Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Calgary Sports Radio Will Never Be The Same 😔 | BB Clips

Starting point is 00:00:00 A lot of people, now again, it happened near the end of the show on Tuesday, where I got very distracted because my phone was, was, what do they say, blowing up? Was my phone blowing up? It was blowing up? It was blowing up. And you know how the internet is. Well, is this real? What's, what the hell is? So I wanted to kind of figure out what was going. But near the end of the show, the word came through that our old workplace, Sportsnet 9. had ceased operation. And it's, it's interesting to see the, we're just, well, maybe not so much of you, but you were,

Starting point is 00:00:40 you did it for a long time. But it's the business that I worked in, work in, whatever you want to call it, just how things are handled when there's firings or when things happen. It happens like that. There is no sensitivity. It is just,

Starting point is 00:00:55 hi, we're making a change. We're going to walk you to the door and you're going to leave. and your card and the fog, whatever, and we'll send you your shit. Bye. See you. So when you're not used to that, maybe,

Starting point is 00:01:07 it's, it doesn't make it right. I was like, I can't believe they just did that. It's like, well, that's kind of off with your head. That's how,

Starting point is 00:01:13 that's how it's done. And I think, I think people wanted to see if we were going to celebrate. Ha ha, we were, if we were going to relish in it. And I,

Starting point is 00:01:25 it was a sad day. Oh, it's good people that are, yeah. Left flapping into wind here. It's like any workplace. There's ups and downs and nothing's 100%. But I think by and large,

Starting point is 00:01:37 we did well for them. We did okay by them. We had good times. There were good people. I enjoyed working there. The only downside was the damn alarm clock. Getting up early. And then something started to happen, right?

Starting point is 00:01:51 It was, you know, we've made some changes and we're not going to replace this person. And this person, your boss is fired. and now it's somebody in Vancouver is the house. So we're not going to have a boss even here in the building. There's not going to be. What happens if what happens if the keyboards start on fire? What happens when?

Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah. So it was starting to kind of, it was coming that way. It was fraying. But I got to admit, when Tuesday, when that stuff came down, you just kind of let it sink in. Later in the day, I just went out to my, out to my, out to my, out to my Donali from Capital Shave. And just turned it on to see as, what's the sound?

Starting point is 00:02:34 It was real sad. I was there for 15 years. And I was the thing about music radio when you're a DJ or whatever, the music is what it is. If you don't like country or if you don't like pop music or classic rock, you're not going to listen, even if you like the, like that there with talk radio, you're listening to those people. The people are the product.

Starting point is 00:02:57 And yeah, you're talking about whatever it is, politics or sports or whatever. but you have a real connection as a listener to the people. And as people behind the microphone, you connect with the listeners because you're all kind of, you're interested in the same thing. And I know when we left, there were people's like, man, this, this sucks. You were there every day.

Starting point is 00:03:22 And because I've loved radio my whole life kind of thing, I know what that's like when a DJ leaves or when something changes. like, oh, that's part of my routine. And it's kind of that way now. It's my day off. Yeah, it's like that with me for podcasts now. If the podcast doesn't show up or if, oh,

Starting point is 00:03:37 we're not doing this. If there's changes, well, I don't like that because I've become very fond of this, this certain thing. So there's, yeah, there's no, there's no celebration. It sucks. Well, you don't expect that there's, there's not even a replacement that you're, no, you know what I mean? Like, they didn't make a change.

Starting point is 00:03:56 Yeah. It's not, oh, we brought in someone new. We think he'll like them. better. Yeah. And for the for the staff and it's not like I'm letting anybody off the hook, but it's just that's the way it usually is. When you when you're let go, it's very quick. You don't get to say goodbye. There's no farewell shows. You're just out and they take your stuff and they give you a box to fill it and get out or get out will fill it and then send it to you kind of thing. So yeah, I feel for all those guys. There's still a lot of people there that we worked with.

Starting point is 00:04:27 and as in a way it was hard to leave it's been four years now i left whatever it was june of 22 i don't know what it was couldn't do mornings anymore it was i just felt like it was slowly killing me but it was all i'd ever done and i i was so upset leaving even though i felt like it was something that i had to do but i so i feel for those for those guys i was texting with somebody last night That is rough. Yeah, except this time with how the business is, it's like a hockey team saying, you're cut and we're folding the league. Actually, the sport, as you know it, is ceasing to exist.

Starting point is 00:05:13 What's the next radio station? Where do you go? What do you do? I think writers went through it a few years back with newspapers and articles and stuff. Yeah. There's a lot less of that going on. Yeah. And now this is the same thing.

Starting point is 00:05:25 thing. I do love, and it has nothing to do with Rogers, but I love the, and I don't know how long it lasts because we move on very quickly in the world these days, but to see the community kind of up in arms. It's like, this was our thing. This is our, this was our thing. How can you just, you don't replace it. There's no warning. It's just gone. I was listening to a show this morning. I come back after for lunch. It's static now. And it's gone for, So I do love seeing the listeners and the fans of the radio station kind of being upset about it. And even, you know, the flames have had some, the flames have got some, it's a whole other kind of thing what they're going to do because there's no,

Starting point is 00:06:12 are there going to be games on a radio state? Like, it's very much up there. I'll tell you what. Listening to a hockey game, baseball sporting vent on a radio station is classic. Yeah. Yeah. And is it gone in this form in Calgary forever? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:06:31 But should surprise no one. Classy guy, he comes on with us, great guy would come on the radio show when we were doing that. Dave Dickinson had this to say about it yesterday at his availability. We were disappointed. I mean, it doesn't seem right. Calgary's a sports city. And I just know those guys personally and how hard they work.

Starting point is 00:06:50 They'll land on their feet. I get it. But we're disappointed. They're not still involved with our day to days with the stamp. theaters and sports in Calgary. So hopefully the city rallies, we find another way to keep promoting sports in the game because I think those guys were doing an excellent job and we'll miss them. But yeah, they're welcoming to man whenever. And I know they'll land on the feet, but we've got to acknowledge it, a tough break for them.

Starting point is 00:07:14 It's a lot of classy stuff there from Dave, you'd expect no less. And they're not the rights holders, right? Like, QR is the rights holders there. So for him to be talking about that, It's pretty cool. So yeah, to Steinberg and Matt and Logo and Dumas and all the guys that we worked with over there. I do, yeah, I hope it's landing on their feet and what comes next. And you hear all of that. And I hope it is.

Starting point is 00:07:42 I mean, for us, we left and this thing kind of came together. And it's been great and it continues to be great. And I don't know what goes from here, but I can tell you. I it's a bit of a poke in the ribs for me anyway say hey this is it's not it's not necessarily bad news but maybe step your game up there's there's a little motivator yeah there's there's there's some audience out there that's looking for a home there's some sponsorship that's looking for there's a lot of things out there well let's let let's go and do what we do I'm I'm proud of what we do and I do I do think that there will be some things happening. There's a lot of phone calls. A lot of phone calls.

Starting point is 00:08:26 A lot of phone calls the last couple days. No one called you? Well, you're in the air on that perfect flight. It was good flight. Yeah. But it's. Yeah. I'm going to take the glass half full.

Starting point is 00:08:43 Yep. There's a fall going on right now for those poor buggers. So this is the time. Yeah. Take a week off. Get back. That's right. I'll take a little bit of time.

Starting point is 00:08:51 Yep. Get down to Stampede. Enjoy it for a while. That is the nice thing about being shown the door. I don't, but I was never fired. But I think when it's like, here's the little,

Starting point is 00:09:04 you're let go, but here is some money. Here is some dough to carry over. So there is that. But then that does kind of run out. It will dry up eventually. I remember our dumb buddy Walker when he got gunned out of Vancouver. He probably won't like me telling this story.

Starting point is 00:09:20 he gets gunned out of Vancouver. He's like, oh shit, this is not great. I mean, I've got some, you know, got some,

Starting point is 00:09:29 I'm going to be okay for a bit here. I get paid for a little while. He went and bought a range rover. I'm like, are you the dumbest person? What are you doing? I've always wanted one. Well,

Starting point is 00:09:40 you didn't, that was the time? You didn't win the loto. You got fired and you got a package. So he held on to the, but I've always wanted it. So I had the rangerover for a bit and said, I'm going to have to sell this range rover.

Starting point is 00:09:52 Yeah, you're going to have to do that. Weird, you can't report a range rover on zero dollars. Yeah. So that would be, I guess that would be my word of caution. Love you guys, all the staff. I hope you land on your feet. Better days ahead. It can be rejuvenating and exciting.

Starting point is 00:10:09 And the next chapter, you hear everybody say it, but it can be a very fulfilling and fun. Just hold off on the six-figure vehicle purchases. Pause. just tell you need to get something else lined up get a little something else lined up what do you think pender's going to do like can he level up in his pender ask like he's going to be he's dying to come on right now by the way i'm just i'm holding it off really do we want him on no what for course he wants on once on so bad yes bring

Starting point is 00:10:49 Yes.

Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Calgary Sports Radio Will Never Be The Same 😔 | BB Clips

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