The memory isn’t as sharp as it used to be. The hair is peppered with grey. Some body parts make popping noises when you bend or stretch. But other than that, getting older is something that happens without you. You only really notice it when it’s mentioned by someone else.
…Radio is a business that eats its young. If you don’t know that going into it, you learn it along the way. Â It throws out good people on whims. You have to expect to one day get fired for no reason, or you’re just not being realistic. But some of us still love it despite its obvious flaws. …
Sure, sometimes my milk gets stolen from the fridge so I write CAT URINE on it in big, red letters. Somehow I have become “the one who runs the dishwasher” and voices in the hallway seem to always reach heavy metal concert level as soon as we start recording an interview, but I work in a pretty cool, relaxed environment. Â …
The Swollen Glands, the Movember team that my Free-FM cohosts are part of, raised more than $4200 for men’s health this month. Â And today, Blair and Derek are waking up without scratchy, uncomfortable lip caterpillars. Â …
June was Celibacy Month. Â Blair and I made a bet on The Big Show back then to see who could go the longest without, you know. Like Ray Romano on Everybody Loves Raymond, I declaredmyself a “sex camel”. I was probably going to win – but Blair didn’t even last one night! Â …
You may have seen or heard about this new fitness craze. Â Well it’s more like a fitness “crazy” who is trying to promote her exercise idea: Prancercise.
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Gone are the days when I can sit or stand in a packed club and wait until 11 pm for the headliner to get on stage. So it was especially amazing that the Long Beach, California band, Rival Sons, visited Free-FM for an in-studio interview/acoustic performance on Saturday afternoon, the day of their sold-out show at Norma Jean’s. …
On Friday The Big Show was invited to speak to a group of radio and broadcast journalism students at Fanshawe College.  Derek “Rock” Botten, Blair and I offered our takes on the business of broadcasting and hoped to impart a bit of our best advice  to them. …
This week we talked on air about things that bug us when we share a bathroom with our significant other. Â …
We’ve started a new weekly (or so) feature on The Big Show called Brandt’s Randt. Â Basically I spout off a bit about something that’s bothering me. Â It’s about entertainment, pure and simple. It’s meant for listeners to identify with and sometimes take issue with – I’ve had all sorts of reactions but as long as people react, it’s worth doing! Occasionally I will share the text of a Randt – like today’s, about people who park in no-parking zones. Â And there’s a bit of a kicker at the end! …
Partway through the month, as Movember group the Swollen Glands continued to grow their moustaches and raise money for prostate cancer research and men’s mental health, Blair said, “If we get to $3500 in donations I’ll have a moustache waxed into my chest hair!” …