Proof that anybody can do radio, The Regular Guys

[AtlBanker]

The Regular Guys are proof that anyone can do radio. You might even last a few years before management figures out the numbers will never happen.

 

[atlradiofan2]

I don't know about that. They have been around a long time and, for a while, ruled the airwaves in Atlanta. I would say that the biggest problem they have is the terrible music that they play on the station. Once the show is over, the station works very hard to drive away every listener that happened to tune in for the morning show.

I find myself flicking over to the river after the morning show.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

I think ATLBanker needs to take those happy pills that Lucinda Bassett advertises on the radio.

 

[Inside your head]

The Regular Guys are proof that anyone can do radio. You might even last a few years before management figures out the numbers will never happen.

dont agree. as much as i hate the music the station plays and much as i hate what cumlus killed to put this sh*t station on, trg are better than i thought they would be. not my kind of station but it could be worse. have u ever tried to listen to the giant show in traffic? they make me wanna run over pedestriens.

no i gotta give trg props, they r NO MORNING X but they r not as bad as the other shows on the radio now either.

 

[Silkie]

Once the show is over, the station works very hard to drive away every listener that happened to tune in for the morning show

It happens in more than one market. When they turn up on obscure stations, in obscure towns from places from Washington, D.C. or New York City, and you have to change the station, it is usually a pretty good clue that they are not here because the small town station wanted the best that radio had to offer. So, how are bankers paying their help these days?

 

[agentUrge]

On the rare occasion in which I listen to them, it always feels like I've been listening to a repeat or a best-of clip show. To a degree, I think that TRG would do better on talk radio or in the popular FM talk format that seems to dominate Florida

 

[jabba17]

On the rare occasion in which I listen to them, it always feels like I've been listening to a repeat or a best-of clip show. To a degree, I think that TRG would do better on talk radio or in the popular FM talk format that seems to dominate Florida

I agree that TRG has started to sound repetitive. It's the same old stuff every day, and they seem to rely more and more on T&A talk and gags than the topical stuff that got them where they are. Again, they are becoming the radio version of Maxim or Stuff--which is a shame, because when they started they were more like Boortz with a younger, less old pharty flavor--and had some seriously intelligent dialogue. They'd talk about the issues of the day (local politics, national politics, young adult life, etc.), the non-issues of the day (like how you would describe Korn to an older listener, adventures in different parts of metro ATL), and the like. It was like Boortz without the baby-boomer bombast, self-importance, and airplane talk.

I don't listen to either Boortz or TRG much anymore, because Boortz keeps insisting on rocking his hobbyhorses to death (the FairTax, teen drivers, government schools, etc.) and TRG makes me feel like I'm back in high school--and not in a good way--and about as wise.

 

[lipripper]

I don't listen to either Boortz or TRG much anymore, because Boortz keeps insisting on rocking his hobbyhorses to death (the FairTax, teen drivers, government schools, etc.) and TRG makes me feel like I'm back in high school--and not in a good way--and about as wise.

Man, I SO agree.

 

[Silkie]

It seems unanimous that daytime radio stinks at the local level...unless you like small, obscure music station air staff teeny bopper types who giggle, introduce one another as the other's radio spouse, but not in real life, and provide details of air staff's whereabouts with the girls. All of a sudden they try on real live radio personalities to see whether they can be taken seriously. I guess that is the reason they are not in New York or Washington, DC anymore.

 

[Insideradio]

It seems unanimous that daytime radio stinks at the local level...unless you like small, obscure music station air staff teeny bopper types who giggle, introduce one another as the other's radio spouse, but not in real life, and provide details of air staff's whereabouts with the girls. All of a sudden they try on real live radio personalities to see whether they can be taken seriously. I guess that is the reason they are not in New York or Washington, DC anymore.

Regular Guys do a good job giving males in Atlanta something entertaining to listen too... Mornings ain't easy. Coming up with 4 hrs of entertaining content 5 days a week is a bi*ch. They have done it consistently for 10 years now. Props to them...

 

[ck dexter haven]

Well, time to opine: TRG are great, once they get going, and also once they shelve the self-indulgent nonsense that dominates the first 45 minutes of the show. That portion of the show, which I hear daily, is so phoned-in...it's dreadful. Mainly featuring Larry going off on Southside for showing up late, and Larry's endless
"what's on the show this morning...oh, wait, where's the paper that tells me" and then it's Tim reminding him that the paper is somewhere on his desk in front of the mike...man, it sucks. 3 quarter hours go by before they do ANYTHING! And it used to be worse, with the ridiculous introductions ("My name is Larry, I have a mother") crapola.

I have friends I've tried to turn on to the show--example, a PE Teacher High School male, aged 48, Loganville, totally in the demo, who after 2 listens was questioning my ability to judge talent. So if I'm the PD there, I'm gonna hold those guy's feet to the fire, and make them smoke OUT OF THE GATE i.e. 6am, and not screw around with self-indulgent crapola that isn't funny and doesn't matter.

Try this: Dispense with the B.S Kentucky retard Norma Lee woman and also the prayer for great radio intro, and HIT THE GROUND RUNNING! We know who you are and we're waiting for some damn entertainment, and that's what you're being paid for, so get TO IT! Oh, btw, your legal counsel George Stein may be a great guy but there's zero entertainment value in whatever segment he's involved with.

One other thing. The previous poster made a big deal about how hard it is to produce 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and he's right, if that's really what you're doing. Here's the secret, as practiced by Imus and also any other morning show worth a damn: you do a 2 hour show, twice. That means taking what you do from 6a--7a and repeating it, nearly verbatim (if it worked) from 8a--9a. No one will know, guaranteed, because the ATSL is way less than 2 hours. All the more reason to smoke out of the gate beginning at 6am.

 

[atlradiofan2]

Well, time to opine: TRG are great, once they get going, and also once they shelve the self-indulgent nonsense that dominates the first 45 minutes of the show. That portion of the show, which I hear daily, is so phoned-in...it's dreadful. Mainly featuring Larry going off on Southside for showing up late, and Larry's endless
"what's on the show this morning...oh, wait, where's the paper that tells me" and then it's Tim reminding him that the paper is somewhere on his desk in front of the mike...man, it sucks. 3 quarter hours go by before they do ANYTHING! And it used to be worse, with the ridiculous introductions ("My name is Larry, I have a mother") crapola.

I have friends I've tried to turn on to the show--example, a PE Teacher High School male, aged 48, Loganville, totally in the demo, who after 2 listens was questioning my ability to judge talent. So if I'm the PD there, I'm gonna hold those guy's feet to the fire, and make them smoke OUT OF THE GATE i.e. 6am, and not screw around with self-indulgent crapola that isn't funny and doesn't matter.

Try this: Dispense with the B.S Kentucky retard Norma Lee woman and also the prayer for great radio intro, and HIT THE GROUND RUNNING! We know who you are and we're waiting for some damn entertainment, and that's what you're being paid for, so get TO IT! Oh, btw, your legal counsel George Stein may be a great guy but there's zero entertainment value in whatever segment he's involved with.

One other thing. The previous poster made a big deal about how hard it is to produce 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and he's right, if that's really what you're doing. Here's the secret, as practiced by Imus and also any other morning show worth a damn: you do a 2 hour show, twice. That means taking what you do from 6a--7a and repeating it, nearly verbatim (if it worked) from 8a--9a. No one will know, guaranteed, because the ATSL is way less than 2 hours. All the more reason to smoke out of the gate beginning at 6am.

I totally agree with this. Except that I think the Steve showing up late is funny. Norma Lee is terrible. George Stein may be bad but he is a sponsor so I bet it would be awkward to remove him. Finally I would like to add the SSS smelling bee to the list of stuff I hate. It makes me sick.

They could follow the bert formula and just repeat segments from previous days and repeat the early morning content later in the show. That show has about two hours of content per day. Everything else is a repeat. I'm not complaining, it's just an observation.

They were much funnier when they could be r rated. I understand they are trying to be pg-13 but it would be nice to add some more bits and get away from the same ole thing everyday. A little more cutting up and a little less arguing.

 

[Insideradio]

The previous poster made a big deal about how hard it is to produce 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and he's right, if that's really what you're doing. Here's the secret, as practiced by Imus and also any other morning show worth a damn: you do a 2 hour show, twice. That means taking what you do from 6a--7a and repeating it, nearly verbatim (if it worked) from 8a--9a. No one will know, guaranteed, because the ATSL is way less than 2 hours. All the more reason to smoke out of the gate beginning at 6am.

Regular Guys REFUSE to do this... Marc Chase tried to get them to do this years ago when the show was edgier with better content and they laughed at him. They think replaying bits is hack. But if you hit a homerun in an earlier segment I don't see the harm in replaying later in the show...

 

[DashRiprock]

I think it’s a great show, and I enjoy SSSTV and the Webcam/chat at http://www.mogulus.com/RegularGuys

 

[Silkie]

I have never heard a bad morning show on radio, although on radio news when I came here today I see that automation is supplanting morning drive live talent. I'm no radio genius, but it middays are the place for automation. Everyone is either at work or out and about. I maintain that morning drive, afternoon drive and weekend party nights are the way to go. Middays and weekday evenings are just not good spots.

 

[RhubarbFan]

The Regular Guys are awsome, they're the perfect lead in for Rock 100.5's biggest ass-set witch comes on at 10. A perfect 10 hosting the 10 @10. Yeah Com On.

 

[meaningless handle]

They were much funnier when they could be r rated. I understand they are trying to be pg-13 but it would be nice to add some more bits and get away from the same ole thing everyday. A little more cutting up and a little less arguing.

Long-time lurker. I hadn't listened to TRG's opening segment in several months, but I was up early this morning and tuned in. I remember that this used to be a pretty good segment because they would talk to the interns or mock Steve for his latest bar skank misadventure (which, even then, was starting to get old), but this morning wa pretty sad. It was basically Eric worrying about how he didn't want to risk his reputation or good name or whatever by appearing with the other "morons" (his word, not mine) at tomorrow's public temper tantrum that the wingnuts are organizing. After about 10 minutes of this nonsense, I just decided that life's too short and went back to my ipod.

Listening to other parts of their show, I've gotta agree that TRG have become pretty mediocre. Andrews is still great, but you rarely hear from him.

I guess what I'm saying is, you can tell how bad Atlanta radio has gotten when someone like me (a male listener in the fat part of the target demo) has to choose between either these clowns or the Giant Brian trainwreck.

 

[LarryWachs]

You critics need to ask yourselves this: out of the 10 or so morning shows in this market, how many are half-decent? Two. TRG and the Bert Show. That should show you that it isn't easy to do morning radio, so quit expecting four hours of The Daily Show or Colbert Report-quality content every day. As far as a lack of bits go, "hitting the ground running" and whatever else, keep in mind that TRG is personality-driven. It is the wit on the fly from the players that makes the show better than most, not set bits that take a ton of background prep and legwork. You either like them or you don't, but there's no pleasing everybody. Finally, until you've tried getting up at 4:00 in the morning, preparing, and being "on" two hours later, you really have no room to talk. The fact is in this scenario ANYONE is annoyed and operating at less than full capacity when you perform while sleep-deprived.

 

[meaningless handle]

Finally, until you've tried getting up at 4:00 in the morning, preparing, and being "on" two hours later, you really have no room to talk.

Applying this logic, no one can criticize a movie unless they've made or acted in a movie, no one can criticize a professional baseball player unless they've played professional baseball, etc.

Nobody holds a gun to Bert's or TRG's head and forces them to work on a radio morning show. They've chosen this as their JOB. And if people don't like what they're doing, or think that they've lost their edge, or think that they're just coasting, so be it.

 

[seabass]

Well, time to opine: TRG are great, once they get going, and also once they shelve the self-indulgent nonsense that dominates the first 45 minutes of the show. That portion of the show, which I hear daily, is so phoned-in...it's dreadful. Mainly featuring Larry going off on Southside for showing up late, and Larry's endless
"what's on the show this morning...oh, wait, where's the paper that tells me" and then it's Tim reminding him that the paper is somewhere on his desk in front of the mike...man, it sucks. 3 quarter hours go by before they do ANYTHING! And it used to be worse, with the ridiculous introductions ("My name is Larry, I have a mother") crapola.

I have friends I've tried to turn on to the show--example, a PE Teacher High School male, aged 48, Loganville, totally in the demo, who after 2 listens was questioning my ability to judge talent. So if I'm the PD there, I'm gonna hold those guy's feet to the fire, and make them smoke OUT OF THE GATE i.e. 6am, and not screw around with self-indulgent crapola that isn't funny and doesn't matter.

Try this: Dispense with the B.S Kentucky retard Norma Lee woman and also the prayer for great radio intro, and HIT THE GROUND RUNNING! We know who you are and we're waiting for some damn entertainment, and that's what you're being paid for, so get TO IT! Oh, btw, your legal counsel George Stein may be a great guy but there's zero entertainment value in whatever segment he's involved with.

One other thing. The previous poster made a big deal about how hard it is to produce 4 hours a day, 5 days a week, and he's right, if that's really what you're doing. Here's the secret, as practiced by Imus and also any other morning show worth a damn: you do a 2 hour show, twice. That means taking what you do from 6a--7a and repeating it, nearly verbatim (if it worked) from 8a--9a. No one will know, guaranteed, because the ATSL is way less than 2 hours. All the more reason to smoke out of the gate beginning at 6am.

Last I heard, their numbers and revenue were above projections. But what do listeners know? I suppose once TRG listen to the advice from the anonymous talents here, that should rocket them to bigger things.

What they do brilliantly, and most of you don't get (don't worry, most of radio doesn't either), is they have formed a deep bond with their fans who do hang on to what they say (!) and are squeezing the most opportunity out of the web and limited signal/no marketing better than anyone in the country.