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April 22, 2006
KSFO Interview
I did an interview on Friday morning with KSFO Radio, a popular AM talk station in San Francisco. The interview was with Lee Rodgers, who does their morning show. We had a great time and they invited me back for Memorial Day.
The interview really spiked the Amazon ratings for a day or so. I’ve never seen a local market interview have that big an effect on Amazon sales.
The interview came about because I contacted Lee after not having talked to him for more than 25 years, and he was nice enough to have his producer me on the show. In the late 70’s I worked at a radio station in Chicago (WIND) where Lee hosted a mid-day talk show.
I particularly recall an incident in which he neatly tweaked my athletic vanity. I was about 23 at the time, rowing crew, running, biking, ski-racing, and pretty impressed with myself. We were in the lunchroom one morning, and I was going on to Lee about all the training I was doing. He professed to be very impressed. “Your leg muscles must be really developed,” he said, reaching down to feel my calf. “Wow, that’s amazing. I’ve done some working out too, feel mine.”
I reached down to feel his calf muscle. What I didn’t know is that Lee had a prosthetic leg, the result of a lumbering accident when he was a teenager. It was a total shock, and I pulled my hand away as he laughed. I’m sure the look on my face was priceless. I try to call up the memory any time my hubris starts to run away with me.
Posted by rickbeyer at April 22, 2006 11:54 AM
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