I Hate My Voice

TUNE IN WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd at 8:45am to WJTN, 101.3 on your FM DIAL, or live streaming at https://wjtn.com/listen-live

When I was real little, the song “I Got You Babe” came on the car radio. I remember thinking Sonny Bono (the OG Bono in my opinion…did I use OG right there?) had a great voice. I said as much to my mom, she in the front seat, me rolling around the back of the wood-paneled station wagon with the mono-phonic AM push-dial radio, belt-less and perfectly safe. She made a face, I saw it in the oversized rear view mirror, and said, “No…he doesn’t. Someday you’ll understand.”

And I do, I understand. Sonny Bono did not have a good voice…he must have had an indomitable ego to believe he could sing on a record that anybody would want to listen to; Cher the vocal Mozart to Sonny’s Salieri (look it up, kids).

Anyway…I hate the sound of my voice. I have no such ego as Sonny Bono, or Paul David Hewson for that matter (look it up, adults). And yet, here I am, reading essays aloud and putting them on the radio.

Check out my first installment of Bill Burk Talks; About Sports and Life, a Thanksgiving piece I hope you’ll enjoy and relate to (yes, I know I’ve now ended at least two sentences in prepositions…it’s called artistic license).

If you enjoy it, Dennis Webster and WJTN have agreed to put their listeners through my (meh) voice every other week, Wednesdays at 8:45am. Give a listen and leave me a review (of content and not voice quality, please…PLEASE). I’d greatly appreciate it.

Special thanks to Macey Estes for producing the production!

You can revisit the live readings at https://wjtn.com/podcasts/bill-burk-talks