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Joel
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SOME FREE ADVICE
1. Don't crap where you eat.
2. Make sure to ask if she's a cop. If she doesn't tell you, it's entrapment.
3. If you go to The Castle, never look The Senator directly in the eye.
4. Buy me an iPod and you will be eternally happy.
5. Don't eat where you crap.
How long have you been at 97X?
Since the fall of '03.

So when are you on?
Fridays, Midnight to 6:00am. Saturdays, at some point while the sun is out. Sundays, middays. And don't forget Sunday School and Local Motion!

Sunday School?
It's the old-school alternative show we do Sunday nights from 8-11 pm. It's pretty much my favorite thing in the world. We try to get lots of requests on, too.

Local Motion, huh? Can I send you a CD? My band does pop-punk covers of Bachman-Turner Overdrive songs.
No. But anyone else can. Check out the submission guidelines.

You look like a pre-teen. How old are you, anyway?
24

Pretend I give a crap about you. What's your story?
I'm one of those New Yorkers that moved to Florida. My family moved to Valrico when I was 8 (that's the suburb east of Brandon where you can barely hear the station). Sorry, natives, I've been voting democratic and trying to ruin your fine state since I turned 18. I realized in high school that I wanted to be in radio because I loved music yet had no talent to create it. 97X didn't exist yet, so I figured I should go to college. Seven semesters in Boston and one grossly overpriced B.A. later, I'm back in Tampa Bay.

Go back north, you dirty Communist hippie!
Hey, remember when the Pats beat the Bucs 28-0?

...

That's what I thought. Don't worry. I like the Bucs, too. I watched them lose for too many years not to root for them now!

At least you like football. I guess we can let you hang around.
Gee, thanks.

Alright, geek. All-time, Top 5 bands.
Iron Maiden, Muse, The Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, Nevermore, The Crown, Opeth, The Cure, Edge Of Sanity, The Smiths...

They don't teach you to count at that fancy-schmancy New England college, do they?
They do, but I didn't have to take a math course.

Would've probably done you some good. So what other jobs have you had?
I worked at Winn-Dixie off and on for six years. Mostly during high school and while on break from college. It was awful.

What was your first album?
M.C. Hammer's 1990 opus Please Hammer, Don't Hurt Em.

HAHAHAHAHAH!
Shut up, dick. It was a gift from my mom when I had chicken pox. I was 8!

HAHAHAHAHAH!
*sigh*

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