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Mac & Gaydos no more
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Wondered what happened to cause such an abrupt exit like that in the middle of the week? Something must have happened. Don’t know if there was an incident or what. Beans and Cheese are no more!
The article inaccurately states that Mac has been with KTAR for 22 years. It’s 12. He started there in 2007 when they migrated to FM.
What does KTAR do now from 2:00-6:00 PM? Keep Gaydos by himself or find him a co-host? Bring back Arizona’s Afternoon News?
The article inaccurately states that Mac has been with KTAR for 22 years. It’s 12. He started there in 2007 when they migrated to FM.
What does KTAR do now from 2:00-6:00 PM? Keep Gaydos by himself or find him a co-host? Bring back Arizona’s Afternoon News?
hmmm...maybe the Arizona Painting Company has a new employee!
Mac will be tough to replace as there aren't many hosts who can put up with Gaydos' immaturity and ego. KTAR was wise to bring in Monica Lindstrom on Tuesday to smooth out the rough edges of Gaydos & Lloyd Banks (adult supervision was definitely needed). Not only could Mac reel Gaydos back in, but he asked intelligent questions of newsmakers and did an outstanding job on KTAR's many beg-a-thons. A mystery parting like this has the Nurse and me scratching our fezes...obviously he no longer felt it was great to have Mac on the show anymore!
Mac will be tough to replace as there aren't many hosts who can put up with Gaydos' immaturity and ego. KTAR was wise to bring in Monica Lindstrom on Tuesday to smooth out the rough edges of Gaydos & Lloyd Banks (adult supervision was definitely needed). Not only could Mac reel Gaydos back in, but he asked intelligent questions of newsmakers and did an outstanding job on KTAR's many beg-a-thons. A mystery parting like this has the Nurse and me scratching our fezes...obviously he no longer felt it was great to have Mac on the show anymore!
Absent bringing back "on-air listener calls" (which is what they're SUPPOSED to be doing as a "talk radio" station), I'd be a-okay with a "Monica & Gaydos" or even a "Femino & Gaydos" to help prop up the Sunday (technically local) show that nobody knows about.
Hey, look-! Someone left a Mac & Gaydos story on the station's web site:
https://ktar.com/story/2747443/queen-creek-educator-wins-mac-and-gaydos-pay-tribute-to-a-teacher/
Any others?
https://ktar.com/story/2747443/queen-creek-educator-wins-mac-and-gaydos-pay-tribute-to-a-teacher/
Any others?
GOOD! One down, hopefully one to go. Mac and Gaydos have to be the worst duo of "personalities" on AZ. radio over the past decade. How they lasted this long is beyond me. 
Then again, this is the same station who hired bigot Darrell Ankarlo for two years. That's a huge black-eye that KTAR will never recover from. And rightly so I might add! But that's another thread.
Anyway, Mac and Gaydos merely go whichever way the wind blows when it comes to their commentary. Furthermore, their "humor" is more annoying than funny. Especially Gaydos, who basically rivals the 25-year old Dave Pratt (from his days at KUPD) in terms of obnoxiousness.
In short order, KTAR will only restore its credibility when they re-hire Ted Simons, who puts ALL three of the above to shame.
Then again, this is the same station who hired bigot Darrell Ankarlo for two years. That's a huge black-eye that KTAR will never recover from. And rightly so I might add! But that's another thread.
Anyway, Mac and Gaydos merely go whichever way the wind blows when it comes to their commentary. Furthermore, their "humor" is more annoying than funny. Especially Gaydos, who basically rivals the 25-year old Dave Pratt (from his days at KUPD) in terms of obnoxiousness.
In short order, KTAR will only restore its credibility when they re-hire Ted Simons, who puts ALL three of the above to shame.
Totally agree with the Observer!!!
When Ankarlo came on to KTAR I quit listening!!!! I hate right wing racist garbage. Gaydos was even worse when I used to listen. The house cleaning needs to be completed!!! Phx. and the whole rest of the world for that matter doesn't need anymore right wing elitists in the media!!! Enough damage has been caused by them already.
GOOD! One down, hopefully one to go. Mac and Gaydos have to be the worst duo of "personalities" on AZ. radio over the past decade. How they lasted this long is beyond me.
Then again, this is the same station who hired bigot Darrell Ankarlo for two years. That's a huge black-eye that KTAR will never recover from. And rightly so I might add! But that's another thread.
Anyway, Mac and Gaydos merely go whichever way the wind blows when it comes to their commentary. Furthermore, their "humor" is more annoying than funny. Especially Gaydos, who basically rivals the 25-year old Dave Pratt (from his days at KUPD) in terms of obnoxiousness.
In short order, KTAR will only restore its credibility when they re-hire Ted Simons, who puts ALL three of the above to shame.
When Ankarlo came on to KTAR I quit listening!!!! I hate right wing racist garbage. Gaydos was even worse when I used to listen. The house cleaning needs to be completed!!! Phx. and the whole rest of the world for that matter doesn't need anymore right wing elitists in the media!!! Enough damage has been caused by them already.
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I heard through the grapevine that Gaydos had something to do with Mac Nomore. (threw him under the bus) It wouldn't surprise me.
I wonder if Mac will wind up on another local station, leave the area, or land a regular job somewhere? (real estate, flip houses, etc. like other ex-KTAR employees)
I wonder if Mac will wind up on another local station, leave the area, or land a regular job somewhere? (real estate, flip houses, etc. like other ex-KTAR employees)
Mac Watson isn’t back on the radio, but he’s back behind a mike.
Watson, who was fired from KTAR (92.3 FM) in October, where he formed half of the popular Mac and Gaydos afternoon-drive team, is producing a twice weekly podcast, “Mac Watson Talks.”
He’s enjoying the freedom, he said.
“I’ve always enjoyed podcasts myself,” he said. “And I always thought, if I had the time and the ability, that I would want to do it, because podcasting is very different from broadcasting. Broadcasting, you have to be broad. You have to be much more about the news, in the news. Podcasting is narrowcasting. If you want to talk about 14th century Japanese feudalism, and that’s all you want it to be about, you can. So it’s much more intimate.”
As you might guess from that, he’s not limiting himself to a single topic.
“I don’t have to talk about the impeachment hearings if I don’t want to,” he said. “I don’t have to talk about if Gov. Doug Ducey does something I disagree with, or I agree with. I can do the whole podcast on why Lamar Jackson should be the MVP of the National Football League this season, or why I miss the band Rush so much, because they went away. I can talk about anything I want.”
Watson declined to talk about the circumstances of his firing from KTAR.
“I can’t disclose anything,” he said. “But I will reiterate, I was fired. I did not want to leave. I was as shocked as anybody.”
He’s still stung by his dismissal.
“It’s also the way that it happened,” he said. “I was scrubbed from the website. I was scrubbed from the radio station. I didn’t get to say goodbye. ... Basically I got ghosted. I ghosted the listeners. So the listeners are going to feel like, hey, this person talked to me every day, or Monday through Friday on my way home or picking up my kids. I didn’t get to say goodbye. I didn’t get to mourn the loss of something I enjoyed.
“There wasn’t a finality to it. It wasn’t, hey I’m going over to this station, come over and listen to me over here. It was, ‘Holy crap, where did he go?’”
Over to "Mac Watson Talks," it turns out.
Watson cited Tony Kornheiser, the former Washington Post columnist and co-host of “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN — as well as the host of a popular podcast, “The Tony Kornheiser Show,” as an inspiration. And maybe not for the reasons you’d think.
“He is one of the few people, and I’m one of them as well, where this is a kind of therapy for us,” he said. “It feels good to talk.”
Indeed, Watson and his wife, Cricket, who also appears on the podcast, bring a lot of themselves to the show.
“You know, it’s risky because you’re not sure how people will react,” he said. “What has surprised me throughout this whole thing, since I was fired in October, is how supportive and how emotionally connected people are to me and my story. That really shocked me. I was overwhelmed with gratitude that people picked up on what I was going through or picked up what I was saying. Covering all the news stories and having to talk about what’s going on in the world, they really connected with me as a human being. That’s what really interested me in doing a podcast.
“My wife said why don’t we just do this and talk about what we’ve been through?”
While Watson enjoys the podcast, he plans to return to radio.
“The podcast is kind of like, I have my job, which I enjoy, and I have my career, which I enjoy,” he said. “But I also have a side venture. So if a chef has worked in a restaurant for years and he starts his own catering business as a side venture, that’s sort of how I relate to it.
“It also keeps me sharp. It also keeps me going.”
’Mac Watson Talks’
New episodes drop Wednesdays and Fridays at Mac Watson Online, and on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play and iHeart.
Reach Goodykoontz at [email protected]. Facebook: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm
Originally Published 6:00 a.m. MST Dec. 14, 2019
Watson, who was fired from KTAR (92.3 FM) in October, where he formed half of the popular Mac and Gaydos afternoon-drive team, is producing a twice weekly podcast, “Mac Watson Talks.”
He’s enjoying the freedom, he said.
“I’ve always enjoyed podcasts myself,” he said. “And I always thought, if I had the time and the ability, that I would want to do it, because podcasting is very different from broadcasting. Broadcasting, you have to be broad. You have to be much more about the news, in the news. Podcasting is narrowcasting. If you want to talk about 14th century Japanese feudalism, and that’s all you want it to be about, you can. So it’s much more intimate.”
As you might guess from that, he’s not limiting himself to a single topic.
“I don’t have to talk about the impeachment hearings if I don’t want to,” he said. “I don’t have to talk about if Gov. Doug Ducey does something I disagree with, or I agree with. I can do the whole podcast on why Lamar Jackson should be the MVP of the National Football League this season, or why I miss the band Rush so much, because they went away. I can talk about anything I want.”
Watson declined to talk about the circumstances of his firing from KTAR.
“I can’t disclose anything,” he said. “But I will reiterate, I was fired. I did not want to leave. I was as shocked as anybody.”
He’s still stung by his dismissal.
“It’s also the way that it happened,” he said. “I was scrubbed from the website. I was scrubbed from the radio station. I didn’t get to say goodbye. ... Basically I got ghosted. I ghosted the listeners. So the listeners are going to feel like, hey, this person talked to me every day, or Monday through Friday on my way home or picking up my kids. I didn’t get to say goodbye. I didn’t get to mourn the loss of something I enjoyed.
“There wasn’t a finality to it. It wasn’t, hey I’m going over to this station, come over and listen to me over here. It was, ‘Holy crap, where did he go?’”
Over to "Mac Watson Talks," it turns out.
Watson cited Tony Kornheiser, the former Washington Post columnist and co-host of “Pardon the Interruption” on ESPN — as well as the host of a popular podcast, “The Tony Kornheiser Show,” as an inspiration. And maybe not for the reasons you’d think.
“He is one of the few people, and I’m one of them as well, where this is a kind of therapy for us,” he said. “It feels good to talk.”
Indeed, Watson and his wife, Cricket, who also appears on the podcast, bring a lot of themselves to the show.
“You know, it’s risky because you’re not sure how people will react,” he said. “What has surprised me throughout this whole thing, since I was fired in October, is how supportive and how emotionally connected people are to me and my story. That really shocked me. I was overwhelmed with gratitude that people picked up on what I was going through or picked up what I was saying. Covering all the news stories and having to talk about what’s going on in the world, they really connected with me as a human being. That’s what really interested me in doing a podcast.
“My wife said why don’t we just do this and talk about what we’ve been through?”
While Watson enjoys the podcast, he plans to return to radio.
“The podcast is kind of like, I have my job, which I enjoy, and I have my career, which I enjoy,” he said. “But I also have a side venture. So if a chef has worked in a restaurant for years and he starts his own catering business as a side venture, that’s sort of how I relate to it.
“It also keeps me sharp. It also keeps me going.”
’Mac Watson Talks’
New episodes drop Wednesdays and Fridays at Mac Watson Online, and on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play and iHeart.
Reach Goodykoontz at [email protected]. Facebook: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm
Originally Published 6:00 a.m. MST Dec. 14, 2019
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Thanks for posting that. I had heard that Gaydos threw him under the bus too
Yes, it's great therapy, but unless they have paid subscribers, how does one make a living doing a podcast?
Yes, it's great therapy, but unless they have paid subscribers, how does one make a living doing a podcast?
And another crack in the Republic pay wall surfaces!
You don't...but it keeps you busy. If he's looking for a gig, tell Mac there's a lot attendant position open at the Buckeye Media Hut. We're expecting a lot of commuter students in January.
While it may not bring in the $$$ like mainstream radio, it can help pay the bills if you do it right. Brian Oake, former morning co-host of Minnesota Public Radio's KCMP launched a podcast last month. While his sponsors aren't exactly big name companies, his sponsors and patreon followers are helping keep things afloat.
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I'm surprised he isn't doing what all the other out of work radio people do....sell real estate/Flip houses, etc.
Run for office (OK, that's more ex-TV people than radio. Still...)
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