We Love Our Boss

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to a bonus edition of I Tell You What
You Know. That big Burley guy we have meetings with
on Mondays. What's that guy's name? I don't know, Greg Sweatberg.
That guy.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, Oh, that.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Big Burley guy who's our boss, who's been at the
radio station for over three decades.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
His name is Greg.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
His name is Greg. Be here for two days. He
has them.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
But then again, neither was I because I was down
seeing that great big Burley animal get inducted into the
Country Radio Hall of Fame. And that great big Burley
guy kind of a curmudgeonty guy, you know, sometimes gets
a little you know, he gets a little surly sometimes
it kind of gets after us, rides our jockstraps a
little bit here and there.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh, he was a big puddle.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
He's just a teddy.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's such a teddy. I saw a side of him
I had never seen. And I think I'll get to
the real thing here at the end, but I'll be
I'll be brief. He just here's our guy. He gets
it's the greatest honor in all of country music, in
country radio to be in the Country Radio Hall of Fame.
And there's that great big burly brood of man that

(01:01):
kicks our ass on Mondays. And he just had the
best speech, greatest delivery, appreciation for his staff, appreciation for
everybody around him, most importantly Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And his family. And I cried. I and cried.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
It's been a while, so I don't think I cried
since my dad died. Oh wow, that was a big
heave cried A heave cried because I was around people here,
you know what I mean. I mean there's a lot
of people around and Greg and I have a very
sarcastic relationship, and I'd let some tears fly, but I
wasn't gonna start going. But I could have. Yeah, I mean,
it was just beautiful. He had an introduction, very heartfelt
from Kenny Chesney and from Brad Paisley that were recorded,

(01:46):
and then he came on and he did his speech.
They gave him like six minutes. And he was funny.
He was creative, he was compassionate, he was emotional. And
the thing that was not like the Greg that we
see in his office, he was very human. I would
love to do that I picked out. I've been around
Greg for many years. He is very human, but he

(02:06):
also prides himself on his vulcan like personality sometimes. But
it was a beautiful, beautiful speech. And what really got
me is he he did credit his airstaff and everybody
and so many people in the music industry going into
the Country Radio Hall of Fame, and it was wonderful.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Everything was cool.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And he starts talking about his daughter and how she
was basically kind of our research department of what songs
to play, you know, because back especially when she was
a teenager, she ride in the back seat and picked songs. Yeah,
play that one, I love that one, I don't like
that one, I love songs to play on K one
O two, that kind of stuff, right.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
He took input from everybody does as he does with us.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah. And then he got up at the end and
he started thanking, you know, God for his basically the
answered prayers in his life, and that was his wife, Cath.
And he came to Cath and his voice cracked and
then he's like, I can't even see my wife's name,
right or whatever, And then he said it again loud
and clear, Cath, because that is the love of his life.
Outside of the father, son and Holy Spirit. There, Cath

(03:04):
came into his life because he prayed for just that,
and she could have gone off and done a career
according to Greg like Greg and even beyond. But he
credited her for you know, doing what she did, and
she got into the events side and kind of the
concert side of everything, and he did the music side.
And he said he just basically, you know, brought the
music to the party, that kind of stuff. And it

(03:25):
was just he credited all the people around him and
namely his family and his his behavior.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
It was beautiful. It was just a really beautiful, beautiful speech.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I was very very moved to grab a hanky and
all that kind of stuff and a little napped him there.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, it's an honor that's so well deserved. I mean,
Greg has done so much for so many people in
this industry, and he does recognize the people who I
think have made it possible for him to get to
where he's at. And it's just really really cool to
see that. I feel really lucky to be able to.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Work with him. He's very sad. I do as well,
very much.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
So well, we love you, Greg. I know you're not
listening because you're probably sleeping.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh he's all kidding. I don't even know what he
gets back.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Just getting back to I think he's bounce back emails today,
so he'll he'll be in the office today because I
think he was there through yesterday. Maybe he came back
last night or this morning or something. Back.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, we we absolutely love Greg.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, he's a good dude. He's a great work for
and he could have been in the Hall of Fame
years ago, and he actually turned down the nomination. Wow,
letting other people uh experience that. So I'm glad he
did it when he did.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Gosh.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I just but at the same time, though, I hope
he doesn't die, you know what I mean, because like
that that kind of stuff. You know, people get their
goals and all said, poof, they're gone the next day.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
That was just comes in threes, doesn't it. Huh comes
in three? What Ozzie? Uh uh? Malcolm Malim and Greg No.
But well, if you're already did the three, then we're done.
We're good. All right. Let's just leave it at that,
leave it for this bit to employ it at the end. Quick.
Thank you for listening to the bonus edition of I Tell.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
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Speaker 2 (05:07):
Thank you.