She Caught Hardy And Our Hearts

Transcript

A New Co-Host Joins

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Let's do this. Hi, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Skip Happens. And welcome to a very, very special episode. Uh, this one's been in the works for a little bit, uh, a few hours, anyways. Uh, no, it's been a little bit longer than that. And uh today, uh, of course, I'm making it official. Uh, Skip Happens is growing. Y'all know that uh normally I go on, I have a country artist, either he's on a tour bus or they're sitting in their home in Nashville or they're somewhere on the road. Well, you know what? We're also gonna break away from that a little bit and kind of expand with Skip Happens. And uh I I was thinking to myself, why not bring in someone who can make this thing even better? And you know what? I found that person. I did, and I found her by she came on board with a radio station as a uh part-time promotions um guru, somebody that wanted to come in and hang banners and go to the shows. You know, there's a lot of perks to that as well. And uh, I wanted somebody that would debate me, somebody to laugh with me, somebody to keep me in line. And y'all know that can be a little crazy, um, and maybe get me in trouble once in a while, which she's already done a few times. No, I'm just kidding. But I want you to say hello to my brand new co-host. Um this is Reagan, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Hello, everyone.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Yes, we you you know, we call her Miss Ray. We call her Miss Ray. So y'all gotta be nice to her. And if you're watching this, I want to know uh where are you watching? And if you have any questions or anything, whether it's radio, whether it's um, you know, anything that I do or anything that Reagan is doing or Miss Ray does, uh, feel free to ask. But we're really gonna get to know her uh today. As a matter of fact, I can really upset her now because I could go like a close-up like that. See, yeah, it's pretty cool, huh?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Yes, this is awesome. Then I then I could go like this. Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Then I could go like you don't want to see me. No, no, you don't want to do that. That's jump scare. There you go. But, anyways, there we are, and we're sitting this is what I call the pod zoom. A lot of people don't know that I have, and now you're a witness to it.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Um, this is the real deal. This is the podcast studio. Um, this is where I do the interviews.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

This is where this is where the magic happens, if you will.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Yeah, exactly. And it also happens at the radio station because uh you do a lot of work with the inner harbor cast that we uh we put together. Uh, if you watch that and you subscribe to the inner harbor cast on YouTube from Inner Harbor Media, Reagan is the one that puts all those guests on the calendar. I do the interviews, and she's gonna start doing some of those as well. So, but, anyways, here you are, girl. Here I am, and everybody's been like getting you pumped up, did you?

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Everybody's like, Yes, everyone's been so supportive. You know, I think it's normal to get a little nervous to do this. You know, it's it's been a while. I used to do a little bit of on-camera stuff, but it's it's been a minute.

Miss Ray’s Path Into Media

SPEAKER_00 3:04

So when you talk about you did some on-camera stuff, yeah, tell us about that.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

So I've always kind of had an interest in communications. Um, when I was in high school, I got into the school news, and I really fell in love with like that environment and creating this entertainment for people and kind of being an outlet to get information. And I was like, you know what, I want to go to college for this. So it kind of evolved into wanting to be a news anchor. So I was like, you know, I'm gonna try to be on camera, try to shoot my shot. And I did not really like it because I was like, there's too much structure, there's too much. I don't know, like I felt like I couldn't be silly on the news. Um, which you don't really see that on the news. You don't see people acting spunky and acting a little having a lot of personality.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

They're really there to maybe morning television, maybe a little bit. There's a little bit more in the way of personality when it comes to morning TV, you know, but uh yeah, no, I get you. I get you. Yes, but you're here.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Yeah. So how did I get here, right? Yeah, so I was like, you know, I don't, I don't know. Like, I'm gonna stick through with this. I went to school for broadcasting, media, and mass communication. So I was like, I'm gonna stick through with this. Like, I love communications, like I love um promotions, I love production, I love all sorts of that kinds of stuff. So I was like, how can I evolve this? So then I got into taking music classes, like learning about pop music and media, and that's actually where I got this opportunity to work at the radio station was through that class. They um they mentioned some summer help being needed at the radio station. I was like, hey, that sounds like a really awesome opportunity. So I reached out and the radio station welcomed me with open arms, and it they really did. They were like, you know, this college kid, she's she's a little odd, but she's weird, she wants to work.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

So you know, if you've I don't know if you're watching this, if you've ever been in a radio station, almost everybody that works there, I don't care where it is, we're all a little odd. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

We are an odd bunch, but that's how you know that yeah, that's how you know you're getting you're getting good content. You're coming from people that have a creative mindset, kind of look at the world a little differently. And you know, I think it's really been affirming to go to the radio station because I've been able to see, like, you know, you know, we have not to mention the elephant in the room, we have kind of an age gap, you know, and a lot of um, you know, some of my other coworkers are are older than me. And I was kind of worried in the beginning, you know, like, you know, are they gonna are they gonna like me? Are they I 100% was so nervous. I was like, I'm just a kid, like they're gonna, they're I don't know. Like I was like, I'm a kid. Well, it didn't take long to realize it wasn't like, oh my gosh, Reagan, you're amazing. We love you, you're you can do no wrong. And I'm like, oh my gosh, you guys are amazing.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

You know, you have passion and you're very dedicated to what you do. Yes, you know, we see that, and you've become one of us within the building, which is kind of cool. And we, you know, we're all like family, we fight like family.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

We we love like family, we love like family pick on each other, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

We do exactly, exactly right. How cool is that? But uh so you're from Fulton, yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

I um grew up in Fulton, which is a small town, um, just a little bit north of Syracuse, south of Aswego. Yes, south of Oswego, and then I went 20 minutes north, right on Lake Ontario, um, and went to college at Aswigo.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

So you're close, you were close to home. Did you live at home when you went to Oswego? So you were that close.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Yeah, I spent one semester. I tried to step out of my comfort zone and um stay on campus. And I was like, you know, college kids are just too gross for me. They they're loud, they're dirty, they but that's college. I was like, you know, my mom cooks me dinner. I get to, I know I'm gonna have good conversation at the end of the night. Like, it's just it's better. I preferred that, and I got to save more money. And I come from a family that's extremely supportive, and that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

And I was like, were you um were you in Fulton for the Nestle plan? Or that was before your time. That was before we talked about this the other day.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

So we touched on this earlier um in the week or last week. Um, Nestle's closed the year before I was born.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

So I was I guess I just showed my age. Um, but uh, I do remember that, and I'm sure you've been told that you used to be able to you would drive into Fulton and it would smell so good. I mean, it's just the cho chocolate from the Nestle plant.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

Yeah. So yeah. Yeah, I hear stories about it that it it would like fill the air and it smelled so much.

Finding Belonging At The Station

SPEAKER_00 8:00

What is um what is there? I don't mean this in a bad way. What is there to do in Fulton? What growing up in Fulton? I mean, what did you do? Yeah, you've got the bowl, the Lakeview Lanes, you've got the bowling.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Yeah, we um, you know, kind of growing up, I um I grew up in the country in Fulton. So my family, we kind of did our own thing, you know. We kind of had we had four-wheelers. I grew up with four-wheelers, I grew up with chickens, I grew up with a pool, I grew up with a garden, a big backyard, lots of things to do. So it was really more about keeping yourself busy, um, which was awesome, you know. And I think that's kind of what sparked this creative outlook in life later, you know, right now is because like I was allowed to have so much imagination um as a young as a young person.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Tell me uh something that most people would be surprised to learn about you.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Surprised to learn about me.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

What do you think?

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Um like if they didn't know me, um I think that they would be surprised that I um I'm a swim instructor.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Really?

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Yeah, so I um I've been a swim instructor. Like I I do the radio station, but I also work at the water.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

And um that's cool. I spend a lot of time doing swim instructing and I work with um a lot of kids, and it's it's wonderful. It's a really awesome thing. I love doing that because it's I don't know, I get to interact with kids, I get to do swimming because I I used to competitively swim, so it's like I don't know, I get to step in that old team. You were on the swim team? Yes, I was on in high school, in high school was it G.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Ray Bodley Highs. Yeah, it's not the school because I went and spoke there once. I had to uh talk about broadcasting and try to convince people they should go into broadcasting.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Yeah, you should do that again. We I think that they would love that.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Yeah, it was uh they had their career days or something like that. They took a couple of days out of the year and they went around to local businesses and said, you know, we'd like somebody to come from the radio station and talk to the students. We want somebody like there were uh police departments were there, the troopers were there, uh Army National Guard was there, you know, all these different opportunities for the youth. Uh whatever they were interested in, they could sign up. Then they'd put them in a certain room, and I would, let's say it was the radio room, that's where I would go. I'd meet with all the kids and talk to them and tell them what I do and why I love it so much.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

I think that's so cool. I wish we they um I wish they did that more when I was when I was in high school, because I think having someone like you in in school, you know.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Oh no, that's not good.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

No, no, no, I don't think it could be that bad. Um I think just seeing somebody like actually live that dream, you know what I mean? Like really just do that, do their thing. And I think that I think that's so cool. What's so cool about you is like you just do your own thing, you know?

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Thanks.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

I don't you know the thing with me, Miss Ray, is the fact that I just love what I do, and you know, there's a lot of bad that goes with the good. It's with any job, it's with anything that we do, but um I just love what's that.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Is that the advice that you would give for like life is just love what you do?

SPEAKER_00 11:25

Love what you do, yeah. And if you don't love what you do, then you need to look elsewhere because you're if you don't love what you do, you're just doing it for the money, or you're just doing it for whatever reason. That's gonna wear out. That's gonna be like, you know what? I don't care about the money. I need to be happy. And to be honest with you, I'm happy, I'm not there for the money, obviously. But it's just I love what I do. I love I get there early in the morning, I do my thing, I say hello to Miss Becky. Uh Miss Becky. My sister-in-law.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Yes, so if you come to the radio station, you'll be greeted by Miss Becky, who is our lady of first impressions. I know, and we gave her that name.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

We love director of first impressions. Yes. The thing is, when somebody comes in to pick up a prize, they're there for half the day because Becky's got a full conversation going with them.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

Yes, Becky's gotta ask about what they're up to, where they're going, how is that?

SPEAKER_00 12:18

But we love Becky.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

We do.

Small-Town Roots And Big Imagination

SPEAKER_00 12:20

She's my sister-in-law. If for those of you watching, I don't know this, but uh obviously my sister-in-law. But uh, she came in at a time, she was in between jobs, and she's here's another one. She was making a lot of money in her previous employment, but it wasn't her, she wasn't happy. Now she's extremely happy, and that's and that shows because she she laughs, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 12:44

And that like it's so refreshing to see people like genuinely belly laugh, like in the middle of a work day. Like, we need to do that more. Yeah, we need to we need to belly laugh more.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

You know, um, you don't see that a lot. I'm not saying you never see it, but you don't see it a lot in corporate America, and you know, that's kind of the way things have been going and the downsizing and all that. But I can say where we work, which is a few different companies made into one, we call it Inner Harbor Media with a wolf and the dinosaur and a fox sports, and we have beat and uh we got W VLA, we've got 17 or so radio stations in the back that you wouldn't even know they're there, or TV stations rather, and you wouldn't even know they're there unless somebody told you, which I'm telling you right now, and they are the over-the-air channels that you if you're sitting at home and you don't have files or you don't have cable, you don't have spectrum, whatever, and you just have an over-the-air antenna, do the scan, and I'll bet you half to three-quarters of those channels are coming from our back room.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

That is so cool. Hearing that just gave me chills. It did, it gave me chills. It's just so cool to hear that that's like where I go to work every day.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

It is somebody else so cool. Sean is on there saying, Skip, what is something we would be surprised to learn about you? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 14:02

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Did you and I was a fireman for 20 years, I was an EMT. Uh I was a fire chief uh with the Fairmount Fire.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Thank you so much for your service.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

That was a long time ago, baby. A long time ago. But no, it's still very, you know, I have a lot of friends that still do it. I'm trying to think what what if God I've been in Syracuse all my life. I had opportunities to move on in the radio business. I have three beautiful daughters. And we my wife now, Nancy, and I we have we have Zach. But I have three beautiful daughters, and that's the reason I didn't move on, because when things happened between me and their mom, I just there was no way I was gonna leave my daughters. And there was no way, so I just stuck with it here. I drove a truck, I drove a snowplow for the town of Camillas. I was a Zamboni operator. You know what a Zamboni is, right? You're from Fulton, you must know what a Zamboni is.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

And then I went to a Swiggo, which is a Swiggo hockey, very, very popular. So yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

I when I was employed by the parks department, I believe it was it was either Fulton or a Swigo. They had a Zamboni school. I went to that. It was like a seminar type thing, just a couple of days. But uh yeah, that's where we yeah, it was all happening up there. So that was kind of cool. That was kind of cool. What um what was your first concert?

SPEAKER_01 15:26

My first concert working working for the radio station or no, no, in life, in general.

SPEAKER_00 15:33

Um, okay, so because I know we have a little difference when it comes to the city.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

I'm really glad you asked this. Um I saw Doji in concert at Syracuse at Chevy Court in 2022, and she actually was the third female to win um album of the year, and she was raped. So Miss Lauren Hill was before her, and I believe Nikki, or uh not me, I don't think it was Nicki Minaj. I think somebody else um won that category as well. But what's really, really cool is that we saw um, I think it was Maddie and Tay. We did Maddie and Tay came on um up over this time. No, this is the first time.

SPEAKER_00 16:12

Oh, so this year, yeah, we had we had the banana booth. We did.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

And um, you gave me a really cool opportunity to like go on stage and take pictures, and it I feel like it was really full circle to kind of see Dochi and her win that like you know, album of the year, and then go to to work and be able to step on the stage, same stage that that artist stepped on, and then be able to do your own art or craft is really, really cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

See, one thing I think you've learned with me is I do it, it's a job that I love, but I hope that nobody thinks it's an ego thing. Because there are no, I'm not there are a lot of people out there in the radio business, television business, the podcast business who you know it's like, dude, you can't even walk through the door, your head's so big. I don't ever, ever want somebody to think that of me. And the thing is, when I see you there and I know what you love, I know, and this is that's why you're sitting right here to my left right now, because I can tell I can tell you're into doing this.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

I am. I I love this stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

I it's like I said, Reagan, I said, come with me. I want you to go on stage. I want you to see what it's like, I want you to feel what it is to to stand up there and look at all these people.

Swim Instructor And Team Life

SPEAKER_01 17:39

And I was nervous at first. I I even looked at you and I was like, Skip, I don't know if I can do this. Like, you you want me to go with you? And he was like, Yeah, why you got it? Like you're and do great.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

And I was like, Okay, and we'll do it again, and yeah, you know, there's other shows coming up, and uh, we will definitely do it again. But uh, that is that is so much fun. Now, you're not, I mean, it's okay, you're not a huge country fan.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

It's okay, you can say no, I get it, but I I'm not personally the biggest country fan, but I I definitely will say my um like I have a better understanding and appreciation for country um since like working at the radio station and kind of learning like what your job, like the role of your job, and um kind of listening to the songs and going to concerts, especially. I think um like learning about these artists and who they are as real people, and then listening to their music and seeing if there's a parallel or what what's going on with that is um kind of shaped my view.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Let me ask. Yes, I've seen that, but now that you're in the building, the radio station, and you meet the artist, does it give you like a whole it a whole different perspective that holy crap, this guy, this guy's just like me. Or, you know, I mean a good example, Atlas came through.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

I I was actually gonna mention Hardy. Hardy.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

Oh yes, we did the Hardy thing.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Oh my gosh. This was like the best, this is the best example of like realizing like an artist is just so human being at the end of the day. We um we got to go to the radio room for Hardy when he came up to the amp over the summer, and Skip was super generous. He was like, Reagan, do you want to come to the back? We can meet the we can meet the artist. I was like, oh my gosh, this is awesome. We got to meet Co Wetzel, we got to meet uh Sycaris, we got to meet um Steven Wilson Jr.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

And he he was just on the award show last night. I know you may be watching this a few days down the road, but uh the CMA awards, he played a big role in that.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

He did. That's that's fun. I think it's well deserved. His performance was really, really good. Very good. I think he's saying something in the way, like a rendition of that. He did um it gave me chills, it was awesome. Stand by me. Yeah, something like that. But he um Hardy came and he comes around the corner and he goes to like say hello to me, shake my hand, and doesn't Hardy like slip on like water because it had rained. He slipped on water and where did he end up? He fell right into my arms, right into my arms, and I was like, This guy's worked with Morgan Wallen. This guy's worked with like A-list country artists, and he just fell into my arms. Like that just happened.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Should have seen the smile on her face. I was it was quite all right, Livy. It was quite all right. She was like looking every minute of it.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Yeah, I was like, Will we do that again? It was crazy, and I but he was subjective. Yeah, he was like so quick to be like, Are you okay? And I'm like, I'm good. Are you okay? Like, you're the celebrity, like, and it just it was awesome to like have that human moment because I I was also really nervous to like meet the artists, and I it it just calmed me down instantly. I was like, I'm not nervous about anything. He's we're just here to have a human interaction, just have some normal conver like you know what I mean. Like, this isn't there's no pressure, there's nothing that we have to yeah, reading some of the comments.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Uh Bill says I'm from North Syracuse. Uh okay. Uh Michael James uh saying, hi guys, I remember my first concert was at Chevy Court with my dad, it was Johnny Rivers. Do you know who Johnny Rivers is? I'm gonna bet you do not. You don't okay. So, anyways, he was he was big in the in the 60s. That was long, long before. I mean, you know, that was a long time ago, but yeah. But I was I I Michael James, his dad and I were very good friends.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

So what's um what's like a good Johnny Rivers song?

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Uh Summer Rain.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Summer Rain.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Secret Agent Man.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

Secret Agent Man. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

You're gonna go look those up now. Yeah, I am tomorrow. I'm gonna walk in and she's gonna be on her computer at her desk and uh, Googling, YouTube, and all these. Yeah, I love it. I absolutely love it. So, um, I mean, just uh your overall experience is uh you've come out of your shell. I mean, I'll tell you that uh, and if mom and dad are watching, now I get it. But uh absolutely and hopefully they are. They haven't chimed in yet, but uh hopefully they are.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

So they they probably are. They probably are awesome.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah, tell me a little bit about your family.

Loving The Work Over Chasing Money

SPEAKER_01 22:30

My family, well, um, I'm the oldest of three girls. I have two younger sisters. Um we fight over clothes, or oh my gosh, don't even get me started. First of all, I kid.

SPEAKER_00 22:45

I hear stories of you know, sisters and uh yeah. Are you do you share a bedroom or do you have your own rooms?

SPEAKER_01 22:53

We we all have our own rooms. We we do share clothes. I think that's that's normal though. You know, it's all the bickering and all of the, you know, she took my clothes, oh my gosh, she used all the toilet paper, she did this, she did that. Like that's just normal sister stuff at the end of the day. It's they're awesome, and my parents are amazing. So I come from a really great family. I'm very lucky.

SPEAKER_00 23:19

God bless you. You're down by the river, aren't you, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Yeah, we're right on the subaco river.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Yeah, does that freeze over?

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

Nope. It doesn't, it's always flowing.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Always, always flowing, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

Yeah. Do you swim right there? No by your yard. No, no, why not?

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Well, the river goes too fast. The river, yeah. The current is um is really strong in the river. It like it travels towards the lake, so it it just it goes really crazy.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

That's cool. It was quite it's cool then. Yeah, do you have a boat?

SPEAKER_01 23:49

Be sure do. We have a boat.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

We need to do the podcast from the boat.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

On the boat. Next time.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

So, mom and dad, when you're listening, we will bring the skip clark podcast portable setup and we'll bring it on the boat.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

Yeah. And we'll do it live from there. I think people would love that.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Do they have power? Or we have to run one long ass extension.

SPEAKER_01 24:08

We might, yeah, we might have to bring something to the day for the page. We're just gonna be floating out in the front.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

We can't go too far, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

We'll just hang out on the dock, no worries.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

What is one thing that absolutely drives you nuts? Crazy.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

One thing that drives like a pet peeve.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah, no, no, no, something that just it just drives you nuts.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Something that drives me nuts. Oh my gosh. Well, that's hard.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

I don't know. You're too sweet, you're too nice. You're too.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

I I am.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

I think Becky's rubbing off on you. Is you know, like you said, she's the nicest person in the world.

SPEAKER_01 24:41

I'm a very understanding person. Um, but if something were to like rub me the wrong way, I don't know. Like, I don't like loud chewing.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

You know, like oh, I hate that. Well, that's good to know. That's um, but I know I hate that too. I hate that. Yeah, I cannot stand. Uh, and it drives, and and if my wife's listening, she'll pop the door open and go, yep, that's right. But when she pops her gum or anything like that, and I'm with her, that you don't like that?

SPEAKER_01 25:10

I don't like that. I pop my gum. So good thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

I haven't heard that yet, but now okay, now you know. Now I know you know, but you're right, the chewing. And uh that's one thing. One of that is a pet peeve of mine as well. Being on the air, and when I'm listening to somebody on the air and I I know they're eating something, it drives me. I go back, you know what? It goes, I the skip happens.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Yeah, skip happens.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

It does, but um yeah, so that's one thing, and clipping uh of your fingernails or your toenails. I can't stand that.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

That's annoying too. Do you want to know what else I'm it's not that it like I don't know, it's just I have like a hard time understanding it's it's kind of a pet peeve. Just people that are monotone, people that don't like have inflections in their tone, and like, do you know what I mean? Like it's I do know for me, it's kind of hard to understand their emotions when they don't like fluctuate their tones, or true, or like when they're happy, like you'll sound happy, or if you're sad, you'll or mad, you'll sound mad.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

You're just like hey, what's going on?

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Nothing, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Yeah, things are good. That's so hard. What's going on, Ms. Ryan?

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Yeah, I think yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of the thing. No, I know. It's like, dude, what's wrong? Yeah, it's like come on, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Life's good. Thanks for asking.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

You know, that monitor sadness from inside out.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

When was the last time you really got pissed off at something? Or and what was it? What made you really mad one day?

SPEAKER_01 26:40

What made me really mad? Hmm. I don't usually I don't know, I try not to get over that.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Good, good. That's good for you. You know, if you know how to handle it.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

I try to live the let them theory, you know. I can only control what I can control. Um, so when other people act kooky or act a little wild, I try to take it with a grain of salt, which is uh it's very hard to do that, you know what I mean? It's it's hard to not let other people's negativity or emotions kind of impact your own.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

I hope you never change. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Yeah, it's hard, it's hard, but it's um it's something that I think helps. I think it leads to more peace of mind. That yeah. I try to do that.

Local Media Footprint And Pride

SPEAKER_00 27:28

Because you you you are unique because a lot of people no, seriously.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

That's there's not a lot of people like you in a good way. Yes, absolutely in a good way. You gotta love that. How would you um so we get you on a on a uh regular basis become you know, like the the co-host here, and we'll be each other's co-host uh with Skip Happens when we can do it as much as we can do it. Uh, would you say you're the storyteller? Maybe you're gonna be the one with the random facts, you're gonna be the big uh laughter um or laugher. Uh you're gonna call me out on my nonsense.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

But like what's my my voice of reason?

SPEAKER_00 28:05

Maybe the wild card. Yeah, you can pick any of those.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

I think I just wanna be like kind of a mix of like that funny and just like be real. I wanna I just wanna be relatable, and yeah, I think that's really it. I just want to be relatable. I want someone to be like, you know what? I really jive with what she's saying and and how she feels.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

And yeah, that's very cool.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

That's my goal.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

That's very cool. Well, I hopefully all that works out. Uh I guess this is why uh this is gonna work. I love this. And and you know, like you said before, there's a difference. So, you know, just because who I am and what I've been through and how long I've been working and you know, all that. And then here, you you are I don't know if I'm gonna pick the right the rookie, the new person.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

I think it I like blank canvas. You're more like you're more like a Van Gogh painter, this artistic over here. Yeah, and I'm like a blank canvas, maybe a stick figure. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Yeah, so uh all right. See, I think you are a very cool young lady. I think you've got you've got it all going. Um, you're in a good place, you've got a great attitude. Uh I love your passion, your dedication, and you're willing to do whatever it takes to make it work. And I totally get that. Now you look at me, and I've been doing this a long, long time. I sit down with artists, I interview the artist, you see me do that.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

It's like yeah, but you wake up every day and you like it's not it's not even like it's like it's like autopilot for you, and I see that as like an out a person outside of your like story, you know what I mean? Like, I see that you talk about like me having a passion. I see that from your end, and I think it's so inspiring that you you have so much experience and you've like done so much, and that you wake up every day wanting to do more. I think it's really It's inspired me to want to do more. And I think that's really what gave me the courage to be like, you want to know what skip? We're gonna I'm getting on the podcast. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

And that's what she did. Because I just want you to know that. That's what she did. She goes, I want to do this.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Yeah. I something overcame me. I was like, we're doing this. Like this is happening. It's yeah, it's gotta be done.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

I love it. So, you know, and I know there's a lot of people my age. I've got grandkids. I mean, let's just put it that way. I'm up there, but uh been doing this a long time. But uh, I wake up, you're right. I wake up in the morning, and this goes back so back to what I was saying before is you gotta love what you do. Yeah, even with all the BS that that goes on in everywhere, I guess. It's still I wake up in the morning and I know I get up, do everything I gotta do, get ready, and I leave for work. I'm there early. I don't have to be there when I'm there, I don't have to be there till 10 o'clock, but I'm there 39 o'clock.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

Yeah, you want to be there, and that's like the difference. I do is like, and that's kind of what I've I've started to feel too is like there's a difference between like needing, like feeling like you're needing to go to that job versus like wanting to go to that job. Like I drive to the radio station, I I drive from Fulton, so it takes it takes like roughly 30 minutes. So I how many songs is that?

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Do you listen? Hang on, I don't mean to interrupt, but maybe I do.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

But uh but you know what?

Skip’s Surprising Backstory

SPEAKER_00 31:22

It's like somebody would say to me, How long does it take you to get to the radio station? And I'll go, it's gonna take me about two and a half songs. That's how we look at it.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Um so 30 minutes, you're probably talking six. Yeah, I was gonna say six to eight songs, whatever you're listening to, and that's entirely up to you.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

Yeah, right. Yeah, because some yeah, yeah, the songs are usually between two to four minutes. Yeah, that sounds about right.

SPEAKER_00 31:46

Miss Ray's and jamming out as she's going from one job to the next. You gotta love that. You gotta live that, man. So um, what is it uh that you actually want to do, the end result of all this? What what where are you going? What where do you want to go?

SPEAKER_01 32:02

That's a good question. Um, you know, I'm kind I'm not gonna lie, I'm kind of in a in a state where I'm gonna be honest, I I don't really know, but I think like what I would love to do is like own my own like media firm. And I know that's a wild take, but um I think that like the way like kind of working at the radio station, one of the things that I I'm so interested in is the really like how we brand and promote and market artists and how like we choose certain things to be associated with artists and stuff like that. So I think like with my interest in photography and and like videography and then learning about production and audio, um, it all kind of comes together and wanting to like help people and like artists in the long run be able to brand themselves and market themselves and maybe working with a record label or I don't know, like some maybe my own record label, you know, like something along those lines.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

Because I think being the support for the artists is so important, but also yeah, because of where you are and the relationship that many of us have, for example, that I have with Nashville, you've seen it by those that stop by the station and stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Yes. So I know how important that that support is for the artists, but I I don't know, I just think it's so cool how these artists get to like inspire so many people and they have to be strategic and how they do it. And you know what what happens if there's a PR disaster? Who cleans that up, you know? And I I were were wonder about that stuff, and you know, I kind of want to take care of that. And you could, and I could. So yeah, that's I like yeah, that's what I would like to do.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Would maybe sound like to be it on air. I mean, we're doing the podcast. This is something entirely different every day. We can go whatever direction we want to, say whatever we want.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Because I'm I love being on air, I love being on camera, and I love kind of being a personality, um, aside from helping other people and doing that other thing. So I I don't know. Maybe I'll do do both. I don't I don't think I have to pick one or the other, right? That's what I was just gonna say is that I don't think I have to pick one or the other. I think I can do all of it, and whatever works or opportunities arise is what's meant to be, because I j I just trust the universe, really.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

When was the last time you went to a movie?

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

You get like, you know, you got your girlfriends, you get together, and do you go, oh maybe um you know, get a cocktail because you're old enough now. Yeah, and you go to a movie.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

Um the last time I went to the movie, I honestly think the last time I went was for the first Wicked.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

Um, it was like it was last year.

SPEAKER_00 34:59

Yeah, well, it was at least last year.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

Yes. I I believe that was the last time, and I went with a couple of girlfriends and cried like a bunch of babies because I love it. We're sensitive, and Wicked is very touching. So, but I'll so I'll be going to the movie soon. Wicked 2 is coming out. Don't worry. Uh so next time we do the podcast, I'll have a good movie story.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

See, you should do like we should do some movie reviews, we could do uh so many different avenues we could go down. Yeah. Um, you know, every week. Uh this week we're running into the holidays, so some of the artists aren't available, but next week I have a couple of them on. I'd love to have you come in and sit with me when I do one of those.

SPEAKER_01 35:39

I would you know to do that.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

And you and I, I mean, we could both interview the artists.

SPEAKER_01 35:44

Yeah, that would be awesome.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

Yeah. Because as you know, I've had a lot of them on. Plus, you know, if they're in the radio station, we could do it from the radio station. But uh that's yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:55

Yeah, that sounds great.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 35:57

Let me know. I'm just like, wow, wow, let's do this.

First Concerts And Stage Moments

SPEAKER_00 36:01

Yeah, it is cool. So here you are. You're in the uh Skip Happens pod zone, the lights are on, I got the Skip Happens sign behind us. I got Miss Ray sitting over here, who you're gonna see a whole lot more. Uh, if anybody has any questions, you know, I'm sitting right here. You want to ask me something about radio? Let's do it. You know, I'm in local radio. How important is local radio? It is so very important. It is, you know, because uh a lot of these stations uh oh the music may be pretty good, but they don't have that local connection. We're not talking about the accident on Route 81, or we would be, but others would not. Um, you know, even some of the music, sometimes we can throw in a little local just to give it that little novelty, or you know, but they other places cannot do that. So cannot do what we do within our building. And uh locally owned, locally operated, hometown. We're not kidding when we say that. Uh, even with our morning show, I have people come out and say, you know, well, big D and Bubba aren't local. No, they're not, but they're in Nashville. But I will tell you this: every day I wake up, I talk, I can talk to Big D and Bubba, and I can also get into the radio station and go, hey dude, just to let you know, Route 81, southbound uh Liverpool is blocked solid. There's a there's a wreck there. 30 seconds, we have that on the air.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

So right, and the and the logs and like the information that goes out every day is being looked at.

SPEAKER_00 37:25

And you do your hometown uh happening. Yeah, so where are we?

SPEAKER_01 37:28

I have my own segment on the air, which is so cool. I love it.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

What was it like when you first heard your voice on the air? Was it what did you like? Oh my god, had had to pull over.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

Yeah, it was it was it was it's like that's me. The first time I heard it was actually at work. I was sitting at my my desk and skip had a crunch, and yeah, no, like I don't even think you were there, and I I just heard it, and I kind of just stopped breathing because I was like, it wasn't that I was thinking I wasn't thinking about how I was hearing it, I was thinking about how everybody else could hear it, and I was like, oh my gosh, all these people are gonna hear my voice because it's actually on the air, you know, because it's just weird. It's weird to like have the editing and you kind of have the finished product, and you're like, okay, this is gonna be on the air, and then you know, you hear a Morgan Wallen song, and then all of a sudden it starts to transition, and it goes to to Reagan talking, and you're like, Oh my gosh, that's so weird. Becky wheels around, are you okay? Yeah, she's checking in on me.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

Yeah, she's like another mom to you, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 38:40

She is my my work mom for sure.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

Yeah, she's my sister-in-law, which I told you. So I yeah, yeah, that's another whole thing. So and and on that note, what is um because when we have family get togethers, of course, Miss Becky joins us as well, and it gets a little crazy. But uh, what's your house like during the holidays? Do you I mean Thanksgiving, everybody go to your place? Do they well?

SPEAKER_01 39:02

Um, the holidays kind of look a little different um every year, you know what I mean? Our family keeps getting bigger and bigger. I have cousins that keep having babies, which is amazing. Our family keeps growing, so it's like, oh my gosh, do we have enough room to do it in the house again this year, or should we find another place to go? So it really depends on the holiday. You know, sometimes we do it at our house, sometimes we go um to an aunt or grandma's, or sometimes we we go to a restaurant even. It just depends on who's coming and how many, yeah, how many people are invited to the party.

SPEAKER_00 39:38

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 39:39

It's uh and do you do um do you do holidays right up here?

SPEAKER_00 39:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right here, right upstairs. Yeah, yeah, it gets great. We are the sure we are the party house. For whatever reason, we are the party house.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

Well, your house is beautiful. I I said that as I as I came in. I was like, your house is so. You got those permanent lights out front. And they looked cute.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

Aren't they cool? Yeah, they are cool because I can just get on my phone here and change them. I could turn them off right now. I could turn them off. I'll have to show you later.

SPEAKER_01 40:07

You are because I I thought you'd like to go outside and no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 40:12

My gosh, no. I don't even know where my phone is or I'd show you. But uh it's uh I use the go, they're called Govi lights, and then there's a lot of different brands, but they're definitely not the cheapest. But uh they are very cool. Goby. I've got the Govi Christmas tree on the back. Uh I've got the if I don't know if you can see the blue blue light behind me.

SPEAKER_01 40:30

I think that's Govy.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

Yeah, what that's Govi too.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

That's yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

See, I just uh watch this.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

So yeah, Govy should have sponsored this part.

Artists Are Human: The Hardy Story

SPEAKER_00 40:39

Goby, Govi? Yeah, if somebody sends this to them, that would be great because well, actually, I don't know if you're gonna be able to see it, but let me do this here. Hang on, we're going there. So let's see. Let's do this. No, I didn't. What did I do?

SPEAKER_01 41:03

Changing the lights outside. I know.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

I think there were going on.

SPEAKER_01 41:09

Oh, it's what happened?

SPEAKER_00 41:11

They turned red, right? Describe it. Describe it. They turn red. So, anyways, let's go here. Let's uh look, this is called forest. I want you to describe it.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

Alright, so forest is green, but for some reason it like s it has speckling blue and white lights that go throughout it.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

You know, I can't raise the camera up to see it, but that's why I'm asking you to describe it. Alright, wait a minute. Let's let me find another uh I wish they had like a sunset one.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Like oh, they do?

SPEAKER_00 41:44

They do. Stand by. Stand by. Well, wait a minute. This one's snowflake.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Oh. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

Yeah, I know. I don't know where they have the. No, no, no, no. Alright, wait a minute. Wait a minute. So uh we could do. I saw uh sunset on here somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

We should get these in the office. Miss Becky and I talk about having like little parties in the office all the time when we do our song.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

I don't know how much uh the owner would appreciate that, but uh no, I know I know the song of the day. You guys do a song of the day? Yeah, so what did I miss this?

SPEAKER_01 42:27

So sometimes when back Miss Becky and I we get it's like a slower day, you know. We need to we just need some momentum to get through the work day. She will show me like a song of the day from the clubbing days, like from the the 80s, because she's like, girl, you don't know what you don't you there's nothing to do around here. Sorry, I thought about how I had to do this Becky impression. I was like, Oh my gosh. But she's like, There's nothing to do around here, there's no place to dance, there's nowhere to go. Like, what do you kids do? And I'm like, Well, show me the song, show me, show me what it's like. And she's she's missing this. She's quick, yeah. While you're in the studio, we we have um we pretend we're in the club in the 80s. I'm missing all this. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

Well, now that you told me, well, look, I got uh wait a minute, I I put uh candlelight on. Yeah, but but you see, we have the other lights which are bright, so yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, no, you might be able to see a little tone change, color change in the in the picture here. But uh, yeah, so it's great. So here we are, pod, we're in the the pod zone, and we're doing the podcast. Uh Skip Happens. Do you like that name?

SPEAKER_01 43:36

I do. Skip happens.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

So what I did to get that name, this was before the pandemic. Uh I said I wanted to start a start a podcast. So I went on Facebook. Maybe it was MySpace back then. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

No my goodness.

SPEAKER_00 43:51

No, I'm kidding, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 43:52

Don't say that. It wasn't. Do you know what that is? I know what MySpace is.

SPEAKER_00 43:56

Dad had one, right? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:58

Well, I don't know if dad, I don't know if dad had one, but I learned about them. I learned about MySpace. When did when did you have the MySpace?

SPEAKER_00 44:08

Oh, we're gone.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

They were in the 2000s, right?

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Yeah, probably. Yeah, yeah. Early 2000s. Yeah. So, anyways, I went on Facebook and I said, I'm gonna start a podcast. I said, I will uh I'm I'm looking for ideas. What should I call it? I said, and the one idea I pick, I will give you a$25 dunking card. So somebody came up. Well, you laugh, it was actually Sam, our general manager, his brother-in-law, Sammy.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

Uh Sam's brother-in-law is Sammy.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

Yes, you didn't know that?

SPEAKER_01 44:44

I didn't know that. I didn't know Sam's brother-in-law was very Italian.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

Everybody's a Sam.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

Everyone's a Sam.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

But then Sammy, of course, it's his wife's brother, uh, Sammy. And he said, Call it Skip Happens. And out of all those, I said, you know, that's that's awesome. It is because it's a great play on words. So he won the contest. He got the$25 dunking card. So, but then so since then, um before the pandemic, uh, as you know, people here's here's how all this went down. Of course, I had a buddy of mine make the table that we're sitting at, so skip happens, right? Burned into it. Um he made this and gave it to me. Uh, this table is I do I will never get rid of it.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

Um yeah, this is a beautiful table.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

So you know, we got all ready to go. I invested in the microphones, I got the cameras, I got all the good stuff. And um the artist, when they would come through on what they call the radio tour, which you are now familiar with, for example, the artists that have come into the station already uh back in the day, I would they'd tell me what day they were coming in, and I said, Well, you know, if you can make it like early in the evening, I'll get pizza, wings, and beer, and we'll go sit in my podcast zone, my pot zone. So they used to come over here, yeah. But then everything stopped in the world. The pandemic set in, everything shut everything down. I mean, everything.

SPEAKER_02 46:12

Yeah, you know how that went.

Family, Holidays, And River Life

SPEAKER_00 46:13

It was like, you know, we had to work from home, get the full studio over there, and um so now it actually, this is where I think the pandemic kind of helped me out. Okay, because now I mean you you're sitting here, but like when I get the artist, I mean, um, you know, usually they're as we mentioned early on in the podcast, they're sitting home and they're either on a tour bus, sitting home, maybe at a venue, whatever, but they're doing the podcast, and now it's all done almost like a Zoom, even though I use a different platform. But yeah, same idea. So that's because that's because of the pandemic.

SPEAKER_01 46:50

Now everyone's so cool that that we've been able to adjust like that so that you can have that.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

See, so there was something good that did come out of the pandemic.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

So yeah, so you can do more interviews and I love doing interviews to more artists.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

I don't know how many people really love doing interviews. I think you would love it. I because I as I see you here tonight. But um, I love doing them at the radio station too, and all the public affairs that you set up, you get on the calendar and I do the interviews, which eventually you're gonna hopefully be doing some of those.

SPEAKER_01 47:23

Yeah, so yes.

SPEAKER_00 47:25

It's cool. Yes, it's cool. What else? What else do you want to know? Anything else?

SPEAKER_01 47:28

Anything, but anything anybody have any questions?

SPEAKER_00 47:32

Questions. I don't know. It's cool.

SPEAKER_01 47:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01 47:39

I'm yeah, I know, I know it's been amazing. This is just so cool. Such a great opportunity.

SPEAKER_00 47:44

It is, and uh, it's gonna live online. Yes, yeah. I'm surprised.

SPEAKER_01 47:49

This is one of many.

SPEAKER_00 47:50

Uh, mom and dad have not chimed in. You sure they're watching?

SPEAKER_01 47:54

They're shy. They're you thought I was shy in the beginning. Mom and dad are shy.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

I want to give them a shot. What's mom's first name?

SPEAKER_01 48:02

Kelly.

SPEAKER_00 48:03

Kelly. Hi, Kelly.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Dad is Frank.

SPEAKER_00 48:06

Hi, Kelly and Frank in Fulton.

SPEAKER_01 48:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

I love it. And uh, look at something to be proud of. Absolutely. Yeah, you got a wonderful family, you got uh some very talented kids. Um, looking at one of them right now. So no, and I'm proud to have her on her staff and uh be able to uh you know have some fun with what we do at the radio station and uh we learn from it. So it's Miss Ray, everybody. Miss Ray. Yes, see that was uh yeah, we're almost uh almost 50 minutes already. Yeah, it goes by fast.

SPEAKER_01 48:36

Went by super fast. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

My son. That's a television.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

Which I didn't really realize that was a TV when I do you have flat screens in the house?

SPEAKER_00 48:48

I assume you do.

SPEAKER_01 48:49

Yeah, oh my goodness. And when I did realize it was a TV, you told me the coolest trick. What? Because I asked, I said, how did you get that graphic on there? And you were like, I put it on a hard drive, and then you could put it on a flash drive. A flash drive, not a hard drive. Yeah, put it in the US. I never would have thought of that.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

I was like, Then you go to the right input.

SPEAKER_01 49:09

Genius, that's how they do it.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

See, I can put your name up there next. Yeah, we should split that.

SPEAKER_01 49:15

See, I'm making a graphic out of tomorrow. Don't worry, I'll take care of it.

SPEAKER_00 49:21

She says that she's no worries. I'll come back from lunch and you'll be going, I got it.

SPEAKER_01 49:27

Yeah, I got it ready to go. Yep, I'll have emailed it to you already.

SPEAKER_00 49:31

Miss Ray, you're awesome. Proud to hear you. You're awesome. Yeah, thanks for coming by the podcast and hang in, and uh you got to meet the dog, you got to say hello to everybody here in the house. You went to my my son's uh game room back there.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

That's me and Cave.

SPEAKER_00 49:44

Oh my god, that's that's the Zach Cave.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

Yeah, so awesome. If you're a Syracuse sports fan, Zach has the setup. Let me tell you, that was so cool.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

Wait till you he's got you know his bedroom upstairs is uh one thing I don't know if you know this or not, we used to house baseball players.

SPEAKER_01 50:01

Major you you mentioned that, and I and it was I think that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 50:06

It was very cool because you got to know them, number one, and their way of life. And almost every baseball player that we had stay with us, and sometimes their girlfriend or their wives or their families, uh, a lot of them were Latino, and to learn the culture and voyage could they cook? They would take over the kitchen upstairs and they would uh you know plantains and all that. Uh oh my god, and they'd be like, We're cooking tonight. We want you to try this. And the food was always phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 50:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

Yeah. I came home one day. I tell this story quite often, that uh many years ago when we had all the players here, and I think they were the Syracuse Chiefs at the time. Um, but they didn't have a game that day. I came home from work and there were cars on both sides of my street. I mean, I'm like, wow, somebody's having a big ass party this hour in the afternoon. Then all of a sudden I hear the music and I go, it's coming from my house. And it's it's like, you know, it's the Latino music, it's all that. So I go in my backyard, the fire pit is roaring. They've got their made homemade soup on the fire pit that they would do in their homeland. And it was the best soup ever. And that party went well into the night. Uh, and they were playing dominoes. They all they played dominoes.

SPEAKER_01 51:26

It was so cool.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

It was very cool.

SPEAKER_01 51:27

So cool.

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SPEAKER_00 51:28

And some of the big players, I mean, that some of the players that were here that day, little did the neighbors know that some of those players were Major League Baseball players.

SPEAKER_01 51:37

Who um who's one of the players that really like stuck with you? It doesn't have to be most famous.

SPEAKER_00 51:43

No, no, we had Paulo Espino, who was a pitcher. Um he came on board once. Uh, he stayed with us a couple of seasons. Um, we had Adrian Sanchez, who was in the World Series. Uh, he's to him and his wife, and kids and that kids were.

SPEAKER_01 51:59

I really watch, um, I don't really watch baseball. I want to met I know Adrian Sanchez. I've heard that name, yeah. I've heard that name. So he stayed here.

SPEAKER_00 52:07

He's living in West Palm now. We keep in touch, Paolo. We keep in touch with. Um going way back, Zach Walters, um, Ryan Totusco, um, Destin Hood stayed with us. Um, Destin was so cool. Um trying, oh my god, just just had a great lineup of people here.

SPEAKER_02 52:27

Yeah, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

I know it's my life. See, there's see there's life outside of radio, too. Yeah, and what we don't know about each other. Yes, and I don't yeah, I was a fireman. I was a fireman for 20 years. I was a medic. I I did all that. So something a lot of people don't know. I ran a Zamboni, which we talked about. Um, it was pretty cool. My wife used to come out to Nancy with before we were married, she'd come out to the rink and ride my Zamboni. That that her eye. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

Aw, you guys would do like yes little dates on the Zamboni.

SPEAKER_00 53:00

Yeah, it's like she'd ride and I'd make a new sheet of ice, you know?

SPEAKER_01 53:03

Quentin tells me you and Nancy are so cute. You are. I tell you all the time how adorable I think your wife is. She's cute as a button. Well, and she's so nice. You're very lucky. You're very lucky. I'm a lucky guy.

SPEAKER_00 53:21

All right. Miss Ray, you're awesome. Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching, everybody. This is what we call skip happens. And uh, you know what? This is what it's about. Yeah, it's a good idea. And uh kind of doing things a little bit different. I'm gonna try to do this every week, one way or the other. If you want to sit home, we could do it that way too, if you could zoom in. Even though it's not zooming, it's a different platform, but still.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

I don't know. I might I might come back to the pod room. I like the setup. Yeah, I like the setup, I like the microphone, I like the headphones, I like the bobbleheads. It's my bubbles, I like the whole setup.

SPEAKER_00 53:53

I like the real deal.

SPEAKER_01 53:54

Yeah, that's why I'm like, I wanna stay here.

SPEAKER_00 53:59

You're welcome. You're welcome. It could be your Syracuse home when you're not in Fulton. Yeah, love to have you.

SPEAKER_02 54:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 54:05

Uh Miss Ray, you're awesome. Have a good night, everybody. Thank you. As soon as I find the uh my mouse here. Got dual screen. See, this is what happens. It's like what happened to the mouse. I found it now. So, but, anyways, thank you for watching, everybody. Go to YouTube, subscribe, and let us know who you are or where you watch it from. And uh, you know what? We'll give you a shout out next time. That's that's all we have. Also, we got uh well, I guess some of the older mugs here, but uh anyways, I'll put them up later. We got new coffee mugs too for Skip Happens. But uh what thanks for watching, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 54:39

Yes, thank you so much for watching. Skip, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 54:42

You're so welcome. It's good to see you. As always, I see you every day, all day.