This is addressed to Dave primarily:
Crap...Utter crap. This show was horrible.
I like John. He is outspoken with well thought out editorials and articles.
I like Dave. Experienced, knowledgable, some medical education adds to his credibility.
I even like Gregg...up to a point. Can be funny when he isn't stuck on the same tired jokes (Mercedes, trannies, creatine blasts, etc) we have already heard a billion times. He has good stories from the old days. He knows lots of people and funny stories. That is when he is at his best, IMHO.
But this show was terrible. So bad that I don't even think I will listen any more.
You guys aren't Stern. Stop trying to be him. If you want to do the entertainment thing, more power to you. But without Larry, you guys have demonstrated a complete inability to mix serious BB talk with the comedy schtick. Gregg's hour-long borderline racist routine completely ruined the episode by mixing his minstrel show garbage with an attempt at serious subject material. He is like a guy who tries to tell jokes at a funeral. There is a time and place for that kind of humor, but I don't want to hear it when I am listening to LT give me serious analysis.
Dave, you can take all this criticism and wear it as a badge of honor if you want. But you have lost a listener and possibly a subscriber to the MD website. I'll still buy the mag at the newsstand, but I think I will give up on the MD.com experiement in leiu of other, more experienced websites. Your job, at it's heart, is to deliver customers to your advertisers. You just lost me as a potential patron to your sponsors. You are probably going to lose my $14.99 monthly subscription, but I haven't decided on that yet. If you want locker room banter, porn stars and the like, go for it. But don't try to position your show as anything remotely serious. And for fucks sakes, stop starting every episode with a weather report from your respective locations. Who gives a fuck? Seriously. And stop talking over your guests and each other. I don't know if that is a technical glitch and you all can't hear each other but it sounds seriously unprofessional.
I had high hopes for No Bull radio and the whole MD website. But I am not impressed, informed, or entertained. The other BB websites and radio shows do it better. I haven't given up hope yet, but only because I do respect the work that you and John have done before in the magazine. I really hate to heap all of this criticism on you but I hope it is considered constructive and not bashing. The segment with the orthopedic surgeon was excellent and is the type of content I was hoping to hear on No Bull radio. You can have separate podcasts and separate Valentino's comedy and shock material from the serious news, training, nutrition, etc. When you try to mix it all together is when the wheels fall off of the bus.
Jason
