Monday, July 21, 2008

My last blog was written before the results of the voting for the 2008 Radio Hall of Fame inductees came in, and I have a few things to say about it. Just in case you didn’t hear, I am the Ron Santo of the Radio Hall of Fame. “Hello…uh huh...oh no!...oh no!...oh no!...okay hun…bye”. There is no Museum of Broadcast Communications to even house the Radio HOF in, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be one soon either. This is not sour grapes. I don’t want to be in the Radio Hall of Fame. Not now, not ever. I don’t even want to be in the one that operates out of Bruce Dumont’s (he’s the so-called curator) trunk.

Every few years they suck me back in, but I want out. Especially now that people can beg their listeners to vote for them. We provided a link, but that was it. I shouldn’t have even done that. Howard Stern ignores it every year when he doesn’t get voted in, and that’s the money play. This year, some guy in Boston named Howie Carr beat me out. According to Rob Feder, Howie spent a lot of time getting his listeners to vote. Hell, I could win every time if I did that. No offense, but listeners shouldn’t be voting for that anyway. You vote every time they take ratings. This is a sample of Howie Carr’s handiwork:

Illegal-immigrant driver roll call: Carr has a frequent segment in which those traffic violators with Hispanic names are read from police blotters. The name of the offender is read in an exaggerated Spanish-accented English, along with the offender's traffic violation, typically including driving without a valid license, driving without proof of insurance, and driving without valid registration. After each name is read, the first few bars of "La Cucaracha" are played in a car-horn rendition. The segment is usually bookended around Carr's opinions on the dangers of illegal immigrants.

Well, there you have it, a right wing Christian who doesn’t believe in pornography beats out Howard Stern, and I get beaten out by a guy who doesn’t even know that Asians (legal or otherwise) are the worst drivers ever! As I said previously, I want out. Ron Santo should follow my lead.