 8.51, Stefan Legen here with you. Stick around, we've got John Lee Hooker on WTMD. Live radio is exciting. I like being a little bit more behind the scenes and radio lets me do that easily. Radio just seems so much more personal and intimate. Radio is really an important background to people's lives. It gives us information, it gives us music. I get teary-eyed just thinking about it. I love it. We're going to spice it up now. A little bit of music from the B-52s on WTMD. WTMD is located on the campus of Towson University right outside of Baltimore. And we try and bring our audience a wide variety of music. We have blues and we have jazz and we have rock and a little bit of everything in between. In Baltimore, it's 80 and outside our WTMD studios, it's 71. I am the news and weather person here in the mornings. I usually get up at three o'clock in the morning and I'm here at the station from 4.30 until about 11 o'clock. I have all of the news that I think is going to be most important for the day. And we get that from our AP wire. Governor Alec has declared a state of emergency for Cecil and Hartford County has filed a lawsuit said yesterday that the money could be with C-Fishing Concert this summer. You can see them on PBS. Joe Jackson on WTMD. I work the morning shift, which means that I go to air at 5 a.m. Being a DJ, especially in the morning, is like a juggling act. That's when I'm talking to my traffic guy and getting traffic reports. That's when Melissa's giving the day's news. And then of course in between it all, we're playing music and we're giving announcements and telling stories. A lot of times you're listening to three things at once. It's just one thing right after the other. And usually we're pretty right on. Paul Stegler is the filmmaker of Last Man Standing, Politics, Texas Style. I'm Sherri Parks and you're listening to Clear Reception on WTMD. Clear Reception is a media and popular culture and cultural affairs show. Talk Radio helps people think about what they're already thinking about. What I try to do is to be a helpful guide around issues and getting people to think about them. With Sherri, we have three interviews that we put into an hour. Sometimes we interview them on the phone. We call them up. Hi. Hi, how are you doing this morning? Okay, thanks for talking to me. Sometimes they're here. Mic check, one, two, one, two. You guys sound fine, I think we're ready to go. Recently we have had some young filmmakers in to talk about their film. Can you talk about what thoughts went from your mind as you decided whether or not to do a documentary about a drug corner and the drugs in the neighborhood? The most important thing was our message. We wanted to make sure that it would reach everybody and that it wouldn't be biased. Both young people and older people could relate to it. We wanted you to feel where he was coming from, like he was doing. What I like most is that if you listen to a show like this one or other ones like it, you can get a whole lesson. You can come away knowing a lot more than you knew before and I love that. To succeed in radio, it takes the same thing that it takes to succeed in any job and that is a love for what you do. It's all about making sure that what you have to say is coming across. Let me ask you, find something that you are interested in because the audience can hear whether you are interested. Some of these artists that are gonna be stopping by next week are going to blow you away and I wanted to give you a preview of one of those artists, Abdel Wright on WTM Day. We dig this stuff and the fact that we get paid for it at a radio station is a bonus. I'm Alyssa Good for 89.7. WTM Day. See you next time.