Journals Part 1

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.

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

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_00 2:36

Good to be back. How you been?

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Oh, 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_00 2:52

Yeah, 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_01 3:11

Literally, I thought I was gonna die Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Yeah. 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_01 3:23

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

It's just exhausting.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Oh my gosh, I feel that. And I wish I was still down here helping you.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'd love to get you in the rotation on that.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

I know. I I love it down here. It's very autistic friendly. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Which 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_01 3:45

I know. I mean, I miss even someone else who has worked down here is missing you as well.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Chris Christine.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Oh, 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_01 4:02

And she's launched a podcast herself.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Oh, 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_01 4:09

Let me look that up because I have listened to it, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Right.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

I've listened. No filter, no boundaries.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Oh, that sounds like her. That sounds like her Yeah, I thought so.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

And she doesn't post as much as I do.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Right. Yeah, you're pretty consistent, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

I was literally posting while I was waiting for you.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Yeah. 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_01 4:45

So And I like listening to that actually.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Yeah, absolutely. It's good stuff, man. So yeah, we are uh you know, here in 2026, what's going on?

SPEAKER_01 4:55

First 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_00 5:09

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Before the launch, I actually back in twenty twenty-three two mornings for an assignment for Tony. Yes, Tony gave me homework.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Uh absolutely that sounds like classic Tony.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

I was assigned to listen to all the stations. I only listened to three.

unknown 5:27

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

The Point, Woo-hoo, and of course, D.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

So 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_00 5:43

Oh wow, I didn't realize that. They did away with the pop station for the goat.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

It was very sad. I I've literally been approached of are you sad about the pop station dying?

SPEAKER_00 5:54

I'm like yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:57

And I got the nickname Pop Princess. Pop Princess.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

I 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_01 6:08

Oh, yes. I haven't listened to him in forever, but he hasn't had good music lately.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

I yeah. But someone literally at karaoke last night did Time of Our Lives and it was great.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

Oh, 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_00 6:26

Yes. Yeah, it's been hectic.

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Yeah, 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_00 6:41

No, 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_01 6:46

Yeah, it was Bratcher.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

Yeah, 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_01 7:08

I knew something was up when you didn't text me back.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Yeah, 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_01 7:29

And 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_00 7:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

And 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_00 7:53

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Because 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_00 8:16

Right, 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_01 8:23

Yes, 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_00 8:48

Oh, 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_01 9:21

So 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_00 9:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Which 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_00 9:45

Yeah. Yeah. Good spot here, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

If you knew where I was living, you'd be like, oh, that's nice.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

Yeah. Totally.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

And 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_00 10:01

I 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_01 10:21

So Yeah, and how close were y'all?

SPEAKER_00 10:24

We 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_01 10:54

And he seemed like he was healthy from the city.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

He seemed perfectly fine. He he seemed way too stubborn to go anywhere anytime soon.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

That'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_00 11:12

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

And I was like, is this a sign?

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

And then, of course, like you said, Bratcher passed.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Yeah. 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_01 11:28

Well, he made his way to Frankfurt, I can say that's what I was about to say.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

You know he would. You know he would, man.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

Yeah. Because I think he may have came up to Frankfurt for those meetings. I possibly because there were far.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

Probably did.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Because I know Buck did. Because Buck's talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Because 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_00 11:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

And are you sad to be gone from Woohoo?

SPEAKER_00 11:59

Yes, 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_01 12:41

Yeah, and I can tell. Are you training her or what's going on with that?

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Well, 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_01 13:14

Okay. 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_00 13:21

Right, 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_01 13:59

And we are dealing with it at Froggy as well. So not me, um, our new program director.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

We're not gonna talk about that.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Sure. Yeah. So what other questions did you have for me today? Yeah. What's going on?

SPEAKER_01 14:14

Oh, 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_00 14:20

We didn't what?

SPEAKER_01 14:21

You didn't you guys didn't get along.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Me and Jen? Oh no, we get along. We've never not gotten along.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Well, you were not happy with her when you she was first hired.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

I 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_01 14:53

And what do you think about the new midday person?

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Is this a trap?

SPEAKER_01 14:59

No, it's not a trap.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

You 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_01 15:10

Okay. 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_00 15:17

Yeah, she's busy doing her show. Yeah, the timing ended up not working out right.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

So we had different plans. You know I kept a journal during the internship. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Yeah, you said you had your journals with you.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

I 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_00 15:37

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

He didn't tell you that.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

No, I don't think I got mentioned to him.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

No, they were very hesitant because they thought I was gonna do student radio.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

I chose not to. Me and the person running it do not get along.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

I 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_00 16:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Which is not fair.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Yeah, it's rough.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

I 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_00 16:35

Oh, hmm. I don't know. Well what is it?

SPEAKER_01 16:38

I didn't put a name.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

What'd you say? What'd you call that?

SPEAKER_01 16:43

I just called you host.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

Host, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Um, 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_00 17:04

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

He has sadly been knocked down. I do not appreciate it. He will always be number one to me.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Love it.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

I don't know who is number one. I just know Tommy's number two.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Right.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Um, yeah. Tony will always be number one morning show host.

SPEAKER_00 17:20

Love love me some Tony. Love me some Tony.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

I have not run into him since March.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

Oh, 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_01 17:53

Yeah. 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_00 18:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

I could have done five days here.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

But whatever.

SPEAKER_00 18:09

That's how it goes. That's how it goes. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

And I and I also feel bad for the current intern.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:16

I don't I'm sad she's not getting as much airtime as I got.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

Right, 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_01 18:55

And 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_00 19:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

Running all running all the podcasts.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Right. 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_01 19:14

And get paid for it.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Yeah, amen.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

We're still in the phase where we don't get any money.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

Yeah, 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_01 20:04

Well, Dr. Bob can join him.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Right, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Uh 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_00 20:18

Right, absolutely. Well, we've been trying to schedule this for a minute, yeah. It's just been crazy.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

I cut out slips of paper of journal entries.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Oh, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

This 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_00 20:44

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

I was like, okay, what about this day? Didn't write. I'm like, oh my gosh. I must have been brain dead.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

Right. 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_01 21:03

Oh yeah, like I'm pretty sure I came I got into my car most days and I didn't turn the radio on.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Right, because yeah, just just like so much going on in your brain already.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

Yeah, 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_00 21:22

Yeah, 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_01 21:41

Oh yeah. Is this the roommate with the dog?

SPEAKER_00 21:45

It is little little marshmallow, little chihuahua baby. He's a little nuggy.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Oh my gosh. I have seen photos of that dog.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

He's so cute. Yeah, he's the sweetest.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Yeah, he made somebody's Facebook page.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Yes, yes, that's right. A good friend of ours, Geneva. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Yeah. 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_01 22:08

It's in a red solo cup. That's even better.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Red solo cup. Alright. So five seven twenty four is what I pulled.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

As 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_01 22:27

Five seven.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Let's see.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Oh, it's my last one.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah. Which one? I'm just gonna read. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Has that really been that long ago?

SPEAKER_01 22:40

Twenty f twenty-four, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

Yeah, five, seven, twenty-four.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

And I almost stayed on through the summer.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

I can't believe it's been that long. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

Yeah, 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_00 23:29

Always. I say bring an umbrella so it doesn't rain.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

Yes. And r rain, which can be frustrating when I have to carry a rain jacket around.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

Right. 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_01 23:44

Yes, I've actually gotten wet socks.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Oh yeah, it's the worst.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

It 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_00 24:05

Right.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

Like literally the building would be so silent, it was glorious.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

I know. And now it's hustle and bustle, it's nuts.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

I've never seen it this busy.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

Yeah, yeah. It's that way now. It's crazy. Um ever since we moved these stations into the building, yeah.

unknown 24:21

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

How are you guys not bursting at the seams?

SPEAKER_00 24:24

I 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_01 24:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

And the parking lot gets overfull, nobody can park their cars, they'll be able to park next door.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Uh 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_00 25:07

Right, I remember this day, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Good 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_00 25:21

Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

With 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_00 25:33

Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

When 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_00 25:52

Well, you know how that goes.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

I'm pretty sure we were gonna do it and then we were like, nah.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

I ended up doing it with Mindy Greenwell instead.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Yeah. Love Mindy.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

Yeah, I love her. You may tell you how many couples I've worked with at the station I'm currently at.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Oh, I believe it.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Do you want to guess the numbers?

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Uh let's see. Three. Three couples. Three? Yep. Yep. Amazing.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

And that's me not counting our big boss and her husband.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Oh yeah, of course, yeah. So yeah, because what, he's on a morning show, right? Is he a morning show guy? Her husband?

SPEAKER_01 26:27

No, he does the photography for the company.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Oh, that's right. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

And runs all the apps.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Right, right, right, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

All the lovely apps that we are like, huh?

SPEAKER_00 26:36

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

Do we need this many apps? Do we need to be promoting Radio Novo 24 7?

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Literally, it's beaten in my brain.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Oh, 100%. The amount of times I've said the phrase Radio Novo or search the app, find the app.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Yeah. And I have to tell Search Hear the Goat.

unknown 26:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

I 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_00 27:00

Oh, 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_01 27:07

And 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_00 27:16

Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Yeah, it's seen in my basement.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Because um actually a bunch of the cat people signed signed it and I was gonna let y'all go around and sign it.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:30

Which you you were like, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

I 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_01 27:40

Yeah, we um get books every year, so we graduate.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

So I have two oh the places you go with signatures.

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Yeah. I have two. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

And then um it was yeah, it's a Dr. Seuss book, and then I talked about how I went to Toro.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

Oh, I got a quesadilla from there. That was fire.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Yeah. And then I love I love quesadillas. And Toro is so good.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

I know. And then we talked about teacher appreciation.

SPEAKER_00 28:10

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

And then and then I talked about gr the grateful instructors I had.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Yeah. 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_01 28:24

Oh, 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_00 28:34

Always. Always.

SPEAKER_01 28:36

And I was telling Cricket's husband tractor about how that was one of your goals, and it never happened.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

That's hilarious. What did he say?

SPEAKER_01 28:44

He said, UB you.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

You 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_01 28:52

And that didn't happen.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

That's right. That's right. And what's in But it makes for a great bit.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

It does. But it never happened. That's right. Never did. I bet you you can't get Chloe to sing.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

Uh, probably not. You're probably right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

You're uh you're glad she's not on air because you would be pestering her by.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Right, 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_01 29:20

March 7th.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

That's funny, I'm drawing lucky sevens over here.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

That 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_00 29:33

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Mar March is the third month, right?

SPEAKER_00 29:37

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

Okay. Good lord, I'm losing my crap and it ain't even March.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

I get it, I get it. Yeah, 3724.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Okay, 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_00 30:13

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Have 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_00 30:25

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Whereas it's just this long stress after you get past Culver's. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Yeah, 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_01 30:38

I know. I have caught myself.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

Uh 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_00 30:50

Oh man, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

And then Adobe was deciding to not be my friend, which made it stressful when finishing the editing for the episode.

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Oh, it'll do it.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

And 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_00 31:12

Yeah. It might have been me. I don't know. Yeah. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

It was either you or Bailey.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Oh, yeah. I could see it being Bailey too. She's a very intuitive, emotional person.

SPEAKER_01 31:21

So yeah. Yeah, I was talking about how I did homework.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

Nice. Oh, here we here we go. I did just draw one from January. You want to check that one out? Yeah. January 30th.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

30th. Awesome. You know what's weird is we almost started before the snowstorm that year hit.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

That 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_00 31:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

And then I would have been stuck not coming in that Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

Right, absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Because of being snowed in, campus being closed.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

Right.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

People say, oh, Bowling Green has their stuff together with snowstorms. Nope.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Oh, 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_01 32:22

And it sounds worse than the one in 2024.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Oh 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_01 32:40

I wasn't even alive.

SPEAKER_00 32:41

Yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. Long time before us.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Yeah, 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_00 32:52

Oh, 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_01 33:17

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Um okay. I like that I wrote the days of the week.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

To keep myself on track.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Right, to keep yourself focused, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Oh my god. I don't know how I stayed alive.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

So what what day was the 30th? Was that that was a Tuesday. That was a Tuesday. That's what I thought, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

Yeah, I and honestly, I thought we should have been doing three days a week.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Because I thought about Fridays, by the way, because I moved my study tables up just for that.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

That's one thing that listeners don't know is that we talked about a third day and it didn't happen.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

Yeah, that's true, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:52

Or the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

Okay. 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_00 34:14

I'd rather yawn on air than sneeze on air, though, or get into a coughing fit on air.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Oh, I think you okay. I almost burped on air.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Yeah, oh yeah. It happens. Sometimes they sneak right up on you.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

I 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_00 35:03

Yeah, 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_01 35:21

And how many days did you come in ticked off?

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Oh, I mean, it happens. It happens.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Yeah, I because I felt like when you were in your car situation.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Oh Lord, yeah. Yeah, it was it was very annoying. Very annoying.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

To the point of you you asked if you could spill it on me, and I said, Yeah, is girlfriend tired of it?

SPEAKER_00 35:40

No, she was always really nice about it. She was understanding.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

Yeah, and I didn't know you you were actually dating at the time because I thought you gave very single vibes.

SPEAKER_00 35:50

Oh, 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_01 36:15

But she's won that post.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Yeah, 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_01 36:36

Yeah. And she seems very nice.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

Oh, she's super sweet.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

I I swear I'm getting distracted so bad.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

No, hey, that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:43

Um that's the benefit of editing, right? Oh my god, I I can spend six to twelve hours on an episode.

SPEAKER_00 36:49

Oh, yeah, no, I believe it. Well, we'll probably need to wrap up the video. Yeah, we do you have any final questions?

SPEAKER_01 36:55

Ooh, um, have you launched? Because last time we talked, you were wanting to launch.

SPEAKER_00 37:00

You 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_01 37:31

Yeah, and I've like and I'm not opposed to the idea of us launching a podcast.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

Like you, Jen and I, that would actually be fun.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

Yeah, 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_01 37:44

I know. I wish you would come down to Frankfurt.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

Hey, I could make a trip sometime. Absolutely, I would.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

You know, you know the other Belling Green person has been when you come down.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

I 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_01 38:06

It's it's not the same living in Frankfurt. It's very boring.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

Frankfurt has like, for being our state capital, it has so little going on, it feels like.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

And you're like talking to someone who had to live there for 18 years.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

Born and raised.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

That'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_00 38:26

Feel 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_01 38:31

No.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

And 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_00 38:40

Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

She lived in Indiana.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

Yeah, 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_01 39:17

You uh I not to be nosy. No, I did lose quite a bit scooping ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:23

I just put some on with the holidays.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

Well, the holidays always do it. I'm trying to eat careful right now, too, because I definitely put on some during the holidays.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

It's I've lost weight, and I had been in the process of going less blonde when I was halfway through the internship.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

Right, yeah. I remember that you had started going darker with it, but yeah, now it's like considerably darker. Looks great though.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Thank you. I like it darker.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:45

And you were the first person that actually were like, Whoa, you did something.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

Yeah, 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_01 39:56

I will yeah, and I actually I'm happier not being blonde. Blonde blonde.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

Actually, that's what people tell me in the media business was you have to be like bleach blonde.

SPEAKER_00 40:07

And I'm like, Hey, it's worked well for Jen. She's been blonde her whole career.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

I don't I don't like it. It was it was I actually destroyed mascal.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

Oh no, absolutely. Yeah, that the dyeing just hurt just tears up your hair, man, over years. Like it's it's rough.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

So I like it being brunette and and I like the carmal highlights.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

Yeah. 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_01 40:51

I know I want to be back down here.

SPEAKER_00 40:53

Yeah. Well, hey, listen, we'll we'll find excuses to hang more, okay? All right.