Midnight Memories: Reckless Airwaves Radio- Bronx Johnny- 8/20/21

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Hey, how you doing, Bronx Johnny? What's going on, buddy? Going pretty good.
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I want to thank you for coming on.
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First of all, I want to give condolences to you. You know, I know Fez Watley
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meant a lot to you and must have been a little bit of a shock to you,
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you know, when he passed away last week.
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Yeah, it was rough. First off, thanks for having me on.
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Yeah, it was rough, man. You know somebody's sick, but then,
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you know, he'll come in for a while and he's been there better.
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And it was rough because of the shock of it. I mean, everybody knew he wasn't
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healthy, but, you know, he's beat it before.
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Right. Yeah, he had some heart issues in the past, right? He had some issues
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with his heart over the years. Yeah.
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I think he had, like, five heart attacks or something like that and a couple
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of stints. So, yeah. Yeah.
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What was the last time you talked to him? Was it a while ago or was it recently?
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Oh, man. The last time I talked to him was a little over a year ago.
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Okay. I think it was right around when the Bucks got Brady.
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And we talked real brief. It was like real brief.
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Yeah, it's a shame when you said he's only 57 years old.
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I mean, that's very young, especially these days. But, you know,
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when you have heart issues, it's kind of hard to, you know, to beat him unless
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you're really on top of it.
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You know, I remember listening to Ron and Fez, you know, back many years ago.
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And, you know, I do remember hearing you on it quite a few times.
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And I had to go back and really listen to, you know, the YouTube clips that
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they still have some great stuff on there just to refresh my memory.
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And, you know, there's some great audios full out there.
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Do you ever go back and kind of, you know, listen back to the old shows just
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for, you know, just to relive some of those great times?
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No, I got to live it. You know, like, the best advice I ever got was for Ronnie.
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He was like, never listen to your own stuff because you did it already.
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What are you going to, you know, what are you going to hear from me?
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True, true. Like, but I didn't over the weekend, you know, you're listening
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to some of those bids classic stuff running along, AWD days, XM.
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The guy was just great. I was on the first level. I knew him different for most people.
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Right. Like, it's weird when you're a fan of somebody and then you get to work
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for them and you get to work with them.
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And the guy, you know, it's crazy. He went out because it's hard because the guy was so hard.
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If you messed up, if you were, you know, interning or, you know,
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you were a producer on the show, if you messed up, he'd let you fucking know about it.
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But, you know, he was always genuine. It was criticism, but it was constructive criticism.
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So if you messed up, he'd let you know how you messed up, how you could fix
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it, or what you could do to be better.
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So you can never stay mad at the guy. Right, and that's interesting,
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you know, to hear in the radio industry because you hear so many stories about,
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you know, A lot of radio hosts that made it big, they were kind of mean-spirited
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sometimes to their interns and stuff like that, and it sounds like he was really
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a great guy who, like you said, constructive criticism,
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just trying to help you out by telling you what you did wrong.
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And then it's just an example. Like, you know, I do my show with Pepper,
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Chris Stanley, for Ron and Fez, and my boy, B.K. Chris.
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Yeah. We do High Society Radio, and I'm the guy that usually does the bits on the show.
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And, you know, I learned watching that from Fez. I never personally sat down
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with Fez to, like, work out a bit. So after I did one.
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And I did it. It was the sex drive again, where I was a real boy.
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And he just, he thought, him and Ron thought it was great and everything.
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I didn't know what I had done.
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I don't know what worked. I guess two comedic geniuses think it's good.
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I think I did all right then, you know? Right, yeah. And then he said, yo, buddy, you did good.
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You know, work on your presentation a little bit. You know, this,
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that, and the third on the mic.
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He didn't have to do that. But then I watched that because he would always do his bits.
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He had so many bits that he was just, he gave his all for that.
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And it's like you expect that from yourself. And you start doing bits.
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You know, you get lost a little bit, but you just, you know,
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whether it's good or bad, you give it your all.
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Yeah. Yeah. And that's extravaganza. That's up on YouTube. I was actually listening
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to some of that yesterday as well.
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And you started as an intern for Round and Fest. You were a fan of the show.
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So, I mean, that had to be like a dream come true. You know,
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how many people can say they're a fan of something and then actually got to
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work with the people who they were a fan of?
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Oh, dude, it's daunting because when I went in, I met Pitsy,
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who was a producer for Hicks from Stanley, and we went in on the same day,
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and, you know, when you're a young kid, you don't know if you get nervous,
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so what I used to do at that age, I used to get high.
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Yeah. So I went into that interview high as a kite, and I got interviewed by Steve C.R.T., Steve C.
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From O&A, and Ben, and the guys, you know, we're kind of full on O&A,
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but, you know, We have another show.
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I don't know if you've ever heard of Ron and Fez. And I was just,
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I was like, get the fuck out of here. You know, next time I was like,
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yeah, sure, dude. You know, whatever you got.
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Wow. And Ron and Fez is the only thing good about giving people,
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like, they look for talent.
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They cultivate talent. That's their legacy, right? Not just the greatness of
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their friendship and the awesome radio that they do.
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It's just the talent that they find out of everybody. Right.
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That's awesome. So you would make, were you trying to get on with Opie and Anthony
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and you just wound up in Ron and Fez, or did it just, you know, work out that way?
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At that point, it just worked out that way. I was like, I'll take any show you I got.
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And it was weird. I was like, I didn't even know Ron and Fez.
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I was like, holy shit, yeah, these guys are crazy. I'll do that. Yeah.
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It's cool, because you can get lost in ONA. ONA has such a, like, massive staff.
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Right. And then Ron and Fez, you know. But then on both shows, you learn something.
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Like, there's so many guys that came out of ONA, the production guys.
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I had to run shows and stuff.
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So, you know, any of those guys are great to give you a shot.
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And that's all you can have action in front of you, just a chance. Yeah.
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And before that, you were security at Yankee Stadium, which had to be a cool job, too.
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I remember when I was listening to when they first had you on,
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they were asking you about that.
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So you went from one cool job to an even cooler job.
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I actually did the job while I was in the United States, so I still did security
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and all that. Every once in a while, we had a lot of them. I could work security
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because my license was good.
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But, yeah, that was a dope job, too. You know, you meet players.
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Some guys will ask. So Reggie Jackson and Gary Shepard will ask.
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I can tell you, I don't think you need to do it too much that now, right? Right.
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Those guys are jerks. Right. Well, how were they jerks? They just were kind of cocky and stuck up?
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Well, no. So one day, I used to get the VIP suite. So any like famous player
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family, usually like the opposite team's owner, I'd get the box.
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I'd be in front of the box.
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And one day, it would still be that we got Joe Pesci. We went to a game.
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It was real cool. He said to all the guys, you know, make sure they might have water. It was a hot day.
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And then, you know, I had to escort him from the box to the elevator and take
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him down to the club level.
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So when we get on, Reggie's on the way. He's like, oh, I got this.
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He's like, I don't think I can let you go because, you know, you're not security.
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He's like, nah, they're not going to fire me. I'm like, yeah,
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but they could fire me, dude. And you just, you know, I just got to take you
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down. I don't even got to leave the elevator with you.
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So he just, you know, he just had an attitude about it. But then once they got
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up the elevator, I was like, all right, man, have a great day, you piece of shit.
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Yeah. And then, you know, you just went back up and you meet crazy people. But, yeah, man.
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That's an awesome story right there. And, you know, did you always want to get involved in radio?
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Was that, like, your dream? You wanted to work at a radio station in some way?
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Yeah, it was weird. I used to be in the sports radio when I was a kid, you know.
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So we didn't always have kids. we had to leave the cable for a little bit,
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but I started listening to baseball on the radar.
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I thought, this is fun. This is cool. And, you know, you hear this a little bit like Rush Limbaugh.
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And then one day, you know, because I like wrestling, I think it had to be like
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Christmas or just before New Year's.
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I put on 1027, and I'm listening to these two guys talk about wrestling and stuff, and it's ONA.
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And they're in best stuff. So then I get to hear the Sarah Jessica Parker bit
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where they're trashing her,
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and she actually called into the show oh yeah these guys are
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awesome wow and then after that you know
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you listen a little longer than you find running fast it's like
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oh man you got benny staples wiping his ass without beach check and stuff like
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that and it's like man you never think in the middle of years you'd get it you'd
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get to do anything with them that's amazing right so how did you get the internship
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with them did you just kind of apply for it or something or did you know someone,
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I had a friend, Emilio Sparks. I think he's at the radio station on College, Kansas.
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I was at College of Staten Island. And, you know, we left up to,
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you know, just having to do the same course. And we're like,
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oh, dude, you're funny and shit.
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And he can come out every once in a while. I just stand up. I think he showed
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up once. And he was like, oh, you good? You know, I'm going to hell with him.
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Like, get the fuck out of here. Like, they're still on.
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And then, you know, that internship, he has some medical issues.
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Stuff didn't work out but he put in a good word for me and that got me into
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the door to get the interview and then just showing up high and I don't recommend
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anybody showing up high to anything but it worked out for me so hey you never know.
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It definitely did and what was your first impression you know when you met Ron
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and Fez in person or actually spent some time with them for the first time?
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When I saw it, I was like, man, this is, because you get awestruck just the
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fact that you're in a professional radio school.
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Mind you, I was never on college radio. Like, a lot of the interns did college
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radio stuff. I never got to do that.
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But I was like, you know, I need to try, let me fly. And then that's the first, that's the first time.
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It's like you've never played Little League, whatever, and you end up on the
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Yankees. Like, holy shit, this is rare.
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Right, right. It was, it was, it was awesome to see it.
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And it was daunting and scary at the same time. but they had no reason to make
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you feel as comfortable as you do yet.
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Yeah, they sound like they were great guys. They're great, man.
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Yeah, no, and they, you know, they will give you shit rightfully.
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So sometimes it's a bitch, sometimes it's not, but they'll give you shit.
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If you fuck up, you know everybody, I mean, everybody is right. You do it on air.
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So you do your best not to fuck up. Even if you don't fuck up,
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they'll find like, yeah, I asked for this, but maybe you could have done that
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on the only shit. It's scary, but it was awesome.
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Now, was Al Dukes there at the time? I guess he was, right?
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No, no. When I started, Al had already gone, I think, to... He was at K-Rock,
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and I know he's on FAN now with Gio. Yeah.
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Well, he's with Boomer and Gio now. They do more of the shows.
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And Al's great. He has his own show, too.
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Yeah. He's great. But I took, like, two of his calls, and I met him,
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like, three times, and I just got 12 dudes. Yeah, yeah. Awesome.
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Now, you know, being in New York, you said that you were a fan of sports radio.
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Were you to any of, like, the WFAN shows, or did you just kind of like listening
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to broadcast radio, you know, like Met Games, Yankee Games, whatever?
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Well, I liked a little bit of everything. I was into WFAN. There was a Chicago
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sports station in New York for a
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little while, and I used to listen to Jay Mariotti and Papa Joe Chevalier.
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And then at the end, they had Steve Sellers, who's great.
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Yeah. That dude's a little weird, but I love him because, and I'm not even a
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mess friend, but I gotta keep all kinds of ads. They got 20 pages in the mornings.
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Yeah. So I grew up on like radio stuff.
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Never really a Howard guy. I just never was into Stern like that.
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Right, right, right. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that.
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I was going to say, you know, Ron and Fez, Opie and Anthony,
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you know, the other two guys in New York.
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You know, when you think back to the history of that kind of radio was obviously
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Howard Stern and Don Imus.
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Were you a fan of either or you just were kind of – I like Don.
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I like Don sometimes. I didn't always catch him in the morning,
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but when I did, he was pretty good.
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He also was a talent factor. He had a lot of guys come on for that show,
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and they're still in the business, and they're doing great. Yeah.
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So it was pretty awesome.
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That's how you know how good you are is how you treat your people.
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Right, right. And these guys, they're great to their people.
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Like, one thing I'll say is I've been doing this in the podcast on High Society Radio.
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We've been doing it a little bit more than 16 years now.
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Yeah well that gas digital network you know we worked for lewis and ralph sutton over there.
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Legion of skankers over there we were a bunch of shows but none of that would
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have happened it wasn't for ron and fezz was really integral in what we're doing
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now right like he heard the demo tape he passed it to ronnie they sent it to
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upper management to get us a slide on
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saturday night we did like two or two shows and you don't and again it's just
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the kindness of it. You don't have to do that for anybody.
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Fez was always like that, dude. If you were Fez, you didn't have to approach
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Fez because a lot of people used to be nervous to approach Fez.
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Fez would literally go up to you and shit.
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It was just funny to see because people were like, oh my God,
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it's Fez. We're like, hey, buddy.
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He was just, man, he's the best.
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I don't know how else to say that. There's only one and there will only only
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be one Fez and Marie Wilde, man.
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What was your best memory from the Ron and Fez show? Do you have a favorite
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moment, a favorite bit or something like that?
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I used to love, the Fez tutorials were always great when he did the Nature Boy.
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When he did those, he would go into the garage. It was like a seance.
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I literally channeled the Nature Boy and oh, shit, man. He lived his bit.
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He was just living the bit and nobody really does that. He did that shit thing with you.
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What as far as what years were you with them over there how many were you there,
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with Ron I want to say dream I want
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to say three I don't recall the years because it was such a blur but it was
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the best three years of mine yeah yeah and they moved around a lot right across
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you know all throughout the country they were you know in Florida they were
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Washington right they went to XM obviously yeah they started off they started
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off with Ron and Ron out in Temple.
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And then they ended up in N.E.W. and they were on a fest show by then.
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Then they did the fastest radio hour out in D.C.
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Because I think they were on the same station as the Redskins.
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So sometimes they'd have to do an hour show.
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And they'd kill it. You put them in a room and they would just kill it.
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They'd get anything done anywhere they had to and you would remember it.
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It could be 20 minutes of somebody.
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Feds literally did a show for two hours trying to get his cat to stay cooked
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on there. and it's legendary.
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Yeah, those guys, it was amazing.
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Did you listen to them after they kind of, you know, moved around after they
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weren't in New York anymore? No.
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I'm not too good on the technology aspect of it. I know people are like,
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oh, you could have heard these t-shirts. They had some up on YouTube.
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So if anybody wants to listen to some like classic stuff, I think some run-and-run
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stuff might be up now. I'm not too sure.
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But once I left XM, I was just, you know, I'm focused more on what I had to
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do on my show, but, you know, whenever they need to meet, they call a partner, and I still am.
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I'm loyal to the day I'm, you know, not around. Those guys have always been great.
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Were you surprised when Fez retired in 2015, or did you think,
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you know, that was coming?
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I don't know if I'd say surprised. I was more relieved for him for a bit.
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I felt like I didn't believe he was in retirement. I felt like he was going
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to take a break and then come back.
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You know, he was calling in a little bit later. Like, starting from last year,
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he's been more on Benetton a little bit more. He was calling in.
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And so, you know, I knew he had a little bit left.
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But, you know, he needed his rest too, man. His health wasn't good.
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And he just needed a mental break.
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Right. Yeah, absolutely. With the heart and everything. And,
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you know, obviously, Bennington was the show that continued after that.
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You know, and we kind of touched on it, you know, when you first came on.
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But when you first heard that Fez passed away, it had to hit you hard,
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I'm sure, because you obviously have a lot of, you know, good memories.
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And you obviously like the guy. He helped you out big time.
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Oh, I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't like Fez. I love Fez, man.
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We did a show yesterday. and it was in his own. I cried on that.
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It's tough. It really is tough. It is. You need somebody that's just such a
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huge influence in your life, even if you don't know it sometimes.
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You don't realize it at the moment, but.
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There's kindness that you don't have to be. And he was just that.
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He was telling me the word kindness.
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Even if he didn't like him, he had some bad shit to say, he would be nice to
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tell you. It wasn't a two-faced thing either.
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I'm going to shit talk you, but I want you to feel comfortable,
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And the guy was just amazing, man.
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You have people, if you go through Twitter from the Ben Insan Show on Instagram
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or the groups on Facebook, a lot of Facebook group fans, there are people that
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have known Feds for 25 years and never met a man, but they know him. Right.
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And I think that's the ultimate tribute to a man like that. You know so much
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about him and how fucking awesome he was.
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It's just a testament to who Feds is. Yeah, he definitely touched a lot of people for sure.
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Where do you rate the Rod and Fez show as far as morning radio?
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Sized up against Stern and Imus and Opie and Anthony and all the other shows that have come and con.
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Are they top 10, top 5 in your opinion?
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It's different because for me, ONA, Rod and Fez are better than Stern.
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So those are my top two for radio.
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If I want a good bit if I want like a bit that plays out and it's not like a
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week to week bit Ron and Fez did bits that went on for years man and I think
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that was still going on even with Fez you know gone,
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and like the genius of it they weren't a shock jock and I saw somebody put out
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Fez was a shock jock because I think he did like a baby and I was like that's
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that's such a fucking genius of a man was it was a shock jock Right.
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But, you know, for me, Ron and Fez is just day number one. They're,
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like, right there with O&A.
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And you must notice, you know, you do the society radio podcast,
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and you're out there doing your thing now.
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It's so different right now from the way it was back when those guys first started the show.
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You know, it's very politically correct and, you know, cancel culture and all that stuff.
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It's, you know, it's just not the same kind of radio out there right now,
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right? It's kind of, you've got to kind of watch it. No.
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And all that. What do you think about that? I feel like all that's left in radio
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is just probably sports radio. And that's about it. Because everybody plays the same music.
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You have Justin Bieber music on the Spanish radio stations. I don't know, Joe. That's crazy.
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So it's basically, why listen to music on the radio when I have Spotify? I can put my own stuff on.
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Yeah. And the on-air talent that you have, even guys I didn't listen to,
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like Iris and Howard, they were just their own men. they were their own people
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and they had personalities.
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You don't have personalities anymore. That stuff is formulated.
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Like, when you go to Sirius X and you have personalities over there.
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You go to a podcast like Gas Digital where I'm at.
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We have a bunch of personalities. It's a little, you know, it's hardcore over
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there but you know what? If you like us, you like us. If you don't, you got options.
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That's the thing I never got about country culture. They have options.
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Go pick something else. Find something you like. Don't waste your time on shit you hate.
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Right. Just try to ruin somebody that you kind of get off on that. Yeah, it's good.
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I've always felt like I have comedian friends and I tell them,
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yo, you know, there's somebody in that crowd every Saturday night.
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They went out, got a group of friends, probably PTO guys. They all on the PTA.
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And then they're like, oh, we're going to find somebody who's hysterical,
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outlandish, vulgar, and we're going to put them on blast with cancer.
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That's their goal for the night. Right.
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That's crazy. It's a waste of time. You know, they're just out there to cause trouble.
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Yeah, no. It's a different world now. Yeah, it is, but there's still talent
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out there. You've got to learn.
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Like, one of the fun of these guys, and podcast-wise, is Tim Dillon.
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Tim Dillon is hysterical. He doesn't even say that, and if he hears this,
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he'll probably kill me for it, but he's fucking hysterical.
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He's got numbers to back it up. If you're listening to stuff, he's great.
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Meet in the Skanks, also a wonderful show. Yeah, yeah, those guys are really popular.
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And, you know, the podcast that you're a part of, High Society Radio,
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you've been doing that a long time, you said, right?
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Yeah, about 15 years now. I want you on YouTube. God, thanks, man.
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Yeah, it's just fun. But again, like, everything has a genesis and ours is a
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Deron and Fez show. We came out of there. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, I want to thank you for coming on, Bronx Johnny.
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It's been great getting your thoughts on Fez obviously passing.
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Tough time for you, I'm sure, but you've lived an amazing life in radio so far,
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and you're still going with your podcast that you have.
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And like I said earlier yeah it's for fans man yeah but you always gotta,
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people don't do it enough you always gotta credit the fan and the fan base because
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there's so many people that do podcasts they do it because they think it's easy
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and then it doesn't work out it's because you don't make a connection if you're
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lucky to make a connection with one person I think you're doing a lot,
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absolutely so I always gotta give up the fans for that stuff man right right
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Well, I want to thank you for coming on.
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Brock Shani, it's been a pleasure, and, you know, keep doing your thing. You're doing great.
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All right. Appreciate it, my brother. Thank you for having me on,
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man. Absolutely. Thanks a lot.
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