The other night I watched a few episodes of David Letterman’s new show on Netflix called “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.”
It didn’t take me long to notice that not only has he become even more arrogant than ever, but all of his guests seem to be as liberal as he is.
I rather enjoyed his smart-ass approach on “Late Night” because it came in tolerable short bursts.
The only time Democrat Dave is not arrogant or smart-assed is when his guest is black, which comes off to me like a lot of reverse racism.
I haven’t watched all of the episodes and doubt I will, but I must admit that I enjoyed the ones featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, and Lewis Hamilton.
Of the four I watched, the one that amazed me the most was when Dave’s guest was Barack Obama.
Unfortunately, what got in the way was how Dave fawned over him as Justine Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada) did when he first met Obama. Both of them looked like they were about to go down on him any minute.
I’m not a big fan of Obama’s politics, but I am a big fan of how he presents himself.
During the interview, Dave tried to goad him into bashing Trump, but Obama had too much class to go there.
However, he neglected to mention the fact that he and Dave were both members of the 1% club.
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.
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Eugene Ferraro: George, ball of confusion, Phil isn’t a family member of Bill and his brothers…I don’t want to cause any discord between Bill and yourself.
Geo: Not a problem, Eugene.
Warren: George…you would know this. Based on what I’ve just read here, it appears that Fairbanks might well have been The CHUM of America.
BTW Jed. Thank you once more for Your Hospitality many years ago when Pat Martin suggested we meet as I was driving across the U.S. to California. (1% Club)
Geo: Hey Warren, Jed Duval was one of those behind-the-scenes giants at WIBC that made it possible for me to attend to KVIL and the rest of the Fairbanks properties. As for Fairbanks being the CHUM of America, in stature, maybe.
Josie Thomas: Hey George. Enjoyed your critique of David Letterman. No one can top Johnny Carson.
He used humor to bring out the best in his guests, not fawning over them for what purpose, I don’t know. Pandering at its best!
Loved your comment on the possible reason.
Going down on them? So funny!! *The 1% Club)
Geo: Thanks for the read, Josie, you keep big Bob under control as best you can. 🙂
Chris McCarty: If nothing else, George you got to admit Letterman grows a pretty darn good beard. Since I’m posting, I put a link in the website section to a 30 sec radio spot I recorded for a restaurant/bar here in Nashville, and besides writing the copy and putting some music in it from a song recording of mine, it was cool to be doing some voice over work again. Ain’t nothing like talking into a real good mic, huh? (1% Club)
Geo: I kinda like Santa’s beard a little more, than David’s, Chris and he seems like a nicer guy also.
As for the mic, none of them made me sound any good so I stuck with coaching. Thanks for the read, Man!
Winnipeg Wendy: First of all, George, I take umbrage with your playful reference to our Prime Minister’s name. I would suggest that possibly Justin was only giving Barack some well-deserved respect for being the eloquent individual that he is, as is Justin.
I do, however, agree with your opinion of Letterman’s new late-night talk show. I find his show somewhat introspective and almost like a therapy session. Carson was the best and favoured us with the best comedic interviews, such as Johnathon Winters, whom I love, and Robin Williams, who didn’t have to use profanities or filth to be funny, just to mention a couple. After watching his show, we felt happy and uplifted and had no problem having a good sleep.
Geo: So, first of all, back at ya, Wendy, how much fun would my blog be if you agreed with everything I wrote I’m a Centrist which means that I zig-zag between left and right depending on the issue.
As far as Justine goes, he’s more like his mother than his father. If Piere and Obama had ever met, it would have been Barack who would have looked like he was ready to go down on him.
Joasia: Hi George!! Just thought I’d say hey 🙂 (!% Club)
Geo: Hey to you too, beautiful Baby Mama.
XO
Jed Duval: Today at lunch, my Indiana University campus radio station alumi friends eating at Pho Real on North College at East 96th Street (Loatian, Vietnamese and Cambodian food-who would have thought that in the late 1960s-early 1970s), were discussing why there are so few iconic and legendary musicians and comedians. Immediately the greatest of our era were Jonathon Winters, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Tim Conway (with Harvey Korman), Bob Newhart, Shelley Berman, George Carlin and before he became a rapist, Bill Cosby. What really was memorable was “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson that had both Winters and Williams as guests. While I always loved Steve Allen’s “Tonight Show” with comics like Louie Nye, Tom Poston, Bill Dana and Steve & Eydie, Carson was the greatest of the late-night hosts, and his producer, Freddie De Cordova, whom was George Burns’ and Gracie Allen’s as well as Jack Benny’s TV show producer may be the greatest late-night program producer. Several of my college classmates also opined that perhaps that in the era of Pro-Tools and self-produced music, the guidance of a George Martin, Quincy Jones, Richard Perry or an Arif Mardin as producer of the LPs is sorely missed. In that regard, Jim Hilliard is and was a great program director and an excellent manager, but Fairbanks and FairWest needed a full-time producing director/consultant to focus on the details (promotions and promos) that made your stations and talent great. (1% Club)
Geo: Good stuff, Jed.
Wendy Holmes: A new reply to your opinion of Pierre Trudeau!
Many years ago my daughter Heidi and I visited Ottawa together. One of the high points was of course the Parliament Building. As we wandered down the hallway where all of the portraits of our Prime Ministers are she stopped at Pierre’s portrait and gazed and pondered it for quite some time. She said it was so different than all of the others in that in someway it revealed the type of individual that he was as he posed there with his French Tam pulled to one side and his sassy half smile. Interesting observation don’t you think??
Radio Geo: Very interesting observation, Wendy and so true. In fact, the only thing Justin and his Dad have in common is their last names. The big difference between the two of them is, when Pierre spoke, the whole world listeneed.