4:05 a.m. July 15th, 2026

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15. Yep.

I was blessed/cursed with a good voice. So I usually got the morning drive news slot. In radio, morning drive is THE shift to have. And if you listen around, you’ll soon notice that all the big names worked that timeslot. So, as much as I hated that alarm clock going off at 3:30am, the commute in to work was ALWAYS a breeze. The freeways were ALL MINE - well along with the milk man and one or two cop cars! And it was kinda neat for me, thinking of SOOOOOOOO many people, young and old, rich and poor, famous and not famous, all over Southern California who were waking up - to ME!

It was also quite a rush thinking that management wanted me on there, on that shift. In L.A., mornings were where all the big celebrity jocks could be found. Robert W. Morgan, Dean Goss, Rick Dees, Jeff Gonzer, and more!

I hated waking up that early. I was always a night person, so it was hard having a regular weekly schedule so off-kilter from everybody else, including everyone I knew and/or was somehow related to. But the ego stroke was mighty powerful, gotta say! And whenever I got down in the dumps, just knowing management wanted ME on there, in that golden timeslot, usually provided a pick-me-up. I never got the kind of pay those bigtime jocks got, but it still worked out well.