Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
These clips just make me sad that Dan decided one day he wanted to do serious radio. He clearly never wanted to do Friday Fung, QOTY, Tournament of Bad, or WYC. We learned pretty quickly into the Bernstein & Goff era that Terry was the driving force behind all of those.
I don't know about that. Friday Fung was very much a Bernstein bit: the throughline on most of Friday Fung was that Dan's reach exceeded his listeners' grasp. I mean, I just listened to an Ed Farmer Soundalike Contest where most of the impressions were just a guy saying "hi, I'm Ed Farmer" and hanging up. Half the people didn't understand Live Ringers. No one understood Sports Apologies. When people got the bit, it was hilarious, but there were some real stinkers. Tournament of Bad was very much Dan's idea, too, because I remember him coming up with the idea in real time.
That said, I do think he tried to shed too much of what made Boers & Bernstein work. Maybe some of that was Jason. But all that went away in favor of "What's On," a segment where they told you what they were going to watch on TV.
"I'm watching the Nuggets vs. Suns and then I'm going to talk about it for 30 minutes tomorrow"