So I'm watching Mike Huckabee on Letterman and he just told a story about when he was running a radio show in Arkansas and had been on the radio show from 5am and talking and playing music for two hours, and then someone called in asking why they weren't on the air.

He had left the transmitter turned off!

Strange thing - when I was 18 a friend of mine ran a radio show on the local station here, and we'd all go in - we weren't all that trustworthy so we weren't allowed access to the stations cd library, so we'd bring our own in.

And being 18 and paying rent and our own fuel and what not we didn't have huge record libraries between us.

Anyway, my mate spent most of the time hooking up with his girlfriend in a back room, and so I would be alone doing the show almost every Saturday night - the 10pm - 6am shift.

This was between High School and University, so I wasn't too worried, it was a fairly good run, had a lot of fun playing tracks... and we'd hang out, smoke, get some phone calls from local pubs and the golf club and stuff like that.

We got a bit of a following, some of the local teens would start listening to us because we were playing a lot of different stuff that they'd listen to... and occasionally, as we knew not a whole lotta folk listened, we'd play anything - swearing, prank call cds, whatever.  Even guys from our school would call in with no real idea who we were.

Anyway, one night I got a phone call after I was having a pretty good night, two hours in, from one of the guys on the show before us - I had left the master volume all the way down and had been broadcasting empty air the whole night.

Yeah... that night was pretty embarrassing - but I kind of miss hanging out like that, chilling with the boys, rockin out.