Motor City Sonics

2 TVs, man ! Incredible post-Christmas sales going on...................git to it ! (I am surrounded by screens. 2 for my personal PC, 2 TVs, 2 for my mobile recording studio, it's like NORAS in here.......its also why I'm so fat).

What I remember about that year (I think it was 1982) but it was so cold for so long that on a very cold Sunday night a gas main in Sterling Heights exploded. It was along Schoenner between 15 &16 Mile Rd. I lived on the NE corner of 16 & Schoenner. You could intensely feel the heat from the 30 foot flame half a mile away, like standing next to a campfire. There wasn't a lot of houses around it like there is now. Here are a couple of picks from that. It was right around the time we hosted the Super Bowl in Pontiac. January 10th or 11th maybe. Heard the explosion, Heard the whoosh.

You learn a lot, but one of the negatives I had was not being able to commit to a relationship, knowing I could move at any time. Plus the radio pay was lousy, so I didn't get to experience as much as I would have liked. A lot of little things about certain areas that were interesting. Like in late summer/early fall in Albuquerque they roast chili peppers on the side of the road in these big metal tumblers over an open flame and it smells incredible, much better than they tasted. I would buy a little bag to just put in my car just for the smell, drive to a burger place and put some of the peppers on the burger. Also with Albuquerque, one thing I never knew was how high up it is - it's a mile high downtown and I was about 800 feet higher where I lived. If you go up to the top of Mt. Sandia they have a restaurant, it's about 8,500 ft. Two drinks hit you pretty hard. Not my picture, but this is what they look like

High temperature in Winnipeg today will be 18 below zero. That's the high..............

My Under The Radar Radio Picks Of The Year for 2021 (In other words, stuff I liked for the show but nobody else probably likes) 1. GOAT GIRL - On All Fours 2. ARLO PARKS - Collapsed In Sunbeams 3. ZOLAS - Come Back To Life 4. PARQUET COURTS - Sympathy For Life 5. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - Peace Or Love 6. GEESE - Projector 7. SNAIL MAIL - Valentine 8. THE HOLD STEADY - Open Door Policy 9. INHALER - It Won't Always Be Like This 10. POND - 9 Honorable Mention to Lindsey Buckingham's self-titled album, which didn't really fit our general format, but it's a great album. Under The Radar Radio can be heard Sunday nights at 7pm on Ann Arbor's 107one (annarbors107one.com) and The Q-94-5 in Grand Rapids (thisisqmusic.com) and if you're in New Zealand you can hear it on 107.5 AndHow.fm (I can't remember what time it airs when you translate it to our time, probably in the middle of the night).

I'm thrilled for her. Back when she was getting started she would come by our station whenever they were touring. She'd always have Phil & Tim and they're all still together to this day. Extremely nice people.

Very excited for this new season of hockey. Oh wait, we're still in the same season. Feels like they haven't played in a year. I blame Lord Stanley.

I think the Mariners cared.

The Kyle Seager retirement is surprising. Coming off a year with 35 HR and 101 RBI.

Well, if it hadn't been for all the persecution from the cancel culture, he'd have been more focused.

I don't know how to do this if someone can help............ I would like to start a GoFundMe page to raise money to build a cross for Aaron Rodgers to be nailed to. He's sacrificed so much for all of us in these uncertain and dangerous times. How do I get started?

You should email Joe Rogan. He knows more than any medical "doctor" out there.

So strange that it happens right after the documentary aired.

He made a big bet on himself going into this season and he won that bet no matter what happens on Friday or January 10th. I think now that he got Ohio State and a Big Ten Championship off his back, he'll be able to breathe a bit. If he wins another Big Ten title in the next 3 years, he's really there for life.

Nope. Not yet. I think he gets another year. They can still make a run in the playoffs. AFC is up for grabs. Feels like who ever gets hot at the right time could win it. KC and Indy have been on fire lately, but that could change. And Love to say I told you so, but Cincinnati really is a better team this year, I think there's enough of a sample size to confirm that now. Every year there's a Worst-To-First team and this year it's them.

I think Kliff gets another year because they are going to the playoffs.

Coaching jobs that will probably be open Chicago - Nagy will probably be out as early as next week. Jim Harbaugh will get mentioned, but he'll stay at Michigan Minnesota - Zimmer has gotten stale. Jacksonville - Already open. Byron Leftwich and Jim Caldwell are top candidates Las Vegas - If they make the playoffs and win a game, they might stick with Rich Risaccia. If they change it's impossible to predict what they'll do, they're the Raiders. It'll be a coach who will get along with Aaron Rodgers Seattle - I think they let Pete Carroll retire rather than consider it a firing. Total reset coming. Russ might replace Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. Houston - Can't blame their coach for how bad they are, but they'll make a change. Maybe former Lions preseason QB of the future Kellen Moore? Denver - Vic Fangio needed to have a better year. Elway can't seem to find a QB. Eric Bieniemy would fit here. Pittsburgh - I see the Steelers possibly doing a total reset. They should have told Ben to stay home 4 years ago, it's hurt their team. If Tomlin does get fired I think he could get hired by another team right away. Chicago and the NY Giants are a good fit. Giants say they are sticking with Joe Judge, but if someone better comes along, they'll do it. Carolina - I don't know if Matt Rhule gets fired this year. They might give him one more year, but he'd have to make the playoffs.

Went to see a movie and of course there was about 15 trailers and it seemed like more than half of them were just re-done movies like Matrix, SpiderMan, The Batman..................how many times are the same stories gonna be re-told? Can you imagine the Godfather (1972) be re-made again in 1990 and then in 2002 and then in 2020.......... How many different version of the Batman and Joker are there now?

What am I gonna do the next time I fall off something? Oh, I am way overdue.

At least Morticia has sunglasses on.

Well, here we are in the 4th quarter of the playoff game and with 7 minutes and 44 seconds left Cincinnati is leading Alabama 27 to 13 and there is a delay in the game, we are not sure why. Wait, what's this? Apparently some new testing has shown the entire Cincinnati team has COViD and will not be allowed to finish the game. Oh, wow, what a stunning development. Alabama is declared the winner by forfeit and since the Michigan-Georgia game had to be cancelled, Alabama is the National Champion. Wow, what a great job by Nick Saban.

We are not dealing with this until April 8, 2024.

I just read an article online (which means it must be true) that the reason the Omicron strain is spreading so fast is that it is spread by sight.........SIGHT...............If you lock eyes with someone with Omicron you will get it too. Boy, if I wasn't vaccinated, I'd pour a bunch of bleach in my eyes..............

I have never lived in Texas or either Dakota. Its radio...........Town-To-Town, Up and Down the Dial. I lived in Albuquerque for exactly one year. Arrived there March 26, 1996 and left March 25, 1997. I was driving in Missouri moving back here listening to the Wings-Avs game on WJR when the Bloody Revenge game happened. AM skip rules. Stopped for the night in Illinois to watch the ESPN replay of the game but fell asleep before that part of the game happened. Thought I'd never see it, but EVERYONE taped it. I once drove to Canada to drop off a tape/resume at 89X. Got stopped by the guards on the entry back to the U.S. because I had New Mexico plates (DRUG RUNNER !!!!!). Wound up talking to the customs lady for an hour about growing up in Detroit and the Boblo Boat and Edgewater Park and the Swimmobiles, she figured out I was a local. 1987-88 Athens, Georgia. School, college radio, all the bands came to the station, wearing shorts in January. walked everywhere. great shape back then. 1989-90 Naples, Florida. Worked for a small non-commercial Top 40 station. Bad fit. Not a Top 40 guy. I hated Bobby Brown music and they played a ton of Bobby Brown music. Too much Stevie B too. Just awful. Had a good tan, though, and lived near an orange juice plant, so it smelled amazing. 1990-92 Back Home. Worked a job where I listened to tapes of radio stations from all over the country, the recorders would record 8 seconds skims every 2:20 seconds and we had to identify the songs. I played Name That Tune for a living (most stations play the same shit). 1992 Minneapolis (for 9 days - owner flipped the format and fired everyone, he knew he was doing this when okay'd hiring me - dickhead.) When I first interviewed for that job it was early March and the high temp that day was going to be 11 below zero. I thought "maybe this isn't for me". They hired me May 13th. Fired me and flipped the station on the Friday before Memorial Day, the day after I signed my apartment lease, the landlord was very nice about letting me out of it, he was a nice guy. 1992 Stayed in a cheap motel for a week in Oxford, Ohio not knowing if I was going to work there for 97X (BAM!, The Future of Rock & Roll), move back home to Detroit with no prospects or follow the guy that hired me in Minneapolis (he didn't know the station was about to flip) to Augusta, Georgia. Then lived in metro Atlanta for six weeks at the house of one of my ex-Athens roommates while we waited for the Augusta station to sign on. I was like the Seattle Pilots in 1970, team trucks sitting in Provo, Utah not knowing whether to go to Seattle, Milwaukee or Devner....48 hours before Opening Day. 1993-94 Augusta, Georgia. Station owner was bi-polar, narcissist, wound up as James Brown's manager) Plus Alternative Rock in the Bible belt - not a great fit. We played Dear God by XTC once............once. 1994 Chapel Hill, North Carolina - Alternative station in a college town. Nobody tried it there. It was blowing up very quickly and it looked like finally I found my perfect spot, but.....station owner (nice guy), was way behind on his taxes. Station put into receivership and his religious nutjob son took over. He wasn't gonna go for that heathen new wave and grunge music, flipped it religious talk, it went dark in 3 months, yes an FM radio station actually went dark for almost a year). 1994-96 East Lansing (small station, alternative rock at it's peak. we just irritated all the other stations who were 10 years behind the times and got decent ratings. made no money, but had fun). 1996-97 Albuquerque, New Mexico Another alternative station was doing awesome, owner was great, but Clear Channel came in and offered him so much more than it was worth (about 5x it's value) that he had to sell it, can't blame him. They ruined the station. Every single decision they made was the opposite of what it needed to be, but that's Clear Channel for ya. 1997 - 2021 Back to Metro Detroit. Worked for 2 stations owned by ABC/DIsney. Almost fired for responding to the CEOs email about the 2002 Angels world series win (Disney owned them then). I asked if I could get a t-shirt. That's what almost got me fired. Nice company, eh? First GM was a totally nice man who prevented me from being fired over the dastardly deed of asking for a t-shirt. They replaced him in 2003 with a total dick from DC who treated everyone like garbage, so I bolted in 2004 for Ann Arbor. Still work at the Ann Arbor station. 17 years now. Longest job ever.

Dave really slapped him on one take...........LOL