My Favorite DJ Part 2

In this episode of the Let’s Talk podcast, host Hannah Covington is joined by her mentor and #1 afternoon DJ, Andy Morgan, for a candid conversation about radio, resilience, and autism advocacy. The duo explores the realities of depression affecting our society due to social media and how much time is spent on our phones, while emphasizing that there is always "light at the end of the tunnel" even when a career path feels "broken". After what is going on with the radio industry at the current moment.

This episode came out back in 2024 on Hannah's other podcast. It has been one of the more popular episodes since its release. Even though part 1 had the most downloads and I am now wanting to share it with you as I am enjoying the summer and creating content you will see in the near future.

A major focus of the episode is neurodiversity in the workplace, highlighting how individuals on the spectrum bring unique, hardworking perspectives to the broadcasting industry. The group also discusses the growth of autism acceptance in Bowling Green, from Temple Grandin’s local influence to the rise of sensory-friendly hours at community events and stores.

This episode serves as an inspiring look at how personal experience and a passion for broadcasting can create a lasting community impact that people do not realize.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Let's Talk podcast. My name is Haina Covington. Sorry, this is not a new episode, but an episode from my other podcast. You'll be seeing a little bit of that for the next couple of weeks. I feel that I want to kind of show you a little bit of some of my episodes I have done in the past of my other podcasts because they are some really good episodes, and I feel like you guys would enjoy these episodes if you have not gotten to listen to it on a simple discussion at the current moment. And I just want you guys to enjoy these episodes. Another bag from 2024, but they were really good episodes. I worked really, really hard on. I thought you guys would enjoy this. You will get to know one of my favorite mentors, by the way. He has been a big crucial part of my radio career since interning with him. And we had a really good time talking about live and just different things. I'm just giving you a feeling through older episodes so you understand. Because I think y'all deserve to hear older episodes, and they were episodes I worked on really, really hard. And I hope you enjoy it. Let's roll that intro music, and I will see you with some new content real soon.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

100%. I literally talk about that because they'll see those numbers. Like I I literally saw on TV the other day on WNKY, they were saying something like, you know, like 20% of adults admit to depression. I was like, 80% are lying. Yeah, ain't that the truth? Or at least like 75%. Like there's probably some people, I guess, who've never been depressed, but I don't know anybody.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

So you know, well, you didn't know Hannah last fall.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

She was going through some stuff.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Yeah. It happens. And that's one of the things about depression is depression makes you think that there's no light at the end of the tunnel when there is it's just hard to get there and it's hard to climb out of that once you're already there.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Um I remember a conversation with my parents. You've heard my mom on the phone. Oh yeah. Um, I remember telling her right before I got my internship with Tony, I said, nobody is gonna take me because I thought I was so broken and nobody in Bowling Green was gonna take me. Because I had applied to WNKY, like I applied to Bo TV stations, and I wasn't even thinking radio at the time. I'm like, I just need to get this internship class done and over with I can worry about maybe doing a radio in the spring. Sure. Well, Michelle pulled some strings. She she's one of the cap advi used to be cap advisors. And she pulled strings, and that's how I got with Tony and then you.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah. Which is great because it did it did definitely help you get out of your shell a little bit and you got some new connections, and obviously now you've got you've got a job working in radio, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

And I'm even not talking.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Hey, listen, I that's what I did. I stud when I when I started, I was running aboard for for months and months. I was running aboard. You never heard my voice on the radio at all. I was bored up in high school football, high school sports, and you know, bowling green hot rods games, you know, and then it was and I never would have thought then that I would be, you know, a number one afternoon DJ in the market, but here I am, you know. Because I felt very hopeless. There was a time where I thought I'm never gonna get put on full time by this company. I've wasted years of my life hanging around here trying to get on full time, and then right at my lowest point, it happened, and it was crazy.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Yeah, because like I think you and I have texted about it constantly.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Oh, yeah. Yeah, because I mean, and you also have the added burden of you were hunting for jobs post-COVID, and you know as well as I do, nobody's hiring, everybody says they're hiring, nobody's actually hiring, and it and and the job market is rough. So a lot of that is out of your control. But also, you're not wrong in thinking that there's definitely stigmas that people have of thinking, oh, this person is on the spectrum, we're gonna have to cater to them, we're gonna have to this. It's like, no, you don't. Like, there might be differences in the way that they learn a task, but like they are some of the most independent, hardworking people that you'll ever meet.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

But but it's you know, that pe people have this lack of understanding.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Like, I might be taking my solar time learning board at the current moment compared to probably how fast you learned it.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

It depends. I mean, listen, I've I've also taught the board taught the board to people who were not on the spectrum or did not know if if they uh they they they certainly didn't know if they were or whatever, and you know, and it was very hard to teach them. So it's the board boards are complicated. There's a lot of complicated things in any sort of broadcasting, but uh, you know, definitely do not feel bad about any any speed that you learn that, because I'm here to tell you, people that walked in and think they're the smartest person on earth, I show them the same thing on the board 20 times and they still get it wrong. You know, that just happens. So I was gonna ask you I'd rather have someone like you who's not cocky coming in than someone who's like, oh yeah, I got this, and then they're not even listening to you when you're talking how about the instructions, you know.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

You know, and I want to come in humble because like like I said, I didn't talk about my one year at public radio, like nobody knew, like here that I was in public radio for a year before I started my broadcasting degree. Yeah. It's only until you look at my resume and they're like, Wait, she did public radio, why is she wanting to go music route now? Yeah. And I'm like, I wasn't happy.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Yeah, totally. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

So and I just want to say, cockiness is overrated. So if you slip up, it makes for good comedy.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

That's right. Oh, absolutely, it's the best. We love to see a cocky person stumble. Confidence is underrated. Cockiness is overrated.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Yes. Yeah. Never underestimate confidence.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

How how long do you think it took me to get out of my show while I was here?

SPEAKER_02 7:31

I don't know. I feel like within a couple weeks, but like, I mean, I feel like you and I had a pretty immediate rapport. I feel like we knew each other, but there was definitely like I could tell you were nervous to interact with other people in the building and different things, but I'd say a couple weeks, you opened up pretty quick.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Oh, God.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Because that's why it's curious, because I was only here like two days a week.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

Yeah, exactly. And that's that's the thing, is because you're getting small sample sizes there. So it'd be different if you were here five days a week. You'd probably get by the end of the first week, you'd probably feel pretty cozy.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

But you know, when you're coming in only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or Monday and Wednesday, or I can't remember what it what we were doing.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Tuesday, Thursdays. I wanted to add a day, but you're like, no.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Yeah, just because they didn't they didn't want me to ha have it that much on there, but yeah. But but it was awesome having you. And I know a lot of I know a lot of listeners still, when I mention you on air, will text about it.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

Oh, they love you. Yeah, I was gonna ask, um, what do you think the bowling how has the bowling green community shaped like towards the autism community since you've been in radio and doing all these public events?

SPEAKER_02 8:33

I think there's definitely a growing acceptance, and you know, uh you mentioned a thing earlier that I uh before we started recording that I might ask you about in a second. But I think in bowling green I've seen a lot more ex acceptance of it because even before you were talking about the Kelly Autism Program, I was aware of how prestigious of a program it was and how helpful it was to people. And, you know, we have different autism awareness events that go on around town, all kinds of good stuff. So I think that we're definitely getting there. And then something like when Timbell Grandon came and spoke at Skypack, you know, I went to that and the crowd was huge. It was an all-ages range of people. Lots of young people who are fans from TikTok, lots of older people who are fans from the the HBO film or maybe just reading your books or whatever else. And she's out there preaching the word of not only is autism okay, it's actually a very useful thing for people who know how to work with autism, you know, or work with being on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Yes, because I even remember like when I was there too, um, like there were some kids even asking how to do it. Children's gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

Yeah, and they were and and yeah, and like people who were talking about, you know, hey, I have an autistic child, and you know, what do you do? How do you deal with this? And you know, different things. I think about because that one woman said, you know, uh there was a younger girl that asked about how do you deal with bullying, and then Temple was like, well, like specifically what type of thing, and then the girl started to get into it and it it it started to pertain to family or something, and then Temple was like, Come see me after the show. Yeah, which I thought was so sweet because she was just like, you know what, this is a longer conversation, come see me after the show.

SPEAKER_01 10:05

Yeah, yeah, because like there are some questions that need to be answered not within the pup within a public air domain.

SPEAKER_00 10:14

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

But more like individually.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

So I think we're making a lot of progress.

SPEAKER_00 10:19

Okay. Like, what about like the events you've seen, like not Temple Grain and like stuff you've DJ'd?

SPEAKER_02 10:26

In which way?

SPEAKER_00 10:27

Like, have you seen people come out and be like, feel welcomed, like at like stuff like Harvest Fest, you've DJ'd.

SPEAKER_02 10:34

Oh, absolutely, yeah. And like I said, I've done special Olympics events, I've done all kinds of different things where you have all kinds of different people. And you know, I feel like again, awareness of it now is so much better than it is. Like, you know, people will come up to me at something like Harvest Fest, which I'll be doing again, of course, this year. When is that, by the way? That is this Saturday, by the way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

I'll come be here.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

Yes, I uh where is that, by the way? It's on the it's on uh Circus Square Park. So, like where the international festival is, right in front of Skypack there.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

Oh, oh, okay. So that's not yeah, that's not bad. Nah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

But yeah, there's so many people that come out and they might say, Hey, you know, me and my autistic child listen to you every day on the radio, we love you. And that's always reassuring to me because me as a person who's not on the spectrum, you know, essentially your broadcast I I don't know whether or not the way I broadcast and whether or not the way I do things would be appealing to a person who's on the spectrum or not, but that's a great reassurance that it is. And people obviously know coming up and talking to me about that that I'm not gonna have a weird adverse reaction because I do have other people that tell me that. So I have seen a lot of acceptance of it. I do know that there's still a lot of fight to be had for universal acceptance of autism and people on the spectrum.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

But and how many more people have come forward since my internship? This was a A lot.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

We had so many people text during the times that you would be on air with us and would say, like, you know, hey, like I have an autistic child, or hey, I'm autistic, or hey, my brother is autistic, or whatever. And we'd be like, We love that you're talking autism stuff on air. Like, we love that you're bringing awareness of this, you know, because that's the beautiful thing about radio is it reaches a lot of people, and a lot of people aren't really even conscious of it. You're in a restaurant, you're in a store, you're hearing it, and then all of a sudden you're hearing somebody talking about showing respect for people on spectrum and talking about learning different people's different ways, and you know, and and and that is helpful because it just gets those wheels turning in people's brains, even when they don't they're not really consciously aware of it.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

Congratulations, you started a community. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Well, why I brought this up is I was talking with Sheila Ash. Have you met Sheila?

SPEAKER_02 12:38

Yeah, oh yeah, she used to work here years ago.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

I was talking with her, she goes, Yeah, they brought in someone who was on the spectrum just for a day because they love Beatles after I left, like literally a week after I left.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Back in December.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

And wow because I remember I listened in one day and they had one mom was scared to tell where her child went. I think it was one of the days I was out and you it was like she was scared to admit what her child had like was going to school, I remember. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Oh, for a minute I thought you were going or somewhere else. I thought like about a child missing for a minute. Oh, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 13:14

But just didn't want to say where the child went to school for fear of bullying.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Yeah, yeah, which I which is understandable because you don't want to give out too specifics like that.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Yeah, I try really hard with kids, like not to give out too many specifics, yeah. Just because kids are cruel. We know that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Yeah. But it like when I heard that, I was like, I'm making an impression, and I'm glad that parent felt comfortable.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Absolutely. So what's next?

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Me, um like, did you I those are finger stamps, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

That's right. As in uh to make it more plausible.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Well, I'm trying to think. Do you consider yourself an advocate?

SPEAKER_02 13:52

I would love to consider myself an advocate. I think there's probably still more work for me to do, more learning for me to do, and more experience for me to get before I can truly say that. That's kind of like I joke about when people say, Oh, are you a fan of so-and-so artists? And I always go, I'm an appreciator of their work because to be a fan means I know a lot about it. I'm an authority on the topic. It's the same thing with being an advocate here. I don't know enough about autism and and life on the spectrum to feel comfortable calling myself an advocate, but I aspire to be one. And I want to be, you know, as much of a positive voice in that as I can, especially being in broadcasting and you have the ears of so many people that you don't even know who you're speaking to, who's hearing you. So I always want to make sure that I, you know, learn enough that I can choose my words carefully, know enough that I can give advice correctly, give input correctly. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Because you go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

Because like I was literally, like, when I was asking Darius this, he said, What do you consider an advocate? I'm like, oh, good question.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm definitely an advocate in the way that I'm aware that people with autism are not only like, you know, not only is there nothing wrong with them, but they have skills that people who are not on the spectrum don't have. Like we talked about with Timbell Grant and her designing cattle shoots and things like that. Like, you know, because she talks about that she was able to see things from the animal's perspective, which none of the like, you know, what you would consider neurotypical people in the field were doing at the time. They were they were designing it the way a human looks at it. And she was able to look at it differently. And, you know, like, like, you know, someone like maybe, you know, Nicola Tesla or any of those types of people who are inventors over the many years, um, you know, or Da Vinci or somebody. Oh, yeah. Like that, they their brain clearly was on a different wavelength in in seeing how things work and how to reassess them. And that's the thing that people on Spectrum do very well. That a brain like mine that is not consumed with any of those thoughts. I'm just consumed with, you know, when that new album that I'm l I'm excited about comes out and what I'm having for dinner tonight, you know, but their brain is on a different wavelength and doing different things.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Oh yeah. I was sad I couldn't go to that Temple Grain thing because I think I was doing homework. I was so sad. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

Now listen, that homework gets you.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Yeah, that was that was like me with with uh last fall semester. I wanted to go to this awesome horror convention, but couldn't we?

SPEAKER_02 16:14

Oh, I love I love I love horror, yeah. Yeah, we clearly have a lot to talk about with film, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

That's that's that's that's true for sure.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Yeah, I'm I'm I'm literally doing I'm finishing up classic horror movie week, and then next week I'm starting zombie movie week. You see, I've got a clue. Wherefore art thou, Romero? Tag me in.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Tag me in. Let's go. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

But back to what you were saying, Hannah.

SPEAKER_00 16:34

Um, because I didn't get to go, but I was so upset that day because she came over to LifeWorks, and I was like, why didn't nobody nobody texted me? And I was like, Yeah, me neither. And I was like, I literally live above there, and I was like, I could have.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Oh, I didn't know that. She went to LifeWorks? Yeah, I completely forgot about that.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Oh yeah, I sp I totally sp spaced out because that was one of those things I was frustrated at. I was like, nobody texted me, so I didn't bring it up.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

Yeah, no one brought it up. They bear I mean, like, they probably mentioned it like once or twice, but that was like earlier on. Oh, I you really gotta send these out like it like definitely the day before and the day of, like constant, constantly. It may be annoying, but it's worth it.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Worth it because I would have loved it, I had a sit-down conversation with her. Same. And maybe like record some of her thoughts, like if she would have let me.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Oh, I'm sure she would have. She's brilliant. And I only met her very briefly because you know, I waited in line to get my book signed by her, and it was a short interaction, but she was so kind, and yeah, she's brilliant. I loved watching her speak and do her slideshow because that's one of the ways that you could tell she was on the spectrum, is because her way of approaching it was a little different, but I loved it because it's so direct. She comes out, she starts immediately, and it's boy, she is banging through those slots. Yes, she is moving quick. She is it is like, here's the information you need to know, and we are going.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

She got straight into it.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Yeah, she's not she's not gonna waste time with pleasantry. She's like, you brought me here to speak, and I'm gonna give you that. I'm gonna give you lots of details. She's preaching. She's preaching.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Yeah, and it makes me think of like um, I went to this event recently, and it was this year. Uh it was like a month or two ago. Um, the playwright of In the Heights.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

I forg I forget how to pronounce her name because I don't want to mess it up. Um but I know she would like um, but she's amazing. She obviously came here. She was in um I feel like I saw that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's uh her Yeah, in the Heights, it's basically her name is It's probably something like Yeah, I looked it up.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

It's Chiara Hughes. Yes, like whoever I don't know exactly.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

Yeah, yeah. She's the playwright of the original play, the original musical of In the Heights. Not the songs, because that's Lynn Manuel. Right. But like like the the original stage production. Yeah, the original stage production. And like she was like speaking about obviously like her time on that and like even being part of the film. That's amazing. Because like it is based on her it is based on her playwright, obviously. Yeah. And and she even got to talk about like how she's also like this activist for like her community as well of the uh I believe it's the Latina community.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

Yeah, and I think specifically like they were they were like I think a lot of the people that are depicted in the In the Heights were like Puerto Rican immigrants to New York, I think was part of what it was. But yeah, definitely, definitely Latina community.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Yeah, and she was selling um so many books, including a couple of new plays, playwrights that she wrote. That's awesome. Um I personally chose not to get those because I'm personally not a big reader. Sure. But I did get the in the heights one, obviously. And I I had her sign it, and um she was so kind because like I initially didn't get a a selfie with her, and like I waited again in line. It was quicker, and she was like very kind about that. That's so sweet. Yeah. Um and also to go back to what you were saying earlier, how you said like you were um you were saying like you were like a fan of um something I forgot what it was. Sure, yeah. Um because like you said you'd like to learn about it. It made me think of like the difference between, say, a fan or of being a fan versus being a student. Right. Because a fan, I looked it up. A fan is basic as obviously a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing. Whereas a student, like it's more like a person who takes an interest in a particular subject and they go deep dive into it like even more.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

Yeah, and that's and that's exactly how I want to be with anything. It's like I want to always be learning what I can learn. Yeah, so you want to be like a student of that. Yeah, yeah. 100%. Yeah. Well, that like I, you know, and not to talk movies again, but just for comparison's sake, I have-hanna. I know, yeah. Uh this is what I dealt with. Yeah, I know, yeah. Me asking Hannah every movie, have you seen this? And she'd be like, No, no.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Yeah, I'll probably be your guy for that.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

But I had this, I had this friend I was talking to. She's actually someone that was kind of dating a friend of mine at the time, but we were talking about movies, and I was like, Oh yeah, and she was like, Oh, so you've seen like all the movies. And I said, No. I said, But I love movies and I love watching them. And I was like, and I try to see as many as I can. I was like, because as soon as you start saying, like, oh, I've seen all the great movies, I've heard all the great music, I've I know everything there is to know about that, that's when you look a fool because there's always more to learn about anything, you know? And that's why I was saying the same thing about being an advocate is like I would have to feel like I've learned a lot more than I have to feel comfortable calling myself an advocate for autism than than right now, just being like a hey, I'm a student, I'm learning about what it means to be on the spectrum and what you know what can benefit those people in our communities and worldwide, you know. So yeah. And I wanted to add oh, go ahead, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

Yeah, because I was just gonna say, um, like, yes, even Though I am autistic myself, I I don't feel like I've earned that title of being an advocate. Because like I because like I don't like in my spare time, I don't like I very like I'll look up like autism news, like I'll literally just like Google like what's new on autism. Yeah. Like just type in on Google autism, go into the news section, see anything new. But like I feel like it's it's obviously more than that. That's not like not being a true advocate. A true advocate is like knowing the deep dives, knowing the the facts, knowing the statistics, knowing what's right and wrong.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Yeah. And right and wrong in a field where we're taking in new information every day. It's hard to know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

And have I been considered? I'm like I have mixed emotions because it's like I'm stepping out of my comfort zone of not doing what I thought I was gonna do when I first entered my broadcasting degree. Sure. Of like going to smaller stations and like showing what is autism because I'm a female on the spectrum. Can I be considered an advocate? I I really don't know. Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

I think it's pretty safe to say that you would.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

I mean I think so too.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Yeah. And especially, I mean, doing things like this podcast. Yeah. You're doing a lot to put awareness out there. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

Yeah. Especially since you're also like one of the co-producers. That is a big title. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Maybe because I have more time on my hands.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Well, well, yeah. Potato Potato. That's but you know what I mean. You know what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Yeah, sorry. Didn't mean it didn't mean to drag that.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

And and and and also you being a person who is on the spectrum does change a little bit too because I'm always speaking as a person who is not on the spectrum as far as I know or anything. And, you know, so I I'm still it's kind of like when I when I'm talking about the experience of what women have to go through, it's like I I can know, but I can't really know. Yeah. You know, I've not been bullied for being autistic in my life. So I don't really know what that's like. So I can speak to the best of my understanding of it, but you as a person who's lived your whole life with it, and you've I mean you've even had, you know, the like we talked about the epilepsy, other things that you've had. So I'd say, you know, and you've been part of the Kelly Autism Program, which is a brilliant program.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Seven years.

SPEAKER_02 24:13

Seven years. Yeah. So I'd say you count as an advocate for sure.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Oh yes. And and I was just gonna say, even if you don't feel like you've earned that title yourself, to me you have.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

And it's a green flag that you're still hesitant to call yourself that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Yeah. And also, I also try to not bring in my struggles when I am doing an internship or job because I don't want people to see me at my worst moments.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

Right. And you've said you've said all along, you don't want to be seen as your, you know, as your uh diagnosis, you know, whatever you want to call it.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Yeah, it's like one thing I had to learn after leaving a toxic company was leave my stuff at the door.

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Yep. That's a big thing in life in general. You gotta leave your stuff at the door. Like it sucks because it's hard, but you got to.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Because I'm probably you probably had questions of why does she act this way? Why do like why doesn't she not want hugs?

SPEAKER_02 25:04

Like I'm just Why doesn't she like the Princess Bride?

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

Oh, I could tell that's a I could tell that's a running gag here.

SPEAKER_02 25:13

Oh yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

That's a running joke.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 25:18

No, totally. No, but I know exactly what you mean. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Because like I didn't like being touched at all.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

He loved to scare me.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

Oh, I know. I know. Oh Lord. Not even on purpose most of the time, but it was just also I got a kick out of it when it would happen.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Yeah, especially that one week when I was a in that one podcast where I interviewed you. Oh yes. Oh, it he got real more joy out of those two days.

SPEAKER_01 25:42

I loved it. I loved it. I bet you were like, you, you, you don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Why?

SPEAKER_02 25:48

Why do I so I wanted to ask you this real quick um because we're we're up over an hour right now. I don't know how long you're wanting to make this, but I I say an hour to an hour and a half. You're right. We're we're right in the zone. But I wanted to ask you, because you mentioned it earlier, you said that bowling green is notably more, you know, spectrum friendly or more autistic friendly than Frankfurt. I know you don't want to throw shade, but do you care to delve into that and why? Because that's really interesting to me. Because Frankfurt, being our state's capital, you would think would have all the accommodations in the world.

SPEAKER_01 26:22

Yeah. Yeah, I definitely would love to hear those.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Well, because I think I saw it more is when I start like with being at Cap and then I did Rock and Trekkor Treat. You've heard of Rock and Trekkor Treat. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

I've heard Trekker Treat, but not rock and trucker treat, but you can tell me that.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Um last fall, it's coming up for this year, is they do a sensory like friendly hour, and I was like, I have never seen this. Nobody did this when I was growing up. Sure.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

Because it's I've been seeing more of those sensory friendly hours popping up, and I love it.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

Yeah, I'm like, I want to see that more. I was like, why did I grow up and I had to like my parents had to be cautious of where can we take Hannah to go trick-or-treating? Um, that was one of those signs I was like, okay, Bowling Green's getting somewhere was they're doing sensory-friendly hours like for like just simple things like trick-or-treating, Easter things.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Well, and did you know that like I'm pretty sure even our Walmarts do sensory-friendly hours weekly?

SPEAKER_00 27:23

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

Yeah, I just learned about that recently. It's and it's it's in the morning on a week weekend. I feel like it's either Saturday morning or Sunday morning, and you know, but they do they do like dim the lights, turn down the music, like they do sensory-friendly shopping even at Walmart. Here in Bowling Green, and I saw that and my mind was blown. And I was like, man, if I was a morning shopper, I would uh I would definitely go for that myself. Because I was like, even I, as a person who is not autistic, stores can be, especially a huge box store like that, can be overstimulating. Yeah. You know, so sensory-friendly hours like that. I just love to see it. Is that a one or both Walmarts? I think it's one, but it might be both.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Okay, because I like how this room is, nobody can see. It's very dim, and I like that.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

Oh yeah. Listen, I I that that's the only thing that might ever make me think I'm I'm on the spectrum as far as I know, is I cannot handle bright overhead lights. I I don't do well with conflicting noises either. Like Brooke would sit at her desk and be listening to, she would have Woohoo playing on her radio, and she'd be listening to music and then also talking to me. And I'm like, how can you have conflicting music, two different songs playing at the same time, and you're talking to me? I'm like, I would have to mute two of those things. Like, I cannot do that.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Yes. And I don't know how my mom feels.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

Like and she literally said, she literally said, she's like, it's because I'm a mom that I can handle all this concurrent noise. That's what she does. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

She can't do the multiple.

SPEAKER_02 28:44

Oh, she can't?

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Um, because like I can tell a difference when like stations like have the dimmers. Like, I have thought about telling Froggy of like, hey, have you thought about putting a dimmer in here? I know these lights are too bright for me.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Just do what I did, man. Bring in lamps from outside. I I'm so serious about the lamp gang thing. Yeah, like for uh again, like you said, people can't see. I've I brought three lamps into this room so I never have to turn on the overhead lights. And I even put a lamp in the production room next door just recently because I was like, look, I hate these overhead lights, and I'm my job is to be in a good mood on the radio. So like, why would I want to deal with that? It's not that hard.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

Yeah, because they are bright and so right. And like I worked at PBS and they put a dimmer in the master control room, and I and I was like, I was so like hesitant on using it for a good solid six months, and then one day I must have had a headache and I was like, I need this dimmer to get through my shift.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Yeah. Yeah, because yeah, I work I work over there at PBS. I'm also master control as well. And uh that's awesome. Yeah, they've got two switches, obviously, like one for the regular lights and like the other for the dimmers, and like it's really nice.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

I'm gonna tell you, with all those screens and you have the lights dimmed, it's glorious.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

Thank you. Good, yeah, good. Yeah, no, I feel good about it. Like when people come in, I was like, I was like, oh, I've never been kidding about my lamp gang dedication. Like, no, yeah, yeah, no. And it's so much more relaxing. Like right now, we've been hanging, it just felt it just feels like it feels like hanging with friends. It doesn't feel like you're in a workspace.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Yeah, this feels like super chill. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

Like and like and other things about Frankfurt is like we don't have access to stuff like other counties are putting efforts towards, like we don't get as much funding for our public schools, like towards that stuff. It goes towards the sports. Gotcha, of course. Because everybody care care about the sports. It's like, so how can we help the autistic community? No, we don't care.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

Listen, Temple Grandin put it best when she was speaking. She said, she said, more arts in schools, more hands-on activities in schools. She's like, bring back like uh what's the what's the phrase I'm looking for? Like, like not shop, that's what they used to call it, but things like that. Things you can work with your hands, because she was talking about a lot of autistic people are geared that way. Hands-on activities, hands-on activities, more hands-on activities, less basing it, because you know, we we've shifted schools to being strictly, like you said, either sports or strictly academic, like test-taking ability, as opposed to any other sort of interactive hands-on stuff. Like, hey, can you build a birdhouse, you know, being taught in schools instead of hey, can you, you know, recite this information from this lesson plan?

SPEAKER_01 31:27

You know, yeah, because like it's also like it makes me think of this video that went viral. Um, it's it's a random video um about like a about this student he's being told by his teacher to go to the office, and like he's just straight up telling his teacher what it is. Like instead of he's literally saying, like, instead of like giving us a packet, like like of like I've seen this, you know, you know what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Yes. He's like, why don't you actually teach us instead of just giving us a work packet? And the teacher goes off. Like, and it but he's not wrong, right? Is that the same video? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's like because a lot of people don't learn well that way, and there are different types of ways of learning. Yeah, and none of them are better or worse than the others. Yeah, they're just different.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Yeah, and sometimes that can be like boring if it's like constant, like that way. I mean, it's okay to have a packet, like I'd say once in a while, I'd say. Yeah, but like try to keep it more interesting.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Yeah, like I will tell you variety is the spice of life.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 32:24

Yeah. I will tell you when I was taking my radio classes, I'm like, how am I gonna do any of this? When I'm like, I went into my internships and I'm learning hands-on to do stuff. I was like, okay, I'm like, this makes more sense. Why do I have a book? I didn't even touch the radio book. It's still sitting in my apartment. I did not, I barely read it and then I'm like, none of this makes sense. And then it's like you get in, you learn how to use equipment, like you learn how systems work, because not all systems are the same. Yep. D93s is completely different than Waohoos.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Even though you want you you don't much like woo-hoo's.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

I know. I wish I could if if next gen was a was was a physical thing, I would I would kick it hard. If there was like the box that is the next gen box, I'd be like, take that.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

Oh, and the smile oh, the smiley face when it's not acting right.

SPEAKER_02 33:16

Oh yes, it tickles me to death, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

Got to deal with that after that Helene storm.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

She was flashing red. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

That's the worst.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

When you see a flashing red, something's off air, it's bad. Uh, first of all, I was skipping commercials and my commentators were like, why are you skipping commercials? I was like, Oh, the computer hates me.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

Sounds about right.

SPEAKER_00 33:41

I love my life. And so it's like just just having the tools. Like, I had no tools. Like we had to go, my parents had to fight insurance for me to get occupational therapy and and speech therapy, all the stuff of why I'm where I'm at today.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

Which is part of the crime of the thing, is because again, when there's not enough awareness, people don't realize how essential those tools are for your continued success.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

Oh yeah. That's why my mom was like, I'm glad you're at a company you like.

SPEAKER_02 34:14

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

She loved what you called her. She's mad if I don't about the Brewster stuff because I still haven't grabbed it for her.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

That's hilarious. Even better. Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Yeah, because we because yeah, we played and mom's like, You're gonna go get that. I'm like, uh, my butt's lazy.

SPEAKER_02 34:34

Yeah. I feel that. Listen, I I I'm sitting here, I've been dragging my heels. I was supposed to send somebody, someone called in that I know, and their little girl identified uh the movie Psycho on a clip.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

At 12 and At 12? 12 and identified Psycho. Is it for a 1960s film? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

Is that the one that said they had watched it and the mom said no?

SPEAKER_02 34:56

Yes, because the kid said, Oh no, I've seen it, and the mom's like, No, you haven't, but she knew it was Psycho because it was the scene of him being like, you know, well, it's actually sort of relevant to what we're talking about because and that's part of why I played the clip, is because it's the scene where she's like, you know, the it's the, you know, obviously the guy and the girl talking, and uh, you know, she says, Well, shouldn't she be put somewhere? And he goes, Oh, you mean like an institution? He's like, that's what people always mean when they say somewhere. And he goes, He go, and and he says, uh, you think I should just lock her away, a madhouse? And then she's like, Well, I was just trying to be caring, and he goes, What do you know about care? And he goes, Have you ever been to one of those places? Have you seen how they treat people? And it's like this really awesome mentally health positive conversation for like you said, 1960, way ahead of its time.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:47

And and and yeah, so she was, I guess, able to identify it from that, because talking about his mom and stuff, but yeah, exactly what you said. Like, she was like, I've seen it, and then the mom's like, No, you haven't. Like, they probably wouldn't let her watch the whole thing, but she's at least familiar enough that she can name it.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Yeah, because I've not seen the entirety of it, but like I've been wanting to.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

Oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

I know it is.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

And and and uh yeah, so I've been supposed to send that mom that clip for like a week, and I keep forgetting. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm lazy too.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

Yeah, like mom's like, Are you going over to Woohoo to get my Brewsters? I was like, uh Yeah, that's exactly right.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

Well, any final topics, thoughts, anything else we need to get to get to?

SPEAKER_00 36:23

Uh I know I've talked, like, do you think I've changed the staff's mind here at Seven Mountain on how autism is?

SPEAKER_02 36:34

I'm so I will say this. Now, has Kirk ever talked to you about about his kids?

SPEAKER_00 36:40

No, because he runs around like a chicken with his hick.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

That's correct, and that's still true. Um yeah, he has he has a special needs son who has a couple different things, and I don't even really want to say because I'm not really entirely sure on all the details. Yeah, but he has a son that's special needs, so he's very compassionate to that. And he so he is a person that I think already, before you got here, had a full acceptance and love of you know, people on the spectrum and autism and things. Um, but I definitely think with other people it probably did help. Now, Alan, you mentioned Alan across all, he's also another person who is very aware of how the world actually works and is very caring about those things, and you said he was always kind to you and stuff. Um, but there are definitely some people that I think you interacted with who probably it probably was one of the first times they've ever really interacted at length with an autistic person. And I definitely think it made a positive impact on that.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Okay, because like because I never there was one person you said, Oh, you need to meet him, you need to meet him. Never did. Oh it was Preston.

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Oh yeah, never met Preston, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:42

And I think I ran into him in a parking lot and he still avoided me.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

That you know what's funny is Preston is the most he is the most uh like I don't know if uh I d well I don't know. I don't know how to say this without sounding funny, but Preston, whatever time is a factor, he is the most one-track minded person I've ever known in my life. Like, so if you catch him when he's like, I'm leaving the building now, he is out. Like, even for me or anybody else, if you're trying to be like, oh, did you see that movie?

SPEAKER_01 38:12

He's like, Yeah, yeah, whatever. Hi, bye. Like, you know. Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 38:15

Like, he is he is on his own clock. So that's probably what happened to him.

SPEAKER_00 38:20

I was trying to get into the building, and I was like, oh, somebody's here that could get me in.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Yeah, and it was when you were coming in for my show, then it was definitely he was on his way out, and he's thinking, I gotta let the dog out right now. I gotta get home and let the dog out. I got no time for chit-chat. So that's definitely what happened. Because he'll do the same thing to me. You know, he'll do the same thing to me, Alan Austin, anybody else. He just blows past. If he's at his point where he's like, I've decided it's time for me to go, I gotta go.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

I respect that. Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Like that's why he's a very punctual person.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

Yes, punctuality, like I feel like that's also underrated. Like uh, what what's there's like a phrase for it? Like, what is it? Like punctuality is key.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Oh yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

And yeah. So yeah, because maybe it's like how I interacted.

unknown 39:04

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

I doubt that. No, I doubt that. I th I think that I think that that interaction is definitely entirely that because he'll be the same way with with anybody in the building. He probably just didn't want to get caught in a conversation and then be like, oh no, now it's 30 minutes later and I need to go let the dog out still, you know.

SPEAKER_03 39:20

So that's just yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:22

But I personally, I I think you made a great impact on people in this building by being here. I think you know, everybody, everybody I've talked to seem to like you and and love you and having you around. So I I mean, maybe they know that they if they had anything bad to say about you, not to say it to me. But I think that I think that everybody always thought thought a lot of you and rooted for you and you know, and still rooting for you. People ask me, like, you know, what's the latest on hand or like what's her, you know, because they knew you were in the job hunt, you know?

SPEAKER_00 39:49

Yeah. I'm in I'm in the part-time job world right now.

SPEAKER_02 39:52

Which is great. I mean, hey, listen, that's how I started. Like I said, I worked at a coffee shop part-time and worked in radio part-time, and I thought, I'm never gonna get on full-time at the radio station. It's time for me to bail on this and just go work full-time at the coffee shop. And then literally, right as I was like making that decision, it was like a week later, they were like, actually, Andy, we've found an open spot for you. And I was like, Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 40:14

Yeah, um, because my parents are like, How long can you take being part-time? And I've just barely started. Yeah, yeah, I was part-time for years. Yeah, um, because I've had these conversations, it's hard.

SPEAKER_02 40:27

It is hard. It is hard, especially your parents who want the best for you, and they, you know, they they're not in broadcasting, so they don't know exactly from personal experience, but they're rooting for you to, you know, excel like they know you're capable of and like I know you're capable of.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

Yeah. Um, because when you told me that one day to go introduce myself to the people in Frankfurt, I thought, you're crazy.

SPEAKER_02 40:49

I know.

SPEAKER_00 40:50

And where am I back home?

SPEAKER_02 40:52

Uh yep, exactly. But you but you're and you're working.

SPEAKER_00 40:55

I'm working.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

That's it. A foot in the door is everything.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

Yep. I heard that earlier this morning.

SPEAKER_02 41:01

Yep, it's true. Yeah, like even over degrees, like in in the broadcasting world, it's been my experience that even over degrees, getting your foot in the door is the hardest hurdle, you know? Because there's so many radio stations that there's so many people coming in going, oh, I've got this degree, or oh, I don't have this degree, but I've got years of experience, or oh, I've got this and that. You know, like whatever it is, there are always so many people fighting for those same few jobs.

SPEAKER_00 41:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

It's hard.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

And also, it's like I could say, Oh, I know how to do avid.

unknown 41:33

Or not avid.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

Adobe. I'm so I'm but both.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

You do avid as well.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

Somewhat. I don't like it. You know my you know my feelings before. Oh, I know.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Every day when she'd be in here, yeah, Chase, I'd be like, I'd be like, What do you work to? And she's like, ugh, avid.

SPEAKER_01 41:48

Love it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

He hasn't worked with it yet. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Oh no, I know. Yeah, you'll enjoy. Yeah, that's uh give me Adobe any day.

SPEAKER_02 41:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

Yeah, yes. I have worked on Adobe before because like um I think I had to use it for like when I took film animation.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Oh yeah. Oh, I could teach you audition.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

There you go. Excuse him. What?

SPEAKER_00 42:10

Yeah, audition's not that hard.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

No, audition's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 42:13

I love audition.

SPEAKER_02 42:14

I feel like I've and we're literally recording this on Adobe Audition. We're like practically running an ad out here. Hey Adobe, if you want to reach out to me for any sponsorships, please do.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Let's go. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Yeah. But like, yeah, that's cool. And like I'm just glad to hear that you have made such an incredible impact so far.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

Yeah, and I'm about to leave.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

I think you're oh but that's okay. You're you're starting a new chapter.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

Yeah, it's always a new chapter. And you've and you've started things here in Bowling Green with it, and you've you've already like I think that five years from now, or whatever, however far down the roof now, you'll look back and see all of the difference you were making. It's just hard to see those things at the time. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:56

And I'm and I don't I I'm gonna say this, I don't like country music. I'm I'm in country music.

SPEAKER_02 43:01

That's okay. Hey, listen, like I said, I was in sports talk, and you know, we would get into sports that I know nothing about. I'm like, oh, we need to get back to football or basketball, bro. I'm lost. Like, you know, we get would start getting into the weeds on talking hockey, and I'm like, uh, I know the Preds won last night. So yeah, there's always those little hurdles of you gotta pretend to be into the thing or get through it, you know.

SPEAKER_00 43:24

No, I don't understand high school football. Yeah. I was like, is it the same as NFL?

SPEAKER_02 43:29

There's different rules, but essentially.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

Okay. What do you mean by what you just said? You're you don't like country music, but you're in country music?

SPEAKER_02 43:37

She's working for a country station.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

Ah.

SPEAKER_02 43:41

Yeah. Which has always been my fear because it would be very hard for me to go on air and talk about, you know, Luke Bryan and Morgan Wallen and all that all the time. You know, like no disrespect. We play country on woohoo too.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

But yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

But it's like to do it all the time, I just don't know enough. Like, and every every country star is every every male country. Country Star is two first names, and I'm trying to remember. Wait, wait, is that Corbin Easton or is that like Tucker Jones? Or like, you know, it's always just like these names he can't even tell apart.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

Yeah, welcome to Reno Log, and you're like, I have never heard any of these songs.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:15

Yeah, is that good old Patches of Hulahan?

SPEAKER_02 44:18

Patches of Hulahan, exactly. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

We gotta watch that, Hannah.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

Uh yes, so much. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

What did I get myself into?

SPEAKER_01 44:30

I know, right?

SPEAKER_02 44:31

A great time on a Thursday night. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 44:34

Let's go. Don't let me hang it.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

Oh. Oh, it's okay. Mommy.

SPEAKER_01 44:38

You're fine. But yeah, it's good.

SPEAKER_02 44:41

You knew you brought the film guy over here to hang out with me. You knew what you got into.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Yeah, you yeah. But honestly, though, um, I when you like speaking of country music, um, I'll make it brief. Um, my cousin is a local radio DJ in my hometown.

SPEAKER_02 45:01

Really?

SPEAKER_01 45:02

Yeah, he's been there for a while. That's amazing. He's also an up-and-coming country artist.

SPEAKER_02 45:05

That's awesome. Do you care to share where your hometown is?

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Yeah, it's uh it's Elizabeth Town. Just like the movie. Yeah, exactly. Elizabeth Town. Yeah. Though I've yet to see it, don't, don't, don't get don't don't pressure me. I know. Yep. I know. It's great. It's a great movie. Yeah. But um, but uh what's great is that like uh Mike Mike has an um and I'll say his name just because like he's awesome. Sure. Uh Kevin Jaggers, maybe you've heard of him because like um I've heard the name, yeah. Yeah, because he's actually uh performed here in Bowling Green show.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

I was about to say, I knew I'd seen the name on some posters, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

Yeah, and you can listen to him like anywhere you listen to music, whether it's Apple, Spotify, all that, and like it's his music is really good and And he's a DJ. Yeah, it's amazing. That's great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

We love to see a fellow DJ thrive.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 45:53

And I'm I'm a musician too, but the the DJ thing is taking over my life. I don't play music out much anymore, but um, I was usually a drummer, usually, but but that makes sense. Right. Oh yeah, I'm big and loud, you know me.

SPEAKER_00 46:05

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Do you want great inspiration like of a radio DJ, of a radio personality? May I say the late great voice of one of the voices of Shaggy Rogers himself. Casey Case. Casey Kaysem.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

Okay, two fun facts about Casey Case him since you mentioned him. First off, do you realize that he's like what I think considered the very first like mainstream crossover star who was Arabic in the US? I do not know he was Arabic. He is. His last name was pronounced Kasem. And Casey is like a nickname, it's not his real first name. Um, yeah, so he's Arabic and a vegan.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

Yes, that's right. I do remember that because like they wanted uh like he wanted um when talking to like the people, like when he was like voicing Shaggy. Yes, they wanted to make him like eat like not meat stuff.

SPEAKER_02 46:53

Yeah, there's like a there's an audio out there somewhere of of Casey Kasem, like while he was recording dialogue, having a little freak out. He's like, could Shaggy and Scooby not just once be excited for some fruits or veggies? Just once, just once. Yeah, and now it ain't always gotta be a 10-foot ham sandwich, okay?

SPEAKER_01 47:10

Yeah, and yeah, and now you see them eating all sorts of varieties. Yeah, which is very great.

SPEAKER_02 47:16

Yeah, and and and supposedly they they fought him pretty hard on that when he said at the time, but he was right and he was ahead of the curve.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:22

So, anyways, yeah, sir.

SPEAKER_01 47:24

We didn't mean to do that for you, but we couldn't help ourselves.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

But no, I don't ask him about Princess Barride.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

I literally grew up listening to Casey Case him on the radio, and now it makes so much sense. Again, these things like Hannah, like we're talking about, you'll look back on things that have happened in your life at this point of your life, and it'll make so much sense later on. When I was a kid, you know, they used to run old it old installments of the American Top 40 with Casey Case him on the radio, and I would make mixtapes off of it. Oh, yeah, I would I would like know what song was coming up next so I could record the whole thing, and I would even record Casey's intro for it and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 47:57

And now looking back, I'm like, oh yeah, of course I ended up being a radio DJ, right? Yeah. Predictable.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

It was like right there.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Yeah.

unknown 48:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:05

And I had no clue. At the time I thought I was gonna be a famous musician or something, probably, but or you know, I used to want to be a like a like a police officer or a lawyer or something.

SPEAKER_01 48:14

But I could not I could not do I could not do that.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

I definitely couldn't do either. I'm glad I didn't end up trying to pursue that.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

I have I have a friend in her last year of law school.

SPEAKER_02 48:24

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:25

Yeah. I have a cousin who is now um who already graduated the police academy like um in my hometown of E Town, and he's already I think now a cop, maybe or don't fully quote me. But I I just don't remember the whole facts right now.

SPEAKER_00 48:43

Oh my.

SPEAKER_02 48:44

Well, Hannah, it's been amazing having you on here.

SPEAKER_00 48:46

I know, and where can people like find you on social media, hear you? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 48:52

Yeah, absolutely. Catch me uh at weekday afternoons, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Woohoo 107.1 here in South Central Kentucky. And then uh you can learn more about us at radiosoky.com. Uh, you know, I'm I'm Andy Morgan on social media. Look me up Instagram, Facebook if anybody wants to check out what I'm doing. I'm also doing some podcasting for the station now. And we talked about this. I I'm trying to get my own personal podcast off the ground, and hopefully I'll have that to plug as well soon. We'll do another episode together.

SPEAKER_01 49:18

And if you need a guy to talk about film, I got you.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

Listen, Chase, you're on you're on the call list right now already. But you better believe it.

SPEAKER_01 49:25

We can talk about Princess Pride.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 49:28

I I I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.

SPEAKER_02 49:30

As you wish.

SPEAKER_01 49:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 49:34

No, but but Hannah, thank you so much for having us on here. And I think you're doing tremendous things to promote to promote autism awareness. I do think you're an advocate, and I do think you have a great future in radio or broadcasting, however, it works out for you.

SPEAKER_00 49:46

Lord knows.

SPEAKER_01 49:47

I I wholeheartedly agree with him. I because like just from what I've heard today, you've you've you've already been making such an impact.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

You should have been asking me that on Monday. Right. I I was like literally losing my crap.

SPEAKER_01 50:03

I would have loved it.

SPEAKER_02 50:04

It's to be that way sometimes. It did. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:07

So awesome. This was a simple discussion.