Rant: Stupid Morning DJ's
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eggwardsI listen to the Radio occasionally. I tend to fluctuate between the 80's stating, the alternative rock station and the adult contemporary station - known here as the Mix.
Mix 96.5 is your typical, uber-programmed Clear Channel radio station. Since Mix is programmed towards a female audience, they tend to have a female friendly set of DJ's, but the morning show is trying to break out. A few months ago they wiped the slate and placed the new Roula and Ryan show on the air.
They have done the usual stupid morning DJ stunts. Ryan Chase is an ass. I'm sure that some of the longer term Dallasites know him as he used to be a sidekick for Jagger on The Edge. From what I know, Jagger and Ryan didn't get along.
Could part of it be because Jagger is gay? (This is nothing new, Jagger came out on air a few years ago. I remember Jagger when he used to host a sex-talk show, and then went to TV on Change of Heart a dating show)
So Roula and Ryan do the "Friday Morning Hook-Up" which is just the darn Dating Game on radio. All week they have been promoting this Friday would be the first (Oh. My. God!) Gay Hook-up. Then they would usually follow it up with the little "yoo hoo" stereotypical noise, letting you know exactly how they are going to handle it. Poorly.
So all this morning, every segment, "Gay hook-up coming up." "First ever alternative Friday morning Hook-Up." They couldn't stop promoting it, and probably driving some of their listeners over to the Christian stations right now.
So here's Patrick, as the lucky guy, and then they choose three people who are on the phone for him to ask the questions to. Poor Patrick, he's totally being used. They choose two sales clerks in the Galleria and on dancer as his potential mates. I'm guessing they did a search for guys with voices that sound "gay".
I know, I'm being an ass for stereotyping them just from their voices, right? I certainly wouldn't make a point of choosing these guys for the game, but given what comes next, I think that Ryan and the producers did. BTW, Patrick, has a really nice deep voice. Good for him.
They use "Dancing Queen" and "It's Raining Men" as bumper music, and continue to use the "Yoo Hoo" sound all through the segment.
Ryan admits he wrote the questions. Yep, questions include: "If we went out to a secluded island, what would you pack so we would have a flaming good time?" I'm not kidding. Poor Patrick had to read this. Another question: "If you were playing Baseball, would you be the pitcher, crouching down and catching, or the bat boy, polishing the bats?"
Luckily, Patrick changed one of the questions, dropping the "Man Lovin'" phrase from, "If we could only have hot (love) for one month and then no more, what would you do?" Why does it matter what kind of love? DJ Ryan made a big point to mention that Patrick had changed the question. He was upset by it.
Ryan, you're an ass. A stereotypical ass.
Almost makes me want to try the whole thing myself, just to prove there's more than one kind of gay man out there. There's a lot more diversity out there. If Ryan has problems with gay men, as I suspect, I'd love to get some big, hot bears to really make him think.
In fact, I think I will email him at least to question why the questions couldn't be the same for the guys today as they are for the men and women that they have every other Friday? Why must they use dumb sound-clips to let the audience know someone might be...dare I say it?...gay?
I know, it's radio, and Howard Stern and the dumb shock jocks on some of the other stations do a worse job of demeaning the gay audience than these guys did, but still, when DJ Roula said in a promo spot that something was "fabulous" did it really take Ryan chiding her that "You picked up something from the hook-up, didn't you?"
Why couldn't this be like any other Friday Morning Hook-up? Why the need to keep pointing out the big difference?
Follow Up: They are having the Houston Gay Pride Parade Committee on, (one segment only) and Ryan just called the chairman "Mayor McGay". Good grief. Luckily they are making fun of him, and his fears, asking him to come to the parade. Heh. He won't be there, but I will.
Mix 96.5 is your typical, uber-programmed Clear Channel radio station. Since Mix is programmed towards a female audience, they tend to have a female friendly set of DJ's, but the morning show is trying to break out. A few months ago they wiped the slate and placed the new Roula and Ryan show on the air.
They have done the usual stupid morning DJ stunts. Ryan Chase is an ass. I'm sure that some of the longer term Dallasites know him as he used to be a sidekick for Jagger on The Edge. From what I know, Jagger and Ryan didn't get along.
Could part of it be because Jagger is gay? (This is nothing new, Jagger came out on air a few years ago. I remember Jagger when he used to host a sex-talk show, and then went to TV on Change of Heart a dating show)
So Roula and Ryan do the "Friday Morning Hook-Up" which is just the darn Dating Game on radio. All week they have been promoting this Friday would be the first (Oh. My. God!) Gay Hook-up. Then they would usually follow it up with the little "yoo hoo" stereotypical noise, letting you know exactly how they are going to handle it. Poorly.
So all this morning, every segment, "Gay hook-up coming up." "First ever alternative Friday morning Hook-Up." They couldn't stop promoting it, and probably driving some of their listeners over to the Christian stations right now.
So here's Patrick, as the lucky guy, and then they choose three people who are on the phone for him to ask the questions to. Poor Patrick, he's totally being used. They choose two sales clerks in the Galleria and on dancer as his potential mates. I'm guessing they did a search for guys with voices that sound "gay".
I know, I'm being an ass for stereotyping them just from their voices, right? I certainly wouldn't make a point of choosing these guys for the game, but given what comes next, I think that Ryan and the producers did. BTW, Patrick, has a really nice deep voice. Good for him.
They use "Dancing Queen" and "It's Raining Men" as bumper music, and continue to use the "Yoo Hoo" sound all through the segment.
Ryan admits he wrote the questions. Yep, questions include: "If we went out to a secluded island, what would you pack so we would have a flaming good time?" I'm not kidding. Poor Patrick had to read this. Another question: "If you were playing Baseball, would you be the pitcher, crouching down and catching, or the bat boy, polishing the bats?"
Luckily, Patrick changed one of the questions, dropping the "Man Lovin'" phrase from, "If we could only have hot (love) for one month and then no more, what would you do?" Why does it matter what kind of love? DJ Ryan made a big point to mention that Patrick had changed the question. He was upset by it.
Ryan, you're an ass. A stereotypical ass.
Almost makes me want to try the whole thing myself, just to prove there's more than one kind of gay man out there. There's a lot more diversity out there. If Ryan has problems with gay men, as I suspect, I'd love to get some big, hot bears to really make him think.
In fact, I think I will email him at least to question why the questions couldn't be the same for the guys today as they are for the men and women that they have every other Friday? Why must they use dumb sound-clips to let the audience know someone might be...dare I say it?...gay?
I know, it's radio, and Howard Stern and the dumb shock jocks on some of the other stations do a worse job of demeaning the gay audience than these guys did, but still, when DJ Roula said in a promo spot that something was "fabulous" did it really take Ryan chiding her that "You picked up something from the hook-up, didn't you?"
Why couldn't this be like any other Friday Morning Hook-up? Why the need to keep pointing out the big difference?
Follow Up: They are having the Houston Gay Pride Parade Committee on, (one segment only) and Ryan just called the chairman "Mayor McGay". Good grief. Luckily they are making fun of him, and his fears, asking him to come to the parade. Heh. He won't be there, but I will.
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Date: 2003-06-13 07:23 am (UTC)The only thing horrendously bad is MJ. He's their syndicated morning show out of Tampa (also in Kansas City or some other place, too).
He is absolutely the worst morning DJ I've ever heard, hands down.
This is also a clear channel station. I'm not impressed with their choices at all.
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Date: 2003-06-13 07:28 am (UTC)Think I'll ask Jagger to dish about him when he records the promo this morning.
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Date: 2003-06-13 07:32 am (UTC)Just Kidding. I have respect for Jagger, seems like a good guy.
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Date: 2003-06-13 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-13 12:41 pm (UTC)As part of a contest to win tickets, (straight) men were required to lie in a sleeping bag with a rather large gay male. That's it. Nothing else. They just had to lay next to him for a few minutes. As a reward for the "torture," they received the desired tickets.
What did they gay man get? You got it... tickets to a theatre show. Not even close to the worth of what the straight men received.
hello!!!!???!!!
Date: 2003-06-13 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-13 02:59 pm (UTC)Bleh. I remember the days when Mix 96.5 was Clear Channel-free and actually was a good station.
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Date: 2003-06-13 03:16 pm (UTC)I wanted to scream at MJ and say, "YOU ARE JUST ENTERTAINMENT AS WELL! You friggen hypocrite!"
He couldn't stop talking about the Dixie Chicks...
Unfortunately they made his show an hour longer...
Thank god for NPR. :)
Re: hello!!!!???!!!
Date: 2003-06-13 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-13 09:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-16 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-16 09:19 pm (UTC)He came out? Whoah ... room spinning ...
TO think ... all those nights as a middle and highschooler spent secretly listening to the radio, I was listening to a closeted gay guy make fun of other peoples sexual hangups ... Oh sweet Justice!
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Date: 2003-06-16 11:30 pm (UTC)I listened to that show too - here in Houston. I'm surprised that you called the station "The Rocket" it was only that for a few months as they were going to get their asses sued by the basketball team...so they changed to "The Buzz" and has been so ever since.
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Date: 2003-06-17 05:36 am (UTC)So what does he look like is my big question?
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Date: 2003-06-17 07:16 pm (UTC)But apparently, I can't. Damn. I so need to learn HTML. Just go to the link...Jagger
Otherwise, I need to make it out to New Orleans before the summer ends!