Talking to The Regular Guy from XRT for an Oscars recap.

Cowley at noon

Steve Konroyd talkin Hockey

Spring Training talk

Maybe even talkin bout Da Boo

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Please retire Thunderstruck.

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Team Cutler.

Please retire.

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+1.
Hate the band for starters. Secondly it's been going on way too long.
Hate me some Thunderstruck.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

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Is this a bit, or does this douchebag really talk like this? Dahl want his Anthony character back.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

He's talked like that on the air for 20 some odd years...he was just on XRT at 7:45 this morning too.

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Next you'll be telling Hulk Hogan to retire "I Am a Real American" .......

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I liked when he came out to Voodoo Child. I heard Mongo in an interview say Hulkster paid the Hendrix estate $650,000 a year to use the song!

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

Absolutely can NOT stand the Regular Guy bit. I'm amazed that it has lasted as long as it has on XRT and I like listening to XRT even though they are a little too "commercially".

Thunderstruck? It could go, but I don't hate it.

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

I agree...but when it comes down to it, it's a 5 minute segment done 4 times a week along with 5 minutes during Saturday Morning Flashback. As annoying as it is, it doesn't turn me off like some other worn out bits done elsewhere

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

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I don't mind it, but I prefer older AC/DC. The problem with this song is that it's played on too many shows...Mac's show, Ranger's Sox shows, Batt Amattacola's shows, Before Sox games live, etc...it's overkill.

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

Thunderstruck is old and tired, just like Mac's show. He's too lazy to put in any work to change it.

Enjoy it ALSers, it's yet another sign that he doesn't give a fuck. That's when he's at the top of his game.

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Oh Joe Cowley, stick to bad baseball thoughts. This has been bad for the NBA as a whole. Look for the Franchise Tag in the next CBA to help prevent this

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Team Cutler.

IIRC one of the on air personalities heard this guy doing his movie review on the bus on several occasions and thought it was funny and might work on radio. It has gotten a bit stale, but I still think most of the time his reviews are more in line with what I find enjoyable in movies than not when compared with other reviewers.

Plus, let's not forget the special XRT Cub opening day piece he does every year. Now that I can do without. Nothing like drumming up failure after failure.

Give me Ronald Belford Scott era any time! I would've loved to have heard Back In Black with Bon singing.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

93XRT became "commercially" when Diamond Broadcasting sold "Chicago's Finest Rock" along with WSCR 670 The SCORE to become part of the giant corporate portfolio that is CBS Radio about 10-15 years ago. As for "The Regular Guy" himself, why does the guy sound a lot like WXRT part-time jock Marty Lennartz?

Understand. I dislike them too, although they have had some catchy tunes. Thunderstruck isn't one of them. In fact, I'm not sure if there are even lyrics to that thing (except for the goofs going "hmm-mm-mm-mmmm")

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

I like the song. Reminds me of one of my friend's older sister's boyfriends. He was hot!

Did he have a Trans Am?

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

The "Regular Guy" is a character played by WXRT DJ Marty Lennartz. I generally find his reviews pretty funny.

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Are you trying out for Shark's role on the board?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Nice correction. From an interview with Marty.

Rick: I am a big fan of "The Regular Guy." It seems he has been a part of WXRT forever. What is the origin of that character?

Marty: I was producing Terri Hemmert’s morning show in 1984. At that time XRT was running a daily one minute Roger Ebert movie review/news feature. It had been on for a maybe a couple years when one day it ended without any explanation. I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if on that first morning without Roger, in his place would be just some guy reviewing a movie. So, I reviewed Mel Gibson’s remake of “Mutiny On The Bounty”. I did it in the same format as Roger’s except instead of “At The Movies”, I called it “Goin’ To The Show and I’m Just A Regular Guy” and did a little minute and a half thing. It went over well and I was told to do it again and I said, “do what again? That was it”. Who knew?