It's that time.

time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the

Michael Vary Show is on the air. We're talking to Mark Starling,

he is a program director.

That means he runs, a program director is the person who decides who goes on the air and the news that it's

a news talk station there in Asheville North Carolina it's called W WNC. You know Mark five ten years from now you will be at a music festival that one of your other stations is hosting or you'll be at some public event

or you'll be emceying a political debate.

You'll be doing something where someone knows who you are and they'll say there's Mark Sterling

with W. WNC and someone will walk up and

tell a story and they will tell a story about cowering in their house as the waters rose and scared to death and your voice was the only thing.

And you know when it's all gone, when the electricity is gone and the web is gone and all the things that we cling to are

gone and the disaster is in full swing and mother nature's wrath is upon us and to know that they've got that

little handheld radio they forgot they had that AM radio and they got that to their

ear and they're huddled around like a fireside speech in 1932 and to know that you were what was keeping them saying because you were

what was keeping them saying because you were finding in the pit of your

gut in a

recess you didn't know existed a positivity that you didn't even believe

that got them through.

Whoo boy that's gonna hit you.

That's gonna hit you hard. That is going to make you hit you hard. That is going to make you realize why you as you said this is why you

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