…as if we didn’t have enough already. The truth of the matter is, we actually have an overwhelming majority of people who like ‘The EDGE’ versus people that don’t. The people that don’t like the show are people who don’t get our sense of humor and the style of the topics we talk about. The people that ‘get’ our show, know that we’re a male-oriented program first and foremost. We always have been, from the very beginning (even when we had a female 3rd cohost) and we intend to continue on that trend.

We always get common misconceptions about the show that we’re ‘racist’, and very ‘profane’. The profanity part is a given, being this is the Internet and there is no regulation to what can be said. We understand and agree with that part… but it’s not going to change. Now, the racist part… I can understand this if we were to JUST pick on one race. Whether it be Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, Caucasians, whatever.. but, it’s not. We pick on EVERY RACE (or most of them anyway). For regular listeners of the show, remember when we did the ‘Glossary of Racial Slurs’ segment? We read racial slurs that were for every race under the sun. Native Americans, Indians, Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, Caucasians and I believe even certain European ethnic groups as well.

TO CLARIFY for everyone: ‘The EDGE’ and specifically Sal and myself are not racist people. We both have friends of many racial persuasions and do not hate upon anyone in any unfair way. The things we say on the show are purely for entertainment purposes. We may go a bit too far sometimes, but we never say things out of hate.

So, to get to business. Last night, it was brought to our attention that Ron (the owner of radiomaxmusic.com) recieved a SNAIL MAIL letter from a woman who resides in Oklahoma. She complained in her letter about different aspects of our show. So Ron took the time to write her back, also via snail mail. He sent the letter out to her yesterday, but he also took the time to type it out for Sal and myself. So here is Ron’s response to her, in its entirety (with her name and city left out.. she may be a dumb whore, but we respect people’s privacy).

I just read your letter addressed to me and compelled to respond and do so rather pointed and hopefully not offensive. I am going to email this to the hosts of the program and as much as I want to publish on our website, I will refrain as you did not email this nor used a public platform to discuss your views. I thank you for the taking the time to respond and ask that you share this letter with your friends.

Your comments and thoughts were out of line and rather offensive to me. You take the point of view that I am supposed to censor comments from the EDGE program and warn our listeners of offensive programming and include that racist, anti-religious, anti-woman views are expressed. Well, that is NOT going to happen. Our station provides ENTERTAINMENT 24 hours a day and you have the same opportunity that all listeners have to CLICK OUT OF THE PROGRAM, TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER or simply DON’T LISTEN AT ALL.

I have received ALL KINDS OF EMAILS OVER THE last twenty years and they are similar in respect to a religious slant and my being damned to hell etc… Let me tell you that I DO NOT respect any religion nor ask the employees of Radiomax to hold off expression or points of view in talk format programming. If you are so offended and think you are going to actually create a boycott of my station, I wish you good luck. I welcome any attempt and hope you will take this topic to the public so that I can begin a debate live on the station.

Your right winged views are offensive to me personally and I ask that you refrain from sending me any further communication. Exercise your rights and self censor yourself and stop trying to reform others to accept your point of view. As fucked up as they are you have the right to NOT LIKE what we do here, but taking that stance allows me to get into your face with my own point of view.

I am so fucking tired of the right sided views of God and Country. Take the GOD view and shove it up your ass and leave the rest of us who know the truth alone and free to express ourselves. If you think you are going to hear your agenda supported on this station, trust me, that will never happen. I leak out my views from time to time in my music programs, but as the owner of this station, I make that choice. You can tell that my views differ greatly from yours. But this comment, quoted from your letter, “Mr. Kovacs, remove that profane, racist edge program asap and please refrain from making bad comments about our former President Bush….” show your mentality and lack of knowledge. The Edge program is NOT a racist program and I did NOT make comments about Bush, it was a comedy piece. Did you contact the Comedy Central Cable Channel and ask them to stop broadcasting the same sound bite, the place where that was originally aired?

Please get your head out of your ass and please find another medium to listen to.

Please go away and go fuck yourself!

Best Regards,

Ron Kovacs
Program Director & Owner

So there it is, the response by Ron to this woman from Oklahoma. (NOTE: the comments mentioned in the response about former President Bush were in response to a comedy piece on RadioMax, and not related to ‘The EDGE’)

Ron basically said everything we would have said… in the way we would have said it. That’s basically the moral of this entire story… if you don’t like what you hear or see on our show (or anyone else’s) TURN IT OFF and quit your bellyaching.

That’s basically all there is to say about the issue. Please feel free to leave your comments below, and thank you for reading this.

Thanks for listening to The EDGE.