American Afternoon with Marc Maron – Thursday, May 8, 2008

Listen: Marc Maron and Robert Reich
Air America Radio welcomes back Marc Maron for his 2nd day this week in the guest host chair. Lots to talk about today from this week’s primaries and the question of when or if should Hillary Clinton drop out and back Barack Obama to high gas prices and how we are all dealing with it. Maron will be taking your calls in HOUR ONE on all the above topics.
Maron’s guest in HOUR TWO will be Matt Taibbi. Taibbi is a journalist and political writer. He currently works at Rolling Stone where he authors a column called "Road Rage" for the print version, and an additional weekly online-only column called "The Low Post". He is best known for his coverage of the 2004 US presidential election, and for his former editorial positions at newspapers the eXile, the New York Press, and the Beast. Recently, Taibbi has been a regular contributor to Real Time with Bill Maher.
Rounding out HOUR THREE will be author Ted Fishman. Fishman’s essays and reports have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Money, Harper’s, Worth, Esquire, USA Today, GQ, Chicago magazine and Business 2.0. His commentaries have been featured on Public Radio International’s Marketplace. A former floor trader and member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he ran his own trading firm until 1992. His current book is called “China Inc.”
- May 8, 2008








Scheduling
Well AAR you really are in a bind on this. Ideally I think what you would do is put Sam in at Noon and get Tom Hartmann out of there, who is unfortunately a sleeper (no offense Tom but you just don't deserve the Noon slot right now). Then you put Maron in at 3. HOWEVER, because AAR botched things with Randi, the 3pm slot is fiercely competitive and I don't think Maron is witty or lively enough to stem audience bleeding to Randi. Sorry Mark, this is just how I see it. Sam however has an awesome loyal following and that audience will stick to AAR if its Sam vs Randi. So I think it probably would make more sense for AAR business wise to put Sam at 3 and find another place for Maron so as to stop the 3pm bleeding. I don't think Maron can handle the noon slot.
Now, if you really want to think big, call up Rosie O'Donnell and work a deal with her to take over the noon slot. She could kick serious ass there. O'Donnell at noon with Sam at 3 would serve AAR very well me thinks.
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By onNYTurfMay 8, 2008 - 2:38pm