Being on the radio.
Now, I know that it was MY DECISION to walk away in 2008, and I needed to. I was about to crack up! I mean, you don't know how tough it is. I'd trade places with one of you guys digging ditches or serving in the military overseas in a heartbeat but this is what God gave me the gift to do. My ability to fart in a mic just doesn't help me outside of the radio studio (well, sometimes it gets me my own row on the airplane.) But once I got away from radio, WHICH I DID VOLUNTARILY, even as I was getting my shite together, I was still totally addicted to being on the air. I'd done it full time, every day (vacations not counted!) for over 34 years before leaving VOLUNTARILY. Doing a radio show has been a part of my everyday life since I was 14, when I got my first full time gig while in high school.
And although being on the radio everyday had become more of a burden that a joy after Freda died, I still missed it the day I walked away VOLUNTARILY.
Which is why I took those unusual jobs in Ocean City, Md radio. Not because I was "Washed out" or a "Has been". Rembember I DECIDED TO LEAVE. IT WAS MY CHOICE. And those crappy, demeaning, embarrassing jobs were the only way, contractually I could work for two years. And my non compete agreement also stated no internet streaming, so that sucked too.
Yet I wanted to be involved in the fraternity of radio as soon as I drove out of the Don & Mike studio parking lot VOLUNTARILY BY MY OWN CHOICE.
And as I got my life together and things really started to gel, I was longing for only one thing in my life. I have a fantastic wife, a great family and lots of people who love and care about me
I had worked hard since day one, and was blessed with some pretty good salary, back in the day. I saved about all of it, and could afford to take two years off. So I had no worries. My life was on track, I didn't have to worry about money during a recession when I wasn't working VOLUNTARILY, and I was happy again. Really happy. Except for one thing.
My bitch, Radio. I saw the industry change during the two years of my VOLUNTARY hiatus. I saw lots of talented folks across the country getting fired simply because they made too much money, or it was easier to automate and voice track audio than to pay actual on air personalities and of course the voice track machine doesn't "crack up".
I was on the sidelines, dying a little bit each day VOLUNTARILY. I thought for a brief time that my entry back into radio would be to do mornings on an oldies station, or a sports talk daytime show or mornings on a classic rock station.
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| Don't worry, I had to look it up too |
I'm grateful for a great gig, and to have devoted listeners like you.Sure it's on an AM station in a shit market, but as long as I can say Balls On Chin, and play youtube videos, and fart in the microphone I'm there.
I know what life is like on the other side of the rabbit hole.
Sucks to be looking in at a party when you VOLUNTARILY can't get in.
Now I'm sounding like flippin' Tony Roberts. That's just wrong. I'm happy, not sappy. I'm bleachy, not preachy. I have a soul, I can be an asshole. Mostly that last part.
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| Janet is hotter than these girls. I VOLUNTARILY don't have sex with girls like this |
I get to do a radio show again, and I can pretty much do whatever I want on air, farting, fighting with people who make lame youtube videos, or fat girls with website, hanging up on you stupid fucking morons who listen to me, JESUS H. CHRIST can I get one NON-PAID call from someone who isn't borderline retarded? Life is good for me again. I hope that translates through on the radio.
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| I'm quite popular in many Sacramento neighborhoods |
