It was 2002 and your humble editor was the producer of the Sports Revolution, the sports talk show on WKNC at NC State. I had responded to a posting looking for someone to help out with the show and, realizing that chances were decent I would eventually go into some sort of broadcasting, figured that this would be a fairly good way to get into the industry — at least, to figure out if it was something I wanted to do as a career.
A couple of months into the show, I had a pretty good idea of the rules and expectations of hosts and producers, and one day I suggested that we try to get Carolina Hurricanes radio broadcaster Chuck Kaiton as a guest on the show.