It’s the end of another long radio day. It’s the middle of summer, and we’ve had some really good weather that is expected to last for a couple more weeks. That never happens here at the bottom of Lake Michigan. There’s always traffic because if you’re driving across the northern half of the county, you have to travel on our roads. This clashes with all of us local people trying to get to work and next thing you know there’s a big red line on 80-94 on Google Maps.
I got a haircut today. And I worked out. And I covered a trial at the federal courthouse. And I set up equipment for 10-and-under World Series broadcasts. And I covered a congressman announcing that he’s running for Senate. And I researched lighting systems and bought one for several thousand dollars. I interviewed Indiana’s attorney general and the lead singer for the most popular Beatles cover band around. I did grocery shopping at Strack & Van Til’s, and I cooked dinner for my wife and me.
It’s 11pm and I really should be sleeping right now so that I can talk legibly in the morning. But, you know, there’s always stuff to worry about like North Korean missiles traveling trans-Pacific in the middle of the night. A lonely, cold trek across thousands of miles of ocean just to blow up Mt. St. Helens and a few million people in southern California.
So much radio stuff happened today that it could take as much time to write it out as it did to live it.
5:45am – I start my radio show to a hiss in the headphones and a couple of cameras missing. We’re the official Facebook Live and radio source for the Cal Ripken 10-under World Series. There’s teams from Oregon, Alabama, New Jersey and Hawaii, among others. We’re doing live video of the games on two fields and evidently the crews need some of the studio cameras. Life sucks and then you die. |
I run radio stations and a streaming video network in Hammond, Ind., and write this blog.
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