This is a job in addition to what I already do, not instead of. I’m not looking to leave anywhere, I’m hoping to add somewhere.

Specifically, Utah. A state I love and miss and where, for 10 years, I hosted a successful morning radio show.

From 2000 to 2010, I worked at KNRS, a news and talk station in Salt Lake City. Mostly, I was on from 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays, though for a time it went to 10 a.m., and for a couple of years I came back and did another hour between 5 and 6 p.m.

Though I have not worked there for more than eight years, not a week passes without a handful of former listeners reaching out and saying they miss the show, and not a day passes that I don’t mourn the loss of that radio home.

And I’d like to go back.

For a variety of reasons, all of which are personal. I miss and crave that place, those people, that dynamic. It is a home from which I have been too long absent. I can smell it and taste it and see it, all in my memory and hopes, in one of the fondest parts of my mind and life.

Which is odd, because I am a New Yorker. My soul is rooted in the hills and culture of rural upstate New York, centered on the city of Rochester and stretching in a semi-circle with a radius of 100 miles. I have been a newsman in Rochester for more than 30 years, and this is where I will live and die.

But for a decade, I spent a week or 10 days in Utah pretty much every month, learning the state and participating in events for the Utah radio show. Over that time, I came to love Utah as much as anyone, and to know the state better than most.

I know the smell of the peaches in September on the Fruit Highway, the specialties at the Idle Isle in Brigham City, which taco stand is best at 8th South and State in Salt Lake, where to buy a milkshake or a hot dog in Heber City, the feel of the rodeo-ground bleacher seats in Nephi, which trails are most scenic in American Fork Canyon, where the Rotary Park is in City Creek Canyon, and countless other places that I try not to think of because while remembering them makes me happy, missing them makes me sad.

And, like I said, I want to go back.

I feel like I am wasting an ability, neglecting an audience, burying a talent, failing to do my duty to a place I worked hard to become familiar with and a voice for.

Also, in another few years, I will have children who will be going to college, probably in Utah, and I believe that, as was the case with their older siblings, there may be some benefit to be had in being part of that state and its popular culture.

So I want to go back, and I have grown impatient waiting for fate to take me back, so I’m going looking.

Which is where you come in. If you are a Utahn, or a radio boss, I need you to put in a good word for me, to recommend me to stations, and to recommend stations to me.

The two most obvious places are KNRS, my old home, and KSL, the state’s longtime dominant news and talk station. But I have bothered – and been rejected by – bosses at those operations so many times over the years that I’m sure my entreaties bring with them a fair amount of annoyance.

If perchance you can work a miracle at either location, tremendous. But if, more likely, you know of any other stations that could use a weekday, live, current-events, local-topics talk show, or a weekend folksy show – live or recorded – I hope you would forward this column along. Send it to your favorite radio station, or whisper about it to your friends at church or Rotary.

You’d be doing me a favor.

And – this is where I sound arrogant – I believe you’d be doing that radio station and its listeners a favor as well. I believe I would draw audience to whatever station hired me, and I believe I would provide a useful service to listeners and their community. I believe I do current-events and life-issues talk radio as well as anyone, and do so in a uniquely affordable, relatable and experienced way. And though my overlapping experience totals 40 years – 23 on WHAM, 10 on KNRS and seven on WSYR – I am as timely and truly relevant as anyone, and have a good 15 more years of work left in me. I write better than any radio person I’ve ever seen, and I have a better marathon time than most.

And I’m hungry. I’ve got the itch. I have the fire in the belly.

And a variety of other clichés which all mean I’m ready to push myself and achieve at higher levels.

So spread the word, please.

People unfamiliar with my stuff can listen to live shows and podcasts on iHeartRadio under separate files for WHAM and WSYR in Rochester and Syracuse, New York.

Anyway, that’s what I’m looking for. I honestly think I would do a great job.

But I don’t have an agent or the ability to kiss up to corporate execs, so I need some help.

And if you, gentle listener, could help me out, I’d be forever grateful.

Thank you.