David's been gone 5 years now....

Deleted User · Dec 10, 2009

Thanks to "Eddie Coyle" for the link.

http://www.wbz.com/pages/5848405.php?

5 years... time sure does fly.

Cap-n Spackle · Dec 10, 2009

The guy who replaced him, Paul Sullivan, has been gone for over 2 years now.

Thai · Dec 17, 2009

RIP Bruds, THE voice of reason.

Blackroc · Dec 17, 2009

THE voice of reason.
His voice may have been of reason, I'm not sure about the rest of him. But he is missed.

I've never heard a single call ask a question about the latter part of his life, which is kind of strange?
Shortly before his death he had one of Al Gores daughters on. If you know how he felt about Al, maybe you would find this as bizarre as I did. But I guess that was David.

Don Juan · Dec 17, 2009

Blackroc said:
THE voice of reason.

His voice may have been of reason, I'm not sure about the rest of him.

What does that mean?

Blackroc said:
I've never heard a single call ask a question about the latter part of his life, which is kind of strange?

Ummmm....what would they ask?

Blackroc said:
Shortly before his death he had one of Al Gores daughters on. If you know how he felt about Al, maybe you would find this as bizarre as I did. But I guess that was David.

I've known David to have a lot of people on he disagreed with.

Blackroc · Dec 18, 2009

I've known David to have a lot of people on he disagreed with.

* Well that's hardly the point. Would you do a show whose host regards your parents as "loathsome?" Gore (Al) was despised by Brudnoy.
* Davids courtly on-air persona differed from an apparently reckless personal life. At least with regard to his health. He'd likely be on-air this evening, if that were not the case. Again, he's missed.

Thai · Dec 23, 2009

Have another glass of Haterade. It goes well with judgmental. Bruds was a class act libertarian when there were none on local radio. While we're at it, I miss Gene Burns as well.

Don Juan · Dec 23, 2009

Blackroc said:
I've known David to have a lot of people on he disagreed with.

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* Well that's hardly the point. Would you do a show whose host regards your parents as "loathsome?" Gore (Al) was despised by Brudnoy.

If I was Brudnoy, and had a chance to have them on, yes.

If I were the daughters, I don't know why I would go on. Did they have a book to hawk? Did some publicist set them up?

Blackroc said:
* Davids courtly on-air persona differed from an apparently reckless personal life. At least with regard to his health.

David was polite in person as well, probably more polite than his on-air personna.

If I read the time line right, David contracted the disease at a time when little was known about the disease, and how it was contracted. He was no more reckless than most others at the time, and from what I read, even now.

Blackroc · Dec 24, 2009

It goes well with judgmental.
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I've probably heard him do 50 HIV shows after '83. Since I don't know when (82-87?) he was infected --it may be in his book?-- I'm assuming it was after he started actively broadcasting about it. He obviously made a mistake: is that a judgment too? Keep in mind that he was probably the #1 purveyor of information on the subject in the East.

David contracted the disease at a time when little was known
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He had friends/acquaintances who were getting sick. He knew and it was in his and his friend's interest to find out everything he could as quickly as possible.

Don Juan · Dec 26, 2009

Blackroc said:
It goes well with judgmental.
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I've probably heard him do 50 HIV shows after '83. Since I don't know when (82-87?) he was infected --it may be in his book?-- I'm assuming it was after he started actively broadcasting about it.

No, he was infected before he ever did a show on it. And, yes, please read the book. It will answer most of your questions.

Blackroc said:
David contracted the disease at a time when little was known
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He had friends/acquaintances who were getting sick. He knew and it was in his and his friend's interest to find out everything he could as quickly as possible.

And you are assuming he didn't?

The early years when aids appeared, no one was sure what it was or how it was transmitted. Even after the virus was discovered, they were not sure if it could be transmitted by a coffee cup, toilet seat, or a kiss.

Mos to the early deaths were people who were infected in the very late 70's early 80's, when it wasn't even a blip on the radar screen.