What’s Up, TULSA!!?? – TulsaKids Magazine

Hello! I’m so very honored and ecstatic to start a brand new journey with you. My identify is Lynn Hernandez. I used to be a rock radio DJ in Tulsa for the final 16 years on 97.5 KMOD. It was a dream job of mine. Alas, like so many others, the Coronavirus Pandemic financial system swept me up in its downsizing dustpan of destruction. Final November (on Friday the 13th, no much less), I used to be proven the door. I really like the individuals I labored with and have many fond recollections and loopy tales, a few of which I’ll share within the coming blogs.

About ‘Dad’s Rock!’

However as my iHeartRadio door closes, my TulsaKids Journal window opens! Don’t get me improper, rock radio has been my ardour since faculty within the early ’90s, so I hope to be again on the airwaves quickly. However for now I’m tremendous stoked to hold with you every week on… [ in deep loud radio voice] Two For Tuesday! I additionally encourage you to achieve out to me and observe me on social media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, tic-tac, Knick Knack Paddy Wack Give A Canine A Bone…No matter common social media platform comes out, I attempt to be part of. MySpace looks as if a complete lifetime in the past.

I used to be requested to provide my perspective of being a single dad of two youngsters whereas dwelling in and loving Tulsa, Oklahoma. My first weblog might be a quick background on how I got here to reside right here in Tulsa, however identical to you, my household is every thing, so you’ll hear so much about them in each weblog.

Music, concert events, nightlife, hanging with followers and listening to their tales have been all a completely superior a part of my lengthy radio profession. Nonetheless, one factor that was most enriching to me was the area people involvement. Ten years in the past, the place of Public Affairs Director opened up, and I volunteered instantly. Unbeknownst to me, it grew to become a ardour that I embrace even now after being let go from the radio. So, every week I’ll even be asking you to affix me and assist a non-profit as we get via this pandemic and life thereafter. This week it’s, drum-roll please…Up With Bushes!

However first, my household. 

Mi Familia

Do you will have a tattoo? I’ve one, which I obtained 16 years in the past, shortly after transferring to Tulsa. It’s about 10 inches lengthy on the within of my left forearm. It’s two phrases: “Mi Familia.”

Like people who get tattoos, particularly your first one, I needed one thing that exuded my character and one thing that meant so much to me. And I didn’t need simply “wall artwork,” though the eyeball creature with brief, stubby claws regarded form of cool. No, I knew what I needed instantly; it was only a matter of getting the best font. Dramatic, thick, two-inch dimension old-school calligraphy with swirly underlines, John Hancock type!

My household consists of a 7-year-old daughter named Angel and a 10-year-old boy named Atticus. I’ll preserve a fence of privateness round my household, so that you gained’t get every thing. Nonetheless, as you’ll see on my Fb web page, I’m, like many different dad and mom, proud and keen to indicate off some photos of us having enjoyable. We aren’t in contrast to many fashionable households, divorced. Completely happy, loving, however not with out struggles, a few of which I’ll share with you in future blogs. 

How I Got here to Tulsa

From Ohio…

My path to Tulsa was by the use of Texas however started in Ohio. They are saying when you’re in radio you’d higher begin a U-Haul frequent miles membership. Particularly when you’re beginning out, it may be a really transient profession. I started at my faculty radio station, 88.3 WLFC at College of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. Sure, a small faculty in comparison with OU & OSU. Nonetheless, that they had an awesome radio station!

To Texas…

Upon commencement I moved to Austin, Texas, to be with my twin sister and older brother. They’d moved there a few years previous to me. I began my first full time radio station job there and beloved each minute of it. Nonetheless, that U-Haul truck wasn’t going to drive itself, so after my radio firm obtained purchased out and terminated everybody, I took my probabilities and moved to Massive D! My dad, who was from Texas, made positive I grew up (even in Ohio) a Dallas Cowboys fan, so I used to be nervously excited to crash on a buddy’s futon and work half time for the radio firm that, paradoxically, had purchased out my earlier firm. 

My three years in DFW have been a lot enjoyable. I made associates that I keep up a correspondence with at this time. Alas, I hear that U-Haul truck a callin.’

To Tulsa!

The day the radio door in Dallas shut, my radio window in Tulsa opened! I obtained a name from a buddy that was at KMOD (and who I labored with in Austin…NEVER BURN A BRIDGE). He supplied me a job doing the noon present approaching the radio after the legendary Phil and Brent Morning Zoo. I used to be so loopy excited I couldn’t hardly stand it, until I walked within the studio for my first day and Brent stated to me: “Who the hell are you?” Ah…radio. I beloved it. 

Issues have been going so nice so rapidly that I made a decision to chop up my U-Haul membership card and purchase my first home in Tulsa and drive my stakes in deep. I can’t wait to let you know about a number of the unimaginable tales from my radio profession and household adventures in future blogs!

Up with Bushes

This week, I’m volunteering at Up With Bushes. Subscribe to my YouTube channel to see a video of my son Atticus and me portray their picket indicators at their store downtown Tulsa. 

To shut, a BIG thanks and socially distant fist bump to Betty Casey, Tara Rittler, and all at TulsaKids Journal for permitting me some house to explain a number of the loopy antics from Casa de Herrrrrrrnandez!

Once more, it’s so good to satisfy you, the reader! Please observe me on social media, and I’ll observe you again! 🙂