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www.realkfi.com is back up

Interesting, very interesting!

I still can not connect to either of his websites. I connected my laptop through a neighbor's wi-fi and I can get to the original site. www.johnziegler.com but still not the realkfi.com.

The latter could now be too little bandwidth to handle the traffic but the first connects instantly but on my connection (DSL Extreme) is till get the same error message on both. DSL Extreme has been a long time KFI sponser but I don't believe in conspiracies. ;D
 
I love Ziggy's comments at the beginning:

"Specifically, that the talk radio industry (and particularly KFI) is dominated by freaks, fakes, frauds and phonies who tend to make crack whores seem respectable and reputable by comparison"

NO KIDDING!! And you just found it out, huh??? ;D ::)
 
This link will give a lot of information, just enter therealkfi.com in the search bar.

http://www.whois.sc/

Note the name of the registrant and contact is not John Ziegler. And the address is in New Jersey. His other website all of which refers to Zig himself. Possibly more insulation?

By the way his other site dates to 2002 so it was at or just before he moved to LA.
 
Also he took off the KFI logo. What I saw on Whois is that he is not the registered owner. No one questions that he authored the material. And you can link to any site you want provided the owner doesn't say no. I think he may have had somone else set it up just in case.

So all he has done is remove any insulation he may have had had at first. Just makes me wonder is all.
 
What is amazing in reading his rant is that he was amazed that offending a colleague with more (much more) clout (and income producing ability) in the workplace would get him on the boss's s hit list.

Talk radio is showbiz - nothing more.
 
Bob_Hudson said:
What is amazing in reading his rant is that he was amazed that offending a colleague with more (much more) clout (and income producing ability) in the workplace would get him on the boss's s hit list.

Talk radio is showbiz - nothing more.
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I think we can all see that so called talk radio is show business. What I would maintain is that in the incident in which Ziegler confronted Kobylt that the John of John and Ken came off bad. True making such a contentious statement out of the blue is maybe a little inconsiderate when you are on the other person's turf. However what could have happened is that Kobylt could have replied in kind with something like how can you be so stupid as to believe the administration is doing well, then had told the board op to cut the other mike and gone one like he is the top rated afternoon show in town.

To throw the kind of childish tantrum he did and then to go to management like a spoiled brat and make the kinds of demands he apparently did was a juvenile move. When you work someplace, everybody doesn't have to love everyone but they are working for the same company and the signature at the bottom of their checks is the same. So you do what is best for the whole, and do your best despite what you see as obstacles or you leave, that is all.

In fairness the fact that John Ziegler seems to have had a I am going to fail attitude may have unconsciously impelled him to go overboard. I think he had the potential to have done well and his interviews that I heard were very well done but picking a fight with the big dog in the kennel may have not been that wise. As I said, you don't have to love your coworkers, but that name in the lower left corner of your check is still the same.
 
nmoore6676 said:
To throw the kind of childish tantrum he did and then to go to management like a spoiled brat and make the kinds of demands he apparently did was a juvenile move. When you work someplace, everybody doesn't have to love everyone but they are working for the same company and the signature at the bottom of their checks is the same. So you do what is best for the whole, and do your best despite what you see as obstacles or you leave, that is all.
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But radio has always been like high school football: if you're star player you do get away with childish tantrums and juvenile demand and the stars know they will always win when it's them versus the peons. No one on the air gives a damn about the whole and really even the managers don't (that's actually true in most workplaces). JK flew off the handle at JZ because he knew he could get away with it and that listeners would love the drama.
 
Bob_Hudson said:
nmoore6676 said:
To throw the kind of childish tantrum he did and then to go to management like a spoiled brat and make the kinds of demands he apparently did was a juvenile move. When you work someplace, everybody doesn't have to love everyone but they are working for the same company and the signature at the bottom of their checks is the same. So you do what is best for the whole, and do your best despite what you see as obstacles or you leave, that is all.
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But radio has always been like high school football: if you're star player you do get away with childish tantrums and juvenile demand and the stars know they will always win when it's them versus the peons. No one on the air gives a damn about the whole and really even the managers don't (that's actually true in most workplaces). JK flew off the handle at JZ because he knew he could get away with it and that listeners would love the drama.
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Yelling would have been fine, it was his (Kobylt's) show. It was the whining childish tantrum which was not drama, except maybe for a kindergarten. Wally George knew how to throw people out of his studio (right in time for the commercial). ;D

I've been there and I know about the "star players", I once knew one years ago who literally locked the door while he was on the air and didn't like people peering through the big glass window either.
 
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