Last Paul Schadt and Sarah Lee Show

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's the Queen City talking about today?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Ninety six point nine The Cat's Top Five with Paul
and Saily.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Weather looks good today about seventy maybe a little warmer. Hello,
it's Paul shan Oh.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Happy Tuesday. It's Sarah Lee.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's not just any Tuesday, Sarah le is it?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
No?

Speaker 4 (00:16):
This is sadly the last day we're all three together
in studio and it still feels like your dream, like
the day is here, right, But I feel like I'm
having an out of body experience.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
It feels like that because it just doesn't feel that
this could possibly be our last day together. But it is.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
And we were talking about this. We've both been in radio,
me not as long as you.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
But I've never known someone to retire on air in.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
My whole entire life, right, somebody that makes their living
on the rate, actually on the radio my forty four years.
I am the only person I've ever worked with that
is retiring, that's been on the air.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
You're the only person I've known to ever retire on
the air.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
You haven't known anybody hadn't no there, Yeah, for both
of you pretty crazy. Tell everybody while you're picking Duke
the a sec tournament starts today at the Spectrum Center.
And the reason you have fallen in love with Duke lately?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh man.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
See, I was watching the game when they were playing
Carolina and they put the Duke coach on the screen,
and I was like, what, I am Jim Burgh Duke
for the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I don't care what my family says.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Describe the Duke coach to us.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
He's just you know what, He's got dark hairs and
beautiful eyes, and he just looks really confident.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
He's like the face I see when.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
I read my rom coms, Like, he's who I envision
right there. And I know this is not a popular
thing to say, because there are way more Carolina fans
than there are Duke fans.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
But for the ladies, just go check out the coach
and go see what he looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Tell everybody how old he is because you looked it up.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I believe he's thirty seven. Yeah, I sure did look
it up.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
We had coach k in studio.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Hi, I'm Mike Krzyzewski, coach at a Duke University, Blue Devils,
and you're listening to the man who should have stayed
in school all four years instead of leaving Girley to
become a so called pro. It's Paul Shadd in the
morning on ninety six point nine Camp Country.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Even Coach K was shooting me jabs back then, but
it's all with love.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Right, Yes, that's because you are a legend.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
It's Paul Shad Sarahle produce a Jeff One last go round.
This morning, we're bringing back some of our favorite memories.
Stay with us ninety six point nine, ninety six point
nine to Cat, Paul Shadd and Sarah Le. Hard to believe,
but it's true, people, This is the last full show
with the three of us on the radio.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I don't think you'll ever get used.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
To hear it there.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
No, Well, you only got a few more hours to hear.
You don't have a lot of time to get used
to it. Producer Jeff's last day. I'm gonna be sticking
around a little bit. Take I'm gonna take a couple
of weeks of vacation, and then when they finally figure
out who the new show is and who's gonna be
your helper, then I'll come back and try to help
out a little bit. If that's okay, Oh man, is
that okay?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's the best thing ever.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
So you're reading, and I appreciate all the nice notes
and calls we've gotten this morning. Who is this one from?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
This is from Lisa Bryson, and she said, to ask
you about the barking dog guessing game. He said he
would have a listener call in, have their dog bark,
then Paul would guess the breed of the dog from
the bark. Never did I ever figure out how he
did that. Best of luck to Paul and Jeff.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Well, there's a lot of people. If you've been listening
a long time, you know I was born and raised
virtually in a kennel, and I was able to call
yourself a dog. Yeah, yeah, agreed to you. I'm Shaggy Dog.
And that was fun. That was the Great Shaddini. Right, yes,
let's let's let's go back a few years to the
Great Shadini. The Great Yes, I am now transferred into

(03:52):
the Great Shadini. Is my turbanon correctly? Is the ruby
on the right side because sometimes I put it on backwards?
My good?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
You agree?

Speaker 7 (03:59):
All right?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Fantastic, and we've got our callar here, You got your
dog ready?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Get what's your name? Where you're from Liz concourse. Alright,
go ahead, okay here.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
You won't.

Speaker 9 (04:14):
Want want Pasha?

Speaker 10 (04:16):
Wo Tasha? You hear?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, her a little bit there, so if you get
bark a little bit more that.

Speaker 11 (04:25):
There she goes.

Speaker 10 (04:27):
You want you want? Did you hear a couple more times?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, Tasha, I'll get more specific. Is Tasha some sort
of a terrier? Yes, Tasha a Boston Terrier.

Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (04:43):
I can't believe that you.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
The Great, the Great Sheddin.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
He's pretty good, isn't he pretty good?

Speaker 11 (04:53):
The Great?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
What do you think about that? That was pretty good? Right?

Speaker 9 (04:57):
How did you do that?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
The Great Sheddidi never tells the secrets?

Speaker 12 (05:01):
Done it again?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I've done it again? People, the Great Shaddy one more time,
the Great? That's right, ninety six point nine. Yeah, it's
just on a Tuesday morning, the final Tuesday Paul Shad,
Producer Jeff Sara Lee. Oh, this is it's not sad.
It's happy though, right, we're having a nice time.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, we are having a great time, but it is
kind of sad because it's the end.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Of Heritage morning shows. And Charlotte to me.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Like I grew up listening to you and it's been
an honor to work with you and producer Jeff. And
I never thought, like, I don't know, I just I've
never been around a morning show that retires.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, me neither. Here we are, this is on for
all of us. Producer Jeff, what's up up next in
memory Lane?

Speaker 13 (05:45):
If you ask me, this is probably the greatest moment
in your radio career.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Is this the Tim call?

Speaker 6 (05:52):
It is?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
So you can hear how surprised I am because this
is let me say, what happens. Tim McGraw is going
to do an interview with Tim McGrath. And it was
kind of out of the blue because generally they'll have
a new song, or movie's coming out, or there's something right.
So they said, Tim McGraw is going to call you
at like I forget whatever time, nine thirty or whatever,

(06:13):
and the boss wants to tape it so they could
use it to show clients like that famous people call
into the show or it was something something that didn't
make any sense to me. But and I was like,
I was against it because I don't like the other
people in the studio when we're doing our show. But
I said, okay, fine. So Tim calls in and when
he gets to the point where he tells me I

(06:36):
got voted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame. It's
such a shock to me because I had no idea
that was going to happen. That you could hear me
pause and I'm trying to think of I can tell
you what I first thought. I thought that he was
making a mistake. I thought that he meant something else
by what he was saying, and then I realized that
it was actually that's what he was doing. But you

(06:58):
could hear listen to the pause when tells me, here
are the pause, And that's my brain trying to make
sense of something that's not making sense to me.

Speaker 10 (07:06):
Paul.

Speaker 14 (07:06):
How long have you been doing this?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
This summer was thirty two years?

Speaker 14 (07:09):
Thirty two years, my goodness. And so how does it
feel to be voted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Are you serious? This is what this is? Ah?

Speaker 14 (07:20):
My god, You've been voted into the Country Radio Hall
of Fame.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (07:32):
So congratulations. Now that's that's something to be proud of
right there. I mean, that's that's a huge accomlishment. If
somebody's done so much for country music, so much for
country radio, and they're around for so long.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Wow, I pride myself on being a guy that can't
be got. I have just been got.

Speaker 11 (07:53):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, Tim, this means a lot to me that you're
calling me with this news and the news of it happening.
I I am stunned. I am absolutely stunned.

Speaker 14 (08:02):
Well you deserve it, Pal, I mean, like I said,
you've done so much for country radio and so much
for artists like myself and and all your friends who
work with you, and everybody's so proud of you and
think a lot of you, and and everybody in the
industry thinks a lot of you. You know, nobody deserves
it as much.

Speaker 15 (08:19):
As you do.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
What a nice guy to McGraw, Right, what a nice guy,
Paul Shadow. That is an unbelievable moment in such an honor.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
It was very surprising, And so when it happened.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
It's on film like they caught that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I cannot believe.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
It's hard for me to understand because you can't get
anything past you and that you your mind did not
think what is going on?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Like this is odd?

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Why is Tim doing an interview out of nowhere? Why
did they want to set up camera right.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
That that was part of it. I'm like, this is
just going to be a pain in the neck because
because you change the way you do things when cameras
are on you. But it was great, and our buddy,
producer Jeff, you've put to Did you hear the song
you played yesterday?

Speaker 4 (08:58):
So yes, I was the one in here crying yesterday
because producer Jeff usually plays audio before airs and lets
us hear it, and he did not let us hear
this ahead of time. Everything goes through Paul Shadd before
it hits the air, except this song.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
So when we heard it in roll time, it made
me tear up.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
It's so sweet my next thirty years. Producer Jeff has
put this together to McGraw ninety six point nine.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Oh, Paul Shat, it's Kathy and Kelly and Corvin and
we love you.

Speaker 8 (09:27):
Have your retirement, Paul Shadd.

Speaker 10 (09:29):
I'm gonna miss your bug. It's been really niceless from
there over these years. I can't imagine listening to the
cat without hearing Paul Shadd on radio.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
My name is Nicole Sickpenn.

Speaker 16 (09:38):
I'm calling from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Speaker 17 (09:40):
I'll think I'll take a moment celebrate my age.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
The ending of an era, in the turning of a page.

Speaker 16 (09:49):
Luck on your requirement els time to fool.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Just saying on were ri go from here?

Speaker 17 (09:55):
Lord, have mercy on my next thirty years.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
She's an enjoy your returnment. Hey, Paulshi, this is Anna.
I live in rock Clubbe, North Carolina. We're gonna miss you.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
In my next thirty years.

Speaker 17 (10:10):
I'm gonna have some fun, try to forget about all
the crazy things I've done. Maybe now I've conquered all
my adoless fears, but ought to it better in my
next thirty years.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
My next thirty.

Speaker 12 (10:30):
Years, I'm going to settle all the scores, riving less,
left a little more.

Speaker 17 (10:39):
I know, happiness without the heat, and here figure out
just what I'm doing here in my next thirty years.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
They called it at Charlie, my daughter, and I'm a fifteen,
and she said it would not be the same her
drive to school without you.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
You don't know what she's gonna do. My mama was
dropping the school and taking the school every day with
listening to Paul Shat in the morning.

Speaker 9 (11:06):
And now it's just been an honor to be able
to have my kids listening.

Speaker 10 (11:09):
To you as they as they go to school.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
Oh, my next thirty years I'm gonna watch my way, eat.

Speaker 17 (11:18):
A few more salads and not stay up so late
drinking elamonade, and not so many bees come. Maybe I'll
remember my next thirty years.

Speaker 15 (11:33):
My next thirty years well be the best years of
my life.

Speaker 17 (11:38):
Raising it'll family and hang out with my wife.

Speaker 9 (11:43):
Spending fast small That's well, go on, said old years.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Make up for lost time here in my next thirty years. Hi,
this is Donna.

Speaker 15 (11:55):
I've been listening forever and you're gonna be very so
in my.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
My name is Stacey, and it's this chapter of your
life comes to a close. Know you made a huge
difference in the lives of so mean.

Speaker 11 (12:12):
I've been with you.

Speaker 15 (12:12):
Draw about for the year.

Speaker 11 (12:15):
I've really found you, going to mash you for it's
my hard, happy.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
At list retirement. I love you. I'll listen to you
almost every morning going to work. Good luck on your retirement,
Paul Man.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
You are way too young. I'm far too handsome to retire.
My friend, you and I have had an incredible r
Thank you for all your support over the years, and
I send you my best and hope that you'll still
stop buy.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
And see us the next time we roll through sharp.
Congratulations Wow, what a great job. What a great job, buddy.
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, that's a special gift.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Do you put that? Can you put that on? Do
they put stuff on CDs anymore?

Speaker 14 (12:54):
What?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Can I hear it on? A can said put it on?
Could you just write it down? What was said? I'll
always have it? But that was really special. I appreciate you,
but it is Paul Shadd Sarah Lee, producer Jeff for
the last time, the three of us in studio ninety
six point nine, ninety six point nine and the Cat
Paul Shadd Sarah Lee, Producer Jeff our last day, the
three of us together. But the show must go on.

(13:15):
There'll be somebody new sitting in my seat very soon.
Producer Jeff is heading up to the mountains. I will
be coming back to help usher in the new show.
Sarah Lee's favorite country singer is Blake Shelton. As we're
digging up things from our past, and we had Blake
on one time. And usually people won't tell you. They'll
tell you their favorite singer, but they won't tell you
their least favorite singer. So we had Blake on. We said,

(13:37):
who is your least favorite country singer?

Speaker 9 (13:40):
Craig Morgan is a real.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, thank you, I think we're I saw him once
tackle a small baby deer and put a kid's T
shirt on it.

Speaker 11 (13:51):
I'm thinking, I'm thinking him go deer hunting, shoot the
deer and then rush it to the vat, get it
healed up.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Release it in the wall so he can shoot you
it again.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
A sick man does something like that.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
What is he doing? He has had hit in a
couple of years. What's he doing now? For a living man?

Speaker 18 (14:06):
He's got a TV show, have you seen as the
Punting Show?

Speaker 1 (14:09):
We don't get that channel here, we just get the
major channels.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Oh, that's the Hall of Fame zinger.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
There you go, that's a Hall of Fame zinger. I
like that. And then we immediately called Craig Morgan did right,
and we had to tell him the exciting news. What
do you think about Blake Shelton saying you're his least
favorite singer?

Speaker 18 (14:29):
Isn't this funny?

Speaker 1 (14:31):
You never would have thought it, would you?

Speaker 18 (14:32):
No, No, sir, still don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, it's true. Blake Shelton was on the air saying
that you're his least favorite singer. Is this something that
when you start out as a singer you even think about,
I don't know, you know it's.

Speaker 18 (14:43):
Something you dream of or for me, you know in
this industry that to me, it is that, that is
the pinnacle. I just didn't think it would happen much
less happened as soon if it ever did. So, it's
just I'm living the dream man.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
That was a pretty quick turnaround, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Of course you.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Did that, though, I don't know if Craig actually believed that.
Blake said that though, but he did. You heard it?
How about a little redneck yack clubs? Don't hear it?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Yes, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's a good song for the morning. Turn it out?
Ninety six point nine. That's Luke, Paul Shad, Sarah Lee,
producer Jeff Last, all three of us day in studio
at twenty one hundred South Tryon Street, beautiful downtown, Charlotte,
North Carolina. Ninety six point nine. Hi, look at you.

(15:31):
It looks so pretty today.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
I dressed up Jess for you and producer Jeff on
your last day, all three of us together.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I can't believe the day is here?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Is that the necklace is that the one you got
a goodwill? Is that a different one.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
No, that's a different one. That one ended up being
too big. It's too gaudy. I couldn't wear it. I tried.

Speaker 14 (15:49):
Well.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
We were at some kind of little party or something
in some goldies or something, and then we walked over
they had there's a good will over on South Boulevard.
That's high end. It's right, it's like high end goodwill.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
You never seen it.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
I was like, did you've you bought a whole bunch
of clothes and stuff? Did the dress come from there?

Speaker 2 (16:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
You get your hair, get your hair done there.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh look, I know this is your last day in
the morning right now, I'm.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Stop. Stop hitting me. That's one of the reasons I'm leaving.
While the songs are playing, she hits me, and I
don't like it. I've had enough. So producer Jeff has
been digging up, going through tapes and all kinds of
old things, trying to find some things from our past
that's worthy of the air. So the very first I
was supposed to start at the cat on a Monday,

(16:33):
because I had like a vacation and from where I
was to where I was going, So Monday was supposed
to start. So Friday morning this bus pulls up, This
tour bus pulls up in front of my house over
in Midhill, and it is an old buddy, Red Aikins,
who is Thomas Rhett's father, and Redd is just, uh,

(16:55):
a fantastic guy. Red Akins, great guy, great performer, real country,
which is one of the things I just love about him,
just real. Yes, he's the deal, and uh, he knows
a million songs. He's one of the greatest songwriters that
was ever out there. He had a bunch of hits.
So he pulls up and gets me. We come to
the radio station.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Wait a minute, he got you out of bed, out
of bed.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I didn't want to get out of bed. I wasn't
supposed to wasn't supposed to start till Monday. He shows
up on Friday morning. Oh man, that's not Yeah, it
was a million least.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
So we have it ready, We have ready, go ahead.
We're glad to get you out of bed. Yeah, I'm
glad to earn your pay. We were sitting out outside
him before we even get to talking. I want you
to play, just to play the first verse of that
Hank Junior song. You were you were picking this a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Warming up a little bit.

Speaker 15 (17:41):
You know a lot of people know Hank Juniors my favorite,
and I was just I just play other songs to
warm up my voice, and that's caught your ear.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
So the old song old habits.

Speaker 15 (17:55):
Well, like you happy or smoking him back sometime I'm
go And I tried hard stuff, but I had to
let it all that go.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
But the toughest thing I ever gave up was today.

Speaker 15 (18:26):
Becazold habits like.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
You had brain. Yes, people used to stop by all
the time, I mean, and they were coming. We've got
I think we're gonna try to do this before eight o'clock.
Kenny Chesney, who had stopped by in studio and we

(18:49):
have him singing too, right, singing. This was the This
was one of the crazier interviews that you will never
I'm pretty sure you'll never hear Kenny Chesney act like
this against the public. He was so jacked up about
the Austin Powers movie. But if you don't remember it,
you gotta here. We'll do it before eight o'clock, probably
fifteen minutes or so. Plus we've got tickets coming up
here for Jason Aldean All on the Way ninety six

(19:12):
point nine. It's man versus Woman town versus town.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's a good old fashioned cat fight.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Let's play that game. We got Angie from Mount Holly
taking on David from Indian Trail. First one to get
two points wins five seconds for each one. You gotta
shout out your name when you know the answer? Do
you people understand the rules of this game are? Well,
then let's play. So what we're doing since I started
in nineteen eighty one on the Charlotte Radio right here

(19:46):
in the beautiful Queen City, all answers, we'll have something
to do with the nineteen eighties. Here we go.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
According to the nineteen eighty song girls just want.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
To have what David David fun is correct? In the
nineteen eighties, this guy was part of the A team,
is it? Mister C, mister z Angie Angie, mister T,
mister T hey, mister T here and you better believe
when I'm in two listen to Morning the Food, don't

(20:21):
I get out of here? I got him? All right?
There's questions.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
This TV network debuted in the eighties and they played
nothing but music videos.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
AI CMT, that is correct. We would have accepted two
answers CMT or MTV Angie, you got the tickets.

Speaker 16 (20:41):
Oh my gosh, and I'm the last winner.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yes, congratulations so much.

Speaker 16 (20:50):
You have been such an important part of our lives.
Every morning we have enployed watching Adam and Emily grow up,
death and all his shenanigans, all his anniversaries. A trip,
y'all have just meant so much to so many people
to paint juice, all the money you grace for them.
You guys just don't know how much you touch the community.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
We appreciate you, well, we appreciate you, and uh and
we love you and we're gonna miss you. And those
tickets are free, right yeah, Marshmallow and our buddy came Brown.

(21:31):
What are you doing running out? It's like, come sit down, please,
this is last day. I know you run all over
the place.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I had to run to give my headphones. I go
between room to room.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's right, and you do a great job doing that.
Let's see here today it's going to be about seventy
is that correct? A nice day, beautiful day, day, beautiful day.
So this uh, this is Kenny Chesney. So Kenny came
to the studio and I'm trying to recollect it was
right right at the height of Austin Powers being super

(22:00):
big movie. So a lot of the h a lot
of the stars at the time had Austin Powers. They
had the movie on their bus and they would you know,
if you got the movie on a bus, you're watching
a five million times right right. So he was like
overly into Austin Powers. And and this goes from the
interview into a song. He does so so he even

(22:22):
puts it at the beginning of the song. He puts
a little bit of it, and then at the very
end you have to listen to the last words he
sings in the song because it's a reference again to
Austin Powers. But here it is. So I was welcome
by Kenny Chaz in the morning shuggar War Kenny.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
Come on maybe, Yeah, that could be a model from me.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Paul, you know this is I'll be yeah. Oh man,
how you been. I've been good? Yeah, in a while,
going from yeah, I've been good. Thanks for playing my records,
Thanks for playing my record I'm good. I'm not really happy.

(23:01):
Everybody would hate me if I didn't ask can we
get you to do a little quick song or just
grab a guitar?

Speaker 19 (23:06):
Okay, then I will just do something then that you've
heard before, because I was going to do something that
you haven't, but I don't have it.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
But the only catches we had to do it as
Austin powers. I can't do it as good as you know.
You're doing great.

Speaker 19 (23:21):
Ordinary, No, Baby, you don't think so, baby, ordinar No,
I really don't think so.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Not love these truth come and stand. We were meant
to be.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Me you. Every day I need you even more.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
And the night time to.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
There's no way.

Speaker 20 (24:13):
I could ever let you go, even if I to,
ordinaver No, I really don't think so. Just a precious

(24:35):
few ever make it last and get as lucky me.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
You baby have the he was, he was jacked. It's
so fun just to think of all the different people
that have rolled through. Didn't he sound fantastic too? I
was thinking, as you were saying, I think we added
some He had a little echo back there, but that's
just him and a guitar. Sound like you know, song

(25:12):
on a CD or a whatever, right, And.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm impressed he's stating characters break.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
He is good. Let's play some canny. We got a
lot of memories to share. This morning's Paul Shadd Sarah
Lee producer Jeff hitting the buttons ninety six point nine.
Maybe yeah, it's Paul Shadd Sarah Lee. Producer Jeff. One
of my favorite phone calls has to do with Dirk's
Bentley and this well, I'll tell you what give us

(25:42):
like three minutes will play somewhere with Morgan Wall play
some Morgan will come back with the phone call and
it is hysterical. I love this woman describing what Dirk
Bentley did to her ninety six point nine Morgan Wall
in ninety six point nine, I cat Paul Shadd and
Sarah Lee reminiscent going down memory Lane this morning. This
is the last show with the three of us in studio.

(26:05):
Producer Jeff. I know today is your last day, and
I know it's in the middle of the show. I'm sorry,
I have to let you go.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Oh no, he's going to hire you back.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's how we used to do it. Whenever Jeffery does
something wrong, I would fire him but then hire him back,
and he was excited and you were happy to have
the job back, but it was for half pay.

Speaker 13 (26:25):
If I can't you actually text me the other day,
I said I didn't have something, and you said, I
have no recourse.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
I was expecting that. Yeah, he texted me. Well, I
forget what it was, but it was something where I
normally would have said, I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to
let you go, but I said, I have no recourse
because I can't fire him anymore. He's going. He's going
before I'm going. So then Jeffery's leaving today. It takes
the last day and he heads up to the beautiful

(26:49):
mountains of North Carolina. And this is our last full
show with all three of us. I am going to
come back, I think towards the end of the month
to help the new show get, you know, get the
feet on the ground kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
And as you look at me to just confirm that,
I'm like there with you.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I have no idea I think that's what it's playing.
But I'm excited for you, guys.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
I'm gonna miss you immensely, but you have such incredible
lives and wives and you get to enjoy, you know,
vacations and adventures together.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'll be checking in with you and it'll be it'll
be interesting to see how how retirement does go, because
you have this picture in your head and I know
mentally i'm still not, so I'm glad I'm going to
be able to go do these things. Still not mentally prepared.
I don't think that I'm not doing this anymore because
it's not like again, and I've said this before, if
you actually work for a living, you know, you lift

(27:47):
something heavy or you do something that at the end
of every day you're like, I'm glad that's over with.
This isn't a job like that. This is a This
is fun. I mean, it's really the greatest job in
the world. So it's not like I'm tired of it
and enough is enough.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh don't we have fun every day?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yeah? Anywhere, great family, But you know, you don't know
what life has in store for you. So you get
to a certain age and you know you don't want
to work until you're dead if you can help it. Right,
So to time to take a powder, I guess. So
let's get to the phone call. Let's do this Dirk S. Bentley.
So Dirk's had been I don't know why this. We

(28:24):
were talking about Dirk's on the radio and this woman
had called in with a Dirk S. Bentley story and
I remember sharing this story with Dirk's one time we
were I don't know. We were backstage to the Grand
Old We were someplace and I was telling I have
to send you this phone call, and he laughed so
hard when I was trying to explain it to him.
But you really can't explain this call. You have to
hear it. It's a woman that goes to a concert

(28:46):
and I think she had won like first row seats
or something from cat Country. So it's her and I'm
picturing her. Boy was like ten years old at the time.
So they go to the show and they have an
experience with Dirk's Bentley, and she doesn't want this particular
experience with Dirk's Bentley. So listen to this call and
it starts off with her and I love what she
says about Dirk's.

Speaker 10 (29:08):
Nurse Bentley is just nasty, nasty. I want picket from
y'all to go backstage. A couple of years ago, he
came in. He was about four or five sheets to
the wind in the parking lot, and I had my
nine year old son with me and he comes up
to me and he said, I will sign anything you

(29:29):
got or signing anywhere you want to. I said, I
know you want my nine year old son's standing here,
and then when the concert started, we had front row
seat and he come down and was taking everybody's hand
and I went to shake. He said, and he's dragging
me around the stage, and my son hollerance guy. I said,
I don't have.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Him, he has me.

Speaker 10 (29:51):
I mean he told me, he said, I will sign
anything you want, anywhere you want it. I'm like, I will,
I know you won't.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Are you like a hot to Molly?

Speaker 10 (30:02):
No, sure, I'm not, said he was about three or
four sheets in the wind. He'd been out out in
parking lot. I mean, I thought that was just so
appropriate in front of.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
My That is so crazy. Any drug you around the stage.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
Yes, they wouldn't know my hands. I'm like that. Josh
was like, Mona, stop, you're embarrassed, and I saday he's
got me. I can't, but.

Speaker 14 (30:29):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (30:30):
I don't care much for mister anymore.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
That is could you picture that? I'd love to see
the video.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Of that amazing, because Dirk is a nice guy.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I don't even picture him doing anything sideways. But let's
play some music from Dirk's Oh We Got Oh the
Plain song Ago we like that, ninety six point nine,
The cat Man that guy's got it going on, does
he not?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yes, he does.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I saw this sign the other day on the least
it was the least kissable, least kissable.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
What he is not the least kissable?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
He was not on the list that I saw. He
was in the top five though, of the least kissable
least kissable country singers.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
That is so mean.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Well, I didn't make the list up. I just read
the list made up. Now, who do you think people
that play sing songs on the art radio station, who
would you say is the least kissable guy?

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Well, definitely not jelly Roll. I think jelly rolls kissable.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Think about it, think about it for a little bit,
and then I'll if I.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Watched and that is that's been not popular answer.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
But he doesn't have lips, like there's nothing there to kiss.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
He just got lines.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
So so I watched. After I read this little list,
I went and I watched the videos. And funny, it's
funny because you mentioned Morgan won, Because Morgan Walland does
a video with this guy that came in number one
as the least kissable country singer.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Who is it?

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Think about it? Do you doing? No? No? No?

Speaker 8 (32:01):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Post malone? Oh yeah, it grows. Yes, I would never.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Watch the video. What's the song they sing together? The Yeah,
I had some help. You watched that video, and I
can't see how anybody would ever kiss. Right, So you're
in agreement.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
Not enough money post malone, you know, I don't know
why I thought it was jelly roll post malone.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Never in a million years not. You couldn't pay me
enough money?

Speaker 1 (32:26):
All right, what do you got over there? My friend?
Let's do some throwback jingles? Yes? Is this with the kids?
All right? So when they were little, Adam and Emily
would help the radio station with jingles and who's up first? Emily,
go ahead.

Speaker 19 (32:44):
That's my pop.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
He got hair like a mop pushes first. Thank you,
lanky eggs and bank. They could have just jumped in

(33:08):
and said Lee.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, her voice sounds so cute?

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Was she?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh? She's probably four or five? Maybe?

Speaker 8 (33:16):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
She was a talk I mean, like a two. You
could understand everything she was saying. I mean she was
a talker. And this is adam favorite one. Let's hear it.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Today.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
It's fun to hear those stuff.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Yeah, it probably feels like yesterday too, Yes it does.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, if you're if you're like twenty five years old,
thirty years old. Everybody tells you it goes fast, It
goes fast, It.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Goes a warp speed. Every year it seems it goes
faster and faster.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
It gets faster and faster. What song you got a song?
I do? I love this? When Travis Trick was in
the studio with Oh this is uh Travis Trick the
song Here's a quarter called somebody that cares. Oh yes,
And unbeknownst to me, because he was in the studio
doing a live, he stuck my name in the song.
And it was really cool. This is one of the
I think, one of the cooler things that started doing.

(34:04):
You got it, Go ahead, play it.

Speaker 12 (34:10):
You say you were wrong, giver leave me here alone
and now you're sorry.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Long someo ski.

Speaker 12 (34:22):
And you say, be happy if you could just come
back home. Well, here's a quarter call some one who
can call someone listen and not give it damn, maybe
one of your sort of face. Don't you come around

(34:50):
here handing me none up your lunch. Here's a quarter
called some one you can well, I thought what we

(35:26):
had Lord can never turned bay. So you're leaving caught
me on away?

Speaker 1 (35:37):
You run off with Paul chef.

Speaker 12 (35:40):
They say that ain't bad. And here's a quarter call
someone who can you call someone listen yet might giving damn?
Maybe one of your sordida fair, but don't you come averad.

(36:03):
You're handing me none of your lands. Here's a quarter
call some wan who kids. Yeah, here's a quarter call
some wan who.

Speaker 7 (36:17):
Came yea yea.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Isn't amazing how these people sound just like showing up
at the radio station and singing.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
I wonder if the new country stars could do that.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
No, I don't know if it just seems a lot
different nowadays than it did back then, where these guys
could just show up and just sing the heck out
of a song.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
That sounds like it was on the album.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
I know, very very cool. We we got more memories
to come on this final day with all three in
the studios here at ninety six point nine the cats,
I got a little dirt on my boots Paul shadd
and Sarah Lee, Producer Jeff last time the trio together.
You have not broken down once this morning. I'm very
proud of you.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
I'm proud of myself. I'm you know, because I'm so
happy for you guys. You deserve the best. But I
said this in the hallway. We've gone through a lot
of life in the short amount of time. Like I've
known you for half my life. But we went through
a pandemic together, that's true. We went through cancer to
get well, we.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Did do it together. But I went through rabies without
you guys, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Stuments, and the kids got married, grand babies. I mean,
it's been there's so much life that we've lived together
in such a short amount of time, and I'm so
thankful to both of you.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Well, I wouldn't want to spend it with anybody else
on the radio, but you two guys, and you know
I love you both very much. And on tomorrow's show,
we're gonna play a lot of music. I think over
the next couple of weeks, as they nailed down the
new person, I will come back and help the new

(37:57):
person because I want to see this. I'll see what
this man his intentions are with you. I want to
make sure that they are true. Right. If it's a
guy who knows right, it could be a girl, could
be a band, could be a whole room full of people.
Because they haven't sign anybody yet.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
No, I know for a fact, nobody will sign.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
We have it's Debbie from all Right, So Debbie from
Boston with a request.

Speaker 16 (38:21):
Any chance of playing a little your interview Dale after
the dayton.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yeah, I think we can do that. So uh so
Dale earned Hard used to call the show all the time.
He listened all the time.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
You say that so nonchalant. I think that's the coolest
thing ever.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, loved the guy. Missed the guy. But he uh
he won. He had been wanting to win the Daytona
five hundred four years. I forget how many years it was,
but a long long time. And he came so close,
so many times, and he won so many races in
Daytona except the Daytona five hundred. So he won the
Daytona five hundred on Sunday and Monday morning like first thing.

(39:00):
And I knew he was gonna call first thing. He called, Hey,
Paul big rounding aplus ms Dell earn Hard winner of
the Daytona five hundreds.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
Man, what a what a win?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
What a win?

Speaker 11 (39:12):
Man?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
That was a You win.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
Championships, you win races. You have this great feeling about
everything you've accomplished. But you go in victory lane in
Daytona and the Daytona five hundred the first time, one
awesome time. One You can't you can't imagine it, you
can't explain it. All you all the way you can
get it is experience it. And I could tell you
all day long hot fields. But to come down Hit
Road and see all them two crew members out there

(39:35):
giving you high five and slapping hands as you're going
down through there, it was just awesome.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
I think I ran into more people that were so
sure that you were going to win it, and I
think you got I got.

Speaker 11 (39:45):
That great feeling. Man. Saturday afternoon, after our last practice,
I was walking back to the garage area from the
from the gas pump, says, putting gas in the car.
And I walked back to Grodger and I went in
the garage officer where they had five make a wish kids.
They came to Daytona and their wish was to meet
Deal Learnard.

Speaker 6 (40:00):
They all had Dell Learn Art stuff on, signed autographs with.

Speaker 11 (40:03):
Them and got pictures.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Maybe it's one of them.

Speaker 11 (40:06):
Little girl she's probably eight, eight, twelve years old, something
like that, but she's real small. She's in a wheelchair,
and she said all these bad things happened to her
in life, and life hadn't dealt her good hand the man.
She is glowing like a big light and just as
excited as she could be. She was talking up a storm,
smiling and talking up a storm about del her cart
was going to win the Daytona five hundred. And she's

(40:28):
rubbing this penny giving her autograph. She gave me this penny,
and she says, this is your good luck penny. You're
gonna win a Daytona five hundred. I took that penny
after I got through with visiting with him and went
over to the car, got me some good old three
em yellow glue and dabbed.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
It on the back.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Stuck that sucker to the dashboard.

Speaker 11 (40:44):
Really and the glue come out all around it. Larry says,
you're making a bigger mask. Stuff on her a penny.

Speaker 6 (40:49):
I stuck her on the dash That thing's still sticking there.

Speaker 11 (40:52):
We won the Daytona five hundred, and it's in the
museum on the dashboard.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Well, somehow I got this feeling it's kind of okay
that you have to give up the car to get
that five hundred.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
Way, I jumped out of thing, jump right on top
of that.

Speaker 11 (41:01):
It's going into Unna have my footprints.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
In Man, I missed that guy Jerker amazing.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Hard. It is Paul Shadd, Sarah Lee, producer Jeff ninety
six point nine, The Cat. That's Kenny and Cracker Charlotte's
number one for New Country. We got someone in the
second Paul Shadd and Sarah Lee ninety six point nine,
The Cat. We're gonna do let's see, let's do this
And I'm trying to think, you know, if you're doing
one last show with everybody in the studio, and like

(41:34):
I said earlier producer Jess last day, I'm gonna come
back and try to help the new team when they
makes joined me exactly. You know, there's so many people
you want to say thank you to, like and if
you start, you know you're going to forget some people.
So I'm not saying thank you to nobody, but it's
a long list, like Scott Clark and all all our friends.

(41:56):
I want to make sure that Kathy, because we hear
like a week out someplace, people always will say something
about my wife Kathy being on the radio, whether it's
her losing weight or just whatever. So let's call her up.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
And this is gonna make this is where I'm gonna cry.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
And I love the way she'll answered the phone to
be very happy. Sound hey, sweetie pie, Hi, Hi, how
are you?

Speaker 8 (42:25):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
How's the last day going?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
It's going fine? Uh, tell everybody you got you got
a last day? What before I left this one?

Speaker 17 (42:36):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (42:36):
I got a last day but massage, mtic.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
Wait a minute, you get massages before he comes to work.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
I was planting the seed every day, your rascal. So
I'm trying to think, just thank you for supporting me
and letting me do what I do. And you and
Kathy is the most supportive person in the world. And
sarahly you are one of the most importive people in
the world. And I'm so lucky to be surrounded by

(43:05):
people like that. Producer Jeff, of course, but you don't
make an apple crumb, pilot.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
I tell Paul every day you are an angel and
I don't I don't just say that lightly. You are angelic,
and you're the most beautiful soul and inside and outside.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
And your laugh is so contagious and.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
No matter what mood you're in, when you hear Kathy like,
you're automatically and a great maid.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, isn't that nice. You guys are gonna make me cry. Well,
don't cry. We're trying to get through this. No tears
this morning, right, all right, Well, I will let you go.
I love you very much. I will see you a
little bit later. Oh, today's day, and I forget you
even mentioned this. Today's the day I go home and
open up the ACM award that I have never opened
up our videotape? Yes, right, is it you? She cleaned

(43:48):
the bedroom the other day because we haven't seen the floor.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
Out.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Do you know what it is you put it? Would
you put it in the living room? So when I
walk in, I'll videotape walking in and will open it up.
I hope they spelled my name right.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
That we're going to be terrible retirement and then it's
all right?

Speaker 1 (44:05):
What you was this twenty fourteen or thirteen?

Speaker 13 (44:08):
We won it in fourteen four, twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen
on it I think so wow, over ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I know it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
So if it is misspelled, will they fix it?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Probably? All right? Sweet pie, WILL love you very much
and thank you for being always positive in my life.

Speaker 16 (44:27):
I love you, love you.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
I love you, Kathy, and oh.

Speaker 8 (44:31):
I love you too.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Uh, and you did like the Valentine's skiffs even though
Emily said you didn't like them, you did like them, right,
oh bunny, Yes, all right, I love you.

Speaker 10 (44:44):
I love you, come home, so I will.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
It is Paul Shad, Soroly, producer, Jeff ninety six point
nine Morgan walland that actually is the last Morgan Walland
song we're gonna play for the month of warning zero. Right,
that's not true, That is not true.

Speaker 6 (44:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Morgan's fantast him and Jelly Roll, all these new stars
that are popping out. This music is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Much they have a hit every hour?

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah right, Charles number one for new country. That's US
ninety six point nine, The Cat, Paul Shad, Sarah Lee, producer,
Jeff last full Day on the air, all three of
us I've got on now. I'm trying to support you. Here.
Do you see what I have on today?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Brooks and Done throwback shirt. I love it.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
And this this shirt was given to me by Ronnie
Dunn of Brooks and Done in nineteen and I know
I get it within a year. This is this is
how old you think the shirt is?

Speaker 2 (45:32):
US nineteen ninety two, No, a little bit.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Later, ninety if I was guessing, and I'd be within
a year ninety six, nineteen ninety six, that's almost is
that almost thirty years next year? Every thirty right, Because
they used to they had a legends. They got into
these legends race cars and at the time it was
very popular. And I was driving one too, And can
I just say, oh, go ahead?

Speaker 13 (45:56):
That used to drive me crazy before we work together, right,
we heard that. So Paul shadd he would get off
the air on Tuesdays flight to Nashville.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
In a private plane. How's he getting there out there?

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Plane? Hang Jones, my buddy, you.

Speaker 13 (46:10):
Would you get to drive these races in Nashville?

Speaker 1 (46:13):
That was I was off. I was off on Wednesday, Wednesday,
and then I come back on there on Thursday.

Speaker 15 (46:19):
That was.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
That was a pretty spoiled little deal. But it was
so cool because you're racing them with all these you know,
right right, making connections and all that stuff. But yeah,
Ronnie and the Kicks are two good guys, and you
have something by the all right, go ahead, let's hear it. Hey, everybody,
this is uh, this is Kicks Brook.

Speaker 19 (46:34):
And Ronnie Dunn sitting here with and we talked about
Paul Shadd how he used to try.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
To drive her little sissy race car. Yeah, drove like
a little girl. He's he's in good. He's good on radio.
You think that's his real name, Shad?

Speaker 12 (46:45):
I mean, why would you name yourself Shad if you
were on the radio and you could name yourself anything
with a shiny little man or cat.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Don't go so hard? So hard?

Speaker 6 (46:54):
Thanks.

Speaker 20 (46:54):
He probably thinks it's sexy.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah, those are fun guys. So Friday night, you're throwing
a big nineties party.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
Oh yes, it's gonna happen at Sugar Creek Brewing Company
and it's bricks and dun party.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
At nineties throw back party.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
You can win tickets to see Brooks and Done if
you come out there.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, and they're fine. I mean they've got a couple
of good songs, comp songs, all right, they're really good.
So people who win tickets. Isn't there like a best
nineties Yeah, best like nineties outfit or something like that
that don't.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
Come dressing normal, you have to be in the ninety
same outfit.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Well, you're gonna exclude people dress however you want to dress.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
You want to be a crowded, like if you yeah,
but like be fast. If I'm the only person wearing
nineties gear, I'm running out the door.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Details ninety six nine, The Cat dot Com. You will
see it there, will take a break. We're gonna come
right back. More memories, ninety six point nine. Morgan walland
that is the last Morgan Walland we're playing this year,
so it wasn't for Morgan Walland we've had a lot
of empty spots.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Right, He's got a great a lot of songs.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
That's a good one. I like that one too. If
Paul shadd Sharly ninety six point nine, The Cat Producer
jeff his last final day here, the last day all
three of us in studio. Jeffrey is head into the mountains.
If you're ever up in where you go in Beach Mountains?

Speaker 13 (48:11):
Mountain?

Speaker 1 (48:11):
You up in Beach Mountain? What's the name of the
road you live on? And he's got it. There's a
lot next to him that's for sale.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Well, and maybe we could be neighbors. I'm not I
don't have enough money for that.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
I keep telling him to buy the lot. You wanted
to try to control, you should buy it, and don't
wait for don't wait for a sign in the yard,
go to the tax people. You go look up the
tax thing online, find out who owns it, and you
make them because you said it was for sale from
one point, right, yes, all right, So if you don't,
I'm gonna do it. Yeah, yeah, he would he would
hate that. He will absolutely hate that because it would

(48:44):
just be the whole show over again, just not on
the radio. Hey, my tea is getting empty.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Jeff, y'all still aren't friends on Facebook yet?

Speaker 18 (48:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (48:51):
No, today, right today? We'll do it. Request, I will
accept it. I'm still good luck with that. So what
do you have lined up? And we've been doing going
down memory lane here if you will over the last
twenty four hours yesterday. Then it's fun to hear these things,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
There's a lot of fun stuff, Yes, it is.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
I think we stopped doing fun stuff like in twenty
ten and then we just did like what do you say?
I'm teasing? Who is this clip block? And this is what?
This is him singing.

Speaker 13 (49:25):
This sounds so cool when these artists come in and
they sing things. And he did something custom for you
And was this the twenty twenty five or twenty five
twenty five year anniversary?

Speaker 1 (49:35):
Yes, man's that's a lot. That's almost, that's almost at
that time, like right, that's crazy. All right, let's hear it.

Speaker 20 (49:43):
Paul Schatzman on the air for twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yes, it's true.

Speaker 12 (49:48):
He's been talking for so long that his face is
turning blue.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
You listen really close.

Speaker 20 (49:55):
You'll tell them you don't have a clue.

Speaker 12 (49:57):
But Paul twenty five years in there, we all salute you.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
If he don't have a clue, nobody will. There's no time.

Speaker 11 (50:08):
To kill Congratulations Paul, and sorry for the bad rhymes.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
That's why they're killing times, all right. Cli he's a
good guy. Clint Fla.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
That is great.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
And these people that come in and do those like
wacky songs, they're just doing off the top of their heads.
I have never seen them. I've never seen an artist
do something like that and actually write something down. They
just sit down and do it. We'll have to dig
up to I don't know if we have anymore, but
we'll have to dig them up because we've only got
fifty one minutes left.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Producer Jeff Is Watson.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
He's a little rocket man. He's gonna be out of
here super quick. Let's play Clint Let's do uh we
got the tailight song. Yes, let's do it ninety six
point nine, Yes, Jelly, Paul Shadd Cerrilee, producer, Jeff ninety
six point nine. The Cat, look at this. I don't
know if this is uh, if I've ever seen this
guy in the studio. The red light came on, he
come flying in the studio. Dave Carwile, how are you?

(51:06):
My friend? Fantastic than you? And tell everybody what your
title is because they changed titles around here a lot.
You're the big boss. Don't mean much. You're the big boss,
and I know that. But the title is.

Speaker 8 (51:16):
What So I'm the market president here and trip but
it's just bigger than that, isn't it? But also cover
the region of the Carolina region, So I'm the president
of the region.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
I like that beautiful Carolina. And how many radio stations
are under your range twenty six that's amazing.

Speaker 8 (51:30):
However, however, the Cat being that flagship all right, all
twenty six of those brands across.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
And you're not just saying that. No, true, it's a
true story, true story. Right now. We're the deal. You're
the deal. This is the this is the real deal.
This is the real deal. And I don't know if
anybody told you to us my last day.

Speaker 8 (51:51):
Yeah, we actually this is probably the fifth last day.
This has been the longest retirement celebration and radio history.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
It is. We went to lunch. Do you remember the
month we went for lunch? April last year?

Speaker 11 (52:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (52:02):
No, no, it was augustus because I had to give
six months notice. Oh that's right, that's right. Yeah, and
that was like five years ago. Yeah, yeah, that was
like a long time ago. And we really stretched this
thay you really have it's been This is like kiss
Farewell Tour twenty years later. They're still doing it. He
just keeps coming back out. When is he going to retire? Never?

Speaker 11 (52:23):
Never?

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Never never? But and and really in all actuality, today
is producer just very last day. I'm going to come
back at some point and help get the new show
off the ground if you Yeah, we might. I don't know.
And maybe since April Fool's Day's coming up, right, that'd
be a good day to do it. It would be, it
would be. But I just want to say thank you
for the pleasure of working here at iHeart and Cat Country,

(52:46):
and uh, it's really it's been a wonderful experience. I
could not have asked her anything more in life than
to get to do what I got to do.

Speaker 8 (52:54):
Yes, you have been a constant companion for the Charlotte
market for many, many, many years. You and Jeff going
to be greatly missed. This is it, It's today. Can
you believe that? It's hard to believe it's today? Forty
one minutes, not that I'm counting.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
Yeah, yeah, ticktime. So I think I told you this
story before.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
So, when I was a young seller in the radio
business thirty two years ago and my home radio station
shout out to WYYD in Lynchburg in Virginia, Okay, I
used to sell the racing country show that you used
to produce, and we would sell it for four hundred
and eighty bucks a month.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (53:30):
And as a new seller, that was just a good
place for to get my advertisers on as a soft sell.
And so but I knew how I knew the name
who Paul Shadd was. I knew the show. I sold
the show for years. My first day nine years ago,
very close to now, when I came to Charlotte, you
were coming down the hall and they said there's Paul Shadd.
I'm like, Paul Shand from racing country and so I

(53:52):
literally had no idea where Paul Shadd was, right, but
you were here.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
You were I got a kick out of that because
you were excited to meet me. Yeah, And I.

Speaker 8 (53:59):
Vivid to this day remember seeing you walking down the
home like that's Paul chef.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Wow. So so a wild story about you.

Speaker 8 (54:07):
Right. So it's like my career started with selling your
show many many moons ago. Helped me launch my career
and navigate my way through the sales world now into
the corporate management world. But Jeff, Jeff went to the
high school which was behind that same radio station and Lynchburg, Virginia.
Shout out to the Brookly Bees, right, go bees. So

(54:28):
it's just weird how this this small world.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Did you go to high school with your wife? Yeah,
went to high school with my wife.

Speaker 8 (54:34):
But but the high school literally was right behind the
radio station tim Lake Road. Yeah, and so he was
literally in school right behind the radio station.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
But he went to school with my wife.

Speaker 8 (54:47):
And so it's just weird how all roads lead to us,
and it leads back to Charlotte. Even though this were
all thirty years ago, we're still here. We're still blessed.
We're super grateful to have you guys and your time
that you've been here. So thank you on the behalf
of the cat, thank you on the behalf of iHeartRadio
and iHeartMedia.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
You guys are pros. And you know we were talking earlier.

Speaker 8 (55:08):
I don't think I've ever been into a studio for
retirement before.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
No, because and it sounds crazy, but people on the radio,
people that talk on the air don't usually ninety nine
percent of the time get to retire. It sounds crazy.
You either get either you move on to something, you
kick the bucket, or they can you right.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Usually when when Dave walks in the studio is not
a good sign sweating.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Well, as long as I don't coming with HR, right,
so I came in alone. Fine, If he comes in
and he's got a folder and an HR person with him,
things are not good. Yeah, Yeah, this was good. This
was a fun one. This is fun. Well, thanks for
letting us retire. Yeah, man, thanks which time? Yeah, no,
thank you again.

Speaker 10 (55:48):
Man.

Speaker 8 (55:48):
We've we've been blessed to have you guys. You are
absolutely pros in the radio business. For they don't build
them like Jeff and Paul Shadd anymore.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
We know that. Uh so we're very appreciative you. Well,
right back at you, my friend. It's been a pleasure,
and thank you. If you talked to Bob, tell him
I said thank you to the Big Office. Where's he now?

Speaker 14 (56:06):
Is?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
He's in New York and Miami? Miami? Who would want
to be in Miami this time?

Speaker 14 (56:10):
Here?

Speaker 15 (56:10):
Right right?

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Nice and hot spicy? Yeah, all right? This is a
just a good place to work, twenty one hundred South Trying.
You've given us a beautiful building. Can I thank you
enough for everything? The wonderful life we've gotten to live
great and there's always good food here too. You know
this is the only place, well, I haven't worked to
make places. I got this. This is one of the

(56:31):
places I've worked, and there's not been many that you
can walk down the hallway and turn a little lever
and get a handful of cashews. They've got a free
cashw machine down the hallway. We also have the almonds
as well. Almonds too, But I'm healthy. Lifestyle is important
here and we got a couple of oranges. You're a
big healthing out. Your wife doesn't let you. We want
to pick that dispenser out? Did you a nice job.

(56:54):
We went to breakfast a couple of years back, and Dave, see,
I guess it's wife keeps a pretty good eye on him,
and I hopefully she's not listening right now. Dave had
to sneak a couple pieces of bacon because his wife
puts the kebash on anything like that, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
she's she is now some.

Speaker 8 (57:12):
Crossed over, but yeah, she was pestytarian at the time.
So when I got to have meat, man like Paul,
let's go man, let's let's all beat.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
We can't eat this fore I go home. Well, buddy,
thank you very much.

Speaker 8 (57:22):
Yeah, man, thank you for all the bacon and the
burger lunches. They've been fantastic and I will cherish them
for a very long time.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Well, and hopefully i'll see you in a couple of
weeks with the brand new show. Yeah man, we're ready, Jeffrey,
we will. We'll probably food here when you're here too, right, Yeah.
Ninety six point nine the cat Cole Swindell sending that
one out to his plane.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Jane wife, it is Paul Shad Dad's courtney is amazing,
but she's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
She's a supermodel, all right, if you say so. Let's
see here. I'm kidding, Hey, what's their baby doo?

Speaker 4 (57:57):
I don't know, but I saw the sonogram and it
looks like soon, like a couple of months.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
Yeah, I once saw a pajama gram but they're totally different.
Valentine's Day she hated.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Yes, let let's.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Play that clip again. It doesn't have to be right now,
but I just want to hear that clip of Emily,
my little girl, telling me how much my wife hated
by Valentine's gift. She was and and it was I
thought I had totally did not remember any of that.
But we'll get to that in a second. What do
you got lined up?

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Now?

Speaker 1 (58:24):
How about Keith Urban singing to you? Keith Urban? Now,
earlier today we had Kenny Chesney on and it was
that Austin Power. Remember I said it was, And I
remember I said, like all the guys singers in their buses,
they had that movie and they played it over and
over and over again, and Kenny did a whole Austin
Powers deal, and then Keith Urban did something like Austin Powers.

Speaker 19 (58:50):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
It's a sad.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Know that.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Jack talking.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
It's a shad thing. Mabby and another one Urban is
a good guy, like he's always been very nice to us.
Who's this?

Speaker 21 (59:14):
We had Lone Star, Remember them in the studio, Yeah,
Lone Start And I don't know if you remember Lone Star.
They sing you do Baby Amazed. Actually that was the
song Kathy and I dance too at the wedding, was
Amazed from Lone Star. A bunch of really good guys
and they would come to the studio a bunch and
they just remember how I said that people would just

(59:35):
rattle stuff off off the cuff, And this was Lone
Star in studio, just coming up with a songbout.

Speaker 15 (59:45):
Even start listening pauls out of this, ain't dance smart.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Dance smart.

Speaker 22 (59:57):
Well start you're listen Paul channel can country ninety six more,
said Mart.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Right, because you can't stop him?

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Is that a tambourine one?

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:00:27):
Richie McDonald's the boys fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
They're so good. All right, we'll take it. We take
it a break here, I will take a break. We'll
come right back. We've got click. You're sixteen minutes left,
sixteen little minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
We haven't cried yet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
On Tight ninety six point nine. Uh So, Kathy requested
if we could play the Emily and I did. I
didn't remember this, but I found it very funny. My
little girl used to come on the radio, she was
like three four five, and she told me that that
the Valentine's gifts basically that I got for my wife.
My wife didn't like him, and then she she didn't
like him. And I think she says, throw him in

(01:01:05):
the trash because she threw him away. Let's hear it.
What did Daddy get Mommy from Valentine's Day? It was
a ver my teddy bear, but it was a monkey
bear with a banana? Did she like it? And what
else did Daddy get Mommy? Do you think she liked

(01:01:26):
the pajamagram?

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Why are you that she loved her?

Speaker 10 (01:01:32):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Why would you say that that was beautiful because she
didn't like it? She liked both of them. You're a knucklehead?
Did is going nowhere? She loved them, she loved you
know what, My ratings have gone down since you've been
on this morning. Did you know that?

Speaker 19 (01:01:52):
Do you know that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
Your ear moves when you're here eating and talking?

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
You know what time it is? No, it's not tickle time.
Tickle time thing. It's you too old for tickle time here.
She didn't like my presents talking about alright, it is
Paul Shad thoroughly producer Jeff's last day. I'll be back
in a couple of weeks to welcome in the new crew.

(01:02:24):
We've got a commotion at the door. Yes, one problem
is it's to get Look at this. Wow, isn't this sweet?
It's a parade?

Speaker 19 (01:02:41):
Look at that?

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
How nice is this?

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
These people and they're still coming in.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Nice?

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
I mean you're.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
I know you can fit so.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
Many people, right, we're talking about people.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
This reminds me of every day's pre show shower that
would take you, you know, when all the people come over. Well, gosh,
this is awful. Nice. Thank y'all for for coming out
here today. Look at this. Who's selling some who's selling stuff?
If everybody is in here, this is costing the station.
We'll talk fast get you back to sales. Well, thank
you guys. I love working with y'all and appreciate every

(01:03:24):
single one of you. And uh, it's been a pleasure
getting to do what we got to do. Right, It's
been great. And don't don't tearing up. Don't tear up. Look,
look get off the ground. You can say anything you
want on the radio and people just believe it. Oh,
Sara Lee, you know you had a Muppet baby tattooed
on your belly. Look at that well, which they had

(01:03:54):
an actual talent or it's a relative term. Well, thank
y'all very very much, and love y'all. Appreciate you all
very much, and it's been a pleasure working with everybody
over there. Jaff's final day, Love you. Jeffery going to
come back for his final They keep telling me.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
We'll never let you go.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Yeah, well, thank you very much. Appreciate you. Ninety six
point nine to Cat Paul Shad, Sarah Lee. We will
make this quick. Twenty seconds from right now, it'll be
ten o'clock. Time to turn things over to Angie. Uh
and again this is the final break with all three

(01:04:43):
of us. Producer jeff love you like a brother, my
friend you have. You've been my support for so many years,
my right hand guy, my tanto, my uh, my guy
I go to when when things were tough. You always
handle everything, even even under pressure, eloquently, perfectly, eloquently without
losing your mind. And UH could not have done all

(01:05:06):
these years without you, my friend, Well, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:05:08):
Likewise, it when I got that call from you that
many years ago, it was insane to think that it
would turn into all this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Yes, it was, what is it twenty over twenty seven
years ago? Yes, now, so Jeffrey had been phased out
of his current position called up Jeffrey and said, hey,
we got an opening for a producer and we met
over where'd we meet at the Wendy's at South South
tri Street was not there anymore, It's it was a

(01:05:36):
little burger place over there on South try On. And uh,
I remember being very tired at the meeting. Looked I
looked tired. I remember I hadn't shaved in a few days.
I was wearing some sweatpants or something.

Speaker 13 (01:05:47):
White Winston cup sweatshirt, I remember, I remember.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
And uh, uh you impressed us and we hired you,
and glad we did. Nobody have a great retirement.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
I love you too, jeff And because y'all are leaving
me behind. And I've worked all over the country, and
I've worked with many producers, and I've said this since
day one, there's nobody like you. And I'm not saying
that because you're in front of me. I mean that
from the bottom of my heart. You are always willing
to help. You always have a smile.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
On your face. Even I have to say.

Speaker 23 (01:06:21):
Say something nice to me that was my But working
with you too has been I did it all, did
not cry, but has been a dream come true.

Speaker 8 (01:06:32):
Well, I love you, love you, and and I'm still
gonna call y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So I'm not even.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Gonna you will. I want you have to tell everybody
the real reason that you're retiring, because I don't blame
you whatsoever. All Right, this has been fun. This has
been fun. Loveybody, you too, he said I love you
both on Facebook today. All Right, I'll see you in

(01:07:00):
a few weeks. As we introduced the new show, I
Think so ninety six point nine The Cat