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They're all joining no good. I'mall alone with Meghan right now in the
studio and we're not killing each other. Unless is Mike on the podcast with

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us here, Mike, you're Igot him up just in case he wants
to join us. Oh, Zachwalked in to ruin the mood. You're
ruining in my mood hair right now. I'm sorry. It's a disjointed show
because everybody's been kind of like eitherfeeling good or not feeling good. And
it's funny because I have to tellyou that I live my life in a

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way where I don't get all worriedabout, Oh, someone's so sick of
herself. And I don't know ifit's that. I just assume that I
probably have more germs than everybody else, Like I still have germs from like
twenty years ago that I'm probably stillworking through. But Lydia came in this
morning not feeling well. She wasup all nights with her stomach, you

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know, being bothered, and shewas like, I want to try to
push through this. But I lookedat her this morning and she did not
look well. She looks so tired, and I think a lot of it
probably was that maybe she didn't feelas bad as she did earlier, but
she was just up all night,you know, when you're up, and
I don't know what she was doingbecause I just don't want to have to
think about her either throwing up orpooping, although I kind of did.

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That's all I can think about.Yeah, no, that's all but I
but I sat there and I thoughtto myself, Okay, she looks exhausted.
She should go home and get somerest. So, Mike, this
is the time where being in thestudio completely by yourself is actually a good
thing. When everybody's sick like this, I would look at this as a
blessing because it's kind of it's kindof a curse for the rest that are

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all giving up the germs. Yeahyeah, yeah, yeah, but I
want time off too. So doyou have people sick in your in your
building sometimes? But again, there'sso few people in this building that I
don't really I mean, there's noteven another person that comes in this studio,
so I don't really have to worryabout it. How is that that
you say that, and then duringthe show you'll be like, hold on

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a second, here, Hey,can you get out of here. I'm
on the air right now, theypop their head and they don't. But
there's nobody in here long enough tolike to get people sick. Okay,
all right, well so we're we'rechogging along. Today was interesting. It
was funny during the show. Weshould have had this on video, because
this is better video than listening tothe you know, war the roses and

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seeing our reactions, which those videosget huge views. You should have seen
the video of behind the scenes whereMegan starts screening phone calls. Then KP
ran in here to run the controls, you know, for the video.
I got a bloody nose during theshow and then you you actually what you
actually stepped up. So Zach isso those don't know Zack, Well,

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Zach gets the podcast up as soonas we get done. So that's why
we were able to do this becauseof a guy like Zach. But then
you also had to go over thereand you had to answer some phones too.
I tried, but I just gota really bad I get really bad
bloody noses during the winter, andKP saw that and she was like,
oh, just get out of myway. I think she thought you were
possessed at one point. Oh probably, yeah, I had so much fun

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today doing that. So I don'tknow if people know this. I mean
maybe probably people who listen to kiss. But I started as like an intern
phone screener and it's been probably tenyears since I answered calls on the radio.
I was talking so much fun.Yeah, but a little part of
me was like, like this isa big deal, Like I could ruin
the whole show if I put badcallers through. So it was high.

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So I did the same thing.I started off as a phone screener slash
you know, the person that youknow had to fill out the winter sheets.
I used to get yelled at bythe promotions person, John Scott,
who is our promotions director, becauseI didn't fill out the prize forms correctly,
like and he would right up.And it was always this thing.

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He was one of those guys thatwould write a memo and then put the
example of what was wrong and thentake a picture of it so you'd see
my writing and he would go,this is wrong, this is right,
and you would see like the writingof somebody else. And what I didn't
do was you know how they hason there on the prize sheet that says
your name, your address, youknow, the city that you're from,

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and then it would ask you ifit's a prize for money, you would
ask you for your social Security number. Well I never did the sole security
number. But it's like a fuckingmovie ticket. Why are we charging them
taxes for a pair of passes tosome horrible movie that is coming out?
You know what I mean? Doesit actually have to go towards their taxes?

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It was it for our taxes.I don't know. I don't know
how that works. I mean Inever asked them. I just said I
wasn't going to fill it out.It was stupid. And then the other
thing too, is in Lydia.If she was here could probably attest to
this. You don't have time tobe doing that because you got to move
to the next topic or calls.And the guy who I was doing this
for would be like pissed at mebecause I was slow on the phone,

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you know, trying to figure giveout their social Security number over the phone.
I don't know, right. Yeah. I also felt like I had
super fat fingers today because I wastrying to call some Texters too, and
I would be hitting buttons and Iwas like, damn it, and then
you show damn it. Oh mygod, I felt like I was diffusing
a bomb. Is how's your vision? Because my vision I can't read the
text message number and remember it fastenough to dial on the keypad that's on

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the phone. I think I needto get glasses or contacts again. Because
that was honestly the part of KPand Lydia when those guys would go back
and forth screening calls. I feltlike Lydia was able to kind of do
both where KP was like me andthe fact that you know, she is
very much like, very creative minded, where Lydia is more like analytical.

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Yeah, and I guess that's alot of letters. Why are you just
doing the audio? You should bethe official you guys, see how I
can spell on the podcast? Ican't. Yeah. So when they switched
positions where Lydia full time did thephones and then KP was in here with
us and doing you know, allthe social and in the videos and stuff,

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I think it was a good combinationfor both those guys. Because I
could not answer the phones. I'dbe horrible. First off, I talked
to people too long. That's whyyou know, I started as an intern
and did the same thing They're like, you have to put them on hold
or put them through or let themgo, And I was like, I
can't just let them go. Idon't want to be mean to any you
know, I'm rude. I'd besitting there next thing. You know.

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It's like, you know, Ididn't even know what they're calling about because
I'm asking them so many other questions. Do you want me to pull back
the colonel little bit? One guywas mumbling so bad. I was like,
oh my god, great comment.One second, let me put you
on hold. So I just wroteabsolutely nothing. Was like, oh sorry,
we're not going to get you inside. Bye. But I definitely I
think people thought I was an assholewhen I was answering my answer calls.
We used to have producers and internsthat would be so rude to the listeners

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that I spent twenty minutes almost ashow after the show calling people to apologize
because I would get messages saying,you guys are so rude to me.
I can't believe you hung up.I'll never listen again. And then when
we transferred over to Ellen as theproducer. Ellen had a magical way of
making everybody feel like wanted Lydia doesthe same thing too, so you can

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basically, you know how there's somepeople that are really nice and they can
say basically fuck you to you,but you think that they're saying that here
so nice that that's kind of howthey were. Like they were like,
no, you know, you don'thave time for that right now, but
you know what, you go havethe best day ever, move and hang
up the phone. And those peopleare like, wow, it was nice
to them. It was nice,and it was pretty much what the other
people were doing, but just ina different tone. So so I wasn't

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supposed to curse it. No,So we're trying it one of the other
things just to since we're doing thispodcast and kind of informing you, uh,
Megan and Mike want to inform youthat the Slightly Messy Podcast will continue.
It's just that for some reason,Detroit doesn't know how to figure out
the technicalities of them doing it andbeing able to tape it. So yesterday,

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what did you do, Mike forthe Slightly Messy Podcast? I had,
you know, the new guy,Adam. Yeah, yeah, I
had Adam come in and uh helpyou really? Yeah, So what did
you guys talk about? Well,his he switched his whole entire career,
like he's in his mid thirties.Yeah, in his mid thirties, And
so I was interested to hear likewhat that was like and and kind of

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get a little background. Yeah.Yeah, And then we talked about his
how he got into radio, andhe basically stalks the show and then that's
how he got into radio. Yeah. He he is a dad of a
of a few, right, andhis wife was working full time and he
was staying home daddy, and thenuh would listen to the show. We
I used to call him five atsix fifty five at him because that's how

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he started talking to us. Washe played that that game for a while?
Ye. Why is it always ourstalkers that get hired in now?
Because one time we hired a guywho was so obsessed with me. His
password on his computer for work wasmy name? No? Yes, why
is why is that? And thenit makes me think less of myself,
like I'm in that same kind Thatis kind of weird, isn't it.

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He lives radio a lot, soI think that's why I think he's he's
he's yeah, I think he's allright, dude, you're talking about the
stalker or Adam. Yeah, II I think a warm body sometimes nowadays,
you know, I used to dothe whole thing where I'd meet somebody
out and about Gimli who used towork here. He was a guy that
I met. I was speaking atat what the hell is it? Lansing

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Community College, and he fell asleepin the front row and I let him
sleep the entire time, and Itold everybody just be really quiet, and
I let him sleep the entire time. And then at the end of the
whole thing, I said, everybody, let's just get up and leave the
room and leave him in here.And he woke up at that point,
because I thought it would be funnythat it was like a ten am speech.

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Could you imagine a like five o'clockin the evening. He guy wakes
up and he realizes he's the onlyperson in the room. Well, I
then joke and I said, Isaid, this guy would be a perfect
guy to work for us. Well, he applied, and then he was
kind of perfect because he had personalityand he was kind of goofy looking and
stuff. So we had him goout and do street Woh. He was

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a Gimli. You know what.I mean, do you think I look
But that's the thing, and everybodyhates that I do that from time to
time. You're you're not Gimli nowthat you did just you are kind of
goofy looking, But that's absolutely fair. The interesting thing is going to be,
you know, trying to figure outif Lydia will be back tomorrow because

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she hates not being here, andI think we all feel that way,
right We get the fomo Like Shannonleft early from the show because she's chaperoning
Smith's field trip, and I canguarantee that she was listening in the car
on the way home, going fuck. I want to be there well because
and I like to think everybody islike this, but I'm sure it's not

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like that. We have a jobthat we love like we love, so
it's not only fomo. It's likeI want to be there because it's a
great job. I used to bereally bad where if I was out,
I would listen and then I wouldlike send text messages while topics were going
on, going hey you should saythis or no, by the way,

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you know, Michigan did this,or like I would like send like things
that I thought that I would sayat the time, and we're on a
twenty fucking second to lay that Iwas. I was out early in the
show. When I was first startingthe show, i'd text the text line
to the show and try to docomments to get on the air as wait
a text her as just a regulartext or as you its me. But

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I would take the day, likeif I took the day off or something,
I was out there, I wouldtext the show line nine five five
zero zero. But would would weknow it was from you? Would it
say? Mike says this, Ithink event I don't know. I don't
know if they ever changed the nameon there, but I mean it would
be my number that would pop lish, so funny, the only one that
is fuck off. Yeah, wellyou do that when we're actually working.

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Yeah, you're right. No,no, no, Because I was telling
Meghan that there are times where Iknew when you guys, you know,
and Meghan was in Toledo and Mike, you you're in Grand Rapids, I
knew she wasn't even listening to mytopic. I wouldn't, I honest to
god, every time your name popsup on the schedule, like no,
there were times there were times whereanytime we talked about our kids, Megan

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would because she would feel like shecouldn't relate, Yeah, and so she
would stop talking. And so ifI was doing a kid topic, Mike
was doing a kid topic, Shannonwas doing a kid topic, you'd be
like crickets from you, or tobe fair, I hope you back me
up on this one. We werea little kid heavy for a hot minute.
And when we talk about kids andwhen I give any input, any

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input on anything, the amount ofbacklash I get back from people is insane.
So I've learned to kind of letit go and move on and I
have my own opinions and that's fine, but it is It is wild that
we can give our opinions on everything, Like you can give your opinion in
Mojo on women stuff, me onmen's stuff. Whatever. Nobody really gets
what if you're a non parent andyou talk about anything parenting, every parent

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is like, shut the fuck up. But see, I like that,
Like that's where FM babies came intoplay, absolutely because I like the idea,
idea, Like I'm I used tobe oh yeah, like Megan or
somebody on the show would mention somethingthat I had no idea, What the
hell it was, and I usedto take the philosophy of oh, I'll

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play along, like I know whatshe's talking about. And then I was
a deer in headlights and I don'tknow if listeners heard that, but I
figured there's some people out there thathave to be like me, that don't
know what the hell you're talking about, but you risk the idea that it
could be one of the biggest thingshappening in pop culture right now, and
I'm just out of it, youknow, I'm just not part of it.

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And I have to tell you thatif somebody's going to hold that against
me, you know, and go, oh, you sound like you're old
or whatever the deal is, LikeI know I'm signing, like I'm honest,
Like I know that there are peoplethat don't like there's there are times
where I feel like I am sothinking that everybody in our listening audience is
going to care about something and theydon't give a shit. Yeah, And

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then there are times where you guyswill bring something up and say something that
you know, honestly everybody, youthink everybody in the world likes because it's
a TikTok trend, but none ofour none of our listeners might even understand
what it is right. And inmy own defense, I've watched thousands of
hours of Super Nanny, so Iknow how to parent most better than anybody

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else. English apparently not good,but parenting great. You're basically a parent.
Yeah, to myself, my brother, my dog, sometimes, my
dad, Zach, anything you wantto say at all. This is a
good time because we got less peopleon the mic. It's just you know,
Meghan, Mike and myself here nowI'm putting on spot no babies,

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do you like? What is Inever you know, since we talked to
Adam about what Adam's thing is andand yesterday's we don't or what the hell
is it? Like a messy No, We've only been doing that for like
two years. It's a fucking honestwhat what is your Do you want to
host a show one day? Orwhat do you want to do? What's
your what's your goal? I've neverasked you that. Man. I'm still

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figuring out my life. I'm intherapy for this. I don't know what
I want. I just want tobe happy and uh sustainable. And did
you want to entertain or do youwant to be behind the scenes? Like
what do you want. I likebeing behind the scenes, dude. I
really love what I'm doing now.I love chiming in when I can.
I don't like the pressure of beingthe face of the show, which is

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great, but I love having importantresponsibilities like the podcast, because that is
that's our ratings. How we getratings. Who Zach reminds me of Frank
Frank and yes, yes producers andmajor markets now and like you give me

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the same kind of like great equips, great like comments, but like really
great behind the scenes and has thebest attitude. Yeah, both guys.
Stoner's uh yeah, I see thiswith Zach, and you know, you'll
get to know him more, especiallyif you come out to our events and

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he's there. But I see Zacha lot like Jed in the fact that
I've known Jed since he was,you know, fourteen years old, and
Jed has like always been an oldsoul, kind heart, you know,
says stuff that you're like, whatthe fuck and he just said, you
know, like whatever. But thenyou're like, oh, I really like
lovable, like likable, like peopleget to people know you and get to

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know you, and then there allof a sudden, you know, best
friends with you. And I alwaysthought, Zach you wanted to DJ.
I thought your thing was like youwanted to produce music or make music.
Is that a side thing then orare you just trying to corporate it?
That's kind of my creative outlook.That's how I get rid of all my
pent up anger and become this niceguy. You don't have anger. You'd
be surprised. I don't know,but like that's what I do. I

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love making music and like getting itout of my head. And if I
could play that in front of people, that'd be cool. But again not
I'm more behind the scenes. Ijust mess your bait. So it's like
aggressively. Aggressively. Some people makemusic, you make baby, Now that's
that's Uh, that's cool to knowthat. And I see, I didn't

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know until like I don't know,maybe six months ago or so, that
you were actually a musician, thatyou're actually or go into music as much
as you are. Do you DJlive like live events or anything? Or
have you I had before? Sowhat type of musician I am is?
I'm a sample flipper. So you'llhear a lot of like uh drops that

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Mojo will play and then I'll takethat drop and I'll completely flip it into
something else. So right now,I'm working on a song with Mojo swearing
really debute it on the on theshow, we'll see. I want you
to hear it first and we'll see. But I can't wait. Yeah,
so yeah, I like flipping stuff. Shannon's wedding is coming up. That
could be her first dance, Iguess, imagine and then have sh So

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I'm working on that. Shannon toballs Balls, that one's great. All
right. We got to end thispodcast because of the boss and is taking
me to lunch, so let's go. Gonna make it a very expensive lunch
for him. All right, Thanksfor listening today. We appreciate it.

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