Thursday, September 29, 2016

9.29.16 Heroes of the Day: Jerry and Sheryl Coyne


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A SPECIAL HEROES OF THE DAY!


  
Names: Jerry and Sheryl Coyne
Ages: 55, 50
Occupation: radio station owners
Last Seen: Grayling, MI
Awarded For: showing people the PROPER way of owning a radio station




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Just four years ago, Jerry and Sheryl Coyne gave up their lives in the big city and headed up north to fulfill their life-long dream of owning their own radio station.

She just happened to work ad sales at CBS Radio in Detroit and he owned a company that did electrical work. They pooled their life savings and bought three radio stations in Grayling in 2012 whose owner suffered a stroke.

When the Coynes formed Blarney Stone Broadcasting that year, the stations they purchased only had one full-time employee and all three stations were fed entirely off of satellite. The stations had very little local programming.

Aside from installing LED lights, Jerry lived and breathed rock 'n roll. He played in several bands in the Detroit area and even wrote articles in a few magazines. He knew that when he and Sheryl bought the three stations, it would be risky flipping the most-powerful station in the trio, 60,000-watt 100.3 from country to rock. In an age where rock stations are either alternative, classic rock or active rock, Jerry's idea was simple: anything goes.

Q100 was born in 2013 and created a tidal wave in northern Michigan. He encouraged listeners to call in with requests and they did. Many of the songs people wanted to hear were songs not played on the air in a while.

I was flustered in the beginning when I heard that northern Michigan had gained yet another classic rock station, but when they started streaming from their website, I wiped the egg from my face. I clearly knew that Q100 was definitely not another KLT clone. It was KLT... on steroids.

Yesterday during the 4:00 hour, I heard a few familiar tunes (Uriah Heep's "Easy Living", Greg Kihn Band's "The Break-Up Song" and REO Speedwagon's "Time For Me To Fly"), a few deep tracks (The Doors' "Spanish Caravan", "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" by The Beatles and Bob Segar's "Betty Lou's Getting Out Tonight") and a few bands that most have never heard of, such as Ireland's The Strypes and the supergroup Hollywood Vampires, made up of Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry. The oddest segue of the hour was Jean Knight's soul classic "Mr. Big Stuff" into Stone Temple Pilots' "Sex Type Thing".

I even chatted with Jerry a few times online and admitted that he's a fan of my blogs and knowledge of the radio business. He seems to be a very down-to-earth guy, unlike the folks at his competitors at KLT...

...A station he and Sheryl just purchased.

That's right: David just bought Goliath.

The Coynes just purchased KLT and its sisters The Fox and ESPN Northern Michigan, though 106.7 Gaylord is being spun off because of ownership caps. This will be the first time in nearly three and a half decades that KLT will be locally owned. It's expected that the Coynes will start running the stations right away.

Not too shabby for a radio group that's only been in business for a few years.

When the Coynes purchased the Grayling stations, they only had one full-time employee. Now, they have 12. Now, they're going to increase that number with the Northern Broadcast stations. According to the press statement released yesterday, they are working to increase the talent at their stations and work with local businesses to increase their footprint. 

There are a few - especially on KLT's Facebook page - who are claiming that because of the Coynes, this is why Omelette and Friends was canceled. But, who knows? All I can say is that with major radio groups like iHeartMedia and Cumulus constantly letting go workers and racked with billions in debt, Blarney Stone is anything but that. Maybe it's time for corporate radio to learn why the Coynes are successful and why they're failing. It is possible for a radio station with a 7,000 song playlist to survive since a lot of people don't want to hear "Carry On, Wayward Son" every two minutes.

Change can do any radio station good.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

9.28.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Trump




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Name: Donald Trump
Age: 70
Occupation: president wannabe
Last Seen: New York, NY
Bee-otched For: losing more than the debate




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I didn't watch the Presidential Debates on Monday night, and guess what? The sun rose and it set later on into the evening.

But for the 84 million folks who watched the battle, all I know was this: Donald was Donald and Hillary was Hillary.

Many declared Clinton the winner simply because she was the smart one while the Donald was defending the fact that he didn't pay personal taxes for years among other chunks of bullshit that makes Trump the asshole he is.

One thing that people are buzzing about is the fact that Trump trashed one of his Miss Universe winners from 20 years ago. Yesterday, Alicia Machado from Venezuela claimed that Trump called her "Miss Piggy" because she gained 50 pounds and even racial slurs because of the fact that she was Hispanic.

Thankfully, Trump has since sold the pageant. I think most of their contestants would rather have Steve Harvey say that they're Miss Universe only to misread the card than to have a tyrant like Trump degrade them.

However, Michael Moore thinks that Trump actually won the debate. On Twitter, he said that Trump's narcissism and bigotry is more consistent than that of Hillary. "It's over. Trump, the egoist, the racist, the narcissist, the liar, "won." We all lost. His numbers will go up. She told the truth. So what," Moore said in a Tweet.

So the question is, what will happen next? Will people vote for Trump because they think it's right to call a 19-year-old woman "Miss Piggy" because she gained weight? How about the fact that he had multiple failed businesses and lies about his taxes? True, I'm no Hillary fan, either, but better her over Donald.

Only a month and a half of this bullshit, folks.




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Monday, September 26, 2016

9.26.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Northern Broadcast


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Name: Northern Broadcast, Inc.
Age: 35
Occupation: radio station owners
Last Seen: Minot, ND
Bee-otched For: waiting too damn long to kick the bucket




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Later today, it will be made official: Northern Broadcast, Inc., the long-time owners of geezer rock WKLT (97.5/98.9), 80s/90s oldies WFCX (94.3/92.5 The Fox FM) and ESPN 106.7/105.5 will be selling their stations in a three-way deal.

Five out of the six stations will be sold to Grayling-based Blarney Stone Broadcasting, owned by Jerry and Sheryl Coyne. BSB already owns rock Q100 and CBS Sports Y101. Because of FCC rules and regulations, one station will be spun off, and it's WSRT 106.7 Gaylord, one of the ESPN stations. The 100,000-watt station - most-famous in its history as legendary top 40 outlet WKPK/106.7 The Peak - will end up in the hands of Catholic broadcaster Baraga Broadcasting.

It's believed that BSB will take over the NBI stations later this week in a Local Marketing Agreement, with the FCC giving its full blessing to the sale in the first quarter of 2017. It's also believed that KLT's format will be adjusted to sound like Q100.

NBI has been in the northern Michigan market since 1983 when they purchased WKLT from its founder, current WLDR/101.9 The Bay owner Roy Henderson. Over the years, NBI grew their portfolio as ownership limits decreased. In 1991, they purchased then-struggling AC station WJML 98.9 and made it into a simulcast of WKLT. They also boosted WKLT's power from 6,000 watts at 97.7 to 32,000 watts at 97.5. They also bought out other stations, such as the former WAIR 92.5/94.3 in the early 90s and 106.7 in 1996.

NBI was owned by the Gokey family of Minot, ND, who own a Pepsi bottler. Apparently, the elder Gokey sold the stations to his son, Langer.

BSB, on the other hand, started in 2012 when Bill Gannon, the owner of several stations in Grayling suffered a stroke and wanted to get out of broadcasting. He sold his three stations to the Coynes. Sheryl worked in sales at CBS Radio in Detroit while Jerry owned a electrical business. Jerry himself never worked in radio, but owning his own station was a wish he had. When the Coynes learned about the Grayling stations being up for sale, they bought them.

A few months after buying out Gannon, BSB switched their satellite-fed country station to a locally-programmed rock station, Q100. Many have lauded the station for its deep, free-form playlist that spans from when rock began in the 1950s to today. Some of the bands Q100 spins aren't even signed yet.

BSB, however, did spin off WGRY-AM 1230 to Baraga since it was not a real money-maker.

It's amazing that in just a few years' time, David is buying Goliath. It's no secret that the Gokeys had been trying to sell NBI for years. It was even rumored that the company was almost sold to Townsquare, who own WGRD here in Grand Rapids along with other stations in Lansing, Kalamazoo and Flint.

But in all, I'm happy that NBI will be no more. Why? Because of the way the company was managed, they gave northern Michigan some of the shittiest radio stations out there. When I was growing up, I was bummed that my cousins got to hear kick-ass rock stations in WKLQ, WRIF and others. Me? Let's just say this: northern Michigan was a shitty place for a teen in the 1990s. Hardly any rock concerts came simply because the fucking old people complained and the only station in town that cared about the 18-34 demographic was The Peak. Of course, NBI killed that station in 2000 because their dream was to have an AC station, WSRT and guess what? IT WAS A DISASTER. It was so bad that their Programming Director sent in fake diaries to Arbitron and got caught. In the end, they simply changed the station's name to You FM. Thankfully, they did flip the station to talk (still retaining the You FM name), but it was a disastrous mix of liberal and conservative talk. They even aired the controversial Dr. Laura show that cost her career when she uttered the N-word many times in one minute. Thankfully, NBI slightly redeemed themselves when they flipped 106.7 and 105.5 Honor to ESPN.

NBI was a company I personally won't miss. Other reasons why they sucked included:
-The fact that they fired popular KLT morning jock Tim Murphy in the 90s only because he blasted Arby's without knowing that they were a sponsor of his
-the fact that they killed WAIR for the unsuccessful country format The Bee that was WTCM's bitch the whole time
-the fact that they promoted airheaded blonde bimbo Terri Ray - who knew nothing about rock as-is - to PD at KLT
-the fact that they hired an internet troll, Tom Devitt to operations manager

So in the end, I hope that the Coynes will fix NBI's wrongs, but who knows? They are anti-corporate radio at its finest. With Black Diamond taking over Northern Star's stations later this Fall, it will be exciting to see what they have in store.

All I'm hoping for is that the Active Rock format in northern Michigan is safe.


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Thursday, September 22, 2016

9.22.16 Bee-otch of the Day: WKLT


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Name: WKLT
Age: 38
Occupation: old geezer rock station
Last Seen: Traverse City, MI
Bee-otched For: promoting a troll



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It's official: WKLT has a new morning show two weeks after canning Steve Normandin and the rest of the Omelette and Friends show.

The station simply moved its afternoon show, The Afternoon Trainwreck to mornings as (what else?) The Morning Trainwreck. Replacing the Trainwreck in afternoons is Tom Devitt, who had been a news reader at the station.

From the sounds of things, Omelette and Friends was let go simply because of a budgetary move, which is quite legendary in northern Michigan radio.

True, I wasn't much of a friend of Omelette and the fact that he ripped off a lot of bits from Stern, but I figured that he could have been replaced with a worse show. In a way, it's the truth. The reason being is because of my long-standing feud with Devitt.

In the late 1990s, Devitt was the morning host at milquetoast modern rock station The Zone (95.5 Traverse City, 94.5 Straits Area and 93.9 Mio/Gaylord/Grayling area). Needless to say, his show sucked. Then again, The Zone's sister station was classic rocker The Bear, which had Bob and Tom mornings. It was people like Devitt that made me start this very website in the first place since I wanted Howard Stern's show up there. Driving to school daily was a chore thanks to the sad, pathetic state of radio up north.

In 2000, I was driving back on I-75 from seeing family in the Detroit area when my radio landed on 92.1 WIDL out of Caro in Michigan's thumb. I was hearing a news update read by guess who? Tom Devitt himself. I noticed that he was gone from The Zone and that was why! He traded in a station whose combined signal was 90,000 watts for a tiny 6,000-watt flea-powered pissshooter whose signal barely kissed I-75 most of the time.

While Devitt was there, the soccer mom pop station became the not-so-mom-friendly "92.1 The Coyote", complete with imaging that sounded like it was public access. It was satellite-fed from ABC most of the time.

One day some 15 years ago, I noticed that there was a poster on the Michigan Radio and TV Buzzboard who was hijacking threads on the Flint/Tri-Cities section with stupid posts regarding "Rabid Radio". If there was a post about ratings, he'd post something like "I wonder how Rabid Radio did". If there was a post about a radio personality, he'd post "I wonder if he was good enough for Rabid Radio", etc. Turns out that the poster, "radiostudtd" was none other than Devitt himself. So, I lovingly awarded him Bee-otch of the Day. I posted the link on the Buzzboard and the next day, good 'ol Tom wrote me a nasty email crying that he owns a house, gets pussy once in a while, etc. Plus, one of the former Zone jocks working at WIOG didn't even have a car.

Apparently, not long afterward, the management at WIDL got wind of Devitt's moronic posts on the Buzzboard. Needless to say, he was placed on the shitlist. Devitt ended up at another radio station in the thumb (and yes, WIDL isn't the thumb's only radio station, believe it or not) doing news but somehow weaseled his way back to WIDL, this time doing mornings. He apparently was let go from WIDL, maybe because of his moronic past.

About 10 years ago, I was one of the more-popular posters on the Buzzboard but that all changed because I was being harassed by a group of posters who all formed an alliance named "Dale Motel". To make a long story short, Tom came out of nowhere to email me that a DJ at The Bear, Ted Cramer was forced to resign from the station. He was responsible for the station's ratings downfall because he felt that Ted Nugent into Depeche Mode into Foghat into A Flock of Seagulls was a good idea. I posted on the Buzzboard and for some strange reason, I became the Antichrist. Turns out that 1) Ted Cramer - who now works at a country station in BFE, Indiana called WIFE - allegedly posts on the Buzzboard as "Zzand", and 2) Devitt reportedly used multiple usernames on the Buzzboard to attack me to get his revenge. Needless to say, he won that battle. Turns out that he and his skank wife Nikki came back to Northern Star but he ended up at KLT and its ESPN sports sister. So there you have it.

Look, what Devitt did to me was VERY unprofessional. Yet, he's now riding high in the afternoons at what's probably the most-overrated rock station in Michigan. At least when Omelette was at KLT, he never sent me hate mail. Instead, he was focused on entertaining his listeners. OK, so "David the Fluffer" asked me to appear on their Intern Show, but I refused.

I guess the 1980s hair metal band Cinderella said it best: "Don't Know What You Got 'Til It's Gone."

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

9.20.16 Bee-otches of the Day: the Devos family


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Name: the Devos family
Ages: various
Occupation: west Michigan's 1%
Last Seen: Grand Rapids
Bee-otched For: getting ready to unleash their venom for the next few weeks



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It's amazing that I've lived here in Grand Rapids for 14 years and I've spent more time at the Traverse City Film Festival than at FartPrize.

That's right! Tomorrow begins the 8th annual ArtPrize, which in my mind is one of the most grossly-overrated festivals in our state, maybe even more than my childhood festival, the Traverse City Cherry Festival.

Granted, I don't mind art. I don't even have a hatred towards the pieces at all. I think all the ArtPrize winning artists are very damn creative with their works. Sadly, however, let's remember who created ArtPrize in the first place: the Devos family, who give a small token of their wealth to the fine artists whose work is painstakingly labor of love.

Yes, the same family who pretty much runs the politics of Grand Rapids and the rest of the state. Hell, they're part of the reason why Flint's water supply is poisoned: the fact that governor Snyder banded together emergency managers to overhaul city governments like Flint's. Let's not forget that Dick Devos himself admitted that making Michigan a Right to Work state was his idea.

Oh, let's also not forget that the Devos family donated $500,000 to the victims of the Orlando shooting massacre AFTER they donated $2 million to keep gay marriage illegal (which was money not well spent). Personally, they did so as a goodwill for the NBA since they own the Magic and they didn't want to end up being the next Donald Sterling.

Now, for the next three weeks, ArtPrize will be everywhere like white on rice. Even WOOD-TV 8 will broadcast all their newscasts live from the event from temporary facilities at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Tragically, they're the only decent newscast in this town and they LOVE to kiss the Devos's asses. Even more, they're adding a 7pm newscast which debuts tonight.

Unlike the CherryFest, ArtPrize is THREE GRUELING weeks long. Or in other words, a three-week advertisement for the Devos clan. I was chatting with a girl on Tinder who asked me if ever go to ArtPrize and I told her "HELL NO!" I told her that I don't support the Devoses, but she told me that they don't make any money off it. The point is, I DON'T FUCKING CARE!!

I understand, there's a lot of Republicans who love Michael Moore for bringing tourist dollars to Traverse City because of the Film Festival. And here in GR, there's some liberals who love ArtPrize for putting our town and its creative people on the map. But there's a difference between Mike and the Devoses. You see, Michael Moore is a devout Catholic. Yet, he's pro-choice and disagrees with the church on their abortion policies. Yet, as he pointed out with his priests in "Capitalism: A Love Story", greed is a sin. Yet, there's the Devoses, who are this state's second-wealthiest family, who made their fortune on a barely legal pyramid scheme selling shit.

It's funny that the Devoses are anti-LGBT and yet one of their most-remembered ArtPrize pieces were a few paintings slapped with semen. As a dear friend of mine in the strip club business knows, the Devoses *PROBABLY* played a role in the idiotic ban on full nudity at the clubs since Judy Rose appeared in a Dick Devos campaign ad. So it's OK to go see a painting made with jizz but a woman can't open her legs in front of you... STUPID.

Oh, and this year, there's a painting made with... BLOOD! Maybe I oughta pee and poop on a canvas and call it "I Had To Go" for next year's competition.

It makes perfect sense since the Devoses are always full of shit.

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Monday, September 19, 2016

9.19.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Trump


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Name: Donald Trump
Age: 70
Occupation: rich old man
Last Seen: New York
Bee-otched For: taking a long time to see the light



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Hell has frozen over.

After years of proclaiming that President Obama was born in Kenya, one of the leaders of the Birther movement, Donald Trump, finally admitted that the president was indeed born in the United States.

He made a speech last week proclaiming that he was wrong all along, but was quick to point his Fickle Finger of Fate to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for claiming that she started the movement. Asshole.

Right now, Trump and Clinton are neck-and-neck in the polls. Maybe Trump made the claim to finally prove that he was wrong all along? Simply put, this further proves how much of a wackjob Trump is, and that he DOES NOT deserve to be 45.

Apparently, it was Obama's grandmother on his mother's side that claimed that he was born in Kenya. Yet, Obama has provided us with his birth certificate and even a newspaper clipping that announced his birth from a Honolulu newspaper. Clearly, the birther movement is one that was born on racism clearly because there's a lot of Repukes who all claim that just because his father wqas Kenyan means that he was born there. True, the Obamas traveled a lot, but that doesn't mean that he was born in another country. Hell, Ted Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban father, but he still ran for president (and lost!).

Sorry, birthers, but Obama's legally our president, like it or not. I think his presidency is a success. Want proof? My company is having a hard time finding and keeping workers. Why? Because there's a TON of companies here in west Michigan that are hiring. Some pay more than others. With a low unemployment rate, companies NEED to stay competitive by paying workers good wages and give them a raise once in a while. In four years, I've had five raises. It's proof that as long as there's a Democrat in the White House, that will be the outcome.

If Trump does become president, yes, he'll be an American in the White House. It's that all our goods will all come from China.

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Thursday, September 15, 2016

9.15.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Trump


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Name: Donald Trump
Age: 70
Occupation: wealthy idiot 
Last Seen: Flint, Michigan
Bee-otched For: coming to town acting like an idiot


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It's sad when you live in a town where the water is undrinkable, and yet, one of the wealthiest men in America comes to town and brings the same politics that brought down your city to begin with, with him.

That's what happened Thursday in Flint, MI, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump came to town. He toured the water plant that ended up poisoning the city's 100,000 souls after idiot governor Rick Snyder decided to switch over the city's water supply from Lake Huron over to the polluted Flint River. While in Flint, Trump threw a speech at the Bethel United Methodist Church but was kicked off stage by the church's pastor, Rev. Faith Green Timmons.

“Mr. Trump, I invited you here to thank us for what we’ve done in Flint, not give a political speech,” said the pastor, who told the billionaire to piss off after he talked about how Hillary Clinton's policies have hurt Flint. In his speech, told mostly in front of a crowd of African Americans. Trump talked about how NAFTA hurt Flint, even though the damage started with Reagan in the 1980s.

Needless to say, Flint is a town that doesn't take the Republicans too seriously, especially after what governor Snyder did to the city. Same with the State of Michigan itself, which hasn't voted in a Republican president since 1988.

The fact that Trump came to Flint to tell its citizens that he'll help the city out comes to me as a broken promise. As much as I cringe at Hillary, she's the lesser of the two evils in this year's election.

A rich white Republican visiting a heavily black town is like the Grinch in Whoville. 
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

9.14.16 Bee-otch of the Day: The City of Grand Rapids


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Name: The City of Grand Rapids
Age: 190
Occupation: second-largest city in Michigan 
Last Seen: southwest Michigan
Bee-otched For: ten years of no booty


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It was ten years ago on August 26th that many men's peni in Grand Rapids all fell to half-mast.

The City of Grand Rapids passed the idiotic resolution that banned nude dancing at the area's strip clubs. The law was the brainchild of Judy Rose, a long-time president of the Black Hills community group who raised $80,000 from an anonymous donor (*COUGHDEVOSCOUGH*) to have the city commission pass the law that forced the clubs to cover up. Under the law, strippers now had to strip only to G-strings and thongs and stay away from the customers. To bypass the law, the dancers stripped only to bikinis so they could perform lap dances, which are their big profit getters.

Since the law was passed, two clubs - Showgirl Galleria (which was the club that pissed Rose off since it was a hybrid club that had both nude and topless dancing) and Red Barn - have both closed while Sensations and Parkway Tropics have been demoted to bikini clubs. The nearest full-nude club to GR is Muskegon's Odyssey, 40 miles away. Another nude option, Kalamazoo's Deja Vu was forced to cover up five years ago because of a deal between the club and the city commission.

Of course, since the laws were passed, there have been multiple mass shootings, even here in west Michigan, especially in Kalamazoo. YET, NUDITY IS A PROBLEM?!?!

It's sad that we're a society - especially in America - where it's easier for some to buy a gun and open fire at a group of people then to look at a naked girl in the flesh. But that's what happens when your government is bought up by wealthy assholes like the Devoses. They've done a wonderful job of fucking up our city and turning our politicians into their puppets. Look at our cunt of a mayor Rosalynn Bliss. When the strip club vote was being discussed, my good pal Darren Gibson - now the Programming Director of WPRR/Public Reality Radio 1680/95.3 - was the manager of Parkway Tropics. He personally invited her to the club to prove that they were a safe and well-run operation. However, she refused and helped the city ban the strip clubs.

Ten years later, I guess what's left of Grand Rapids' strip clubs are doing what they can to bring customers in. I even hear that one club has nude VIP dances in hopes that an undercover officer doesn't slap a girl with a $500 fine. No thanks, I'm not going to risk going to a club and paying more just to see boobs when I can drive to Lansing and touch all the girls I want.

You see, this is a problem for Grand Rapids: the girls here are total BITCHES. I've had my issues with the girls here, but I also look at my cousin. He had problems getting a girl here, but then, he moved to the Detroit area and now, he's getting married! I always tell myself that it's not me, IT'S THEM. The fact that Grand Rapids no longer has any real strip joints proves how worthless this city has become for the single man.

As for Judy Rose, I Googled her name and I see that she's either A) dead, B) moved or C) fallen out of the public eye. It's sad that she did her damage when she did.

And because of that, we're the ones paying the price.


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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

9.13.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Steve "Omelette" Normandin


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Name: Steve "Omelette" Normandin
Age: 46
Occupation: none
Last Seen: Traverse City, MI
Bee-otched For: getting fried


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After over a decade of being the biggest Howard Stern wannabe in northern Michigan. Steve Normandin was forced to hear this Friday afternoon.

His longtime employer, geezer rocker WKLT 97.5/98.9 released this press statement Friday afternoon that was published on the website TraverseTicker.com:

"WKLT is redefining, refocusing and restructuring the programming strategy to better meet the needs and demands of our listeners, advertisers and our northern Michigan communities. We will continue the tradition of awesome, quality rock 'n roll, maintain our commitment to connect our communities, and honor our pledge to serve our friends and neighbors, both advertisers and listeners, so as to exceed their expectations."

"We appreciated the contributions, creativity, enthusiasm and talent that each member of the Omelette and Friends show have brought to KLT on a daily basis, and sincerely wish them the best in all their future endeavors."
Omelette had been a part of WKLT's morning show since 2006 when he was originally paired with Charly Kaye, who ended up moving to Las Vegas (and apparently had a beef with him). She was replaced with Sean "Finster" Finnegan, and together, Omelette and Finster became one of KLT's most-popular morning shows ever. However, Finster was fired from KLT right after Christmas 2011 but ended up doing mornings at crosstown WZTC 104.5 Bob FM a few months afterward.

Sadly, Omelette proved to be nothing more than a big Howard Stern wannabe. he had his own Wack Pack called "The Misfits" loaded with the homeless and people with disabilities. One of his most-notorious Misfits was Tony Ciccone, the homeless brother of pop legend Madonna who lives under a bridge in Traverse City. He made headlines when he appeared with other members of The Misfits at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis in 2012 performing stunts for the station.

The Oman also ripped off Stern for the fact that his biggest charity was a no-kill animal shelter, AC Paw (Stern's charity is also a no-kill shelter, North Shore Animal League). He even had an "Intern Show" that was podcast off of KLT's website. I gave him the Bee-otch of the Day because of that, and ended up getting a nice letter from one of his minions as a result.

It's not known why Omelette was let go, But judging by the posts made on TraverseTicker's article on his canning, many will not miss him. Some have called him "unoriginal" and a "jerk". One person pointed out that he wasn't liked by the "music fest folks". Most of the posts, however, attacked WKLT for being too repetitive and old. One person posted "K is for Kid Rock. L is for Lynyrd Skynyrd. T is for Ted Nugent."

Some of the biggest attacks, however went to Terri Ray, the station's long-time Programming Director and midday jock. Sadly, it's because of her and the higher-ups at KLT's  Minot, ND-based owners, the Gokey family, that KLT is white trashiest rock station in Michigan. In the 1990s, the station shunned popular bands such as KoRn, Rage Against the Machine, Tool and others simply because they wanted to entertain the asshole junkies in Manceltucky. When it came to new music, the station was mostly loaded with wuss crap that was already played on the top 40 and AC stations. It didn't help that Ray's a huge fan of Melissa Etheridge, either (for obvious reasons).


Reading the comments on the Ticker's board, it doesn't shock me that people are fed up with KLT and how they're overrated. Some folks even praised Grayling's Q100 for their massive playlist and lack of repetition. It's also not to forget that KLT used to go through morning shows like underwear. If a show lasted three years on KLT, it was time to cancel it, good ratings or not. What morning show KLT will have is up to management, but hopefully, it'll be funny and original.


As for Fried Eggs, I hope this is his last dance in northern Michigan. After all, he was in a few other markets before landing in TC, but who knows?

Like Tenacious D once said, it's time to Pass the Torch. KLT is getting old. 
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Monday, September 12, 2016

9.12.16 Bee-otch of the Day: George W. Bush


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Name: George W. Bush
Age: 70
Occupation: ex-president
Last Seen: Texas
Bee-otched For: causing 9/11





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It's the other day that lived in infamy.

I was asleep on that fateful day 15 years ago yesterday when the world seemed to end. I woke up, turned on my Walkman to listen to the late Dave Barber on the old WLDR-AM NewsRadio 1210 out of Traverse City and listen to him say "we'll be back to talking about today, the worst day in American history". The break ended and CNN News had a special report: the World Trade Towers, part of the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were all torn apart by hijackers as part of Osama bin Laden's army of American-hating jihadists.

I remember the day being glued to the TV, only going out to top off my tank with the news that gas prices would be going up, which they did not. It was probably the only time I liked George W. Bush, or anybody with an IQ of three digits for that matter.

Fifteen years later, we still won't forget that day. Since then, a new World Trade Center was built but it will never replace the Twin Towers that adorned the New York City skyline for its 28 years of existence. Let alone the fact that nearly 3,000 souls that perished that day.

Thanks to President Obama's leadership, we finally captured and killed bin Laden in 2011, something George W. Bush never did as president nor probably even wanted. He was more into capturing Saddam Hussein and taking his oil. He lied over Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and his mistake caused over 4,000 more Americans to die. Now, he's a wanted man around the world because of war crimes. Even more, HE KNEW that the attacks on 9/11 were going to happen. When he was briefed that the first World Trade Tower was attacked, but he only cared about reading kids books about pet goats.

Yesterday at the Colts/Lions game, Dubya made an introduction that aired before the game. I didn't hear a sound because my TV was muted. I didn't care. Anything that poops out of Bush's yapper is indeed shit. He needs to rot in jail, not paint little paintings while watching his grandkids from his slut daughters.

We will never forget. That statement should resonate when we return to the polls this November.


 
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

9.8.16 Bee-otch of the Day: a jerk who road raged me


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Name: unknown
Age: maybe around 40
Occupation: unknown
Last Seen: Sterling Heights, MI
Bee-otched For: being quite possibly one of the biggest assholes I've ever come across


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Last weekend was a nice, long weekend in The Motor City.

I visited my family, mainly my 87-year-old grandmother, aunt, cousin and his soon-to-be-wife. I stayed with my cousin, who just recently got a new apartment. The problem is, his apartment is in a part of town that, well, scares me.

Thankfully, he doesn't live IN Detroit, but rather down the road from Oakland Mall. I was driving to his place from Grandma's when I stopped in a left turn lane. It was blinking yellow and I was waiting for traffic to clear. Low and behold, an SUV came right behind me and slammed on its brakes. I thought that was going to get into another accident, but he stopped right on time. I finally got the right of way and I drove off.

I was on the left lane and guess who was on the right? That's right! The fucking asshole Arab who started yelling at me. His car was in sync with mine as I was hoping that he would leave, and thankfully, he did. What did I do wrong, asshole? Was I supposed to turn when there's traffic present so I can cause an accident? Sorry that I obey the traffic laws, but guess what? THERE'S A REASON WHY THEY EXIST.

I told my cousin about what happened and he told me that it's quite common in the area since there's a lot of Arabs and Chaldeans in his section of town and they're bad drivers. As somebody who used to work for a Chaldean who fucked me over, It made me hate those types of people more and more.

But guess what? My cousin's soon-to-be wife just happens to be (surprise) Chaldean herself and her parents were from Iraq. I even had the pleasure of meeting her family this weekend and they were some of the most-hospitable people I've ever met. They made sure that I never left their house on an empty stomach... And then some. I told them about the road rage incident and they told me that they're not anything like them. And you know what? They're right!

You see, it's sad that race and culture have to play a role in something like road rage. It's shit like this that make me scared to live anywhere in the Detroit metro. Granted, the women are a lot nicer in Detroit than here in Grand Rapids, but I want to stay alive, thank you very much.

At least this asshole didn't have a gun.


 
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

9.7.16 Bee-otch of the Day: Phyllis Schlafly


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Name: Phyllis Schlafly
Age: was 92
Occupation: right-winged cunt
Last Seen: in the pit of hell
Bee-otched For: being the Clayton Bigsby of the female world


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The world of women's rights has lost one of its foes.

Phyllis Schlafly was a woman who was nothing more than a right-winged cunt. In the 1970s, she was the bitch who wanted to stop the Equal Rights Amendment and won. Her excuse? "It would force women into combat". She was also against homosexuals, abortion and recently was a supporter of Donald Trump.

Her politics were so far to the right that anything she said made what purged out of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage seemed tame. As a matter of fact, she was to women's rights asClayton Bigsby from Chappelle's ShowOne person even had the right mind to throw a pie in her face.

True, it's not very nice to pick on the dead, but Ms. Schlafly (and I do use the term "Ms." appropriately since she hated it) was in line with other right-winged nutjobs of the religious right who all thought that it was OK to misuse Jesus' teachings to create an environment that put down individuals. To me and others, she was a male chauvinistic pig without a penis.

She was 92 years old when she died, or in other words, 92 years too long.


 
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