{"id":1269,"date":"2007-09-05T05:48:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:53:24","slug":"on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"On The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, in the comment thread for Joe Bodell’s incisive investigative piece<\/a> on True North<\/em>, a commenter noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The real question is when MinnMo is going to get their radio show up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, my.\u00a0 That, I’d almost pay to hear.\u00a0 Once.<\/p>\n

\u00a0OPENING JINGLE (Performed by a group of studio musicians earning union scale): “MinnMonitor – on the air<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

(ten seconds of dead air).<\/p>\n

\u00a0OPENING JINGLE: “MinnMonitor – on the air<\/em>!”<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Like, totally hello!\u00a0 This is Minnesota Monitor Radio on Air America, like, Minnesota…”<\/p>\n

\u00a0(five seconds of dead air)<\/p>\n

…and I’d like to introduce the guys on the show.\u00a0 We’ve got Andy Birkey…<\/p>\n

ANDY BIRKEY: “I’m Andy Birkey…”<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW MARTY: “…and Eric Black”<\/p>\n

ERIC BLACK: “Greetings”<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Joe Bodell”<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL: “Robin!\u00a0 I just ran a packet trace on John Hinderaker’s furnace, and found that his carbon footprint is actually higher than his golf handicap!”<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “…”Paul” from “Eyeteeth”…”<\/p>\n

PAUL SCHMELZER: “Yo”<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “And, finally, the guy on the staff with actual radio experience from about 200 appearances on the Jeff Heaney show, Jeff Fecke”<\/p>\n

JEFF FECKE: “Thank you.\u00a0 As I always say, we must pay any price, bear any burden, to spread liberty and freedom”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Like totally!\u00a0 So our first topic of the day is, like, the Republican National Convention…”<\/p>\n

ANDY BIRKEY: “It will affect gays more”.<\/p>\n

ABDI AYNTE: “No, it will affect Moslems more”<\/p>\n

ANDY BIRKEY: “That’s absurd!\u00a0 Republicans hate gays more than they hate Moslems”<\/p>\n

ABDI AYNTE: “That is rediculous!\u00a0 They hate Muslims more than they hate gays!”<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL OR JEFF FECKE: “Actually, they hate the troops even more”.<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Was that Paul or Jeff talking?”<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL: “Beats me”<\/p>\n

JEFF FECKE: “I have no idea”.<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Let’s take a caller.\u00a0 In Minneapolis, it’s Eva.\u00a0 Eva, welcome to MinnMon on the Air!”<\/p>\n

EVA: “Read my blog”<\/p>\n

(Five seconds of dead air)<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Totally!\u00a0 Thanks for your call!\u00a0 Next topic…”<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL: “Just a minute, Robin. I ran a skiptrace on the ATM packets going from Karl Rove’s Blackberry to the RNC’s server in Virginia, and cross-indexed the results with derivatives of an IPMask Subnet to Supernet refluxogram, and it appears that the Republican National Convention is going to be held in…”<\/p>\n

(Three seconds of dead air)<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL: “…Bloomington.”<\/p>\n

ERIC BLACK: (wearily) “It’s actually going to be in Saint Paul”<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL: “No, look here – I printed it out”.<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Let’s take another call.\u00a0 Eva, on line 2, you’re totally on MinnMonn on the Air”<\/p>\n

EVA: “Read my blog”.<\/p>\n

(Nine seconds of dead air)<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “Yeah!”<\/p>\n

JEFF FECKE: “When it comes to the RNC, it’s like Franklin D Roosevelt said to me; the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.<\/p>\n

ERIC BLACK: “OK, that’s enough, Fecke.\u00a0 That was said in FDR’s inauguration speech, and he died over thirty years before you were born.\u00a0 How are you attributing that to a direct conversation?”<\/p>\n

(22 seconds of dead air)<\/p>\n

JEFF FECKE: “I’ve spoken with my editor, and she’s advised me not to comment”<\/p>\n

JOE BODELL: “Oh, we’re totally porked”<\/p>\n

ABDI AYNTE: “That is an anti-Muslim statement.\u00a0 You must apologize.”<\/p>\n

PAUL SCHMELZER: “Dude, we’re all on the same team…”.<\/p>\n

ROBIN “REW” MARTY: “It’s time for totally a break!\u00a0 We’ll be back after this word from our sponsors, Juan’s Balloon Animals, and Kites are Us!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, Air American couldn’t possibly do much worse than the somnolent Mark Heaney show they run every afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, in the comment thread for Joe Bodell’s incisive investigative piece on True North, a commenter noted: The real question is when MinnMo is going to get their radio show up. Oh, my.\u00a0 That, I’d almost pay to hear.\u00a0 Once. \u00a0OPENING JINGLE (Performed by a group of studio musicians earning union scale): “MinnMonitor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,31,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-blogs","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49891,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}