Do You Want To Be Boss??

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
first morning show. Here we go the fifteen minute Morning
Show Podcast. Hi everyone, Hello, Hello, there's Frogg, Either's Danielle,
there's Scary, there's Bondie, there's Scotty b and there's Straight

(00:26):
and Ate, and there's Garrett and our host for the
fifty minute morning show podcast in his uh paneled uh
paneled dead with electricity, I see, and the leather couch,
our host Dave Brody, tell you away, Dave Brodie, Wow, well,

(00:47):
I appreciate letting me know. About thirty seconds ago I
was hosting the show. So you already bitching and moaning, no, no, no,
you know what I wanted to talk about something. Have
you ever been in a store or dealt with a company,
or had a job where someone in authority should not
have had that job and you wonder how they got
the job? All the time stage of places, when we're
getting kicked out all the time, I'm like, who told

(01:08):
you to kick me out? What? Yeah, you're working for
that show right now. Have any of you guys heard
of the Peter principle. No principle is the philosophy that
people get promoted until the level of incompetency reaches them.
So for instance, you're a good hostess at a at

(01:31):
a at Friday's, right, so they make your waitress, and
you're a good waitress, so they make your manager. But
you don't have the skills to be a manager. But
you are a really good waitress, so they promoted you.
So you keep getting promoted until you're incompetent and then
you get fired. What does it have to do with
the word Peter Because it was a scientist, and uh

(01:52):
at a psychologist. I thought maybe you'd mix it up
with Janet Jackson and the pleasure principle. But it's different.
So are you getting to a specific company that you
had to deal with where you've you've been exposed to
someone with the Peter principal? Probable? I often anytime you
go into a store. For instance, I was at the

(02:13):
store with the well, I can't even say what the
logo is, it was target okay, and I had to
deal with a manager, and the manager had no clue
how to be a manager. So it occurred to me
they were probably a really good cashier or really good
at the customer service desk, so they got promoted. But
the Peter principal, and you can look it up online,

(02:33):
would tell you that people continue to get promoted until
they're incompetent. For instance, in our business, if you're a
good morning show host or a good DJ, what happens
you might get promoted to music director or a program director.
That doesn't mean you know how to manage people. So
did you did you tell said target manager that he

(02:53):
was not qualified to be a manager? Uh? No, no
I didn't, um, but maybe the tone of my voice it.
So anyway, there's a there's a that's there's an actual
explanation for it. There's a there's that it happens in
every job where you continue to get promoted. So I
wonder if any time people know if they get promoted like,

(03:13):
oh if I take that job, I'm not gonna be
able to do it, and then you get fired. So
sometimes you should just keep the job you have. But
the Peter principle, if you look it up, talks about
how in every industry people get promoted until they're incompetent.
Have you guys dealt with anybody that you can't imagine
how they got promoted at every day? Yeah? No, you know, No,

(03:35):
I I do understand that I never knew there was
a name for it, but but yeah, absolutely. You know
there are people who are so great at being, like
you said, a host or a waiter and our server,
and they're like, God, we don't want you to leave
because there's nowhere else for you to grow the management,
so we're moving to management, and then they fail at

(03:56):
it if I've always heard that calling failing up failing up?
Oh wow. Meanwhile, to be a manager, you probably need
some schooling and classes and things and a background in it,
and it's probably better for a company to have someone
fly in and take that job. But what that does
then it pisses everyone below that rank off because they

(04:19):
feel like they were overlooked and they just somebody zoomed
in out of nowhere, although though that person is probably
more qualified because they had the background for it. Well.
I know for a fact that I've been on the
radio on the microphone since I was fourteen years old,
and when I decided I wanted to be a program director,
which is a management position, I it was a route awakening.
I should not have been given that job. I was

(04:39):
not a good manager of people. That's why I don't
manage people now. As you can see and uh, And
I hated being, you know, connected to a general manager
who was a total ship head, you know, And so
I learned, I learned the hard way. It's not what
I wanted. And so I think it's good before you're
given that raise, because you want the money. Is what

(05:00):
you want. Before you were giving that raise in that
new title and the new responsibility, you need to really
be ready for it and don't fool yourself into oh,
I'll fake it till I make it just to make
a higher paycheck. But there's a couple of fields where
you hope they don't do this, Like, for example, just
because you were a good flight attendant does not mean
that therefore you should now become the pilot. Or for example,

(05:24):
are different departments. Maybe you did a really good job
at answering the phones at the hospital, so next week
to gonna have you operate on somebody a couple of
feel bad ideas. I don't do that there, yea, I
did the same thing. I was an executive producer like
Natives for a long time actually until I came here
and I was offered an opportunity to interview for a

(05:46):
position of program director for a little beach Town, and
I was so excited because I was like, yeah, beach down,
that's gonna be awesome. I knew in the interview there
was no way that that was going to happen. I
had no idea what the guy was even talking about
how at the time, and then I thought, who thought
I should even interview for this job? It was great
now and you, Josh, Josh was awesome, but it wasn't
going to work out. Man. There are all the cool

(06:07):
stories though, where like the janitor of a elementary school, uh,
you know, started as a janitor, worked his butt off,
went went to school, and then next thing you know,
he's the superintendent of the whole school district. There are
those hard warms. Yeah, there are those heartwarming stories, though
it does happen. The thing I've realized though working your
way up, and I know Ganda you probably realize this

(06:27):
is that every promotion you get, you just get more
bullshit with it. You know what I mean. It's just
in you Elvis too. You know, there's like the higher
up you go, the more you get, the more bullshit
you have to deal with. Yes, that's why. But you
come to a certain point where you can tell other
people to deal with the bullshit. That's why need here,
don't you feel Sometimes they pretend they're giving you a promotion,

(06:49):
like they just add more work to your to everything.
They're like, oh, we're gonna give you this new responsibility
and change your title name. But you're getting paid the
same amount and they don't give you a rasor anything.
It's just the BS promotion. Scotty b is a great
example of this. Can we talk about it? Well? Can
I go even earlier than what you're gonna talk about
real quick? When I was eighteen years old, I was

(07:10):
working at a call center in the Midwest, and they
promoted me to supervisor of the entire place. I was
overseeing four people. Can I go to the bathroom? And
then here I'm in my Bavis and butthead time like,
I don't care, do what you want. It was funny
that I was the smartest person in the whole joint
at eight worked at Z one hundred since he was

(07:34):
a kid. Seems he was like his nineteen okay, and
so he worked in the promotion department, marketing department. He's
worked for us, he worked for the morning show, and
and every time they've said, oh, you know what, Scotty,
You're so smart, you're the best in our business. You're
a star. We want to put you in a management position.
He always said, no, I don't want it. I don't
And why did you Why did you always say no?

(07:55):
Because it always was perplexing to management. They're like, well,
why wouldn't you want to be one of us, because
you're a bunch of assholes. I would have been fired
a long time ago if I was in management. I mean,
this is what I love doing, even though I probably
could have paid for my house ten times over if
I was a manager. You know, um, I'll just I
like this. This is what I like to do. I've
been had a raise in ten years. That's how much

(08:16):
I love this. Yeah, there you go. I mean, so
that's where and you read more and more about it
these days. People who are working in professions or whatever industry,
do you want more money and more responsibility or do
you just want to just do it makes you happy
and get by. My brother is an example. He's kind

(08:38):
of like Scotty. You know. He's a police officer in
a smaller town. I think there's only guys in his department.
And he became a sergeant after five years, I can't
remember how long, and a few years ago they offered
him the chief position, chief a police of your department
and he's like, no, I don't want it. Like you guys,
the guys on call twenty four hours a day, anytime

(08:59):
there's a problem, he has to deal with it. I
don't want to have to deal with that. I got
my two kids and she's your brother. It's a lot
more stress. He probably would have had a stroke too. Yeah,
oh my god. That's the thing. If you're a chief
of police, you now have to deal with the city
council and you have to dealing with the city manager,
and it becomes more political. This has happened with my husband, Sheldon,

(09:20):
because you know, he's a realtor and he gets approached
all the time. Why don't you start your own brokerage
firm started started, but then you're in charge of all
the other realtors and if they mess up, you have to,
you know, speak for them or fix the problem. And
he's like, no, I do not want that responsibility. I
love doing what I'm doing. I love selling houses and
giving people, you know, new lives, but I do not
want to be in charge of everybody. So he has

(09:42):
turned down a million times when they've asked him, here's
enough troubled managing Danielle. He doesn't need to people exactly.
Only had a minute to come up with a fifteen
minute morning show podcast, and you did it. Look at you.
I get promoted now you don't want it and we've
learned that you don't on it. No, you know it's

(10:03):
twenty years ago. I know Scary wanted to be a
program director someday on radio stations. Scary a million years,
would you take a promotion and night every night a
million years? Would you give Scary promotion that? I do?

(10:23):
Feel like though, the opposite happened for me when I
came here, because, like I said, I was an executive
producer and then I got hired here as a co host,
and it didn't hit me until I came here that
I was no longer an executive producer and that there
were three other guys who were actually producers and I
got to just do my thing and leave. For the
longest time, I used to wander around after the show,
like anyone need help? What you doing? Needy help? And

(10:44):
Scotty specifically said to me one day stop doing my
job for me. This is what I do. You leave
me alone. I was that happened. Why would you stop
it from helping you out? What was she doing? Well?
She wanted to do production work for me, And I'm
the kind of person that I like to do it
my way. And I thank you very much for offering
to help. But my motto has always been doing yourself,
or do it again, because when someone else tries to

(11:05):
do your work for you, they screw it up and
do it again. Yeah. I was just always used to
cutting my own commercials and editing it and then sending
it off to where it needed to go. And Scotty
was like, come on in here and cut these and
I'm like, nah, I got this. I can do it.
And he said, hey, that's my job, this is what
I do. I'll do it. I was like, OKAYI with
Gandhi wears, our producer had all the time during the show,
like she comes up with things and she's always reading

(11:27):
stuff and she's got she's always part produce in my head,
part producer. You're truly the executive producer of our show. Sorry, sorry, guys,
Scotty has actually done that to me too. Like so
when we were all in the studio. I would help
Scotty from time to time, you know, back time or
do math to add up to six am. And he

(11:49):
came to me once and goes, just stop stop. Oh
my gosh. If I was in charge of the math
figuring out the timing, let me do it one day.
It'll be the funny show we've ever had a boy.
Let you I remember us. I used to write when

(12:13):
I worked to Kiss FM in Los Angeles on Sunday mornings,
they would run the Rick D's Weekly Top forty. If
anybody remembers Sunday mornings. They called it the God Squad.
They build it as Rick D's is on seven days
a week, so they would sell the shift out of it.
And there would be like twenty minutes of spots an hour,
and you were responsible for starting the show at a
time before six am, so at back time to end

(12:35):
at ten. So sometimes you would be starting to show
it like five fifteen. Well I didn't carry the one
one time and thirty minutes of spots carry the one
because you didn't carry the one. Yeah, I didn't carry
the one. I'm like, oh, can you do your impression? Uh?

(12:55):
Rick D's Oh God, dang it, Nate, you're really that up,
didn't you if you don't know what he's Yeah, he
did just go duck. Yeah, I said. At one time
I was somehow nded up on his show and I
said the word bitch and he yelled at me. He's like,
we don't use the word bitch on the Key's program. Like,

(13:15):
oh sorry, you know, he still works, he still does
some show or something. This is a really bad radio conversation.
It was going great when we're talking about, you know,
failing while you move up. Now we're talking about you know,
radio stories. This happens in any industry. Like Heather was
talking about something in the spirits industry and I'm like
it was so boring to me, but to her, industry

(13:38):
was so interesting. You know what. Heather her industry, the
spirits industry, Thank god for them. Yeah, I mean, what
does she do in the spirits industry? He makes the
stuff you drink. So she's the one that formulates the
new sarrock or the news, you know, so she makes
all the different to different formulas and then like did
he will taste it and says they should pay her

(13:58):
like fifty million dollars a year that is important stuff.
How do you think they bought that house? Credit? Not mine?
How we doing frog? We have thirty seconds left? Thank you?
Seven minutes left? Like goodbye? I was slowly if I

(14:21):
could add to what Nate said. He said that, Uh
is it Heather's job is boring when she talks about it? Nate?
Is that what you said? Uh? Well, when she gets technical?
You know what I mean? Right, I would say everybody's
job is boring, Like we have really interesting jobs, but
our significant others don't give a damn no. Not like,
oh my god, we had we had Jason Derulo on
the Okay, great, it doesn't matter, like oh I flew

(14:43):
to space last week. Oh space again? Great. I remember
a couple of years ago I went to a radio
station that I worked at many many years ago. We
had a anniversary of all the employees, and Lisa went
to on the way to the things, She's like, how
fucking long are we gonna at this thing and listen
to you guys talk radio for hours? Bored too? You know,

(15:07):
I don't understand. Like in the days of taking vacations,
Scary would fly to Miami or whatever he would want
to go visit the radio stations. I'm like, dude, you're
on vacation. Because I'm a radio geek, a hard I
like to go to different seas and see what I
could see another country, Like if I went to Dubai,
I would want to see their radio station, or if
I was in the UK, I'd want to go visit

(15:28):
a couple of things. But like another here in the
United States, like what no. Yeah, by the way, yesterday
I posted that photo of the Rockefeller Christmas tree which
looks like it's you know, falling in the people. The
post that people are putting on this are hilarious. I
mean they're they're just mean, just mean, vicious trolls. It's
kind of fabulous. Have the section is dark, it's very dark.

(15:51):
Have they filled it in there? Slowly working on They're
gonna make it beautiful. It's all calmed down. We were
in a store last night looking at some trees. We
were looking at some trees in the window the store
last night, and there were a couple of them. They'll
look like the Rock Village tree, for instance. I said.
They were quoting me. Elvis says, we need to show
this tree to love. It needs Elvis. I don't think
there's enough love to fix this tree. It just needs

(16:14):
this little weave. It's gonna get its weave and it's
gonna be fine. It needs a makeover, implants everything. They
fixed the one in Cincinnati. They had it on the
news last night, the one that was worse than the
New York. Yeah, it was bad and it looked it
looked fairly decent. But they put it in a wood
shipper and go find a new one. I don't understand
why they just don't go and find a really beautiful tree.

(16:35):
Like I feel like we've been we've been like taken
for I don't know, like it's going to be fine.
The Sheldon and I were talking about this last night,
and it's like, you know when you're with a girl
and then you're like you're like whatever, and then you
find out how boobs aren't real. It's like you're looking
at this tree all these years and you're like funk.

(16:55):
They put in fake, fake tree leaves. This is fucked up,
Like this is this is bullshit ruined nature. Nature is
rarely perfect. So imagine what the mall Santa looks like
without you know, Santa's helper at the mall, but he
looks like without his beard, and that's a real beard.
They all grow him for the season, the good ones.

(17:16):
This is why we shouldn't be doing this, because we
look so much better when you can't see us show
the jamas by the fifteen minute Morning show