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What's Liebo's Next Move?
- Thread starter madlib
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madlib said:
I heard a rumor that he'll be setting the lamp timer and doing the sign-on and sign-off IDs at the Gumpdusky Lumberyard. If what you say is true, he'll be equally invisible. ;D
Yes, I'm being totally sarcastic, but Liebowitz had his 15 minutes of radio fame. Getting a gig on 1480 makes one's-self as about as invisible as humanly possible outside of this board.
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Mystic_Mic
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David Leibowitz can do many interesting things now that his media career is over.
He can go back to college, get educated, and start a new career.
He can start a landscaping business.
He can become a short-order pastry chef, a la Fife Symington.
He can move to another state and start a new life.
Anything but talk radio. It is probably better if he gave it up. He is utterly forgotten. Nobody wants him back.
Best wishes,
Mystic
He can go back to college, get educated, and start a new career.
He can start a landscaping business.
He can become a short-order pastry chef, a la Fife Symington.
He can move to another state and start a new life.
Anything but talk radio. It is probably better if he gave it up. He is utterly forgotten. Nobody wants him back.
Best wishes,
Mystic
Mystic_Mic said:
Wow, you really have a fetish for Liebo.
He is a good guy and a talented guy. Phoenix deserves better than Michael Savage and Gaydos.
Let me clear this up for you all, since I'd hate to see a rumor get started.
Nope, I won't be heading to KPHX anytime soon, so very tempting though it is. Frankly, even if they actually gave me the radio station, I doubt it would pay my mortgage, much less keep Ripley in dog food and me in trifecta wagers. And, much more importantly than the money issues, I feel like I'm done with radio.
After 6 years, I said everything I had to say.
I noticed that last year, about the time Laurie Cantillo offered me the 7 to 10 pm spot on KFYI. I was going in there and doing Wheel of Hosts and filling in and dreading the drive to the station. The callers seemed ridiculous, I seemed disengaged, and the topics felt repetitive. That was something I'd never experienced in 15 years of journalism. Doing radio every day had stopped being fun. And I real fast figured out something else: There's no way to be very good at something you don't enjoy.
So I said no to KFYI, just like I've said no to everything else that's come my way radio-wise in the year since. See, I love what I do now -- creative director and VP at Moses Anshell -- because for me it's everything radio ceased to be ... creative, fun, and a new challenge when it comes to telling stories. I'm surrounded by 45 people who love what they do, and they've pushed me to learn a whole new business. Plus, I have more freelance writing work than I have time to put down words at a buck a pop. At 42, a guy can't ask for much more.
Well, except maybe for a really hot second wife. Oh, and I also hope that whoever Mystic is, he or she learns a simple rule about criticism: If you don't put your name on what you say or do, no one takes you seriously.
Best,
David Leibowitz
[email protected]
Nope, I won't be heading to KPHX anytime soon, so very tempting though it is. Frankly, even if they actually gave me the radio station, I doubt it would pay my mortgage, much less keep Ripley in dog food and me in trifecta wagers. And, much more importantly than the money issues, I feel like I'm done with radio.
After 6 years, I said everything I had to say.
I noticed that last year, about the time Laurie Cantillo offered me the 7 to 10 pm spot on KFYI. I was going in there and doing Wheel of Hosts and filling in and dreading the drive to the station. The callers seemed ridiculous, I seemed disengaged, and the topics felt repetitive. That was something I'd never experienced in 15 years of journalism. Doing radio every day had stopped being fun. And I real fast figured out something else: There's no way to be very good at something you don't enjoy.
So I said no to KFYI, just like I've said no to everything else that's come my way radio-wise in the year since. See, I love what I do now -- creative director and VP at Moses Anshell -- because for me it's everything radio ceased to be ... creative, fun, and a new challenge when it comes to telling stories. I'm surrounded by 45 people who love what they do, and they've pushed me to learn a whole new business. Plus, I have more freelance writing work than I have time to put down words at a buck a pop. At 42, a guy can't ask for much more.
Well, except maybe for a really hot second wife. Oh, and I also hope that whoever Mystic is, he or she learns a simple rule about criticism: If you don't put your name on what you say or do, no one takes you seriously.
Best,
David Leibowitz
[email protected]
T
testing
Guest
kudos on knowing when to quit. I hope I recognize it when it comes (if it comes), and I hope I am lucky enough to land another fun and rewarding gig afterwards like you did.
David Leibowitz said:
Well, if you're going to be a PR flack, may as well do it for a PR-flack firm, as opposed to serving a PR flack role and dishing out plentiful helpings of corporatocracy propaganda as a radio host…
Just when we thought Akbar would have the ba//s to post his name he backs away from that opportunity. No loss there. David, I wish you well and sorry that radio did not work out. I was somewhat embarrassed for the entire board that you had to read all the negative barbs, some passed on as fact.
This is my first published comment in 2 years after being pushed away by unkind posts. So, good luck David. I shall now maintain my earlier hiatus from posting.
Bob Dreste
This is my first published comment in 2 years after being pushed away by unkind posts. So, good luck David. I shall now maintain my earlier hiatus from posting.
Bob Dreste
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pberger
Guest
David: I always enjoyed your radio show, I think it was both informative and entertaining, and one of the best on local radio. You covered a variety of topics, and had many different guests. If you decide to try radio again, I'll be there waiting. Maybe I'll run into you at Scott's some morning.
Bob Dreste said:
Dr. Akbar didn't make any negative barbs on this thread.
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john david clover
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Hitler and Limbaugh have proven that there will always be a loud mouth, mad man with plenty of angry sheep ready to fall in behind, lockstep.
The former sports talk, meat head, transitioning into the world of political extremism, will always hold sway over the uneducated dolts who get their view of the world from soundbites backed by classic rock. They're easy to get jacked up and ready to rumble.
Dave was always so far beyond that type of radio. I thouroughly enjoyed his intellegent wit and views and common sense.
Dave, you really were slumming in the radio biz. I expect to someday see you in the New Yorker or at the top of the best seller's list.
In the meantime, glad to hear you're working for the best (and the best paying!)
JD Clover
The former sports talk, meat head, transitioning into the world of political extremism, will always hold sway over the uneducated dolts who get their view of the world from soundbites backed by classic rock. They're easy to get jacked up and ready to rumble.
Dave was always so far beyond that type of radio. I thouroughly enjoyed his intellegent wit and views and common sense.
Dave, you really were slumming in the radio biz. I expect to someday see you in the New Yorker or at the top of the best seller's list.
In the meantime, glad to hear you're working for the best (and the best paying!)
JD Clover
"Hitler and Limbaugh have proven that there will always be a loud mouth, mad man with plenty of angry sheep ready to fall in behind, lockstep."
That's original.
Hate Limbaugh all you want. But for the sake of the six million victims of the Holocaust and the millions of others who died or were dispossessed by the signular evil that was Hitler, can we please avoid trivializing his monstrous actions by comparing them to a professional jaw-flapper?
That's original.
Hate Limbaugh all you want. But for the sake of the six million victims of the Holocaust and the millions of others who died or were dispossessed by the signular evil that was Hitler, can we please avoid trivializing his monstrous actions by comparing them to a professional jaw-flapper?
Rule of thumb: when someone compares someone to Hitler or cries fascist or calls someone a Nazi, I tune them out as boring hyperbole spewers.
(Unless you are talking about Stalin, Pol Pot, Ceaucescau, Franco, Castro, or the like)
(Unless you are talking about Stalin, Pol Pot, Ceaucescau, Franco, Castro, or the like)
People are often surprised to find out that I am a fan of David Liebowitz. "Isn't he too conservative for you?", they would ask. Fact is, I am a fan of intelligent, witty, engaging talk radio regardless of the political viewpoints expressed. I was sometimes angered and horrified by the views that David expressed, particularly when he basically called the Katrina victims who were transplanted here a bunch of freeloaders, but I mostly found his show to be quite listenable and entertaining. David was a great talent in Phoenix talk radio and he will be missed by many. I hope someday he makes the decision to return to the air.
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