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Rich on 99X

I actually met Rich Shertenlieb once when I was one of ten listeners with a chance to win a "Chili Pepper Red" Jeep Cherokee.  I didn't win.  He is funny enough for me to forgive his conservatism.  Rich also wins the prize for terseness and self-promotion:

If it wasn't for 99X, I never would have met Fred Toucher and Crash Clark...

...who you can now hear along with me every Monday thru Friday 3PM to 7PM at www.wbcn.com.

Adolfo vs. Clinton

The Toucher and Rich Show is making national news again.  Dusting off an old bit from Rich Shertenlieb , Adolfo "protested" at a Hilary Clinton rally yesterday:

This had created a pretty significant buzz on the 'nets.  I heard about it on Opie and Anthony this morning.  The best example of which is here. 

I am a Barack Obama supporter, but I was impressed by how well Clinton handled Adolfo.  So much so that the right wing tin foil hat set have actually suggested that he was a plant by Clinton.

Here's another version of the video.  This version is linked to from The Drudge Report.

Developing.   

Update 12:30PM

Google search for -- "Iron my shirt" Clinton (177 Results)
Google search for -- "Iron my shirt" Clinton Radio (1 Result)

Michele Malkin gets all Oliver Stone on Clinton's ass. 

 

Toucher and Rich Dominate Boston Afternoons

The Boston spring ratings book came out today, and Toucher and Rich are the #1 afternoon Show for men, 18-44. Their ratings exceed the nearest rock competition's by more than 25%.  This book represents a more than 67% increase in the key demo from the previous ratings book.  They are #3 in persons 18-34.

Toucher and Rich, Improper Bostonian's "Best PM Drive DJ's"

Improper Bostonian, an entertainment / lifestyle magazine,  has named Toucher and Rich "Best DJs: Afternoon Radio."

It's clear that they try their damnedest every single day to create a funny show, and over time they've developed some great bits--the Drunken Red Sox Recap, the Chili Guy, sending Adolfo out into the city just to be Adolfo.  Tune in to WBCN some weekday between 3 and 7 pm, and you might be surprised to find that Opie and Anthony are actually the second-funniest DJ duo on 104.1

Update 7/10/2007 6:37 PM

The always optimistic Toucher observes on that he "won the award for best radio personality of the year from a magazine in Atlanta about a year before he got fired."'

Update 7/10/2007 7:06 PM

After reading the above quote, I'm wondering if Toucher will sue himself for libel, for saying that he was fired by 99x.

The occasional gay porn...

To borrow from Perez Hilton, if you are easily offended then do not CLICK HERE.

Toucher and Rich Filling in for Opie and Anthony

In a huge vote of confidence, CBS is having Toucher and Rich fill in for Opie and Anthony on WBCN
, for two weeks starting April 23, as well as continue to do their afternoon shift.

A 'BCN insider forwarded me this blurb from this morning's Radio and Records:

Twice A Day For $20K Admit it: You friggin’ loooove Toucher & Rich in the afternoon on WBCN/Boston. OK, so you tolerate them on the ride home ... but starting Monday, April 23, unsuspecting ‘BCN listeners will be “rewarded” with a double dose of T&R because they will also be filling in for vacationing morning dudes Opie & Anthony! [Ed. note: Please hold your applause....] Now, the good news: In order to entice you to listen, the boys will be handed $20,000 to give away indiscriminately over the two-week period, $1,000 every morning and afternoon. They even gave the scam a clever name: “The Toucher & Rich $20K Takeover!” Here’s PD Dave Wellington to tell us more: “Toucher & Rich are doing something that only a heartless upper-management team would force them to do — doing two shows a day for two weeks! Yes, we do have a way of sucking the life out of our talent,” he tells ST Daily. “Have I told you how much I love these guys?”

Toucher Repped by Bob Eatman

Toucher is now represented by Bob Eatman, who already represented Rich. Eatman's client list is a who's who of radio talent, including Opie and Anthony, Clark Howard, and Jimmy Baron.  Toucher and Rich are just completing year one of a four year contract.

Correction 4/13/2007 6:18 AM: 
Toucher and Rich's original deal was for four years, the three more years was not an extension or a new contract.  I changed the headline and corrected the above to reflect that. 

Crash Hospitalized

According to Toucher, yesterday at about 3:03:

Well this morning, apparently, Crash called while I'm at the RMV which was exciting and gave me a call and said that he woke up this morning at seven, his heart was racing. He thought he was having another panic attack.  He tried to calm himself down.  He took his blood pressure medication and it didn't work.  His wife took him to the hospital.  And sure enough, he went to the hospital and he actual has a problem with his heart.

Later, thanks to a medical student and an E.R. doctor who called in, we learn that Crash has atrial fibrillation.   From WebMd:

Atrial fibrillation (AF or Afib) is the most common type of irregular heartbeat. It is found in about 2.2 million Americans. If you have AF, the impulse does not travel in an orderly fashion through the atria. Instead, many impulses begin simultaneously and spread through the atria and compete for a chance to travel through the AV node.

The firing of these impulses results in a very rapid and disorganized heartbeat. The rate of impulses through the atria can range from 300 to 600 beats per minute. Luckily, the AV node limits the number of impulses it allows to travel to the ventricles. As a result, the pulse rate is often less than 150 beats per minute, but this is often fast enough to cause symptoms. The AV node limits the number of impulses that travel to the ventricles.

According to Fred, Crash was expected to be released yesterday.

Update 2/25/2007 9:40 AM

Crash responded to my email with the following note:

I was actually in the middle of a stress test when my heart converted back to sinus, (normal) rhythm. The cardiologist was quite surprised it happened that way but excited none the less. All is well, gotta quit the coffee and take some extra medicine for maintenance. It was more scary then anything else but I'll live.

Did Toucher and Rich Break ATHF "Hoax"?

While Toucher and Rich may not have actually broken the story on the nature of the "suspicious objects" found around Boston today, they certainly managed to trace the devices to Aqua Team Hunger Force at at time when coast guard ships were still closing off the Charles River.   

Jimmy Baron has told me that Rich is one the best people he's ever met at sniffing out a hoax.  Maybe the Boston police should hire him as a consultant. So much for "more intelligent" part.

Update  1/31/2007  9:39 PM

Andisheh Nouraee makes a pretty good point in his blog:

Except it wasn't a hoax. A hoax is intentional trickery. Turner's ad people obviously did not intend to make passersby think that it's Aqua Teen ad gizmos were bombs.

Update 2/1/2007 2:31 PM

Toucher is quoted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution's take on the story (registration required).

Maybe that's why some concerned Bostonians didn't get it. Fred Toucher, a former radio personality at Atlanta's 99X, now works for rock station WBCN-FM in Boston. Toucher said that when he and another former 99X jock saw photos of the so-called "bomb" Wednesday, they instantly identified it as a character from "Aqua Teen."

"One of our listeners said that they had been up around town for weeks," Toucher wrote in an e-mail after the brouhaha died down. "It is a big deal here, even though it seems pretty dumb now."

Update 2/4/2007 8:23 AM

Put put quotations around the word "Hoax" in the subject line of the story.  As Andy observes above, a hoax implies intent and has criminal implications. 

Because there's not much to write about...