How many people listen to Mike and Mike in the Morning? I was surprised they are not one of the top rated radio shows. I have met a lot of people that listen to the show, but I have never met anyone that says he listens to Mark Levine.
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I never listened on the radio, but I used to watch them sometimes on ESPN2 during college. I’m not really into sports, but I found the two of them really entertaining.
I hate morning chat shows. For that matter, I hate the afternoon/evening drive shows, too. And don’t get me started on ball games on the radio.
If I turn on the radio, I usually want to listen to music, not listen to an idiot or crew of idiots flap their jaws about every passing notion that wanders through what they laughingly call their brains. Note that the list you linked to is a list of SHOWS, not programs. I’m not interested in radio personalities. There are a few people who can talk, live, for an hour or three, five days a week, week in and week out, and consistently be interesting. Most of the ones who try have an inflated ego and little common sense. And they aren’t as interesting as they think they are.
I used to listen to some old radio shows, like The Shadow, and rather enjoyed them. However, those shows were scripted, and the reason they were replayed was because they had stood the test of time.
I used to listen to Mike and Mike on my way to work. Then my hours changed and I’m too lazy to turn them on at home. I might start again once baseball season starts (I’m not a big football fan so any talk about that bores me). When I listened to them I found then to be entertaining, however Golic’s “Greenie is girly” stuff was beginning to annoy me.
I watch them on the Deuce. I get the impression they have a bigger tv audience than they do on radio.
I listen to them a little bit, mostly during football season when I flip between them and the local sports radio.
I like them OK, but same as Cell Guy said, I think they’re forcing the “Greenie is girly” a little too much as well.
I had them on podcast rotation for a while but didn’t really enjoy the show, too typically morning-show frenetic. But I’ve never heard of Mark Levin.
I find that the only sports radio show I can listen to consistently over any length of time, without getting burned out by the repetitiveness of it, is Tony Kornheiser’s. But that’s probably because he only spends about 40% of his time talking about sports.
I never used to listen to sports talk, but I happened across Mike & Mike a couple years ago and liked them; now I listen all the time. They’re knowledgeable enough, but mostly they come across as fellow fans who are having fun talking about sports.
They were both off a couple weeks ago, and the guys filling in for them were boring as hell. Made me appreciate them that much more.
I’ve listened to them before, but their schtick is kind of silly, and they work for the East Coast Sports Network so I can’t really care about 90% of what they’re talking about.
I am however a rabid addict to local sports talk.
I’ll catch them for a few minutes while I’m taking The Littlest Briston to school. If they’re talking anything other than football, I switch the station. They’re fine to listen to, since you’re getting a more league-wide view of things – something you generally don’t get from a city-based sports talk station.
Take Rush Limbaugh, remove any last vestiges of intellect, personality, humor or common sense, and then give him the voice of Frank “Jerky Boys” Rizzo. Do not attempt to listen without extensive preparation – a lobotomy is a good start.
I listen to them sometimes in the car, but only their football talk. My main talk station is WLS, and Don and Roma in the morning make me want to reenact the Chicago fire. Sometimes they have good guests, but they themselves are horrid and annoying.
I skip WLS throughout the day, since I’m usually working or listening to music, but I love Roe Conn/Richard Roeper on drive-time. Really, really great radio.
Hannity is on in the evening (sometimes tolerable, often annoying) and Mark Levin is on at 9pm. What a horrid, rotten man. Seriously - the worst of talk radio.
I’ll listen on my way to work, but I’ll switch over to something else during their commercial breaks, which last forever. And sometimes they harp on issues I don’t care about and sometimes Greenburg gets on my nerves. He tries so hard to be PC it gets annoying.
Don’t forget that in the end they work for Disney, so the PC thing makes sense. They’re literally human versions of the classic cartoon team, the little smart fancy one and the big dumb sloppy one.
I listen to Mike and Mike on the way to work daily and often have them on TV for maybe 10 minutes as I get ready to go in the morning. But I also listen to several other stations on the way. A Local Sports program on WFAN, NPR and some music stations.
I used to listen to them every morning getting ready for work and during my drive, then a few years ago our local ESPN radio affiliate dropped the show for some local sports guys, and I started listening to NPR instead.
Then last month for Christmas I got XM radio, so I’ve been listening to them in the car again. I really like them (and Greenie and I went to NU at about the same time) but I agree, the commercial breaks are interminable.
Also, I was thinking about starting a thread on this just this morning: what’s with the quality of the ads? I heard one commercial break this morning that was almost nothing but scam ads: “rare” US gold coins (narrated like a newscast); a “public announcement” of “free information about goverment auctions”, and stuff like that. I remember there used to be ads for “male enhancement” products as well. WTH, they can’t get any legitimate companies to advertise?
The commercials are mostly the local affiliate’s. I’m not sure where your ads come from if on XM, but they are far different from the NYC station I pick up on AM.
I was wondering that. When I listened locally I blamed it on the local station, but I’m getting the same ads on XM.
I usually listen to them for the first part of my hour-long drive to work, from 6:15-6:30 when I leave home until their show ends at 7:00 Pacific time. (710 AM KSPN in Los Angeles).
After that I usually switch over to our NPR affiliate for the balance of the trip.
I used to listen to them every day on my way home when I worked overnights, but now I work days and take the subway (no radio reception).