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Froggy's morning man has traveled a winding road

JD Green, host of the Breakfast Club on Froggy 100.9, poses in his studio at the Barre radio station. Jeb Wallace-Brodeur/Times Argus

BARRE – JD Green spends his mornings listening to stories about cheating husbands, lying no-good girlfriends, and love of church, booze, pickup trucks, family and the American flag.

As the host of the Morning Breakfast Club on Froggy 100.9, one of central Vermont's country music radio stations, Green has heard it all.

"Right away when I started listening to Froggy, I found 90 percent of the songs identified with my own life," he said, seated in a studio in the station's Barre building on a hilltop overlooking the city, a massive radio antenna jutting into the sky.

"There is a country song for everybody in the world," he added. "I fell in love with country music."

It wasn't always so. In fact, a jazz, funk and blues fan when he applied in 2000 to be host the coveted morning show, Green didn't know anything about country music.

During his interview for the position, Green dodged questions about whether he listened to country or knew anything about the stars. After the interview, he said, he bought a book on country music and read it cover to cover.

"Some of these stars are so down to earth," he said of the country musicians.

It's been an interesting road to Froggy for Green.

A native of Hartford, Conn., Green attended Castleton State College, receiving a degree in journalism. While there, his roommate – who hosted a popular radio show on the school's station – became ill and asked Green to sub for him.

"I saw the studio and said, 'I have to do this,'" he said. "I was extremely nervous, my mouth was dry, I was shaking."

But he caught the bug and started a two-hour weekly show on the station called The Blown Fuse, a fusion jazz show.

After graduation, Green moved back to Hartford, began attending Central Connecticut State University in mass media, took a three-year internship with Connecticut Public Radio, and began hunting for a paying radio job. At one point he was a button-pushing engineer at a 6,000 watt Christian station, but was allowed to read the weather at night.

"My whole family tuned in at midnight," he recalled with a smile.

He briefly held a job in the insurance industry ("I wore a suit every day and carried a briefcase and made a lot of money"), but one day packed his few belongings into a rowboat, put the rowboat on a trailer, hooked the trailer to his Honda Civic, and headed to Vermont. For four months, Green was homeless, moving among various campgrounds before walking into Stowe station Classic Hits and getting hired by Frankie Allen, eventually taking the midnight to 6 a.m. shift.

"I was a bat," Green said of that time. "I slept all day."

When Ken Squier bought that station and turned it into a classical music station, Green moved to WDEV to host Dinner Jazz in the evenings.

In 2000, Green heard a rumor that a country music station was starting in Barre and applied for the morning D.J. position. Mornings are a coveted spot, he said, because the morning personalities have a higher profile, with more listeners tuned in while they get ready for work or their kids ready for school.

"They want to hear what's happened overnight … music, news, weather, sports, road conditions entertainment news," Green said.

Hosting the morning slot requires personality – which Green has in spades – and keeping your own personal problems off-air, he said.

"I'm just like any other regular Joe. I have all kinds of problems in my life," he said, noting for example that he's very close to his parents and dealing with their health issues. "Listeners have their own problems and stresses. They don't want to hear mine."

Green has also used his position for good causes, winning the American Cancer Society's 2008 Volunteer Communications Award after raising money in the fight against cancer through the Relay for Life Nordic Event. This year, Green's at it again, urging listeners to join the team, pledge a participant or donate to the worthy cause.

"To witness the impact of radio is thrilling," he said. "From listeners donating tons of food to our local Salvation Army to joining my snowshoe team and raising $12,000 for the Nordic Relay For Life, local radio is a medium that cannot be replaced by anything. Sometimes even I'm shocked at how powerful that microphone is in front of me."

In addition, he annually hosts law enforcement and Gov. James Douglas on a show highlighting the dangers of drinking and driving.

Green is best, however, handling the fun banter on the show. One morning I heard him trash-talking professional wrestler Pinnacle Paul Lombardi on-air, challenging Lombardi to a match when the WWE wrestler came to Barre as part of a show at the Aud. Clearly, Lombardi didn't get the joke and started getting mad at Green, accepting his challenge and promising to teach Green a lesson in the ring.

"I got in the ring with a fake manager, a Froggy T-shirt and ripped jeans. He was huge … my nose hit his chest," the 5' 6" Green recalled of the match. The ensuing fight was unrehearsed, Green insisted, adding that he climbed on Lombardi's back and grabbed him around the neck. "I ended up in the emergency room that night. I had a bruised sternum."

But he had a ball.

So, for the foreseeable future. JD Green has the distinction of being the guy many Vermonters wake up with every morning. And he'll put a smile on your face.

"Every morning while I drive to work, I know there is nothing that I would rather do. I've tried other things but I believe I'm only cut out for radio," he said. "I haven't forgotten my rough start in this career and I'm so lucky to actually get paid to do what I love the most every day."

To help Green's Relay for Life raise money for the American Cancer Society, visit the station's Web site at www.froggy1009.com.