"If it has been five years, is it really still a startup," she says in response to me describing what I do while driving to the restaurant on a first date.
I told her I had essentially been thinking the same thing for about six months. The fact the Allen Hunt Show was a startup project was why I enjoyed it so much; but at the same time, the fact it was still a startup increasingly was a point of vexation. A year later, that relationship ended, and so now is my relationship with the Allen Hunt Show.
If you haven't heard yet, we have come to the decision to cease syndicating the Allen Hunt Show outside of the Atlanta market as of May 31. This has been an amazing experience and I am eternally grateful to God and others that have enabled me to do something so inspiring over the past six years.
I remember sitting in Allen's office at the end of May in 2005 when he wanted to know if I'd like to help start a radio show. I simply responded with, "I have never worked in radio, and if I suck at it, please let me know and I will gladly step out, but I would love to try." I do not regret that statement for one second. Man it's been fun.
I am not really ready to publicize what my next step will be. I am highly confident I know what it is, but contracts haven't been signed as we hash through some last details. But I will say that I am very excited about it.
Also what I am very excited about is taking the entire month of June off. I graduated from college in Los Angeles on a Saturday in May of 2005, and by that Thursday I had moved myself across the country, got moved into my apartment, and started my job. It will be nice to have a break.
June will be spent in Indiana with CJ & Andrea having their 3rd child, at the lake in Michigan doing some wakeboarding, and probably England.
You will still be able to read my rantings on my blog at my personal site andyborgmann.com (soon to be switched to andy.borgmann.me). I look forward to our continued friendship as I move on from the Allen Hunt Show.
When I left Mount Pisgah in 2007, I wrote about the song "Life for Rent." In that post I stated, "I will take a full life that doesn't belong to me - but belongs to my Creator - any day over a life I own but comes up empty." 3.5 years later, I agree with that more than ever.
As I leave this time, it isn't "Life for Rent" that I have playing in my head. It's "Time of Our Lives" by Tyronne Wells. I'll sign off with this:
It's hard to walk away from the best of days
But if it has to end, I'm glad you have been my friend
In the time of our lives
I take it you won't be involved in the Sunday evening WSB TAHS that will live on after May 31?
Good luck and all the best!
Will do.
I will not. I of course wish Allen all the best, and have equipped him to handle updating the site on his own, but it is time for me to move on.
Thanks Uncle Charlie! I am only able to take on challenges due to the confidence gained from the early education and support I got from you and others.
I am sure nothing can go wrong there... ;)
I would say that at your age and stage of life you could be in a position to follow such as the late Royal Marshall. Note I said follow not replace, each "Royal" has to make their own stamp in life.
Working with Boortz would have tested you but you are up to that.
So go get married, have children and fly high young sir ................
I know, I know....the 'consultant' Mocheri told you both to change Allen's delivery, speed it up....do a monologue...blah blah blah. He and I have very different views on what makes good radio...yet i'm still a listener and he's a multimillionaire from his 'advice'. Oh well...
Not that it matters much anymore with Andy jumping ship from AHS, but I do agree about the old shows. Not primarily cadence but the choice of topics was quite different. Also it was about "right or wrong", not "Obama bad, Teabaggers good!" that many of his shows degenerate to nowadays.
By the way, where do you find the really old episodes? The website used to have them, and still has the synopses, but no mp3s.
I am with you. Allen could have saved a bundle and would probably still be on the air past May. I wonder if Matthew Kelly is paying him more than the 160k he was making at AHS.
I have no desire to stay in radio. I was always more a technology person than I was a radio person :)
I am working on it really, really hard.
Those really were the good ole' days. I will not forget that time in my life, ever!
You were right all along.
The sooner I get the stuff transitioned out, the sooner I get to take a month off :)
You can thank our wonderful host Site5 for that ridiculous move. Because even though they say you have "unlimited space" - once you get above 60GB of data, they pull some BS about resource usage policy violation, blah blah blah. I am not happy to say the least.
We would agree. We liked those shows better too.