GETTING PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH - CONTINUED - With Tommy Sablan

Then, we get punched in the mouth on August 20th and we’re off the air! We got pulled off the air 11 days before our deal was up! It was taken away and we weren’t on the air and we weren’t getting paid!
What was suppose to just be about 2 months in between stations has become over 5 months. It sucked big time at the beginning back in August!

Although, it sucked it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. I didn’t know it at that time, but as the days went on and I was off the air and figuring out how to pay for bills and food, I found myself. Not getting a paycheck sucks, it sucks really bad, but it was a good thing for me, because I wasn’t getting spoiled and I had to figure it all out and I did. I survived and I’m still surviving and it gave me balls, more balls than I thought I already had.

There’s something that happens to your soul and your attitude when you aren’t getting what was there for you so easily and so readily for so long.

Being off the air and having it taken away was also good for me as a guy on the radio and being a producer for Jeff and Jer. For 99.9% of the time, I’ve been with Jeff and Jer, we’ve been non stop busy. We never had time to stop and think and reflect. We just did our shows and worked on the upcoming shows. Being off the air made us, made me reflect on what we had. We love being on the radio. We love it so much. All of us on the show started off just loving it and working for free as teenagers. Being off the air made us remember how it felt when we first got into it. Being off the air made me remember the roots of my love for radio.

I am so happy at this moment in my life and with radio and the Jeff and Jer Showgram. We’ve been off for over 5 months and it was the best thing ever. We have a new attitude and a new enthusiasm and a renewed love for what we do for a living.

Today, after being blown out over 160 days ago or so, I am a better person personally and professionally. I’m hungry for it now. I wasn’t ever hungry before LITERALLY. Today, I am hungry to get back on the air and to do a great job and to be successful.

So, if you’re a morning show with a few years under your belt and you can’t figure out how to go to that next level, GET YOUR ASS BLOWN OUT and see how well you do.

You can go either way when your job is taken away from you. You could either fall and fall hard OR get up and figure it out and man up.

Hats off to the people in this business who has gone through this. 5 months is a blip in time, it’s nothing. I know some of my radio friends that have gone years before getting a job. I have friends not in the business that have been out of work for a year or two. Each one of them found themselves and appreciate the time they were off the air or out of work. 

Just like that old saying: You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. My job and my life was going really fast then it slowed down on August 20th and now I know what I had and I appreciate it even more. I appreciate the job I have. I appreciate life even more now. I know what is important and what means most in life and I know what I can do away with. 

I found all this out only because I got punched in the mouth and it woke me up!