![]() It took a little time when we started to get really comfortable with what we're doing. And I remember it was a few years of doing the show that I remember when one day it really started to feel good. We ended up working together at that point and had a lot of good years together. So I drove over to the radio station that day and they were interested in me coming on and joining their show and then that was it. The guy who hired me in Tennessee, he was not working with Free Beer and Hot Wings. How do they know me? So we met a couple of times casually at various remotes and things like that and then the show that I was on got fired because favored to John Boy and Billy at this Tennessee radio station which are still on to that station wimz to this day. When I went to Tennessee they signed on at Arrival radio station and when they signed on I called them while they were on the air like one of their first days and they picked it up and I'm like trying to throw a fastball at their head at this moment and they kind of put it back on my face because they mentioned my real name and I was like who are these people. We were going to college at the same time, maybe a couple of years behind me but I did not know them. Well now that one still some trepidation but that was true excitement and that excitement was warranted because the show ended up really growing and taking hold from that point and that's how I was able to base this podcast because of the audience from that show.īefore I knew them, they knew of me. But then fast forward when I went because I went from Michigan down to Tennessee to New Jersey, a couple of years in Jersey and then Dave Brewer from Pollock Media called looking to get a show on in Grand Rapids, Michigan which is not far from home. So there was a lot of sleepless nights there and then didn't know anybody in that scenario and so here I am with two young children and my lovely wife and oh I didn't know what to do. To move emotionally from Michigan down to East Tennessee I think was the strangest and hardest thing to do because we had a sick family member at the time. So most of those were because I either got it just didn't work out or I needed a change, it wasn't making any money and so those were all big things. Well, nearly every move I made it was out of necessity so I was quite scared. And then just by dumb luck, I get to a point where it was terrifically lucrative, which can't be said I was very lucky to be able to have that happen because too often I hear about radio morning people and just radio people in general who just die on the vine and the dream dies because they can't eat. And then I got offered a morning job at that station, and that put it into a different realm once mornings took hold, and I was like, now I can see that this is something on a selfish level that is even more satisfying to me. So I went back to college, got a degree completely unrelated to this, and was ready to walk away. ![]() So I felt at a young age, I was getting stale. I then started to get a little wore out with radio because I was just kind of liner jockeying it. The overnight guy got fired, so I'm full time overnight, full time nights, full time afternoon. And then everybody started people just wear out their welcome at radio stations, whatever. Would cost me more in gas than the amount of money that I was making. After the internship at the Riff, I did a morning show at the college station once a week, and then that went to the professional level to earning $5 an hour overnights on the weekend. I was doing a show on a high school radio station weekly, playing rap music because I went to a phase where I loved rap, so I called myself Easy Rhyme, played rap songs, and then everything kind of developed.
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