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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess what we gave the interns of podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wait, we did?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Whose idea was this?
Speaker 4 (00:06):
The Duran clan.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm Stephanie, I'm Dylan, I'm Leilani, I'm Ben Danielle. And
what did guys say?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Cut? Someone doesn't listen to our shows?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Here? Are you so excited to be on our show?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm very excited to be honest with you, guys did it?
When Andrew asked me, I was like, what what show?
And He's like, they do a podcast. I had no idea,
But it's not like they like you got to tell
them to like promote you guys a little bit seriously.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Our dedicated fan base of our parents definitely are built
in a little what we don't need to post.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Believe me, I've been there. I was an intern once,
and I feel you don't want It's all good.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
It's all good.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I know you're really putting in the world today. Doing
two shows. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Three. We also did another podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Do that?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What do we call our podcast? I don't that one either,
And I'm on it's you Go.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
So we are so happy to have you here. And
I have a question for you. Okay, I want to
start off, I.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Don't trust you.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
No, it's okay, it's okay. It's a safe space. So
you have obviously been doing this for quite a while.
Thank you, And I want to know you guys have
guests on all the time, and I'm sure many of
them are lovely. I'm sure some of them might not be.
What is your craziest guest experience.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, my gosh, craziest guess experience, like in a negative
way or in a positive.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
One, whatever you want, Just what sticks out.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'll tell you something. God rest her soul. Joan Rivers
was calling into the show one one day and we
had Heraldo Vera on in studio and Joan called and
Heraldo was running late, and so I picked. I was
helping produce the show at the time, and I was like, hey,
I was like, so we're running late. You have a choice.
(02:13):
You can either go on with Roaldo or maybe if
you don't mind holding or calling back, And she started
yelling at me. She was like, I'm not going on
with Roaldo. He's serious and I'm not serious that this
is ridiculous. So, long story short, I wound up hanging
up on Joan Rivers and I said, hey, sorry, it's
not going to work. Then I didn't have time to
(02:33):
sit down and talk and argue. I had other things
I had to do. God rest your soul. I wound
up having to hang up on her and she was
not on the show.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
So damn, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But we got crazy things happened, Like we've had guests
come on the show, and there was one comedian from
SNL years ago that told us only talk to him
when the mics were on. I'm not even kidding you. Yeah,
and then yeah, right, scary you remember Scary's in the
room right now? Scary am I right? What was the
name of the guy? Do you remember? I don't remember.
(03:01):
He was years and years and years ago, but I was.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It the guy who used to be Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It might have been him, but I don't remember what
his name was. Yeah, we were like what so you
know how that interview went?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Yeah, gez, have you seen Joan since or like not now?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But no, after that, I'd never seen whoa. That would
be amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It's shown in the room with us.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I honestly, we never I don't think I ever met
her in person. I don't think. I don't think so. Yeah,
in all those.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Years, Wow. Not talking when the mics aren't on is wild.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, he didn't want to, he didn't want to converse. Yes,
it was Barrel Hamn't Oh my god. And then and
then you have like a Chevy Chase, who his wife
is one of the kindest people in the world. But
the experience we had with Chevy Chase was he was
on he was he wasn't in studio. Remember, he was
on the actual on the phone, and he was doing
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something called the Michael Lange Shoe Awards and we didn't
know what it was, so we asked, what is it?
Can you explain it? And his answer was, how the
hell do I know? Well, I know is they paid
me a lot of money to do it. And we
were like, yeah, girl, Like what the heck? Yeah. So
those are a couple of you know, I don't know, scary,
(04:20):
am I supposed to be telling all this stuff?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I don't know if I'm supposed to be here.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
I was part of this last time and they did
a great job.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You be on it again. If I have a questions,
My memory is going there.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Dude, focus on Danielle. This is like a spotlight on Danielle.
But you're doing well I'll hold your hand if.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
You need to share a secret, I'll be right here where.
I don't know if we got enough listeners for it too.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
For percussions or anything.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, right now.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Well, so I do have a question. Okay, so you
mentioned before it's been almost thirty years beyond the show,
so I'm curious, how do you balance being a mom
with also having such a high energy job in the morning,
just a lot going on so early.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So it's not easy, I'll be honest. You know, there
were many times where I questioned it only because I'm
not there in the morning for the kids.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I never had that morning routine, you know, so I
think I over compensate with that where I would always
leave out clothes and vitamins and notes and all kinds
of stuff, you know. But I have a great support system.
My husband's amazing, you know. We've always had babysitters that
were amazing when we needed them, and family that would
step in. I feel like I just keep going because
(05:32):
I feel like sometimes if I sit down, I'll fall asleep.
But it's just it really is about balance, and it's
about you know, when I started my career, didn't have kids,
and so it was all about the career and whatever, whatever.
But now I think I realized that, you know, the
most important thing in my life is my family. And
I'm very blessed that Elvis is the type of guy
that says, look, if you have something going on that
you need to be at. Like for example, when they
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all went to Atlantis, you know, it would be wonderful
to go to Atlantis, but my son was running in
the Nationals in Boston, so that you can't get back.
You can't get the first back or the moments some
of those moments back. So I had to be where
I needed to be. So you know, it's not easy
to balance it, but I I I mean, and sometimes
I fail at it, you know, like everybody does. But
(06:15):
I think I do a pretty decent job of balancing it.
It's it's it really is about having a good support system,
because without that, I don't know how I would do it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, have your sons ever come on the show or
do they ever really pop in?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Spencer's been on a couple of times. Preston's kind of
like he's too cool for the room. He's like, you know,
he do what he does. So if I want to
record something, with him to put on social He doesn't
want anything to do it, so he will mess up
the video by yelling in the background. My mother hates
her fans. She goes and he goes, you're not gonna
(06:48):
play it now, You're not gonna put it on that
and he's like, I'm not. You're absolutely right. So that's
how he gets me to knock by saying something stupid. Yeah,
but Spener loves it. Spencer will come on all the time,
talk all the time, be part of it all the time.
But present's kind of like a you know, behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah at all. That's too funny. Yeah, So how has
the show changed over the years, aside from video being
added and office as well.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
We can't get away with saying things that we used
to say. I mean, we used to say things that
I go back now and I go, oh my gosh,
I can't believe we said that and got away with them.
We used to play games that were so crazy.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
So, you know, I've been going through the old Evergreen stuff.
Some things come up where I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Nowadays people are too sensitive to everything and you can't
do that. You cannot get away with things. We definitely
cannot do a lot of what we used to do, so,
you know, and it wasn't like it was mean stuff,
you know, but nowadays everybody is so you know, it
just doesn't take a lot to offend people, and you
don't want to do that, so you have to be careful.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Was that kind of like an adjustment period when you
guys were working on what you can say?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Which I think it evolved. I think it just kind
of evolved like little by little, like it started out
slowly and then more and more and more, and then
there was was a time where we would just be like, yeah,
we can't do that, and more, oh, we can't play
that anymore, even with people you work with, Like everybody's
different and everybody has different sensitivity levels, so you know,
there I might not be offended by practically anything, and
(08:21):
then somebody else might be. You know, maybe if you
say this, if you say that, they might be upset.
So you have to just be careful and you just
have to be you know, obviously understanding and you know,
do the appropriate thing.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Did you agree, like the norm used to be saying
things to try to get a reaction, of course, of
now it being not saying something because you want to
be safe and.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yes, yes, I think we used to say things for
a reaction back in the day, and now we're much
more scary though. Yeah, yeah, of course have you heard
our old phone taps? Yeah? And even And I also
feel like even back in the day, there was always
like a what is the word, I'm looking like a kit?
Like a kitch, Like each jock had like their thing
(09:05):
that that you know, their voice or their this and this.
Back even before we started, it wasn't like you being yourself.
But now it's about you being yourself and bringing your
you know what you can to the table. Like I
got hired because of my bronx accent, Like that's honestly
one hundred percent why I got hired to do the job.
They there was another girl doing this show called Pajama
(09:25):
Party and it was on like in the middle of
the night and she got fired for some reason, and
Tom Pullman was programming the station and he says, hey,
I want to try you on Pajama Party, and I'm
like okay. And they were trying to get me to
lose my accent in college, like put a pencil in
my mouth, pronounce words a different way. He's like no, no, no, no,
we want you for your accent. So I got actually
(09:46):
hired because of my accent.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So it's nice that I can be true to myself
because if not, you know, I don't know what I
this is what I'm giving.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
It's kind of hard to get from it.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, I mean sort of riffing off of that. Like also,
like FCC guidelines have changed over the years. Have you
ever had like a slip?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, I accidentally cursed many times, said things that I
wouldn't and I'm like, hit the button.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Hit the Button's the delay?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Delay? Thank gosh, we've always had that delay. No, No,
it's always so some some how long is eight seconds.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
There are increments of seven seconds, and then another seven
seconds and then another seven.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
We have like up to three.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
You know, there's only a certain multiple hits, like if
you if someone if we go over three, I think
for the day, that's it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, but it builds back up, it does.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I thought it was. I thought it was just.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Like it's like radio. It's like radio d v R.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
It's like basically, somebody curses four times in a row,
real fast, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Well, then we go to commercial, like you skip a
commercial break, but it's almost like you want to skip ahead,
you know, like or you know, skip thirty, skip sixty
on your you know, on a song where behind you're
about listening behind by like sixty seconds. And every time
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we hit the button, we collapse it by you know,
another ten and then ten.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
So we lose however far ahead. Oh wow.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Interesting, But we used to be live, live, live, without
a net without anything interest.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I forgot when that changed.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Then it's been about at least twelve fifty twelve years
for that.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
So twelve years ago, f bombs everywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I never said that. I don't know if I ever
said that. I definitely said I con curse on here. Yes,
I definitely said shit a lot. And the problem was
is that, like I thought, like there was one story
I was doing about Dawson's Creek back in the day,
and I was trying to in my head saying, don't
say he was a shithead. And of course when I
thought don't say he was a shithead, I said it.
And I'm like, that wasn't supposed to come out of
(12:01):
my mouth, but it did, and then they had to
believe it. I think that might have been the first
time I cursed, and I was like, oh, I was
mortified because I curse in real life a lot. It's
very hard for me not to hear.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
But yeah, especially because they're trying to be yourself. Yeah
you're on the show. Wow, that must be a challenge.
I would have trouble with that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. Yeah, cursing, Yeah, it's not easy.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
When you guys brought all the interns in that first date,
I was like, remember, one thing in my head.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Is like, now yourself not to a lot of times
you do it. That's true, you know, because you're so
focused on it and so it comes out it's not good.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Is there a segment that you would add to the
show if you could just add any segment to it?
Oh gosh, and then maybe a trickier one. Is there
one you'd get rid of? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I get rid of phone taps?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I know.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's like I just because when I when we do
phone taps, I used to call my husband crying and
he was like, what's the matter. And I would say
I upset somebody and he would say, that's your job,
and I was like, I know, but I feel awful,
and he goes, I know, he goes but it's your job. Unfortunately,
I'm like this purgap so upset. So I get rid
of phone. I think they've I think they've run their course,
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even though I know it's like one of our highest
testing things. So that was what I get rid of.
I'm trying to think about add anything. I don't really
think of anything that I would add offhand. I don't know.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
I don't know if if you wanted to change or
if you wanted to do something else, Like did you
choose to do the entertainment report?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
They actually when I when they added me to the show,
that would they ask me to do that? If you
wanted to like make your own report, would it be
on entertainment? Yeah, probably at this point it would be.
But see, I've changed my entertainment report over the years
because I used to do gossip be entertainment report and
say things that nowadays I probably would not say, because,
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like we said, things have changed. And I've read a
couple bull of books from artists that they put out,
and they have said in the books how certain things
that people have said affected them and you didn't realize it.
And my example that I always use is Melcy from
the spice girls. You know, she was always known as
the quiet one in the group, you know, and and
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the skinny one in the group. And she had an
eating disorder that nobody knew about, and she was told
to shut her mouth and not say anything, and that
affected her. So when when we do it like h
you know, the quiet one mel s. You say it
like it doesn't mean anything, but to her it meant
something and it hurt. And so I try now when
I look at stories to say, not going to say
it like this, or I'm not going to say this
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today because I don't that's that's very hurtful and not
to you know, put it out there. So I try
harder now because of the way the world is, and
you know, I just want to be kinder with things.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Sometimes when you got a Didny or you got a Kanye,
you know you're gonna say what you're gonna say, but
everybody else is going to agree with you the most part.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
And how do you narrow down the stories that you pick?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I try to think about what the audience is gonna
want to hear, like I will probably I try to
stay away from like nowadays we stay away from like
Brad pitch George Clooney's as much as we can, because
it's not really you know. I mean, like, I know,
Kai Sinett is gonna be a big story because everybody
loves Kai Sinet, so I'll do that. I know Kaisinet
is huge in my house too, you know, and I
have the boys, so I also go by. I'm like, hey,
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does anybody give a crap about this anymore? My kids
will be like no, like all right, you know, but
we do have an older audience as well, so I
have to remember that, you know. At the same time,
we're going to talk about Broadway, and we're gonna talk
about uh, you know, movies and TV shows and streaming
and all kinds of stuff that maybe the younger audience
isn't watching, or or actors and artists that the younger
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audience isn't watching. Or if it's a class as like
a Blue Springsteen or Billy Joel you know, you're gonna
mention that because there who they are, you know, even
though younger generation may not be listening, you know. So
I go through it and I go, oh, I don't
know about this one. And sometimes I'll have the pile
next to me because Elvis will say, hey, how about
that story about whatever, And I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah,
I saw that story that I wasn't going to do it,
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but I'm like, I'll do it if you want, and
then I'll do it, you know.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
So it was like that space thing today, Katy Perry.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, so I covered that. I was very interested in that,
but I think most people were. I had a few
choice words to say about it, you know, because I
just think it's you know, they studied what they trained
for three days, and I feel like all these astronauts
that trained for ever and ever and they're saying, oh,
they're going into space. They're astronauts, not really astronauts. But
it was cool that they got to do it. I
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think it's awesome that they got to do it. But
you're a celebrity, you got money. Actually, we were reading
about depending on your status depends on how much you
have to pay to go on that Yeah, case by
case basis.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Lately, if you have a higher status, are you paying more?
Are you paying less attention? Like I'm so curious.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I wonder if you have more visibility on social and
stuff like that. If they take that to account and
think like, well, they're going to give us so much
social and people see it, I don't know, they don't
have to pay as much. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
And then it really puts into perspective like how much
that really means to them mentally in terms of like
the financial aspect, because like it was like millions, so
they were paying, Yeah, some of them pay million an
eleven minute trip.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Millions millions of wiz And I think you have to
pay like what we're saying, one hundred thousand to secure
that just that secure your place, and then you have
to pay the rest or something like that. Yeah, and
that might be.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Missing crazy ridiculous steps. It was wild.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
It's ridiculous. But if you got it, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
See, I don't think that's what I would be doing
with it.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
If I had it, I would.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Okay, not like like I'm not actually gonna go to space,
but like if someone was like, yo, like for like
a little bit of what you have, you can fly
around for a little bit for eleven minutes, I'd.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Be like, Okay, that's kind of like, yeah, that sounds
like kind of fun.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Eleven minutes, Like come on, I know, I think the
eleven minutes is more appealing to me really.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Like I want to do it, but I don't want
to stay there.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, it look like it was so fast though they
were saying like the I probably would have vomitated all
over the no I know, like fine, yeah, I'm good
on true.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
Because I hate roller coasters, so I don't know how
I would do that. Really, For the first time I
was dying from the zero safety mouth, I was like,
oh my god, and then I was a fine, but like,
so I can't do a space ship.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Now that free fall drop and everything, like i'd be
literally yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Although when the parachutes like went it was only seventeen
miles per hour.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
I'd still I can't. I I'm wong with roller coaster.
I can fly airplanes. I can't do anything else that
goes in the air.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I hate it.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
My number one swear off is helicopters. But then I
see that, I'm like, maybe that might take Number one
is a rocket ship, because yeah, I think that kind of.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Fun, like flo around.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Maybe I didn't have kids, I would just I would
say yes, but I think that I think about the
kid factor and think about, well, something could go wrong,
you don't know, or like that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
One like group that was up for like nine months
when they were supposed to be there for like two
weeks or something. That's the thing picture that Katie Perry
gets suck up there for a year, like you never know, like.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
People up there. I mean these people were not you know.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
But even more so like this like fake mission.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I feel like something would go wrong.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I could, Yeah, I would be thinking I didn't leave
out enough vitamins.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I'm as you forget your phone, you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Bring your phone up.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I don't know, probably would.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
I wonder how much they packed for eleven minutes they
got stocked.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I don't think they took anything. It didn't look like
they took anything.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
They honestly might not have went up high enough to
get stuck.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
We did just go up then down.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yes, it happened in the capital like came apart on purpose,
and then that came back to earth and then they
had three parachutes that came out and then they landed.
They didn't landed someplace else. We don't know where they landed.
And then they had to drive all the trucks out
like and their families got to come out there, and
everybody was out there. The Kardashians were out.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
There, so.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Apparently they're friends with Lauren Sanchez. That's what I was talking.
I was like what, I was like, I love a Kardashian, yes,
but why are they out there?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Why weren't I feel like one of them would be
on that, Like, I feel like, why aren't the Carolinians
on there?
Speaker 8 (20:50):
Do it?
Speaker 4 (20:50):
And would say skims.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Maybe maybe.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
So every week we talk about what we're listening to, okay,
so I want to know what you're listening to and
if it was up to you to pick the music.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Okay. So this morning I was listening to the Cash
recording of and Juliet on Broadway.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
So good.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's like one of them, you'll love it. I've been
listening to the new ed scheron song let me look
at my playlist? Was yes, you know, I love my
Galway Girl, but that's that's.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
So.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I've been listening to Kasha Yepika. I love that single.
I've been listening to music from six the Musical, which
is awesome. You haven't seen that. That's a great show too.
I'm listening to a lot of ks I. Kendrick Lamar
is on here, so you know, I I like everything.
I tend to like a little bit of everything. So
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Wicked is on here? Been listening to that, so you
know it's Ed. You know Ed Sheeron's my favorite, so
I love him.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Yeah, I'm curious because you mentioned a couple of musicals
slash Broadway shows that had their soundtracks on Where did
the like love for Broadway originally come from? Because I've
heard you mentioned it.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Originally I wanted to be on Well, there was two
things I wanted, well, three things I wanted to do
with my life. I wanted to be a TV reporter.
That never happened in college. I never went near the
television station. I somebody asked me in the elevator, do
you want to do news on the radio station. I
said yes, went to the radio station, fell in love,
and never left. So that's how that happened. But I
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wanted to perform in Disney. I auditioned for the college
program in Disney World.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I made it to the final cut, and then they said, look,
we're not trying to like build a show around everyone.
We're actually trying to just put you in a show
right now. We don't have a place for you, but
we're going to put you on hold and if something
comes up then maybe you know, we'll call you. And
then the other thing I wanted to do was be
on Broadway. Before on Broadway. In college, I was the
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president of the theater company for two years Chapel Players
at Saint John's University. I did theater my entire time
that I was there. I wanted to pound the pavement
when I when I left college, my father was thrilled
with that. And I mean, I I don't know if
you guys know that. For my freshman year of high school,
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I went to Preston High School and Jennifer Lopez was
my choreographer. She had graduated from Preston High School. Yeah,
she had graduated from Preston High School. She came back
to the school. Her sister Linda was a junior at
the time and I was a freshman. So she was
my junior sister where she had to take care of me.
And then I was in choir with her sister, Leslie.
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So I knew j Low before she was even a
fly girl. We used to hang out a McDonald's. She
drove me home a couple of times. Yeah, so she I.
So I used to do theater in high school and
then Mark Anthony before he was Mark Anthony, your you know,
worldwide singer, was trying to make it in the world
of freestyle and he's from the Bronx. He was in
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my house offering me a record deal, and my dad
his people took my dad and myself out to lunch.
My dad didn't trust anybody, and so he was like, yeah,
I don't think it's a good idea for you to sign.
I want up not signing. And every time I would
say to my father, Dad, that's Mark Anthony, you remember
Mark Anthony, he was like, uh huh, uh huh, you
wouldn't be where you were. And it's true. If I
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had done all these other things, if I'd done Disney,
if I gone to try to do Broadway, if it does,
I would not be here. So things happen the way
that they're supposed to, and you know, I'm here. You know,
I was very blessed with how I got here. And
now I've always been here, so you know, and I've
gotten to be on Broadway. I mean, I was in Footloose,
I was in Aladdin. I mean, so I've gotten to
do those things. It's good.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Do you ever hope to be like a sun cast
on Broadway, like long term, it'd be cool.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
It would definitely be cool. I don't think it will
ever happen.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
It's like early morning then late night, Shay.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Not think that would happen, but it would be something
cool to but no.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Wow, the lore of the show just keeps running back.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Idea, you didn't know any of the stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Do you know that I could have dated justin Timberlake. Oh,
he asked me out twice when Wow, where you were here?
So yeah, So the first time he asked me out,
he was sixteen or seventeen. It was when he first
started with n Sync and he was here. Nobody really
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knew who they were at all. They were brand new.
I did that show Pajama Party that I told you
guys about. So we were interviewing them for hours, you
know whatever. He said, Oh, well, I had just started
to date my husband at the time. Oh, and I
said no. I said, I appreciate it, but no, you're
too young for me. I'm dating somebody. Blah blah blah.
He really was not my type at all. Very nice,
(25:48):
very nice. They were all nice. And he said, when
I'm eighteen, I'm going to ask you out again. I
was like, okay, and he did. He left me a
message on like a reel to real. Remember, I don't
even know where he left me a mess and he said,
tell Daniel, I'm eighteen now and then whatever. But I
was like, no, I don't know. And it was very nice,
but I would never know whatever. But yeah, so it's crazy, Like, yeah,
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we have we have lots of stories of things like
that happening. I was backstage at an event and this
guy was talking to me and I thought he was
a home homeless and he said, Hey, do you want
to come with me to the after party? And I
was like, not really, but I know, but thanks for asking.
And then later on I found out it was Aja
from the backstory. Boy, Oh I recognized him.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
How about one of the people who interned here who
banged Usher? Oh, yes, that's one of you guys twenty
five years ago.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Yeah, so what I'm hearing is that's possible.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Now we had somebody that worked here that went out
with Bruno Mars. Oh my god, my dream.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So who are our upcoming Yeah, prospects.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
What are you guys bringing back renee wrap or something.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
That intern huked up with Usher while she was an intern? Know,
they here. She met him somewhere.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
No, she started working for a record label right after us.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
She didn't meet him here, but no, but there.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Was someone who worked here who hooked up with a celebrity.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh what's her name who used to do the I
forgot her name, but she used to be like the
she used to do like the video viography and stuff
like that. She hooked up Bruno Mars asked her out,
and they went out on the date.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
I'm on that path. Hey, if we get Bruno Mars
in here, oh, you and I are going to die.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Hold a camera in here, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
It was a different atmosphere back.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Oh yeah, it was. There, really was.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
You know, we got a lot to live up to.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
That, there's hope.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, guys, we were young and out. We were your
age once. I know you don't think it, but we were.
Actually when I started here, I was what twenty twenty
years old, twenty twenty three, twenty something like that. Oh
will we twenty?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I was twenty, you were twenty two, twenty two.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I was twenty two.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What was your internship at the beginning?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
So I interned for John Bell and oh my gosh,
so what So I called John Bell and I said,
you know when a interne He said, come in for
your interview. I got so we were in seacaucause at
the time. I got lost getting to the radio station.
So when I finally arrived, I was late and I
was hysterically crying, Oh, I'm not gonna get it because
and the way I got to intern was I did
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radio at Saint John's. My friend Joe Malerba, who I'm
still friends with now, came in. He goes, hey, does
anybody want to try for an insured chips at Z
one hundred? And I was like, I knew I was
one hundred every morning and he's like, okay. He gave
me the paperwork, filled it out, sent it in whatever.
So John calls got the interview, and then he never called,
never called, and I kept calling, hey, did you make
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a decision? Not yet? Not yet, not yet, And I
honestly think he was so tired of me calling that
he finally said, you got it, just come in. So
I got the internship that way and came in and
was interning for him. And then John Lander, who was
on the air at the time, who did not phone taps.
They were called nutcrackers. He said, hey, can you help
me out in the studio, and I'm like sure. So
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I was helping him doing some voices for the nutcrackers.
And then what I would do was I wasn't paid
a lot. I wasn't Interns weren't paid back then. So
but I'd come five am and i'd leave at five pm.
And I'd walk around and I'd ask people, Hey, can
I help you in the different departments? You got anything
for me to do? Can I help you out? Because
I knew I wanted to be here when I graduated,
and I I, you know, I was very excited to
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you know, finally get asked to stay on. And when
I did, I was answering the phone I got. I
was a phone up. I got paid four dollars and
twenty five cents an hour. That was the minimum wage
back then. Crazy. And I remember our program director at
the time had just had a baby, and he would
come and he goes, Danielle, could you go to my
house and babysit my baby. He'd take me off the phones.
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I'd go to his house and I'd babysit for a
couple of hours. Now it's back. And then, I mean
I used to have like one of the guys who
headed the company asked if he could hire me away,
and I'd be He's living nanny, Like I was crazy
back then, things were crazy. So yeah, but I remember
I was in communications class with Professor Pattilli at Saint John's,
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who's still there, And when finally John Bell, like I said,
got sick and tired of me calling, and I called
and I found out I got it, and I was
so excited. Any I remember the entire speech class was
so excited, and I was like, oh, we'd even see
one hundred little bit. I know, thirty years later, I'm
still here. It's crazow It's really crazy. I'm very, very blessed,
and I still to this day say, gosh, I can't
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believe I'm here. I still to this day when I
drive in and I'm driving into New York City, I
get I'm like, I can't believe this is We're part
of this, this is you know, it's amazing. It just
really amazes me.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, wonderful. Yeah, we hope to have similar success story.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yes too for any incoming interns. I suppose what would
you recommend I am to do here?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I mean, interning is one of the totally interned where
you want to end up in turning here is great
because we have definitely hired many of our interns for
other things right here right there. So yeah, so you know,
we have definitely hired from within you know before. So
that's great. And I think also, like I said, I
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just be be willing to so many people today, I
feel like think that you're just gonna get things handed
to you on a silver platter. That's not how it works.
You got to put in you know, if someone asks
you to do something, say okay, no problem, I'll do
it obviously if it's not something stupid and you get
in trouble for but like you know, and ask if
you can help, Ask hey can can I help you
with that? Or go to another department and say, hey,
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I'm interested in learning this. Can you can you maybe
teach me? Do you have like, you know, a little
bit of time like this is what I'm telling my
son Spencer because he plays soccer in England and he
he is studying sports marketing and journalism and you know,
uh management, And they don't get a lot of time
to intern there because they're always playing because they play
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all year long. So in the summer, I like, listen,
you need to shadow people, like call up a company
and ask them if you can shadow them for the day,
you know, if it's something you're interested and just like, hey,
I'm really interested in this. Do you mind if I
come and pick your brain and make a meeting and
just sit down for a couple of hours or even
you know, twenty minutes and just find out what you
do because you'll find out one some maybe you're interested
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in something different. And also they may say, hey, you
know what, this kid's got potential. Let me, you know,
see if maybe there's something. Maybe there's not something now,
but maybe there's something in the future, or maybe you know,
I call them for something. Like my son went last
year and helped out at the Prudential Center for a
day and after he left, they all said, gosh, he's
got a great work ethic, and I'm like, yeah, you
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better that shit is not being handed to himself. You know,
Like these are important things, like, you know, if you
really want something, you had a hustle, there's another person
that wants it just as much or even more than
you do. So you need to just put yourself out
there and be the first one it's funny. Mel Robbins
was on with us and she was talking about how
she moved to this place and she didn't have a
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lot of friends, and so she had to be the
first one. She went to the local coffee shop and
she saw the same person every single day. So eventually
she's like, hey, I my name is Mel. I just
moved here, blah blah blah blah. And she found out
that they had just moved here a year before and
they had interests and whatever. So sometimes you have to
be the first one to make the move. They're not
gonna come knock on your door and say, hey, would
you like an internship, or hey, I have a job
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for you. It's not gonna work that way, really not nowadays.
So you got a hustle. You gotta, you know, do
your thing.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Phenomenal advice. Yeah, I said that. I faced.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
The name connection is so important, so important. Dad's been
stressing it to me, like literally last summer I had
to go shadow like ten different places. Yes, because he's like, hey,
if you're not working, go get your name in front
of people. You never know who you're gonna meet.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Who, what's the worst that they can say? No, I
don't have time, okay, ten minutes, five minutes, ten, you know,
but you never know how many people will say sure.
If someone did that to me and said, hey, I'd
be like, come on up, I got fifteen minutes. Come
on up, I'll sit down with you. I'll talk to you.
Why not? You know, you just never.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Know, especially in the time now with like zoom and everything,
you can literally hop on.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I do that all the time, you know, or or
you know or hey, I have an assignment for school.
Can I ask you a bunch of questions? Scary? And
I do stuff like that all the time. Wow, So yeah,
I mean it's it's all they're gonna say is no,
unless they're an asshole, and then they'll say no, you jerk.
Most people are an assholes, or at least I give
them better for the down think they aren't.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, tomorrow we have twenty kids. Show up to the office.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Everyone.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We got to call first. Now, gonnappoint me again, just
show up. But if someone was email and say do
you mind, Yeah, I don't mind. Why not?
Speaker 4 (34:36):
I wanted someone to do that for me.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Yes, Honor, You're welcome, Thank you guys, You're all very sweet. Well,
how do you wrap this up? I'm gonna have to
start listening now.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
You're about to find out how we wrap up here.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
We're starting over there.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, where can we find everyone?
Speaker 5 (34:54):
Well, I'm Stuffanie.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
By user name is stuff laying with to ease and
an underscore.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Well I'm dealing. You can find me on Instagram at
Dylan two two two one.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I'm Leilani and I'm on Instagram at Leilani J Batau.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I'm Ben. My Instagram is Ben Pfeiffer with an extra
R at the end.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I'm Danielle and you can find me at Radio Danielle
Bonaro on Instagram. I don't do Facebook, thank you or Twitter.
I deleted that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And we're the Duran