Tim Eyman isn't working out so well replacing the vacationing Dave Boze on the morning drive, Sytman & Boze (KTTH m-f, 5-9a). It was a little embarrassing, maybe, for such a starchy conservative as Dan Sytman when Eyman said Wed., he wished the City of Seattle would just leave the poor strippers- and the men who love them- alone.
We're not used to hearing that kind of licentiousness, or defense of the sporting life on KTTH, and neither is Sytman. For us, it was welcome yet off-putting. We were reminded that despite Eyman's recent opportunistic forays onto the stark landscape of the Christian right (as in the anti-gay rights referendum he recently blew up), at heart, he's really a fraternity brother whose development was arrested somewhere between here and WASU, 1985 and he still hasn't made bail.
Another time he opined that "The sad reality is that most people are fat and ugly." That, we're sure, endeared him to many, but he went on that he just wished those people could all be more like Christie Brinkley.
He also made Dan nervous running in and out of the studio during the show like Mike Webb in a Twinky fugue.
So KTTH Programming Director Tom Clendening decided on a "mixed nuts" approach for next week's fill-ins.
Here's the skedge as announced by Entercom Wednesday:
Monday: Stefan "The Shark" Sharkansky of SoundPolitics.com is a GOP activist and rumored to be on the party payroll. We kid Stefan, but his on-air countenance crackles with a vibrant energy that's conducted obviously from his day job in finance- it has the sizzle of fresh office supplies. His humor-free cooperative site is the state GOP's only real stake in the blogosphere (OK Jim, OrbusMax is important, but it isn't a blog). Stefan got tons of media attention and Party accolades after he tried to obstruct the victory of Governor Gregoire. Stefan is a moderate urban Republican, whose nastiness counters delightfully his alleged moderation. Remember the shark Gilligan had to jump to save the plot? For the R's, Stefan is that shark. He does a admirable job of acting as if everything he says is true.
Tuesday: Rabbi Daniel Lapin is by far the most famous on the list. He's gotten national renown with his impressive Rolodex which has been made very public of late by such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Seattle Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and the Justice Dep't. We're hoping Dan and the listening audience will get rebbe to share the rich and famous experiences he's had with his rich and famous friends. What's it really like plotting with Jack Abramoff? What does Tom Delay take in his coffee? When you hang with Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, do you ever just talk about chicks? How does it make you feel being questioned by Federal investigators?
Wednesday: Rev. Ken Hutcherson, we hope, can be stopped from talking about Jesus- a topic well-known in talk radio as a real cume killer. Better to get the anti-gay, anti-sex, mega-churched, mega-mouthed evangelical to talk about the things he knows about- like raising Rottweilers, breeding thoroughbred quarter horses; or pushing fags out the door of the Kingdom of Heaven. Or national issues like 'Who would Jesus torture?' Or 'During The Rapture, will Dick Cheney be ready to take the wheel, or will he need to?' or 'Can Rush Limbaugh win redemption?' or 'Have you ever killed anybody?'
Thursday: Republican Party Chair Diane Tebelius, known on the blogs as "Diane Tubeless," is as stiff as concrete meringue, and in way over her head. She has deep roots and some support from the theocratic wing of the Party (she worked for born-again loser and failed Senate candidate, Linda Smith) but they don't trust her much since she became Chairman and had to attempt some consensus building. She can be mean and relentless, a side she's shown only in her various unsuccessful runs at office, but unfortunately for KIRO, you won't hear it on the radio. You will hear platitudes; lip service paid to compassion; but not much about George Bush and few of what the rest of us would call jokes.
She did not, by the way, need a sex change to become Chairman.
Friday: Attorney General Rob McKenna is a wonk, a lawyer and a technocrat, dry as dust on the radio, but he's one of the very few Republican statewide officeholders which makes him a member of a tiny, elite corps. Mainstreamers and moderates such as Sec. of State Sam Reed, Lands Commish Doug Sutherlund, and McKenna, are pretty drab; but they're the only Republicans that can get elected state wide because the short hairs are still held by rural social conservatives and evangelicals who can't come up with candidates who don't scare the horses. No coincidence, Sam Reed won't be on the show- he's still on the shit-list of many party hardies who haven't forgiven him for bravely doing his legal job counting the legal votes during the frivolous Republican 2004 post-election.
Frankly, this line-up won't start any fires, nor scare-up any more callers of listeners than Boze or Eyman usually do.
I would think that line-up would scare even a conservative! My goodness, Lapin and Hutcherson? Then two talking heads? Talk about running the gamut from bombast to reserve. Somehow I would have thought Eyman would have been better. Guess I'll have to give him a listen before he's deleted from KIRO. Stefan will sound pretty normal next to that group!
It'll be fun hearing Sytman try to handle Lapin and Hutcherson! I'm laughing already! (Actually, I won't be listening so you'll have to give us all the gossip, Michael.)
Posted by: joanie | July 13, 2006 at 01:13 AM
You know, rereading your post, I actually think Tim's kind of a likeable guy . . . I just wish he'd stay out of politics.
Posted by: joanie | July 13, 2006 at 01:17 AM
I wonder if Tim Eyman
would take over the late night at 710 kiro , The styblehead its not funny its just really bad , thats way its free and very had !
Posted by: just bad radio | July 13, 2006 at 05:58 AM
Tim Eymann likeable. Right, just like Bush is such a swell feller to sit and have a beer with.
Re Tim's remark about most people being fat and ugly: He appears to be fairly bloated and greasy about the lips himself.
Posted by: isabelita | July 13, 2006 at 10:48 AM
I was gonna say...joanie, what makes Timmy likeable?????????
Posted by: sparky | July 13, 2006 at 11:47 AM
Tim's not the President and isn't likely to become president. :)
He's that incorrigible, mischievous kid who for one reason or another can't seem to stop himself from being obnoxious. He's not pc at all and I like that. I think a lot of people do.
Also, I've always admired people who stand up for their convictions. That takes courage. I agree that he's moved on from courage to exhibitionism but there's still that seed of authenticity.
I guess it is against my better judgment to find him likeable; but, I do. So shoot me! :)
(Michael described him perfectly as that frat boy who suffers from arrested development!)
Posted by: joanie | July 13, 2006 at 01:16 PM
If you've a few minutes to spare, hear about "the bonobo is as genetically similar to humans as the chimpanzee. These peace-loving apes live in matriarchal societies and use sex to deal with competition and anger."
Worth the listen.
Posted by: joanie | July 13, 2006 at 01:52 PM
Hey...
I'm the one that jumped the shark. Gilligan had nothing to do with it.
Posted by: The Fonz | July 13, 2006 at 03:28 PM
Eyeman's a head case who has turned the initiative process into a money-making scam that profits him. If there weren't any money in it for him, he wouldn't do it.
Posted by: Dana | July 13, 2006 at 04:46 PM
Dana, I think it is an ego thing for him. . . he loves the limelight! The tabs issue was authentic; the rest equal parts conservatism and showmanship!
Posted by: joanie | July 13, 2006 at 05:46 PM
Eyman is a bottom feeder on the spectrum of the rightwing barbarians, which goes from Neonazi unibombers to Bush,the epitome of "mansion trash."
Posted by: isabelita | July 13, 2006 at 08:09 PM
Tim Eyman is Eddie Haskel.
Posted by: Rick | July 13, 2006 at 08:51 PM
Eyman is like most talk show hosts.
He can't do anything in the real business world, so he screams and yells and tries to get as much attention as possible.
Eyman is cut from the same personality cloth as Monson, Shiers, Ron and Don and Hannity...they dangerously believe that they understand the issues...
these guys just happen to have a microphone in front of them!
Posted by: The Anti KIRO | July 14, 2006 at 04:17 AM
After listening to Tim each morning this week on KKTH, I'm wondering if he's going to put his initiative efforts into something that he really believes in - getting government out of our local strip clubs. Where do I sign, Timbo?
Posted by: Proregressive | July 14, 2006 at 02:58 PM
Hutcherson's hardly a model of reserve, what with his Whose Ass Would Jesus Leap Off the Cross and Beat the Shit Out Of attitude. Jeepers! Who knew there was an Old Testament Jesus?
Posted by: Ed Schneiderman | July 15, 2006 at 12:26 PM
The bombast referred to in my post was Lapin and Hutcherson . . . the reserve referred to McKenna and Tebelius. Although, I don't really know much about Tebelius . . .
I also misspoke when I said "deleted from KIRO" as it should have said "deleted from KTTH."
Posted by: joanie | July 15, 2006 at 02:04 PM