As I said, I’m not sure if I’ll watch any more of Dave’s show because even though his guest list is rather interesting, I don’t care to hear about their one-sided politics.
I’ve heard most of the same stuff from all of Dave’s previous guests and can only wonder if even the studio audience, like the guests, have to be card-carrying Democrats?
No wonder Dave’s Late Night ratings paled in comparison to Johnny Carson’s, Johnny’s show was about us and the stuff we liked, whereas Dave’s was and continues to be about Dave.
RADIO GEO’S LIFE-LINERS
Most brilliant endings began with an unstructured beginning.
Everybody is a different person and should be treated as such.
Athletes today may be bigger and better, but I’m not sure that they’re more intelligent?
Most great people were obsessive about what they specialized in and were in the right place at the right time.
It amazes me that even though Biden botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and shut down the pipeline, gas prices have soared, interest rates also started climbing, the economy is shrinking, and there are shortages everywhere; the Democrats still love him. Go figure!
Not reading what you signed is not an excuse.
To be successful, one must constantly be in pursuit of it.
Wow, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are now 6 – 0. Go Big Blue!
COMMENTS
Wendy: No worries, George! I’m a women’s libber from the ’60s, and I will remain one till the day I’m no longer on this earth. Can you imagine my attitude in the great beyond?? I’m sure I’ll rattle a few bones, pun intended!! Yikes! (Fairbanks Management Conferences)
Geo: You Go, Girl!
Jed Duval: George: I don’t know if you heard this, as I believe you arrived from CFTR-AM, Toronto, later in the week, but I started at WIBC on Monday, May 14th, 1973, the day after I graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington. Jim Hilliard hired me as a go-for intern, assigned to Gary Todd, with the proviso that I was essentially was also “on-call” for any assignments Jim, Gary, and someone yet-to-be-named (you) had for me.
I was very intimidated by Jim, you after you arrived from Canada to occupy the office across from Gary’s, Fred Heckman, Cris Conner, Mike Griffin, Chuck Riley, Dick Smart, Mr. Fairbanks, of course, Mr. Fairbanks’ majordomo Alice Bayne, and the wheeler-dealers from both WIBC’s and WNAP’s sales department. Most intimidating were Dick Yancey, WNAP’s sales manager Dave Spence, and WIBC sales savage John Kilcoyne.
On my second day at the two-brick (2835 North Illinois Street), I was coming down the hallway off the lobby past engineering when coming the other way was an intense, well-dressed man briskly marching past the coffee machine (10-cents-a-cup, if the cup fell first before the coffee, tea or hot chocolate started streaming). The man glared at me as we passed each other, then he grabbed my shoulders, turned me around, and slammed me against the pale green cinder block walls of the hallway. Now Dick Yancey is about the same height as I am (five-foot, six inches). He lifts me by my neck, puts his face close to mine, sneering, “Are you happy in your work ?”! I am about to do No. 1 and No. 2 in my pants! Slowly, the sneer breaks into a huge grin as he lets me collapse onto the linoleum floor and says, “Welcome aboard !” I am a quivering mess as other 2835 staffers stare at me in a heap on the floor against the wall.
As the months and years passed, I found Dick to be demanding but generous. He may be one of the finest sales motivators ever. But to his credit, you, Jim, and Dick (and later, Jerry Bobo) gave the sales staffs ways to generate revenue beyond just the advertiser/agency “cost-per-thousand” metric, like huge events (WNAP 50 % Off Free Fair”, “The Magic Ticket” and “The Prize Catalog.”
When I was hired by Jim, he asked me a question that, at first, I did not know how to answer: “What is more important, the accomplishment of the mission or the welfare of the men ?” In my mind, being a producer/programming sort of guy, I always thought, well, of course, it’s the welfare of the men. Now I know you cannot do what’s best for your employees if you do not accomplish the mission. Jim has always known that to accomplish the mission, you have to march to the garbage can every morning! (Fairbanks Management Conferences)
Geo: Jed, every General knows that it’s the accomplishment of the mission, but they can’t afford to say it out loud because it would ruin their career.
Eugene Ferraro: George. Thanks for your reply…In my e-mail, I did mean Phil Gardner, not Bill, who, by the way, I have contacted by e-mail about some old WFIL and WIBG questions I had for him, which he has always kindly asked answered for me. Phil Gardner spent most of his career at WGAR In Cleveland and only worked at WIBG for a short time. Since my last e-mail, I did find out that Phil has retired from his radio career…at the end of August of last year…he was using his real name–Phil Reaser, on the air at his Fort Wayne gig, which he began in 1996. (The Great Gift)
Geo: I thought I knew all the Gardners, Eugene, brothers Bill, Al, and Andre, but I guess I missed Phil.