{"id":232,"date":"2006-12-21T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/21\/willy-who\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T22:30:01","slug":"willy-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Willy Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like every <\/em>Twin Citian under the age of 70, I wasn’t listening to Willy Clark yesterday morning.\u00a0 In fact, like an awful lot of Twin Cities radio listeners, I haven’t listened to KSTP since Mischke moved to the middle of the working day and Bob Davis moved to late mornings.\u00a0 As in, not at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nada.\u00a0 Zip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seriously.\u00a0 KSTP-AM is my radio alma mater, and I haven’t hit its preset on my car radio since Rush Limbaugh changed stations.\u00a0 Not once.<\/p>\n

But I digress.\u00a0 A little bird told me that Willy Clark was talking about me yesterday.\u00a0 To be fair, I needed that little bird, because I didn’t know Willy Clark was even still on the air (and, looking back<\/a>, I see that we’ve gotta be up to about contract time here…).\u00a0 Anyway, he wasn’t happy:<\/p>\n

A mention of SITD came up around the 8:30 mark.\u00a0 Kenny Olson was Googling reviews of the show, they came across yours (Kenny read his description, something about a smug, talentless punk) and Willy characterized the guy that wrote that as an unemployed loser who can’t get hired in radio, or something like that. \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, my.\u00a0 Aren’t we feisty<\/em>?\u00a0 Wouldn’t Willy Clark be much more – I dunno, listenable <\/em>if he took some of that feistiness<\/em> and used it to sound like he wasn’t <\/em>on NyQuil on the air?<\/p>\n

Willy Clark:\u00a0 I am employed; very well-employed, as it happens (details never <\/em>shared online).\u00a0 As to being a loser – well, I’m no “morning guy at KSTP”, but I do OK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the ultimate question, Wills, is not “can Mitch get hired in radio”; I did in the past, and I have the best unpaid gig in the business right now.\u00a0 But I don’t work <\/em>in radio anymore.\u00a0 Other challenges called – challenges that don’t involve stroking the egoes of or supplying coke to program directors.<\/p>\n

No, the real question is “Could Willy Clark get a job outside of radio?”<\/p>\n

And “Will he be able to, soon?”<\/p>\n

Don’t know if they podcast those things, but if you can get the audio, might make for a good NARN drop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If anyone taped the Willy Clark show…<\/p>\n

…no, I’m being serious here.\u00a0 <\/em>If there are any dedicated Willy fans who…<\/p>\n

…Hey!\u00a0 Quit giggling!\u00a0 I’m trying to run a blog…<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like every Twin Citian under the age of 70, I wasn’t listening to Willy Clark yesterday morning.\u00a0 In fact, like an awful lot of Twin Cities radio listeners, I haven’t listened to KSTP since Mischke moved to the middle of the working day and Bob Davis moved to late mornings.\u00a0 As in, not at all.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}