Andrew Z's morning show ridicules another's drinking problem

On Christmas Day, while driving over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house, I was flicking through the stations and ended up at 100.7 for a song or two. When the song ended, they played the "Recently on the Andrew Z morning show" clip. The woman on the show read a headline about some county sheriff (I believe) who showed up to a meeting drunk and allegedly had an empty beer bottle in their car. It sounded like there were 3 people in studio including the woman who read the story. They all laughed, and some guy made a comment about it, then Andrew Z said something sarcastic ( I didn't really hear it) then they all laughed about it.

How tasteful that he can joke about other's alcohol problems when the only reason he is on the air and not in jail is because he blamed everything on alcohol.

created by hockeyfan on Dec 26, 2011 at 09:58:50 pm Entertainment Comments: 18

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Did he ever really have any class to begin with?

posted by WalleyeWinger on Dec 26, 2011 at 10:01:22 pm # 1 person liked this

About as much class as talent.

posted by MoreThanRhetoric on Dec 26, 2011 at 10:13:02 pm #

...people actually care what he thinks, much less wastes time to talk about how much this guy sucks?

This is my last ever comment on anything about this guy - making a point here that others should observe.

posted by OhioKimono on Dec 26, 2011 at 10:32:14 pm # 3 people liked this

Is there a single guy on the radio who isn't a two faced hypocrit?

posted by SensorG on Dec 26, 2011 at 11:14:28 pm # 1 person liked this

Paul Harvey?

posted by hockeyfan on Dec 26, 2011 at 11:36:23 pm # 1 person liked this

and now the rest of the story

posted by dbw8906 on Dec 27, 2011 at 08:56:59 am #

this thread is the first time i've hear andrew's name mentioned since the show started
i had completely forgotten he existed
thanks hockey

posted by upso on Dec 27, 2011 at 09:24:08 am #

I saw him recently - his show was doing a remote broadcast in Sylvania at the place where I usually get my morning coffee. Up until that point, I had almost forgotten he had a new show.

posted by mom2 on Dec 27, 2011 at 10:01:09 am #

Here's some hard hitting journalism:

http://www.toledofreepress.com/2011/12/27/year-in-review-future-looking-brighter-for-andrew-z/

posted by MadAnthony on Dec 27, 2011 at 08:31:19 pm #

Zepeda’s website had more than 1 million hits in the fourth quarter of 2011

i do not believe this to be true

posted by upso on Dec 27, 2011 at 09:27:49 pm #

Top Queries from Search Traffic
The top queries driving traffic to andrewzonline.com from search engines. Updated monthly.

Query Percent of Search Traffic
1 what happened to andrew z 43.49%
2 andrew z 25.13%
3 the good morning train is coming 17.82%
4 z-pages facebook 10.31%
5 "i'm in no way trying to" 3.24%

It looks like most of the traffic the site gets is from when people search "what happened to andrew z". of course, then you would have to ask, why is someone searching for "what happened to andrew z"

these figures come from alexa.com, but as far as the "hits" its not in the top 100,000 so that site to track them...

Im waiting for statbrain.com to run the data, their site has better numbers to look at

posted by IamNORMAL on Dec 28, 2011 at 01:46:40 am #

Alexa Traffic Rank
16,300,081
Global Rank

where as Toledotalk.com has:
Alexa Traffic Rank Reputation
2,033,809
Global Rank
609,035
Rank in US

and actually ranks in the US...androol Z didnt even register

posted by IamNORMAL on Dec 28, 2011 at 01:49:20 am #

http://www.alexa.com

posted by IamNORMAL on Dec 28, 2011 at 01:50:50 am #

For some people that really dont like him you sure spend a lot of time thinking about him for some reason. I suggest just letting go and let him fade back into obscurity.

posted by Linecrosser on Dec 28, 2011 at 09:36:20 am # 1 person liked this

I heard Stadium Salsa was a sponsor of the show. Not a big fan of the owner. Maybe it's true. Water seeks its own level.

posted by Molsonator on Dec 28, 2011 at 10:54:24 am #

Any schlep can generate a million hits. My personal blog (a site, by the way, that I have been neglecting of late due to a heavy workload) recently passed the one million unique visitors mark. I am posting the following to be illustrative, not to be boastful:

When I was much more active as a blogger I could generate 2,00 or more unique visitors a day on the busy days, and my daily average used to be in the 700-800 range.

Mind you, I do not even have a radio station or business to plug my site, like Andrew Z has/had, and all of my traffic comes from people searching for content I created. I used to use the site to self-promote and to generate ad revenue, but these days I have more work than I can fit in a 30-hour day, and I do not have the time to chase the $600-$1500 a month in advertising a site like this can generate.

Moral: do not be impressed by the "million visitors" pitch.

posted by historymike on Dec 28, 2011 at 09:07:37 pm #

Errr... "2,000 or more..."

posted by historymike on Dec 28, 2011 at 09:08:21 pm #

I've heard him occasionally tell the audience to go to his website and follow the link to vote his morning show #1 in Toledo Free Press.
Like you said, telling people on the radio to go to your website will get you a lot of hits.

I don't spend a lot of time "thinking about him" or even following him. I am an admitted "flicker" or "clicker" and will go through the stations on both radio and tv. I do hear him at various times. I don't know if people really don't know about what he did or just don't care. I really feel that most warm bodies can fill in a radio show. It's not like he's great at what he does.

posted by hockeyfan on Dec 28, 2011 at 10:22:46 pm #

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