we've had.

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I think, you know, trying to to understand that this
is a business and this isn't just fun in games
is important. I think that, you know, when I first
got into radio, I thought it was just fun and games,
and I didn't realize the magnitude of how important it
was to so many people's livelihoods that we produce for

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their advertisers. I love our breaking and entering Christmas Wish program.
I started this thing years ago, having basically borrowed or
stolen the idea from the Jeff and Jaer show in
San Diego. Those guys gave me the blessing Little Tommy
Tommy Sabland gave me the blessing to do it. And

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I just think that there's something really cool about going
in and giving Christmas to some family that is struggling,
either through illness in the family or financial hardship, and
to even just for the moment, make them understand that
there are people that care. I hope that the idea

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that people could pick up the phone and talk to
their favorite radio, you know, person never goes away. That's
why I think local radio is so important, you know,
and I think that live radio is even more important.
I think podcasting has been wonderful for us because it's

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given us the ability to be able to let people
hear us when their you know, time of day is
to listen. You know, that they don't have to listen
to us just in the morning. But I think it's
the live radio that makes our show so special. We
work for a leader who is an entertainer. He believes
in entertainment. And I think that in all the years

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that I have been doing this, and I've worked for
some great companies, I've never worked for anybody that has
told us that we need to understand that this is
the entertainment business. And I think that when we forget
about that is when we realize that we're probably lost
our luster a little bit. And I think that's the

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reason why the show has been as successful as it
has been, is because every day we come and understand
that we're blessed to be able to do this and
this is an entertainment business.