Spill Yr Guts | Issue 001 Fall 2017

DOOLEY: Noticed what? That you hadn’t called in before?

“JUNIE”: No. I mean, yes, that too. But it was something that you said, a few weeks back.

DOOLEY: What episode?

ABRAHMS: You can’t expect her to know that. I don’t even remember what we talked about yesterday.

“JUNIE”: Oh, I remember — not like I have much else to do! It was two and a half weeks ago Monday, about two thirds of the way into the program.

ABRAHMS: Well, okay.

“JUNIE”: It was right after a sponsor block — endorsements from the city parks, a Chevron promotion, the new motel downtown. Mr. Dooley played a few songs from his baby cousin’s garage band, and Mr. Abrahms told us all the songs were from Mr. Dooley’s baby cousin’s garage band, and then Mr. Dooley lied and said the songs weren’t from…

DOOLEY: Get to the point.

“JUNIE”: You called in an old frat buddy to settle the argument. And then, Mr. Abrahms — I wrote this down — you said, “Yeah, I played my girlfriend’s synth album on loop while we got our diplomas because the show’d only been on for a month and we had no decent music.”

DOOLEY: Oh, I remember that. She had a terrible voice, man.

ABRAHMS: No, she didn’t — look — Amanda’s a regular listener, Dooley. You can’t say that.

“JUNIE”: And I realized when you said that, Abrahms, that even though you talk about the glory years of college all the time, I’d never heard you mention when you guys started the radio program before now. It’s been eight years, yes?

DOOLEY: I mean, I’m pretty sure. I lost 3 years in my midtwenties to amateur football league concussions.

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