It's Hard To Be Wet 'N Wild Alone!

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Alright, this is Brenda and Stacy with Let's Wine with Brenda and Stacy, and we're back with another episode. And Stacy wants to talk about I'm not even really sure. She said she wanted to bring up my other little podcast, which is Brenda's Horror Movie Reviews, and I think kind of talk about how it's very hard to talk when you're by yourself.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

It is hard to talk when you're by yourself, and I get that a hundred percent because I know a few times on the show we mentioned I do have a background in radio. Well, when I first started in radio, I had no radio teaching. You know, they literally flung me in here like this button put you on the air and hit this to stop and hit this to play and hit this to stop. That was my radio teaching, how to use these two buttons, and there are so many more buttons to use, but those are the most important ones. So me being southern and from the south, to me, y'all is just a universal word. It doesn't mean I'm talking to one person, it doesn't mean I'm talking to a thousand people, it just means hey y'all, you know how you greet people. Well, apparently, in radio, after the people in the power who be listened to me, and I kept saying the word y'all, they decided that they need to teach me to stop saying the word y'all, listen to the radio and listening to a podcast, you do it personally, you do it privately, you do it one-on-one. Right. So that's how they wanted me to uh talk on the radio like I'm talking one-on-one with the person who's listening. So to keep me from saying y'all, they had me put a picture of Brenda, which back in the day had a band pictures of you because we printed our pictures. That was the only way we could see them. I know, you know, is if we printed the pictures. So I had pictures of Brenda. So they wanted me to have that in the studio so it would sound like I was only talking to Brenda. They wanted me to sound like I was talking to my best friend, therefore, a picture of Brenda, you know, was in the studio all the time.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Oh Lord.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

In that picture was it? I need to know. It was one from back in the day. I think you're wearing white. I think I was white. I know. I don't think I owned anything white, did I? I have a few pictures of you and white. Don't tell anybody. I know. Jeff asked me, he was like, Do you have the picture? I was like, the physical picture, I don't know, but I do want to do some searching. Okay. Because I do know I had the this picture and I I can still see it right now in my head. Yeah, I had to have that picture in a studio because we have like a big board where we could put things and hang things, and you just stayed on the board all the time. That's how they wanted me to learn how to talk. So I totally get the bantering back and forth because before that, if I had to speak to a group of people, see you put me on a with a podium in front of me or on a stage and had to speak to a room full of a hundred people, I could have done it. Right. I would have not been shy, I wouldn't have been embarrassed, I wouldn't have been anything. When you put yourself in a room with only you and a microphone, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:01

It's hard. It is hard. I know it looks awful. I'm so happy you got to that was awful. And you know, just hearing it back is awful. And it's out there, it's published, and I'm gonna leave it there as kind of a lesson, but it does not even sound like me. There is no personality in that monotone woman. I didn't know who that was.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

I told you I struggled listening to it. It was hard for me. It didn't sound like you were awful. But I've heard episode two in the works.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

You heard yourself. Right. I think I was trying to stay within limits. I had in my head what I wanted it to be, but I think I'm better off just pulling out shit. I don't like talking about it. Because I love horror movies. We're better when we wing it. I know we are.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

We have tried to do the structured thing. We've tried to do the uh little outlines. The outlines, and those shows don't come off as well as when we wing it. I know. Like we're winging it right now. We're winging it right now. We have some line in hand and we're going. For it like we always do, because that's our you know. That's our MO. That's our thing. That's what we do. What's MO stand for? What the hell are you trying to say? It's Latin for I've heard MO all my life. No, we're not cutting this out. I've heard it all my life, but now I now I'm questioning what does it stand for?

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Modus operandi. I don't even know what either one of those words stand for. It means method of working. Okay. Well you that makes sense. It's a Latin phrase.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

Don't don't, you better cut that out of there. Speaking of not being able to talk regular and talking about my early days of radio and having to have a picture of you in the studio. That's crazy. So I'd only talk to you, and they would try to get me to stop saying y'all. The other thing is that was probably at the time that this happened to me, it was the most devastating moment. I cried. What? And cried and cried and cried. So, like most things in my life, people just fling me into shit. So they just flung me on the air. This button does this, and this button does that. Touch those two. So I was scared to death. I didn't know how to deliver anything, how to say anything. I mean, so it was fabulous. So a listener called and said to me, if I ever wondered what a deer in the headlight sounds like, now I know. Oh. And that made you cry. That made me cry hysterically because I got that picture in my head of, oh my god, a deer in a headlight. Scared. Scared. And how they sound, it must be horrible. No. And so he was telling me without saying, how do you tell a person they sound horrible without telling person? It probably wasn't horrible, it was just timid sounding.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Like you weren't sure of yourself, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

I was very scared. So now, all these years later, to know me, you know, I'll say anything about anything. I don't give a shit about nothing. Back then, I was so intimidated and so scared of it. And so being in the room and bantering by yourself or talking just you in the microphone is is very hard. It is hard. It is hard. No idea it'd be that hard. It's it's it's horrible. Because you know how, like, if you're in front of people, you you work the room. Oh, yeah. You know, you have your personality put out there and you have your smile and your twinkling eyes, and I'm oh I have all of it. Yeah. When you're in a room by yourself and you don't have any.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Yes, there's no back and forth.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

There's nothing here.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

And there's podcasters that do it all day long. Right. The feedback, even the facial expressions. Even if you sat in front of me and said nothing, I think it would have been completely different. I know. I know. Now, did you have more than two buttons in front of you, but were told just to press those? Because I I don't think I could have kept my hands off of it. You know how I want to touch everything?

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yeah, yeah. I mean, there was a whole board of ups and downs and slides, and they didn't want to overwhelm me. So I learned start and stop.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

Did you have to mark them like you put the big D on delete on the computer?

SPEAKER_01 6:50

I had some posting notes on the board for uh for a little while. An arrow pointing for pointing at it, like don't touch this one, don't touch that one. Never ever touch this one. Yeah, I had some posting notes on there, and I had excellent teachers and people who are so patient with me. I was very lucky. I just landed in the uh radio situation that I did, which afforded me to make enough money to raise my children and work a 10 to 3 job Monday through Friday that allowed me to do all the things that I needed to do and which I appreciated. That was worth more than money.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

That radio station is still going too.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

They're still going strong without me. I didn't think that day would come. No, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 7:34

How can they function without me?

SPEAKER_01 7:35

How can they function without me? They're doing well, and I'm happy for them, and so I'm grateful. And that's a fun or first, I guess, chapter, or second or third chapter, however you want to go, in my life. That, you know, is it's said and done, and I did it, learned a lot and met a lot of interesting people and struggled through it, made it, succeeded in it. Obviously, I was there for a long time. Right. I know you probably got your first gray hairs being there. I did get my first gray. I have a lot of stress being there. The owners, just real quick, I'll tell this story. The owners of the radio station were a husband and wife, and they were not southern, and they hated my accent. So that was really, really, really hard when they offered me the position, which it was country music radio. When they offered me the position, I was like, no, no, no. Like, I can't talk in front of people. I can't even talk in front of y'all without, you know, the two of them. The husband and wife. I couldn't even talk in front of them without them making fun of how I sounded. So when they offered me the position, I was like, oh hell no. No, no, no, no. Um, because I was a receptionist when they offered me the position, and then it was a music director. Thank you so much for coming back and sitting with me and talking me into what turned out to be a cool, a fun, and awesome career. I'm just so proud of you, and I'm so proud that you're doing your thing. The horror movie is your jam. I'm here for it.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

I love it. I always have a lot to say. I feel like I have a lot to say, nobody to listen. I'm listening. You don't like horror movies. I don't like horror movies, but I like you. So you don't care what I'm doing. This will be like I never listened to you on the radio station. Could be it was country music. So I know you'll never listen to this unless I ask for input.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

See, this is true. I would uh 100%. Brenda, uh, hate, hate, hate. This is another reason we're so so different about each other. She does not like country music at all, ever. Of course, I was country music DJ. Do you remember doing this? You call me when you're in the car. Hey, talk about me, I'll listen. Or especially if I had kids in the car.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we were going out of town or something, then you'd say goodbye to them or something. They really liked hearing hearing their name on the radio. You have called me a few times.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Hey, I'm driving and I'm gonna turn it on. Talk about me. You better say my name on the radio. I know, say my name. And then you would be like, Okay, thanks. Bye. I do love that uh Camille recorded Lily when she was just a little baby. Yes, there's a video of that. That I know that's precious. Yeah, I wish Lily a happy birthday when she was what four or five? Maybe four. Maybe four. And so I said, you know, happy birthday to Lily on the radio, and she was listening, and it was just adorable that she was like, Oh my god, she's the bame, and it was so cute. She was young enough she couldn't put two and two together. Because I know Camille's like, that's Stacy. No, like on the radio. I know, that's not Stacy, but Stacy was always just you have to admit this. Stacy, I wasn't ever, oh, I'm a DJ.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

See, I never thought of you being on the radio. You know, we had our kids and we had our jobs, so it's like that was your job you went to, and I went to mine, and then we got together on the weekends. Yeah, that was that was I'll admit, once in a while we went out to Chateau Alan when they would have their race or something out there, and you have technically had to work a remote, but we were still kind of partying around all that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

So Well yeah. Sitting at the bar at the Chateau Alan and Seabring for the 12 hours of seabring. If anybody wants to look that up. Yeah, I was working, but I was partying. And I didn't feel like you were working. I didn't feel like it. I'd be like, I'll be right back. It's time for my break. And I'd go do my thing and uh come back to the bar and drink again till it's time for my next break.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

That's the difference between radio and a podcast. A podcast, you've got to keep it going for a while, whereas you were playing music in between.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

I wasn't playing music. The person that in the studio was playing music. You were reporting in. Either I had a broadcast system set up or I could call in on my cell phone in the later years.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

I was gonna say earlier you had to find a phone booth.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

We're old. Find landline. Phone booths were not a thing um by the time I started radio, but uh landlines were. Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

I had one for a long time. Yeah, yeah. Even after I had a cell phone.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

I'll never forget when I moved to Sebring, Florida, phone books were still a thing. Oh yeah. So my name on the radio was my real name. And I'll never forget uh somebody called my house. Is this Stacy? It is Stacy. Who's this? He goes, Oh, you use your real name for your phone? And they just took a opportunity to get it. It is yeah. Like I I listened to you on the radio and I was like, Well, why are you calling me? I know. So uh so you just thought you you know, I never put two and two together being so new and right and never thinking and nobody stalked anybody back then that we knew of or it's harder to without the internet. Yeah, do anything crazy. So yeah, my phone number was my name.

SPEAKER_00 12:37

What would that guy actually want?

SPEAKER_01 12:38

You want to see if it was really you if it was really me, would I really answer the phone? And he wanted to tell me he listened. Yeah. And uh I was like, Okay, yeah, it's really me.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

So your address was in that phone book too. Yeah. Oh my god. And now that could have ended really bad. Here we are.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

We're still here. We lived. We lived. That is bad when you think about it. But who knew? My name had been in the phone book since I had a phone as an adult.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Never thought. That's all you need, that little bit of fame, and they'll hunt you down. Anyhow. I know. You know, people were like, that's Stacy Clark from the radio.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

That's Stacy Clark from the radio. I was just Stacy and Mom, you know? So it was fun.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

We did have a lot of fun, and because of it, you'd get tickets for things. And I mean, I don't feel like I ever took advantage of that. I hope I didn't. Because you didn't ask, or you didn't say, Do you want, or you say those were available. It was one of those things where you'd be like, I got tickets to wet and wild. Yeah, I got 18 tickets to wet and wild. Do you want to go? That's when Curry got shit on one time we went. You remember that? No. We were walking, yes, bullshit. Scott and Christina were with us, and Curry was walking ahead of me and a bird shit on her. You remember that? And you were the one that said, now we can really call her a shithead. Curry, confirm that story. It's shithead gate. Oh my gosh. You remember that now? Mm-mm. What? Curry. You gotta call Stacy and let her know.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

You know we got free entrance. They had bars at Wet n Wild, and uh I wasn't driving, so no.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

And we stayed at a hotel there. Do you remember Scott throwing a French fry at me? No. And Christina thought it was hilarious? No. I know you were there. I was. I was. You were Curry, Christina, call in on that one. Wet and Wild.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

My wet and wild memory that is as tragic as it could possibly be. And now we've gone off the rails, but this is what we do. I got a secret, very, very to me secret tattoo on my breastces. Well, one of them.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Not on that trip, you didn't.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

No, I had that tattoo. And uh, so Scotty was three or four, maybe. We were at Wet n Wild, and I was bent over. And you know, I had my bathing suit on, and I was putting sunscreen, you know, on my little pill baby's little face and you know, his arms and shoulders and everything. Well, while I was bent over, he saw my tattoo. And nobody in my family knew I had a tattoo. Really? No. So anyway, so when I'm bending over, um putting sunscreen on my sweet little Scotty's face and body, he goes, Mommy, you painted your booby. Do you still have it? Yes. Do I still have the tattoo? Yeah, they don't dis willy-nilly go away in a rose.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

Okay, I do remember that.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Yeah. So anyway. So then I am I was like, oh shit. Because you know, a three or four-year-old, you can't be like, well, that's a secret. They don't know that word, and you don't want them to.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Now, is this something that's gonna haunt him if the guys that he works with listen to this?

SPEAKER_01 15:35

Oh, I don't think so. I mean, he was three or four years old. Okay. I mean, they would hopefully think it was funny. I didn't at the time. So we're leaving Wet and Wild. I'm on my way back home. I was driving. It was just me and the kids. I don't think you were there. So I was driving, so I wasn't drinking. So I'm on my way back home. I have a cell phone. I called my mom and I was like, listen, I gotta tell you something. It's not good. You know, all this stuff. I'm making it sound like it's so effing tragic. Like it, this is the worst thing I'm ever gonna tell her in my life. And she was like, Go ahead, just tell me what is it. Are you sick? Is something wrong? You know, all this stuff. And I was like, Well, I have a tattoo and Scotty found it. So I have to tell you right now. Because if I don't tell you right now, he's gonna tell you the second we walk in the door. She was like, Well, thank God, you're not sick or pregnant. Well, there you go. So all you gotta do is make it sound tragic and uh trying to if you're trying to hide something, don't let your three or four-year-old find it. There you go. Because they will tell on you in a minute. Oh, yeah, they will. Anyway, it was so funny. Mommy, you colored your booby.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Yeah. I think I was 18 or 19 when I got my first one and 50-ish when I got my last one. Are you going for more? I don't have any room left. Well, I got I got some real estate left. No, I'm not going for anymore, not anytime soon.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Oh, you and Lily are getting one that's. Oh, that's right. Lily wants one. Yeah, yeah. We'll have to get our little matching ones. You and Lily are getting matching ones that I think is adorable. Oh, she has a ladybug.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

I'll do it with her. I know you should. Even though mine are horror or horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. Horror. Those do sound alike. All right. We wrap this up. I know, but well, thank you for thinking of me because it is hard to talk by yourself in here, and hopefully I'll get better.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

You already from episode one to episode two. You're already amazing. So if you're interested in horror movies and you want to hear Bruno's reviews, I think you should definitely listen from time to time. I might join in. Yay! Very rare because I don't like horror movies. But um, another reason, she and I are exactly opposite. I'm sure nobody cares about my rom-com reviews or 90-day reviews.

SPEAKER_00 17:46

I still think you ought to put out Stacy's Pearls of Wisdom. Pearl of your pearls. I do have a lot of advice.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

I do love my pearls. And you know I'm so smart. The amount of wisdom, the amount of wisdom that can flow out of me would be endless. I know. I think it'd be hilarious. So that's one of the things. We should do it. We might do it. Okay. We might do it one or two times.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

Just to see. I know it wouldn't hurt. The um equipment that we use allows for another podcast. Why don't you throw it on there?

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Stacy's pearls of wisdom. If you want to hear Stacy's Pearls of Wisdom, let us know. If you don't, we'll shut it down. I know. I do think it would be fun. You never know. So let's wrap it on Let's Wind with Brennan Stacy. Bye.