Who the hell are the 2 Live Stews?

[SackAttack]

And how did these jackasses get on my radio?

[Cringer]

Normal radio is sad, turn it off and get Sirius.

[digamma]

Do a search for posts by SkyDog and 2 Live Stews.

They are Atlanta based. Ryan Stewart played football at Georgia Tech. Not sure where/if his brother has any athletic experience.

[SackAttack]

I was OK with 1540's lineup before their apparent change. Petros Papadekis from noon to 2, which is mostly when I was in the car and able to listen to the radio anyway, and Fred Roggin from 2-4.

Now I guess Roggin's gotten the boot, Dave Smith (who's also a jackass, but he's at least entertaining) has gone national and apparently has his show from 10-1 (does that mean James Brown is gone? That *might* be worth the tradeoff, but...). These jackasses go from 1-4, and then Petros has the evening drive slot now.

The problem is, the dudes I enjoyed listening to are either gone or in slots that I'm not generally in the car to listen to, and they've been replaced by this ear-bleeding duo.

I'd rather just pop in a CD than pay $15/month for satellite radio, but if 1540's lineup reshuffle was meant to boost ratings, it almost has to be in the downtown/Compton areas, because I cannot imagine this is going to help them much in the suburbs.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by digamma

Do a search for posts by SkyDog and 2 Live Stews.

They are Atlanta based. Ryan Stewart played football at Georgia Tech. Not sure where/if his brother has any athletic experience.

So far, what I take from this thing is a lot of black-man yodeling and random beeps meant to make you think they're edgy and cussing.

They might know sports, but you wouldn't know that from first exposure.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I'd rather just pop in a CD than pay $15/month for satellite radio.

How about $13?

Yeah, I hate hearing that from people but that is how it's going to be I guess for satellite radio. It is so much more then normal radio, so much better, that it's a shame. But I do understand it some.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Cringer

How about $13?

Yeah, I hate hearing that from people but that is how it's going to be I guess for satellite radio. It is so much more then normal radio, so much better, that it's a shame. But I do understand it some.

Cringer, if I had a job that required me to constantly be on the road, it would be a different matter.

As it stands, Best Buy is about 5 miles from home, and the Pony baseball complex is maybe a mile closer to my house than Best Buy.

What that means is when I'm driving to and from work, I'm usually in the car for about 10 minutes, tops. If traffic is really bad at Soledad/Bouquet, it *can* take me up to 30 minutes to reach Best Buy, but that's pretty unusual.

If I were a truck driver, or otherwise had a job that had a consistent commute of 30+ minutes (or went to school at a place 30+ minutes from home), then as I say, it would make much more financial sense. For the driving I do, it's the equivalent of taking 13 bucks and shoving it into the garbage disposal every month.

[SackAttack]

Let me put it in perspective.

My truck's got 42k miles on it. It just turned 8 years old last month.

If you do the math, using 365.25 as the average year length, that's about 14 miles a day of driving I do. Not enough to justify satellite at this point.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

And how did these jackasses get on my radio?

LMAO, there's a lot of people in Atlanta who've asked that question for quite a while now.

This might help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Stews

It won't make them any more tolerable to listen to, but at least you'll know which one was a DB and which one was a mortgage broker.

[Samdari]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I'd rather just pop in a CD than pay $15/month for satellite radio, but if 1540's lineup reshuffle was meant to boost ratings, it almost has to be in the downtown/Compton areas, because I cannot imagine this is going to help them much in the suburbs.

You probably refuse to pay for tv service too, since you can get the same thing for free....

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Samdari

You probably refuse to pay for tv service too, since you can get the same thing for free....

No, sir. I'm home much more often than I am in my car.

That said, I play games far more than I watch TV, so any argument to the effect that paying for cable or satellite TV isn't a winning proposition to me would be based around the fact that, well, I don't use the TV for those much.

On the radio front, it's just that driving 14 miles a day, paying for satellite radio makes no sense.

If and/or when that changes, my willingness to adopt satellite radio may change as well.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

LMAO, there's a lot of people in Atlanta who've asked that question for quite a while now.

This might help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Live_Stews

It won't make them any more tolerable to listen to, but at least you'll know which one was a DB and which one was a mortgage broker.

So how the hell did they find their way to the Left Coast if people in Atlanta are scratching their heads?

I can understand Dave Smith going national and Petros sliding to drive time, but why give Fred Roggin the boot (who frequently had some big local sports names as guests) to make room for these guys?

I'm mystified.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

So far, what I take from this thing is a lot of black-man yodeling and random beeps meant to make you think they're edgy and cussing.
They might know sports, but you wouldn't know that from first exposure.

That impression is pretty much what the show has become as it evolved (and I use the word very loosely) in the Atlanta incarnation. Sort of a cross between Best Damn S.S.P. and The Man Show with a truckload of urban flava. And IMO there was definitely a conscious effort to change to a certain image with the show -- it wasn't always unlistenable for the average white guy. When they first started, there were references ("blue lights in the basement party" for example) that a reasonable number of people would get I think, or at least weren't so inaccessible. Over time however, they decided they should project an image that was a lot more crunk - a lot less Moncks Corner, SC (where they're from) and a lot more Straight Outta Compton. I finally gave up on them entirely when I realized they had just done an entire 15 minute segment of which I only had the foggiest idea what they were talking about for about 2 minutes, the rest was like they were trying-too-hard to get some street cred or something, and was so jingoistic that I'm not sure Dr. Dre would have known WTF they were talking about either.

A quick glance at the rest of the 1540 lineup makes me think they'll probably get the same results that they've gotten in Atlanta. The good news for the station is that they can do decent numbers (at least, relative to the pitiful share sportstalk gets in Atlanta). The bad news for the station is that the Stews are extremely polarizing -- they have their audience, which doesn't listen to the station at any other time. And then there's rest of the station audience, which doesn't listen to the Stews. Similiar to what a lot of stations went through with Stern, albeit on a much smaller scale.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

A quick glance at the rest of the 1540 lineup makes me think they'll probably get the same results that they've gotten in Atlanta. The good news for the station is that they can do decent numbers (at least, relative to the pitiful share sportstalk gets in Atlanta). The bad news for the station is that the Stews are extremely polarizing -- they have their audience, which doesn't listen to the station at any other time. And then there's rest of the station audience, which doesn't listen to the Stews. Similiar to what a lot of stations went through with Stern, albeit on a much smaller scale.

This is what it feels like is going to happen with me. The guys who were there before, I listened to on a regular basis. Not always the entire show (except for the odd jaunt down to LA for E3, Dodger games, whatever else), but pretty much daily I had something on.

The Stews, now, are right in the heart of the day, and I turned their voodoo off after about 20 minutes of trying to figure out what the hell was going on. I don't care for Smith, but I'd listen to him if he were a little later in the day (that national time slot isn't going to work for my schedule).

Roggin's gone, Petros is probably a little too late in the day to work for me since we lose a lot of signal fidelity on 1540 right around the midway point of his show.

710 is worse in terms of decent hosts, so I don't know what I'm going to do for sports talk radio anymore. My choices are basically back to commercial music radio, talk radio (god help me) or start kicking Audible's ass into providing the sort of audiobooks I want to listen to, instead of the crap that's been getting released of late.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

Cringer, if I had a job that required me to constantly be on the road, it would be a different matter.

As it stands, Best Buy is about 5 miles from home, and the Pony baseball complex is maybe a mile closer to my house than Best Buy.

What that means is when I'm driving to and from work, I'm usually in the car for about 10 minutes, tops. If traffic is really bad at Soledad/Bouquet, it *can* take me up to 30 minutes to reach Best Buy, but that's pretty unusual.

If I were a truck driver, or otherwise had a job that had a consistent commute of 30+ minutes (or went to school at a place 30+ minutes from home), then as I say, it would make much more financial sense. For the driving I do, it's the equivalent of taking 13 bucks and shoving it into the garbage disposal every month.

I am not trying to convince you, just trying to clear my point up as to what I meant really. Just want to say that up before I say this...

What you said above is what I am talking about. To me, it's not a car thing. My wife doesn't drive much, and she loves it. It is great for the house, too. I listen a bunch at home. And that is what I should have said instead of simply 'much better then radio.' Satellite radio does a piss poor job of getting across exactly how good it is, and how it is much more then just a car radio. But ad time is limited, and you can't explain everything on there I, and how portable it is, etc.

Anyways, enjoy the 2 Live Stews. Pretty original name they got there.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Cringer

I am not trying to convince you, just trying to clear my point up as to what I meant really. Just want to say that up before I say this...

What you said above is what I am talking about. To me, it's not a car thing. My wife doesn't drive much, and she loves it. It is great for the house, too. I listen a bunch at home. And that is what I should have said instead of simply 'much better then radio.' Satellite radio does a piss poor job of getting across exactly how good it is, and how it is much more then just a car radio. But ad time is limited, and you can't explain everything on there I, and how portable it is, etc.

Anyways, enjoy the 2 Live Stews. Pretty original name they got there.

I'd almost listen to Dr. Laura over the 2 Live Poos. That's my feeling on their show at this point.

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

I'd almost listen to Dr. Laura over the 2 Live Poos. That's my feeling on their show at this point.

I am pretty sure I have heard them. I stopped listening to Atlanta radio a long time ago though when going through there. I mean long before I got Sirius a year and a half ago too. I just could never find anything worth a crap on Atlanta radio, so I am sure those guys are included in there.

[KWhit]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

And how did these jackasses get on my radio?

It's a black thing. You wouldn't understand.

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by KWhit

It's a black thing. You wouldn't understand.

See, I wouldn't mind if these guys were in Petros' new spot, because by the time 4 or 5 pm rolls around over here, I'm having issues picking up the 1540 signal anyway because of dusk and signal strength reduction.

But in the middle of the day...ugh.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Remains to be seen whether this turns out to be true, but at least one report says that Radio One is going to shut down their syndication (the company, not just the Stews) at the end of the year.

http://reddingnewsreview.com/newspag..._091000228.htm