also, could you post that parody song you did about him to the Wings song Jet?

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

Steve Dahl had some great funny stories.

Chet could announce two 7 years olds playing checkers and make it sound like Ali-Frazier.

One time he had Bill Walton on an early sat am on ESPN and I swear to God, Chet's intro and Walton's response to it took up 80% of the segment.

It's 6:02 PM; Ryne's on hold on line 1, and Dahl won't give up the studio because he is telling some story of how his wife is pissed off at him. Chet and Mac are going beet red in the face and pacing around the hallway, talking about how unprofessional the lead-in show is. I don't know if that is a real anecdote, but it sounds like it would be one.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

IMO, it really turned into liberal-fag radio around 2010-2011 I blame Goff and Drinky for enabling Bernstein to talk politics. That was the downfall.

There was one time where Dahl messed with Chet's mic resulting in the first 15 minutes of Chet's show being in a high pitched voice.

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

My favorite was when Ditka had his heart attack and Dahl and Meier made fun of it and Chet came on and got scolded by that chubby little special teams coach.

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Don't take it personally.

Jorr, you have to have a few Chet stories. Any that you can share with the group?

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I didn't really know Chet. I crossed paths with him at the Evanston-New Trier football game a time or two. One time he was wearing a ridiculous fur coat.

My friend Jimmy is taking Chet's death really hard. Jimmy is a radio legend in his own right and he and Chet worked together back at the old WMAQ.

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Don't take it personally.

I remember that live. Too damn funny, Chet as a chipmunk.

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

They used to play a clip on the Loop of him interviewing Tommy LaSorda while eating a Cobb salad.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Dahl invented the term "boyquarium" to describe Chet and his production team sitting behind the glass

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

Garry played Rusty (Mac), Chet's gay boy toy.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Yeah Dahl and Garry would fuck with him constantly. It was good natured in a sense though. They did it with Grobber and Lujack too.

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Where is Garry Meier, is he formally out of the business? I know He's like 70.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

His wife is probably trying to find another partner for him to alienate.

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Don't take it personally.

So weird. That dude during that era on Rush was able to do as he wished. How all the sudden he set things in motion with that marriage is odd. Never know. Loneliness? Scared of AIDS back then?

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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

I guess if you are not telling an anecdote about something,you get to mock it.BITE ME!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

What?

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Don't take it personally.

Didn't see THAT coming!

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Sorry,I thought you were mocking my little story in the other Chet thread.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

No, I didn't even see that.

My friend Jimmy is a legend in radio sales. He wanted to create an all-sports station in the early 80s and the honchos at WMAQ found the idea that such a thing could be successful absurd. Jimmy is very upset about Chet.

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Don't take it personally.

Surely,you can see how I would misinterpret that.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Jimmy, will you be attending my RAIDERS! draft party?

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Bruce Wolf did a "Chet Chit-Chat" bit that I always thought was better than the actual Coppock.

This said, Coppock was a pioneer. He was the first guy I remember who did a sports talk radio show in Chicago. I didn't like him and didn't listen to him much, but I certainly knew about him. Came across as an egomaniac, which I didn't get at all, given that his show was relegated to after drive time.

Anyway, RIP, Chet. You were ahead of your time.

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Until the actual truth is more important to you than what you believe, you will never recognize the truth.

He was on WCPT with Joan Esposito recently. He’s still doing a daily podcast and claims to be doing ok financially...I think he’s in California these days.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Even if he had never saved a penny, his wife made enough that they'd still be comfortably retired.

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

True but I meant he implied that the podcast was profitable.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Yeah, everybody says that.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost