HAVING A BEER WITH | ALEX & KEVIN
WRITTEN BY: MEGHAN FEIR PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA
Alex Taylor and Kevin Flynn, the hosts of “The Need to Know Morning Show” on AM 1100 The Flag, are two peas in a pod. Flynn even says Taylor is his “sister from another mister,” and they often think of what the other person will say before it’s spoken. On a rainy autumn day, the two seasoned radio hosts joined me at Drekker for a beer or two as we chatted about dolls vs. clowns, risky life choices and other hot topics.
Good Life: How do you handle your unusual working hours? Kevin Flynn: I get up at 3:20 every morning, drive about an hour to work, we do our thing, and then I drive an hour back to the lake. I’m just loving life in the north country. Alex Taylor: I can beat that. I get up at about 2-2:30 a.m. I get to work at 4 a.m., hit the computers and see what I missed when I was sleeping. I get a nap every day at 2 o’clock, so that’s a bonus. I’ve been working at The Flag for probably 5 or 6 years, and I love morning radio. I’m done by 9:30 most days. After that it’s like I didn’t even work. KF: I, on the other hand, started morning radio so I could make a 1 o’clock tee time. That’s pretty much my motivation. I started exclusively doing mornings in ’85 in Arizona. Last fall was my 40th year of
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