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• Learn all you can learn about words, and how words can paint pictures in people’s minds. That’s what we do in radio. It’s the theater of mind.
• I think every business is kind of like show business. Whether you’re selling laptops at Best Buy or driving a city bus or teaching tenth-grade biology, when you walk in that door, you’re onstage. So give them a good show. Every single time.
• And so, on April 22, 1996, Elvis, Elliot, and the Z Morning Zoo came on the air for the very first time.
• Some of that is nailing the little things: formatting the clock so that the show has the right pace instead of feeling rushed or draggy, making sure regular segments appear at a consistent time. Stuff like that. To this day, on the wall in my office I have a checklist of radio rules inspired by Dennis’s guidance. Everything from Keep topics tight t...
• Us New Yorkers have a complicated relationship with the place we call home. There’s this joke we tell each other: “I love New York—can’t wait till they finish it!” There’s always construction happening everywhere. Scaffolding that you have to walk around. Jackhammers you have to shout over. Smoke plumes rising out of manhole covers for no apparent ...