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[Anderson plays Adam's theme song, Jimmy Eat World's "Bleed American", as they are coming back from commercial.]
Adam: Yeah! This is my song. I want you all to picture me walkin' in slow-motion, leather jacket slung over my shoulder...
Drew: Shades.
Adam: ...wrap-around shades...
Drew: We haven't heard your song in a long time.
Adam: ...rippin' off the shades in slow-motion, checkin' out some hot chicks at the bar. Yeah.
Drew: Ooop! Oh! And here's... The hot chicks look back, and they see...
Anderson: It's gone.
Drew: Ohhh....
Adam: [Laughs.]
Drew: Why don't you warn us about that?
Adam: Drew, you ever ask Anderson to do anything that he comes through with?
Anderson: Dickhead! I always do.
Adam: No, Anderson does fine on his own, he just... it's just... Let me ask you this, Drew.
Drew: Yeah.
Adam: Have you ever looked through the glass and asked Producer Ann a question, and had her answer you?
Drew: You mean when I'm...?
Adam: Have you ever cued Engineer Anderson to play something, and had him play it? Have you ever gotten an answer to any question on this show?
Drew: I have, but when it really goes bad is when I get the necessary build-up, and then: no.
Adam: Yes. Okay.
Anderson: I'm sorry. I erased it because it got played out; we did it too much.
Adam: All right, buddy.
Anderson: [Mumbling.] So anyway. Sorry.
Adam: Anderson making executive-type decisions on this show. Sarah?
Caller: Yeah?
Drew: Did you know Anderson came and worked on this show... does not have any engineer training? Came to work on this show because--
Anderson: All right! Can we just go to Sarah? Come on, man!
Drew: Wait a minute! This is interesting. 'Cause he liked this show.
Adam: Oh really?
Drew: He came here...
Anderson: This show?
Adam: [Laughing.] He didn't seem to like this show when he got here!
Anderson: Wrong show! [Laughs.]
Drew: Oh, Farel. Farrell.
Adam: Oh, he liked Farrell. I knew that was curious. I knew he didn't like this show!
Drew: And then he came over here because he like this show, too.
Adam: [Pauses.] No, no, no. [Laughing.] Now he likes every show!
Drew: No, he used to like this show. He used to like this show.
Anderson: It's a fine show. I enjoy the show.
Adam: Anderson came to work here at Westwood Two -- or Westwood None as we like to call it -- and came to work for Scott Farrell's sports show...
Drew: ...'cause he met him in a bar.
Adam: He met him in a... like, talking hockey. And just sorta interned on the show? Started learning the board and stuff?
Anderson: They invited me down, and I came one night, and I just never really left.
Drew: That was it.
Adam: Wow.
Drew: Yeah.
Adam: But, by the way...
Drew: That's, by the way, [laughing] how I started on this show!
Anderson: It's the exact same way, isn't it?
Drew: Yeah.
Adam: ...that's the way everything works.
Drew: On radio.
Adam: You just show up.
Drew: In radio, especially.
Adam: Yeah. But a lot of jobs. Just get down there, get in there, have people know you. I mean, that was, how many years ago, Anderson?
Anderson: Oh, jeez. Like, six.
Adam: Six years ago. And now he's making twenty-four grand a year.
Anderson: Twenty-one.
Adam: Twenty-one grand a year. All right, people? If that's not a success story, I don't know what is. Should encourage all you kids... Yeah?
Anderson: And then they were gonna put me on this show, and Ann's like, "Uh, is there anybody else?"
Adam: Oh really?
Anderson: They went through, like, three or four names before they finally put me in.
Drew: Oh, it's so funny.
Adam: Well, we liked our old guy, Dooley. He's a good guy.
Drew: Was Dooley officially a radio engineer type?
Anderson: No. Probably. Look at 'im.
Adam: [Laughing.] It's a good point. Sarah?
Caller: Yeah?
Adam: You're twenty?
Caller: Yes.
Adam: What's up?