Here’s a quote from yesterday’s Marc blog:

Just know that this show is the red headed stepchild of AAR and KTLK. We’re kinda on our own out here. I have no news on syndication. I’m just trying to stay focused. I really have no control over this stuff.

OK, it’s time to motivate the Seditonists again. Back when they kept promising a Marc show on KTLK and missing start date after start date – not even securing a goddamn studio for the show – we started calling and e-mailing, and the show finally got on the air. Many of us stay up to listen to the show in realtime (or what used to be realtime, now it’s just offical broadcast time, I guess). Others joined premium just for Marc and Jim. Still others paid for software and jumped through all kinds of hoops just to hear the show. We’ve dealt with Clippers games, lousy streams, Rock Honda commercials, and every other goddamn thing they could throw at us. We thought the end of the Danny Goldberg era would be an improvement.

We were happy to get Marc on the air again – the show is the best thing they’ve got going, even if they don’t realize it – and we’ve been patient. But goddamn it, it’s time for them to stop jerking Marc – and us – around. AAR has consistently taken its listeners for granted. They’ve acted a lot like the Democratic Party, in fact, telling us we’d better take what they shovel us, because they’re all we have.

Well fuck it. It’s time to start calling and e-mailing again. It’s time AAR stopped jerking Marc – and us – around. Let’s start calling AAR, demanding that they syndicate the show. We know from Kristapea that the Phoenix affiliate wants the show. I have no doubt that others do, too – or would, if AAR would actively shop the show around. Let’s get the Marc Maron Show on as many stations as possible. Let’s get it on XM, or Sirius (or both). Let’s be a pain in the ass of the suits at AAR until the Marc Show is on more stations than all the other AAR shows combined!

AAR Contact Info is on this page. It’s old, so if anybody has new info, feel free to post it or pass it along to me. You can always e-mail me at my user name here, at morningseditionists.com.

Call AAR. Call the sponsors. Call your local affiliates, if you have one.

Let’s have everybody – posters and lurkers alike – keep calling and writing until we get some action. We have visitors from all over the world – by the end of June, we’ll have had 100,000 visitors since Dec, 2005. We may not have enough clout to get an Alito filibuster, but goddamn it, there are enough people visiting this site every day to be a major pain in the ass to AAR (and its sponsors). So, let’s be a major pain in the ass. As always, be polite – but be honest and clear about your feelings. If you’re an AAR premium member or associate, don’t forget to mention it.

After you call, don’t forget to post your experience here. If you get an e-mail response, please share it with the rest of us.

Free Marc!

51 to go.