7.26.17 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Trump

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Name: Donald Trump
Age: 71
Occupation: de facto president
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: getting another blow for wanting to get rid of Obamacare
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Drumpf, you can stop celebrating now.

The billionaire was kicked in the proverbial nuts today when his latest Obamacare repeal only bill was rejected by the senate, 45-55. Among the Republicans who rejected the bill included Shelley Moore Capito, Susan Collins, Dean Heller, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Lamar Alexander and cancer-stricken John McCain. Drumpf was even nice enough to attack Murkowski on his Twitter page.

Experts believe that Trumpcare would deny healthcare for 32 million Americans. In the meantime, the Repukes will work to create a repeal and replace bill that will likely get bombed so many times that they will have no choice but to abort the bill. 2018 is around the corner, and with Drumpf's unpopularity rising, chances are that this country will be seeing blue again soon.

In the meantime, Drumpf announced today that he is now banning transgender people from serving in the military. Many are protesting his decision, needless to say. As somebody who knows some trans folks, I am indeed appalled. What makes them different than those who have stayed their sex all their lives? Even Caitlyn Jenner, who happens to be a Republican trashed Drumpf on her Twitter.

The point is, the more Drumpf opens his mouth or makes a Tweet, the more his foot enters that orifice. Since becoming president, many members of his cabinet have quit with Sean Spicer as his recent example and Jeff Sessions being on the firing line. And the sad thing is, Drumpf's only been president for six months.

Please, somebody, shove his phone up his ass sideways.
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7.25.17 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Trump

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Name: Donald Trump
Age: 71
Occupation: de facto president
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: acting more like the village idiot than as the president
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Today was a tough day for many Americans.

The Senate voted 51-50 with VP Pence breaking the tie to further discussions on getting rid of the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with their own plan. Drumpf applauded the Senate today with the exception of the Democrats and even thanked an ill John McCain, who came back to Washington days after it was announced that he was battling brain cancer. McCain naturally voted for the bill.

This comes a day after Drumpf made inappropriate comments at a Boy Scout rally in Wisconsin in front of 30,000 people. He kept telling the mostly-young crowd that Obamacare was dead and slammed the previous president for not coming to any of the Boy Scout rallies. It's proof that the de facto president is all about himself and doesn't care two shits about you or even me.

With his outbursts and continuation of turning America into a rogue nation, all Drumpf is doing is making the wealthy more and more happy while America collapses. He bitches about parents emptying out their 401 (k)s to pay medical bills when in reality, ten years ago, that same patient wasn't even allowed health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. Plus, the reason for the high cost of healthcare is due to more and more people living longer and baby boomers retiring.

Now, we wait and see if we'll still have Obamacare by the end of the year. I hope we do. Hell, I hope when Drumpf gets kicked out of office, the next president will FINALLY get universal healthcare for America. But as long as the Repukes run things and the Democrats are turning into Republican lite, good luck seeing that happen.

Say, I wonder how Canada's doing?  ---

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7.24.17 Bee-otch of the Day: Cumulus

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Name: Cumulus Media
Age: 20
Occupation: radio giant
Last Seen: Atlanta, GA
Bee-otched For: accepting failure
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If you read the Spring 2017 Nielsen radio ratings for Grand Rapids which were released last week, the book had some interesting info.

As usual, B93 held the top spot while WOOD-AM/FM, WLAV, WSNX and WGRD rounded out the top five. Both WSNX and GRD rebounded, but it will be exciting to see how listeners react to the added classic rock on GRD next book.

But the shocker is the fact that good 'ol WBBL, 107.3 The Ball, just got smacked in the balls.

The Cumulus sports station is at its lowest rating since moving to 107.3 eight years ago, clocking in at a 1.0. When it was at 1340, ratings were considerably higher.

Speaking of 1340 - now talker WJRW - they are the lowest-rated subscribing radio station on the list with a .8.

Other Cumulus stations' ratings were a different story. WLAV is in 3rd place, making them the company's strongest station in Grand Rapids. Their other stations, however didn't fare very well. 105.3 Hot FM is very vanilla comparing to 4th place WSNX. That station is 8th place, though it did go up .5 in the ratings. Hot FM has never overtaken WSNX in the ratings, ever. Same with 94.5 since they flipped to country 13 years ago.

When Cumulus bought out the evil Citadel Broadcasting six years ago, we were all thankful. I was hoping for some awesome changes. But instead, it's a disaster, save for WLAV. B93 is killing 94.5, WSNX is killing Hot FM and most-importantly, ESPN 96.1 is killing WBBL, the home of the horribly irritating and intimidating "Huge" Bill Simonson. Although ESPN 96.1 has a meager 1.5, their afternoon show, Big Drew and Jim is a trillion times better than that bloated retard who reminds me of Ubantu from The Goode Family (remember that show? Mike Judge produced it) if he was smacked in the head at childbirth a few more times.

But in the case of Huge, he's a kissass to his sponsors, i.e. Amway, Celebration! Cinemas, Meijer and any west Michigan company with deep pockets. It's one probable reason why I avoid these companies as much as possible.

But this is Cumulus, a company that's billions in debt and is only trading at 42 cents per share. In New York, they buy out an underperforming religious station and while New York was lacking a rock station, they flip it to a format that's proven to be a dud: country. Since Nash FM was launched several years ago, that station has never been above a 2.5 share in the ratings. Today, it's at a 1.7 and in 19th place, getting its ass kicked by Spanish stations.

The point is, radio doesn't give a damn about its listeners, period. They allow failure. Bill Simonson hasn't been relevant in 15 years. And why is he still on the air? Who really knows. But there's many format options Cumulus can have for GR: urban, classic country (i.e. Nash Icon), alternative and others. Cumulus needs to be competitive or piss off.

And that's my huge opinion.

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7.22.17 Weekend Mix

Steve Aoki/Linkin Park - Darker Than Blood (DJ Scare Remix) *RIP Chester Bennington*
Obscene Frequenzy - Rolling
David Guetta/Afrojack - Another Life
Bryan Kearney & Plumb - All Over Again
Valentino Khan - Pump
Lucas & Steve/Mike Williams/Curbi - Let's Go
Victor Ruiz & Noir - I Am feat. Cari Golden
Matroda - Get Down
Watermat/Pep & Rash - Ruff Like This
&Me - Avalon
Charlie Puth - Attention (Oliver Heldens Remix)
Major Lazer - Know No Better
Chris Lake - Operator
Gerry Gonza - Bad Bitches
David Penn - Yeah Yeah
Yost Koen - Chordeal (Riva Starr Remix)
Detlef - Jay Dee
Risk Assessment Feat. Ke - Feel That
Walker & Royce - Take Me To Your Leader
Enrico Sangiulano - Astral Projection
Malandra, Jr. - Dance Warriors (Riva Starr Remix)
Alan Walker - Faded (Tiesto's Northern Lights Remix)
Chocolate Puma X Morsi - Hippo
Clean Bandit/Zara Larsson - Symphony (Dash Berlin Remix)
MAKJ X Michael Sparks - Space Jam (featuring Fatman Scoop)

7.21.17 Weekend Mix

Nine Inch Nails - Less Than
Scientific Funk - Dirtbox
Phlegmatic Dogs - High Volume
Green Velvet - La La Land (Prok/Fitch Sweet Sixteen Remix)
Solardo - Mental Knowledge
Riva Starr - The Wickedest Sound
Secondcity - Krelanga
Kryder - MTV
Harry Romero - Sex
Fisher - Ya Kidding
Tom Swoon - Shingaling
Ralston - We Rock This
Sander Van Doorn - Mant Array
Abel Ramos and Albert Neve - Flat Beat
Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah (Chocolate Puma Remix)
Leftwing and Kody - Soundboy
Ralston - Fools
Patrice Baumel - Glutes
AC Slater - Du Dah
Au5 - Guardians
MAD MAC Vs. Jamis - Renegade Master (Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike Remix)
Fedde Le Grande Vs. Ian Carey - Keep On Rising
TJR & Joel Fletcher - Rollin'
Deekline and RTKAL - Flute Ting
Armin Van Buuren - This Is A Test

7.20.17 Hero of the Day: Chester Bennington

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A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Chester Bennington
Age: was 41
Occupation: lead singer Linkin Park
Last Seen: Palos Verdes Estates, California
Awarded For: being a huge influence on rock music

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Today was another shocking day in the world of rock music.

Chester Bennington, the lead singer of the rock band Linkin Park was found dead in his California home today from suicide by hanging. He was just 41. Bennington left behind his wife, Talinda and six children from Talinda and his first wife, Samantha.

Bennington had been the lead singer of Linkin Park since 1999. A year after joining, the group released their first album, "Hybrid Theory", which was the band's name before switching to Linkin Park. The album was a colossal success, selling over eleven million copies and spawning four hit singles: "Crawling", "Papercut", "In the End" and their breakout hit, "One Step Closer". The band's mix of Chester's smooth vocals, Mike Shinoda's rapping and the blaring guitars of Brad Delson along with Joe Hahn's turntable stylings and we can't forget Dave Farrell on bass helped give that fusion of rap, rock and electronic that gave the band its innovative edge.

In all, the band released seven albums and sold over 70 million albums worldwide. They kept reinventing their sound over the years, though some thought their latest album, "One More Light" was too poppy, alienating many of their long-time fans. However, it still has sold well, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts.

Linkin Park was also known for their work with charity, helping with those affected by tragedies overseas like the 2009 Haiti earthquake and the Tsunami in Japan in 2011.

But despite all the fame and the help Chester brought to this world, his sad side ate him up. He admitted in an interview that from ages seven to 13, he was continuously sexually molested by an older male and was afraid to tell anybody. At age 11, Chester's parents divorced and he turned to drugs and alcohol, a battle he fought on and off over the years, well into his singing career.

Chester was close to Chris Cornell, the lead singer of Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog. When Cornell committed suicide by hanging earlier this year, he played the song "Hallelujah" at his funeral. Some are now speculating that Chester was very depressed over his sudden passing. Yesterday would have been Cornell's 53rd birthday.

Bennington was also a former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots. In 2013, he and the rest of the band released an EP, "High Rise" which produced the #1 rock single "Out of Time". He replaced Scott Weiland due to his drug troubles. Weiland passed away in 2015.

Suicide never resolves anything. But in Chester's case, the baggage that he had growing up failed to allow him to move forward. He should have talked to a friend or even sought counseling. He should have thought about what positive he accomplished instead of the personal sadness he faced.

Because otherwise, his music will live on.

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7.19.17 Bee-otch of the Day: the city of Grand Rapids

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Name: Grand Rapids
Age: 191
Occupation: 122nd largest city in America
Last Seen: southwest Michigan
Bee-otched For: making the rent too damn high

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If you live in the west end of Grand Rapids, you'll have to find a new place to buy groceries soon.

Duthler's Family Foods is closing their location on Bridge Street after 20 years in business. The store's sales had been slumping, according to a store manager. Meijer recently broke ground on a new store on Bridge Street, though the Duthler family claims that it had nothing to do with it.

After the store closes in a few weeks, the chain - which once had nine locations - will be down to just two: Four Mile Road and Madison Street. Many of their past stores have been sold off, including their longtime location on 28th Street, now a Ken's Fruit Market.

According to the store manager, there's a simple reason why their sales have fallen over the past few years, and it's quoting the great Jimmy McMillan: The rent is too damn high.

In the past few years, people in the Grand Rapids area have seen their rent increasing many-fold due to multi-million-dollar new developments. With rent going up, people are abandoning traditional stores like Duthler's for cheaper options.

True, it's better to see more affluent neighborhoods over ghettos, the sad thing is that some people simply don't have the money to live in a nice place. Hell, I know how it felt to live on minimum wage. It sucks. Many who live on low wages aren't those with a poor education and a lack of a drive to work, but rather because they get fucked over by a system that favors the wealthy over them.

One place that I think of when it comes to rising rent is the property at 234 Market Street here in Grand Rapids. It's set to be a mixed-use project consisting of offices, residences and retail. Over a decade ago, it was the Showgirl Galleria, a split strip club that had two spaces for full-nude and topless dancing so they could serve alcohol. In 2006, the city banned nude dancing, and some put the blame on the Devos family since the law's brainchild, Judy Rose appeared in a Dick Devos campaign commercial.

The sad thing is, instead of entertaining horny men who are lonely, many of whom work hard and are middle class, this is a city that would rather build luxury apartments for those with six-figure incomes and higher. I'm no George Jefferson and cannot afford to be movin' on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky. Hell, I'm a swiper and am lucky to get one decent match per month since this town doesn't seem to have good single women. Usually, I match with women who live 50 or more miles from here.

Look, I'm for making towns beautiful over slummy. But, I think this town needs to do something to help those who have to decide between paying the rent or eating. With Drumpf trying to eliminate Obamacare, things will only get worse if things go his way. What might be even more sad is the fact that Grand Rapids' current mayor, Rosalynn Bliss helped to pass the city's current strip club laws.

Sadly, she IDs herself as a Democrat. Maybe she oughta change that (D) to a (C) after her name. You know, for that word that rhymes with the last name of the guy who created Candid Camera?

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7.18.17 Bee-otch of the Day: Donald Trump

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Name: Donald Trump
Age: 71
Occupation: four-year-old boy
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: not getting his way

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We've all been there: when we were young, our parents would take us to a store that sold toys and candy. If we wanted something, we'd cry if mommy or daddy didn't want it. Even today, my mother jokes if we're at a store that sells toys, she'll tell me, "you're not going to cry, are you?" as I give her "the look".

Even though he's worth $3.5 billion, Drumpf is not getting his way and deservingly so. More and more Republicans are going against repealing and replacing Obamacare and now, some are considering simply repealing it with no replacement.

And yes, many Republicans are against that.

So, what's Drumpf doing about it? Why going to Twitter, of course! He tweeted how angry he is that there has to be 60 votes to get the ACA repealed and replaced instead of 52, which is the number of Republican senators. He wants Americans to vote straight Republican in the 2018 elections, but as long as his approval ratings are in the bottom of the barrel, 'taint gonna happen. Now, Drumpf is hoping that Obamacare will ultimately fail so the Democrats can get on board with his plan.

IMHO, Obamacare won't fail. For millions of Americans, it helps them afford something that's a human right in other nations. If that's taken away from them, more Americans will die because they can't afford the most-simple doctor visits. Hell, all that money would be going back to the wealthy, signaling another recession.

The point is, even if they're Republican Lite, we gotta vote for the Democrats. We have to convince them that they're the party of progressives and to stop taking bribes. That's what cost Al Gore and Hillary Clinton their elections, popular vote or not.

But thankfully, the people are speaking out.   ---

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7.17.17 Bee-otch of the Day: The Democratic Party

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Name: The Democratic Party
Age: 189
Occupation: supposed left-wing
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: not getting their priorities straight

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Yesterday, I was watching a little bit of CBS Sunday Morning's interview with Al Gore.

They were talking about his new film, "An Inconvenient Sequel", the follow-up to his 2006 classic "An Inconvenient Truth" which had the former veep take on global warming. I saw the original at the long-defunct Studio 28 here in Grand Rapids and it was one of the most-groundbreaking films I've ever seen. Al did more in two hours on the silver screen than Dubya did in eight years in the Oval Office.

Of course, they had to touch on Gore's embarrassing loss to Dubya in the 2000 elections where he won the popular vote by just over half a million votes but thanks to the melee in Florida, he lost the Electoral College.

We all knew the end result: 9/11, lies over WMD, 3,000 dead on 9/11 and 4,000 more in Iraq and Afghanistan, troops coming home with PTSD and the list goes on and on. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 election, but now, we have Drumpf. Today, it was announced that Drumpf's approval rating is the lowest for a new president since Gallup polls started taking place 70 years ago. With Obamacare in jeopardy and Sen. John McCain's health problems thankfully preventing a vote on the Republican health package, Many worry that this will return people to the days of being denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions.

When I saw the old footage of Gore abandoning his fight against Bush, there was that small part of me that said that it was his fault for losing. The reason why was because he chose Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Lieberman was a Democrat who voted with the Republicans and one HUGE reason why I didn't vote for him and Gore was because he was a part of the ultra-right-wing Parents Television Council and fought to get Howard Stern's radio and TV career to end.

With Hillary's loss to Drumpf in this past year's election, turnabout was fair play. The Democratic National Committee forced their superdelegates to vote for centralist Hillary and not the progressive Bernie Sanders. The end result was middle class men feeling like voting for Hillary would be the equivalent to going to a Lillith Fair concert or wanting to have their penis chopped off. So, they voted for the man who made the statement "grab her by the pussy" vogue. Now, we're stuck with an ultra-wealthy douchebag who wants to grab our healthcare and stick his tiny cock in its ass unlubed.

You see, the two party system in America is like going to a store where Coke and Diet Coke are your only options and you're a Pepsi guy. For me, I hate Hillary because she's a woman who can't keep her word, but I hate Drumpf even more. My suggestion is that the Dems need to man up and look at why FDR was the longest-serving president ever: it's because he was a true progressive who fought for the middle class and not big business.

Time for the Democrats to go back to their roots.  ---

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7.13.17 Bee-otch of the Day: Kid Rock

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Name: Kid Rock
Age: 46
Occupation: formerly good rock star
Last Seen: Detroit, probably
Bee-otched For: wanting to do Debbie Stabenow's job

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On Wednesday, three words came into our rhetoric that I hope don't come true:

"Senator Kid Rock".

Yep! The Detroit-based rocker best-known for "Bawitaba" and "Cowboy" made a website that makes it sounds like he wants to become Michigan's junior senator. If that's reality, then he'll probably be running against established Democrat Debbie Stabenow, who's been in the senate since 2001.

Michigan's junior senator, Gary Peters is also a Democrat.

Rock - real name Robert Ritchie - is an outspoken Republican who endorsed auto industry-hating Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump last year. He even wore a t-shirt in concert with a US map on there with the red states and blue states. The red states were dubbed "America" and the blue ones were "Dumbfuckistan". He even visited the White House with Ted "I'll either be dead or in jail by now" Nugent and Sarah Palin earlier this year.

It's not known what Rock's political stances would be, but the question is, who would vote for him? Obviously, his diehard fans, and he still has them. His last album sold well, even though he's taken a more country turn in recent years, a far cry from his classics like "I Am The Bullgod" and "American Bad Ass". He might get votes from hilljacks all over the state, but personally, I'd re-elect Stabenow.

Look, Kid Rock is a spoiled punk who's drifted away from his roots playing house parties while living on his wealthy car dealer dad's farm in the suburbs. Now, he's wealthier than his dad and everything black about him is in the past. Ooooh! He makes BBQ grills now. Whooptie-doo! Thanks, but my George Foreman Grill will do. It knocks out the fat!

I think the Insane Clown Posse have a better chance of taking public office over Kid Rock.
 
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7.12.17 Bee-otch of the Day: Jeff Seiting

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Name: Jeff Seiting
Age: 55
Occupation: village president
Last Seen: Kalkaska, MI
Bee-otched For: being a fucking bigot 

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Right now, I feel bad for anybody who lives in Kalkaska, MI, pop. 2000.

This small village that's 25 miles east of Traverse City is considered a gateway for northern Michiganders to Detroit and vice versa. It does have three supermarkets, many gas stations, a downtown and several fast food joints. But, there's no movie theatre (though there was one decades ago that's now a TV repair shop) and not much for residents to do except screw their cousins.

Now, there's a reason for people to hate Kalkaska: their mayor is a racist asshole.

Jeff Seiting's family has been a part of the town for decades. His family owns the Hotel Seiting, a downtown landmark built in 1912. Sadly, he's using his institution to post pro-Trump, pro-hate banners from it and it's an eyesore for many. A few weeks ago, Seiting started posting hate-filled vitriol on his Facebook page bashing everybody from Muslims to the LGBT crowd.

One of his posts claim that we should kill "every last Muslim" and calls being transgender having a mental illness. His posts came as a response to "A Day Without Immigrants" last month.

Since the posts were made public, the village has seemed to be divided. A few weeks ago, Seiting had a rally at his hotel while another rally against the mayor was held across the street at the famed trout statue. The protestors clashed, with the pro-Seiting crowd screaming and using vulgarity against the anti-Sieting crowd. Yesterday, Seiting told the Traverse City Record-Eagle newspaper that he stands by his remarks and will not back down.

Seiting has been Kalkaska's mayor since 2010.

The sad thing is that a few weeks ago, a security guard at Flint's Bishop Airport was stabbed by a Muslim man from Canada. The story made huge news. Since then, he's been released from the hospital. A few days after his release, a mosque in Flint honored him. It was a blurb on the news here, but not national news.

The thing is, Christians have terrorists who bomb abortion clinics and shoot up Planned Parenthood offices. True, there's Muslims who are true blue terrorists, I think for every terrorist, there many more positive Muslims out there. Sadly, there's many people like Jeff Seiting who live up north simply because they don't like people of color. The sad truth is, there's towns in northern Michigan that are just as bad - or worse - than parts of Detroit. Hell, there was a town in northern Michigan that has a population of 400 that was a TOTAL food desert before the town grocery reopened earlier this year after a few years' absence.

I think that people in northern Michigan need to wake up and start judging those for what they do instead of their skin color or what they wear. If Kalkaska votes out Jeff Seiting as mayor, then they did the right thing. But in the meantime, I'll never spend a dime in that town until he's out.

What do you expect from the town that gave us WKLT?
 
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7.11.17 Bee-otch of the Day: WKLT

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Name: WKLT
Age: 38
Occupation: shitty rock station
Last Seen: Traverse City
Bee-otched For: playing dirty 

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It's been two weeks since Nate "Smitty" Smith cracked a radio mic in northern Michigan.

His abrupt firing from Rock 105/95-5 and classic rock station The Bear (98.1/97.7) shocked many in northern Michigan. To some, he was one of the very few down-to-earth radio personalities up north in a world filled with voicetrackers and out-of-towners who say "trah-verse" instead of "tra-verse". When he made the announcement on Facebook last week about his firing, some speculated that it had to do with his feud with WKLT's lame afternoon host, Tom Devitt.

Well, it did, and things got VERY nasty.

Before his dismissal, Smitty talked on the air about how Dipshit-er, Devitt was ripping off segments of his show, such as "The Box" where he played seldom-heard tunes on rock radio. He posted the rant on Soundcloud, which in a bit of irony was posted next to an online exclusive where he played a song with the word "cunt" in the lyrics.

Well, *allegedly*, the folks at KLT decided to pull a purely evil stunt on Smitty by *supposedly* editing his rant on Devitt and pairing it together with the "cunt" song that was only an online exclusive. What they did with that was send it to Rock 105/95-5 and The Bear's sponsors via email with the words "this is who you're supporting". As a result, two advertisers threatened to pull their ads from the stations and Smitty got the axe.

So, why would KLT pull such a disgusting and idiotic stunt? IMHO, it's all about ratings. KLT's ratings have apparently fallen since firing longtime morning man Steve "Omelette" Normandin late last year. Once upon a time, KLT was pretty much the de facto rock 'n roll station up north other than what is now The Bear (formerly WGFM), which meant that they could play as much shitty rock as possible. Up until 2000, no station in town played bands such as KoRn, Rage Against the Machine and Tool while KLT was playing the shit out of faded 1970s butt rock. Then, WGFM became The Bear and added Bob and Tom in the morning and The Zone went from playing female-friendly wuss music to a harder alternative format. KLT's ratings started to slip, but thanks to O-Man, they were back at #2 again.

Of course, The Bear and Rock 105/95-5 was sold to Rochester Hills-based Black Diamond Broadcasting several months ago for a hair under $2 million. KLT on the other hand was supposed to be sold to Grayling-based Blarney Stone Broadcasting and the sale was supposed to be finalized early this year. However, the sale hasn't been finalized yet although Blarney Stone operates KLT along with sister stations 94.3/92.5 The Fox and 106.7/105.5 ESPN Up North through a Local Marketing Agreement. When the sale was announced late last year, Blarney Stone announced that KLT would merge with their rock station in Grayling, Q100, The Fox would switch from 80s/90s classic hits to a classic rock/country hybrid called The Trail and 106.7 would be spun off to Catholic-based Baraga Broadcasting to meet FCC ownership caps.

However, apparently, the sale of KLT/Fox/ESPN has hit a snag. According to some sources, Blarney Stone simply doesn't have the money to buy the stations. Current owners Northern Broadcast, owned by the Gokey family in North Dakota want $9 million for their stations. That includes the transmitter sites for the stations. Black Diamond, on the other hand got all their stations for only under $2 million but the transmitter sites are still owned by Del Reynolds, the man they bought the stations from. According to sources, transmitter sites are the real money grabber for radio stations since they can lease them to cell phone operators and others.

From the sounds of things, there's some bad blood between Blarney Stone and Black Diamond, so somebody from KLT had the audacity (no pun intended) to edit Smitty's two bits together to make it sound like he made very vulgar comments about a douchebag who somehow came crawling back to northern Michigan radio after he fucked himself over in shitty little Caro. I hope people will read this and will stop listening to KLT at all costs. What they did to Smitty was stupid and pathetic.

Thankfully, Smitty is back at work, now working at Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City. He's a homebrewer and is willing to learn more about the craft. Maybe somebody, he'll be the next Joe Short or Dave Engbers and Mike Stevens. Who knows? Hopefully, he'll make more money than Dipshit and his Chamber of Commerce skank ho wife.

As for Rock 105/95-5, I hope their next afternoon guy/programming director won't fuck that station up. Hell, I hope they hire an up-and-comer and not a big city has-been who was fired because he couldn't pull a two share. If so, I will be listening to internet radio when I'm up north.

With the way radio is run these days, we all lose.


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