What are the Shorty Awards?
Basically, a popular vote on social media stuff. This is the 4th Annual Event. Voting closes on Feb. 17th.
http://shortyawards.com/about

The Rules:
You can vote for more than one person per category, but you can’t vote for the same person twice. And you have to vote using Twitter. And you have to give a reason why you’re voting.
http://shortyawards.com/rules

Why You Care?
You are an EdgeFM fan. All shows on the EdgeFM line up are candidates for a Shorty Award, as there are categories for all of us: #webshow, #podcast, #blogger,#videoblogger, #comedian, #humor, #radio, etc. If we all pick a category and vote, we could actually win something!!

Notable contenders per category:
http://shortyawards.com/category/webshow – hippojuicefilm is a contender
http://shortyawards.com/category/podcast – ReDICKulousRadio is a contender

Enjoy another solo episode, where I cover such varied topics as saying goodbye to a really fun job, my take on the Tim Tebow phenomenon, why Lindsay Lohan’s breasts in Playboy (link NSFW) were awesome and why I can’t get enough of Jessica Simpson’s fat, farty pregnant tits. Okay, I suppose those last two subjects weren’t too varied.

Papa’s Basement 12-12-11 (Left-click this link or press the “play” button at the bottom of the post to listen to this episode immediately. To download this episode, right-click this link and select “Save Link/Target As.” iTunes users can download Papa’s Basement by clicking here.)

October 10th, 2011 Show Rundown

Segment 1

We begin this show very happy, which is not normal. Mike is very happy his 49ers beat the Buccaneers by 40 points and Hammy is happy his beloved Green Bay Packers are 5-0

Hammy quickly gets annoyed and says he almost got into a physical confrontation with a (looked like one) crackhead mom because he didn’t buy candy from her kid. Hammy says even if he did have cash on him, he didn’t want any candy.

Back to NFL talk, Michael Irvin said on NFL network last night that the Packers COULD go 16-0. As excited as Hammy is by that announcement, they won’t do it. We compare this Packers team with the 2007 Patriots, who did go 16-0, but thankfully lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl

We then vent a little bit about a station that WAS going to syndicate us, but snubbed us and ignored us.

Hammy explains that the owner of the station hasn’t downloaded Lust N Love (which is syndicated there) in months and claims that a former EdgeFM host might have said something, but he doesn’t know yet.

We re-tell the story of learning what kind of person Frank from HNB, our old station, is. Hammy say’s Frank gave him a “manager” position, yet all he wanted Hammy to do was spy on other shows and find out who is trashing the station.

Hammy tells a story about talking to Cluster F Radio, among other shows, to start our own internet station, but Frank prevented that from happening.

Hammy say’s last weeks Royce & Falcone was some of the funniest bashing free-for-all radio he’s ever heard and no one on the show was safe.

We talk about The Fifth Circle, which Hammy say’s did a fantastic job at pointing out the many flaws of the people that are protesting. (Listen to the show yourself
Here
)

We also give a big shoutout to Derek, who was the “man on the street” that made this entire show happen. Follow him
@Derek712

After some more talk about the protesters, we read the
“Non-Official” list of demands the protesters are calling for.

A few callers, Royce from Hippojuice among them, give feedback to the conversation.

Realizing that we’ve been going for almost 2 hours on this topic, we finally go on a break

Song Break

Segment 2

Doug Brian (on Skype) reveals he once paid for a hand job.

We discussed the angry priest that is trying to prevent New York
naming a street after George Carlin. Doug say’s it’s bullshit that some controversial race leaders have streets named after them and Carlin can’t get any recognition.

The conversation turned to the psychopath filled family known as the Duggars, who have their own TLC show just because they have a lot of children. Oh, they believe humans and dinosaurs existed together just like The Flinstones, among other ridiculous bible beliefs…

We took a look at some of their other religious beliefs and their “buddy” system, meaning the mother has so many children, that the older children have to help look after the small children. We read an interview they gave after their most recent child was born 3 months early, where the mother said they would welcome more children. We find out that before baby 2, the mother had a miscarriage. She believes “the Lord will tell her when to stop having babies”.

Doug thinks one of the older daughters, Jessa, is hot. Well, we agree…

We discussed the new iPhone 4S, and how it didn’t WOW us like Apple said it would. Hammy say’s it will be impressive if it performs at 4G speeds without needing a 4G network like Apple say’s it would, then it will be the leader of the mobile phones. Hammy also say’s the camera and Siri will be the big selling features. We take a look at the video demonstration of Siri, and we are scared by how intelligent the technology is…

We finish the show debating which amateur rap song is worse, “Who Got Dat Work” by Cashville Money Squad or our favorite fat dumb rapper, Locomotive Curt…

Shameless plugs

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Mike and Sal always ask when something big happens, “why couldn’t it happen on a Wednesday?” Well, Mike called for this to happen JUST earlier in the day. The Mike and Sal Show crutch, Steve Jobs, has passed away. Hear their take on this breaking news, Yom Kippur, the Occupy Wall Street protests, and catchy songs. This show is a must-listen, so make sure you hit the download link below.

If you haven’t already, subscribe to Mike and Sal to download automatically to your Apple devices, and Zunes. We also have an iPhone app available. You can listen to any show without having to download it. We also have an Android app, and ways to listen from any mobile device!

Here’s some stuff that Mike and Sal touched upon…..

• #OccupyWallStreet, corporate greed, and politics. Sal says he knows how what would fix the economy.
  List Of The Protestors Below
  
• Mike’s arch nemesis, Steve Jobs has died. Listen to his take on the breaking news
  
• Robbers are let off the hook after accidentally stealing child porn
• The “baby selling” debate continues
  
• Would you buy a coffee stained t-shirt? If so, die.
• Churchgoer gouges out his own eyes with his bare hands. Sal’s religion isn’t that powerful…yet.
• Naked man bitten by police dog, circumcision bans banned, and Sal got bit on his ass by a boxer
• Family uses Google search engine to find the best way to “kill an old person”
  Intro Song: AC/DC- Hell’s Bells
  
  Break Song: Godsmack-Voodoo
  

Happy Execution Day from Mike and Sal! Two executions were held on this day, so listen for ongoing coverage of the news unfolding. Also, it was World Alzheimer’s Day, and ironically, they forgot to mention it. This show covered religion, politics, Ryan Dunn, sex with Cabbage Patch Kids, urban culture ruining sports, forgiveness, and bestiality. Yes…we know it’s random, but that’s how Mike and Sal like to do the show.

If you haven’t already, subscribe to Mike and Sal to download automatically to your Apple devices, and Zunes. We also have an iPhone app available. You can listen to any show without having to download it. We also have an Android app, and ways to listen from any mobile device!

Here’s some stuff that was mentioned on the show

• Sally Grace. Does Sal fake emotion?
• Watch out for a satellite falling from space this weekend
• Selective outrage. Between the executions, the Ryan Dunn shit, and other issues, Sal is sick of it
• Cool ways to kill yourself
• Redheads. Sperm banks are turning the sperm of redheads away. Even ginger seeds are discriminated.
• Sal speaks about grudges, second chances, and forgiveness. Mike argues that he and Sal are fair bosses.
• The woman without a vagina. #StrangeSex
• Charlie Sheen, Comedy Central, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, and Amy Shumer
  Here’s Part Of The Set Of The Bob Saget Roast That Mike and Sal Love
  
  Outtakes from Bob Saget Roast 1 – watch more funny videos

  Intro Song: Beastie Boys- Sabotage
  

  Break Song: Sick Puppies- You’re Going Down
  

September 12th, 2011 Show Rundown

Segment 1

WE’RE BACK! After an almost month long absence from the wonderful world of unpaid internet radio, we return to EdgeFM happy to be back. Hammy say’s although he loved vacation and being stuck in Florida, he missed doing the show.

The hosts of EdgeFM are doing a Fantasy Football game and Dutch (from Hippojuice and Dutch & Royce) is very annoyed he’s losing to Hammy, who’s team was all picked automatically and 3 of his starters are injured.

We obviously couldn’t go through this show without mentioning that yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Hammy talks about how his Dad worked just a few blocks away from the WTC and how 9/11 means more to people in the New York and Washington DC then people in the mid-west or west coast just because a lot of people on the east coast knew people that worked in New York.

We talked about Muslims in a Tennessee town that are being terrorized because they want to build a Mosque and the folks in the town down want it.

Hammy tells a story about how he got into a fight with a “Truther” a few years ago on the anniversary of 9/11 because he tried helping a mourning family member that was being harrassed by the “Truthers”.

Hammy talks about getting stuck in Florida while Hurricane Irene flooded most of the New York area. He talks about hanging out with Royce, Marie and the Hippojuice gang and says he had a great time. (Check them out at Hippojuice.com)

Mike talks about the possibility of moving to florida because his family might be selling the house in Jersey and everything is cheaper in Florida. We talk about how houses might be cheap, but jobs pay less and gas is more expensive in Florida.

We talk about Fantasy Football. Mike says it gives you a reason to cheer for other teams besides your own. Hammy says this is his first year and he is addicted. He tells a story about a league he is in with friends that he couldn’t make the draft for and they drafted him nothing but kickers, punters and the Miami Dolphins defense.

Hammy says he is happy Dutch is annoyed that his hand-picked team is losing against Hammys auto-picked team. Hammy says he won’t change anything about his team except change players that are on a bye weeks and see how many games he wins.

Hammy talks about his cruise and says he loved the Oasis Of The Seas, the Royal Caribbean ship he took.

Hammy says the only problem with security was getting his $300 stereo headphones off of the ship. Customs had an issue with them and wanted to see if they were a bomb.

We discuss 9/11 again and how Hollywood is gonna eventually make a “Titanic” like love story surrounding the attacks. We guessed that a “Titanic” like love story surrounding the 9/11 attacks will be released by 2051, the 50 year anniversary of the attacks.

We talked about Country music artists that already released “I love America” type songs right after the attacks and made lots of money profiting over peoples patriotism, like Tobey Keith’s “Courtesy Of The Red, White & Blue”

Hammy says all Country music sounds exactly the same and Country stations play the national anthem at 12 Noon every day to salute the troops. We agree that patriotism is fine, but Country stations and singers are too much and not necessary. Hammy broke down the 7 stereotypes that are in almost every single Country song:

We took a look at the top Country songs on the Billboard charts and guessed what the songs were about just based off the song title.

Hammy says the worst thing about Country and music in general is the fact that Taylor Swift is famous because every song she writes are bitter songs about previous boyfriends. We play her latest single “Mean”.

Hammy says although we just trashed Country music for the past 30 minutes, he loves Motley Crue and songs like “Girls, Girls, Girls”, where they just talk about having sex with women.

We talk about Johnny Cash, a Country artist we actually like. After a few more minutes of music talk, we finally take a break.

Break 1 Songs

Segment 2

Mike complains about how bad his car is and talks about how his engine gives off a foul smell and parts are constantly breaking. Feedback comes in with what kind of car Mike should get.

We are beginning to really like Katt Williams. During a recent show, he trashed a Mexican man in the audience and people are outraged.

We discussed his interview on CNN after the incident with the news anchor trying to get an apology from Katt.

If you’ve lived in Baltimore in the past, oh I don’t know… 20 years, you might have heard of a certain radio station known as ‘HFS’. Since the 70s, 99.1 WHFS was known for being a rock station that had a passionate following with its progressive, free-form programming and playing new rock before anybody else. In the 90′s, WHFS expanded their brand with their annual ‘HFStival’ music festival which featured the hottest and best bands that rock music had to offer. In the early 2000′s the format was tweaked with, catering more to the younger demographic wanting to listen to acts such as Green Day. Old school listeners were turning away, as well with less underground rock being played on the station. It seemed that by 2005, it was getting a bit much for management at CBS Radio to take.

On January 12th 2005 at noon eastern, 99.1 WHFS was switched to a Tropical Latin music format and the station was rebranded as “El Zol 99.1 FM”. The main reason behind the format change was that WHFS had fallen to 22nd place in the ratings in Washington DC (its primary market). Public reaction was mainly outrage, with many outcrying over the loss of their rock station which had been around for 30 years at least. After several years, the HFS brand would be switched over to 105.7 as a part-time format before finally being shifted online and on HD Radio as ‘HFS2′.

Just yesterday (August 1st) at noon eastern, the WHFS brand returned to the FM dial at 97.5 in Baltimore. If you have an HD Radio, you can also tune in at 106.5 HD2.

Here’s the press release from CBS Radio -

The alternative rock music Baltimore grew up with and the personalities who made it popular return to the local airwaves when “HFS” debuts on Monday, August 1. The station will feature tracks from artists such as Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Incubus, and Green Day, along with live and local hosts presenting the music. Listeners can tune-in to the station beginning at 12 Noon on WWMX 106.5 HD2 or 97.5 FM. The station will continue to be streamed online at www.hfs975.com or via the Radio.com app for a variety of mobile devices.

Bob Philips, Senior Vice President and Market Manager of CBS RADIO Baltimore said, “The music made popular by HFS has lived on long after the station went off the air. HFS has built a loyal following online and now those listeners can have more access than ever before as we bring back one of Baltimore’s well-known brands to radio stations across the dial.

“HD Radio Technology allows us to offer additional channels of programming alongside our over the air stations, and through a relationship with the owners of 97.5 we have this unique opportunity to expand the reach of the HFS programming. “

Personalities familiar to the “HFS” audience return to anchor the station’s programming, including Tim Virgin, who was first heard on the station in 2000, Gina Crash, a well-know HFS personality from the late 90’s, Jenn Marino, longtime radio personality Chris Emery, and Neci. Neci has the notoriety of being the only DJ who has hosted every HFStival—all nineteen of them.

HFS listeners will also hear “Loveline with Mike & Dr. Drew,” an entertaining and informative show offering advice to callers about relationships and addiction, weeknights from 10:00PM to Midnight.

Beginning this past Monday, you might have noticed a new profile picture on our Facebook and Twitter accounts.. as well as status updates with the last few words saying ‘EDGE FM Talks’. You might have wondered, ‘What’s that about?’ Quite simply, it’s our new campaign to push that EDGE FM is different than the other plethora of stations around the web.

We are obviously a talk station… we have been since April 2008 and will remain so for as long as possible. Since the format change back in 2008 to around-the-clock talk, we have been a very strong source for talk programming with a taste of something for everybody. We’ve had shows on the station ranging from male-oriented talk/hot talk, relationship talk, sports talk, random/news-related talk and more.

EDGE FM is centered on focusing about talk that people of all demographics can relate to in some form. It doesn’t necessarily have to be raunchy or ‘over the top’ to be good talk radio. Radio is (and should always be) in my opinion ‘theater of the mind’. Creating that spark with the audience using just the human voice is a talent that in my opinion has been lost over the past decade or so in radio. People have been too much relying on visual aids to connect with the audience, picking fights with other people/shows/stations, or overloading on social media such as Facebook or Twitter and the magic of radio has been lost. Creating the audience connection using purely voice is a craft, and with the Internet having such untapped potential for radio in a new form, maybe it’s time to return to the roots of radio.

In essence, the ‘EDGE FM talks’ slogan is a reflection upon who we are as a station and my outlook toward the future. We are YOUR Internet talk station and while I’m not speaking for all of the shows, it is my goal to run a station that once more can create that spark with the listener. Even if it’s just through one show.

We are the place where talk lives, and talking is what we do, better than anyone else in my opinion. We hope you feel the same way. Thanks for listening to our station and checking out our programming. To tweak the title of a David Essex song…

Talk On.

As an update to the whole situation with 101.9 FM in NYC, not much has changed since my post over the weekend. As of Friday at 5pm, the RXP rock format left the airwaves and continues to ‘rock’ (if that’s what you want to call it) at 1019rxp.com. The FM signal however, took a format change. To be more specific, the station is currently ‘stunting’ (radio jargon for ‘filler programming until the real format is ready for air’).

However, the stunting has been interesting (to us radio dorks, anyway). With all of the rumors that 101.9 FM will be flipping to a female-oriented FM talk station, the current format on the air has been leaning to that in an odd way. After flipping the switch last Friday at 5pm eastern, 101.9 has been playing a very tight-playlisted rock leaning Modern AC format of music (artists such as Nickelback, REO Speedwagon, Journey, Jason Mraz, Sugar Ray, Eddie Money, Bruce Springsteen, Rick Springfield, to name a few) interspliced with soundbytes of women identifying the station as ’101-9 FM New’ and talking about womenly things (shoes, their families, kids, and even chocolate) as well as a few jingles tossed in for good measure. While the music has been pretty good (to me, anyway) providing a nice variety, the soundbytes have been a bit puzzling. Is 101.9 making fun of AC-based stations such as Fresh 102.7 and 106.7 Lite FM, or is it a hint of what’s to come… OR, are the new owners at Merlin Media just putting up a smokescreen to throw us in an entirely different direction with the new format?

To be honest, any of those questions could be valid. It’s been interesting that a few former news people from area news talk stations have been hired by Merlin, to be part of the new format at 101.9. All bets are on some form of news/talk hybrid coming to the dial with a younger approach than what’s on AM. The rumors have also been speculating that the new format at 101.9 will be similar to what’s on the air at NJ101.5. Some of the people in charge of the new 101.9 have previously worked at NJ101.5, helping to lead some credence to those rumors.

Whatever is going to happen is still up in the air. No one is talking, but everyone on the Internet has their opinions. Ideas, opinions and rumors have been running rampant on the various radio trade sites, message boards and other spots on the Internet. Officially, nothing is concrete… but in the end, that’s one thing that’s for sure about radio… is that NOTHING is for sure.

I’ll be posting more about the situation as 101.9 FM in NYC as things happen, so stay tuned.

As you may have noticed, we’ve been sprucing up the site a bit. Moving things around, tweaking things and just giving a bit of polish to what’s around the site. We also just took the opportunity to slim down our mobile listening page a bit. Rather than break down how to listen by platform, we gave a one-size-fits-all solution so things are less confusing.

As you may have heard on the different shows here on EDGE FM (like the Mike & Sal Show), all of us here highly recommend the ‘TuneIn Radio’ app. It’s freely available for the many smartphone platforms currently out on the market (Windows Phone 7, Android, etc.) as well as most of the Internet TV recievers people use at home (Roku, Google TV, etc.).

The app has the same interface across most of the platforms, making it simple to pick up and use. It also houses THOUSANDS of radio stations from all over the world. AM/FM/HD and Internet stations are easy to find, all through this one app. Rather than having SEPERATE apps for different radio stations (ex. iHeartRadio, Radio.com, etc.), TuneIn makes most of those stations centrally available through it’s app! Like we said earlier, it’s also a FREE app, there is no cost to use the app (aside from the monthly cost of the data plan for your smartphone).

We’re not getting paid to promote this app (yet! *wink*), we just think it’s a great way to enjoy traditional radio and Internet radio all through one easy-to-use application that’s available for most devices out on the market.

OH, and did we mention… you can also use TuneIn’s website to listen to the same stations right through your desktop browser! Whether you use Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera, you can listen to stations from around the world without having to remember individual site URLs. Just go right to tunein.com!