Early Tuesday morning, when I was doing the show I do on XRAY, I came to a weird realization. It may not seem like it, because all the shows I do have me in them, but I think there's three different (not wildly different, but perhaps demonstrably different) kinds of me who host the shows.
Take Sugar Substitute, the XRAY show. I mainly just play music, but I jot down notes about the bands & will mention them (that band is from Philadelphia!) when I back-announce. But more often than not, I'm not making much sense in a stream-of-consciousness style, somewhat like I used to do at KNON. Basically, I won't stop talking.
This stands in direct contrast to The Dickenbock Report, which, since it's supposed to be a kind of newscast, is pretty scripted. I ad-lib a little, but mainly I'm reading during airbreaks.
Self Help Radio is a mix of both - there's not always a lot of time to completely off the rails like I do on Sugar Substitute, but I'll sometimes find myself doing that. But since there's usually some information I'd like to convey, I do have notes I have taken, which I attempt to read. But a lot of it is me clumsily riffing.
That was a weird thing to come to terms with - the fact that I have different approaches for different shows. My brain just said to me, "If I ever get a fourth show..." & then there was just screaming, screaming from everywhere, inside & out.
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