Tailgating
Every morning the three of us who make up The Big Show on Free-FM host a Tailgate Party. Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – An Old Song Sung New
This will be a familiar topic for regular readers. I tried to rehab myself, I really did! But I can’t get over it. I see it everywhere and it’s so irritating. So I randt. Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – Freedom 85!
So much talk about retirement lately. I just read a terrific book titled Neurotic Money by Joe Ornato. He was one of my table-mates at the book signing at Chapters on the weekend. Smart guy, totally debt-free and living on a hobby farm with his family after abandoning his six-figure job in the financial industry. Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – Twerk Off!
Even if you don’t care a whit about Miley Cyrus, current music or the MTV Video Music Awards you probably couldn’t escape some sort of commentary about what happened last Sunday night. …
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Blair Pays Up
June was Celibacy Month. Â Blair and I made a bet on The Big Show back then to see who could go the longest without, you know. Like Ray Romano on Everybody Loves Raymond, I declaredmyself a “sex camel”. I was probably going to win – but Blair didn’t even last one night! Â …
Brandt’s Randt – Victimizing the Victims Again
A dirtbag by the name of Christopher Gale was finally convicted this week in London of murdering his girlfriend three years ago. Â He shot her in the head and buried her body in the yard, all the while telling people she ran away. His story unraveled and after a mistrial in March, a jury found him guilty this week. Â Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – A Warning for the Long Weekend
We don’t talk about them but we get news releases every day, sometimes dozens, about drunk drivers. OPP, local police, regional police – they all nab drunks on the road every day despite the perception that it’s a situation that’s under control.
And it makes me want to Randt! Â …
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Brandt’s Randt – Whether the Weather!
If a mistake is made I don’t shy away from responsibility. But I’m tired of taking heat (or cold!) over the weather forecast, which we outsource.  Ergo this week’s Randt. …
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Skaters Descend on Our City
London has been invaded by the world’s best skaters!  Our city is hosting the World Figure Skating Championships this week. …
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Pushy Pusherson of Pushville
Have you seen the viral video of the guy who pushes his girlfriend off a cliff? Â …
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Sunday/Monday (Family Day) Posting: Rival Sons
Gone are the days when I can sit or stand in a packed club and wait until 11 pm for the headliner to get on stage. So it was especially amazing that the Long Beach, California band, Rival Sons, visited Free-FM for an in-studio interview/acoustic performance on Saturday afternoon, the day of their sold-out show at Norma Jean’s. …
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Smart Students
On Friday The Big Show was invited to speak to a group of radio and broadcast journalism students at Fanshawe College.  Derek “Rock” Botten, Blair and I offered our takes on the business of broadcasting and hoped to impart a bit of our best advice  to them. …