{"id":85778,"date":"2023-10-12T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85778"},"modified":"2023-10-19T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:48:33","slug":"where-credit-is-due-don-vogel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85778","title":{"rendered":"Where Credit Is Due:  Don Vogel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Twin Cities remembers Don Vogel as one of the most instinctively funny people ever to appear on the radio.  &#8220;The Round Mound of Sound&#8221;, the blind guy who was going to drive you home.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember a lot of different Dons.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-6.png 900w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-6-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-6-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-6-768x767.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was a guy who&#8217;d been blind since infancy, and who lived with it as gracefully and powerfully as anyone you&#8217;ve ever seen.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notwithstanding that, he was a frighteningly vindictive man who never forgot a slight or a miscue.  Once you were<em> <\/em>out with Don, you were <em>out.  <\/em>The man had no loyalty or sentiment.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if dark were energy, his dark side could have powered half the state.  A morbidly obese epicurean with blood chemistry could qualify for Superfund cleanup funding, he always said his goal was to die by fifty. And he made it with weeks to spare, of metastatic bladder cancer.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was the guy who gave me my big break out of college, not once but twice; once when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48479\">hired me to be his screener<\/a>, and once when he went way out on a limb with management to get me on the air.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was the guy at the enter of one of the most formative experiences of my life &#8211; my first job after college, where I got to do juvenile comedy all week and argue politics with strangers all weekend &#8211; perhaps the most perfect time of my life in many ways.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he taught me a few lessons that have formed my approach to my entire life:  always think three questions ahead; always be ready for the guest to not show and the phone lines to break down; never lose control of the conversation; there are four kinds of callers &#8211; great ones, average ones, crazy ones and boring ones; stick with the first three kinds.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They sound like radio lessons, but they work for life in general, if you think about it.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twin Cities remembers Don Vogel as one of the most instinctively funny people ever to appear on the radio. &#8220;The Round Mound of Sound&#8221;, the blind guy who was going to drive you home. 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He was a guy who&#8217;d been blind since infancy, and who lived with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wandering-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778","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=85778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85778\/revisions\/86113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}