TXAG 05 said:

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Furlock Bones said:

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the masseuse episode is a George as Larry David perfection.

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It moved

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A Seinfeld best character and best episode bracket are begging to be made based on the last 2-3 days of this thread.

Jerry's girlfriend that went to the Hamptons and made out with him during Schindler's List

The housekeeper from Senegal of the old guy with the Don Ho records (not really a girlfriend)

The Portuguese waitress (again, not really a girlfriend)

All of the waitresses at Monks that "shared a certain similar physical characteristic" or however they put it. One of them was evidently in Playboy

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helloimustbegoing said:

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maroon barchetta said:

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Jerry's girlfriend that went to the Hamptons and made out with him during Schindler's List


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Melanie Smith



I had pneumonia one summer in the 80s and was made to watch the soap "As the World Turns" with my mom on the daily for about 2 weeks. She was on that show then and was lights out fine.

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YnR or GTFO

Or General Hospital

Furlock Bones said:

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George: "Jerry, this woman hates me so much...I'm starting to like her."

Jerry: "what?"

George: "She just dislikes me so much...it's irresistible."

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That was the masseuse. Stiflers mom. She's almost unrecognizable now.

yep.but that was the episode i was talking about that is pure Larry David.

JCA1 said:

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superunknown said:

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Carlo4 said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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This feels like the article for you.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/how-did-frasier-afford-his-apartment/amp

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I always assumed he got rich as a shrink in Boston and took a shiddy salary as a talk show host to help take care of his old man, who likely had a fat ass pension and helped pay for that place.

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Radio was bigger back then. I bet he was making $500k a year or more easy.

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No chance. Mid 90s in Seattle, doing a talk show at night? 100k tops. And that's a huge stretch.

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The GQ article I linked says the average radio host in 1994 made under $28,000 a year.

Half a million dollars to host a local AM talk radio show in the mid-90s is bonkers insane. You could probably buy an AM radio station in the mid-90s for that kind of money.

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You could buy AMs right now for that much. Hell, broadcasters are giving AM frequencies back to the FCC instead of bothering to run them any more. I personally know of one cluster of stations that pays more to the guy who mows the lawn at the transmitter sites than the station bills every month. At least they only get the grass cut a couple times a year.

Radio stations were never more valuable after the 1996 Telecom Act. Lowry Mays has his name on our business school for what he built (with Red McCombs) out of a couple of radio stations in San Antonio. Double edged sword though, as the big station groups that went into massive piles of debt to acquire hundreds of stations now have a bunch of stations and cant pay down that debt (because they didn't when they were making the money) so big radio operators are in varying degrees of pain right now.

Having said all that, if you can pick up some stations by paying cash and not going into debt, you can make money hand over fist.

TXAG 05 said:

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Furlock Bones said:

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George: "Jerry, this woman hates me so much...I'm starting to like her."

Jerry: "what?"

George: "She just dislikes me so much...it's irresistible."

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That was the masseuse. Stiflers mom. She's almost unrecognizable now.

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Holy crap. I never realized that's the same actress.

Furlock Bones said:

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I don't know. Vandelay Industries would probably put in a rival bid.

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Oooh, a talk show about latex.

Wonderful.

maroon barchetta said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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superunknown said:

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Carlo4 said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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This feels like the article for you.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/how-did-frasier-afford-his-apartment/amp

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I always assumed he got rich as a shrink in Boston and took a shiddy salary as a talk show host to help take care of his old man, who likely had a fat ass pension and helped pay for that place.

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Radio was bigger back then. I bet he was making $500k a year or more easy.

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No chance. Mid 90s in Seattle, doing a talk show at night? 100k tops. And that's a huge stretch.

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The GQ article I linked says the average radio host in 1994 made under $28,000 a year.

Half a million dollars to host a local AM talk radio show in the mid-90s is bonkers insane. You could probably buy an AM radio station in the mid-90s for that kind of money.

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You could buy AMs right now for that much. Hell, broadcasters are giving AM frequencies back to the FCC instead of bothering to run them any more. I personally know of one cluster of stations that pays more to the guy who mows the lawn at the transmitter sites than the station bills every month. At least they only get the grass cut a couple times a year.

Radio stations were never more valuable after the 1996 Telecom Act. Lowry Mays has his name on our business school for what he built (with Red McCombs) out of a couple of radio stations in San Antonio. Double edged sword though, as the big station groups that went into massive piles of debt to acquire hundreds of stations now have a bunch of stations and cant pay down that debt (because they didn't when they were making the money) so big radio operators are in varying degrees of pain right now.

Having said all that, if you can pick up some stations by paying cash and not going into debt, you can make money hand over fist.

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How much cash we talking?

This sounds like a good idea. [/Kramer, probably]

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Looks like we all eat crow and meet in the middle.

https://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/tvdad_salaries/

Frasier Crane made $164,644 a year as a Radio Shrink.

By the way, it's time to start prepping your speech and limbering up for some dancing.

Furlock Bones said:

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By the way, it's time to start prepping your speech and limbering up for some dancing.

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I'm waiting for Christopher Cross to play.

Carlo4 said:

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maroon barchetta said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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superunknown said:

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Carlo4 said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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This feels like the article for you.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/how-did-frasier-afford-his-apartment/amp

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I always assumed he got rich as a shrink in Boston and took a shiddy salary as a talk show host to help take care of his old man, who likely had a fat ass pension and helped pay for that place.

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Radio was bigger back then. I bet he was making $500k a year or more easy.

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No chance. Mid 90s in Seattle, doing a talk show at night? 100k tops. And that's a huge stretch.

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The GQ article I linked says the average radio host in 1994 made under $28,000 a year.

Half a million dollars to host a local AM talk radio show in the mid-90s is bonkers insane. You could probably buy an AM radio station in the mid-90s for that kind of money.

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You could buy AMs right now for that much. Hell, broadcasters are giving AM frequencies back to the FCC instead of bothering to run them any more. I personally know of one cluster of stations that pays more to the guy who mows the lawn at the transmitter sites than the station bills every month. At least they only get the grass cut a couple times a year.

Radio stations were never more valuable after the 1996 Telecom Act. Lowry Mays has his name on our business school for what he built (with Red McCombs) out of a couple of radio stations in San Antonio. Double edged sword though, as the big station groups that went into massive piles of debt to acquire hundreds of stations now have a bunch of stations and cant pay down that debt (because they didn't when they were making the money) so big radio operators are in varying degrees of pain right now.

Having said all that, if you can pick up some stations by paying cash and not going into debt, you can make money hand over fist.

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How much cash we talking?

This sounds like a good idea. [/Kramer, probably]

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Looks like we all eat crow and meet in the middle.

https://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/tvdad_salaries/

Frasier Crane made $164,644 a year as a Radio Shrink.

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This is amazing! Although I wonder how much is "radio" and how much is "shrink". I know several lawyers who spend a couple of hours mouthing off on the radio just for kicks and a nominal salary. When I first started thinking of how much Frasier made, I was thinking of a good friend of mine still on the air at a fairly prominent talk station and making a decent living at it and how when I met him roughly 15 years ago (in a market comparable to Seattle and at a well known talk station like I assume Frasier was on) he was also working at a pizza hut to supplement his income.

Re: how much cash we talking?

Depending on the size of the market, you could probably find something for around the 500k mentioned earlier. Just for shiz and giggles I looked some up and there's 2 AM signals with FM translators (lower power FM signals that still cover a substantial area of the market) for $700k in Palm Springs.

superunknown said:

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Re: how much cash we talking?

Depending on the size of the market, you could probably find something for around the 500k mentioned earlier. Just for shiz and giggles I looked some up and there's 2 AM signals with FM translators (lower power FM signals that still cover a substantial area of the market) for $700k in Palm Springs.

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Do they take PayPal?

IIRC the one of the writers said that Frasier has a good investment income.

JCA1 said:

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maroon barchetta said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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superunknown said:

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Carlo4 said:

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superunknown said:

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JCA1 said:

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This feels like the article for you.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/how-did-frasier-afford-his-apartment/amp

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I always assumed he got rich as a shrink in Boston and took a shiddy salary as a talk show host to help take care of his old man, who likely had a fat ass pension and helped pay for that place.

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Radio was bigger back then. I bet he was making $500k a year or more easy.

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No chance. Mid 90s in Seattle, doing a talk show at night? 100k tops. And that's a huge stretch.

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The GQ article I linked says the average radio host in 1994 made under $28,000 a year.

Half a million dollars to host a local AM talk radio show in the mid-90s is bonkers insane. You could probably buy an AM radio station in the mid-90s for that kind of money.

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You could buy AMs right now for that much. Hell, broadcasters are giving AM frequencies back to the FCC instead of bothering to run them any more. I personally know of one cluster of stations that pays more to the guy who mows the lawn at the transmitter sites than the station bills every month. At least they only get the grass cut a couple times a year.

Radio stations were never more valuable after the 1996 Telecom Act. Lowry Mays has his name on our business school for what he built (with Red McCombs) out of a couple of radio stations in San Antonio. Double edged sword though, as the big station groups that went into massive piles of debt to acquire hundreds of stations now have a bunch of stations and cant pay down that debt (because they didn't when they were making the money) so big radio operators are in varying degrees of pain right now.

Having said all that, if you can pick up some stations by paying cash and not going into debt, you can make money hand over fist.

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How much cash we talking?

This sounds like a good idea. [/Kramer, probably]

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Kramerica makes its triumphant return!

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Darren: We were going to put an end to maritime oil spills.

Kramer: Probably.

In their defense, they were operating out of an apartment that may or may not have contained a chicken.

This is off-topic, but Ima use this thread anyway. Watching Twilight Zone last night, I recognized a younger version of the Old Man from Seinfeld, Bill Erwin.

Turns out he was from Del Rio, and was recognized by Angelo State as an outstanding alum. This is a neat article on him from GoSanAngelo in 2011, after he died: https://archive.gosanangelo.com/news/rick-smith-local-actor-who-achieved-dream-dies-ep-440093570-356998881.html

Probably

This. I can't pick which is my favorite. George or Frank costanza

Favorite episode? The Hamptons.

Aggie_Journalist said:

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sixiron said:

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I never noticed the hallway issue until I saw this a few months ago...

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Or is the floor plan more like this?

Or this


The second is how I always pictured it

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Season 5 episode 11. The Conversion shows Jerry''S exterior hallway. In that episode it actually goes straight and turns right.