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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Let's do this.
Hi, everybody, and welcome toanother edition of Skip Happens.
And welcome to a very, veryspecial episode.
Uh, this one's been in the worksfor a little bit, uh, a few
hours, anyways.
Uh, no, it's been a little bitlonger than that.
And uh today, uh, of course, I'mmaking it official.

(00:20):
Uh, Skip Happens is growing.
Y'all know that uh normally I goon, I have a country artist,
either he's on a tour bus orthey're sitting in their home in
Nashville or they're somewhereon the road.
Well, you know what?
We're also gonna break away fromthat a little bit and kind of
expand with Skip Happens.
And uh I I was thinking tomyself, why not bring in someone

(00:44):
who can make this thing evenbetter?
And you know what?
I found that person.
I did, and I found her by shecame on board with a radio
station as a uh part-timepromotions um guru, somebody
that wanted to come in and hangbanners and go to the shows.
You know, there's a lot of perksto that as well.

(01:06):
And uh, I wanted somebody thatwould debate me, somebody to
laugh with me, somebody to keepme in line.
And y'all know that can be alittle crazy, um, and maybe get
me in trouble once in a while,which she's already done a few
times.
No, I'm just kidding.
But I want you to say hello tomy brand new co-host.
Um this is Reagan, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 (01:25):
Hello, everyone.

SPEAKER_00 (01:26):
Yes, we you you know, we call her Miss Ray.
We call her Miss Ray.
So y'all gotta be nice to her.
And if you're watching this, Iwant to know uh where are you
watching?
And if you have any questions oranything, whether it's radio,
whether it's um, you know,anything that I do or anything
that Reagan is doing or Miss Raydoes, uh, feel free to ask.

(01:48):
But we're really gonna get toknow her uh today.
As a matter of fact, I canreally upset her now because I
could go like a close-up likethat.
See, yeah, it's pretty cool,huh?

SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Yes, this is awesome.
Then I then I could go likethis.
Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 (02:00):
Then I could go like you don't want to see me.
No, no, you don't want to dothat.
That's jump scare.
There you go.
But, anyways, there we are, andwe're sitting this is what I
call the pod zoom.
A lot of people don't know thatI have, and now you're a witness
to it.

SPEAKER_02 (02:13):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (02:14):
Um, this is the real deal.
This is the podcast studio.
Um, this is where I do theinterviews.

SPEAKER_01 (02:21):
This is where this is where the magic happens, if
you will.

SPEAKER_00 (02:24):
Yeah, exactly.
And it also happens at the radiostation because uh you do a lot
of work with the inner harborcast that we uh we put together.
Uh, if you watch that and yousubscribe to the inner harbor
cast on YouTube from InnerHarbor Media, Reagan is the one
that puts all those guests onthe calendar.
I do the interviews, and she'sgonna start doing some of those

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as well.
So, but, anyways, here you are,girl.
Here I am, and everybody's beenlike getting you pumped up, did
you?

SPEAKER_01 (02:52):
Everybody's like, Yes, everyone's been so
supportive.
You know, I think it's normal toget a little nervous to do this.
You know, it's it's been awhile.
I used to do a little bit ofon-camera stuff, but it's it's
been a minute.

SPEAKER_00 (03:04):
So when you talk about you did some on-camera
stuff, yeah, tell us about that.

SPEAKER_01 (03:07):
So I've always kind of had an interest in
communications.
Um, when I was in high school, Igot into the school news, and I
really fell in love with likethat environment and creating
this entertainment for peopleand kind of being an outlet to
get information.
And I was like, you know what, Iwant to go to college for this.
So it kind of evolved intowanting to be a news anchor.

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So I was like, you know, I'mgonna try to be on camera, try
to shoot my shot.
And I did not really like itbecause I was like, there's too
much structure, there's toomuch.
I don't know, like I felt like Icouldn't be silly on the news.
Um, which you don't really seethat on the news.
You don't see people actingspunky and acting a little

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having a lot of personality.

SPEAKER_00 (03:52):
They're really there to maybe morning television,
maybe a little bit.
There's a little bit more in theway of personality when it comes
to morning TV, you know, but uhyeah, no, I get you.
I get you.
Yes, but you're here.

SPEAKER_01 (04:03):
Yeah.
So how did I get here, right?
Yeah, so I was like, you know, Idon't, I don't know.
Like, I'm gonna stick throughwith this.
I went to school forbroadcasting, media, and mass
communication.
So I was like, I'm gonna stickthrough with this.
Like, I love communications,like I love um promotions, I
love production, I love allsorts of that kinds of stuff.

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So I was like, how can I evolvethis?
So then I got into taking musicclasses, like learning about pop
music and media, and that'sactually where I got this
opportunity to work at the radiostation was through that class.
They um they mentioned somesummer help being needed at the
radio station.
I was like, hey, that soundslike a really awesome

(04:46):
opportunity.
So I reached out and the radiostation welcomed me with open
arms, and it they really did.
They were like, you know, thiscollege kid, she's she's a
little odd, but she's weird, shewants to work.

SPEAKER_00 (05:01):
So you know, if you've I don't know if you're
watching this, if you've everbeen in a radio station, almost
everybody that works there, Idon't care where it is, we're
all a little odd.
That's true.

SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
We are an odd bunch, but that's how you know that
yeah, that's how you know you'regetting you're getting good
content.
You're coming from people thathave a creative mindset, kind of
look at the world a littledifferently.
And you know, I think it'sreally been affirming to go to
the radio station because I'vebeen able to see, like, you
know, you know, we have not tomention the elephant in the

(05:35):
room, we have kind of an agegap, you know, and a lot of um,
you know, some of my othercoworkers are are older than me.
And I was kind of worried in thebeginning, you know, like, you
know, are they gonna are theygonna like me?
Are they I 100% was so nervous.
I was like, I'm just a kid, likethey're gonna, they're I don't

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know.
Like I was like, I'm a kid.
Well, it didn't take long torealize it wasn't like, oh my
gosh, Reagan, you're amazing.
We love you, you're you can dono wrong.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, youguys are amazing.

SPEAKER_00 (06:08):
You know, you have passion and you're very
dedicated to what you do.
Yes, you know, we see that, andyou've become one of us within
the building, which is kind ofcool.
And we, you know, we're all likefamily, we fight like family.

SPEAKER_01 (06:21):
We we love like family, we love like family pick
on each other, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (06:25):
We do exactly, exactly right.
How cool is that?
But uh so you're from Fulton,yes.

SPEAKER_01 (06:31):
I um grew up in Fulton, which is a small town,
um, just a little bit north ofSyracuse, south of Aswego.
Yes, south of Oswego, and then Iwent 20 minutes north, right on
Lake Ontario, um, and went tocollege at Aswigo.

SPEAKER_00 (06:47):
So you're close, you were close to home.
Did you live at home when youwent to Oswego?
So you were that close.

SPEAKER_01 (06:52):
Yeah, I spent one semester.
I tried to step out of mycomfort zone and um stay on
campus.
And I was like, you know,college kids are just too gross
for me.
They they're loud, they'redirty, they but that's college.
I was like, you know, my momcooks me dinner.

(07:12):
I get to, I know I'm gonna havegood conversation at the end of
the night.
Like, it's just it's better.
I preferred that, and I got tosave more money.
And I come from a family that'sextremely supportive, and that's
awesome.

SPEAKER_00 (07:25):
And I was like, were you um were you in Fulton for
the Nestle plan?
Or that was before your time.
That was before we talked aboutthis the other day.

SPEAKER_01 (07:33):
So we touched on this earlier um in the week or
last week.
Um, Nestle's closed the yearbefore I was born.

SPEAKER_00 (07:40):
So I was I guess I just showed my age.
Um, but uh, I do remember that,and I'm sure you've been told
that you used to be able to youwould drive into Fulton and it
would smell so good.
I mean, it's just the chochocolate from the Nestle plant.

SPEAKER_01 (07:54):
Yeah.
So yeah.
Yeah, I hear stories about itthat it it would like fill the
air and it smelled so much.

SPEAKER_00 (08:00):
What is um what is there?
I don't mean this in a bad way.
What is there to do in Fulton?
What growing up in Fulton?
I mean, what did you do?
Yeah, you've got the bowl, theLakeview Lanes, you've got the
bowling.

SPEAKER_01 (08:14):
Yeah, we um, you know, kind of growing up, I um I
grew up in the country inFulton.
So my family, we kind of did ourown thing, you know.
We kind of had we hadfour-wheelers.
I grew up with four-wheelers, Igrew up with chickens, I grew up
with a pool, I grew up with agarden, a big backyard, lots of
things to do.

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So it was really more aboutkeeping yourself busy, um, which
was awesome, you know.
And I think that's kind of whatsparked this creative outlook in
life later, you know, right nowis because like I was allowed to
have so much imagination um as ayoung as a young person.

SPEAKER_00 (08:52):
Tell me uh something that most people would be
surprised to learn about you.

SPEAKER_01 (08:58):
Surprised to learn about me.

SPEAKER_00 (09:01):
What do you think?

SPEAKER_01 (09:02):
Um like if they didn't know me, um I think that
they would be surprised that Ium I'm a swim instructor.

SPEAKER_00 (09:14):
Really?

SPEAKER_01 (09:14):
Yeah, so I um I've been a swim instructor.
Like I I do the radio station,but I also work at the water.

SPEAKER_00 (09:21):
Yes.

SPEAKER_01 (09:22):
And um that's cool.
I spend a lot of time doing swiminstructing and I work with um a
lot of kids, and it's it'swonderful.
It's a really awesome thing.
I love doing that because it's Idon't know, I get to interact
with kids, I get to do swimmingbecause I I used to
competitively swim, so it's likeI don't know, I get to step in

(09:43):
that old team.
You were on the swim team?
Yes, I was on in high school, inhigh school was it G.

SPEAKER_00 (09:48):
Ray Bodley Highs.
Yeah, it's not the schoolbecause I went and spoke there
once.
I had to uh talk aboutbroadcasting and try to convince
people they should go intobroadcasting.

SPEAKER_01 (09:58):
Yeah, you should do that again.
We I think that they would lovethat.

SPEAKER_00 (10:02):
Yeah, it was uh they had their career days or
something like that.
They took a couple of days outof the year and they went around
to local businesses and said,you know, we'd like somebody to
come from the radio station andtalk to the students.
We want somebody like there wereuh police departments were
there, the troopers were there,uh Army National Guard was
there, you know, all thesedifferent opportunities for the
youth.

(10:23):
Uh whatever they were interestedin, they could sign up.
Then they'd put them in acertain room, and I would, let's
say it was the radio room,that's where I would go.
I'd meet with all the kids andtalk to them and tell them what
I do and why I love it so much.

SPEAKER_01 (10:35):
I think that's so cool.
I wish we they um I wish theydid that more when I was when I
was in high school, because Ithink having someone like you in
in school, you know.

SPEAKER_00 (10:46):
Oh no, that's not good.

SPEAKER_01 (10:47):
No, no, no, I don't think it could be that bad.
Um I think just seeing somebodylike actually live that dream,
you know what I mean?
Like really just do that, dotheir thing.
And I think that I think that'sso cool.
What's so cool about you is likeyou just do your own thing, you
know?

SPEAKER_00 (11:06):
Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 (11:07):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (11:08):
I don't you know the thing with me, Miss Ray, is the
fact that I just love what I do,and you know, there's a lot of
bad that goes with the good.
It's with any job, it's withanything that we do, but um I
just love what's that.

SPEAKER_01 (11:21):
Is that the advice that you would give for like
life is just love what you do?

SPEAKER_00 (11:25):
Love what you do, yeah.
And if you don't love what youdo, then you need to look
elsewhere because you're if youdon't love what you do, you're
just doing it for the money, oryou're just doing it for
whatever reason.
That's gonna wear out.
That's gonna be like, you knowwhat?
I don't care about the money.
I need to be happy.
And to be honest with you, I'mhappy, I'm not there for the
money, obviously.
But it's just I love what I do.

(11:46):
I love I get there early in themorning, I do my thing, I say
hello to Miss Becky.
Uh Miss Becky.
My sister-in-law.

SPEAKER_01 (11:54):
Yes, so if you come to the radio station, you'll be
greeted by Miss Becky, who isour lady of first impressions.
I know, and we gave her thatname.

SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
We love director of first impressions.
Yes.
The thing is, when somebodycomes in to pick up a prize,
they're there for half the daybecause Becky's got a full
conversation going with them.

SPEAKER_01 (12:12):
Yes, Becky's gotta ask about what they're up to,
where they're going, how isthat?

SPEAKER_00 (12:18):
But we love Becky.

SPEAKER_01 (12:19):
We do.

SPEAKER_00 (12:20):
She's my sister-in-law.
If for those of you watching, Idon't know this, but uh
obviously my sister-in-law.
But uh, she came in at a time,she was in between jobs, and
she's here's another one.
She was making a lot of money inher previous employment, but it
wasn't her, she wasn't happy.
Now she's extremely happy, andthat's and that shows because

(12:42):
she she laughs, you know what Imean?

SPEAKER_01 (12:44):
And that like it's so refreshing to see people like
genuinely belly laugh, like inthe middle of a work day.
Like, we need to do that more.
Yeah, we need to we need tobelly laugh more.

SPEAKER_00 (12:55):
You know, um, you don't see that a lot.
I'm not saying you never see it,but you don't see it a lot in
corporate America, and you know,that's kind of the way things
have been going and thedownsizing and all that.
But I can say where we work,which is a few different
companies made into one, we callit Inner Harbor Media with a
wolf and the dinosaur and a foxsports, and we have beat and uh

(13:17):
we got W VLA, we've got 17 or soradio stations in the back that
you wouldn't even know they'rethere, or TV stations rather,
and you wouldn't even knowthey're there unless somebody
told you, which I'm telling youright now, and they are the
over-the-air channels that youif you're sitting at home and
you don't have files or youdon't have cable, you don't have
spectrum, whatever, and you justhave an over-the-air antenna, do

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the scan, and I'll bet you halfto three-quarters of those
channels are coming from ourback room.

SPEAKER_01 (13:45):
That is so cool.
Hearing that just gave mechills.
It did, it gave me chills.
It's just so cool to hear thatthat's like where I go to work
every day.

SPEAKER_00 (13:55):
It is somebody else so cool.
Sean is on there saying, Skip,what is something we would be
surprised to learn about you?
I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 (14:02):
Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (14:03):
Did you and I was a fireman for 20 years, I was an
EMT.
Uh I was a fire chief uh withthe Fairmount Fire.

SPEAKER_01 (14:12):
Thank you so much for your service.

SPEAKER_00 (14:13):
That was a long time ago, baby.
A long time ago.
But no, it's still very, youknow, I have a lot of friends
that still do it.
I'm trying to think what what ifGod I've been in Syracuse all my
life.
I had opportunities to move onin the radio business.
I have three beautifuldaughters.
And we my wife now, Nancy, and Iwe have we have Zach.
But I have three beautifuldaughters, and that's the reason

(14:35):
I didn't move on, because whenthings happened between me and
their mom, I just there was noway I was gonna leave my
daughters.
And there was no way, so I juststuck with it here.
I drove a truck, I drove asnowplow for the town of
Camillas.
I was a Zamboni operator.
You know what a Zamboni is,right?
You're from Fulton, you mustknow what a Zamboni is.

SPEAKER_01 (14:55):
And then I went to a Swiggo, which is a Swiggo
hockey, very, very popular.
So yes.

SPEAKER_00 (15:01):
I when I was employed by the parks
department, I believe it was itwas either Fulton or a Swigo.
They had a Zamboni school.
I went to that.
It was like a seminar typething, just a couple of days.
But uh yeah, that's where weyeah, it was all happening up
there.
So that was kind of cool.
That was kind of cool.
What um what was your firstconcert?

SPEAKER_01 (15:26):
My first concert working working for the radio
station or no, no, in life, ingeneral.

SPEAKER_00 (15:33):
Um, okay, so because I know we have a little
difference when it comes to thecity.

SPEAKER_01 (15:37):
I'm really glad you asked this.
Um I saw Doji in concert atSyracuse at Chevy Court in 2022,
and she actually was the thirdfemale to win um album of the
year, and she was raped.
So Miss Lauren Hill was beforeher, and I believe Nikki, or uh
not me, I don't think it wasNicki Minaj.

(15:58):
I think somebody else um wonthat category as well.
But what's really, really coolis that we saw um, I think it
was Maddie and Tay.
We did Maddie and Tay came on umup over this time.
No, this is the first time.

SPEAKER_00 (16:12):
Oh, so this year, yeah, we had we had the banana
booth.
We did.

SPEAKER_01 (16:16):
And um, you gave me a really cool opportunity to
like go on stage and takepictures, and it I feel like it
was really full circle to kindof see Dochi and her win that
like you know, album of theyear, and then go to to work and
be able to step on the stage,same stage that that artist
stepped on, and then be able todo your own art or craft is

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really, really cool.

SPEAKER_00 (16:42):
See, one thing I think you've learned with me is
I do it, it's a job that I love,but I hope that nobody thinks
it's an ego thing.
Because there are no, I'm notthere are a lot of people out
there in the radio business,television business, the podcast

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business who you know it's like,dude, you can't even walk
through the door, your head's sobig.
I don't ever, ever want somebodyto think that of me.
And the thing is, when I see youthere and I know what you love,
I know, and this is that's whyyou're sitting right here to my
left right now, because I cantell I can tell you're into
doing this.

SPEAKER_01 (17:23):
I am.
I I love this stuff.

SPEAKER_00 (17:25):
I it's like I said, Reagan, I said, come with me.
I want you to go on stage.
I want you to see what it'slike, I want you to feel what it
is to to stand up there and lookat all these people.

SPEAKER_01 (17:39):
And I was nervous at first.
I I even looked at you and I waslike, Skip, I don't know if I
can do this.
Like, you you want me to go withyou?
And he was like, Yeah, why yougot it?
Like you're and do great.

SPEAKER_00 (17:51):
And I was like, Okay, and we'll do it again, and
yeah, you know, there's othershows coming up, and uh, we will
definitely do it again.
But uh, that is that is so muchfun.
Now, you're not, I mean, it'sokay, you're not a huge country
fan.

SPEAKER_01 (18:05):
It's okay, you can say no, I get it, but I I'm not
personally the biggest countryfan, but I I definitely will say
my um like I have a betterunderstanding and appreciation
for country um since likeworking at the radio station and
kind of learning like what yourjob, like the role of your job,

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and um kind of listening to thesongs and going to concerts,
especially.
I think um like learning aboutthese artists and who they are
as real people, and thenlistening to their music and
seeing if there's a parallel orwhat what's going on with that
is um kind of shaped my view.

SPEAKER_00 (18:48):
Let me ask.
Yes, I've seen that, but nowthat you're in the building, the
radio station, and you meet theartist, does it give you like a
whole it a whole differentperspective that holy crap, this
guy, this guy's just like me.
Or, you know, I mean a goodexample, Atlas came through.

SPEAKER_01 (19:08):
I I was actually gonna mention Hardy.
Hardy.

SPEAKER_00 (19:11):
Oh yes, we did the Hardy thing.

SPEAKER_01 (19:14):
Oh my gosh.
This was like the best, this isthe best example of like
realizing like an artist is justso human being at the end of the
day.
We um we got to go to the radioroom for Hardy when he came up
to the amp over the summer, andSkip was super generous.
He was like, Reagan, do you wantto come to the back?
We can meet the we can meet theartist.
I was like, oh my gosh, this isawesome.

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We got to meet Co Wetzel, we gotto meet uh Sycaris, we got to
meet um Steven Wilson Jr.

SPEAKER_00 (19:44):
And he he was just on the award show last night.
I know you may be watching thisa few days down the road, but uh
the CMA awards, he played a bigrole in that.

SPEAKER_01 (19:52):
He did.
That's that's fun.
I think it's well deserved.
His performance was really,really good.
Very good.
I think he's saying something inthe way, like a rendition of
that.
He did um it gave me chills, itwas awesome.
Stand by me.
Yeah, something like that.
But he um Hardy came and hecomes around the corner and he

(20:12):
goes to like say hello to me,shake my hand, and doesn't Hardy
like slip on like water becauseit had rained.
He slipped on water and wheredid he end up?
He fell right into my arms,right into my arms, and I was
like, This guy's worked withMorgan Wallen.
This guy's worked with likeA-list country artists, and he

(20:33):
just fell into my arms.
Like that just happened.

SPEAKER_00 (20:36):
Should have seen the smile on her face.
I was it was quite all right,Livy.
It was quite all right.
She was like looking everyminute of it.

SPEAKER_01 (20:41):
Yeah, I was like, Will we do that again?
It was crazy, and I but he wassubjective.
Yeah, he was like so quick to belike, Are you okay?
And I'm like, I'm good.
Are you okay?
Like, you're the celebrity,like, and it just it was awesome
to like have that human momentbecause I I was also really
nervous to like meet theartists, and I it it just calmed

(21:03):
me down instantly.
I was like, I'm not nervousabout anything.
He's we're just here to have ahuman interaction, just have
some normal conver like you knowwhat I mean.
Like, this isn't there's nopressure, there's nothing that
we have to yeah, reading some ofthe comments.

SPEAKER_00 (21:18):
Uh Bill says I'm from North Syracuse.
Uh okay.
Uh Michael James uh saying, higuys, I remember my first
concert was at Chevy Court withmy dad, it was Johnny Rivers.
Do you know who Johnny Riversis?
I'm gonna bet you do not.
You don't okay.
So, anyways, he was he was bigin the in the 60s.

(21:38):
That was long, long before.
I mean, you know, that was along time ago, but yeah.
But I was I I Michael James, hisdad and I were very good
friends.

SPEAKER_01 (21:47):
So what's um what's like a good Johnny Rivers song?

SPEAKER_00 (21:50):
Uh Summer Rain.

SPEAKER_01 (21:52):
Summer Rain.

SPEAKER_00 (21:53):
Secret Agent Man.

SPEAKER_01 (21:54):
Secret Agent Man.
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (21:57):
You're gonna go look those up now.
Yeah, I am tomorrow.
I'm gonna walk in and she'sgonna be on her computer at her
desk and uh, Googling, YouTube,and all these.
Yeah, I love it.
I absolutely love it.
So, um, I mean, just uh youroverall experience is uh you've
come out of your shell.
I mean, I'll tell you that uh,and if mom and dad are watching,

(22:18):
now I get it.
But uh absolutely and hopefullythey are.
They haven't chimed in yet, butuh hopefully they are.

SPEAKER_01 (22:25):
So they they probably are.
They probably are awesome.

SPEAKER_00 (22:28):
Yeah, tell me a little bit about your family.

SPEAKER_01 (22:30):
My family, well, um, I'm the oldest of three girls.
I have two younger sisters.
Um we fight over clothes, or ohmy gosh, don't even get me
started.
First of all, I kid.

SPEAKER_00 (22:45):
I hear stories of you know, sisters and uh yeah.
Are you do you share a bedroomor do you have your own rooms?

SPEAKER_01 (22:53):
We we all have our own rooms.
We we do share clothes.
I think that's that's normalthough.
You know, it's all the bickeringand all of the, you know, she
took my clothes, oh my gosh, sheused all the toilet paper, she
did this, she did that.
Like that's just normal sisterstuff at the end of the day.

(23:13):
It's they're awesome, and myparents are amazing.
So I come from a really greatfamily.
I'm very lucky.

SPEAKER_00 (23:19):
God bless you.
You're down by the river, aren'tyou, right?

SPEAKER_01 (23:21):
Yeah, we're right on the subaco river.

SPEAKER_00 (23:23):
Yeah, does that freeze over?

SPEAKER_01 (23:25):
Nope.

SPEAKER_00 (23:25):
Nope.
It doesn't, it's always flowing.

SPEAKER_01 (23:27):
Always, always flowing, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (23:30):
Yeah.
Do you swim right there?
No by your yard.
No, no, why not?

SPEAKER_01 (23:34):
Well, the river goes too fast.
The river, yeah.
The current is um is reallystrong in the river.
It like it travels towards thelake, so it it just it goes
really crazy.

SPEAKER_00 (23:46):
That's cool.
It was quite it's cool then.
Yeah, do you have a boat?

SPEAKER_01 (23:49):
Be sure do.
We have a boat.

SPEAKER_00 (23:52):
We need to do the podcast from the boat.

SPEAKER_01 (23:54):
On the boat.
Next time.

SPEAKER_00 (23:55):
So, mom and dad, when you're listening, we will
bring the skip clark podcastportable setup and we'll bring
it on the boat.

SPEAKER_01 (24:02):
Yeah.
And we'll do it live from there.
I think people would love that.

SPEAKER_00 (24:05):
Do they have power?
Or we have to run one long assextension.

SPEAKER_01 (24:08):
We might, yeah, we might have to bring something to
the day for the page.
We're just gonna be floating outin the front.

SPEAKER_00 (24:13):
We can't go too far, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (24:15):
We'll just hang out on the dock, no worries.

SPEAKER_00 (24:17):
What is one thing that absolutely drives you nuts?
Crazy.

SPEAKER_01 (24:22):
One thing that drives like a pet peeve.

SPEAKER_00 (24:24):
Yeah, no, no, no, something that just it just
drives you nuts.

SPEAKER_01 (24:29):
Something that drives me nuts.
Oh my gosh.
Well, that's hard.

SPEAKER_00 (24:33):
I don't know.
You're too sweet, you're toonice.
You're too.

SPEAKER_01 (24:35):
I I am.

SPEAKER_00 (24:36):
I think Becky's rubbing off on you.
Is you know, like you said,she's the nicest person in the
world.

SPEAKER_01 (24:41):
I'm a very understanding person.
Um, but if something were tolike rub me the wrong way, I
don't know.
Like, I don't like loud chewing.

SPEAKER_00 (24:52):
You know, like oh, I hate that.
Well, that's good to know.
That's um, but I know I hatethat too.
I hate that.
Yeah, I cannot stand.
Uh, and it drives, and and if mywife's listening, she'll pop the
door open and go, yep, that'sright.
But when she pops her gum oranything like that, and I'm with
her, that you don't like that?

SPEAKER_01 (25:10):
I don't like that.
I pop my gum.
So good thing.

SPEAKER_00 (25:13):
I haven't heard that yet, but now okay, now you know.
Now I know you know, but you'reright, the chewing.
And uh that's one thing.
One of that is a pet peeve ofmine as well.
Being on the air, and when I'mlistening to somebody on the air
and I I know they're eatingsomething, it drives me.
I go back, you know what?
It goes, I the skip happens.

SPEAKER_02 (25:33):
Yeah, skip happens.

SPEAKER_00 (25:35):
It does, but um yeah, so that's one thing, and
clipping uh of your fingernailsor your toenails.
I can't stand that.

SPEAKER_01 (25:43):
That's annoying too.
Do you want to know what elseI'm it's not that it like I
don't know, it's just I havelike a hard time understanding
it's it's kind of a pet peeve.
Just people that are monotone,people that don't like have
inflections in their tone, andlike, do you know what I mean?
Like it's I do know for me, it'skind of hard to understand their
emotions when they don't likefluctuate their tones, or true,

(26:06):
or like when they're happy, likeyou'll sound happy, or if you're
sad, you'll or mad, you'll soundmad.

SPEAKER_00 (26:12):
You're just like hey, what's going on?

SPEAKER_01 (26:13):
Nothing, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (26:15):
Yeah, things are good.
That's so hard.
What's going on, Ms.
Ryan?

SPEAKER_01 (26:18):
Yeah, I think yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of the
thing.
No, I know.
It's like, dude, what's wrong?
Yeah, it's like come on, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (26:27):
Life's good.
Thanks for asking.

SPEAKER_01 (26:28):
You know, that monitor sadness from inside out.

SPEAKER_00 (26:33):
When was the last time you really got pissed off
at something?
Or and what was it?
What made you really mad oneday?

SPEAKER_01 (26:40):
What made me really mad?
Hmm.
I don't usually I don't know, Itry not to get over that.

SPEAKER_00 (26:49):
Good, good.
That's good for you.
You know, if you know how tohandle it.

SPEAKER_01 (26:52):
I try to live the let them theory, you know.
I can only control what I cancontrol.
Um, so when other people actkooky or act a little wild, I
try to take it with a grain ofsalt, which is uh it's very hard
to do that, you know what Imean?
It's it's hard to not let otherpeople's negativity or emotions

(27:12):
kind of impact your own.

SPEAKER_00 (27:14):
I hope you never change.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (27:17):
Yeah, it's hard, it's hard, but it's um it's
something that I think helps.
I think it leads to more peaceof mind.
That yeah.
I try to do that.

SPEAKER_00 (27:28):
Because you you you are unique because a lot of
people no, seriously.

SPEAKER_01 (27:33):
Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 (27:34):
That's there's not a lot of people like you in a good
way.
Yes, absolutely in a good way.
You gotta love that.
How would you um so we get youon a on a uh regular basis
become you know, like the theco-host here, and we'll be each
other's co-host uh with SkipHappens when we can do it as
much as we can do it.
Uh, would you say you're thestoryteller?

(27:54):
Maybe you're gonna be the onewith the random facts, you're
gonna be the big uh laughter umor laugher.
Uh you're gonna call me out onmy nonsense.

SPEAKER_01 (28:02):
But like what's my my voice of reason?

SPEAKER_00 (28:05):
Maybe the wild card.
Yeah, you can pick any of those.

SPEAKER_01 (28:08):
I think I just wanna be like kind of a mix of like
that funny and just like bereal.
I wanna I just wanna berelatable, and yeah, I think
that's really it.
I just want to be relatable.
I want someone to be like, youknow what?
I really jive with what she'ssaying and and how she feels.

SPEAKER_00 (28:26):
And yeah, that's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 (28:28):
That's my goal.

SPEAKER_00 (28:29):
That's very cool.
Well, I hopefully all that worksout.
Uh I guess this is why uh thisis gonna work.
I love this.
And and you know, like you saidbefore, there's a difference.
So, you know, just because who Iam and what I've been through
and how long I've been workingand you know, all that.
And then here, you you are Idon't know if I'm gonna pick the
right the rookie, the newperson.

SPEAKER_01 (28:50):
I think it I like blank canvas.
You're more like you're morelike a Van Gogh painter, this
artistic over here.
Yeah, and I'm like a blankcanvas, maybe a stick figure.
Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 (29:02):
Yeah, so uh all right.
See, I think you are a very coolyoung lady.
I think you've got you've got itall going.
Um, you're in a good place,you've got a great attitude.
Uh I love your passion, yourdedication, and you're willing
to do whatever it takes to makeit work.
And I totally get that.

(29:22):
Now you look at me, and I'vebeen doing this a long, long
time.
I sit down with artists, Iinterview the artist, you see me
do that.

SPEAKER_01 (29:29):
It's like yeah, but you wake up every day and you
like it's not it's not even likeit's like it's like autopilot
for you, and I see that as likean out a person outside of your
like story, you know what Imean?
Like, I see that you talk aboutlike me having a passion.
I see that from your end, and Ithink it's so inspiring that you

(29:52):
you have so much experience andyou've like done so much, and
that you wake up every daywanting to do more.
I think it's really It'sinspired me to want to do more.
And I think that's really whatgave me the courage to be like,
you want to know what skip?
We're gonna I'm getting on thepodcast.
Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (30:08):
And that's what she did.
Because I just want you to knowthat.
That's what she did.
She goes, I want to do this.

SPEAKER_01 (30:12):
Yeah.
I something overcame me.
I was like, we're doing this.
Like this is happening.
It's yeah, it's gotta be done.

SPEAKER_00 (30:19):
I love it.
So, you know, and I know there'sa lot of people my age.
I've got grandkids.
I mean, let's just put it thatway.
I'm up there, but uh been doingthis a long time.
But uh, I wake up, you're right.
I wake up in the morning, andthis goes back so back to what I
was saying before is you gottalove what you do.
Yeah, even with all the BS thatthat goes on in everywhere, I

(30:40):
guess.
It's still I wake up in themorning and I know I get up, do
everything I gotta do, getready, and I leave for work.
I'm there early.
I don't have to be there whenI'm there, I don't have to be
there till 10 o'clock, but I'mthere 39 o'clock.

SPEAKER_01 (30:52):
Yeah, you want to be there, and that's like the
difference.
I do is like, and that's kind ofwhat I've I've started to feel
too is like there's a differencebetween like needing, like
feeling like you're needing togo to that job versus like
wanting to go to that job.
Like I drive to the radiostation, I I drive from Fulton,
so it takes it takes likeroughly 30 minutes.

(31:14):
So I how many songs is that?

SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
Do you listen?
Hang on, I don't mean tointerrupt, but maybe I do.

SPEAKER_02 (31:19):
But uh but you know what?

SPEAKER_00 (31:22):
It's like somebody would say to me, How long does
it take you to get to the radiostation?
And I'll go, it's gonna take meabout two and a half songs.
That's how we look at it.

SPEAKER_01 (31:31):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (31:32):
Um so 30 minutes, you're probably talking six.
Yeah, I was gonna say six toeight songs, whatever you're
listening to, and that'sentirely up to you.

SPEAKER_01 (31:39):
Yeah, right.
Yeah, because some yeah, yeah,the songs are usually between
two to four minutes.
Yeah, that sounds about right.

SPEAKER_00 (31:46):
Miss Ray's and jamming out as she's going from
one job to the next.
You gotta love that.
You gotta live that, man.
So um, what is it uh that youactually want to do, the end
result of all this?
What what where are you going?
What where do you want to go?

SPEAKER_01 (32:02):
That's a good question.
Um, you know, I'm kind I'm notgonna lie, I'm kind of in a in a
state where I'm gonna be honest,I I don't really know, but I
think like what I would love todo is like own my own like media
firm.
And I know that's a wild take,but um I think that like the way

(32:25):
like kind of working at theradio station, one of the things
that I I'm so interested in isthe really like how we brand and
promote and market artists andhow like we choose certain
things to be associated withartists and stuff like that.
So I think like with my interestin photography and and like
videography and then learningabout production and audio, um,

(32:49):
it all kind of comes togetherand wanting to like help people
and like artists in the long runbe able to brand themselves and
market themselves and maybeworking with a record label or I
don't know, like some maybe myown record label, you know, like
something along those lines.

SPEAKER_00 (33:06):
Because I think being the support for the
artists is so important, butalso yeah, because of where you
are and the relationship thatmany of us have, for example,
that I have with Nashville,you've seen it by those that
stop by the station and stuff,yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (33:22):
Yes.
So I know how important thatthat support is for the artists,
but I I don't know, I just thinkit's so cool how these artists
get to like inspire so manypeople and they have to be
strategic and how they do it.
And you know what what happensif there's a PR disaster?
Who cleans that up, you know?
And I I were were wonder aboutthat stuff, and you know, I kind

(33:46):
of want to take care of that.
And you could, and I could.
So yeah, that's I like yeah,that's what I would like to do.

SPEAKER_00 (33:53):
Would maybe sound like to be it on air.
I mean, we're doing the podcast.
This is something entirelydifferent every day.
We can go whatever direction wewant to, say whatever we want.

SPEAKER_01 (34:03):
Because I'm I love being on air, I love being on
camera, and I love kind of beinga personality, um, aside from
helping other people and doingthat other thing.
So I I don't know.
Maybe I'll do do both.
I don't I don't think I have topick one or the other, right?
That's what I was just gonna sayis that I don't think I have to

(34:23):
pick one or the other.
I think I can do all of it, andwhatever works or opportunities
arise is what's meant to be,because I j I just trust the
universe, really.

SPEAKER_00 (34:37):
When was the last time you went to a movie?

SPEAKER_01 (34:40):
Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 (34:41):
You get like, you know, you got your girlfriends,
you get together, and do you go,oh maybe um you know, get a
cocktail because you're oldenough now.
Yeah, and you go to a movie.

SPEAKER_01 (34:50):
Um the last time I went to the movie, I honestly
think the last time I went wasfor the first Wicked.

SPEAKER_00 (34:56):
Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 (34:56):
Um, it was like it was last year.

SPEAKER_00 (34:59):
Yeah, well, it was at least last year.

SPEAKER_01 (35:01):
Yes.
I I believe that was the lasttime, and I went with a couple
of girlfriends and cried like abunch of babies because I love
it.
We're sensitive, and Wicked isvery touching.
So, but I'll so I'll be going tothe movie soon.
Wicked 2 is coming out.
Don't worry.
Uh so next time we do thepodcast, I'll have a good movie

(35:22):
story.

SPEAKER_00 (35:23):
See, you should do like we should do some movie
reviews, we could do uh so manydifferent avenues we could go
down.
Yeah.
Um, you know, every week.
Uh this week we're running intothe holidays, so some of the
artists aren't available, butnext week I have a couple of
them on.
I'd love to have you come in andsit with me when I do one of
those.

SPEAKER_01 (35:39):
I would you know to do that.

SPEAKER_00 (35:41):
And you and I, I mean, we could both interview
the artists.

SPEAKER_01 (35:44):
Yeah, that would be awesome.

SPEAKER_00 (35:46):
Yeah.
Because as you know, I've had alot of them on.
Plus, you know, if they're inthe radio station, we could do
it from the radio station.
But uh that's yeah, that'spretty cool.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (35:55):
Yeah, that sounds great.

SPEAKER_00 (35:56):
I love it.

SPEAKER_01 (35:57):
Let me know.
I'm just like, wow, wow, let'sdo this.

SPEAKER_00 (36:01):
Yeah, it is cool.
So here you are.
You're in the uh Skip Happenspod zone, the lights are on, I
got the Skip Happens sign behindus.
I got Miss Ray sitting overhere, who you're gonna see a
whole lot more.
Uh, if anybody has anyquestions, you know, I'm sitting
right here.
You want to ask me somethingabout radio?
Let's do it.
You know, I'm in local radio.
How important is local radio?
It is so very important.

(36:22):
It is, you know, because uh alot of these stations uh oh the
music may be pretty good, butthey don't have that local
connection.
We're not talking about theaccident on Route 81, or we
would be, but others would not.
Um, you know, even some of themusic, sometimes we can throw in
a little local just to give itthat little novelty, or you

(36:45):
know, but they other placescannot do that.
So cannot do what we do withinour building.
And uh locally owned, locallyoperated, hometown.
We're not kidding when we saythat.
Uh, even with our morning show,I have people come out and say,
you know, well, big D and Bubbaaren't local.
No, they're not, but they're inNashville.

But I will tell you this (37:03):
every day I wake up, I talk, I can
talk to Big D and Bubba, and Ican also get into the radio
station and go, hey dude, justto let you know, Route 81,
southbound uh Liverpool isblocked solid.
There's a there's a wreck there.
30 seconds, we have that on theair.

SPEAKER_01 (37:19):
So right, and the and the logs and like the
information that goes out everyday is being looked at.

SPEAKER_00 (37:25):
And you do your hometown uh happening.
Yeah, so where are we?

SPEAKER_01 (37:28):
I have my own segment on the air, which is so
cool.
I love it.

SPEAKER_00 (37:33):
What was it like when you first heard your voice
on the air?
Was it what did you like?
Oh my god, had had to pull over.

SPEAKER_01 (37:40):
Yeah, it was it was it was it's like that's me.
The first time I heard it wasactually at work.
I was sitting at my my desk andskip had a crunch, and yeah, no,
like I don't even think you werethere, and I I just heard it,
and I kind of just stoppedbreathing because I was like, it

(38:02):
wasn't that I was thinking Iwasn't thinking about how I was
hearing it, I was thinking abouthow everybody else could hear
it, and I was like, oh my gosh,all these people are gonna hear
my voice because it's actuallyon the air, you know, because
it's just weird.
It's weird to like have theediting and you kind of have the
finished product, and you'relike, okay, this is gonna be on
the air, and then you know, youhear a Morgan Wallen song, and

(38:26):
then all of a sudden it startsto transition, and it goes to to
Reagan talking, and you're like,Oh my gosh, that's so weird.
Becky wheels around, are youokay?
Yeah, she's checking in on me.

SPEAKER_00 (38:38):
Yeah, she's like another mom to you, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 (38:40):
She is my my work mom for sure.

SPEAKER_00 (38:43):
Yeah, she's my sister-in-law, which I told you.
So I yeah, yeah, that's anotherwhole thing.
So and and on that note, what isum because when we have family
get togethers, of course, MissBecky joins us as well, and it
gets a little crazy.
But uh, what's your house likeduring the holidays?
Do you I mean Thanksgiving,everybody go to your place?
Do they well?

SPEAKER_01 (39:02):
Um, the holidays kind of look a little different
um every year, you know what Imean?
Our family keeps getting biggerand bigger.
I have cousins that keep havingbabies, which is amazing.
Our family keeps growing, soit's like, oh my gosh, do we
have enough room to do it in thehouse again this year, or should
we find another place to go?

(39:22):
So it really depends on theholiday.
You know, sometimes we do it atour house, sometimes we go um to
an aunt or grandma's, orsometimes we we go to a
restaurant even.
It just depends on who's comingand how many, yeah, how many
people are invited to the party.

SPEAKER_00 (39:38):
Cool.

SPEAKER_01 (39:39):
It's uh and do you do um do you do holidays right
up here?

SPEAKER_00 (39:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right here, right upstairs.
Yeah, yeah, it gets great.
We are the sure we are the partyhouse.
For whatever reason, we are theparty house.

SPEAKER_01 (39:52):
Well, your house is beautiful.
I I said that as I as I came in.
I was like, your house is so.
You got those permanent lightsout front.
And they looked cute.

SPEAKER_00 (40:01):
Aren't they cool?
Yeah, they are cool because Ican just get on my phone here
and change them.
I could turn them off right now.
I could turn them off.
I'll have to show you later.

SPEAKER_01 (40:07):
You are because I I thought you'd like to go outside
and no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 (40:12):
My gosh, no.
I don't even know where my phoneis or I'd show you.
But uh it's uh I use the go,they're called Govi lights, and
then there's a lot of differentbrands, but they're definitely
not the cheapest.
But uh they are very cool.
Goby.
I've got the Govi Christmas treeon the back.
Uh I've got the if I don't knowif you can see the blue blue
light behind me.

SPEAKER_01 (40:30):
I think that's Govy.

SPEAKER_00 (40:32):
Yeah, what that's Govi too.

SPEAKER_01 (40:33):
That's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (40:34):
See, I just uh watch this.

SPEAKER_01 (40:36):
So yeah, Govy should have sponsored this part.

SPEAKER_00 (40:39):
Goby, Govi?
Yeah, if somebody sends this tothem, that would be great
because well, actually, I don'tknow if you're gonna be able to
see it, but let me do this here.
Hang on, we're going there.
So let's see.
Let's do this.

(41:00):
No, I didn't.
What did I do?

SPEAKER_01 (41:03):
Changing the lights outside.
I know.

SPEAKER_00 (41:06):
I think there were going on.

SPEAKER_01 (41:09):
Oh, it's what happened?

SPEAKER_00 (41:11):
They turned red, right?
Describe it.
Describe it.
They turn red.
So, anyways, let's go here.
Let's uh look, this is calledforest.
I want you to describe it.

SPEAKER_01 (41:23):
Alright, so forest is green, but for some reason it
like s it has speckling blue andwhite lights that go throughout
it.

SPEAKER_00 (41:33):
You know, I can't raise the camera up to see it,
but that's why I'm asking you todescribe it.
Alright, wait a minute.
Let's let me find another uh Iwish they had like a sunset one.

SPEAKER_01 (41:42):
Like oh, they do?

SPEAKER_00 (41:44):
They do.
Stand by.
Stand by.
Well, wait a minute.
This one's snowflake.

SPEAKER_01 (41:51):
Oh.
I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 (41:54):
Yeah, I know.
I don't know where they havethe.
No, no, no, no.
Alright, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
So uh we could do.
I saw uh sunset on heresomewhere.

SPEAKER_01 (42:08):
We should get these in the office.
Miss Becky and I talk abouthaving like little parties in
the office all the time when wedo our song.

SPEAKER_00 (42:15):
I don't know how much uh the owner would
appreciate that, but uh no, Iknow I know the song of the day.
You guys do a song of the day?
Yeah, so what did I miss this?

SPEAKER_01 (42:27):
So sometimes when back Miss Becky and I we get
it's like a slower day, youknow.
We need to we just need somemomentum to get through the work
day.
She will show me like a song ofthe day from the clubbing days,
like from the the 80s, becauseshe's like, girl, you don't know
what you don't you there'snothing to do around here.

(42:47):
Sorry, I thought about how I hadto do this Becky impression.
I was like, Oh my gosh.
But she's like, There's nothingto do around here, there's no
place to dance, there's nowhereto go.
Like, what do you kids do?
And I'm like, Well, show me thesong, show me, show me what it's
like.
And she's she's missing this.
She's quick, yeah.
While you're in the studio, wewe have um we pretend we're in

(43:09):
the club in the 80s.
I'm missing all this.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (43:11):
Well, now that you told me, well, look, I got uh
wait a minute, I I put uhcandlelight on.
Yeah, but but you see, we havethe other lights which are
bright, so yeah.
Yeah, well, yeah, no, you mightbe able to see a little tone
change, color change in the inthe picture here.
But uh, yeah, so it's great.
So here we are, pod, we're inthe the pod zone, and we're

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doing the podcast.
Uh Skip Happens.
Do you like that name?

SPEAKER_01 (43:36):
I do.
Skip happens.

SPEAKER_00 (43:38):
So what I did to get that name, this was before the
pandemic.
Uh I said I wanted to start astart a podcast.
So I went on Facebook.
Maybe it was MySpace back then.
I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 (43:49):
No my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 (43:51):
No, I'm kidding, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 (43:52):
Don't say that.
It wasn't.
Do you know what that is?
I know what MySpace is.

SPEAKER_00 (43:56):
Dad had one, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (43:58):
Well, I don't know if dad, I don't know if dad had
one, but I learned about them.
I learned about MySpace.
When did when did you have theMySpace?

SPEAKER_00 (44:08):
Oh, we're gone.

SPEAKER_01 (44:09):
They were in the 2000s, right?

SPEAKER_00 (44:13):
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, yeah.
Early 2000s.
Yeah.
So, anyways, I went on Facebookand I said, I'm gonna start a
podcast.
I said, I will uh I'm I'mlooking for ideas.
What should I call it?
I said, and the one idea I pick,I will give you a$25 dunking
card.
So somebody came up.

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Well, you laugh, it was actuallySam, our general manager, his
brother-in-law, Sammy.

SPEAKER_01 (44:40):
Uh Sam's brother-in-law is Sammy.

SPEAKER_00 (44:43):
Yes, you didn't know that?

SPEAKER_01 (44:44):
I didn't know that.
I didn't know Sam'sbrother-in-law was very Italian.

SPEAKER_00 (44:47):
Everybody's a Sam.

SPEAKER_01 (44:51):
Everyone's a Sam.

SPEAKER_00 (44:53):
But then Sammy, of course, it's his wife's brother,
uh, Sammy.
And he said, Call it SkipHappens.
And out of all those, I said,you know, that's that's awesome.
It is because it's a great playon words.
So he won the contest.
He got the$25 dunking card.
So, but then so since then, umbefore the pandemic, uh, as you

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know, people here's here's howall this went down.
Of course, I had a buddy of minemake the table that we're
sitting at, so skip happens,right?
Burned into it.
Um he made this and gave it tome.
Uh, this table is I do I willnever get rid of it.

SPEAKER_01 (45:29):
Um yeah, this is a beautiful table.

SPEAKER_00 (45:32):
So you know, we got all ready to go.
I invested in the microphones, Igot the cameras, I got all the
good stuff.
And um the artist, when theywould come through on what they
call the radio tour, which youare now familiar with, for
example, the artists that havecome into the station already uh
back in the day, I would they'dtell me what day they were
coming in, and I said, Well, youknow, if you can make it like

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early in the evening, I'll getpizza, wings, and beer, and
we'll go sit in my podcast zone,my pot zone.
So they used to come over here,yeah.
But then everything stopped inthe world.
The pandemic set in, everythingshut everything down.
I mean, everything.

SPEAKER_02 (46:12):
Yeah, you know how that went.

SPEAKER_00 (46:13):
It was like, you know, we had to work from home,
get the full studio over there,and um so now it actually, this
is where I think the pandemickind of helped me out.
Okay, because now I mean youyou're sitting here, but like
when I get the artist, I mean,um, you know, usually they're as

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we mentioned early on in thepodcast, they're sitting home
and they're either on a tourbus, sitting home, maybe at a
venue, whatever, but they'redoing the podcast, and now it's
all done almost like a Zoom,even though I use a different
platform.
But yeah, same idea.
So that's because that's becauseof the pandemic.

SPEAKER_01 (46:50):
Now everyone's so cool that that we've been able
to adjust like that so that youcan have that.

SPEAKER_00 (46:57):
See, so there was something good that did come out
of the pandemic.

SPEAKER_01 (47:00):
So yeah, so you can do more interviews and I love
doing interviews to moreartists.

SPEAKER_00 (47:05):
I don't know how many people really love doing
interviews.
I think you would love it.
I because I as I see you heretonight.
But um, I love doing them at theradio station too, and all the
public affairs that you set up,you get on the calendar and I do
the interviews, which eventuallyyou're gonna hopefully be doing
some of those.

SPEAKER_01 (47:23):
Yeah, so yes.

SPEAKER_00 (47:25):
It's cool.
Yes, it's cool.
What else?
What else do you want to know?
Anything else?

SPEAKER_01 (47:28):
Anything, but anything anybody have any
questions?

SPEAKER_00 (47:32):
Questions.
I don't know.
It's cool.

SPEAKER_01 (47:36):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (47:37):
Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01 (47:39):
I'm yeah, I know, I know it's been amazing.
This is just so cool.
Such a great opportunity.

SPEAKER_00 (47:44):
It is, and uh, it's gonna live online.
Yes, yeah.
I'm surprised.

SPEAKER_01 (47:49):
This is one of many.

SPEAKER_00 (47:50):
Uh, mom and dad have not chimed in.
You sure they're watching?

SPEAKER_01 (47:54):
They're shy.
They're you thought I was shy inthe beginning.
Mom and dad are shy.

SPEAKER_00 (48:00):
I want to give them a shot.
What's mom's first name?

SPEAKER_01 (48:02):
Kelly.

SPEAKER_00 (48:03):
Kelly.
Hi, Kelly.

SPEAKER_01 (48:05):
Dad is Frank.

SPEAKER_00 (48:06):
Hi, Kelly and Frank in Fulton.

SPEAKER_01 (48:09):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (48:09):
I love it.
And uh, look at something to beproud of.
Absolutely.
Yeah, you got a wonderfulfamily, you got uh some very
talented kids.
Um, looking at one of them rightnow.
So no, and I'm proud to have heron her staff and uh be able to
uh you know have some fun withwhat we do at the radio station
and uh we learn from it.
So it's Miss Ray, everybody.
Miss Ray.

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Yes, see that was uh yeah, we'realmost uh almost 50 minutes
already.
Yeah, it goes by fast.

SPEAKER_01 (48:36):
Went by super fast.
Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 (48:38):
My son.
That's a television.

SPEAKER_01 (48:43):
Which I didn't really realize that was a TV
when I do you have flat screensin the house?

SPEAKER_00 (48:48):
I assume you do.

SPEAKER_01 (48:49):
Yeah, oh my goodness.
And when I did realize it was aTV, you told me the coolest
trick.
What?
Because I asked, I said, how didyou get that graphic on there?
And you were like, I put it on ahard drive, and then you could
put it on a flash drive.
A flash drive, not a hard drive.
Yeah, put it in the US.
I never would have thought ofthat.

SPEAKER_00 (49:06):
I was like, Then you go to the right input.

SPEAKER_01 (49:09):
Genius, that's how they do it.

SPEAKER_00 (49:11):
See, I can put your name up there next.
Yeah, we should split that.

SPEAKER_01 (49:15):
See, I'm making a graphic out of tomorrow.
Don't worry, I'll take care ofit.

SPEAKER_00 (49:21):
She says that she's no worries.
I'll come back from lunch andyou'll be going, I got it.

SPEAKER_01 (49:27):
Yeah, I got it ready to go.
Yep, I'll have emailed it to youalready.

SPEAKER_00 (49:31):
Miss Ray, you're awesome.
Proud to hear you.
You're awesome.
Yeah, thanks for coming by thepodcast and hang in, and uh you
got to meet the dog, you got tosay hello to everybody here in
the house.
You went to my my son's uh gameroom back there.

SPEAKER_01 (49:42):
That's me and Cave.

SPEAKER_00 (49:44):
Oh my god, that's that's the Zach Cave.

SPEAKER_01 (49:46):
Yeah, so awesome.
If you're a Syracuse sports fan,Zach has the setup.
Let me tell you, that was socool.

SPEAKER_00 (49:54):
Wait till you he's got you know his bedroom
upstairs is uh one thing I don'tknow if you know this or not, we
used to house baseball players.

SPEAKER_01 (50:01):
Major you you mentioned that, and I and it was
I think that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 (50:06):
It was very cool because you got to know them,
number one, and their way oflife.
And almost every baseball playerthat we had stay with us, and
sometimes their girlfriend ortheir wives or their families,
uh, a lot of them were Latino,and to learn the culture and

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voyage could they cook?
They would take over the kitchenupstairs and they would uh you
know plantains and all that.
Uh oh my god, and they'd belike, We're cooking tonight.
We want you to try this.
And the food was alwaysphenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 (50:39):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (50:39):
Yeah.
I came home one day.
I tell this story quite often,that uh many years ago when we
had all the players here, and Ithink they were the Syracuse
Chiefs at the time.
Um, but they didn't have a gamethat day.
I came home from work and therewere cars on both sides of my
street.
I mean, I'm like, wow,somebody's having a big ass
party this hour in theafternoon.

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Then all of a sudden I hear themusic and I go, it's coming from
my house.
And it's it's like, you know,it's the Latino music, it's all
that.
So I go in my backyard, the firepit is roaring.
They've got their made homemadesoup on the fire pit that they
would do in their homeland.
And it was the best soup ever.

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And that party went well intothe night.
Uh, and they were playingdominoes.
They all they played dominoes.

SPEAKER_01 (51:26):
It was so cool.

SPEAKER_00 (51:26):
It was very cool.

SPEAKER_01 (51:27):
So cool.

SPEAKER_00 (51:28):
And some of the big players, I mean, that some of
the players that were here thatday, little did the neighbors
know that some of those playerswere Major League Baseball
players.

SPEAKER_01 (51:37):
Who um who's one of the players that really like
stuck with you?
It doesn't have to be mostfamous.

SPEAKER_00 (51:43):
No, no, we had Paulo Espino, who was a pitcher.
Um he came on board once.
Uh, he stayed with us a coupleof seasons.
Um, we had Adrian Sanchez, whowas in the World Series.
Uh, he's to him and his wife,and kids and that kids were.

SPEAKER_01 (51:59):
I really watch, um, I don't really watch baseball.
I want to met I know AdrianSanchez.
I've heard that name, yeah.
I've heard that name.
So he stayed here.

SPEAKER_00 (52:07):
He's living in West Palm now.
We keep in touch, Paolo.
We keep in touch with.
Um going way back, Zach Walters,um, Ryan Totusco, um, Destin
Hood stayed with us.
Um, Destin was so cool.
Um trying, oh my god, just justhad a great lineup of people
here.

SPEAKER_02 (52:27):
Yeah, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 (52:29):
I know it's my life.
See, there's see there's lifeoutside of radio, too.
Yeah, and what we don't knowabout each other.
Yes, and I don't yeah, I was afireman.
I was a fireman for 20 years.
I was a medic.
I I did all that.
So something a lot of peopledon't know.
I ran a Zamboni, which we talkedabout.
Um, it was pretty cool.
My wife used to come out toNancy with before we were

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married, she'd come out to therink and ride my Zamboni.
That that her eye.
Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 (52:57):
Aw, you guys would do like yes little dates on the
Zamboni.

SPEAKER_00 (53:00):
Yeah, it's like she'd ride and I'd make a new
sheet of ice, you know?

SPEAKER_01 (53:03):
Quentin tells me you and Nancy are so cute.
You are.
I tell you all the time howadorable I think your wife is.
She's cute as a button.
Well, and she's so nice.
You're very lucky.
You're very lucky.
I'm a lucky guy.

SPEAKER_00 (53:21):
All right.
Miss Ray, you're awesome.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for watching, everybody.
This is what we call skiphappens.
And uh, you know what?
This is what it's about.
Yeah, it's a good idea.
And uh kind of doing things alittle bit different.
I'm gonna try to do this everyweek, one way or the other.
If you want to sit home, wecould do it that way too, if you
could zoom in.
Even though it's not zooming,it's a different platform, but
still.

SPEAKER_01 (53:40):
I don't know.
I might I might come back to thepod room.
I like the setup.
Yeah, I like the setup, I likethe microphone, I like the
headphones, I like thebobbleheads.
It's my bubbles, I like thewhole setup.

SPEAKER_00 (53:53):
I like the real deal.

SPEAKER_01 (53:54):
Yeah, that's why I'm like, I wanna stay here.

SPEAKER_00 (53:59):
You're welcome.
You're welcome.
It could be your Syracuse homewhen you're not in Fulton.
Yeah, love to have you.

SPEAKER_02 (54:05):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (54:05):
Uh Miss Ray, you're awesome.
Have a good night, everybody.
Thank you.
As soon as I find the uh mymouse here.
Got dual screen.
See, this is what happens.
It's like what happened to themouse.
I found it now.
So, but, anyways, thank you forwatching, everybody.
Go to YouTube, subscribe, andlet us know who you are or where

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you watch it from.
And uh, you know what?
We'll give you a shout out nexttime.
That's that's all we have.
Also, we got uh well, I guesssome of the older mugs here, but
uh anyways, I'll put them uplater.
We got new coffee mugs too forSkip Happens.
But uh what thanks for watching,everybody.

SPEAKER_01 (54:39):
Yes, thank you so much for watching.
Skip, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 (54:42):
You're so welcome.
It's good to see you.
As always, I see you every day,all day.