The Kevin Matthews Show 105.9 FM – WCKG Chicago
reviewed July 2003

This is a clone of every other morning show, though Matthews can't even get on in the morning, since his station carries Stern.

All the ingredients are there:

• Lame jokes

• Shitty impressions of all the easy celebrities (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, etc.)

• Inexplicably fawning female callers

• Inexplicably fawning male callers

• Sycophantic sidekick

• Twenty-five minute commercial breaks

• Self-deprecating jokes about general shittiness of radio show

• Endless shilling of corporate sponsors

• Incredibly cluttered, "professionally" designed website

• Funny sound effects and voices

Is there actually a show here? I swear it's half commercials, both prerecorded and read live. This is the type of radio show that invariably leads people to say things like "I know I could be that funny." About all I can't do that Matthews does is fairly decent impressions, but then again, who doesn't do Stallone?

This station must be a real treat to listen to. Stern – who since Jackie Martling left is just a chore to listen to – in the morning. Matthews in the afternoon. Steve Dahl, another asswipe, in the evening. Just twelve straight hours reminding you why there are CD players in cars.

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Review by Mario Speedwagon