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I didn't know this site existed until today. Out of sheer boredom, I put my old college radio station, WHRW, into Wikepedia, surprised to find a page about the station. I then found a "WHRWalumni" site, linked from Wikepedia, and when I got to the site I was shocked and stunned to find a series of my old radio broadcasts, the "Seven Letter Wacky Time Show" on file, and bio that sort of praises me as the founder of the Radio Theatre Department at Binghamton University. Crazy! Anyway, if any of you are interested in hearing my old radio shows, you can catch them here.

I listened for 15 minutes and heard you talk for about 22.7 seconds

I think I chose a bad example, I'll listen to one of the others later. Nice write-up though

i turned fallout back on.

The first show is a terrible example... the first one in November is a better show I'm not sure who made the site, but I'm assuming its someone from the Binghamton University/ WHRW alumni, because there's other shows on there.

The write-up says my show was short-lived... yet it aired from 1998 to 2002... how is that shortlived? It's as shortlived as a BA Anyway, I'm really happy I found this site, I e-mailed them asking for the MP3's of my shows so I can keep them more permanently (in case this site vanishes someday). I wonder how long it's been up?

haha yea i stumble across secret fanclubs and clts deitaced to me everyday .

sounds pretty neat tho, seems youve made an impression on someone. thats everything some people want to do. congratulations on that.

Ha, you're pretty damn good, I just can't talk radio-style like that.

Hey Matt, I figured this would tickle your fancy:

http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/flash/creep_FLASH.asp

Have to say that is one of the best music videos I have ever seen.

Thing is, it's not a music video. It's a (rather amazing) Flash lip-sync demonstration.

wowzorz i like that.

Radiohead makes the most emo without being emo songs. I like them though.

Granted I realize it is not what you might call an actual video, like made for mtv, but that was the best phrase I could think of to describe it. All those million dollar video makers should take a look at this and see what someone can do if they actually are in some way inspired by the music and not by the paycheck.

Woah, I wasn't expecting that I figured you'd pick on my voice for being too high-pitched lol. Thank you!

A lot of people loved that show and I never really knew why. The description there about how it was like an "on-air visit to a late night dinner with your funniest of friends," they took that out of Pipe Dream (Binghamton University's paper) when they did this huge article on us, and it was awesome because for the few years I did that show I was like a pseudo-celebrity on campus, hehe. I wish the article talked about the crew more though, because if you listen to a bunch of episodes you'll notice that they were the real "meat and potatoes" of the show, they made it funny. I just programmed the robot to say stuff and butted in on people's jokes lol. But it was a fun show... Maybe I should do an internet radio show. Or better! Maybe I should make a whole internet radio station! How cool would THAT be!!!

I love that flash video! Whoever did that is extremely talented... is there some way to save flash stuff to your HD without just adding the site to your favorites?

About talking radio-style: It's all about pacing yourself, and nothing more. The first few shows I did were HORRIBLE lol. A really funny and pretty embarassing story:

When I was an apprentice DJ at that station, Mike Epstein, the DJ I was assigned to learn under, gave me the controls. I was so excited and I couldn't wait to get on the air. Ironically, the first song I ever "tried" to air was the afforementioned "Creep" by Radiohead (that flash video reminded me of this story actually), because at the time I was going through a Pablo Honey phase and figured "eh, maybe (because this song is so rediculously popular) I'll get my first phone call today, too!" So off I go, first to announce the song. I talked for about ten seconds, and Mike Epstein came STORMING into CR1 (the control room) saying "why is there dead air!" I didn't push the microphone pod button So then I pushed it in and announced the song, anxious and nervous and stuttering, and then I started the song... again, dead air, because I didn't queue the CD properly. UGH! So finally, the song starts playing over the air, and I'm all excited because it was the very first song I'd ever played on the radio... that is, until Thom Yorke sang "I wish I was special -- you're so ****ing special!" CRAP! I ended up playing the un-edited version of the song because I was so excited, and I was flipping out trying to remember which button muted the song so I could edit it. After a few more curses went out over the airwaves, Epstein took control and edited the song properly, and I got my very first phone call from an on-air performance ever a few moments later... it was our Program Director SCREAMING at me for violating the FCC's regulations in so many ways Ah, memories I'll never forget that first show, lol.

No seriously, to continue smooth dialouge like that while knowing you're beeing listened to is dead-hard for me. It's even harder when you do video tutorials and gotta speak/work at the same time! I talk quite well in person, but when it comes to speaking to someone who isn't there I just stutter and "uh" and "um" too damn much. Even on Skype with friends!

So yeah, your story sounds like the screwup of the week. Bad stuff does happen.

I had a lot of problems with delivery in the first, oh, two dozen shows But after that I started to learn that it's all about pacing my speech and collecting my thoughts beforehand so I knew what to say before I said it. A lot of my problems came from me wanting to just blurt stuff out. On the phone or over skype it wouldn't be as easy to pace yourself or come up with a list of things to say, I think, because you're sort of "on the spot" in a conversation, but the radio grants you some additional freedom there. A little known secret: In my early days of radio in 1998, shortly after I figured out that scripting my words was smarter than blurting stuff, I scripted everything I said on the air. It all went into notebooks, and I still have them lol. In December of 1998 when Gabe Landers gave me control of his show, (the show on the website), it was a comedy talk show and I was *aweful* at two things: comedy and talking on the air But I spiffed up the show and brought in a bunch of my friends and we transformed it into what it became, and the result was awesome, especially because it helped me get more comfortable with speaking on the air. Soon after that I just had a bulleted list of things to say, and then WHAM, the show became a behemoth with a TV spinoff (on BTV, the closed-ciruit Binghamton University campus TV station... no, I wasn't on CBS or FOX or something ) and tons of e-mails and phone messages and such from people asking if they could audition for the cast. That's how we came up with "The Pregnant Nun," "8-minute abs," and a few others that you probably already heard on those recordings. Wow, I'm totally blabbing lol, this is the most I've talked about that period since I left the air (and college) in 2002 The TV show though was probably my biggest accomplishment thus far in life... it was SO much fun. Basically, we transformed the stuff we talked about into an hour of TV skits each week. From Gary Coleman on fantasy island to George Bush and the cast of Miami Vice hanging out in the early 1980's, we covered it all, and I really wish I could upload that show and all of its episodes to the internet somehow so I could share it with everyone (maybe over Bearshare or something, I dunno). That radio show also lead to Pipe Dream (the afforementioned campus paper) asking me to write reviews for music and games and stuff for them, and that was totally cool as well. There's a website with an article or two of mine, but you guys all read things I say every single day so I'm sure it's not that cool hehe. But anyway, to close out this blabbering session, college was a ton of fun lol. Sorry all for cramming you into a time warp while my brain remembered the good times