Myriad Emotions After Gary's Announcement

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez if you missed the news throughout the morning,
Gary Sadlemayer the big announcement. We started promoting this on
Friday that there would be a big announcement on the
future of this radio station and the announcement would be
made at seven thirty five Wednesday morning. That was an
hour and a half ago, and that's when Gary Sadlemeyer

(00:22):
announced that he is stepping back from hosting kfab's morning
news on a daily basis. The reason for that phrasing.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Is he he.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Loves doing this too much to completely end his time
doing the show on this radio station. Also, when you
get so close to fifty years as part of a
radio station and his last day hosting kfab's morning news

(01:00):
every single day is going to be Friday, December twelfth.
He started on this radio station December thirteenth, nineteen seventy six.
Here are some dates for you. I was born November fourth,

(01:21):
nineteen seventy six. Gary Sattlemeyer started on KFAB December thirteenth,
nineteen seventy six. Now he hasn't been hosting the morning
show the entire time. KFAB has taking on a lot
of different sounds and formatics over these one hundred years

(01:41):
that the radio station has been around. At the core
of this radio station have been two things. One a
dedication to our community. To Gary Saddlemeyer fifty years at
the radio station. And he was talking about how when
he first stepped into this building, Yeah, it would have

(02:05):
been this building at that point when he first stepped
into KFAB, got a chance to meet some of the
legendary names that he had listened to. He didn't grow
up here in Omaha, but certainly someone who I was
doing radio and Grand Island at the time as a
very very young guy. He was familiar with names like

(02:28):
Jack Payne, like Walt Cavanaugh and Lyle Bremser. So there's
a job opening here Ken Hedrick's another one, and they
bring Gary in and show him around, introduce him to
some people.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Lyle sized him up.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Wow, you know, and so Gary, Gary got an opportunity
to begin his broadcast career on KFAB in December of
nineteen seventy six. So why retire after forty nine years
when fifty is such a round number. Now, He's not
OCD or anything like it has to be an exec.
But he loves being a part of this radio station

(03:08):
so much. And you gotta make it to fifty, right.
So what Gary announced this morning is twofold. As of
his final regularly hosted show on Friday, December twelfth, twenty
twenty five, he's not going to be a regular morning

(03:29):
show host here on eleven ten KFAB. That doesn't mean
that he's going to slide into a different regular time
slot on the radio station. It means that you'll still
hear a whole lot of Gary on this radio station.
This is Gary Sandemeyer for Omaha Carcare hefe, hefe, hefe, hefe, hefe,

(03:51):
and hefe this is Gary Sandlemeyer for Clarkson College. I
mean you'll hear Gary almost as much as you currently
do on this radio station, which I hope you enjoy
that as much as I do. He can't, he can't leave,

(04:12):
which then presents like, well, when is he going? What
do you mean regularly hosted? What's he gonna? So here's
the other part of that announcement, I Scott Voorhees will be.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Let me put it like this. I was looking for
something in my files on my computer this morning, and
there's a word document from years ago and I ran
across one that I think about every once in a while,
and it was the first time I had a chance.
Having been on this radio station for a couple of years.

(04:49):
We had Roger Olsen as the regular morning show producer here,
so when Gary would be gone, Roger would step in
and host the show. I don't remember remember what the
circumstances were, but according to the word document on my computer,
it was December two, two thousand and nine. I've been
on the radio station here for three years, just over

(05:14):
three years, and for whatever reason, I had to host
the show, which was running the controls, going through the
formatics of the show, which I'd been a part of
the show in various forms a lot of different times.
But it's different to sit here in Gary's chair and
go through the entire morning show. And I came in

(05:37):
that morning, and I don't remember exactly how it went,
but apparently I was not enamored with my performance because
I titled because I wrote some notes down, like, Okay,
here are the things I screwed up. Here's the flow
of the show, which I've never had to quite worry
about in different capacities I've been a part of the show.
So we got to hit this at this time we

(05:58):
called this person at this time, this here, and so
I titled the name of that word document Should you
ever host the Good Morning Show again? The former name
of the morning those files? Yeah, should should you ever?
Because I figured, well, that's that was recognized by all

(06:19):
people involved as a very bad idea to let Scott
come in here and do the show. So considering that's
how I started running the controls and doing the morning show,
which I've done no fewer than eighty bazillion times since then,

(06:41):
always saying good morning Scott, for he's in for Gary
Sadlemeyer today, he's back on Monday. You know that kind
of thing. I I anytime I've ever hosted the morning show,
it has always been under that pretense, filling and for
Gary Sadlemyer. And when Gary announced this morning on the
rail radio station that he would be stepping back from

(07:03):
regularly hosting the morning show on Friday, December twelfth, and
that starting that Monday, the regular morning show host would
be Scott Vorhees now with of course Lucy Chapman, with
Jim Rose, with Craig Evans, with Courtney Donahoe, with the
It's the show is not going to change dramatically, but

(07:30):
for one big, big thing, and that is that voice
that for nearly fifty years in this radio station and
nearly three decades in the morning show slot, that voice
that we all enjoy, who makes it sound so effortless,
and having a conversation with this community about that which

(07:53):
is important to our community. Gary Sadelemeyer's voice introducing this
check Timesavor Traffic with Lucy Chatman.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Here's Jim Rose with sports.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I've got some thoughts on something I can't take anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was a reference to anything from Nebraska football to
some really off color joke where everyone rolls their eyes
and says, Gary, you know that presence is not going
to be a regular part of the morning show anymore,
and I have to step in and be that person.

(08:30):
I'll share something with you that Lucy. I don't think
I've ever even told you this. A couple of years ago,
the company came to me with an offer. They said,
we want to move you into this role within the company,

(08:53):
and it was it was a step up, it was
a promotion, and there was more money attached to it.
There was a good amount of more money attached to it.
Don't tell my wife this because I don't think I
ever shared that particular detail with her. But I turned
them down because Gary, and this has been nearly a

(09:20):
decade conversation that Gary had been talking a bit more
seriously about retiring. And at no point did I feel
that I was the right person to step in there
and host the morning show from a standpoint of talent,
or that the audience would accept such a thing. But well,

(09:45):
more on that in a second. But the company asked
me to do this other job, and I said no,
And they said, why wouldn't you do this? And I said,
because there's a scenario here where in the ne next
three years we're going to need a new morning show
host on KFAB. And when I think about the direction

(10:10):
I want my life, my career, and this radio station
to take, I told them at that time, I said,
I don't know that I would be or should be
considered to take over that job from.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
A talent standpoint.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
On the days where I think, you know what, that
show wasn't too bad, especially when I filled in for Gary.
And we've done the morning show and I've gotten to
eleven o'clock and like Clay and Bucker next or in
the past, hey rush Limbaugh is next, which I never
could believe that I was introducing that El Rushbo would
be on after me. But on those days where I

(10:48):
did the show and I thought, you know, that wasn't
too bad. I think that I could really do this.
Then Gary would be back the next day and I'd
listened to him and he would say something so casually,
effortlessly perfect and funny, and it just is so smooth,
and it's so it's so kfab, it's so Omaha, it's

(11:10):
so Nebraska that I hear him do just little things
that I pick up on, and I think I am
hot garbage compared to that. I haven't ever believed, nor
do I believe now that from a talent standpoint, I'm
the right person to step in for Gary Sadlemayer. So

(11:35):
when the company came to me again earlier this year
and said it's happening. Gary's going to retire, and I
was like, when twenty thirty, what they're like twenty twenty
five this year? And I said, well, we need to
find a new morning show host. And I said, we
found one, it's you. And I said, I disagree. I

(11:58):
think we should do a nationwide sury. We should do
an international search. Perhaps the next morning show host in
this radio station is currently in Pyongyang. I don't know.
Let's find out, let's open it up. And they said,
we've already considered all of that and we're not going

(12:18):
to do that. The next morning show host on KFAB
is going to be Scott Voorhees. It's an awesome responsibility.
And the reason I accepted it is because I still

(12:40):
don't believe that I'm from a talent standpoint, from an
audience acceptance standpoint, I am not Gary Sadelemeyer. I don't
believe I can ever achieve that level. Let me tell

(13:01):
you what I think I do bring to this role.
And I'm getting emotional thinking about this, because I got
emotional in the room when they came to me and said,
this is going to happen. Because this is what I
do think I bring to this You're going to find
people who are just better radio hosts to take over
the all important morning slot in the station. You're not

(13:23):
going to find anyone who cares more. I love this place.
I love this radio station. How about this town. Grew

(13:58):
up here listen to Gary Sandelmeyer on the radio when
I was a kid raising my family here, You're just
you're not going to find anyone who cares more about this.
At some point, I hope that translates into that which
we try and do on this radio station every day,

(14:20):
and that is be your well informed, trusted friend with
whom you laugh.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Cry.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
And get through the day together. So if you'll allow
me to step into that role, which is an absolute
reset on my life. I mean not just schedule, but
you know this, whatever you would call this career, this

(14:49):
is a huge reset because people are gonna hate me again.
Some people still the entire time I've been here over
nineteen years, and there are some people who, for whatever
reason listen every day and they hate my guts. So
glad to have you there. Thank you very much for listening.
Not sure who's holding you hostage and forcing you to
do so, but thanks very much for being there. And

(15:12):
that was when I started in this time slot. When
I take over for Gary, two things are going to happen.
Number One, people are gonna hate it. They're going to
hate me because they're gonna think on some level you
did this, you made Gary leave, which is one hundred

(15:37):
percent not true. He's not being forced out. As we
covered about an hour ago. It's not for things like
health reasons or the company is like you know, I mean,
none of that. It's because Gary Sadlemeyer was finally able
to answer to Jim Rose's satisfaction. Gary started talking about

(16:01):
this years ago. You know, someday I might retire, Sadler,
What are you gonna do when you retire? So I,
Jim and I talked about this possibility years ago, and
I said, Jim, I'm tasking you with an awesome responsibility.
Gary Sadlemayer is not allowed to retire until he can
answer to your satisfaction the question, So, Gary, what are

(16:25):
you gonna do in retirement? Because if he was just
gonna go home, sit around by himself, listen to kfab
and send us stupid text messages, we weren't going to
let him leave. He needed, he needed something to be
able to leave four And as he said this morning,

(16:50):
his life is different now than it was a few
years ago. He's got a slew of grandchildren and they
love their grandpa. He loves those kids. And when you
as you know, if you've got grandkids, they'll keep you
as busy as you want to be. And a lot
of those things are in the evening. Well, Gary is,

(17:12):
as he phrased it, a slave to his schedule. I'd
never seen anyone more a slave to their schedule than Gary.
Let me give you an example of that. Earlier this year.
It's nine o'clock. Gary and Jim are packing up their

(17:34):
stuff getting out of the studio. I'm standing here, impatiently
waiting to get in so I can open up the
inbox and move everything around the way I wanted to
do this radio show. And Jim says, now, I remember Sadler,
we're having dinner. We're having lunch with this guy today
at eleven forty five, Rosie, can't it be eleven thirty?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I got it?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Taking that Sadlare's fifteen minutes, Come on, you got it?
I mean that conversation literally happened in the studio earlier
this year. When Gary says he's a slave to a schedule,
he has to be. You've got to be selfish about it.
And Lucy Chapman knows that too. She's on the same schedule.

(18:16):
I have to try and find a way to be
on that schedule, all right. So which begs the question
that people are now emailing here that I will I
will I'll kind of address next and that is people saying,
all right, we get it, we're gonna hate you. We'll

(18:38):
try and we will try if if you will accept
this premise, try and hate me being on the morning
show less and less every day, or at least on
you know, a week's basis, like you may You're gonna
start off Monday going, I hate that, and then by
Tuesday you're like, I still hate it. When eh, Thursday

(19:01):
and Friday you'll hate it, and then you kind of
on the balance for the entire week. Go yeah, I
suppose I got used to it a little bit more
this week than I did the week before. And let's
just kind of keep moving in that direction for decades
to come. Because there's also I didn't address this other part.
And you know what, I'm not gonna take a break.
Let's just keep going. We'll slam we'll slam them together.

(19:25):
You know, one of the most important things I need
to do is morning show host is stay on time.
That's not gonna happen. So so two things are gonna happen.
Gary's not gonna be hosting the show every day, and
people are gonna hate me, hopefully less and less every week.
But then there's gonna be something else that happens. Because

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you'll notice the wording here is Gary's not completely like
I'm done, and he said I'm gonna fill in on
the morning show when Scott is sick or on vacation. Boy,
I can't wait for that. So I go buy several
weeks or months or whatever. I may never take a

(20:07):
day off, would you. Let's see how that goes. So
I've been doing the morning show for a while, people
are finally kind of sort of getting used to the idea.
And then I have to take a day off and
Gary comes back and hosts the morning show, and everyone's like,
oh my gosh, I have missed this so much. This

(20:27):
is the best. Why did he ever leave us? Scott's awful?
And then the next day I'm like, hey everyone, I'm back. Hey,
thanks to Gary for filling in yesterday, and I'm back
here on the radio. Oh we just hit reeset again.
They're gonna hate me worse. I'm going to hate the
circumstance worse. How is the world's that gonna work? I

(20:48):
would never do that to anybody else. If if we
brought in an outsider to do the morning show. I
would never do that to them. Hey, the Nebraska Broadcasting
Hall of Famer nearly fifty year residents, and this radio
station is going to fill in for you and people
are gonna love it, and then we'll put you back
in here the next day. Don't worry, It'll be fine.

(21:10):
I'd never do that to anybody. But I'm I'm willing
to take. If I didn't realize and understand this battle
for I'm basically I hope this doesn't sound too over
the top. I'm battling for the soul of every single
listener this radio station, past, president and future. And if

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I were is that over the top. If I weren't
up to the challenge, if I didn't accept that awesome
responsibility in battle, I wouldn't do it. And I certainly
wouldn't do it without Lucy Chapman, who I hope we
find a way because Lucy's very busy in the morning show. Traffic, traffic, traffic, traffic,

(21:58):
She does traffic for this station, does traffic for other
radio stations. She's always looking at the traffic, so it's
kind of hard to say, hey, Lucy, I want Lucy
to be a bigger presence on kfab's morning News. But
wait a second, Scott, you still haven't answered the question,
what's gonna happen to this little show? What happens to
the nine to eleven show? This would be an excellent

(22:25):
time to say I'll tell you next and then take
a good long commercial break. I'm not gonna do that
to you either, because the answer is not ready to
be completely announced. I'll tell you a couple things. When
a bomb goes off, like Gary dropped this morning, dust

(22:46):
flies into the air. That dust is not completely settled.
So I don't have anything that I can announce at
this point. I will tell you two of my emotions.
I don't want to step away from this little alcove
we've carved out for ourselves mornings nine to eleven. But

(23:06):
I also can't do the entire run of the radio
show until eleven o'clock. Uh, it's it's why, it's it's
it's exhaust I know you do when we you do
every day, it's a little bit different. Not to take

(23:29):
anything away from whose chair everyone's sitting in, but it's
a little bit different being in this chair.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
So I don't, I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I don't, I don't I don't think it's in anyone's
best interest to have me just be on from like
five am to eleven. I just do a six hour
radio show every day. I know as soon as I
say that, it's like, to your point, Losy, why not? Well,
there would have to be a couple of considerations made
as to, all right, so what happened in all or

(24:02):
part of this time slot? And if I didn't have
good answers for any of that, then none of this
would work. I hope that the answers we can announce
for you in the weeks ahead will be to your liking.
I can tell you that I'm excited about those possibilities.
Nothing to be announced yet, I'll only tell you my feeling.

(24:23):
I don't want to give up this entire two hour
time slot, and I also don't want to do in
addition of the morning show, the entire two hour time slot.
If that gives you a little hint. There's one other
really big element here I want to hear about, though,
and that is Lucy Chapman's thoughts on this. You and

(24:48):
Gary have been working together on the morning show for
how long? How was it that you came to be
a part of this nonsense.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
They needed somebody to do traffic about eighteen years.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
That's how a lot of us start doing this stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, I don't say that in any negative form. They said,
this is what you're going to do now, Okay, Well.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
I mean share with people, because this is your least
favorite thing to do. Talk about yourself. What you were
already in the building. You were doing a few different
things here.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Right, Yeah, yeah, it was over on the Brew ninety
six to one. The Brew spent some time on Twister.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Ninety three point three. Twister.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
I didn't know that you did anything on Twister that
was kind of a country station there for a minute.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
It was. It was traffic, but it was kind of
our afternoon thing that we did with Rich and Cowboy
Rich Cassidy and Cowboy Roy. We had some fun doing that.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
I don't even know Cowboy Roy.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
He was probably gone before you got here. And I
did the mornings with k e FM ninety six to
one with Dan Roberts. You knew Dan?

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, I worked with Dan in Kansas City, and when
I first got here he was still here. And yeah,
Dan was Dan was a really good man. So I
guess yeah, I forgot that. You and Dan were the
morning show partners on That was Light ninety six still
at that time.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, it was KAFM.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Then we took the light off. It was hard ninety six.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Light ninety six actually was gone two thousand and three four.
I think it was k EFM when we first moved
over here was mixed.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Sorry, I'm having ninety six. I'm having Jack and Fred
memories right now.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Jack and Fred were fun to work with. Yah worked
over there with them on seventieth and Dodge.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Right, That's that's where I met Jack one time. I
don't think i've ever met Fred anyway.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
So, yeah, so KFAB.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Eighteen years ago, they said you're going to do traffic.
I said, great.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
KFAB is kind of the black hole of this building.
We try and get everyone to kind of gravitate towards
the center of this radio station. And if we see
talent on other radio stations, we want them to do
something on this one.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Oh, which is so kind, which is.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Well, yeah, it's kind to you, but not to Steve
and Gina. We don't ask them to do anything. There's
no talent there. I've already Steve and Gina morning show
team on our Kissing Cousin country station KAT one O three.
When we made the announcement here in the building, I
went over and congratulated Steve, and Gina says, congratulations. When

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Gary steps away from the morning show, you guys are
going to pick up even more listeners.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
If I don't take shots at myself, then all the
other shots people are gonna take at me are just
gonna hurt worse.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I think you're gonna be great. I think it's yeah,
that's what I meant.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's gonna be great. People are gonna love it. It'll
be Gary who after the first three days. So you've
been working with Gary then? For when was it that
you started working on the on kfab and doing the
morning thing?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
It was about eighteen years ago, so I've been I
have worked with Gary for eighteen years and I did
not know about this until just a couple of days ago.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
It was before eighteen years ago you were doing morning traffic.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
I've been here maybe twenty one, might have been nineteen.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, I think maybe you had just started doing morning
traffic right before I got here, because I got here
in August of two thousand and six, and I still
don't know that's right.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I still since we're it would have been. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I still don't know, and I've I haven't tried to
overthink it or try and explain it how it was
that you just came to be a part of this
radio show because they they said like, all right, Skuy,
you're gonna do nine to eleven. And it was me
and we had a produce her in here, the great
Randy Mack, super producer Randy Mack, and we were having fun,

(29:06):
we were laughing in here, and you were usually just
sitting over there at your spot where you are now
you're in a different room, as we've talked about over
the years, and you were sitting there. So I think
I probably just said, hey, can I drag you into
this conversation?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
And then I never let you leave?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
And I know that it's weird because there are some
days where the topics or my ranting or whatever doesn't
lend itself to conversation, and I feel awful about that.
And you have a look on your face that tries
not to telegraph why am I sitting here? But you've
got other stuff you can do over there, and you're

(29:41):
very busy. I mean, Lucy does she does the morning
show on KFAB, she hangs out on whatever the heck
this little thing is from nine to eleven, and then
you hear her in the late afternoon on another one
of our radio stations in the building, kg R ninety
nine point nine KGr, and people go, does Lucy just

(30:02):
work twenty four hours a day? And the answer is yes,
because even when she's between all of these different shifts,
she's also recording commercials that air on these radio stations
stations across the country. And you might even be on
hold with some business somewhere else in the world and
you'll hear Lucy's voice saying thank you for holding.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Someone will be with you in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
You, I mean, we either do this because we love it,
we're crazy, we're not qualified for anything else. That one
were massachists.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Oh ye above when And you've.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Known about this for as early as you could be
told about it. When we talked about it, I said,
I basically said, please don't leave. I can't and I
won't do the morning show without you.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
I will be here as long as I am wanted
to be here. I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Do we need that?

Speaker 1 (31:05):
In writing or does just saying it on the air,
does that make it happen?

Speaker 3 (31:09):
That that's gonna make it happen?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
All right?

Speaker 1 (31:13):
There are two things that I well, there's more than
two things. There are a few things that I want
people to experience when they listen to Kfab's Morning News.
Side question, should we change the name of the show?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
I hadn't thought about that.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Oh that's a.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's a dangerous conversation, you know, because people still call
it the Good Morning Show, which I always like. But
I don't know about going back to that. I have
a couple other ideas, and I don't know why it
has to have a name. But what I does Kfabes
Morning News say what we want to not an on
air conversation. So these are a few things that I

(31:57):
want people to get when they listen to the show.
What I've heard over the years on from in this
time slot that people enjoy the most, and that is
you and I laughing, making each other laugh, having people
laugh with us, having people laugh at us, having people

(32:20):
laugh at me. I want a whole lot of that
on the morning show, which we're gonna have to find
our spots because you're so busy on that show. But
I'm willing to let all the other FM stations suffer
and not know where the traffic jams are so I
can have more view on this radio station.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I'll send them the important stuff. They can do it themselves.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
People ask me how many radio stations do you have
in that building? I say seven. We got KFA B
and some other ones, so.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Right, never lose that.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
So I want that. I want them to still get
those elements that they depend on this radio station four
in the morning. What's going on, where the traffic jams,
what's happening with the weather, sports updates, market updates.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
All that.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
I mean, the fundamentally, none of that's changing. The biggest
thing that I want people to get is what I
got this morning, which I haven't had this in way
too long. I was driving my morning right now as
I wake up my kid for school eight times and

(33:32):
I get him out the door and then I'm driving
in so I'm often listening to that seven thirty five segment.
It's a big segment. You'll hear a lot of guests
in that segment. You know, I think it's it either
is or it's close to, Like, we have more listeners

(33:52):
on this radio station in those fifteen minutes than any
other point during the day. It's it's a big day,
so I'm less been to it every single day. I'm
one of the thousands upon thousands who are and sometimes
I'm listening with a critical ear. Is makes it sound negative,

(34:13):
just you know, like how we doing fundamentally? Is there
too much of this? Are we staying on time? You
know all that. So I'm thinking about those things. I
also have a manager role with the company, so I
have to think about those things this morning, though I
wasn't thinking about any of that. When Gary started making
the announcement. I think I was at about I was

(34:35):
going the length of Maple Street, so I think I
was at about one hundred and thirty second in Maple
and he stopped making the announcement just before I got
to seventy second in Maple. And I know this sounds
incredibly dangerous. I don't remember driving that length of Maple.
I don't remember the stop lights, I didn't crash into anybody,

(34:57):
and I don't remember driving on Grass, so I think
I was still driving as a safe driver should, but
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Driving.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
I kind of felt like I entered a dream like
state and then came to to about seventy second Street,
And that's because I was caught up in what I
was listening to on this radio station. As a listener,
people form a relationship with KFAB and I hope that

(35:30):
we provide you those moments where you're right here in
the studio with us. We are so honored to be
a part of this community. As I said earlier, your
well informed, trusted friend with whom you laugh, cry and
get through the day together. And when you feel like
you're sucked into the conversation, still safely driving, not just

(35:53):
you know, drifting off the road because you're so enamored
by that's that's a magical state. So those are the
moments that all the things we talk about that I
want to continue to foster on this radio station. I

(36:14):
just don't have the ability yet to announce during which
times I will be doing it, certainly on the morning show.
And as I said, I don't think it's in anyone's
best interest for us to go until eleven, but I
also don't want to stop at nine.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
I vote for eleven, just you know, in case you're
taking any.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Questions, well, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Well the dust Gary dropped the Bomb's stepping back from
full time hosting responsibilities as of Friday December twelfth this year,
and the dust is not settled from the Bomb Scott
Void these mornings nine to eleven Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB