And here we are 26 years later talking to you. My brand was really to get better and to work hard at it and that's what I did. “You've got to be respectful towards the people that are your employers, and you've got to have a brand. “To stick around, you’ve got to be entertaining, you've got to be adaptable and you have got to be accountable,” said DeMarco, who was inducted into the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame last year. He’ll be Mad Dog one final time on Friday. I've never called him that, except on the air.” He is somebody who cares deeply about people and cares deeply about the ones closest to him. “For all of who he appears to be, he's loyal,” Hager said. And if you can't earn, you're not going to be around.” It's like the mafia - you're an earner is what you are. It's how much money that you can bring in. I had to really buckle down and be disciplined that I was going to do this. They just think that I did the show for three hours and I go home and smoke cigarettes and get high and stuff. “That's what a lot of people don't understand. “I had to be like Clark Kent and then go into sales mode and hit the streets as a salesman,” DeMarco said. For the last 12 years, DeMarco has been full-time at the station in sales, too, beyond selling his own show “Mad Dog in the Mornings” meant getting up every day at 4:20 a.m. to get prepared for three hours of solo radio and then a day of sales. It returned to afternoons, 3-6 p.m., in 2016. That’s a wild story in itself.”įrom 2002-06, Mad Dog aired on WQTX-FM in Lansing, before DeMarco’s show returned to WVFN after a six-month hiatus, moving from afternoons to 6 to 9 a.m. “John Cooper, he was the coach of the Capital City Pride (co-hosting) and he ends up (as coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning). “Jemele Hill, the first time she was ever on radio was with me (as a co-host),” DeMarco said. I never thought he would stay with it as long as he did.”Īfter Hager left the show in 1999, it became “Mad Dog and Co.,” which featured the likes of Sam Vincent, Kelly Miller, Bob Every and others as regular co-hosts. We made it work for a long time and just had fun doing it. “Just kind of a steadier voice that kept control of all the bells and whistles and the dials and everything. But for most of their 3 1/2-year run, it was DeMarco and Hager, who these days is the principal at Cavanaugh Elementary in Lansing.
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I think she's fantasizing about me." Love her, hate her, Jong still knows how to seduce the country and, most important, keep the pages turning.Plaunt left soon after the show began, replaced briefly by sportswriter Larry Lage. In addition to prominent review and feature coverage, Jong was a guest on "Today" and "Real Time with Bill Maher," Even Rush Limbaugh flirted with Jong on his radio program: "I think she wants me. One night the Senator slept in his car, not having the. Critics called it everything from "brutally funny," "risquA1/2 and wonderfully unrepentant," and "rowdy, self-deprecating, and endearing" to "a car wreck."* Throughout her book tour, Jong was unflappably funny, and responded to her critics with a hilarious essay on NPR's "All Things Considered," which is included in this paperback edition. short of funds that he only had enough money for a fifteen minute radio talk on a local station. This sublime and salacious story of one writer's long and successful career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur is refreshingly direct-whether she is writing sex scenes or conforming to the rigid narrative of Alcoholics Anonymous.Įrica Jong's memoir-a national bestseller-was probably the most wildly reviewed book of 2006.
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