Roy Wood Jr.

And Gilmore would have a joke.

So now we're kind of interacting a little bit.

So now this 90 second news break became two minutes, became two and a half, kind of became my own thing.

So when Gilmore left and would go to school, after I'd been established with the listenership and everything, Van would start doing what Gilmore did.

So in the eight o'clock and the nine o'clock hour, I started kind of co-hosting the whole show with Van.

And that night, that 830 to 10 a.m.

time frame, those air checks, which is for people don't know, that's like your audio resume when you work in television or any any form of broadcasting.

You send them an air check, which is just samples of you being on air, being good at your job.

Yeah.

That time from 830 to 10 a.m., those air checks is what I sent in.

And that's what got me hired in Birmingham after Ricky Smiley left.

Amazing.

And so all of that, because I couldn't get the thing that I thought I was supposed to have, I ended up getting

Literally, bro, I came in the news and then just watched cats do radio all day and then slowly got to step my toe into the water until I was knee deep, until I was waist deep, until I was scuba diving.

And I also have to give a shout out to DJ Dap at Hot 105.7 because DJ Dap

Dap was a cat who was the afternoon DJ and he was piped in with all the rappers and the rappers would come in and do their interviews.

I learned the art of interviews and taking calls and, you know, the act of just what song to play and when the DJs would come in and live mix and, you know, five o'clock traffic jam mix or whatever.

I would watch them.

It was, man, it was on some Star Wars loop going to see Yoda.

in the Dagobah system type stuff, man.