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Maybe 7 years ago when he was red-hot in Seattle and was actually thinking of getting a condo up there. But he's since spent huge amounts of money upgrading his Hollywood house and also buying a place in Santa Barbara wine country. He's also wealthy enough to retire many times over.
For Leykis, I'm guessing that it is something in L.A. or nothing.
He was one of the only radio personalities that told the truth about what his job was:
To get the most people to listen and call as possible!
His financial talk of late was rather sobering as well~
His shtick is out of place now that America is reassessing itself so he'll have to take his sack 'o fat and try and get hired elsewhere or he will lose his houses.
I was listening to him on a video and his real voice is pitched higher so I guess it was enhanced when broadcast out of the studio. It was quite a sight seeing this ball o' fat who didn't know how to speak to his adoring fans who were about six males following him in the street. Say, where were all those "chicks" in the picture? Not saying anything mind you but he did not look like chick meat to me .....
In the video of him walking in the street and he can hardly walk, he's so fat and is inthe shape of a ball, not a human being. His ONLY adoring fans were MEN. Do you get it now? There were no chicks in sight. Since he claims to be a magnet because of his wealth, where the hell were the women? All who were yelling out to him and following him were just a group of pathetic men one of whom called out lamely, "take me out with...." There's no woman would go to bed with him. You may have seen pictures of him but they were when he was 100 lbs. lighter and he was way overweight then. Even cayeesh wouldn't make him look attractive. Gold diggers have their pride, too.
I personally would rather listen to Leykis talk about the woman reaching their expiration date, and how why he date an old high school flame if he can afford their daughter, and other favorites, opposed to paying to hear high pitch Eric eat fast food for a couple of days, and then poop in a bucket and weigh it. The show was all over the board, and ALL talk radio gets monotonous at one point, that's why you have music and books on cd and lotion in the car. Do something else for a while if you are in the car a lot. But if Sirius had Leykis and Stern and give Denis Leary a show and a few million and you had an option to listen to archives as well as live, I'd buy that the day it came out, or they joined.
KEvin and Bean, I think, are on that channel that I turn as fast as I hear their voices, as I do when they play Alice in Chains and deep tracks off the first Bush album.
You will be missed Tom.
Tom will have to find another way to acquire a replacement "seven figure salary" and I can just see it now, he and Howard Stern bumping into each other looking for work!
that was a good description of radio "comedy stylings" when you used the denigrating "carrot-tops of the radio world".
Radio as a medium had so much promise to pass time away for people who are alone either driving, or at home or doing some repetitive task that radio OUGHT to relieve.
Instead of radio becoming better to compete with all the handhelds, laptops and desk computers, it appears to be dying by throwing crap at us.
All the good entertainment comes either online or on the TV but there's nothing portable one can take along that equals radio. Why don't the owners of radio stations see that they have to improve or die?
And yes, Leykis' program did get real old real fast.
What I strongly dislike is the gratuitous left/liberal anti-white racism in this article, speaking of Leykis' "white trash" fans. He has loads of hispanic, black, and asian listeners as you can tell from the callers as well as the ratings.
Tom is the bomb. Look at the ratings and get your edumacation!
He must have used a voice changer because in real life (when he's not in a studio) he's got a thin, upper range voice and as to looks, even a street hooker with ALL the STDS wouldn't take him on as a john.
He's built like a butterball turkey and must weigh a good 300 lbs yet he is no more than 5'.0" tall with what looks like a bib made out of flesh is his bulbous, huge chin. His resume says he's 5'.11" and I've even heard him say that to a woman who called in and asked.
He had lots to say about lots of women but I'd like to hear the real story from his four ex-wives. First he complained about American women, then, after praising Latinas, he had one move in to fold his socks and when she smartened up and realized what all us American women could have told her for nothing and she moved out, he stopped praising South American women.
Let's face it, no women of any country want poor old, short, fat Tom.
Almost all radio personalities use expensive mics and special EQ to make their voice sound more rich on the air. Same with voice-over guys. Compare that to the sound captured by a hand-held camcorder with a lousy mic and that explains your difference.
Look... I don't care if Leykis is gay or straight, rich or poor, whether he bangs 2 chicks a day or two chicks a year. His advice works. In both business and with women.
You can hate on the guy until you are blue in the face (and yes, he really is about 5'11" but certainly portly). But assuming that his weight would stop him from having the interest if attractive women is just plain crazy. Since the dawn of time, hot women have been attracted to successful, confident men regardless of the guys looks or weight.
Of course, if you were a confident, successful male, you'd already know that.
I doubt Leykis will be looking for work anytime soon. He makes an estimated $2.3 million a year on his contract with runs through March of 2012 and pays him whether they have him work or not. Add that to the years he's spent saving and investing and he's more than set for life.
Look... if you dislike the content of the Leykis show, so be it. But suggesting that overweight radio hosts (whether they be a Leykis, Limbaugh, or Bubba The Love Sponge) can't get attractive women is ludicrous.
P.S. Frosty, Heidi And frank one of the biggest loss's to mid-shift radio, and radio in general I would argue eaven bigger than that other funny douche howard stern.
Now, if there is any Karma in the Universe, he soon will learn just how little demand exists for a deceitful, hate-filled radio babbler in a society that is so very lacking in the people who perform all the REAL work (everything from building roads to treating sewage). Those are the people who should be getting proper remuneration in our society, not some worthless paper pusher on Wall Street or some useless misogynist radio jock.
I am all in favor of men learning how to deal with women, but NOT for treating them like dirtbags. Leykis spewed hate and venom to young generations who desparately NEED to learn tolerance, patience, and appreciation, given that they are so lacking in those particular character traits.
Gary Schein, #28, is proof that normal human beings have aspirations that are not about using each other, something that bulbous, old, hideous (using his word) Tom never learned. Tom's message was that there are women who are as shallow and men should use them as the women are using them.
Presenting yourself as a soured, bitter, horny toad misrepresenting yourself to acquire sex is pathetic and that's how you would come across, not the way Tom made it sound you would.
There's a mating dance for each species which Tom thought you could bypass and his solution for a lot of unsuccessful-with-women was to act out his middle-aged, bitter attitude which was the whole basis of Tom's message and women would be able to see through that immediately.
What he did say that was important and applies to women equally, is get educated, with a career under your belt before you tie yourself down with anyone.
If you don't care about how you treat another human being, you won't be cared about; it's that simple. Tom's end of life, which he is approaching, is to be alone leaving behind "instructions" to a lot of men who are lost souls how to get further lost.
Tricking someone into having sex eventuates in what? the word getting out and men and women getting even farther apart and more embittered? What kind of legacy is this to hand on to his "sons"? His "seven-figure income" is where, now? Bwahahaha!
Tom's message was a fantasy. He's ended up with no salary to keep up his two homes and nobody to give a damn. What he never told these men calling in was that women are not responsible for giving them sex and women know this. Bwahahaha!
Atlthough not confirmed, his salary is estimate to be around $2.3 million a year. Basically he's getting paid about $7000 a day, every day of the year until Spring 2012. If I recall correctly, his house in L.A. is paid off and his ranch will be paid off within a year.
Doodie... when you get the facts wrong, people are a lot less inclined to give ear to anything else you might say.
Hate the guys guts if you want. But please... get the facts straight.
Are you kidding me?