Gimme back my son!!

Anybody who is a fan of The Jim Rome Show will understand the title of this post. I decided to search for videos with Rome earlier and I found that some of his "clones" decided to use their membership privileges on his website and repost on YouTube. Some of thees sound clips are classic.

Before I post them, let me familiarize those who have never been fortunate enough to listen to Rome. He is a communications major who started a radio show around San Diego in the early 90's. In 1996 his show became syndicated and today is around the 20th most listened to talk show host in the country. The show is notable for its bumper music at the top/bottom of the hour. At the top of the hour the Iggy Pop song 'Lust for Life' is played. The song played at the bottom of the hour is the classic 'Welcome to the Jungle' by Guns N Roses, and fittingly the show is called "The Jungle."

The show is built around Rome's sarcastic sense of humor and his talk of "smack", which has resulted in him being given the nickname "Van Smack." As a result, many of the callers attempt this form of talk when Rome goes to the phones. This also results in callers making fun of the other callers on the air. Rome will "run" a caller if they are having trouble making their point or violate one of the "rules" he's laid out over the years. It usually results in the caller being ridiculed in some manner after the caller is run. As a result, listeners are not encouraged to call into the show until they are familiar with the format. Rome usually doesn't take as many calls as other talk shows do, saying that "more of me and less of you is better for the show." He usually reads quite a few emails during the show, and most of these are highly entertaining. After an especially entertaining take on something, Rome will often read emails that read Rome I had to pull over to keep from wrecking or Jim I just spit coffee all over my monitor. Interviews with athletes or other celebrities occur usually three times a day, once every hour.

Rome has also been on TV since the early 90's as well. In 1994 he gained notoriety when he had NFL QB Jim Everett on his show, Talk2. In the 1989 NFC Championship game against the 49ers Everett was hit/sacked by the 49er defense so often that on one occasion he hit the deck merely in anticipation of the rushing defense. He later commented that his confidence was never fully restored from this. Rome began to call him "Chris" Everett (referring to female tennis star Chris Everett) and one day Everett appeared on his show. This was the result.

After Talk2, Rome went on to host The FX Sports Show and The Last Word. In 2003 Rome returned to ESPN with Rome is Burning, which was on once a week for an hour. A couple minor changes were made in '04, but in 2005 Rome's show began airing five days a week for half an hour. Currently it airs at 3:30 CST.

So now that you know a little about Jim Rome, let me post some hilarious/famous "takes" he's had in the last couple years:




Rome talking about the (now) infamous comment by Miss Teen South Carolina plus a segment after that


Rome's take on the banning of the game tag


Warning: Jim Rome doesn't want to talk about sweatpants


One of the most famous calls in the shows history


Softball Guy


Why if you are over the age of 8 you shouldn't be wearing a costume for Halloween


Rome's impersonation of Hacksaw


Rome's take on cops and rioting


Alvin's mix, a mix of famous soundbites that have been collected over the years

Random musings

This year's Presidential race is getting more and more ridiculous with every passing day. I do not want Obama in the White House. Hillary is bad enough but Obama is just....... creepy. He is really starting to show (thank God) his true-blue liberal agenda and thoughts. His wife is out there proclaiming government healthcare, his pastor (who is NOT really a true pastor) absolutely hates America and according to recent reports is a former Muslim, and Obama himself has totally thrown his grandmother under the bus with his comments about her.... ouch.

A few weeks ago, Obama all but appeared to have the nomination for the Democrats. Enter Rush Limbaugh, who is the 2nd greatest conservative political figure in the last thirty years (Ronald Reagan is 1st). Rush started "Operation Chaos", which was where he called on his listeners to vote for Hillary instead of Obama. Many people, as a result, did this and switched parties in order to vote on the Democratic ticket. This has led in the race between Clinton and Obama to tighten up considerably, while also succeeding in the two spending vast sums of money fighting each other instead of McCain. This has also led in the liberal media reporting in this huge increase in voters for the Democratic party. This is one of the most ingenious ideas I've heard of in recent memory and as a bonus is making Obama and Hillary, little by little, show their true socialist and liberal agendas.

I can't watch the Weather Channel anymore. I just can't. It makes me too mad. You can't watch it for five minutes without hearing something about Global Warming or "going green" (this is also another reason I don't watch the major news networks anymore). I'll be honest, I could care less with what the environment is like. It's so much cleaner than it was 35-40 years ago and we're still making strides on it without it being blown in our face every day. So I don't care. Global Warming is the biggest joke and lie we've had in our lifetime. There is not enough proof behind it to make it logical. I'll tell you what it's really about. It's about the government under the guise of "helping the Earth" taking YOURS and MY freedoms away. Nothing more. They want more control of our lives and this is a way for them to accomplish this. And even if the temperatures had risen well above normal, could somebody please tell me why this is bad? If the Ice Caps are melting then they are melting. They weren't always there you know. Greenland didn't get its name because of the snow/ice. It was once green. There's evidence of civilizations having lived there a thousand years ago or so when the Vikings were out and about. So you know what that means right? It means it was once far, far warmer on the earth than it is now.

This topic reminds me of what I want to mention next... gas prices. Getting really high aren't they? I have bad news for you... they're going to get higher. They're not going down. The demand is getting higher and higher with India and China gobbling up more and more oil every year. Like it or not, there is no denying the fact that we will have to drill for more oil someday. There is no way that we're getting off oil..... it would require us to go back to the horse and buggy. Ethanol is a dead-end that hasn't been realized yet. It's ruining the economic growth we were experiencing... it's making all the food prices go up and milk was already really high. It's sad too because for the most part all these farmers in the Midwest and people at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Company all believe in Ethanol. It's really sickening that people are so easily fooled by this.

Today is Tax Day... so in honor of that day, I will close this post with a couple great guitar songs for everyone to enjoy about taxes and about money.