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Host Larry Voight, go.

Larry has done it all here at the CIA.

They hired me without any kind of media experience.

I had a background in classical music.

I was a pianist, a singer.

Luck be a lady, too, now.

And they were looking for one year experience.

I had no experience, but I was trained on the job.

They had gone through a period of mourning hosts, hiring radio people and trying to teach them how to present classical music.

And that wasn't working out.

So I think maybe he rolled the dice and thought, maybe I'll find somebody who knows about classical music and teach them radio.

And next, it's music of George is right here on your arts and information station via FM.

And a few months later, I was I was on the air presenting the classical music.

I remember as a child, my mother like classical music.

We had recordings, LPs, and I would listen to this music and be entranced by it.

You might remember the old movie.

Whatever I say just comes off the top of my head.

When I started, I would write everything out.

I had a little binder and I would I would write out what I call my blurbs.

But I do remember, particularly when we would do on air fundraisers, and I was really, really terrible at it at the beginning.

So bad was I that people would call up and say, I'll give you money if you get that guy off the air.

Radio is such an intimate medium that most people are listening to radio by themselves.

They're listening in their car at home, maybe doing an errand.

You're talking to one person.

People think of you as a friend.

I was at an event and I introduced myself and the woman goes.

Larry Voight now.

And she grabbed me and pulled me and gave me a big kiss right on the cheek.

Now, the other one is what's very weird.

He recognized by your voice.

That happens a lot.

I know that voice.

Wait a minute.

I know that you.

I.

Yes.

Richard Bonnin conducting on WVON Radio.

That's one of the things I try to do with the staff every day, is I try to give each each of the staff a laugh a day and can never have enough laughing in life, that's for sure.

Of course, I'm saying that when we're listening to Siegfried's funeral music here, I'll tell you that life speeds up, accelerates as time goes on, and as you as you age.

When we were young, first grade to eighth grade seemed like forever.

High school went much faster.

College almost felt like that.

Well.

40 years.

The rest of that time passes even faster and the years go by faster and faster and faster.

I don't like celebrating things.

I never celebrate my birthday.

I am birthday DENYER And happy birthday, Mozart.

You know what?

We didn't sing Happy Birthday to Mozart.

40 years.

41 years.

What's the difference?

Why celebrate 40 years?

Why not celebrate 39 years?

Why not celebrate 42 years?

I mean, I really hate the being that I don't like even doing this.

I just don't want to be in the spotlight.

And you think, well, you want to be a performer?

No, I'm not.

I'm in a room by myself talking into a microphone.

And whether there's somebody out there or not, you never know.

I would not hire me today.

There's no way I would hire me in 1982, that young Larry Boyko who didn't know anything about radio.

We have a certain standard that has been set.

We are there not only to tell the community stories, but to lift up the community as well.

And we're so very grateful to that, to you for your support that allows us to do this and explore and use our imaginations.

It's really the people that I work with here at Via that make it worth coming here each and every day.

And we're all a little quirky and we all kind of embrace those quirks.

No one here is doing it just for a job.

I would like to be remembered as a person that worked hard.

Try to deliver quality on a daily basis.

A person of integrity and honesty.

Four, three, two.

Hello.

I'm Larry Faulkner.

I'm going to be married now.

How long?

36 years now.

To me, that's something to celebrate.

I have no wisdom at all.

I think wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

It's not even worth talking about it.

There's wisdom for you.

I think it's just wisdom is understanding that you're not wise.