David Boze is leaving KTTH. I learned that Wednesday morning along with many of you. Like you, it made me sad for our community.

The day KTTH launched, I was there listening. When Dave did his first KTTH show, I was listening. I was there before that, when David was a producer in talk radio; I loved to hear him talk with Peter Weisbach. Yeah, I am a talk radio junkie and David’s work has been a regular part of my intake.

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It has been an honor to be in the studio with him. It has also been an education as to the enormity of the work David Boze has done.

Having performed only about eight weeks of full time radio on this iconic station, KTTH, I stand in awe of David’s 13 years of keeping the faith of the audience. By my math, that is about 7,000 HOURS of radio. The way I understand the format of the radio station, that is some 35,000 topics – which means it represents about 21,000 hours of prep work. It also means many thousands of hours of memories for you and for me. That is a massive feat in and of itself, but to do it every day with the precision of thought, the joy and passion that David put into it is, frankly, inspiring and even a little bit intimidating.

It would be a lie for me to say I have gotten to know David as well as I’d wished; I am the lesser for that. Here’s what else I have learned: David Boze has a brilliant, air-tight mind, a keen analytical sensibility and he works monstrously hard. His success is not accidental, it is intentional.

I will miss the man, but I suspect I won’t miss him for long. Talented people like David will only rise to new heights with whatever they choose to do. I expect to see and hear the name David Boze around our community with regularity.

Godspeed, David.