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WLW "ATN" HILLBILLY WEDDING TALK

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stereolane

Is Steve Sommers having trouble getting calls? I have to wonder...I listen to ATN because it's useful when I'm traveling, but my god, listeners had to endure months and months and months of hearing (yawn) about all of the hand-wringing over his son's wedding, when he'll get released from the service, changing the wedding date again and again, how worried his young bride is, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... ad nauseum. Just when you think it's safe to listen again (the wedding finally happened) we are now treated to long-winded calls from young Steven's father-in-law. Sheesh! Enough already with the family drama...

Note to Steve: We appreciate your son's service to his country.

Beyond that, we beg of you... please... get back to roads, weather, gas prices, and all things trucking.
 
The only thing I can think of is that ATNs listeners are more like a "family" as it is, checking up on each other, callers rambling on for 5, 10 minutes. So maybe he thinks its OK. And maybe the truckers mostly like it.

That show has always been kinda different.
 
stereolane said:
Is Steve Sommers having trouble getting calls? I have to wonder...I listen to ATN because it's useful when I'm traveling, but my god, listeners had to endure months and months and months of hearing (yawn) about all of the hand-wringing over his son's wedding, when he'll get released from the service, changing the wedding date again and again, how worried his young bride is, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... ad nauseum. Just when you think it's safe to listen again (the wedding finally happened) we are now treated to long-winded calls from young Steven's father-in-law. Sheesh! Enough already with the family drama...

Note to Steve: We appreciate your son's service to his country.

Beyond that, we beg of you... please... get back to roads, weather, gas prices, and all things trucking.
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This is something that started with the original Trucking Bozo - and as others have mentioned, this show moves to the beat of a different drummer.
 
mattsledge said:
stereolane said:
Is Steve Sommers having trouble getting calls? I have to wonder...I listen to ATN because it's useful when I'm traveling, but my god, listeners had to endure months and months and months of hearing (yawn) about all of the hand-wringing over his son's wedding, when he'll get released from the service, changing the wedding date again and again, how worried his young bride is, yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... ad nauseum. Just when you think it's safe to listen again (the wedding finally happened) we are now treated to long-winded calls from young Steven's father-in-law. Sheesh! Enough already with the family drama...

Note to Steve: We appreciate your son's service to his country.

Beyond that, we beg of you... please... get back to roads, weather, gas prices, and all things trucking.
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This is something that started with the original Trucking Bozo - and as others have mentioned, this show moves to the beat of a different drummer.
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I could not disagree more. I have listened to this show almost from the beginning, when Bozo was hosting. Not only was Bozo not doing it, Steve wasn't doing it either. Specifically, this began when Steve's son set a wedding date, while stationed overseas, and listeners have been treated to a "blow-by-blow" of all the problems involved for months. Steve and his son's new father-in-law sounded like a couple of chicks talking the other night, and droned on for almost 10 minutes. Sorry, I wasn't moved to the point of reaching for a box of kleenex. :'(
 
I thought the only real problem before the wedding was deciding whether to strain the punch for the reception through the radiator of a Cadillac or the radiator of a Peterbilt.
 
TANKSBACK said:
I thought the only real problem before the wedding was deciding whether to strain the punch for the reception through the radiator of a Cadillac or the radiator of a Peterbilt.
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Probably the Peterbilt(lmao!)
 
I have noticed that the "wedding chit-chat" has mercifully ceased for now. The last installment included stress over the young bride going to Germany to be closer to young Steven, only to find herself trapped in Germany alone (sniffles) :'( It's too bad, but the chit-chat over the divorce will probably not be as in-depth as the ad-nauseum wedding blather. (just kidding) ::)
 
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