The virtue it is a time to celebrate. Okay, if you are a long term, long time, virtue

listener, you're going to love this. If you're new, bear with us for a couple of

seconds. When one of us works their way up, it is time to celebrate. Let us go back

now to Blake. Hello, Blake. Good morning. Good morning.

That feels so good to be back. The former intern Blake. The same amount of energy as

this event. Listen, this is sleeping in compared to what I've been doing. So when my alarm

went off at 6 a.m. this morning, I thought, I could do this. So in the TV world, the alarm

goes off at 3 a.m. So needless to say, I slept in for three hours.

So yeah, to catch everybody up, you started off on the birch show as an intern. Yes indeed.

And then you became a producer and a phone screener. Yes. And then you left us to go to

Columbus, Georgia to pursue a career in television. So went down there as a weekend anchor,

weekday reporter. This is September of 2020. And then fortunately enough, I was promoted

to morning news anchor. So that was when the early call time started. This happens a lot

with our interns where they do a couple of years with us. And then they realize, I don't

want to be in radio. I'll get in the TV right out. I mean, because Bert does speak so

highly of radio. So it's wonderful. Yes. So Blake went down and started TV. I mean,

and it was not an easy decision for you. Like there were months there. Like what am I going

to do with my career and my life? And you decided going that direction? Absolutely. I mean,

I can't even remember to being here talking about it with you guys trying to figure out what

is what's next? I mean, we're in the middle of a pandemic. I was living in a friend's

basement apartment and our wonderful birch show listeners sent me to Los Angeles, California

because I thought I was going to go out there. I didn't go to LA and I get told by this

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