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From the heart of Central Missouri's KLIK.

Here's your host, James Cowan.

Well, good morning, friends.

He'd circled back to where he'd come from.

The morning man on News Talk radio in Jefferson City, Missouri.

After a taste of the big time, studies at no less than institution than Harvard, James Cowan,

the 30-year-old Collin host, had found a place to regain his footing, and heal his wounds

after what many thought was his great loss.

It had been a while since he'd been behind the mic, years.

The radio was James's first love, though, and now he was working again with the man who'd

given him his big break when he was just a teenager, all ambition and no experience.

He had just an uncanny confidence about him.

It's mostly clear in 79 in the capital city.

Warren Cretch remembers he was doing his show as a live remote.

When this 15-year-old kid stuck out his hand and told the veteran broadcaster, he could

do him some good if he'd hire him.

James Cowan even then was nothing if not glib and confident.

A long story short, putting him on the air as a disjocke.

He had the goods.

An amazing kid.

I have hired umpteen part-timers in my day, and he was the standout in that whole crowd.

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