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Journals Part 1
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I am uploading an episode from A Simple Discussion Podcast in case you have not listened to this episode. This was one of my favorite episodes I have put out so far on A Simple Discussion Podcast. Who doesn't love to go back in time and talk about the past.
Hello and welcome back to a simple discussion. My name is Hannah Kevington and Ryan is not with me today in this episode. I actually had a guest with me in this episode. As you will tell once I played the intro music, you will very well know this guest. I worked with this guest for 16 weeks. Him and I literally talked, it feels like constantly, but not too constant. And it was a fun episode we had in the works for a month before a significant thing happened. I just want to give a fair warning. We will be talking about death a little bit. If that bothers you, please fast forward through this part, but I am fair warning you. We are talking about it because it was something that needed to be addressed in the podcast, and he was okay with talking about this issue, which I am super grateful he was okay with talking about this, and that I always have a great time when I get together with this guest, most of all because who doesn't like getting back with their mentor or one of their mentors and having a good time doing some fun things, catching up because the last time we had talked, it was before some of the merging happened. Yes, you are hearing me hearing me correctly. There was a merger in the media company we both worked for, and which there was a lot of changes that happened since we launched our first episode on the bus route. He was at one station and now he is at two stations and wearing a lot of hats, a ton of hats. I don't know how he is surviving. I wonder that some days when I am talking with him. And I can't wait to introduce him. So let's get into the episode. I spent a lot of time my last semester of college, and it has been one of our popular episodes since we launched on Buzz Sprout, which has been almost two years. Actually, it has been two years. I w I'm so glad to be back with you, Andy.
SPEAKER_00Good to be back. How you been?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I mean, there's been so much going on between a lot of company changes. I've moved, and I'm doing high school sports. What are you doing?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, before we get to me, yeah, you're back up in Frankfurt. You're doing that and uh working for the the the stations there, and then yeah, no, I feel you. I I'm also getting stuck doing a lot of the high school sports. I'm doing that again tonight and tomorrow, which uh, you know, we we love we love high school sports, but it ends up being like the worst hours that you're gonna have to work, right?
SPEAKER_01Literally, I thought I was gonna die Tuesday.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, man, I feel it. Like, cause you end up doing like these doubleheaders and these multiple games in a row. Sometimes there's like a tournament with three games in a row.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00It's just exhausting.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh, I feel that. And I wish I was still down here helping you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'd love to get you in the rotation on that.
SPEAKER_01I know. I I love it down here. It's very autistic friendly. I know, I know.
SPEAKER_00Which is awesome. I know. I'm proud, I'm proud of my because I'm born and raised here, so I'm I'm proud to hear that for a bowling grain.
SPEAKER_01I know. I mean, I miss even someone else who has worked down here is missing you as well.
SPEAKER_00Oh.
SPEAKER_01Chris Christine.
SPEAKER_00Oh, man, I love I love Christine. She's so great. And yeah, that's good that you get to work with her because she is an absolute blast, man.
SPEAKER_01And she's launched a podcast herself.
SPEAKER_00Oh, has she really? Well, hey, tell her to holler at me if she needs an interview. What's her what's her podcast theme?
SPEAKER_01Let me look that up because I have listened to it, by the way.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01I've listened. No filter, no boundaries.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that sounds like her. That sounds like her Yeah, I thought so.
SPEAKER_01And she doesn't post as much as I do.
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah, you're pretty consistent, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I was literally posting while I was waiting for you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, and the other big change uh is uh for me is that obviously now I'm on the GOAT 105.3 now, the classic rock station, uh doing that and also doing the local show, which we're we got coming up tonight. So we I get to play I get to be the person who interfaces with all the local bands, gets them on the show, does all that stuff, which I really love.
SPEAKER_01So And I like listening to that actually.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, absolutely. It's good stuff, man. So yeah, we are uh you know, here in 2026, what's going on?
SPEAKER_01First of all, we have had a lot of changes in the company that we both work for now. Sure. We've launched two GOAT stations. The point relaunched, I listened to the OG point actually.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Before the launch, I actually back in twenty twenty-three two mornings for an assignment for Tony. Yes, Tony gave me homework.
SPEAKER_00Uh absolutely that sounds like classic Tony.
SPEAKER_01I was assigned to listen to all the stations. I only listened to three.
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_01The Point, Woo-hoo, and of course, D.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01So yeah, and then there has been our pop station died down in Frankfurt. Sad. Did it really? Yes, that's what the goat's on now.
SPEAKER_00Oh wow, I didn't realize that. They did away with the pop station for the goat.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was very sad. I I've literally been approached of are you sad about the pop station dying?
SPEAKER_00I'm like yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_01And I got the nickname Pop Princess. Pop Princess.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I mean, with some of your favorite acts being, you know, the Joe Bros and and all that. It makes sense. You're a big Pitbull fan.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yes. I haven't listened to him in forever, but he hasn't had good music lately.
SPEAKER_00I yeah. But someone literally at karaoke last night did Time of Our Lives and it was great.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I love that song. So good. Love. And of course, we had a death in the company, very unexpected. That's why this podcast has been put off.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yeah, it's been hectic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I was literally shocked. I was not expecting. Cricket and I had talked about there was going to be changes within the company, but this was not the change we were expecting.
SPEAKER_00No, or or wanting, man. It's uh yeah. Are are are we talking about Bratcher or we're talking about somebody else? Yeah, I was making sure.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was Bratcher.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, poor Bratcher, man. He's just, you know, such an amazing dude, and he was so passionate about radio and so passionate about local music. He taught me a lot, and I thought we were you know, I thought we were in the early stages of a of a lifelong friendship, you know, and then uh, you know, I was on my way into work. It was Monday morning, and and then Paul called me and told me, and I I mean I just broke down. I just I cried for two days straight. I couldn't believe it.
SPEAKER_01I knew something was up when you didn't text me back.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, oh yeah. It was it was rough, man. I wasn't in a I wasn't like just being totally real, I wasn't in a good, in a good place for a couple days because, you know, it was just he had become one of my best friends, and then, you know, like just just overnight, all of a sudden, you know, he had he had left work Friday saying, Oh, see you Monday, see you Monday, and then we never we never saw him again.
SPEAKER_01And you know what's funny with me was I was on social media, I think D had posted about it, D93, and I'm like literally walking through Kroger in Frankfurt going, Okay, what the heck happened?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I'm texting Cricket going, Did you know this happened? And she and she's like, Yeah. And I'm like, and you didn't feel like telling me?
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because I would I had stuff planned, like at least two episodes planned here. I don't know how much of that one's gonna be on the back burner, the other one. Yeah. And then of course, all the stations and all the chaos, and we've had new hires other than me. I don't call myself that new.
SPEAKER_00Right, you're not that new anymore. No, I because it's just in radio, you're new until you hit like the 10 year mark.
SPEAKER_01Yes, and so it was that, and then the launching of the stations. And by the way, the day the point relaunched, uh-huh, our systems acted up like two days prior. I don't know if you knew because we had a game and our systems were flaring up, and I was like, something's happening. And then, of course, point launched, and you didn't tell me it had launched.
SPEAKER_00Oh, my bad, my bad. Well, listen, the deal was it was chaos that day. I thought I was still finishing out the week on my woo-hoo show, and then all of a sudden they come in and we're like, no, we're flipping it today at five. And I was like, I was already in my woo-hoo show. I had not even been teasing, I mean, you know, just poor communication all around, because I had not even been teasing the fact that, you know, I'm going to be moving. I had I hadn't even told my listeners. So I ended up having to like go on and be immediately like, hey, actually, this is like the last hour and a half of my show. Uh oh crap. So, yeah, so that's it was just a chaotic day for me.
SPEAKER_01So I was nobody expected that because nothing was communicated. I didn't even communicate to you that I had applied for the midday position.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Which I was not thrilled. Other people were very frustrated about that. Very sure. Cause they were working really hard because I didn't want to give up my apartment because I had a nice apartment.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. Good spot here, yeah.
SPEAKER_01If you knew where I was living, you'd be like, oh, that's nice.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Totally.
SPEAKER_01And then um, yeah, because you switched and I was like, huh? And was it your plan to be with the point for a long time before all this mess?
SPEAKER_00I was open to whatever. I mean, you know, anything that could move me forward in my radio career, I was for it. But um, you know, uh, and then and then of course, like the the next change in my career happened uh unexpectedly, like we said, where you know, I I I I wanted more time on the goat, I wanted more time on the classic rock station, and I ended up getting it, but I got it in the worst way possible, and that is you know, the loss of Bratcher.
SPEAKER_01So Yeah, and how close were y'all?
SPEAKER_00We were really close, man. We talked a lot, you know, like you know, he had started when when they moved them into the building, because I had known Bratcher from the local music scene before that, but you know, you get a lot closer to somebody when you're working with them every day and then you're also hanging out with them. So we had gotten really close. We got to where we talk about life and love and music, and you know, we'd message each other. He'd get to, you know, messaging me at the house, like, oh man, you ever seen this movie? Or oh man, you ever heard this band? Like, you know, we we we really got close, man, and it felt like the the rug got yanked out from underneath me when when when you know I got that phone call.
SPEAKER_01And he seemed like he was healthy from the city.
SPEAKER_00He seemed perfectly fine. He he seemed way too stubborn to go anywhere anytime soon.
SPEAKER_01That's what I thought. I'm like, I'm so confused of what happened. And you know what's funny is that Friday night was the worst night our equipment worked. Like our one of our Lucies literally died on us.
SPEAKER_00Oh wow.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, is this a sign?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01And then, of course, like you said, Bratcher passed.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. We've been feeling like he uh occasionally messes with us, you know. He occasionally does a little something to to mess with us around the building, you know.
SPEAKER_01Well, he made his way to Frankfurt, I can say that's what I was about to say.
SPEAKER_00You know he would. You know he would, man.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Because I think he may have came up to Frankfurt for those meetings. I possibly because there were far.
SPEAKER_00Probably did.
SPEAKER_01Because I know Buck did. Because Buck's talked about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because I had to hear all about Frankfurt parking, and I'm like, you can't talk about Frankfurt parking until you've lived here for so long.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And are you sad to be gone from Woohoo?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I am. I mean, I'm not fully gone. I'm still sitting in on afternoons with Jen, but I I miss my Woohoo show a lot, yeah, to be 100% honest. Because, you know, it was it was family radio, and I and I underestimate how attached to doing family radio I was. Like, I love doing the goat, I love doing the point, but uh neither is as geared towards, you know, families listening. So, you know, I I got really used to people telling me every day, like, oh, my kids love you on the radio, like we listen to you. I listen to you with my you know kids all the time. Like, and uh, you know, because that's a big responsibility when you realize that people are trusting you to relay information and news about the world and opinions and things to their kids. That's a huge trust, you know. So that meant a lot to me. And uh like I said, I'm still getting to do the afternoon show some with Jen, but it's not, you know, it's not my show, you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I can tell. Are you training her or what's going on with that?
SPEAKER_00Well, no, Jen is Jen has been in radio for a long time. She's a pro. Um, it's it's more of just we've been figuring out how we fit together, and she's also promotions director, so she has a lot of other jobs going on as well. So she's sometimes I'm I'm helping her write content for the show and stuff because she's you know dealing with scheduling station appearances and giveaways and all this stuff, so yeah. But she's a radio pro. She was in Texas radio for 30 years.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Be because I don't hear her hear her as much when I do listen. I feel like it's more music, not talk.
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah. Yeah, she's she came from the world of you know, she was in I I won't say what company she worked for, but you could you could probably pretty easily guess. She worked for a very large corporate radio company, and they emphasize, you know, brevity a lot more than our our group always has. So yeah, it's definitely when I when it was me doing it, I talk a lot more. She is a lot more like still in that radio mindset of, you know, cut quick to the chase. And actually, I mean, that's the thing, me and Brady have, you know, because Brady is her program director, and and we try to get Jen to show more of her incredibly vibrant and funny personality on air, but she's so used to get in, get the info in, get out, you know.
SPEAKER_01And we are dealing with it at Froggy as well. So not me, um, our new program director.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We're not gonna talk about that.
SPEAKER_00Sure. Yeah. So what other questions did you have for me today? Yeah. What's going on?
SPEAKER_01Oh, I well, we've been catching up, and I know you and Jen didn't ha get on on along the last time I was here.
SPEAKER_00We didn't what?
SPEAKER_01You didn't you guys didn't get along.
SPEAKER_00Me and Jen? Oh no, we get along. We've never not gotten along.
SPEAKER_01Well, you were not happy with her when you she was first hired.
SPEAKER_00I wasn't happy that they were hiring um, you know, someone to, I guess, sort of replace me on Woohoo, but uh, you know, at the t I ended up finding out that really what happened was sh they hired her originally to do middays on Woohoo, but then they made the decision to move me to the point. Oh. So then they shifted her to afternoons. So I felt a little replaced, but I mean the second I got to know her, like she she became immediately like one of my best friends in the world. She's tremendous. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And what do you think about the new midday person?
SPEAKER_00Is this a trap?
SPEAKER_01No, it's not a trap.
SPEAKER_00You know, uh, I think she's she's young, she's green in radio, and she's working on it, so you know, uh and uh I enjoy the uh six-track throwback still, and yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Um I'm well I put I thought I I thought I was gonna get Jen in here with you, but that didn't happen.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she's busy doing her show. Yeah, the timing ended up not working out right.
SPEAKER_01So we had different plans. You know I kept a journal during the internship. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you said you had your journals with you.
SPEAKER_01I do, because even though this was not for a class, and Kirk was hesitant of me doing an inter a second internship, by the way.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_01He didn't tell you that.
SPEAKER_00No, I don't think I got mentioned to him.
SPEAKER_01No, they were very hesitant because they thought I was gonna do student radio.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01I chose not to. Me and the person running it do not get along.
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_01I bet you if you put me and her in a room, we'd be pulling each other's hair out. Because her and I just did not get along. We didn't have the same philosophies on stuff. Uh not fun. She is literally why I left PBS. Yeah, yeah. I've told you some of the. You have, yeah. She is the reason I got kicked out of the job I had.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Which is not fair.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's rough.
SPEAKER_01I will say working for Western is not pretty. Right. Not pretty. I was gonna ask, because some people think, oh, you're gonna put names um in these journals. But what do you think the name I use for you was?
SPEAKER_00Oh, hmm. I don't know. Well what is it?
SPEAKER_01I didn't put a name.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I didn't.
SPEAKER_00What'd you say? What'd you call that?
SPEAKER_01I just called you host.
SPEAKER_00Host, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, because I really was like, what do I use for this kind of thing? Because with Tony, like, he was like, don't use my name at all. Right, sure. He was more protective because he was more up in the radio community at the time.
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_01He has sadly been knocked down. I do not appreciate it. He will always be number one to me.
SPEAKER_00Love it.
SPEAKER_01I don't know who is number one. I just know Tommy's number two.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Um, yeah. Tony will always be number one morning show host.
SPEAKER_00Love love me some Tony. Love me some Tony.
SPEAKER_01I have not run into him since March.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. No, I you know, we've actually seen a decent amount of him. We got to hang with him and talk about Bratcher and all that stuff. And uh, you know, we we we try to get the uh radio folks of town together as often as possible. And I got to talk to Tommy recently at Winterfest down at the Capitol. Got to hang and chat with Tommy for a bit, and it had been a while, and we talked about Bratcher and stuff too, yeah, because you know, he he hadn't, I guess, talked to anybody, you know, more than more than just a minute or two about Bratcher, like you know, anybody that worked in the building and he was, you know, curious about what all had gone down and how how everything had happened, you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I love my people here, but D will always be my home because I practically lived there for ten weeks, five days a week.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I could have done five days here.
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01But whatever.
SPEAKER_00That's how it goes. That's how it goes. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
SPEAKER_01And I and I also feel bad for the current intern.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't I'm sad she's not getting as much airtime as I got.
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah. Well, you know, what's interesting about that is she's not as interested in airtime. She is more she's more interested in the other parts of radio. Like she's interested in the creative side, she's interested in the sales side. So that's part of why is because she's not as Chloe, right, is who we're talking about. Yeah, I like Chloe a lot, and she's she's not as interested in the uh programming side of radio as much as the other stuff. Like she's more interested in, you know, working on creativity and marketing and things like that. So so which I love because I mean we need people who want to do that too. You know, there's a there's a lot of different moving parts to radio, as you well know, than you know, than just being an on-air DJ. There's a lot of moving parts.
SPEAKER_01And I don't know. I have actually asked for them to create me a position for the company and they won't do it.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Running all running all the podcasts.
SPEAKER_00Right. They're they're uh, yeah, oh, that's what you want to do, run the podcast? Yeah. Yeah, because that's a passion of yours, yeah. You need some organization, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And get paid for it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, amen.
SPEAKER_01We're still in the phase where we don't get any money.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. It's that's what that's one of the uh tough parts of radio, is that there's whenever people say, like, what do I have to do to get into radio? I'm like, work for about three years with no pay. Like, you gotta have I mean, I did it, I had to have other jobs all the time and stuff, and then finally I got in. And, you know, James actually brought that up, Bigfoot, Bigfoot Country Legends, James brought that up the other day because we was talking to, you know, somebody about it. I can't remember if it was Hamp or if it was Chloe or what, but saying something about it and said, Yeah, Andy told me about three years, and guess what? It took about three years of of working unpaid to get to finally get in. Because, you know, radio has so little turnover. Like that's why I joke about you're still new until you hit the 10 10 year mark because most everyone in you know in these buildings has been in radio for 20 years, 30 years, you know. Kirk's been in radio for like I mean, getting close to 50 years, you know. So I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, Dr. Bob can join him.
SPEAKER_00Right, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah. It's crazy. I wrote this all back a couple months ago, so oh, I love when I have stuff planned back from October.
SPEAKER_00Right, absolutely. Well, we've been trying to schedule this for a minute, yeah. It's just been crazy.
SPEAKER_01I cut out slips of paper of journal entries.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I love it.
SPEAKER_01This will be fun, and I know it it's gonna be fun reading these because I had actually not read this until I was like highlighting chunks. And it was interesting. I think I skipped a day of writing, I found out.
SPEAKER_00Oh no.
SPEAKER_01I was like, okay, what about this day? Didn't write. I'm like, oh my gosh. I must have been brain dead.
SPEAKER_00Right. It happens, man. Especially if you're in here back when you were in here working on an Odyssey project while we're also doing, you know, the radio show and stuff, I'm sure you'd get home and be like, my brain has been doing, you know, overdrive all afternoon.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, like I'm pretty sure I came I got into my car most days and I didn't turn the radio on.
SPEAKER_00Right, because yeah, just just like so much going on in your brain already.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because I know you brought that up just recently, and I'm like, Well, yeah, I would hop into my Subaru and turn down the radio because I was done for the day.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, oh yeah. People underestimate when you work in radio, how much your social battery is expired by the end of the day. Like, you know, I have a roommate that I'll get home and and she's like, Oh, do you want to like hang and watch something? And I'm like, No, no, I don't. I want to be in silence. Like, I want to go to my room. I might put on some background noise, quiet. I might go in there and just read a book. I need a little me time, I need a little off time, you know.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Is this the roommate with the dog?
SPEAKER_00It is little little marshmallow, little chihuahua baby. He's a little nuggy.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh. I have seen photos of that dog.
SPEAKER_00He's so cute. Yeah, he's the sweetest.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he made somebody's Facebook page.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes, that's right. A good friend of ours, Geneva. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So so are we are we gonna hear uh an excerpt from the journals here? Let's so I'm pulling it out. Yeah, you're pulling. All right, let's do it. Let's do it.
SPEAKER_01It's in a red solo cup. That's even better.
SPEAKER_00Red solo cup. Alright. So five seven twenty four is what I pulled.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00As I knock my mic, hey, that's that's live radio, baby. Or at least live to tape, as they call it. Five seven. Five seven.
SPEAKER_01Five seven.
SPEAKER_00Let's see.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's my last one.
SPEAKER_00Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Which one? I'm just gonna read. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Has that really been that long ago?
SPEAKER_01Twenty f twenty-four, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, five, seven, twenty-four.
SPEAKER_01And I almost stayed on through the summer.
SPEAKER_00I can't believe it's been that long. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, uh, Kristen, you should hire me back in Bowling Green. Oh, what part? Okay, I'm gonna choose a chunk and read it. Oh, okay. I'm trying to decide. Okay. I always started with what day? Tuesday seemed to be a good day, even though it is a day before bad weather is going to hit. It was a super pretty day, even though it had rained pretty hard earlier the d that day. I was worried that I would get rained on, but it did not happen at all. I I swear every time I choose to bring a rain jacket with me, the weather chooses not to rain.
SPEAKER_00Always. I say bring an umbrella so it doesn't rain.
SPEAKER_01Yes. And r rain, which can be frustrating when I have to carry a rain jacket around.
SPEAKER_00Right. It's so annoying. It was And you have to make sure you wear shoes that won't get you wet socks and everything else.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I've actually gotten wet socks.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, it's the worst.
SPEAKER_01It was an interesting day because Corporate was in town for that for the day when I came into the build into the station or building a pick or choose your wording. Most of the time when I come in, there is barely anybody there most of the time.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Like literally the building would be so silent, it was glorious.
SPEAKER_00I know. And now it's hustle and bustle, it's nuts.
SPEAKER_01I've never seen it this busy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. It's that way now. It's crazy. Um ever since we moved these stations into the building, yeah.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_01How are you guys not bursting at the seams?
SPEAKER_00I well we are. We we've never we never used to have like traffic jams in the hallway and stuff, but now we do. I mean, we literally have you know, someone walks out of their studio and bumps into somebody, or you know, we hit we're fighting over or getting into a production room. I mean, you saw us literally doing it today, you know, where it's like there's so many people working in here now that it's like you gotta be you gotta be careful.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And the parking lot gets overfull, nobody can park their cars, they'll be able to park next door.
SPEAKER_01Uh literally, um, my mom's walking around the mall. She trolled me down, she's she's so sweet. And most of the time since corporate was in town, there was a different vibe at the station than usual. I was able to talk with a few people from corporate, which was an interesting experience.
SPEAKER_00Right, I remember this day, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Good good way. They were super nice to me, which makes me want to stay with this company even if it means going to another station, which I am totally okay with not.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01With even though I will miss the station I am currently at, when they ask for certain things, I did not have one of the things which was a radio check. I still debate if I need to do a new one.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01When it was mentioned, I did not know what it was, but I learned I needed I need one and will get one before I finish at the station so I can send it to the person who will help me get a job within the company. Did that happen?
SPEAKER_00Well, you know how that goes.
SPEAKER_01I'm pretty sure we were gonna do it and then we were like, nah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I ended up doing it with Mindy Greenwell instead.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Love Mindy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I love her. You may tell you how many couples I've worked with at the station I'm currently at.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I believe it.
SPEAKER_01Do you want to guess the numbers?
SPEAKER_00Uh let's see. Three. Three couples. Three? Yep. Yep. Amazing.
SPEAKER_01And that's me not counting our big boss and her husband.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, of course, yeah. So yeah, because what, he's on a morning show, right? Is he a morning show guy? Her husband?
SPEAKER_01No, he does the photography for the company.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's right. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And runs all the apps.
SPEAKER_00Right, right, right, right. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01All the lovely apps that we are like, huh?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_01Do we need this many apps? Do we need to be promoting Radio Novo 24 7?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Literally, it's beaten in my brain.
SPEAKER_00Oh, 100%. The amount of times I've said the phrase Radio Novo or search the app, find the app.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And I have to tell Search Hear the Goat.
unknownOh my god.
SPEAKER_01I have to tell my guys to say it because we have a specialty feature on our Radio Novo app because we have two sports stations.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, same for us. We have the video broadcasts on the on the app, so we have to plug it a lot.
SPEAKER_01And then the other part I wrote about was talking about my graduation day, which I was trying to show you my book that I got and you didn't look at it.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's seen in my basement.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because um actually a bunch of the cat people signed signed it and I was gonna let y'all go around and sign it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Which you you were like, whatever.
SPEAKER_00I would I no, I listen, I'm sure I'm sure I was not like whatever, but I must have just not not remembered or misunderstood or whatever. I would have certainly signed it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we um get books every year, so we graduate.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So I have two oh the places you go with signatures.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I have two. I love it.
SPEAKER_01And then um it was yeah, it's a Dr. Seuss book, and then I talked about how I went to Toro.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I got a quesadilla from there. That was fire.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And then I love I love quesadillas. And Toro is so good.
SPEAKER_01I know. And then we talked about teacher appreciation.
SPEAKER_00Oh yes.
SPEAKER_01And then and then I talked about gr the grateful instructors I had.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, I mean, so many great teachers that have made a difference in my life, so many great educators, so yeah, it's the best.
SPEAKER_01Oh, and then talk and then I highlighted highlighted the part about you trying to get me to sing. Oh yes. That was your whole goal the whole time.
SPEAKER_00Always. Always.
SPEAKER_01And I was telling Cricket's husband tractor about how that was one of your goals, and it never happened.
SPEAKER_00That's hilarious. What did he say?
SPEAKER_01He said, UB you.
SPEAKER_00You be you, that's true, that's true. But I can't hey, listen, I gotta poke at you. I gotta I gotta try to get you out of your shell a little bit, you know.
SPEAKER_01And that didn't happen.
SPEAKER_00That's right. That's right. And what's in But it makes for a great bit.
SPEAKER_01It does. But it never happened. That's right. Never did. I bet you you can't get Chloe to sing.
SPEAKER_00Uh, probably not. You're probably right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01You're uh you're glad she's not on air because you would be pestering her by.
SPEAKER_00Right, trying to get her to sing. Alright, let's see here. Alright, here let's check out another journal entry date. All right, March 7th, 2024.
SPEAKER_01March 7th.
SPEAKER_00That's funny, I'm drawing lucky sevens over here.
SPEAKER_01That is weird. I honestly thought you were gonna get uh January. And you haven't. This is gonna be fun to edit, I'll say that much.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Mar March is the third month, right?
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Good lord, I'm losing my crap and it ain't even March.
SPEAKER_00I get it, I get it. Yeah, 3724.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yes, Thursday seemed to be a good day, even though the drive seemed to be very stressful due to living close to 15 minutes away from the station. All the grandparents seemed to be out and driving, which was annoying at times. Or I am or I am a speed demon. I'm gonna meet, I am a speed demon. I have actually I've gotten downtown Frankfurt in less than 10 minutes.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Have I gotten a ticket? Nope. Have I sped to Scottsville on a certain road? Yes. Have I gotten a ticket? Nope. Do you know which road I'm talking about?
SPEAKER_00Absolutely.
SPEAKER_01Whereas it's just this long stress after you get past Culver's. Yeah, no.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, oh yeah, because it's it's easy to just be trucking out there and yeah, no, and then you're like, oh wait, I'm going too fast.
SPEAKER_01I know. I have caught myself.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh while at the station, I was able to put the final touches on my podcast before turning it in on the server. Oh my god, I hate that server.
SPEAKER_00Oh man, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then Adobe was deciding to not be my friend, which made it stressful when finishing the editing for the episode.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it'll do it.
SPEAKER_01And I d and I was doing this on a m this Mac computer I'm on. Apparently I was so stressed, I was asked if I was okay. That's hilarious. I don't know if you asked me or someone else asked me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. It might have been me. I don't know. Yeah. That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_01It was either you or Bailey.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. I could see it being Bailey too. She's a very intuitive, emotional person.
SPEAKER_01So yeah. Yeah, I was talking about how I did homework.
SPEAKER_00Nice. Oh, here we here we go. I did just draw one from January. You want to check that one out? Yeah. January 30th.
SPEAKER_0130th. Awesome. You know what's weird is we almost started before the snowstorm that year hit.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01That was weird. We because you talked about, oh, come in the next day after I met you, and I was like, no, I want to get prepared for this snowstorm.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then I would have been stuck not coming in that Tuesday.
SPEAKER_00Right, absolutely, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because of being snowed in, campus being closed.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01People say, oh, Bowling Green has their stuff together with snowstorms. Nope.
SPEAKER_00Oh, especially after this most recent ice storm, I can tell you Bowling Green did not have their stuff together on it. Yeah. And I mean maybe it's just because we didn't have like the we don't have the funding for a massive ice storm like this, but it took forever for the roads to get cleared, and it took forever for like the sidewalks, even like over a week out, the sidewalks were not cleared. Like it was crazy.
SPEAKER_01And it sounds worse than the one in 2024.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah. This one was the this is the they said this is the longest that an i m over an inch of snow has stayed on the ground in Kentucky for for uh since 1978. 1978, since the last time that much snow stuck on the ground for that long.
SPEAKER_01I wasn't even alive.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. Long time before us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and y you know what's funny is one of my coworkers went out west where they get a lot of snow, and she brought the warm weather back with her.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. Yeah, it happens, man. We had that happen to us when we went on a Florida trip one year. Me and my family, we we end up bringing like severe storms to Florida that never get storms like what they got, uh, like tornadic weather. And then and then when we came back to Bowling Green, we had like just three days of sustained rain, which is more like Florida weather. We kept joking that yeah, we took the Kentucky weather to Florida and took the Florida weather back to Kentucky.
SPEAKER_01That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um okay. I like that I wrote the days of the week.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01To keep myself on track.
SPEAKER_00Right, to keep yourself focused, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god. I don't know how I stayed alive.
SPEAKER_00So what what day was the 30th? Was that that was a Tuesday. That was a Tuesday. That's what I thought, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I and honestly, I thought we should have been doing three days a week.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because I thought about Fridays, by the way, because I moved my study tables up just for that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's one thing that listeners don't know is that we talked about a third day and it didn't happen.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's true, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Or the weekend.
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Tuesday seemed to go really well, even though I felt very tired. Since I felt tired, it made made it easier for me to yawn more than I usually do. Dude, which I am glad I do not yawn on air, at least not yet. It's coming. I I know Oh, 100%. I know it is.
SPEAKER_00I'd rather yawn on air than sneeze on air, though, or get into a coughing fit on air.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I think you okay. I almost burped on air.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, oh yeah. It happens. Sometimes they sneak right up on you.
SPEAKER_01I think I was dry drinking in a lawney and I was like, huh? And I was and I was holding it as I'm banging this. Um yawned more than I usually do, which I'm glad I did not yawn on air, or at least yet, not yet. But I felt I was constantly yawning off air. I was not even it was not even Monday. It was Tuesday. And the funny part was I had the energy earlier that morning. I guess all my energy went to class, which meant I lack a little bit of energy, even though I did not try to show it on air. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you have to that's one of the things about radio, man, is you have to put aside everything that's going on in your personal life. You have to put aside all that stuff and be in a good mood on the air. Try not to, you know, let people know if you're, you know, you're you're having a bad day or you're not feeling great. You gotta like, you know, be consistent on the radio, sound like yourself. Yeah, it's tricky.
SPEAKER_01And how many days did you come in ticked off?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I mean, it happens. It happens.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I because I felt like when you were in your car situation.
SPEAKER_00Oh Lord, yeah. Yeah, it was it was very annoying. Very annoying.
SPEAKER_01To the point of you you asked if you could spill it on me, and I said, Yeah, is girlfriend tired of it?
SPEAKER_00No, she was always really nice about it. She was understanding.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I didn't know you you were actually dating at the time because I thought you gave very single vibes.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, we we were we were very much cohabitating and and and very very together. But I just don't talk a whole lot about my like personal relationships on the radio. Um, partially because, you know, I don't want to put my my partner's business out there, you know, because people know who I am and it's easy to look up your partner through social media and stuff, and I don't don't want to don't want to cause any partner to get social media stalked by some rando or anything else. You know how people go people get weird.
SPEAKER_01But she's won that post.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and that's her call. It's just for me, it's like because, you know, uh with with uh my local my my like low-key local celebrity status, you know, people always are having opinions about whatever I'm doing, so I don't I try not to I try to spare my partners that, you know, as much as possible.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And she seems very nice.
SPEAKER_00Oh, she's super sweet.
SPEAKER_01I I swear I'm getting distracted so bad.
SPEAKER_00No, hey, that's okay.
SPEAKER_01Um that's the benefit of editing, right? Oh my god, I I can spend six to twelve hours on an episode.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, no, I believe it. Well, we'll probably need to wrap up the video. Yeah, we do you have any final questions?
SPEAKER_01Ooh, um, have you launched? Because last time we talked, you were wanting to launch.
SPEAKER_00You know, I have not launched anything official yet. I I need to figure out exactly like I've I've been tossing around ideas because since the change to the GOAT, of course, that changed all the context of what I was going to be doing. And uh yeah, so I haven't launched anything yet, figuring out my ideas and getting it going, but I do have now a home recording setup that I can use for recording from the house, so I don't have to be reliant on what I've got here at the station and you know do it on my own time when I'm when I'm at the house and have you know seclusion and can focus, don't have people walking in the studio or trying to chit-chat or whatever. So yeah, hoping too soon, I'll keep you updated.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I've like and I'm not opposed to the idea of us launching a podcast.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01Like you, Jen and I, that would actually be fun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and you'll have to sit down and get an interview with Jen soon. She's amazing. Yeah, like I said, she's a radio legend.
SPEAKER_01I know. I wish you would come down to Frankfurt.
SPEAKER_00Hey, I could make a trip sometime. Absolutely, I would.
SPEAKER_01You know, you know the other Belling Green person has been when you come down.
SPEAKER_00I know, yeah. Christine, man, she's the best. I'd love to come visit her and her man. They're they're they're they're b big rock fans, so I have a lot to could talk about with them with music and stuff, so Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's it's not the same living in Frankfurt. It's very boring.
SPEAKER_00Frankfurt has like, for being our state capital, it has so little going on, it feels like.
SPEAKER_01And you're like talking to someone who had to live there for 18 years.
SPEAKER_00Born and raised.
SPEAKER_01That's born and raised. And then you're asked to go back, and you're like, I really didn't want to go back.
SPEAKER_00Feel feels like the Hallmark movie, the bad version where you have to go back to your small hometown that you don't care about yet.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Exactly.
SPEAKER_01And I had a friend, I asked her, she works for stay of will you move back to Frankfurt? She's like, oh Lord, no.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01She lived in Indiana.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's awesome. Um, Hannah, I'm so glad we got to get in today, and we can do another we can do another one soon. We can talk deeper. We can even, if you hang on to these journal entry things, we can do some more of these, do another episode sometime soon. Even if we have to record it, you know, remotely, like you know, where we do it online or something, we can do that, and that'd be that'd be great, man. I'm so glad I got to hang with you again. It's been forever. It tripped me out. Your hair's a different color now, you look good. You you knew I was going darker. Right. Yeah, but I hadn't seen it, yeah, and it threw me. Also, you look like you've lost weight. Have you lost weight?
SPEAKER_01You uh I not to be nosy. No, I did lose quite a bit scooping ice cream.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I just put some on with the holidays.
SPEAKER_00Well, the holidays always do it. I'm trying to eat careful right now, too, because I definitely put on some during the holidays.
SPEAKER_01It's I've lost weight, and I had been in the process of going less blonde when I was halfway through the internship.
SPEAKER_00Right, yeah. I remember that you had started going darker with it, but yeah, now it's like considerably darker. Looks great though.
SPEAKER_01Thank you. I like it darker.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And you were the first person that actually were like, Whoa, you did something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's awesome. I I listen, I'm pretty observant. I have a lot of shortcomings, but but I'm pretty observant. I'll take that.
SPEAKER_01I will yeah, and I actually I'm happier not being blonde. Blonde blonde.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Actually, that's what people tell me in the media business was you have to be like bleach blonde.
SPEAKER_00And I'm like, Hey, it's worked well for Jen. She's been blonde her whole career.
SPEAKER_01I don't I don't like it. It was it was I actually destroyed mascal.
SPEAKER_00Oh no, absolutely. Yeah, that the dyeing just hurt just tears up your hair, man, over years. Like it's it's rough.
SPEAKER_01So I like it being brunette and and I like the carmal highlights.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, Hannah, it's been amazing getting to hang with you, man. We've missed you, and we missed you here in Bowling Green. So but you're doing big things and you're moving on up and you're doing you're you're doing the honest work. You're you know, you're a workaholic, I see it. You, you know, like we've like Tony would always say about you, you'll come in any day, any time, any hours, put in the work without questions asked. So we appreciate you, Hannah. Thanks for thanks for letting me come on again today.
SPEAKER_01I know I want to be back down here.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, hey, listen, we'll we'll find excuses to hang more, okay? All right.
