“Maybe I was just too selfish, maybe it was the ratings rush. “It was only after my brother killed himself and the years that followed that, the years of trying to reconstruct his life and my life that I was finally able to put away all that anger, finally able to move on from that. And I think that’s one reason, certainly, that listeners who don’t agree with his politics still enjoy listening.”, Gelfand wound up taking the final buyout after the Star-Tribune merger, getting a year’s pay and five years medical. It made life a lot easier.”, Gelfand says his job “was never defined as the liberal polemicist on the show. “The Tribune was the paper of romance and legend. People know they’re dealing with a real guy. It doesn’t go away with success. At 16, Gelfand says he wanted to celebrate his first drivers license by “cruising to Porky’s and not pick up chicks.” Instead, he drove his brother to the methadone clinic. Junior wanted to what happened to bryce on the kqrs morning show in mrning world anymore. “I understood, for the first time in my life, that not everybody wanted to deal with my shit. My friend swears on his life it was him. JBMasterAngler The “Stretch Monster” (as Barnard dubbed him after early Canterbury Park phone-ins) is actually a slight, painfully self-aware 62-year-old. [KSTP’s] Hubbards … they were very conservative and I don’t think it would have made them comfortable. Member donations are crucial to the work of our nonprofit newsroom. That’s the sort of thing you might do in New York and Chicago, but now you’re extending the ratings period to 10 a.m., when people can’t listen because they’re not on the road. I’d be in the middle of a sentence and the words would just come out in a splash of random syllables. . I was smoking a lot of pot. Wanderer In the course of researching a memoir, Gelfand discovered he had a great aunt who “spent her entire life in an insane asylum. posted by: fysfy8o Box 18438 | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | 612.455.6950, Mike Gelfand: “I am a self-loathing Jew, but I don’t hate myself because I’m Jewish – it’s just coincidental. Although a kidney stone forced him off-air a few months ago, he was really done in by a sleep disorder that, on bad days, keeps him from nodding off until 7 a.m. “In the beginning, I might sleep three to four hours” before a show, Gelfand says over a 3:30 p.m. cup of coffee. I gave up on my lightly listened-to show and went back to writing; he hung in on his top-rated one, despite being “fired” — and rehired — in the wake of the Bush-Gore election. It’s Margaret Morris, a very prim and proper woman, screaming at Jimmy Parsons, who was the assistant city editor. He can get the best out of people. Gonna buy a tag for this fall season but they’ll probably quit walking through the yard in another day anyway. The guy had a Doberman with him and seemed to be really happy. “And there was this guy smoking a pipe, right? They'll screw that one up too. “I was probably drunk almost all of my junior and senior year at [Minneapolis’s] University High School. I recently found out about Bryce. “It was my entire life; it filled this need I had,” he says, a sentiment we Daily alums often share. “It worms your way not only into your brain, but your soul,” he says. About the same time — 1985 — a hot new horse track named Canterbury Downs opened. One thing to realize is, in the early years of the show — I’m talking Year One, Year Two, Year Three — Tom called me up to say he’s quitting more than once. I’m sure what he said was no. “I am a self-loathing Jew, but I don’t hate myself because I’m Jewish – it’s just coincidental.