The Bird Show. Let me ask you guys a question here, man. I am caught between a rock and a hard place.

I am trying to mentor somebody right now with a new podcast, and I've been doing it for a couple of months.

And I'm curious, if you guys listening here have ever been on the receiving end of this or had to do this also but i'm getting to a point now

where i've worked with this person so much and they want to be a podcaster and they want to be a

YouTuber but they just don't have the skills right now if this was just a hobby for him like hey you hey, you know what, I'm doing this because I love

sports or whatever, and it gives me just an avenue to communicate. Nah, man, this guy wants to make

it like his livelihood, his career. So, and it's a kid in radio. He's young and asked me through email to help him out, which I have been.

So I'm giving him help and giving him help, but I'm at a place now where he's not getting any better.

And I can hear, when you do this long enough, you can hear like, okay, all right, there's a lot there that you just can't teach, like personality,

or are you a good storyteller, right? You can sort of teach some of that, but it's very difficult.

I'm going to have to eventually tell this kid, I think this is just not the path for you,

and I've been on the receiving end of that, and I know how much it hurts. But if you guys got that or you had to give that talk, what do you even say, 1-855 Bird Show, the one example I have, and there's going to be a couple of stories blending into each other this morning. But I've told you guys before when I was in Dallas, and I would try to fill in for Kid Craddock, who was legendary in Dallas. He was like one of the first dudes to syndicate and just

the most talented guy I've ever worked with in my life. He was a mad scientist. He was so good.

And his morning show was just number one in Dallas forever. And when he would be out, I would have to try to take over the show and try to host it for the first time ever.

So you got a rookie doing it.

And I'm stressing about it.

And I go in there and I'm trying to crush it.

I am doing the best I can.

And then when I get off the air, the general manager calls me up and she calls me in and she goes, you know, some people just aren't meant to be a host.

I was crushed, totally and completely crushed because I was doing the best I could.

This is what I wanted to do with my life.

And she just was very blunt with me and told me this is not the path for you now

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