After 2 Years....It finally happened

Well, my streak is over. I was hired at Performance Radio on January 26, 2006, and I had not actually lost track of myself and started laughing from being distracted while being on air until yesterday.

I was in the studio doing my weather report when Jeff Duffy came in behind me just after I had started. I was wearing a hooded sweatshirt, and he occasionally will just put my hood up for no reason at all. Well, he did so again this day, making sure it went around the headphones and everything. Now in this photo, you can see I don't have a hooded sweatshirt on, but it's basically the same thing, only add the hood over my head.

(Stock Photo - Courtesy of TW, Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved)

So, now that he's got me in, since I've only got one hand, I am in the middle of my forecast, and am trying hard to keep time as I had to end the weather at precisely 1:15 for a network break, I'm getting somewhat flustered. Then, Jeff decides to take it one more step. He reaches around, and pull on both of hood strings. The hood immediately tightens, and it forces the headphones to pop off my head (no problem, I can go on without them if need be), but his pull was hard enough, that it yanked my head downward, planting my nose directly into the microphone. It gives a resounding thud followed by the sound of the springs on the arm shaking back and forth from the impact (which is quite audible on the air). I couldn't do it anymore, I started to chuckle, and suddenly had no clue where I'd been in the forecast. I had that annoyed feeling when the hood came up to start with, so now I was in the middle of nowhere, with my time running out. I did get out of the forecast (I am quite sure much to the confusion of my audience who remember could only hear parts of what happened), and to the faint sound of Jeff laughing quite hard in the hallway. My first (partial) breakdown laughing on the air.

However, that was not quite as bad one that happened to Jeff several years ago. As you can see in this photo, you have a clear view from one studio into the other. This photo is actually taken in the Big Jim 93.3 Studio, looking into the Z105 studio, and you can see Jeff in the background in the red shirt in the KOKK studio.


Before I was hired, Jeff was the station's news director, and the station had a different sports director, Tim Omodt. Well, Jeff was doing an air shift, he was reading the story that the legendary race horse Secretariat has died, quite a sad story for that day. As Jeff has told this story to me, he looked over while reading the somber news, and there is Tim in the studio next door, lying on his back on the floor, with both legs and both arms pointed straight up in the air. As I gather it, the insuing laughter was far worse than my slight chuckle. Even thought it was not at the time, it's now quite funny to us all.

I am not excessively upset about mine, but my how sweet revenge can be.....so keep listening to KOKK, you never know what you might hear.....