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Tom Leykis

Thomas Joseph Leykis (born August 1, 1956 in New York, New York) is the host of a radio talk show syndicated in the United States of America by CBS Radio. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Picture of Tom Leykis, from [1] This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links Picture of Tom Leykis, from [1] This work is copyrighted. ... is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the state. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ... CBS Radio Inc. ...

Background / early career

As a teenager in 1970, Leykis won a contest for a one-time radio appearance on a WBAB Radio in Babylon, New York and he was asked back several times to serve as a fill-in host. During the late 1970s he had his own Public Access program on Manhattan Cable TV. He got a regular job hosting Wednesday early mornings at radio station WBAI in 1979. During this period, he also took odd jobs as a stand up comedian, researcher for a CBS late night show, columnist for the SoHo News, and telephone solicitor selling vacation properties, cable TV, and newspaper display advertising. He moved to Albany, NY in 1981 to do an evening show five times a week. The station wanted someone controversial, and Leykis was just that. Some listeners sent in angry letters, but his ratings soon earned him the morning drive slot and a position as program director. He then took a job in Miami at WNWS, where he became number one in the ratings in 1984, over a competing host who had been number one for the previous six years. In 1985, Leykis moved to KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona. Almost three years later, in the spring of 1988, Leykis ran into conflict with the station ownership after coming out of the closet, and was placed on leave. A listener fan campaign brought him back, but Leykis resigned on air soon thereafter in order to move on to KFI in Los Angeles, which was then beginning its talk radio format. WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ... For other uses, see Albany. ... Arbitron is a radio audience research company in the United States. ... The program director (spelt programme director in many countries) is the person who decides what will be aired on a television or radio station. ... Miami redirects here. ... WNWS 101. ... 550 AM KFYI is a news/talk radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. ... Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country State County Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ... KFI is an AM radio station that began operating on March 31, 1922 as one of the United States first high-powered, clear channel stations. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

During this time, the program was fairly politically oriented, and advertised as a "combat radio" program. However, even then, Leykis did not shy away from talking about his personal life. One notable instance was when he discussed a hypothetical man with marital troubles. After a few weeks, he revealed that the man was actually him, and had served divorce papers on his wife, news anchor Christina Gonzalez, ten minutes before she was set to anchor the 6 o'clock news on KMEX-TV.^[1] He also said he was sleeping with Dean J. DeMillio during his marriage. Leykis was fired in 1992 at the peak of his popularity, replaced by Daryl Gates, and moved to WRKO in Boston for the midday shift in 1993. Christina Gonzalez is a general assignment reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles. ... KMEX-TV, Univisión 34 Los Angeles, is the Univision-owned and operated station in Los Angeles and the networks flagship station; although Univisions production studios are located in Miami. ... Daryl F. Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 until 1992. ... WRKO is an AM radio station based in Boston, Massachusetts, currently owned by Entercom and broadcasting on 680 kHz. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...

The Tom Leykis Show

The current incarnation of The Tom Leykis Show began on the Westwood One radio network on May 2, 1994. The program establishes a single topic for each hour of the show. Friday is also the usual day for occasional live appearances in cities around the U.S., when Leykis broadcasts from a bar or other public place with an audience present. During "Flash Fridays", men are told to turn on the headlights of their cars to indicate that they are Leykis listeners, and women are encouraged to flash their breasts to male listeners. Leykis will autograph women's breasts using a Sharpie permanent marker. He is rarely seen without his sunglasses on, even when he is broadcasting from his darkened studio. His occasional on-air explanation is that the sunglasses are a remedy for his very pale blue eyes being unusually sensitive to light, due to a mild form of albinism, and that he wears the sunglasses to offset the problem (Blow Me Up: Tom Leykis Shockumenatary 2001). Westwood One, Inc. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... An exhibitionist exposing himself at a soccer game. ... For other uses, see Breast (disambiguation). ... Sharpie Twin Tip Marker Sharpie is a brand name for a line of permanent markers manufactured by Sanford sold in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. ... Albino redirects here. ...

Tom Leykis Show Staff

• Gary Zabransky - Executive Producer
• Dean J. DeMillio - Associate Producer/Call Screener/"Official Bouncer"
• Art Webb - Engineer

Regular Segments

Regular segments include: "Flash Fridays" (during daylight saving time); "Leykis 101" on Thursdays, in which "the Professor" (Tom Leykis) teaches his "students" his rules for dating. Fridays are regularly open phones. Though DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ...

Tom once held a weekly segment on Wednesday afternoons in which the only callers screened through were molested as children by priests. This segment was only broadcasted for about six weeks during a time when the Catholic Church was dealing with controversy about their priests molesting children.

Some of Tom's most interesting regular segments are not weekly but are scheduled either annually or randomly. Two randomly scheduled segments which usually air several times a year are: "Ask the Atheist" in which Tom confronts callers with the futility of belief in God; "Callers Who Hate Tom" in which Tom only accepts calls from listeners who genuinely hate him and his show. "Unscreened Callers" and "Unscreened Jokes" are a rare, but repeated segment in which Tom will answer the phone himself without any screening.

Annual segments include: "The Dump that Bitch Show" in which Tom encourages male callers to break up with their girlfriends, airing as close to St. Valentine's Day as possible; "The 4-20 Show" airs as close to April 20th as possible in which only callers screened through are smoking marijuana; "Forbes Annual List of 100 Most Powerful Women are Mostly Ugly Women" in which Tom reviews the photos of the Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women and points out that successful women are generally ugly; "The Drunk Show" in which Tom interviews callers who are driving while drunk during the holiday season, airing between Thanksgiving day and Christmas; "The Dead Pool" in which Tom and his air crew compare their lists of predictions of who died the previous year and compile new lists of who will die during the coming year. This show sometimes airs on two dates, one at the end of every year, the other at the beginning of every year. St. ... Starting in 2004, Forbes magazine has made a list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. ... Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. ... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... A dead pool, also known as a deathpool or a ghoul pool is a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die. ...

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The goal of the rules of "Leykis 101" is to help single men, especially men in their 20s, get the most sex for the least amount of effort and money possible. Leykis believes men in their 20s are particularly susceptible to the "pregnancy trap" and continually emphasizes that they take responsibility for themselves and always wear a condom. Leykis emphasizes that the "Leykis 101" course that he teaches is designed for people not looking for a serious, monogamous relationship, but rather for those who wish to remain independent and unattached, and to understand the difference. According to Leykis, men should never spend a lot of money to impress women, they should stop dating a woman if she's still refusing sex after the third date, and they should never date single mothers. The latter is cited as a practicality issue; those wishing to "date" a woman don't need to get through any additional form of interference in the form of children. There is also the predilection of a single mother to consider should she find herself pregnant: she is much less likely to consider abortion if she already has children. Indeed, Leykis has stated on air that he has made agreements with all of his spouses that they will have an abortion if they become pregnant. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... This article is about human pregnancy in biological females. ... An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship. ... A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ...

In addition to his weekday show, Leykis began hosting a syndicated weekend show called "The Tasting Room" in February 2005, covering lifestyle topics such as fine wine, spirits, beer, and cigars.

On Air Events

On November 3, 2006, during a live broadcast from a venue in Portland, Oregon, a woman named Sue from Arizona claimed, on air, to have murdered a man that owed her child support. Tom announced that he would put up $5000 of his own money for anyone with information leading to the arrest of the woman. Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ...

On March 21, 2007, it was announced that Tom Leykis would no longer be an employee of Westwood One and as of April 1, 2007 has began a new contract and become an employee of CBS radio. [1] Although he has changed employers, the format and syndication of the show has remained the same; Westwood One still continues to be a distributor of the show. This current contract is scheduled to give listeners more of Tom Leykis until 2012.

Identifying notorious individuals

Leykis has caused considerable controversy over the years by revealing on-air the names of such individuals as the following:

• Vanessa Perhach, who accused Marv Albert of forcible sodomy (biting) in 1997.
• Katelyn Faber, who accused Kobe Bryant of rape
• Angela Song, a woman associated with the Christian Coalition who tried to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge in Seattle
• Vili Fualaau, the 13-year-old victim of statutory rape by teacher Mary Kay Letourneau.
• Kenneth Pinyan, the Boeing Co. employee dropped off at a Seattle hospital dead from a perforated colon, later found to have engaged in bestial sexual intercourse with a horse
• Crystal Gail Mangum, who accused white members of the Duke Lacrosse team of rape, battery, and sodomy.

Major media outlets voluntarily withhold names like these due to their adherence to journalism ethics and standards while having no problem releasing names of alleged offenders, a policy Leykis disagrees with since he says he is "not a journalist". Leykis argues that this is an unfair double standard and either both the accuser and accused should be protected or both should be public. Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig on June 12, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television and radio sportscaster, honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and is commonly referred to as the voice of basketball. ... François Elluin, Sodomites provoking the wrath of God, from Le pot pourri de Loth (1781). ... Katelyn Kristine Faber (born June 18, 1985 in Colorado) is a woman who accused NBA star player Kobe Bryant of rape in July 2003. ... Kobe Bryant (born August 23, 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. ... This article is about the organization presently operating in the United States. ... Seattle redirects here. ... Vili Fualaau (born June 26, 1983), of Samoan-American descent became famous when at the age of 13 he repeatedly gave simple consent to sexual intercourse with his then-33-year-old teacher Mary Kay Letourneau. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Letourneaus photo from the Washington State Sex Offender Information Center, taken upon her release from prison, August 4, 2004. ... Kenneth Pinyan (June 22, 1960 - July 2, 2005) was a Gig Harbor[1], Washington (a suburb of Seattle) resident who engaged in sexual activity with full-size stallions at a farm near the city of Enumclaw, some of which he videotaped and distributed informally under the name Mr. ... The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661) is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William Edward Boeing. ... Crystal Gail Mangum (born 1978) is an African American stripper and escort who falsely accused three white Duke University lacrosse players of raping her in March 2006, triggering the Duke University lacrosse team scandal. ... Journalism ethics and standards include principles of ethics and of good practice to address the specific challenges faced by professional journalists. ...

Audience demographics

The show's target demographic is males from late teens to early forties, although women are encouraged to listen to the Thursday afternoon segment (Leykis 101) so that they might "learn how guys think". Leykis regularly receives extensive criticism from various callers and writers, which he will air on the show. One favorite response to objectors who call is that "it is called broadcasting" and that he is merely describing "what is generally true" while they are merely pointing out exceptions to rules he has denoted. What he does is called "broadcasting," he appeals to a broad audience, thus generalization is a necessary part of his rhetoric. He has admitted that there are always exceptions to his generalizations, just as it is possible for a man to bite a dog, obviously it is the dog that most often bites the man. Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. ... Rhetoric (from Greek , rhêtôr, orator, teacher) is generally understood to be the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language; however, this definition of rhetoric has expanded greatly since rhetoric emerged as a field of study in universities. ...

Opinions and Regular Topics

An important issue Tom has tackled on the air for years is paternity fraud. One of the earliest examples of this is when Tom devoted several segments to the news item that concerned the Los Angeles Lakers and how one player became a father from a woman who took the contents of a used condom to impregnate herself, then sued the player for paternity. She was exposed and caught. Since then, Tom devotes many hours on the air to this issue with guests, related news items, and related topics such as how to deal with or avoid becoming a victim of this bizarre form of fraud. Leykis repeatedly warns the audience how many ways men may become financially liable for children that are not their own. Main articles: Paternity (law) and Paternity testing Paternity fraud, the term, came into common use in the late 1990s describing the act of falsely naming a man to be the biological father of a child when the mother knows (or suspects) that he is not the biological father, particularly for... The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles, California. ...

Introduction

Tom Leykis has been using the same introduction for many years, repeated at the top of every hour. But on Fridays, specially selected soundbites from that week's calls are also played. This short segment is carefully constructed by Art Webb specifically for each Friday's show, with snippets chosen for times when Tom got in an especially great quip, or a caller made an especially outrageous outing. The content of these clips vary from agreement, gratitude, admiration, argument, and hatred towards Tom.

As of July 23, 2007, Leykis is prohibited from including the name of the film studio where he broadcasts from as a part of his pre-taped intro sequence. According to Leykis, Paramount Pictures contacted CBS Radio and objected to having the studio linked to the show. His new introduction announces his location as "the back of the backlot at a movie studio" or as "soidutS tnuomaraP" (Paramount Studios, spoken in reverse). Leykis has also resorted to saying "from a secret location" during his live intros.

Take me out in style

During the early years of Tom Leykis's talk radio career, Tom would occasionally end a caller's turn on the air by the sound of a toilet flushing. This evolved into ending calls with a particular annoying, frustrating or ignorant caller by "blowing him or her up." That is, while hanging up on the person Tom would play the sound effect of an explosion, thus implying that Tom was "blowing up" the caller to express his dissatisfaction. "Blowing up" callers soon became a trademark of the Tom Leykis show, and eventually callers would actually request to be blown up or flushed down the toilet at the end of their calls. This led to Tom creating other ways to "take out" a caller (i.e. to end the call). Callers often request to be "taken out" a certain style at the end of their on-air conversations with Leykis. Leykis says, "Here yah go!" and then plays one of the following sound bites: In film and broadcasting, a soundbite is a very short piece of footage taken from a longer speech or an interview in which someone with authority says something which is considered by those who edit the speech or interview to be a most important point. ...

Most popular styles

• "Blow me up Tom" -- Tom plays an explosion as the caller is done speaking. The original.
• "Take me out with a bong hit" -- Leykis plays the liquidy sound of a bong hit followed by one of many sound effects, such as "Thanks, Tom!", "Can't we all just get a bong?", "No cough", "Thank you Jesus!" or the sound of hacking and coughing.
• "Take me out Kobe style" -- a clip of Kobe Bryant apologizing for cheating on his wife at a press conference is dubbed in with the sound of a woman breathing heavily in sexual excitement and a bed creaking.
• "Take me out old-school" -- the classic explosion. (aka "Blow me up, Tom!")
• "Take me out old-old-school" -- the sound of a toilet flushing.
• "Take me out African tribal style" -- sound of young kids singing a song reminiscent of an African tribal chant. If the old-school "Blow Me Up" explosion is added to the end, many people call it "Racist Style".
• "Take me out Compton style" -- sound of a machine gun firing, followed by Snoop Dogg saying, "Bi-yatch!"
• "Take me out Laci Peterson style" -- First, there is the cartoon sound of a frying pan bonk on the head, a splash as the body is thrown overboard into the water, the sound of air bubbles being released from the object as it sinks, followed by a boat engine revving up as he leaves the crime scene. Includes Scott Peterson's fake cell phone call from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, when he was actually in California, saying, "Amber, Amber, can you hear me?". When asked for this particular style, Leykis always tells the caller that he finds it tasteless, and that the caller should be ashamed for asking for it. It does not, however, stop Leykis from playing it.
• "Take me out Jesus style" -- the sound of nails being hammered into wood.
• "Halle Berry style" -- Sound of a plastic SUV bumper colliding with an object, then a SUV door opening, the "dong, dong, dong" warning chime of a vehicle door open with the key in the ignition, then a cartoon sound of stepity-stepity steps running away.
• "Take me out Freddie Willhite style"-- The 911 recording of him telling the dispatcher he shot his wife in the stomach with a .38 because she nagged him too much. [2] [3]
• "Take me out Lindsay Lohan style" -- car crash, fleeing and coke snorting.

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"Take me out Arizona Helicopter Crash Style" - He usually leads off this request with how tasteless this one is. It's the audio recording between the news station and their helicopter pilot covering the car chase in Phoenix when two news helicopters collide and crash. At the end you can hear the pilot scream before plunging to his death.

Banned styles

• "Take me out Martin Luther King, Jr. style" -- Leykis morally objects to taking callers out MLK style. When asked, he always remarks on his admiration for Reverend King, that King was and still is one of his personal heroes.

• THX style. - The THX title card music was stopped after George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic sent a cease and desist order.

• "Take me out World Trade Center style" was denied on request when a listener asked for it.

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Affiliates

The show is broadcast live from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific time (6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern time) weekdays. Some affiliates air the show live, while others air it on tape delay. Some stations air the show in a five-hour timeslot, which means either the 3:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. hour is replayed at the end. The show can also be heard over the Internet through streaming radio available on the show's site or the websites of Los Angeles' KLSX and Pittsburgh affiliate WURP, and as a podcast feed (delayed about a day). As of April 2, 2007, he is no longer on in Chicago. PST is UTC-8 The Pacific Standard Time Zone (PST) is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) resulting in UTC-8. ... Metronome, a public art installation showing the time in New York City The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. ... Tape delay, also often referred to as analog delay, is an audio effect whereby an echo can be introduced to an audio signal by mixing it with a delayed version of itself. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Internet radio. ... KLSX 97. ... WURP (1550 The Edge) is a talk radio station serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market. ...

Below is a list of terrestrial radio stations which broadcast The Tom Leykis Show As of October 2007:

• Albuquerque (KBZU) (tape-delay 10PM-2AM)
• Boise, Idaho (KTMB)
• Dallas (KLLI) (Live! Monday-Friday 7-10 p.m.)
• Honolulu (KWAI)
• Las Vegas (KSFN)
• Los Angeles (KLSX) (Live! Monday-Friday 3-8 p.m.)
• Portland, Oregon (KCMD) (Live! Monday-Friday 3-7 p.m.)
• Reno (KBZZ)
• San Francisco (KYCY) (tape-delay)
• Seattle (KISW) (tape-delay)
• Miami, Florida (WMEN) (Live! Monday-Friday 7-10 P.M.)
• Wichita, Kansas (KFH) (Best of, Sunday 6:00 PM - Midnight)

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Other projects and media appearances

Leykis was the host of "Boys Night Out," a live comedy stage show that took place at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles and the Paramount Theater in Seattle. The line-up of male comedians included Bobby Slayton. The shows were for men only and men were strongly discouraged from bringing girlfriends, wives or any other females. He also appeared on the third season "Family Values" episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! and served as the co-host of "Poker Royale: Battle of the Sexes" on GSN, formerly the Game Show Network. Bobby Slayton (born May 25, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian known as The Pit Bull of Comedy. Slayton, a native of Massapequa, New York, is probably best known for a supporting role in the 2001 film Bandits. ... Penn & Teller at the 1988 Emmy Awards Penn & Teller are Las Vegas headliners whose act is an amalgam of illusion and comedy. ... Bullshit! (also known as Penn & Teller: Bullshit!) is an American, Emmy-nominated documentary television series, running since 2003 on the premium cable channel Showtime. ... “GSN” redirects here. ...

Leykis appeared on Bill Maher's older show, Politically Incorrect in a fairly infamous episode with Daisy Fuentes, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Emme. He inflamed the women (especially Fuentes) when the subject moved to familiar turf for Tom – dating and "getting tail". The audience loved his "three strikes" rule, which states that if the female does not have sex with the male by the third date, he should dump her. Tom also got a loud response from them with, "Many of us were created because our parents didn't have time to go to the drugstore before they went to the drive-in". Fuentes and Leykis had a fairly heated exchange of words before the next commercial break. Politically Incorrect was a late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that ran from 1993 to 2002. ... Daisy Fuentes Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban model and actress. ... Sheryl Lee Ralph (born on December 30, 1956 in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA) is an African-American actress and singer of Jamaican descent, best known for her work in musical theatre productions such as Dreamgirls, her co-starring role in the 1980s television sitcom Its A Living and as Brandy... The Emme is a river in Switzerland. ...

He has been asked about writing a book on "Leykis 101" and said that it's being considered but no formal announcement has been made. He has also said he's had numerous meetings with Hollywood executives about creating a TV series only to have those talks lead to nothing. ^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

He is the oldest of four children. His father, Harry Leykis, was in charge of the publication department and was a union leader at The New York Post newspaper in New York City. He has two sisters and one brother. The family lived first in the Bronx, and then moved to Long Island. The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see The Bronx (disambiguation). ... This article is about the island in New York State. ...

Leykis attended Fordham University for two years. During that time he tried and failed to get on the air as a student[4]. He had to drop out of school after two years because he couldn't afford to continue[5]. Fordham University is a private, coeducational research university[2] in the United States, with three residential campuses located in and around New York City. ...

His fourth wife, Susan Drew Leykis, filed a police report against him while they were married and living in Boston in 1993 . She alleged that Leykis assaulted and threatened to kill her during a fight after they returned home from a radio station Christmas party. The charges were dropped after he agreed to complete a domestic violence program for six months, although Leykis did not admit guilt as part of the agreement (see [6]). They separated in 2001 and divorced in 2003. He lives in the exclusive enclave of the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ... “Domestic disturbance” redirects here. ... The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to Pacific Coast... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

Tom Leykis was also married to award-winning KTTV news reporter Christina Gonzalez. [7] KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. ...

An avid Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Kings fan, he is also a wine aficionado who spends his free time reading Barron's Magazine, watching CNBC, "traveling abroad and doing anything else you can do with a broad!". [8] Major league affiliations National League (1890–present) West Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 2, 4, 19, 20, 24, 32, 39, 42, 53 Name Los Angeles Dodgers (1958–present) Brooklyn Dodgers (1932-1957) Brooklyn Robins (1914-1931) Brooklyn Dodgers (1913) Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (1911-1912) Brooklyn Superbas (1899... The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). ... For an alternate meaning, see Fan (implement). ... Barrons magazine is an American weekly newspaper covering U.S. financial information, market developments, and relevant statistics. ... This article is about CNBC U.S., the business news channel in the U.S.. For other uses, see CNBC (disambiguation). ...

Tom has been married and divorced a total of four times, and he has no known children.

Trivia

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• In the late 1990s, Leykis would occasionally merge his radio show with the equally outspoken James Whale Show from the United Kingdom, which aired in the same time slot, resulting in a single simulcast show co-hosted by Leykis and Whale via a satellite link between the two studios. In these cases, Leykis and Whale would alternate equally between American and British callers.
• He repeatedly refers to the city Portland, Oregon as "Porkland, the home of the other white meat."
• The Tom Leykis Show has only had a fill-in host once -- Rod Roddy, the Price Is Right announcer who earlier in his career was a radio host with a similar style to Leykis'. Other than that, the show airs reruns and best-ofs when Leykis is away.

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References

1. ^ Rosen, Craig. TOM LEYKIS: CRAZED BUT NOT CRAZY. Los Angeles Daily News, September 26, 1988.

External links

• BlowMeUpTom.com - Official website
• Tom Leykis Forums
• LeykisOnline.com - LeykisOnline Recordings and Forums
• Tenets of Leykis - Explanation of Leykis 101 philosophy
• The Tasting Room with Tom Leykis at WestwoodOne.com
• RadioHotTalk.com listing
• Tom Leykis Forums
• TomLeykisFanSite.com -Tom Leykis Fan Site website