Love your site, but I think it's NOT a good
idea to do a radio show.
Liberals don't listen to the radio - they
read.
Anonymous
Charlottesville, Virginia.
Anon, you could be right, but this won't be like other liberal
radio shows you've heard.
This is The Tequila Treehouse come to life.
Think like, after reading Lord of the Rings all those years
ago, and now seeing it in a movie theater!
It'll be just like that - ...without the moving pictures ...and
the production values ...and the class.
Other than that, it's a perfect analogy.
I think it's very possible that BartCop radio might be so useless,
people may listen to it instead of
doing their jobs. It could be a reverse hit, that's it so perfectly
bad that people might listen just to
see if it's going to get any worse - like Fear Factor
or Bill O'Reilly.
One component I really need is a serious, news-junkie/news-reader
with a gift for historical detail.
I need a Dr Drew to balance out my Adam Carolla, if that's who
those guys are.
I need a Data or Mr Spock to keep me honest and on-track.
A radio voice would be good, too, as a counter to my rat-like
nasalities.
But hey, if there's one thing I'd like all readers to remember:
Life is a gamble, but don't ever take the other guy's
bet. If he walks up to you in a bar and says,
"See that basketball shooting game in the
corner? $20 says I can hit 20 in a row,"
...do not take that bet, because he'll hit all twenty
- that's why he made the bet!
If a man in a bar wants to gamble with you on the pool table and
he offers to use nothing but a
broken broom handle as a cue, ...do not take that bet,
because he'll run that table for sure.
Sidebar: Possible never-before told
story - Once, at a pool hall, a guy said he could take
one drag off a cigarette and recycle that
same smoke again and again for at least five minutes.
I got to thinking... How could one
blast from a Marlboro last over five minutes?
I took the bet (it was hueueuge
money, maybe $5, but it was in 1972) and I'll be damned.
He took one big drag off that cigarette
and exhaled it from his mouth while he inhaled
with his nose (don't even ask me
how he was breathing) and he did that continuously
for 3-4 minutes and and I broke it off
by handing him my $5. It was an amazing feat.
It wasn't a trick, he just stood there
and made this smoke go out his mouth and into
his nose continuously until I said "Koresh
- raise my rent."
Extra rare sidebar within a sidebar:
A couple of weeks back, I mentioned a killer
recording of a 1977 Zeppelin concert where they tore
thru Tchiakovsky's Nutcracker,
and a guy wrote and said he knew of a group that did it better in 1962,
maybe.
I asked the guy if he'd heard the Zep version,
and he said "No."
So how does he know the Zeppelin version
isn't better?
You can't bet against a guy who says he
has something.
Did you ever see the lightbulb eater on
Dave?
This moke took a regular 75 watt GE bulb
and swallowed it - boom! - it was gone.
The whole crowd gasped, because this guy
just inhaled a lightbulb.
Now if he walked up to you on a subway
platform, (OK, bad example...)
and said "$20 says I can inhale and
exhale this lightbulb," do not take that bet.
Bottom line?
(Thank you Mary, Mother of God)
You can bet on your game, or on the game
of someone you've seen before,
but you can't ever take the other guy's
bet - always remember that.
(This was written late at night, and I must've gotten lost.
...but it had had something to do with betting against
BCR...
Usually, I throw this kind of stuff away, but I thought the
Fear Factor line was funny :)