Episode Details

Rich Boerner is an award-winning audio creator, producer, voice talent, and best-selling author whose career has taken him from a pirate radio station on Long Island to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more. Along the way, he's worked alongside A-list talent and with major networks including Spotify, Audacy, FOX, and CBS. From 2001 to 2007, he worked with Tod at 97.1 KLSX Los Angeles, the home of "The Howard Stern Show" and "The Adam Carolla Show." These days, he's the co-founder of The Sandbox, a private podcast network and curriculum program designed to help middle school students find their voices and build self-confidence. In part two of our conversation with Rich, he discusses the backstory of how he wrote his best-selling memoir, "The Not-So Only Child. He also offers an insider's take on the demise of 97.1 KLSX, "The FM Talk Station," and how it reflects the short-sightedness of modern-day radio. 

Key Takeaways:

- How Rich wrote "The Not-So Only Child"

- The rise and fall of 97.1 KLSX: The FM Talk Station (FREE FM)

- Deep chats with AI

Episode Timeline:

2:35Reactions to Rich's best-seller "The Not-So Only Child"

5:31The importance of time in processing emotions

8:00Dealing with the realization that Rich was like his father

10:20 The healing power of storytelling

12:00The West LA writers group

14:00Rich's breakthrough in writing his memoir

17:40Turning "Not So Only Child" into an audiobook

19:00Rich's philosophical AI conversation

24:45Tod and Rich's time at 97.1 KLSX "The FM Talk Station" 

26:11The rise and fall of KLSX

28:00What made KLSX so unique

31:25Why was 97.1 KLSX Los Angeles taken off the air?

33:16What happened when Howard Stern was replaced by Adam Carolla?

This episode’s guest:

• Rich Boerner's LinkTree

• "The Not-So-Only Child: My True Story" on Amazon

• Rich Boerner on LinkedIn

• The Sandbox from Dump Truck Media

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