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#91
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Kingdom of Nye With Heather Wade
December 15, 2018, 02:33:47 PM
And just think: If she'd held it together at the right time, MITD could've still been hosted by her, gracing us w terrific entertainment like this, huh?

How did a jerk like this ever get hired to do anything that might risk having her before the public?
#92
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Kingdom of Nye With Heather Wade
December 15, 2018, 02:20:47 PM
I'm 20' into listening to the zippy, and wondering: Does she ever get over it?
#93
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Kingdom of Nye With Heather Wade
December 15, 2018, 02:06:20 PM
Quote from: WeinerInHand on December 14, 2018, 04:15:09 PMHeather reminds me of "That Friend" that everyone eventually abandons because they get tired of hearing a bunch of bullshit excuses.
Story's not credible?  I haven't been keeping up w Ms. Wade; has she been pulling shit like that a lot?
#94
Radio and Podcasts / The Hound has returned.
December 03, 2018, 06:31:06 PM
This month Jim Marshall's apparently doing a continuous stream of his old DJing shows, in chronologic order, starting with him on WFMU in the 1980s: http://thehoundnyc.com .  The plan is to then go on with new shows of his own, plus hosting new entries of talker Chris T.'s "Aerial View", which have already started, Fri. 6 PM, and I'm sure others.
#95
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rELRYZUN1kM

I became aware of this via one of Irwin Chusid's & Michelle Boule's Incorrect Videos shows at Fez, downstairs from Time Cafe.
#97
I thought I'd remembered Colgate's having had a blueberry toothpaste.  Turned out I'd just reified an ad I'd seen and heard for a contest they had to guess their new toothpaste flavor; the ad "suggested" blueberry in song as an example of such a guess.  There were some other fruit flavored toothpastes out, though.
#98
Random Topics / Re: What are you listening to now?
November 18, 2018, 05:48:37 PM
As usual, whatever's playing on WFMU -- where I live now via WMFU.  Samantha's DJing now.
#99
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 11:42:05 PM
Quote from: Bart Ell on June 29, 2018, 11:11:48 PMIf they are stuck on the time slot
The time slot's the "legacy" Ms. Wade's supposedly referencing.  It's a legacy in the bad sense, the sort of thing that holds back progress.  Art Bell had "Dreamland" occupying an earlier time, so he was more or less stuck.
#100
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 11:06:56 PM
Quote from: Bart Ell on June 29, 2018, 10:57:31 PM
Don't fear change.

https://twitter.com/bart_ell/status/1012730730026356737
Let's get this.  On one hand, Mr. Schrader was recently heard shilling for DMDN subscriptions, saying if you're in the Eastern time zone, go to bed already & listen on archive.  OTOH, is that their best biz model?  What radio network has their flagship program on the overnight?  Overnight's where you put the Not Ready For Prime Time Players.  Although DMDN does carry lots of other fine programs, usu. w a panel format, MITD is one of their best.
#101
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 11:01:15 PM
Quote from: Robert on June 29, 2018, 10:53:56 PMI don't think many viewers got that, though.
BTW, TV is chock full of jokes that most viewers don't know enough to get.  Sometimes they're truly inside jokes in that you need personal knowledge, but usu. they're just based on something relatively obscure.  Many yrs. ago I started noticing all the 23s & 17s on TV, esp. commercials.  Later I'd be watching a Smallville episode the 2nd or 3rd time & crack up; I probably wouldn't've known to look for such stuff had Gough & Millar not done the Shanghai movies.
#102
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 10:53:56 PM
Quote from: 21st Century Man on June 29, 2018, 10:30:04 PMEnjoying Dave's show but listening to it on my phone while I do some other work.  Came on just to say hi. Dave seemed unaware that Harold actually worked on the SCTV show when it first started.  He was on it from '76 to '79 when it was a half hour show.
Lot of people have forgotten that.  My friend Bob insisted I was wrong that Moe Green was stn. mgr., & that Guy Caballero was only a voice on the phone -- or not even a voice, just acknowledged by Green -- until the end of that season.  That was funny stuff, Ramis's sudden groveling into a phone.

That was the joke when Ramis came back years later to guest as board chairman Crazy Legs Hirschfeld, so Caballero had to answer to him.  I don't think many viewers got that, though.
#103
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 10:22:10 PM
Quote from: Sean92008 on June 29, 2018, 10:15:25 PM
You mean I came in from yard work (avoiding bees) to listen to a taped show?

Aye carumba!
One game Ken Freedman and Andy Breckman play on "7 Sec. Delay" is Live or Memorex?, in which listeners try to guess whether the program's live.  Like for instance Mr. Schrader could now seem to respond to what I'm writing here, but I could be a shill and this prearranged.
#104
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 10:15:22 PM
One thing that attracted me to Ken Freedman on WFMU was that he looked and sounded like Harold Ramis, and, like Moe Green at SCTV, was the station mgr.  Except Ken Freedman's for real.
#105
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 29, 2018, 10:07:59 PM
I'll always remember Harold Ramis primarily as Moe Green on SCTV and various on National Lampoon's Radio Hour.  Apparently the Moe Green character was made up by him at Second City, probably a lot of improv to refine it.
#106
Random Topics / Re: Music
June 23, 2018, 09:27:49 PM
This one's so good, it consistently makes me cry:

https://vimeo.com/channels/neilrolnick/210044563

I think it's because it so perfectly captures the feeling of waking up.  It's the opening theme music of "JA in the AM", where he plays it from the CD in stereo, and it dances a lot between L & R channels:
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=79830&archive=163231&starttime=0:00:00 or
http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=79830&archive=163230&starttime=0:00:00

And here's the Grateful Dead's cover of it:  ;)
http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=79708&archive=163026&starttime=0:00:00 or
http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=79708&archive=163025&starttime=0:00:00
#107
Quote from: WOTR on June 20, 2018, 12:34:22 AMThe best place that I ever worked to get rid of a body was an open pit mine.
Ever read "The Lost Special" by Arthur C. Doyle?  It's the story the TV serial Lost was named for & based partly on.
#108
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 18, 2018, 09:39:39 PM
Gravity Sucks (thanks) pointed to this premade answer to my recent Q:
Quote from: DaveSchrader on May 09, 2018, 03:21:12 PMI also was more subdued on C2C because it wasnt MY house. I was a fill in host and the regular host had standards and I did my best to adhere to them.

MITD is a show I lead now and I will bring more personality, experiences and hopefully fun while remaining respectful to the topics.
I wish George Noory had had more of that attitude once it became clear he wasn't just keeping the seat warm for Mr. Bell.  Instead he seems to have worn himself into a premade groove he doesn't fit well.
#109
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 18, 2018, 11:45:49 AM
Quote from: DaveSchrader on June 17, 2018, 05:15:39 PM
QuoteAre you conscious of doing MITD differently (IMO better) than how you do/did C2CAM?
Of course
I wasn't sure I wasn't just imagining it.  Like a Hawthorne Effect or something.  Thanks.
Quoteand I have addressed that here in the forums.
I've seen you write quite a bit about your style, but I don't recall anything specifically about how it differed at C2C.  Why were you holding back, and do you think the fine people at C2C are grumbling that you're giving better service at MITD?  Or was it because of factors beyond your control?

There are times in my life (like right now) that I feel I'm doing wrong by one consulting client by devoting more work hours to others.  Not cheating on the billing, but delaying one while working on another.
#110
Quote from: GravitySucks on June 17, 2018, 12:17:58 PMOn the 12th they had him on the schedule for the 15th
I know.  Just wondering what happened.  I should probably e-mail him to ask.
#112
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 17, 2018, 12:13:49 PM
Quote from: DaveSchrader on June 17, 2018, 11:12:15 AMHAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL WHO REPRESENT FATHERS.
Moms, Uncles, Grandpa's, Step-Dads

DS
Are you conscious of doing MITD differently (IMO better) than how you do/did C2CAM?
#113
Quote from: albrecht on June 10, 2018, 11:31:22 AM
Huh -- Neil/Neal wasn't on C2C on June 15 or any time near AFAICT.
#114
Josh G. Box?  Too "good" to be true.
#115
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 12, 2018, 10:38:00 PM
You'd think people fleeing would have the sense to go upwind per the prevailing westerlies.
#116
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 12, 2018, 10:33:24 PM
I was trying to figure Kermit fart as a data xmission error between modems.
#117
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 12, 2018, 10:26:58 PM
Quote from: chefist on June 12, 2018, 10:22:13 PM
I've studied nuclear accidents for over 30 years...her focus only on 3 mile island is more than limited, it's myopic...
It was personal, apparently.

Meanwhile Mr. Schrader's giving her time to look up the others during the ads.   ;)
#118
Radio and Podcasts / Re: Midnight In The Desert
June 12, 2018, 10:21:49 PM
Quote from: chefist on June 12, 2018, 10:12:30 PM
Kermit Fart?
I heard it too...as if we needed another set of ears.
#119
Quote from: albrecht on June 11, 2018, 10:30:06 PMThough your 'amateur' dentistry, really, isn't much worse than dentistry (and some surgery) recent decades ago
Last yr. I was tempted -- because it was taking so long to get an app't -- to do my own that was loose & hence bothering me.  Maybe if I had, I wouldn't've loosened the adjacent molar w an artificial crown as she did.  The disclaimer did warn that that was a possibility, but I didn't find out it'd happened until a week later or so.  OTOH, that one's post had been glued back in 2 yrs. earlier by a dentist I didn't much like but who wasn't bad, so it had > 1 risk factor going against it.
#120
Quote from: Hog on June 11, 2018, 08:37:58 PMBearing down is the Val Salva maneuver.
Ah yes, good old Val Salva! 

What the heck, for yrs. I thought Frank Starling was one name.
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