Hello sweet spirit

So over the long weekend I was able to listen to a lot of podcasts. A lot. I’m all caught up on TBTL, Marc Germain, Pretty Good Podcast, and Low Budget. I even listened to a couple K-Pods and a couple Adam Carollas.

I re-listened to the latest Ricky Gervais audiobook – Guide to Society. (By the way, another audiobook comes out tomorrow – Guide to Law and Order.) I heart these audiobooks.

Oh, and on Black Friday I camped out in front of the $78 1TB external hard drives. So now I’m all set to permanently archive whatever old Conway and Whitmans I managed to download when they were available.

Perhaps that makes me a loser, but I can’t take the chance of never hearing those studs together again.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

Happy Thanksgiving to all the I Heart Talk Radio readers! You guys are major studs and I’m thankful for you.

I am also thankful for…

Wayne Resnick for being a guitar god and a great talk show host. And for working every holiday so losers like me have something to listen to at 5:00am.

Randy Wang for starting the podcast revolution.

Adam Carolla for the radio methadone.

Frosty, Heidi and Frank for everything. You guys are the best.

Kathleen McGowan for writing the most interesting book I read this year.

Nigel Lythgoe for So You Think You Can Dance (don’t laugh, it really is a tremendous show)

J.K. Rowling and Alan Rickman for Severus Snape.

Trader Joe’s for sparkling mineral water.

and

Clay Aiken for his version of O Holy Night.

Platters of verisimilitude

So all my favorite bloggers are getting book deals. First it was Teresa Strasser with Exploiting My Baby, then it was Jenna at Eat, Live, Run. Now April Winchell has signed a book deal for Regresty.

While I think it’s AWESOME and I’m totally excited for them, it does compel me to pose these questions.

What gives Random House?

Where’s my book deal?

I know what you’re thinking. Perhaps pregnancy and motherhood, healthy living and recipes, and clever reviews of weird homemade crap have a slightly broader appeal than the happenings of talk radio shows and podcasts based mostly in Los Angeles. Slightly.

But, come on, there is important analysis to be done. Like who should replace John Batchelor on KFI. Or comparisons of talk radio hosts to people in history and pop culture and classical literature.

And, really, who else is going to do it?

P.S.  Please don’t ask April about her father.

Sexiest Man Alive – Talk Radio Edition

OK, so People magazine’s sexiest man alive for 2009 is Johnny Depp. Again. Yes, of course he’s hot and radically talented and he seems like a nice person. Fair enough.

But it got me thinking… Who is the sexiest man of talk radio this year?

Should be an easy decision. Radio guys are practically never nerdy, fat, bald, misogynistic, loud mouths with bad attitudes and drug problems.

Oh, wait. This may be harder than I thought.

Let’s see…

Bill Handel – Yeah, we’ll just cross him off right away.

John and/or Ken – No, thanks.

Randy Wang – Gag. (Just kidding, Randy. You’re just too young to be the sexiest man alive. And I may have heard way too many details about your personal life.)

Frank Kramer – Drugs.

Frosty Stilwell – Obviously not.

Malibu Dan – See Frank Kramer.

Luke Burbank – A strong possibility. Maybe next year.

Mr. KABC – Prior to Talk Radio One, he probably would have won. But he’s out. And he knows why – powder blue Crocs.

Plus he’s all vasovagal-ly.

Brian Whitman – A good contender, but seeing as how he’s not actually in talk radio at the moment, I think he’s disqualified.

I guess that just leaves one person…

The Sexiest Man Alive in Talk Radio is Timmy Conway, Jr., maaan.

Look at you, maaan. You’re a major stud.

I said it.

I thought we were supposed to be friends

So apparently, Mr. KABC was on the real KABC yesterday at 2:00 and I missed it. Anyone listen?

According to the KABC programming schedule, it should have been Real Estate Radio. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s paid programming. So why would Mr. K need to fill in?

Did he do an Ask Mr. KABC show, or was he anchoring this Real Estate show?

Why doesn’t he post this stuff on his Facebook page? Isn’t that what Facebook is for?

Why doesn’t KABC just hire him back already? Enough is enough.

Why does the sun keep burning bright? Where does my shadow go at night? What is e=mc2? Why does rap music make me scared? Where’s a place to buy good clothes? Why are these hairs inside my nose? Is zirconia a gem? What makes the clocks blink 12am?

Ask Mr. KABC.

I’d like to.

P.S. I ardently hope the friend Mr. K visited in the hospital last week was not Brian. Brian, please email me if you’re OK.

RAWR! Part the First

This post needs to be in two parts because…you know…the JOB and everything.

A while ago on Low Budget Radio, they played a commercial for a Low Budget iPhone app for $1.99. Then Luke Burbank started mentioning a free TBTL app. And then, this may have been a dream, but I think I heard Randy say that a Pretty Good Podcast app was coming soon. I’m not sure, I have some pretty spectacular dreams.

So anyway, I downloaded the Low Budget and TBTL apps this morning and I’ll play around with them on my lunch break and give you an Awesome/Not Awesome report tonight.

BTW, if you haven’t listened to TBTL yet, give it a try. They recently got fired from their radio gig and are continuing the show daily from Luke’s house. We have to support these awesome podcasts.

Love those homophones, maan

So this morning I got up at 4:00 and listened to the Pretty Good Podcast while I brushed my teeth.

This is what I heard…

 

Gina:  Bill Mahoney is the segue king.

Randy:  Oh, yeah.

Gina:  I need to rent one of those.

 

Me:  You can rent a segue?

Ummm, yeah…how about a Segway?

 

I need more sleep.

The Frosty Stilwell Challenge

After nearly 20 years of listening to talk radio, I’ve come to one conclusion. I rarely have anything in common with these people. I don’t drink or do drugs or watch American Idol. I don’t spend $10,000 on rims or pergolas or iTunes downloads. I’m not a lesbian and I don’t have a gay husband. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Recently on The Pretty Good Podcast, Randy and Gina made a TV pact. Randy would watch Gina’s favorite shows – Mad Men and Six Feet Under; Gina would watch Randy’s favorite show – Lost.

Now I love the PGP and I love Gina but, true to form, I have very little in common with her in the way of TV/entertainment. I do enjoy a good street fair, but I don’t think Canadians are funny, I’m not at all interested in cat videos on YouTube, I think 30 Rock is incredibly boring, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE British TV shows.

So when I heard about the PGP TV pact, I got nervous. I hadn’t seen Mad Men yet, but it had been in my Netflix queue for several weeks and the first DVD had just arrived. I really wanted to like it. But how can I like Mad Men if Gina likes it?

It turns out I do love it!

The lesson to be learned here is this. Some things just transcend our differences and bring us together as people. And if those things involve chain smoking, adultery, racism, sexual harassment, and Brylcreem, so be it.

I have to go outside now and wait for the mailman.