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I listen to talk radio just about 95% of the time now when I listen to the radio because commercial music radio sucks ass. Only time I really listen to music is on my DirecTV since they added XM Radio channels. As for the sports...here in Des Moines Larry Cotlar does our morning drive show plus he would be on Sound-off after the Iowa football games. It's funny to watch this guy hammer on a subject than backpedal after someone takes him to task. A few years ago Iowa loses to Michigan at home and the Hawkeye fans are booing our QB at the time. Cotlar comes on and rips on how Hawkeye fans that boo their own guy that way aren't true fans, etc. He kept the schtick up for about 10 minutes and then a caller just reamed him a new one and basically told Cotlar where he can stick it. Cotlar was apologizing for the next two hours for his statement... it was so pathetic. My 15 minutes of fame on sports talk was when the former afternoon drive host Steve Deace nailed me for comments I made on a message board. He had been at the ESPN one and moved over to the Sporting News one. Michael Gartner ran the Sporting News one and all Deace before had pounded Gartner (who used to be the president of NBC News and got in trouble over rigging Ford trucks to go kaboom for a Dateline story) and talked about how he had no respect for him, etc. Plus, Gartner at the time was trying to keep a new arena in town from being built, or so it seemed. Deace switches sides and goes to Gartner's station...on an interview he conducted with Gartner I felt Deace sold out and went down on him. I blasted him for it and Deace spent 2 hours on his next show ripping me for it.

I have DirecTV...can't live without the NFL Sunday Ticket. As for the weather issues...I spray the dish with PAM or other non-stick cooking spray and have almost no weather related issues.

Jim Rome has become pathetic. Years ago he clobbered NASCAR and now he thinks Dale and Jeff are his best friends? Not to mention his constant clobbering of Iowa's football coach Kirk Ferentz as "overrated" just because the coach won't appear on his show. Rome is so played out it's not even funny. As for NFL/NBA games on the Net...go to NFL.com or NBA.com and sign up for listening to games online. There is a fee so have the credit/debit card handy.

Here in Des Moines we have an afternoon host on the sports talk station...Marty Tirrell...who sounds exactly like Russo...all his mannerisms right down to his opening line of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Used to have an afternoon guy who was an Iowa State shill all the time...kinda forgets that Iowa is the Hawkeye State. My mornings I listen to Bob and Tom...then Jan Mickelson (local talk show host on WHO 1040...he's conservative but not a Republican cheerleader). I listen in the afternoons to All Things Considered on NPR, then Michael Savage, JT The Brick and O'Reilly at night (O'Reilly comes on a local station here at 10 PM).

While we're talking about masked jobbers...who could forget the Ding Dongs? Or...let's not forget the incomparable Barry O.

I was a Mulkeymaniac back in the day...the Mulkey Brothers were gold! I also had a soft spot in my heart for the best NWA jobber ever...Shaska (Pistol Pez) Whatley.

Best line from an interview ever was when Rhino won the ECW World title and said, "This is the belt they'll all die for? Well, this is the belt I'll KILL for!" Imagine the carnage of putting Rhyno and Abyss together under the tutelage of Mitchell.

Kinda like when Cheney cussed at that one Congressman?

Religon...sounds like an Italian dish I saw Batali make on Molto Mario. I think it goes better with white clam sauce.

No matter what we do to pacify the Islamo-fascist movement, they won't be stopped until they've either been wiped out or the world has been converted into Muslim nations and we have the choice of Allah or the sword. I hate war...I don't want war...but I think in this case we have no choice. It's time for us to take a long, hard, look at Iran and let them know that their day of reckoning is at hand. Better now than when they have nukes. As for the UN...they cut and ran when their envoys in Baghdad started getting blown up. They're just going to sit on the sidelines and wring their hands.

I was in the stands at the taping of SNME when Hogan superplexed Bossman off the top of the cage. I've never been a Hogan fan but that was a classic "Holy Shit!" moment long before they chanted it.

Sugar Ray Robinson could be another boxing candidate. Best pound-for-pound fighter ever IMHO. Mine would be... Babe Ruth Walter Payton Magic Johnson Arnold Palmer

I'm more concerned about a nuclear Iran than North Korea. North Korea wants money for food, etc. They know if they launch on America the only thing that will most likely happen is total annihilation. In Iran, "Death To America" is a popular slogan and with a guy who truly thinks he's the man responsible for the Apocalypse in charge...I'd be more worried about them.

Rambo IV might...MIGHT...have a chance. There wasn't much of a drop-off in quality the way Rocky's later films did.

I have always been of the belief the Invasion wasn't poorly planned...Vince wanted it to tank. He wanted to kill any possible buzz left from WCW. He bought the corpse so he could take a shit on it and burn it for all to see. I'm torn on ECW and whether it's headed the same way...Vince seems to feel differently about it since ECW was the inspiration for Attitude. He wants it to succeed but I think he has nfi how to run it. For ECW to truly work, it needs to be different from RAW or SD. It needs to be a different product altogether.

This was the greatest moment since we saw Shockmaster fall down.

If they could be allowed to quit, they could potentially save their own careers with a run-in on an upcoming TNA show, "shooting" on the situation, and turning TNA or at least part of the TNA roster into a "fuck ECW" deal, with Rhino and the Duds obviously joining in. I have a feeling once Van Dam returns, it's certainly not going to be pushing him back on top immediately again. Van Dam, as well as Sabu will likely continue to do jobs throughout the next few months in the least (or until the company finishes up and closes shop by the end of summer) and be "made examples of" in the company, which will lead to them pushing guys like Show, Test, and other horribly vanilla heels on top of a company that will ultimately be digging it's own ditch - still not getting shitty heels liek them over and in the process killing off any last attempt at a sustaining credible push, especially important for Van Dam right now. If they bury him again like they have in WWE before time and time again, there is really not even any value for him to show up on TNA. Think of it like Matt Hardy before coming back to WWE and Matt Hardy now in terms of his value to another company that's trying (keyword: trying) to compete with Vince in TNA. I dunno, I just can't see them not putting RVD back in the title scene when his suspension is up. I mean fuck, they're pushing Orton again and from all accounts he would have been fired if not for the program he was involved in and there wasn't a new brand that needed him back ASAP. Maybe that's just me though. Even if they left WWE they would still have to wait 90 days to appear on TNA wouldn't they? Randy Orton is WWE home-grown...RVD is not. There is the difference. Orton's reputation was built up by Vince, Van Dam had his rep built well before he joined Vince's dysfunctional family that is the WWE. That's why Orton is about to do a program with Hulk Hogan and Van Dam is about to get jobbed out to the Vampire.

If I'm not mistaken, alcoholism is protected by the ADA. Although they can still be fired for drinking on the job.

Rick Steamboat wasn't too shabby his first few years. Had won the US title and the NWA World tag team titles twice by the time he turned 25 and had only been a pro about three years.

My best friend's roommate got himself a license to shoot fireworks. We're driving to a open field south of town to enjoy this. I'm only going down just to watch something get blown up.

It beats the idea of saving Randy Orton.

Combine both stories, Sideburnious, and we have an epic on our hands...an EPIC! The struggle between Ralphus vs. Paris Hilton for WWE Commissioner brings near apocalypse to the IWC. Let's put this bad boy together.

I can see losing a set of car keys. I can see forgetting my lunch in the fridge or leaving a jar of mayo out on the counter. HOW THE FUCK CAN SOMEONE BE THAT STUPID ENOUGH TO FORGET THEIR CHILD!

OK...idea of the movie. Vince comes out and does his usual rip-on the IWC, and challenges any of the smarks out there that think they can do a better job to come on down and do it. A band of TSM'ers decided to take Vinnie Mac up on the challenge. However, hilarity ensues when they line up Ralphus as WWE Commissioner.