He is a really nice guy, was pretty much another victim of things here at FBC. He was brought back here by JS specifically to help spearhead the radio station and its programming. He was to be part of the "dream team". Only, he was brought back a little too early...and, a little too late...
Too early in that he had to cool his heels for at least a year since arriving back here and the time the radio actually went on the air. He was never really able to find a job and did all kinds of odd jobs to make ends meet. He and his wife had an unexpected blessing of an addition to the family while they were here, a baby girl. (They are mid to late 40's, I believe). Mike even turned to painting houses, which is what he was doing when they left here.
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Too late[/b] in that...all the weirdness started happening before the big scandal and the radio station never became the amazing tour de force it was originally touted to be. At some point, JS cut the station loose and said they'd have to find a way to sustain themselves with no financial assistance from FBC. That was odd...after the church hoped, prayed and fought for YEARS (like nearly 20 if I remember correctly) to get the station....
Additionally, the station was a bit of an embarrassment. Very amateur, but trying to be slick and relevant. Pretty much fell flat. There was an attempt at a morning show built on personality...but the personality was lacking.
Mike Azinger was to do a 4 hour political talk show every afternoon, and it was pretty painful to listen to. He tried, but it is not an easy thing to command the airwaves intelligently or interestingly for that amount of time!...the show was eventually whittled down to a half hour, and even then he spent a lot of that half hour playing music and not talking...
However, he is a very nice guy with a very nice family. He seemed pretty much the HACker the whole time he was here, really bought in to everything. But it was not hard to understand why he and his family chose to leave.
At any rate, good he was elected! Congratulations to him. That is great to hear of his rebounding success!
