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 Name: Dave Thompson
Hometown
East Grand Forks, Minnesota
Been with am1500 since...
September 2001
Who is your favorite am1500 personality (besides yourself) and why?
I'm really not silly enought to answer this question.
Share a favorite am1500 moment...
My KSTP career began in September 2001 with a show that aired Sundays from noon to 3 p.m. I started a discussion about a retiring stewardess (yes, during her tenure, she was a stewardess). This particular woman had been with Northwest Airlines for forty years. I spent about 1 1/2 hours taking calls on the way commercial air travel used to be. There was a former stewardess in her 80’s that called in and talked about flight before pressurized cabins, a plane full of barfing passengers as a result of turbulence, among other thing. We discussed cigar flights, and men only flights in which the stewardesses dressed in such a way that was a bit more appealing to the male eye.
It was fun and nostalgic, and it didn’t matter whether you were a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative. It brought out elements of cultural change for the better and for the worse. I probably should have had that one preserved on a CD, but I didn’t.
If you weren’t in radio what would you be doing?
Operating my own businesses, including a law firm.
Use a sports cliché to describe your approach to radio...
“We came to play.”
Name some of your pet peeves...
-People unwilling to acknowledge facts that undermine an opinion that they don’t want to relinquish
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Egotistical people.
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Parents who don’t attend to the basic needs of children. All of society pays the price.
The single best movie ever made is...
A Few Good Men
List some of your personal heroes...
Winstons Churchill, George Will, Billy Graham
What’s your Cylinder Index?
22
What was your first car and how much did you pay for it?
1975 Chevy Nova. I received it as a gift and have no idea how much it cost.
Name your top 5 musical artists of all time...
Mozart, Beethoven, Elton John, The Eagles, Oscar Peterson
Recommended reading
“America’s Thirty Years War” by Balint Vazsonyi
“The Road to Serfdom” by F.A. Hayek
“Capitalism and Freedom” by Milton Friedman
“Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis
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