Creative Loafing

Yes.

Joe King Carter, has been awarded Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay-

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And thank you so much.

And to bestow that award upon my dear friend, Joe King Carter, is our program director here at WMNF, Sean Cannan.

Hi, I'm Sean Cannan, news director at WMNF Tampa, and I did wanna cra- congratulate Joe King Carter on getting the Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Best Radio Personality.

Thanks for everything you do here at WMNF, and congratulations on that award.

Yeah.

That, that's, Creative Loafing's gotta get their money.

What do you mean?

Yeah, it's just crazy.

They gotta, they, they, they gotta, this is the best mo- money maker that Creative Loafing can find.

Yeah, I know, I know what they're doing.

I know.

... you know, doing what they do.

So there I just started, I started going to college and, uh, studying computer science.

And I happened to read a Creative Loafing, which was kind of the free magazine at the time, and I saw Aleister Crowley's, uh, Gnostic Mass.

And so I called the number and, uh, found out they were actually doing Enochian ether workings.

So I started going there in, in '92.

The LA Weekly of Atlanta.

It was called Creative Loafing.

And I got my foot in the door with a review that the editor, the food editor, had gotten a rec from a guy I met who was a longtime food columnist for Creative Loafing, and she was like, "I'll give you a shot.

You can review this Italian restaurant that I've been meaning for someone to write about in the far, far northern suburbs." And I was like, "Great.

I'll, I'll take anything," you know? [chuckles] I was, I was just so thrilled to get a break, and I think 'cause I felt like a failure in my, my first dream as a singer and an actor, that once I landed on this thing, restaurant critic, that I wanted to do, I, I was ready to take it as, as far as a human being could take it.

So I worked at Creative Loafing for four years, followed by jobs at the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News.

I went back to Atlanta to work at Atlanta Magazine.

I got an incredible, life-changing, crazy job that's a story in and of itself as the national critic for Eater during that publication's kind of ascendant moment last decade.

I changed the rules on the way that Atlanta.

I used to have an ad in the back of Creative Loafing.

Coca-Cola.

This how vicious I am.

how do you sell pussy in a magazine?

Well, what you do, they'll contact you.

Because I used to be in the Creative Loafing.

I was in the Excitement magazine.

We did not win Best of the Day.

From what we know, they haven't done the winners yet, but from what we have gotten from Creative Loafing, you know, their email, we did not make it as a finalist.

They choose three finalists, and then one of those is chosen as a winner.

Yeah.

So what was the difference between there and when we were at that event last year that you did so good?

The Creative Loafing? Oh, nothing.

I was still having a panic attack, and it, it's just I, I can-

Wow