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Monday, June 6, 2005 at 7:41 PM Anyone have info on this? As as the ranking Loveline expert in another forum, I was asked about this. Dumbass me, I have never even heard of it. Anyone? Bueller? —Colin |
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Monday, June 6, 2005 at 8:08 PM
Edited Monday, June 6, 2005 at 8:11 PM I'll bet it was the pennywise incident. The one in 1995 when Rachtman was on the show. Drew has to punch Fletcher in the face to keep him from vomiting on him. —Hashmeer Shashmeer |
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Kevin U. |
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Monday, June 6, 2005 at 8:21 PM Have any more information than "punch out incident"? I also have never heard of any stories by that name. —Kevin U. |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 12:46 AM I've been listening since '95 and have never heard of this. Where's that Poorman lovin' dude when you need him? —bguirk |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 7:39 AM Drew has to punch Fletcher in the face to keep him from vomiting on him. —Hashmeer Shashmeer Well, he tried to, right? I seem to recall him comparing punching Fletcher to punching a brick wall. —Dark Laith |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 12:49 PM Nope. Riki Rachtman was in big trouble for punching someone who was making fun of his girlfriend, porn star Janine Lindemueller. That's what the punchout incident was all about. I think that it led to him getting shitcanned. —masonjar |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 1:48 PM Thank god someone said something about his gf. Got him fired? Psyched. Imagine what the world would be like had that not happened... —oh-for |
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Kevin U. |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 2:11 PM If that is the actual reason that he left Loveline, they have done a damn good job covering it up - all sources I've ever seen say he just decided to quit. —Kevin U. |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 3:06 PM
Edited Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 3:20 PM Someone could ask him here. *Edit* I found it. I'll be a research librarian yet:
---------------------------------------------------- Rachtman: Fighter and a Lover Its one of those cruel ironies of life that KLSX 97.1 FM evening personality Riki Rachtman, who made his name as host of a show called "Loveline," should lose his job because he punched another talk host in the face. Rachtman had traded insults over the air with KLSX's Doug Steckler, co-host of the midday "Conway and Steckler" show. The exasperated Rachtman then challenged Steckler to a boxing match in response to some unkind remarks Steckler made about Rachtman's girlfriend. The quarrel escalated when the two encountered each other at the station Sept. 8. It was there that Steckler received his black eye and Rachtman was arrested and sent to jail. The next day, Conway went on the air, described the event and its aftermath in detail, adding the fact that he had been told by management, not to discuss any of it with his listeners. He said that Steckler's left eye was swollen shut and that he suffered a contusion on his left jaw. "I've never seen anything like that," Conway remarked. "Where words will cause something like that." After a about a half hour, he was taken off the air and tapes of earlier Conway and Steckler programs were run instead. A few days later an embarrassed Rachtman was given his pink slip.
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*Edit* #2: This article was found from a 1997 issue of Radioguide Magazine. —bguirk |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 6:18 PM
Edited Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 6:19 PM This incident got him fired from Loveline? Or was it another job at that KLSX station? Thanks for finding the article though. At least we know its not just made up. —mandeemoo22 |
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Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 10:57 PM I think the article confirms everything we knew before--Riki left Loveline on his own and got fired from something for punching someone out. From what I read in those magazines Rachtman has been all over the LA dial. Leykis is a program director at one of the stations and hired Rachtman at some point so he was probably still in the Westwood studios at the time. —bguirk |
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Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 1:35 PM *standing ovation for Mr. Rachtman* Doesn't anyone here know who Conway and Steckler are? Well, go listen for 20 minutes and then come back and you will join me in my glee. They are JACKASSES!! —Ovid |
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Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 4:15 PM I've seen him on VH1 kind of recently and he doesn't look so gross now. —mandeemoo22 |
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Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 5:01 PM
Edited Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at 5:02 PM If by "doesn't look so gross" you mean a grown-up Eddie Munster that joined a heavy metal band then yes. —Hashmeer Shashmeer |
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Thursday, June 9, 2005 at 11:33 AM If by "doesn't look so gross" you mean a grown-up Eddie Munster that joined a heavy metal band then yes. —Hashmeer Shashmeer And that doesn't do it for you? —bguirk |
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