This week, the Pulse checked the vitals of Grant Pardee, a sophomore who shares his passion for classic rock by way of 50,000 watts.
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Name: Grant Pardee, a.k.a. “Brodie”
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Age: 19
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Class standing: Sophomore
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Major: Education, Integrated Social Studies.
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Hometown: Metamora, Ohio – a 563-person town (depending who has guests) that’s near Sylvania.
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Press play on the stereo: Paul Mccartney’s, “Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard”
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Your job: Disc jockey for Toledo’s Classic Rock Station, 94.5 XKR.I started as an unpaid intern helping out with live broadcasts. Worked up to doing (paid!) late night shifts, and then on the air. Now I have two weekend shows and then occasionally on the air as a fill in. This is something for fun right now. I’d hate to be living at the poverty level my whole life!
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Where did your on-air name, Brodie, come from? Well, I used to use my real name on the air, but people would get it confused. They’d think my name was Graham instead of Grant. The kicker was that one time a woman called and asked why I called myself “Grad Party” – as in Graduation Party. I had to explain that, no, my real honest to God name is Grant Pardee, not Grad Party. Then I just took Brodie because I like Mallrats. And Jaws.
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Weirdest experience while entertaining the masses? There’s plenty of weird things! It seems like anybody that ever calls into a radio station has something wrong with them. One of the more bizarre things to happen recently was a woman called and offered to perform unspeakable sexual acts on me – she said she had her own website, but she was older than my mom. Needless to say, I passed on that golden opportunity.
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Favorite Web site:
www.somethingaweful.com, because it tickles me.
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Why did you choose BGSU? Mainly because I like the color brown.
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Dream job: Replacing Conan when he moves to the Tonight Show.
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If there were a physical fight between Kiss and Led Zeppelin, who would win? Led Zeppelin, easily. Kiss would be too worried about their eyeliner.
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Name one song you hate playing: “We Built This City” by Starship. But it’s worth mentioning that, although it isn’t classic nor rock, LFO’s “Summer Girls” is, in fact, the worst song of all time.
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Top five albums of all time: Good question – tough. Number one would have to be “Abbey Road” from the Beatles. Then “Exile on Main Street,” Rolling Stones. I think Elvis Costello’s “My Aim is True” is brilliant, too. And, well, I guess Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy” and of course The Clash, “London Calling.”
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In your own words: I am the most amazing man that has ever lived or ever will live and my best trait is my modesty.
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Last call: I’m on the air on 94.5 XKR (94.5-FM) Saturday nights from 6 p.m. to midnight, all request, and Sunday afternoons from noon to 6 p.m.