What Happened To KFI’s Thompson and Espinosa Show?

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• I thought Thompson and Espinoza were Great!!! They were a helluva lot funnier and snappy compared to dumb and dumber Garey and Shannon...the station went from spice to vanilla!!!

• Oddly enough, I actually enjoyed their show. It was a nice break from all the jaded, cynical take-ourselves-too-seriously shows that preceded and proceeded it. Don't get me wrong, I love those shows as well, but those pretty much constitute the entirety of the main day/evening programs, and it's nice to have something a little more light-hearted to break up the monotony... however, the ratings would indicate that the majority of listeners to the station are the jaded, cynical take-ourselves-too-seriously type that enjoy that kind of monotony. Oh, well... I do hope the two better luck elsewhere.

• Ratings are colorblind. It doesn't matter how many times Esponosa purposely tried to sound ethnic or how many times Thompson tried to be funny. They both failed. The only color that counts is green and they failed to make money for their employer.

• Not a big surprise here. The two of them were the worst that had a steady gig during the the break between good shows. Nothing but a bunch of tongue wagging about nothing and forced laughter about things that were not very funny. KFI has done a pretty good job of not stooping to the common denominator and being a superficial Los Angeles station. Acting like all things revolve around LA. Most of their hosts have stuck to the idea of reporting how the idiots in sucktown are ruining this state and how the local libs in LA are doing the same. Then comes along two idiots that I cannot even slap them with the progressive label because they are too lame for even that distinction. If it was not one guy with a deep FM station voice that was suffering from either a speech impediment or loose dentures, pimping facial products and alarm systems it was the lunatic next to him. Cackling about nothing and thinking she was funny and it seemed early, when I did tune in, she had to make sure she let everyone know several times during the show that she was Latina. Right up with using an overboard, Hispanic accent, whenever she stated her last name. They were a few hours a day that made us suffer through all the so called social happening going on. They pimple linewire and it went nowhere because it was for the insane that don't work and have time to listen to this garbage and leave comments because they don't have a job to go to. Much like a decade or so ago when KFI decided to hire two, flamboyant on the air, gay guys to take on the issues of the day. It seemed the only issues of the day were what was the gay community doing, what were gays having to deal with today and what some Hollywood skank had done now. That show and this one were just jibber-jabber noise fests to fill in time. Unfortunately, it seems that time slot always gets filled with that sort of mentality. KFI should stick with their fan base. Not toss in a few progressives to spout nonsense and propaganda. Hopefully they will start fixing up their weekend shows as they are a depressing wasteland of either food or finance advice that nobody will follow anyway.

  • Great comments Patrick. You nailed that awful show. I am so glad it was dumped. That idiot Esponoza almost made that empty voice sound intelligent.

  • I just read your rant on the Thompson and Espinosa show . . . wow, what would you say if it were something really important that you didn't like . . . reading between the lines of your rambling drivel it appears that you have a personal vendetta against the show, especially as it relates to the pleasing voice of Elizabeth Espinosa . . . oh well, she will land on her feet somewhere . . . and with her attractive looks, probably in television . . . if KFI had put Thompson and Espinosa in a better time slot, they would still be on KFI today . . . even Bill Handel's ratings would be much less than they presently are if his (morning) show were to be regulated to that difficult time slot.

    • Oh sure. Typical, moronic response. I am wrong for not liking those two dolts and you slam me for stating why. But I am wrong because you have some closeted crush on Elizabeth. Sorry, she jumped from tv to radio and she won't be going back. Sorry it hurt your warm, fuzzy, feelings that you hold for her. But bottom line, she sucked and the ratings showed it. A better time slot? Are you kidding? When they lost John and Ken years back and replaced them with the two queens, the ratings got even worse. No matter what Thompson and her do, ratings go down. They leave and two newbies get better ratings. Facts are facts. But hey, thank you for doing a drive by and stating you hate my bias by being bias yourself. Bravo.

      • Ignore that fool. Gave you a +1.

      • I probably only read about a couple hundred comments on various subjects a month . . . most can be scanned in a few seconds . . . yours, however, stood out for its microaggression diatribe towards Thompson and Espinsosa (could have been anybody) . . . so the fact that I took the time to respond (first one in several months) I guess says something about your ability to irritate.

        However, you might want to try cutting down on your cynicism as thoughts lead to seemingly safe internet rants which then creep into body language and lax verbalization filtering. This results in lost social and business opportunities which, unbeknownst to the cynic, don't materialize.

  • I love your comment!

    • Thanks for the compliment.