One of the most unforgettable nights of my life – and certainly of my radio “career” – was about this time four years ago.\u00a0 AM1280 did some horsetrading and got the NARN a ballroom at the Hilton in downtown Minneapolis on the occasion of the final Presidential debate between President Bush and Senator Kerry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We expected maybe 100 people, if we were lucky – especially when we saw the weather that day; it was cold and miserable, with a pelting icy drizzle and a stiff wind.\u00a0 We got the ballroom set up; a big Jumbotron, maybe 150 chairs around tables, one cash bar, a couple of bowls of bar snacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We got overwhelmed.\u00a0 Over 700 people showed up.\u00a0 The Hilton opened up two more ballrooms and scoured the place for chairs, another porta-bar, and enough peanuts and booze to satisfy the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was the moment I felt the NARN had more or less arrived.<\/p>\n
“But what have you done for us lately, Berg?”<\/p>\n
Good point!\u00a0 Listen up!<\/p>\n
AM1280 The Patriot<\/a> will be hosting a debate viewing party at Trocadero<\/a> in Minneapolis (it’s right by the Monte Carlo,\u00a0on Third Avenue at\u00a0First Street\u00a0North<\/a>)\u00a0for the VP debate on October 2 and the final Presidential debate on October 15.<\/p>\n We’ll have a free appetizers and a cash bar for your gastronomical pleasure (and let me tell you – nobody <\/em>does appetizers like Trocadero!). Both debates go from 8p CST to 9:30p CST and doors will open at 7:30p-ish.<\/p>\n