I’m happy for her. Really. Don’t think that this picture is some sophomoric effort to mask my jealousy. It’s not. Really. I just thought you should see that Scout has a big mouth, thus affirming her choice as one of the new on air personalities at WERS (the # 1 college station in America. Dammit.)
Would this be the right time to mention that I have been working on a radio show proposal? That I am out shopping for underwriters? It’s taking time as I imagined it would. And I suppose I should acknowledge that Scout filled out an application, had one interview and bada-bing, bada-boom, she had a radio show.
While I may be self absorbed (or as Scout used to say when she was about 7, “self-absorbent”), I am also thrilled for her. Her first show was Tuesday morning. And when I say morning, I mean morning. Like 2am – 6am.
Eileen and I are good parents and we set our alarm for 5am. We set up my laptop and brought the WERS feed to itunes. It was easy. And then there she was. She told us what station we were listening to, the song we had just heard, the song before that and the song coming up. She said her name. We felt like the parents at the end of The Music Man who hear their kids play band instruments for the first time. Of course there is a huge difference because Scout was brilliant.
I did have visions of a Lucy Ricardo thing going on behind the scenes at WERS. I imagined the engineer smacking Scout awake just before each of her appearances. We should have had more faith. She was busy pushing buttons, finding songs on the database and trying to strategically select a longer song each time she had to hit the restroom.
I haven’t told Scout this yet but our friend Jack tells us that this is how Larry King got his start – with a Midnight to 6am syndicated radio show.
If she hits it big, I don’t need a radio show. Go, Scoutie go!
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