Cheers and a Happy Thursday to you all…well…to all of you, but uno.
“What, you ask? Is Matt-Man feeling down on somebody? That is so unlike him.”, you mutter.
Yes IWS Radio fans, readers, and listeners…
I am feeling a bit of anger and let down by a person who I thought to be a friend of mine, and to the IWS Radio Show and its vast and diverse worldwide audience as well.
For those of you who follow Jay, myself, and IWS Radio, you may recall a man by the name of Luis. Or know him by the moniker The Ice Man.
Luis is a Mexican immigrant who last summer became a U.S. citizen, and who has for years and continues to this day, to deliver bags of ice to the Beer Mine…conveniently located at the corner of Elmore and Burnett in Bagwine, Ohio.
Anyway…Luis is…er, was…a friend of the show.
We have had Luis and his wife as well mind you, on the show a couple of times in order to celebrate his rough journey from the poverty of Mexico to his travels both physically and legally into becoming a U.S. citizen.
It was but a year or so ago when I posted a congratulatory message of …um…congratulations to him on becoming an official U.S. citizen on this very website.
Jay and I also simulcasted our appreciation of his efforts on the IWS Radio show when it all went down.
Luis was happy to be on the show…asked me every week during his drop off how the show was doing , and was rooting us on.
Yeah, we were all a big happy Mexican-Family back then when IWS Radio was but a cute little show, and then? A year later, after the slow yet eventual Americanizing of Mr. Luis had clasped her eagle talons and amber waves of grain upon him…he evidently changed.
Monday, when he stopped by the Beer Mine to make his ice delivery, I told him that IWS Radio is now getting between 15-20,000 listens a week, and he responded in a tone that spoke of bewilderment…
“Why?”, and before I could respond he added…
“What the hell kind of people listen to you guys?”
I was in a word…hurt.
See? Here we are…
Jay, Matt, and the entire IWS Radio Nation standing behind the struggles and ultimate victory of Luis overcoming his treacherous desert journey, his trail of tears upon a hike amongst scorpions, thugs, and the Chupacabra, and at long last liberty achieving his goal of American Citizenship, and what do we get in return?
Nothing but a hot, Baja California-Sized dose of German schadenfreude from a Mexican who is now an American. Un…fucking…believable!!
I am still happy that Luis has become an American, but what I am not happy about, is that he has become in one short year, typically American.
Americans root for the underdog and then when said up and comer gets a taste of success, Americans chew and claw at the success of the underdog like the aforementioned Chupacabra.
It breaks my heart Luis…It breaks my heart, but nonetheless…Make sure you bring our ice by 3 o’clock this coming Monday if you haven’t taken the day off, or called in sick like Americans tend to do on Mondays.
Cheers!!
Matt-Man
mattmaniws@ymail.com
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“What, you ask? Is Matt-Man feeling down on somebody? That is so unlike him.”, you mutter.Yes IWS Radio fans, readers, and listeners…
I am feeling a bit of anger and let down by a person who I thought to be a friend of mine, and to the IWS Radio Show and its vast and diverse worldwide audience as well.
For those of you who follow Jay, myself, and IWS Radio, you may recall a man by the name of Luis. Or know him by the moniker The Ice Man.
Luis is a Mexican immigrant who last summer became a U.S. citizen, and who has for years and continues to this day, to deliver bags of ice to the Beer Mine…conveniently located at the corner of Elmore and Burnett in Bagwine, Ohio.
Anyway…Luis is…er, was…a friend of the show.
We have had Luis and his wife as well mind you, on the show a couple of times in order to celebrate his rough journey from the poverty of Mexico to his travels both physically and legally into becoming a U.S. citizen.
It was but a year or so ago when I posted a congratulatory message of …um…congratulations to him on becoming an official U.S. citizen on this very website.
Jay and I also simulcasted our appreciation of his efforts on the IWS Radio show when it all went down.
Luis was happy to be on the show…asked me every week during his drop off how the show was doing , and was rooting us on.
Yeah, we were all a big happy Mexican-Family back then when IWS Radio was but a cute little show, and then? A year later, after the slow yet eventual Americanizing of Mr. Luis had clasped her eagle talons and amber waves of grain upon him…he evidently changed.
Monday, when he stopped by the Beer Mine to make his ice delivery, I told him that IWS Radio is now getting between 15-20,000 listens a week, and he responded in a tone that spoke of bewilderment…
“Why?”, and before I could respond he added…
“What the hell kind of people listen to you guys?”
I was in a word…hurt.
See? Here we are…
Nothing but a hot, Baja California-Sized dose of German schadenfreude from a Mexican who is now an American. Un…fucking…believable!!
I am still happy that Luis has become an American, but what I am not happy about, is that he has become in one short year, typically American.
Americans root for the underdog and then when said up and comer gets a taste of success, Americans chew and claw at the success of the underdog like the aforementioned Chupacabra.
It breaks my heart Luis…It breaks my heart, but nonetheless…Make sure you bring our ice by 3 o’clock this coming Monday if you haven’t taken the day off, or called in sick like Americans tend to do on Mondays.
Cheers!!
Matt-Man
mattmaniws@ymail.com
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Tweet Me Dirty
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