123 - Old New Friends - 10/6/17

We get to catch up with some friends Rob and Niko!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
morning show? Welcome everybody. It's the Friday fifteen Minute Morning Show.
It's the w d G a F version, the We

(00:24):
Don't Give Up Fun. Oh what we're doing today? Very excited? Um,
we have special guests in the studio. Nico here. He
is a new addition to staff. Very happy and uh,
Brodie's friend that just happened to walk in and surprise
the hell out of us. Yeah, my friend Rob is here.

(00:44):
We've been friends for about thirty years. He'll deny it,
and he's in town. I haven't seen him in the
boy almost two years. What can you tell us about
Brodie has let's we'll ask you direct questions. Has he?
I know you're hungover, but it's okay. Has he? Uh?
Has he always been this complaining about customer service? A
wier's been wers freaking life. You guys talking to a mic.

(01:08):
I don't do this radio thing. So he's been a
winer his whole life. What did he wind about when
you were growing up? What didn't he win about? Like?
What was his biggest thing that he whined about? Jesus
Christ as too many to pick? All right? Oh, that's
just like today, non specific. Welcome Robbie, love you Rob.
I'm Rob's designated driver because occasionally he will drink more

(01:31):
than everyone I've ever met, and this morning he's recovering
from that. Really excellent. Yeah, I'm just in town for
two days. What are you gonna do? Yeah, I'm not
going to your oldest best friend. He's my new best friend,
battle Royal Nico. Well, Nico, can you give the history

(01:51):
about Nico? Yes? Why dont Nico give his own history?
He would work, He used to walk, I used to work.
I started to that and when I stopped in two
thousand nine because they told me I shouldn't work here anymore.
Wit was that you shouldn't work here or you're not
allowed to anymore. Laid off to give me a check
and said Cela to buddy, actually give you a cardboard

(02:12):
box to put your stuff in or is that just
on TV? I think Garrett put all my stuff in
his pockets and we walked out. You know, a lot
of people have had experiences of being laid off, but
not the corporate way. So what was it like when
it was weird? Take us to the process that the
first time you were laid off but you you weren't fired,
So there's a huge difference. A reduction in the weird

(02:37):
part is where did it happen? Nico? What? What space
in the world? Right here? I was in this exact room.
Used to be the program director of the radio station's office.
And it was a big intimidating room with awesome like
plaques on the wall and guitars and like all this
cool memorabilia. And I worked with him for like eight years,
and you know, I thought I was like a great employee,

(02:59):
and we were as friends, were gonna go hang out
with each other's kids. And then he just sat me down.
He was like, hey, just so you know, we like you,
but you know what's going on? What is going on? Well,
you know, the economy is terrible. He actually, he didn't
explain stuff like that. He didn't get too far into it.
He was just like, sorry, man, yeah, here's here's the check.

(03:22):
Your your position is no longer available. How long was
it before that happened? And then you were shown the
actual elevator door. It wasn't long at all. I didn't
have an office or I didn't have like a locker
to empty out. So they was just like minutes. Did
you have to come in specifically to get fire? Oh? Yeah,
that worse come in. The only good thing about it

(03:45):
was yes, I left on good terms with everybody, and
then directly after that, the other people that laid off
that same day, which was about fifty people from this building,
we all went out drinking and we saw Robb there
and we had the best day ever. That's what happened.
So I was working in radio in Minneapolis hed w

(04:05):
B sure did, and um when this was happening in
Minneapolis as well, and I looked out. So our office
was at the our studios at the end of a
long haul that looked out into the sales area. So
I was sitting in our studio watching an event on
TV and looking out the window and seeing just people
walking by being escorted by people in suits. And then

(04:29):
the people in suits would go into another area and
then come out with somebody who looked very sad, and
they all went to the bar as well. The interesting
thing about what Bethany just said that she was watching
an event on television. Everyone here knows what day that was.
It was the day President Obama was inaugurated January nine,
So that that would get the press coverage the first

(04:52):
thirty five pages of every paper where we have our
first African American president, page thirty six. I heard fire
ten thousand people. So the first started working at the
radio station, I was answering phones for Nico. So Nico
kind of was, you know, the jed, the master Jedi,
you know. And he taught me a lot at the
radio station, so I wouldn't really be on the air

(05:13):
as much as I am without him. I've never really
told him to his face, but and I still don't
because I'm turned the other way. Uh. But yeah, so
he showed. He showed me. The day he left. It
was that awkward, like you didn't break up with your friend,
but you knew you were not going to see him
every day, which was weird. I broke up with a

(05:34):
lot of friends, yea. And he got called he got
called into I remember, he got called in into the morning.
And normally Nico would would do a lot of shifts,
various shifts throughout the day, so he thought he was
coming in just to do a shift, and then they
said no, no, not the studio, come into the office. Gosh,
and then your stomach just sinks and imagine Bethany was

(05:56):
talking about how she had to go into the gym
to cancel her membership, which she got there they told
it was already canceled. So that's much worse than need
store drink. I mean, I lost my gym members. Yeah,
that's terrible thing you ever make it through. I've been
doing radio for like twenty years and I've been let
go flash fired twice. My first time was at my

(06:18):
first station where I gave my two weeks notice. I
guess I wrote it and I slid it under the
general manager's door and I was doing nights at the time.
So I got a call the next morning at eight
o'clock when I was trying to sleep, and he's a
I want you to come in. I want to chat
with you really quick. So I go in, go into
his office and I sit down and he pulls up
the paper and goes, what then is this? It's my

(06:42):
two weeks notice. I got a better job. He goes,
I will just get the funk out here. You don't
have to come back. Wait. Wait, there was there was
a woman who worked in sales who actually gave her
two weeks notice, and then she came on the air
with because I was just like, we want to talk
to you about on the air because you're leaving this job.

(07:03):
But you're just gonna go travel the world. You're the
kind of people we want to put on the radio.
So she came in live and she she said, stood
at Nates Mike and she told the story of how, yeah,
I've been a salesperson here for five years, and I
did so much already, but now I just want to
travel the earth. So I gave my two weeks notice. Yeah,
calls were being made. People were listening to that broadcast

(07:26):
and they say, you don't have to wait out your
two weeks. Later that morning, you can have time to pack.
Why did they not take so kindly to that. I
think they just want to move on. If I'm an employer,
I just alright, it's you're broadcasting some thousands, maybe millions
of people. If you're dating someone and you say to them,

(07:48):
you know what, I'm not sure I want to date
anyone whatever, and then you have another girl lined up,
that's a lie. She basically said, I would rather do
nothing the work at this job. I would rather get
paid zero dollars than to put up with this BS
anymore in my life. I'm too young form the world. Great,
go travel the world. Now she's still traveling in the world.

(08:10):
He go went to Brooklyn after he got fired. When
you do that with a break up, it's kind of
a gangster move. Well, the girls says, Hey, you should people,
I'd be like, you're out now. Maybe we should not
go through a period where we like see other people. Yeah,
starting now, get out. We're done on a trial period. Nico,

(08:32):
how do you feel being back in the building where
you were let go from but on new terms? Now
what do you feel? I feel awesome. I'm excited to
work um at a place man. Yeah, I'm just excited.
I'm excited to work with my friends again. Can I
trust I'm excited to work at radio. Here's that's what. Yeah.

(08:56):
What Nico means is he's back on top on the
big radio station in New York. He was hanging out
in the minor leagues, taking busses from small town to
small town. Now he's on the show. Yeah, in the
big leagues. I'm back. You and I never really lost
touch because we would always see each other through see
every couple of months. Yeah, I haven't seen Nikos since
January nine. They look good, good buddy. Your Instagram it's

(09:21):
DJ Nico n y C. That's correct. And J and
I and koom Plugs got a child. I had a child.
I didn't have a child. My wife had a child
four months ago. Yeah, that's the only thing I do. Now,
look at that. I just do baby now, baby holding
a sword? What is that he does? These monthly photos?

(09:44):
He's one month, he's two months, and every year is
a Greek mythological gods. So two months he was your child. Yeah,
that's grill. Who is your child? Next month he will
be Poseidon. I think what's the kid's name? John in Lazarus.
Bethany is very well versed with children, and I know
children very well. Names. Whole conversation about children. So boy

(10:11):
or girl? What's her name? H Actually, let's go drinking. Actually,
my first question that popped into my head when I
found out that you had a kid was was that
on purpose? And then I realized that's not an appropriate
question to ask, and I didn't ask it. Filter I've
been married for a year and a half now. So
the thing that's so crazy, I never see you said

(10:33):
it's time. I never pictured you as being I didn't
need That's why I waited till I was thirty eight
years old. If I was twenty eight and having a kid,
that would would be a wreck. He'd be in jail
right now, God knows where he'd be a little baby.
He would have been taken away. They would have been like,
this is not a toy. You have to give that.

(10:54):
You feel like you're more responsible at than you would
have been a twenty Like I said, Scary, I don't
go out ever. Last time I got drunk was a
month ago and I literally had a beer and a
couple of shots and I was black out. And this
is why Scary would stay single. He had, at one
point in his life surround himself with a lot of
you ten years ago guys who you look at like
he'll never get married. Guy's gonna be a bachelor, playboy,

(11:15):
drinking party and every night. And now he sees one
more go by the wayside. He's like, oh, you have
a kid. You can't quite any more Nico by Yeah,
just I know he's not married and he doesn't have
a kid. He lost with someone Peter bad complex, the

(11:36):
boy who doesn't want to grow off. I knew a
guy who dated constantly was a bartender, didn't really you know,
take life seriously, didn't get a driver's license till he
was like forty five, never thought he would get married,
never live the life like you did. Scary. I live
vicariously through him. He had a great life, but it
was it was one of those not really a serious

(11:58):
commitment to any of this. And then he met this
amazing girl and got married and now they have dogs
in a house, and and and it's you know, I think,
and here I left her two years ago. Well we've
been out of touch. I think. I think I forgot
to mention great blindsided? Did he not tell him? That?

(12:27):
May have slip my mind. I don't know. I got
a friend, are you jos on the floor right now?
He's never been lost for words in his life. God,
I know my best friends social security number. You don't

(12:49):
know that your best friend? Okay, First and moved to
South Carolina. And last year we were in South two
years ago we were you drove by something to say,
how do you guys? Like? Right? And then from friend

(13:13):
and then he he says to me, I'm not gonna
be there. I'm going to Orlando, which is where we
were going. So I get to Orlando. First thing I
do is let's have dinner. He's like, Oh, I got
a party tonight. I can't make it. So I haven't
seen him in two years since we played softball in
Central Park. You guys aren't friends. I'm gonna go. You
cannot dig your way out of this. Doesn't he have

(13:34):
to tell me? Actually what I told you on this one?
Do you watch his Facebook? I mean communicating so scary.
This guy knew he merried this girl, real loser. He
dumped her skanky as. I would love to know where
that story went if Rob didn't speak up, like what

(13:54):
Bardy was gonna say about the Christmas the best thing
that had happened to him, that whore. And I'm afraid,
I'm really afraid to say anything because back in the
day when when I first started dating this girl, I
dated her for a while. We broke up, and Rob
trashed her because he's my was my buddy. He's like,
you don't need that whore or whatever. And then we

(14:14):
got back together, and then and then we broke up.
He trashed her, and then we got back together. He's like,
I'm not saying a word because now she's my wife.
So I'm afraid now he might get back with his wife.
So I'm really happy right now Shit is not having
kids with her. Thirty years ago, he was dating a girl,

(14:37):
Uh seriously, and I said, you're gonna marry this girl.
I bet you a hundred bucks. Well, that girl's single again,
so now this is a shot. He can still marry
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