It was Sunday, June 14, 1987.\u00a0 It was a hot, bright day, not at all unlike today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’d been “on the beach”, at least as far as full-time work went, for two months.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 All in all, it was enough to pay the bills.\u00a0 More or less.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I figured if I brought home $350 a month, I was pretty much in the clear.\u00a0 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But doing OK wasn’t what I wanted.\u00a0 I\u00a0spent part of the day listening to radio and TV news shows replaying Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech from the Friday before<\/p>\n
And I thought “Damn.\u00a0 I gotta get back into talk radio NOW”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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