
Just in case you need to be reminded, Pat was born and raised in a small house which still stands in the Loop section of Mobile, Alabama. His dad worked for the GM&O railroad, but was afraid to travel. Pat's dad was fearful that his little son would develop a taste for fine food, whiskey, and exotic places. There was also a FAMILY SECRET. Pat never knew about his second cousins until he was in his 40's.

Despite the
best efforts of the good Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
and the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, he somehow survived 12
years of Catholic education. His old grade school is a landmark on Government Street.
Pat graduated from McGill High in
1968. Yes, that is the same all-boys school in Mobile, Alabama
attended by Jimmy Buffett. (Jeremiah Denton and Vince Dooley
also went there.) Today, it is known as McGill-Toolen Catholic
High School and it is coed! If you send your kids to Catholic
school, they will end up like Pat!
UPDATE! The Class of '68 is planning a 40th. reunion in early August. There is a website and the "vintage plus" slide show will give you a little window into Pat's world No pictures of Pat just pretty girls from Toolen HIgh. Then head over to the "Guestbook" page. It's a good read. Pat is attending, so get ready for further news from Alabama.
When our hero got his diploma,
college looked way too demanding, and there were no openings in the circus for
a fire eater, so Pat got into radio instead.

He’s worked in every
broadcast pit and hellhole from Oklahoma to Washington State, leaving a wake
of destruction and human misery in his path. Pat was a popular Country DJ on KMON
Great Falls,
Montana.

His “big break” in talk radio when
Mt. St. Helen’s erupted in May of 1980. After 6 days of continuous disaster
coverage, beleaguered KSPO Newsradio in Spokane ran out of qualified personnel
and put Lyncho on the air, which made the volcanic disaster seem insignificant
by comparison.
Lynch brought his traveling
miracle revival to Little Rock in 1983. The ACLU of Arkansas was so down on it’s
luck back then, that he was the 1984 annual dinner speaker. Pat has done only
as much work as was necessary to keep a job, but is still an outspoken opponent
of the death penalty and was recently honored as the Abolitionist of the Year
and Civil Libertarian of the Year.
Pat was confined in the “gifted
and talented” room as a result of serving 6 years on the ACLU National
Board. Lynch also did 17 years of hard labor in Little Rock’s infamous
Citadel Radio Gulag, where he gained the distinction of being one of the very
few prisoners to be fired from KARN Newsradio 920.
In October 2000, Pat Lynch
began a daily radio show on 103.7 originating from the historic KAAY building in Riverdale.
His newspaper column has also been a weekly fixture in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since then.
The lovely Marie moved down from Michigan in the Fall of 2000, after a whirlwind internet romance. Pat has been amazingly happy ever since. The lovebirds were wed in a "live" radio broadcast from the historic KAAY building in Riverdale on Valentine's Day 2002.
Lynch has interviewed all manner of celebrities including Captain Kangaroo, Jessie
Jackson, Susan McDougal , Timothy Leary, Gen. William Westmoreland, Tiny Tim, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee.
Pat also has a beagle.
Just ask about Molly.
Did we mention that he
comes form an old Mobile family dating back to before the “unpleasantness?"
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