Ron and Fez Listening Thread 12/21/12 - You're gonna need about 20 minutes

[realmenhatelife]

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Make a ginger's day (http://www.cafepress.com/robotartist)
We've got our top scientists working day and night to figure out a Ron and Fez (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=4)
Mistah O'neal if ya nasty (http://www.amazon.com/Mr-P-Patrice-ONeal/dp/B006G4PS9M/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1322671850&sr=1-3)
Interawhat, interawho, interabang! (http://theinterrobang.com/)
To Hell with Sailor Time (https://www.siriusxm.com/player/basic/)
Call in! Don't suck.

1 866 Ron 0 Fez

So tradition dictates that today's opener be that Pogues song that I dont like. However, the day dictates a hack end of the world play list. So lets guess: End of the world as we know it, The End, The Final Countdown, what else?


I went with a weird 20 minute remix of the mekons song Where Were You cus why not.

[sailor]

How do you not love fairytale of New York?!

[realmenhatelife]

How do you not love fairytale of New York?!

I dont like any Pogues song. Full disclosure I almost called it Lullaby of New York.

[sailor]

I dont like any Pogues song. Full disclosure I almost called it Lullaby of New York.

Fair enough. Practically growing up in Irish pubs, it's an old standard for me.

[realmenhatelife]

I find the youtube suggestion logic so weird. Like, it will suggest things that fit into your profile even if it's completely unrelated to what you're searching for right then. So if I'm listening to Boredoms which is electronic music it's going to still suggest King Tuff to me, which is like stoner garage rock. And even worse is it will try and show me stuff that isn't music, like after King Tuff is done it's going to tell me I should listen to David Cross talk about Rick Santorum. Even if I wanted to know what David Cross had to say about that I really wouldn't want to interrupt my music listening to do so. I think it's all a little to pandering and clever.

[realmenhatelife]

I'd love to see Dabba's hand made Christmas cards.

[Dell]

moaning buddays...:bye:

I'm loving the "On Demand" feature of the online player...gonna finish listening to yesterday's show later today!

[Dell]

I'd love to see Dabba's hand made Christmas cards.

I'm so glad it is the attention hound's last day...

[LeedsJr]

Oh, goody. Outraged, screechy Fez for the last day. :wallbash:

[Dell]

I'm going to listen to yesterday's show...cannot hear angry Fez rants again today

[hanso]

Could not think of many end of the world songs...ok 1 by rem

[LeedsJr]

Pepper and Ron don't sound so healthy today.

[LeedsJr]

Fez tip stories always crack me up. :laugh:

[Recyclerz]

Fez Whatley - Making it rain on eldery waiters since 2006 :clap:

[A.J.]

Could not think of many end of the world songs...ok 1 by rem

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[Dell]

Fez Whatley - Making it rain on eldery waiters since 2006 :clap:

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[hanso]

I find the youtube suggestion logic so weird. Like, it will suggest things that fit into your profile even if it's completely unrelated to what you're searching for right then. So if I'm listening to Boredoms which is electronic music it's going to still suggest King Tuff to me, which is like stoner garage rock. And even worse is it will try and show me stuff that isn't music, like after King Tuff is done it's going to tell me I should listen to David Cross talk about Rick Santorum. Even if I wanted to know what David Cross had to say about that I really wouldn't want to interrupt my music listening to do so. I think it's all a little to pandering and clever.

Rather find other sites then to sign in to youtube, found a blog that had a working youtube of that song from yesterdays show nsfw (G.O.A.T. AND YOUR M.O.M. can you quack like a duck )

nice u2 song aj one of my favs forget titles name

[LeedsJr]

Seriously, why do they talk to this guy every day? :wallbash:

[Lemieux66]

Johnny is better than 95% of callers. I don't understand the over the top hatred.

[realmenhatelife]

Spike was on the original Degrassi, hicks, get it right!


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[sailor]

Kid nation?

[LeedsJr]

Johnny is better than 95% of callers. I don't understand the over the top hatred.

Well, it's just my opinion, but he drives me nuts because he never adds anything to the conversation. He just growl/giggles in the background for an hour, every day.

[Dell]

has anyone posted a recent pic of HRJ?..I'm interested in seeing how healthy he looks now

[sailor]

And Tyler was the best!

[sailor]

Well, it's just my opinion, but he drives me nuts because he never adds anything to the conversation. He just growl/giggles in the background for an hour, every day.

He's a jolly good fellow and I wouldn't mind if he called every hour.

[realmenhatelife]

I loved Kid Nation, I'm pissed they taped a whole second season that they wont show.

[Dell]

glad to hear they are returning to Paulo for the end-of-year movie discussion...did they part ways with Gbaby?

[LeedsJr]

glad to hear they are returning to Paulo for the end-of-year movie discussion...did they part ways with Gbaby?

http://www.thegodboxproject.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Fingers-crossed1.jpg

[Dell]

the best family dogs (and good hunting dogs)...

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[LeedsJr]

NRA spokesman : "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

Of course, the 9 bystanders shot in front of the Empire State Building earlier this year were all shot by cops, so there is no perfect answer.

[Dell]

for those not wanting to go to the iBang...Ron Bennington's submission

http://theinterrobang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/XMAS2.jpg

[realmenhatelife]

Why is Joe Perry rocking that Mick Mars fu man chu?

[realmenhatelife]

The On The Road movie is supposed to be straight shit.

[Dell]

Why is Joe Perry rocking that Mick Mars fu man chu?

so that's what it is...I stared at it and thought it was some weird makeup (or huge smile line shadows)

[Dell]

I don't believe Fez has a psychologist or psychiatrist...nor do I think he would pay for a "life coach"

the man strikes me as way to cheap for that...

[LeedsJr]

McCain didn't say we didn't torture, he said we didn't get anything useful from it, and the movie should have made that clear.

[Dell]

Mark Zito was an extra in 27 dresses?..what's his real name?

[LeedsJr]

Spy report: 4 dead, 3 state troopers injured in shooting in Altoona, PA.

[realmenhatelife]

I dont put a lot into the violent movie/video game thing. However, if you're a person who subscribes to our culture as a whole creating an environment that breeds the occasional spree killer you cant discount our art and media as either contributing to or atleast perpetuating that culture. Ron has been very vocal that our culture is the problem, therefore our movies are part of the problem. If our culture wasn't this then there would be no market for or reverance to violent homages to bloody 70s westerns.

[LeedsJr]

God, this is awful. In a really funny way. :lol:

[LeedsJr]

Wisconsin got the blunt of it? :huh:

[realmenhatelife]

Great song. But he keeps saying they 'got the blunt of it.'

[Dell]

my Christmas wish is that cbob would hire UCB Fred (Matt) and Kokomo...then I could listen to them and laugh and laugh...it will solve all the world's woes and we could then live happily ever after

[realmenhatelife]

Hey, I just did something nice. I order a bunch of stuff from this bike company because if you ordered x amount of junk from them you get enetered into a raffle to win a custom bike frame. I needed enough stuff to qualify so I went for it.

Well it all came this week and I was so damn impressed by how it was packed I wrote the owner of the company a little note about how his packing department is literally the best I've ever seen, and how nice it is to know that someone cares that much about packing my order when normally it might seem like a little job you dont give much thought. I got a nice note back from the owner about how nice it is that people appreciate little things like that, and that because of my note he's giving his two person packing department an extra $100 each above whatever other christmas bonus they were getting because I had such nice things to say about them.

[A.J.]

I forgot about "Santa's Got A Secret".

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[hanso]

Thought they would play this.

[CountryBob]

What did I hear about Esd working with Jay Mohr?

[realmenhatelife]

What did I hear about Esd working with Jay Mohr?

Just a joke I think, although that would be a big break for ESD.

[Lemieux66]

Definitely a joke based on Jay taking over Rome's radio show.

Fox is an easy punching bag, but even they aren't stupid enough to hire Dave.

[sailor]

Even the Jews don't all agree on the whole race/religion thing. It's very complicated.

[realmenhatelife]

People that dont like music think that no good music ever comes out. Stop perpetuating that bullshit by repeating it. Just act like good records came out and that isn't a strange thing, then maybe the other people will catch up.

[sailor]

I wasn't aware fez was even pretending to be a vegetarian.

[sailor]

Phenomenal!

[Lemieux66]

2012 really was a forgettable year in music though.

[CountryBob]

I heard that HTG is going to be the next intern

[Dell]

later buddays...:bye:

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to one and all...:thumbup:

[CountryBob]

I will miss Dana's laugh

[Dell]

I will miss Dana's laugh

that and nails on a chalkboard...amiright?

[sailor]

What happened at the end of the song, there?

[Dell]

What happened at the end of the song, there?

I didn't stick around...please tell

[fezident]

Is it true? Is Dana really gone??
That is good news.
I was not at all a fan of hers.


(was that a haiku?)

[sailor]

I didn't stick around...please tell

Nothing major. They played a version that apparently had someone chatting (backselling?) at the end of. It got cut off after a few words. Either they played the wrong version or didn't cut out in time.

[Dell]

Nothing major. They played a version that apparently had someone chatting (backselling?) at the end of. It got cut off after a few words. Either they played the wrong version or didn't cut out in time.

thanks...now if anyone will tell me if Zito was really an extra in 27 Dresses, I'll sleep well tonight!

[sailor]

thanks...now if anyone will tell me if Zito was really an extra in 27 Dresses, I'll sleep well tonight!

wasn't mikey background a drummer in that one?

[KC2OSO]

Is it true? Is Dana really gone??
That is good news.
I was not at all a fan of hers.


(was that a haiku?)

Yes. Close enough.

[Melk]

I dont put a lot into the violent movie/video game thing. However, if you're a person who subscribes to our culture as a whole creating an environment that breeds the occasional spree killer you cant discount our art and media as either contributing to or atleast perpetuating that culture. Ron has been very vocal that our culture is the problem, therefore our movies are part of the problem. If our culture wasn't this then there would be no market for or reverance to violent homages to bloody 70s westerns.
In the US media, I think movies and violent video games are part of the problem, but the broadcast news (with its constant need to discuss the grizzly details of true crime) and advertising (especially Christmas shopping commercials where the corporations encourage dangerous shopping strategies on black Friday) are infinitely worse.

[seabiscuit10]

sorry if I missed it.....why is the show running from 10 Am to 2 PM now?

Is this just for the Christmas break?

[jimmyolsenblues]

sorry if I missed it.....why is the show running from 10 Am to 2 PM now?

Is this just for the Christmas break?

Seasbiscut, I had the same thought, I turned on the show at 10:50am and ron was already on...I have no clue what is going on.

Is ron and fez moving to 10am?
Bad news for the first hour of Tony Kornheisner.

[sailor]

Looking at the iPhone app, r&f was still 11-3 today. Norton has a show 10-11 (I think he started doing it once a week in place of the shit show.) Maybe Ron was on that?

[seabiscuit10]

No shows live today, also Worst of O&A started at 2:00 PM.

I record the show everyday, not sure why the time changes.

[deliciousV]

No shows live today, also Worst of O&A started at 2:00 PM.

I record the show everyday, not sure why the time changes.

same thing yesterday, I was driving back down here from Ohio and planned my trip to start at 11, I had already missed an hour. Only thing I can think is that somebody fucked up the start times because of no shit show.

[sailor]

Are there no listening threads anymore?

[realmenhatelife]

Are there no listening threads anymore?

I'm not listening to the best ofs this week so I didn't make one, I'll be back at it next week.



Hey, if anyone wants to listen to all the Best Show on WFMU's I've been listening too I'll make a thread.

[KingModem]

RIP RF.net. Miss you guys.

[Furtherman]

RIP RF.net. Miss you guys.

I'm not quite dead yet.

[sailor]

I'm not quite dead yet.

You'll be stone dead in a moment.

[Furtherman]

You'll be stone dead in a moment.

I think I'll go for a walk.

[sailor]

I think I'll go for a walk.

You're not fooling anybody!

[thepaulo]

I'm not listening to the best ofs this week so I didn't make one, I'll be back at it next week.



Hey, if anyone wants to listen to all the Best Show on WFMU's I've been listening too I'll make a thread.


We actually recorded a year end movie roundup broadcast today...brand spanking new.

[deliciousV]

We actually recorded a year end movie roundup broadcast today...brand spanking new.

plug whore :thumbup:

[thepaulo]

plug whore :thumbup:

I am a whore and I use plugs.

[deliciousV]

I am a whore and I use plugs.

in your butt?

[fezident]

We actually recorded a year end movie roundup broadcast today...brand spanking new.

When will it air?
I'm on Audible... and we don't get the best-of broadcasts that satellite subscribers get. But I really wanna hear that year end movie roundup.

[Furtherman]

Ahhh Fez's coming out show. I remember listening to it and thinking THIS is what I have been waiting for... this is where it all changes and we get back to ye olde Ron & Fez show!!!


:dry:

[deliciousV]

Ahhh Fez's coming out show. I remember listening to it and thinking THIS is what I have been waiting for... this is where it all changes and we get back to ye olde Ron & Fez show!!!


:dry:

I think most of us thought that, little did we know he would find his own character and humor too offensive to tolerate, and become a super sensative, humorless old curmudgeon.

[spankyfrank]

I think most of us thought that, little did we know he would find his own character and humor too offensive to tolerate, and become a super sensative, humorless old curmudgeon.

Much like most of the people here :innocent:

[sailor]

Yeah. :(

(FM and DV, not the other guy.)

[spankyfrank]

Yeah. :(

(FM and DV, not the other guy.)

pffffffffffffft!

[sailor]

pffffffffffffft!

Don't become a SS, HOC!

[spankyfrank]

I don't know, I get annoyed when people act like this wasn't great radio. Also that people acted like they expected Fez to change automatically into some version of himself that no longer exists.

[jimmyolsenblues]

For me its pure disappointment now, listening to the joy and hope and happiness that Fez had when he came out compared to now.
Fez is just as lonely, bitter , selfish as ever this holiday season.
Its very disappointing as a listener.
Ron Bennington is the greatest radio personality in the history of broadcasting....and he partner says what 12 words a day.
I can imagine Ron's ideas on friends, loyalty, teasing the tard, and the bottom line is Ron does not care when he resigns his contact with Fez. Fez should not be in radio period. Ron allows this as charity. This Charity comes at a cost as the cost is bad radio... I wish Fez nothing but happines, but I know in my heart, Fez will never ever change. And listening to him is getting old and depressing, if not already is.

[Furtherman]

I don't know, I get annoyed when people act like this wasn't great radio. Also that people acted like they expected Fez to change automatically into some version of himself that no longer exists.

It was great radio. And yes, I thought there would be a change. Certainly not right away, but eventually.... but....

For me its pure disappointment now, listening to the joy and hope and happiness that Fez had when he came out compared to now.
Fez is just as lonely, bitter , selfish as ever this holiday season.
Its very disappointing as a listener.
Ron Bennington is the greatest radio personality in the history of broadcasting....and he partner says what 12 words a day.
I can imagine Ron's ideas on friends, loyalty, teasing the tard, and the bottom line is Ron does not care when he resigns his contact with Fez. Fez should not be in radio period. Ron allows this as charity. This Charity comes at a cost as the cost is bad radio... I wish Fez nothing but happines, but I know in my heart, Fez will never ever change. And listening to him is getting old and depressing, if not already is.

Exactly.


A radio show like this is a means of entertainment, escape. There is hardship and sadness in all of it, but you don't want to watch Brian's Song every day.

[sailor]

I don't think anyone acted like it was bad radio on any level. Fez DID act like the secret was the only thing holding him back. For a short time it seemed this was accurate. :(

[deliciousV]

I don't know, I get annoyed when people act like this wasn't great radio. Also that people acted like they expected Fez to change automatically into some version of himself that no longer exists.

I found this show to be great radio, and I did have some hope that the old Fez would return, my disappointment lies not in what Fez didn't become, but what he became. He's become the gay Al Sharpton, alienating friends and calling anybody who crosses him a homophobe.

[Rube]

This is my kind of place.

Rubes UNITE!

[spankyfrank]

I don't think anyone acted like it was bad radio on any level. Fez DID act like the secret was the only thing holding him back. For a short time it seemed this was accurate. :(

But that's also unfair to Fez. To act like any one thing is holding a mentally sick person back is ridiculous.

An addict takes it one day at a time and is never truly safe. The same goes for any one who has some sort of mental disease.

[A.J.]

I don't think anyone acted like it was bad radio on any level. Fez DID act like the secret was the only thing holding him back. For a short time it seemed this was accurate. :(

Exactly. This is taken from Fez's interview after he came out:

Coming to this realization was devastating. After all those years of denying it, it was true. Fez Whatley was no longer a character that I played on the air. He was me. And now it wasn’t funny anymore. I was now everything that I had joked about. I got depressed. I became severley anxious and couldn’t perform any longer. I’ve had huge bouts of stage fright, panic and locking up on the air. And most of all, I couldn’t make myself be Fez Whatley anymore. The whole dynamic changed for me. I was terrified about being really gay.

So if "The Secret" was the cause of him locking up, why after coming out is he continuing to lock up? There must be something more.

[PerryWinkle]

Maybe Fez will go away in 2013...oh wait, he's been gone for years already. Yet ESD has to fight to be able to do one show a week for this company.

[spankyfrank]

I found this show to be great radio, and I did have some hope that the old Fez would return, my disappointment lies not in what Fez didn't become, but what he became. He's become the gay Al Sharpton, alienating friends and calling anybody who crosses him a homophobe.

He's been alienating people for years. It's all part of his problems which don't go away in a year or even 7 years.

[PerryWinkle]

Exactly. This is taken from Fez's interview after he came out:



So if "The Secret" was the cause of him locking up, why after coming out is he continuing to lock up? There must be something more.

The reason he continues to lock up is because he doesnt fit on the show anymore. Back when he was the "clown" on the show, he fit with the goofie show Ron did. Now that Ron is doing a more "mature" show, which includes movies and music that Fez doesnt watch or listen to, Fez just doesnt have a clue how to fit in the show anymore. The excuse of locking up and the "secret" for years, is just avoiding the real problem that Fez just doesnt fit with Ron anymore when it comes to the show.

[hanso]

Ahhh Fez's coming out show. I remember listening to it and thinking THIS is what I have been waiting for... this is where it all changes and we get back to ye olde Ron & Fez show!!!


:dry:

Put it on for a bit reminded me of r&r days or early r&f

[deliciousV]

The reason he continues to lock up is because he doesnt fit on the show anymore. Back when he was the "clown" on the show, he fit with the goofie show Ron did. Now that Ron is doing a more "mature" show, which includes movies and music that Fez doesnt watch or listen to, Fez just doesnt have a clue how to fit in the show anymore. The excuse of locking up and the "secret" for years, is just avoiding the real problem that Fez just doesnt fit with Ron anymore when it comes to the show.

I guess this has something to do with it, but he made the statement over the summer that he didn't want to use any humor that offended anyone, period. That runs a little deaper than not fitting in, that's a philosophy that would make anyone completely unfunny.

[Furtherman]

So if "The Secret" was the cause of him locking up, why after coming out is he continuing to lock up? There must be something more.

You know, they never did find that serial killer who was dumping bodies on Long Island.

[Furtherman]

So this is a new segment recorded for the holiday...




....if anyone is here.

[Recyclerz]

So this is a new segment recorded for the holiday...




....if anyone is here.

Ron had indicated they were going to add some new stuff but I assumed it was just going to be brief intros. Now I'm wondering what I missed all week.

[Recyclerz]

I'm finding this a bit sad because Fez's input here is just confirming the consensus view that he has an immature world view at best and narcissistic personality disorder at worst. The gay pride parade was "his" celebration? All the people there were cheering him?


:down: Ah Fezzie ...

[thepaulo]

When will it air?
I'm on Audible... and we don't get the best-of broadcasts that satellite subscribers get. But I really wanna hear that year end movie roundup.

It was on yesterday. I post my interrobang review on the recent scribblings thread.

[deliciousV]

We actually recorded a year end movie roundup broadcast today...brand spanking new.

this is worded in a way that indicates you recorded yesterday?

It was on yesterday. I post my interrobang review on the recent scribblings thread.

and then you promoted it 3 1/2 hours after it aired

[thepaulo]

this is worded in a way that indicates you recorded yesterday?



and then you promoted it 3 1/2 hours after it aired


I'm a terrible person.

[jennysmurf]

I'm a terrible person.

We're the worst. It's why you fit in so well here.

[realmenhatelife]

We're the worst. It's why you fit in so well here.

You were pointing at your fun zone when you said that, weren't you?

[jennysmurf]

You were pointing at your fun zone when you said that, weren't you?

Stop it, you. Always causing trouble.