Tom Leykis was a talk show host who, though he didn't imitate him, will still tell you that he was employed as a shock jock because Howard Stern opened the door for other shock jocks.
He came on the air in LA on an FM talk station KLSX (syndicated to other cities) when the previous afternoon crew had gotten fired for arguing with their program manager on-air, calling him a douchebag and other lovely things. They tried to pull a howard stern and failed. The next week Leykis replaced them. (As an aside, before Leykis was there full time, they played with hiring Tommy Chong as an afternoon host. Man, he sucked.) Tom's first day on the air was either the day Princess Di died or a few days after. He instructed some guy to take his ghetto blaster to a memorial where people were paying their respects to Di. Once there he tuned into the radio station and cranked up the volume. Tom Leykis, through the radio, proceeded to tell the croud what a bunch of idiots they were for mourning the loss of someone irrelevant.
He had Flash Fridays. Male listeners would drive around with their headlights on during the day. Female listeners were encouraged to flash males who drove around with their headlights on. Male listeners were encouraged to call the show and let Tom know they just got flashed and had to describe the rack of the girl who flashed him.
I think it was Thursdays where he had a 1 hour segment called Leykis 101. The point of the hour: "The on-going on-air adult education course that teaches men how to get more tail for less money, and more importantly, teaches women how men really think."
To quote the rules does them no justice. You need to hear them from Tom. You need to listen to Tom as he argues with all the idiots that call in and disagree with him. Right or wrong, he will tear you down and make you look like an idiot. He is self described as a master debater, cunning linguist and an amateur gynecologist.
Was a good talk show for men. Unfortunately the radio station switched formats to music shit I hate and all the talk shows they played 24/7 were cancelled.
Sorry, you may go back to your lives now.
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