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Speaker 1: Well, look, my wife has a rule in our family

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Speaker 1: on somebody's birthday is saying happy birthday. You ready, Happy

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Speaker 1: birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, Happy

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Speaker 1: birthday to you.

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Speaker 2: You know, of all the things we have done on

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Speaker 2: this radio show in four years, Casey, I think getting

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Speaker 2: Velvet to win the Hammer and Nigel Biden madness. I

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Speaker 2: think that's our greatest accomplishment.

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Speaker 3: Her crowning glory.

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Speaker 2: It's the Kennelly Casey Show. I'm rob that's Casey. It's birthdays.

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Speaker 2: It's a birthday for someone, something very important to us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Do things celebrate birthday as well? This one does. Yes,

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Speaker 3: WIBC celebrating it's eighty seventh anniversary today.

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Speaker 2: And of course WIBC for depending on how long you

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Speaker 2: have been listening to us, known for many many years

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Speaker 2: on ten seventy on your radio dial. Generations grew up

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Speaker 2: listening to WIBC on ten seventy, which, by the way,

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Speaker 2: did not get over to ten seventy till nineteen forty one,

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Speaker 2: and it was a daytime only station when it went

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Speaker 2: on the air in nineteen thirty eight. October of nineteen thirty.

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Speaker 3: Eight, it originally launched what on ten fifty with one

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Speaker 3: thousand watts and then what Yeah Wild and then at

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Speaker 3: one point in the evening it just goes off the

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Speaker 3: air right until it became a full time station.

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Speaker 2: Well, and you know, WIBC is for generations now literally

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Speaker 2: been an institution in this city. It's taken on many

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Speaker 2: different forms. It's had many different, you know, for lack

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Speaker 2: of better term, types of programming, but for the most part,

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Speaker 2: it has always been city and area focused, providing local

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Speaker 2: radio content better than any other radio station to the

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Speaker 2: people with Central Indiana.

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Speaker 3: At one point it hosted quiz shows and live music

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Speaker 3: also just different discussions. Became what full time talk in

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Speaker 3: the late sixties. Is that Is that true?

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Speaker 2: It's fascinating because for who's your lifers or for Central

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Speaker 2: Indiana lifers, Like I said, WIBC is an institution. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I remember as a kid listening to WIBC

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Speaker 2: and hearing people like Terry Stacey and Jeff Pigeon and

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Speaker 2: John Gillis and Fred Heckman and Dave Wilson, and you know,

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Speaker 2: just an army of other people who have become legendary

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Speaker 2: names in this city and thinking like there was a

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Speaker 2: mystique with WIBC, the sounders, the voices, the things they covered,

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Speaker 2: the way they covered them. And you know, when I

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Speaker 2: was growing up, my ambition wasn't to be some great

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Speaker 2: nationally known radio broadcaster. My dream was to be a

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Speaker 2: great broadcaster on WIBC, because WIBC always just seemed like

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Speaker 2: the place where the action always was, whatever the thing

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Speaker 2: that was going on. And I thought, wouldn't that be

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Speaker 2: cool to get up and go to work every day

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Speaker 2: and be involved and talking about and making a difference

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Speaker 2: in your community. Like everything you talk about, everything you say,

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Speaker 2: everything you do, some person has some recognition of the

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Speaker 2: place or the people or the things that you're talking about,

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Speaker 2: and some connection and some sort of vested interest in that.

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Speaker 2: And for most of its life, WIBC has been that

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Speaker 2: to the community, talking about things and places and people

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Speaker 2: that those hearing the sound of your voice care about.

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Speaker 3: Another piece of radio history, the WIBC sign on coincided

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Speaker 3: with probably the most famous radio broadcast of all time,

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Speaker 3: The Orson Wells. The War of the World, which scared

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Speaker 3: a lot of people, did not air on WIBC, but

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Speaker 3: they happened on the same exact day, October thirtieth, nineteen

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Speaker 3: thirty eight, and.

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Speaker 2: I believe it aired the War of the World as

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Speaker 2: on what we now know is WNDE was where that aired.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it wild to that that was eighty seven years

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Speaker 2: ago and we are still paying the price for that

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Speaker 2: or the world's broadcast by regulations and rules through the

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Speaker 2: FCC that you don't make a lot of sense right

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Speaker 2: and have been somewhat harmful to our ability to compete

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Speaker 2: with other four of media that have come on in

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Speaker 2: the last eighty seven years. But I say this to

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Speaker 2: our people. I say it all the time. You the

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Speaker 2: audience have allowed us to live or me have allowed

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Speaker 2: me to live out my dream of being on this

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Speaker 2: radio station. Your support has allowed that to continue. And

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Speaker 2: for all the people who made it possible for me

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Speaker 2: to be here, whether it's Jeff Smollen or the David

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Speaker 2: Wood or now in our new owners here at Urban one,

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Speaker 2: thank you for letting me be a part of this

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Speaker 2: for however much longer it lasts. It's been a real

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Speaker 2: honor and a real treat to get to be here.

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Speaker 2: Because how many people Casey think about can honestly say

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Speaker 2: I got to live my dream from when I was

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Speaker 2: a little kid.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, no, you're correct, it's been It's a real honor,

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Speaker 3: and it's a privilege to broadcast on this radio station.

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Speaker 3: And of course we have to think and acknowledge all

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Speaker 3: of the hosts that came before who elevated it and

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Speaker 3: gave it its sterling reputation and made it what it is.

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Speaker 3: And obviously the listeners are the biggest part of all

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Speaker 3: of that.

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Speaker 2: If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?

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Speaker 3: We thank you for the opportunity to do this, and

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Speaker 3: we hope to continue our service. Kevin, can you find

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Speaker 3: that song too minute? Please?

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Speaker 2: I gotta see.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, that's how you're honoring wybc's eighty seventh anniversary

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Speaker 3: with that. I think I like Joe Biden's every birthday.

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Speaker 2: J Oh, there we go.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh. Let's listen to that one instead. It is

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Speaker 3: Kendall and Casey. It's ninety three w ibc

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