Wheezy Waiter: What’s a radio?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Fred Stiening

In the likely case you don’t know who this is, he lives in Chicago, used to be a waiter, has asthma and plays in a band.

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5 Responses to Wheezy Waiter: What’s a radio?

  1. Piquerist says:
    October 22, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    I cut my own hair with a nose-hair trimmer, so I nose it looks good. Doh!

  2. blsumner says:
    October 22, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    WOW! There’s 3:17 minutes of my life pi$$ed away for no good reason. 🙂

    • Art Stone says:
      October 24, 2011 at 3:49 am

      While he was probably exaggerating a bit, I don’t think by much. He’s one of the more influential personalities on YouTube. Perhaps you assumed he is just some random guy.

      He’s a symbol of what radio is up against. He views radio as “that thing in a car you use to listen to music”. I’m not positive, but I don’t think he even owns a car – I believe he lives on the North Side, where having a car is a serious liability due to parking shortages.

      Chicago is odd in that non-music AM stations still are influential – WGN, WLS, and WBBM still pull very good ratings. Merlin Radio started an all news radio station on FM (paying around $40 million for it), with the hope of reaching this type of person. The project appears to be in serious trouble.

      Did that help?

      • Parrott says:
        October 24, 2011 at 8:56 am

        >”Perhaps you assumed he is just some random guy.”
        Yes, and a very dense one at that.

        WLS was good in Virginia after midnight way back when they played good music. There was another Chicago radio station I could listen too late. I can’t remember the call sign though.
        No “Delilah” back then, I tell you that !

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