92.3 The Fan hosts Ken Carman and Anthony Lima were in the sports media headlines at the start of the week following their heated argument on the air on Monday morning.
But Carman explained on The Emerging Podcast Scene Tuesday that while outsiders may watch that two-minute exchange and think the two hosts are at an impasse akin to Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe, the truth of the matter is that regular listeners of The Ken Carman Show with Anthony Lima know these passionate exchanges happen with some regularity. But it doesn’t mean that they have a strained relationship.
“There are people reacting to our argument yesterday as if it’s the first time this has ever happened. This happens on a weekly basis,” he said.
“But those people don’t listen to the show on a weekly basis,” Lima responded.
“And that’s the thing. It’s like, these guys must hate each other. We did this last Thursday I’m sure,” said Carman. “We have a knockdown drag out once a week.”
Lima pointed out that it was funny how other radio shows that have similar on-air arguments typically result in someone not being on the show the next day, leaving the show entirely or something. That’s not the case for Ken Carman and Lima.
“No, that’s every day. Every day we do that,” Carman said. “And we were fine during the commercial break, were we not?”
Producer Owen Lademann noted that the tipping point of the argument — the moment Carman pushed the video streaming cameras away — was the result of 30 minutes of Lima trying to bring some fire out of his co-host.
But Lima did want to clarify that even though they may have passionate disagreements at some point in their week, but the goal is to not produce shouting matches every day.
“I don’t want people to misconstrue that as, ‘Boy, these guys just want to get loud and fight each other every day,'” he said. “That’s not the case.”
They both agreed that the frequency with which they find themselves in a passionate disagreement has scaled back dramatically from when they started.
“We didn’t know when to let things go,” Carman said.
“Yeah it wasn’t good,” Lima responded.
