Speaker 1: All right, it is Mojo in the morning.
Speaker 2: I want to shout out and say congratulations to Randy Auerbach.
Speaker 2: Randy retired yesterday from iHeartMedia and job well done. Randy
Speaker 2: turned in his I don't know his tool belt. He
Speaker 2: was our chief engineer at this radio station for way
Speaker 2: more than a decade. I don't even know how long,
Speaker 2: maybe fifteen years. Here's thirty two years in the business.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I think he was the chief for like at least
Speaker 2: maybe eighteen of those years or twenty of those years,
Speaker 2: I don't know. He was amazing, so he always worked hard.
Speaker 1: He had not enough help. I hate to say it.
Speaker 2: I mean they you know, back in the day, for
Speaker 2: all the radio stations that we have, like seven radio stations,
Speaker 2: you would at least have five engineers, And there was
Speaker 2: a point where it was like Randy and Mark and that.
Speaker 1: Was pretty much it.
Speaker 2: And so so it was cool. So yesterday they had
Speaker 2: a good bye party for him. And of course, if
Speaker 2: I retire and you guys throw a good bye party
Speaker 2: and somebody plays Mojo bingo, I want you guys to
Speaker 2: know this, I will come back and haunt your ass
Speaker 2: when I retire. Please do me a favor. Let my
Speaker 2: wife throw the party. Okay, she does throw a good
Speaker 2: party this tradition.
Speaker 3: I had to run out, so I wasn't able to
Speaker 3: stay because the kids had other annual doctor's appointments. But
Speaker 3: did they give him like an.
Speaker 4: Award or Yeah, they gave him a kim presenting him
Speaker 4: with a beautiful plaque. It had his name on it,
Speaker 4: all written in gold script and beautiful calligraphy, had his
Speaker 4: name first and last and at the very top to
Speaker 4: signify his chief engineership and it's thirty two years of service.
Speaker 1: A gold screwdriver. A gold screwdriver.
Speaker 2: Actually, can I tell you what was given to him
Speaker 2: that I thought was the coolest thing? The new engineer,
Speaker 2: No Andy, the other.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I say we got two.
Speaker 2: Gave a cleaned up. He cleaned it up top of
Speaker 2: the channel ninety five to five tower.
Speaker 1: Super cool up there. What does that mean?
Speaker 2: So the top piece of the tower, there's a there's
Speaker 2: a metal piece that holds that light that blinks up
Speaker 2: on the top of the power tower and there's a
Speaker 2: metal piece.
Speaker 1: He shined it all up. It looks it looked it
Speaker 1: was gold.
Speaker 2: And he basically said, hey, this is the top of
Speaker 2: the tower that you kept, you know, for long, and
Speaker 2: Randy said he's gonna use it as like a paperweight
Speaker 2: or something on his desk. It was pretty cool. I
Speaker 2: thought that was actually very classy and such a cool thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was neat. It was eat.
Speaker 3: You're ready for everything you've done for us because I
Speaker 3: know over the years, like we've had some wild things
Speaker 3: going on, and he kept it together for us.
Speaker 1: So this was a part.
Speaker 2: This is a realization for me that I, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't know the people that you work with. Sometimes
Speaker 2: when Randy had a daughter that was at Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: with him, he went to Taylor back in the day.
Speaker 2: Because I looked at Randy honestly as a guy that
Speaker 2: was working all the time. I didn't even know he
Speaker 2: had kids, Like it's crazy, And that just shows you
Speaker 2: how many hours a man works and how you know
Speaker 2: much the guy has to to do and puts into
Speaker 2: his job. And sometimes you don't even know his family
Speaker 2: life and what his family's life. But I can only
Speaker 2: imagine that his wife is very happy that they're not
Speaker 2: going to be getting phone calls from the Mojo in
Speaker 2: the morning show at five am as saying that something
Speaker 2: is broken.
Speaker 4: So Buddy had to climb all the way to the
Speaker 4: top on a tour to get that thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just just changed We just changed our tower out,
Speaker 2: just literally. That's why Randy waited until this week to
Speaker 2: he hung on to do to make sure that that happens. So, guys,
Speaker 2: guys awesome. He completes, completes the job. So so thank
Speaker 2: you to Randy Auerbach. I got a chance to hang
Speaker 2: out with the rest of the radio staff here from
Speaker 2: all the other radio stations and got to see my
Speaker 2: good friend Jay Towers yesterday. And I got to talk
Speaker 2: to Jay, who, by the way, looks unbelievable. I mean,
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen or followed J on social media,
Speaker 2: go follow J. Jay's jay Is It's so funny, I
Speaker 2: said to J. I go. In the last like maybe
Speaker 2: six months, he has been to see Bobby Brown like
Speaker 2: three times, Keith Sweat, Tony Braxton, SWV, his favorite group
Speaker 2: of all time, New Edition. And I mean, this guy's
Speaker 2: living like his his best nineties R and B life
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: You want to see as he was at Ausher and
Speaker 1: Chris Brown.
Speaker 2: And he goes to these you know concerts and then
Speaker 2: puts these cool like you know videos and stuff together
Speaker 2: on social media, and I said to him, I go,
Speaker 2: you know, man, you're like going on and he's like,
Speaker 2: I know, he goes, you know, he basically was I
Speaker 2: think he thought I was going to make fun of him,
Speaker 2: and I'm not. And that's the problem with Jay and
Speaker 2: IRE's relationship because it was so contentious for a while.
Speaker 2: Where I was it was like the David Letterman Leno
Speaker 2: thing back in the day, where we would go back
Speaker 2: and I would go back and forth with him, just
Speaker 2: try to, you know, rile him up, and he would
Speaker 2: ignore me the entire time and not say anything, which
Speaker 2: was probably the smart thing to do. And now I'm
Speaker 2: kind of like past that where I don't do it,
Speaker 2: but I still think he thinks that in my head
Speaker 2: that's what I'm doing. I did notice something that he
Speaker 2: was doing yesterday that I do want to point out,
Speaker 2: well it was and I don't know if this is
Speaker 2: because of something with me, and if it.
Speaker 1: Is, please tell me.
Speaker 2: Every time that I would talk to him and I
Speaker 2: was trying to engage in conversation with him, which he
Speaker 2: was engaging back, he would back up like two or
Speaker 2: so steps every time that I would get closer to.
Speaker 1: Him, and did your teeth yesterday.
Speaker 2: I am not lying to you, guys. I don't think
Speaker 2: I smell. But I also don't lie to you. I
Speaker 2: wasn't that close like I was about. I was about
Speaker 2: Shannon's distance away, how Shannon is sitting here? Really?
Speaker 3: And every Yeah, I swear to you, sometimes you can
Speaker 3: be a little bit of a close talker.
Speaker 1: What I get close? Sometimes I didn't think I was.
Speaker 4: When I saw standing next to each other, y'all, we're
Speaker 4: a lot closer than you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Space.
Speaker 2: So how what is the proper distance to be from
Speaker 2: somebody talking to them?
Speaker 4: I think like like and not because sometimes and nothing
Speaker 4: about it. It's not always a body odor thing. It's
Speaker 4: not always a breadth thing. It's just a proximity thing.
Speaker 1: Like it. I was so close to you, it is
Speaker 1: damn near weird.
Speaker 3: But did he back up just one time? Or did
Speaker 3: he continue to do it about the conversation?
Speaker 1: It was like three or four times? Well you step
Speaker 1: forward when he backed up? No, I put here's the problem.
Speaker 1: I couldn't hear him.
Speaker 2: There's people talking, it's a huge room of people, and
Speaker 2: every time he backs up, I'm thinking to myself, I
Speaker 2: can't understand what the hell you're saying, so I'm trying
Speaker 2: to get closer so that I'm not having to say
Speaker 2: what did you say?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like I was, I was
Speaker 1: trying to be U.
Speaker 2: As respectful as I possibly could, and I got to
Speaker 2: be quite honest with you. I don't consider myself a
Speaker 2: close talker, but now that you just said that, that
Speaker 2: makes me now fearful that I am.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you just don't want to talk to the person
Speaker 4: well like that, and then you start backing up and
Speaker 4: they started coming forwards, like I'm actually trying to get
Speaker 4: out of this situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I'll be be quite honest with you.
Speaker 2: I do sense that sometimes when I do have conversations,
Speaker 2: maybe he doesn't want to talk to me, but but
Speaker 2: I do like to talk to him. I actually enjoy
Speaker 2: talking to him. I enjoy his company, I enjoy being
Speaker 2: around him and stuff. But it was it was one
Speaker 2: of those situations where I was like, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, so tell me about Keith Sweat and.
Speaker 1: He's like.
Speaker 2: He's pulling back a little bit. What it's so, so
Speaker 2: give me. I know that you say that is how
Speaker 2: long is that from you?
Speaker 1: You and Anna like it.
Speaker 4: Depends on like if I'm trying to like if I'm
Speaker 4: trying to tell her something like you know, it depends
Speaker 4: on the topic of conversation.
Speaker 1: If we just talking like this is cool. So it's
Speaker 1: like this is like inviting other people into the.
Speaker 2: Convers It's like the Holy Spirit away from you, like
Speaker 2: they used to say in Catholic school with girls that
Speaker 2: were wearing or dancing with boys at the.
Speaker 3: Room for Jesus Room for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it made me feel like. It made
Speaker 2: it kind of made me feel like not that I
Speaker 2: smelled or anything, but that I was just a large
Speaker 2: man that he just did not want to get close to.
Speaker 1: Like I kind of kind of felt like what was
Speaker 1: his facial expression?
Speaker 2: Though Jay's good at not letting making me feel like
Speaker 2: I am annoying him at the time.
Speaker 1: Until later when I think about it, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's freeway shooting on Detroit's West side,
Speaker 2: So this happened on the.
Speaker 1: This is near Bitler Foxes or Murdoch joins Uspot from
Speaker 1: the c J looks.
Speaker 2: So good on TV. Yeah, J looks, by the way,
Speaker 2: so young, so much younger.
Speaker 3: Honest to God, I feel like he's aged backwards recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks so much younger, and it looks so good.
Speaker 2: He's all got nice you know, real fitted suits and stuff.
Speaker 4: But you're probably enjoying his life that you say, going
Speaker 4: all these concerts.
Speaker 1: He's probably feeling good and well think about it.
Speaker 2: He's like skinny as hell, he's got great outfits and
Speaker 2: he's going to see all the artists that we grew
Speaker 2: up with.
Speaker 1: What's up, Ray, How you doing? I'm well, how are
Speaker 1: you guys this morning? Good? What's going on? So?
Speaker 5: I was just thinking about the whole proximity comment, and
Speaker 5: it's one of those situations where like, if you're a taller.
Speaker 1: Guy and you're bigger, it's almost like you're just towering
Speaker 1: over people.
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter really how close you are to them,
Speaker 5: Like and if you get too close, then you really
Speaker 5: are towering over people.
Speaker 1: You're not that much taller. Oh yeah I am, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Got deeper? Yeah? Oh yeah, I am a giant. He's
Speaker 1: Kevin size.
Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like you may be ahead above.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that's not that, that's not that crazy.
Speaker 1: They're the same, hy.
Speaker 2: So do you think that it's like it's the intimidation.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing too. Now if he backs up
Speaker 2: now two feet away from me and I'm taller, I'm
Speaker 2: up in the air. I can't hear anything.
Speaker 1: So I can't end up giving somebody like a neck
Speaker 1: cramp or something when they have to stance.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean he's like wide lensing me a
Speaker 2: little bit. What's going on, Amanda? How you doing him?
Speaker 5: Ota first time caller, A long time.
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 5: So I call him because I've actually reached out a
Speaker 5: few times. But you've mentioned in the past in trouble
Speaker 5: with reading dyslexia a d D. And now with this
Speaker 5: spatial awareness with your personal space, it sounds a lot
Speaker 5: like you might have a visual dysfunction. I work in
Speaker 5: vision therapy, so we work with a lot of people
Speaker 5: with similar difficulties and it's actually very treatable. So I
Speaker 5: wanted to just let you know if that's something you
Speaker 5: and check it out.
Speaker 2: Do I got to do another like sleep study and
Speaker 2: stay overnight somewhere.
Speaker 1: I just did one for sleep.
Speaker 5: No, it's super quick, super easy, just some like tracking
Speaker 5: tests and to see how your eyes are working. Huge.
Speaker 5: These issues are no, not at all. It doesn't hurt.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so people with like a lazy eye, that's one issue.
Speaker 2: I mean that is I got one yea, I think
Speaker 2: it's I think it's my right eye, my right eye
Speaker 2: I got.
Speaker 1: I got heavy eyelids, I say. So.
Speaker 5: It's really easy to fix though, So if you ever
Speaker 5: want to fix it, see a developments how time of trust.
Speaker 5: We are in Northville, but so struggling struggle with these issues.
Speaker 2: Do me a favorite text nine five five zero zero
Speaker 2: with your office name and stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, I will thanks going on, all.
Speaker 5: Right, thank you.
Speaker 3: By the way, you know what I need gluten allergies.
Speaker 2: I need a handicap sticker for my car because I
Speaker 2: think I will earn it