Freeman's Fire


Hey everybody.

I have a migraine headache and my brain's going a hundred miles a minute right now, so I just decided to write down some random thoughts. It's been a busy week, but here's some of what I've been thinking about:

• First off, I need to talk about Sean. I've been getting e-mails from people asking me about Sean's status with the show. I wasn't going to talk about this subject until this week's show, but since some of you have already found out, I might as well explain what happened.

As I mentioned on last week's episode, Sean took a job with a local business here in Concord, so he wasn't available to do the show as often. I had no problem with that - the guy has every right to make a living. What I do have a problem with, however, is the way he went about dealing with it. Sean decided to talk trash about me and the show behind my back, saying he was "bored" with it.

The stupid thing is, he wasn't too bored three weeks ago to demand that I name him the co-host of the show. I was more than happy to do that, but then he also hinted that he wanted to change the name of the show! The Bob and Sean Show was a better name than the Bob Freeman Show, he thought. Since he had already made it clear that his new job took top priority in his life, I sure as hell wasn't going to rename the show for Sean. How would "the Bob and Sean Show" look if Sean didn't appear on every episode? It would look lame. The cast of this show isn't paid, so I'm the only one who is guaranteed to show up every week. I obviously couldn't take a gamble on Sean when he clearly was losing interest in the show. That's where his shit-talking started, and that's when I started to get pissed off.

When we go on the air with this week's show, I am going to fire Sean on the air. The whole appeal of the Bob Freeman Show is that we talk about everything on the air, so I think our fans deserve to hear what happens when I fire my co-host. Who will replace Sean? How will he react? More importantly, will he even show up? You'll have to wait and see.

• Moving on to a happier subject, I have a question for you guys about sex. Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the concept of sexual domination? I was watching that show Undressed on MTV the other day, and this one guy got all excited when his girlfriend brought handcuffs into the bedroom. And get this – she was going to handcuff him! Call me crazy, but that kind of shit doesn’t excite me. After working hard all week for a boss who doesn’t appreciate me, making less money than I deserve, why would I want some stupid broad to handcuff me to my own bed? Screw that. If you want to turn Bob Freeman on, get back to the kitchen and make me some dinner, dumb ass.

• In response to everyone who thinks Johnny Rebel is really me, I hate to break this to you, but it's not. I have never and will never perform a racist song on the Bob Freeman Show. That song was sent to me by a fan of the show, who claimed to have discovered it on Napster. I've done a little searching of my own, and it turns out that Johnny Rebel recorded a whole bunch of racist songs during the 1960's. That was his entire claim to fame. I don't have any connection with Johnny Rebel whatsoever, and I don't endorse his bigoted crap, but you can do a search for his material on Napster if you still believe we're the same guy. I'm happy to report that we're not.

• Craig Kilborn, the host of the Late Late Show on CBS, has gotten into a lot of trouble with the FCC recently. If you missed the controversial episode (which most of America did), let me explain what Craig did that got him and his show into such hot water. They aired a picture of Republican candidate George W. Bush with the words "Sniper Wanted" underneath it. Kilborn has since made an on-air apology about the incident, but the FCC isn't backing down.

Now, I obviously have no problem with controversial comedy, but that was just plain stupid. If you're going to make a joke about assassination, at least make it funny. And doesn't the whole situation just reek of ignorance on Kilborn's part? I mean, he makes a joke about wanting George Bush to die... so that means he's going to vote for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman, right? Well, maybe Craig Kilborn is too stupid to read the news, but everybody knows that Lieberman is a member of the Parents Television Council, an advocacy group that tries to ban controversial TV shows. I don't understand why Hollywood would jump behind a candidate who openly hates the First Amendment.

• That's all for this week. Be sure to listen to the new show as soon as it's up (hopefully by Saturday night), where I'll have more of an update about Sean's departure.

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