Seattle Fans of Tom "Duraflame Log" Leykis Angry

BringBackTomLeykis ^ | 12/1/05 | raccoonradio

[raccoonradio]

Seattle fans of talk host Tom Leykis are upset because the station that had run him, The Buzz 100.7, changed to country as The Wolf. A different station, KISW, picked up Leykis but will be airing him tape-delayed (THE HORROR!)

Leykis, with his hepcat dee jay voice and relationship talk, has had a colorful history including mistaking his wife for a Duraflame log back in his days at Boston's WRKO (threatened to kill her and shoved her into the fireplace at their Back Bay residence, mere blocks from Casa Kerry) to getting beat up himself at a bar in Seattle (was doing his show from there--"a favorite place for Tom to visit", says BringBackTomLeykis.com)

[raccoonradio]

"This is a talk show that is NOT done by a right wing wacko or a convicted felon, no!"--Leykis' intro

The Seattle incident:""Controversial talk show host, Tom Leykis, was assaulted outside a Seattle bar early Monday by agitated radio listeners.

According to the online edition of The Seattle Times, a witness reported two men were involved in the incident:

"...One of the men said to Leykis, "I called your show once and you called me" a name. "You had no right to do that." Then a man standing to Leykis' left kicked him in the face. The blow knocked him to his knees, leaving his right knee scraped and bruised."

MercuryNews.com says Leykis suffered "...a scraped knee, black eye and a cut above the eye for which he received 17 stitches."

Leykis, whose program is normally syndicated out of Los Angeles, was in Seattle to do his show from affiliate, KQBZ-FM."

[Yo-Yo]

Caller: "Hi Tom, how are you?"
Tom: "Do you care? Do you really care?"

No, Tom, we don't care.

[Republicus2001]

Leykis is a poser. He thinks he's hep because he calls LA "SoCal" - a term Californians never use. He gets his hipness by going out for rum & cokes on Sunset Blvd after watching Friends.

[raccoonradio]

>> Tom: "Do you care? Do you really care?"

Yes...sad to admit I actually listened to the bozo during his Boston days. "Really..." (He says it a la Jack Benny). I called in once when he was talking about Bono's swear at the Grammys ("I'm glad we're able to f--- up the mainstream"). He also "killed" Barney the Dinosaur on the air; once, he said,
"You know, people only half-listen to the radio. If I said,
'If I did that, Gene Burns would roll over in his grave', I'd
get a bunch of calls saying, 'Is Gene Burns dead???'"

[raccoonradio]

credit where credit is due: "Duraflame log" line is by Howie Carr.

[n230099]

You're correct that Leykis is a poser. Years ago he had a "liberal" talk show that was somewhat maddening. He traded it in for something else and now has this "relationship" hogwash. He really wears thin fast.

[Republicus2001]

I remember the precise show that got him kicked out of LA from KFI to Boston. It was a Friday and he said that the only reason why men prefer women close-shaven in Playboy and Penthouse magazines was because all men are attracted to pre-pubescent girls...he was gone the next day. Replaced by Phil Hendrie!