It was Sunday, June 14, 1987.  It was a hot, bright day, not at all unlike today. 

I’d been “on the beach”, at least as far as full-time work went, for two months.  I’d picked up a few voiceover gigs here and there – one or two a month – and written some articles for some of the Saint Paul neighborhood papers.  All in all, it was enough to pay the bills.  More or less.  My bills, fortunately, were pretty tiny; $166 a month for rent, car and car insurance together maybe about the same, and I didn’t eat much.  I figured if I brought home $350 a month, I was pretty much in the clear.  Voice-over jobs netted me $150 for two hours’ work, and every news article I sold was another $50 or $60, so if I stayed moderately busy, I could do OK. 

But doing OK wasn’t what I wanted.  I spent part of the day listening to radio and TV news shows replaying Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech from the Friday before

And I thought “Damn.  I gotta get back into talk radio NOW”.

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