Glenn Kulka Documentary Journal

Fate is a tricky customer.  The pairing of a pro athlete with a pro broadcaster, for those not initiated into the world of sports reportage, is like putting open flame to chili eating flatulent’s derrière.  The result is explosive… and sensitive parts get burned.

But the day TEAM 1200 think tankers teamed up Glenn Kulka (pro hockey, pro football, pro wrestling) with Lee Versage (pro mouth, erm… broadcast journalist); a formidable team was born.  In spite of the fact that Glenn can bench press Lee at least fifty times, and Lee’s fifteen year younger brain (read stat basket) dances sometimes confusing circles around Glenn’s admittedly rattled and abused skull, the boys seem to get along.  More than that, they produce some of the most provocative and honest sports radio available on the shield.

The question is, how long can they keep it up?  With satellite radio threatening to overwhelm the airwaves, and digital pundits predicting the doom of live audio, radio hosts live and die at the whim of the listener.

It’s no small mercy then, that audiences worldwide are tired of being spoon fed artificial entertainment pap; Hollywood’s digital effects driven blockbusters and radio’s digitally programmed twenty-four hour schedules are supped upon and crapped out like the disposable drivel that they are.

So for now, Glenn and Lee get to do their show, human beings offering live interactive entertainment… a term which fifteen years ago had nothing to do with the booming So Cal video sex trade and everything to do with connecting with an audience.  And if that term also sends your mind adrift in the gutter, perhaps we are doomed, doomed to the entertainment wasteland where cheap, emotionless thrills rule, and good men die like dogs.

Thanks for the warning Hunter S.

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