Episode #155: Being a Ground Breaker! Featuring Mark Thompson
"I felt like when we were doing it, 27 years of the Mark and Brian program, it felt so huge to me, because we were more than just a successful morning show. We transcended that into television and some other things and I knew that even though it wasn't our intention, we were a part of some groundbreaking morning television."
Mark Thompson
Radio Show Host | Author | Member of the Radio Hall of Fame
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Ground breakers are special individuals who possess the type of mindset that allows them to push past the status quo to forge new paths. These pioneers aren't concerned with what hasn't happened in the past, they instead blaze new trails and as leaders, they point the way, take the risks, and change the world for the benefit of others by showing new possibilities never yer imagined.
They have a vision for a different future, a faith that turns their dreams into reality, and a determination that cuts through barriers and obstacles.
Ground breakers are fearless individuals who aren't afraid to take calculated risks – and knowing that failure might be an option. They persistently push forward and see patterns as creators that others haven’t and can make a logical leap from current reality to a new one. Instead of just doing more with less, they find new and better ways of doing something.
Being a ground breaker or the first to do something isn't easy but if you're not afraid to break the status quo by questioning things, persistent enough to keep going in spite of making mistakes and can maintain your confidence - you’ve properly armed yourself to do new and audacious things.
“And just as I got right up next to the console, he goes, Hey, don't bump the record kid. My idol spoke those words to me and that became the title of the book.”
Mark Thompson is a world-renowned radio host and one half of the infamous Mark and Brian, heard every morning for twenty-five years on the nationally syndicated Mark and Brian Show originating from KLOS Radio – the rock of Southern California.
Mark and Brian’s radio partnership started in Alabama at Birmingham’s i95. Two years later, they began their 25-year reign at KLOS-FM in Los Angeles with their top-rated morning show that included five years at No. 1. The program was a personality fueled program featuring spontaneously created comedy material and well-planned events involving listeners.
Four years after the show’s September 1987 debut, Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps won their first NAB Marconi Award as Major Market Personalities of the Year. KLOS FM won the Marconi Award for Station of the Year in the same year. An impressive number of motion picture and television actors and actresses and musicians of all genres appeared live on the Mark and Brian program over the course of 25 years. Guests ranged from Bob Hope to Mick Jagger to US Presidents. They received two Billboard Air Personalities of the Year awards, a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, an Emmy, and KLOS garnered a NAB Crystal Award for the duo’s community service efforts.
At the peak of its popularity, the program was heard in 22 cities, including Los Angeles. The program aired its last show in August 2012.
In 2020, the Mark and Brian program was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame
Mark has now released his book, "Don’t Bump the Record, Kid: My Adventures with Mark and Brian”
More than Thompson’s personal memoir, Don’t Bump the Record, Kid, delivers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at morning drive, of the celebrities, the studio politics, the passionate fans, and the incredible live music and ingenious comedy bits that pumped life into two and a half decades of entertainment every weekday morning to generations of listeners all across the US.
His distinct, signature, radio voice rings through on every page Mark joins The Audacious Living Podcast to share his journey.
To learn about Mark and his book, visit his website.
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