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I AM A BADASS BUDDING RADIOPHILE
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I AM STILL A BADASS BUDDING RADIOPHILE
THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN 5:00 PM AND 6:00 PM.
EVENTS OCCUR IN REAL TIME.
Citizen SHoPpers, your Tio Jaime is gonna take a hack at this "An Open Letter to..." thing we see all over the place. Wish me luck.
Well tie me up and attach electrodes to my genitals. You dumb pigfuckers finally did it. What I thought was an ordinary "Best of" segment last Fri-dee was actually the first evening drive without John London, Dennis Cruz, and Chris Townsend on KIFR 106.9 FreeFM. As such, it was my last time listening to KIFR.
Nevermind that you just fired Darian O'Toole.
Nevermind that Turi Ryder, her replacement, ain't nothing to write home about.
Nevermind that your lineup of Adam Carolla, Penn Jillette, and Tom Leykis has the exact opposite intended effect you had hoped to have on radiophiles.
This is the last straw. WTF, did you fire him for calling into question the obvious shittiness of Adam Carolla and Penn Jillette? The people you're firing thus far have had extensive radio experience. Instead, you're running with a bunch of stand-up comedians with shitty shows.
And Tom Leykis, while he has plenty of radio experience and runs a decent show-- for all of you Bay Aryans out there who have been hearing Tom for the past few months now, just know that after listening to his show for six months, any listener with half a brain will be able to guess exactly what he's going to say in response to whichever of the three or four types of callers he has to his show. It's an unoriginal show which relies on the same stupid gimmicks and same stupid callers time and time again. If you're still entertained by the show after six months, then you have the attention span of the average high school cheerleader.
KIFR Program Director Ken Kohl and all you other pigfuckers: you've gutted your golden goose. When you could've stocked the bay area airwaves with local talent with more ability than the Sarah and No Name Show (#1: not that that's hard to do, and #2: get off my back i love that show and listen to it each morning), instead you're relying on the canned CBS bullshit from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles again. Nice job.
You want a quick and easy solution? Start piping in the syndicated show from Washington, DC: The Don and Mike Show.
I'm sick of this shit. I'm gonna play on the xb0x0r.
Anybody who finds this post (either because you searched for "John London fired" or because you followed a link from a comment I left somewhere) and has any info on John London et. al., please leave it in the comments. Links to news stories are OK, just so long as they're time-relevant. See the comments in the posts in the recaps if you're confused.
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
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Sorry, I was in a meeting, so I didn't get to catch this crap as it came on at 3pm.
Who the fuck is this tool? Fuck, it's not even Jim Rome tape-delayed!
Oh, of course you should talk about Barry Bonds in San Francisco. Fucking rookies, all of you choadstains at FreeFM. Get a clue, Ken Kohl. Nice job, you rejects. I'm making my way back to KSFO.
Fellow Infernans: Boycott KIFR 106.9 FreeFM! At 12 noon, point your browser to WJFK and catch the internet stream of a quality FreeFM show-- the tried and true Don and Mike Show! Don't worry about the FreeFM "format", as these guys were turning crap into radio gold long before this FreeFM shit came about. 12-4 Pacific time, streaming online or tune into 1140AM KHTK. If you liked the John London Not-Just-Sports Show or John London's Inferno, you'll love Don and Mike.
If you don't, I'll buy you a tin of Bobo's Scrotum Polish.
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And now this fucking tool is talking about Rock Lobster? Wow. What a show. At least it provides for some good, snark-o-licious blogging when I should be doing work. Ass.
Just got an e-mail from the admin of Bay Area Radio Digest. I initially asked him if he had any inside information on John London being fired. He asked if I had heard anything as he was unable to tune in this last week.
| Excerpt from Tio Jaime's e-mail to BayRadioDJ |
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| On thursday, they had a segment where Erica the phone screener at one point said "take a dump on his chest". Could management have reacted to that? Jimmy |
I got this response a few minutes ago...
| BayRadioDJ's e-mail to Tio Jaime |
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| Jimmy, I just received a message that said London mentioned on Thursday that he'd pay $5000 if someone would kill Penn Jillette -- $7000 if it was a painful death. That might have upset management, too. D.J. |
And I'm sure all of you out there in Radioland were thinking what I wrote back...
| Tio Jaime's response to BayRadioDJ |
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| That's funnier than anything i've ever heard come outof Penn Jillette's show... Jimmy |
More news as it comes in. Fuck FreeFM.
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If you found the SHoP whilst looking for news on John London being fired, you've likely already seen this post on Bay Area Radio Digest, although I'm having trouble accessing it from the main page...
London Latest To Leave Free FM
OK, and caveat Citizen SHoPpers. Despite my rantings and ravings, and despite your feeling betrayed, and even despite my calling KIFR management "pigfuckers"-- it hasn't been confirmed that John London was in fact fired. He may have quit. Although this doesn't seem likely in my opinion given that they were talking up the Friday Cocktail Hour on Thursday's show.
For all of the SHoP's griping at the irresponsibility of the media, best that we practice what we preach.
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Fellow Infernans: OK, I did the Right Thing and gave this Johnny Wendell a try.
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Even if he wasn't replacing the Inferno, he would still suck major balls.
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And he's just chock-full of originality! He spent most of the time talking about whether or not cyber-relationships were cheating? Holy shit, that's like a 20-minute topic, at best! Where the fuck did they find this moron?Oh. Los Angeles. Well, that explains a bit, doesn't it? Holy Jesus, this guy makes Turi Ryder listenable.
I'm goddam astounded. You'd think that 2+ hours on internet-cheating would be a good topic of discussion since we're an hour's fucking drive north of Silicon Valley? An hour-and-a-half if you take 880? Oh yes, it would've been a mindnumbingly good topic FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO.
Citizen SHoPpers and refugee Infernans: check out the comments below, as you'll find others in the same boat as yourself-- confused, hurt, disappointed, but most of all pissed. And we have the right to be. Even more so when we're able to confirm that the Inferno crew was fired for nothing more than the shittiest reasons that Infinity Broadcasting could possibly pull out of Ken Kohl's ass.
Oh look, we have our first troll! Welcome, you anonymous degenerate pigfucker!
Special thanks to Paul who has painstakingly taken time out of his life to save the podcasts. Check out the comments.
Hopefully John, Dennis, Chris, or Larry or Phone Bitch Erica or webmistress Mindy will find us here and fill us in a little bit. I'm sure they're eager to let their loyal fans know what's the dealie-o.
As for myself? You can read my older posts about John London's Inferno if you scroll up to the top of this post and find the 24-style recap. Just look for Jack Bauer. Also, if you check out the podcasts which Paul has fished out of the FreeFM toilet, find the one which talks about the most challenging Radio Rebus ever! (it's located about 6-7 minutes from the end).
Jimmy from Oakland
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Last update before I get to bed. I'm getting sick and as want to turn in before 11. You got that MySpace internet(s) crack? Yeah, I caved in a few weeks back and got it too... I just received a message from this dude right here, who likely found me through Darian O'Toole's myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/jlinferno
See? It was only a matter of time before groups of survivors got in touch with each other.
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Again, you may have already read this. But maybe not. I'll fix the near-invisible, broken link on the wikipedia page when I get to work. Hell, I'll even post an excerpt here later. But for now...
Radio talk show host John London fired
Penn Jillette is a pigfucker of embarassing proportion. FreeFM should've shitcanned his ass after the first week. Carolla too.
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I should've known that Brad Kava would have information on this. My apologies in getting this to you in such an untimely manner.
TWO STRIKES ON FREE FM: JOHN LONDON FIRED
Heh, check out the comments! Some other Don and Mike fan got the drop on your Tio Jaime!
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Greetings, Citizen SHoPpers and Refugee Infernans!
You've likely found this page because you were looking for John London's Inferno from 3-7 on 106.9 FreeFM. Much to your dismay, you found that he had been replaced with some Los Angeleno jag0ff who I have christened Johnny Wank-all.
Feel free to use that until something better comes along.
You may be here from wikipedia's John London page, one of the other gathering spots for us refugee Infernans, oh fuck my shit even google! Google's returning the SHoP when you put in "John London" fired.
Anycrap, I think I've reached the limit of updating this initial post. News is trickling in, and it can be given its own post up at the top. A few more days and this here post won't even show up on the front page of the SHoP. Will our slower Infernan brethren have common sense enough to find the latest? I sure as fuck hope so.
As usual, the wonderful blog admin SixHertz has been remiss at greeting the Infernalanche which has befallen the SHoP. So I'll have to recycle the last one we used when we had a traffic spike. You can see it up towards the top...
What is the House of Pain?
We're a political blog normally. Sometimes-- as you've seen this past week-- I go off on other apolitical tangents. Our Leftist trolls don't even notice, much to our amusement. Amusement which slowly degenerates into pity.
So yeah. No more updates to this post. Here's the front page: SixHertz House of Pain
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