Sandy mentioned to Howie on air that Steve Deace won’t be back (he had put on someone “playing” the late Margaret Sanger without mentioning it). Maybe that was decided by RKO management. Years ago Jerry Williams had someone like Jay Charbonneau on playing “the governor” (Dukakis at the time) and they didn’t announce it was an impersonation/comedy bit and some people were troubled by it (couldn’t tell...); same may have happened with Steve Sweeney as Kevin White, the mayah o’ the schitty o’Borston. Oddly enough one day Howie did have Gov Patrick on—the real Gov. Patrick, despite it being April Fools’ Day.
Yeah I don’t know if the RKO bigwigs (guy named Kevin Graham in charge now) put forth the fill ins and I, too, miss Avi. Not sure if he’s on at all. Currently former bosses Jason Wolfe and Julie Kahn are helping out former WEEI host Glenn Ordway who is doing online-only (and XM CH 108 starting Mon.) sports talk Big Show Unfiltered. And since it’s online, you can indeed hear the S and the F words.
Today’s HC column
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/03/carr_blame_judges_not_lottery
I heard Howie “heart like an alligator” moment when both Kahn and Wolfe departed. He does not suffer fools gladly.
I heard that live and thought it was fantastic, albeit very chilling, if you weren't aware of Margaret Sanger's dubious history. (I am aware of her history with eugenics, etc.). I'll bet several listeners learned something new that day... ;-)
Overall I liked what I heard from Steve Deace. He struck me as kind of like a young Glenn Beck.
Except for Deace, Howie's subs were awful last week. Listened to a little of the two young women on Monday and Tuesday (meh, too much chattering), enjoyed Deace's show on Wednesday. As usual, in the first few seconds of hearing McScreamer's horrific voice, off went the radio!
I was hoping we would be treated to the great Jeff Kuhner, or usual Howie subs Avi Nelson and Col. David Hunt. Good to hear Howie again this week. Wish WRKO would build Howie a studio in Florida!