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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I've said before that possibly my favorite sports radio show of all time was a low production value Sunday night show named Bears Packers Showdown. I couldn't even tell you what station it was on. It was just a fun breakdown of the NFL games from the day for about four hours between a guy who sounded like Brian Paruch and another who sounded like one of the Superfans. It was good comedy and pretty decent football discussion.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This was a local show?

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I remember that was their excuse. It didn't make sense IMO and always felt like an excuse to cover for the lies. The fact of the matter is their pre-talk era listeners already knew and the occasional media blurb mentioning Roma Wade in later years made it apparent that their secret was becoming more well known. They had no choice and used the kid for cover.

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Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.- JD Vance
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

It was one of those stations on the border that broadcast to Chicago and Milwaukee

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I think that was brokered programming on the old WCBR out of Arlington Heights. It's possible they moved it to a Waukegan/Kenosha station later on, though.

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I slipped up the dial yesterday to avoid the Cubs post-game and caught John "Records" Landecker on the WGN holiday afternoon shift. Did I get it correctly that he's back on GN now full-time? Taking over for Roe, then?

An aside- he spoke with his daughter by phone, which prompted me to seek her imdb page. There was a link to his page, where I learned that "Records" was not a nickname of a deejay, but actually a family surname- his wife's family, it sounds like.

How old must Landecker be? He was on WLS when I was a kid, mid seventies, so born 1950 or before? He also is a Grand Valley alumnus, as my daughter, hopefully, will soon be, as well. Small world.

He is coming on at 7pm now. He's got to be close to 70 if not older. I think that Garry Meier is 71 or 72 now, and Sirott is a little younger but still on Medicare.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

holy shit. he's still alive?

so in the last say 10/15 years, who's been the hot duo in chicago radio? does one even exists? let's say after the Roe Conn/ Garry Meier show?

I mistakenly thought Landecker was about 10 years older than he actually is and Garry Meier was about 10 years younger than he actually is.

I do vaguely remember Landecker's "Boogie Check" on WLS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuXQPbc ... yHamburger

Probably din't reach the western burbs where I was.

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Anyone know what Nick Digilio is up to post firing? I loved his show late 90's/early 2000's but he grew stale towards the end. I do miss his movie reviews though.

He posts a lot on Facebook. Usually rants about whatever he's watching on television - old TV classics, some modern stuff, SNL, and WWE.

hasn't missed a beat

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What is Digilio doing for a living now?

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Last I heard, he was emceeing drive-in movies out around Byron. I think he's been in and out of one medical facility or another.

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Yeah, what was up with that? He had some mystery illness involving alcoholism and the full story never leaked out. All he said was it was very disgusting with no other details. Anyways, I bet he's living off some buyout WGN gave him. He always seemed like the type of guy who spent every dime he got and just assumed he would work at WGN forever. I deleted Facebook recently but he was constantly posting tv shows or movies he was watching. He seems very similar to Les Grobstein in that manner.