What is the Question – October

For October’s What is the Question Roland chatted with long-time 3BA on air talent Paul Taylor.

What is your name?

Paul Taylor.

 

What is your occupation?

Breakfast radio announcer.

 

What brought you to Ballarat?

I came in search of work as there wasn’t a lot of choice in my hometown of Maryborough.

 

What is your favourite spot in the city?

Home, but when out, our beautiful Lake Wendouree.

 

What is your earliest memory?

Me eating a toffee apple and standing next to my brother in a bouncinette while mum hung-out the washing.

 

What is the most courageous thing you’ve ever done?

Saved myself from choking.

 

What is the best decision ever you have made?       

To give-up smoking.

 

What do you like to cook?

All manner of things, but you can’t beat a good pork or chicken stir fry with rice/noodles.

 

What is the most expensive thing you’ve purchased – property aside?

A new off-the-showroom-floor car.

 

What building would you choose to be?

Anything that was inspired/incorporates nature and is sustainable. Google search the BIQ building in Hamburg, Germany, as an example.

 

What is your most treasured possession?

My home.

 

What is the greatest love of your life – apart from friends and family?

Any type of music that takes me to a happy place.

 

If you could ask your pet one question, what would it be?

Why do you think humans are your personal slave (yes, we have a cat).

 

What would you change if you could edit your past?

Never to have taken up smoking. I have been smoke-free for nearly 12 months.

 

What or who inspires you?

My mother, my wife, my children, my radio family (audience).

 

What is your favourite holiday destination?

Canada/Alaska.

 

What music and television do you like?

I love all genres of music, but I’ll least listen to country & western. As far as TV goes, I’m hooked on things like Billions, The Blacklist, Clickbait, The Good Doctor and Sex Education, to name a few.

 

What is your favourite quote?

The only thing you get from looking back is a sore neck.

 

What person – living or dead would invite to dinner party?

Elvis Presley.

 

What technological/scientific development boggles your mind?

The internet.

 

What qualities do you admire in other people?

Honesty, Integrity and being well mannered amongst others

 

What was your first job?

Paper boy

 

What did you want to be when you were growing-up?

Had absolutely no clue at all, little did I think I’d end up in radio.

 

What scares you?

The world and what it has become and what it may not be for our children and grandkids.

 

What historical calamity would you choose to reverse?

Any war that humanity chose to fight against each other.

 

What do you wish someone had told you when you were starting out?

That the grass is NEVER always green on the other side. It’s tinged with brown and sometimes black.

 

What is the best parenting advice you could give?

Be who you want to be and not what others want you to be.

 

What is your most embarrassing parenting moment?

Not knocking on my teenage son’s door. I’ll say no more.

 

What is the funniest thing you remember one of your kids saying, or doing?

Sitting in a restaurant with my young boys and one of them getting very excited seeing a truck pass, so excited was he, that he yelled, and I mean yelled-out, “dad look, a fruck, a big fruck!” It was hilarious but mortifying at the same time.

 

What do you think is the most difficult thing about being a parent?

1.Trying to understand the emotional state of a teenager at any given time and then being able to respond in the correct manner that will give them the confidence to open up to you and not push them away. 2. Knowing when NOT to say anything.

 

What is the best parenting advice you have been given?

If you don’t ask you don’t know.