The Good Life – May-June 2018

WRITTEN BY: MEGHAN FEIR • PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA
Kyle Iverson didn’t plan on being a radio producer. While
growing up in Hallock, Minn., 20 miles south of the
Canadian border, sports was his life. In college, his dream
was to follow his passion for film and move to Los Angeles.
Those dreams soon lost their luster after snagging a parttime
job in AM talk radio. Thirteen years later, he still loves
his work as a producer and board operator for WDAY 970.
On a typical, blustery evening in March, Iverson and I met
at Drekker Brewing Co. to discuss pressing topics affecting
the world today, such as whether tacos are talked about too
much, what he would name a puppy, and if he ever wears
slippers at work (he doesn’t). Read on to learn more about
the man behind the soundboard.
Good Life: Do you think the current trend of everyone being
obsessed and taco-ing (talking) about tacos and sharing
memes about them is annoying and overdone?
Kyle Iverson: I don’t mind people sharing things about
them because it’s tacos. How can you not love tacos in every
sense of the food? There are so many things you can do
with a taco.
GL: Have tacos overturned pizza’s popularity?
KI: Pizza will always have its place. Tacos have stolen some
of the spotlight from pizza, but pizza will always be there.
GL: If you could become more like one person, whom
would you want to resemble?
KI: I would say my father-in-law. He’s a best friend of mine.
He’s a radio guy, went to MSUM, worked at Q98, and he’s
done radio in some shape or form his whole life. We can
talk about the latest movie, the latest Jack White album
and the news like best buddies. We do cool things, just
the two of us, and we have a blast. If there’s any little thing
I’m questioning, whether it’s relationships or finances or
anything stressful in my life, I go to my wife and then to him.
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