Oregon Media Central has the scoop:
“Kidd Chris” Foley seemed like an easy-going and good-natured DJ shortly after KUFO relaunched, but he quickly warned that his demeanor is only temporary. Foley is a shock jock. He was fired from WYSP Philadelphia in May of last year after this song was sung by an in-studio guest and re-aired several times:
Coloreds steal your wallets and coloreds have pink feet. Coloreds are loud and obnoxious, when they watch movies. Sticky fingers, what they are, Always try to jack my car, Schwoogies! Or shines, you can call them anything you like. Schwoogies! Watch out, jigs will rob you, day or night. Schwoogies. Mookie doesn’t like to work, Just rolls blunts all day long. But there’s one job he can do, hold a lantern on my lawn. If someone else has your watch on, you can bet its a moolignon. Shwoogies! All Around, there’s Sambos, monkeys, knuckle draggers, So much brown Mandingo, Go Mr. Bojangles (unintelligible). I have no problem singing about the Negroes.
In July of this year, Foley made one of his many appearances on The Howard Stern Show, during which he sang a song with these lyrics:
She’s a Nubian queen, no Afro sheen. She wants to be s—t while running down the street in Cali. She f—-s white men with coffee in her a—. Robin’s looking so good I have my d—k in my right hand. Here’s what you should do: Just pull out those big G’s, girl. Here’s what I wanna do: Drop some loads on some t—-ies, girl. Black t—-ies are so fine. My d—k is poppin’. Show me those big G’s, b——. Black t—-ies are so fine. My d—k is poppin’. Suck on those black t—-ies, b——.</em<
While incidents that got him fired or booked on Howard “too hot for terrestrial” Stern might not be representative of his regular routine, additional YouTube clips from Foley’s WYSP show may be. One features a pedophile’s bedtime story, titled “Rusty is a Homosexual,” in which a nine year-old fantasizes about sleeping with a naked fireman and wearing bondage gear. Another consists of Star Jones being crank-called by a member of his show who asks, “How fat are you, Star Jones, and is your husband gay?”
Did I hear somebody say fire him? What?
What!? A radio personality is terrible? Shocking!
“crank-called” Haha
I gave a listen this morning for as long as I could stand it (45 seconds).
Hmm. To preface- I’m big on lots of low-brow humor but his shit is RETARDED. They’re dumb as fuck and equally unfunny. There is, of course, lots of chortling from some insipid sidekick. The callers seemed like they spent last night huffing gas fumes.
I wonder what demographic KUFO’s telling potential advertisers they can reach with this new “Ow, My Balls!” lineup?
Wait, I think I just answered my own question.
What happened to the majority of yesterday’s Blogtown posts?
tk: Something went wrong on the internet. They should be back up shortly.
Jesi, are you thinking it should be “prank-called?” Either fits.
I, too, gave it a listen this morning. Midwest frat boy radio. Wonderful. This will fail.
Live and local? riiiight….
one word: pandora.
Your ‘italics close tag’ called, it wants $50 and a carton of cigarettes; otherwise it’s gonna be AWOL forever.
Did you guys mention the part where KUFO gave out The Mercury and KGW’s phone number on air and told people to call them? KUFO is dumb.
Radio K and KEXP for all music now
If Rick and Fatty can’t make it here, then radio is dead. This is where they need to be.
Dinosaurs will die.
Kidd Chris is stoopid, but I can’t wait for The Ricker! He speaks to my rock-n-roll lifestyle!
Apparently they have to appeal to the absolute bottom of barrel. Anybody with half a brain gave up on radio years ago.
What is this “radio” you speak of?
For the love of FSM, please, as Graham said, close your damn italics tag.
In every market they go to the first month isn’t that great, but once they shake the rust it is a great radio show.
I guess I’ll need to find another station for my dial…
Companies desperate for cash continue to pander to the lowest possible common denominator. This is just a sign that radio will be out of business very soon. And cable news.
Your recent moaning about print journos all happened in radio in the early 1990s. The wasteland of terrestrial radio is what a dead media looks like; some outliers still pumping out good radio, but the bandwidth dominated by stagnant crap.
Really who listens to radio? People stuck in traffic who ipod batteries are dead.
Problems? http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm
I miss Rick Emerson.
The morning and mid-day DJ’s were tolerable, as long as they play music, but I really didn’t like Ricker, he just sounds like an idiot… and in a brilliant move (sarcasm), they bring back Marconi. A station full of dumb shock jocks, nice job Alpha Broadcasting. Well, as long as the music you play has balls as you claim, I don’t give a damn about the DJ’s, just keep them on a leash ffs.
So they lined up another inflammatory, low-class, bigot as program director and morning show personality? As soon as he starts talking, I’m on another preset in my car and iTunes at home. What does that on-air personality selection say about who they think Portland listeners are? I thought Portland was better than that. That kind of personality inflames a divide that doesn’t need to be there. I’m embarrassed that the people that set up this line up consider themselves Portlanders. Time to load up the car with CD’s.
Just play the music “with balls” already and stop the talk. Not everyone has an iPod for their car…
If they just shut up and play the damn music, I’ll listen to the station. I’ll miss my morning Rick Emerson fix (and where am I going to get my Tim Riley in the morning?!?), Cort and Fatboy, Geek in the City… And just not being incredibly annoyed at the voices on the radio. These guys are worse than that annoying guy on Playhouse on 107.5.
Good bye, radio. We had a good time. I’ve had an iPod in my car for a couple of years now for long trips with radio interruption. But I liked the radio in Portland, and I liked the people on it. Portland radio is dead now. These new people aren’t Portland.
Guys Stop bitching, You don’t realize how funny Kidd Chris is… Portland is a lucky city. Just wait.
Yeaa give Kidd Chris a chance. The first month is spent catching the audience up then you’ll get the real show. Once they hit there stride it’ll be great. I can’t believe he went to portland tho…
Philly resident here. We had the PRIVILEGE of having him on our air for quite some time, until the aforementioned song got him off the air. He is great, and everyone out in Portland is LUCKY to have this great man on your air. Seriously, give it some time, and you’ll love the show. I’ll admit that the sidekick, Thomas, has a terrible lisp, and Portland listeners should call in and make fun of him for it, he loves it. Well, he did when he was in Philly.
So yea, calm down, you have a great dj to wake you up and make the day a little brighter, and try to enjoy it. Or if you really hate him that much, call in and tell him that he should return to Philly where he was truly appreciated. Seriously, we’d appreciate the help 😉