Act Two of Our Program, Act Two

So everyone knows the best radio show to listen to while running is the Wayne Resnick show. That’s obvious.

But I was thinking about other perfect radio show-activity pairings. This is what I came up with. Feel free to add yours.

Perfect radio show to listen to while…

Gardening – Leo Laporte

Working – Tim Conway, Jr.

Battling insomnia – Pretty Good Podcast (Sorry guys, Gina’s mom nailed it.)

Lying flat on your back trying to make your stomach as concave as possible – 5:00 hour of the Bill Handel show

Taking a bath – News Bender

P.S. The whole bathtub/radio pairing is probably the most controversial of them all. Most people will go for This American Life. And I can see that. It’s soothing, intriguing, comforting. But it’s too long for a bath. You’ll end up having to be like – Oh! The Starlee Kine story is starting. I’ll get out now and listen to the rest in bed. Crap! The Sarah Vowell feature started. OK, fine. I’ll just stay here until it’s over. Wait, what did David Rakoff just say? Ugh! Now I have to get up, dry off enough so that I don’t destroy my iPhone, tap Pause, rewind. It’s a lot of work.

P.P.S. I know it’s mostly dudes who read this, so you might not know about that concave stomach thing. It’s just what girls do in the morning to see how skinny they are that day. Which, in turn, determines whether or not they’ll have a good day.

P.P.P.S. Girls are a mess. You guys should just all be gay. I think it’s easier.

I heart 2010 Randy Wang

(But no, Randy, I don’t want you.)

So I have super late meetings all week, but I don’t want to let the week go by without posting this.

If you haven’t listened to the Pretty Good Podcast in awhile, it’s time to get re-introversed. Seriously. I can’t believe how much the show has grown in such a short amount of time.

And, unbelievably, the growth of the show pales in comparison to the personal growth of that Randall Epstein Wang. Suddenly he’s all confident and stuff – it’s kinda hot.

Start with episode #154 – The Pretty Good GradCast and work your way forward.

Trust me.

P.S. As a writer I find it important to let you know that I know that “introversed” is not a real word. But Randy doesn’t know that – shhh…

In the bleak midwinter

OK, who’s bored yet? I am. I have…let’s see…NO new podcasts on my iPod. Thank goodness for all the high quality literature I’m reading on my new Kindle. (Shhh…please don’t tell my NerdPR friends I’m reading this crap.)

But I have managed to scrounge up some other holiday recommendations for you guys.

Pretty Good Podcast Christmas Special

What a special treat – gift exchange, holiday songs, Aunt Edna – it doesn’t get better than this. Good job, Randy and Gina!!

Marc Germain back live this week

BTW, remember when Tootie suddenly decided she wanted people to call her by her real name – Dorothy? It didn’t work. Because it’s just weird. That’s how I feel calling Mr. KABC Marc. Just weird.

Anyway, Mr. K, Dan Avey, Dina Losito, even Rob Marinko and Sharon the Gossip Mom, are all back live tonight on Talk Radio One.

KFI fill-in hosts

Gary Hoffman in for Bill Handel in the morning, Wayne Resnick in for Bill Handel in the afternoon, and Tim Conway, Jr. (the sexiest man in talk radio) in for John and Ken. Awesome.

(Do you think we can we get someone to fill in for Bryan Suits?)

Doug McIntyre in for Joe Scarborough

Monday – Wednesday this week 10pm-midnight on KABC. (I think I like these fill-in hosts way better than the originals.)

This American Life – A Very Special Sedaris Christmas

A rerun but enjoyable nonetheless. Some classic David Sedaris Christmas tales, a holiday letter read by Julia Sweeney, and why A Christmas Carol sucks.

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.

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.

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.