At the outset of his
May 26th show, Vince Daniels announced that
he would be embroiled in some legal matters
in the Summer and Fall months which would
preclude him from being on his show every
Saturday. Upcoming live Moods
shows featuring Daniels will happen on June
16th, July 7th, July 14th and July 28th. He
is still unsure about his Fall calendar but
plans to announce his August and September
availabilities sometime in July.
While some of his off
weeks will be filled with an array of guest
hosts (including Cliff Young and Ralph
Torres of the I.E.Coffee Radio Show;
Jay Boatman, Nick Anthony and J.Francis),
other weeks will be filled by none other
than Vinnie himself. Although these won't
be live appearances, they are nevertheless
original ones.
On June 2nd as she always does,
Melissa Chavez will open all 3
hours with local news, weather and traffic.
Back in 2004, having top of the hour news
and some predictability of format was
unheard of and almost two years down the
road for Vince. In fact, having listeners of
the size and scope of his current K.C.A.A.
audience was outside his realm of reality.
Restricted to a small internet audience (due
to lack of promotion), the very few
listeners of The Vince Daniels Show that
year would e-mail the host or the college
with words to the effect of "it's ashamed
that something as quality as this has to
have a station like this as its venue. This
thing really needs to be heard."
After the
news at 10:06am (PST), gems that had
originally laid fallow will reach an
audience estimating 500-600 times the size
of its original listener base. Vince calls
this series of shows At Last, It Can
Be Broadcast, with broadcast being
the operative word. You'll hear shows that
deserved to be heard by more than 60
listeners on a good day. Says Daniels of
his decision to air these old programs, "in
terms of time, energy and commitment,
nothing has changed in the last 3 years. My
co-host Mikey and I gave it our all back
then as Jay and I do today. Our mindset was
such that we conducted ourselves in such a
way that we were being heard by thousands of
people. Looking back, we knew it wasn't
true, but at the same time, the quality and
energy and chemistry was such that I think
it would be a shame if it were not shared
with a terrestrial
radio audience."
One afternoon, Vince heard a host on KCAA
bring up the name of former TV talk show
host, Wally George. "I
heard this guy say, 'I'm not sure where
Wally is anymore.'" In October, 2003 George
passed away and Vinnie did a tribute to him.
He interviewed Wally's first born daughter,
Debbie Quinata and his
former wife, Janice George Carey.
This is among the shows that will finally
see the light of day on AM 1050. It will
air in the weeks ahead this Summer along
with a heated, emotional debate on same-sex
marriage, among many classics.
On June 2nd, the entire 3 hours will focus
on a single period in time before and after
the 2004 Presidential Election. "I
remember, Mikey Mondavi and
me were on a mission. We didn't think that
George Bush was the best choice, but we also
considered the alternative. Our goal was to
keep the conservative agenda going forward.
After-all, we were at war." Mondavi had
just started what would be a year as
Daniels' co-host. You'll hear his first
show at the start of the second hour. The
beginning of this special series will open
when Mikey was 4 shows in. Bush had been
re-elected a month before. Because they felt
they achieved their agenda, Vinnie and Mikey
created "Liberals Day," a forum that allowed
guest to come on to dispute the outcome of
the election. In the opening hour, you'll
hear a December 4th, 2004 exchange with
guests Richard Vidan, and
his wife, local blues singer, Zola
Moon. When this show originally
aired on the internet station, 19 obsenities
were spewed. For this broadcast, bleeps have
been inserted.
The 11 and 12 0'clock hours tie-in.
Starting at 11:06, its back to October of
'04 and Mikey's first show. The guest that
day was a mutual friend of Vince and Mikey,
a political blogger named Alex J.
Fletcher who had appeared as a
pundit on The Many Moods numerous times. Fletcher
hails from St. Louis. At 18, he was a young
republican whose radio listening habits
included the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean
Hannity. He was also very frustrated about
the America he lived in. He too felt a sense
of 'mission' on the show. The first moments
of the hour are very moving as he gives his
reaction to the viewing of the video
featuring the decapitation of Nicholas Berg.
The final 15 minutes of the hour jumps ahead
to November. By now, Alex was starting to
feel a sense of his own 'celebrity' due to
his many appearances on the show.
You'll hear him go from being humble, to
feeling full of himself. He challenges
another show pundit, Art Olivier
to a debate and refers to Art as a "green
party bastard."
As November morphs into December, Alex J.
Fletcher realizes that he got in over his
head, and backs out of the debate. This is
after Vinnie and Mikey had spent a lot of
time promoting it. They were too
embarrassed to tell Art about it. During
Thanksgiving week, they decided to hire an
actor to play the part of Alex J. Fletcher.
When word of this got back to Alex, he
e-mailed Vince threatening to sue him and
the station if he used his name in
conjunction with any debate. Instead ,
Mikey and Vinnie turned it into a
parody/put-on. The actor they hired called
himself Cap'n J. They
didn't mention this to Art Olivier or to
anyone else on staff at the station. The
result is the most hilarious hour of radio
you're likely to hear. It begins after the
news at 12:06pm.
"For the longest time, I was touched to hear
that these shows would find their way into
party's and that people would sit around
laughing at the now infamous Cap'n J, hour,
or the big debate with Zola and Richard and
Mikey. Now, these shows don't have to be
underground anymore. They can actually be
heard on a real radio station."
