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Where all of us was raised on a farm and mine is a brick layer and I've been a life insurance salesman for 23 years. And, and, uh, I also, uh, run the store run school bus and she was in those days, ordered in from, there was

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no, there was no, there was no music stores at all in those days. Maybe in Lafayette, Lafayette Beaumont, New Orleans Baton Rouge, Alexander, the small towns like I don't really, y'all had roads and easy communication and all when y'all were little, didn't you? I'm not, I

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can't exactly get straight when that started happening down here. It seems sometimes Mark says stuff and I feel like maybe he was still riding buggies when he was little, but he's only 37. So I can't, probably was when I was, when I was small. We didn't

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have no, we didn't have no car. I can remember see bugger a lot on the road. You know, even when I was a kid, I see that. Yeah, I guess the, the road started being built was when, uh, when, when he alone was, started building bridges

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over the rivers and drainage and building schools and free schools for the Children, free books, free book, uh the late twenties, early thirties before that, the only people that got educated was, you know, people that had, had means of fame for their team. You know, like

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if you're a sharecropper or something like that, uh, usually the families were big and, yeah, when did the show start happening in Brazil? That radio show, you know, both. Well, did you all usually just do the dance and then they would put it on the radio

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or did you start being a disc jockey first or what? I guess. I don't know, about 10 years ago I started or even started before that. We even started about 10 years, 15 years ago, about 10 years ago I started my show and before that there

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was, there was, there was some radio shows, you, you know, old man outfit Barger was one of the first people to, to, to have a daily radio show with the country called A Daily, I mean, a weekly radio show, Thursday afternoon, K AOL Lafayette. And I

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know why was it that much of the man for the radio people wanted to hear? No, I don't. II, I really don't know how it happened, Mark, but there was, there was no, there was no use what in the, at yours? You know, how did, how

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did, what made you get started on the radio? You know. Well, I, I remember your first your first broadcast video. I remember hearing a video occasion. Occasionally, I though, you know, Andres talks said, why don't you, uh get you some sponsors and, uh, we'll extend the

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show now, you know, you know, I could have a portion of the should be bay or the shoulder. So then I came to Bazil and I talked to the mayor, which was uh chunky. He at the time and he said, I said, sure Bazil is gonna

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support her radio show. But he said, we're not gonna have the short uh happened in Maus, that's gonna happen here in Brazil. And I said, well, who's gonna do the announcing? He said, you were, I said, I can't do that. He said, yes, you can. I

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said, I can't get the time on the radio. He says, yes, you can. He took the phone picked up the phone and called the radio station. We wanna show him, we want him, I show him back. And he said, well, Paul said, who's gonna, who's gonna

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be in charge of? And he said, you. So then to the office said, no, he said, I don't want that because he said, I've had too many to try. He said, we can't collect the sponsors and he said, I, I get stuck with the bill, you

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know. So I said, well, that's what it, what it takes a shit. I'll pay them in advance, I'll collect the people in the town. So I went around and told the people I have to pay the show in advance. So they pay me in advance. No

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one paid me and I paid him in advance all these years. Going pay. The month had five weeks. I've been five problems for the 44 weeks. I've been four problems before I went on the first floor. You are fast. I was really disappointed. Who was your,

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was your broadcast from when it first started? Well, I started in my office in the little office. But what building was that? Uh, right next to the, uh, the fire station in the station. Did you have a lot of people coming over? Yeah, they wanted to

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come in and, you know, there was a big window there and you knock on the window seat, you wanna come in, you can't come in. It's, it's too many people. I let one in. Everybody's gonna go. So I said, over the area, I said, I hope

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that you people understand, you know that it's, it's not that I don't want you all to come in here, but it's, the place is too small to let one or two come in and not let everybody come in. It was a big success. So I said,

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uh, next Saturday it could happen in a bar if anybody is interested, you know, after the show come talk to me and this could happen in a bar where everybody could come all the bar owners were there, the show was finished. So I said the only

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way I can, the only way I can refer to you all of you is to, uh, do the show one month at one place, next month, at the other place and go around town, whoever is a sponsor will have their parents and having the show. Well,

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still, uh, they said that it didn't, it didn't work out with the format of the program, you know, like they were playing, playing concert stuff. How do you say that? Music from 1 to 8 or 1 to 9? And they had to break for one hour

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for the Cajun. And he said, you know, they had to remove the trash for one hour and they just couldn't handle it. He said, and then we lose, we lose our listeners. So he said, and I, you know, I, I pleaded with him. I had a

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piece of garage. I had some large g and I had wherever I go. I tell the people just right, you know, right to the right to the radio station if you like for the program to continue. And he'd get positive me that this, she says that,

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you know, see all these years with, with, you know, we kind of had built up a, a Saturday afternoon atmosphere for, you know, people from all over the country, all over, you know, Europe and everything. I know myself lots of times on a Saturday afternoon, you

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know, I can't think of. That's what I'd rather do. People that are visiting us, they come down to do that. Like, you know, and, you know, the working people, they didn't, they don't feel like going to, to the eight o'clock morning show and started drinking. Oh,

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it can happen Saturday afternoon. Like, everybody kind of wanted to go and have a few drinks and have a good time. Sometimes it was, it was, it was so packed, it was places, it's too bad. You, that you don't, uh, get something organized here in, uh,

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Baie. You think? Maybe you thought about that, getting, uh, funding to get your own radio station, something like a public, uh, public, uh, radio and specialized music, just music and French culture, culture, you know, have it 8 to 6. You have to work at night, you

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know, and be there when you feel like it and get to be on that station and they talk about that. I still get a, get a grant set up a radio station, get a license. Have you ever thought about, thought about that? I've got, I've got,

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I've got too much, I guess I'm not, I'm not the type of person to, to devote my life to 11 particular type of things for a living, you know. Like I couldn't, I couldn't just do music. I could, I couldn't just run the store. I gotta

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do, I don't like to be I don't like to TD I, you some like that. Do you still drive the bus? Do we? And the big day I should hate to see that go off the air. Some of the people that should have interest over here

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in promoting this type of thing. They won, they won. You know, or if it's not the person that they want that gets credit, it's not a politician. I is sure other, oh, I say doctor, I had great whole sickness with this program at school and I'm

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having a hard time getting to school to play this. Hey, they showed up ridiculous. I think I'm gonna, I'm gonna just try to get some organization to take the Arts Council and the State Arts Council, you know, they can get the funding and that the program,

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it almost makes you feel sometimes, you know, I think that you're fighting a losing battle, you know. You know. Yeah, but it is not like, you know, you can resist it. The main, main ST of life you can, the main, uh the main, you know, you

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can't resist, you can't resist the force. Well, people like us are too small. We're too much of a minority. Our voices are strong enough, right? We have, we have no voice with the politicians, the people that are, that are, that are in power over here, like

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anytime you and me or a lot of work that does work in these, you know, away from here. Our voices.