Kansas City Giving Tuesday Conclusion: Johnny Dare's 'Hope For The Holidays' Offers Best Local Hard Luck Entertainment
This tidbit of American media history only cost $50K in student loans . . .
Long ago during the golden age of media, there was this program entitled Queen For A Day which perfected the public telling of a sob story from the fairer sex in order to win cash prizes and make the plebs feel better about their own miserable lives.
Now . . . For almost two decades Kansas City DJ Johnny Dare has perfected and re-purposed this old school media formula in order to put his army of rock fans in the holiday spirit.
Here's just a bit of background for anybody who is new to town and doesn't know this proud Kansas City rocker tradition . . .
"Hope For The Holidays: For 19 years, listeners of the Johnny Dare Morning Show have given a hand up to fellow listeners in need. Hope For The Holidays is here to help people that may had a run of bad luck, lost a job, or suffered an illness that has put them in a tight spot. It’s helping a family provide some sort of Christmas for their children, fixing a car so a person can get to work and back, or paying a late heating bill so a family isn’t freezing in their own home. These are good hard-working people that simply need a hand up to get their lives back on track, yet don’t qualify for any social services."
The stories are priceless radio content which provide all the fun of dating a woman who still perms her hair and wears acid washed jeans with none of the illusions of commitment . . . No date night at Applebee's required.
Instead, this cavalcade of human misery offered as entertainment is broadcast to the surprisingly generous fan base who in turn make financial commitments to mostly women who probably remind the audience of the hard luck stories their trailer park, tract housing or ranch house moms used to tell . . . If we can get all Freudian about this for just a sec.
As always, the saving grace of Johnny Dare and his legion of fans is that their politics isn't completely apparent . . . They only seem committed to motorcycles, the fast food philosophy of the latest stadium comic and mostly horrible music. This is not a diss . . . Hope for the Holidays is a proud Kansas City tradition and yet another sign that Johnny Dare has more than a bit of media genius that shouldn't be lost by his listeners on their way to/from customer service jobs they're slowly realizing won't ever cover the cost of retirement.
TKC, you should make a donation and try to be a little bit nicer. But the link is appreciated.
ReplyDeleteTKC: LOVE THE COMMENTARY!!!
ReplyDeleteNow that's fun reading!
"cavalcade of human misery"
"the hard luck stories their trailer park, tract housing or ranch house moms used to tell . . . If we can get all Freudian about this for just a sec."
Holy smokes. Looks like the 'roids got a chokehold on ya, Johnny!
ReplyDeleteWait a second, let me see if I've got this straight.
ReplyDeleteYou mean that in the year 2015 there are still people out there listening to 98.9 The Rock?
People are willingly tuning in to hear the wacky antics of an FM radio "morning zoo crew" with fake radio names?
Why, that might just be the saddest and funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
Keep up the good work Johnny Dare.... Cant help that the NEGROS don't listen to Rock. Kind of a good thing that they don't, really!
ReplyDeleteI think it's a nice thing to do and they really help people who need it, but their commercial for it this year is pretty cringe-worthy. I think it's two women, the first crying about her kids asking if she's going to eat anything and she tells them no, because she's not "hongry" or her stomach hurts. The other crying woman is bawling because "we don't even have a CHRISTMAS tree!" Then the parade of callers donating cash, many of them sounding incredibly smug and self-righteous. I mean, it's good to give and everything, but why call into a radio station to advertise the fact that you're doing it? They even say which bank to go to to do it anonymously, but I guess some people just like the praise and back-patting that always happens when they call in.
ReplyDeleteLove that tech n9ne and johnny dare are hooking up!
ReplyDeleteOh wait, was that a secret?
Is that seriously Johnny Dare?
ReplyDeleteJeebus.
Johnny Dare is now 77% neck
ReplyDeleteJohnny Dare....haven't heard that name mentioned in years . Wow, still around.
ReplyDeleteCaitlyn Jenner will probably sue him for not including black, transgender identifying, pre op trannies.
ReplyDeleteJohnny will need to acknowledge his White privilege on air.
I would suck Johnny off like a Hoover vacuum.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Doggie Dare
ReplyDeleteWho's Johnny Dare?
ReplyDeleteJohnny Dare.....lol.....Tony will suck up to anybody. But trying to be a 40 year old teen skater when you are a fat, getting older than dirt, Mexcriment. Well, it's not a pretty scene. Stick to tranny porn and jacking in the dark.
ReplyDeleteI use to listen to 98.9. But then Dare went full libtard. Stopped listening.
ReplyDeleteThis Johnny Dare guy?
ReplyDeleteI like the cut of his jib!