# Who was your morning radio host? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 18, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418 "2000-10-18T16:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/21 "2000-10-18T21:21:48Z")
Dave - that’s it. Thanks! And Satan - if he does do a streaming webcast, lemme know. I _loved_ that show, dammit. Only time I ever bothered to listen to WHFS. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/22 "2000-10-18T21:48:13Z")
Okay, okay…before you jump on my taste in radio morning shows, I was probably all of 8 or 9 when Greaseman was on. I think he got fired (suspended??) for the first time (for his comments on the Air Florida crash???) when I was 11. Don & Mike was what I started to listen to as I got a little older, mostly because they were on the classic rock station and I listened to that type of music when I was in middle school. By the time I actually got old enough to discern between idiotic blathering and good radio, I was mostly listening to WHFS or CDs. Jeesh! If I had known that my adult “sense of humor” was going to be judged solely on the morning radio show I listened to before I could even do long division, I might have been a little more discerning! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/23 "2000-10-19T02:21:07Z")
perhaps the original off-beat FM station… they broke a lot of rules 🙂 I still miss Steve Capin in the morning. He used to make it impossible for the oriental newscaster to talk by playing Monty Ptyhon’s “I LIke Chinese.” She would start to laugh and be useless! There are other moments… ---
**Author:** ![alansmithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@alansmithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alansmithee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/24 "2000-10-19T02:39:10Z")
Hey fellow Hoosier! I grew up listening to Bob & Tom in Columbus (Ind.). I still have plenty of their pre-syndication tapes and CDs, and I now get them here in FL(very cool). I’ve heard a rumor that they do a more “local” show for an hour after the syndicated show. Any truth to that? ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/25 "2000-10-19T03:32:11Z")
Pretty much all I remember of Howard Stern’s show was the “W NNNNNNNN… BC” line. Don’t recall actually listening to the show. Though my mom always had WOR-AM on, and she’d listen to Ralph Snodsmith of the Gardening Hotline, and Bernard “not a practicing lawyer” Meltzer. The voices of those two are irrevocably etched in my mind forever. I can even remember the station’s call-in phone number, and I haven’t lived in New Jersey for 16 years! But in high school in the Charlotte area, it was Russell & Flynn on WBT. Ahh, the days of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and Hurricane Hugo… ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/26 "2000-10-19T03:42:36Z")
Anyone remember way back when around 1985 or so and Richard Blade was hosting mornings on KROQ in LA? He was a British guy… he was so hyper that he often flubbed lines and it was a riot! I woke up to him for about three years… There are very few things about LA I miss; diversity in radio is one of them. Mornings in Utah? I wake up to a pre-programed CD. Utah radio sucks! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/27 "2000-10-19T04:07:55Z")
When my parents controlled the radio, it was always Dave Maynard in the morning on WBZ Boston. On my own, it was always classic rock with Annalisa on WZLX-FM. I loved that station so much that I interned there as a college student. Boy, did that shatter my illusions. Most people there were pretty nice, but Lisa Traxler and programming manager Paul Lemieux were absolute assholes. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/28 "2000-10-19T04:28:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C3 \* > \*\*I used to listen to the Greasman on DC101. Occasionally, I’d listen to Don & Mike before they were syndicated, also in D.C. \*\* When I was in high school I worshipped the Greaseman (yeah, pathetic, so what). I carried a walkman with me all over school to hear his entire show. A couple years ago I discovered him in syndication. It just wasn’t as good. With Don and Mike I’ve had the opposite experience. I didn’t think they were all that cool when they worked mornings in DC. But now that they’re doing afternoon drive in syndication, they’re my favorite radio show. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418/29 "2000-10-19T04:34:03Z")
Oh, and like C3, I listened before the Greaseman revealed himself to be a blatant racist. His comparison between Lauryn Hill and James Byrd made me nauseous. Still does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-your-morning-radio-host/37418.md?page=1)