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excited and delighted
This was the catch phrase of uncle Gaybo who was the most popular broadcaster in my country. He was the housewife's choice. He had an hour on the radio in the mornings. Just after he would come on, they would switch off the am transmitter and he would come up on vhf. Housewives had to have FM radios in the kitchen.
He had a live tv show at the weekend 'the late late' it was called. It went on a few hours. It was difficult to watch. The set had carpet on the walls. All through the sixties, seventies, eighties and so on and so forth (another catch phrase) it was on.
Live television is cringey; one time he phoned a woman whose daughter had just died in a car crash. It was a postal raffle the daughter had entered and her mother did win the car. Another time he was accusing his guest
R.D. Laing of being drunk.
He got quite burnt out from all this work and was cursed with money. Accountants fled with all his earnings twice in his life. He was never able to retire. It was the same as happened to Leonard Cohen, he had to work right to the end.
Towards the end of his career he had a radio show and he could play the
only genre that he liked - jazz. He would sometimes speak about people using the wrong words that are not the same: specific/ pacific or constantly/ consistently, or pronouncing words wrong, grammatical errors and had a
running joke, if more than 900 radios tune in it overheats the transmitter and then he would have to ask listeners to switch off their apparatus.
Once he said he has this mental image of when they are in meetings in Hollywood trying to figure out what is wrong with a script and they are all arguing then the head of the studio stands up and says "What this movie needs is a kick-ass girl".
Uncle Gaybo 1934-2019