Don’t drive past a radio station with fillings in your teeth

Or, I heart ooTunes.

I’ve been doing some KFI bashing lately. (They totally deserve it.) Here’s a compliment though. That 50,000 watt omni-directional signal is great. All my radios pick it up without static, no Spanish stations bleed in, I can listen in every room of my house, in my car, etc. It’s awesome.

Unfortunately I can’t say the same for KFWB and KTLK. I have to very precisely align my radio with the ionosphere and hope for good cosmic energy in order to pick those stations up down here in the OC.

This is not acceptable. Or, asseptable, as Nanny Jo would say. (That’s for you, Gina.)

I want to listen to Brian Whitman filling in for those big libs over on KTLK.

I want to listen to Dave Ramsey on KFWB.

I want to listen to Dr. Laura, just to spite Bill Handel and his dopey new show.

And while we’re at it, I also would like to listen to Talk Radio One live on my iPod Touch.

Now I can. I purchased the ooTunes app today for only $3.99 and I love it. Not only are KTLK, KFWB and Talk Radio One available on ooTunes, there are tons of other stations – music and talk – available as well.

So if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, buy this app. And do Mr. KABC a favor and click through from his site. He deserves it. He is a beloved Southern California radio icon after all.

I am SO good at The Secret

So first I wrote about Dave Ramsey not being on in Los Angeles. A couple days later he was added to the KFWB lineup.

Then I wrote that KFI was shortchanging us with only two hours of Tim Conway, Jr. a week. And now he has two big weekend time slots! Saturday and Sunday 4-7pm. Look at that stud!

I might as well send out my other radio requests to the universe…

Mr. KABC returns to KABC.

Frosty, Heidi and Frank return to the airwaves.

Adam Carolla monetizes his podcast and stops compressing the hell out of it.

Melinda Lee’s Thanksgiving show starts at 5am not 10am. (OK, it’s a small request. I just enjoy the level of crazy that gets people worked up about turkeys at 5am.)

Brian Whitman is completely healthy and has a full-time job on Air America.

Gina Grad gets health insurance. And AAA. And cats. And earrings. And moves out of Echo Park.

Randy Wang becomes the king of all podfathers, makes tons of money, and Tom Leykis begs him for a job. But by that time, Randy has decided ignorance is not bliss and thinks Leykis is too washed up for his prestigious podcasting company and tells him to stick to writing blogs on MySpace.

It’s not the name of the store, it’s where it is

Or, I see debt people.

The good news…

Hey all you broke studs – Dave Ramsey is on KFWB! Monday-Friday 9pm-midnight. (Do you think I had something to do with it?)

The bad completely expected, but nevertheless sucky news…

The Another Bill Handel show is precisely what I thought it would be.  L.A.M.E.  Bill likes to think it is a “new” show, something innovative and interesting. It’s just warmed over nonsense and health care tirades – no different than the morning show.

Where the paid off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice

So remember all those times I called nationally syndicated talk shows lame, bland, boring, stupid, annoying, and low-end? I forgot to mention there was an exception.

Sorry, Mark Levin fans, it’s not your guy. It’s not Rush or Hannity or Glenn Beck or George Noory. No, party people, it’s not even John and Jeff.

It’s Dave Ramsey.

(As far as I can tell, Dave’s not on in LA but you can subscribe to the one-hour podcast on iTunes or stream all three hours on the website or listen on XM/Sirius.)

If you’re unemployed, under-employed, starting your own business, or in debt (yes, car payments and student loans count as debt), if you’re trapped in a dead-end job with no real chance to get ahead, you need to listen to this show.

Technically, it’s a show about money. I know that sounds boring, but Dave Ramsey is so much more than that. It’s about taking control of your life. It’s about personal responsibility and making a difference. It’s about killing something and dragging it home.

In the exact opposite way that KFI makes you feel like the world is collapsing around you and all you can do is climb in your bunker and wait for the inevitable end, Dave Ramsey makes you feel empowered, like there’s absolutely nothing but sweat and hard work standing in the way of you and that $3,000 (no dental insurance) orthodontist bill.

In short, it gives you hope. And isn’t that what we all need?