January 29, 2024 • 16 mins
What started as a conversation about football player underdogs turned into a conversation about how we all got started in radio and what we face on the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Welcome to Monday, everybody scary? Are you excited to be here?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
No, there's nothing welcoming about Monday.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I mean Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I mean right there, it's a paradox in that sentence.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I don't know if paradox means what you think it mean.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, it doesn't feel right.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
It seems like maybe oxy moron and oxymoron moron.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
I mean, I mean, okay, explain what you're trying to
we'll trying to say. Is it Monday is a mundane
I call it mundane, not Monday, because.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
If you're dragging your wagon.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's just okay. So let's say we had Monday off.
Would Tuesday be your Monday?
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Then?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Like, there's always gonna be a Monday for me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, I kind of like Mondays. I know that you're
gonna hate me for that, but I feel like it's
the beginning of the week. We're gonna start everything over again,
and there's so much.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Opportunity on the horizon.
Speaker 8 (01:01):
I like them.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Monday. Tuesday's a bitch.
Speaker 9 (01:04):
But I think Tuesday's better because Tuesdays you feel like
it's a shorter week and you get excited, so you're like,
I know, it's a shorter week, so you kind of
get like, no.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And so the week starts on Tuesday. Cool, But just
Tuesdays in general, I think they're kind of lame.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
See. I don't like Thursdays because Thursdays you're tired and
you're like, oh my god, why can't it just be Friday.
So you get to Thursday and yeah, there's that feeling
of oh great, only one more day or that bullshit.
But honestly, I'm just so tired on Thursdays. Like, I
don't like Thursdays.
Speaker 8 (01:30):
Whoa, I hate all the days, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I feel like the work week now is kind of
like built out with Wednesday, as everybody reports to work
on a Wednesday, and then if you have a three
day person, you have to come in Tuesday and Thursday.
And if you're a four day person, then you come
in Monday and then you take Friday off. So I
feel like that's how the work week is built out,
depending on what you're required to show up for.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, this building is pretty much a ghost down on Fridays.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh yeah, forget it.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
No, everybody everybody's out working, taking meetings, working working from home.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wednesday's the day around here. This place is popping on Wednesday.
You get lunch and it's always a pretty good lunch downstairs,
and everyone's here, everyone's.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Working on Who stays that late.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
That's when lunch comes at like twelve thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It comes at twelve.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's here.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm here, it's been.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Here lately, Andrew Josh Diamond. Yeah, lots of people, Scottie,
lots of people don't just run out.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It is amazing though, because you know, we give these
CEOs and presidents of these companies bullshit for their pizza party.
But honestly, lunch comes in. If it's free, I'm there.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, We're gonna take it. But still complain though.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Now if it's free, it's for me, honestly, Like, I'll
take free lunch all day.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
At Taco Bar, they had soul food. Oh my god,
they have good food.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Been Taco Bar two weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It comes in your email. They get the email and
then that line forms really fast. So you got to
get down there real quick. Hey, one thing I wanted
to talk about, So, okay, the Detroit Lions loss. They
got beat by the San Francisco forty nine ers. But
the crazy thing you know, this story Brock Purdy who
was two years ago. Yeah, the last pick, mystery, irrelevant,
(03:14):
the last pick in the NFL draft, and here he
is going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's mind boggling.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It just proves that, Okay, you might be quote unquote irrelevant.
You might not have the opportunity, the microphone, the stage
to show what you can do. But people are talented, you.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Know what I mean? Well, they say Cream rises to
the top.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Okay, if he's if he's as great as he is,
and he was at the bottom, he will eventually have
shown his you know, true colors and and his his
you know, strengths and his talents.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And he did. Okay, he actually rose to the top.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, let me let me flip this on you, Danielle.
So if you didn't start in New York City, if
you didn't you start one hundred Novis durand do you
think you would have made it back here? Do you
think that Cream would have risen to the top. I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I honestly couldn't tell. You had no idea the same.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Question a lot of or would you be would you
be in I don't know Jackson, Mississippi.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I think a lot of a lot of things would
have happen, had to have happened right, Like you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
A lot of things are timing at the right place,
right time, and timing, no matter how good you are,
if you got to be in the right place.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
And that's the same thing with Brock Purdy though he
was the third string quarterback and literally three two to
three quarterbacks got injured or kicked off the team, so
the same thing. So what you're saying is true. It's
it's a right place, right time, and then show your talent.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
If you think about how Danielle and I started here.
We started as people who just answered the phone in
the background while we were going to college, so a
few things had to happen. We graduated in ninety six.
In that may that it was also the time when
they shuffled everything around and Elvis moved from afternoons to mornings,
(05:06):
so that had to happen.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
As Scotty said, timing. So that happened, and.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Then we didn't fly the coop to go somewhere else
because I was already had one foot out the door.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm like, all right now, I gotta go do radio somewhere,
and I was.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Thinking about maybe leaving home, but they're like, well, wait,
this new morning show with Elvis is here.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You're already answering the phones.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Why don't we just parlay you, you know, kind of
transition you into like a full time position.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Same thing happened to Danielle and Greg T.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
And I met Elvis at a party with underwear on
his head, and he was wasted, right, and he said,
what come and work for Budge.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But there's a lot to be said to timing, Dan
Yell Danielle.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
So that's one of the ways I got my foot
in the door with him.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
At least my entire career was timing. Okay, everything explain well.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I mean, the way things worked here is similar to
what Skary was saying, because I was I was a
promotions guy for a second, and then before Greg T,
there was another morning show idiot, and so they had
me driving him around when he went out to do
goofy things. And then that show all got fired and
Elvis came in and I was already kind of doing that,
so I started doing that for Greg T. And then
(06:15):
they started slowing Greg T down a little bit. This
was before that we were syndicated. What year was that,
like two thousand and seven or something like that. Yeah,
and so they got rid of me. I was not
on the morning show for about six months. I had
to work in promotions like put on a real clothes
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Enter Miami.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, and I wasn't gonna last that much longer. And
then thank god, Miami came on board and like, oh, Scott,
he's here. We need you to run the show because
we're going into syndication. So it's just everything was just timing.
You know, All along my entire career, I've never actually
really like gone for anything. Everything just kind of happened
for me, which was I mean great, I guess, but
sadly it's probably not gonna happen the way in the future,
so I better get my shit together.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yes you should, so, Gandhi. So like you, You're like me,
You kind of bounced around. If this opportunit it didn't
come up, would you have taken another opportunity elsewhere? You know,
do you think you would have ended up here? Was
this your ultimate goal or did you want to? I
don't know just where opportunity took you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think if you're working in radio, your goal is
definitely to get to New York City, right because it's
the number one market in the country. So for sure
I would have I mean, I was happy actually where
I was until until this opportunity came around and everything
went to shit.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But it was good there until it wasn't. So I
was cool in Boston, and I actually had just signed
a long term contract to be there for a while,
and I mean, I would have taken other opportunities, but
I was still really happy in Boston. I mean, it
was it was fine. I never thought this would come around.
I actually applied to this job a long time ago
and I got an email back from somebody that said,
(07:52):
you're great, we love your demo. You're too young. That
person to this day will say, I never said you
were too young. That's an HR violation. Have the email,
it doesn't matter. And this is it came around.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
That's right, So you could have been on our show
like as early as like twenty and twelve.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
It's yeah, that's right, what if it, because maybe it
wouldn't have worked out then, So.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I feel like things because she was too young.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Well that's where the cream line comes in because cream
coming fry.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
To use the word creepy, it really does. You don't
have to say it so many times. Scary to the
top of everything.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Okay, you love candy Man song everything, the frog and
the froth.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of the of the hot chocolate.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I don't know. Scary, yeah, I know you well, I would.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
I don't think I would have been here if I
had gotten my final audition in Disney World and gotten cast.
Because while I was interning here, and while I was
working behind the scenes and answering phones and and you know,
working my way up doing things, I was auditioning for
Disney World, and I made it to the final cut,
and then I found that I was cut. But my
(09:01):
mom always says, it happens for a reason, Right, There's
a reason you got cut from Disney because you wouldn't
have had this career and Bible.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I'm like, if I never saw that glory hole in Albuquerque,
I might not be here right now.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So what about the facts.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
We'll call it the talent, having the talent, having the timing,
and is there anything else other factors involved.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
With gott He said it during the show. Your network
is your net worth? Right, Like I think back to
how I got here, and it was you know. Talent
was a part of it, Timing was a part of it,
but honestly, a big part of it was who you know?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, and it's you know.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
That's the one thing I will tell anybody starting in
this business is make friends with everybody, because you don't
know who is going to be in a position to
help you in the future.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
That is the one thing when I go and speak
at different colleges, I say, First of all, I say,
try to intern wherever you possibly can in a business
that you want to wind up in. So if it's
something you're passionate about, try to intern at that place
that you would like to wind up. But the other
thing is ask around if you can help. When I started,
(10:04):
I asked every department at the radio station, Can I
help you? Can I help you? Can I do anything?
Can I do anything? And I would get in at
five am and I would leave at five pm. And
I wasn't getting paid anything because interns back then we
didn't get paid anything. Now they get paid.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's that's a bonus contention because I I I'm the
same way like now everybody's like, well they need to
be paid, and there I showed up at I'm like you, Danielle,
I showed up at five am. I stayed all day.
I'd chomp on my days off because you know what
that is what it took back then.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
Yeah, and you wanted them to.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Say if you did get paid for.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
That though, But I wouldn't be where I am if
I didn't do.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
That right, because I feel like at to some point
they were when they're thinking of a position, they go, oh,
you know what, so and so she's always around, she's
always helpful. Maybe we can get her to help out,
you know, and and stuff like that. I mean, I
got my start because of my bronx accent. I think
because Tom Polman. He the other girl that was on
the show with Sharon, she did something that was bad
(11:04):
and they got rid of her, and he said, hey,
we love your bronx accent. Let's try you in there
and see what happens. And that's how I got in there,
which was amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Danielle.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Do you think that accent was what held you back
from the Disney audition?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Did they tell you or No, No, they.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Said that when you go and when you go in
audition for Disney, they tell you right out, we are
not looking to build a show around you. We're looking
for to place you in a show that's already there.
So they're looking at you when you come in and
blah blah blah. And if you don't fit the bill,
they're very honest about it. And I kept going, kept going,
and then the final audition and then they said we
will keep you on file just in case, but just
(11:42):
so you know. So they're pretty honest about their casting
and stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And Danielle, you know again, you and me and Greg
T having been here a year and a half before
we got that full time job. Yeah, it was we
built the who you know, the network while we were
in the building. You were an intern, was Greg T
and I were being paid five dollars an hour for
our jobs.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
It was five four twenty five, what you know.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And then you know, it's crazy, But that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That sounds like like the Great Depression?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Totally? No?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
No, But then but then everything changed and but again, yeah,
we all graduated that same month that they blew up
the morning show and Elvis moved to mornings.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Had that timing been off, it could have been other
people in our place.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
My mom kept telling me to quit, and we didn't
send you to college to make four twenty five an hour.
And I kept saying, my dad was fletched, just wait
and see what happens. And I waited and it turned
out turned out great.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He was freaking out.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
You're putting all this wear and tear on the cap,
You're paying more and tolls and guests than.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You are getting paid. How is this going to be
a future?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But you know, I think that you guys have ruined
the path for other people in this building as far
as how they think it works. Yeacause I think a
lot of people in this building think, well, look at
the entire morning show. So many of them were there
from the time that they were fifteen sixteen. However old
you guys were seventeen eighteen. I'm going to do that.
But that's not how it actually works for the majority
(13:12):
of people. You got to get out of where you started.
You could come back, but it's very rare that it
actually works out the way it did for all of
you guys.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
I always tell people, it's just not normal. Our The
way things all worked for us is just not normal
in this business. Or any other quite fit.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's an anomaly. Yeah, yeah, what about you, Garrett?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Well, I mean I just I went to a bowling
alley and saw all this and go, I want to
be an intern and he goes, Okay, that's what really happened. Yeah,
that's how it happened. Then they came to hang out
one morning and then he goes get college credit. So
freshman year, I walked in and they go, get out
of here. You got to be a junior. And I
go give it to me, and they gave me an
internship credit. And then that's how it started.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Don't do you.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Guys think, you know, we always laugh that Elvis has
this collection of misfits, and when you look around, he
definitely does. Do you guys think that all of the
things of places told you was not good about you
and you needed to change, or the things that he
saw and were like, I.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Love it, Give it to me one hundred percent. When
I was in college, they told me I had to
lose my bronx accent. They were like, you're never going
to make it on the radio with your brother. They
made me put a pencil in my mouth. My bronx
accent is what got me my job, and what's kept
me around. Well, one of the things that I think
has kept me around for so long when others have left.
You know, certain things like that, like the new that
(14:28):
I am a true New Yorker when they were trying
to get rid of that park.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
You're giving me, you're giving me PTSD because it's the
same thing as like you're from Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You need to enunciate, pronounce your words. They gave me
the pencil in my mouth too.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
And how you say squirrel or or squirrel, say squirrel
with the finger in your mouth, with the finger in
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Everything squirrel.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
But that's exactly what you know. That's what Elvis saw
in us. I guess it's like this is perfect real
need is the imperfection is perfection.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Mm hmm it is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I got told you're not nearly girly enough to be mainstream.
People like to talk about hair and makeup, and you
don't do that, so you're really missing mass appeal. You
like to talk about dorky stuff. You are brown, that's
a totally different thing than anything we're used to. And
then you come here and all those things, yeah, scary
for real, all those things that people told you were
(15:21):
never gonna work. They work here, and you kind of
you gotta love them for you're.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Also very too young here, young, too young.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
He's lots of people scared.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Somebody, And if I tell you his name, I'll tell
you off the air. You know who he is. He said,
if you were a white girl with blond hair, I
would have hired you five years ago.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
But we are.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's not what people want to hear and see. And
I was like, okay, cool, Oh my god. But you
know what I used to think all the time, because
that would happen all the time whatever. As long as
it's something I could never change about myself, I'm okay
with it because that's just me. And if you don't
like me, you know, like me. But if it was
something thing like changeable, I might have tried to change it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So that is what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
But even even aside from like the accents and uh,
you know, skin colors and ages and stuff like that,
I think we all here have that drive that we
would have succeeded no matter what we chose to do,
you know what I mean. I think we all have
it within us that hey, if I put my mind
to it, I'm going to succeed. I'm going to put
(16:25):
the time in, I'm going to learn the things I
need to, and we all would have succeeded. I think
that's why we're all here at the core.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Moxie, I would have been a damn good Disney princess.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You would have scary, would have been a very creamy
whatever trothy. All right, are we done?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
May we gave him a bonus today? Oh we did?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
How long did we go?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Sixteen and a half.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
That?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Here we go minute and a half shorter tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
By the fifteen Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fine.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Welcome to Monday, everybody scary? Are you excited to be here?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
No, there's nothing welcoming about Monday.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I mean Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I mean right there, it's a paradox in that sentence.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I don't know if paradox means what you think it mean.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well, it doesn't feel right.
Speaker 5 (00:31):
It seems like maybe oxy moron and oxymoron moron.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
I mean, I mean, okay, explain what you're trying to
we'll trying to say. Is it Monday is a mundane
I call it mundane, not Monday, because.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
If you're dragging your wagon.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It's just okay. So let's say we had Monday off.
Would Tuesday be your Monday?
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Then?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Like, there's always gonna be a Monday for me.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, I kind of like Mondays. I know that you're
gonna hate me for that, but I feel like it's
the beginning of the week. We're gonna start everything over again,
and there's so much.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Opportunity on the horizon.
Speaker 8 (01:01):
I like them.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Monday. Tuesday's a bitch.
Speaker 9 (01:04):
But I think Tuesday's better because Tuesdays you feel like
it's a shorter week and you get excited, so you're like,
I know, it's a shorter week, so you kind of
get like, no.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And so the week starts on Tuesday. Cool, But just
Tuesdays in general, I think they're kind of lame.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
See. I don't like Thursdays because Thursdays you're tired and
you're like, oh my god, why can't it just be Friday.
So you get to Thursday and yeah, there's that feeling
of oh great, only one more day or that bullshit.
But honestly, I'm just so tired on Thursdays. Like, I
don't like Thursdays.
Speaker 8 (01:30):
Whoa, I hate all the days, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I feel like the work week now is kind of
like built out with Wednesday, as everybody reports to work
on a Wednesday, and then if you have a three
day person, you have to come in Tuesday and Thursday.
And if you're a four day person, then you come
in Monday and then you take Friday off. So I
feel like that's how the work week is built out,
depending on what you're required to show up for.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, this building is pretty much a ghost down on Fridays.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh yeah, forget it.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
No, everybody everybody's out working, taking meetings, working working from home.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Wednesday's the day around here. This place is popping on Wednesday.
You get lunch and it's always a pretty good lunch downstairs,
and everyone's here, everyone's.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Working on Who stays that late.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
That's when lunch comes at like twelve thirty.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It comes at twelve.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's here.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'm here, it's been.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Here lately, Andrew Josh Diamond. Yeah, lots of people, Scottie,
lots of people don't just run out.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It is amazing though, because you know, we give these
CEOs and presidents of these companies bullshit for their pizza party.
But honestly, lunch comes in. If it's free, I'm there.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, We're gonna take it. But still complain though.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Now if it's free, it's for me, honestly, Like, I'll
take free lunch all day.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
At Taco Bar, they had soul food. Oh my god,
they have good food.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Been Taco Bar two weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It comes in your email. They get the email and
then that line forms really fast. So you got to
get down there real quick. Hey, one thing I wanted
to talk about, So, okay, the Detroit Lions loss. They
got beat by the San Francisco forty nine ers. But
the crazy thing you know, this story Brock Purdy who
was two years ago. Yeah, the last pick, mystery, irrelevant,
(03:14):
the last pick in the NFL draft, and here he
is going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's mind boggling.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It just proves that, Okay, you might be quote unquote irrelevant.
You might not have the opportunity, the microphone, the stage
to show what you can do. But people are talented, you.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Know what I mean? Well, they say Cream rises to
the top.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Okay, if he's if he's as great as he is,
and he was at the bottom, he will eventually have
shown his you know, true colors and and his his
you know, strengths and his talents.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
And he did. Okay, he actually rose to the top.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Well, let me let me flip this on you, Danielle.
So if you didn't start in New York City, if
you didn't you start one hundred Novis durand do you
think you would have made it back here? Do you
think that Cream would have risen to the top. I
don't know.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
I honestly couldn't tell. You had no idea the same.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Question a lot of or would you be would you
be in I don't know Jackson, Mississippi.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I think a lot of a lot of things would
have happen, had to have happened right, Like you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
A lot of things are timing at the right place,
right time, and timing, no matter how good you are,
if you got to be in the right place.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
And that's the same thing with Brock Purdy though he
was the third string quarterback and literally three two to
three quarterbacks got injured or kicked off the team, so
the same thing. So what you're saying is true. It's
it's a right place, right time, and then show your talent.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
If you think about how Danielle and I started here.
We started as people who just answered the phone in
the background while we were going to college, so a
few things had to happen. We graduated in ninety six.
In that may that it was also the time when
they shuffled everything around and Elvis moved from afternoons to mornings,
(05:06):
so that had to happen.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
As Scotty said, timing. So that happened, and.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Then we didn't fly the coop to go somewhere else
because I was already had one foot out the door.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm like, all right now, I gotta go do radio somewhere,
and I was.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Thinking about maybe leaving home, but they're like, well, wait,
this new morning show with Elvis is here.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You're already answering the phones.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Why don't we just parlay you, you know, kind of
transition you into like a full time position.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Same thing happened to Danielle and Greg T.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
And I met Elvis at a party with underwear on
his head, and he was wasted, right, and he said,
what come and work for Budge.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But there's a lot to be said to timing, Dan
Yell Danielle.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
So that's one of the ways I got my foot
in the door with him.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
At least my entire career was timing. Okay, everything explain well.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
I mean, the way things worked here is similar to
what Skary was saying, because I was I was a
promotions guy for a second, and then before Greg T,
there was another morning show idiot, and so they had
me driving him around when he went out to do
goofy things. And then that show all got fired and
Elvis came in and I was already kind of doing that,
so I started doing that for Greg T. And then
(06:15):
they started slowing Greg T down a little bit. This
was before that we were syndicated. What year was that,
like two thousand and seven or something like that. Yeah,
and so they got rid of me. I was not
on the morning show for about six months. I had
to work in promotions like put on a real clothes
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Enter Miami.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, and I wasn't gonna last that much longer. And
then thank god, Miami came on board and like, oh, Scott,
he's here. We need you to run the show because
we're going into syndication. So it's just everything was just timing.
You know, All along my entire career, I've never actually
really like gone for anything. Everything just kind of happened
for me, which was I mean great, I guess, but
sadly it's probably not gonna happen the way in the future,
so I better get my shit together.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yes you should, so, Gandhi. So like you, You're like me,
You kind of bounced around. If this opportunit it didn't
come up, would you have taken another opportunity elsewhere? You know,
do you think you would have ended up here? Was
this your ultimate goal or did you want to? I
don't know just where opportunity took you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think if you're working in radio, your goal is
definitely to get to New York City, right because it's
the number one market in the country. So for sure
I would have I mean, I was happy actually where
I was until until this opportunity came around and everything
went to shit.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
That was crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
But it was good there until it wasn't. So I
was cool in Boston, and I actually had just signed
a long term contract to be there for a while,
and I mean, I would have taken other opportunities, but
I was still really happy in Boston. I mean, it
was it was fine. I never thought this would come around.
I actually applied to this job a long time ago
and I got an email back from somebody that said,
(07:52):
you're great, we love your demo. You're too young. That
person to this day will say, I never said you
were too young. That's an HR violation. Have the email,
it doesn't matter. And this is it came around.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
That's right, So you could have been on our show
like as early as like twenty and twelve.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
It's yeah, that's right, what if it, because maybe it
wouldn't have worked out then, So.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I feel like things because she was too young.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Well that's where the cream line comes in because cream
coming fry.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
To use the word creepy, it really does. You don't
have to say it so many times. Scary to the
top of everything.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Okay, you love candy Man song everything, the frog and
the froth.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Of the of the hot chocolate.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I don't know. Scary, yeah, I know you well, I would.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
I don't think I would have been here if I
had gotten my final audition in Disney World and gotten cast.
Because while I was interning here, and while I was
working behind the scenes and answering phones and and you know,
working my way up doing things, I was auditioning for
Disney World, and I made it to the final cut,
and then I found that I was cut. But my
(09:01):
mom always says, it happens for a reason, Right, There's
a reason you got cut from Disney because you wouldn't
have had this career and Bible.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I'm like, if I never saw that glory hole in Albuquerque,
I might not be here right now.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So what about the facts.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
We'll call it the talent, having the talent, having the timing,
and is there anything else other factors involved.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
With gott He said it during the show. Your network
is your net worth? Right, Like I think back to
how I got here, and it was you know. Talent
was a part of it, Timing was a part of it,
but honestly, a big part of it was who you know?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
You know?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, and it's you know.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
That's the one thing I will tell anybody starting in
this business is make friends with everybody, because you don't
know who is going to be in a position to
help you in the future.
Speaker 9 (09:43):
That is the one thing when I go and speak
at different colleges, I say, First of all, I say,
try to intern wherever you possibly can in a business
that you want to wind up in. So if it's
something you're passionate about, try to intern at that place
that you would like to wind up. But the other
thing is ask around if you can help. When I started,
(10:04):
I asked every department at the radio station, Can I
help you? Can I help you? Can I do anything?
Can I do anything? And I would get in at
five am and I would leave at five pm. And
I wasn't getting paid anything because interns back then we
didn't get paid anything. Now they get paid.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
That's that's a bonus contention because I I I'm the
same way like now everybody's like, well they need to
be paid, and there I showed up at I'm like you, Danielle,
I showed up at five am. I stayed all day.
I'd chomp on my days off because you know what
that is what it took back then.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
Yeah, and you wanted them to.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Say if you did get paid for.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
That though, But I wouldn't be where I am if
I didn't do.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
That right, because I feel like at to some point
they were when they're thinking of a position, they go, oh,
you know what, so and so she's always around, she's
always helpful. Maybe we can get her to help out,
you know, and and stuff like that. I mean, I
got my start because of my bronx accent. I think
because Tom Polman. He the other girl that was on
the show with Sharon, she did something that was bad
(11:04):
and they got rid of her, and he said, hey,
we love your bronx accent. Let's try you in there
and see what happens. And that's how I got in there,
which was amazing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Danielle.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Do you think that accent was what held you back
from the Disney audition?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Did they tell you or No, No, they.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Said that when you go and when you go in
audition for Disney, they tell you right out, we are
not looking to build a show around you. We're looking
for to place you in a show that's already there.
So they're looking at you when you come in and
blah blah blah. And if you don't fit the bill,
they're very honest about it. And I kept going, kept going,
and then the final audition and then they said we
will keep you on file just in case, but just
(11:42):
so you know. So they're pretty honest about their casting
and stuff.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And Danielle, you know again, you and me and Greg
T having been here a year and a half before
we got that full time job. Yeah, it was we
built the who you know, the network while we were
in the building. You were an intern, was Greg T
and I were being paid five dollars an hour for
our jobs.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
It was five four twenty five, what you know.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
And then you know, it's crazy, But that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
That sounds like like the Great Depression?
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Totally? No?
Speaker 6 (12:17):
No, But then but then everything changed and but again, yeah,
we all graduated that same month that they blew up
the morning show and Elvis moved to mornings.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Had that timing been off, it could have been other
people in our place.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
My mom kept telling me to quit, and we didn't
send you to college to make four twenty five an hour.
And I kept saying, my dad was fletched, just wait
and see what happens. And I waited and it turned
out turned out great.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He was freaking out.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
You're putting all this wear and tear on the cap,
You're paying more and tolls and guests than.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
You are getting paid. How is this going to be
a future?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But you know, I think that you guys have ruined
the path for other people in this building as far
as how they think it works. Yeacause I think a
lot of people in this building think, well, look at
the entire morning show. So many of them were there
from the time that they were fifteen sixteen. However old
you guys were seventeen eighteen. I'm going to do that.
But that's not how it actually works for the majority
(13:12):
of people. You got to get out of where you started.
You could come back, but it's very rare that it
actually works out the way it did for all of
you guys.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
I always tell people, it's just not normal. Our The
way things all worked for us is just not normal
in this business. Or any other quite fit.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's an anomaly. Yeah, yeah, what about you, Garrett?
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Well, I mean I just I went to a bowling
alley and saw all this and go, I want to
be an intern and he goes, Okay, that's what really happened. Yeah,
that's how it happened. Then they came to hang out
one morning and then he goes get college credit. So
freshman year, I walked in and they go, get out
of here. You got to be a junior. And I
go give it to me, and they gave me an
internship credit. And then that's how it started.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Don't do you.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Guys think, you know, we always laugh that Elvis has
this collection of misfits, and when you look around, he
definitely does. Do you guys think that all of the
things of places told you was not good about you
and you needed to change, or the things that he
saw and were like, I.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Love it, Give it to me one hundred percent. When
I was in college, they told me I had to
lose my bronx accent. They were like, you're never going
to make it on the radio with your brother. They
made me put a pencil in my mouth. My bronx
accent is what got me my job, and what's kept
me around. Well, one of the things that I think
has kept me around for so long when others have left.
You know, certain things like that, like the new that
(14:28):
I am a true New Yorker when they were trying
to get rid of that park.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
You're giving me, you're giving me PTSD because it's the
same thing as like you're from Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You need to enunciate, pronounce your words. They gave me
the pencil in my mouth too.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
And how you say squirrel or or squirrel, say squirrel
with the finger in your mouth, with the finger in
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Everything squirrel.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
But that's exactly what you know. That's what Elvis saw
in us. I guess it's like this is perfect real
need is the imperfection is perfection.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
Mm hmm it is.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I got told you're not nearly girly enough to be mainstream.
People like to talk about hair and makeup, and you
don't do that, so you're really missing mass appeal. You
like to talk about dorky stuff. You are brown, that's
a totally different thing than anything we're used to. And
then you come here and all those things, yeah, scary
for real, all those things that people told you were
(15:21):
never gonna work. They work here, and you kind of
you gotta love them for you're.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Also very too young here, young, too young.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
He's lots of people scared.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Somebody, And if I tell you his name, I'll tell
you off the air. You know who he is. He said,
if you were a white girl with blond hair, I
would have hired you five years ago.
Speaker 9 (15:42):
But we are.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's not what people want to hear and see. And
I was like, okay, cool, Oh my god. But you
know what I used to think all the time, because
that would happen all the time whatever. As long as
it's something I could never change about myself, I'm okay
with it because that's just me. And if you don't
like me, you know, like me. But if it was
something thing like changeable, I might have tried to change it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
So that is what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
But even even aside from like the accents and uh,
you know, skin colors and ages and stuff like that,
I think we all here have that drive that we
would have succeeded no matter what we chose to do,
you know what I mean. I think we all have
it within us that hey, if I put my mind
to it, I'm going to succeed. I'm going to put
(16:25):
the time in, I'm going to learn the things I
need to, and we all would have succeeded. I think
that's why we're all here at the core.
Speaker 9 (16:31):
Moxie, I would have been a damn good Disney princess.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You would have scary, would have been a very creamy
whatever trothy. All right, are we done?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
May we gave him a bonus today? Oh we did?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
How long did we go?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Sixteen and a half.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
That?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Here we go minute and a half shorter tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
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