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Show Prep: Drunk & Disorderly, Again

Sample Questions:

  • Why are you against lowering the drinking age to 18?
  • Are you against drinking, in general?
  • What do you think we need to do to get a handle on the problems drinking brings to our society?
  • Why did you write Drunk & Disorderly, Again?
  • How old were you when you began drinking?
  • What got you into the radio business?
  • Where was your biggest success, early on?
  • In Drunk & Disorderly, Again, you say it was in Houston, Texas that you reached the top and bottom at the same time.  Explain that.
  • How were you able to bounce back from that?
  • You had great success in Miami, were you sober?
  • What is a periodic drinker?
  • Why’d you leave Miami?
  • How did you finally stop drinking completely?
  • Sum up the final chapter of your drinking career.
  • On one of your adventures, you worked in Tehran, Iran on the radio. You say you had to escape.  Tell us about that.
  • You mention that you were a functioning alcoholic, what is that?
  • If someone were to read Drunk & Disorderly, Again, what are their chances of getting sober?

Press Release: Drunk & Disorderly, Again

Popular American Disc Jockey Climbs His Way Out of Hell

After being sent to bed drunk when he was only five-years-old, life would be different for Claude Hooten, who one day would be known as Brad Edwards on the radio, but nick-named “Hoot”. He went on to have a tremendously successful career, all the while carrying a drunken, pot smoking, cocaine snorting monkey on his back!

On-the-air, his rock-pile of odd behaviors and idiosyncrasies not only fit in, but enhanced his on-air persona in Houston and Miami, as his morning shows scored spectacular ratings.

  1. He was disowned by his father at 10, which led to another obsession – WOMEN.
  2. He created a popular radio program in Tehran, Iran, but had to escape the country with Savak, Iran’s dreaded Secret Police hot on his trail.

After failing in most areas of his life, he experienced an extraordinary, spiritual encounter while in Hawaii. This astonishing, almost surreal event finally brought him sobriety, clarity and an emotional reunion with GOD.

Drunk & Disorderly, Again, is a roadmap to sobriety, but it’s the detours, that make it a wild ride.