Countdown To Pearlington!

Well the countdown to Pearlington continues!

Four more days and the first wave of the Pearlington Team (8 of us) will be winging our way to the deep south for Christmas….well, we’re not going there for Christmas, we’re going there to work, but it just so happens that some of us will be there for Christmas…and New Years! The day after Christmas 2 people return home, and 11 more arrive for week two. My wife and I will be there for both weeks and are both very excited about going and doing and being!

I think everyone on the team is bringing something personal and “Christmasy” with them to help spruce up the house we‘ll be staying in, so that it will feel like we’re not so far from home and family. It’ll be a house filled with different family’s traditions…No surprise that my tradition has to do with food!!! For me, it’s not Christmas without Shrimp Scampi and pasta, so I will be in the kitchen on Christmas Eve.…a definite family tradition!! (now you want to come too, don't you?!)

I was looking through some old photos and found these couple of me and Santa! The first one I look pretty excited about talking to the fat man…although he looks a little young under that beard.

The second photo made me laugh because I look bored and unimpressed with this storefront Santa…and I think, as I look closer at him….is that?....no, it can’t be…..it is!…it’s Unkle Sherman!!!

Here is one of my faves of Emma….

This is her first Christmas!

Could that be any cuter?!

I want to wish all of you out there a great season…thank you so much for all your love and support…and whatever it is you celebrate at this time of year, even if you don’t celebrate anything, do it with those people you love and care about the most.

And if you can’t be with them…go be with your family!!

Wacka-Wacka!

Happy Happy Joy Joy !!

Ralphie

Getting Excited

I’m getting excited about our trip to Pearlington! We leave in less than two weeks, on December 18th!

I’ve been excited about going back since before we returned from our last trip!

The last trip we were only there for one week, and it just didn’t seem like enough time (there’s so much that still needs to be done there), but this time around some of us have the opportunity to go for two weeks!

Thanks, Frank, for getting me the time off, and thanks to Arden and Vick and others who will be doing my shifts while I’m gone!

And I must thank all you Pigs who have unselfishly contributed to this team, to help us get there and help one small town get their lives back! You guys never cease to amaze me!

I plan to be posting blogs (and Squeals) from Mississippi, internet access permitting…

Right now, it’s just planning and packing…I do kind of miss not having our Christmas tree up, but why bother! We’ll go cut one down from someone’s yard when we get to Mississippi!! OKAY, we won’t really do that…probably!

Brittany will also be blogging at the www.ca2ms.blogspot.com site. If you haven’t made a donation yet, you can get all the info there on how to do that!

And if you don’t want to give to this trip, that’s okay…give to Second Harvest Food Bank, or Valley Churches United, or The Salvation Army , or Jacob’s Heart, or any person or group that moves you…that needs you…and not just at this time of year, but all year long!

If you have the means to help someone, then you must do it!

If we all do a little, we can get a lot done!!

Ralphie

Giving Thanks

For nine days of the year my parents were the same age. Then, on November 30^th, Mom would jump ahead. She would have been 86.

And, like my Dad, I thank God for my Mom each and every day, and I miss the heck out of her!

There was this great contrast in my parents…while Dad was silly and outgoing, Mom was quiet, reserved, almost shy. She was happy to be at home reading or working in the garden, but, like Dad, she was very creative and talented, but in a quieter way. She would knit and crochet these amazingly intricate afghans, and in later years she crocheted blankets and hats for the newborns at Dominican hospital.

Mom was calm, practical and pretty rational, which is hard to do when you’re raising four kids! She was a great audience for me when, as a kid, I would try comedy routines and jokes out on her.

Of course, around the holidays you tend to get a little misty eyed when thinking of loved ones who have passed. At Christmas I think more of Dad because that was his favorite holiday…he was like a kid himself…he loved all the decorations and the music, and especially the family gathered around the table with lots of wonderful homemade food!

Mom I miss most around Thanksgiving, because that was her big day. Nobody put on a better Thanksgiving spread than Mom, and her stuffing was the best in the world…(now I know you could try and tell me that your Mom’s or your Grandma’s stuffing was the best…but that couldn’t possibly be…’cause my Mom’s was THE best! )

With both these holidays and both their birthdays all so close together, it makes for a long month! And though I feel those tears welling up when I think of them (like right now), they are less tears of sadness, as they are tears of joy! I rejoice every time I think of Mom and Dad…I am so happy that there were enough similarities in their personalities to attract them to each other, and enough differences to make it really exciting and interesting for 48 years!!

I really did get all the best of both my parents…the creative, outgoing, comedic side of my Dad, which allows me to go out and entertain and do what I do… and the creative, reserved, practical side of my Mom, which allows me to go out and entertain and do what I do…without getting arrested!

Thanks Mom!

Love,

Your Son

All The Best

My Dad died 3 days after New Years in 1994.

Today, November 21^st , is his birthday. He would have been 85.

I still miss him. I thank God everyday for him, and I thank him everyday for all that he gave me.

I wonder how he would have aged…Gracefully? Painfully?

He was an incredibly funny person (he performed with a comedy team in college and went on to write for Bob Hope and Red Skelton in the 50’s) so I often wish I could pick up the phone and see what he thought of some new movie or show on TV. Would he think that Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert and their shows were funny? I think he would have appreciated them, though he was kind of old school comedy…Mel Brooks or the early Pink Panther films were really his style.

Besides a great sense of humor and a zest for life, Dad was kind, loving and giving. He was a creative and talented writer, and he had a great voice…sound like anyone you know?!

And, oh yeah…he was also one of the most amazing cooks you could have ever met. More than a cook, he was really a Master Chef! Everyone who ever had a meal in our house said he should have had his own cooking show! I don’t think anything gave him more pleasure than to create a meal and have family and friends gathered around the table…the more the merrier! Our kitchen and dining room were the loudest, most fun-filled rooms in the house!!

So that’s him in a nutshell…and me too!

I truly got all the best of him!

So, again, thank you God!

Thank you Dad!

You are missed every day.

Reenie

Thrill Ride

I was looking at a newspaper article from this past summer about The Lazard Group taking over Mapleton Communications. I saw a quote from Adam Nathanson from a few years back that said he was “thrilled” to be collaborating with Lazard. Well of course he was “thrilled”, at that time they were giving him a butt-load of money to buy up a bunch more radio stations!

I wonder if he’s still “thrilled” now that Lazard has taken controlling interest in Mapleton after they couldn’t pay back the loans….I mean, after all, it was because of Adam that this thrilling new business opportunity has come about!! I wonder if he still has that excited, wide-eyed, kid-in-a-candy-store look on his face now that he’s found out the candy ain’t so sweet!

More than likely Adam has his usual expression on his face, that of a deer-caught-in-the-headlights.

Well, actually, Adam is more likely the scapegoat-caught-in-the-headlights! I know that Adam is the one who seems to be in charge, who we see at the helm, who we Pigs interact with whenever it is that we interact with management…but if you look closer, you’ll probably notice his fathers hand in his back moving the mouth and shaking hands over deals.

Unfortunately, there is now another hand in the back controlling events…a hand that’s not family! I guess that’s why there has been little if any chatter from our corporate masters in recent months…they are busy nodding yes and trying to protect their phoney-baloney jobs!

That sound you hear is the quiet...right before the other shoe drops!

Big business…it’s so thrilling!!

Ralphie

Thanks Norton

Getting word that Norton Buffalo passed away yesterday. Very sad indeed.

Since the days listening to KFAT right up to today, he has been there always putting a smile on my face.

The day after Laura Ellen died when we were on the air celebrating her life (what a day that was!) Norton was one of many artists who called to share their condelences and stories, and he played Amazing Grace for Laura...I will have to dig that out and play it for him.

Thanks Norton...fly high!

Ralphie

Just kidding!

Beyond The Music

Back before I was a famous radio personality, I was a stand up comic. In the early seventies I started as a solo act, then I teamed up with my brother Terry. We called ourselves “Jeff & Stan”, because “Ralph & Terry” just sounded too much like some sort of stomach disorder! (Think about it, but don’t dwell on it!)

We played some of the hottest nightclubs with some of the biggest names in showbiz.


The summer we spent in Las Vegas headlining two shows a night at The Sands was really a turning point in our careers…We had the pleasure of working with two of the giants of the business, Chip & Dale.


It was kinda weird having Chip & Dale opening for us…I mean, these cats had been in the biz for years doing movies and TV and nightclubs before we came along. Their routines about nuts and berries were a little old fashioned, but they were polished and professional and well liked by the audiences….their act was completely opposite of the edgy drug humor that Stan and I were doing…it made for a very interesting evening of entertainment.


We bonded and hung out with Chip & Dale almost 24-7…Chip liked the booze and the broads, and Dale barley left the crap table, except to go out back with Stan and me to smoke a doobie or 2 or 5 before the show!

We were living large…the American Dream…Sammy Davis, Jr. started hanging out with us poolside and after the shows…and It was Sammy himself who dubbed us the New Rat Pack!

Stan became really close to our fuzzy opening act during our summer run in Vegas, and when the tour was over, Stan decided to leave the team and join Chip & Dale. They called themselves “3 Hairy Guys” (Hairy, by the way, was Dale’s real name!) and started doing and act that was a cross between the 3 Stooges and the edgy drug humor we had been doing. Sadly, they did only one tour, where they were booed off almost every stage, and then disbanded.



I went back to doing a solo act and had great success all throughout the seventies and eighties, until I was hired to work at KPIG in 1992.


Chip & Dale left the stage and opened a string of successful nightclubs featuring male dancers (turns out Chip didn’t really like the broads all that much).


And Stan…well, he lost his desire to perform, after winning the lottery!

There’s no biz like showbiz!


Ralphie

Traffic Trafficking

I drove my wife and her mother and sister to the airport in San Jose this morning. The traffic going over the hill wasn't bad, and I got back before the rain started!

Praise the Lord and pass the motorhome!

Aren't you glad you took the time to read this posting?!

(see posting from July 10th for disclaimer!)

Ralphie

Vacation Bla Bla Blog

Well here I am, on vacation. I did make my yearly pilgrimage to Monte Carlo...ahh the sites, the sounds, the smells!! I know you're thinking "Wow, that Ralphie is quite the jet-setter"...actually, Monte Carlo is THE best Italian Deli down in Beautiful Downtown Burbank. You can gain weight just going in and taking a deep breath....mmmm! Don't tell Cheri at the Healthy Way, but I took 2 deep breaths!! I'm such a naughty boy!

No other big plans for this vaction, which is good because on Thursday I started catching a cold. I finished catching it on Friday, and, well, here I am…sick as a dog…but not sick as a pig, just a regular old head cold!

The good news is at least I’m on vacation and don’t have to worry about getting up early and going to work when I feel like crap….the bad news is that I’M ON VACATION AND I’M SICK!!

Today I did make it to one of our planning meetings for our up coming Pearlington, Mississippi trip. It looks like we’ll be going for two weeks in December instead of just one…which is good because one week just didn’t seem like enough time to get ‘er done! Still hoping for donations from some of you Piggies, the blog down below has the address to send checks, and this year Brittany made it even easier to donate by setting up a PayPal account at her blog site http://www.ca2ms.blogspot.com/
For those of you who are actually lucky enough to still have a credit card…with a balance…just click where it says donate…and tell them it’s for Ralphie!

Actually, it’s for any number of people still digging out and rebuilding in Pearlington….you click, and I’ll do the rest! Remember, its tax deductable!

So…one more week off….I could get used to this…without the head cold of course!

Take care Pigs, and don’t forget the Purell!

Ralphie

Sales Swine

You know...I'm sure there are some good, well qualified salespeople out there....I just wish some of them worked for KPIG!

Our salespeople put the suck in success!

Ralphie

Back To Pearlington

I put this picture that I took of this beautiful oak tree with the hanging moss on this quiet road in a little town called Pearlington, Mississippi onto my screensaver on the computer in the KPIG Sty and my computer at home. It’s such a quiet, peaceful scene. Look at it…then imagine the entire scene covered in water as high as those branches hanging out over the road.

It’s hard to imagine, but that’s what the residents of Pearlington woke up to the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall…not that any of these residents slept that night!

Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane of the 2005 season, as well as one of the five deadliest in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. Huge waves, as high as 40 feet came up the Pearl River right into Pearlington. Cowabunga!


I took this picture last December when my wife and I went on a mission trip to help the folks of Pearlington continue the clean up and rebuilding of their quiet little town. When you stand there on this road now it looks almost like nothing happened, but when you look to the left and right you see the remains of homes… you see foundations…homes wrecked and abandoned, empty lots, rebuilt homes, half built homes, temporary trailers where people are still living...and many people are now in danger of being evicted from this temporary housing.

I think of that Johnny Cash song, “Five Feet High And Rising”…only this was more like 18 feet.
That little sign up on the pole that I’m pointing at is how high the water rose! Yikes!

It seems appropriate that I was looking through these photos today, since this month marks the
4th anniversary since Katrina hit.

My wife and I, and 15 to 20 others from our church will be heading back in December to help in any way we can. The trips usually happen during Christmas break and Spring break, because many of the people who go are high school and college age kids…certainly not what I was doing on my school breaks, how ‘bout you!!

This will be the 8th trip that a group from our church has made in the last four years…just one of many churches and groups going to help Pearlington and any number of towns all along the Gulf coast. There is actually a camp in Pearlington that houses volunteers year round…and after four years far too many of the residents of Pearlington and many other towns, including New Orleans, haven’t been able to return.

Heckofa job Brownie!

I had posted several blogs before, during and after our last trip, on the KPIG blog page, but we all know that page mysteriously vanished (maybe not so mysteriously!)

Soooo…

If you want to help, or know more, start with http://www.pearlingtonms.com/ or Google it and find many other sites. Maybe some of you reading this on-line live somewhere near one of the many towns affected by Katrina…spend a weekend and go help…even if you don’t have any particular skills, just being there helps! Another good place if you want info, or to donate your time or money is www.pcusa.org/pda/response/usa/gulfcoast/index-gulfcoast.htm

Maybe some of you could help support me and my group. We do fundraisers throughout the year to help with the cost for building materials, food and clothing, but each team member is responsible for paying their own way there….generally costs around $800, and anything we raise beyond that goes into the general fund. If you felt so inclined you could donate to the “Get Ralphie To Pearlington Fund”…or just the mission trip in general! It doesn’t have to be much…I know that you Pigs have big hearts…I also know that, given the state of the economy, many people don’t have two nickels to rub together…so, just do what you can, do what you feel, that’s all anyone can ask! Hey, it’s tax-deductible!

If you want to contribute to my trip, send a check to:

Felton Presbyterian Church
Attn: Brittany Overbeck
6090 Highway 9
Felton, CA 95018

And put Ralphie/Pearlington in the memo line…and if your address is not on your check, include that, so they can send you a receipt (remember, tax-deductible!)

There are lots of places that need help, and you can find them on-line…get involved!

And remember…you don’t always have to go across the country or the world to find someone in need…sometimes you just have to cross the street.

I love you Pigs!

Ralphie

P.S. Brittany Overbeck has been planning and coordinating these trips and has been blogging about them since the beginning....read more about Pearlington and the work there at her blog page www.ca2ms.blogspot.com/ You can also donate at her blog using PayPal...just click where it says Donate and tell 'em its for Ralphie!

Leaping Lazards

I’m sooooo surprised that this has happened!

Mapleton Communications, LLC. borrowed from the Lazard Group to buy a bunch of crap radio stations that they should never have purchased, and now, are having trouble paying it back to Lazard, who now appears to have controlling interest in the company!

Some listeners out there think this might be a good thing…that maybe Lazard knows more about running radio stations than Mapleton does!

Lazard is in the business of making money, for themselves and for others…and they are very good at it. I’m sure they have no interest in the day to day operations of Mapleton and it’s fabulous radio empire! (I mean, they left Adam in charge didn't they?...) However, if Lazard does decide they want to be hands-on, if they do decide they want to get jiggy with it, if they decide they want their money back anytime soon, they would be more likely to cut and hack away at the stations, and so, I do not have a very good feeling about all of this.

Why didn’t Mapleton just spend a little of their own money to fix up and maintain and promote the stations they already owned? Wouldn’t that have been a lot cheaper? It certainly would have been more beneficial to them and to us and to you the listeners.

I think this quote from one of my earlier blogs (originally found on the KPIG website) explains it pretty well…

“I think the problem with our corporate masters and, indeed, with most corporate masters, is that they have dollar signs burned into their eyeballs…which blinds them and causes them to make mistakes…the more money, the bigger the mistakes…mistakes that hurt people, including themselves!!

This morning on the porch of my fortress of solitude, I came across these verses in Ecclesiastes Chapter 5 (yes, that’s the Old Testament!) that made me shake my head and chuckle:

Whoever loves money never has money enough;

whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.

I have seen a grievous evil under the sun:

wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

or wealth lost through some misfortune,

Naked a man comes from his mother's womb,

and as he comes, so he departs.

He takes nothing from his labor

that he can carry in his hand.”



Ralphie

Damn Right!

From one of the radio industry magazines.

I believe this is from 2000.

I look at this photo and I think what a difference 9 years makes...Pig has gone through some staff changes since then...some went willingly, some left disgruntled (there's nothing worse when you're a Pig) and of course, Laura Ellen died.

I've been missing Laura alot lately...we could really use her strength now more than ever to keep us goofey music playing misfits in line, as well as our suit wearing corporate masters.

It's hard to say who she yelled at more!

Ralphie

I Thought They Worshiped Cats!

I was watching a show on the History Channel and the mystery of the Sphinx was revealed....turns out it was a Wiener Dog!

It all makes sense now!

Ralphie

Nothing Better To Do?

These blogs are intended for the entertainment of the KPIG listeners (and anyone else with far too much time on their hands!)

It doesn't mean that you will be entertained...it just means that it's my intent!

Ralphie

My First Blog

Actual photograph of my first blog!

I was writing about the cruelty of being forced to eat creamed spinach, and the injustice of early bedtime!

Two things that I'm still not very fond of!!

Ralphie

Something In The Way Of An Apology

I guess the blog page on the KPIG website is no more…it has ceased to be…it is an ex-blog page…I know it says “Temporarily Unavailable”, but I think we all know that Adam Nathanson shut it down.

Was it something I said?!

I must admit, I feel bad… Maybe if I were to say “I’m sorry” that would help.

I’m not very good at this, but here goes….

(ahem..throat clearing)

Adam,

I’m sorry!

I’m sorry you don't seem very qualified to do your job; and that it appears that the only reason you have this job at all is because your Dad owns the company….I’m sorry that you have to micro-manage every aspect of the company to the point where none of the qualified people you hired have time to do their jobs because you are constantly pestering them with phone calls and emails.

I’m sorry you can’t seem to follow your own philosophy or the 10 standards you call “The Mapleton Way”, which you proudly display on the company’s website:

The Mapleton Way

10) Be innovative, be creative, be flexible

9) Help build a better local community

8) The truth is the best policy

7) Fight complacency - past successes are not for resting on but for building upon

6) Admit your mistakes and learn

5) Be logical and explore all the options

4) Believe in your abilities; if you think you can do it - you can do it

3) Act with honesty and integrity or don't act

2) Treat others as you would like to be treated

1) Customers come first... think of them and you will always win... your audience, advertisers and staff

I'm sorry, but, I've highlighted some of the ones I think need improvement.....I do want to help!

Seriously, though…I feel really, really bad...I mean reeeeaaally awful...I mean you have no idea how much it’s tearing me up inside that I can’t think of one nice thing to say about your management techniques...

I'm sorry...I told you I wasn’t very good at this!

Ralphie

THIS JUST IN....

......Michael Jackson is still dead!

What?! Something Happend To Michael Jackson?!

The North Koreans could have set off a nuke this week that wiped out Hawaii, and we wouldn’t have heard about it for daaaaayyyys because of the tragic death of the King Of Pop!

I have to say that I was shocked to hear about the death of Michael Jackson. MSN is my homepage on my home computer, so when I opened my internet explorer on Thursday afternoon that was the first thing I saw. The big box at the top of the page was even bigger than usual, going across the top of the whole page…huge headline MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT AGE 50. It’s one of those things where you do a double-take and you wonder if you’re reading it right, so you stare at it for several seconds until you are sure you are reading it right.

Wow…didn’t see that one coming…

The media frenzy that has followed to the exclusion of all other news…that I did see coming!!

Especially when I scrolled down the page, and near the bottom of the page, where I almost missed it, was a little tiny picture of Farrah Fawcett and one line next to it “Remembering Farrah Fawcett”….What? Farrah died too? Another double-take….and my first thought was “shouldn’t this story be at least as prominent as the Jackson story?” Sure she was older (not by much though) and we knew she had cancer and would not be with us much longer, so it wasn’t as big a shock as Jackson’s passing…but still…Farrah has become some strange footnote to the Michael Jackson story…

“Michael Jackson died tragically today…oh yeah, Farrah Fawcett died too…now back to the tragic death Michael Jackson story! We’ll talk to anyone who has ever heard of Michael Jackson…we’ll talk to the doctors, the crowd in the street, every A-B-C and D-List actor, actress and musician that ever stepped in front of a camera…we’ll read their Twitters and Blogs and…gosh, too bad Farrah Fawcett isn’t still with us so we could ask her how the tragic death of Michael Jackson has affected her…I wonder what Ed McMahon would have to say about the tragic death of the tragically tragic Michael Jackson and his tragic life of tragedy!”

I was just happy that Ed McMahon had passed away earlier in the week, or we might never have heard about that!!!

I do feel that Michael Jackson’s passing is sad…sad mostly because he was so young. I’m 52, so anyone younger than me is too young to die…heck, anyone under 80 is too young. It bothers me because Michael had what many people would consider “everything”, yet I don’t think he ever got to enjoy it even for a minute….and believe me, that’s the saddest part of all.

I do feel a strange and selfish sadness at Michael’s passing…I feel sad about Farrah and Ed too…all for the same reason, and that is because they were all very talented, and they were all such icons, and they were all a huge piece of my life and my consciousness and now they are gone….and that closes the door on another little section of my life….

I know it's not about me, and I shouldn't make it about me, but damnit, this is the kind of thing that makes me feel old!!!

(heavy sigh)

Ralphie

Now That I Have Your Attention

Time to ramp it up Piggies!

Uncle Sherman keeps leaving the message on the KPIG Pig Squeals that says keep those cards and letters comin’ in!

I agree…don’t let up…if you are dissatisfied with the programming decisions of the management of KPIG, especially the cutting back of live DJs in favor of automation, let them know.

I’m not sure Mike Anthony, VP of Programming for the Monterey Bay is reading or caring much about your emails. But don’t stop writing manthony@radiomontereybay.com

Adam Nathanson, the owner of Mapleton Communications is really the one who’s eye and ear you want to catch. hr@mapletoncommunications.com

I believe Adam sees these emails…the more long winded ones he may just glance over, but he sees them. So try to keep it short and to the point…keep it honest and cordial, and, here’s the important part… do it everyday! Send an email when you get up and before you go to bed…send one at lunch and dinner and anytime you find yourself at your computer. Put something like “Dissatisfied KPIG Listener” in the subject line so he’ll know without fail what this email is about, and when he comes in to work in the morning, he will have no doubt that people are not happy…he may not even have to read further than the subject line!

He also my not care, but email daily, email hourly, email often!

And maybe you could send emails to the websites of your favorite KPIG Artists and KPIG Sponsors (if you haven’t already) and let them know what’s happening (if they don’t already know) and tell them how you feel and urge them to write (if they haven’t already). Hey, they have a stake in this too!

And don’t forget the faxes and phones and good old fashioned snail mail as lines of communication!!!

Get yourself a roll of stamps and a box of envelopes or some nice postcards and have at it!!

Here’s the info straight from the Mapleton website http://www.mapletoncomm.com/

Adam Nathanson
10900 Wilshire Blvd., #1500
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Ph. (310) 209-7221

Fax (310) 209-7239

And for Radio Monterey Bay:

Mike Anthony, Sr. VP Programming
60 Garden Ct., Suite 300
Monterey, CA 93940

Ph. (831) 658-5200

Fax (831) 658-5299

Will it do any good? Maybe not…they’re the owners and they’ll do what ever they please…even if it only pleases them.

But, we’ll all be able to say that we cared and we tried!

So let’s ramp it up and be heard!

Keep those cards and letters, faxes, emails and phone calls coming in!!

Love you Pigs,

Ralphie

Gotta Have It!

GOTTA HAVE MY BLOG PAGE!!!

How else can I keep you informed on what’s really important…what you really need to know….the only thing that really matters…the one thing I know you’re all really concerned about…MY DIET!!

I’m still losing weight through the healthy way diet plan, so even if KPIG isn’t around much longer, I plan to be!

http://www.thehealthyway.us/

I have been on a plateau after losing 70 pounds, but I’m still losing inches and building muscle and feeling great, and boy do I look maahhhvelous!!

Onward and Downward!

Ralphie

Real People Real Music Real Radio

Greetings and Salutations!

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Ralph Anybody, morning DJ at KPIG radio, broadcasting out of Freedom California at 107oink5 FM, and on-line at http://www.kpig.com/ we also simulcast The Pig in San Luis Obispo, San Francisco and Chico, California.

Those of you who do know me…I mean really know me, know my real name, and those of you who don’t know me only need to know me as Ralphie…besides, if you know Ralphie, than you know me, and that’s all you need to know, because we are the same person….confusing enough for you?….I’m confused and I wrote it!

You can Google KPIG, or, better yet, it’s founder Laura Ellen Hopper and find out more about the greatest radio station on the face of the earth…sadly, most of the hits for Laura Ellen are from the many obituaries published after her untimely death back in 2007...we miss you Laura. Laura was the Pit Bull that kept our Corporate Masters (Mapleton Communications) from coming in our yard and stomping (crapping) all over our beautiful format!!

I feel that Mapleton, through some bad business decisions and an uncertain economy, is slowly and painfully killing The Pig. They never understood what a gem of a radio station they owned, and instead of polishing this gem and taking good care of it and putting it in a glass case, they shoved it in a drawer with all the other faux gems and fools gold they own, never realizing it’s worth.

Don't get me wrong, there is still no radio station like it with it’s eclectic mix of music and comedy, but I fear it will soon be gone and then there really will be no station like it…anywhere…at all…ever again!

Some of our incredibly loyal and longtime listeners have started a grass-roots campaign to help save the pig, and a website where you can post your comments, which will be sent to our Corporate Masters, at http://www.savethepig.us/


So thank you for your support!

I guess that’s all for now!

Ralphie