You mean you didn't get the full effect of Tom Leykis after listening to less than ONE show on a day where EVERYBODY was preoccupied with ONE, very serious and UNfunny subject like the pending Gulf War?
Well, at least you gave him an honest chance.
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You mean you didn't get the full effect of Tom Leykis after listening to less than ONE show on a day where EVERYBODY was preoccupied with ONE, very serious and UNfunny subject like the pending Gulf War?
Well, at least you gave him an honest chance.
I found Leykis most engaging in the early 80's when he was on WNWS in Miami. He was topical, often amusing, controversial and passionate. I thought he did not sound as good on KFI, somewhat a Florida gator looking for a swamp in the SoCal desert (I know he is from the Midwest... he still had a Southeastern Sunbelt mentality to him).
When he "left" KFI I spoke with him... he wanted us to take KHJ to talk... and he definitely still had the passion.
The best ratings he had were in the 2002-2005 period on KLSX. I did not like it, but I was out of demo... so was he!
You mean you didn't get the full effect of Tom Leykis after listening to less than ONE show on a day where EVERYBODY was preoccupied with ONE, very serious and UNfunny subject like the pending Gulf War?
Well, at least you gave him an honest chance.
He sucked at being funny, I heard plenty of the shows where he tried that.
Savage and Leykis. You really do have awful taste in radio. What's next? You gonna tell us how great Huckabee was?
I don't know why you're attacking me personally. You must be incredibly jealous of those guys or very frustrated in your small market position. Probably both. After, what was it, 30 years? You're still nowhere. Maybe time to give it up, eh?
Regardless, those hosts have plenty of success behind them, so I'm far from alone in recognizing their talents, although they're quite different ideologically.
FYI: I thought Huckabee was awful.
Leykis is actually from the Bronx---from the same neighborhood as the Greaseman, as a matter of fact.
His KFYI/Phoenix shows were also great.
I haven't WORKED in radio for 30 years. I'm not old enough for that. I've followed it for that long. And I'm exactly where I want to be. Which, by the way, is better than Leykis is doing. He's not even on the radio.
Leykis is a fake voiced phony shock jock hack. I bet you even paid to go to some of his "how to pick up women" seminars. Savage is marginally better, but his laziness kills his show. Maybe he's not doing 3 canned interviews a day since he switched to Cumulus, but I doubt it.
Yes, they are quite successful. But that doesn't mean they're good. The people you attack on a daily basis are even more successful.
My bad... I thought he talked on WNWS about his father being a labor organizer in Chicago. I guess I assumed that was where he came from.
I made it clear early-on that the post-mainstream talk Leykis was all about T&A macho garbage and was a waste of his talent.
It's pretty clear due to your apparent lack of not only experience, but intuition, that even trying to discuss with you the finer points of the dynamics involved in all the garbage you just vomited out, wouldn't be worth my time. You've got a lot to learn.
You express yourself like you're 17.
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I also find the real world to be amusing.
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Hmmm. Cultural stereotyping?
No, just a feeling that he had not adapted yet to the SoCal lifestyle and was, in a way, talking to an audience that didn't exist... the one he left behind after years in Miami.
Coming from a guy defending a wife beater who publicly outed the name of a rape victim, I'll take that as a compliment.
Defending a wife beater? I'm talking about his abilities as a talk show host.
Seriously, if this is an example of your ability to debate, it's no wonder you're in a small market and going nowhere fast. You're nothing but a lot of noise. You offer little else..
Good luck ever getting out of your small market. You're gonna need it. lol
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Since when is being in a small market "going nowhere"?
Some people prefer the lifestyle of smaller markets. The lower crime, the better schools, the generally lower cost of living. And, of course, many people are in smaller markets because they are in ownership.
And many more love the opportunity to do radio with close community ties and local involvement.
I moved here from a larger market. By choice.
And I'm on the radio. Your hero Leykis isn't. So there's that.
You can add "better run companies" to the list. The company I work for dominates my state and unless you do something like slander the mayor, you don't get fired. I get to go to work every day and talk to people that I personally know, and get paid fairly well (for radio) to do so.
These are all things a little Leykis-bot would never understand. I don't tell men how to treat women after being arrested for beating my wife. In fact I don't tell anyone how to do anything. I get to do an old fashioned local morning show without idiots telling me I need to pretend to be Savage or Leykis.
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Let's see, now I'm a Leykis-bot because I said the guy was a great host in the late 80s-early 90's. LOL And you keep referring to the way Leykis did a show YEARS after the period I was discussing, even though I repeatedly denounced that style he veered into.
Your inability to absorb detail and your quickness to get nasty and petty, speaks volumes about the odds of you having much talent as a host. You sound like every 3rd rate Limbaugh wannabe I've ever heard. And it's great that you're doing your "old-fashioned" morning show in a market where it's hard to get fired, since you likely couldn't cut it anywhere where there's actual competition..
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I'm not the one making personal attacks. I just think you like horrible radio shows. I don't CARE what Leykis did before his attempt at shock jockery. DON'T CARE. He's still a hack. I'm not ignoring or "failing to absorb" your constant referrals to his "serious" show. I just don't care. He's horrible. And a bad person to boot.
And I'm still on the radio and Leykis isn't. You can insult me all you want. It doesn't change the fact that there is plenty of competition. And I do quite well anyway. You think you know everything, when you probably have never even worked in radio. You sound like another one of those "super listeners" that think you know the business.
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My original comments about Leykis had to do with the show he did back then and how the quality of that show was a good example of the direction the format needed to take, given what many programmers I knew and worked for said was necessary for the future viability of the format.
You, OTOH, keep trying to change the discussion to the only Leykis you're familiar with, and in spite of repeated attempts to clarify, for your sake, what the context of my comments were, you continue to go off on your little tantrums.
Remember what I said about how you express yourself like a 17 year old? You're starting to make me think I estimated too high. Grow up.
I guess you missed the part where I actually checked out a Leykis show from KFI and said it wasn't as bad as his later stuff. I didn't jump up and down and proclaim it the greatest thing ever. It wasn't terrible, but I've heard 100 shows just like it and just as good. I don't know why that hurt your little feelings so much.
And a Leykis fan telling anyone to grow up is just ripe with irony. I don't care if you didn't like the shock jock turn he made. You're the one championing the guy, and it's just sad. He couldn't even keep that awful wine and food one hour show on weekends. Perhaps his problem isn't that he isn't talented. Maybe he's just a jerk that can't keep a job.
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