Chicago radio legend Steve Dahl has saved lively via 4 tumultuous many years within the broadcasting enterprise, and he’s not anticipating prostate most cancers to sluggish him down.
“I’ve a curable most cancers that 1 in 8 males shall be identified with, so this isn’t a pity celebration,” he advised the Solar-Occasions in an e-mail.
The host recognized for his humor and candor revealed the prognosis Saturday on social media. Since a biopsy detected the most cancers a yr in the past, he’s had an MRI for added readability and expects to start radiation remedy quickly.
He missed a few his podcast tapings final week for a pre-treatment process however from right here on, “I don’t anticipate to overlook any podcasts,” he mentioned.
Dahl is hoping to exhibit to males that it pays to be diligent about getting PSA blood assessments like those that raised his most cancers suspicions.
“I really feel good,” he mentioned. “No higher or worse than I at all times do. I simply turned 70 final November, so it’s extra of a psychological factor than a bodily factor. There are unwanted side effects to radiation, particularly fatigue and a few disruption to my digestive methods. We will see.”
Dahl’s tenure in Chicago radio dates again to 1978, when he arrived from Detroit for an on-air job with WDAI, now WLS-FM (94.7). The following yr he drew nationwide consideration when he and companion Garry Meier staged a raucous “Disco Demolition” rally at Comiskey Park.
Although the ‘80s and ‘90s and into the 2000s, with Meier and with out, he was on the vanguard of the no-holds-barred “shock jock” motion and labored his manner via a number of stations and radio codecs.
It’s a extra subdued Dahl who now hosts the podcast from the basement of his Western Springs dwelling, bantering along with his co-hosts, musician Dag Juhlin and author Brendan Greeley. He gained’t be doing any livestreams throughout his radiation remedy, just like the infamous dwell broadcast throughout Dahl’s vasectomy in 1989.
“You could maintain 100% nonetheless or danger zapping components that you just use day by day,” he mentioned. “I’m an animated speaker, and no one was making an attempt to nuke me throughout the vasectomy.”
