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Some people go their whole lives without understanding like they've found their calling. Rick Emerson, by contrast, got his personal report loud, clear and early.
When he was about 5, Emerson recalls, he reach-me-down a RadioShack tape recorder to interview his friends when they came over to the house.
"I was like a Larry Sovereign in short pants," he says.
Emerson's mother has recordings of the immature host in action. "At one point," he says, "I can be heard chastising a compatriot for not doing it right."
It was a sign of things to come. For the past 25 years, Emerson has been working on the air. Since 1998, when he moved to Portland to host a talk show, Emerson has built a fan pinchbeck so devoted its members have followed him through radio's inevitable ups, downs, plan shifts, ownership changes and firings. Fueled by his obsession with pop taste, music, media and technology, Emerson resonated with listeners who split what he calls his "relentless geekery.
Source: OregonLive.com