All right, the Beatles. And that's one of those songs. It was the flip side of a hit,
but you can't tell these days because you remember what the original. Yeah, I want to hold
your hand. Yeah, this was the flip side. The Beatles really didn't have B side. They're all A
sides. Bill Lawrence is here. Bill Lawrence was at W Orange again doing afternoons. The
new stage show afternoons here for how long? I did it from, well, when I first came here,
it was October of 98. And I started on our old FM signal 92 one. It was you were on 92 one.
It was easy 92. I didn't realize you were over there. Yeah, it was soft rock that got AC.
And I did that for, I want to say about six months over there. Oh, long time. I did mid days.
I did mid days. Long time. You were on, I think you were on doing mornings until about nine o'clock
or so. And then there was an hour of just music, I think. And I'm trying to remember is I always
regret not keeping a better radio journal of my life because now I forget more than I remember.
But I worked 10 until I want to say it was three or four o'clock, three o'clock. And at some point,
I was doing both. I would work an over there until three. And then I'd come over here and do
news day from four until seven. And then eventually was just over here. You know, it's amazing.
I was the program director and I don't remember you over there. Yeah. That's how I got Ed
Doody was our general manager at the time. I'd worked with him in Kenosha. And he got me the gig
here because I was replacing somebody that they didn't really like. And I can't remember God
bless. I can't remember. You remember. We're off the air. You're telling me what was.
Now, let me tell you honestly, I wish I could remember his name. But, you know, I felt bad
because he shadowed me for a couple of days, not knowing that I was here to take his job.
Oh, come on. We're gonna happen to meet a couple of times. When I first got my full-time gig in
Kenosha, the first time around, Stanley J. Wallace was the afternoon man down there. And I would
fill in for him. And then eventually Paul Kern, who was the program director at the time,
decided to give me the job. And Stanley, you know, got the radio treatment, the radio shuffle
as we call it. But you know what? In this business, people move on. It's transitioning all the time.
If I told people how many different radio stations I've worked at in my career, I mean,
it's amazing. There's almost 18 of them. I mean, it's too numerous to list during this segment.
And this is the one thing when you apply for a job in radio, they don't ask you what you
have fired at your last job because we all know everybody does. Everybody gets bounced.
Let me tell you why bills here. This is our WRT. I like to know that myself. Yeah. This is our
WRT historical marker. And bill is number 10. Number 10. Paul Kern was already interviewed. We do
poker. You know, I'm honored to be here. I think the first of all, let me tell you, I love this
format that you guys are doing now. To me, it was interesting that a radio company, a radio station
actually listened to the audience and said, okay, you guys liked that. We'll put this back on.
So now the music and the community features, it's terrific. You spoke, we listened eventually.
We got to it. And so bill is number 10. And the reason we do this. Which is better than number two.
A lot of my bosses thought I was number two. I don't like that even sounds.
Let me tell you why we're doing this. People may have heard me mention this before, but I was at
the funeral for an old radio friend of mine, Bill Moose. I used to tell me 101 Bill Moose stories.
It was great. Amazing stuff. This guy was in a wheelchair and I used to schlep him around the
country to different radio functions. And I got some stories for you. But anyway, so I said,
the funeral for Bill and his wife asked me, do you have any recordings of bill or air checks?
Do you have any recordings of bill on the radio? And I said, well, no. I said, don't you? She goes,
no, not the one. This guy was 20 years in Milwaukee radio. And then he was 10 years prior to that
in, I think, WIBA, something like that. I think wind is being WIVU. He was there in the Madison
area. And there's no air checks of him. There's no recordings of bill ever being on the radio that
we know of. So I was at the funeral and I'm sitting there. First of all, I had to speak. And then
after I sat down, I said, wow, there's no recordings. And we can't even listen to what he sounded like.
That said, that's tragic. So I said, I'm not going to let that happen here. And so I started the
WRJ historical marker, the Racine Library said they can archive it for us. The WBA, I'm going to
try to get to archive. They said they couldn't their audio museum. So we have the first nine,
we'll have 10 today. And then we archived. So 50, 60 years. And then when people say there was
something called radio. These guys actually that's 50 or 60 years. Anyway, so that's why we're doing
it. And I'm trying to get as many people as we can. We started with the oldest Tony Gisana.
I told him the Tony was the owner of the station. He was number one. We're starting with the oldest
getting them to the youngest. And so Bill is number 10 on the list. So we're going to I'm going to
talk about how you got even started in radio. How old are you? I was a late bloomer. You know,
you always hear these stories about radio guys. I was 13 and I mowed the lawn and I walked in and
they put me on the air. I took out the trash. That kind of stuff. I didn't get started doing radio
till I was in my mid 20s. I was knocking around doing odd jobs. I worked at a restaurant. I was
a restaurant cooking it. Certainly at some point got to to the status where I can't do this anymore.
I got to find something I can do something sturdy that I can hold on to for a career. They will never
let me go. Never fired. I never found that. So I got into actually a gateway technical college.
God bless them in Kenosha. I had a radio broadcasting program. And I got fed up with my job and I
just looked at gateway and I looked at all the listings of careers. And I thought which one am I
most able to do? And I pointed to radio broadcast. So I took the program. It was a two-year program.
I graduated. The best thing about it, you know, you learn the nuts and bolts of stuff. The best
learning experience is being on the radio. So we had a cable radio station at the college and
we practiced there. It was a good place to practice. But the most important thing was to make
connections with people. And my first job out of school was at the old WMIR in Lake Geneva.
1550 on your AM dial. And it was a great place to learn because you could go there
and you could be terrible. And there are many places like that anymore. So you could go and you'd
learn and every day you try to get a little better. And eventually through attrition, you work your
way up. I started board-opping running the commercials for Milwaukee Brewer's games at night.
And the funny part about WMIR was it was a daytimeer, which means the FCC only
licensed it to operate during the day. But they had a license where they could run at night time
at low power. And now I think a lot of stations when they were told to go low power, they,
you know, maybe half power, whatever. We had to go when the sun set. We had to drop from a
500 watt. I think it was a 500 watt radio station. We had to drop to 2.3 watts.
For the first hour, then we would go to 1.9. Which got you basically out of the parking lot.
Basically, yeah. And then if it went past two hours, let's see, we have, you know, a late programming
thing or a West Coast Brewer game. After a certain time, we were down to one watt. Oh my goodness.
You could hear up to the lamp post, maybe out to the burger cake and link Geneva. But that
was as far as it goes. So if you had a West Coast game that started at nine o'clock, you were there
until midnight. And God knows who was hearing it. I had no idea. Wow. But it was a great place to
learn. And it's still there today in the building. It's a gun club. Yeah, it's a gun club.
Some kind of thing like that. I've drive whatever we go out there every now and then drive past
it always. You always take a look, right? You always want to know. They take shots at the old tower.
Phil Lawrence is here. It's WRJ and historical marker number 10 more bill coming up at a moment.
It had 717 looking for a sunny day today in hot highs near 89.
Barty Clotting tonight, low 72, mostly sunny tomorrow with a high air 86. It's sunny in 71 right now
at Radio Park. Ricky Nelson always singing at the end of the Aussie and Harriet show. And it
was stuck his song on there. And it was such a hit. The Donna Reed show for Shelley Fabry to do
the same thing in Paul Peterson, too. Yeah, they forced them to do it. They didn't want to do it.
But they said, look what that's going on with us in a area. We can make it money here.
Well, we can make you a star just like Ricky Nelson's a star. And of course,
Shelley Fabry had Johnny Angel, right? Yeah, big event. She went on to coach. I think she was on
that show. Yeah, she was the wife of coach. Yeah, I think she's married. She's married to
Mike Farrell for mash. Yeah. Yeah, BJ honey. Mash Mike Farrell who never had a hit record.
Shelley Fabry hit record. Well, he was bubbling on the bubbling onto the top. Well, he's spent
three years in Korea. You didn't know a chance to record. It's been more than that. The show lasted
three times as long as the career and more than seasons. Yeah, we're talking to Bill Lawrence.
It's our WRJ and historical marker number 10. We're talking about his career. How he wound up
here in his years at WRJ and so you were at out in like Geneva WMI R&A and radio station no longer
around, right? But you were out there at the time rocking him rolling with. Well, it was like,
again, it was like an AC format. Yeah. They didn't want to do anything too controversial out there.
Except for there was a time when we had a general manager out in New York. His name is Lee Harris.
You may be familiar with the name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Big time in New York radio stations. If you
watch 9-11 documentaries, his voice is on a lot because he was working. I don't know what the big
new station in New York was. Yeah, that worked there. He worked there. He was there in New York
when that whole thing went down. I don't know how he ended up in Lake Geneva for about a year.
He was our general manager and he didn't everything he could. He was crazy. His big claim to fame
for our little hole in the wall radio station like Geneva was he had, there were three in
Walworth County. There were three strip clubs and he was so excited when he was able to get all
three of them. I'm here. I'm the air advertising on our little adult contemporary station.
People would call and say, how can you run those commercials on this radio station?
And he was so happy because he knew that the commercials worked.
People were caught in the complain about him, but he did a lot of wacky things. We had a guy named
Norm Breast working out. Oh, Norm worked here for years. He was a great guy. He would put him in a
turkey suit and send him out to the grand opening of the sentry store in Lake Geneva and he organized
Lee Harris organized a listener trip to hell, Michigan. You could win a trip to hell on WMIR.
Why was he the here he is at the biggest new station in America, one of the biggest
days 1010 wins in New York. What is he doing at WMIR? Well, he didn't last long. You went back to
New York. Oh, he was physically here. Yeah. He came in every day. Nice this guy in the world,
but he knew it was just a little stopover for him. He went crazy. So MIR kind of after the owner
passed away, the kids really didn't want to take it over or ended up getting sold, everything
kind of disintegrated. So it eventually led to my job, my first run at WLIP, where I took the
afternoon gig from Stanley Wallace. I still feel bad about it, but that's radio. What are you going
to do? Yeah. And so after MIR would you go? I went to the LIP full time. I wouldn't working weekends,
doing some filling stuff there. And I worked at LIP. I got fired there in 97, December of 97.
I don't really remember the reason. I think it was economical. They didn't like your face.
That could be it. I thought I had a great face. Could have been wrong. I'm a face thing.
Okay. So then I got a gig at easy, not before I'm to see again, I'm trying to remember all of
this stuff. Got a job doing part time filling weekend stuff. It's smooth jazz in the wall. Yeah.
That would be JZI. Right. Our Chris Morrill was the boss. General manager here. He probably doesn't
remember me. I think I saw one time. Yeah. But I would work like villains, whatever they needed.
I did the night shift. I used to at times I would do the night shift and then have to come in
and do the morning shift. The thing was I lived in Kenosha. The station was way up on the
north side of Milwaukee. So it's like an, you know, an hour plus drive. So I would sleep in
the furnace room or boiler room, whatever. I need a photograph of that.
I got a post. I would sleep and then I would make them and do the shift. And eventually I did
that for a while. And then I got hired here. And I got hired here in late 98. I was here until
04. We just jumped her real quickly. Yeah. You left JZI because it was just a part time.
Okay, part. So you came here. Yep. In what year now? That was, this was October of 98.
Ed Doody hired me. And I worked over at EZY and then transitioned over to RJN. Now Ed Doody
was general manager here. He also was general manager at LIP. Yeah. When I worked there, the first
time fired there. Yeah. And he held it against the company because he said, I am going to take
their radio station and bring it here and put them out of business. That's in blows attitude.
He just hated them. And he wanted to change the city of license from this station to Kenosha
just to go again. He just hated them for letting him go. That was a bad thing, a bad experience.
I want to interview him. He just passed away about a year or so ago. See, I didn't know that.
Yeah, he has a great guy. And he wanted to use him as one of our historical markers.
Ed Doody, two things I remember about Ed is he loved the white socks. Yes. And he loved golf.
He also loved, he also loved Notre Dame University. Yeah. He was a big Notre Dame guy.
The first thing he did here was make us the voice of Notre Dame, the Irishman of Notre Dame.
Okay, we're going to do this now. That's the first thing he did. But yeah, I worked and then I
transitioned here to Newsday and did that until 04. But we had a lot of, I had a lot of good
times working in Racine. He's right in his seat. Is your position the position? Yeah.
Yeah. You worked here for how many years now? I worked. It was six years, six years.
Okay. It was a good time. Yeah. We did all kinds of things. We did a lot of community
radio like you guys are doing now. And even let me do a wrestling talk show. Okay. So Stuart J.
Waffles asked me to ask you a few things. We're going to get to it after the news.
I want to know what he wants to know. Okay. That's one of them. But I didn't want to get to it now.
After the break is going to take a little bit here. All right. We have Bill Lawrence is here,
former WRJN announcer, help air personality. And he was here for a couple of years, six years.
Six years. Yeah. I was programmed to work. You think I'd know this stuff? Not a clue.
So Bill is here. And he's our WRJN historical marker number 10. We're marking the history
of this station as we approach 100 years, which will be in the mouse 2026 100 years. And the,
I hope I make it. You'll make it. The, the historical society here in town, the Heritage Museum said
they will do a display for 100 years. Beautiful. I'll have a little sign 100 years. That's it.
That's another big computer. Now they're going to do a little thing. We've got the Carco's Tom Carco
and Janet Hoff, Johnny Carco. They're going to, they have all the stuff. Yeah. The keepers.
Yeah. The keepers of the historical stuff. So we're going to put it all together. It's 730. I'm
Don Wilson. I want to thank you for joining us here. It's Newstime now at WRJN.
Tommy James of the Shondales. I think we're alone now. Tommy James is a disc jockey now.
Is he real? Yes. And he's very good. I heard him on the radio. He's very good. Peter Nunez also
a disc jockey from Herman Cermitts. And he's terrible. But Tommy James is very good on the radio.
He's a natural Bill Lawrence is here. It's our WRJN historical marker number 10. We're doing the
history of WRJN with the people that worked here. Well, there's still alive. Bill's still alive.
So he's in here. For now, we, we got him before while he's still taking a lot of people taking
the over the under. I don't know. Okay. So your WRJN, you're hired here. You've got last six
years. Did you enjoy your stay here? I loved it. You don't have to say that, by the way.
Okay, it wasn't that great. No, we did a lot of fun stuff. And we did the kind of show
when we, we would have, you know, guests, consistent guests every week, but we'd do a lot of chatting.
And I started to mention before we went to news there, we did a wrestling show on Fridays.
You were nice enough as the boss. I came to you with the idea of doing a wrestling show. I said,
okay, I don't care. You can do it. I'll give you the last 15 minutes on a Friday.
So 645 Friday was myself and Kevin Urb, who was a part-time employee here. Really? Yeah.
Nice. The nicest kind of well, we bonded over wrestling. So I dubbed him Cactus Kev and we'd
coming out Thursday nights and we'd record, you know, a 12, 13, 14 minute wrestling show talking.
That's when the attitude error wrestling was very big at that point. And we did, we had a lot of
fun doing that. Kevin is like a professor. Now he went on to be a high school teacher. He got
his master's degree and I still keep up with him on Facebook. I still send him stuff. He was a
great guy. But yeah, he was smart because he knew radio was just a jumping off point for something
greater. So yeah, he's a big-time college guy. Yeah, Stuart J. Wannels asked. He said,
that's where I first heard Bill Lawrence doing the wrestling show here.
Yeah. And I worked with Stu for, you know, how many years in Kenosha?
So you left here, I guess we didn't like your face anymore. Well, blitz communications on
the stations at that time. And I know you know, Tim Edas. Yeah. Tim Edas was the GM. He was on
our historical markets here. He was already. He was ahead of you. He was ahead of me. Yeah.
Yeah, they, you know, it was the old thing in radio. Now you only got balanced one time in your
50 career, 50 year careers. It was here. It was here. And there he was sitting in the chair. He is.
But it's the old, and I had this in Kenosha the first time around. If you're walking down the hallway
after your shift is over, and your boss comes and say, says to you, hey, I got a minute.
You know that the hammer is about to dry. Especially if it's a Friday afternoon. Yeah.
Actually, the interesting thing was two of the times where I got fired, it was on a Monday,
oddly enough. The first time in Kenosha and the second time in Kenosha, both Mondays.
So talk about having a case of the Mondays. Okay. So you're going to let go here. Yeah.
And you immediately bounced to Kenosha. Yeah. I called my old boss, John Perry, who was running
Will Rock at the time. And I said, hey, John, I'm a free agent. What do you got for me? He said,
hey, we got, you know, fill in hours. We did part time. I would come in and do weekend shifts.
And this is when 95 Will Rock was just getting started. Actually, you know, I'd go in on the weekends
and I do a live shift. And then I would end up filling in on LIP doing weekend shifts. And
that went on for about six months. And Paul Kern, who again, my radio career seems to cut through
two or three of the same people constantly. Paul Kern was doing mornings at LIP. And it was the
summer of 05, summer of 05. He went on vacation for a week and never came back because he got a
gig doing mornings here at WRJN. So after a trial period, they eventually said, okay,
just give it to you. And I did mornings from 2005 until 2023 on LIP. That's a long time.
Lesson Prairie. And then when they built the stations and moved down to Gurney,
did it there until March 6, 2023 and the next hammer dropped. It's just a discussion of when I got
fired at 23 stations. How many stations did you work at? Not that many. I mean, you can boast.
Well, you worked at 2006 stations, I think. I worked at one two, basically just four,
just four, but I had two runs at LIP. I had the jazz station, MIR, and here. That's amazing.
Four stations in your career. That's amazing. I'm like a 14 or 17 stations. Yeah, I'm not the
typical radio nomad story where I go all over the country, basically concentrated in Southeast
Wisconsin. Well, when I got the job at Atlanta, it was for the company I worked for on Long Island.
I started there as a janitor. That WGBB WGBB. It was the station janitor. It should be impressed
that I remembered that. Yes, I am impressed. Considering now the formats all Chinese. Yeah.
So anyway, they bought it. I was going to leave them. They bought a station in Atlanta. They said,
you want to do morning. So my parents said to me, how can you just pick up and leave? Because
my parents never left it. Right. You know, 20 miles from the day they were born. And I said,
well, it's an opportunity. And my mother cried. And my dad said to my mother the night before
I left, said, he'll be back. And my mother said, he's never coming back. And you never came back.
Never came back. She said, my brother who lived in Chicago. My mother said, my father said,
he's never coming back. And my mother said, he'll be back. And she was right. My brother came back.
But I never came back. Then I came to Milwaukee and the rest of the system here. But
I didn't have that radio nomadic experience. I, you know, worked at. I was born in
Racine County. I grew up in New York. Actually, Yorkville township. We were born. I was born
in Racine. My folks lived in Caledonia. And then moved to Yorkville right on the interstate highway.
Right around by highway 20. So you lived on the interstate?
Not quite. You lived in a car on the interstate. If we walked down to the end, we lived in a
subdivision. And if you walked down to the end of our road, you could see the interstate highway.
It was 52nd Street. And then it was Evans Lane. And my folks lived there.
Gosh, for like 60 years. And my dad passed five years ago. And my mom sold the house and got out
of the big house. And she lives in Sturterman still at at Clarnie Court. Oh, yeah, Clarnie Court.
Back a bill of hers. Yes, I know. So I get to that. I get to Sturterman often. In fact,
I'll be coming back here later today to take her to the doctor. But she's going to be 86 in July,
God bless her. Bless her. Yeah. Yeah. And she's still, you know, go, go, go.
Did your mother ever say to you what my mother said? My mother used to always say to me,
so when are you going to get this radio thing out of your system? Because my brother was a doctor.
No, I think my parents barely knew I was even on the radio. Why bother you so?
So this is it. This is what you're going to do. And keep in mind, this was just a couple of
years ago before she passed away. So this is it. I said, yeah, I think this is it. I'm ready
to retire and go on Medicare. This is it. She just didn't think it was a career. Yeah.
She just thought, well, your brother's a doctor. No, my brother was playing with a rock and roll band
up and he was a doctor. He wanted that to be his career. You know, it's it's obviously people
know this. It's it's not the most stable of careers. But when you're in it, there's nothing like
it. Every day is different. I mean, at some point, yeah, a job becomes a job for everybody. No
matter what you do. But the thing about radio is it's always exciting. Something happens. You
always get a story. You meet a lot of people. And hopefully, if you if you're doing something
right, people will remember you. And you make a mark on somebody's life. There was a switch. I
remember years ago, we had once in a while, somebody would come in and take the tour of the studio.
There was a kid. He couldn't have been more than eight or nine years old came in. Just watch
this work for a little bit. Ten years later, I'm at the subway in Kenosha. And, you know,
I'm just going to get a sandwich. And there's I didn't recognize him anymore. But there's that kid.
And he said to me, are you Bill Lawrence? And I said, yeah, I get recognized. I think everybody does
at some point in places. And do you remember? It was about 10 years ago. I saw I was in the station.
Wow. The kid remembered that. That's the best part of this whole thing. If people can remember,
take a piece of their life out of what you do. That's fantastic. I love that. I like when people come
up to me. Do you remember about 15 years ago? I asked you to play a song. You said you were going
to play it. You never played it. Do you remember that? I waited all night to hear that song. You
made me a promise. You never kept your word. You're not in the same way. You forget more than you
remember. Unfortunately, and the older you get, the more you forget. And there were some people
that left you went on to bigger and better things. Romney McClough. I don't know if you remember
Romney. I do. He ran me as a part timer. He went on to do sports radio up the Minneapolis and
got fired. I think he got. Didn't he make a stop in Milwaukee first? Yes. He worked at,
yeah, he worked at the sports station in Milwaukee as well and got fired. But now he's a stand-up
comic and doing great. Wow. Hey, Romney McClough. Yeah, there's a lot of people that went through
this radio station. Does someone on the bigger and better thing? Some, you know, we're tired.
Some were tired. Right from here. But yeah, I mean, look at, you know, I say to
Chris Marl, who was our station manager here at one time, did you ever think we'd both be back
here again along with Kurt Bolman? I mean, we'll work here together. Now, Kurt came back. He
does afternoons. That's great job. What was Kurt doing before he got the call to come back here?
Kurt was doing another, he had another outside of radio and he was doing that. But he always wanted
to get back in and this was an opportunity for him and he took it. But what are the chances
of the three of us coming back to this radio station after the previous owner said,
out in Z never want to see your face again. It's just close to show you how weird it is. It is.
It's a very forgiving business. You can go home again. There's some places I wouldn't want to go
back here again. Bill Lawrence is here. It's W R Chan historical marker numbered 10. We're
doing the history of W R J N and Bill's a big part of that history. More coming up at just a
moment. I've done Rosen looking for sunshine hot weather today. Highest air 89 party cloudy tonight
lows around 72 sunshine tomorrow with honey 86. And this is going to happen all summer. I'm not
going to mention a slight chance, like 10% chance of showers and thunderstorms each day. So
I'll just mention that to you sunny and 77 degrees right now in radio park.
I was made to lover. Local news, timeless. It's W R J N Bill Lawrence is here with our W R J
and historical marker number 10. And we're just talking off the air about stories we can't tell
on the air. But they were good stories, but sorry. Do you have anything weird that ever happened
to you in radio that you can talk about? I mean, you know, they had a couple of episodes where the F
bomb got out on the air twice. Actually, it was pretty funny. I was doing a bit. We were giving away
and this was at L.I.P. We were giving away some kind of exercise video and I didn't know
what the guy was. So I called the promotion director in house. He didn't know he was on the air
and he dropped the F bomb on the radio. And it's like you start back pedaling immediately. Oh,
in here's Tommy James. That's going to get out of that. I never cursed on the radio. I never
cursed on the radio. I don't think I ever did the big one. I may have said something else
in not knowing a microphone was on, but the queen mother of dirty words. That one can't say it.
This is not podcast. This is not satellite. Can't say that one still.
Um, uh, and you know, stuff like that, but, you know, I don't, I don't have the great stories.
The Don Rose and why aren't you writing a book? You have the biggest because I'd have a
lot of stories, but I'd have the name names and I don't want to do that. Oh, don't worry about that.
It's always better to ask for forgiveness than permission. That's I was especially in a court
of law. I learned that from somebody here at this station. Laterer taught me that. I heard her from
somebody else. Yeah, the great lute. I'm sorry I couldn't interview him here. He passed away.
He passed a few years ago. He was one of my best friends and we would just, I mean,
you want to talk about stories we couldn't tell on the radio here. It's a talk and I would,
I knew his wife and his daughters. Yeah. He was a great guy. Yeah. Terrific guy. Yeah,
talk about all the people that passed away. And I need to sound so modeling in the morning,
but a lot of people who went through here and no longer hear anymore. Yeah. And it's just out
Marches on, you know, and I'm just happy to still be among the breathing. Now, a question from a
listener. Yeah. Are you gainfully employed on this day? I don't know. It's gainfully.
But this summer, I'm working for the Canorsh area Chamber of Commerce. It's kind of I'm a
marketing intern according to my business card. I'm the world's oldest intern. I'm Daniel. I'm
Robert Danero in that movie. So I'm just helping Dave Strasch, who is the president of the chamber.
Going to events and visiting businesses and helping out, doing whatever he needs me to do.
And, you know, it's a three month gig. So please, if anybody has work after September,
let me know. I can work, you know, I'm just looking for part-time stuff. I'm not here to
chill for a job or anything, but you will. But you're not below that to answer the question. Yes.
I'm gainfully employed at least for the summer. I got a question for you here. Yeah. I try to ask
people when they come in, I guess, to question, if your boss offered your promotion that didn't come
with a raise, would you take it? Radio people would. They normally take any promotion without a raise.
I would take it simply in radio because that's the only kind of promotion you'd get, a promotion
without a raise. Races are hard to come by in radio. I think I got one raise in 30 years.
I'll take a quick raise story. A new owner was coming into the radio station.
And word got around that I was going to another radio station, which I wasn't. I don't know,
this rumor started. I met with somebody who wanted to talk to me, but I didn't take it. I said,
no. And rumor got around that I was leaving. So the new owner came in and met with me,
which is illegal. And that with me at a diner because you can't talk to employees if you don't
own the radio station yet. And he wouldn't come out and say it because he was very aware that he
wasn't supposed to be talking about this. He was very aware of it. And he kept talking to me.
And he said, what have you got a 39% pay increase to work at this rate? Would you ever take
something like that? You made a very, you know, hypothetical. I said, sure. 39%. I didn't know
what he was talking about until later on. I found out, yeah, well, he wanted to keep you
through. You were leaving. I wasn't leaving. Where was I going? Nobody wanted me as far as you know.
Oh, yeah, I'm leaving. I'll take the 39. Yeah. So I took the 39% pay increase. I'll tell you what
was off the air. Bill Lawrence, I love you, man. You're a great attitude. I love the way you
was an honor for me to be back on the radio with you done. No, it's an honor for me to have you
here. You were the guy who taught me how to do talk radio. So I'm always grateful. Was I the guy
who let you go? No. Okay. You were here, but you weren't that guy. I want to make sure this is
going to turn into a date line episode when you're in the microphone. I got Keith Morrison in the lobby.