On the Air

On the Air

This morning I had the honor to banter, yee-haw and read the weather on Y 105.3 per a request from Tom Garrett. Tom G is the popular morning radio personality and an amazing, creative genius.

Tom would say "hey, let's talk about this next" and within 35 seconds he whipped around in his chair, plucked out just the right CD of background music and was instantly funny, upbeat and reaching out to listeners.

I've seen multi-taskers before and had the honor to be on the show previous times but it still astounds me to see Tom do so many things so well in a heartbeat. The time zipped by and three hours spent at the studio seemed like 20 minutes.

Old Time Dee Jay's

Twenty-some years ago I had a part-time job one summer as the dee jay for a quaint station outside Austin, Minnesota. KGHR. The equipment was so old they had a broken broom handle to wedge into one of the dials and didn't have working weather information. The manager told dee jays to listen to other stations and give a similar forecast.

There was a tiny little window way up high and if you stood on a crate in the corner you could see the sky. Usually I worked weekends and would say oh, the skies are partly cloudy and the temperature is.... The first time I worked an evening shift.I glanced out the window and confidently said "right now outside the KGHR studio it's dark" Sadly, the station went dark (closed) right before the manager had to tell me my future might not be in radio.

Thanks!

Thanks to Tom for giving me the chance to have fun and be On the Air once again!