As a teenager in the “Wonder Years” era, you know the show that features kids growing up in the 60’s, my mother taught me how to call a talk show. She would call and win contests, etc. I don’t remember what kind of shows she would call but she taught me to wait until the last caller was about to hang up and dial the last number. The first national talk show I was on was the Kim Komando show I believe I called in on a day that you could call during certain hours when they recorded the caller for later broadcast. My question was how to make digital pictures from slides. She had the answer and suggested this Cobra scanner. She has her on store so she said she would send it to me. It works great but I have about 600 more slides to copy.
Cobra Digital Scanner
My Calls to Rush
December 11, 2015 Here is the link to this Rush Limbaugh show for this call. As you can see this call is total different from his normal political discussion. I had a question about duplicate photos on apple products. He actually offered a suggestion that worked. He is really smart on apple products and he enjoys talking to the callers about it. He is actually a beta tester and discusses interesting things when they first come out about apple products. A friend actually did not believe Rush talks about Apple products. Luckily another friend recorded most of the call and put it on YouTube.
September 13 2018 Here is the link to the call I made to Rush Limbaugh. this is the second call I made to him. I always make sure I say I am from Wendell, NC because I want them to know I am from Wendell, NC not Raleigh, NC. I think they let me in this time because the screener thought I said I was calling from Wilmington, NC and the Hurricane Florence was headed that way. I talked about how everyone ignored Obama missed deeds. Here is a hint, you have to listen to what the host wants to talk about and form your topic around that.
There was one more call to Rush but he was not on the show he had a guest host. His name is Mark Stein I do not know the date but I wanted to talk about if Trump would have the support of the congress. I do not remember the details. But I do remember when I first started talking mentioning it is always good when Mark’s get together. He laughed and mentioned at one time all of Rush’s guest host were Mark’s.
Dave Ramsey Entree Leadership Raleigh Book Tour
September 27, 2011. Not really a talk show call but a talk show host. I have never called Dave Ramsey. When Dave Ramsey launches his new books, he does it right. He wants it to hit the New York Times Best Seller list. His Book Entree Leadership did just that. I want to say his first stop was Raleigh, NC, Not Durham, Not Charlotte but Raleigh. Well sure enough I was a loyal listener. I even got free tickets to the seminar. I did everything he said get there early. Get up front. I got to watch the event and when the seminar was over we traveled to a furniture store out towards the airport. I was there and folded my ticket like true amateur radio operators do and put it in the hat. Dave had a little girl draw the ticket and guess what, It was mine. I was recording it but my battery in my phone was running out of current. I won $2,000 and decided to purchase my first MacBook with it. Here is the YouTube of me winning the money. I never say, I don’t win anything.
Other Radio
I was in the background for WPTF coverage of the Hurricane Hugo. I had a ham radio station on top (or near the top) of the building giving reports on what we were hearing. I was also on WPTF about Astronomy.
I credit my neighbor Emmet Tobin of Norfolk, VA for getting me into astronomy as early as back in the 1970’s. He had many hobbies including, archery, astronomy, and model airplanes. He was a member of the Norfolk Astronomical Society and invited the neighborhood kids to view the stars through his 4.25″ refractor telescope. When he passed away I checked into purchasing his telescope from the estate. I was successful. Unfortunately a bigger telescope he had built was missing. I regret selling that telescope I did purchase a few years ago.
