Comedic actor Ravi Patel was thrust into Hollywood demand, when his bit part as a call center operator in the movie Transformers (2007), stole the scene from Shia LeBeouf, highlighted by the clip LeBeouf shared on the Tonight Show.

However, it was only three or so years earlier when Ravi, then unknown, sucker punched me in the kidney, which was my introduction to Salonpas Pain Relief Patches. Fortunately for me, I have video proof.

Ravi’s career has been solid and steady, never with a lull, and that continues today, since his new Fox TV series, Animal Control starring Joel McHale, premieres this month. (Thursday February 16th)

I had the perfect gift for my wife, Sarah Lee, this Christmas. She’s been talking about upgrading jewelry, so I’ve had my antenna up for that, because I’m analog. My wife will tell you that I will give away our last dollar if there’s a person in ...

The first time I highlighted Bobby Bones and his teammates on these pages, they hadn’t yet found their sea legs in Nashville and were still getting mocked, shamed, ridiculed, and badgered for their entry into the Nashville scene. I didn’t know Bobby then, but ...

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A listener wouldn’t know to care about you, unless, at some point you reached them emotionally, through heart or through humor. So, when WKKT (96.9 The Kat)/Charlotte morning personality, Sarah Lee, went live on Facebook to share something odd that had just ...

The first time I was paid for supplying content for another station or program was in 1994 when I was the night jock in Syracuse at 93Q, using the moniker, ‘The Ragman,’ a name given to me in 1987 by Dave Richards, now flying high with Audacy. My ratings ...

Cocaine and Crown Royal, the story of a morning talent in Chicago, sharing on-air his wild party days. When talents share personally, if effective, it should take us to a time in our own lives, whether reminding us of something that happened to us, or a brother, cousin, ...

There is a saying, “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure,” and mostly that comes down to one thing. The beholder has no concept of the value of that which lies in their possession. In mid-2015, I arrived in Nashville to program the Way-FM ...

It was a TV host reel of then Univision Radio hosts Lulu and Lala which first got my attention in 2012 because they were maximizing their screen time with celebrities, allowing them to plug their projects like every other host on the row, while going toe-to-toe with them ...

Who could have conceived that a little movie about some dead baseball players and a father- son relationship could have spawned a real baseball game 30+ years later, just adjacent to the very corn fields of dreams that the movie was filmed on in Iowa? There’s an ...