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Speaker 1: What would you talk about on your on your podcast?

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Speaker 1: Fine ELVISI Morning Show, the fifteen minute Morning show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. We got lots to cover. Let's start

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Speaker 1: out with the fact that our leader, the leader of

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Speaker 1: the morning show and all the shows around us at iHeart.

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Speaker 1: Tom Pullman is here. Tom Pullman. Everyone, Hello, Tom, you

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Speaker 1: look into the camera. You're the cop. Yeah, Tom, you

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Speaker 1: gotta speak into microphone radio CPOA hey, hey, hey, radio

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Speaker 1: one on one. You gotta speak into the microphone.

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Speaker 2: And look at that speaking to.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the microphone's on. Scary, I don't hear him.

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Speaker 3: So Tom, Yes, But I said to Tom, you're like

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Speaker 3: in charge of everything. Do you know you think you

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Speaker 3: could keep us on the air if you had to

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Speaker 3: run aboard?

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Speaker 1: And his answer was no, we would hit the iceberg

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Speaker 1: right away. Really did a show?

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Speaker 2: How do you turn on this mic? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It's on? Tom? When's the last time you did a

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Speaker 1: show that that microphone is not on? What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: My god? You know what? I need people to let

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Speaker 1: you guys. Now, he's got two mics. You'll have the president.

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Speaker 1: You're speaking into two mics at once. I tell you

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Speaker 1: what's going on here? You're in charge. You need to

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Speaker 1: know these studios are defected.

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Speaker 4: Well, I see this one doesn't work, but it doesn't

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Speaker 4: know But you said that before.

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Speaker 1: Is it really working there?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 6: I have to I have to do this thing where

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Speaker 6: you turn it on off, on off, on off.

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Speaker 1: That's how it worked. It's not possible we have a

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Speaker 1: defective board. Oup is it? It's the wheatstone. Hey Tom,

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Speaker 1: when's the last time you did a show? Nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: five Houston Town? Would you come host our show one morning?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god?

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Speaker 2: Why not?

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Speaker 1: Do I have to run the board? No?

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Speaker 2: Okay, good Tom, talk up a record real quick. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear him talk up finally, by can

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Speaker 1: I tell you? Can I tell you how genius Tom is?

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Speaker 1: He had this idea years ago. I used to work

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Speaker 1: at a station in Houston called one O four k RB.

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Speaker 1: So Tom, after I left, came in and took over

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Speaker 1: and he gave it this wild slogan which was called

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Speaker 1: hits without the hype, without the hype where they I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't think you allowed people to talk up intros?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: It was like, what was the philosophy?

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Speaker 4: Well it was at a time when there was just

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Speaker 4: all this crazy noise, you know, and we thought you

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Speaker 4: could be different by stripping it all back, and it

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Speaker 4: worked for I don't know about a year, right, but

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Speaker 4: then uh yeah, then people wanted to hype back.

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Speaker 1: So it's what was your example as opposed to how

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Speaker 1: we do radio.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's no people hitting the bell and doing

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Speaker 4: the echo and the jingles and all that. But that's

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Speaker 4: actually what people kind of like, it turns out. But

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Speaker 4: you know, for a minute, it was different and.

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Speaker 1: You let the music.

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Speaker 2: You know, what we were in a I think.

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Speaker 4: It was like a three three station battle to be

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Speaker 4: the pop radio station.

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Speaker 2: And so it was a point of differentiation.

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Speaker 7: Okay, so you thought being boring would worked out great, Well, no, really, Danielle,

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Speaker 7: it'd be like hits it the hype krby.

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Speaker 4: That here was also when alternative music was really really

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Speaker 4: big in the mid nineties or in the early nineties.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, I can see you guys are all bored.

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Speaker 4: I'm like no, So clearly that was this is like a.

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Speaker 5: Podcast without but also like I feel like at the time,

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Speaker 5: like gen X and even millennials were it was kind

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Speaker 5: of like that uninterested but interested attitude like like like no,

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Speaker 5: not an attitude, but basically like you kind of like

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Speaker 5: half hearted about the delivery, and it's like, yeah, here's

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Speaker 5: the new here's a new song from beck cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, takes it out the hype.

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Speaker 4: I shouldn't take credit for it because it was Steve

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Speaker 4: Wiristock who was the person that came up with it,

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Speaker 4: and he was running the radio.

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Speaker 1: It's all the presentation, you know, but scary to your point.

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Speaker 1: It was what the slick radio people thought people wanted,

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Speaker 1: and in the actuality, they didn't really want it all

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Speaker 1: that much. I mean it worked for a while, no problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See when I worked at Caribbee, it was loud with

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Speaker 1: lots of reverb in the background. It sounds like you

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Speaker 1: were in a bathroom, you know. And when you came

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Speaker 1: to Z one hundred, we still had the bathroom reverb

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Speaker 1: turned up. And I was the one that told you

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Speaker 1: to turn it down right. Remember on the morning show

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Speaker 1: they would push a button and turn off the rever

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Speaker 1: just from six am. I hated it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was interesting, but you realize it is a

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Speaker 4: part of what the radio station has always meant to

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Speaker 4: the town. It's kind of like Don Pardo on SNL.

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Speaker 4: It's like, you know that big voice, you know, Yeah, don't.

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Speaker 1: You guys feel a nice load of calm when Tom

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Speaker 1: is around. I just he calms me down. No one

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Speaker 1: acts like an ask when Tom walks into the room.

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Speaker 3: I think that that's what it is, because when you're

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Speaker 3: not in here, it's like a circus. Yeah, I feel

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Speaker 3: I like, and I'm usually doing things too, but then

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Speaker 3: you come in and I'm like, I don't be safe.

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Speaker 3: Normally when Tom walks in, we're talking about something inappropriate

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Speaker 3: and the poor guy gets involved and then he walks

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Speaker 3: out like what the hell?

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Speaker 1: Oh maybe the question let's do it. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: as I feel of protection when you're here. What do

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Speaker 1: you mean by that?

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Speaker 8: Because for for my entire career, Tom has been there

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Speaker 8: pretty much. You can't gave me my first contact, you

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Speaker 8: made me part from part time to full time. You

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Speaker 8: can like a year after we started. So so for me,

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Speaker 8: you've always you know, always been there. You know, say,

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Speaker 8: like a good neighbor, state farmer is there. Tom Pullman

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Speaker 8: is like the big umbrella.

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Speaker 5: There's shelter, there's I feel solace when you're around. So yes,

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Speaker 5: and if you're ever not here, I feel that things

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Speaker 5: could be in flux and I could be screwed.

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Speaker 6: You are ass kissing so much now it is it

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Speaker 6: is just say thank you for the Justin Taylor Lake tickets.

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Speaker 6: Just say thank you for the Justin Tarrorlake tickets.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a very that's a very very very

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Speaker 1: good observation. But you should hear Tom. When it's budget

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Speaker 1: cutting season, the hair goes up. All companies have.

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Speaker 3: Stressed because he puts his hand on his hair.

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Speaker 1: No, no, but let's be serious. All all corporations have

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Speaker 1: to rethink all moneys they spend. That that is not

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Speaker 1: an unusual concept. Be honest. I'd have been on the

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Speaker 1: shopping block. Yes you have many times.

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Speaker 6: Oh really, Elvis, remember when you walked into one of

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Speaker 6: those meetings with donuts and you were like, gos, just

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Speaker 6: some money, have some donuts.

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Speaker 1: No, no, I tell you this company has always been extremely,

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Speaker 1: extremely kind and supportive of this show. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: you know me, Tom, I don't boter your business, but no,

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Speaker 1: Tom has always been an incredible, incredible ally of this

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Speaker 1: show and other shows. I mean, you know, Tom is

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Speaker 1: the glue in this company and we appreciate that very much.

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Speaker 1: And one night we got drunk and I sucked his

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Speaker 1: finger And Tom is the reason.

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Speaker 3: Tom actually is the one who said I was interning

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Speaker 3: and I was doing stuff for the morning show and

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Speaker 3: and Tom's like, hey, we want to try you on

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Speaker 3: this show called Pajama Party is on the weekends. And

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Speaker 3: I'm like really, and he's like yeah, And he gave

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Speaker 3: me my first shot doing that, and then I wound

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Speaker 3: up getting this one, and like he gave me my

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Speaker 3: first contract. And it was like it was crazy. I'm

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Speaker 3: almost fainted on the floor.

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Speaker 1: That did you did? I mean, yeah, yeah, Tom was

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Speaker 1: the one that forced me to come to the morning show.

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Speaker 1: Stay here here. A lot of the songs that you've

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Speaker 1: heard over the course of your entire life have been

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Speaker 1: because of Tom Pullman.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: I think I feel like this is like a Tom Bank.

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Speaker 1: This is It's like like Tom.

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Speaker 4: Tom was privy to all of these songs before they

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Speaker 4: were hits, and he would say, well, that's going to

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Speaker 4: be a hit.

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Speaker 2: This is a hit.

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Speaker 1: But what did you whiff on?

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Speaker 5: Like, which song did you think was going to be

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Speaker 5: a massive?

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Speaker 2: Remember, Robbie, remember memory? Not enough room in the brain

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Speaker 2: to remember those Well.

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Speaker 1: Look, you know, picking the songs is a hit and

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Speaker 1: miss thing, but you just hit You just hit it,

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Speaker 1: and you just hope it becomes a hit and when

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Speaker 1: it's a mess, you just get rid of it really fast. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's true. Tom's first day at Z one hundred, I

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Speaker 1: tried to quit. He resigned.

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Speaker 2: I walked in. It was a brand new radio station.

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Speaker 4: The first time I walked in the building, I sat

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Speaker 4: down and he's like, hey, nice to meet you.

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Speaker 2: You gotta get me out of this place.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, by the way, like, uh, half

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Speaker 4: the staff quit, you know before I even showed up.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I ever met our night Jack remember him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Which one was it?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It was the hit Man? No, no, no, no, it was

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Speaker 2: Uh let's not use names.

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Speaker 1: Let's use names. But yeah, I quit the first day.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you gotta let me go. I wanted. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to go across the street and do a morning

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Speaker 1: show there, and he's like, you know, you've got a

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Speaker 1: content gang Yang.

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Speaker 6: Was that the one where you and ru Paul were

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Speaker 6: going to do a show.

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Speaker 4: And Elvis We're going to do the show together, k

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Speaker 4: tuk and on the air, but you know, any who,

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Speaker 4: you just had on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, that's the best mistake you ever made.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: They told you you actually took the morning show with

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Speaker 4: a bunch of the folks in this room.

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Speaker 1: Here seventeenth place.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh really became the spirit of what Zee

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Speaker 4: one hundred was at the time and took us back

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Speaker 4: to number one.

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Speaker 1: So thank you.

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Speaker 2: And I was right, yes you are.

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Speaker 1: That's why I gave your finger a good sucking.

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Speaker 6: God, I could feel any feeling awkward.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we had some time with Tom Pump, Tom

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Speaker 1: Polls and everyone. Don't have to leave, please, And that's

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Speaker 1: the end of our fifteen minute Morning.

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Speaker 3: Show podcast about what we were going to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that tomorrow. Now we have something to

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Speaker 1: talk about tomorrow. Love you, Tom. Go watch that finger

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