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It's your Friday drive home.

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Funny story on our Friday drive home. We're honored to be with you. Funny story on our Friday drive home.

I don't know if you like to hear the inside stories of industries.

I do.

Little inside story of radio is Rush was a master of what's called Sonic branding.

In a Broadway musical or a West End musical, they call it a late motif, a musical, an emotion tied to music that is kind of a callback later in the production to like the song memory from cats one of the best

of all time at this particular uh phenomenon and rush would have certain music tied to certain

so that's where we that's where we learn that from and we we on the show ramones a music nut

jim mud's a music nut chad's a music and Chad's music, which kind of good for us is Hawaiian, Jamaican,

tropical, which is a weak spot for us. But in any case, my brother, my now late brother,

passed away a couple years ago. He had called me one day. He said, hey, I got the Friday drive home song for you. And I said, Chris, you stick to being a cop and I'll handle the radio. And he said, well, just listen to it. I don't want to listen to it. Okay, well, it's called a good one coming on by Blackberry Spoke. And at that point, I hadn't heard of Blackberry Smoke. This was, I don't know, 10, 15 years ago.

And I said, no, I'm not going to remember it.

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