How does one get from being a freedom rider to a radio host and budding businessman?
That s 30 years, 40 years, my God, that s scary isn t it? Well, I was a kid when I was a freedom rider, 15, 16, 17 years old. It has not been a direct path. Students ask how to get into broadcasting and I say I don t know. Because I don t know. The job here was really almost an accident. I think most of the things that have happened to me in life have been happenstance. You just take advantage of the moment. I came to WJHU for the first time, I think, in 1990 after I left advertising. I worked for Trahan Burden & Charles for three years. When I got here, the station almost folded back then. Three years after that, I ran into Dennis Kita — who was the general manager then — in a dentist s office. We were talking and he said he wanted to start a public affairs radio show at the station and [since] I knew the city so well from police street corners to corporate board rooms, did I have some ideas for them? I said I have an idea that you should let me be the host. He said you know nothing
