A home for those who love almost everything about The Ticket (1310 AM, 96.7 FM, Dallas-Fort Worth), and who would like to discuss -- respectfully and fondly -- their thoughts on how (and whether) to eliminate the "almost."
Thursday, June 5, 2025
THE HARDLINE GETS IT RIGHT
REMINDER: I WILL DELETE "ANONYMOUS" COMMENTS AND THOSE I FIND GRATUITOUSLY VULGAR, INSULTING, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, OR JUST GENERALLY ANNOYING, IN MY SOLE AND UNREVIEWABLE DISCRETION.
I was delighted that The Hardline saw fit to evaluate Rick Derringer for admission to that blessed Three Bedroom Suite in the sky, and voted him in.
I won't repeat Derringer's many contributions to rock-and-roll, both with an axe in his hands, as a songwriter, and behind the board. I will point out, however, that notorious guitar-exhausters Steely Dan used him on three of their albums: "Chain Lightning" on "Katy Lied," "My Rival" on "Gaucho," and, most notably on slide on "Show Biz Kids" on "Countdown to Ecstasy." ("Show biz kids/Making movies of themselves / You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else") I note also that Eddie Van Halen threw his band off of a VH tour because Rick wouldn't stop playing "Eruption" as part of the opening act.
Rick Derringer (born Richard Zehringer – when his band the McCoys became Johnny Winter's backup for the band Johnny Winter And, his drummer brother was credited as "Randy Z") was a big part of my rock-and-roll awakening. I played "Johnny Winter And – Live" until the vinyl was smooth.
And if you want a taste of what he brought to gotta-move ass-twitching rock-and-roll, I commend to you his performance of Chuck Berry's "Living in the USA" on Edgar Winter's White Trash live album "Roadwork":
(Blogger may have a way to publish links, but I've never found it. Sorry) I'll concede that Rick's playing here reprises almost every RnR guitar cliche you can think of, but it's some GREAT cliche reprising as his red Gibson ES-335 really cuts through the phlegm of a crappy day. (Photo is from the album cover, with Johnny Winter making his first appearance after rehab playing Rick's "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo at the show.)
RIP Rick, and welcome to your rest in the Ticket pantheon.
And nice work, Hardline.
PS: Does anyone remember whether Beaumont's own Johnny Winter got a room?
As a Trifecta Traditionalist, where one of the tenets was that the person had to be famous or at least easily known when their name is mentioned. For the musicians and audiophiles, maybe. Random knobhead on the innerwebs…he’s a ‘no’.
Agreed, its been a really enjoyable show with Norm, Craig and Gordo this morning. I'm really happy to hear Norm sounding so strong. The last few times I've heard him I felt like I could hear his age in his voice but today he sounds really strong, like the Norm of old. I feel like he played along more with Gordo than he has in the past and it made for some great segments. I'm glad Norm is still around for fill-ins, the draft and Normathon, and that his departure from the station was on good terms. He's a local treasure, IMO, and we shan't see his like again.
I can’t say who I am or what I so, but I can tell you what I’ve learned. Norm wanted to quit immediately after the 2023 draft and either Bennett or Catlin had to point out that contracts work both ways and he needs to keep working until they have plans in place. That’s why he didn’t actually depart until mid June.
On last night’s show, Sirois and Danny discussed what they were making at the Ticket when they left. After 17 years, Sirois was making a base between $35,000 - $40,000. With endorsements, it was just shy of $50,000. After 23 years, Danny was making $60,000…and he was practically a 3rd host. So for the people who give them crap about leaving…kick rocks!
A few things need to be said. First off, I watched live most of last night's CdS. I keep giving it a try and keep coming away with the same thoughts. More on those in a bit. Second, and if this was mentioned and I didn't hear it, please correct me. When you look at their hours, both Danny and Mike worked part-time. Danny, roughly 20 and change per week; Mike, roughly 15 and change. I never, ever hear them or anyone else of the ex-Ticketeers make mention of this. Again, if either did last night, please let me and and I'll stand corrected. Regardless, either salary plus insurance and any other attendant earning oppurtinities/celebrity is pretty damn good money. Really good money. You can say all you want that they were de facto hosts. But they weren't. That was not their job title. That was not what they were hired to do. Please see Fernando's career if you think producers are asked to be unpaid cohosts. It's a flase claim based on producers and suppot staff having the privelige of a live mic and the hosts' permission/encouragement to use it and listeners' assumptions. Those assumptions rarely if ever reflect reality. To that, in no world does a producer earn as much or even commensurably as much as a host. Thirdly and finally, you engage in a sophistical ploy here. While I'm sure you can find a few trolls and/or short-sighted comments to the contrary, on the whole no one ever begrudged them for leaving and "betting on themselves." Not at all. Indeed, most everyone understood why and didn't blame them. What was questioned was they manner in which they set about it. So, perhaps it's you who should pound sand for using a cheap rhetorical trick.
As to the new version of CdS, I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve. Thus far it's come off as a self-help, self-directed, therapeutic session for two middle-aged men -- guided by another middle-aged man who steers the conversation. One where they shape a narrative that places any and all failure onto circumstance and other's incompetency. Then there was Danny spouting the copium (lie) Rhyner immediately crapped out after TF's demise: iHeart didn't know what to do with us, they've never had an all-talk station. Well, that's an easily proven lie. Not only does iHeart have such stations --exactly like TF--, those stations are some of their most successful. Again, easily proven. It'll take you all but a few seconds to find the info. There were so many missteps taken by all of them that had zero to do with iHeart, management or the lack thereof, yet they never can bring themselves to say, "We pissed it away in doing ___." Any acceptance of any level of culpability is immediately followed with a caveat assigning blame to circumstance and/or others and their podcast download numbers, which is 100% the same thing Richie Whitt would do when RaGE failed. The very same thing Danny, Mike, and Corby would snicker at on air at TT in a not so sublte way.
I won't get into the rest of their Ticket discussion regarding Cat, et cetera. How many more times can they dip into that punchbowl before there's nothing left? I'd say not many. The audience for what now is already (in this day and age) fast becoming ancient history is dwindling down to triple digits at best, but mostly double.
So what's next? Thing is, I think all three have something to say. I wish they'd drop the apparent trajectory of doing TT or TF on their "own terms," and offer something different to an audience that cares about what they have to offer. Embrace your middle-agedness that is hurtling toward senior citizenship. You will never garner young viewers. The ones you do will be short-lived. Talk of things aging as a Gen Xer. THAT is your audience. It is the audience of peak Ticket, of Halcyon Days Ticket, of when TT was a (if not the) focal point of your and our lives. It, YOU, would be authentic. No more reliance on one-sided, self-serving dishing dirt and showing where bodies are buried. Screw bits. Screw games. Just be yourselves and talk about real shit in a real way. As it is, the well has already run dry.
First: your assertion that people on here were mostly supportive of them betting on themselves is patently false. All comments are saved. It’s easy enough to peruse back through that time and see all the people who were angry they left, not for how they exited but purely because of the fact they left the mothership. Ticket tribalism is alive and well!
Second: producers work many more hours than the time they’re on air. Suggesting that the only time they worked was during the hours of their show is laughable - as though there’s no show prep. That’s not how the industry works.
I’m with you in hoping CdS turns the corner into finding its own footing without just living on the rehashing of past days. The audience for that is dwindling and that was never the way to have a successful long-term show. Maybe how it starts but then the corner must be turned. You outlined well one possible avenue. Here’s hoping that one such avenue is taken…and that we get good entertainment out of both TT and other sources.
Alright RagonkForce - let’s see it. Show me one comment that was angry Mikey and Dingu left. I guarantee you there isn’t one. In fact, I’ll go you one further and say the majority of comments on here when the Freak rumors were starting were supportive of the concept, as most believed that it would force TT to step up it’s game.
It was only after TF started and proved to be very bad (like Day 2) and the Dan and Jake rumors started that the tribalism reared its head.
I like Sirois and Danny but a lot of show prep? Maybe…I felt Like Sirois missed as many days as he worked. Fernando did show prep that was obvious, Danny? Idk
Thing is RF, you began commenting here after Dan and Jake flew the coop. During the holy cow every Rhyner lil buddy is quitting and all citing the same thing then magically becoming Freak hosts era, very few were angry with them. Pretty much everyone got it. Like the other dude said, the gen consensus was kick ass, now TT will have teal competition and will step its game up. And we’ll get the old bad ass Rhyner back: As far as Sirois and Fanny putting in Fernando and name your BaD/HZ producer hours and prep goes… what planet have you been living on?
Beaker, I see plenty of News Talk and Political Talk stations owned by iHeart but I don't see any Hot Talk stations. I don't think Danny was lying about that.
If it was such a popular format, there would have been one here in town and it's been nearly two decades since Live 1053 went off the air. What TF was trying to do was pretty unique in the grand landscape of radio these days.
Chip, they do, but they’re not listed as Hot Talk. There are scant few stations, regardless of paren company, that list as such. But there are dozens of lifestyle/entertainment driven formats across the country and under the iHeart aegis. Rhyner knows this. I’ll give Danny a bit of the benefit of the doubt and say he is unwittingly passing along and finding comfort in Rhyner’s ever growing list of copium bs. A bit, because Danny hasn’t always been truthful vis-a-vis The Freak and his role in its nascency.
I’m sorry, RagonkForce, but you have only a small sliver of the story correct. As Chief said above, you seem to be mistakenly applying the post HZ-Cumulus affair to things that developed prior to that ness. Appreciate we agree on CdS and appreciate your civility.
I worked in sales at TT for a while, and can tell you both Mike and Danny strolled in about 20-30 minutes before their show. Spent enough time doing the circuit trying to find them. Out the sales area thru the mail room, down the hall making a restroom or water fountain break if needed, then they the back door and Down the back hall. There’s an office, then the show merging/prep room. Norm would be in the other prep room at end of that hall by 6 or7, Mike would show up 930, and Danny about 230p. Producers may have been doing behind the scenes work, BAD expected there producer to be an archivist, content producer (Homer call) and more. But Danny and Mike? Neither were known as a hard worker in my time there C
Not giving my identity. Worked at the station from ‘14 until ‘23 in a support capacity. Never once did I get even a second of air time. Couple of things. Some of you guys get awfully close to the truth. Like damn near spot on. Other thing is Mike would show up obviously hungover af or still going from the night before. Danny was hungover a lot. Both usually arrived a half hour or less before their shift. Fernando was an old school seasoned pro. Every BAD producer was run through the gauntlet daily. Last thing to say is I was treated well by every host. Every one there was friendly. Including Mike and Danny.
One of my biggest issues with San was his treatment of the producers when he’d twist off on them. For a man of the people who sure drew a hard line distinction between talent and support staff and how he treated them on air. It might have all been an act but some of those encounters got pretty heated. Bob isn’t much better. I would not have made it working for those two.
Dang it fellas! There I go opening my proverbial mouth again! My apologies to any hurt feelings my regrettable comment might’ve caused. I’ll do better. I am better.
For all the "ticket sux now" - "middays are terrible" - "musers mailing it in" - hey, there might be a little truth in those, but......for the 6th year in a row, Davey has taken over the airways, & DJ Oldwaver is crushing it! It's like that saying I kinda heard awhile ago....they can't something that....I'll figure it out later, Berlin is on now!
I was surprised by Davey referring to Metro as a deeper cut. I would consider Metro a very well played song of the era. Davey knows way more than I do about the subject though and maybe just really liked Berlin for all the reasons a teenage boy in the 80s would like Berlin.
They just lost a listener! Thank you for putting this out. Bet you anything Cat said if either family acknowledged Davey, Bob and Corby would lose their jobs. Total corporate boot lickers. DZ forever, man.
Ode to George. We all know the _______ is my leader bit. I have a personal encounter with Bob where he was very kind and generous, but this post is re: Jub. And, Plainsman how about a little positivity? George is the current MVP of TT. Everything he touches and everywhere he shows up gets better. I recall him noticing Dak's potential when he was in his first training camp. That's one of thousands of notes on his sports chops, his comedy bits are gold, (I'm in the camp who doesn't think they're tired or old), and my man emotes with the best of them. Loves his boys and his family in general. Jub seems to be the definition of the "good dude." I love listening to the Musers. They're all great. I'm happy they cut their time down and are getting more time off. I'll take what I can get as long as they last, and for right now, George is MVPing the crap out of the TT right now. Peace.
I'm curious if anyone else has given up on WTDS. It was once a must listen, & even in the new configuration I'm a fan of just about everyone on there - (aretha, stevie, and aretha) - but there are some microphones that are being way over-used, and could sit out the next couple of plays. Or days. Weeks. etc.
Hopefully WIP gets the majority of fill-in for the again vacationing Museys.
Thinking the boot dropped on your head. Curious: Whose ratings are as good, even better since, well, ya know? Who now makes less than half of what they once did but is now doing 4x the amount of work— much of it having nothing to do with the actual job? Asking for a friend who’s interested in buying a pair of Noconas.
I’m officially out on Cirque. They spend sooooooo much time on house keeping issues. How to get a t-shirt. How to play Bingu. How to play marble racing. They don’t really talk about anything. Total waste of time.
KTCK still on top but KSCS is pushing them hard in the +6 ratings. Cumulus is strangling WBAP who is headed toward KSKY ratings. https://radioinsight.com/ratings/dallas-fort-worth/
hey y'all - I did not get around to posting the ratings this week because I've been busy working on another recently announced project - more to come on that.
But while TT was again #1 - the gap in share has dropped and has been trending since Feb, and Fan has be increasing about an equal amount. My gut is that the gap was SO huge, this is a natural reduction, but we'll see as there's a lot of vacation in the coming weeks, followed by Cowboys Camp - which is historically a very good run for the station.
I will get the numbers posted, just need to get through Wednesday.
No. We’re off today because Andy is working gold Cup and I had to attend my MiL’s memorial in Houston. Back next week and then go on a long run of shows into the league seasons.
Here you gi again with your bs. I was there and it was full. Both the floor and balcony. Peddle your crap elsewhere. Ticket and DumbZone reddit will eat it up, as they always do. Liars gonna lie.
Didn’t say it wasn’t sold out, bud. Haven’t a clue. Said it was packed. It was . That your measuring stick for all events? Including a half baked, half attended DZ get together. Recalling that rangers game fiasco. Hoo boy was that one for the ages. What, 20 showed? Those “remotes.” 5 of you. Like that one dude says, “They don’t see it.”
How do you know? You don’t. It went on long after they went IFF the air. I too was there. If it wasn’t a sell out, it might as well have been. What is your point, any way? What’s your motivation here?
Excited for the Musers pod to drop. T minus 24 hours. I bet the first 15 minutes will be how the Musers don't actually benefit financially and/or how all proceeds will go to charity. Want to bet? If I were them I would take my proceeds and buy an annuity paying a 30 percent bonus and 12 percent guaranteed.
No I don't work in the financial field whatsoever. I am just amused with people thinking they can get a 30 percent bonus...poof money out of thin air. They are not the only firm promising such bonuses on the world's worst "investment" Annuities within a retirement portfolio.
Because there is never a scenario where you wouldn't be better off investing in actual index funds and other actual investments and buying only the term insurance you need for the period of time you need such insurance. By definition, you are surrendering a large part of your "investment" in commissions, surrender charges and/or overpriced insurance in any type of annuity. Garbage products. The counterfactual is if you take the same amount of money you invested over a lifetime in annuities and invested in a nice diversified low fee zero commission investments you would absolutely have more total money in your own pocket. The total pool of money is a zero sum game - Mr Trajan is rich for a reason. He and any other annuity salesman working for any company, not just TW are skimming billions a year for annuity investments that make no sense. If you truly want an annuity you can get indexed low cost annuities from Vanguard or Fidelity. Having said that I wouldn't buy an annuity from anyone. I am continuously railing against the scam that is 30 percent bonuses (put on your thinking caps on this for a moment and promises of 12 percent guarantees). Trajan and other like them are not creating value but instead making billions as an industry in commissions on money that can be invested commission free in the financial markets. But if you want to give an investment "advisor" 6 figures of money for these products over your lifetime then more power to you. I have a multi million dollar investment portfolio through 35 years of low cost investing in a variety of domestic and international index funds and various fixed income non commission products.
Yet the Trajan Way has worked for me for many years. Lucratively so. Oh, TT, embrace the market of the market that markets the market’s market, markedly.
Let’s hope so. About time the guys addressed the elephant in the room. Freak’s been mopping the floor with all Ticket shows since ‘22. Oh. Hold on. This just in…
Emojiman: there’s no narrative here Peet: I listened to Junior’s explanation
Simply pointing out an obvious similarity. Many here (myself included) found the Freak’s tagline to be cringeworthy. Was amused to see almost the same thing pop up from the courage boys
not being argumentative, but your post says "direct reference to" - and as the person who actually chose it as the title of the episode, it was ONLY releated to Craig's quote from the movie - and that's it. (you're not the first to make the connect you made, and now I wish I'd chosen a different episode title).
There’s definitely a narrative. But it’s pushed by this same few (or one?) commenter who sees “the narrative” behind every bush.
Not active on reddit, ticket or DZ. More baseless attacks. And for what? What’s the goal?
This place has gotten so weird. The worst insult thrown around here is about seeming/sounding like Reddit. But seriously guys - almost every comment anyone makes turns into a long string of namecalling and secret nods to “the boys” and “the narrative”…sometimes it isn’t conspiracy. Sometimes it isn’t worth fighting internet strangers over.
Sometimes it’s just a ticket observation. Y’know - the kind that’s been going on here since the “where’s greggo” days? The whole reason this place exists…a place to discuss our favorite radio station.
My ticket confession: when I heard the name of the muser’s podcast, it sounded just like the freak’s cringe tagline.
Yep! Let’s see the receipts. you’ve been using different names to say this same thing for over a year now - put up or shut up. I have no idea who over on Reddit you think I am, but I assure you you’re WAY more obsessed with Reddit than am I.
Have to say, Ragonk Force, I have seen your comments on Ticket reddit several times. Is there another Ragonk Force? If so, my apologies. But I also have to say that the reddit comments read like yours here. Just saying.
6th - that’s not my user, so feel free to show somewhere with the same comment on all 3 sites. I’ll wait - as it doesn’t exist.
Ed - I’m not very proficient at reddit but I’ve searched for a user using this name and I found 4 with some variation, 3 of whom have no comments and the 4th hasn’t commented on anything ticket related. None are me, none seem to be the ones making the comments you’re referring to since none have comments at all.
Strange back-and-forth with reddit and here. And I still don’t get why the accusation of being someone on reddit (I’m not) is a thing. But no receipts here. The internet doesn’t forget…
Wait, so that’s it? The only “receipt” is that someone on reddit also noticed the similarity between the Freak’s tagline and the podcast name and mentioned it in a longer post breaking down the podcast’s first episode?
Peter already said people (plural) had noticed. That’s not news. I’m certainly not the only one!
I certainly hope after all the promises of receipts that you have more than that!
It’s the same comment you left here. Verbatim. Lie til ya die, Ragsy. You’re consistent, I’ll give you that. Oh , and you have a long history of comments on reddit. Yeah, sure, there’s another RF out there. You bet. Again, lie til ya die. Liar gonna lie. Socio gonna socio.
I’ve got nothing to hide. I don’t change my name every message, like you do.
So, where are the “receipts”? You pointed to someone on Reddit who noticed the same thing that I did but said it differently, in the middle of a longer post they made. Not cut and paste. Not verbatim. Just the same little observation. What exactly is the “gotcha”?
And no one with a ragonk-force-adjacent name has ever made a comment on any ticket or DZ subreddit that I can find.
So, again, please produce the receipts. You keep repeating the same lies (to what end we don’t even know), and you keep doubling and tripling down - but where’s all this proof you promised?
I've never been sure why being active on another platform is a mark against a poster here to begin with. This place isn't exactly the Algonquin Round Table. Until the Great Schism of 23 its was just a fun place to discuss the ticket and make fun of the terrible commercials.
Speaking of terrible commercials, if P1s have something in common it's apparently the need to sue truck drivers. I mean that must be the case given how incessant the Texas Law Dog spots are.
Good to see you’ve finally seen the light, Har. Truth’s gonna truth. Truth’s gonna out. I know it pains you, deeply, to admit these truths. It will get easier, I promise.
Pro tip: Turn it off. Observation/Basic critical thinking: Station accrues new listeners nearly daily. They’ve never heard the story; they most likely find it interesting. The world extends beyond you, your wants, your needs. I know, I know. Crazy, right.
I find it annoying that the Musers acted like they recorded their latest podcast after the first episode dropped by reading reviews. They recorded the first 4 or 5 and they are all in the can. They should start each episode with a current event so we know it’s new.
This baked potato is good. That mixed salad is bad. Carli Lloyd looks hotter in her soccer kit than in the studio. Alexi Lalas got hair plugs. Those Red Hots are stale. My wife wears too much makeup. Sometimes water tastes better than soda. Alcohol is cool. So are cigarettes. Today is almost but not quite the Fourth of July. Once I thought about the waist sizes of 1970s era Cliff Richard and Larry Fitzgerald. Cupcakes are sweets.
Or you could just enjoy the free extra content the Musers are giving you that allows them to expand upon stories and not be beholden to a fixed clock every 15 minutes.
Free extra content. No tier. No sales pitch while also being bombastic with more ads than terrestrial radio. But then you wouldn’t have anything to buy h about.
Did anyone happen to catch the latest Cirque? At the end of the pod they mentioned that they were blocked from a Twitter account, but they didn’t say who.
Quietly, one of my favorite observations from all this is how all of those who were “torches & pitchforks” over Dan and Jake’s non-compete and the companies efforts to enforce it, said nothing while their other hero’s - Danny and Mikey bragged about “getting paid” for doing zilch.
Another know-nothing. I’d wager anything it was a part of the risible “living wage” hilarity that raged for a couple of months on reddit. A movement totally put into motion and foisted by THZ in preparation for their preplanned departure. Dummies. The lot of them.
I was delighted that The Hardline saw fit to evaluate Rick Derringer for admission to that blessed Three Bedroom Suite in the sky, and voted him in.
ReplyDeleteI won't repeat Derringer's many contributions to rock-and-roll, both with an axe in his hands, as a songwriter, and behind the board. I will point out, however, that notorious guitar-exhausters Steely Dan used him on three of their albums: "Chain Lightning" on "Katy Lied," "My Rival" on "Gaucho," and, most notably on slide on "Show Biz Kids" on "Countdown to Ecstasy." ("Show biz kids/Making movies of themselves / You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else") I note also that Eddie Van Halen threw his band off of a VH tour because Rick wouldn't stop playing "Eruption" as part of the opening act.
Rick Derringer (born Richard Zehringer – when his band the McCoys became Johnny Winter's backup for the band Johnny Winter And, his drummer brother was credited as "Randy Z") was a big part of my rock-and-roll awakening. I played "Johnny Winter And – Live" until the vinyl was smooth.
And if you want a taste of what he brought to gotta-move ass-twitching rock-and-roll, I commend to you his performance of Chuck Berry's "Living in the USA" on Edgar Winter's White Trash live album "Roadwork":
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=living+in+the+usa+rick+derringer&type=E211US1357G0#id=1&vid=b44d32ec26b309134d871a1a074b0097&action=click
(Blogger may have a way to publish links, but I've never found it. Sorry) I'll concede that Rick's playing here reprises almost every RnR guitar cliche you can think of, but it's some GREAT cliche reprising as his red Gibson ES-335 really cuts through the phlegm of a crappy day. (Photo is from the album cover, with Johnny
Winter making his first appearance after rehab playing Rick's "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo at the show.)
RIP Rick, and welcome to your rest in the Ticket pantheon.
And nice work, Hardline.
PS: Does anyone remember whether Beaumont's own Johnny Winter got a room?
Oh, and by the way: Crank that link.
ReplyDeleteHe DOES still listen to The Ticket!!
ReplyDeleteAs a Trifecta Traditionalist, where one of the tenets was that the person had to be famous or at least easily known when their name is mentioned. For the musicians and audiophiles, maybe. Random knobhead on the innerwebs…he’s a ‘no’.
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DeleteIs great hearing Norm this am.. condom talk was hilarious
ReplyDeleteAgreed, its been a really enjoyable show with Norm, Craig and Gordo this morning. I'm really happy to hear Norm sounding so strong. The last few times I've heard him I felt like I could hear his age in his voice but today he sounds really strong, like the Norm of old. I feel like he played along more with Gordo than he has in the past and it made for some great segments. I'm glad Norm is still around for fill-ins, the draft and Normathon, and that his departure from the station was on good terms. He's a local treasure, IMO, and we shan't see his like again.
DeleteIt was very clear that unlike his energy, Norm very much did not choose retirement
ReplyDeleteHe does all the pickin’.
DeleteI can’t say who I am or what I so, but I can tell you what I’ve learned. Norm wanted to quit immediately after the 2023 draft and either Bennett or Catlin had to point out that contracts work both ways and he needs to keep working until they have plans in place. That’s why he didn’t actually depart until mid June.
DeleteDid somebody say “keep on rockin’”?
ReplyDeleteHold onto it tight fans of Ticket adjacents. Big one coming down soon.
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DeleteOn last night’s show, Sirois and Danny discussed what they were making at the Ticket when they left. After 17 years, Sirois was making a base between $35,000 - $40,000. With endorsements, it was just shy of $50,000. After 23 years, Danny was making $60,000…and he was practically a 3rd host. So for the people who give them crap about leaving…kick rocks!
ReplyDeleteDo you know what time the talk about the ticket/the fan stuff starts. Or is it mixed in? I really don’t want to listen to 2:22:00
DeleteAbout the 1:45 mark.
DeleteYo, Thanks!
DeleteA few things need to be said. First off, I watched live most of last night's CdS. I keep giving it a try and keep coming away with the same thoughts. More on those in a bit. Second, and if this was mentioned and I didn't hear it, please correct me. When you look at their hours, both Danny and Mike worked part-time. Danny, roughly 20 and change per week; Mike, roughly 15 and change. I never, ever hear them or anyone else of the ex-Ticketeers make mention of this. Again, if either did last night, please let me and and I'll stand corrected. Regardless, either salary plus insurance and any other attendant earning oppurtinities/celebrity is pretty damn good money. Really good money. You can say all you want that they were de facto hosts. But they weren't. That was not their job title. That was not what they were hired to do. Please see Fernando's career if you think producers are asked to be unpaid cohosts. It's a flase claim based on producers and suppot staff having the privelige of a live mic and the hosts' permission/encouragement to use it and listeners' assumptions. Those assumptions rarely if ever reflect reality. To that, in no world does a producer earn as much or even commensurably as much as a host. Thirdly and finally, you engage in a sophistical ploy here. While I'm sure you can find a few trolls and/or short-sighted comments to the contrary, on the whole no one ever begrudged them for leaving and "betting on themselves." Not at all. Indeed, most everyone understood why and didn't blame them. What was questioned was they manner in which they set about it. So, perhaps it's you who should pound sand for using a cheap rhetorical trick.
DeleteAs to the new version of CdS, I'm not sure what they're trying to achieve. Thus far it's come off as a self-help, self-directed, therapeutic session for two middle-aged men -- guided by another middle-aged man who steers the conversation. One where they shape a narrative that places any and all failure onto circumstance and other's incompetency. Then there was Danny spouting the copium (lie) Rhyner immediately crapped out after TF's demise: iHeart didn't know what to do with us, they've never had an all-talk station. Well, that's an easily proven lie. Not only does iHeart have such stations --exactly like TF--, those stations are some of their most successful. Again, easily proven. It'll take you all but a few seconds to find the info. There were so many missteps taken by all of them that had zero to do with iHeart, management or the lack thereof, yet they never can bring themselves to say, "We pissed it away in doing ___." Any acceptance of any level of culpability is immediately followed with a caveat assigning blame to circumstance and/or others and their podcast download numbers, which is 100% the same thing Richie Whitt would do when RaGE failed. The very same thing Danny, Mike, and Corby would snicker at on air at TT in a not so sublte way.
I won't get into the rest of their Ticket discussion regarding Cat, et cetera. How many more times can they dip into that punchbowl before there's nothing left? I'd say not many. The audience for what now is already (in this day and age) fast becoming ancient history is dwindling down to triple digits at best, but mostly double.
So what's next? Thing is, I think all three have something to say. I wish they'd drop the apparent trajectory of doing TT or TF on their "own terms," and offer something different to an audience that cares about what they have to offer. Embrace your middle-agedness that is hurtling toward senior citizenship. You will never garner young viewers. The ones you do will be short-lived. Talk of things aging as a Gen Xer. THAT is your audience. It is the audience of peak Ticket, of Halcyon Days Ticket, of when TT was a (if not the) focal point of your and our lives. It, YOU, would be authentic. No more reliance on one-sided, self-serving dishing dirt and showing where bodies are buried. Screw bits. Screw games. Just be yourselves and talk about real shit in a real way. As it is, the well has already run dry.
Just a couple quick corrections, Beaker:
DeleteFirst: your assertion that people on here were mostly supportive of them betting on themselves is patently false. All comments are saved. It’s easy enough to peruse back through that time and see all the people who were angry they left, not for how they exited but purely because of the fact they left the mothership. Ticket tribalism is alive and well!
Second: producers work many more hours than the time they’re on air. Suggesting that the only time they worked was during the hours of their show is laughable - as though there’s no show prep. That’s not how the industry works.
I’m with you in hoping CdS turns the corner into finding its own footing without just living on the rehashing of past days. The audience for that is dwindling and that was never the way to have a successful long-term show. Maybe how it starts but then the corner must be turned. You outlined well one possible avenue. Here’s hoping that one such avenue is taken…and that we get good entertainment out of both TT and other sources.
Alright RagonkForce - let’s see it. Show me one comment that was angry Mikey and Dingu left. I guarantee you there isn’t one. In fact, I’ll go you one further and say the majority of comments on here when the Freak rumors were starting were supportive of the concept, as most believed that it would force TT to step up it’s game.
DeleteIt was only after TF started and proved to be very bad (like Day 2) and the Dan and Jake rumors started that the tribalism reared its head.
I like Sirois and Danny but a lot of show prep? Maybe…I felt Like Sirois missed as many days as he worked. Fernando did show prep that was obvious, Danny? Idk
ReplyDeleteThing is RF, you began commenting here after Dan and Jake flew the coop. During the holy cow every Rhyner lil buddy is quitting and all citing the same thing then magically becoming Freak hosts era, very few were angry with them. Pretty much everyone got it. Like the other dude said, the gen consensus was kick ass, now TT will have teal competition and will step its game up. And we’ll get the old bad ass Rhyner back: As far as Sirois and Fanny putting in Fernando and name your BaD/HZ producer hours and prep goes… what planet have you been living on?
ReplyDeleteBeaker, I see plenty of News Talk and Political Talk stations owned by iHeart but I don't see any Hot Talk stations. I don't think Danny was lying about that.
ReplyDeleteIf it was such a popular format, there would have been one here in town and it's been nearly two decades since Live 1053 went off the air. What TF was trying to do was pretty unique in the grand landscape of radio these days.
Chip, they do, but they’re not listed as Hot Talk. There are scant few stations, regardless of paren company, that list as such. But there are dozens of lifestyle/entertainment driven formats across the country and under the iHeart aegis. Rhyner knows this. I’ll give Danny a bit of the benefit of the doubt and say he is unwittingly passing along and finding comfort in Rhyner’s ever growing list of copium bs. A bit, because Danny hasn’t always been truthful vis-a-vis The Freak and his role in its nascency.
ReplyDeleteI’m sorry, RagonkForce, but you have only a small sliver of the story correct. As Chief said above, you seem to be mistakenly applying the post HZ-Cumulus affair to things that developed prior to that ness. Appreciate we agree on CdS and appreciate your civility.
I worked in sales at TT for a while, and can tell you both Mike and Danny strolled in about 20-30 minutes before their show. Spent enough time doing the circuit trying to find them. Out the sales area thru the mail room, down the hall making a restroom or water fountain break if needed, then they the back door and Down the back hall. There’s an office, then the show merging/prep room. Norm would be in the other prep room at end of that hall by 6 or7, Mike would show up 930, and Danny about 230p. Producers may have been doing behind the scenes work, BAD expected there producer to be an archivist, content producer (Homer call) and more. But Danny and Mike? Neither were known as a hard worker in my time there
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Not giving my identity. Worked at the station from ‘14 until ‘23 in a support capacity. Never once did I get even a second of air time. Couple of things. Some of you guys get awfully close to the truth. Like damn near spot on. Other thing is Mike would show up obviously hungover af or still going from the night before. Danny was hungover a lot. Both usually arrived a half hour or less before their shift. Fernando was an old school seasoned pro. Every BAD producer was run through the gauntlet daily. Last thing to say is I was treated well by every host. Every one there was friendly. Including Mike and Danny.
ReplyDeleteI always got the feeling being a BAD Radio producer was a massive job and sounded dreadful.
ReplyDeleteProbably. Feel like Dan was the only guy that it was normalish for him to yell at a producer or low level employee lol.
DeleteOne of my biggest issues with San was his treatment of the producers when he’d twist off on them. For a man of the people who sure drew a hard line distinction between talent and support staff and how he treated them on air. It might have all been an act but some of those encounters got pretty heated. Bob isn’t much better. I would not have made it working for those two.
DeleteSan? Damn Fat fingers. Should be Dan.
DeleteTwo insiders in one day with the same obvious insights.
ReplyDeleteEhhhhhhh I don’t know Jim!
Dang it fellas! There I go opening my proverbial mouth again! My apologies to any hurt feelings my regrettable comment might’ve caused. I’ll do better. I am better.
DeleteShoot! I forgot to point out that I erroneously employed “obvious.” Must be better!
DeleteFor all the "ticket sux now" - "middays are terrible" - "musers mailing it in" - hey, there might be a little truth in those, but......for the 6th year in a row, Davey has taken over the airways, & DJ Oldwaver is crushing it!
ReplyDeleteIt's like that saying I kinda heard awhile ago....they can't something that....I'll figure it out later, Berlin is on now!
I was surprised by Davey referring to Metro as a deeper cut. I would consider Metro a very well played song of the era. Davey knows way more than I do about the subject though and maybe just really liked Berlin for all the reasons a teenage boy in the 80s would like Berlin.
DeleteYo, KDF. Was that your MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO???? Rock me.
DeleteIt’s too bad Bob and Corby’s family don’t know his name
DeleteThey just lost a listener! Thank you for putting this out. Bet you anything Cat said if either family acknowledged Davey, Bob and Corby would lose their jobs. Total corporate boot lickers. DZ forever, man.
Delete<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2FqwC4dEMo>Stop Sobbing</a>
DeleteDid that stunt score points with your fellow travelers? If so, what a banner day for you. If not, perhaps we need a re-think? Perhaps? Softly.
DeleteOverrated band. Mediocrity of a song.
DeleteOde to George. We all know the _______ is my leader bit. I have a personal encounter with Bob where he was very kind and generous, but this post is re: Jub. And, Plainsman how about a little positivity? George is the current MVP of TT. Everything he touches and everywhere he shows up gets better. I recall him noticing Dak's potential when he was in his first training camp. That's one of thousands of notes on his sports chops, his comedy bits are gold, (I'm in the camp who doesn't think they're tired or old), and my man emotes with the best of them. Loves his boys and his family in general. Jub seems to be the definition of the "good dude." I love listening to the Musers. They're all great. I'm happy they cut their time down and are getting more time off. I'll take what I can get as long as they last, and for right now, George is MVPing the crap out of the TT right now. Peace.
ReplyDeleteHe spends way too much time talking about country music.
DeleteI'm curious if anyone else has given up on WTDS. It was once a must listen, & even in the new configuration I'm a fan of just about everyone on there - (aretha, stevie, and aretha) - but there are some microphones that are being way over-used, and could sit out the next couple of plays. Or days. Weeks. etc.
ReplyDeleteHopefully WIP gets the majority of fill-in for the again vacationing Museys.
I used to be a fan of L4G but I think he has forgotten how to let the game come to him.
DeleteIt’s over. Done.
ReplyDeleteFind yourself someone who loves you as much as KTCK Reddit loves Monty
ReplyDeleteMusers announce a once a week podcast. First one next Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteThat is, until he’s a fr host. Then they turn on him. See: Mino.
ReplyDeleteDM
DeleteMusers podcast. Devastating boot drop.
ReplyDeleteThinking the boot dropped on your head. Curious: Whose ratings are as good, even better since, well, ya know? Who now makes less than half of what they once did but is now doing 4x the amount of work— much of it having nothing to do with the actual job? Asking for a friend who’s interested in buying a pair of Noconas.
DeleteSorry, No Drop Zone, but you just got curb stomped. Boot to the skull.
DeleteI’m officially out on Cirque. They spend sooooooo much time on house keeping issues. How to get a t-shirt. How to play Bingu. How to play marble racing. They don’t really talk about anything. Total waste of time.
ReplyDeleteMike gets it.
DeleteKTCK still on top but KSCS is pushing them hard in the +6 ratings.
ReplyDeleteCumulus is strangling WBAP who is headed toward KSKY ratings.
https://radioinsight.com/ratings/dallas-fort-worth/
hey y'all - I did not get around to posting the ratings this week because I've been busy working on another recently announced project - more to come on that.
ReplyDeleteBut while TT was again #1 - the gap in share has dropped and has been trending since Feb, and Fan has be increasing about an equal amount. My gut is that the gap was SO huge, this is a natural reduction, but we'll see as there's a lot of vacation in the coming weeks, followed by Cowboys Camp - which is historically a very good run for the station.
I will get the numbers posted, just need to get through Wednesday.
What’s up with TKA? Did you guys change times/day?
DeleteNo. We’re off today because Andy is working gold Cup and I had to attend my MiL’s memorial in Houston. Back next week and then go on a long run of shows into the league seasons.
DeleteSorry. That was me.
DeleteCondolences to you and your family. Looking forward to TKA’s return.
DeleteJust wondering if anyone went to Summer Chill. No comments here or at reddit
ReplyDeleteNo comments on Reddit most likely means it was packed/sold out. If it ain’t hate, it don’t fly on Ticket Reddit.
ReplyDeleteIt was not sold out. The Hardline was out there Thursday and asking people to come on out and buy tickets at the door
DeleteHere you gi again with your bs. I was there and it was full. Both the floor and balcony. Peddle your crap elsewhere. Ticket and DumbZone reddit will eat it up, as they always do. Liars gonna lie.
DeleteIf it was sold out why was the Hardline telling people on air AT THE EVENT to come out because there were plenty of tickets still available?
DeleteDidn’t say it wasn’t sold out, bud. Haven’t a clue. Said it was packed. It was . That your measuring stick for all events? Including a half baked, half attended DZ get together. Recalling that rangers game fiasco. Hoo boy was that one for the ages. What, 20 showed? Those “remotes.” 5 of you. Like that one dude says, “They don’t see it.”
DeleteSam? They won. Winning. Tremendous winning. Unprecedented winning. Precision winning.
DeleteI only said it wasn’t sold out. It was not sold out. You said that was BS. It wasn’t.
DeleteHow do you know? You don’t. It went on long after they went IFF the air. I too was there. If it wasn’t a sell out, it might as well have been. What is your point, any way? What’s your motivation here?
DeleteDon’t know what the he’ll IFF is or means. But there’s auto correct or my fat sausage fingers for you. Meant off.
DeleteThere it is again. He’ll instead of hell. Smart phone my ass.
DeleteExcited for the Musers pod to drop. T minus 24 hours. I bet the first 15 minutes will be how the Musers don't actually benefit financially and/or how all proceeds will go to charity. Want to bet? If I were them I would take my proceeds and buy an annuity paying a 30 percent bonus and 12 percent guaranteed.
ReplyDeleteBigly
Deleteok. I’m up for the bet.
DeleteHow much you got? :)
Trajan has always met my needs. Quadrupled my portfolio. Do you work for the Bless Your Heart schmuck?
DeleteBet you $5k. Here’s my contact: (900)-SEXPERT
DeleteNo I don't work in the financial field whatsoever. I am just amused with people thinking they can get a 30 percent bonus...poof money out of thin air. They are not the only firm promising such bonuses on the world's worst "investment" Annuities within a retirement portfolio.
DeleteWorked for me. Still does. Why the hate, TT?
DeleteBecause there is never a scenario where you wouldn't be better off investing in actual index funds and other actual investments and buying only the term insurance you need for the period of time you need such insurance. By definition, you are surrendering a large part of your "investment" in commissions, surrender charges and/or overpriced insurance in any type of annuity. Garbage products. The counterfactual is if you take the same amount of money you invested over a lifetime in annuities and invested in a nice diversified low fee zero commission investments you would absolutely have more total money in your own pocket. The total pool of money is a zero sum game - Mr Trajan is rich for a reason. He and any other annuity salesman working for any company, not just TW are skimming billions a year for annuity investments that make no sense. If you truly want an annuity you can get indexed low cost annuities from Vanguard or Fidelity. Having said that I wouldn't buy an annuity from anyone. I am continuously railing against the scam that is 30 percent bonuses (put on your thinking caps on this for a moment and promises of 12 percent guarantees). Trajan and other like them are not creating value but instead making billions as an industry in commissions on money that can be invested commission free in the financial markets. But if you want to give an investment "advisor" 6 figures of money for these products over your lifetime then more power to you. I have a multi million dollar investment portfolio through 35 years of low cost investing in a variety of domestic and international index funds and various fixed income non commission products.
DeleteYet the Trajan Way has worked for me for many years. Lucratively so. Oh, TT, embrace the market of the market that markets the market’s market, markedly.
DeleteMusers podcast episode 1: “whatever we feel like”
ReplyDeleteA direct reference to the Freak’s “we say what we want”?
Let’s hope so. About time the guys addressed the elephant in the room. Freak’s been mopping the floor with all Ticket shows since ‘22. Oh. Hold on. This just in…
DeleteIt is, as referenced by Craig in the pod, literally as the line from Napoleon Dynamite.
DeleteSshhhh, Peter. Don’t let facts get in the way of The Narrative. The Boys don’t like that.
DeleteEmojiman: there’s no narrative here
DeletePeet: I listened to Junior’s explanation
Simply pointing out an obvious similarity. Many here (myself included) found the Freak’s tagline to be cringeworthy. Was amused to see almost the same thing pop up from the courage boys
not being argumentative, but your post says "direct reference to" - and as the person who actually chose it as the title of the episode, it was ONLY releated to Craig's quote from the movie - and that's it. (you're not the first to make the connect you made, and now I wish I'd chosen a different episode title).
DeleteThey just won’t let go. No wonder the numbers are on a steady decline. Ain’t talkin’ bout day parts.
DeleteYou always are operating under The Narrative, Ragsy. Be it here, reddit Ticket or reddit DumbZone. So let’s not engage in bullshit here.
DeleteThere’s definitely a narrative. But it’s pushed by this same few (or one?) commenter who sees “the narrative” behind every bush.
DeleteNot active on reddit, ticket or DZ. More baseless attacks. And for what? What’s the goal?
This place has gotten so weird. The worst insult thrown around here is about seeming/sounding like Reddit. But seriously guys - almost every comment anyone makes turns into a long string of namecalling and secret nods to “the boys” and “the narrative”…sometimes it isn’t conspiracy. Sometimes it isn’t worth fighting internet strangers over.
Sometimes it’s just a ticket observation. Y’know - the kind that’s been going on here since the “where’s greggo” days? The whole reason this place exists…a place to discuss our favorite radio station.
My ticket confession: when I heard the name of the muser’s podcast, it sounded just like the freak’s cringe tagline.
Simple as that.
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DeleteEveryone here is in awe of your rhetoric. You are truly the sort of wit that only comes along once in a generation.
DeleteThank you for knowing this.
DeleteReally, Rags? You’re not active on refdit? Really? Sure you wanna prostrate yourself in that road bump? I got receipts, Rags.
DeleteYep! Let’s see the receipts. you’ve been using different names to say this same thing for over a year now - put up or shut up. I have no idea who over on Reddit you think I am, but I assure you you’re WAY more obsessed with Reddit than am I.
DeleteReceipt away. Or just go away
We’ll begin with research_unit_59. Next up, actual comments. Same comments cut and pasted on all three sites. Shall I continue?
DeleteHave to say, Ragonk Force, I have seen your comments on Ticket reddit several times. Is there another Ragonk Force? If so, my apologies. But I also have to say that the reddit comments read like yours here. Just saying.
Delete6th - that’s not my user, so feel free to show somewhere with the same comment on all 3 sites. I’ll wait - as it doesn’t exist.
DeleteEd - I’m not very proficient at reddit but I’ve searched for a user using this name and I found 4 with some variation, 3 of whom have no comments and the 4th hasn’t commented on anything ticket related. None are me, none seem to be the ones making the comments you’re referring to since none have comments at all.
Strange back-and-forth with reddit and here. And I still don’t get why the accusation of being someone on reddit (I’m not) is a thing. But no receipts here. The internet doesn’t forget…
Someone is lying. It’s you, Ragsy. Or are you copying and pasting others’ comments? Oh, Ragsy. Poor poor Ragsy. Lie til ya die. Gotcha down.
DeleteWait, so that’s it? The only “receipt” is that someone on reddit also noticed the similarity between the Freak’s tagline and the podcast name and mentioned it in a longer post breaking down the podcast’s first episode?
DeletePeter already said people (plural) had noticed. That’s not news. I’m certainly not the only one!
I certainly hope after all the promises of receipts that you have more than that!
It’s the same comment you left here. Verbatim. Lie til ya die, Ragsy. You’re consistent, I’ll give you that. Oh , and you have a long history of comments on reddit. Yeah, sure, there’s another RF out there. You bet. Again, lie til ya die. Liar gonna lie. Socio gonna socio.
DeleteI’ve got nothing to hide. I don’t change my name every message, like you do.
DeleteSo, where are the “receipts”? You pointed to someone on Reddit who noticed the same thing that I did but said it differently, in the middle of a longer post they made. Not cut and paste. Not verbatim. Just the same little observation. What exactly is the “gotcha”?
And no one with a ragonk-force-adjacent name has ever made a comment on any ticket or DZ subreddit that I can find.
So, again, please produce the receipts. You keep repeating the same lies (to what end we don’t even know), and you keep doubling and tripling down - but where’s all this proof you promised?
It doesn’t exist.
I've never been sure why being active on another platform is a mark against a poster here to begin with. This place isn't exactly the Algonquin Round Table. Until the Great Schism of 23 its was just a fun place to discuss the ticket and make fun of the terrible commercials.
DeleteSpeaking of terrible commercials, if P1s have something in common it's apparently the need to sue truck drivers. I mean that must be the case given how incessant the Texas Law Dog spots are.
DeleteYou lie, Ragsy cum Reasearch Unit 51. Flat out lying. Big marker for sociopathy. Seek help, bucko.
DeleteSome of you are being mean to Mommy Ticket. She's great and the ratings are better than ever and all their events are sold out and she's perfect.
ReplyDeleteDon't be dense, that's not the point
DeleteGood to see you’ve finally seen the light, Har. Truth’s gonna truth. Truth’s gonna out. I know it pains you, deeply, to admit these truths. It will get easier, I promise.
DeleteThe best thing in DFW sports media right now is the Dumb Zone breaking down a Shotty or Nico press conference. Gold!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, they are still doing that kinda crap? They drove me nuts with those bits on the ticket.
ReplyDeleteDZ is already staler than an 8:40 bit. Difference being, the 8:40 bit, in one form or another, is 31 years old. DZ? Not even a full 3. Wrong URL, bud.
DeleteWhat say a fresh one, Plainsman?
ReplyDeleteYeah. Should.
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DeleteOoh, what a burn! Roasted! How old are we? Show us with your fingers.
DeleteI never want to hear about how George and Junior met ever again in my life.
ReplyDeletePro tip: Turn it off. Observation/Basic critical thinking: Station accrues new listeners nearly daily. They’ve never heard the story; they most likely find it interesting. The world extends beyond you, your wants, your needs. I know, I know. Crazy, right.
DeleteI find it annoying that the Musers acted like they recorded their latest podcast after the first episode dropped by reading reviews. They recorded the first 4 or 5 and they are all in the can. They should start each episode with a current event so we know it’s new.
ReplyDeleteThis baked potato is good. That mixed salad is bad. Carli Lloyd looks hotter in her soccer kit than in the studio. Alexi Lalas got hair plugs. Those Red Hots are stale. My wife wears too much makeup. Sometimes water tastes better than soda. Alcohol is cool. So are cigarettes. Today is almost but not quite the Fourth of July. Once I thought about the waist sizes of 1970s era Cliff Richard and Larry Fitzgerald. Cupcakes are sweets.
DeleteGordon's entire part in the show is a giant bit.
DeleteYou're going to whine because he's doing a bit and the others are playing along?
Or you could just enjoy the free extra content the Musers are giving you that allows them to expand upon stories and not be beholden to a fixed clock every 15 minutes.
DeleteFree extra content. No tier. No sales pitch while also being bombastic with more ads than terrestrial radio. But then you wouldn’t have anything to buy h about.
DeleteDid anyone happen to catch the latest Cirque? At the end of the pod they mentioned that they were blocked from a Twitter account, but they didn’t say who.
ReplyDeleteOne hundo it’s Rhyner.
Deleteoh boy, Oh Boy....got ourselves a Yoko Situation.
Delete**or i guess a Jordon situation but shes def not 25....
-----"Carry On My Wayward Son"
Quietly, one of my favorite observations from all this is how all of those who were “torches & pitchforks” over Dan and Jake’s non-compete and the companies efforts to enforce it, said nothing while their other hero’s - Danny and Mikey bragged about “getting paid” for doing zilch.
ReplyDeleteWeird how contracts work, huh?
Yep. Totally speaks to just how shitty Cumulus contracts are compared to iHeart
DeleteOh, do please explain that claim, in some detail.
Deletewhat do you know? please share with the room!
Idiot gonna idiot. He mad cuz he know he bet on da wrong horse.
DeleteAnother know-nothing. I’d wager anything it was a part of the risible “living wage” hilarity that raged for a couple of months on reddit. A movement totally put into motion and foisted by THZ in preparation for their preplanned departure. Dummies. The lot of them.
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