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Fall and Springer
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Svengoolie

You probably know that Jerry Springer has brought his show to WCIU this season-yes, the show that begat Steve Wilkos, thousands of thrown chairs and plenty of controversy just keeps going, and now carries on here. Mr. Springer himself was visiting our station yesterday, as well as making the publicity rounds of various radio stations, and- I did get to meet him. He is, in reality, a very nice guy, funny and very easy-going (he was even convinced to read a couple lines for future use on the Sven show!) Some of the folks here mentioned how much they enjoy a show that he does on the Game Show Network “Baggage” (who better to know about baggage than he?) It turned out that guy assisting him during his visit, Rob, is a big horror fan, and asked me for an autographed picture! All in all, a fun visit with one of the latest sharers of our airwaves.

Congratulations to our pals the Busy Beaver Button Company (they make those Sven  buttons you guys have been ordering —you have ordered a set, haven’t you? If not, click on the Sven merchandise tab…) who have established an actual —and the world’s ONLY-“Button Museum” here in Chicago- at their headquarters at 3279  W. Armitage. It includes all sorts of pin-back buttons, include some unique and historical ones (a Barry Goldwater campaign button with gold flecks in water!) —buttons from various eras, and there is also a section of Busy Beaver  Greatest Hits — buttons the company has made for various clients- I wonder if a set of Sven buttons made the cut? Regardless- it’s open to the public, and sounds pretty cool. I think you’d have to look long and hard to find anyone who hasn’t worn or collected some buttons at one point or another in their lives. I think I probably have a few that might qualify for a place in the Busy Beaver museum…maybe one of those big old “Son of Svengoolie Fan Club” buttons from the early 80s?!

Holiday weekends aren’t always the best times for good ratings, but I have to thank all you loyal Sven viewers who tuned in to “20 Million Miles to Earth” this past Saturday during Labor Day weekend. Certainly a quality Ray Harryhausen stop-motion flick is going to grab viewers, but, as I said, on a holiday weekend, usually viewership isn’t very stable- so it was great to see that we had a bumper crop of viewers!

What a shocker that Chicago’s Richard M. Daley will NOT run for re-election! Though some have talked about it, it just seemed that the mayor, who has held that office since 1989 (the year the “Koz Zone” hit the air), would just keep going. I guess we better get him that Sven t-shirt we promised him!

Those costumed characters that the City of Los Angeles banned from doing business on Hollywood Boulevard- posing for pictures with tourists for money- hit L.A.’s City Hall yesterday to protest the ban…The article I saw had a great photo of “Darth Vader” pleading his case to police on the City Hall steps! Supposedly, “Superman” and “the Hulk” want the city to establish some sort of “quality control” procedure or screening and permit process so that ‘well-behaved” costumed folk will be allowed to continue posing for sheckles. The problem has been that some of the characters have been supposedly harassing the tourists and using a bit too much pressure to get cash from them. The president of their chamber of commerce said that they had looked at a permit-type operation, but decided against it-that the business community is better off without them on the sidewalks , where other vendors already make it tough for folks to walk-however, he seemed to be unwilling to cast aspersions on all the characters. My favorite quote: “Superman has always been a gentleman- he’s not caused problems”!

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Adoresixtyfour, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 8:53am
My Sven buttons and T-shirt) arrived last week--so very cool!
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