Unity Through Community Embodied with Billy Fried and Jonathan Tufano

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You're listening to Awakening Code Radio, mind expanding, heart opening
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talking music to raise your vibration.
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Some people consider it the shifting of the ages. Others
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see it as a whole new paradigm for humanity. But
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whatever you want to call it, it's hard to deny
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that we are in a moment of immense change, a
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moment challenging us to wake up and live life more consciously.
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This is Eric Rangan.
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And I'm Michelle Anderson, and you're listening to Awakening Code.
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Radio, where the conversation is always about raising the vibration
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of love, compassion.
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Happiness, forgiveness, stewardship, health and peace.
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Thank you for joining the conversation. You are listening to
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Awakening Code, Awakening Coach, Awakening Code Radio. Thank you so
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much for tuning in to Awakening Code Radio, broadcasting to
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you live from our new fairly new studio right here
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on the corner of Glenarian oakst. We moved about six
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weeks ago or so, and every week we come in
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and something more has been done, something more sounds better.
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I'm still not good at putting all the buttons together
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and sliders, but I'm figuring it out. We call our
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show conversation to raise the vibration. We've been doing this
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for almost fourteen years, and we appreciate all of you.
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Maybe you're a live listener here in Laguna Beach because
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we are an actual terrestrial FM radio station, but a
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lot of you stream, and I think a lot of
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you over with me. I think a lot of you
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want to stream to hear me make mistakes. And most
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of our listeners around the world are podcast listeners. So
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if our show has helped you any way on your
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what we would call a path of to self discovery awakening,
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you might say enlightenment. People don't use that word as much.
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Awakening seems to be the new buzzword. But what are
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we awakening to, really? To just be a better person
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on this planet? That you know why you're here. You
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feel comfortable in your own skin, you're calm, you relaxed,
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you're happy, you're helpful, you're of service to other people.
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You do all that, You're going to be living a
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life much more fulfilled, and we can guarantee it. We're
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not here for the likes, we're not here for the follows,
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we're not here for any of that stuff. We volunteer
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our time because we think this is a really important
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conversation to have and wake up every day and just
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address your own like needs, wants, desires in a spirit
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of hopefulness and that things are going to be fine,
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because if you decide they are.
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They are.
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Across from me is Michelle Anderson.
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Hello Michelle, Hello Eric, I'm super excited to be here tonight.
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I'm i am too.
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Scooter got red.
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Your scooter is reved and everybody will know by in
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a second. And then, of course, we always want to
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thank our amazing admin Colleen, who just does so much
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for our show throughout the week, whether it's managing our
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socials or creating art and graphics or production when we're
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covering over screw ups I make during the live show.
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So thank you, Colleen. You're amazing and we appreciate you
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so much.
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She just posted I have not reposted it, but she
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just posted a really fun moment we just had at
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the Cliff. Oh listening to one of our incredible DJs, Curtistintilly.
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Yeah, The Cliff is a really fun restaurant right here
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in town. I just love the vibe. It feels like
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you're in someone's backyard almost And when places like that
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are gone. They're gone for good. You know, they're replaced
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with just rectangular blocks. And that place has such a
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unique vibe for high flute and Laguna Beach and you
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get this little you know, honky tonk, bunch of little
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buildings and great music. And yes, Curtis is a great musician.
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We have a lot of great musicians here in town,
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and that work at this station revolved.
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A lot of them were at the cliff. We're gonna
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nave off some names.
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Okay, yeah, all right, Well do you want to introduce
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our guests?
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I would love to you, all right, I would love too.
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I usually will start off with how it all happened,
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how it all went down, Why you're here tonight. These
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two special gentlemen sitting next to me, and they have
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big smiles on their faces, and so do we, because
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this show was really important to me. And Saturday night,
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Friday night is date night in our household. My husband
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Brian and I like to go on dates on Friday nights.
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And I heard that Jason Fetti, one of our previous
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DJs here on KXFM that really had a long run
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with us, and he's an incredible musician. I heard that
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he was playing at art Affair and we had just
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given tickets to KXFM winner to the Pageant of the Masters,
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who told me that they the ticket stubs get us
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into art Affair for the whole season Artifair soldist Sawdust Artifair,
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and she gifted me the tickets because she won them
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through KXFM, So that was lovely. Linden Jim and we
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went and met them there and saw Jason playing in
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one of his many bands, a tribute to Van Morrison,
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who I love. So after that we go over to
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Sawdust Festival because we do have season tickets. We've been
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since opening day and who do I run into.
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At Sawdust Festival?
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Wow?
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One of my favorite songs was playing Billy Freed in
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the House Tonight.
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The Legend, the Men, the Myth, the Legend, Billy Freed.
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Billy, You're gonna you got a long way to get
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to that microphone.
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And aka Uncle Funk, Uncle Funk.
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Where I'm gonna be sharing the phone ball whatever we
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call this with my partner or you introduce him, Okay.
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So Billy and I got we got engaged in a
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conversation at Sawdust and I gave up a dance with
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my husband to have this conversation with you, and I
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think Sweet Home Alabama was playing, and that was like
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one of my I'm all, hey, good need to do
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and you're all like, no, stay here and talk to me,
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which I enjoyed. I really enjoyed talking with you that night,
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and I said, what are you doing this Tuesday? I
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would love to have you on the show again to
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give an update about what's happening at the station. And
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we've been talking a lot, you know, for years, about
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unity through community, and what I really feel is, Billy,
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you're embodying that, and the whole station is embodying the
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vision I saw many many years ago of what it
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looks like when a community comes together, whether they you know,
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they don't let their differences divide them. They come together
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and they realize that we all have a love for
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music number one, and we have a love for this town,
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Laguna Beach, number two, and we all love to have fun,
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and we want to lessen the load of the chaotic
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node happening in the world. And we do that throughout.
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You say, lessen the load of the chaot No.
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Wow, she's a poet.
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And Jonathan here is sitting next to me, I believe right,
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you're riding your tongue for a minute. So Jonathan has
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been a long time DJ here. He spends Vinyl on
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Thursday nights. He's got a show called Deep Cuts. Billy,
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what's your show? Laguna Talks?
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Do you have two shows?
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Talks?
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And my show used to be on Thursday nights as well.
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And I immediately followed Jonathan's show, and in the media
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business we call that flow. I was getting his audience,
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which was massive and remains massive, and we got That's
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how we met. We met in the in the record,
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in the broadcast studio.
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Nice absolutely.
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And I remember when the station was going through some
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challenging times and Eric and I thought we actually did
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a show that we called our last show on the air,
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and we were so sad because we thought the doors
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were going to close, and it was I don't know
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that I've ever felt that feeling in my stomach before,
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and Eric and I both were like, well, this could
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be it.
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At this great at this station.
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We knew that we would take awakening code radio and
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just do zoom or do whatever podcasters do, but it's
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not the.
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Same as FM radio.
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And I really I ran into you and said, Billy,
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you're the only one that can save this.
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And You're like, I'm not a nonprofit guy. I don't
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really know how to do that.
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And I ran into Jonathan and said, Jonathan, you've got
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to convince Billy, and you're the only I really felt
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like Jonathan was the only one that could convince you
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in the way that I explained this to a lot
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of people, as you're a visionary.
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Well, and Jonathan's very persuasive.
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Yes, But Jonathan, one of the things, one of the
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things that I tell you, one of the things I
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tell our listeners and friends of mine, is that Billy
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has huge visions and he gets he is he is passionate,
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and he is Uncle Funk and he he throws a
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great party. And what I see with you, Jonathan is
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you are the executioner in the best way.
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Judge Ann Jerry too, Michelle.
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There vision without execution is hallucination. Somebody has to get
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it done. And that was not a quote that I
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made up. I'll tell you that who quoted that, Thomas Edison.
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It's on the back of my husband's business card. So
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you want to say something, John, it.
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Sounds like, so what are we here to talk about tonight.
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So well, I know you want to talk about Ananaki
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because you know a lot about the UFO community and it's.
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Interesting to me if we get around to it. I
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know that here on Awakening Code Ready, which by the way,
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I thank you was a wonderful honor to join you.
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I've long since admired the show that you have and
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the following and frankly, the sheer numbers that you put up.
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Right as somebody who looks at these metrics and analytics,
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Awakening Code Radio is consistently the most downloaded and listened
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to podcast. It is number one with a bullet and
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it has been year over year. So just congratulations on
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putting together such an interesting conversation that has taken place
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over a decade now right here on KXFM Lugunas Community Radio.
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So I also want to point out, well, you know,
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you guys have been on fourteen years now, almost fourteen years,
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and you both are such lights to the world of
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especially positivity, you know, and it's what so much of
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what we need. And I just wanted to share that
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not only was Awakening a concept that I think you
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guys were ahead of your time with, but I've noticed
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that codes. Yes, everybody talks about Oh, I'm going to
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download the codes, man, the keys and.
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The codes and the frequencies.
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Yeah, and man, you guys were on that more than
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a decade ago before anybody was talking about it. And
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it's really you know, awakening code. It's a great name.
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Yeah. I've actually heard podcasts now. I listened to quite
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a few podcasts and somebody said the Codes of Awakening,
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And you know, I think I might have sent you
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that link, Michelle. I forget who it was in what context,
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but literally said the codes of Awakening. I'm like people
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are waking up to that I have been on that
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path for a while, that there is literally possibly codes
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in the forms of number sequences or symbols that somebody
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has left behind. I kind of let the trail go
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a little soft. Yeah, maybe they like the d M
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T laser experiment. I could tell you a whole story
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about that that I don't think I did.
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Well, we're listening, but just talk about.
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But they're definitely in my mind, and I can make
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a pretty good case when I lecture. I can lecture
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in front of you know, who knows a bunch of
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physicists or you know, astrophysicists, people that are really high
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up that have a bias of Okay, this is just
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a bunch of bull crap that we're going to be
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talking about. But since we're here, and you can build
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a case by the end of it, that some form
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of intelligence has been trying to communicate something to us
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through number sequences. And you can look, before we thought
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any sort of communities or societies were sharing information with
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each other. Not only were they building pyramids that how
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did they know you in the Yucatan that they are
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building pyramids in Egypt? But beyond that, it was the
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number codes. It was the sequences that were built intough
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myths and texts and architecture, and those are the things
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that Joseph Campbell, he was the most famous mythologist the
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Hero's Journey, and he started calling it mathematical mythologies. That
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he would stumble across these numbers so often across all
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these different cultures and societals and religions. It's like, what
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is going on here? He never had an answer other
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than there's that number again, four thirty two or one
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four or seventy two, that is, there is something there
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to talk about, and absolutely and I don't necessarily it
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doesn't have to always be alien ish, but it always
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if you go back to the origin of why is
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a circle? Three hundred sixty, you do get an alien story,
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whether you want one or not.
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It always kind of seems to end up back there,
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doesn't it. It's the Ara boros man, the snake eating
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its tail, that's right, infinite loop.
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That is one of the images I use in my talks.
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Of course, right, because it's the inevitability of things. It's
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the cycle, it's the birth death ritual, right, And it's
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just consciousness repeating itself over and over again, an infinite
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loop holding up a mirror to itself saying, hey, enjoy yourself.
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Yes, there is a closed loop aspect to it. You know.
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That's almost like a fact checking system that perpetuates. Michelle
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has always seen it more as a spiral than a
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just a circle that makes its completion and is done.
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And I would agree with that that it's as a circle.
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Anything moves it comes.
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You want to talk about a code Fibonacci, The Fibonacci
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sequence is the spiral of life. Yes, it's life's number. Right.
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So when you spiral out like that, it becomes infinite,
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it becomes the infinite cycle, which repeats itself. And so
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I think that kind of brings me around to an
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interesting conversation, which is what we're we're having here is
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literally the transmission of a frequency in the truest sense. Right,
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you said there's nothing quite like FM radio, and you
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know I would agree with that, Michelle. Right, there is
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something about the frequency, the live frequency transmission. It's truly
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a transmission of consciousness. And as we look at you
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know what you've discussed here, Eric, and I think how
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you started it off as a conversation that raises the consciousness.
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We look at ourselves here at KXFM as a radio
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station that raises the consciousness. Right, that's what we're all about.
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Contunity here.
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It's a community that's come together to help raise the
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vibration through joy, through through camaraderie, and it is a hub.
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I hear that.
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You've started something new on Saturday mornings or Saturday Saturday
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mornings eleven am.
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Is this what? This is?
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Something new that our audience doesn't know about yet?
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Yeah, Billy, you can expect Michelle that oops my water.
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Every week that you come in here, there will be
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something new because Jonathan and I just can't quit ourselves
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love it, and you know, we can go deep on
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where we think this station can go in terms of
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generating content and connecting people, because, as you guys are saying,
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if you think about living in a small community like
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this and you turn on your terrestrial radio and you're
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hearing voices of people in your community that some of
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whom you know, some of you heard of, others you're
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learning about for the first time. The breadth and the
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scope of knowledge, of curiosity of music, of art, it
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just makes you feel good about where you're living and
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you don't feel so alone. And I think you know,
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we all know that the Surgeon General has said we
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have an epidemic of loneliness in this country. They say
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fifty percent of adults are suffering some form of loneliness.
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And I really see our radio as something that is
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addressing that very issue because we're not an algorithm, we're
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not AI where what do they call it?
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Now?
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The whole world of real life experiences. There's an acronym IRL,
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Thank you IRL in real life? Have you always heard that?
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I have not, so there have many people in the
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tech industry. You say, I'm going into irl because they've
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got to get away from the digital world that's killing them.
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Yeah, it's time for radio to come back big time.
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Well, I think it's back, and it's better than ever, right,
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And you know, I consider us the premiere low power
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FM radio station in the entire country, in the nation,
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in the United States of America. I would argue we
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are in the absolute echelon and continue to rise because
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of the quality of the programming, Awakening Code Radio being
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an example of that, but the innovation that we're delivering
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to the entire LPFM community. And I use that word
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in a broad sense community because you have to realize
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as you do. But maybe for your listeners out there,
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this is a labor of love. This is a work
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of passion. This is pure personality and passion manifested in live,
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real time through the microphone up through the antenna directly
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to you over the frequencies that carry it there. And
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there's an entire country filled of low power FM radio
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stations that are figuring out how to survive in a
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post Spotify reality. And the word that I have for
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them is community. You are of your community, you serve
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your community, and the way that you will continue to
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perpetuate your existence is through the engagement of your community,
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and Billy's vision to include the members of the Laguna
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Beach community really double down on that. I think is
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frankly the reason for our success. It's a number of factors,
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but it's absolutely essential to our survival. And when you
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look at the history of the station over many years,
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which we've had a lot to be proud of and
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a lot to be excited about. There was a focus
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on the format. There was a focus on generational alt rock.
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There was a focus on human crafted radio, and as
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much of amazing music as we play that's curated by
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human hands, that is human crafted, to use that term
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as Tyler coined it. There is so much to be
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said about having conversations, and there's so much to be
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said about music being a commodity. Spotify, SoundCloud, it's everywhere.
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Music is ubiquitous. It's the barrier of entry to release
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music has never been lower, and it's also, at the
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same time, never been more pervasive. But the ability to
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have intelligent conversations with people has never been more necessary.
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So you see the rise of the long form podcast,
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which you were innovators of, which you've done for years
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and years and years. And what is a radio show
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when it's done, Well, it's a podcast, right, that's right.
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And what's a podcast when you had video, Well, it's
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probably a TV show. So it's really the blurring of
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the lines, right, And it gets bumped, it's get lumped
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into this word conent. What I think about it is
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I think about it is communication. So it's a communication
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through various mediums, just like if you're an artist and
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you use various mediums. This table is made of wood.
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This is beautiful art done by Stephen, our master carpenter here, right.
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And when you look at the paintings that are out
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in the lobby, you know that's oil on canvas. That's art.
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It's just a medium. So this is communication through different mediums.
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And as we continue to evolve and spiral out here
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at KXFM, we are truly becoming an independent media platform.
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As we had more and more capabilities, our live video
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streaming capabilities, our remote broadcasting capabilities, the ability for us
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to bring in sound from anywhere in the world, which
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means conversations with anyone in the entire world right here
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to Laguna Beach, broadcast through our antenna on the corner
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of Oak and Glen area, right behind Orange Door Studios,
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where anything is possible. And on Saturday, we begin the
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first inaugural Saturday Showcase from eleven to one featuring our
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very own Chris a Day, a Vagabond Soul Radio. He'll
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be out stage on the on the stage that Steve
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the Ruckus Wheeland built today with his own. This community,
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this community shows up for each other like nobody I
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have ever seen. I've never seen a place in this
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world where people show up for each other like they
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do in Laguna Beach in the second annual Laguna Agmud
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Festival was evidence of that. Tell him what it is, Billy, Yeah.
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Billy, they're sharing so fun.
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I'm just go, baby, I know, I've never even seen
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Eric this speechless.
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Like wow, that was a stream of conscience.
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And Jonathan drops in. Jonathan, this is the Jonathan that
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I first met on the radio.
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He's in his radio amazing.
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Yeah, he's got that almost like Barry White, A very yeah,
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multiple Jonathan, and I do want to I do want
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to say it with all sincerity.
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This guy is as much a visionary as I am.
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I'm just a bit more of a social butterfly. You know,
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I get out there. He's got so many big ideas
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and when you look at the space and I'm so
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glad you talked about the contribution of everybody in this community,
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how we're all coming in, even the way we just
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transitioned out of Brian Hurley's show, Like.
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No, that wasn't Brian.
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Steveree, I'm sorry, Steve Erie. Yeah, look at me.
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They're best friends.
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Yeah, and he's just concerned that the transition is smooth.
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Shout out to two times Silver Tongue Award winning Brian Hurley. Brian,
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we love you man. You are our gardener and you
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can't wait for you to be back here and water
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those succulents.
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You played the great point. Awesome point. There's there's our guy, Brian.
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There was no mistake. Take a look at our at
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our you know, our succulents, and said I can do
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better on this. I'm gonna come over and fix you
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guys up again.
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Unity through community right there.
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Yeah, Well, I'll interject a little bit. So listener, if
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you've been no, we have quite a few listeners who
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have been here almost day one.
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I've got a bunch of listeners that are texting in
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that I want to give you started.
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In twenty twelve October of twenty twelve, and this just
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to give you a really fast, you know, just a
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recap of what happened. A young man like a doogie howser.
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He was twenty three or four, but he looked like
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he was eighteen, and he had this idea, but it
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was business model first. He recognized that Laguna is kind
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of an island without much FM reception, so people living
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here don't really have radio available to them, and that
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would have been probably a bigger thing back in the sixties, seventies, eighties,
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but it's still a thing people liked listening to radio
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in their cars are driving around. So he's like, let's
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just make a low powered local station for Laguna. But
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it was to me the field was always business model first,
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not necessarily you know, amping up community at all. And
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it was going to be and he was kind of
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Coachella era, so it was going to have a lot
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of that vibe, that indie Coachella vibe. He had a
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couple of live DJs that one guy was like super
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heavy metal and one guy had something I'm like, you know,
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I just am not feeling the cohesion, so when he
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was leaving, when I was bummed because we have found
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our groove is awakening code ratio on other shows that
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found their groove. But part of me was like, I
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kind of felt this coming anyway, you know, if you're
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just running it as a business model, and I, like
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Michelle said, if there's somebody that can that's already in
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the mix here, already knows about this station that could
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probably make a go of this, it would have been you, Billy.
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I don't know if I said that in advance, but
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it's it takes someone kind of multi layered, multifaceted that
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is passionate about this and that and also has business acumen.
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But I remember your word. It felt like the first
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word was community. That needs to be the new hook
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we're hanging our hat on is community. And it's not Hey,
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we're smooth and we're slick and we've got cleaning jingles
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and we've got the music for the hipsters. No, we're
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going to bring it back to the function of how
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important community is our show. I mean, we talk community,
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but we're kind of talking about a lot of times
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we're talking about the community of what do we just say,
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quote unquote people that might call themselves on a spiritual
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quest or something. It would be a community of that.
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But there's many different types of communities. It doesn't matter.
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You get people that gather together idealistically or physically. You've
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got that in Laguna. The beautiful thing about Laguna started
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as a little artist colony. It started as a small
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community with people pitching in and helping each other. That
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is not gone. It's probably not what it was back
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in the late eighteen hundreds when there was homesteads being
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built here, but there is that still that sense. I
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walk around, I walk a lot in town. I bring
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a guest over that hasn't hey come down visit me
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in the Laguna, I'll walk and I know a dozen people,
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Like do you know everybody here? And like, no, I
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know the people that as you're moving through a community,
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the shop owners and the other people that walk to
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do their business or they're just their entertainment. It's a
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special place. And you were the right person. Both of
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you as a team were the dream team that could
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put this together. You both have vision, you both overlap
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in many ways. But I'm just so grateful that the
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show that the station did continue, that our show could continue.
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Yeah, and you know, I want to thank you, Eric,
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and I want to just say that you mentioned how
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Laguna used to be and it was also a funky,
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artsy place. It was affordable, that was off the grid.
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And we've seen a change because of the money and
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the gentrification. And they say something like twenty to twenty
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five percent of the homes now our second homes. You
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feel that in the neighborhoods you to walk around, you
491
00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:34.079
see a lot of dark houses, and that really impacts
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the resilience of a community, particularly in the face of adversity.
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Like I like to think that we have brought the
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community together in such a way that if there was
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an emergency, an evacuation of fire, that many of us
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would be running into the flames. And I mean that
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figuratively in the sense that we'd be helping our neighbors
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because we know each other and we hear each other.
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We will be broadcasting in those events. I think that's
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so critically important for the public to know that we
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00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:05.440
also have this public service that we think is critical
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to saving lives in this town when that event happens,
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not if, but when, And so that's just one piece
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of the pie. But I do think all these people
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that have stepped up, whether they want to contribute music
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or come and do some gardening or build a deck
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for us, it's been remarkable and it's really a testament
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to the resilience of this town. So we have great
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voices artists, and I think what Jonathan's vision is, you know,
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he can we can put out so much and I
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don't want to use the word content, but we've got
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the outdoor space that he just mentioned, that's weekly series.
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00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.039
We're going to broadcast that live, so we're not only
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just having a concert. We're going to put it out
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00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:50.000
over the radio. We have our special orange door studio
516
00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:53.599
behind us, which is our performance space indoors. We're going
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to be mounting cameras there. We're going to be able
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to live cast it, put it on YouTube. Every single
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00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.440
musician that comes through here is going to be broadcast.
520
00:27:01.799 --> 00:27:04.640
You know, then we have They're not just the buskers.
521
00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:07.880
Are they buskers doing this?
522
00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.039
We want we want to Yeah, we want Dave Grohl
523
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.759
to come here. You never know, you think I'm kidding you.
524
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:16.720
You can take mine too.
525
00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:17.640
Well.
526
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We're we're sharing things here because we're a community. We
527
00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:25.519
have a community of microphones. But you know the variety
528
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:28.359
of musicians is going to be reflective of this community
529
00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:32.640
and its inhabitants. Right, So we're we We've collaborated with
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00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.000
Jane and Ken of the Fete de la Musique and
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00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:39.400
if you follow us on social media canx FM radio,
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you'll see a little video that Billy did with them
533
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:46.839
announcing the inaugural you know, Saturday showcase. And I was
534
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.640
just in there earlier today setting up all the tech
535
00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:50.319
so we can map it to the board and we
536
00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:52.000
can feed it out to the people whether they may
537
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:54.000
be here around here or not. But the goal is
538
00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:58.359
to really bring in people that will perform a unique
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00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:02.240
music style. Right and then as over over time as
540
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.799
we have our orange door studio sessions, we'll bring people
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00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:08.440
inside as well. And those can be musicians locally, those
542
00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:11.240
can be musicians passing through from San Diego to La
543
00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:13.839
people that we invite that want to come, that reach
544
00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:17.119
out to us, like for example, ice Cube that's going
545
00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.519
to be talking to Ability tomorrow about an event in
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00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.319
Long Beach. You know, so maybe somebody will want to
547
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:24.720
come in and perform for us or do a special
548
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:27.400
orange door studio session, you know, I mean there's going
549
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:31.039
to be demand because there's a number of reasons why.
550
00:28:31.160 --> 00:28:33.759
One we are unique and I truly believe that, and
551
00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:35.920
I know it to be true because there's no one
552
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.759
else like this in the entire country, maybe even the
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00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:42.000
world for what we're doing, truly, and I mean that.
554
00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:44.599
And it's a combination of multiple things, you know. I
555
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:47.160
always say that, like we're like three or four businesses
556
00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:49.720
at least in one. Right, We're an underwriting business. We
557
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:53.200
help the businesses around us be successful. We help people
558
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:55.960
understand more about them, what makes them unique in the world,
559
00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:57.839
and how they contribute to the community, what they have
560
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:00.119
to offer. So we do that through the programs that
561
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:03.599
we forged with our community partners. We are an event
562
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:08.680
production company. Right. We bring people together irl in ways
563
00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:10.920
that you just can't get in the digital sphere. You
564
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:13.640
need to gather with other human beings. You need to
565
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:15.400
be around them, you need to feel their energy, you
566
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:19.359
need to feel pulsing of their hearts and understand their
567
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minds so you can connect with them, because that's at
568
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the end of the day, what it's all about, right,
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And we have a unique ability to do that, and
570
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:29.480
that's evidenced in the Laguna Achievement Festival that Billy envisioned
571
00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:31.839
and we executed this year at the Playhouse. We're going
572
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:34.359
to be back again next year at the Playhouse. We're
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working out those details now. But we had so many
574
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special moments that it literally brought like a single gangster
575
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:44.599
tier to my little reptile eye that rolled down my cheek.
576
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And I tell you what, seven standing ohs.
577
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No.
578
00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:51.799
I couldn't believe what I saw.
579
00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:54.240
I didn't wasn't able to go to the event, but
580
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:57.440
I went to the after party, and I was shocked.
581
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:01.599
We all we were all high on our own energy
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pot from that, Yes, had our own supply. I would
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like to give some shout outs right now. Lela wrote
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in and she said human to human connection has never
585
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been more valuable in the wake of the human too
586
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:19.640
machine proliferation. KXFM is modeling this. I was there with
587
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Michelle during the station turnover. Very happy it landed in
588
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.599
the right hands, think Global, act local.
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Wow.
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So thank you Leilah for writing in. And I want
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to and Don says she's been with us since the beginning.
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Don and Kyle, and where are they? They're in Yakumba
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a Cumba.
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Springs off the eight. She said.
595
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We turned off the TV and turned on the program.
596
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I said to Kyle, do you feel like we are
597
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:52.440
back in the days of radio?
598
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I love it?
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Wow?
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So thank you Don Yes.
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And I want to give a shout out Doug. Doug
602
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is a a sweet guy that Eric and all of
603
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:05.480
our group met for Eric's birthday at.
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Schooly Palooza, Big Life meet Up.
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00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.559
He must be back in was he in Minnesota or Michigan, Minnesota?
606
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.759
So shout out to Doug. He likes to listen to
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00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.519
US live. Some people really do love to listen to
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US live. Tom Patterson, thanks for coming back on board
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with us. I'm really happy to hear from you. And
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I also wanted to say that tonight when we were
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over at the Cliff. One of the things that we
612
00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:35.960
saw at the Cliff was a lot of kx FM
613
00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:40.559
DJs and supporters. One of the ladies that was there,
614
00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:44.599
her name is Diane Valentino. She's a sawdust artist and
615
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:47.480
she helps book the music at the Sawdust Festival. Oh
616
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:51.680
we need you, Diane, she was She was singing all
617
00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.720
the songs while Curtis was playing.
618
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:55.640
What did he play? Can you think of some of
619
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the sacks.
620
00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:58.720
So many great songs he I love. He doesn't play
621
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:02.079
necessarily beless song but they're just off, like, oh yeah,
622
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.480
that song, you know it was a popular song, tons
623
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:08.519
of Beatles. Of course, he played Norwegian wood. He played
624
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:11.440
James Taylor songs, but just such a gif.
625
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:15.880
Everybody was singing along. I videotaped and I scan the
626
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:20.319
audience when we first got there. Robert Savigne was there
627
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:23.440
with just folking around. He was on the air today
628
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:26.599
and he's got now two shows. He has separate hours
629
00:32:26.640 --> 00:32:29.279
now right, a folk show and a sixties show.
630
00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:30.559
I think he's a workhorse.
631
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:34.200
Yeah, and he was there. Phil Goff was there.
632
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:36.960
Oh man, we're we're lucky to land him as a DJ.
633
00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.559
With best guitarist around.
634
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:42.400
I couldn't believe they were announcing all the bands he's
635
00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:45.720
in World Anthem, Common Sense, Party Foul, who won the
636
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:49.119
Laugh Award for being the best band this year they
637
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:49.880
got nominated.
638
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.599
Is this less than golf? Goff as in.
639
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:59.000
The Bone Daddies, and I hear they're playing at the Orchard.
640
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.079
The Orchard, Newport Beach, a backyard diverse band that plays ska, reggae, rock,
641
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:06.079
a few different things.
642
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.160
He plays with Chris Amadu as well. Dosny.
643
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:10.559
You know, I'm going to give a shout out to
644
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Chris Almadon. He might be listening and it was just
645
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:16.680
his wife Justine does to our so sometimes. When we
646
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:18.960
went on the air in October of twenty twelve, I
647
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.400
think we had Chris On. I knew him. I've played
648
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:23.920
percussion behind him. I think he was the first live
649
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.000
performer on when it was KX ninety three. Really wow,
650
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.680
the show started, the radio station started broadcasting on Saturday.
651
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:34.960
We were on Tuesdays, and he was the first artist
652
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.119
I know brought a guitar singing.
653
00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:40.240
And he has a great show now where hestructs his
654
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:43.200
favorite albums and musicians and yeah, he's so passionate.
655
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.680
Got the great voice, full on DJ voice.
656
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.000
Oh yeah, he's done voiceover work. You know, he's great.
657
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:49.359
Yeah.
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00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.519
So one of the things that I love. The reason
659
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.119
why this happened tonight the way that it did, was
660
00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:01.039
because I was listening to Curtis's show on Friday morning
661
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:05.319
Drive Time with Curtis and he had on djp K
662
00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:10.119
Pamela Knutson, who is a part time DJ with her
663
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:14.320
boyfriend John Ford, who they're on on Sundays. They've got
664
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:19.760
the AM Radio show on Sundays three to five, and Pam.
665
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:20.440
Is with John on the second Sunday.
666
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:26.000
She was phenomenal on Curtis's show and they played a
667
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.559
lot of great music that.
668
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:32.400
I learn about music through both of them.
669
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That's the whole idea.
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And one of the things that I notice about a
671
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:39.679
lot of the DJs here are they play They not
672
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:43.159
only like Steve Reid his show right before our show,
673
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He not only plays great music, he gives you a
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00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:49.719
whole history that you've never heard of before.
675
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:51.320
You can't get that on Spotify.
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You don't. You don't.
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And this is why I was so excited to do
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00:34:56.360 --> 00:35:01.559
this show tonight, Billy, because you you and Jonathan and Lex.
679
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:05.559
You know, Lex is your what is her title? I
680
00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:06.440
forget her title.
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00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:07.679
She is our.
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00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:11.000
Director of Operations and community relations.
683
00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:13.320
Right and she's on top of things.
684
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:17.320
She's getting the word out and she's you know, I
685
00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:21.639
feel what is happening with this grand trine between the
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three of you is it's the cheerleading aspect of getting
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00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:33.760
people excited again and feeling our passion to live again.
688
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If that I hope that doesn't sound weird, but there
689
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:41.280
have been some dark moments in my life and in
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many people. I talk to a lot of mental health
691
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challenges in the community. I realize Mental Health Month is
692
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.559
in the month of May. I never knew this before,
693
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and I learned that through Jack's I think she posted
694
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about that.
695
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I think she's listening right now.
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So Jax, I want to give you a shout out
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and thank you for your vulnerability and your authenticity about
698
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:09.559
talking about your you know what, she went through a
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dark time, a scary time. And when you talked about
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the loneliness factor, I get goosebumps, Billy, because I recognize
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that that's happening in a lot of areas in a
702
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lot of ways, especially in the digital age, because it's
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keeping people locked in their homes, and I see teenagers
704
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:33.119
that are for don't even know how to how to date.
705
00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:35.679
We have a crisis with young men.
706
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.840
They don't go out, they don't date, They sit on
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their computers and trade crypto and watch porn, and you
708
00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:44.920
can't be very healthy.
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My mic doesn't seem to be on. We hear you,
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you can hear it.
711
00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:49.760
Yeah, yeah, maybe true.
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00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:53.679
It's your headphones. Jonathan was fixing something over there. Jonathan,
713
00:36:53.719 --> 00:36:55.079
I was going to ask you if you wanted to
714
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play a song, if we want to take a song break.
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I wanted to ask DJ he Jonathan, if you wanted
716
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:03.559
to play a song? And T Jeric, how do he's playoff?
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He's got a concerned look.
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On his face.
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What happened? Okay, we're good, We're good.
720
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Before you get there.
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I just wanted to add on to something you said,
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and that is and something Jonathan was touching on earlier,
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because I look at Jonathan. You know, he's a generation
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younger than me and a whole lot smarter, and he's
725
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:23.800
got he's a technologist and I can't tell you how
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much this guy has learned building out this studio. Every
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day he tells me, he shows me a piece of
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equipment and what it's going to do. And he doesn't
729
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notice that my eyes are glazing over because I don't
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00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:37.360
understand what he's talking about. He just tells me how
731
00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:39.440
it works and what it's going to do. And you know,
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I mentioned our content generation outside and in the studio.
733
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What I didn't mention is now.
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We have a separate podcast studio and we're inviting the
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00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:52.719
public to come in. Anybody who wants to tell a story,
736
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.239
because everybody has one. They don't have to be on
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00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:57.679
the radio weekly. They can come in out, come in
738
00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:00.880
here while we're on the air, and hoard separately. And
739
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:05.920
we're adding camera videographer to that, producers, editors, so you
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00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:07.599
just come in and tell your story. And what we
741
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.519
want to do is create a podcast network that's not
742
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.599
only repurposed radio shows, but original podcast And that's one
743
00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:17.360
of our goals is to go out and see if
744
00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:19.440
we can how big of a network we can build
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of stories and we're storytellers. And the other part of
746
00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:26.559
it is I just was talking to a jazz musician
747
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:29.559
today who told me he had an experience and I
748
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:31.000
don't know if you guys have done this yet. I
749
00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:35.719
think Jonathan has where he listened to an original song
750
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:40.639
that was composed in about ten seconds in AI and
751
00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:43.960
it's scary how good it can be and how thinic
752
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:49.719
it can sound. And same with music, same with instruments,
753
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:51.719
and same with art. Last week I went up to
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00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:55.119
LA to see a museum that's the first AI generated
755
00:38:55.239 --> 00:38:59.000
art museum, called Data Land, and I came away kind
756
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:02.880
of nauseous. It was overwhelming, it was sterile, It was
757
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:05.920
great technically but it had no heart. And this is
758
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:08.760
again what I think you know. When we're irl or
759
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:11.800
even analog, when we're face to face, we don't say
760
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:14.480
the cruel things to each other that we do online.
761
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:18.360
We see our common humanity and we hug.
762
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:19.360
We hug.
763
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:21.519
Yeah, well, that was the first thing you did when
764
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you got here, was gave me a hug. And Jonathan same.
765
00:39:25.239 --> 00:39:27.519
The first thing I wanted to do was give Jonathan
766
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:31.480
a hug and and give Jonathan his little mushroom that
767
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:35.320
our our visiting guest, Millie, bought for him in Huntington
768
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:39.519
Beach when we were there because Jonathan had shown her
769
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:41.360
something he got at the Sodast Vestival.
770
00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:46.599
Who am I to decline such a generous offer? So
771
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:49.119
thank you so much. I always I am pretty fun
772
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:51.440
guy after all, So I get the.
773
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:53.239
Guy.
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00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:56.880
Thank you so much for thinking to me. I can't
775
00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:58.039
wait to receive that one.
776
00:39:58.079 --> 00:39:59.400
Well, happy belated birthday.
777
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:02.199
You just se Brady a birthday in July already, it's
778
00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:03.920
happy birthday month, I know.
779
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:08.119
Thank you. That's wonderful. Yeah, July third, and it's it
780
00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:09.320
comes around every year.
781
00:40:09.800 --> 00:40:13.360
It's just don't they all quicker and quicker? Yeah, Well,
782
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we're almost down to our last fifteen minutes, and we
783
00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:18.039
want to make sure that if you know, we started
784
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talking about a little bit about aliens on or knock yeah,
785
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:23.079
is there something Billy that we do on our show
786
00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:25.320
that you've kind of I know you listen on occasion
787
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:29.119
that vibes with you that we would be talking out,
788
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:30.480
you know, for the next.
789
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One, we want to talk about membership.
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00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.199
We haven't done yes talk about I know that there's
791
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opportunities here for our listeners to support. KXFM is community supported,
792
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:44.119
and it doesn't have to mean just the local Laguna
793
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Beach community. Because one of the things that I am
794
00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:50.280
inviting our listeners who are in different states, in different
795
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.760
countries to do is to get the KXFM app. And
796
00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:59.079
when you have the KXFM app, you're exposed to all
797
00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:01.039
of the how many shows do we have now?
798
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:02.920
You have about eighty shows.
799
00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:06.880
Eighty shows on this radio station, and they're so diverse
800
00:41:07.519 --> 00:41:11.639
but so interesting, and I really feel like you don't
801
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:16.960
have to be a local community member to feel the
802
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:20.719
community vibes. Sure to be inspired to go out and
803
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:24.159
start something in your community. You may hear something that
804
00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.800
inspires you here on one of our radio shows I
805
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:30.800
know Chris Preltz has a lot that he does with
806
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:37.800
landscaping and getting the environment, environmental things together when it
807
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.840
comes to I mean, he started what was that transition
808
00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:45.719
Transition Laguna, and that was a whole European way to
809
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.119
get communities together to support each other, to start your
810
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:50.960
own food gardens.
811
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:52.119
Yes, that's right.
812
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.559
We were growing gardens, planning gardens for people. All they
813
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had to do was supply the irrigation, the plants and
814
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:01.599
the soil and we would all come in plant together,
815
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have a meal together. It was one of the coolest things.
816
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Yeah, and.
817
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You know you got the boxes, you got to stay
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and then.
819
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Have harvest parties where everybody will bring their bounty and
820
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then you exchange or they really are.
821
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Great social and you're you're talking about it in past tense, Billy.
822
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So I have another invitation to our listeners because I
823
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:26.079
did have a chance at your house in Joshua Tree.
824
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I talked to Chris for a little bit about Transition
825
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Laguna because it really knocked my socks off when I
826
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:34.719
heard this concept, and I know it was started in
827
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Europe and he brought it to Laguna. And you know
828
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:42.239
what he said to me that night, he said, I'd
829
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really like to see the younger generation restart it, because
830
00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:50.800
he's off doing some other things now and it is
831
00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.639
a lot to manage something like that. But it doesn't
832
00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:56.400
mean he can't pass the baton to someone else, because
833
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these are the times that I think are beckoning us
834
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to do communal gardening and know where our food is
835
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:07.079
grown and know that it's not getting sprayed with roundup
836
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and glyphisate on it. I saw one of a former
837
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Laguna resident, Chervin. I don't know if you know who
838
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:18.599
this man is, but Chervin has moved out of Laguna.
839
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To Lake Tahoe.
840
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He moved to Lake.
841
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Tahoe and he did a recent Instagram post about a
842
00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.119
town the next town over from where I live in
843
00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:34.320
Ladera Ranch. There's been I think seven reported cases of
844
00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:38.079
a very rare bone cancer in a lot of athletes
845
00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:41.639
in this area. And he's beside himself children mm hm,
846
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.639
and he they do believe that it's because of the
847
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.360
spraying of the soccer fields and that where they play,
848
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:53.800
they're being sprayed with roundup which has glyphysayate in it,
849
00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:59.400
which is a known carcinogen. So there is an invitation
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00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:04.119
here to return to you know, the youth coming in
851
00:44:04.199 --> 00:44:08.559
and starting these community gardens that are organic and that
852
00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:11.800
it's I think it's such a fun idea. I would
853
00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.280
love to be able to be at a planting party.
854
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.599
I don't know how to garden the way that you do, Billy.
855
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:20.039
You get a great bounty of your You have passion
856
00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:21.159
fruits every year.
857
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.639
A lot of I just harvest my pairs about two
858
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:26.119
hours ago out great bounty of pears.
859
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:27.400
You didn't bring me.
860
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:31.159
They got to rip They don't ripe it on the tree.
861
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:32.599
You got to pick them a little early.
862
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.320
Oh I did not. I learned something about.
863
00:44:35.400 --> 00:44:37.000
You know, if you let them sit too long, they'll
864
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:39.400
get mealy. And you don't want that. You want juicy.
865
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:42.760
Yes, oh it's on the tree, they stay too long.
866
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:46.719
Got the reason I know that is because I use chatchet.
867
00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:52.320
There we go, there we are. Well, everything's good for something.
868
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:55.119
And I have to admit, you know, I'm not a
869
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.639
fan of AI when we're talking about like creating content, writing,
870
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:03.599
making art writing, music writing, you know, out of nothingness
871
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:06.639
a book or something like that. But obviously it's an
872
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.000
incredible tool if you use it as tooled. That my
873
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:12.079
always concern. But that is we're not using The majority
874
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:13.800
of the public is not using it the way the
875
00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:18.639
upper you know, one percent of either government or oligarchs
876
00:45:19.320 --> 00:45:20.119
are using it.
877
00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:21.159
Isn't that always the case?
878
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:24.079
Always get back to membership. I'm sorry to be a.
879
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:28.079
Mark the first person to got off of it, right.
880
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.400
I want to steer us back to the membership because
881
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.000
it was important to me to give the ask to
882
00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.119
our listeners. Thank you and to anybody that's listening to
883
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:39.719
this when it airs as a podcast, that we are
884
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:44.440
community supported and every dollar counts, and so we do
885
00:45:44.599 --> 00:45:48.159
ask our people who are listening to become a member
886
00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:51.719
of KXFM. Are there any perks for becoming a member?
887
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:53.039
Do you know them off the top of your head?
888
00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:56.519
Billy, I do not, John.
889
00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:00.480
They keep me at ten thousand feet, don't let me
890
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:01.159
land the plant.
891
00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:04.559
Just stay up there, Billy. Yeah, I'm sure.
892
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.880
Sorry, I've been fiddling around a little bit of technology.
893
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:12.760
But I'll tell you why in a few minutes. Ultimately,
894
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.559
there's a lot of perks to being a member, right,
895
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:20.360
As they say, membership has benefits, and one of the
896
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:24.519
things is we like to, you know, give little expressions
897
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:28.280
of our gratitude and they come in the form of merchandise,
898
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:33.320
as mel Brooks would say, merchandising, merchandising, merchandising right. And
899
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:37.880
we've partnered with Wilbo, amazing local brand to produce some
900
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:41.599
really high quality items. You've got a beautiful crew neck sweatshirt,
901
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.599
very limited edition. It's kind of a classic heather gray.
902
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:49.039
It's got a KXFM earwave patch on it, a couple
903
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.320
of little Easter eggs here and there in the design.
904
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.800
We've got a great slub cotton t shirts, really super
905
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:57.599
comfortable for summer. You can tie diet, you can wear
906
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.880
it on natural and it's got our Power by Community
907
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.079
shop print on their screen printed, got our classic tune
908
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:07.360
in and turn on Dad cap. And we've got some
909
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:09.880
other limited edition. Yes what they call him?
910
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:13.400
Are you wearing a dad right now?
911
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:19.320
It's so funny baseball cap? Yes, with john Ford, dad everything.
912
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:23.480
He's like dad bod, dad shoes, dad jokes. You know now,
913
00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:24.239
Dad cap?
914
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:26.679
What do they think of next? Dads are cool?
915
00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:26.920
Man?
916
00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:27.719
Give a shout.
917
00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:29.400
I want to give a shout out to Chad and
918
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:32.719
Jin too. We didn't mention their names on this show,
919
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:37.480
but Chad has been such such a hero jumping in
920
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.239
and one of the things that I learned about Chad
921
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.280
being the DJ. He's a DJ two different shows right
922
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:47.239
on the Rocks on Fridays. And what's the other show
923
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:49.280
he does, Jonathan, can you remember it?
924
00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:50.679
Yeah, it's called the Lineup.
925
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:54.320
The Lineup, that's right. And he lives right up the street.
926
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:57.000
So one of the things I've noticed is there's been
927
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:00.920
a lot of cross culture between DJ's coming in and
928
00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:05.920
sitting in with each other, and that has been really exciting.
929
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:09.639
I listened to his wife, Jens show Women of Music
930
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:13.079
and she had her daughter Emma on on Friday because
931
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:15.199
her two radio partners were out of town.
932
00:48:15.679 --> 00:48:16.800
I a family affairs.
933
00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:19.960
I so much out of that show that I One
934
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.119
of the things that was really nice for me too
935
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.320
is it's on on Fridays and it's date night for me,
936
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:27.960
so I always have new material to talk to my
937
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.039
husband of thirty three years about because we pretty much
938
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:33.920
know everything about each other. So it's it's nice to
939
00:48:33.960 --> 00:48:37.159
have new material to be able to stay over dinner,
940
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:40.760
you know. Like I heard this new artist today and
941
00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:46.280
it was on gen show Women of Music, So I
942
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:49.039
really appreciate what's happening.
943
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:49.960
It's alchemy.
944
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:51.239
It is alchemy.
945
00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:51.800
For sure.
946
00:48:51.840 --> 00:48:55.199
I share a Chad and Jen story. Yes, you're right,
947
00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:59.599
they have stepped up magnificently. Chad was retired, he's found
948
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:03.719
his is calling. He's such a music lover. He was
949
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:06.880
there when kind of Party Foul was formed. He was
950
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:11.719
a big Ska fan. So here's a great laguna story.
951
00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:15.920
At the Laugh Awards, Chuck Herrel, who's the longtime owner
952
00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:20.280
of the Dirty Bird family owned, got up, very emotional,
953
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:24.239
got a standing ovation, was really moved and said, you
954
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:27.000
know this makes this is one of those nights that
955
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:29.920
makes fifty four years in the bar business worth it.
956
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:30.679
That's awesome.
957
00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:32.639
Not to be undone.
958
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:38.079
Our Legacy Award winner ninety six year old Dick Metz
959
00:49:38.679 --> 00:49:40.960
got up and said, well, I'll tell you what, Chuck.
960
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:44.000
I was working at the Sandpiper before you were born.
961
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.280
And Dick Metz was in the very first cast of
962
00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:53.719
the Pageant of the Masters. He was a child actor
963
00:49:53.760 --> 00:49:55.920
at the time, but he was in the very first season,
964
00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:58.639
which is just amazing to think of that link. He's
965
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:00.000
been on our show many times.
966
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:00.639
That's awesome.
967
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:03.880
And then not to be out done, I don't think
968
00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:06.400
I went in the right chronological order, but it sounds better.
969
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:06.719
This way.
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00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:09.559
Chuck, I mean Chad and Jen got up and said, well,
971
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we don't want to outdo you guys, but we met
972
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:13.440
at the Sandpiper.
973
00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:14.480
Oh there you go.
974
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:17.239
Let's talk about a legacy listeners.
975
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:19.239
Sandpiper and Dirty Bird are the same place.
976
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:23.280
It's our dive bar. Local town needs one.
977
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:25.800
Yes, I was hardened when I moved to Laguna and
978
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:28.800
discovered that we had our very own dive bar. Smells
979
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:31.559
like a frat house, live music every night.
980
00:50:31.639 --> 00:50:32.119
It's great.
981
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:36.119
Yep. I think Jim Gaffigan had a joke about dive bars,
982
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:38.719
like he went to one in the Midwest and like, yeah,
983
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:40.519
I remember last time I was here was like twenty
984
00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:43.559
years ago and threw up in the corner. There it is.
985
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:50.760
I mean, being from New England in the Northeast, there's
986
00:50:50.920 --> 00:50:53.199
a tremendous amount of dress. I just thought dive bars
987
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.440
were just bars. I was like, oh, that's what a
988
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:57.760
bar is. I didn't realize it was like a category,
989
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:02.840
a subgenre of bar. But you know, throughout Boston, Rhode
990
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:06.920
Island and I mean Rhde Island has some legendary die bars.
991
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:09.440
But having that Dirty Bird there, it does really serve
992
00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:13.280
as a well, a third place for some people, a
993
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:18.159
beacon of hope amongst a raging sea. And you know,
994
00:51:18.199 --> 00:51:21.559
we hope to be that in some ways at KXFM two.
995
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:23.920
Who knows, maybe in the future people will be saying
996
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:26.280
stories about how they met at KXFM.
997
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.360
Ever instead of that dirty bird and one less dirty bird.
998
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:32.639
I was hanging out with a friend. It was two
999
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:35.960
o'clock and I think Marine Room was closing, and it
1000
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:39.119
was like one o'clock. He's like, well, time for one
1001
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:44.960
more bad decision. That was the dirty Bird. It's really
1002
00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:48.039
the last one in town. That's it's the last place.
1003
00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:50.599
There's not that many places to go late. Lagunda does
1004
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:53.199
roll up the carpets and close the doors. Track in
1005
00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:54.920
the box ten eleven o'clock.
1006
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.199
That's an interesting trend that when I first got here,
1007
00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:01.280
you could find a few restaurants open late, the Tye Brothers,
1008
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:06.360
Taco Loco, and gradually, and I don't know what it is,
1009
00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:09.920
every restaurant that comes to town here announces with great fanfare,
1010
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:12.639
we're going to be open late, especially on weekends. I'm
1011
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:14.800
like a hot Dickey dog a place to go after
1012
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:18.280
the bird, and then I kid you not, within three
1013
00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:21.239
or four months you go there at eleven o'clock. Oh, sorry,
1014
00:52:21.239 --> 00:52:24.320
our kitchen's already closed. I'm like, And then I next week,
1015
00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:26.400
you go at ten o'clock. Sorry it's closed. I'm like,
1016
00:52:26.519 --> 00:52:29.159
what happened? Then they go, well, nobody was there. Yeah,
1017
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:31.000
so we got to you know, it's a business. We
1018
00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:33.320
got to let people go. And I think it's something
1019
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.519
about our habits now. I don't know if it's because
1020
00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:39.159
we're an older demographic, but we have all this night life.
1021
00:52:39.480 --> 00:52:41.920
I think having a late night dining is a public service,
1022
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.599
gives people a place to sober up.
1023
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:44.079
Yep.
1024
00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:46.639
I would have always liked to see like a diner,
1025
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:48.920
you know, like you know, I like the East Coast diner.
1026
00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:51.400
Ruin ends up at the diner, man, yeah, you'll get
1027
00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:51.840
a stack of.
1028
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:56.199
Eric and I went to Denny's, you know, after a
1029
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:59.719
laguna event, and that's what in Dana Point we had
1030
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:01.719
to have a little bit of a waste out of.
1031
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:03.679
But I mean, like, I don't know, there's something that
1032
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:08.320
Denny's look is the all American kind of talking like
1033
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.800
a diner where you're like, you know what I'd like
1034
00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:13.280
right now, lamb chops and it's like one am and
1035
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:14.360
no problem.
1036
00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:16.679
I'd like to see is Joe Peshy and Robert De
1037
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:18.000
Niro roll up in a.
1038
00:53:18.599 --> 00:53:22.480
You're a chef, like what I like? Jonathan's a chef.
1039
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:24.440
Why don't you open something great?
1040
00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:27.280
It's one more thing I get a lot of time
1041
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:27.639
for that.
1042
00:53:28.079 --> 00:53:29.920
We do want him to find the band with at
1043
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:32.519
some point to do a restaurant review show, or even
1044
00:53:32.639 --> 00:53:34.360
maybe not a review, because that's a tough gig.
1045
00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:36.800
Does no one do that into the station?
1046
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:37.559
No?
1047
00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.719
No, Well we had somebody that's no longer with us.
1048
00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:45.639
But you know, it's hard to be objective and to
1049
00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:48.199
be a critic when you want to be an amplifier
1050
00:53:48.239 --> 00:53:50.159
of the positive too, because how do you how are
1051
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.440
you going to say bad things about a restaurant poor?
1052
00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:53.639
It's such a tough gig.
1053
00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:57.280
That is my personal take on that, frankly, is is
1054
00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:00.360
less about the critique and more about the conversation. I'd
1055
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:03.360
love to have chefs and restaurant tours in front of
1056
00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:06.440
the house workers come through and just talk about the
1057
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:10.159
business of feeding idea, you know, and the creativity that
1058
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:12.639
goes into that. And I think I would approach it
1059
00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:14.840
from that perspective, and I'd go and I'd eat and
1060
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:17.679
i'd talk about the food. And one of the things
1061
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:19.000
that was always near and dear to my heart when
1062
00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:21.400
I was cooking is like, we had a playlist, man, Like,
1063
00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:24.960
we had a playlist, we had we had a prepping playlist,
1064
00:54:25.079 --> 00:54:27.400
we had a musean plus when we were prepping throughout
1065
00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:30.039
the day. And you start, you know, at ten o'clock
1066
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:31.920
or whatever. You know, you're a little rusty from the
1067
00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:34.719
night before, and you're, you know, ripping that double espresso
1068
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:40.000
and maybe your cigarette. You're you're you're listening to particular music,
1069
00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:41.800
and then like four o'clock comes around, You're like, hey,
1070
00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:44.159
we better just we're gonna start opening now. Yeah, and
1071
00:54:44.199 --> 00:54:46.320
then like boom, you hit the service playlist and like
1072
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:48.440
it shifts se gear. So like what is the impact?
1073
00:54:49.079 --> 00:54:50.679
And then you have the comedown. Man, now you're chilling.
1074
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:53.440
Now it's after park, right, So that's actually the roots
1075
00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:55.599
of deep cuts. I don't really tell this story often,
1076
00:54:55.639 --> 00:54:58.480
but it seems like the opportunity to do it. So
1077
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:00.719
I was cooking on on Block Island, which is an
1078
00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:02.880
island off the coast of Rhode Island about thirteen miles
1079
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:05.199
out in the Atlantic, and I worked with this chef
1080
00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:07.880
Burke and Burke had this amazing record collection. He was
1081
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:10.400
a great musician. He had this band called peg Legasis.
1082
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.119
Shout out to peg Legais of Austin, Texas.
1083
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.360
It really is. That's amazing.
1084
00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:20.559
And they did a wicked cover of Autobahn by the
1085
00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:23.039
band craft Work. And he was very talented guitarist. And
1086
00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:25.280
he had this great band and they opened for Ram
1087
00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:27.320
actually back in the day, and some other great indie
1088
00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:31.400
bands in the around the Texas area. Anyway, great album
1089
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:37.960
Bacon Lettuce Tornado, he talked about set. Yeah, they were
1090
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:39.880
on it. They were ahead of their time. So anyway,
1091
00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:42.960
some of the things that we do. After one Burke
1092
00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:46.320
would make great mixtapes for the kitchen. But two after
1093
00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:48.400
we were done with service, we'd all go up and
1094
00:55:48.480 --> 00:55:50.760
we'd hang we're on an island. There's only so many
1095
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:52.559
places you can go. We'd all go hang out and
1096
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.679
we'd kind of do this routine, if you will, where
1097
00:55:54.679 --> 00:55:56.639
everyone to pick a record and they get to play
1098
00:55:56.679 --> 00:55:59.000
a side, so you get to play your side, and
1099
00:55:59.039 --> 00:56:00.920
then you go and you pick and elskis to play
1100
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.039
and you kind of go back and forth while you're
1101
00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:06.599
hanging in chatting. And we had this pirate radio station
1102
00:56:06.760 --> 00:56:08.760
out on Block Island, and we never still to this day,
1103
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:10.800
figured out where it was broadcasting. We think it was
1104
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:13.559
Club Soda, but it could have been the National Hotel too,
1105
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:17.079
and we didn't know where the antenna was. It was
1106
00:56:17.119 --> 00:56:18.719
just kind of this mystery, but you could pick it
1107
00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:21.119
up and since you're thirteen miles out to see it's
1108
00:56:21.159 --> 00:56:23.960
the only radio that you got. But it was pirate
1109
00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:26.079
and I would always say, Man, we should be playing
1110
00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:29.719
these records on that radio station, you know, we should
1111
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.360
find out where it is and we should play these records.
1112
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:33.239
He's like, yeah.
1113
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:36.119
And I finished up on the island. I went home
1114
00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:38.880
and it was the winter in Connecticut, and when the
1115
00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:42.599
winter comes around, you're doing inside things and I happened
1116
00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:45.719
to end up stumbling on this. You know, it's a
1117
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.159
long story of how I ended up doing it. But
1118
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:50.239
ultimately we put together this music festival, and at the
1119
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:53.599
music festival we had whus stores yukon college radio there
1120
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:56.880
and I talked to some DJs. They said, has anyone
1121
00:56:56.920 --> 00:57:01.239
ever told you that you have a voice for radio? Know, absolutely,
1122
00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:04.400
no one's ever told me that, but thank you, and
1123
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:06.679
I pursued it. I ended up doing the radio class
1124
00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:09.679
and then you know, from three to five at four
1125
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:13.039
to six am, I did the first episode of Deep
1126
00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:14.320
Cuts on Saturday mornings.
1127
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:15.119
There you go.
1128
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:19.119
When I came out to California, I thought that was
1129
00:57:19.159 --> 00:57:22.079
all done. I found KXFM. I ended up coming here
1130
00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:24.440
and I asked Tyler. He said, you have a turntable
1131
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:27.079
And he's like, yeah, I think we have one, and
1132
00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:28.199
he said, do you know how to use that?
1133
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:32.480
I remember always seeing the turntable there.
1134
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:36.239
I said, I sure do, and that's my show. I'll
1135
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:37.480
just play records for you.
1136
00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:40.440
We did want to talk about we were sharing how
1137
00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:44.639
people could support the station, but we didn't give any details.
1138
00:57:44.679 --> 00:57:46.440
You want to just quickly walk us through that.
1139
00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:49.440
If you'd like to become a member, yeah, go to
1140
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:54.119
KXFM Radio dot org and on that page you scroll
1141
00:57:54.199 --> 00:57:57.119
down and there is a way to become a member
1142
00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:00.480
and you just sign up. And I don't know what
1143
00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:03.679
the minimum donation is. Is it ten dollars? You can
1144
00:58:03.960 --> 00:58:09.920
like one time orcid becoming a regular donor and donate monthly.
1145
00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:10.840
That would be great.
1146
00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.719
It's pretty self explanatory when you get there, and I'm
1147
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:17.119
sure most people are very well aware of what memberships
1148
00:58:17.119 --> 00:58:20.000
look like. When you join a membership. It's because you're
1149
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.719
getting value out of the radio station. And there are
1150
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:27.679
a lot of hard working, eighty different shows. More than
1151
00:58:27.679 --> 00:58:30.440
that in DJs because a lot of times we pair up.
1152
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:33.800
Sure on the other you double the number of people probably,
1153
00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:38.719
I would guess involved, and we just if you are,
1154
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:41.519
you know, as we are a community supported radio station,
1155
00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:44.440
any amount it matters to us. It helps keep the
1156
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:47.440
lights on, the MIC's open, and the music playing.
1157
00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:51.440
So if you go to the get involved, have evolved,
1158
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:55.760
become a member, ways to give We hope you get involved.
1159
00:58:56.039 --> 00:58:57.800
All right, Well that was a great show. Billy and
1160
00:58:57.880 --> 00:59:01.280
Jonathan are both exemplary people. I mean, talk about the
1161
00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.679
two right people to do exactly what we've been doing
1162
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.920
here at the station. All right, Well, I think that'll
1163
00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.239
close us out for that. We always want to remind
1164
00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:13.480
you we go out every week and we want this
1165
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.320
to be just a thought on your mind that we're
1166
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.840
always doing our best to be good humans and we're
1167
00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:23.159
gonna invite you to do the same thing, to always choose.
1168
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:26.320
Love and be good, good human humans.
1169
00:59:26.559 --> 00:59:30.920
Yeah you could say that too, Billy. Bye, not even
1170
00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:32.119
on there you go, We're.
1171
00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:32.440
Going off the air.
1172
00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:33.320
We're going off the air.
1173
00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:35.679
We're ending, Yeah, we're ending, We're done.
1174
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:38.519
Oh yeah, Eric's Eric's going. God, I got to get
1175
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:39.639
up four in.
1176
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:42.760
The morning to drive up to Shasta, So I'm just hey,
1177
00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:43.840
can I ask you a quick question?
1178
00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:44.039
Sure?
1179
00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:46.639
Are you still doing your gigs at the integretime?
1180
00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:50.800
I am. The next one is October eleventh. I do
1181
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:52.960
three events a year that I do, one with Michelle
1182
00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:56.760
uh in conjunction with Contacts in the Desert, and then
1183
00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:00.079
two of the Sonic Geometry events. So yeah, still do
1184
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:02.400
and all that stuff. You know, I'll die doing this stuff.
1185
01:00:02.519 --> 01:00:05.079
We're very aligned because you know, I have a place
1186
01:00:05.159 --> 01:00:08.199
up in Joshua, and thank you, and I love the
1187
01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:11.159
integrit town and I love La Copeine right next door,
1188
01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:13.880
a great restaurant. But you came to my house for
1189
01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:16.000
one of my parties. In my gosh, if you want
1190
01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:20.119
to have a party, you got to invite Eric for everything.
1191
01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:23.079
He brings, the light, brings.
1192
01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:25.679
The motorcycle, and we have the exact same one, and
1193
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:30.599
we're both as scared as each other's actually dually sold.
1194
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:34.320
Now I was going to get I already did I already?
1195
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:37.960
You know, I dropped it, and just I just scraped
1196
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:40.880
my leg up. I wasn't anything that was enough, Like
1197
01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:42.880
I don't really need to be doing that. Usually have
1198
01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:44.719
someone on the back of the bike with me, and
1199
01:00:44.760 --> 01:00:47.559
I'm like, I'll put around town on a motor scooter
1200
01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:50.199
like a Vestpa. That's that's my speed, I think.
1201
01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:50.480
Ye.
1202
01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:53.360
Did I tell you that I went to King of
1203
01:00:53.400 --> 01:00:54.480
the Hammer last year?
1204
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:54.639
Oh?
1205
01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:54.920
Did you?
1206
01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:55.280
Yeah?
1207
01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:55.719
Yeah?
1208
01:00:55.719 --> 01:00:56.079
Out there?
1209
01:00:57.159 --> 01:00:58.320
I don't know about King of the.
1210
01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:00.199
Fort.
1211
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:06.119
Next it's a giant four wheel off road festival. Eighty
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01:01:06.199 --> 01:01:06.960
thousand people.
1213
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:07.719
Wow.
1214
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:10.480
And I tell people that I, yes, I went to
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01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:14.119
the King and the Hammer. They all react the same way.
1216
01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:16.760
They go, You're the most unlikely person.
1217
01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:18.239
I could imagine going to this thing.
1218
01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:21.079
But I went with the guy who was my my
1219
01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:23.760
contractor out there, a great guy, and he's got all
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01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:24.280
the toys.
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01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:25.840
He's got a toy hauler and.
1222
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:29.159
We took a van Jackson I and he said, listen,
1223
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:31.320
you're not going to ride them, or you're not going
1224
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:33.280
to ride anything with two wheels out here. It's too
1225
01:01:33.320 --> 01:01:37.360
sandy for you. He gave me his squad and we
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01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.159
were the only people. And you know that, I saw
1227
01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:45.280
the entire time actually get stopped by rangers. Jackson I
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01:01:45.360 --> 01:01:50.199
because he said that's a quad and not a whatever.
1229
01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:53.480
The other thing is official off road vehicle or whatever.
1230
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:54.880
He said, you know a lot to have two people
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01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:57.119
on it because it doesn't have a place to hold
1232
01:01:57.159 --> 01:01:57.920
on to the back.
1233
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:01.039
Wow. And so what do they call the other four
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01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:01.639
wheel things?
1235
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:03.519
The side by sides.
1236
01:02:03.280 --> 01:02:04.239
Or yeah, something like that.
1237
01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:07.639
Yeah, yeah, tells you side by side and looked like
1238
01:02:07.840 --> 01:02:09.679
golf carts lifted big wheels.
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01:02:09.719 --> 01:02:09.920
Yeah.
1240
01:02:10.159 --> 01:02:13.679
So we were like five miles away from our camp
1241
01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:15.920
in the middle of nowhere, and this guy is telling me,
1242
01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:18.559
you know that, I thought he was gonna cite me,
1243
01:02:18.599 --> 01:02:20.400
and he's I didn't think he was gonna let me
1244
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.000
ride back. And I looked at him and I go, well,
1245
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.320
how do I get back? Yeah, and he goes, well,
1246
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:26.360
I'll let you give me your license and I'll let
1247
01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:28.119
you ride back, but if we catch you again, we're
1248
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:31.159
gonna cite you. Well, and I'm like, oh my god,
1249
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:33.360
do I look like the god that's gonna I was
1250
01:02:33.400 --> 01:02:35.280
going ten miles an hour everywhere.
1251
01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:39.039
One thing I will say about you, Billy, is it
1252
01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:41.880
doesn't surprise me that you did that because you are
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01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.079
a seeker.
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01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:45.599
Of joy experiences.
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01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:49.719
Yes, you that is. That is your vibe is you
1256
01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:54.360
really live life. And I admire that, and I really
1257
01:02:54.679 --> 01:02:58.719
admire the way that you bring the fun everywhere you go.
1258
01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:01.679
You you do you, and so does Eric. Eric. I
1259
01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:03.199
always call the party in the box.
1260
01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:05.679
It's just a party in a box. He brings it
1261
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:07.239
all with he brings it away. Yeah.
1262
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:12.840
His gembe, his keyboard, his guitar, his motorcycle, his box druck.
1263
01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:17.920
Yeah, my truck truck. Yeah, yeah, you haven't seen it.
1264
01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:19.880
I did a whole flipout where it almost like a
1265
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.599
food truck. It's got a whole food service counter and
1266
01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.719
tables and everything that I hid behind these boxes and
1267
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:27.400
say like danger high voltage.
1268
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:30.599
So cool, it's so modular it is.
1269
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:33.599
I got everything truck. Yeah, yeah, it's everything. I need
1270
01:03:33.679 --> 01:03:34.400
nothing I don't.
1271
01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:37.000
Well, you guys are fascinating. We're lucky to have you
1272
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:39.519
here at the station. I cannot believe it's been fourteen
1273
01:03:39.639 --> 01:03:41.280
years and you still have something to say.
1274
01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:46.199
You know, the conversation has changed over fourteen years. I
1275
01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:50.440
think we were certainly riding a particular wave. Now we're seeing,
1276
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:53.559
you know, where spirituality and science we're kind of merging
1277
01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:59.239
merging with festival culture, culture, just merging with people reaching
1278
01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:02.159
out in different ways to the old religions, but through
1279
01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:06.000
new lenses, whether it's Eastern philosophy or whatever. Listening to
1280
01:04:06.079 --> 01:04:09.320
philosophers like Alan Watts felt like there was a place
1281
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:11.599
and now it feels like there's a place for almost
1282
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:15.960
a whole other subset of reasons. With AI and all
1283
01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:18.639
of this stuff coming up, this digital age coming in
1284
01:04:18.760 --> 01:04:22.400
faster than we could ever have grasped. I feel that
1285
01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:26.159
it's almost ever more important to be talking about us
1286
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:29.679
as the humans we were born to be because some
1287
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:32.000
of our some of the I don't want to say
1288
01:04:32.119 --> 01:04:35.360
leaders in the spiritual community, but people the big names
1289
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:38.920
are dying off and well, and a lot of them
1290
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:44.079
are kind of embracing this AI phenomenon of using AI
1291
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:48.280
as like a spiritual guide. There's quite I'm not going
1292
01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:51.920
to name any names or but it's something that I
1293
01:04:51.960 --> 01:04:58.320
feel uncomfortable with, and I feel like we're not done
1294
01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:00.960
being the humans we were designed to be, and I
1295
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:03.400
want to hold onto that mission statement. It's not going
1296
01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:06.280
to be very hard in my life. I'm sixty seven.
1297
01:05:06.599 --> 01:05:09.000
My son, you know, might it might be a little
1298
01:05:09.079 --> 01:05:11.599
more thought provoking to him. How am I going to navigate?
1299
01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:14.639
And then kids being born these days, I just think,
1300
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:16.960
what are they going to be doing? What is their
1301
01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:20.280
job going to be in twenty thirty years?
1302
01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:23.000
John now And of course the utopian version that many
1303
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:25.119
of us want to cling to, his life will be better,
1304
01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:27.559
because I hope it is. It won't work as much.
1305
01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:30.239
We'll have more free time to learn new things.
1306
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.400
As long as things keep rolling and we have a
1307
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:35.320
roof over our head and food to eat and all that.
1308
01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:38.039
I think. I don't know how that plays out, but
1309
01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:40.920
as far as the model that we've understood, it took
1310
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.519
work to get the energy of money to go buy
1311
01:05:44.559 --> 01:05:47.599
something else with it. So if you take the workout
1312
01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:51.280
of you know, job availability to people, I don't understand
1313
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:53.559
how it works, but can I.
1314
01:05:53.559 --> 01:05:57.280
I would like to say something that I thought about earlier,
1315
01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:59.719
and I never got a chance to talk about this,
1316
01:06:00.679 --> 01:06:04.920
But we needed to replace our garage door. And we've
1317
01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:07.599
been in our home for twenty six years and it
1318
01:06:08.599 --> 01:06:13.320
started failing. And today when I left, Brian said, gosh,
1319
01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:15.000
we should have done that a long time ago.
1320
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:15.840
We really should have.
1321
01:06:17.119 --> 01:06:21.960
We got quotes from three different people and the guy
1322
01:06:22.000 --> 01:06:25.400
that we went with, he was so personable and he
1323
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:28.639
came recommended by the guy that's going to be painting
1324
01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:32.960
our house. And he's called I think it's called Golden
1325
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:36.559
Rule Garage Door. I'll give him a little plug. Taylor
1326
01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:39.880
at Golden Rule Garage Door and the guys who showed
1327
01:06:39.960 --> 01:06:43.440
up today were two of his installers, and they said
1328
01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:47.000
they've been doing this as a pair. These two friends
1329
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:50.760
have been installers for garage door companies for thirty years.
1330
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:54.239
They've been working together. And the first.
1331
01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:56.880
Company they started with got bought out by a corporation.
1332
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:02.360
And these two gentlemen were so heart centered and they
1333
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:04.920
were so good at their job, and we just loved
1334
01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:09.239
having them at our house. And they said, when that
1335
01:07:09.320 --> 01:07:13.320
corporation came in, everything changed and it was so sterile,
1336
01:07:13.400 --> 01:07:17.880
and they were the prices went up and they weren't
1337
01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:22.400
in integrity with the homeowners, and they quit and they
1338
01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:25.360
went to another company, and then that company got bought
1339
01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:28.599
up by a corporation and they didn't and they said
1340
01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.840
the names of him, I can't remember, but he's.
1341
01:07:31.719 --> 01:07:32.639
The point was.
1342
01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:37.280
He said to me, we love working for Taylor small
1343
01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:44.239
business owner. And he said, we get so many five
1344
01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:48.599
star reviews and people loving our work because we work
1345
01:07:48.719 --> 01:07:52.719
for a small business owner. And we put our customers first,
1346
01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:54.880
and if there's some little thing they need, we're not
1347
01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:58.119
going to charge extra. We do a great job at
1348
01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:02.000
a fair price. And they love working for this man
1349
01:08:02.119 --> 01:08:07.519
because he's made them feel like family. And I thought, wow,
1350
01:08:07.639 --> 01:08:10.800
here we are doing a show tonight about how important
1351
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:16.359
community is, and they're modeling it themselves by sharing with
1352
01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:21.640
me this story that corporations are becoming sterile and and
1353
01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:25.119
sometimes not always in integrity. It's always about the money,
1354
01:08:25.199 --> 01:08:28.279
the money, the money, the money, and the capital. Yeah,
1355
01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:30.520
and these guys were saying, how this guy rents a
1356
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:33.680
boat to take him fishing, and he paid for them
1357
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:37.600
to go. This is their boss treating them like real humans.
1358
01:08:37.680 --> 01:08:40.439
Not really anybody in the garage story business that would
1359
01:08:40.479 --> 01:08:44.000
have the name Golden Rules and is doing something right.
1360
01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:45.880
What is the Golden rules that do unto us?
1361
01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:52.720
The universal principle great brand positioning.
1362
01:08:54.560 --> 01:08:56.840
No one's going to be, you know, offended by that.
1363
01:08:56.880 --> 01:08:59.760
I wouldn't think a last to end the show. I
1364
01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:07.520
think a model of that. I'm just things are hitting.
1365
01:09:07.560 --> 01:09:08.000
What are you doing?
1366
01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:10.199
By the way, He's speaking at.
1367
01:09:10.079 --> 01:09:12.720
A conference at a conference Friday and Sunday, that's the
1368
01:09:12.760 --> 01:09:15.000
subject one of them is going to be about the
1369
01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:18.039
book I wrote as above, so below the Quantum Teachings
1370
01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:19.920
of Jesus. I would think you would really like that book.
1371
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:21.560
I'll give you one when I get a few. And
1372
01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:25.560
then sonic geometry, all the keys and codes of creation
1373
01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:27.479
somehow been gifted to humanity.
1374
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:27.800
For six?
1375
01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:31.039
Is that something not so much?
1376
01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:34.279
You know, I stay in my little lane primarily focused
1377
01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:38.640
on frequency and mathematics, you know, harmonics and geometry, the
1378
01:09:38.680 --> 01:09:41.399
correlation between all that stuff. So it's a it's a
1379
01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:44.079
fascinating topic that I never get bored of talking about
1380
01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:44.920
for sure.
1381
01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:47.279
Yeah, well, good on you man, that's exciting.
1382
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:49.079
I guess I could say, because nothing might ever come
1383
01:09:49.159 --> 01:09:52.039
up at CNN called me from New York about ten
1384
01:09:52.119 --> 01:09:54.680
days ago and said, we want to do a whole
1385
01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:58.279
episode on frequency and how people are using it. And
1386
01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:01.840
as we were searching the internet, your name came up,
1387
01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:05.520
like more than anybody else's. So this guy's a producer
1388
01:10:05.640 --> 01:10:08.079
out of New York at CNN, and he's like, we'll
1389
01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:11.239
let you know. He just called followed back up today.
1390
01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:13.199
I tell you it was a specific show.
1391
01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:15.319
No, it was a series that they want to do,
1392
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:19.439
and it's like people looking for alternative modalities for either
1393
01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:24.279
health or emotional health or spirituality. And frequency is just
1394
01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:26.800
a word, he says. The word frequency just seems to
1395
01:10:26.840 --> 01:10:30.920
be this buzzword that's everywhere, like awakening. You know, awakening
1396
01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:33.000
is one of those words now that used to be
1397
01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:37.239
making enlightenment or you know, spirituality, and now it's awakening
1398
01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:40.079
seems to be the thing. So yeah, it's been fascinating.
1399
01:10:40.079 --> 01:10:41.479
I don't know if anything will happen from it, but
1400
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:43.199
at least I got to say it once on the radio.
1401
01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:43.800
That's right.
1402
01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:45.840
CNN called me, so pretty cool.
1403
01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:46.479
There we go.
1404
01:10:46.600 --> 01:10:51.920
Congratulations and congratulations Billy, you got an award this week's right.
1405
01:10:52.359 --> 01:10:53.880
You talk about that.
1406
01:10:53.439 --> 01:10:55.520
I have brought that up.
1407
01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:57.640
You are a great writer on top of all the
1408
01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:01.399
other things you're good at. You're really gifted wordsmith.
1409
01:11:01.560 --> 01:11:01.840
Thank you.
1410
01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:05.479
And you write for the independent newspapers.
1411
01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:09.760
Writing for them maybe fifteen years or so, I'm not
1412
01:11:09.800 --> 01:11:13.279
exactly sure. Before that the La Times community paper, and you.
1413
01:11:13.239 --> 01:11:15.119
Do a good job. I mean, the best writers to
1414
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:18.079
me on those up ed kind of pieces are that
1415
01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:22.039
can go both ways, like yes, I see it. Well,
1416
01:11:22.640 --> 01:11:25.039
if every issue has its two sides at least and
1417
01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:28.039
has lots of heated issues. You do a really good
1418
01:11:28.119 --> 01:11:30.920
job of navigating, like, yes, I see what you're talking about,
1419
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:33.840
but don't forget this. I mean, just to bring it
1420
01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:38.840
down to that you can honor and acknowledge everybody that
1421
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:40.119
might be at the conversation.
1422
01:11:40.279 --> 01:11:40.880
I tried to.
1423
01:11:41.079 --> 01:11:43.239
There was a time when I was a little more strident,
1424
01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:47.159
but you know, I I'd see that I can sometimes
1425
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:50.239
be a lightning rod because I try to, you know,
1426
01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:54.079
apply common sense and also my point of view. And
1427
01:11:54.560 --> 01:11:56.600
there was a time in the indie when you go
1428
01:11:56.680 --> 01:11:59.960
on the online version and people can make comments. Then
1429
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:04.199
New Ownership doesn't have that feature, and that was a
1430
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:07.159
great place for me to go to get bloodied and
1431
01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:10.239
also to get lifted up because you know, and all
1432
01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:12.199
I cared about is, hey, you can disagree with me.
1433
01:12:12.479 --> 01:12:14.439
That means you're reading and you can be you know,
1434
01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:16.399
fired up about it. So at least I know they're
1435
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:17.359
engaging for sure.
1436
01:12:17.359 --> 01:12:19.600
And it isn't that you didn't have your opinion. I
1437
01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:22.199
mean that people want to read an opinion in an
1438
01:12:22.239 --> 01:12:25.159
opinion piece. You were just very good at presenting it,
1439
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:28.600
sort of softening the the arena a little bit and
1440
01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:33.079
just keeping the polarity down to a dull roar, which
1441
01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:38.279
isn't easy these days. So I think now we will
1442
01:12:38.319 --> 01:12:40.880
go ahead and sign off. We want to appreciate thank
1443
01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:45.000
all of our listeners, whether you're a podcast listener, a streamer,
1444
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:47.880
maybe an FM live FM radio listener.
1445
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:51.479
We appreciating app us that we've talked about.
1446
01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:56.239
Yes, the station is on a full on, I mean
1447
01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:02.199
groundswell of new excitement, new energy, new to new people. Great.
1448
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:06.640
I can guarantee you will like if you love music,
1449
01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:10.640
especially classic music and almost any genre. There are DJs
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here that will take you deep dives into the year.
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The producer, the musicians, Steve Reid right before So Coast
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Highway Shuffle. Yeah, great, great show.
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And same with Chad Show on the Rocks, and I
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mean the lineup. He's a plethor. He has just a
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whole bunch of knowledge and.
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He delves deep into things like SCA and we have
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people that do Americana, reggae, Latin jazz, blues, and we
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really run the gamut. And I do think, you know,
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sort of contrary to what the station started out as
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when you mentioned generational alt rock, where we had a
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younger generation that wasn't necessarily representing the demographic of our
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town for sure, and they didn't really understand that.
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No, they didn't seem to. I never said anything to
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the old management ownership stuff, but I always thought that, like,
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who are you actually playing for? I know you have
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this idea in your mind of it was, you know,
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the jen z X or whoever they were, and the
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Coachella crowd and the hipsters, and like, yeah, but they're
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not swarming Laguna Beach. It's a very diverse crowd. And
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you know, people that love a small town vibe, you know.
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And I think I love all the programmed music you
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turn in really late. There's a lot of good music.
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And that's way.
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That's john Ford originally and now it's Curtis Gentiles, and
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they have such a broad it's great. They're are musicians
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and they're programming a broad swath of eclectic music.
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Yeah, that's great stuff.
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That's so true.
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I hear songs that I've never heard before by artists
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I never knew created these songs.
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So it's exciting.
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I'm really enjoying the programming, enjoying it all. And I'm
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so grateful Eric as always, thank you for being one
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of my best friends and for doing such a good
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job on the air and in inspiring all of us
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to be good humans because you are such a good human.
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As are you. It takes one to know on Billy
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the same things you know.
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I mean, it's we're in a love fest right now, serious.
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Because we should be. I mean, you know, and listener yourself,
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create your own bubble and build a bubble around yourself.
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That just says I'm going to be focusing on, not
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that I'm going to be ignoring stuff to be complaining about,
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or that I don't feel is right in the world.
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But that doesn't mean you can have the perception of
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But what do I have to be grateful for? Is
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it just the breath going in and out of your lungs?
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Is you got a meal today? Is that you have friends,
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you have family, lots of build a gratitude foundation on
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and from there it just things take care of themselves.
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So good luck on that endeavor, and part of that
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endeavor is to always choose love and.
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Be good humans.
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You can do it. Thank you for listening. We'll see
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you next week.
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This is Eric Rankin and Michelle Anderson from Awakening Code
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Radio right here on k x FM. We'd like to
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invite you to join a conversation to raise the vibration.
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Broadcasting live every Tuesday night from eight to ten pm,
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we cover all aspects of the process of awakening, whether
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it's emotional or spiritual growth. With a global audience. Our
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show is one of the most listened to programs here
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at KXFM, and we would
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Love for you to join the conversation