Just Try And Relax

According to a buddy of mine ...

About a decade or so back, he worked in Philadelphia for a really squirrelly PD. The guy would hotline jocks practically after every break, or else pay them frantic in-studio visits, no  matter how well the break went.  One day, stress levels were approaching Richter proportions.  My buddy was in the studio with another jock who was on-air at the moment. The PD was in rare form that day, hotlining and critiqueing everybody. After this one jock's backsell-into-break, the red-faced PD blew into the room, yelled "Goddammit, sound relaxed!!!", then blew out as swiftly.  The jock finished his shift, then walked. He had enough  of that nut-job.

Al Peterson
Technical Editor, Radio World newspaper