Time to move on

So it has now been almost 6 weeks since my last show. I have really enjoyed my time off. I mean REALLY enjoyed it. I have laid around and rested. I also got the chance to realize just how exhausted I was. I am now however starting to feel a little bored. I thought I wouldnt get bored until at least Halloween.

Recently though I have had lots of time to think. I mean I am really thinking about things like my future, my families future, my love for broadcasting and much more personal stuff. It really has been a great chance to come to some conclusions. One of those conclusions is that "I am not sure I want to do Music Radio anymore".

What I mean is in my talks with program directors who are running rock radio stations I have been extremely dissapointed. Some of these guys are 100% against everything that I stand for. My industry ( the rock radio industry) has become a joke. Rock radio stations want people who are going to do their fake shows and use internet written lists, pre produced comedy service bits that are written and produced by a service, fake street stuff, and of course play 8+ songs an hour.

Now there are a couple hundred people that go to this site a day and you guys more than likely were listeners of the morning disaster. You know the type of show that I did was 100% NOT THAT.

I always believed in writing your own material thats why I wrote and I insisted that everyone on the show write. There were guys on the show who brought in internet lists everyday and I would just pretend we didnt have enough time to do their bit or find any reason to not air their stuff. I know there are some people in radio that have no shame. I am not one of those people. I always feared somebody would have read the bit on the internet and thought we were frauds. We always did our own production for bits on the show too. I personally would do the Hump Ranger the last few years. Prior to that Rocky, Hobie, Brando, Rich, Norm and Noid produced hundreds of bits that we wrote. There were some people on the show who would write stuff and the guys would produce it. Once again there were some guys who would steal scripts from the internet that we wouldnt do. Guys like Me and Jon lamb and Rich and brando and many others throughout the years would have a blast writing for the show. Also I was never a huge fan of playing music. I mean a song or two here and there so I could take a piss was one thing but Music as the key element of the show. NO fucking way. One guy wanted me to host a show called the more music morning show. I thought " you got to be fucking kidding me"
there is no way I am doing it.

The scary thing is Most Rock stations are going in this direction. It is sad. They want fake shows or syndicated crap. I am convinced that I 100% dont want to be involved with bullshit stations that have that attitude. These are the same radio stations that will continue to lose listeners to ipods, and satellite radio.

This made me think "what is is I really want out of my career?" "what am I most happiest doing on the radio?" The answer is TALKING. I love to talk, crack jokes, comment on the news, make people laugh and think, in other words I like to do a style of radio that not many people can do. I have decided that I want to do a talk radio show. I have always had to goal to eventually try talk radio. I have ideas to do a talk show that would blow the minds of some stuffy ass talk radio listeners. I would do a show that would make you guys even check out the AM dial.
There I said it, "I want to do talk radio!!" Many years ago people asked the question what can you give the listeners that another radio station cant give? The problem is nobody who runs a radio company is saying "what can I give my listeners that they cant get from an ipod or satellite or another station?" That answer is GUYS LIKE ME! What makes me different? I am the only one that lives my life, and thinks like me. I am the only one who would talk about anything, I mean anything. Rock radio now doesnt want that in a host. Talk Radio on the other hand is craving it.

Now heres the problem.... when it comes to rock radio people are willing to give me a chance in many cool places. however in talk radio considering my experience is 1 week of a fill in stint on WMAY it is a little harder to get them to see my abilities. (Although you could argue I have been doing a talk show for years on a rock station) Therefore I am fighting an uphill battle to get a show going. I need to get experience somehow. Even if it means doing nights somewhere. I dont care I want to do TALK. I am also trying to find some non traditional ways to get experience.

Now this is going to lead to a cool thing with this website. I am going to start a talk radio show like podcast. Watch for details on chubbyray.com

I also am going to start posting audioblogs on this page.
there is a test audio blog just below this post. Check it out. It is a short little test message now but starting tomorrow it will be a few minutes long and be a pretty cool thing.