Things got out of hand during my interview with the afternoon drive hosts of 105 the Ticket's "Bob & Mike" show, Bob Sansevere and Mike Morris.
That can make for entertaining radio and startribune.com/video but we'll have to see how it translates into print. Bob & Mike & their producer Ben Holsen incorporated me into one of their recent shows as a guest. They told listeners I was there doing an interview that Bob & Mike wanted to happen completely on air. That wasn't going to work for me, so during the commercial breaks I tried to get some questions asked. On a couple of occasions, my questions went live on the radio show they have been doing since Sept. 9, 2013.
The three radio guys had an on-air discussion of the way I do things, which also included regular contributor Ruth Lordan, the psychic.
Sansevere, the former Pioneer Press sports columnist now part time and blogging for the St. Paul paper, has been doing radio for 26 years, as a contributor on the KQ Morning show. He does KQ in the mornings five days a week and 105 the Ticket in the afternoon. Morris is the former longtime KFAN morning show host who was a long-snapper for the Vikings. The uninitiated need to know that Morris' act can sometimes involve provocative statements, mostly in jest, that are delivered in a reasonable tone of voice.
Neither Sansevere nor Morris has sounded very calm since photos surfaced of Adrian Peterson's 4-year-old son cut and welted after getting whupped with a switch by his dad. Peterson has been indicted in Texas for child abuse.
Sansevere and Morris led the charge for Vikings officials to suspend Peterson indefinitely.
Morris has told radio listeners, "You need a mean streak" to make it in the NFL.
"I would say it doesn't hurt if you're mean on the field," Sansevere said when I talked to him, "but you have to shut that off when you're in your private life. You can't do what he did to that child. You probably know, my wife [Mary] and I did foster care for a number of years," said the father of five. "If something like that happens in Minnesota, child protective services would have that child out of that family and he would see that child maybe once or twice a week under supervision. And it was child abuse, I don't care what Adrian Peterson or his defenders say."