New Podcast - 12-26-11

Podcast 2

Another compilation of classic Lynn Samuels moments.  Enjoy!

Comments

[Sameritech]

Friends,

I've posted some of Lynn's final shows.
http://sameritech.wordpress.com

If any of you have other shows to share, please post a comment.

Thanks

[Bob Fraser]

Thank you for putting up some of Lynn's shows. I've listened to her and loved her for 30 years. What a wonderful woman.

[Will in NYC metro area]

You will always be missed Lynn.
RIP great radio talk show host.

Lynn talkin about food & high fructose corn sweetener.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X30hUqSNbyI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI9OAW2HGfU&feature=related

Some of Lynn at her BEST, IMHO.

[Cindy T]

Thank you so much for posting these shows! She is music to our ears! God love her!

[poko]

Sirius has is going to have a tribute to Lynn that will air on SiriusXM Left Tuesday morning, December 27. they have nice write up on their website.

[Karen]

Thanks for posting her shows. I'm a huge fan from her WBAI days and already miss her. RIP Lynne.

[Carly]

Fucking asshole scumbags...ahh, sweet memories of our lovely Lynn! It's good to laugh at a time like this!

[Jesus In Merciful Heaven]

Lynn was a behemoth of talk radio. Thank you for these shows.

[Bill]

Thank you so much for providing the podcast. can you please create more? any way to archive her whole career?

[cc]

Another podcast? But I haven't even listened to the first podcast yet! A glory of riches during a holiday of sadness. Thank you, Billy.

I've just read that Richard Bey will be on with Alex for the Lynn Samuels tribute. Whatever we may think of Alex, I think there can be no denying that Bey is the perfect co-host for this tribute. He was good friends with Lynn, and I know they both loved each other. It will be a worthwhile tribute after all. I will definitely be listening.

[grumpytrucker]

She was my friend.

We emailed back and forth pretty regularly.

She thanked me for sticking up for her after she lost her daily slot.

And she was the one who told me PamAnn was operating from Grand Junction, Colorado.

I told her I was going to try and scare him/her away from the site. She didn't want me to cuz she was worried the person wasn't stable.

But I did it anyway. And later she thanked me for it.

She would email me with questions about Arizona.

I asked her if there was anything we could do about her losing her daily show, and that's when she posted the email addys on her site.

I know she was terribly distraught and heartbroken about losing her show. She always had a tough exterior. But that really got to her.

She felt as though she had always previously been fired by Conservative "suits" who didn't like her Liberalism.

But this time she felt like she had been stabbed in the back by the very people she had spent her life championing and fighting for....

She was heartbroken.

And so am I.

When I first heard her accent.. I thought.... "Oh, I can't wait to hate this bitch. Too New York. To Jewish."

But there was a playfulness and sweetness about Lynn that you just don't find with any other Liberal. Not even Jon Stewart. He has a snarky, underlying bitterness to his humor.

But Lynn was sweet and charming and playful and funny. You don't get that with Liberals. They think making fun of something... laughing AT something or someone is humor. But Lynn had a sense of humor.

I told her all these things. Glad I got a chance to tell her. And glad I got a chance to tell her how much she meant to me. She was my buddy who kept me awake on long night drives for years as I listened to the replay of the show.

And she was a REAL Liberal. She listened. She considered. She questioned. She doubted. She wondered.

Every time I start thinking about it I start having trouble catching my breath.

What a loss.

[Rachel Pagano]

Grumpy Trucker -- what you wrote was absolutely beautiful. Amen to *EVERYTHING*... I hate that she might have died "heartbroken" over losing her show.

[Carly]

Good to hear from you Grumpy. I didn't know her as well as you did, but I felt she was a friend. I spoke with her many times on air (Carla in Oregon) and we emailed a couple times a month. She would send me book recommendations, all of which I have read or have downloaded on my Kindle. When she spoke of the condo she was going to look at in AZ, I found out which community it was in and which unit it was she was going to look at. I remember emailing her and asking her if that was the one and she replied, "How clever you are, that's the one! Isn't it great? I want it because I would have my OWN washer and dryer". I'm sorry that she never made it there to live, even for part of the year. I'm sorry that she would always end her broadcast with "I'll see you next week, if they don't fire me first." I'm sorry that she died alone, perhaps never knowing just how much love and gratitude there is for her. I am selfishly sorry that I will be up every Sat/Sun morning here on the West Coast at 7 am and I know I will automatically tune to 107 and she won't be there and I'll feel sad all over again. This just sucks and I'll be maudlin and cheesy and say this; you never know when your time on this earth is up, it can happen in an instant. Lynn was a breath of fresh air and I will truly miss her.

[AVM]

Thank you for the podcasts and thank you"grumpytrucker" for the insight ,I had a very similar relationship with Lynn ,We emailed birthdays ,holidays ,special occasions and shared loves and hates .Lynn was always Johnny on the spot with her emails and replies ... Lynn was warm and caring and truly concerned, Last August ,we had a hurricane the one that never made to NY and she emailed to make sure I was safe and how I was doing without power and to email her when I could. I left NY after 911 and she was my tether to it.

[TimFromLA]

I hope Mike Malloy comments, She loved Mike

[thefeelgoods glad to see grump afterall]

Hey grump!!! Long time . I missed getting into pissing matches with you. I have no idea what happened the past couple weeks but I didn't know who to start fights with. It's such a shame Lynn is gone and I think when its all through ill miss our arguments. Hope all is well.

Bryan from jersey

[Eddy]

I didn't know Lynn personally and I never called her show, but somehow I am really sad right now and will miss her. RIP Lynn.

[grumpytrucker]

My computer fucked up and I let it sit.

Oops. Don't know if I can still swear since Lynn is gone.

I know I always hammer you Libtards for turning deaths into political opportunity... But this needs to be said. And I'm pissed about it.

Lynn Samuels died of a broken heart. Literally.

Every time she had been fired before it was beause she was too far Left.

But this time her "own people" turned on her and stabbed her in the back. People who she had spent her entire life defending and sticking up for.

And it totally devastated her.

Her reason for getting out of bed every morning was taken away from her.

And why? Because she was friends with Sean Hannity? Because she admired Michael Saveage?

Newsflash Libtards: These people are all friends behind the scenes. They went to school together. They came up together at the same stations and magazines and newsdesks.

Did you see all the tributes penned when Chris Hitchens passed? From all sides of the political spectrum.

And this old lady had endured a very difficult life all because of her honesty. Did you all know that she had to take a job in a laundromat just to stay in New York and stay on Sirius?

And after all this she gets stabbed in the back by the very people she'd spent a lifetime defending.

It was too much for her.

It just sickens me that people who call themselves "caring" and "compassionate" pushed this woman into the grave with their hate and anger.

And it really fucking fires me up that everything all of us in the middle really like about our country is being taken away from us by these hate filled people at the far ends of each political pole.

My hope for the New Year is that we wise up and realize that the vast majority of us don't want our country and the entire world to be run by these angry, hyper-aggressive pigs all masquerading as caring Liberals or God-like Conservatives.

[Laura]

Hi grumpy. I thought you were in jail for running over PamAnn with your truck (and then (feeling confused in the moment) backing up and doing it again). Glad you didn't get caught. Nice hope you have for the New Year; even though I have banned the word "hope" from my vocabulary along with "change". I've had trouble eliminating "and".

[thefeelgoods glad to see grump afterall]

Say it loud and say it proud grump!! Ya know, all these higher- ups like to sit on the side lines and judge Lynn as if she were against some noble cause. I wish life judged its people by the honesty and compassion that we give. It doesn't. All we can do is say Lynn was a good lefty and a profound critic. Something bleeding heart liberals or neo-con hate slingers thought polluted the airwaves...don't tread on me.

[grumpytrucker]

Hey Laura. And a thank you to all for the kind words.

And Feelgoods.. you gotta lay off that Purple Drank on game nights, yo.

But I got the gist of what you were trying to say.

I'm just tired of it.

-I'm tired of our jails being filled with potheads. None of us want that.

-I'm tired of us being the only country without a border.

-I'm tired of being the only country that doesn't harvest it's own resources.

-I got a ticket in California. I'm tired of the Police being used as a revenue-generating mechanism by these corrupt politicians after they've blown all our money.

-I'm tired of us having troops in 120 countries. Where is the constituency that says, "I will only vote for the candidate that puts our troops in 120 countries"?

-I'm tired of being told we are evil if we don't spend all this money, "How much money?" More. More. More. More. That's the only answer we are ever given.

-I'm tired of paying for a subscription service and not being allowed to decide who I get to hear.

-I'm tired of the Library and the Schools in my hometime taking up more and more property, closing streets that we used for decades. When the school and the Library worked fine for us when we were kids.

I'm just tired of working all the time for these people so they can feel good about saving the world.

And get ready.

The EPA just quietly passed new Coal restrictions on mercury that will mean you pay more for your electric bills. So they can save your life, of course. And the planet.

I hope Lynn is in a better place.

And I miss her already.

[Ruth]

I need to move on but can't stop checking in on thie site, listening to podcasts. Lynn used to say there were only 5 people listening... by the sounds of these testimonials she was so wrong. Such love...

[cc]

The New York Times has her obituary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/nyregion/lynn-samuels-radio-talk-show-host-dies-at-69.html

There are quotes from Bob Grant at the bottom. It's possible they're old quotes, but it looks to me like the Times contacted him and he shared his thoughts for the obituary. Very nice sentiments. (And I remember back in the early '90s, Lynn used to say Bob had "the cutest tushy".)

Who ever would have guessed Bob Grant would outlive Lynn Samuels? Good health and long life to you, Bob, but I'm sorry Lynn couldn't stick around as long as you have.

[jason]

thank you so much for this!!!!

[Logan Waters]

Hey, GT.

Nice to see you back, although I surely wish the circumstances were better.

What you wrote about Lynn was just lovely. I didn't realize that you had such a personal relationship. I'm impressed.

In a similar vein, Steve Malzberg, who may not have agreed with Lynn on even the color of the sky, wrote:

"Lynn was a wonderful person. When Marie was expecting our son, she would drop off a little gift each day at Marie's desk. She was at our wedding. We loved her very much. One of a kind on-air talent, with an inner beauty. May she rest in peace."

Anyone who could bring folks of such disparate views together is genuinely, truly special.

So, I say...

To hell with politics.

To heaven with Lynn.

We'll never forget her.