Radio College | Reading Room: Articles: "I decided to call my friend Reese Erlich, a radio freelancer and university lecturer who lives in Oakland, California. Reese had once told me he makes a decent living from freelancing and had offered to tell me his strategy. He didn't appear to be wasting away from carrot-eating syndrome so I thought he might know something about carrots that I didn't.

The phone call that day was a pivotal point in my life and has led to everything that I have done since in public radio (including starting Radio College) because it enabled me to stay in the field. Reese gave me an idea: a simple idea and not a new idea, but the idea which got me on my feet financially.

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