Hey there-Toby “Blogger” T from GlobalTown Radio coming to you via our big daddy host, RadioSlot.com The month was November and my long time friend called me up while I was heading to the Great Pacific Northwest in a car full of wives, kids and dogs! (ok, only one wife)
“I want to do a podcast with you”.
I didn’t even take the time to think how I would possibly fit that into my already bulging schedule, a schedule mind you that was crammed full of potential projects that weren’t paying anything yet, however a podcast certainly fit into that category, so just like the rest of my time eaters, I said YES!
The next week Bob (my co-host) came to an office that I was currently alone in as my cubicle mate had already jumped ship before she sank…another story for another time. Bob laid his iPhone on the desk and proceeded to tell me about the app Spreaker that was going to make all this fame possible.
We fumbled our way through our first 30 minute show with very few “umms” and “uhhhs” only to find that we actually had a natural flow for this thing, and boy did it break up the monotony of working on the Titanic alone. We repeated the process every Friday and circulated our recordings via social media.
Fast forward a couple of short months later when Bob opens the door to a relationship with The Russian!
“We have a meeting at Starbucks with a guy who has an established radio station and studio in the city!”
Upon first glance we knew we were headed in the right direction as Alex sauntered to the table in his long leather coat, blue tinted shades, and wild grey hair shooting out in all directions seemingly looking for some sort of escape. You didn’t have to tell us that this man was responsible for gold records. That fact was oozing out of his pours.
The very next week, we were “in studio” and Bob and I didn’t know how to contain our excitement. Kind of a silent pee-pee dance, waving hands and shrieking like little girls but in an unspoken and still kind of way behind our wide eyes. What we were embarking on was not cemented until we took our first commercial break. OUR FIRST COMMERCIAL BREAK!!
Shortly after Alex did the 3-2-1 countdown on his hands from behind the switchboard then finger circled us to break, we heard the first sponsor come into our headphones. A real professionally produced commercial from Verizon Wireless, then another, then another. Then just before we came back from break we heard the audio introduction welcoming the listeners back….”Don’t touch that dial, you don’t know where its been”. and “Flip us on and flip them off”, then our bumper music played us in! I was hooked!
We were legit, and we just witnessed the coolest tag line EVER! Flip us on and flip them off! A perfect call to action. Tune in and say good by to the other people, or how about a little more rock and roll-Flip the switch on the future and tell the past to fuck off! Brilliant.
So that’s what you should go get your friends to do. Get lost in the magic that is RadioSlot. Contact us to see if you can have your own show and cram something else into your day! If nothing else, Flip us on, and flip them off!
It’s awesome to damn the establishment!