Just a quick post to say a big THANK YOU to the detective work of Robin Goldstein and the generosity of Anders Clerwall of Sweden. See, Anders was the original "owner" of randomshow.blogspot.com, forcing me to start this blog under the awkward randomshowradio.blogspot.com. Robin flew all the way to Sweden and bribed Anders with things Swedes desire (presumably drugs and vodka), and he agreed to let me, a total stranger, have this domain. So please remember strangers, kindness, and all that good stuff, and while you're at it go check out my good samaritans:
Robin Goldstein does a podcast every week (of which I will soon have a segment that chronicles my trip) at http://schnauzerlogic.tblog.com/
Anders Clerwall - I'm not sure what he does aside from being Swedish, but he has a website you should check out at www.randomshow.com
So I guess this is as good a time as any to explain just what the hell Random Show is...way back in the year 1998, I was just a media infant learning to suckle from the teat of radio, and I was working at talk station KSCO in Santa Cruz, California. One holiday, either memorial day or labor day or one of the days people only observe on order to take time off of work or school, a talk show host named Eric Shoeck called in sick for his 2-4pm show. Given the holiday, the only people at the station were me and my friend best friend Sam Betesh. Now, KSCO was really two stations, the 10,000 watt KSCO on 1080, and the 5,000 watt KOMY on 1340. KOMY was more local stuff, while KSCO ran syndicated fare like Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura. We called the program director, Rosemary Chalmers, and asked what we should do about the missing host. She said we should run Dr. Laura, which was playing on KSCO, on KOMY as well. Instead, we begged her to let us do the show, and for some reason (alcohol) she agreed. That's right - the first radio show I ever did was on a station with call letters that could be pronounced cum-y. We called our other best friend/roommate Jon Serviss to come down, and with very little prep and even less experience, we did our first show. And it sucked. Bad. Imagine three college guys stoned out of their minds and sitting on a couch talking about current events. And while it sounded like a train wreck, we loved it. Sometime during the show, we realized we were randomly thrown on the air and talking about random topics, so we called ourselves The Random Guys, which was then changed to The Random Show.
Very soon after that, Eric Shoeck left the station, and they had to figure out what to do every day from 2-4pm. They decided to put on a different local host each afternoon, kind of like a See's sampler of talk radio, and after a lot of lobbying and strenuous negotiations (we told them we'd do it for free), we got on our own show. Every Thursdays from 2-4pm on KOMY, tens of people tuned in to hear us talk about whatever the hell was on our minds. Usually it was some combination of weed, sex, politics, and sound clips of people smoking weed and having sex. By the time we were eventually kicked off the air, over a year and a half had passed, everyone was pissed off, and three careers in radio had been launched...more to come
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You're welcome.
Enjoy your trip!
Remember: Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics... even if you win you're still a retard.
When I was touring with the Nuclear Naked Bikini Girls... no, that's not right... when I was at Woodstock '99 I went up in a ball of flames I saw JESUS! How come you guys never put my story on the air? No, wait, you did... and then you fuckers threw me out of the studio. Well I am here to say that I have been thrown out of better stations than KSCO. Way better.
Whoops! Looks like somebody fell off the face of the earth in Vegas. Did Jason end up as "Indian Bones"? Did some hooker roll him for his laptop? Did he lose the van in a poker game? Tune in next time when we reveal who was behind the curtain while the crime was committed.
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