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The Tim McKernan Show

Ep. 23 - Dave Glover

The Tim McKernan Show

TMA STL | Hubbard Radio

Society & Culture, Sports

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Dave Glover has hosted a very successful Afternoon Drive radio show on 97.1 FM News Talk in St. Louis for 17 years.  He joined Tim in studio recently to go inside the radio industry, share turning points in his career, and discuss how to approach each day's show in an era of unprecedented political partisanship.  Topics include: How he managed to get accepted at Wash U despite a poor GPA Why he was fired multiple times during his career as an attorney How a chance meeting involving Steve & DC landed him in radio Balancing content vs. business and once cheating the ratings diary How does a moderate agnostic thrive on a conservative talk station Why he regrets picking a fight with Guy Phillips early in his career Why he's glad that his show can't be summed up in one sentence   Please support our sponsors: The Home Loan Expert, Ryan Kelley James Carlton Agency (State Farm) Gateway Buick GMC   Follow us on Twitter: @McKernanShow @tmckernan   Like us on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheTimMcKernanShow   Special thanks to Story of the Year for providing our theme music.  Please rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast.   Feedback is always welcome:  tmckernan@insidestl.com  

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0:00.0

Yes, yes, welcome in to another edition of the Tim McKernan show alongside my

0:19.9

executive producer John Seymour also known as the see master. I am your host

0:24.0

Tim McKernan thank you for tuning in as we broadcast live from the Home Loan

0:29.2

expert.com studio. Today's guest I would say you would have to put him on the

0:36.6

hashtag Mount Rushmore of St. Louis area radio show hosts I would think you would have to I don't I think that's kind of a layup but

0:46.4

Maybe some people would would would go well now I would put this person in this person in this person this person. I don't know it's it It's subjective, but I would say if we were to pull, if we were to turn this into a family feud

0:57.9

style segment and say, name a top St. Louis radio host, I would imagine Dave Glover's name would be right there.

1:07.0

And Dave Glover has been hosting a show at 971 FM Talk here in St. Louis for 17 years. Same time slot too, same radio station.

1:18.8

And as you'll hear in the course of our conversation, I'm envious of his stability. Now I suppose I go back to 2004

1:30.4

with the Ryan Kelly morning after, but I think we've been at 622 different radio stations.

1:36.7

He has been at one radio station since 2000, which is a credit to him and his show.

1:43.2

And his show, for those of you who may not be familiar with it,

1:47.6

I had a number of people in our audience who listen to both our show and his show

1:51.5

say it reminds me of our show and his show, say it reminds me of our show in the morning

1:57.1

with just kind of how it's all over the place

1:59.9

and it's just people BSing about topics.

2:03.2

So I know Dave, I don't know him real well,

2:06.7

but I certainly know him and I like him, I respect him,

2:11.2

and I wanted to make sure we got together with him because it seems to me

2:15.8

it's like when Frank opinion who is just absurdly talented in doing afternoon drive

2:21.3

on 590 to fan, KF&S here.

2:26.7

When he came in and did essentially

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