Yesterday morning at a get together for the retirement of a mutual friend.

MS is starting to take its toll on him. He wasn't moving very well unfortunately.

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He probably just needs a good chiropractor.

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I'm not saying I'm better than you.
But, like, I am, man.

is that you KevHead?

I'd plan my days so I could listen to him as much as I could.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

There was a moment where he was as good of radio as I have ever heard, and I include Stern in that list.

I know I'm an old coot who refers back to this too much but chicago once had the greatest talk lineup in the history of radio with Brandmeier, Stern, Dahl and Matthews. You could hear great stuff from 5 am until 10 pm.

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

Sentiment wholeheartedly seconded .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

+1 Right.

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

There was a time on 'CKG where it was Stern, Matthews, Dahl. That was good the good 'ole times.

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Certified Dirty Old Man

Stern couldn't work on Dahl's station. Dahl had spent a decade telling his listeners (like me) that Stern sucked and just ripped him off.

It wasn't until I'd moved on quite a bit from the old Loop in the 2000s and started to listen to Stern on satellite that I appreciated the show more.

But, Stern was never going to win over Dahl fans in the 90s.

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You know me like that.

I kind of remember it a bit differently on Sterns first go-round. Yes it’s true that Dahl believed that Stern got his act from Dahl (back in the Detroit days), but Dahl actually reached out to Howard when he joined the station and Stern was a bit aloof. IIRC, Stern openly bashed the Chicago hosts (including Johnny B) when he entered the market - which was the real source of bad blood amongst the regular listeners.

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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

This is exactly right. Stern alienated the Chicago market on his first go-round. He was much more well-received the second.

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Not a mult.

I hope the best for the guy, but I never got his allure. Same goes for Brandmeier.

At least with Dahl, got it, I just thought he was an unfunny prick

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

Jim Shorts may be the dumbest shit I ever heard.

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Don't take it personally.

It was funny when I was 14

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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

Dahl and Stern fan here.

You cannot listen to both back then and not realize it was Stern stealing entire bits from Dahl without even attempting to repackage them. The most blatant was Stern calling The Bijou Theater. I always thought Dahl was full of it talking about Stern stealing but I was floored when I heard that from Stern the first time. No way a NY DJ knows about the answering machine of a gay porno theater in Chicago unless he heard it somewhere. No way. There were many other examples. I still loved Stern but the truth is some of his most beloved work, stuff he replayed in best of shows, is Dahl's work.

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

Was he Chet Chit Chat too? Years later I would learn who Chet Coppock was.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I guess Chet Chit Chat was Bruce Wolf, so I think my first sports radio memory is hearing Bruce Wolf do a parody of a guy I didn't know existed. At least I assume that was my first memory. I very well could have heard it much later on and I just assume that I heard it in the 90s.

The only memory I'm sure I have of the 90s is listening to Mancow yelling at striking UPS workers on the radio which I'm sure was as hilarious as it sounds.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

It was a parody of Swirsky

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

Well, I didn't know who he was either so that works out.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I always thought of it as a combination leaning more toward Swirsky.

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You know me like that.

Stern wipes the floor with Steve Dull. Who cares who came first (lol)? Chicago will always be second fiddle to NYC. Deal with it.

Yes. The staccato style was swirsk but the content was a parody of something on sportsphone.

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

The voice was like Swirsky, the content was more like Chet.

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Don't take it personally.

Bishop VonFleshwafer

I love it!!

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He's touring the area giving a presentation about broken Mary. Anybody go? Worth going? Read the book?

Yes

Yes.

No.

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He’s still doing that? Yeesh.

He was doing those talks at churches 2-3 years ago. My mom saw him speak at her church in Joliet and got two copies of his book (more like a pamphlet) for my brother and I, but I didn’t read it.

Loved Kev back in the day, and hope he’s hanging in there health-wise, but my interest in his religious awakening remains at zero.

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Not a mult.

His Parkinsons is getting worse unfortunately.

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Really? I never liked him. I hated all the stupid voices that Dahl called "puppets." I thought Jim Shorts was insipid. And Garry did a great and hilarious impression of Eddie Schwartz- Garry was local and completely understood the character- and Kevin took it and turned it into the idiotic Ed Zeppelin. The more I think about it, the more I hated the guy.

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Don't take it personally.

I thought Jim Shorts was hysterical. Jim Shorts having his own puppet named Cecil is brilliant comedy

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