Owen on the radio

Owen H-D provided some live coverage of the Inauguration for the Northampton radio station WHMP when Bill Dwight, host of the creatively named “Bill Dwight Show,” called him on his cell phone. Bill is a big guy in local radio, but that’s mostly just because he’s a big guy… ba-dum bump. He's also a man of substance and talent, and since he knows just about everyone and everyone he knows thinks of him as “my friend Bill,” he gets some very funny and interesting guests on his show. Rachel Maddow has even tagged “her friend Bill” to fill in for her on Air America.
Now, having said some nice things about him, I hope Bill won’t mind that I’ve cut almost all of him and his show out of the clip below and left only the parts where my son is mentioned or is on. Truth is, I really enjoyed listening to Bill’s openng reflection on the Inauguration. I listened to it more than a week after the event, and it brought me right back—from 400 miles away, he did a pretty good job expressing the feelings we were sharing with a few million others in DC.
I encourage you to follow this link to the Bill Dwight Show and look for the 1/20/09 podcast on the right side (click on the triangle pointing right to play the show, or on the sergeant’s stripes to download it as an mp3). In the meantime, the clip below has a sort of choppy lead-in to the parts with Owen. Enjoy.