May 8, 2025 • 37 mins
The weekly podcast from The Lynch & Taco Show on 101one WJRR in Orlando
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Hello everybody, Welcome to another episode of Off
(00:03):
the Air, the weekly podcast from the Lynch and Taco
Show Here on one O one one w j r R.
I'm Pat Lynch, Taco across from me.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hello, and we have a special guest before we introduce you,
would you like me to make your chair a little
more comfortable?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's perfect, okay, because I feel like she's sitting in.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
The all short, I'm sure it's perfect. It's perfect.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
What's up, Raquel?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Raquel is a coworker of ours, but not just any coworker.
She's what do you always say? She's the one that
she knows where the bodies are buried. Yeah, and has
worked here for a very long time as long as
I can remember. And she I'm gonna move that towards
You're good. When did you start here, Raquel?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh? God, I want to stay. April eighteenth of eight.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, Wow, Now, Raquel, she's the nuts and bolts that
holds this together over here. If you started in nineteen
ninety eight, you said, did you come over with Linda Byrd?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I know Linda was in Jacksonville and then Linda was hired.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I was here with Jenny Sue Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Huh, that's the one that hired me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes, so he was here before me. I got here
in ninety six. You were one of the first people
I really met and felt super comfortable with here.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh. I loved you from the start. Your voice was
just super sweet.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Never mind, that's what you are, just genuine as they come.
And it was very clear that you knew what was up,
just in general about everything, and and Cole, like you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Said, inviting and made you feel at home.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And I think your track record speaks volumes for that,
as you've you know, maintained through various regimes here, yes, yes,
and have had to pivot and adjust to various directives
and change and policies and personnel and just the way
business gets done. Yet, Taco, I think you'll be the
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first to say, if you need to cut through red
tape and make something happen, you go to Riquel. Go
to Riquel.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And I don't know if a part of it, I
do think is this that your Jamaican roots I think
really help to weave you into the person that you are.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Where I would say, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's hard to describe Raquel and everything we've already said,
she's the nuts and bolts around here.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Everything is.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
She is the main person now Judy, she's her right
handed woman, and sales right handed woman is Riquel, and
programming with Rick Everett Riquel.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It all revolves around it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So I told Patta, go you know who we need
to have on. I was talking to Rick. We need
to go grab Raquel. So thank you for coming in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Oh anything for you guys, And I loved it when
you worked in sales there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh shut, we do not stop. We don't even repeat
those words.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You did a good job. You did a good job.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I don't want I don't want it to get down
there to wear all of a sudden, they go, oh yeah,
let's let's put another hat on.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, trust me, I understand they do like people
that we are many different hats.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't want to start smoking again, and that would
probably do it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Push them right over the edge.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It would, it would, it really would, it really would.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
All right, So you've seen a lot of stuff happen
here over the years, and you sometimes see stuff happening
before the rest of the building does. That's got to
be incredibly difficult to have to keep a lid on
at times. I've always wondered what that was like being
in your position, because we've seen and heard and watched
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and been part of some weird crap that's happened over
the years. And I joke a lot that one day,
when when me and him get done and aren't here anymore,
there'll be a book.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You write a book, definitely a book.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But I bet you would have a health book to write.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
To you think I have to. I equate it to
working at a bank and counting people's money. It's not
your money.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You're just you don't try to you don't try to
take it home. It's hard, but you just have to
separate yourself and not take it home all the time,
because when I used to take it home.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It wasn't good for my health.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't get a break, You don't.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
How did you end up in this business radio broadcasting?
Is this what you've always done?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I did not do this. It's kind of funny, and
I'm going to bring up the competition. So I used
some work for this company that I was in charge
of real estate.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So the.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Verifying and making sure all the documents before you purchased
a home was accurate and made any kind of change
is to it. And I made really, really, really good money.
But my twins at the time did not know me,
and so I would come home and they would act like.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was a stranger.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And I was listening to real Radio one day, sitting
in my cubicle and just working, and the monsters were
talking about that they were looking for a receptionist. So
I talked to my husband and I said, I think
I need to step back. We need to figure out
how we need to live with less money, because I
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know this receptionist job is not going to pay a lot,
but I am going to be home.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Are you talking about the receptionists that we used to
have at the front.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The receptionist that was on the sales floor. There was
a reception there was in the sales department.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, yes, it was just when we had the two
levels going.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
We had the two levels, and also we had a
reception area, but it was for people to come in.
But it was just like a command center and all
I had to do was to send texts out to
the sellers or the managers and things like that. And
when I applied for the job, I got beat out
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by another person. Because Gail told me and Leslie that
I was overqualified for the position.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, those are two of the sales types from back
in the day.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, oh yeah, yes, they told me I was overqualified
for the position. But the person they hired only wanted
to hang out with the on ear talent and didn't
want to work. And so like three days later they
called me and asked me, is this something I'm still
interested in? Do I realize it's gonna pay less? And
I said, I'm just doing this for my kids.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The person they hired only lasted three days before.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The day three days, three days, so you.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Got you got the second crack at it, and you
said okay, and you never looked back.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I never looked back, except for I'm a virgo, so
I can't just to sit there and answer the phone.
I have to get involved in other things. And so
I evolved the position into something else.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And that position again is the basically the VP of
this building is almost a.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Way that wouldn't you think, Patty, because she's just what
is your official title?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
My official title which Linda gave me the sales operations
manager title. Uh, and now so it's the sales operations
manager slash office manager is my title.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We're talking with Raquel Roberts. She's been working with us
for as long as we can remember. She does a
little bit of everything around here. She's a true character
and a fun person to be around.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And you see, now, Pat, you miss out at the
Christmas parties for and it's no I'm not calling him out,
he had mentioned, because he gets up. He's the bones
of the show that that puts it all together, you
know what I'm saying, like all the news stories, So
I can just come in and fly off the cuff.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I get up at two am every dingy.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That's early.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So when we're getting ah, I'm usually in bed by seven.
So it's and I don't deviate from that, at least
I try not to. I've found that you got to
have a routine to carry these hours, and the second
you break out of that, it's screwshaw all up. Yes, yeah,
So I don't do a lot of extracurricular activity during
the weekend. A lot of these you know, parties and
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stuff are on school nights. As I call him, and
I'd be there the whole time, just going. I got
to get to bed. I got to get to bed.
And I'm like, you know, I don't want to be
there and be a stick in the mud.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, you know, so while we're all getting ship house there,
he's a Raquel's who.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You who do you go to for the drink tickets?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And I've got to control it because people in radio
are alcoholics.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I mean a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's two drink tickets just too.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And they will never drug test here either.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
No, no, And I don't think we should know.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We should probably shouldn't even talk about it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But but.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Pat, you know, just from just from parties that we
do in house here, like for a birthday or for
a get together. Raquel, we got.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
A lest you want to know if you'll sell them.
Weed Jamaican weed, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I tried to grow it one time.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean to cut you off by just like I.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Tried to grow it one time. It did not work
out well for me. It's really hard to grow where.
It's kind of strange that in Jamaica. My dad throws
some seeds and it grows and over here I had
to keep watering it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I had it needs special light.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's what kind of environment where indoors house?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I just had it outside on the patio.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Okay, I mean it did grow into a really bushy bush,
but it didn't have a lot of buds on it.
It eventually got some buds, but not.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, so raquelot grow over here. There's enough shit, truly
can do it all.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't toature love gardened, and I figure it, Hey,
why not try something.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Different another hat that she wears. But no, so she's
always the life of the party. Like you'll look over
at just a sales gathering or something and she's doing
lap dances.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's have to be fun. I just I have to
entertain myself days. It's repetitive and sometimes and this is
supposed to be radio. It's supposed to be fun. Yeah,
she supposed to be fun. You're not a corporate setup.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, you take it to the old school like it
should be when radio.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
When I started, it was you know, soon it was fun.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It was fun.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yes, it wasn't always button up tie and you know,
white collar it was. There was always something going on.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, it's looser now though it's.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's somewhat looser. Yeah, somewhat looser.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I still see that meeting across the hall every Monday
and I call it the high anxiety meeting. Oh shit, dude,
I sit here, I go pat, I get like anxiety
just truly.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He truly is worried that he's going to be made
to do sales again. And he'll look here, he'll shush
me up. I'm like, they're not gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Make They won't make you do it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I believe i'd probably go over to cross the street.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Oh my god. No, they won't let you do it again.
They won't let me do it again.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
But if if we get in the pins, we may
call on Batman, we.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
May call No Wonder Woman. Sit back, so onto Jamaica.
We're gonna rewind, fast forward. Whatever she asked me yesterday,
she goes. I just said, hey, no pressure, do you
want to be on the podcast? What's what's it about?
And the only thing I could come up with is
it's not about anything. It's like Seinfeld.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And that's what I loved. When he said that it
was about nothing. I said, Okay, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, it's a it was a no brain.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We don't go any political angles none.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So there's no time for if you if you right now,
I had to get something off your chest or something
that is irking you or bugging you need to be addressed.
Is hey, we'll give you the platform right now. Yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Trouble can't we be adults in the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh god, why can't we beelhouse?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't even use this for I don't understand why
we can't be adults in the bathroom. I mean I
ran in there this morning, and you know, I drink
a lot of water in the morning, and I ran
in and I ran right back out, and I was like,
what in the hell.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
This is the women's room, This is in the women's room.
What happened over there?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It just people don't flush? And I don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh god.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So granted it was number one, but but it's still
not They don't flush. So I put a sign in
the women's bathroom similar to the one I put in
the men's bathroom.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That was one of the greatest signs ever, the toilet paper.
Toilet paper instructions.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yes, just just use a little and flush.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah. Now, Raquel, you've got to be the first to
acknowledge the history of the plumbing issues, specifically the higher
up you go in this building, which we're on the
top floor. It's it's it's always been a problem up
here as long as we can remember, especially the men's room.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But it's a problem because the men.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I guess, all right, we gave you guys two ply
toilet paper. Look, I don't think you guys should get
two plyed toilet paper.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You should get what he had the charge for that.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
There should be one ply, because you guys wanted up
like in a boxing glove and try to flush.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He's the professional with this, he's he can elaborate on
how he has involved.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Will not cannot handle that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
She knows the client that I've been trying to get
for years now. I did a whole pitch on it
that they played for sales. And do you remember I'm
a dude and I wife dude wipes, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So to carry him carries own. He doesn't even use
the house.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Toilet, and I don't because I went to one ply
and so I have this, but I want you to
know that after I put that sign in English and Spanish.
Mm hmmm, we've hadn't had any plumbing issues.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
When was the last good brown flood we had here? Oh,
the actual flood flood which we've seen that more than
double digit time. Oh we've walked in and been yeah,
it's disgusting. It's been quite some time. And I know
the signs helped.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Look over there, cal see right next to the microphone
stand roll of toilet paper. So I bring in the
good stuff, contell, and I just use a couple I
just use a couple pieces and then a dude wipe.
And I don't flush the dude wipe because I don't
want the place.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You can flush the dude.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I know you can't. But hell and high water is
what's gonna come up.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Probably, I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's like this morning, I put signs all in the
women's bathroom every single stop.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It has this big flat it says stop.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Look back, flush bitches, and then in red wash your hands.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
It's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I just want to verify this. I gave you carte
blanche to just let it rip on whatever was irking
you that needed to be addressed.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Wow, no you never have to no, you never have
to apologize. I was just surprised that with all the
various things that pots that are boiling around here, any
given moment, we go right to the bathroom, which certainly
is a common denominator for many of us. I guess
painfully obvious.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
You know, did you catch what she said as you
were switching your cameras around, By the way, we're debuting
the new cameras, which Pat will tell you about in
a minute.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I got it, you know, I figured this out right here.
I need to get Frank to lengthen. I don't want
to pull on this switcher here. It's out of my
arm's reach, is what I'm saying. So it's like I'm
having a lead step on one camera. We don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no,
I want to.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I wanted to give the multi agle.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I explained this the other day. Raquel.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We're not going in this yet. I still want to say.
This is Raquel. She runs things in this building pretty much.
We'll get as our guest, they're working fine. What what
I'm saying, it's yes, guess, Raquel. Thank you for being
on longtime co worker here.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
With us at.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
iHeart in Orlando. But no, I told you. These cameras
just got installed this week. We're just learning the equipment
and I haven't had to run a video switcher since
I was in college. At UCF. Obviously I leaned on
the radio side of things. I really didn't pay attention
for shit when it came to the TV instruction stuff,
although I did have to, you know, for projects, we
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had to learn how to do that. So I'm like
having to It's like it is sort of like riding
a bike muscle.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, so it's coming back. It's coming back.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But it'd be a lot easier if I could have
it was over there. Well know, we had this is
brand new piece right now. Okay, it's just the wires
I don't think are long enough to be here, So
I could just do it on the floor if it
was over there, Raquel, that'll be his left hand.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You can get longer wires, come on, Frank is the
best he can get.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The longer we'll make it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
So back to the bathroom that I was getting at
before I mentioned reintroduced our guests today, I have a
little bone.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
To pick on the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, go ahead, picket.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I use the first floor quite often, well, third floor.
First of all, it has their own private toilet paper. Yes,
they have like not a cottonel but something below because
it has a name on it. Yes, and you've heard that, yes, okay,
And then have you heard this one the first floor
and I believe other floors got brand new toilet seats.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I also heard that.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I also, I have a ticket into the building requesting those.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay, because I honestly could not send it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I'd say, hey, Raquel.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That's what you can.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
If you see something that they're having that we don't have,
please let me know.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Hey, let's talk. Though I've known you by a whole
well more than half of my life. They have new
seats downstairs.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Send it to me, Send it to me to have
a ticket in.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Does that porter dude work all four floors?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Our floor is exclusive just for us.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
So they rock that couple that does it rock.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yes, we have our own cleaning crews, so we have
to stalk our own supplies, get our own cleaning stuff.
We have our own company that come in. We don't
allow the building to come in our area and clean.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Hey, over the last almost thirty years that you've been here,
did any of the higher up yuckay yucks ever try
to push to get their own personal bathroom installed?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Not to my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Stunned by that, not to my knowledge, or like a
shower shower to be a great idea to have because
the space.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Wasn't there, because remember back in the day, we had
way more people, had way more offices.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And yeah, well me and.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Him were just the other day floating the idea trying
to sublet some of this area as a little side hustle.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Oh my god, I tried to do that madam self too,
because there's a lot of freaking empty.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Just Pat threw this idea out there we were talking
about because some guy did it in a train station
and he worked for the train or the subway and
he just built a small house in there.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
For himself Caltran Caltrain in California. Dude was like a
supervisor some sort and he worked out of one of
the stations and they had excess space. So what he
was doing he was using state funds to UH to
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fund the buildout of what essentially became an apartment that
he lived in for free. And he did this slowly,
but surely they wouldn't question him on any expenses under
three thousand dollars, okay, dollars to have some drywall put up.
Under three thousand dollars to buy a couple of appliances,
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Oh that's no that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Remember I control the security system.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
So if we have people that we can rent out
the space to, I can get them access to the door.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
See, I can get them access to the Now we have.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Our in NTR, as they call it, non traditional. You
imagine running this up the flagpole all the way the top.
To mister Pittman, It's like, you're not gonna believe what
these idiots down in ORDLANDA want to do. But they're
making a hand over fist. They're just they're just inviting. Uh.
They put an ad in the real estate pages for
people just to move in. It's we're not even zoned
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for single occupancy.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
But we can do it. We can rent out the
conference room. You see how these conference room are set up.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
And plus four O nine is getting ready to have
a faceless okay, so we can.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Rent them out.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Four O nine's are big up, massive, like performance area.
A lot of you have been in there for concerts
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
With the rental though, I mean, you get one nut
job in here in your kind of screwed. But Pat,
she worked in real estate before. Remember she said that they.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
See those skills could come back to you can come back.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
We could figure this out right, and we must know
some kind of bounder who we can use. Yes, just
to make sure that when whoever comes in is supposed
to be here.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We got guys in bike clubs that have told us
if we ever need anybody done, they will do it.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And I have access to the camera and the lobby
that just says you're being recorded.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I can pull it up and see who's in the lobby.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm telling you this. These guys were serious when they
said you need anything taken care of.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Buddy of mine from going back to South Florida days
he might have been in a somewhat of a controversial
bike club. He was, and he pulled. He goes, he pat,
you ever get somebody giving you a hard time, given
you guys a hard time, just let me know, he goes,
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We'll disappear them.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I go, I love it. He goes, No, that'll be it.
And my job was problem.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Done, and I know I love it. I love it.
I'm like, hey man, you always have to have it. Yes,
you have to be somebody in the crew like that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You need to disappear anybody, Yes, you do.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You you mentioned Jenny Sue that you started with I honestly,
I thought that you may have come over and the
Linda time now, because I started here in interning, Jenny
Sue came and spoke at U c F and I
remember when she was there. They said any more questions
and I had to be the little dick and I'm like,
are you single?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And everybody whatever, And then.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Afterwards I said, hey, I was just messing around. She goes, no,
I work in radio, and I said, hey, do you
guys give tours? And she actually walked me around in
like ninety three, ninety three or ninety four I think
it was, And then I started.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
In, Yeah, she's a nice lady.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Remember she'd fly to a different state to get her
hair done.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Happened something like boo money. I believe she moved to
what's that rich? Oh my gosh, I can't even think
of it now. No, not, this is out of the country,
you know where all.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The yachts will come in.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Monica.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
She moved to one.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I don't know what she's into, but she is really
good Shenac.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
She is the one that taught me about the f
you fund. She and I taught Sup and that when
he first came over here, and he said, I I
appreciate that. I always remember. Well, I got that from
Jenny Sue. She said it to our to our college class,
and she said, one of the biggest things a busines
and is you got to remember to watch your own
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rear end and and she said, and something that you
call an FU fund, have enough set aside that if
they're doing you wrong, whatever, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I tried doing that, and I always found that my
my FU fund turned into the combination F you fund.
Oh we need a new roof.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
No no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You know what I'm saying. It's just you know, then.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It was an F fund.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
No no, because like the F you fund, you should
never have a bank card on it. This is the
fund that if you need to get the money, you
have to physically go into the bank. And who the
hell wants to do that?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well or nowadays you get you don't
get a bank card and you just get one of
those online banks, yes, and just PLoP it in there.
We did that a few years ago. That's actually starting
to flourish nicely.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
That can probably turn into high heel s. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, that's that's really started to bear.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Some regular banks.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You leave your money in there, you're getting a zero
point zero one interest rate.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Interesting, ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Hell wants nine cents? Right, nobody wants.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You ain't got a phone that.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You can't get an FU fund with that.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Now you're you're actually nothing to do with the FU fund.
That's a bad seg. But you're a are Have you
completed your house in Jamaica?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
No, and that's another FU because the hurricane season is
getting ready to start and the last ETA is December.
They said it should be done by December.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You're building a new place in Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, we're building a townhouse.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's awesome. Hey, my wife and I went to Jamaica
on our honeymoon, so I've only been there once. Why
are so many houses that are just half built and
then they just leave them?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Because it's not that they leave them.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
What they do is they build on top of it
when they have funds, so they start the project, it
will stay there and then when they have some more money, like.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Jesus building style in Altmont, Okay, I.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Got you, when they have more funds, they'll build on
it because they don't want want to take out a
loan put themselves in debt. They only keep adding on
or pushing the project along when they have money.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So where you're building in Jamaica, is that property that
you own or.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
We're building in development.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That's fifteen minutes from Kingston Airport, which is not the
tourist airport, but it's also the main airport, and it's
in our resort styles set up the townhouse.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So those houses that I'm talking about that you go
down there and you see that look like they've just
been abandoned.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
That they're just living in the other part of it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
If they wanted to sell that property, what's are people
swooping in trying to buy that stuff? Or okay, people
do from out of the country.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
And all you need if you're out of the country
is a TRN number to buy property in Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well, because some countries it's next to impossible if you're
not if you're not.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
A resident here, No, you can buy property.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Wow. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, And if you need that TRN number, I bet
Raquel could get it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I can get you a TRN get you whatever you need.
I can get it for you.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
But no, once it's done, we're not going to be
there all the time, so we'll rent it out to
people that we know and trust.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's cool. I have a friend who does that. Actually
he's an artist, made this shirt, but he has a
couple places in Hawaii that are just like tucked away.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He keeps a jeep.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
There and he's like, man, if you just give me,
you know, five hundred bucks, you and your wife can
stay for you know, two weeks if you want use
the jeep.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
The locals know me and they know only my friends come.
It's the cool way.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
And then but not just like rented out when whoever
is rented it out that I'm gonna fly down too.
That way, every thing is set up there if you
need a local tour guide and just to take you
to the local places. Jamaica is fun when you do
the local stuff and not the Torresi stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You have so much.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Fun and you'll you'll be safe because you're with somebody
that's a guide that rickel my uh.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I loved it down. It was a nice, great place
to visit. We enjoyed our honeymoon, except for my wife
getting the double ear infection on the second day. We
were there.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Oh, she must have got water in her ear.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I don't know what it was, but she was down
for the count for several days till the castor oil
in it. Well, yeah, they actually we actually had the
hotel actually summons the doctor and he showed up with
his big jug prescription whatever it was, and gave him
to her, and she felt better a couple days later.
Not only that, it was like, hey, doc, could you
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write us like some sort of receipt. We're gonna try
to run this.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Oh my god, that's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And then I ended up spending a good chuck my
honeymoon was some dude who was there by himself from
Alabama and we were just getting s faced while my wife.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
There's nothing wrong with that, that's the whole point.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I mean, I was just down there the other day
and I just sat in the mango tree and ate mangos.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That's all, okay, anything just just.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I just ate mangos. I just ate mangos every second.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Raquel, We're super glad that you were able to jump
in here and just you know, shoot the ship with us.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Anything for you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
She she she really truly does run the show around here.
She makes stuff happen.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And we give her credit on the air. You've heard
us say it before, but I didn't think he could
ever give enough credit.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And I also, I want to say thank you again
and I agree wholeheartedly. You've always kind of watched out
for us.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Please. You guys are family and.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
And uh and we appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Guys are family. You you're supposed to do for family.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Were you in the meetings when they had to fire us?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
She was?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I thought, I thought so mine was a different remember
they separated.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, well, and I also that was I was very upset.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
We can't go into too much of that, you know, NDA,
but I will. I will say this that when my
session was done, Uh, I got up and uh they
had told her she was gonna have to walk me out.
That's okay, right, Hell, I'm you know, I'm not a
threat here. And she goes, let him go, let him
go off. And I walked out the building by myself,
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held my head, yes, And then I got in my
vehicle and UH was like, what the hell just happened?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, because you have to think about it. My god,
what happened? But you know what I'm going to tell
you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Something.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
My grandmother always say this to me, who God blessed,
Let no man curse you two are blessed. Because it
wasn't long after you guys were back in the building.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It seemed like a long time, but it wasn't that long.
Two years. It wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know what it's like to a convenience store for
two years.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
It wasn't that long.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It wasn't two years.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
It was almost it was almost two years. It was
like a year and ten months. January January eleventh, two
thousand and eight, was back here in May of twenty twelve. January.
I'm sorry, yeah, because he was about five months Ober.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I was back October October.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
They uh, wow, but did we did you come? Wait
a minute, but that was before this.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The they brought me back initially part time, yes, and
it was fine. And then they're like, okay, we're we're
going to expand you to full time. Yes, and they
I think it was afternoons, afternoons.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Bob come in on Fridays.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
On Fridays, but he's also he's coming back as a
sales guy that he's not We're not gonna And I'm like, oh,
this is really gonna work.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I know, but that's the how you finish the system
to get things done the game.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't know what you all did or what what,
but thank you, yes, thank you, because we really we both.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Thought we needed you guys back.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Do you know how close we came to actually being
on air across the street at oppetity.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We can't do that.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, we were offered jobs. In fact, everything happened every I.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Would have dug up your non compete to put a stop.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Everything happens for a reason, and we had actually come
to terms. This is back when ninety six y five
was a competitor to j R Rock music wise, we
we were going to be the afternoon show, and we
had agreed to terms. BBA the Lump Sponge Love Sponge
was in mornings. They're gonna put us in afternoon. It's
the same temple we had here on j R R
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for a few years.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And uh we went over to the building and did
a demo for him and then Pat. After we did
the demo in their building, they had a producer for us.
He said, Hey, I didn't want to tell you this
before because I wanted you to just be yourself and
have fun. Let's go to Hooters I think it was
and have a beer. I got some news for you,
and it was that Pat.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, that that we don't we're in We're in.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Oh you guys can believe me again here.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
That we're in here.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah. So they got a call from from Rick Everett
out of the blue, and I hadn't was in communicado
for almost two years. And I know it wasn't his fault.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
He was you know, Rick, Rick is super and.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
He said, would you be interested in a meeting with
me and Linda? I said about what he was coming
back to work? I said, what about Bob? Bob? Bob
took it out and so we, uh, we agreed to
that meeting. And the way it worked out was get
back to what I was just saying. We thought we
were going to work at UH ninety six five ht Q,
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and uh they made a change. Unbeknownst to the guy
who signed us to work there. They fired his ass.
Oh yeah, he was ahead before we were able to
put our John John Hancock's on the deal. And that
was it was like they ghosted us and then we
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get the call from Rick.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
And that's divine. That's what I was saying about who
God blessed. Whether you're religious or not, it's just something
that my grandmother always said to me, always say, you know, Raquel,
who God bless Let no man kers, You're blessed, So
you're you're good.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But you might have put one more hot dog on
that damn roller grille.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
You were just going to set that ship on fire.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh my gosh, we had.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
It was the point where we had negotiated our deals.
Not only not only it was done.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
He's out, he's out, and they just they're not a
rock station anymore. Yeah, probably pretty good. We didn't get
that because that's what it was they were doing. They
had another plane going behind his back and they hatched
that plane. Next thing you know, they're gone. They're not
doing rock music anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
My mom calls it a god wink. When you when
you said yeah, when you said like, what is it
let god?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Who?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Gods?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Who God blessed?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
My mom calls it a god went like kind of like, hey,
he's looking down saying I've got control.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
So when you guys came back, it was just yes,
But it was kind of strange having you on the
fourth floor, Pat and Taco on the third thing. Yeah,
but it was still a way to you know, you had.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
To show that you were doing in still in purgatory,
y purgatory.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
They still kind of had you by the puppet strings
and then. But we say it over and over to people,
thank you to Linda Bird and everybody for for actually
giving us a second chance.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And Rick Everett, do you.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Think Linda would want to come on this podcast?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Of course, Linda would love it.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Bob brought that up and I was like, Linda would
do it.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I got a whole different list of people that were
slowly going to I think you.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Should bring Linda, and she would definitely do it. She
was just here, you know, she received I think it's
f A B.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The Badcaster Hall of Fame for Florida.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, and they were here on Monday doing her interview.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Good deal.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
She's a cool.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
No, she is an amazing woman, an amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You are too, sad? All right, we get the hell
out here.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
By the way, A lot of the listeners who are
watching while we do this live on Facebook like the
new camera set up. Bear with us, it'll get better.
I just I can't control the actual equipment within arms reach.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm gonna get them a stick backscratcher.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I'll order one from Stables.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I got you, bat, I got something in my desk.
I can find something. You can hit camera to camera.
But they are also asking you for weed on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I can come and help you grow some.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
She's from Jamaica, so of course she has weed on
her at all. She just her cars made cheat you
talk styles made out of weed.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
And you also have seen Raquel over the years at
Earthday Birthday when we do, because she's everywhere helping out.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yes, they keep doing what you do.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Thank you guys, and you guys keep doing what you
do because I love having you guys in the building.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Being who you are too. I mean that is thank you.
Thank you, good woman.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Thank you for checking out Lynching Tacos Off the Air podcast,
New episodes every Thursday. Be safe and we'll chat again soon.
All right, Hello everybody, Welcome to another episode of Off
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the Air, the weekly podcast from the Lynch and Taco
Show Here on one O one one w j r R.
I'm Pat Lynch, Taco across from me.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hello, and we have a special guest before we introduce you,
would you like me to make your chair a little
more comfortable?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's perfect, okay, because I feel like she's sitting in.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
The all short, I'm sure it's perfect. It's perfect.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
What's up, Raquel?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Raquel is a coworker of ours, but not just any coworker.
She's what do you always say? She's the one that
she knows where the bodies are buried. Yeah, and has
worked here for a very long time as long as
I can remember. And she I'm gonna move that towards
You're good. When did you start here, Raquel?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh? God, I want to stay. April eighteenth of eight.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, Wow, Now, Raquel, she's the nuts and bolts that
holds this together over here. If you started in nineteen
ninety eight, you said, did you come over with Linda Byrd?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I know Linda was in Jacksonville and then Linda was hired.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I was here with Jenny Sue Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Huh, that's the one that hired me.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes, so he was here before me. I got here
in ninety six. You were one of the first people
I really met and felt super comfortable with here.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh. I loved you from the start. Your voice was
just super sweet.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Never mind, that's what you are, just genuine as they come.
And it was very clear that you knew what was up,
just in general about everything, and and Cole, like you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Said, inviting and made you feel at home.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And I think your track record speaks volumes for that,
as you've you know, maintained through various regimes here, yes, yes,
and have had to pivot and adjust to various directives
and change and policies and personnel and just the way
business gets done. Yet, Taco, I think you'll be the
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first to say, if you need to cut through red
tape and make something happen, you go to Riquel. Go
to Riquel.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
And I don't know if a part of it, I
do think is this that your Jamaican roots I think
really help to weave you into the person that you are.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Where I would say, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It's hard to describe Raquel and everything we've already said,
she's the nuts and bolts around here.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Everything is.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
She is the main person now Judy, she's her right
handed woman, and sales right handed woman is Riquel, and
programming with Rick Everett Riquel.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
It all revolves around it.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So I told Patta, go you know who we need
to have on. I was talking to Rick. We need
to go grab Raquel. So thank you for coming in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Oh anything for you guys, And I loved it when
you worked in sales there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Oh shut, we do not stop. We don't even repeat
those words.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You did a good job. You did a good job.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I don't want I don't want it to get down
there to wear all of a sudden, they go, oh yeah,
let's let's put another hat on.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
But no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, trust me, I understand they do like people
that we are many different hats.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't want to start smoking again, and that would
probably do it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Push them right over the edge.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It would, it would, it really would, it really would.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
All right, So you've seen a lot of stuff happen
here over the years, and you sometimes see stuff happening
before the rest of the building does. That's got to
be incredibly difficult to have to keep a lid on
at times. I've always wondered what that was like being
in your position, because we've seen and heard and watched
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and been part of some weird crap that's happened over
the years. And I joke a lot that one day,
when when me and him get done and aren't here anymore,
there'll be a book.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You write a book, definitely a book.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But I bet you would have a health book to write.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
To you think I have to. I equate it to
working at a bank and counting people's money. It's not
your money.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You're just you don't try to you don't try to
take it home. It's hard, but you just have to
separate yourself and not take it home all the time,
because when I used to take it home.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
It wasn't good for my health.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't get a break, You don't.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
How did you end up in this business radio broadcasting?
Is this what you've always done?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
I did not do this. It's kind of funny, and
I'm going to bring up the competition. So I used
some work for this company that I was in charge
of real estate.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So the.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Verifying and making sure all the documents before you purchased
a home was accurate and made any kind of change
is to it. And I made really, really, really good money.
But my twins at the time did not know me,
and so I would come home and they would act like.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was a stranger.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And I was listening to real Radio one day, sitting
in my cubicle and just working, and the monsters were
talking about that they were looking for a receptionist. So
I talked to my husband and I said, I think
I need to step back. We need to figure out
how we need to live with less money, because I
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know this receptionist job is not going to pay a lot,
but I am going to be home.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Are you talking about the receptionists that we used to
have at the front.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The receptionist that was on the sales floor. There was
a reception there was in the sales department.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yes, yes, it was just when we had the two
levels going.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
We had the two levels, and also we had a
reception area, but it was for people to come in.
But it was just like a command center and all
I had to do was to send texts out to
the sellers or the managers and things like that. And
when I applied for the job, I got beat out
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by another person. Because Gail told me and Leslie that
I was overqualified for the position.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, those are two of the sales types from back
in the day.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Yes, oh yeah, yes, they told me I was overqualified
for the position. But the person they hired only wanted
to hang out with the on ear talent and didn't
want to work. And so like three days later they
called me and asked me, is this something I'm still
interested in? Do I realize it's gonna pay less? And
I said, I'm just doing this for my kids.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The person they hired only lasted three days before.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The day three days, three days, so you.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Got you got the second crack at it, and you
said okay, and you never looked back.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I never looked back, except for I'm a virgo, so
I can't just to sit there and answer the phone.
I have to get involved in other things. And so
I evolved the position into something else.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And that position again is the basically the VP of
this building is almost a.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Way that wouldn't you think, Patty, because she's just what
is your official title?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
My official title which Linda gave me the sales operations
manager title. Uh, and now so it's the sales operations
manager slash office manager is my title.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We're talking with Raquel Roberts. She's been working with us
for as long as we can remember. She does a
little bit of everything around here. She's a true character
and a fun person to be around.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And you see, now, Pat, you miss out at the
Christmas parties for and it's no I'm not calling him out,
he had mentioned, because he gets up. He's the bones
of the show that that puts it all together, you
know what I'm saying, like all the news stories, So
I can just come in and fly off the cuff.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I get up at two am every dingy.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That's early.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So when we're getting ah, I'm usually in bed by seven.
So it's and I don't deviate from that, at least
I try not to. I've found that you got to
have a routine to carry these hours, and the second
you break out of that, it's screwshaw all up. Yes, yeah,
So I don't do a lot of extracurricular activity during
the weekend. A lot of these you know, parties and
(08:28):
stuff are on school nights. As I call him, and
I'd be there the whole time, just going. I got
to get to bed. I got to get to bed.
And I'm like, you know, I don't want to be
there and be a stick in the mud.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, you know, so while we're all getting ship house there,
he's a Raquel's who.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You who do you go to for the drink tickets?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
And I've got to control it because people in radio
are alcoholics.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I mean a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's two drink tickets just too.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And they will never drug test here either.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
No, no, And I don't think we should know.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
We should probably shouldn't even talk about it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But but.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Pat, you know, just from just from parties that we
do in house here, like for a birthday or for
a get together. Raquel, we got.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
A lest you want to know if you'll sell them.
Weed Jamaican weed, Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I tried to grow it one time.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean to cut you off by just like I.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Tried to grow it one time. It did not work
out well for me. It's really hard to grow where.
It's kind of strange that in Jamaica. My dad throws
some seeds and it grows and over here I had
to keep watering it.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I had it needs special light.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
It's what kind of environment where indoors house?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I just had it outside on the patio.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Okay, I mean it did grow into a really bushy bush,
but it didn't have a lot of buds on it.
It eventually got some buds, but not.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, so raquelot grow over here. There's enough shit, truly
can do it all.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't toature love gardened, and I figure it, Hey,
why not try something.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Different another hat that she wears. But no, so she's
always the life of the party. Like you'll look over
at just a sales gathering or something and she's doing
lap dances.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It's have to be fun. I just I have to
entertain myself days. It's repetitive and sometimes and this is
supposed to be radio. It's supposed to be fun. Yeah,
she supposed to be fun. You're not a corporate setup.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, you take it to the old school like it
should be when radio.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
When I started, it was you know, soon it was fun.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It was fun.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yes, it wasn't always button up tie and you know,
white collar it was. There was always something going on.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, it's looser now though it's.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's somewhat looser. Yeah, somewhat looser.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I still see that meeting across the hall every Monday
and I call it the high anxiety meeting. Oh shit, dude,
I sit here, I go pat, I get like anxiety
just truly.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He truly is worried that he's going to be made
to do sales again. And he'll look here, he'll shush
me up. I'm like, they're not gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Make They won't make you do it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I believe i'd probably go over to cross the street.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Oh my god. No, they won't let you do it again.
They won't let me do it again.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
But if if we get in the pins, we may
call on Batman, we.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
May call No Wonder Woman. Sit back, so onto Jamaica.
We're gonna rewind, fast forward. Whatever she asked me yesterday,
she goes. I just said, hey, no pressure, do you
want to be on the podcast? What's what's it about?
And the only thing I could come up with is
it's not about anything. It's like Seinfeld.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And that's what I loved. When he said that it
was about nothing. I said, Okay, I'm in.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, it's a it was a no brain.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We don't go any political angles none.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So there's no time for if you if you right now,
I had to get something off your chest or something
that is irking you or bugging you need to be addressed.
Is hey, we'll give you the platform right now. Yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Trouble can't we be adults in the bathroom?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh god, why can't we beelhouse?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I don't even use this for I don't understand why
we can't be adults in the bathroom. I mean I
ran in there this morning, and you know, I drink
a lot of water in the morning, and I ran
in and I ran right back out, and I was like,
what in the hell.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
This is the women's room, This is in the women's room.
What happened over there?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It just people don't flush? And I don't understand that.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh god.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So granted it was number one, but but it's still
not They don't flush. So I put a sign in
the women's bathroom similar to the one I put in
the men's bathroom.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
That was one of the greatest signs ever, the toilet paper.
Toilet paper instructions.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yes, just just use a little and flush.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah. Now, Raquel, you've got to be the first to
acknowledge the history of the plumbing issues, specifically the higher
up you go in this building, which we're on the
top floor. It's it's it's always been a problem up
here as long as we can remember, especially the men's room.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
But it's a problem because the men.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I guess, all right, we gave you guys two ply
toilet paper. Look, I don't think you guys should get
two plyed toilet paper.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You should get what he had the charge for that.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
There should be one ply, because you guys wanted up
like in a boxing glove and try to flush.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He's the professional with this, he's he can elaborate on
how he has involved.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Will not cannot handle that.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
She knows the client that I've been trying to get
for years now. I did a whole pitch on it
that they played for sales. And do you remember I'm
a dude and I wife dude wipes, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So to carry him carries own. He doesn't even use
the house.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Toilet, and I don't because I went to one ply
and so I have this, but I want you to
know that after I put that sign in English and Spanish.
Mm hmmm, we've hadn't had any plumbing issues.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
When was the last good brown flood we had here? Oh,
the actual flood flood which we've seen that more than
double digit time. Oh we've walked in and been yeah,
it's disgusting. It's been quite some time. And I know
the signs helped.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Look over there, cal see right next to the microphone
stand roll of toilet paper. So I bring in the
good stuff, contell, and I just use a couple I
just use a couple pieces and then a dude wipe.
And I don't flush the dude wipe because I don't
want the place.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You can flush the dude.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I know you can't. But hell and high water is
what's gonna come up.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Probably, I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's like this morning, I put signs all in the
women's bathroom every single stop.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
It has this big flat it says stop.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Look back, flush bitches, and then in red wash your hands.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
It's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I just want to verify this. I gave you carte
blanche to just let it rip on whatever was irking
you that needed to be addressed.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
And.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Wow, no you never have to no, you never have
to apologize. I was just surprised that with all the
various things that pots that are boiling around here, any
given moment, we go right to the bathroom, which certainly
is a common denominator for many of us. I guess
painfully obvious.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
You know, did you catch what she said as you
were switching your cameras around, By the way, we're debuting
the new cameras, which Pat will tell you about in
a minute.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I got it, you know, I figured this out right here.
I need to get Frank to lengthen. I don't want
to pull on this switcher here. It's out of my
arm's reach, is what I'm saying. So it's like I'm
having a lead step on one camera. We don't know. No, no, no, no, no, no,
I want to.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I wanted to give the multi agle.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I explained this the other day. Raquel.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We're not going in this yet. I still want to say.
This is Raquel. She runs things in this building pretty much.
We'll get as our guest, they're working fine. What what
I'm saying, it's yes, guess, Raquel. Thank you for being
on longtime co worker here.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
With us at.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
iHeart in Orlando. But no, I told you. These cameras
just got installed this week. We're just learning the equipment
and I haven't had to run a video switcher since
I was in college. At UCF. Obviously I leaned on
the radio side of things. I really didn't pay attention
for shit when it came to the TV instruction stuff,
although I did have to, you know, for projects, we
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had to learn how to do that. So I'm like
having to It's like it is sort of like riding
a bike muscle.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, so it's coming back. It's coming back.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But it'd be a lot easier if I could have
it was over there. Well know, we had this is
brand new piece right now. Okay, it's just the wires
I don't think are long enough to be here, So
I could just do it on the floor if it
was over there, Raquel, that'll be his left hand.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You can get longer wires, come on, Frank is the
best he can get.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
The longer we'll make it.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
So back to the bathroom that I was getting at
before I mentioned reintroduced our guests today, I have a
little bone.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
To pick on the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, go ahead, picket.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I use the first floor quite often, well, third floor.
First of all, it has their own private toilet paper. Yes,
they have like not a cottonel but something below because
it has a name on it. Yes, and you've heard that, yes, okay,
And then have you heard this one the first floor
and I believe other floors got brand new toilet seats.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I also heard that.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I also, I have a ticket into the building requesting those.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay, because I honestly could not send it.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I'd say, hey, Raquel.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That's what you can.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
If you see something that they're having that we don't have,
please let me know.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Hey, let's talk. Though I've known you by a whole
well more than half of my life. They have new
seats downstairs.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Send it to me, Send it to me to have
a ticket in.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Does that porter dude work all four floors?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Our floor is exclusive just for us.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
So they rock that couple that does it rock.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yes, we have our own cleaning crews, so we have
to stalk our own supplies, get our own cleaning stuff.
We have our own company that come in. We don't
allow the building to come in our area and clean.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Hey, over the last almost thirty years that you've been here,
did any of the higher up yuckay yucks ever try
to push to get their own personal bathroom installed?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Not to my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Stunned by that, not to my knowledge, or like a
shower shower to be a great idea to have because
the space.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Wasn't there, because remember back in the day, we had
way more people, had way more offices.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And yeah, well me and.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Him were just the other day floating the idea trying
to sublet some of this area as a little side hustle.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Oh my god, I tried to do that madam self too,
because there's a lot of freaking empty.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Just Pat threw this idea out there we were talking
about because some guy did it in a train station
and he worked for the train or the subway and
he just built a small house in there.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
For himself Caltran Caltrain in California. Dude was like a
supervisor some sort and he worked out of one of
the stations and they had excess space. So what he
was doing he was using state funds to UH to
(19:45):
fund the buildout of what essentially became an apartment that
he lived in for free. And he did this slowly,
but surely they wouldn't question him on any expenses under
three thousand dollars, okay, dollars to have some drywall put up.
Under three thousand dollars to buy a couple of appliances,
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Oh that's no that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Remember I control the security system.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
So if we have people that we can rent out
the space to, I can get them access to the door.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
See, I can get them access to the Now we have.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Our in NTR, as they call it, non traditional. You
imagine running this up the flagpole all the way the top.
To mister Pittman, It's like, you're not gonna believe what
these idiots down in ORDLANDA want to do. But they're
making a hand over fist. They're just they're just inviting. Uh.
They put an ad in the real estate pages for
people just to move in. It's we're not even zoned
(20:41):
for single occupancy.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
But we can do it. We can rent out the
conference room. You see how these conference room are set up.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
And plus four O nine is getting ready to have
a faceless okay, so we can.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Rent them out.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Four O nine's are big up, massive, like performance area.
A lot of you have been in there for concerts
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
With the rental though, I mean, you get one nut
job in here in your kind of screwed. But Pat,
she worked in real estate before. Remember she said that they.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
See those skills could come back to you can come back.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
We could figure this out right, and we must know
some kind of bounder who we can use. Yes, just
to make sure that when whoever comes in is supposed
to be here.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We got guys in bike clubs that have told us
if we ever need anybody done, they will do it.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And I have access to the camera and the lobby
that just says you're being recorded.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I can pull it up and see who's in the lobby.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm telling you this. These guys were serious when they
said you need anything taken care of.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Buddy of mine from going back to South Florida days
he might have been in a somewhat of a controversial
bike club. He was, and he pulled. He goes, he pat,
you ever get somebody giving you a hard time, given
you guys a hard time, just let me know, he goes,
(22:04):
We'll disappear them.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I go, I love it. He goes, No, that'll be it.
And my job was problem.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Done, and I know I love it. I love it.
I'm like, hey man, you always have to have it. Yes,
you have to be somebody in the crew like that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You need to disappear anybody, Yes, you do.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
You you mentioned Jenny Sue that you started with I honestly,
I thought that you may have come over and the
Linda time now, because I started here in interning, Jenny
Sue came and spoke at U c F and I
remember when she was there. They said any more questions
and I had to be the little dick and I'm like,
are you single?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And everybody whatever, And then.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Afterwards I said, hey, I was just messing around. She goes, no,
I work in radio, and I said, hey, do you
guys give tours? And she actually walked me around in
like ninety three, ninety three or ninety four I think
it was, And then I started.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
In, Yeah, she's a nice lady.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Remember she'd fly to a different state to get her
hair done.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Happened something like boo money. I believe she moved to
what's that rich? Oh my gosh, I can't even think
of it now. No, not, this is out of the country,
you know where all.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
The yachts will come in.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Monica.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
She moved to one.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I don't know what she's into, but she is really
good Shenac.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
She is the one that taught me about the f
you fund. She and I taught Sup and that when
he first came over here, and he said, I I
appreciate that. I always remember. Well, I got that from
Jenny Sue. She said it to our to our college class,
and she said, one of the biggest things a busines
and is you got to remember to watch your own
(24:02):
rear end and and she said, and something that you
call an FU fund, have enough set aside that if
they're doing you wrong, whatever, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I'm out.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I tried doing that, and I always found that my
my FU fund turned into the combination F you fund.
Oh we need a new roof.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
No no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You know what I'm saying. It's just you know, then.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It was an F fund.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
No no, because like the F you fund, you should
never have a bank card on it. This is the
fund that if you need to get the money, you
have to physically go into the bank. And who the
hell wants to do that?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, well or nowadays you get you don't
get a bank card and you just get one of
those online banks, yes, and just PLoP it in there.
We did that a few years ago. That's actually starting
to flourish nicely.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
That can probably turn into high heel s. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, that's that's really started to bear.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Some regular banks.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You leave your money in there, you're getting a zero
point zero one interest rate.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Interesting, ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Hell wants nine cents? Right, nobody wants.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You ain't got a phone that.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
You can't get an FU fund with that.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Now you're you're actually nothing to do with the FU fund.
That's a bad seg. But you're a are Have you
completed your house in Jamaica?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
No, and that's another FU because the hurricane season is
getting ready to start and the last ETA is December.
They said it should be done by December.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You're building a new place in Jamaica.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, we're building a townhouse.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's awesome. Hey, my wife and I went to Jamaica
on our honeymoon, so I've only been there once. Why
are so many houses that are just half built and
then they just leave them?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Because it's not that they leave them.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
What they do is they build on top of it
when they have funds, so they start the project, it
will stay there and then when they have some more money, like.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Jesus building style in Altmont, Okay, I.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Got you, when they have more funds, they'll build on
it because they don't want want to take out a
loan put themselves in debt. They only keep adding on
or pushing the project along when they have money.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
So where you're building in Jamaica, is that property that
you own or.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
We're building in development.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That's fifteen minutes from Kingston Airport, which is not the
tourist airport, but it's also the main airport, and it's
in our resort styles set up the townhouse.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So those houses that I'm talking about that you go
down there and you see that look like they've just
been abandoned.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
That they're just living in the other part of it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
If they wanted to sell that property, what's are people
swooping in trying to buy that stuff? Or okay, people
do from out of the country.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
And all you need if you're out of the country
is a TRN number to buy property in Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Well, because some countries it's next to impossible if you're
not if you're not.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
A resident here, No, you can buy property.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Wow. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, And if you need that TRN number, I bet
Raquel could get it.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I can get you a TRN get you whatever you need.
I can get it for you.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
But no, once it's done, we're not going to be
there all the time, so we'll rent it out to
people that we know and trust.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's cool. I have a friend who does that. Actually
he's an artist, made this shirt, but he has a
couple places in Hawaii that are just like tucked away.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
He keeps a jeep.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
There and he's like, man, if you just give me,
you know, five hundred bucks, you and your wife can
stay for you know, two weeks if you want use
the jeep.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
The locals know me and they know only my friends come.
It's the cool way.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
And then but not just like rented out when whoever
is rented it out that I'm gonna fly down too.
That way, every thing is set up there if you
need a local tour guide and just to take you
to the local places. Jamaica is fun when you do
the local stuff and not the Torresi stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You have so much.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Fun and you'll you'll be safe because you're with somebody
that's a guide that rickel my uh.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I loved it down. It was a nice, great place
to visit. We enjoyed our honeymoon, except for my wife
getting the double ear infection on the second day. We
were there.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Oh, she must have got water in her ear.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I don't know what it was, but she was down
for the count for several days till the castor oil
in it. Well, yeah, they actually we actually had the
hotel actually summons the doctor and he showed up with
his big jug prescription whatever it was, and gave him
to her, and she felt better a couple days later.
Not only that, it was like, hey, doc, could you
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write us like some sort of receipt. We're gonna try
to run this.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Oh my god, that's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And then I ended up spending a good chuck my
honeymoon was some dude who was there by himself from
Alabama and we were just getting s faced while my wife.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
There's nothing wrong with that, that's the whole point.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
I mean, I was just down there the other day
and I just sat in the mango tree and ate mangos.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That's all, okay, anything just just.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I just ate mangos. I just ate mangos every second.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Raquel, We're super glad that you were able to jump
in here and just you know, shoot the ship with us.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Anything for you guys.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
She she she really truly does run the show around here.
She makes stuff happen.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And we give her credit on the air. You've heard
us say it before, but I didn't think he could
ever give enough credit.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
And I also, I want to say thank you again
and I agree wholeheartedly. You've always kind of watched out
for us.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Please. You guys are family and.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
And uh and we appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Guys are family. You you're supposed to do for family.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Were you in the meetings when they had to fire us?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
She was?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I thought, I thought so mine was a different remember
they separated.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Yeah, well, and I also that was I was very upset.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
We can't go into too much of that, you know, NDA,
but I will. I will say this that when my
session was done, Uh, I got up and uh they
had told her she was gonna have to walk me out.
That's okay, right, Hell, I'm you know, I'm not a
threat here. And she goes, let him go, let him
go off. And I walked out the building by myself,
(30:23):
held my head, yes, And then I got in my
vehicle and UH was like, what the hell just happened?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, because you have to think about it. My god,
what happened? But you know what I'm going to tell
you guys.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Something.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
My grandmother always say this to me, who God blessed,
Let no man curse you two are blessed. Because it
wasn't long after you guys were back in the building.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It seemed like a long time, but it wasn't that long.
Two years. It wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You know what it's like to a convenience store for
two years.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
It wasn't that long.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
It wasn't two years.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
It was almost it was almost two years. It was
like a year and ten months. January January eleventh, two
thousand and eight, was back here in May of twenty twelve. January.
I'm sorry, yeah, because he was about five months Ober.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I was back October October.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
They uh, wow, but did we did you come? Wait
a minute, but that was before this.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
The they brought me back initially part time, yes, and
it was fine. And then they're like, okay, we're we're
going to expand you to full time. Yes, and they
I think it was afternoons, afternoons.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Bob come in on Fridays.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
On Fridays, but he's also he's coming back as a
sales guy that he's not We're not gonna And I'm like, oh,
this is really gonna work.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I know, but that's the how you finish the system
to get things done the game.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't know what you all did or what what,
but thank you, yes, thank you, because we really we both.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Thought we needed you guys back.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Do you know how close we came to actually being
on air across the street at oppetity.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
We can't do that.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
No, we were offered jobs. In fact, everything happened every I.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Would have dug up your non compete to put a stop.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Everything happens for a reason, and we had actually come
to terms. This is back when ninety six y five
was a competitor to j R Rock music wise, we
we were going to be the afternoon show, and we
had agreed to terms. BBA the Lump Sponge Love Sponge
was in mornings. They're gonna put us in afternoon. It's
the same temple we had here on j R R
(32:29):
for a few years.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And uh we went over to the building and did
a demo for him and then Pat. After we did
the demo in their building, they had a producer for us.
He said, Hey, I didn't want to tell you this
before because I wanted you to just be yourself and
have fun. Let's go to Hooters I think it was
and have a beer. I got some news for you,
and it was that Pat.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, that that we don't we're in We're in.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Oh you guys can believe me again here.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
That we're in here.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Yeah. So they got a call from from Rick Everett
out of the blue, and I hadn't was in communicado
for almost two years. And I know it wasn't his fault.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
He was you know, Rick, Rick is super and.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
He said, would you be interested in a meeting with
me and Linda? I said about what he was coming
back to work? I said, what about Bob? Bob? Bob
took it out and so we, uh, we agreed to
that meeting. And the way it worked out was get
back to what I was just saying. We thought we
were going to work at UH ninety six five ht Q,
(33:37):
and uh they made a change. Unbeknownst to the guy
who signed us to work there. They fired his ass.
Oh yeah, he was ahead before we were able to
put our John John Hancock's on the deal. And that
was it was like they ghosted us and then we
(33:58):
get the call from Rick.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
And that's divine. That's what I was saying about who
God blessed. Whether you're religious or not, it's just something
that my grandmother always said to me, always say, you know, Raquel,
who God bless Let no man kers, You're blessed, So
you're you're good.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
But you might have put one more hot dog on
that damn roller grille.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
You were just going to set that ship on fire.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh my gosh, we had.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
It was the point where we had negotiated our deals.
Not only not only it was done.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
He's out, he's out, and they just they're not a
rock station anymore. Yeah, probably pretty good. We didn't get
that because that's what it was they were doing. They
had another plane going behind his back and they hatched
that plane. Next thing you know, they're gone. They're not
doing rock music anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
My mom calls it a god wink. When you when
you said yeah, when you said like, what is it
let god?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Who?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Gods?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Who God blessed?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
My mom calls it a god went like kind of like, hey,
he's looking down saying I've got control.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
So when you guys came back, it was just yes,
But it was kind of strange having you on the
fourth floor, Pat and Taco on the third thing. Yeah,
but it was still a way to you know, you had.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
To show that you were doing in still in purgatory,
y purgatory.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
They still kind of had you by the puppet strings
and then. But we say it over and over to people,
thank you to Linda Bird and everybody for for actually
giving us a second chance.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And Rick Everett, do you.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Think Linda would want to come on this podcast?
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Of course, Linda would love it.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Bob brought that up and I was like, Linda would
do it.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I got a whole different list of people that were
slowly going to I think you.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Should bring Linda, and she would definitely do it. She
was just here, you know, she received I think it's
f A B.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The Badcaster Hall of Fame for Florida.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Yeah, and they were here on Monday doing her interview.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Good deal.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
She's a cool.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
No, she is an amazing woman, an amazing.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You are too, sad? All right, we get the hell
out here.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
By the way, A lot of the listeners who are
watching while we do this live on Facebook like the
new camera set up. Bear with us, it'll get better.
I just I can't control the actual equipment within arms reach.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'm gonna get them a stick backscratcher.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
I'll order one from Stables.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I got you, bat, I got something in my desk.
I can find something. You can hit camera to camera.
But they are also asking you for weed on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I can come and help you grow some.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
She's from Jamaica, so of course she has weed on
her at all. She just her cars made cheat you
talk styles made out of weed.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
And you also have seen Raquel over the years at
Earthday Birthday when we do, because she's everywhere helping out.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yes, they keep doing what you do.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Thank you guys, and you guys keep doing what you
do because I love having you guys in the building.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Being who you are too. I mean that is thank you.
Thank you, good woman.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Thank you for checking out Lynching Tacos Off the Air podcast,
New episodes every Thursday. Be safe and we'll chat again soon.
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