Aerial View 2

My name's Chris T. and the phone-in talkshow I hosted from1989 to 2005 Aerial View – will be back on the air Fridays, 8 PM, beginning June 18.

I didn’t know if I’d ever be back at WFMU in a regular slot but the last fill-in I did re-ignited in me a love of radio that’s been gone awhile. 

I declared Aerial View officially concluded so I suppose this is a sequel: Aerial View II. I hope, like Godfather II, it’s even better than the original. I also hope that unlike the Bronco II, it doesn't easily rollover.

Because the Sunday after the first Aerial View II is Father’s Day I’ll be asking (among other topics) how much you actually know about your Dad.

I am appalled at how much I don’t know about my father. 

I don’t know where he was born.

I don’t know who he’s named after.

I don’t know what his father’s name was.

I don’t know how or where he met my mother.

I don’t know anything about his father’s family.

I don’t know anything about his mother’s family.

I don’t know what his mother’s maiden name was.

I don’t know why his parents came to this country.

I don’t know what my father wanted to be when he was a kid.

I don’t know what my father was afraid of when he was a kid.

I don’t know anything about my father as a kid.

I don’t know why he seemed angry most of the time.

I don’t know where he learned to beat a kid with a belt.

I don’t know how he got so damned scary.

I don’t know why his first and only business failed (some say his brother stole).

I don’t know why he went along with having five kids.

I don’t know exactly why he divorced my mother.

I could go on and on and on. So many unanswered questions. I wish I could call up my old man on the air. I could get the answers to everything. I wonder if he’d tell me. I could really get some interesting stories out of him, If he’d sit still for it. I guess, instead, I’ll have to get some interesting stories out of you... if you can sit still for it.

Comments

[Nevverdaily]

Can we start the message board back up too?

Sorry - GREAT to have you back. Looking fwd to it.

[Jim]

Never met my father, and know virtually nothing about him, but we look almost identical. The one and only time I spoke to him over the phone, he told me that he wasn't sure whether he was my father. I'm glad I never knew him.

[Dave B]

Glad to have you back Chris.

[Hornet Montana]

So is the program Communication Breakdown as stated on the schedule, or Aerial View II as you say here?

[Hornet Montana]

Oh, it has been changed to Aerial View. I'm having a nervous breakdown, drive me insane.

[Bruce Higgins]

I never knew my dad. He "left" us in the Spring of 1969. I was was less than 3 years old. There's no record of him after his disappearance. No IRS, soc. sec. credit, arrest, sightings of any kind, no correspondence, etc. Some feel he was DB Cooper or the Zodiac. I think he was killed by our neighbor and future asshole stepdad. I'm offering a one dollar reward for any information.

[Dale Hazelton]

"Oh my God!"

[James]

Welcome back, Chris.