I listen to a local morning show here in St. Louis: “The Showgram” with J.C., U-man, Sparky and Mac on KIHT 96.3 FM.
Laurie Mac is easily the funniest person I have ever heard on the radio. She has a quick wit and throws in one-liners under the conversation that usually has me rolling.
KIHT’s a 70’s rock station and J.C. use to have a segment every morning called the “Fab Four” in which he’d play four Beatles tracks back-to-back. He had quite the selection of regular, rarely heard versions and Beatles tracks by other artists that the segment stayed fresh for two years or so. They were even smart enough to change the segment after they ran out of Beatles tracks.
The “Showgram” has a bit of everything from the normal entertainment talk fluff, to serious politics and world events with a local flavor thrown in. All in all, a well balanced show and while I don’t always agree with their politics or views, they do make me think and evaluate why I don’t agree.
The rest of the time they just keep me entertained.
I’ve been listening to “Elliot in the Morning” since it started on DC101 (it also plays on a Richmond station these days). The gay jokes have made me turn it off once or twice, some of the callers piss me off, and I’d seriously like to kick Kyle’s ass one of these days, but on the whole I find the show entertaining – and it beats anything else that’s on in the morning around here (and I’m not a fan of talk or news radio).
Elliot & company aren’t entertaining enough to sit through twice, though, so I won’t listen to any clip shows: if they’re on vacation or something, I’ll listen to the local “oldies” station in the morning.
I hate Lex & Terry with a passion. Syndicated from somewhere (Florida, maybe?) One of the 2 rock stations in the area picked them up recently (to replace an admittedly second rate local show) and I won’t even listen to their commercials. Morons!
If you’re ever in the Corpus Christi, TX area check out “The Two Guys in the Morning” Rex & Rios on C101. That’s some funny stuff.
I listen to William Bennett’s MORNING IN AMERICA on the local Salem Communications affiliate (970 AM out of Louisville). Sometimes, I catch Laura Ingraham in mid-morning, always check out Denis Prager at noon, very occasionally Mike Medved & Hugh Hewitt later in the day.
Evening- 840AM Louisville WHAS with Joe Elliott, and Coast to Coast with George Noury & Art Bell late at night.
I listen to Bob and Tom, but I don’t really like them that much. They’ve just been around forever and they have a lot of good comedians on, like Tim Wilson. He’s my favorite.
Other than that, I think they’re obnoxious and they laugh too much at their own lame jokes. But I think that’s every morning show.
I’m pretty sure Lex and Terry are from Gainesville, Florida. I lived there for seven years, and never could stand them. I think they’re only popular locally because none of the Gainesville stations carry Howard Stern.
I’ve usually got young kids in the car, so I don’t listen to any of them. Most of radio is a wasteland anyway.
Once in a blue moon I’ll catch Bob and Tom, but Indygrrl is spot on about way too much laughter at not much humor.
Nobody from DC has mentioned The Greaseman - last I heard he was relegated to some shitty AM station over there. 20+ years ago on DC101 he was occasionally brilliant, but he simply said too many hateful things to be kept around.
Interestingly enough, I believe it may have been Elliot and his asinine crew that drove me over the edge. If by some unfortunate string of events I’m forced to drive a car without XM or a CD player, I tune to WBJC, the local classical music station, and leave it there.
Wow, two completely different reactions to “Elliot in the Morning.”
On the whole I love the show (or I wouldn’t keep listening), but I do have mixed feelings about the gay stuff: Elliot will defend and be cool about gay people when it comes down to it, but he’s still ok with using “fag” and “gay” as insults; the Gay Greg schtick got old immediately; Kyle’s freakish homophobia is not funny; who really gives a shit about what Joe wears; etc. I don’t even find that stuff offensive so much as completely annoying, but I enjoy the other parts of the show (more often than not). And, not that it’s much of an excuse, but I know that I’m not their target audience.
Agent Foxtrot, I agree: Howard Stern is a no-go. Elliot is just enough over the line to get the station fined once or twice (i.e. he gets attention) without being completely offensive.
