Chris Julin first showed up at Minnesota Public Radio as an unpaid intern in the Rochester bureau. That was 1983, and he's been in, or near, public radio ever since. He worked as a reporter in St. Paul and Seattle, and many of his stories have appeared on National Public Radio. He's been a news director, a program director, and a disc jockey at small community radio stations in Minneapolis and Grand Rapids, Minnesota. In between, he wrote some freelance articles for print, went to graduate school, taught elementary school and community college, got hired as a social worker, and waited on tables.