tt post jul 16, 2017

It's now July 2017, and apparently, the Boo Ben Konop heckling that occurred eight years ago still lives on. Or it's memorialized.

This is the June 2009 YouTube video posted above. Even Ben cannot  keep from laughing, at least initially. The heckler's monotone voice probably makes it a classic.

youtube=de3WWGCK4N0


br. Another related TT "thread":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/41424/Toledo_would-be_politician_makes_cable_clip_show from August 2009 about how the above video clip made it to comedy shows on cable TV. 

With the popularity of social media today, I'm guessing that the video would have spread faster and wider.



br. Here's a "comment":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/41424#41427 from the August 2009 TT thread:

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If anyone has satellite radio and listen's to foxsports...the morning show is steve czaben. last friday they spent the entire show laughing and mocking the boo ben boo clip...it was quite funny...
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I'm unfamiliar with Czaban, but one of my brothers who lives in the southeast U.S. likes to listen to the Steve Czaban sports radio show.

Apparently for Czaban's show,  it's a tradition to mark the second day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game as "Boo Ben Konop" day. Czaban described the special occasion as:

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"It's a traditional marking of the low-tide of summer."
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br. The first 15 minutes  of the first hour of Czaban's Thu, Jul 13, 2017 show was dedicated to heckling and Boo Ben Konop. 

http://www.espn980.com/audio-vault

Scroll down to "07-13-17 The Steve Czaban Show hour 1".

Show description:

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Hour 1 of The Steve Czaban Show. It's an annual tradition on the Steve Czaban Show - Boo Ben Konop is played the day after the All Star Game
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Low-brow radio, but it's funny.


br. And until Czaban's Jul 13, 2017 show, I did not know that South Park spoofed the Boo Ben Konop heckling. It's Boo Wendy, but a quick mention of Boo Ben is also included at the end of the video.

youtube=jimPXzGaY6w


br. The Boo Ben incident closed out a hilarious  and raucous decade of Toledo politics that was more interesting than this decade, assuming that local  politics can be entertaining.