{"id":4781,"date":"2013-07-29T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:25:28","slug":"a-way-fun-saturday-afternoon-at-ksco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/a-way-fun-saturday-afternoon-at-ksco\/","title":{"rendered":"A Way Fun Saturday Afternoon at KSCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6280\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/radio\/KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/radio\/KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/radio\/KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/radio\/KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=4781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/radio\/KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/misc_audio\/radio\/KSCO_Gaither_072713.mp3\">Click to listen to Michael on KSCO&#8217;s &#8220;Raising Standards&#8221;<\/a>(19:23)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t count how many times I&#8217;ve been on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KSCO<\/a> &#8211; Well, I could, but it would take awhile. It would require math. And you don&#8217;t want me doing math. If you have doubts, talk to my wife, who balances our checkbook because it&#8217;s just a whole new shade of ugly whenever I try to do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ksco.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ksco-300x297.png\" alt=\"ksco\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ksco-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ksco-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/ksco.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>But I digress. A few times a year I&#8217;m on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksco.com\/good-morning-monterey-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning Monterey Bay<\/a>&#8221; with Rosemary Chalmers. Rosie&#8217;s one of those &#8220;fans who&#8217;s become a friend&#8221;. Also a serious dog person. Lots of common ground. Last Saturday, however, I went on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/raisingthestandards?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Raising Standards&#8221;<\/a> for the first time. It&#8217;s co-hosted by Michael Jacobi and Rachael Shelton &#8211; who also helps out with Rosie&#8217;s show and nicely pulled me into this gig, too. <\/p>\n<p>Michael and I immediately hit it off when he realized that we BOTH sold jokes to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Leno\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Leno<\/a> way back when. Or as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/photos-and-bio\" target=\"_blank\">my bio<\/a> says, &#8220;A long time ago. Back when Leno was funny&#8221;. Leno had many stringers who submitted freelance jokes. Pretty funny that two of us ended up in the same room on a Saturday afternoon. Michael and I both did standup in a previous life. We also both stopped pursuing it because we wanted to eat and make a living. But it was fun. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to hear a bit more about my standup days and how the Leno thing came about, go way back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/archives\/147\" target=\"_blank\">episode #3<\/a> of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/podcast\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; podcast<\/a>. Skip ahead to the ten-minute mark. <\/p>\n<p>I was on in the last half of Saturday&#8217;s &#8220;Raising Standards&#8221;, so there was only time to sing <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Xtan46myn7I\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FNEGVOeSdeQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Now It&#8217;s a Taqueria&#8221;<\/a>. Michael Jacobi then suggested they do a live two-hour <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hootenanny\" target=\"_blank\">hootenany<\/a> at the end of the summer, along with me and some of my VERY FAVORITE LOCAL PEOPLE. (Shh&#8230;I&#8217;m not telling. You&#8217;ll see.)<\/p>\n<p>I threatened to come back with my banjo, and neither Michael nor Rachael flinched, so this will probably happen. Big thanks to the both of them. It was a blast. Looking forward to doing it again. <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fa-way-fun-saturday-afternoon-at-ksco%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to listen to Michael on KSCO&#8217;s &#8220;Raising Standards&#8221;(19:23) I really can&#8217;t count how many times I&#8217;ve been on KSCO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}