Roy Wood Jr.

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.

I, I really learned the craft of radio inside out from that, from that building, man.

It's gone now.

I think it's, but it was, it was, that was a special place to me on the Apalachee Parkway, man.

It really was.

Man.

I, I love that story.

And I,

You know, all of my friends know, all of my listeners and viewers know this because I'm OK when it's my show telling people my opinion.