Valentine Overtime - Our Life Saving Songs And Radio Education

Today on Valentine Overtime: We recap our "Life Saving Songs" segment from the morning's show, and tap into a bit of everyone's radio education.

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Episode Transcript

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Valentine in the Morning presents the showfor the show Valentine over Time. Welcome
back to Valentine Overtime. We gotanother show with the full crew here today,
Valentine, and everyone's doing some cleaningbecause our big boss is coming in
here to do a podcast. Soeveryone's half cleaning and uses in studio.

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So we have to clean the thingup. And it looks like it looks
like hell before we clean it up, and afterwards it just looks like purgatory.
What's that movie where all those orphankids are cleaning up? It's hard
knocked any That's what it feels like. It's a hard knocked life. But
we got to going in here,and I do want to open up with
a few things we talked about onour show today. Very eventful show this

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morning, but we opened up thesix am hour with a song that saved
your life. It got kind ofserious for a minute, because usually those
songs tend to be songs that comein at a time in your life where
you really need it. But Ikind of wanted to get those songs if
you guys have them from Michael,Laura and Aaron, if you come in
in time. So how about Michael. Was there a song that, at
any point in your life you wouldsay saved your life? I would love

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to say there was, but Ican't, for the life of me think
of anything. Yeah. I getthat you get no prep time on this.
Yeah, I know. He justhits you with it. Did you
know? Did you want to fallback on Alabama Moon? Maybe? Or
someone's vows? What's the other songyou have? Does love Always Feel this
good? I'll take that one.I love it briefly? What was yours?
Joe A Million Reasons by Lady Gaga? That's right. I was break

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even by the script, Laura,What is yours? Do you have one?
Mine would be Don't Worry Baby bythe Beach Boys. And I got
to listen to it live on Sundayat Stagecoach and it was amazing. Is
it everything you thought it would be? It was so incredible in that seven
o'clock hour. Ronnie, who worksin our digital department, Uh, yeah,
you said Alabama Moon as well?That's right? Oh, yes,

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yes, that's right. Thanks.You did a joke cancer, so let's
that was Joe. That was aJoe cancer? Oops? Wow, it
just kidding, Okay, So sorry, No, yours would have been like
bye bye bye ba honestly all jokingaside nine inch nails and that like made
me feel less lonely when I wasgoing in the nineties, you know,

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growing up. They really did helpme get through sometimes. You know what,
I think for a lot of kidsgrowing up, probably nineties as well.
And I think in today's society there'ssomething really to this. So I'm
gonna make a powerful statement. Ithink a lot of people have friends.
I think a lot of us havefriends, but very few of us have
close friends. And that's something that'slacking in our tribal communities, you know,

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in that humanity of the tribe,having that person that you can really
share a lot of your secrets with, that close friend or that close knit
group of friends. It's not therefor as many people nowadays because we have
very casual friendships based on social mediaand you know a few minutes at school
for my kid with some friends orsomething like that, that tight, tight
group isn't there as much as itmight have used to be before social media

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came into play. Now everybody's yourfriend. Oh, it's my friend Billy.
How do you know Billy, Well, he's Billy five two three on
Instagram or whatever. You know.I think tight knit friends are harder to
find nowadays. Yeah, I differentiatethose. I call the tight ones your
tier one friends. Those are thepeople who are up there if you get
married, with you at the altar, and then everyone else is a tier
two friend. Well that's fun.They call people tier one and tier two.

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I'm onnit No. In the seveno'clock hour today, Ronnie, who
works in our social department, camein. This was like one of the
highlights of the show for me becausehe was on the verge of tears.
Yeah, because his parents just kickedhim off their phone plan and he's twenty
five. It hit him hard,hit him so hard. I was a
little bit shocked by that. Laura, are you on your family's phone plan?
No? I was cut off.And also because I'm foreign now,

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you know that would be a bigextreme being like can you please pay my
international phone deal in America? Yeah? I get that, but I feel
like, I mean, there wasn'treally a cell phone. When did cell
phone plans start to be a thing, Like, you wouldn't have paid for
that in your twenties, you know, when it started to be a thing.
When cell phones were out. Yeah, that's the foot I'm trying to
get out of here. So you'reasking when did cell phone start? Yeah,

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I had a cell phone back accordedcell phone was carrying that like in
ninety three. Oh really a cellphone? Cell phone? Yeah, it
was dedicated in the car. Wecould also carry it around like a brick.
Oh whoa, Yeah I had acell phone in the car. Is
great, And I feel like wealways assume it's like mid two thousands.
Yeah, oh my god, no, god, no, ninety one Mercury
Cougar LS. It was a baller, dude. It was such a cool

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card that cell phone inside it.Oh my gosh, I've seen is that
the one in what is it FerrisBueler's Day Off? Did they have that
in there? Or one of thoseold eighties movies has a cell phone car?
Yes, there's there's a couple ofmore cars with the cell phone in
it. Yeah, there's just carswith cell phones. Yeah, there's no
particular car that had the cell phonethat came like that was just an aftermarket
install. Oh. I thought thatwas like a sweet car. And they're
like, this one has a cellphone in it, kind of like now

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they have on star. Wow.Okay, I'm gonna go back over here
and do more cleaning and then Ifeel like we also got jocked with the
news this week that our girl Nancy, who does our traffic, is leaving
us. Yes, and so wedid some on the spot auditions between Laura
and I. So far on thetraffic, Laura, what was your what's

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your recap of your experience reading traffic? There is a lot of shortened versions
of the words, which if you'renot in the traffic industry, might be
a bit hard to pick up.I also learned that there is such a
thing called traffic school, and thatI might need to attend it in case
I need to fill in again.There's no traffic, and there would be
traffic there. You'd be surprised.I used to sell lottery and you have

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to go to a lot of school. Well, no, there's traffic school
but here, but it's when youget a ticket experience there was Nancy did
not go to any school to learnhow to go. There's a backup on
the four or five. You know, you try reading it. It's difficult,
but you just didn't know the terms. But there's no school for it.
You'd learn you learned like right away, like NB means northbound, you

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know, like a specific thing inbroadcasting school that is broadcasting school of thing
it is, but we don't goto it. A lot of people don't.
Some people did, right, Yeah, you're a communication major, you
touched on it, right. Iwas a family consumer science major, but
then I had the communications option,so I did all those classes. Is
I genuinely feel like those don't domuch for you? Yeah? I would
recommend them, Yeah you would orwhat not? I wouldn't. I would

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only recommend them if I was doingthe class. And I know I mean
that in all honesty, because you'dwant somebody who's active in the industry day
to day doing that class, andthen that would be such a time commitment
for somebody doing it. It's hardto make that happen. So a lot
of those professors that teach like ConneticutSchool broadcasting stuff like that. That was
one of the big ones when Iwas younger. Michael has something to say,

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Oh, Michael to say, Ihave a degree in this Ohnetic School
broadcasting. Well, I have atelevision radio degree with a concentration in audio
production. So what do you think, Like what I'm saying, I feel
like the person teaching that class shouldbe active within the industry. Yes,
that being said, my mind wasmore focused on audio production as a general
field rather than as specific radio audioediting. It was like audio for media

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and that's great. That's different inmy opinion, because that's like you can
use that at a record company andstuff. That stuff how to make a
sound sound great doesn't change. Buthow to talk on the radio, like
she was talking about traffic school andstuff, I feel like that has to
be somebody that's in the industry,you know. I don't know, we'll
find out where Nancy went. Yeah, I mean I majored in communications as

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well, and I feel like alot of my entertainment professors did work in
the industry, but it was suchlike obscure jobs, and when it comes
to like the very focused radio,TV film classes, none of them really
did right. So I felt likeI personally didn't learn much from my degree.
Well in terms of Jade worked inradio and they worked to like say,
it's a disc jockey, like that'swhat they still call our profession.

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I like to think of us aspresenters. They say that England they call
them presenters it's very nice. I'ma presenter. Hello. They worked in
it years ago. And the wayratings work, the way we do stuff
on the air, it's forever changing. Michael's saying. You know, if
Michael's concentrating on sound and production andproducing and audio, that stuff doesn't necessarily

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change like what I do. LikeI don't do Michael's job. I don't
understand that world. I can't figurethat out. But this is what I
do and how to captivate the audienceand stuff. Maybe some of that doesn't
change, but certain things do changein a radio presentation form that if you
were listening to somebody who did ittwenty years ago and not today, it's
just not my thing. And Ithink you got to be on the job.

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Like on the job training is thebest training. Internships are the best
in that aspense spinning you know inCONNECTU school broadcast no offense to them.
That's a dedicated you go there andlearn how to be a broadcaster versus going
to college on an ARTF degree orsomething like that radio television film. I
feel like you're getting a wide thingand you're getting college experience, and you're
getting a lot of more knowledge thanjust to dedicated. This is your school

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to learn how to be a DJ. I don't necessarily subscribe to that unless
the people that are actively in theindustry doing it every single day at this
level. Jill, did you takeany classes like that at Northwich? Mine
were more of like marketing and business, like that side of things, nothing
that had anything to do with radio. Yeah. Where did you learn all
your radio stuff here? Oh?Valentine the class of because I started answering

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phones on Valentine's afternoon show over atKiss and so he is he was my
Yeah, like my live model.And did you know what painters using a
live model? Your live model mentorwould have worked too instead of nude model

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class. And you have like alive model, that's how you learn how
to paint the live model. Iremember I knew, I knew she had
tell Like one of the first timesI saw Jill answering the phones when I
worked down the hall of Kiss.Uh. Soon afternoon She's answered the phones
and I watched it. He goesKiss and I'm like, no, Jill,
Jill, no, no, no, I said, when you answer
the phone, you have to goHi, Kiss FM. Can I help
you turn that off? I goHi, kiss M, Can I help

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you? And immediately she turned ina dime and next time she has the
phone, she goes, Hello,kiss FM, can I help you.
I was like, oh my god, this girl she's got it, gave
some direction and she ran with itlike that. You know what, do
you stop doing that on purpose?You just want to end this thing because
we're gonna have a podcast. Yeah, well, sucking up producing podcast.

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Briefly, Aaron, did you takethe classes for radio? I did?
Thank you, Okay, thank youfor that. That was a good update
from your ar and thank you verymuch, teach Brevity. I will see
you themrow morning up day on Valentinein the morning