Program Review: TBTL Fags It Up, Even with Lacy Burbank Gone

For the first time in a long time we caught a tiny bit of TBTL tonight. Apparently Lacy "Big Boned" Burbank was taking one of his many nights off, leaving the show to the high-pitched screech of sidekick Joan Andrews. Our observations:

(1) Joan Andrews, as she does whenever she hosts, did a show dedicated to all things New York. Thank God. If there's one thing that helps the ratings of a local radio show it's covering another city and another city exclusively (NOT). As long as they don't start selling advertising on their faggy podcast this will all work into our master plan of seeing TBTL canceled and replaced with Bob Brinker reruns.

(2) Joan interviewed a pair of lesbos, in the middle of which one of the lesbos starting cursing and had to be "dumped." (That's what happens when you spend your show budget on a sidekick instead of a producer.)

(3) We've already queried about Joan's "made for newspaper" cackle-shriek voice, but what is with her neurotic, breathless, gasping style of talk when she's hosting? She sounds like a nervous high school DJ ... "first day on the air!"

(4) On two separate occasions Joan pleaded with the member of the audience not to send her any mean instant messages. This reminded us of Luke's occasional on-air meltdowns when he accuses people of being out to get him. It's all pretty telling and pretty faggy.

One thing that didn't change was the atrocious prep. Each time they wanted to play a clip there were several awkward moments and on-air references to which file, which folder, which directory said clip was stored in ... Lacy's chubby thumbprints are still all over this trainwreck.

All in all a typical night of butt-pirating on 710 khz.

UPDATE: She ended the show by just playing 10 minutes of audio from last night's episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Why do they even bother with having a radio show at night? Just play the NBC audio feed every night and save $$$, KIRO-AM.