[Speed Gibson,
Sunday April 17, 2005 at 11:05pm]
Ain't No Thing - Week 7
This week we heard Malcolm Cloud, the Barstool Philosopher. By weekday, a truck driver, by weekend an amateur talk show host.
I gave him a B+, the best I've heard so far, with all due respect to the many others. He provided a common man perspective, starting with the smoking ban. When others begged for callers and got few or none, he got several, many of them very good callers. He showed great balance as well.
The only thing that kept him out of the A range was that he kept cutting off those interesting callers with abrupt "thanks for the call" responses, moving on before any dialog could occur.
What I think I heard was the basics of a good weekend show, that needs only a regular producer to make it work.
Good job, Malcolm!
I gave him a B+, the best I've heard so far, with all due respect to the many others. He provided a common man perspective, starting with the smoking ban. When others begged for callers and got few or none, he got several, many of them very good callers. He showed great balance as well.
The only thing that kept him out of the A range was that he kept cutting off those interesting callers with abrupt "thanks for the call" responses, moving on before any dialog could occur.
What I think I heard was the basics of a good weekend show, that needs only a regular producer to make it work.
Good job, Malcolm!
don't be sorry...everyone will bore someone. i think the thing that did me in the most was the topic hopping even within one segment.
Mitch Berg told me that people listening are very lazy...they don't want to follow many topics at a time. I thought he was oversimplifying but the more i listen to the next big thing the more i realize it is true.