This episode is presented FREE of charge and open to the public, please share this milestone in Talk Radio history with friends and family. I composed the following as a message for my daily Church Doctrine newsletter subscribers.
On the occasion of the celebration or lamentation of my 35th year in Radio broadcasting. The little bastard step-child of the echoes of Buddy Diliberto and Rush Limbaugh arrived at 8:06am, healthy enough and spared from the radio version of the NICU. I have been blessed by the sagacious counsel of men older and wiser than me, among them: George Mayoral, Keith Rush and my friend BKB. If I had to boil down some words of advice to the young up an comer broadcaster, I’d have him read this essay from G.K. Chesterton and remember this line from it.
“In short, the young man always insists that his new nostrum and panacea shall be swallowed first, before the old man gives up his bad habits and lives a healthy life. The old man knows the new medicine is a quack medicine, having seen many such quacks; and is only too delighted with an excuse for putting off the hour of repentance, and going his own drunken, dissipated old way. That cross-purpose is largely the story of mankind.”
I am more grateful to you, reader, than I can possibly express, thank you for 35 of the best years any man can live, thank you! I’m no Chesterton but I’ll leave you with this little ditty I composed for this occasion, just moments ago, I hope you like it.
“If you do anything for long enough you either get really good at it or you get really good at being convinced that you’re going to become really good at it.” - Me
