WEBVTT - Bowl Chat - YOU TAWKIN’ TO ME? 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.200 Hello, Hello, hello, hey, hey, welcome to ball Chat. This 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.280 is the sister podcast to Serial Killers. That's the podcast 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:09.639 where we talk about cereal. This is the podcast where 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.920 we just talk about whatever. And today is Wednesday, June seventh. 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.600 We almost did not have a bowl Chat today, but 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.560 Danielle stepped in to save the day. Danielle Dollila, welcome, 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:22.880 thank you, Welcome to ball Chat. 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.320 It's so exciting. I love bowls and I love the chat. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.000 You do love to chat. I mean I could seriously 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.200 just be quiet now for the next thirty minutes and 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:31.520 you can. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.280 I could talk. I can tell you the news. I 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:35.880 can tell you what kind of shoes I'm wearing. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.960 You know, here's the problem. Okay, I don't want to 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:45.000 say it's a problem because he gets very angry. But Andrew, yeah, okay, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.320 my partner in crime, my co host for many years now. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.839 You know, he wears many many hats. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.800 Oh my god, he's got a lot of hats that 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:53.440 he is he. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.280 Actually should wear a hat. Is that hair I'm telling 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.760 you he needs a haircut. Anyway. He does so many 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:06.160 things here and his biggest problem is scheduling. Okay, like 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.360 he should just block out fifteen minutes, thirty minutes. Yeah, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.880 once a week, just to do this a week. Well 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.240 we do too, Okay, well that was that was That 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.039 was for him. But what I'm saying is, and I'm 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.840 not trying to be a dick in any way, shape 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.440 or form, but in order for this podcast to be successful, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.680 we have to record. He's like, oh, I have intern interviews. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.160 Are you doing any intern interviews? No, I'm not, but 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.360 you can schedule them for ten forty five instead of ten, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.160 and that way you have time to do this knet out. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.360 You know what, Let the interns who don't even work 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.399 here wait, take care of your show first and then 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.479 move on to the other things. I agree, but he's 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.360 so very, very busy. So anyway, thank you very much 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.360 for sitting in. Danielle dlo lo. We're both Long Island people. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.560 Yesout it so you're you were born on Long Island. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:57.600 I was born. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.720 Yeah, okay, I that's a little bit south shore, right yeah. Yeah, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.200 so I'm not that I'm a north You know what, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.760 if you don't know Long Island, you have no idea, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.079 but you know, a Long Island looks like a big 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.080 giant penis and the top part is the north Shore 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.640 and the bottom part is the South Shore, and you know, 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.639 it's a little bit different. But I'm kind of like 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.680 right in the middle. But I guess we consider ourselves 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.920 more north more north Shore than you are. But yeah, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.160 so we're Long Island kids from you know, way back, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.600 and we met here. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.000 I guess, no, I met you and I worked for 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.520 Radio Disney. I don't know if you remember that, but 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.880 you were at an event with Greg t Okay in 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.480 New Jersey, right, and that's where I met you. And 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.000 this was going back in like two thousand and four, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.360 two thousand and five, and ever since then, I know 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.320 who you. I knew who you were. And then I 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.519 remember when I came in for one of my last 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.600 interviews and Tribeca you I saw you in the hole 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.760 of the elevators. Yeah, do you remember that. It's like, oh, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.160 this gutty and you're like, how you doing? You know, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.239 you get your hand in your pocket. 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:03.720 I distinctly remember that meeting. However, I had no idea 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:04.239 who you were. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.680 That's so crazy. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.440 And I feel like such a jerk because I was like, yeah, yeah, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.280 you know, you had you have to do one of those. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.200 And I'm the worst at that because look, we meet 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.760 a ton of people in this business all the time 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.480 out in the street wherever, up here, celebrities and their 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.160 handlers and whatnot, you know, and you see them every 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.240 once in a while. And I'm the kind of guy 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.680 that I cannot remember names. I know that. No, I know. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.200 Oh, I'm so good at remembering names. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.800 I know that. I well, yeah, you're very good at it. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:35.640 I mean, I know that I had seen you at 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.840 some point, but I had no idea. I couldn't place it, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.480 you know what I mean. So I just did one 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.600 of those yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great. I'm very careful 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.280 now not to say nice to meet you. I just 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.119 always try to say good to see you, or nice 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.200 to see you again, or whatever. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.880 I do the same thing, oh good to see you again. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.760 Or they'll say, oh, no we never met Oh you 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.640 look like somebody I met before. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.680 Yeah, because I just I don't feel like a jerk. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.760 And then after the fact, like we've been here so 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.760 many times, and I know, I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry, so. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.040 And now we're pals. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.480 Yeah, so you know what. I'm also very interested in. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.840 You also are a very established photographer. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:15.680 Oh, thank you. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:17.760 I love your photos. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.240 Thank you. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.680 How did that all come about? Oh? 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.719 Man? Okay, So in twenty twelve, I was working at 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:29.400 Hofshi University and I was on campus and we on 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.560 campus there's tulips. They're very well known for the tulips. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:33.080 Oh. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.800 So I went and I took my BlackBerry. Do you 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:36.760 remember black I do. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:38.480 Actually had mine in here the other day, no way, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.920 because they were making fun of me that I still 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.520 had one. It's not the only thing that functions on 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.000 it that I use is the alarm. I use it 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.600 to wake me up every morning. It actually still connects 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.200 to Wi Fi believe it or not, but it's not. Yeah, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.880 but it doesn't like you can't use it as a 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.480 phone or whatever. But I still I still have it. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.000 I use it every morning. Yeah anyway, No, that's okay. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.560 So I started taking photos on my BlackBerry, and my 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.240 friend at work was like, Danielle, you have an eye. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.719 You have a really good eye. I said, oh, well, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.560 thank you. So then I started dabbling in photography more 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.680 and more and more, and then I wound up buying 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.840 myself my first camera. It was a Canon T three 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.080 iye rebel. And then I just went out and I 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.520 went to the beach. I went to Brooklyn. I took 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.720 pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge, and then after that it 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.000 just everyone's like, oh wow, this is gorgeous. Oh my god. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.279 Then I bought another camera, more fans camera. Are you 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.040 making No? 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:32.960 No, no, no, not at all. I mean I'm from there, 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.200 so I get it. Yeah, but you don't because you 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.799 know I paid to get rid of it. But that's cool. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.920 So yeah, So that ever since so eleven years now, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.240 I've been doing photography. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.279 Do you do weddings and stuff or not? You haven't 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.120 really dabbled in that. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.479 So I do event photography sometimes. But I gotta tell you, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.200 I hate taking pictures of people. I hate it. It's 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.159 so annoying. At least with the sun, you don't have 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.760 to tell oh, smile this and that freaking guy's gotta 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.840 oh smile and then his eyes are closed. I gotta 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.040 take another picture, at least with the sun. You know. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.520 It's just in case you didn't realize that Danielle is 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.479 New York on a cracker, you know, can we I 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.839 have to actually back up because I mean, some people 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.160 know who you are because of Elvis Durranchau. You're on 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.040 every once in a while, But who are you and 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.760 what do you do? Why are you here? 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:17.880 Like? 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:18.080 What? 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.960 Oh my god? Well, so I'm Danielle. It's a little 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.839 loud from Franklin Square along island that Scottison. I actually 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.839 live in Long Beach now on the boardwalk, which is great. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.400 I don't live under the boardwalk. I live yet No, 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.720 not yet. The rent is getting up there, so I 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.800 might have to move under the boardwalk. But I started 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.560 in radio in nineteen ninety seven at Hofstra University at 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:40.600 w r h U. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.560 I listened to that every once in a while. I 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.240 do eighty nine eight okay yep. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.640 And then from there I interned at PLJ and MTV, 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.360 and I got my first job on the air at 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.600 ninety two point seven w l I R. I did 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:55.920 overnights and did. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:56.560 You talk like that? 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.640 I did talk a little bill of Doucer okay now, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.039 But I actually can shut off my accent, which is 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.080 I think. 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:04.880 Is that's a plus? 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:05.440 It is. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.200 Yeah, so if you ever had a move to like 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.640 Des Moines, you could kind of be neutral if yeah, if. 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.120 I moved to des Moines, I can kind of lose 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.760 the accent. I don't know. I think people will still 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.280 hear it, of course, but yeah. So I've been in 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.240 promotions and marketing since nineteen ninety. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.360 Eight ninety nine, And what's your title here now? 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:29.880 I'm a promotions director and artist relations director publicity. I 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.840 also oversee the Duncan Latte Lounge. All the emerging artists 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.440 come in and perform. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:36.560 Is there coffee in there? 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.280 Sometimes? Okay? Yeah? Sometimes if I feel like go get 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:40.680 in the box of jel, I bring it in. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.200 Oh, they didn't move the big fancy machine. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.040 Can you believe it's still there? 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.800 Are you serious? That's insane? 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:48.880 Yeah, they have to move it. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.640 What's a dunkin lounge without dunkin coffee? 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.320 Well, now we're getting between us. We're getting like some 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.000 coffee spouts in there. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.440 Coffee spouts, Yeah, they just spouts, yep. Okay. I don't 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:01.760 think there's any plumbing in there. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.960 But there is actually, Oh i'll show you later. Okay, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.840 there's a little thing in there you put the water. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.280 I'd like for you to show me you're plumbing. Thank you. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.000 I don't know if you want to see my plumbing. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.120 So you've been here for a long time now, I'm. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:20.160 Here seven years. This is my dream job working at iHeart, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.440 which was Clear Channel and when Elvis and everyone started 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.920 what ninety six, I was like, oh, I want to 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:28.800 work there one day. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.680 But you were just you were in diapers. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.040 Know it wasn't. I was in high school, Okay, wasn't. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.880 I graduated high school in nineteen ninety seven. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.840 All right, so then you're just a little bit younger 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.960 than me. That's a little I mean in let's see, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.959 today is the seventh So on the fifteenth of this month, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.200 I will have been here for twenty eight years. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:48.439 Get out of here. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.520 June fifteenth, nineteen ninety five was my first day here. 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:53.120 Isn't that insane? 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:54.120 What? 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:59.480 Yeah? I was nineteen. I was nineteen, and I'll never 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.080 forget my every first day here. They asked me to 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.360 pull the big van out of the garage. Oh god, 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.400 it was this giant It was a nineteen eighty something, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.680 the biggest piece of crap with old logo whatever. And 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.120 I pulled it out of the garage and I was 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.360 driving up metal Land Parkway because the station was in 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.120 Secaucaus at the time, and like, I had a smile 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.360 from ear to ear that you could not break. I 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.199 was like, I cannot believe that I'm driving the Z 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.480 one hundred truck and I worked for Z one hundred. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.720 Like that was it. That was insane, right at My 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.800 very first event was that day they took me out. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.120 It was myself and an intern and we went to 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.000 the New York City Public Library in the city, the 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.120 one with the lions everything there, and we were giving 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.760 out RCA draft cola. It was Brandon, you know. So 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.680 we were sampling RCA draft cola in bottles and I 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.920 was carrying a cooler and I dropped it as I 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.480 was walking up the steps and there was broken glass 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.240 all over the place. I felt like the big I 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.720 couldn't believe that they didn't fire me that day. But 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.319 it was you know, Bill Hesselberg. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:00.440 Bill. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.440 So Bill was just sitting in the truck, sitting in 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.640 the street park there because he was just watching laughing. 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:06.720 He was just he just had it was just face 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.200 palm before there was a face palm emoji. He was 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.960 the face palm emoji. And I was like, what do 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.400 I do you know? And I was just I'm picking 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.280 up pieces of glass. People are laughing at me. It's 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.040 all sticky crap everywhere. But that was my very first 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.559 experience in my first day at Z one hundred, and 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.120 I'll never forget it. I never forget it. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.680 I remember my first day as an intern at PLJ. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.920 They asked me to stock the refrigerator with orange juice. Okay, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.960 And you know what I did, Scottie. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.920 The best job you could I did. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.120 I made sure all the labels were straight and foward. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.199 I made sure it was no pulp some pulp, yes, pulp. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.439 I made sure that refrigerator looked its best. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.079 Attention to detail. Yeah, we had a tropicana refrigerator in 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.720 the promotion's office in Secawka is probably around the same time, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.600 so they would send us cases and cases of tropicana 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.960 and I had to stock that refrigerator as well. And 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.120 I would still do it today because you know what, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.160 I'm not above any job here. I really don't same. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.319 It's true though, I like, I still get the trucks inspected, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.800 oil changes. I still do that since since nineteen ninety five. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.120 That was my job and I still do it to 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.440 this day. That's insane with pride and joy. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.680 Pride, joy, Yeah, look at you. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.480 Yeah, I mean, you know I'm a little bit grayer now. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.200 So am I. But I get I get it. I 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.040 just got it done on Monday. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.240 That's That's one thing that I've always said I'm never 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.040 gonna do. I'm not gonna dye in my hair. I 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.520 don't nice. Well, thanks, it is. The longer it is, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.040 the more gray you can see. And if I don't 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.400 put gel in my hair, definitely it's very much more salty. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.600 Like yesterday, I didn't have a lot of gel in it, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.520 and it was much so like you see over here 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.840 my sidebirds. They're very they're gray. My whole head looks 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.560 like that. But for some reason, the gel like makes 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:45.559 it not salty. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:46.880 I like it. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:48.679 Yeah, I like it. I like it too, and I 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.640 vowed that I'll never die it. It is what it is. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.760 I mean, I would like to diet, but I will 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:53.440 never dye it. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:54.959 Oh, I know I need a dyet too. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.520 It's weird because I was I was down to like 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.160 one eighty four, like four or five months ago in 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.360 a back at. Really yeah, you know, I cut out 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.800 a ton of stuff, and slowly they've worked their way 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:08.160 back in. 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.280 I just I don't know I did that. I cut 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.679 out all carbs and sugar, and I mean I was 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.640 eating vegetables all day. You had to see me at 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.400 my desk. I was eating string beans like it was 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.000 candy fried. No, it was a Friday. I went to 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.959 the grocery store and I got them. I got the 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.400 big five pound bag and there I was eating string 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:29.040 beans all day. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.800 You know, are you a vegetable grower? Do you have? No? 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:32.200 I do not. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.120 Well, you don't have room now, right, Okay, I got 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:35.520 When I. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.680 Had my house, I always wanted to grow vegetables, but 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.080 guess what, I only grew flowers. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.599 It's good to take pictures of. It's very upsetting to 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.800 me because this is the first year in I can't 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.160 even remember it, like since I've had the house in 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.760 you know, two thousand and seven or whatever, but even 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.800 before that on my parents' house. This is the first 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.800 year that I don't have a full on vegetable garden. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.640 I have one tomato plant, I have two cucumbers, and 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.840 and I think that's it because the weeds. I know, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.599 I sound like an idiot, but the weeds are so obnoxious. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:11.640 They just take over the whole thing, and by the 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.680 time it's like it's not even worth it. Yeah, you know, 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:22.599 so I don't know. It's upsetting because I like to eat. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.600 You grow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. Too. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.000 But I know my grandparents used to grow basil in the. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.120 Backyard tomatoes and can make their Sunday sauce. Yes, tomatoes 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.480 and they're spices, but. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.280 They're not here anymore. Herbs. I know herbs. I went 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:36.920 to high school. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:38.760 Him, Yeah, I bet they bet they're a bunch of 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:40.920 herbs in your high school. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.800 Yes, a ton. So did you go to high school? 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:45.960 I went to high school and plain View, which is 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.559 which is weird because my kids go to the same 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.880 schools as we do, as I did, you know, and 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.200 it's it's it's crazy, it's crazy. And the nuttiest thing 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.479 was that my oldest daughter had a teacher in elementary 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.319 school that was there when I was there, which is insane. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.480 If I would have had that teacher, it would have 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.640 been full circle. But that when I was in fourth grade. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.560 It was her very first year there. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:10.559 Oh that's why. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.720 Yeah, but she's still there. She's still there now. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.280 She don't want to retire you. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.520 No, Well, she's not that old. I mean, you think 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.840 about it. It's I don't know, forty years ago. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.200 So she started being her sixties. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.000 Yeah, if she started right out of college, she was 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.240 twenty two or whatever it is. And she's probably maybe 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.600 maybe sixty five at best at this point, which is 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.480 still relatively young. I mean, you know, so it's it's 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.520 weird because when we were kids, it didn't matter. Every 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.520 teacher was old, even if they were in their twenties. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.840 Ah yeah, old battle axe. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.880 When I went to Swanka, my mother went to Swanka 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.920 and you know Swanica, I do, yeah, four o'pock. So 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.120 my mother had Miss Foreman as a gym teacher. It 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.840 was her first year. And then I had Miss Foreman 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.400 back in nineteen ninety five. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:53.080 That's crazy. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.000 And she's like, oh, you look familiar. I said, Oh 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.160 my mother had you. Oh my god, your mother had me. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:02.480 She goes, I'm not the it's just it's crazy though. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.680 But I mean, a career is I don't know, thirty 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.880 forty years at least, right, so it's bound to happen. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.560 It's oh yeah, and it's very rare in now a 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:09.760 business to have a career of. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.600 Fat all right. And no, I always tell people when 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.120 I when they asked me how long I've been here. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.200 It's that's not normal in radio year, like in radio years, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.320 I've been here two hundred years, right, you know, exactly 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.280 that's crazy because and it's a very nomadic business, at 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.160 least it used to be. Anyway, you know, people would 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.120 move all around the country before they would finally settle 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.920 down in one place. They'd be there for a bunch 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.240 of years, and then they'd get fired from there and 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.960 they'd move somewhere else. But I mean, I've been incredibly 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.920 lucky that I started my career on Long Island. I 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.560 started to be Ali when I was fifteen. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.360 Oh my gosh, I can't believe right. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.920 So I was there fifteen sixteen, seventeen eighteen. I moved 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.280 to Iowa when I was eighteen. Here's your seat, A 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.880 rapid shout out, Andrew. And I was there for ten 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.920 months or eleven months, whatever it was. I always get 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.040 the number wrong. But I was there from from June 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.920 until May, so it was ten or eleven months. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:53.200 Wow. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.040 And then I came back from Iowa and I started 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.280 working here in June of ninety five, and I've been 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:57.920 here ever since. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.120 Can you believe that? 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.400 No, I can't. And I love it as much as 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.600 that first day, smiling ear to ear down the Medland Parkway. 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.720 I still wake up every morning at three fifty two 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.280 and it's miserable, but I'm like, I'm going to do 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.880 the job that I love. Yeah, you know, I mean, look, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.240 it may not pay the bills sometimes, but trust me, 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.360 I know. I always like, is it better for you 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.840 to be happy in what you do and just kind 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.240 of get by or be miserable like a lot of 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.480 people I know are they're in finance or they're in 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.600 you know whatever, and they're miserable. They hate their lives, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.480 they hate their jobs. But you know what, they got 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.920 three Mercedes in the driveway. Yeah, I mean, I there's 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.640 got to be some happy medium there somewhere. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.640 But I agree. And it's it's funny you say that 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.240 because I look at my friends who went to college 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:44.560 for marketing or finance blah blah blah, and that's what 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.360 they do. Like that's it, you know, Like for us, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.000 we can do a plethora of things, plan events, do production, 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.080 do audio and do now we got you know, video 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:58.480 stuff and radio which you know they say video kill 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.280 the radio star go. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.600 It's happening again, right exactly. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.960 So you know, it's funny when when people are just like, oh, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.399 I do finance, I work with numbers. Okay, is there 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.280