At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I grew up right in Santa Cruz, right across the bay from Monterey. I would go to Monterey all the time.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

If you walk in and say that we want you to hire ex-felons ... the answer is probably 'no,' ... But when you get them here and they are seeing them face-to-face, they're seeing them as human beings. And that breaks it down, and some real positive things can happen.