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Alex Jones: Joe Rogan Gets ‘Too Much Heat’ When I’m On His Podcast

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Alex Jones was recently on the Louder With Crowder podcast, and the InfoWars host said he has a great relationship with podcast host Joe Rogan, but knows it doesn’t help Rogan when he has Jones on the show.

“When’s Rogan gonna have you on his show? Why aren’t you doing his show today?” Crowder asked.

“I don’t wanna be mean to Joe,” Jones said. “Joe told me last time — I was on the show was two years ago and it was one of the biggest shows he ever did. Joe’s like, ‘Yeah, we’ll have you on in a couple months’. Couple months. Couple months. And then you know, it’s pretty obvious what’s going on. Just a little too much heat for Joe to have me on, which is fine.”

Jones then said he and Rogan went to dinner a few weeks ago and asked the podcast host to allow him on his show to discuss his civil lawsuit against the families of Sandy Hook victims.

“We were out of dinner about a month ago, last time I hung out with him. And it’s his pet peeve not to bring it up. And I just said, ‘Man, it would really help me with this upcoming court case, cause the whole media’s against me, if I could get on there and explain things.’ And he just said, ‘Alex, you got, you know — there’s too much craziness going on. Let’s just get through this. We’ll talk about it later,’” Jones said.

He then added it’s a matter of courage to allow him on someone’s show.

“On the courage scale, Steven Crowder is a ten. Alex Jones is a ten. And Joe Rogan’s an eight,” Jones said. “And I’ll take an eight all day over our enemies that are at a zero. And so I’m nothing but thankful to Joe for all the heat he’s taken having me on and so I totally understand it.”

Mike Felger: Layoffs At 98.5 The Sports Hub ‘Frustrating And Sobering’

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The layoffs across the country at Beasley Media stations hit one of the company’s most successful stations last week. Despite its success in ratings and revenue, 98.5 The Sports Hub was forced to part ways with Christian Arcand and Mike Lockhart. Mike Felger talked about the move Thursday night.

“Radio… apparently is in trouble, we’re finding out,” he said on The Off Air Show, a Facebook stream he hosts on Thursdays with Jim Murray.

A member of the audience asked directly about Arcand and Lockhart. Felger said he wished he had an answer before elaborating on his shock at the announcement.

“What makes it so frustrating and sobering for us at the station, is that this station could not be more successful,” he said. “You just couldn’t… you can’t get better ratings than we get.”

The Boston Herald reports that there is some speculation amongst conspiracy theorists regarding the comment. The feed went dark after the comments. A message from the station that read “Sorry everyone! Technical difficulties. See you all next week,” popped up in the comment section shortly after.

The success of 98.5 The Sports Hub has been well-documented at this site and many others. In addition to consistently strong ratings performance, the station is one of the top five revenue generators in the country.

Dan Mandis: January 6th Committee Getting More Coverage Than Inflation ‘Unbelievable’

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Dan Mandis: January 6th Committee Getting More Coverage Than Inflation ‘Unbelievable’

SuperTalk 99.7 WTN morning host Dan Mandis lamented the media coverage of the January 6th Committee and how much notoriety it gets.

“You know what’s funny? (Matt Murphy’s) absolutely right when he talks about CNN, MSNBC, and social media. We do have two separate realities. You have what is really going on. Which is what Americans are dealing with. Like rampant inflation. And what the news — the network news — is covering. Did you know that last night on — I think it was — ABC. They had a graphic — ABC — devoted eight minutes to the January 6th hearing but only seconds to inflation. Unbelievable. It’s unbelievable but it is very believable. It’s not surprising. Let’s put it that way.”

The comments from Mandis came after he joked that Matt Murphy, the afternoon host on SuperTalk 99.7 WTN, continues to leave the television in the studio on CNN to mess with Mandis.

“Just to show you how absolutely insane the networks are — by the way, who keeps putting this television on CNN? The last guy that is in this studio is Matt Murphy. So, I wanna know why Murphy’s show keeps putting it back on CNN.”

However, Mandis did say he agreed with CNN for putting out a somewhat sarcastic story that American’s care more about the cost of french fries than they do about January 6th, calling the network’s story “damn right”.

Sports Media Reacts to Al Michaels Comments On Dan Snyder

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After an explosive report from ESPN revealed Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder had “dirt” on other NFL owners and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, many wondered how Amazon Prime Video and Al Michaels would handle the news during its Thursday Night Football broadcast of the Commanders game.

Longtime NFL play-by-play announcer Al Michaels addressed the report, among many of Snyder’s other transgressions, and had pointed comments about his future as a league owner.

“What the league would love is for Snyder to sell the team,” Michaels said. “Not have it go to a vote, but sell the team. He’s just become a major problem around the league, obviously.”

Many in sports media were surprised by the candor of Michaels. Barrett Sports Media has compiled some of the social media reactions to the comments below.

Gregg Giannotti: Some ‘Mike and The Mad Dog’ Off-Air Fights Were ‘Unbelievable’

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A computer issue during the first hour of Boomer & Gio on WFAN brought up memories of Mike and The Mad Dog for Gregg Giannotti Friday morning.

The call screening software on Boomer Esiason’s in-studio computer wasn’t working, and was told the computers “weren’t talking with each other”. That triggered Esiason’s mind to ask Giannotti about his former on-air cohorts.

“Have you ever worked with a guy that you’ve ever not spoken to outside of the studio and you come back in and everything seems fine? You ever have a problem with anybody?,” Esiason asked.

“Yes. I did. There was a guy I worked on the air with that we did not speak off the air, only on the air,” Giannotti revealed.

“And how did that go?”, questioned Esiason.

“Not great. Not great at all,” Giannotti said. When asked if it was during his time in Pittsburgh, Giannotti confirmed that was the case. Esiason then asked if Giannotti was the offending party, which he denied. “I think it was sort of the opposite.”

Boomer then brought up he had heard that Mike Francesa and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo wouldn’t speak to each other at times, which update anchor Jerry Recco confirmed.

“I worked with them in one of those terrible periods where they did not speak a word to each other off the air,” Recco said.

“But could you tell when they were on the air?”, Esiason asked.

“Yes and no,” Recco admitted. “You could tell because there was — so I was on the board at that time and (Chris) Carlin was the producer — there was a period of time where Chris would open up the show and say ‘Good afternoon, Mike. How are you?’ and he would say ‘I’m fine, Dog. How are you?’ and Chris would do the whole thing, and Mike would just go into sports and not acknowledge him.”

“There was a period, too, where I was working there as the midday producer and they were still there together,” Giannotti reminisced. “Dog would be in the studio, Mike would leave, and Mike would wait outside of the studio until the on-air light would come on to go back into the studio so there wasn’t any time they were together off the air.”

“I just can’t imagine working with someone that I couldn’t just come in and totally feel relaxed with,” Esisason said.

“It’s not a great environment,” Recco admitted.

“I’m very fortunate for 16 years to not have that happen to me,” Esiason concluded. “What were they fighting about?”

“That I don’t know,” Recco said.

Boomer then asked if the disagreements were over money or sports, and Giannotti remembered a specific fight.

“There was a whole — Dog had a problem one time that Mike wasn’t pay as much attention as he should have. I remember that,” said Giannotti. “I saw that fight. It was just me and (John) Minko in the newsroom. I remember they were going at it. They were fighting off the air.”

“Going as hard as they could?”, Boomer asked.

“Yeah, as hard as they can,” Giannotti remembered. “I remember Dog kicking the studio door open and screaming. It was intense. And the way you could tell they were fighting off the air — on the air — was like the littlest arguments or disagreements would turn into these huge debates. Like the one about the Fenway Stadium (sic) bathroom. Do you remember this? Oh my god. It was like a throwaway line one of them had. I think it was Mike saying it wasn’t that difficult to get in and out of the bathrooms in Fenway. And Dog was like ‘ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY CRAZY? IT’S 45 MINUTES OF STANDING OUTSIDE!’,” Giannotti said as he impersonated both former WFAN hosts.

“‘No you’re crazy, Dog’, it was just back and forth screaming at each other about the Fenway Stadium (sic) bathrooms. And you’re like ‘Why?!’ I remember going over and turning the speaker up in the newsroom thinking ‘Woah! This is great!’ Unbelievable.”

Andrew Fillipponi: ESPN A ‘Propaganda Place’ For Mike Tomlin

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have struggled out of the gate, which is something fans haven’t been used to dealing with. Andrew Fillipponi of The PM Team on 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh has sensed a shift in the national perception of Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.

“For a long time for the national media, Mike Tomlin has been off-limits,” Fillipponi surmised. “There have been very, very, very faint criticisms of Tomlin even after things like the Jaguars playoff loss. The Browns playoff loss. Three playoff wins in the last 11 years. He generally has avoided the harshest criticism. That’s been reserved for Ben (Roethlisberger). Well now that Ben’s gone, there’s no more cover. Chris, we pegged this. We nailed this. This is how Tomlin wants this. He wants to be ‘The Man in the Arena’. He hoped it would go the other way. If they were 4-1, he’d be the Coach of the Year.”

“Right, but they’re not. They’re 1-4 and they suck,” co-host Chris Mueller replied. “They’re the odds-on favorite from ESPN to get the #1 pick in the NFL Draft.”

“And speaking of ESPN, they’ve been a long time propaganda place for Tomlin talk. Today, on their morning show with Mike Greenberg — I’m really digging this new insider they’ve brought on, Kimberly Martin. She goes on these shows — the thing I like about her is she’ll go on with Stephen A. and he’ll try to do the routine where he just raises his decibel level and tries to scream her down, and she just hits him with sass and cogent points.”

The show then played a clip of Martin laying the blame for the Steelers stumbles at the feet of Tomlin, before the pair said they appreciated her commentary.

Marie Donoghue Believes Taylor Rooks Is ‘One Of The Best’ Interviewers

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Amazon Prime Video and its production of Thursday Night Football has received mixed reviews from various outlets, but the company’s Vice President of Global Sports Video Marie Donoghue believes it has one of the best reporters available in Taylor Rooks.

In an interview for The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast, Donoghue told Andrew Marchand of The New York Post and John Ourand of Sports Business Journal that Rooks has the uncanny ability to get the best out of all her interview subjects.

“Taylor is one of — except for you two — the best interviewer in the sports business. As you sit down to a meal with Taylor, you will tell her anything. This happens to us all the time. We’re going on site every week — which is really exciting for fans, we hope, but also for us because we all get to spend a lot of time — she’s phenomenal. She gets athletes to talk to her and tell her things. Just amazing conversations.

Amazon Prime Video hired Rooks as a feature reporter for its coverage of Thursday Night Football in August. In addition to her work with Amazon, Rooks also serves as reporter for the NBA on TNT and for Bleacher Report.

Charlie Kirk: Alex Jones Verdict ‘Abhorrent’

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InfoWars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to families whose children were murdered during the Sandy Hook massacre nearly a decade ago, and conservative radio host Charlie Kirk called the judgement “abhorrent”.

Kirk explained he was trending on Twitter after the judgement because of his history of defending Jones.

“Understand I tweeted out about this yesterday about the injustice of someone having to pay a billion dollars for having a wrong opinion or perspective about something,” The Charlie Kirk Show host said. “And I had a lot of people texting me and a lot of people messaging me saying ‘Charlie, lay off the Alex Jones topic. Just stay away from it’. And even today people saying ‘Charlie, just don’t waste your time. Alex Jones is a nut. Just don’t worry about it’. And maybe a couple of years ago, I might have stayed away from it.”

“Let me be very clear: I disagree with Alex Jones on plenty of things. I agree with Alex Jones on somethings,” Kirk continued. “There are plenty of things through the years that Alex Jones could have done differently. Clearly, the Sandy Hook thing was not right. He admits that. He admits it, he said he made a mistake in the Sandy Hook situation. I didn’t like what he did there. A lot of people didn’t like it. So does that mean you can crush someone and bankrupt them and demand a $1 billion judgement?”

Kirk then admitted he wish he had spoken out about Alex Jones being removed from digital platforms after his insistence that the Sandy Hook massacre was a false flag, calling it a “mistake” and “that was setting the groundwork” to be able for entities to collude to remove conservative voices.

iHeartMedia Atlanta President Fired After Racial Slurs Caught On Video

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iHeartMedia Atlanta President Drew Lauter is “no longer with the company” after a video of him repeatedly using racial slurs was released.

According to a report from WSB-TV, an iHeartMedia spokesperson confirmed the news saying “allegations of this nature go against our company values and our policies and we take them very seriously”. The spokesperson also confirmed Lauter said “the n-word”.

Jason Castle, an attorney for the employee who captured the video in August of 2021, says Lautner used the word “in the presence of four executive employees, one of whom happened to be black”.

Before taking over as President of the Atlanta market for iHeartMedia, Lautner previously served as the Market President for the company’s Madison, WI cluster.

iHeartMedia’s Atlanta cluster includes Atlanta’s Black Information Network WBIN 640 AM.

Nancy Grace to Host Townhall Discussing Crime on Fox Nation

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Legal commentator and journalist Nancy Grace hosted a town hall special that was streamed via FOX Nation dealing with rising crime. The forum called “America’s Crime Crisis” took place in Atlanta, Georgia. 

“Most Americans [are] living in fear – fear not only for themselves but for their children and their families,” said Grace per Fox News Digital. 

Grace carved out a name for herself as a prosecutor at the Atlanta District Attorney’s Office. Her work as an advocate for victims’ rights is well documented. 

Dionne Butler lost a daughter to a fentanyl overdose. She joined the forum to discuss the aftermath of her daughter’s untimely death. 

“I always woke her up every morning for school…, and I went to wake her up, and she didn’t answer, and I thought she was just really asleep, so I went over to touch her, and she was cold,” Dionne said. 

You can watch the entire summit hosted by Nancy Grace with special guests by visiting this link.

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