Minihane already stirring it up and making people uncomfortable on Radio Row. Asks Charlotte Wilder about Susan Pease and the accusation that Kirk and Gerry were creeps at a bar in Houston two years ago.
Charlotte was awesome on T&R talking about the TB Times and Fisher...Funny because she was on T&R this morning and was a great guest. Glad to see Kirk is basically doing the same nonsense and will probably only get worse. Tough guy radio!
He reminds me of the old Onion headline "Marilyn Manson going door to door trying to shock people"He seems like he's on a Curt Schilling-esque trajectory.
Honestly that video is really sad. I think the guy is awful, but he's pretty pathetic at this point and it's sad. I really don't care about his professional career but if his personal stuff is a real issue, I hope he's getting help, else he'll probably be dead in a year, which I hope does not happen.I hope Kirk has at least *some* friends in Atlanta that can check him. He seems lonely, agitated, semi-deluded, and is being encouraged by his dwindling but vocal army of supporters....I don't know that this ends well.
Yeah. I thought Tom Curran showed some kindness and tried to get him to chill a bit. Can you imagine when Kirk was actually doing cocaine....?Honestly that video is really sad. I think the guy is awful, but he's pretty pathetic at this point and it's sad. I really don't care about his professional career but if his personal stuff is a real issue, I hope he's getting help, else he'll probably be dead in a year, which I hope does not happen.
I forgot he even existed since EEI did the right thing and canned him. I can't wait to not listen to his new show just like I stopped listening to his old show a long time ago.Want to spend ten minutes rolling your eyes, check out this puff piece by Boston Magazine on Minihane.
See, he's the real victim here. He's been acting like an asshole since junior high, but since no one ever called him on it, he thought that it was okay. And he really likes Howard Stern a lot (though he doesn't really understand what made Stern so great, being self-effacing, not punching down). And all those things he said? They're just jokes! Just LOLs!
Oh yeah, his new show starts this month. I'm sure it'll be awesome.
The guys who constantly attack others for being snowflakes always play the victim card the hardest. It never, ever fails.Want to spend ten minutes rolling your eyes, check out this puff piece by Boston Magazine on Minihane.
See, he's the real victim here. He's been acting like an asshole since junior high, but since no one ever called him on it, he thought that it was okay. And he really likes Howard Stern a lot (though he doesn't really understand what made Stern so great, being self-effacing, not punching down). And all those things he said? They're just jokes! Just LOLs!
Oh yeah, his new show starts this month. I'm sure it'll be awesome.
My favorite part was this:Want to spend ten minutes rolling your eyes, check out this puff piece by Boston Magazine on Minihane.
See, he's the real victim here. He's been acting like an asshole since junior high, but since no one ever called him on it, he thought that it was okay. And he really likes Howard Stern a lot (though he doesn't really understand what made Stern so great, being self-effacing, not punching down). And all those things he said? They're just jokes! Just LOLs!
Oh yeah, his new show starts this month. I'm sure it'll be awesome.
Played a role in creating? That's an understatement.Later, Minihane told me, “I think there’s a toxicity to the station that I definitely played a role in creating, but there’s an anger on morning radio especially. I mean, you’re just tired all the time. I don’t feel that way right now. When I get back on the air, I’ll be angry, but it’s going to be different.”
Pretty much encapsulates why most talk radio is so terrible. What's with promising to be angry? It's a terrible model when anger is the go to assumption for high ratings. No wonder the industry is so miserable.‘I’ll be angry, but it’s going to be different.’
The author probably cut off the second half of the quote "One of the best he's ever heard on local radio at playing the victim".I was a bit surprised with Chad Finn's comments in the story. "One of the best he's ever heard on local radio"?
What a fucking prickIn lieu of a tête-à-tête, however, the hosts lashed out, dropping antagonizing barbs on the air and making veiled jokes about Murchison’s home burning down. They also accused Murchison of taking money out of the pockets of WEEI salespeople and from the Jimmy Fund, for which the station holds a yearly fundraiser. A local right-wing blog even published Murchison’s emails, which included his phone number, as well as pictures of him and his family members. Meanwhile, the hosts encouraged listeners to go to the blog’s website to buy T-shirts. Murchison’s phone was flooded with abuse, including death threats.
Minihane decided to take it a step further: To turn the tables, he began calling institutions Murchison was affiliated with, including his church, which Minihane threatened he’d talk about on the air. “I said, ‘Hey, listen, just like he has done, I will at some point read the list of people that he does business with—and then let you know that we’re not comfortable with people who are comfortable with people who take money away from the Jimmy Fund,” Minihane recalled.
From the article, emphasis mine (BTW, it was the Producer who bragged about this, not Minihane, so my bad on that):Wait...did they literally not talk the Red Sox at all last season, or does he just mean they didn’t talk about them much at all?
Sporty R. McKenzie sounds absolutely hilarious. Just real great, cutting-edge stuff.Minihane, by extension, succeeded by essentially declaring war on traditional sports radio’s main focus: sports. “We went through a whole Red Sox season without mentioning the Red Sox,” says Ken Laird, one of the show’s two producers. “The way we would do sports is we would mock the way everybody else talked about sports,” adds Chris Curtis, the morning show’s other producer. “All the sports radio that’s on in Boston at some point sounds like an echo chamber.… Kirk and Gerry mocked the redundancy.” Minihane even created a regular alter ego, “Sporty R. McKenzie,” to roast what he saw as the overwhelming tepidness of the competition. As Minihane once put it on a Barstool Sports podcast, “I would much rather do this, talk about this shit, like the first time you friggin’ jerked off, than talk about—whatever—[former Bruins head coach] Claude Julien.”
Especially coming from the guy who challenged Fred Toucher to a sports debate sans irony.From the article, emphasis mine (BTW, it was the Producer who bragged about this, not Minihane, so my bad on that):
Sporty R. McKenzie sounds absolutely hilarious. Just real great, cutting-edge stuff.
It may literally be the worst radio I've ever heard. If you're looking to stab your eyes out, here's apparently a whole hour on it. I thought they only did this as a bit for a break, but apparently googling now they did it as a full hour.From the article, emphasis mine (BTW, it was the Producer who bragged about this, not Minihane, so my bad on that):
Sporty R. McKenzie sounds absolutely hilarious. Just real great, cutting-edge stuff.
There must be zero mirrors in the Callahan household.Tuned in this morning to hear Callahan ranting about what a “lowlife terrible human being” Manny is and screaming about how overpaid he was. I had to remind myself what year it is.
In Callahan's defense, he likely doesn't think there's any chance an adult male changes his behavior or works on bettering himself as a human being because it's not something he'd ever consider doing because he is what he is and that's all what he is.
The most boring phrase to hear out of anyone's mouth is, "This is who I am and I'm set in my ways."
So basically Keefe's Keefe Key to his career is to not be with Dale?i think keefe's fine whenever he's not with dale arnold, because dale is terrible.