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Morning after Cliff

7/17/2014

 
Time to do a radio show. Cobwebs from last night's Jimmy Cliff concert. Haven't attended Festival of the Lakes for a couple years. Must have been on vacation or something last year. Good show.

Today's schedule? That's easy. Just copy from the front page of this  website.

6:45am Hammond Councilman Anthony Higgs

7:10am Senator Joe Donnelly

7:30am Attorney Dave Gladish

8:00am Doug DeLaughter -Ross Summer Music Theatre

8:35am Dan Repay, Little Calumet River Commission

Now I know what you're thinking. Have you prepared, JED?

Not specifically. I could have prepared some insightful questions for the first two guests of the day - elected officials Hammond councilman Anthony Higgs and US Senator Joe Donnelly - but that would take the fun out of it. You lose spontaneity when you read the recipe too many times. 

Besides, Spencer Tracy may have been on to something. Rehearsal? Are you kidding me? Turn on the cameras and let's go, Katherine. Today's lineup is a little heavy on testosterone, but interesting nonetheless. It was  put together by producer Ryan Walsh. The best producer in Chicago is in Indiana. Just start talking, JED. Just start talking.

Jimmy Cliff poem

7/17/2014

 
The last time I saw Jimmy Cliff
he had hair.
It was in Berkeley or maybe it was Oakland and it was in a garage turned into a place for Reggae.

And to tell you the truth it 
could have been Peter Tosh and 
not Jimmy Cliff. There’s a lot
I don’t remember about Berkeley
and I’m not proud of some of the 
water under the bridge.

But tonight it all worked out.
Bald Jimmy Cliff sang The 
Harder They Come – TWICE. It 
was what I came for and 
to tell the truth I didn’t want to 
come at all. 

But we gave away a zillion tickets
on the radio and I said I’d show up 
a zillion times on the air.
So as I was lying in bed for a nap 
the wife said you better get up and 
be a man of your word.

I am glad that my wife turned on the light
and raised the curtains.
For it was a clear and
unreasonably cool July night on the shores of Wolf Lake.
At sunset, you could look through
the stage to see Sears Tower. 
During “I Can See Clearly Now” I had to go pee but instead I stayed and danced with 
my wife and kid.
The water under the bridge reminds
me that I don’t deserve such purity but what the hell – it’s Hammond, Indiana, on a Wednesday 
night. What kind of heaven could that aspire
to be?

Afterwards Jordan who has announced games
with me since he was 15 joined us and we 
headed to take a picture with bald
Jimmy Cliff. We wound up last in line
because I’m 52 and had to stop at a port-a-potty.

"If you weren’t so old we wouldn’t be last in line," the three of them cajoled.
The guy ahead in line
named Mike recognized my voice and asked if I was me and I said that I was.
"I listen to you
every day, man. I told my wife that has to be you." 

"It is me," I told him, and I did what I always do - I thanked him for listening.
And I mean it. And I mean it also when I say that 
it was a good night under a moon that a cow jumps over.
My wife bumped
me with her hip a few times and grabbed my hand
and my daughter fetched us beer and Jordan 
smiled. It was a good Jimmy Cliff night. It doesn't 
even bother me that I can't remember if it 
was Jimmy Cliff or Peter Tosh in a bar that was
Berkeley or Oakland in 1982. 
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Radio Wednesday

7/16/2014

 
4:48am. The biggest decision of the morning is whether to ride the bicycle or the scooter. Later on, there will be bigger decisions like what questions to ask guests and what to tell the interns and employees to do. But as of 4:49 in the morning, it's whether to ride the scooter or the bike.

I rode the bike last night down the Little Calumet River trail with my daughter Jacks. It was a little disheartening that on a cool July evening we were the only ones on the trail. Don't get me wrong - Like most people in radio, I crave being alone. And having a stretch of trail along a river to yourself on a regular basis is pretty cool. But a lotta dough went into the  trails and I'd like to see more people get off their duffs and use them. 

It's a radio Wednesday. I don't know who the guests are. Let's leave that to producer Ryan. If you've been doing this morning radio stuff long enough, then you start talking and stuff comes out of your mouth. When a new guest comes in, Ryan either hands me a piece of paper or I just start talking anyhows. It's all the same. Talk talk talk talk talk. 

Maybe you can see that after four hours of talking... and then another four hours of talking people into buying ads or directing people to edit stuff or paying bills or erecting a piece of studio furniture... that it might be kinda cool to have your own stretch of trail for a while.
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Just a while.

Radio day

7/14/2014

 
4:45pm hanging out at the new studios at 7150 Indianapolis Boulevard. I did a radio show this morning about the big three murders around the Region over the past week and the funeral today of Gary officer Jeff Westerfield. Sad times.

It doesn't normally get to you if you're in the media long enough - as Michelle Quinn of the Post-Tribune agreed with me on the show this morning - but then again sometimes it does. Gary cop killed sitting in his car responding to a call... that'll get to you.

A flight attendant bound and rammed against concrete in her own home... that'll get to you.

An elderly woman lying in her bed at a hospital and she's stabbed to death in the middle of the night. That kinda gets to you.

So it goes, so says Kurt Vonnegut. I'm watching the big trucks and the many cars pass by in the huge "Window to the Region" at our new studios on Indianapolis Boulevard. Life really does just go on. Radio proves that. Always open, never closes, just like White Castles.
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Do it again tomorrow.
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