10:45 PM - 5:00 AM, Tuesday - Wednesday, July 4th - 5th, 1995: SHOW 9 My weekday gig starts early, but it's only 1 day - the 10 day stint starts this Friday night. I was excited about the night, I was hoping to have a good deal of Cannon's listener's. Just as I was going on the air, I realized I only had 6 songs for that hour. They were expecting Cannon who would talk the whole hour. Carmen (Cannon's producer) said she would stay and produce for me, but I said I would just field the calls during the songs. Oh my god, It was simply crazy. I had over 25 callers who wanted to talk. I was potting down my mic while I was on the air, and screening calls from the phone. It was insane. I said that some kid called and said he was ashamed to be an American because of the bombing of Hiroshima, and that he didn't want to be on the air. I said it to get people riled up, and it worked. After the slew of people called saying he was an idiot, some Generation Xers said they wanted to set the record straight that all young people don't feel that way. It went on like this until about 4:15, at which point I relaxed, and maybe too much. I ended up screwing up Sally Wagner and Robert Bower by playing the ID instead of letting them know. I just wasn't sure if I was supposed to or they were, and since they hadn't gotten my cart I figured I should. They were pros though, they still kicked ass and timed it perfectly to the top of the hour and ABC news. I'm gonna drop a note in their mailboxes apologizing once agian. I'll tell ya, Sally needs no more fuel to be a bitch. Then Joe Bradley does another stereotypical "Joe": "Another mistake like that and you’re outta here." This time I knew he was kidding right away, but god his sarcasm is unreal. What a night. I'm finding myself turn more and more consevative the more I listen to "the other side". My lifestyle is also extremely conservative, except for the fact I'm living with someone at 19. The callers were just great. One regular caller said she'll call Bill tonight and tell him how good I was. Wow. She said that no other DJ could have done that without a producer. Who knows, I'll tell you this: Cannon sure as hell couldn't of. I can't believe how much he relies on his producers, I'd love to have seen him do tonight. I'm also gonna start doing trivia at 3:00, maybe I'll have some cool prizes to give away. Hopefully not out of my own pocket. Well, I'm tired and I need some rest. I'm am extremely pumped about my future at this station. Christ, I can't believe I'm 19.   11:00 AM, Thursday, July 6th, 1995: Meeting #6 - I thought Bill was going to say stay with the talk. He did...but somehow I thought it would be different. This meeting went great, he thought it was extremely impressive that I started something like this so young. He also thought it was killer that I made up that caller to spark the listeners. Great impression on him. He told me to do trivia. He was very supportive. There was only one down note. Harvey Wasserman will be the guest host for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night: 12 - 2. I really wanted that. There was nothing I could do. I tried to show off my talk skill as quick as I could...but there was just not enough time to do it. Harvey is definitely temporary. He's a far left radical who actually protested WTVN, and they asked him to guest host. I think my uniqueness will be that I won't be so damn opinionated. I want talk to be in the listeners hands. I will state certain things.... but people need a forum for their feelings. Cannon and Hansel use the radio as a way to say what they want. Well that gets old after awhile...let's hear what everyone has to say. Tomorrow won't be as crazy as Tuesday night, but I'm going to use my song Thursday as my bumper music......cool.   10:45 PM - 6:00 AM, Friday - Saturday, July 7th - 8th, 1995: SHOW 10 Things are unfortunately starting to get routine at the station. Weekend overnights are usually slow, I don't know why. You'd think during the week less people would be apt to stay up and moreso on the weekends. I did get to play Thursday though. That was cool. No callers until around 4:00, and then a guy who just wanted to know how I stood on things. We talked for awhile. Damn Joe once again said something in the morning that sounds so serious...but he ends up kidding. god it drives me insane. And Hansel doing that button thing. Jesus can't I have any normal co-workers? This was night 1 of 10 straight, so I'm going to be on a schedule of going to bed at 2:00, and getting up at 9:30, an hour before I leave. I should be fine.   10:45 PM - 6:00 AM, Saturday - Sunday, July 8th - 9th, 1995: SHOW 11 Wow...is this really my 11th show?. It doesn't seem possible. Once again, a pretty routine night. Scott Kahler the, Production Director, was there and I finally figured out how to make labels. Thank you Scott. Now WOBN, the station at which I'm Production Director will look great. I made labels for Thursday and Stronger Than Before, and played both throughout the night for background music during my talking. I finally feel like I'm getting an audience. Everyone who calls says "Hey Adam" instead of nothing or "Steve?", so that's good. Tom from Hilliard keeps calling. I talked to him last week. He thinks he's this kick ass singer and is sending me a tape. I can't tell if he's serious because he's always drunk when he calls. Sparked a bit of controversy talking about the ammendment to make it illegal to burn the flag. For the first time I felt a bit over my head. Not because I was too young, but I just didn't know what to say. A guy who was a Vietnam vet described the story of how he came home from 'nam and everything changed, and instead of being commended like veterans from before he was called a baby killer. It was so moving. I said I hadn't served.....christ I was too young for the Persian Gulf War. I just kept nodding my head. He was so angry at the government. He strayed a bit from the topic but who could blame him. The people that served in Vietnam got screwed by their country. I'm starting to think the hippies were probably the worst thing to happen to this country. Maybe that's a little extreme, but the war being wrong, could have come out without ripping apart the soldiers lives. Anyway. Monday morning I start doing hopefully more talk and trivia at 3:00, I'm pretty pumped.   10:45 PM - 5:00 AM, Sunday - Monday, July 9th - 10th, 1995: SHOW 12 This started out as one of my worst nights, and ended up one of my best. I had everything planned, and all ready, and just before I go on, Steve Hansel starts trying to tell me what to do. I did want his advice, but not this soon before I went on. He said "Definitely don't try to bring anything big up..." which screwed my entire beginning. It sucked, he got me extremely self conscious, and I cut down about 5 minutes of talk into about 30 seconds. All of the sudden I'm screwin' up every break, it was nuts. It pissed me off so much. I started second guessing every word and I sounded extremely inexperienced. Anyway, after 1:00 things went great. I did the trivia at 2:00 which was a blast. Figured out 10 questions then had them stump me at Beatles questions. I had two legitimated questions that I got stumped on, but then this guy asked me a question extremely awkward...one I knew...and I missed it. I also got a lot of people who were sure they would stump me. And then the one....."Which Beatles album did I get on my 16th Birthday?"...Hello? I asked her if she was serious and she said yes. What the hell. So I humored her I asked her at least for her age which was 41 which brought me to 1970. I assumed it wasn't Let It Be which came out that year, and I guessed Sgt. Pepper...I was right! What a shitty question. Overall things went great. Tomorrow It's Wasserman's turn...Lord help him.