Something Wonderful Is Going To Happen
b'Thanks for dropping in here on my podcast. I very much enjoy your company. I\'m sitting here in my big, comfortable, manly black leather poppa chair in my living room trying to figure out how to break some news to you about something very big that\'s happening to me. But I think I\'m going to have to put some context around it first. So here\'s a Quickie quiz...what famous pretend tv newscaster liked to describe his start in broadcasting as..."It all started at a 500 watt station..." (No fair going to Google.) For those of you who have perhaps wisely managed to avoid spending any time in the broadcasting business, here\'s a little context. Fire hose AM stations like (the late, great) WNBC and WNEW in New York and WBZ in Boston pour 50,000 watts of power from coast to coast at night. 500 watt stations are more like water pistols that sometimes squirt half way across the sandbox. Everything has to start somewhere, and like the famous pretend tv newscaster, I also started my career at a 500 watt station...WNRC in New Rochelle.\\n\\tThe station gave me an on air name ..."Platter Pappa." Honest to God, that was their idea not mine. I was a junior at Fordham University, andfor some reason I was convinced that WNBC and WNEW or WBZ were just waiting till I graduated to start some kind of bidding war for my services. Wow, was I ever an egotistical, dumb college kid.'