Gary Reeder
for almost 25 years while I was in radio I seldom
Friday, October 29, 2021, 16:11

used really rough language. It is a rule when you walk in the control room whether you are on the air or someone else is, no cursing.
In one instance when I first got into radio I worked at a radio station in McCook Nebraska. Our news director was scared shitless of anything with feathers. He has been attacked by a rooster when he was 4 or 5 years old and was still scared of them. He was right in the middle of a 15 minute newscast and had stopped for a 2 minute commercial break. Myself and another of the young and dumb DJs thought he was going to be off for the 2 minute break so we eased the door open and pitched a banty rooster in the door, not knowing that the 2minute break was over and he had just opened the mike and was live, just starting his sports cast. He saw the rooster, jumped out of his chair, backed toward the wall screaming "sonofabitch, get that fucking chicken out of here". It got quiet for a moment as he ran out the door. Thank the Lord I had the sense to sit down real quick and continued reading the sports stories. The funny thing is we never heard a word about that.

After that I always tried to keep a clean mouth while in the control room. That was when I was in AM radio. When FM went rock, in the late 60s I switched to FM and FM was deregulated so a hell or damn every once in a while was ok. But I still tried to keep it clean. Then after retiring from radio in '85 and getting into this "man's world" with 5 or 6 machinist working for me the language turned raunchy real quick and I learned that Mother is only half a word.