After spending several grueling years in my little hometown, I knew I had to get away….so when the teacher wasn’t looking, I crawled out the window of my Kindergarten class and made my way into the world. I used to get picked on by the other kids because my name was a palindrome….it was just me and my friend Anna against the world. That, plus I was the only kid who knew what palindrome means. (look it up) Moving from town to town, I earned a living anyway I could…carnival sideshows, underwear model, even doing a little acting. Do you remember Valerie Bertinelli’s boyfriend on ‘One Day at a Time’? Well, I didn’t get that part, but I auditioned. I think some of my comments about how hot Valerie was kinda creeped her out.

Around 1980, I started hanging around a local college campus because of all the hot chicks and cool parties, pretending to be a student. One night I was pre-med, next night I was a Psych major…whatever worked. I never pretended to be an engineer, though, because even in college, that doesn’t impress the ladies. At one sorority party, I told some girls I was thinking of transferring into the College of Communications because I wanted to be in radio. One of the girls happened to work at the campus station, so she told me she’d take me there and try to get me a job. I must have impressed the Program Director because the next night I was on the air! What a scam that is! I soon realized that for some reason, being on the radio makes you kind of a quasi-celebrity. People would buy me drinks at bars…I could get on guest lists at nightclubs…and I could take home all the promotional albums I wanted. But most of all, women liked to call late at night and tell you how sexy your voice is and how much they’d like to meet you. I can tell you though…the voice on the other side of the phone rarely matches the picture you have in your mind. Why do you think so many people on the air say they have a ‘face made for radio’?

Somehow, I managed to work my way up the ladder until it was time for me to graduate. Since I never actually enrolled, I had to fake my graduation as well. After leaving campus, my first job in ‘the real world’ was in North Carolina. I worked there for 2 years before realizing that Myrtle Beach was the hot spot. I moved here in 1987, and even though I’ve been fired by most stations in town, somehow the management here at Wave 104.1 hasn’t been able to catch me doing anything wrong….yet.