How to Start Over (with Kim Curry)

New Year, New You, New Problems. But how you respond to your problems can make all the difference. Kim "Kid" Curry was at the top of his game in the radio industry, before he was suddenly diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Join us to hear how he learned what it takes to fight against despair, reinvent your life, and face the purgatory of the US healthcare system.

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Which tell them which exotic animals you had Grandpa had that Kim was just telling us about his horse farm that he just got. Yeah, he talked about that. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. Your first. Well, just that the old person that lived there, I did have a question about their like how do they move all those animals and what did they move them to this day, she moved to like a a bigger place for them. So here's the deal. As I was telling the guys, Grandpa, I just moved into a horse ranch about June 1st. I've lived in apartments and homes my entire life, and my two youngest daughters are horse people, and we've boarded horses for ten years. But suddenly the wife decided that we were going to get us a horse ranch and do it ourselves. But the lady we bought our property from was an animal rescuer and she used to have shirts. She had too many Shetland ponies. She had potbellied pigs here in the property. She had two horses and she carried around a little koala. Six month old koala. Wait a minute. I think it's a wallaby. I'm saying it wrong. It was a wallaby, not a koala. So Wallaby. Sorry. And so she had gotten that from Florida about seven or eight months ago. So now she she sold us this property and they're now building a much bigger animal rescue. Okay. Good for her. And I want I think it's wonderful. And she carried this little wallaby around, in this case, in front of her, this little wrap around thing. And then, you know, we just she called this a couple of weeks ago and she said, listen, I've ordered some nipples. For. My bottle for the baby because the wallaby is going to have a baby. So I had to order some nipples. So she ordered the nipples and she was having them sent here because they didn't have to eat. And so I we had to kind of wait for it to arrive. We just thought that was funny. So she can now see it really well. Grandpa, you put us all inside of a water tank. Water thing? I'm having a problem right now. I know. I'm trying to. Terrible. It is. No. It's terrible. Grandpa Kim has had a very illustrious radio career. Doing what? Prove it. That was good. I mean, do you build radios or what do you do? No, no, no, no. When I was when I was 17 years old, my dad said, I live in Colorado in very small town called Canyon City, Colorado. It's the home of the Colorado State Penitentiary. And I grew up 11 blocks away from the Colorado State Penitentiary in this little town, Canyon City, there's only one radio station. And my dad worked there when I was 17 years old. He came home one day and he said that the boss wanted me to come and babysit for him, and I thought that he meant babysit his kids. But because that's how I made my money in high schools, I babysat my parents friend's kids. But when I got to the radio station, he he wanted me to babysit the God show on Sunday morning. What that meant was all the services in town were recorded at all the churches, and on Sunday morning they would play them back. And so you'd hear a week old service and it was the God show and nobody wanted to do that show. And so I got started doing that. And, you know, a little punk kid in the 1970s that was 1972. As soon as I heard my voice on the radio, I thought, Hey, I could be a deejay. So I spent the next. Now, did you engineer it yourself or have somebody else doing that. In those days now? Bye bye. You're talking about the unions offices. There were still union offices in the major markets in America where the deejay would just sit there and there would be an engineer, engineering, everything. Well, those days were gone in the late sixties, early seventies, and I engineered my whole show. Everything was done by me. I pushed all the buttons, had to get the next record ready. I had to figure out what I was supposed to say, get the next promo ready, get the next song ready. And it was a constant motion for 4 hours, but that's how I got started and spent the next 33 years and I went to Knoxville. I was in San Antonio, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and I spent 25 of 33 years in Miami, Florida. So that was my big radio career. But it was. And what kind of genre was your show? About 40 man. Oh, a top 40 deejay. Oh, so you're in music. Okay, great. Man. Now, you got to remember, Guy's Top 40 is is current music. But you've got to remember 1972 to 2005 when I was this is my stretch of my career, the genres of music for 18 to 34 year old people. And that's what top 40 music really that's for Top 40 radio was basically designed for 18 to 34 year olds. But if you think about the time span, there was a few variations of music that went through those days. When I first started, I was still playing The Beatles. I was playing, you know, Marvin Gaye, early Marvin Gaye, The Supremes. And then it went to KC, the Sunshine Band. And by the time I got finished in 2005, I was, you know, playing Puff Daddy records, Tupac and and, you know, all the hurdles. And he Gladys Knight. I did. Well, as a matter of fact, Gladys Knight was one of the first things I played in 1973 on top 40 radio station in my college town. When that shut down, I went to college and that was when Midnight Train to Georgia was out. So big fan of Gladys Knight. So but the radio career was it was fun. But, you know, I got out of it because I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, grandpa. I mean, it was I was having exacerbations of M.S. my entire life. I just didn't know what it was. I was in San Antonio working on the radio there, and I thought I got stung by killer bees. Oh, wow. You know, when I was in Washington, D.C., and I thought I'd been hit by fire ants, you know? So but these were things what would happen is, you know, my vision would start to fail, my legs would begin to seize, and my toes would curl up. But I just thought I was sick. I just thought I had been stung by a bee or something because it came and it went away. But, you know, around 2004, the things started happening and they didn't stop. So now you out of the career that I have loved my whole life, but then I became a writer. So that's kind of you know, we're all here, I guess, to talk about today, all these crazy things that happened. Yeah. I was going to comment on your your podcast guess page. I was reading it and was like, This guy's a good writer. Now you said something about cows. And speaking of the sound engineer stuff, it was like you probably had an ear for stuff too, because it was like in the very beginning you were talking about the the church so you could hear cows and whatever, whatever. And I thought that was pretty good writing. I was like, Oh, I'm all in the scene. Good, you know? So that's cool. Good, good job. Well, you know, it was it was weird as a little kid in first learning on this radio station, which back in those days, you know, turntables, you know, the size of turntables. But back in those days, you know, the seventies, this radio station had been there for about 40 years. So the equipment was ancient. The turntables were like 16 inches wide. And and I'd be on the radio. And you could hear the cows mooing in the open window back there. I mean. You know. So it's hilarious. It was certainly. Were you actually. So you were actually spinning vinyl. Oh yes, sir. Vinyl from the very. Yeah. Not, not CDs. Ah well. No. No. Well Easter Easter 1972 actually. Yeah. 1972. My boss wanted me to play the 78 version of Peter Cottontail, so my boss walks into my little studio and says, Here, put this on the radio. So I put it on this big turntable. Got it all cued up. And here is an original version of Peter Cottontail. So I played it. No, played nicely and everything. But in those days, the way the studio was set up, you would take the record off, put it in its jacket and set it next to you. So you could get the next song ready. Okay, are getting the next song. So I put it down on the ground and I rolled my chair back and I rolled right over it. And. The boss, I got fired for a variety of reasons for my first radio job, and that was just one of them. So but it was a 78. You played the thick 78 records when. I first go, Wow, yeah. Do you have your own collection of records now or vinyls or whatever, or CDs or whatever. As a as a radio guy? Needless to say, every radio station was full of free prizes. And the record companies, when you put a record on that, the record company was promoting, they would send you boxes and boxes of freebies. Oh, wow. The Eagle is a radio deejay for my entire career. I got to walk in the music office and just pick out what I wanted and just brand new copies of everything and wow. But what happens in a case like that after 30 some years, guys, is I had, you know, what we considered to be music radio station libraries in my own home. I could have had a radio station. I had enough music to have my own radio station and in my own home. And that becomes very expensive when you're moving across the country heavy. And so there came a point to where there was a storage place in Pueblo, Colorado, that got a huge collection of vinyl that went from the 1970s all the way to the middle of the nineties. And wow. I just left it in there because I was moving again. I had just gotten married. My wife and I were starting a new life and and I had become the boss by now. Okay, now I'm the boss. The last thing I want to do is deal with with music and albums and stuff. I was and we were into CDs by then, so it wasn't I just I think I gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars of because you know, they when when the record company guys would come, they'd want to impress the deejays. So they give a special copies like the Grand Funk Railroad album, where an American band was yellow and white. And Bobby Caldwell, What You Won't Do for Love. I Can't All right. You're breaking my heart. I can't. And so heartbroken. Oh, my gosh. The album was was in heart. She was red and it was heart shaped. And that was Bobby Caldwell. That's your album. And you left that somewhere in some. Some storage place. Oh, my God. Probably Colorado. And I either the owner got pissed off and threw it all away or he said, Hey, wait a minute, I got something here. Because it was I'm telling you, it was there were classic versions of stuff you couldn't get anywhere else. Did you try and go back and find this stuff? No. You know what, man? I'm a part of what? Part of what top 40 radio does is it keeps you in this 18 to 34 year old focus. And so I've never been nostalgic. I've never. I did my. Happy Days show when Happy Days came on even like it because first of all, it screwed my radio show because it's 7:00 every Tuesday night. My radio my I was on why 100 in Miami one of the biggest top 40 radio stations in America at the time. The phones would fire like crazy. They had 20 phone lines. It'd be like this. And then all of a sudden, happy days would come on and the lights are Stop flashing because everybody went to go watch Happy Days. So I hated that, but I've never been a nostalgic person. So having all these records from the old days never mattered to me. I'm I'm in the focus of 18 to 34 year old life. I still feel like I'm no older than 45, 50 years old. And part of the science behind that is always having a kid in the house. I've had children in my home since 1989, and the good thing about that was my kids would keep me updated on all the current songs. I knew current trends because my daughters would come home and say, Oh, here's the new. Song in Nevada. In fact, one time. If you guys get tired of me talking, just tell me, shut up, because I'll just keep talking. But why are you here for it? Okay. Well, good. Thanks. Well, my daughter was a big fan of SpongeBob SquarePants in the very beginning. And because she was, what, I don't know, more than four or five years old. So I'd sit there and watch this TV show with this cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. So I'm now the program director of Power 96. I'm running this the biggest, in fact, that had the largest cumulative audience in the Southeast United States. It's a top 40 station in Miami. It was absolutely famous, so I would send my disc jockeys out all the time. They'd be at high school pep rallies, there'd be a car show. Openings at the grocery stores were opening at the malls, just walking through the malls. I was very much a promoter. That's how we was. We're always top of mind to the market because we were always in their face. Well, one day I decided that I was going to follow them to a pep rally, a high school pep rally. And when we were sitting there, the school is like packed full. And I told my guys, I said, listen, man, there's this new cartoon out there. I want you to go out there. And I just want you to say on the microphone, who lives in a pineapple under the sea? That's all I want you to say. And you're going to hear this thing. They're going to come screaming back to you. And they were all like, what? No, my my guys always looked at me like I was the old man. What do you know? Because I mean, by now I'm almost 50 years old playing, you know, Tupac and all my guys are 20 and 25 years old. They're the hottest mixers in town. And so they didn't want to do it. So I went out in the middle of the of the thing and I grabbed the microphone, here comes the old guy in the middle of the high school gym and it's packed. And I just say, who lives in a pineapple under the sea? And they all yelled SpongeBob SquarePants. And I looked over. You guys were like, Whoa. But the only reason I knew that it was because my kids kept me in the format. They kept me in 18 to 34. And so I was I always felt that is an advantage. As a matter of fact, I still have an 18 year old. She lives in the frog. So there's still kids in my house. I don't. Did you did you play the theme song after you prompted them? Did we play the theme song. Or did you when did you just get them to say the name and then leave them hanging? Well, I know they that's I should have done that, but that's okay. You know, the pep rally started and everything went on. But it was just a point that that that because my children have always kept me in the groove. It's always been an advantage for me. And that's running a radio station. You need to be in the groove 18 to 34 and I cheated by having kids too many. Did you did you feel that as well, Grandpa? With kids and grandkids? Yeah. I've often thought that, you know, regardless of what business you're in, it could be clothing or or music or whatever. You know, if you want to if you want to know what's really going on, you have to, you know, be in touch with young people. But I guess, Kim, you probably did similar to Casey Kasem. Yes, sir. That was me. I did many countdown pro. In fact, in Baltimore, every radio station, you know, Casey Kasem was basically designed for an oldies radio station. But when you get to current music, you have countdowns. And so I hosted a couple of those countdowns on the radio stations that I was on. So and you know, you get a staff of people that bring you everything and in reality, all you do is read the copy. And what you would what I would do is I would go in and record the copy, everything that they printed for me, and then they would have an engineer come in and engineer the show itself. Very much like that. Very much like the Casey Kasem stuff. You mentioned that you worked in. Did you say Miami? Yes, sir. 25 years. Were you did you have any familiarity at all with, let's say, the Palm Beach area, Palm Beach County? Well, our our radio stations all covered Miami, actually, Dade, Broward and West Palm. So we covered Palm Beach. The reason I asked you, what year were you in that area? 1976 to 2005. I was in and out. Really? Yeah. Did you ever hear of a club called Spencer Woods? Tiffany's? It was in West Palm. Yeah. I've heard the club. Yes. I never went there, but I know. Oh, he was phenomenal, this guy. Yeah, he was phenomenal keyboard guy. But I spoke to him years later and he sounded like he was disgusted with his life. But I don't know. But he was love life. Trust me, owning a club, you got to have a there's a certain mindset there to to own a club and be depended on, on having music and the right people that's going to cause the audience to come and stay. I mean, you know, deejays sometimes can really suck and and that can happen. You can have a DJ at a club and kill it. And so it's not easy doing that and spending your life doing that. You know, it'd be very, very difficult. But now you're now your your main occupation is writing. You're not I right now? Yes, sir. Yeah, actually, horse ranching. I knew. I knew hobbies. Horse ranching. And I'm a writer now. I've now written three books. It was like a political fiction or something. Well, I wrote my memoir, which, you know, as I said, covers the career. And what's interesting about the memoir and I do write political fiction. Something happened in America in 1987 that I just I am confident grandpa will probably remember, but I know you guys don't know what happened. 1987 President Reagan vetoed the Fairness in Broadcasting Act. Inside that act was the Fairness Doctrine in. And that doctrine commanded that if some if someone put something that was a lie or misinformation on the radio, you had the right to go to that broadcast facility and demand equal time to shoot down the lie to call the liar out as a lie. And in 1987, President Reagan said two things. He told America that it was antagonistic to the rights given in the in the First Amendment, the right of free speech. But what was also going on in the background was the radio stations and TV stations in America that were having to deal with equal time, were complaining that the equal time they were giving was free and it was costing the bottom line. So those two things were happening in 1987 that the broadcasting community was getting to Ronald Reagan and saying, listen, this is affecting our bottom line. And he said, know, I want to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine. And I will say that it's because it's antagonistic to the rights given in the First Amendment. But when you take away the Fairness Doctrine, what you do is you take away my right to call a lie out as a lie to call a liar out as a liar, to call this information out as disinformation. So what he really did was he took away my right. Yeah, he's upset. So, so but and I will believe that Ronald Reagan had no clue what he was doing, because you've got to remember, Ronald Reagan was losing it for a long time. And eventually he he suffered. So I don't think he thought about the fact that you could get people on broadcast stations in America who would lie, who would spread disinformation and do it rapidly every day and not even care. And then you would end up with the division you have we have in America today, because what people don't like are liars. What people want is truth and facts and you can find the truth in the facts. So that's what I write about. And it just so happens that this affected my father, and that's where the story came from, because it affected my job, my my father's enjoyment of his radio station that he worked on so well. Reagan really was the beginning of the end of of what's fair. Middle class. He he he was the beginning of what's going on right now. Yeah. And, you know, he that was the beginning of where corporate corporations were going to take over America. And and that's what's happened. And it's you could have predicted you heard people saying it was going to happen in the 1980s when he was doing all this, they were predicting we were going to end up here. So this is not a surprise. But the truth is, it's simple legislation. And, you know, I talk about my books to to people like, you know, I'm I'm a mercedes Benz owner. Right. I'm sorry. I'm very proud of my in really nice car. And I go to the dealership and I've got all these big, tall white guys who are not in my political party, but kind of guys I can talk to and we debate things. And when my book came out, I made sure they had a copy. And what they all said to me is, Man, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to depend on truth in America. I mean, we would like the Fairness Doctrine to come back. The citizens want it to come back because we believe you should know the truth. But the truth is, there's a party who has benefited from this since 1987, and every time bringing back the Fairness Doctrine comes up in Washington, DC, it gets pooh poohed and it's stopped. But if you went long enough with enough young people, because I believe the young people are going to have to fix this country if you want it long enough, with enough young people understanding that they can get truth back, make it legislation and make it a law again. You could eliminate all of this. Now, let me say this. We have cable, you have satellite, you have a variety, you have your phone, a variety of different things you couldn't control. The Fairness Doctrine could not control your phone data, couldn't control Instagram, couldn't control all those tick tock it couldn't control that. But the Fairness Doctrine could control radio and TV stations and demand that they have fair and balanced broadcasting the truth, the Fairness Doctrine, because those TV and radio stations, regardless of where they come from, have to come out of a transmitter. And that transmitter is legally responsible to the FCC. So if the FCC said we are now going to bring back the Fairness Doctrine for American broadcast television and radio, you could do it because there are transmitters. They control the transmitters. So at least that way America would have a safe haven to go to for honest debate. You can lie all you want, but for the next 30 minutes, I get to tell you my side. That's all. And I think America would appreciate that especially. Well, the problem is that money and power control everything pretty much. And it's very hard to overcome to overcome that, you know, the the the politics and who is going to make the laws and so forth. So. Yeah, I mean, idealistically, yes. You like to do that. To eight year terms and Democrats theoretically over that six year period, you could bring it back if you had enough people. Democrats want it because Democrats always want to bring it back. But we only get you know, you get two terms. That Barack and I will stop. While it's interesting in this midterm election, which we just had, they thought that the main issue would be the economy, inflation and and crime. And what they found out is that one of the one of the issues main issue was abortion. But the other one was people are afraid of losing democracy. And that that's a main concern right now. The record of. What the pundits had been saying, people, money, inflation. They yeah. We need the fair use act to be like it's not inflation give me my 30 minutes. It's yeah. And they're afraid of democracy, the free world that democracy is taking a beating and it's concerning now because if the House is taken over by the Republicans, can't they in theory just stop all the January six hearings? I guess. Kim, in today's world, which does which do you think has more influence the the Internet or radio and TV? It's the Internet. My daughter never listens to the radio or TV. We had to give her a TV. Yeah, it's. Some crazy show, but it's not even a network show. So it's. It's an app that she wanted to see. It's all in here. It's all in. Here. But. You know, I have to have faith in the young people of America. I have to have faith my daughter and her friends and my other children all believe what I believe. So we can't be by ourselves. There's got to be a strong enough coalition of young people out there in America. But you've got to be able to get them involved in that. Is getting them. Involved because, you know, in. Theory, they can control. They can control every. Election. Anybody under 30, you know, that they. Control the election. We're in a water tank again. Think again. Did you unplug. One? What I'm wondering, I driving me crazy. Yeah, well, work obligation. I'm so grateful for your time, Kim. I will leave you with our very special hosts. Now, that is all set up and let you guys roll. Thank you. Okay. And take care. Bye bye. Bye. Well, Kim, it sounds like you've had a very interesting career, like you're having one. Well, I it was a great broadcasting was fun. It was great. The thing my dad got me started in. But like I said, I was having these exacerbations of multiple sclerosis my whole life. And in 2004, they went from just temporary problems to continuous problems. And it just so happens I was home with my mom 24 with my mom, I mean, my wife and my kids. And it was when that tsunami happened, the first time we saw the tsunami and whatever that was. And and you could see it on TV, the whole country was wiped out. Well, my mom, during that tsunami, says to me, there's something wrong with your face, there's something wrong with you. And all that harassment of there's something wrong with you made my wife when we got back to Miami, that's when I actually got in the doctor. And that's when the the diagnosis and the test began. And the test went about a month and a half, and I was diagnosed with M.S. and that's when everything changed. Wow. So when you move up to Colorado again, so that was 25 when we retire. So it was 25 to 2. Now, where were you at? Well. First of all, I grew up in Canyon City, my hometown, and where the state penitentiary is okay. But when I got diagnosed, the only thing I could think to do was go home because I didn't know what was going on. I was losing control of my legs, my bladder, my hands weren't working correctly. I was losing vision in my eye. The only thing I could think to do finished was just to go home. So I came back to Colorado. My mom is still there. She's passed since then, but she was there. I figured if I need some help, I could ask my high school buds who never left town and they would help me, and that they did. So I spent the ten years from 2005 until 2015, kind of figuring out how to have multiple sclerosis. Wow. And you know, you've got to remember the psychology of it. I mean, you know, I was kid I was a fairly famous guy, first of all, as a deejay in Miami and D.C. and and in Baltimore, a pretty famous deejay. And when I became the program director of Power 96 in Miami, he's like little Hollywood. So me and kid Cory, I'm Power 96, running Power 96. It was a big deal. Everybody wanted to be close to kid Cory. But when I got diagnosed and I went from a cane to crutches to a wheelchair over that five or six year period, nobody wanted to be close to me. I mean, people, the guy with the crutches, they move away from the guy in the wheelchair. So there was a real psychological thing that went on with me for a long, long time because I didn't like it. I was angry. What the hell are you people doing? It's me. I'm, you know, I'm Kid Curry, for Christ's sake. But nobody wanted to talk to me. Nobody even cared. And it's funny that. And I don't blame them. The people that I was working when I left my office, I basically just disappeared. But no one called me, no one checked on me. And I don't blame them because I wanted them to go on anyway. That's why I left the station, because I didn't want the station to be dragged down by my physical condition, distracting me from running the radio station. So I wanted to get out of there and I wanted people to move on with their lives. But it. Did. Yeah. I mean, you know, I, I can see I mean, I can understand that like you don't want people to move on, but same time check on me. I got it this, you know, but, um. But they eventually and. They eventually when the, when the memoir came out and I threw all their crap out, suddenly everybody had to go, Hey, how are you doing? Okay, nobody's calling me. So now he's okay? I've been in. Touch. It's hilarious. That's good. I'm glad. I'm glad. You know, it's. Yeah, I mean, that is a lot to go from, you know, a big fish to now you're a big fish in a small pond but with the arms. And I mean, that's a key part in on that. But it does mean something, right? Because, you know, you went through a lot for it. You went through a lot. But yeah, that sounds like quite a humbling experience. But you seem you seemed quite like. Well, from then. Here's what happened then. You know, then I realized, well, first of all, it's expensive to to be in a wheelchair. First of all, my insurance company gives me one wheelchair. It's the motorized wheelchair that I use in my house. But if I want to leave my house, I've got to be able to get the wheelchair out of my house. And then I've got to be able to get that wheelchair into a vehicle that can transport my me and the wheelchair somewhere. And it's either that or you go out and you buy your own wheelchair, a manual wheelchair. And I use the manual wheelchair that I just throw in the trunk of the car and I crawl along the side of the car because I can drive with hand controls. My wife makes. Sure. That I have everything I need to be a normal guy. So, you know, about five or six years into my arms, we decided that it was time for me to learn how to drive with hand controls. So I do that. And so, you know, I've I've learned it to deal with it. But the cost of all these things is astronomical. But my biggest complaint is I get no help from the government. I get no help. And it's not my fault that I've got to mess. I am in this particular country is supposed to be wealthy as we are to have the worst health care. And it's not fair and the tax breaks were taken away by a political party. And that, I think, is absolutely unjust, which is why I'm not necessarily a member of that party. But anyway, so then, you know, Phines, as I as I had to deal with the mental thing of of people not really wanted to be close to me. I finally realized after about that, like I said, ten years I learned how to have M.S in about year nine. Things changed for me. There was a guy who had a major trade magazine. You've heard of Billboard magazine? Well, that's the magazine the country knows about that talks about music there. Another magazine that was out there, it was called the Street Information Network. And the Street Information Network was specifically for radio programmers and record promoters and where you see Mariah Carey, all the big hits on the Billboard charts, the Street Information Network magazine was made to bring up the up and comers, the guys who couldn't get into Universal Studios, the Tommy Universal Records, to talk to them. This record, this magazine, was helped to bring along the nobody, but it was a very good magazine. And the guy who ran that magazine was named Vince Pellegrino. And Vince had an April 1st birthday, and I have an April birthday AMA for 20 baby. So every year after I after I left the radio station, we would exchange birthday greetings. He's the only guy after I left the business. Wish me happy birthday. I wish him happy birthday. But this magazine was a big, big deal. And you've heard about, you know, Mariah and all those guys getting Grammys. Yeah, those Grammys. If it wasn't for the record promoters getting those songs on radio stations in America. So Vince was in charge of all of that and about, I don't know, eight years after I got diagnosed, it would have been 13 or 14. He called me one day and he said, Listen, I need you to come down to New York City every year. He had a big convention, had everybody in town, they'd bring in new artists. And it was a big deal. He always had it at B.B. King's Blues Club, and it was a big extravaganza, and everybody would gather there. And he flew me out and my wife and my kids out to New York because he wanted to give me a lifetime achievement award. He thought I left the business. I'd had all this success and I disappeared because of my arms, he wanted to bring me and say, Hey, man, I appreciate what you did in Miami and all those other markets. Here's a lifetime achievement award. So I go out to New York, I'm at B.B. King's club, and I finally get to see Vince for the first time in a long time. And he's dressed in this big coat with a hat on and a scarf. He looked over, over warm. It was just it was November, December. So it was cold. But he looked over dressed this party's going on. He's giving out all these awards. He calls me up on stage. I see 30 years of my career in front of me. These guys are loving on me. And I started feeling this thing where I wanted to come back. I wanted to to not be so depressed. I wanted to become I wanted to become something to be dirty again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I realized at that point and I put it in my head that when I roll into a room, I'm people used to say, Hello, kid, hey, kid. But when I roll into a room in my wheelchair, I am the focus of attention. So what I do is I bring out my old kid tree attitude and my old kid Cory isms and I talk. I'm the first one to talk in the room and the nicest guy out there I have. I don't have any problem having someone hold the door for me. And so I've changed that kid Curry's walking in the room to, Hey, there's. The guy, the chair. So he fix that. And it was because my wife said to me, You've got to stop being so mad about being in that wheelchair. And when she said that to me, I finally started figuring these things out. So it was Vince bringing me back into New York City, seeing all my 30 year friends feeling juiced again, which made me want to do something again, which put me into writing. I wanted to write a story. I thought, Would you let me write the story about my career, about the multiple sclerosis? Let me write the story about this party that my friend brought me to and let me talk about how expensive it is to be disabled in America. And so I got out of that party and I went home and I thought, I'm going to write my memoir. Yeah, I mean, yeah, sorry. That just gave up, really. I mean, that's the hero's journey, right? That's what that's what does happened. I mean, that's Cecil. That's what happened basically in your life from back at 17 year old to reaching the thing, you know, reaching the pinnacle 75 and then falling down the grace and then being completely humble even further. So when someone goes, stop complaining, you know, a person in a wheelchair, which is funny. And then and then. And then it's all right. Okay, hilarious. And then there's the Rising and that's great. That's great. No wonder you wrote a memoir and that's good. Yeah. Kudos. Once I got finished, I wanted to keep writing, which is why it's fiction books and wrote my story about Bonnie's Law and the Fairness Doctrine. I'm a big fan of the. Fairness Doctrine, so. And the books have done well. In fact, I mean, jeez, you know, I don't what you learn after you've written something. First of all. Okay, might my memoir Come Get Me Mother I'm Through ended up at number 11 on the Amazon book list. Howard Stern was number one in the broadcasting side. I was number 11. Well, what I realize is you don't ever really write for profit because this is not a profitable business. You write because you want to write and the sales come. If they come, if they don't, they don't because there is so much distraction in the world. I really right now just to get something out. But my last book, Bonnie's Law, The Return to Fairness, is a story about a little girl who understands what President Reagan did and decides that she is going to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. But she does this over the span of her from two years old till she's in her thirties, and she finally realizes all this is going on. And then Bonnie at the end of the book decides that she's going to run for president to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and that book actually became an Amazon number one bestseller. Wide. Released for some reason. And, you know, I was pretty impressed with that. Now, I did get a my largest check from the publisher so far, although it really wasn't that much. But it's the largest check I ever got. So you don't really write for for for profit. You write because you want to. And that's why I'm doing it. I just have a good time now because I like making up stories. You know, I didn't realize, you know, then you read Stephen King and you read, Oh, man, what's that guy's name? Okay, well, anyway, all those other old Dr. Seuss. Yeah. Oh, Dr. Suits and these girls clothes, they do this. Where did that come from? And so it puts me in a place to where I come up to my office up here, sometimes three or 4:00 in the morning. And I have no problem with living that I will vape, you know, I vaporize flour and I get in my mood and I just start writing and, you know, I'm I'm I have a great time doing it and it's all I do now. So, and that and run my ranch. So I kind of have two distractions my ranch and my writing. So I record music because I enjoy doing it. You do for the enjoyment and for any money per career. Incidentally, my my nephew has M.S. and I hadn't seen him for several years. And he has a tough time. He can only walk really a few steps with a cane now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Is he on medication? I'm sure he is. His parents are well-to-do and. Okay, they give him everything that they can, you know? Good. And how long has he been diagnosed? Well, he was born with a congenital heart defect. I don't know that that had anything to do with his. And quite frankly, I don't know. But I think it's been several years. Yeah, I had not really my my sister and her family live out on the West Coast and I'm on the East Coast, so I hadn't really seen him for several years, but he came into Philadelphia and we went to dinner together. I walked with a cane very, very short, you know, maybe, maybe that's all. I got diagnosed. When I got diagnosed, I was in my corporate office over in Naples, Florida, which is 3 hours away across Alligator Alley from Miami. And I was in the corporate office and my doctor called on my phone and I picked it up and went to another room. And she says, I need to speak to you on Monday to talk to you about the next part of your life, because I'm going to diagnosed you with multiple sclerosis and that threw me off. Wait a minute. Talk about the next part of my life. What are you talking about? And so I went into the corporate office meeting with all the honchos, and I packed up my briefcase and I said, See you guys. I've just been diagnosed with Ms., by the way. Wow. By the way, don't do that. Why not. Do. The corporate office? Probably shouldn't have known. Okay? I should have I should have held on to that because eventually they were trying to get me out. But anyway, a whole nother story. I see. I see you. On the drive back to Miami, because like I said, I didn't even know what multiple sclerosis was. So I'm driving back to Miami about 3 hours across Alligator Alley, and I'm on the phone with my wife. And my wife is doing the 2005 version of Google, and she's telling me that this is going to happen, this is going to happen. And then she said, you could die from this multiple sclerosis kills. And so by the time I got home after that three hour trip, you know, I was at that point, I think I was ready to retire. I'm done because I don't know what's going to happen. I've got work to do. I've got to figure out what's going on. I've got to get on medication. I'm going to try to fight for my life here. So that's really then on that Monday, the following Monday, I walked in and I told my boss, That's it, I'm done, I'm going to go. And they did everything they could to keep me for a while. But then eventually I thought there was something going on in the background. But. And to really. Watch what you tell your employer. Yeah, but not not the lesson. Anything that you're saying. But none of us know what's going to be tomorrow. No. No, you're right. You're right. You make a really good point about, you know, talking about the importance of health care and. And. Finding that spot, finding that spot or that mentality where you're comfortable with having, like, a chronic illness like M.S, especially because we're dealing with so much long COVID now, like all over the world. And we still don't know the full effects of long COVID and accepting that, you know, your life is your life and the trajectory of your life is not going to be the same as you thought it was for really, you know, outside of, you know, you sabotaging yourself, there was no reason why you couldn't continue on that trajectory. We're now basically an act of God has propelled you in a different direction. And having to accept that and grow with that is, you know, going to be really important for a lot of people. And there's a thing called dystonia, I think that's how you pronounce it. It affected my voice. And so being in radio, I mean, you know, my voice was going. Oh, wow. And it's no. So about 20% of where it was. Okay. So wow. My whole life changed. Everything had to change. And it was it was it was a path that I like I said, I wanted to write about it. So I did so well. Maybe, maybe it was the creator's way of turning you into a writer or. I look at all. Situations as something to grow from. I know it took me a while to come out of this. And, you know, it was really I really didn't talk about this. I mean, the reason that I'm here today, the reason that that even I could even go to New York City for that party was right around year seven or eight. My when I first got diagnosed, there were only five mass drugs. So you go into eight years later, now there's eight drugs. And so my doctor said that we were making no progress. I was taking I was actually. Doing experimental drugs. I was taking, you know. Three or four times in one year. And then I did that year after year. And the doctor said, it's time to change the medicine, put you on something new. And then my doctor, who is an MS genius, wanted me to begin taking large doses of vitamin D. I mean, massive. I was taking 30,000. I use a vitamin D every day now. Wow. Humans humans don't collect vitamin D very well. Our bodies are designed to be out in the sunshine. That's how you get your vitamin D. Well, we're not in the sunshine that much anymore. So nobody really collects vitamin D. But Most patients, for some reason, the vitamin D numbers are even lower. So my doctor believes that if you take this large doses of vitamin D and he believes that if we change your medicine and do the vitamin D, we're going to be able to stop this. And it's funny because we changed the medicine and then he told me he wanted to take he want me to take the vitamin. But because I was a deejay and I would put my mom on the radio all the time with me, and my mother invariably would have a cold sniffle, sniffle. Make sure you take your vitamin C, it'll help you keep off that plan. So I said, okay, mom. She sniffles, sniffle. So I never explained vitamins. So I changed the medicine and the doctor kept calling. Are you taking the vitamins? No, it's not going to matter. But my wife really got into it and insisted that I take the 30,000 I use. So for six months nothing changed. I had new medicine, but my condition didn't change. But when I started down that vitamin D suddenly I wasn't feeling that fingernail down the chalkboard. I wasn't having a brain fog. I was always having my condition basically leveled off. So for the last ten, eight, ten years, I have not gotten any better. I'm I am leveled. So I really feel that this thing that my doctor did with the vitamin D was the right thing to do. So. Kim, have you used interferons? Yes, I have. And that was part of some of the beginning treatments when they were trying to of. Oh, yeah, very expensive. But I believe it has very beneficial effects. Yes, sir. Well, I might I'm going to pick up my doctor's book and do this because my doctor. I want I want you. In fact, I will I will send you a copy of this if you want to, Grandpa. Optimal health with multiple sclerosis. He talks about the guide to integrating lifestyle, alternative and conventional medicines. So my my doctor even knows that I am a CBD user. He knows that I use THC to try to. In fact, there are studies everywhere right now that you're doing about cannabis effect on multiple sclerosis. Here's a situation I can only take 80 milligrams of Baclofen now. Baclofen, my legs cease constantly. In fact, right now, if you can see me, my legs are sticking straight out. I'm sitting in this chair and this thick and straight out, so the back of baclofen stops that from happening. But I can only take 80 milligrams a day,

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00 in the morning, when my legs are seizing again, I roll over and I vaped some flour of indica and I go right back to sleep and my legs start seizing. So this is not happening just to me, but it's happening to MS patients around the world. So there is a connection. There are studies going on and it's alternative. But you know, when you're desperate, you'll do most anything to try to stop the madness. You know? Tell me about payola. Hmm? Hey. Yes, give me payola. Okay. Well, off the record, this doesn't really happen. No, no, on the record, it doesn't really happen off the record. Here's the truth. It happens. It happens. It still happens. It's been a it's been an interesting thing to deal with as a program director of the number one radio station in Miami, Florida. Now, I was brought up by two program directors who made me in my head. I was focused on playing the music for the people. And because I've been in Miami from 1976 as the youngest guy on the radio, then suddenly I was the oldest guy on in charge of a top 40 station. You know, I knew what the heck was going on. Now, part of Miami and part of this time of day is I forget what I was saying. So what were that? Do you remember what we were talking? You asked me about payola Okay, so. So it was was real important for me as a program director to keep the payola out. The guy the guy who was on before me, I don't know if he took money. There was always it was always a rumor, but I don't know if he did, but I know I wasn't going to. So I kept those guys away. But for instance, there is a very famous reggaeton artist out there. His manager wanted to have lunch with me one day and we drive up to the restaurant and he has me a briefcase. He says, Open this and it was full of $10,000. He says, You can have this, just play my guy's song. And I said, You know what, man? I'm the wrong guy to talk to. I, I, this is me. I don't do this. Okay? So you could bring me $100,000 and I'm not going to do it because I play music for the people, not for that. Now, that was me guarantee it happened. In fact, there was a guy very famous South Florida radio DJ. He was real famous in Chicago. In fact, he was supposed to be a supplier of finding games for the Blues Brothers movie, if you know what I mean. Don Cox and Don Cox was on the radio in Miami, and at one point Don Cox said he was going to write a book about it. And then Don Cox ended up out in the Everglades and it happened. They beat him up, threw me out in the Everglades, and he made it back to Miami to tell the story that he was not going to tell the story. So it's out there. Everybody knows it's out there and nobody wants to talk about it. And they will come and find you if you decide you're going to talk about it. So, you know, an interesting. Yeah, well. You know who Cheryl Clark is from American Bandstand. The Dick Clark's American Bandstand. I don't think that I don't know I don't know where those records came from. Yeah. He most people I don't know if they know the story. But the reason I know is because my friend's parents were involved with American Bandstand and what happened was they on the show, they had a guy who I'm trying to remember his name. I can't remember right now, but but he would got in trouble for having sex with young women, young girls, 13 years old. Oh, God. So they had to replace him and they put Dick Clark in because he had this all-American. Yeah. And he was involved in payola, and he actually was prohibited from being on the airwaves at all for 20 years because of his issue with the payola. Yeah. Once. Once they. Busted in. What is payola? Pay for play. And the guy was, oh, yeah, he want me to play his guy's song. He wanted me to pay. He was going to give me $10,000 and I could just walk home with it and just go home with $10,000. And if I wanted more, I could have asked for more. But that's what payola is. It's pay for play. Wow. I thought you guys were speaking Spanish. And this is I don't know, this word. No, but I didn't. Okay, but it is I didn't know. And you. Know, and you can tell the radio stations kind of that take payola because they play crappy songs. About selling music as trash, you know? Oh yeah. Because you could still not playing songs for the audience. They're playing songs that they're getting paid for and they suck or they wouldn't have to pay for it. That's true. It's true. We probably can't say it because you probably didn't shot or something saying something like that. Yeah. Kim, I know you mentioned that the that the records that you got were kind of special. This maybe they look different or whatever. Was the quality of the recording any better on those vinyls than the regular vinyl that would be bought by a regular customer? Was it the original master? We always got primary cuts. Everything that radio stations get are the primary cuts. They're the ones that have to be the best because they got to go on the radio. So the vinyl has to be. How are they valuable? Oh, my God. Oh, yeah. Oh, I know. I can't believe I still can't believe it. I always wonder what ever happened to those records. Yeah, I think that's I don't know, that's the most heartbreaking thing and not only that, you said, I think that I've heard in a long time, I'm such a music kid. I love music so much that I'm like, I don't know. I mean, I don't like hearing about this stuff. I get that part. But just to go turn this to be gone. Oh, yeah, yeah, it hurts. I often wonder about it because, you know, some of those things. Bobby Caldwell actually spent a New Year's Eve at my house, so he was a personal friend. And after I realized what I had done, after, you know, years, a years go by and I because I've got a stack of stuff that I kept, you know, I, I've got a record library that's pretty good. I pulled a bunch of stuff out that I wanted a bunch of Beatles. I've got some stuff in one day. I was like, Keep that Bobby Caldwell record. And I didn't. And I was, oh, because it was it was pretty, man. It was in a heart. And but they didn't do that back then to have the the Grand Funk Railroad album be Yellow. I mean, we'd never seen a yellow vinyl before. We didn't do. That. So sorry. You know, you know what happens in. This business. 20 years later, it made all kinds of our how if. I just hope someone's on that bidding show those like those storage bins someone just spent very little and just got all that that's all I can hope for. I guess that would be the lucky son of a gun. Yeah. You had those cuts from Sinatra or Ella. You know, people like that. There's almost like. Yeah, that's worth a lot of money today. Oh, yeah. As a matter of fact, when I was in Miami, when I became the program director of Power 96, of course, started making whole lot more money. So I went and I bought a home on the seventh, just off the seventh hole of Don Shula's golf course. Now, Phines, and he was a famous football coach. Okay. Grandpa knows who he is. So I off the seventh hole of Don Shula's golf course and the lady I bought this house from had 78 records. She had boxes full of 70 eights, so I just took them. She asked me if I wanted them and I took them of. I kept those so I got a whole bunch of old 78. So thick. Those thick records. Yeah. Still have some of those. Okay. You know I've even got on I've got to check them out to see if they're worth any money. And they're not. Yeah, they're not worth anything, sir. And that's what he is. We just keep it for sentimental values. Sorry. Yes. What are you saying? Your eight class clients, schools that have never been played. And I tried to sell them, you know, now you. And it's really difficult to find a needle that will play them these days. Pardon? So what makes the needle different. Work nice someday? What makes the what kind of needle do you need? Well. The the other. Okay, now vinyl degrades. Okay. So when they printed these old 78, they're not. Eventually time air gets to them and the grooves become damaged. And you need a precise, very precise needle. They just don't make them. Okay. No, you just you can't. I don't I don't even know where you would find them. I'm sure someone somewhere along the line, somewhere in the world makes these needles, but they're very difficult to find. And remember, now, you know, this era, I mean, kids are buying vinyl again. So there are record out there. My daughter, she plays vinyl all the time on her little record player. Now, that's a a very easily acquired needle. That needle will work on just about anything except for old, old classic vinyls, 78 and things I have. I see. So that's why they’re I see. I see a harder material. Much harder, much thicker. That explains a lot because I remember vinyl coming back and my dad is a big music person. So like he would he talked about vinyl for years before vinyl came back and would say, you know, and I'd ask him, okay, well, why aren't we all doing vinyl? And he said, You know, it's expensive, but like it makes more sense what you're saying. Like as it's come back, you know, they've made a version of it that's more affordable for the public, but you still need to the true experts will have to look for that expensive, precise needle. Here. I've got a real nice one. I prefer vinyl. I mean, I it just sounds clear to me, you know, all these compressed CDs have compressed sounds and you hear so much more listening to vinyl than you do a CD. So the science has taken all the real good stuff. That I need to try that this weekend. I, I always hear about the difference, but I've never heard the difference. I want to, like, I'm going to have to borrow his record player and like put in my headphones maybe. Yeah. Back in Indiana I got one. I got a collection of vinyls, not here, but my dad has a big collection to big Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder fans. And Marvin Gaye, really? We have a lot of Marvin Gaye. Stevie Wonder records. Let My. Echo. It's a little bit okay. I was I stood under a heating lamp with Stevie Wonder. We're coming out of a Grammy party. We're coming out of Clive Davis. Clive Davis, Grammy party. And I was waiting for my car. And Stevie Wonder walks up under this heat lamp with me and I said, Hello, Mr. Wonder. Wow. He looked up and was like, Innervisions. Is a. Big he's a much bigger guy because remember, he was little Stevie Wonder Grandpa. Yeah, for that. He was a very tiny little kid, but he grew up and put some weight on. Talking. About. Stevie Wonder. Oh, right. Little Stevie. Frankie Lineman. He's another one. Another? Well, he's. A big, big. Yeah, he did. A I'm going to talk now because my uncle. Yes. Okay, it's my turn. I guess I've written down here. Let me see. 8 to 10 years. The how much how much was it. Re vitamin D you were like, are you like 3000 or something? 1030 thousand international units of vitamin D? I am now. Like, but you know. It fixed me. I mean, I'll tell you, I was scared for ten years. I thought I was going to die. I just kept getting worse and worse. Then there's that sudden feeling once again that, Wait a minute, I'm not feeling like I was. It's not, you know, the fingernails down the chalkboard constantly and I it just went away and I started sleeping better. And my my doctor, remember, multiple sclerosis is such that it lesions appear on your brain, sores on your brain. And depending on where these lesions land is the part of the body that is affected. My multiple sclerosis. So that's what that is as well. So multiple sclerosis—? Yeah, these little lesions appear and you know, in my case they appear in the part of my brain that runs my legs about a I about three quarters of my legs work and the rest of it, it all depends on where these lesions land. Now, what's happened since I stopped, since my condition stopped getting worse. My doctor believes and it's true because I'm living proof of it, my brain has started to rewire itself. What was bad for me is no longer. I mean, I used to have brain fog like crazy. It happens, but not like it used to. My voice was totally gone. I was gone. But it's back now better than it was. So my doctor believes that, yes, you can have these lesions on your brain, but if you can stop them being damaged, your brain will eventually rewire itself. Now, my doctor, my M.S. doctor always looks at my MRI eyes. And about four years ago, he took I at that time, I was taking two MRIs. A year in the beginning of the year, he saw something on my brain he didn't like. Six months later, he saw something. Another discoloration on my brain. And he gave the information, the MRI to the brain specialist at Swedish Hospital. And he said, this is an aneurysm and it's going to happen, so we better stop it right now. So they crazily put something up in my groin. They went all the way through to my brain. And he was in fact, he is the person who has invented this new aneurysm prevention. It's the drug is called Onyx. And what they do is they get right into where they see the leaves. The aneurysm could happen and they squirt this black onyx on it and it freezes that area and then your brain rewires itself around there. So the aneurysms, in fact, he I had two of them. Once he got in there, he realized I had two. So he put this onyx on both parts of them. Those isms were then halted at that point, and then for the weeks after that happened, you could see it in me physically, my brain rewiring itself. I'd be sitting there and suddenly this would happen with my hand and my arm would come up and it would just sit there and it was and I'm calling my doctor going, What's happening? What's happening? That he was away in some other part of the country and some other part of the world performing the same operation on somebody when I called him in an emergency and I said, Doctor, what's going on? He says, Your brain is rewiring itself. So this stopped happening and my aneurysms never happened because he he stopped them and my brain has his bypass them. So I'm kind of like a medical pinwheel. They shoot me. Yeah. If it works. There's some correlation cause and effect between what's going on in your life and, and, and that's what I mean. Or is it just that has nothing to do with stress or anything. That's you've hit on something, grandpa, which is real but my life. The doctor who diagnosed me with multiple sclerosis was a doctor that had been in Miami for the whole time. I was on the radio, so this doctor knew of my life. This doctor knew that on Friday morning I was on the radio

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00 in the morning, that I was out on an appearance at 7:00 at night at a club that I would go home at midnight and I'd be and I they they put me on a the Carnival cruise line, the gambling thing on a Friday night, and I'd be back on the radio the next morning at six. The doctor knew that I had been stressing myself out for years, so my doctor says, Mr. Curry, your problem is you can't shut your job off because when you're doing a four hour radio show, you think about your job, the 4 hours you're on that when you're not on the radio, all you're thinking about is the next radio show. And then when you're the program director of Power 96, not only are you thinking about your radio show, but you're thinking about all the other radio shows. And so my doctor said, You have stressed yourself into this multiple sclerosis. M.S. is directly affected by stress, and you can actually stress yourself in to burning your brain out. And she believed from the very beginning that stress was a major factor in me. Finally, remember, I was having exacerbations, but it all kicked in when I was at the height of my career running the biggest radio station of my life, being at the Grammys every year and producing records. I had a boy band, Grandpa. You remember who Tom Jones is that, don't you? The singing artist. Tom Jones. I had a boy band in the nineties and Tom Jones’ illegitimate son was our lead singer. Now, how do I know he was illegitimate? Well, the case went in front of Judge Judy. So this whole history of this case where Tom Jones was sued by this lady because he impregnated her and this lady got this case in front of Judge Judy. And Judge Judy said, this is your son. I can tell by these numbers. But remember, these these numbers, this DNA stuff is never exact. There's always a minister. You will. 99.99 9.911. Well, his attorneys took that .911 and said, well, there's still a possibility it's not his kid. So they lost the case. But he said, from what I can see, this is your boy. So he was our lead singer in our boy band. So you mentioned the aneurysm. Is there any is there a correlation between Aneurysm and MS? You know, you would think that there is. But I can tell you that my doctors have never, ever mentioned that these are two separate things. The aneurysm was something separate from the MS. Because I was wondering if an aneurysm could sometimes be caused by pressure from stress as well. They probably did. It probably could happen. Who knows? C See. You want to talk about your first book keep you know, we're not that's the first one we know. No, yeah, the first one. And it was keep your mom keep. Come get me keep get. Come get my mom. Yeah, come get me. It is. Mother. I'm through now. Okay. That's the name, my memoir. Come Get Me Mother. I'm Through. The reason I needed that when I was on the radio at 10 minutes before the end of my show, because I was Kid Curry was the nighttime DJ, my job was to attract the high school audience. Okay, so I always had 5 minutes before my show was over, I'll open up the phones and let kids just say whatever they wanted to say. And we I called it the bed check and the kids would call in and rip on their school or maybe a classmate tell a joke about their or something like that. And I was smart off to him and hang up and go to the next call. But when I was done with that because it was Kid Curry, I would say that's the end of the show. Come get me, mother, I'm through. And that's how I ended my entire radio career was Come get me mother, I'm through. So here's an interesting, fun fact. Come get me mother, come on through is not grammatically correct. I do my memoir, it's released. It becomes number 11 on Amazon's bestseller list. But then Grammarly appears and every. Name of. My life, my book into Grammarly, it says I punctuated it incorrectly. So the book is called Come Get Me Mother Comma, I'm through. But the correct grammar is Come get me comma, mother, I'm through. Funny So there you go. Now, you know, I've misprinted out this bad grammar on the copy of my on the cover of my book. You know what? I like it. It's quirky. Grammar. It's funny. Yeah, it is great. Which make. With that it. Comes use don't talk which me. Yeah Sierra I'm here in the in the ether. I miss you. Do you know what you late to jump in on? And I just said forget it. Then she was. Yeah but she put her face away.

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four kids, birthday or what are you Aries or birthday over 20 Taurus. Even better. Yeah. Okay, good. Oh, yeah. I love it. I love it. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay. I'm down to hear about your kids. Yeah, four of them. Yeah, man. Okay, now check this out. Okay. Now, yes. Radio D.J.. Okay. I was a pretty famous radio deejay. And you talk about groupies and all these, you know, unfortunately, two marriages were destroyed by me. Oh, no, I'm sorry. But, you know, when. Your kids know. They'll get mad at me here. Now, I've been here this time. I've found the right lady. Okay, but. You know, when. I was I was a pretty famous guy. When you're in Miami, you got to remember, man, it was the 90. Seven that is Miami where. And remember that when I first started there, KC in the Sunshine Band was happening. George McRae You had Eric Clapton doing 461 Ocean Boulevard. You had Criteria Studios, you had T K Studios, I mean, and Y 100, this radio station I was on. If you were a student of radio, you know how important y 100 was even in the industry. It was a record setting industry type station. So I unfortunately, girls really like the nighttime deejay. And, you know, I tried to be good, but, you know, but I'm I admit that I was not very straight my brain for a long time. But you have to understand what multiple sclerosis or becoming the patient of a chronic disease does to you. You realize all the terrible things you've done to people in your life and you start being better. And so I have fortunately, I guess it was what in that 1999, I met my wife, my wife Elizabeth, a Cuban girl who, as a matter of fact, I was at a club one night doing a live broadcast, and I would walk around the club with a microphone. And every now and then I'd say, Power 96, this is kid Cory. Come and get us at Magic Come On By. And we got free food and music all night long. Well, I'm in the VIP and this little girl, I say little girl because you sort of the me comes and sits next to me and starts talking to me and I'm just sitting there, hold my microphone. And so was, Hey, how are you? What's going on? She seemed like a nice lady. We had a couple of conversations about the music that was playing, and then I. I got up, I said goodbye, I got to get back to work, and I walked away. Well, when this little girl goes back to her friends, they're all, like, going. Do you know who that was you were sitting next to? That was Kid. Curry. And she was like. Who? The problem with that was simple. I was a fairly famous deejay in Miami for many years. I did TV commercials. I was the front. I in fact, at one point I was married to the only Cuban news anchor woman in in Miami. So everybody knew me but this girl. She'd never heard my name. And the reason was simple. She was a real radio listener. As a deejay, you hope that you think that people are hanging on every word you have to say, but they don't real. Radio listeners want to hear music, so my whole life or my wife's whole life with me on the radio in Miami, as soon as I started talking, she pushed the button to find a new song because you want to hear the sounds. Yeah. But that's what real radio listeners do. A minority of them pay attention to the deejay, but the deejay assumes that everybody's paying attention. But my wife wasn't paying attention, and her not knowing who I was was an asset. Because before that, I don't know if people really wanted to be with me, to be me. They were Kid Curry and they didn't know who Curry was. And that's why, you know, 22 years later, I still have the best relationship that I've ever had in my life. My girl having. Day. Yourself, you know. But I was a dirt bag. I admit it. I'm sorry. What can I tell you? What can you do? Okay. That means I've got I've got four kids. I've got a baby mama. So I've got three kids with one wife and one baby mama. And then my last child is with this now is my wife's this is our child. This is when we've we've had we had together. But now, you know. You say these things and you say, I've had four kids and all these ways. But the thing that you don't know is if I you have to decide to make it to make peace, you have to decide your kids aren't going to get hurt by this. You have to decide this and you have to hold the relationship accordingly. So all my exes still talk to me. All my kids love me. And so, yeah, you can be a dirtbag, but you got to play the game. If you're going to be a dirtbag, you better be good to people. And I've always been good to everybody and everybody. They're all okay with me. Nobody wants to shoot me. So I could be in a completely different situation. But again, because I didn't know it was going to work out. So it seems well, well worth it because of all the growth you can. I could tell I mean, even if you were a deejay and all this other stuff, I you can just tell with your character that you've been through quite a good you've learned in these at least I think you're a good line. But It's. Like you used to make it like, you know, it seems very. Good growth. This is evident. Yeah. Yeah, it is. There it is. Thank you. Here, you have to realize that, you know, I've always just thought that you had to be good to people. I've always just thought that, you know, you can make mistakes, but turn around and be nice. And so everything worked out well for me in my life. I'm very pleased that I have a wife who and here's what what has happened. This whole kid curry thing has shifted over. My wife was my date at the Grammys for years, but then when I got diagnosed, we had to kind of switch roles. He took all the money we had. We moved out to Colorado and started fixing and flips and houses. So after fixing and flipping three houses, my wife was disgusted in the way she was being treated by these realtors and she said, you know, I can do this. So she went out and got her real estate license. And in this little town of Canyon City, Colorado, started breaking per capita records. In one year she sold. And so my wife at that point really started getting into real estate. So eight years of that go by and the corporate office starts to pay attention to her success. So now she works for the corporate office as an international business coach. I love the. More. Than. 40 different clients that she speaks to every day. Actually, she speaks to all of them all 40 of them. One time a week she spends a half an hour on the line talking about profit loss, hiring practices, the future, what you should do, the pandemic, what you should do in the in with inflation, what you should do in a recession. My wife has become a business genius and otherwise I wouldn't be living on a ten acre horse property because there's nothing like that I ever thought of in my life. But we're here because my wife. My wife is is she has become what we never thought. Well, when I married her, she's already worked in a family law office and was working for financiers. So I knew she was smart. But until she got put in the in this particular situation, I always said she could be a bank manager, a bank president, but she's exceeded that. She is even on as CEO of one company. So this is all turned around. My wife is the star of the show. That's who I really need to have in here talking because she's this she she has great stories and positive I mean, because she's a coach she's a she's a business coach. We have I. Am. You wouldn't. Believe so. This is all as a full cycle good thing you know. Put her on the list of people to be on the show. Yeah, well, everybody says that. But remember, my wife works from seven in the morning till five in the afternoon with our break because she's always on the phone talking to these clients. So I people I've even tried to get her to come on, but it's tough to stop her long enough to do something like this now, does she? She's every she's got a screen full of people she's coaching. So but that's the real hero in this house is my wife. What was that Grandpa? Something. You probably have no interest had no interest in and might or might not know the answer. You know, what type of microphone, what type of turntable you used when you were acting as a basically radio deejay? Okay, listen. What Sennheiser microphones. But now here's what here's what we here's what happened. This is this is crazy. And it's only because of the people that I knew. My the guy that ran y 100 was named Bill Tanner. And Bill Tanner is now past. But he's a legendary programmer in America. In the seventies, he and Casey of the Sunshine Band were very close. Personal friends in KC would always record in this microphone. And one day Bill says, I want that microphone on the radio station. So Casey gave him this microphone that he used to sing it to, and it was a Sennheiser. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing it correctly, Sennheiser, whatever the case may be correct, but it was an actual recording studio microphone that Casey used and from that point on in my radio career, it's the only microphone we've ever used. We just buy new ones, the same thing. Every station I've ever worked for, I've always purchased that particular microphone because it was Casey's and it just sounded better than everything else. And as far as turntables line, oh, it was. Yeah, yes, sir. Yes, sir. And there's technique products. There are specific turntables made for radio stations and players and things like that. But unfortunately, the companies I worked for were always superior equipment companies and always superior engineers. I was real lucky, very lucky. Okay, well. Let's see what we're getting. We're getting close to the end of the show. And I want to ask you, do you have any advice for a person that has M.S.? I do get my doctor's book. This will help you. The only other thing I can tell you is, is that, like, everybody has something you have to decide. You're going to get through life. I was shocked with my chronic disease diagnosis, and it took me years to figure it out and figure out what it was going to do to. But you can't stop. You can't stop. And oftentimes I tell my wife that it could very well be that multiple sclerosis was the best thing that ever happened to me, because this radio business that I was in that was very, very stressful. And there were things going on in that business that were probably things I needed to stay away from, including women, including guys who had, you know, briefcases full of money. I got out of that and started concentrating on my multiple sclerosis, and I really believe I'm a better person because of it. You know, I've had to figure out everything every day that I can do and how to be successful. And you just have to put that in as a mindset. And a lot of the things that that I talk about here, guys, I'm going to throw out my website if it's okay. Okay. All right. A lot of stuff I talk about, everything that I see that you see in my books, you can get a hold of it. K R Curry dot com. I do other podcasts. In fact, when you guys decide to put this up, let me know and I'll send me a link and I'll put it on my website to help you promote it, because I do that, I've done a bunch of other ones, like I blog, I write about things, but I try to be as positive as I possibly can. I actually go online with the men over 50 with multiple sclerosis group, and I see a lot of people. The reason I've got such a great life is because of my partner, my wife. I know guys who are as sick as I am who don't have anyone and very terrible thing that this MS is. And like I said, has something and it's better if you have the right partner. And in my particular case, I'm I'm really lucky to have the wife that I have. Well. Maybe we're lucky because we have a very capable producer, Sierra, and a really nice and smart guy Phines to run this helps run this show so and you've been a very interesting guy. Well, listen, I'm very interested in what you're talking about. I mentioned my nephew has this. And. You know, passed on to him some of the information that you've given me. Please do you. Anything. If you need any information from me, if you would like copy of this book, get back to me and I'll make sure you get a copy. But, gentlemen, I've had a great time today. Sierra. Yeah, nice talking to you too. Thank you so much for coming on and talking about your life and the journey that you've had through all of this. Well, yeah. I try to bring positive stuff and if I can do anything to help, it's a good thing. And I appreciate you taking the time for me today. Absolutely. You'll be able to look in the show notes and in the transcript and find Kim Curry's information. So, you know, give him some followers and check out some of his literature. Thank you, everyone, for listening to. The podcast, find this. Grandpa Bart, thank you for coming on. You know, you just came back from a big, long trip. We appreciate it. Our beautiful listeners, you know like and subscribe smash the like button favorite it do they still rate podcast do that and. They do it by Starz. And I'll be I'll my best Brandon impression and say and grandpa I love you. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Goodnight, everybody tonight.