10:45 PM - 5:00 AM, Monday - Tuesday, July 24th - 26th, 1995: SHOW 22 I heard my voice over on the way to work. It took me probably 5 seconds 'til I realized it was me. It was a boring commercial, bad copy. So I get there and start making labels for WOBN, when I get out, Cannon says: "Oh, you don't go on until 2:00." Ahhh, thank you. Oh, and thanks for not trying to call me. Ass. As my show started I was in no mood to be there. I had an earache, and was pissed that no one had told me about this. Subsequently I paid no attention to the show, just went through the motions. I got stumped oh, about 8 times, and ended up talking to this sophomore from Pickerington the whole night. He wants to get into broadcasting. I told him maybe he could come down one night and see how it works. He's a little too talkative though. Other than getting stumped trivia was fun, but reading off the cards is really hectic, I need to have time to come in and type them up. This is really becoming a job, but then again it's really fun. I'm a DJ! It's just hard doing it every night. And I still haven't gotten a paycheck. KP said it would probably take two pay sessions to get things going. So in about a week I'll get a huge check. Ho, hum, tweedle dee...   10:45 PM - 5:00 AM, Tuesday - Wednesday, July 25th - 26th, 1995: SHOW 23 Another wonderful surprise tonight. Wasserman shows up at 11:50. I thought it was tomorrow that he was coming in, but I was wrong. It's Tuesday night to me, and Bill told me Wednesday. Oh well, make that 8 hours Wasserman's got from me. Actually his two hours kicked ass. He finally spouted some liberal opinions that riled up callers. Before he was being too wishy-washy. He talked about the death penalty and legalizing hemp. He had callers for 2 hours straight. He really is a nice guy. As for my 3 hours, I was really close to the perfect shift. Meaning no verbal mistakes, and everything clean. Then the second I thought about it I screwed up. Oh well, it will happen. Trivia once again was good. Mike Perkins left me a note and asked if I could work until 9:00 instead of 6:00 this weekend if he needs me. I thought HOLY SHIT! I'm gonna be doing the morning show! No...I guess he wants me to do Weekend ESPN and Perspective instead. Oh well. Of course I said yes, but that would've rocked if I could've done the morning show. Yeah right like they'd give that to me. Not yet anyway. Then as I was leaving I met Daddy Wags and introduced myself to him. He seemed very nice, but not the type to be up at 5:00 in the morning. Too hippiesh.   9:30 PM - 5:00 AM, Wednesday - Thursday, July 26th - 27th, 1995: SHOW 24 I went early once again to make labels for WOBN. I'm almost done with the Music & the PSA's. I also put 3 of my songs down on the AKG, and Can't Slow Down onto cart. Then, as I'm rushing to be done by midnight I realize that there is a late Reds Game, and I won't be on until 1:30 or even 2:00! Goddammit, if it isn't Harvey it's baseball. Oh and Bill called and told me Harvey was in tomorrow again. This time from 11:00 - 2:00. Well, I get paid an extra hour, but still only 3 on-air hours. Fuck. So at 1:40 I finally get on. That sophomore kid is driving me nuts. He calls and stays on for the whole shift. I always say when I have to go, but I don't want to disconnect him for no reason, I think he kind of looks up to me. So I get him off at 2:30, and all of the sudden I decide to play Can't Slow Down in it's entirety. I was scared out of my mind. Luckily no one from the station heard it, and really no one in the audience noticed at all. I sandwiched it in between two positioners and it was smooth. Though it was too risky. I'll ask before I do that again. Trivia went well. And then some lady called me up afterwards and asked if she could stump me on something else....I said sure. She asked me a Michael Jordan question. Why hadn't I thought of that before?! Michael Jordan trivia! Anyway I missed it. What years did he win the league MVP. I only knew '88. It was '88, '91, & '92. I decided that from now on, I'll open it up to MJ questions as well as Beatles. Hopefully more people will be able to participate. Boy, after the fit Robert Bower threw about me fuckin' up that one day, he's been the nicest guy there! He said I was amazing today, when I got my commercial exact to the second of where he wanted them. I haven't a clue why he's so nice. Oh well, it's fine with me. AND on Sunday I'm doing "Perspective" with the producer, and learning the ropes. Damn, 12-9, that's a looooooong shift.   10:00 PM - 5:00 AM, Thursday - Friday, July 27th - 28th, 1995: SHOW 25 This Harvey thing is really getting to me. I want that time back so bad. But hey, I got an hours worth of work I wouldn't have had otherwise. I am so nice to Harvey too. I've done that my entire life, befriend the enemy. I mean I go out of my way to make things easy for him. I can't figure out why. His three hours went well, finally he's getting under people's skin, and being polite. It's working quite well. Also, tonight was my first night of Michael Jordan trivia as well as The Beatles. It went great. I brought one of his Basketball cards with me for the crazy statistics. That way if anyone asked stupid questions I'd know. I just told the audience that I had memorized his stats, and only a few people asked me statistical questions. Then that asshole Craig, the sophomore, asked me, get this: "Okay, now when Jordan was at Carolina in '84, on January 4th they played a game against Houston, the score was 54-52....how many personal fouls did Jordan have?" What a dick. I really hate people who play, just to get something. Oh well, he still didn't win. Also, Mary called (a legendary 'regular' caller) and said that I was slurring my words last night during trivia. That I sounded less articulate. I was actually really happy she did that. I made a concerted effort to do better. Oh, and in the morning Joe barged in and said: "When's the weekend!?" I've have been playing my weekend opener every hour during the week. I felt soooo stupid. It was funny though. No one ever noticed all week.   11:00 PM - 6:00 AM, Friday - Saturday, July 28th - 29th, 1995: SHOW 26 Shift went well, hads a lot of callers. This asshole calls up, sounded extremely lucid, said he wanted to talk about the Gallagher show. When I put him on he screamed: "I wanna fuck you up the ass!" I cut him off before he said hole. I laughed and went on. Had some people call and say how shitty that was. Overall good night. Tomorrow I'm on from 12:00 - 9:00. That will be rough. Oh and Bill called me and said I might have a job at the WTVN Big Top Circus at the Fair. Hey, more money for me. I am getting tired though. Now I need a vacation.   11:15 PM - 8:00 AM, Saturday - Sunday, July 29th - 30th, 1995: SHOW 27 My sleep schedule is screwed all to hell. Who knows why, but I slept for 13 hours on Saturday. There are days when I don't stay up that long, let alone sleep. Consequently it is 2:00 in the afternoon right now, and I am wide awake. I'd try to pull a two-dayer and then crash HARD, but I'm contesting a speeding ticket tomorrow morning at 9:00, so uhh...not a chance. Carmen left me with the Reds to do by myself. Her instruction wasn't great to begin with, and I was asleep, but everything went fine. Of course I had an entire interview potted down one time, thus having oh....5 minutes of dead air, but I later blamed it on a satellite feed....which also is shit because if I had known about it I would have thrown a song on. The problem was that it was in cue, so I could hear everything. Oh well. I was able to get to the news with a few extra spots, so I started right at the hour. Things were slow and Craig is really drives me insane. There are 4 big years between 16 and the normal 20 year old. And with my life, I'm no normal 20 year old. Then the "perspective" guy came in at 6:00. I wish I could remember his name, he's a great guy. And as it seems a guy who knows quite a bit of people. God, the contacts I'm making.....What is his NAME! He let me leave at 8:00 and say I worked until 9:00. How nice. It looks like I am going to be doing 12-9 from now on. That kind of rocks.   11:00 PM - 5:00 AM, Sunday - Monday, July 30th - 31st, 1995: SHOW 28 KP was there, and she said payday is tomorrow, so I might be in luck. I should be getting paid for close to 90 hours of work. Well, finally a full shift uninterrupted. Hansel was there, and....god he drives me nuts. He just seems like an asshole, and everything he's said to me since I met him has been odd, or basically rude. I can't figure him out. Slow night until trivia, and that was fun.....oh boy was that fun. I got rid of the first 7 callers in 20 minutes. I stumped them all. god was I on, then was stumped myself the last 3 times. I love this job. I love people. Oh yeah..the perspective guy is Jack Stewart. ANYWAY, not much else happened, but it was a great shift, and I'm definitely enjoying myself.