Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with Dana Schaeffer about how this self-proclaimed radio nerd/baker is going to save Little Falls Diner in New Jersey...Dana believes "that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to as long as you truly believe in it and never give up"...also her radio career - her first gig working for Scott and Todd in the Morning at WPLJ in NYC (#1 market in the country)...working for CBS radio...her stint in Los Angeles working for iHeart (KFI, KISS FM)...moving back home to work for ABC...growing up as a kid watching ABC 7 eyewitness news and baking with her grandmother...taking the communications path at school which got her into college radio...being a die-hard New Jersey girl...comparing NJ/NJ to LA (kindness vs. being nice)...how she comes back to LA all the time...wanting to be on-air/hosting...her old DJ life as "Dash"...the important role of producers...the history of diners in New Jersey (the diner capitol of the world, btw)...how she kept thinking she wanted to restore this diner while growing up...the Little Falls diner closed down in 1995 due to a fire - how the ownership has changed during the years...how her baking will help the diner...looking up the historical society, talking to the mayor, all about the possibility of saving the diner...how you can do anything even if you don't have the funds yourself...making sure the diner doesn't go to some commercial project/keeping it with the small group who they know and trust...her dream of making the diner a podcast studio after hours...Dana talking to the diner and telling it she's bringing it back...how she likes to rescue things and make them better (the diner and her rescued cat)...she's already been sourcing food places and coffee for the diner...how this diner fanatic doesn't even like coffee...disco fries - with gravy and cheese...Mel's Diner in LA...Dana's trip to Italy...Milan to Florence to Positano to Rome...manifesting her dreams and boyfriend...how you can do anything you want - anything is possible...

IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE: Find out Dana's favorite diner food...one thing she could live off of In Italy/her least fav thing about Italy...which radio person or station turned her into the radio bug...the three bands she would choose if she could only listen to three bands for the rest of her life...and what she has learned about life from restoring the NJ diner...

Find Dana on instagram here, and help save Little Falls Diner here.

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