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Rude awakenings. This morning, as my 8am alarm went off with the radio tuned to 790am KABC, I hear “Our first contestant this morning is Brad Friedman…”<\/b><\/p>\nRude awakenings. This morning, as my 8am alarm went off with the radio tuned to 790am KABC, I hear “Our first contestant this morning is Brad Friedman…”<\/b><\/p>\n
Apparently, my 3-minute submission to the KABC “Talk Radio Idol” contest<\/a> made the cut to be played on the air this morning, to compete with two other submissions for consideration towards the next round (which would lead to a one-hour talk show this Saturday, after which, one of those three finalists will be given their own Talk Radio show contract on KABC, one of LA’s oldest and biggest News\/Talk Radio outlets. Local home to my friends O’Reilly and Sean and Larry Elder, etc.)<\/p>\n The submission process for this contest had included the information that I’d be notified beforehand if my piece was selected to be played on air. Well, so much for truth in advertising. In anycase, I was lucky enough to have been listening anyway.<\/p>\n My piece was the first of three competing this morning, and I got good marks all around from the two call-in judges and the one “talk radio professional judge” (had I known in advance – AS THEY PROMISED! – I could have recorded the whole thing and made it available here…Oh, well.)<\/p>\n After a commercial break, they then returned to play the other two contestants of the morning. The second entry was a woman who sounded, shall we say, a bit too Public Affairs — and then finally, the third guy who went on about hitting people over the head with hammers when they say they don’t like the war on terror, or something like that. Angry, hostile, far rightwing. You get it.<\/p>\n He was funny, the third guy, to a certain extent. In the brutal and violent way that the harshest rightwing talk radio folks are these days (see Michael Savage), but as he clearly sounded like he was reading<\/i> his piece, and seemed to have only one “gimmick”, I’m not sure how he’d be able to fill an hour with that schtick, much less a three hour weekly show.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, in a split decision, the vote went to him, not me, sadly enough. The host of the show however, LA Talk Radio Legend Ken Minyard of “Ken & Company”, who’s unable to vote in this round, clearly seemed to indicate that I would have been his favorite, going so far as to mention he “might like to include Brad Friedman as a wildcard”.<\/p>\n What that means, and if he can actually do that, I’m not sure. So we’ll see. (Feel free to let Ken know you’d like Brad Friedman added as a Wildcard to the finalists in the Talk Radio Idol Contest via email to KenAndCompany@kabc.com<\/a> if you are so inclined!)<\/p>\n In any case, waking up to “Brad Friedman” this morning is undoubtedly as frightening as clicking on your link to this blog each day, so you have my sympathies.<\/p>\n Here, for the record, is my full 3-minute submission to the “Talk Radio Idol” contest, based on an earlier blog piece here from some weeks ago, and most of which aired this morning on 790am KABC in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n RealPlayer Version…<\/a><\/i> Rude awakenings. This morning, as my 8am alarm went off with the radio tuned to 790am KABC, I hear “Our first contestant this morning is Brad Friedman…” Apparently, my 3-minute submission to the KABC “Talk Radio Idol” contest made the cut to be played on the air this morning, to compete with two other submissions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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