Don & Mike Show

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:29 pm

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Sorce family, and particularly Don Geronimo, whose wife, Freda Wright-Sorce, died in a tragic car accident yesterday.

http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S= ... v=MXE0bzFl

(Well, I won't send any prayers, because religion is stupid.)

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:31 pm

That really sucks! She added to the show bigtime. Don won't be the same Homer Simpsonish kind of guy anymore with her gone.

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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:44 pm

I've listened to the show since they first got to WJFK, which was... Jesus, 15 years ago? Of course, on and off for the many years I was away, but I've always considered the show one of the greatest entertainments available. Of course, I'm a radio junkie, so take that into consideration, but after listening for so many hundreds of hours, you do form an attachment with the people involved.

Hearing this news was very odd, because while it is a goofy radio show, and I probably wouldn't be able to pick her out of a lineup, it was almost like hearing about an extended family member dying. Very weird. I can't think of any "celebrity" death which really got to me like this one did, and she wasn't even a celebrity.

This is why radio, the rancid cesspool it is, is still the best medium in the world, when it's good. The relationship between host and listener is a lot more intimate, and in very special cases where a host will talk candidly about his own life (Don Geronimo possibly the most compelling of all of them), a connection is formed.

Oh well.

How about that! Isn't that something?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:52 pm

God. That was a crushing moment of radio.

At the very end of the show today, Beth Anne came in and signed the show off by saying the same thing Don says at the end of the show, breaking down at the end:

"Love you Freda... Love you Bart..."

...then added, quietly, "Love you Don."

Man. That was brutal. I'm all kvelled up over here.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:51 pm

Here's the first segment of yesterday's show. Weird radio, man. Weird, brutal radio.

http://sonowthen.net/crap/ripfreda.mp3

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:43 am

What is this ... radio.. i hear old people speak of?

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:02 am

Jack Straw wrote:What is this ... radio.. i hear old people speak of?

It's that crap they pump over the "public" airwaves. You know, play 2 songs (out of a rotation of 12), then 6 commercials, then repeat ad infinitum. And heaven forbid if the word "penis" is uttered....$500,000 fine!

I can't remember the last time I listened to regular radio. Thank God I can download commercial-free Howard Stern shows off the 'Net.

Media Criticism Bot · Post by **Media Criticism Bot** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:46 am

Cazart!

Profundity, thy name is Chris.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:42 pm

A-ha. Talk radio. No songs at all. Still lots of commercials, tho.

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Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:10 pm

Didn't someone hear bitch when Jonsey talked about some football player who died?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:11 pm

Bugs wrote:Didn't someone hear bitch when Jonsey talked about some football player who died?

Yes, on Jolt Country halff of us talk about the people who died that we miss even though we never met them and the other half make fun of the first half.

Slacker Danzaland · Post by **Slacker Danzaland** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:14 am

I didn't realize how many of you knew of the best show ever.

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:25 am

This show sucked. Why did it suck? Becuase for the enitre duration of my life in Colorado they ran the same promo commercial for this stupid show. The commercial was these two fags laughing at themselves. The laugh sounded like they each had king sized cherry danishes lodged in their throats.
I'm sorry, if you are going to advetise a show you should do a better job than play a tape of the stars laughing at themsleves. If I wanted that I would tape myslef reading my own posts.

Slacker Danzaland · Post by **Slacker Danzaland** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:53 am

Yes Don and Mike are an aquired taste, and it does take time to get used to them. And yes I am sure the radio promos are terrible as many promos for many shows are terrible....like ads for the Brad Davies show here in rochester.....

I have aquired that taste and hell there are bits I don't care for but it sure doesn't get any better than Mike doing the Col. Harry Morgan-Potter readings.....and it was better when they could read letters to penthouse as a part of that bit..... F'n FCC.....

Agreeable danzaland · Post by **Agreeable danzaland** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:54 am

Oh and this the first thing I have ever agreed with Pincrack on

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:57 pm

Anybody hear this today?

Don's first day back, nobody else was in the studio. Just him and a microphone for two hours (the first 1.25 hours straight, without a commercial break).

Amazing, unbelievable radio.

You'll never heard anything like it again.

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:46 pm

I heard part of it today. Where can I find a copy of the whole thing?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:13 am

I'm trying to get it off alt.binaries.don-n-mike, but most of the segments seem to be missing parts.

Anyone having any better luck? We only need the first two hours.

(And that part at the end? Where he completely loses it, right before playing "their song" ("Everlasting Love")? Jesus.)

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:28 am

Here's the part at the end:

http://sonowthen.net/crap/don-signoff0801.mp3

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:05 am

Here is a nice article about this unbelievable moment in radio history, from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00036.html

And here's the full two hours:

http://sonowthen.net/crap/don1.mp3
http://sonowthen.net/crap/don2.mp3

Listen with your loved ones!