We’re getting a late start this morning, but we have good reason. You see, I’m currently at the hospital awaiting the arrival of Clark, JrJr. Patrick apparently started celebrating his arrival early because he sent me an email at 2:30 asking me to finish off this post and get it online. Don’t ever let me hear you say I’m not dedicated to you readers. Before Mrs. Matthews kills me, I’m going to throw it to the voting.
Continue reading ‘Ogle Madness: Midwest Region – Lower Bracket’
If you’re a 45-year-old cougar who can’t let go of your youth, a Rocklahoma fan, or you just really really like meth, today’s news may be the best thing you’ve ever heard in your life…or at least this week. From RadioInsight.com:
As Active Rock “94.7 The Buzz” KHBZ Oklahoma City continues to struggle against Citadel’s heritage Rock 100.5 KATT and Renda’s Classic Rock “107.7 KRXO“, Clear Channel appears ready to attack the pair from a different angle. 947TheBrew.com, registered this week and pointing to KHBZ’s current site (except for the homepage redirect to Yahoo) hints that the station will shift to the 80s based Classic Rock brand that the company has launched in quite a few other markets (Milwaukee, Portland, and Omaha among others).
Hmmn…does anyone else find it suspicious that right after we learn that the State Fair Speedway is closing, it’s announced that minor league hockey is returning and we’re getting a radio station that only plays “80’s Classic Rock?” What’s next? The Oklahoma State Fair becoming a year long event?
Anyway, it was only a couple years ago that TheBuzz changed from an Alt-Rock to a Meth-Rock format. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes formats again in a couple of years. Maybe when that happens, Clear Channel will start a Sports Talk station to compete with The Sports Animal. That would actually be cool.
In my opinion, the main reason the Sports Animal is so successful is that it has a FM signal. If Clear Channel hired away some of the good talent from The Sports Animal (Mark Rodgers, Carey Murdock, and the 1990’s Mike Steely) along with the talent from KREF (Toby Rowland and Myron Patton) it may have a chance to succeed. However, doing something like that would be smart. Considering management thought it was a good idea to move the Buzz to an 80’s rock format, I doubt it will ever happen.
Well, this was unexpected. Yesterday, Steve Hunt called Jim Traber’s radio show to talk about the ongoing (and contrived) battle between Jim Traber and all things Seattle. Yep, Steve Hunt vs. Jim Traber. Enjoy:
Granted, this could have been a lot better, but I guess the result was expected. I just think it’s kind of funny to listen to two Lost Ogle stalwarts talk to each other. Now if only Brent Skarky and Dave Morris will get into a bloody bar fight, my life will be complete.
Seriously though, in the context of The Lost Ogle, this is a significant event. Steve Hunt and Jim Traber are often the targets of mockery and ridicule on this site. And this is for good reason.
Jim Traber, as you know, is a right wing, biased, opinionated, egomaniacal hypocrite who somehow manages to make six-figures talking on the radio all day without really knowing what he’s talking about. He’s kind of like the canker sore that you inexplicably touch with your tongue. He’s irritating. He burns. Yet for some reason, many people – including myself – still regularly listen to him.
Steve Hunt…well…is Steve Hunt (example here and here and here). He’s like achy back pain that will never go away. If you know who he is, you know what we are talking about. If you don’t, consider yourself lucky. He’s kind of like Beetlejuice. Say his name three times and he’s sure to show up and bother you for the rest of your life.
Anyway, it’s kind of sad that this radio moment didn’t generate the train wreck I was hoping for. Maybe next time Jim won’t hang up on Steve. That way we’ll have some entertaining radio, and Jim won’t have to worry about someone spitting on his food at Taco Bell. Actually, Jim probably has to worry about that all the time. I guess there is some justice in this world.
Remember a while back when we posted that picture of Ron Williams violating Jason White on a pool table? We are not sure which is worse: this picture, that picture, or never announcing a winner to the caption contest. Maybe we should just have Ron Williams’ son interview us to find out the answer. That would be neat.
Anyway, for fun, why don’t you go ahead and give us a caption for this picture. We’ll probably never announce a winner, but that’s what makes it so fun. My entry: “Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.”
p.s- The winner of the original caption contest was choice number 3. If that’s you, send us an email.
UPDATE: Apparently the girl in the picture is a grade school teacher. Because I have somewhat of a spine, we put the cool black bar over her eyes. That’s cool and everything, but we still wonder if she teaches sex ed.
The kiddos may not remember it — I barely do myself — but there used to be a guy named Bill Simonson who had a radio show in the Oklahoma City market. He made Jim Traber look humble. I mean, he actually called himself “Captain Huge.” It takes some world-class levels of self-loathing to be the kind of jerk this guy was. I was in, like, the 6th grade and could tell this guy had some serious issues. If ever there was a person who needed a hug from Angi Bruss, it was Bill Simonson.
Anyway, he never really caught on here, thank Gary England, and eventually moved on to Tulsa, where he ended up getting fired for making racist statements about John Blake. From there he moved on to Chicago, where he got beat up outside of Comiskey Park, and then I lost track of him…
…until a few weeks ago, when I heard him on a syndicated Sunday program on the Sports Animal. I almost drove off the road. The ghost of my childhood had returned, and hours with my shrink were needed to repair the damage. It was almost as traumatic as the time Mike Morgan showed up at my house in full Star Trek regalia, but that’s another story for another therapy session.
This is all a roundabout way of giving background to the following thing I ran across today on Deadspin: a blog entry, written by Simonson, that is possibly the stupidest thing I have read in my entire life. You can read it for yourself, but the crux of his argument is that a certain West Point grad is of poor character because he got drafted to play football and will not be going to Iraq.
I quote: “What is puzzling about Campbell’s story is that West Point is centered on building leadership qualities. Yes, the rules are there to help market the academy’s sports programs by giving good athletes the opt-out early parachute.
If Campbell was a leader and a man of the highest character, wouldn’t he turn down the Lions and honor his duty to this country?
Even before the Lions picked him, the Army had stooped to using him in uniform as a military mascot during the NFL draft.
Is this duty, honor, country?”
Seriously, read the whole thing, it’s hilarious (and be sure to check out the comments as well).
In celebration of this, after the jump, a trip down memory lane as Mel Bracht gets all righteous and calls (sort of) for Simonson to be fired.
With all the March Madness and Ogle Madness stuff going on, I figured I should point out the “94.7 The Buzz” is doing some silly thing called March Bandness. In March Bandness, they select 64 local unsigned bands and have listeners (a.k.a. friends of the bands) vote for their favorite, with the highest vote getters moving on each week. Right now, they are down to 32, with the top 16 moving on next week.
The reason I point this out because one of my favorite local bands, Anchors for Arsenal, is still in the competition. I have a deal with their lead singer Jonathan that if they win the tournament, they’ll maybe play for free at a “soon to probably maybe hopefully be announced” oglicious Lost Ogle event that will hopefully take place this summer. That would be a win-win for everyone. Not only will it put a great single (Denver Sky Tonight) from a great local band on the radio, it will also give us free entertainment at the “soon to probably maybe hopefully be announced” oglicious event.
So do yourself and your Lost Ogle pals a favor and go vote for Anchors for Arsenal. To sweeten the deal, if they win the event, we’ll talk Clark Matthews into holding off on posting his Justice League of Oklahoma novella prequel, The Revenge of Jack Bowen. Once again, another win-win.
(p.s.- I was going to link to the Gazette’s great review of “The Fall of You and Me”, but as of this writing, it’s totally screwed up. )
So I forward this story around to my fellow Lost Ogles. First, Tony responds back with an idea to write an article about the most awesome elementary school mascots in Oklahoma. Then, Patrick comes up with an ode about what kind of prodigy this child must be. Apparently, he was in high school before showing up to class three sheets to the wind. Neither of those were the quite the angle I was anticipating.
As such, I decided to pursue the story a different way. This four year old drunkard was from my hometown, so I used my The Village contacts and tracked her down in hopes of getting some answers. Boy, did I get them. After the jump, Four-Year-Old-Drunk-Chick explains how KTOK’s Mark Shannon drove her to the bottle. Continue reading ‘Clark Matthews presents…’
I went to the KATT’s web site in the faint hopes that they’d posted Rick & Brad’s interview with Lauren Richardson from yesterday, but no luck.
On the positive side, I did find this interview with Rick Walker, and he makes a funny:
What’s your favorite pick-up line?
Hi, I’m Dean Blevins.
Bam! Rick is my new hero for the day. I mean, that’s not quite as good a pick up line as “I’m Clark Matthews, let me read you the Justice League,” but it’s close. And funnier.
Between that and this recent Toby Rowland blog entry (ignore the stuff about us), it seems maybe our friends in the media are loosening up a little bit and becoming more willing to poke fun at each other. Or maybe Rick and Toby just happen to have a good sense of humor about themselves.
As a reward for good behavior, I am going to encourage everyone to buy Rick Walker’s new film “The Fun Park,” coming out on DVD March 4th. Just check out that cast: Amy McRee! Brad Copeland! Pork! The movie even centers around Clark’s nemesis, Bobo the Insult Clown. Here’s the trailer:
Recent Comments