- 11:00 PM - 5:00 AM, Monday -
Tuesday, August 7th - 8th, 1995:
SHOW 35
- So I'm comin' out of the
production room, and Cannon (Now dubbed
"Mr.-Anti-Personal-Space-Man - I swear to you he
stands 2 inches away) comes up to me and explains how
the Log Lady asked him why he didn't play any spots
from 4:00 - 5:00 Friday Morning. Obviously he's
tellin' me because he wasn't on, I was. Well, I
honestly don't remember. I'm assuming she's right, but
if she thought that Cannon was on, how long could she
have been listening? Oh well, I wrote her a note
saying I'd be extra aware from now on.....I hope
that's all that comes from this. ANYWAY, the show
kicked ass. From 12-1 (and a bit after) I continued
the "Brush with fame" theme. It was great, I had some
wonderful callers. It was like talking to old friends.
Otherwise, trivia went well, 6-4. I made a cheat-sheet
in case anyone starts that "flip sides of Beatles'
singles" shit again. I really love my job, I think I
could do this for quite sometime. It's cool, I'm
sitting in Bob Evans, and I can't help but think that
some of these older guys listen to me before they get
in here. What an awesome feeling (In case you were
wondering, I didn't bring my computer in here, I'm
writing it down to transfer later). Overall a good
night.
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- 1:15 AM - 5:00 AM,
Wednesday, August 9th, 1995: SHOW 36
- As I'm driving in, I hear
Cannon tell George (the news guy) that he got messages
on his voice mail that said I was great, and should
take over Cannon's shift. He was serious, I asked him.
It was all in good fun over the air, but Cannon really
does act paranoid sometime. Does he have cause to be?
No, not to a 19 year old. Maybe a 20 year old... :-)
George said on the air that if it wasn't Greg Frey
(The GM), or Bill, that he shouldn't worry. I later
went on and said that it was all of my friends whom I
gave Cannon's number to. Cannon has had a pretty bad
week. I continued to do the "Fame" stuff, it was great
once again. Trivia was great 6-4, and my cheat sheet
finally came into use when someone asked me to name
all the songs on the second side of Abbey Road. It was
talk all night until my....no, I had a caller at about
4:45. I probably only played 8 songs all night. god I
love this job. Made some good eye contact with Mike
this morning! Wow! We talked about Dave and how he
kind of fell off the planet. Hmm.... I need to tell
Dave I've got one of his checks. Ah, well. 4 more
nights & then I take a week off to go camping. I
can't wait.
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- 12:00 AM - 5:30 AM,
Thursday, August 10th, 1995: SHOW 37
- The best show I've ever had,
and probably the best show I'll have in quite some
time. Played 4 songs all night. It was unreal. I went
in at 12:00 to make a song for the trivia hour. I
called it: The
Ballad of Trivia. An
obvious, but a capella spoof on The Ballad of John and
Yoko (with a bass line from my keyboard). It was
great. Then I went on the air and said how extremely
tired I was, because I stayed up until 9:00 PM after
my shift, and then after being up for 22 hours tried
to take a quick nap, and it killed me. People called
up for support to keep me awake. Then it went into
"Brush with Fame Part 4". Man is that popular. Then
Loretta called from Sunbury and talked about a boy she
knew who was hit by a car and killed. That spawned
some supportive callers. Got to Trivia after playing
only 1 song. That went well. I got through 8 people
and still no winners. Finally someone got me. I
couldn't get to all my callers by the end of my shift!
I had to cut off the last guy with a commercial, it
was crazy. Had callers saying they loved the show and
wished I could take Hansel's place. Asking me what
happens when Cannon comes back to this shift, and I
said that I was the normal weekend guy, so they could
catch me there. I talked to Loretta off the air all
night. She was very upset, and extremely thankful that
I would listen to her, which is exactly what she
needed. Some lady called and said: "Well I don't see
what a kid has to do in Sunbury anyway" I was pissed,
as if what he was doing mattered at all. The kid was
run over and killed for christ sake. I really almost
lost it. Then Mike saw me and said: "There he is, the
King." It was great. Of course guess who didn't have
it taped. Then again it was all talk, it wouldn't have
fit on a tape. Oh well, I hope I get that many callers
again tomorrow. Once again, a superb night. I love my
job.
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- 1:30 AM - 5:15 AM, Friday,
August 11th, 1995: SHOW 38
- Ahhh, what goes up must come
down. Not only did I get killed on the trivia 2-8, it
was a definite "music" night. Cannon just seems so
goddamn paranoid. It shows on the air too. I talked
with KP about him today, and we had a riot, basically
saying that Cannon is a loser. Jesus, that is THE
overwhelming sentiment at that station, and I really
don't mind him, except for that close talker shit, and
his paranoia....he is funny on the air. She said that
I also make the overnight more exciting then he does.
Without being too pompous I agree. I try to keep
things moving and have some topics of interest other
than "Open Phones". I hope I get some prizes for my
shift on the weekend. The audience is expecting it. I
still love my job, fancy that. There's one problem
though, if by any chance I were to lose it, I'd be a
wreck. I'm on top of the world right now, entirely
because of this. It would be hard to rebound from
blowing this opportunity......so I won't.
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- 11:30 PM - 6:00 AM, Friday -
Saturday, August 11th - 12th, 1995:
SHOW 39
- I go to my mail box, and find
this response to asking Jan about the prizes...and I
do quote:
-
- "NO
- NO
- There's
more to radio +
- the
overnites than cheap
- prizes!!
You can quote
- me on
that!
- Hey
have a fare time
- at the
Fair
- Jan."
-
- What the hell is that shit.
This really fucked things up for me, I was pissed. I
just do not understand where this came from. I wrote
her a note saying this makes no sense and I have no
clue where this is all coming from. So when I got to
the trivia hour THE STUART SCUTCLIFFE GUY. It took
everything I had to stay down. We got into it again.
He knows so much about the Beatles, but it's all
half-truths. Who played keyboards on the White Album?
I knew he was thinking about Preston, and get back,
but he swore on his life Preston played the keyboards
on the entire White Album. Then when I said the
keyboards were most likely all played by Paul, and
George Martin who quite often played instruments on
some early Beatle Albums. Then he says I was nuts,
that George never played a thing. At this point I'm
standing and jumping around like a boxer. It was the
craziest night ever. I was yellin' and whoopin' and
laughin' people called and it was just a "wild ride".
I would have thought it was extremely fun to listen to
and even had callers say so, then one caller said he
was sick of it and asked for music. I said that the
callers lead me. If they want music that's what they
get, but if I have callers waiting on the line to
talk, they take precedence over music. This is Talk
Radio. I ended up talking to Mike (Stu Scutcliffe guy)
off-line all night, and the last hours was him telling
me over and over that I was not 19. He had to be drunk
off his ass. Perkins came in at around 5:55, and we
laughed and talked a lot. He asked how I was holding
up, and I said fine. He also reemphasized what a major
opportunity this job was. And I agreed emphatically.
Bob even laughed when a "bigot" caller asked if I was
greek, and then proceeded to say we suck at the
olympics, although we invented them. BC, don't know
exactly what he said, but he smiled towards me and
jokingly apologized for the racist remarks of the
caller, saying: "Well, we've never had a Greek DJ
before..." Ate 2 donuts and came home. On my way home,
Bob made the comment on the air that it was open
phones, "although it seems it is 24 hours a day
anymore." He wasn't mad, but I knew he was speaking of
me. Anyway, now I must sleep, because I have to be at
the fair in a few hours, and this is my last chance
until Sunday night.
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- 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM,
Saturday, August 12th, 1995:
- The most influential airtime of
my career was done in 5 minute increments. So I wake
up at 11:20 (had to be there at 11:30), this is not
good. I rush to the fair in record time, run to the
van, and noone's there. I finally open things up, and
after calling the engineer and the DJ for an hour, I
see that I'm not on until 1:00, but I finally have
everything working. Then I see my intern Brad. Isn't
that cool, my own intern. An incredibly cool guy. My
age, goes to Wright State. He got me people to
interview for some of the breaks! It was awesome. Had
some fair goers, and then the man, Marty
Krizen.....The reptile man. Brought this 14 foot snake
that weighed 100 pounds. It was an Albino Python. He
told us later that people came looking for that snake
because they heard us talk about how cool it was.
Didn't have any listeners find me, but maybe they saw
me and said: "Nah, that can't be him." It was great
meeting all of the people. Brad and I managed to
schmooze fries, corn dogs, bottomless Pepsi's, gyros,
and fudge out of people for free. Even signed some
dude's program. It was wild. I can't wait 'til
tomorrow, we have a band that's going to play in the
van. Now comes the fun...2 hours of sleep and then
getting up and going from 11:00 PM - 9:00 AM at the
station, and then 11-6:00 PM at the
fair...straight.
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- 11:30 PM - 9:15 AM, Saturday
- Sunday, August 12th - 13th, 1995:
SHOW 40
- I have no idea how I
accomplished this shift. At 12:30 I almost fell asleep
on the air. It was wild. But then one pot 'o' joe
later I was FINE. I played I'll Walk Away twice. Tom
heard it and loved it. Trivia was crazy once again. A
drunk guy promised callers pizzas since we didn't have
any prizes. We really need prizes. I don't even want
to think about not having them next week. Had 2 people
say they were going to the fair to see me. It should
be interesting. One knows I'm 19, and one has no clue.
Perspective and ESPN are easy. Jack is funny. That's
about it. Now to take a shower and go to the
fair.
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- 11:15 AM - 5:45 PM, Sunday,
August 13th, 1995:
- More problems at the fair, but
the engineer was cool and figured them out from the
phone. Had some good interviews lined up. A guy who
built his house out of the inside of a redwood, Monty,
the quilt lady, BBQ people, some mexican band, Misty
Mate makers, fair goers. A few couldn't do it so we
interviewed a cop, and a family. It went better today.
Ken Collins ran the board after Jack at 3:00. He was
great! He talked about my music, and how much work I'd
done in the past couple of weeks. Things were awesome.
Had one listener, Anthony Green find me, and brought
his kid. It was strange, Anthony was much nerdier than
I thought he'd be. Overall it was the longest I'd ever
worked for a measly 2 hours of overall on-air time,
but it was the most important 2 hours of my career so
far. My name was heard all day, constantly. I still
have no idea how I'm still alive right now. Well, I've
deserved this... I'm going camping until Friday, and
not thinking about radio until then. Ahh, and now the
best part: SLEEP.
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