Larry Birkhead

my picture that year and I got hung up on like every year, like, you know, buzz off, you know, you know.

And so basically after that byline came out and I thought, you know, I was bigger than, you know, anybody going.

I took, I went over there and I had it laminated and I dropped it off on the front porch.

And then I went around the corner and got on my cell phone was probably like this big, you know, like the bag phones and stuff.

And I was like, Hey, you know, it's me.

I, you know, I got my, uh,

naming the it was usa today was my first ever article first ever byline so to me that was oh that's awesome though well and i i only because a lot of people have to work their way to get to there for me it was just kind of being in that right spot because when i called the editor like okay we want this don't give it to anybody else

And so that particular, just that happenstance moment got me into that party.

And I worked my way through that party every year.

And I was kind of like the go-to guy for all like the weekly magazines and the celebrity things and the newspapers.

And I actually had it to where, I don't even know how I did it, but I would always be covering for like three or four magazines, two newspapers, you know, and everybody wanted their own exclusive.

So I was like, but I wasn't really like a paparazzi.

Like I didn't stand in like, like wait, you know.

Well, I started out, you know, even though the photograph was one of my first things along with a little byline or whatever, I remember after that I started, you know, doing the written reports.

So I would go on like, I went on tour with like,

um, different music artists.

They, they would assign me to like, uh, the Lilith fair with the Dixie chicks and all that.

Remember all that?

Yeah.

And then they, um, I got on this, they stuck me on this, um, Ricky Martin thing where everybody was like going crazy about, you know, it was like the whole live and live eat a local thing.