Let me introduce myself to you. I’m Jim Casey, the guy keeping you company in the middle of the day on the Best Country Around. Now, for some of you, I’m reintroducing myself, because you used to find me hanging around some time back. I guess it’s true what they say about the bad penny always turning up, because here I am, hanging around again.
I knew I wanted to be on the radio pretty early in life. I was one of those kids you could never get to go to sleep at night. When mom and dad would come to check on me, they’d find me under the covers with a flashlight, a comic book, and my transistor radio. I used to love to tune that radio across the dial and hear the voices coming from what seemed like far off lands. Usually it was no more than a couple of states away, but it seemed far off to me.
When I was in the 8th grade, I took my first speech course, and the teacher told me I had a good voice for radio. That sounded pretty good to me. I thought, “Boy, if I could be on the radio, I’d be rich, famous, and I’d never have to work for a living!” Well, in all honesty, I guess I never really have worked all that hard. In this case, one out of three ain’t bad.
Radio has taken me to a lot of those places that I used to hear through the static on that old transistor radio under those covers more years back than I’m willing to admit to now, and they’ve brought me to the Best Country Around to spend the day with you. Thanks for listening… It keeps me from having to work for a living! If you have any ideas on getting the rich and famous part of the dream, let me know!
# Jim
(You can hear Jim Casey on KAPS 660 weekday’s from noon to 5 p.m.)
