Rick is Gone, Ken Kohl owns ArtieLangeShow.com

**PeaceDog** · 01-09-2013, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by mpa

I wish I cold get paid nearly a million dollars to not do radio

Yeahh, not a bad gig.

But I'm sure Nick feels betrayed by Artie and the whole team. Plus he doesn't get to go to the superbowl this year.

**Gunnar** · 01-09-2013, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by TelegramSam

Gunnar, are you implying that MPA should expect a visit from Nick Dip and Mike Baker in the middle of the night?

Also, it's okay to let go Gunnar. The Nick and Artie Show is dead, long live The Artie Show. It's like when you were young, and had that old beater car that you learned to drive on. Sure, it felt bad to see it go, but then you got the car that didn't break down, burn oil and pull to the left, and pretty soon you forgot all about it.

Any thing, more than Nick not tweeting like always, to go on?

I wonder if TfC has the answers?

What about Will (though it would probably cost him his job to comment now)?

I need Sully, from Florida, to play some chromatic riffs on his git-fiddle and post them on the net.

G-THinking I do not know what is going on with N&A right now

**yetaca** · 01-09-2013, 12:29 PM

This sucks

**gudderballs** · 01-09-2013, 12:41 PM

If this is true, then fuck them both for not having it out on air.

**CAPTAIN KIRK** · 01-09-2013, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by mattzane227

Brent Stover better not replace Nick. His stupid phony "official broadcaster" voice makes me want to punch him in the throat. Zero personality, nothing interesting to say. Everyone will be having a real conversation and then he would always bring it to a screeching halt with his fake put-on Ryan Seacrest "THEEYAS.....IS AMERICAN IDOL" voice.

That fucking douchebag was the worst fill in ever. A real stiff with zero personality & a smug look on his face. No wonder the idiot twins were enthralled by him...

**Merespliff** · 01-09-2013, 02:08 PM

Chris Mannix filled in for Dan Patrick when he was at the BCS CHAMPIONSHIP game. So the next day they have him fill in for N&A. HELLA WACK. I blame directv for all of this.

**nicksgt** · 01-09-2013, 02:31 PM

maybe they are just looking for a new set of twins..you know, some who are actually hot and have some talent?

**Imartielange** · 01-09-2013, 02:59 PM

The bottom line is that the show became unlistenable when they went live on DirectTV. Adding the music acts was a fucking joke. There's no one who loves Art more than me, but he's about to implode and the show's production went to straight shit when they tried to class it up. It was at it's funniest when Artie was clean and they were doing it in a closet about 9 months ago. He'll I'm the guy that came up with the shorthand for the new call in number and I haven't listened in months...

**PeaceDog** · 01-09-2013, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Imartielange

The bottom line is that the show became unlistenable when they went live on DirectTV. Adding the music acts was a fucking joke. There's no one who loves Art more than me, but he's about to implode and the show's production went to straight shit when they tried to class it up. It was at it's funniest when Artie was clean and they were doing it in a closet about 9 months ago. He'll I'm the guy that came up with the shorthand for the new call in number and I haven't listened in months...

Really wasn't unlistenable, they had some great fuckin shows in the man cave..

**Gunnar** · 01-09-2013, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Imartielange

The bottom line is that the show became unlistenable when they went live on DirectTV. Adding the music acts was a fucking joke. There's no one who loves Art more than me, but he's about to implode and the show's production went to straight shit when they tried to class it up. It was at it's funniest when Artie was clean and they were doing it in a closet about 9 months ago. He'll I'm the guy that came up with the shorthand for the new call in number and I haven't listened in months...

Are you the 1-800-zen-tuba guy?

Nice.

G.

**mpa** · 01-09-2013, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by PeaceDog

Really wasn't unlistenable, they had some great fuckin shows in the man cave..

Yup, some great shows. Artie told funny stories, Rick interrupted, Artie told a different funny story, Rick tagged it with you know who kevin Eubanks, Rick teased a terrible story, Artie said something funny

**Imartielange** · 01-09-2013, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Gunnar

Are you the 1-800-zen-tuba guy?

Nice.

G.

That I am. That I am. It came to me like a revelation.

**TelegramSam** · 01-09-2013, 06:59 PM

MPA, thank you for being the voice of reason. Everyone on here was crying "Man, Nick sucks we need (insert your pick for co-host here), DirecTV/Premiere should do something." And then they do it, and everyone is saying "WHAT! I LOVED RICK I'M NEVER LISTENING AGAIN WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!". Or they have crazy Artie conspiracy theories. Let's get real guys, Nick is not turning down nearly 1 mil because he wants to help Artie and can't stand to see him fall off the wagon. He's a good guy (although I don't like his politicizing a sports/comedy show every 5 minutes) who isn't that good on the radio and probably skirted making racially explosive remarks a la Imus too many times for Ken Kohl's tastes. Artie is Nick's gravy train, not the other way around, and DirecTV wants a return on their 1.5 mil and they aren't getting it from Rick.

As long as Artie isn't nodding off (and maybe if he is) he can make money for DirecTV/Premiere, and normal radio shows re-tool all the time (just look at the revolving door at ESPN radio or pretty much any morning drive show these days). We've gotten used to one of two guys that were exceptions to that, Howard and Imus, who gets to call his own shots (or at least did) as far as personnel go. Artie doesn't control anything, he shows up and gets a check like 99.9% of radio show hosts; Rick is getting his money plus the money from his newfound extra stand up gigs. If Artie quits in protest, and I doubt he would since he and Rick have not gelled at all lately, he gets nothing and no radio/tv company will ever hire him again because he walked off a show of his own volition (as opposed to having drug abuse issues).

**Merespliff** · 01-09-2013, 07:27 PM

i found this old clip on youtube of when Nick was on Stern 10-18-08 i believe, or something like that. he kept talking about how badly he wanted a radio gig. it's interesting to me that he wanted to be in radio so badly.

**mpa** · 01-09-2013, 07:38 PM

Yea, it's quite the strange direction he wants to take, and his constant bashing of podcasts, when radio is dead, his voice is awful on the radio and he's just a bitter bronze prick that never broke - I love the young comedian specials, it's always the same, 2 guys made it, 2 guys you've never heard of and one guy is like Rick that comedy people know, but never broke through. Hungry, young comedians do podcasts, guys who can do radio can't even get radio jobs, it's time for Rick to try to whore out to fox news or do a weekly podcast and get back on the road, the Radio career much like radio itself is dead.