Hey, Did I Ever Tell You About?

Dave and a college accomplice try to smuggle hard cider into a dry Illinois town. 

Dave was working at WIRE Radio one Sunday in downtown Indianapolis when he decided to make a quick run to the post office ... and found he couldn't escape. 

Dave reminisces about his childhood friend Jimmy Moreno and shares a perilous journey he made to deliver an Easter egg. 

Every Friday evening for 26 years, Dave and his friend Garrard sat down in the studio to record a jazz radio show called The Jazz Scene for the local NPR affiliate. In this episode, Dave remembers how his love of jazz and the connections he made through the show changed his life and, in one case, helped a grieving son reconnect with his jazz clarinetist father's lost interview. 

Love blooms at the Silver Star Skating Rink when a farm girl goes on a blind date and meets a wonderful man. Dave remembers Dick and Dottie and shares the story of their 56-year marriage. 

Dave's work didn't always make people happy. In this episode you'll hear about cranky, furious, and homicidal readers ... and even a whole town that got a bit irritated. 

Dave discovers a vanishing island ... and a monster to go with it. 

Dave recalls how getting kicked out of a high-school math class led to a radio wonderland, and reflects on how reporters are sometimes excluded from things just when it's getting interesting. 

In 1974, Duke Ellington was scheduled to play in Kalamazoo. Dave was all set to cover it, but it didn't happen as intended. 

Of all the cases ... criminal and civil ... that came through the Kalamazoo County Courts, there was one type of case judges hated hearing the most. Dave remembers a custody case that's stayed with him for many years.