Dick Tater would be a great radio name.
 

and then there's this classic look at Russian TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOu_t68mjNM

And yet when you listen to talk radio on AM a good number of people call in (very annoying) while driving, hopefully using bluetooth, not a hand held phone.
It's annoying because usually you can hear the car ambience of rumbling and air rushing.
But the fact that a good number of people do drive and talk on the phone shows there's still a market for AM radio in cars.
I enjoy listening to AM radio while driving.
Here in my car I feel safest of all, I can lock all my doors, it's the only way to live!.

 

Donovan has said he thinks he knows who killed the Shermans, but of course he can't say out loud.
I hope some day he can spill the beans.
L and O Toronto has done a good job this season tackling thinly disguised crime cases from Toronto.
I thought they did a really good job with the case of the girls who swarmed and killed the homeless man.
Also the infamous Person Airport gold heist.
Of course both these episodes had totally fictitious plot changes and endings but I thought they were well done.


 

To me the golden age of late night shows was the era of Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin Joey Bishop and even Tom Snyder.
Guests were not stars from the latest comic book superhero movie, or some novelty politician who answered lightweight questions.
They were in fact deep thinkers like Gore Vidal, William F Buckley, Norman Mailer and Gloria Steinem.
Heck Cavett even once had a revealing interview with George Meanie, head of the AFL CIO union who got so mad he walked off the show.
And people watched those shows in droves.
And they actually knew who the guests were because they read newspapers and books.
These days you have a provincial premier the likes of Doug Ford who once suggested he would not know Margaret Atwood from a hole the the ground.



 

Some of you might have heard a couple of weeks ago when trivia guy Jason Agnew went on at great length about how he sliced a finger open using some sort of kitchen utensil.
He would not stop talking about slicing into his flesh etc etc... after a few minutes I had to turn the program off.
I do not think a radio host needs to tell you how he cut his finger open and how the blood spurted etc etc.
What a dolt!
 

Even when I was a kid and I saw that Emergency Broadcasting Centre PSA on the TV, I knew "If it had been a real emergency." in other words an atomic bomb attack, we'd all be dead no matter what frequency we turned to.

 

I didn't mind the show, but I did think it was pure fantasy because nobody could ever believe that Queen Latifah, an upper middle aged rather overweight woman, could be a deadly assassin.
But then the original series had an upper middle aged rather overweight man -- Edward Woodward-- in the lead role.
I liked the movies with Denzel, but I was a bit dismayed at how gratuitously violent they are.
Also it was implausible that a 60 something man was able to wipe out entire roomfulls of bad guys single handily.


 

Don't forget the catchphrases spawned by The Simpsons, the long running cartoon sitcom might have slowed down on the creativity in recent years, but its Golden Age (when there was a slew of Canadian writers) crafted many laughable lines.
To this day people still say,
Don't have a cow, man
Eat my shorts,
Cowabunga.
Ay Caramba!
D'oh!
Okely Dokely
Eeeeehxcelent!
And I for one welcome our ant overlords
Thank you, come again.
That's a paddlin
Hi everybody!
and i'm sure some I'm missing.

 

Ever heard of the Internet?
Or Zoom, Slack, VPN etc etc
But of course she didn't because she's a fictional character who apparently works for Spence Diamonds and Got Junk at the same time.
Maybe she and Michael can buy a mattress from Ikea together.


 

For What It's Worth (There's something happening here) Buffalo Springfield.
American Woman The Guess Who
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye  The Band
 

I have worked for radio stations where ops and newsrooms were given strict instructions to pull ads when news events could make a company look bad.
One example was Air Canada.
When I worked for CJOR in Vancouver newscasters and ops were under strict instructions to pull any adds during the news if there was a negative story involving Air Canada.
The negative news story was not pulled, of course, but the ads was.
This makes sense.
Air Canada would not be wanting to run an ad extolling the virtues of cheap flights to Italy if there weas a plane crash in Rome.
In the case of AM 640 though one could argue that if a political party bought ad time it was just too bad if the ad was played after a talk show segment critical of that party.
But also during election campaigns it would be a good idea for a political party to ask that their ads not be played right after a talk show segment that mad them look bad.
They are paying the radio station money for an ad, after all.






 

If tRumph's regime carries on the way it is, we'll soon need a revival of this Cold War nugget.
(People of a certain age will remember seeing this promo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXg8XOITpM

Gee, I've always wanted to meet John Moore and Deb Hutton!
I've got so much to say to them.
Can hardly wait to sit with them in a crowded theatre for three hours watching a stage show and not talking.
To a pair who make their living from talking.
 

True story -- up  until  this year the Catholic cardinal from the Philippines was Jaime Sin.  Cardinal Sin.
You can't dream this stuff up.