Plenty to talk about and the lines were jammed. As they should have been. And Rothmann, as he says each night, was there to take calls because..."there's no place I'd rather be."
After two hours, something putrid happened.
In a bizarre, thorough tone deaf moment, Rothmann inexplicable shifted from news-talk to discussing holiday meals. Serious discussion of the day's topics switched from the moment to the absurd.
Rothmann, and I'm still not sure who was responsible for this, decided to talk roast beef and jelly rolls. I'm not kidding. It was like someone decided to have a toga party in the middle of a pandemic. I'm all for breaking up depressing chit-chat but timing is everything. Including KGO on a Wednesday night with a table full of important news.
Rothmann instead was talking holiday dining. You gotta be seriously kidding, right?
The Bay Area is chock full of people standing in line at food banks. There's over 2 million out of work. People are literally hungry. Bread lines replace sidewalk holiday scenes. 2020 Christmas is no traditional Christmas because the Coronavirus has killed over 318 thousand Americans and the death toll is mounting.
Yet Rothmann decided to talk holiday meals?
unbelievable.
I smell management. Something made them uncomfortable.
ReplyDeletethe Christmas meal hour with Chef Marc Vogel is a KGO regular event..for decades.
ReplyDeleteYes, you are right Gene Burns would often do an hour of foodie talk on his regular show at night, during the Holiday season, even though he also hosted the dining around show on Saturday. Rich just likes to complain. Give John a break it is Christmas time, and KGO no longer has a dining show. Ronn Owens would do an hour on wines every now and then. I think John does enough serious show that we can give him a break for this one hour. It is Christmas after all, how about being in a more generous mood.
DeleteMaybe, just maybe, he - like everyone else - is on freaking OVERLOAD with Trump, Congress, The Senate, COVID and the price of beef in Korea. Kudos to him for mixing it up.
ReplyDelete11:34 AM That's what I think too. John may have just needed to take a Chill Pill, and sweeten the mood for a while. It's a coping method. I am incredibly disappointed and disillusioned by what I call Voter Fraud, but you know what? There is nothing I can do about it whatsoever. You have to go on ready to welcome each new day. My coping method is books, I mean actual physical books. I'm back to reading biographies of people who interest me, many are musicians. We each of us has to find our way through this distorted Hall of Mirrors called life.
DeleteRothmann can be a little stiff and old timey and often thinks he's funny and cute when he's just groan worthy.. His idol was Gene Burns, who would talk to school superintendents in a Walter Cronkite voice about proposed pension plan changes in local elections - totally boring irrelevant shit for 99% of those within range. You've got 50,000 watts. Program accordingly.
ReplyDeleteNot sure who you think is boring or irrelevant John or Gene. I guess John, you are never going to satisfy everyone. People called in and had questions. It was 1 hour out of the whole week, give it a break. I did not listen, because I don't need any tips on how to make my traditional Danish Christmas meal, but that is besides the point.
DeleteYou make a traditional Danish Christmas meal? How extraordinary! You wouldn't be from Denmark, would you? Did you work as a Nanny, too?
DeleteNo I was never a nanny. I was an au pair, which is totally different. I worked in a kindergarten in my native Copenhagen, to prepare for teacher's college, a requirement of the Danish government, they want you to have actually dealt with children on a daily basis, before you get accepted to the teacher's college. Only I got tired of waiting which is normal in Denmark, and decided I needed to improve my English, I had already been to England, so the US was the logical choice. As it turned out I liked it so much here, I never went back to Denmark other than for visits and extended stays.
DeleteIt sounds like somehow the ghost of ryan scott took over rothmans body for one hour
ReplyDeleteRothmann only talks about the President of the United States 99.998% of the time. It is... an outrage!
ReplyDeleteJohn Rothmann is one of my favorites. His down to earth commentary is reassuring.
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