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The new guy

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BarkRiverPirate

I'm new to this forum but a talk radio listener since 1985. That spring I started working for a community college in Arizona that was the caretaker of employees of the local NPR affiliate, KJZZ. My first job was working in the college president's office so I was privy to hiring decisions. One of the news casters at the station was being courted by the up-and-coming KFYI AM talk radio station in Phoenix and the college president tried to get HR to give him more money to stay, but public sector doesn't work that way, so he went to KFYI. Up till then I'd never heard of KFYI or talk radio. I tuned in out of curiosity and became an occasional listener. A few years later I was driving my car and heard this new guy who'd I'd tuned into while he was in the middle of a monologue, talking politics. I arrived at my destination and didn't get to stay in my car long enough to hear who he was. I remember distinctly thinking, I don't know who this guy is, but he thinks just like me. A day or so later I learned it was Rush Limbaugh, who'd just become nationally syndicated. I was 31 at the time with a young family, entering my political coming of age and enjoying the landslide second term of Reagan. The rest, as they say, is history.
 
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