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All right, let's get started and welcome to episode 102 of Coach Bennett's podcast. Now, I usually

start these episodes with a little blurb about the number

and what's the first thing it makes me think of and I'm not going to stop doing that. So

102 makes me think of FM 102.7 WNEW, which was a kind a rock. I'm not going to say it was classic rock,

but it played a lot of classic rock. It also played some just normal current rock music.

This was back in the 90s when I would listen to it. I started to move more towards FM 106.3

WHTG modern Rock at the Jersey Shore.

That was the call sign for that radio station.

If you're of a certain age, you remember the radio stations you listen to.

But anyway, 106.3, Modern Rock at the Jersey Shore, that was my favorite radio station of all time.

But 102.7 was a really good radio station, and they would put on a concert during Memorial Day weekend each year in New Jersey, specifically in Asbury Park.

Now, Memorial Day weekend is usually the early 20s, mid-20s of May.

So right around Memorial Day weekend, the weather's starting to get really nice in New Jersey.

And the concert, I believe, used to be on a Friday. And then it shifted to Saturday when I was in high school. I think at the beginning

of high school, it was on a Friday and it just, it turned into this massive day of cutting

or hooky, you know, it's another way of just, you skip school. Basically everybody skipped

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