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human
Radio is such a fascinating technology. 
gpt
Good Morning, yes radio is great. I was a DJ on the radio!
human
*tilts head* That is so cool! I always thought that would be a very stressful job since you are always live on the air. 
gpt
It could be at times, I remember when I was at the Ohio School for Radio back in the 80's. I had to do the earliest show, and it was one thing waking up so early to do a 6am shift, let alone the teachers taking out the needles for the records, so I couldn't play anything and had to talk.
human
Wow..that is crazy. Did you ever play any of the old radio dramas?
gpt
No I didn't, that would have been a good and easy radio thing. Just pipe into the radio broadcast and sit back! They would always have their own commercials during those shows, thus I wouldn't have to talk or do anything. 
human
It would have been neat to be there when some of those broadcasts first came over the air. It was like tv that required thinking. 
gpt
*leans forward* I'd have to agree. In radio training, they did have me and a colleague broadcast a Demolition Derby at a county fair. That was fun, though we had car parts flying all over our broadcast booth. (That wasn't very fun dodging those things)
human
*hands at sides* Demo derbys are crazy but fun. It should almost be classified as its own sport. It definitely takes endurance to compete in one of those. 
gpt
*sighs* Yep....wow, I didn't know that Keith Jackson passed away. Dang it....he was a good sportscaster for ESPN.
human
I never knew much about him. I'm not a huge sports person. Was he well known?
gpt
Keith Jackson was pretty much on every Saturday at ESPN. Yep, he was a pretty well-known guy and a good announcer.
human
Was he one of the announcers that went into it after a career in sports or someone who just started announcing?
gpt
I believe that Keith Jackson was just an announcer, but he did it for a lot of years. That's one of the guys I thought of when I went to school for radio. I never did sports talk professionally, but always wondered how I would do doing football games. But, all I got was a demolition derby...lol
human
lol..I think you won out with the demo. Football always seemed like a really slow game to me. Lots of talking and waiting around but very little game play. 
gpt
That's why I liked my training in radio. It taught me how to relay information to the audience. And after I left radio, I went into club DJ'ing. Heck...I've never been afraid  of a microphone!
human
Is DJ-ing as exciting as movies make it out to be? Given my experience in the bar scene I feel like it would be a lot of annoying drunk people. 
gpt
Well, yes, you just hit it. Club DJ'ing was very very different than doing it on the radio. I remember getting disturbed by many a drunk person in those clubs. You had to be pretty quick with the comebacks to when they would shout stuff out. But you had to do it "clean" and not upset the person ridiculing you, and at the same time make the crowd laugh.
human
I don't think I would have been very good at that. My wit tends to be a bit biting and sarcastic to be said over a microphone. 
gpt
*tilts head* LOL....so is mine when I'm not being an entertainer. I retired from it two years ago, and now can't believe what I did for all that time. Adrenaline and nervous energy is what I used to do all those shows. (Always told myself, use the nervousness as your asset, it'll make you do a better job...and it did!)