Not to digress, but anyone know whatever happened to the Grease Man? Used to be an FM DJ on DC101 (and syndicated too I think) until he said something offensive and got fired. I think it was something that happened in the mid 1990’s. I liked his humor.
I grew up with Imus on WNBC as a youth on Long Island. In his day he was pretty funny. And the humor wasn’t incindiary. Just good. So I was thinking about the Grease Man and how he fell off the face of the earth after his firing and how that might happen to Imus.
Although with satellite technology what it is, he probabaly will wind up on Sirius/XM.
Howard Stern Picked him up and put him on one of his satellite stations.
The Greaseman got fired for a really dumb comment referencing the dragging death of James Byrd in Texas. He is back on DC radio - 1160 AM in the mornings.
He’s still knocking around DC on a mid-to-low budget AM station. Still doing the same bits...
In the early ‘90s, Greaseman went national — he was on the air here in Atlanta for a while. He was one of the first hosts to get the Clear Channel treatment, with a few local inserts and pre-recorded intros to fake a thin veener that he was a local host. Why have a host in every city, when you can have one host for dozens of cities and just a board operator at each station?
I listened to Greaseman every morning in DC, and liked him then — but in his Atlanta incarnation, I found him boring. I don’t know if his schtick got more bland, if it was more homogenized for a national as opposed to local audience, or whether I’d just become more mature or burned out on it. In any case, he wasn’t pulling the numbers. I don’t remember if there was a dumbassed on-air comment that cost him the syndication deal or he just faded out for lack of ratings, but it amounts to the same thing.
The greaseman got suspended when he said that “do you know what NASA stands for ? Now it means need another seven astronauts” (after challenger exploded).
He was permanently canned when he said regarding the martin luther king holiday, “if they had killed 6 more of them and we could get the whole week off”