Kendromedia said:
Who wants to play You can't Win..the real version?
For those of us weaned on S&P, we will find W&J a bit dull.
On the "what's left of Houston" scene it isn't fair to say that W&J suck.
They survived the last five years of hellish penny pinching and the wholesale dehumanization of the industry.
I think we may all owe them credit for that.
I can agree to the first statement, to a degree. W&J shouldn't be compared to S&P, mostly because they are two completely different shows. S&P was more of a shock jock type show with most of the content revolving around sex. Don't get me wrong, I loved the old S&P when I was growing up.
W&J are more of a thinkers show. They discuss current topics with humor thrown in. Although, I actually enjoyed the show more then they were on 950, mostly due to the fact that the show was 100% talk. Seems like the last hour of the show is nothing but music these days.
I grew up on S&P when I was a younger man. From Jr high school until I moved away in 1996. In 1998, I heard W&J on a little AM station in Lake Charles and was hooked. They weren't your typical right wing talker, and definitely not near as serious as most conservative talk shows. When I moved back to Houston in 01, I couldn't wait to hear S&P in the mornings again. Well, you can imagine my disappointment when I heard Pruett and Grego, or Grego and Pruett, whatever the order of the name was. Sucked, doesn't even begin to describe that show. I couldn't stand to listen to it. I was elated when that abortion of a morning show was cancelled and W&J moved to KLOL. Granted, the rest of the day on 101 pretty much sucked. I listened from "Little Wing" at 5:30, until "Bye Bye Billy Ed" at 10:30. Then the CD player took over.
Oddly enough, it's the same today. Except now the CD player has been replaced by the Zune.
As far as the haters, I think there are two reasons for them. Jealousy is the obvious first choice. These guys make a ton of cash doing what a lot of people here would love to do.
Second, politics. These guys are the furthest thing from liberal, and people will bad mouth anything they don't agree with, no matter what the truth really is.