Reply #11: Stretch (Gelfan - sp?) is still on the show ...

[SomeGuyInEagan]

... I think with some regularity. I did not live here in the '90s, so don't know what the show used to be like.

If I flip to KQ in the morning and Stretch is there, I am more likely to stay with the station. IMO, he raises the level of the show significantly in terms of discussion and humor, regardless of the topic. Tom also seems to at a higher level when Stretch is there. The two of them can - at times - get started on some good conversations but get disrupted by the others (by plan, I imagine).

I don't consider Stretch's comments on the show to be all that "liberal" or "progressive" - his comments on air seem pretty much in the center to me (and for that, he gets tagged as the "leftie").

But to be honest, I typically don't flip to KQ unless there is nothing of interest to me on a couple of other stations I tend to check first.