#55: Radio Days (Frazer Smith, David Taylor, Ari Shaffir)

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🗓️ 16 April 2012

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Frazer Smith shares his story of how he went from being a radio god to how he lost it all. It's a really interesting tale. And I had my friend David Taylor cohost with me because he knew a lot of Frazier's stories already and I wanted his help guiding it.

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0:00.0	There goes the last DJ
0:04.0	Who plays what he wants to play
0:08.0	And says what he wants to say
0:11.0	Hey, hey, hey
0:14.0	There goes your beat on my choice
0:18.0	There goes the last human voice
0:25.0	There goes the last DJ
0:30.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen
0:32.0	And welcome to Ari Schaffer's Skeptic Tank episode 55
0:37.0	On today's episode I talked to a comedian from Los Angeles named Frazier Smith who pretty much made his name in radio
0:45.0	He was at some time one of the biggest radio guys in America
0:50.0	He started in Michigan and he moved to Los Angeles and he got a job on K-Rock
0:54.0	Was this fledgling, super cool radio station
0:59.0	And then you just hear the story about how we got big and how we eventually, like everybody gets big, lost it all
1:07.0	It's pretty fun and it gives it insight into what it's like to be a radio DJ
1:10.0	I've always wondered like how much of that stuff like do you make, like all the reads you get on when you're on the air
1:18.0	Do you get that money, do they get it, who decides what music you play, all that stuff
1:23.0	And so Frazier pretty much explained it all to us and told us this great story about how we got to the top and then how he's back down to the bottom
1:31.0	He's a really cool guy though, he's one of the nicest guys he'll ever meet in Los Angeles
1:35.0	Frazier helps everybody
1:36.0	He goes like hey buddy, good stuff
1:38.0	I'll get you in the laugh factory, good stuff buddy
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