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Lydia Thompson: Cuz I think everybody in our family got a chance to be on the radio.&#13;
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Bob Friedman: Is that right? &#13;
&#13;
LT: Uh huh. At that time.&#13;
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LT: Yes I....&#13;
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BF: How did that happen?&#13;
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LT: Well sometimes they would have a meetin'. &#13;
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BF: Mhm&#13;
&#13;
LT: And I’d play those long, uh, LPs and...&#13;
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BF: He'd just tell ya to...&#13;
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LT: Uh huh&#13;
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LT: Yeah just play it. Uh huh.&#13;
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BF: Uh huh&#13;
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LT: And sometimes I did get a chance to read a commercial too.&#13;
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BF: Uh huh&#13;
&#13;
LT: But that would be it you know. I wasn’t very...&#13;
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LT: Oh I was a teenager then.&#13;
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BF: You were a teenager. Reading a commercial on WJLD.&#13;
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LT: Mhm&#13;
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BF: (laughs)&#13;
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LT: And my brother. When he was 4, he had a show of his own.&#13;
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BF: When he was 4 years old?&#13;
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LT: Yeah&#13;
&#13;
BF: Four years old?&#13;
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LT: Four years old. It’s in the Ebony Magazine. They did a write up on him and had him in Ebony magazine.&#13;
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BF: Really? On what and what, where did he broadcast it?</text>
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