(This image originally from here.)
It seems I have left WRFL twice before. I took a semester off in early 2013 (from the station, not from the show, which I continued as a podcast for four months), & I made a big public exit just last year, anticipating a move to Los Angeles that never happened. Now I am leaving for the last time.
You would be wise to be skeptical. There are those who weirdly thought my leaving last year was a publicity stunt, & I've tried to ask them what did I get out of it, except losing my sweet Friday morning timeslot? They think I did it for the satisfaction of fooling folks into thinking I was leaving. Because, you know, all the trolling I do.
This time I waited until it was absolutely certain that I would be gone before saying anything. This past week I told station management that August 2 would be my last show (the theme had been posted before on the show's website as "the two-hour long goodbye," but I don't think many people pay attention to that). I told them this because on August 4, my family & I will be leaving Lexington.
My wife got a job elsewhere, back in Texas, & she starts work on August 8. She has resigned from her job here in town, & our house goes on the market on the day we leave. We have rented a house in the hopes of exploring our new city & eventually buying a home there. Already many of our things are in boxes. It's very, very intense at our place at this moment.
But I'll understand if you're skeptical. I am much like the boy who cried wolf & don't deserve to have anything I say taken seriously if you feel, like some do, that this too might be some kind of inscrutable prank. Perhaps this comes across as strangely sudden, but we've known we were leaving for a while - I just didn't feel like making it into a countdown spectacle like I did last time. You should only get one retirement party from the place you've worked at. I don't want to double-dip like some kinda cheat.
What's the future of Self Help Radio? In the short-term, there are two more shows on WRFL, this Tuesday & the next. Where we're going, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, has a few nice non-commercial radio opportunities for me, which I am eager to start exploring, even in the one hundred degree plus heat. (I will miss Lexington's lovely mild springs & autumns, though its winters not so much.) If I am unable to find a place for the show to continue its ridiculousness, I will certainly continue as a podcast as soon as I can. I can't not do the show. It's in my DNA. Also, I have shows lined up.
You can, as always, keep up with the show by following its Facebook page (it would appreciate your "like") or its Twitter feed. Or this blog. All linked handily at Self Help Radio dot net.
& of course in this day & age, if you have a computer & you want to listen to shows, whether streamed from radio stations' websites or from the show's own, you're never more than a couple of mouse clicks away from Self Help Radio.
As always, I thank you for any time you might have spent listening to this ridiculous show I'm involved with. It's with a heavy heart that I leave WRFL for the very last time.
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