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If you want to follow me on Twitter, you're outta luck, I don't tweet. But you can send me an email. And check out my Facebook page.
Email address: RTaylor@wvradio.com
Hometown: Elkins
Married: 22 years to Juanita
My Philosophy Of Golf: If you can’t learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly.
What's Your Sign: "Dead End"
Favorite Restaurant: All of them. (That's the problem)
Favorite Drink: Diet Mt. Dew
Pets: 2 Cats, B. B. & Sox
Favorite Sports Team: The Mountaineers!
Best concert you've attended?: That's a tough one, Billy Joel, Doobie Brothers, KISS, Bob Seger, Tina Turner, Electric Light Orchestra, The Beach Boys, Steve Miller Band, Travis Tritt, Brooks & Dunn? DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE!!!
Coolest Famous Person You've Met: Harry Chapin (way back when) & Darryl Worley (more recently)
Favorite Vacation Spot: Virginia Beach
Some of my favorite albums: Eagles - "Hotel California", Barenaked Ladies - "Stunt", Billy Joel - "Piano man", Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat", Boston - "1st" , Led Zeppelin - "IV", Elton John - "Caribou", Boz Scaggs - "Silk Degrees", Steely Dan - "Aja", Chicago - "At Carnegie Hall", The Who - "Who Are You", Meatloaf - "Bat Out Of Hell".
Favorite TV shows: Twilight Zone / M*A*S*H / C.S.I. / Psych / Warehouse 13 / Men Of A Certain Age / Hot In Cleveland / American Pickers / Pawn Stars / Antiques Roadshow.
Some Movies for your Netflix list: The Usual Suspects / Seven / A Few Good Men / The Big Chill / Silence of the Lambs / Memento / Deathtrap / Animal House / The Green Mile / Apollo 13 / My Favorite Year / Star Wars IV, V & VI (I haven't seen the others) / All the Indiana Jones movies.
Hobbies: I play a good round of bad golf now and then, enjoy going to the movies with my wife, I collect comic books, lunch boxes, radio premiums, NY World's Fair memorabilia, old medicine tins and quack medical items, anything old and interesting.
If you could meet anyone living or dead: I'd choose living.
Secret ambition: To make a hole-in-one. (I've come close)
IN THE BEGINNING:
I was born in Elkins, WV. Graduated from Elkins High School, Class of 1977. While attending Fairmont State College in 1978, I began working weekends at WDNE-AM, the only radio station in Elkins at the time. This was back, when we actually played records. (Do you remember those?) There was no such thing as a CD, DVD, iPod or home computer. (We had just made the move from 8-tracks to cassettes) We wrote our commercials on a manual typewriter. (Good thing I took "Typing I" in High School, twice.) We ripped the news off of a teletype machine and read it live. (Man, am I old!) I soon decided I could pay to go to college and study radio or I could get paid to be on the radio. I chose the latter and 32 years later, I'm still here. I host the Afternoon Drive shift on WDNE 98.9 FM, Your Country Home. Join me for the Drive @ Five.
LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE
On March 20, 2004 I went to work on a Saturday morning and didn't go home for 7 weeks. I suffered an Aortic Dissection. (Actor John Ritter died of the same thing 6 months earlier) After a short ambulance ride to Davis Memorial Hospital, I was lifeflighted to Morgantown. By the grace of God and with the help of some talented surgeons, I survived open heart surgery at Ruby Memorial Hospital. I now have a man-made Aortic Heart Valve clicking away in my chest. I received a ton of Get Well cards from listeners and I know a lot of people were praying for me, I thank you for that. If you have chest pains, don't ignore it. If the doctor says your EKG looks good, so it's not a heart attack, go home and rest. But you're not satisfied, ask for a CT scan, especially if there is a history of dissections in your family. Find out more at: www.aorticdissection.com
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