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Who makes you cringe?

Well Radio Fan, if you don't like Bob & Tom, take my advice and STOP LISTENING!! Obviously, many people do like them, albeit, it's not the show it once was, when they were truly allowed to be funny and creative.
Too bad this show is on a loser of a station.

If your going to pick on bad, start with John Boy and Billie. That show is an insult to a sane persons intelligence and it sounds the same as it did 10 years ago..gimme a break.
 
The music on the Emma's spots is old too. Not Gone With The Wind. Bohan told me once what it was, but I forgot.

Right now on WLAC, it's "I'm meteoroloxhdsdost.....
If I was a meteorologist, I would learn to say the word.

Just like the guy who used to bring us "The Wall Street Journal Laport".
 
WHO MAKES ME CRINGE......in my neck of the woods, one station W-H-I-N! :mad:
 
Re: I HATE BOB & TOM!!! THEY"RE NOT FUNNY!!!

46radiofan said:
This has nothing to do with accents, but I absolutely despise Bob & Tom. I know they are quite popular and I used to listen to them years ago when I lived near Indianapolis. I don't know if my sense of humor has changed or I finally wised up to the fact that they are not funny. How they have built up such a fan base with stand up comedians and some nationally recognized names is beyond me. I hate Chip McGee has has to interject piling on statements or lead to a song that they all burst into simultaneously makes me want to slit my own throat. Add in a dog faced Christy (they talk on air like she's attractive) and you have the makings of very mediocre radio. What makes me cringe the most though is their uprorious laughter at their own recorded bits. ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHH!!!

??? :mad: :-\ ??? :mad:
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I've been catching a little bit of "The Bob and Tom Show" on WGN America the last week or so and I have noticed the Bob, Christy Lee and Chic McGee will wear different articles of clothing but it's seem that Tom is always wearing the same shirt on every show. After seeing them on television the last week or so, the problem I have with them is that all 4 of them are a little too old for that type of juvenile humor. Bob and Tom are both at least in their late 50's with both Christy Lee and Chic McGee are in their late forties. Also, I don't find Christy Lee to be a dog face, I think see is quite attractive, in a mature kind of way. Of course, she and I are probably close to the same age.
 
Re: I HATE BOB & TOM!!! THEY"RE NOT FUNNY!!!

jwk1979 said:
the problem I have with them is that all 4 of them are a little too old for that type of juvenile humor
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could you please post the memo that states what humor and age groups go together?
I must have missed it somewhere.
 
Yea Chris IS funny and he IS old!!! ha ha haaaa....ha?
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Hey Chris.....it appears I passed the torch to you, now you're the ole far*

and I must have missed the same memo you did.
 
olebud said:
Yea Chris IS funny and he IS old!!! ha ha haaaa....ha?
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Hey Chris.....it appears I passed the torch to you, now you're the ole far*

and I must have missed the same memo you did.
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olebud......mmmmmm, I thought it was oldbud?
 
Delta ---

Now that's funny.

Unless the comedy police tell us differently.

I don't listen to Bob & Tom (imagine that) but I have to say I did/do think the Mr. Obvious is a funny bit.
Have they come up with any new ones in the last couple of years, or are there just 17 or so original models?

P.S. Is WRQQ still on the air? My radio refuses to get that station.
 
I gotta give Scott a little credit, He does not come on the board unnoticed. Only back a little while and already taken outside. Thats the unbridal passion for his convictions we all should have, or maybe I'm just full of BS and enjoy the drama. When he is posting I do not always agree with him but it is usually interesting or entertaining.
 
Dave Ramsey. While his financial advice is good, he is a terrible on-air person. And he has let his success go to his head. I stopped listening to him some time ago.
 
Free Beer and Hot Wings, and Bob and Tom... yech. Even Johnboy and Billy make me cringe sometimes, even though I used to be a fan before i went off to XM land and found O&A and Ron & Fez.
 
olebud said:
From Delta69

i don't know for sure..but i would almost bet the voice on EMMAS is the owner? or someone that has an intrest in the business..and probaly pays like clockwork so he gets to do his own spots..anyone know for sure ? as for cringe factor..COMMANDER CHUCK.."here they come" is he really in the air
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Wrong --- If I recall, he is an elderly man in his 80s who has been doing the spots since forever. They had me try doing it once when I was over at CC....but, alas, I didn't have the recognition factor the other fellow has. Don't know about the pay, but they pick him up and bring him in to do the spots. A number of stories have been done on him on t-v and the papers.
Don't know about C Chuck flying, but Richard Thomas still flies, weather permitting.
Still not sure why anyone would turn off channel 4 because the spot came on. They're getting paid for the spot whether you turn it off or not. And in this day and time, I doubt any station is going to turn down advertising, especially for what has been a very successful commercial for the client.
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Just found the Board, so I know I'm way late with a comment, BUT, I'll give you a personal cringe example. During the WHIN days of Buntin(who gave me my first broadcast job), Williams and Perry, I was a full-time weekender with aspirations of bigger and better. Bill came to me with an news assignment; to give weekday morning and afternoon traffic reports. Long before the days of celluar, I was handed a roll of quarters, hopped in my red '71 Beetle and drove from pay phone to pay phone from one side of Gallatin to the other with the latest traffic info. And just to show you the salesmanship of the WHIN crew, they ACTUALLY sold these reports for AM and PM drive. However, my true claim to fame was the famous nickname given to me by Jack, " . . .reporting from the south side of Gallatin, this is Gene Hamilton, 'The Toad on the Road.'
 
You have to have an appreciation for Nashville radio advertising (it also helps to be over 55) and its history to fully understand the importance of the Emma's Florist commercials.

1) They are the creation of Ed Stratton, still active in his 90's, and Walter Speight, whose agency (Merry Sounds of Selling) produced the commercials beginning in the late 1950's or early 1960's.

2) It is Ed's voice you hear, it is distinctive, and whether you like the commercials or not, they are remembered and they work. The client is happy, and that is the bottom line. How many other clients are using the same agency fifty years after they started?

3) Ed still records them.

4) Walter Speight has passed on, but his son Richard is a Nashville attorney and author and his grandson, Richard, Jr., is an actor who has been on a number of TV programs and series.

The Emma's spots are a Nashville institution, ranking right up there with Harold L. Shyer (Jewelers) and the Frosty Morn pigs.

Lee Dorman
 
I find WSMV weatherperson Tim Ross absolutely cringe-worthy. Too much goofy and not enough credibility. When Tim comes on, I go look to see what Brother Statom is doing.
 
leeudorman said:
The Emma's spots are a Nashville institution, ranking right up there with Harold L. Shyer (Jewelers) and the Frosty Morn pigs. Lee Dorman
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If you don't know diamonds know your jeweler. And if Harold says it's so, it's so!
 
While at clear chan a couple of years ago, one of the sales guy sold them on replacing Ed on Emmas with me. I told them that would never happen, but I cut the spot, got paid...and...you haven't heard me on them have you? ;D

The Emma's spots are a Nashville institution, ranking right up there with Harold L. Shyer (Jewelers) and the Frosty Morn pigs. Lee Dorman
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is hoping he will be good enough to be a frosty morn
or something like that
 
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