The Breakfast Club was the name of the morning show that I hosted while working in Florida. It was a news and talk show. It started as a duo with me and Scott and then eventually Lori found her way on to the show. I think she inserted herself after listening to me for weeks or months and deciding that there needed to be a counterpoint to my opinions! The show evolved into a typical style with Scott handling the news, Me providing the talk and sports and then Lori bringing the astrology report and weather.
The wonderful part about doing this style show, in the small market we were in, was our ability to control the content. And for the most part, I think that our older demographic really enjoyed our youthful approach to the mornings. Not to mention that they were often listening to the show for the sole purpose of being prepare for The Swap Shop or Radio Bingo, the shows that followed the Breakfast Club.
We had 3 phones lines coming into the studio and since we did not have a call screener, if we answered a call on the air, you sometimes would get…. well, you would get whatever the caller thought they were calling. And that could range from wrong numbers, to setting their speed dials for the next show. There is a great segment when exactly that happened except the caller said that she was setting her radio instead of saying she was setting her phone. It had all of us laughing since the caller couldn’t understand the difference. Bottom line, she was getting ready for radio bingo and didn’t want to miss the opportunity to get her phone ready.
Our listeners were always a part of our shows. This was mostly obvious during Lori’s Living for Today Show, but it also trickled down to the Breakfast Club too. The listeners were often informed about our own life, the activities we did, the places we went and the people in our lives. And on this one particular August day, they were lucky enough to hear a show that was almost entirely planned around my Cousin Lisa’s Birthday. We had some great ideas (insert sarcasm) about how to call her, where to call her, and what to say. I have added many episodes of Living for Today on the site here, but this is the first edition of the Breakfast Club. I will add more in the coming years as it is best to get these shows off of cassette tape and into the digital world anyway. You can listen to the show here. I hope you enjoy.