Dreams can come true in strange ways. I knew from three years old that I wanted to tell stories on the radio. I wanted to be connected…to be wired. I wanted to be the guy at the communications nexus; the guy who knew the information first and couldn’t wait to tell it.

But I couldn’t do that as a child, so I listened while others told me stories, and no one told me stories better than the hosts and contributors on NBC‘s Monitor. Most weekends found me with my ear on the dashboard so that no matter where I was in the West, from around my neighborhood in Lakewood, California, to the reaches of the Southern California deserts, I was connected to the world through the powerful signal of NBC-affiliate KFI.

I wasn’t born in time to have a shot at being a voice on the monitor beacon, but I did catch the end of full service radio and got to live that little part of my dream. It took the Internet to give me the full feeling of connection that Monitor hinted at. And it took podcasting to give me realization of the desire to do the monitor ID that comprise the last 4 words of this cast.

Many thanks to the leading authority on Monitor, Dennis Hart, whose website:
www.monitorbeacon.com is a great source of information including much of the source material for this show, who shares my passion for monitor, for radio, and for telling a story in an accurate and (we hope) entertaining way.