When we look back at our lives there is inevitably a moment when we make a split-second decision, a decision that changes our life forever. Take a left or right turn, get the courage to ask out that pretty girl, purchase a lottery ticket on a whim.
For Ted Giannoulas, that seminal moment came in 1974 as a 20-year-old college student in his radio communications class at San Diego State University, when he raised his hand to volunteer to wear a chicken suit for $2 an hour for a San Diego radio station promotion.
“The radio station had a one-week promotional gimmick during the Easter break, spring break as it's called nowadays. Back in 1974, they needed someone to dress somebody up in a chicken suit and send them to the zoo to give away candy Easter eggs, and radio station stuff,” Giannoulas said. “They dispatched a representative to the campus of San Diego State to find anybody that would agree to do this detail for two bucks an hour.
“The guy walks into a radio communications class where I was hanging out — he was an alumnus a few years previously — to recruit somebody there. I’m just
