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I haven't heard Herman Cain but once or twice; he isn't/hasn't been big in the Houston market. He may get some hours now, but I guess the fill-in spot for him would be Boortz's (taped, I think) gig in the evenings on one station here. I don't know if I like Cain's patter or not, since I've only heard him once, I think, for a few minutes.

"Ludlow Porch" -- I remember the name from the dim past, was he one of those "alternative personalities" shock-jocks sometimes use (I think Mancow's alter ego on his show, his Charlie McCarthy, is Mancow himself doing a voice or "dialect" -- speaking of radio personalities who are a waste of brainpower -- I think people's IQ's actually decline actively while listening to Mancow: a National Merit Scholarship finalist with a 154 IQ at 6pm becomes a 119-IQ also-ran by 11 pm).

The old second-banana/butt-of-the-joke fall guy is an old act in radio/TV, and I think it's become stale. I remember the way Branford Marsalis got used on the Tonight show; I can understand why he left. Damn few people have the constitution for a long-running Ed McMahon/"Rochester" act.