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Leslie Gold is a Harvard Business School graduate and radio deejay, but her loyal New York following knows her better as The Radio Chick.
The petite, big-busted voice of sexually oriented humor has been bounced from the airwaves, but now her provocative talk has found a fertile home on the satellite radio network Sirius, which will also host the King of All Media Howard Stern in his much publicized move coming next year. Her show launched January 10 on Channel 148.
The Radio Chick was happy to get on the other end of the microphone for her Mr. Skin Skinterview. She talked openly about her large, all-natural hooters (though, sadly, she didn't open her shirt for a more hands-on interview). The Radio Chick also shared which actress could tempt her over to the pink side and why she never masturbates.
For more info on The Radio Chick, visit her online at www.theradiochick.com.
What's the new show on Sirius going to be like?
A lot of tasteless talk, which is our specialty, I would say an equal mix of humor, sexuality, and intellect. But we like to hide the intellect part of it as best we can.
Are you part of the Howard Stern channels that are going to be on the Sirius Network?
Howard Stern is coming to Sirius, but he won't be there for another year. We started January 10. Though the shows share a similar feel, and we even share the same agent, as far I know we're not going to be part of that unless something changes in a year. We'd love to be, but we'll already be established on our own channel by then.
How's the freedom of satellite radio going to change the format of the new program?
The Radio Chick show originated on WNEW-FM, when it was briefly a hot-talk station, and that's actually the show we're modeling after, where we had the most fun. We did consumer reporting. We had women come in and do vibrator testing on the air. We did Porno Passover, which is a lovely way to celebrate the holidays.
What exactly is "Porno Passover"?
As it happened we booked a porn star on the first day of Passover. We didn't realize it when we booked her, but doing the show in New York there are a lot of people who do celebrate Passover, so we decided to combine the holidays. We hid a little piece of matzo on her, or in her as the case may be, and had listeners come in and search for the afikomen, which is a Passover tradition.
Sounds like a Festival of Delights.
That's good. I may steal that. When we left NEW and went to Q-104, which is a classic-rock station, the show was a hybrid of what we did. But we'd have to break every seven minutes and play "Band on the Run" again. Sometimes it's hard to get to all the funny in seven minutes, so we like the fact that we're going to have an open format again.
Your logo is a pair of oversized knockers busting out of a tight-fitting bra. Who was the graphic-arts genius who came up with that one?
Yeah, the boobs, that came from fans. I've been fired a lot. The first time I was fired in New York the fans revolted. They actually showed their love by literally sending 10,000 letters to CBS corporate and putting up bras all over the city.
I'm a little girl with big boobs. I have 32-D breasts and they're real, though most people think they're not. Most stuff on me is fake, but the boobs are the one real thing. I talk about them on the air. The girls are part of my act. Listeners, of course, climbed right onto that, and to show their love they've hung bras all over the city. The biggest show of affection was somebody who hung a seventy-five-foot bra across the Triboro Bridge.
Wow, they really do think you're a big talent.
From then on I've become very associated with my own breasts, and I decided to embrace that and make it into my logo. And, as a result of all that outpouring of affection, I was re-hired back on that station a few weeks later. The listeners celebrated by saying, "The rack is back." It seems foolish to fight it.
Why are you such a fan of bras, going so far as to throw one at Kathie Lee Gifford when she was guest-hosting David Letterman's show?
That's correct. My producer and me, we infiltrated the Letterman show. I actually have disliked Kathie Lee and her shtick for a long time, long before it was fashionable, and she was hosting the Letterman show. You know, Letterman once was cool, and to have Kathie Lee be the guest host on his show is when he hit bottom.
We were talking about it on the air and a listener had two tickets to the show that night and said they would give them to us if we would do something with them. My producer and I went. They have very good crowd control there. It's almost like living in Nazi Germany. They really know where every person is at all times. We were in the middle of the row and I had to claim that I was pregnant and sick and kept moving to the aisle.
Kathie Lee started her monologue and it actually wasn't bad. For a minute we felt stupid. But then she started to sing, and she started to sing about herself and how put-upon she's been by the tabloids and the press and she's so misunderstood. And I looked at my producer and he looked at me and we said, "Ugh, this is nauseating."
I took off my bra, right off my body. It was still warm. I took it off Flashdance-style and handed it to my producer and he ran down the aisle. She was missing a bra, and she needed one, and just as she was hitting a high note he threw it at her and said, "Put on a bra. The Radio Chick rules!"
Of course, the police were involved. He was thrown in jail and I was bailing him out of jail, all kinds of good stuff. But it made it on the air.
My question was leading toward why the prejudice toward braless women?
You know, I like support. As a little girl with big boobs, there comes a certain point in your life when you can no longer get away with not wearing a bra. You look silly. Kathie Lee had passed that point. As someone who understands the work of gravity, I was offended by it, and I think she needed to be taught a lesson.
As someone who is obviously proud of her chest, do you have nicknames for them?
I call them the girls. They don't really have individual nicknames. They travel in a pair. And they're natural 32-D breasts. They're still pretty much where they're supposed to be.
They sound like a handful.
I actually exploited my breasts one other time, shamelessly. Well, more than once, but really shamelessly for my show. The billboard. I had a shot taken for billboards around New York City where I was bare-chested and a faceless man was coming up from behind me holding up my breasts.
Parodying Janet Jackson's Rolling Stone cover.
Similar vibe. The tagline was, "She's quite a handful." And I got approval from my bosses for that picture, it was a Clear Channel station, Q-104, to be put up on the fifteen to twenty billboards that were designated to go around the city. If fact, my bosses helped me pick out the photo from the photo shoot, and they had a glorious time doing it too.
One billboard went up in Queens and there was a little bit of an outcry that it was controversial or pornographic, which I did not think it was. Certainly, there were no body parts showing, hands covered them. My employer backed down and forced me to take the billboards down, claiming they were pornographic, which was very odd to me given that a week prior they had given permission for them to go up.
I found that hypocritical because that is the nature of the show. Why is it that the show itself isn't pornographic, but advertising the nature of the show is? I didn't understand that. It was representative of the show that was on the air every day.
It became my mission to have that image seen by as many people as possible. We went on a publicity campaign with it, Playboy picked it up, as well as other news agencies. And then I had calendars made of it and I said I would sign it and send it out free to as many people as wanted them. When I got to literally the ten-thousandth signature I had to stop. I had writer's cramp. But we ended up with more exposure on that picture than we would have had with fifteen or so billboards that would have been around New York City.
Would you ever remove the hands and let the girls come out to play naked in photographs or onscreen, or have you already?
I have not. I've been asked to. Once we debated the virtue of posing for Playboy with a Playboy rep on the air, who had made an offer for me to pose. But then my parents called in to the show and shamed me.
So the Radio Chick is a nice Jewish girl at heart?
Well, she's got Jewish guilt. It's hard to escape your upbringing.
Speaking of guilty upbringings, do you remember the first time you saw a nude scene in a movie growing up?
I probably didn't see it as a kid. I don't remember the first one until maybe 9 1/2 Weeks (Picture: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4). And my first porno film was, as an adult on the air I did a review for the show of Miss Jackie's Full Service Salon. It was my first porn film and I was following the storyline, which was very weak. And I couldn't understand why someone came in for a bikini wax, into Miss Jackie's Full Service Salon, yet oddly she was already shaved.
The producers were really sleeping on the job with that one.
That was really my first foray into porn.
Did you enjoy it?
I'm all for it. I'm happier when I'm engaged in the real thing. I find that much more scintillating than watching someone else do it. But I'm all for a good porn film every now and then.
What about actresses who turn the Radio Chick's dial to hot?
Yeah, the one in Miss Jackie's Full Service Salon, I wish I could remember her name [ed. note--Jill Kelly (Picture: 1)]. Heather Hunter is another one I think is really hot.
The only one I would ever consider having a bisexual relationship with is Heather Locklear (Picture: 1). She's the only one who does it for me. Heather Locklear I think is perfection in a woman, so if I was ever to cross to the other side it would be for Heather alone.
That's funny, I thought it was only Jewish men who lusted after blonde shiksas. Now, also, from listening to your show, you claim at least, never to masturbate. I'm not going to call you a liar in print, but my reporter's instincts tell me to be skeptical.
I don't pleasure myself at all. I'm not proud of it. I think there's a gene missing or something remedial about me, but I need the smell and touch and presence of a man there to get excited. I really do. For me it's the difference between cheese and Cheez Whiz. Masturbation is Cheez Whiz to me. I'd rather go without it.
But if you were a rat and you only had Cheez Whiz you wouldn't turn it down.
Sometimes if I'm not in a relationship it can be years with nothing happening. My little private area down there is probably a little dusty at times like that because nothing is happening.
I just feel bad for the girls missing all that action.
My other private area has a name, too. She comes on the show. Her name is Muffy. We have moments with Muffy when she talks about what's going on. And when there's no man in my life she is a bitch. She's complaining and she's got a smoker's cough. It's real bad.
In closing, would you ever have Mr. Skin on your new show?
I would love to have Mr. Skin on the show. We had Mr. Skin on the show once before, a long time ago before we lost him to a competing morning show in New York City. But I would love to welcome Mr. Skin back on the show again. He was a terrific guest. We would have a welcome-home party for Mr. Skin.
All images of The Radio Chick courtesy of TheRadioChick.com
The petite, big-busted voice of sexually oriented humor has been bounced from the airwaves, but now her provocative talk has found a fertile home on the satellite radio network Sirius, which will also host the King of All Media Howard Stern in his much publicized move coming next year. Her show launched January 10 on Channel 148.
The Radio Chick was happy to get on the other end of the microphone for her Mr. Skin Skinterview. She talked openly about her large, all-natural hooters (though, sadly, she didn't open her shirt for a more hands-on interview). The Radio Chick also shared which actress could tempt her over to the pink side and why she never masturbates.
For more info on The Radio Chick, visit her online at www.theradiochick.com.
What's the new show on Sirius going to be like?
A lot of tasteless talk, which is our specialty, I would say an equal mix of humor, sexuality, and intellect. But we like to hide the intellect part of it as best we can.
Are you part of the Howard Stern channels that are going to be on the Sirius Network?
Howard Stern is coming to Sirius, but he won't be there for another year. We started January 10. Though the shows share a similar feel, and we even share the same agent, as far I know we're not going to be part of that unless something changes in a year. We'd love to be, but we'll already be established on our own channel by then.
How's the freedom of satellite radio going to change the format of the new program?
The Radio Chick show originated on WNEW-FM, when it was briefly a hot-talk station, and that's actually the show we're modeling after, where we had the most fun. We did consumer reporting. We had women come in and do vibrator testing on the air. We did Porno Passover, which is a lovely way to celebrate the holidays.
What exactly is "Porno Passover"?
As it happened we booked a porn star on the first day of Passover. We didn't realize it when we booked her, but doing the show in New York there are a lot of people who do celebrate Passover, so we decided to combine the holidays. We hid a little piece of matzo on her, or in her as the case may be, and had listeners come in and search for the afikomen, which is a Passover tradition.
Sounds like a Festival of Delights.
That's good. I may steal that. When we left NEW and went to Q-104, which is a classic-rock station, the show was a hybrid of what we did. But we'd have to break every seven minutes and play "Band on the Run" again. Sometimes it's hard to get to all the funny in seven minutes, so we like the fact that we're going to have an open format again.
Your logo is a pair of oversized knockers busting out of a tight-fitting bra. Who was the graphic-arts genius who came up with that one?
Yeah, the boobs, that came from fans. I've been fired a lot. The first time I was fired in New York the fans revolted. They actually showed their love by literally sending 10,000 letters to CBS corporate and putting up bras all over the city.
I'm a little girl with big boobs. I have 32-D breasts and they're real, though most people think they're not. Most stuff on me is fake, but the boobs are the one real thing. I talk about them on the air. The girls are part of my act. Listeners, of course, climbed right onto that, and to show their love they've hung bras all over the city. The biggest show of affection was somebody who hung a seventy-five-foot bra across the Triboro Bridge.
Wow, they really do think you're a big talent.
From then on I've become very associated with my own breasts, and I decided to embrace that and make it into my logo. And, as a result of all that outpouring of affection, I was re-hired back on that station a few weeks later. The listeners celebrated by saying, "The rack is back." It seems foolish to fight it.
Why are you such a fan of bras, going so far as to throw one at Kathie Lee Gifford when she was guest-hosting David Letterman's show?
That's correct. My producer and me, we infiltrated the Letterman show. I actually have disliked Kathie Lee and her shtick for a long time, long before it was fashionable, and she was hosting the Letterman show. You know, Letterman once was cool, and to have Kathie Lee be the guest host on his show is when he hit bottom.
We were talking about it on the air and a listener had two tickets to the show that night and said they would give them to us if we would do something with them. My producer and I went. They have very good crowd control there. It's almost like living in Nazi Germany. They really know where every person is at all times. We were in the middle of the row and I had to claim that I was pregnant and sick and kept moving to the aisle.
Kathie Lee started her monologue and it actually wasn't bad. For a minute we felt stupid. But then she started to sing, and she started to sing about herself and how put-upon she's been by the tabloids and the press and she's so misunderstood. And I looked at my producer and he looked at me and we said, "Ugh, this is nauseating."
I took off my bra, right off my body. It was still warm. I took it off Flashdance-style and handed it to my producer and he ran down the aisle. She was missing a bra, and she needed one, and just as she was hitting a high note he threw it at her and said, "Put on a bra. The Radio Chick rules!"
Of course, the police were involved. He was thrown in jail and I was bailing him out of jail, all kinds of good stuff. But it made it on the air.
My question was leading toward why the prejudice toward braless women?
You know, I like support. As a little girl with big boobs, there comes a certain point in your life when you can no longer get away with not wearing a bra. You look silly. Kathie Lee had passed that point. As someone who understands the work of gravity, I was offended by it, and I think she needed to be taught a lesson.
As someone who is obviously proud of her chest, do you have nicknames for them?
I call them the girls. They don't really have individual nicknames. They travel in a pair. And they're natural 32-D breasts. They're still pretty much where they're supposed to be.
They sound like a handful.
I actually exploited my breasts one other time, shamelessly. Well, more than once, but really shamelessly for my show. The billboard. I had a shot taken for billboards around New York City where I was bare-chested and a faceless man was coming up from behind me holding up my breasts.
Parodying Janet Jackson's Rolling Stone cover.
Similar vibe. The tagline was, "She's quite a handful." And I got approval from my bosses for that picture, it was a Clear Channel station, Q-104, to be put up on the fifteen to twenty billboards that were designated to go around the city. If fact, my bosses helped me pick out the photo from the photo shoot, and they had a glorious time doing it too.
One billboard went up in Queens and there was a little bit of an outcry that it was controversial or pornographic, which I did not think it was. Certainly, there were no body parts showing, hands covered them. My employer backed down and forced me to take the billboards down, claiming they were pornographic, which was very odd to me given that a week prior they had given permission for them to go up.
I found that hypocritical because that is the nature of the show. Why is it that the show itself isn't pornographic, but advertising the nature of the show is? I didn't understand that. It was representative of the show that was on the air every day.
It became my mission to have that image seen by as many people as possible. We went on a publicity campaign with it, Playboy picked it up, as well as other news agencies. And then I had calendars made of it and I said I would sign it and send it out free to as many people as wanted them. When I got to literally the ten-thousandth signature I had to stop. I had writer's cramp. But we ended up with more exposure on that picture than we would have had with fifteen or so billboards that would have been around New York City.
Would you ever remove the hands and let the girls come out to play naked in photographs or onscreen, or have you already?
I have not. I've been asked to. Once we debated the virtue of posing for Playboy with a Playboy rep on the air, who had made an offer for me to pose. But then my parents called in to the show and shamed me.
So the Radio Chick is a nice Jewish girl at heart?
Well, she's got Jewish guilt. It's hard to escape your upbringing.
Speaking of guilty upbringings, do you remember the first time you saw a nude scene in a movie growing up?
I probably didn't see it as a kid. I don't remember the first one until maybe 9 1/2 Weeks (Picture: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4). And my first porno film was, as an adult on the air I did a review for the show of Miss Jackie's Full Service Salon. It was my first porn film and I was following the storyline, which was very weak. And I couldn't understand why someone came in for a bikini wax, into Miss Jackie's Full Service Salon, yet oddly she was already shaved.
The producers were really sleeping on the job with that one.
That was really my first foray into porn.
Did you enjoy it?
I'm all for it. I'm happier when I'm engaged in the real thing. I find that much more scintillating than watching someone else do it. But I'm all for a good porn film every now and then.
What about actresses who turn the Radio Chick's dial to hot?
Yeah, the one in Miss Jackie's Full Service Salon, I wish I could remember her name [ed. note--Jill Kelly (Picture: 1)]. Heather Hunter is another one I think is really hot.
The only one I would ever consider having a bisexual relationship with is Heather Locklear (Picture: 1). She's the only one who does it for me. Heather Locklear I think is perfection in a woman, so if I was ever to cross to the other side it would be for Heather alone.
That's funny, I thought it was only Jewish men who lusted after blonde shiksas. Now, also, from listening to your show, you claim at least, never to masturbate. I'm not going to call you a liar in print, but my reporter's instincts tell me to be skeptical.
I don't pleasure myself at all. I'm not proud of it. I think there's a gene missing or something remedial about me, but I need the smell and touch and presence of a man there to get excited. I really do. For me it's the difference between cheese and Cheez Whiz. Masturbation is Cheez Whiz to me. I'd rather go without it.
But if you were a rat and you only had Cheez Whiz you wouldn't turn it down.
Sometimes if I'm not in a relationship it can be years with nothing happening. My little private area down there is probably a little dusty at times like that because nothing is happening.
I just feel bad for the girls missing all that action.
My other private area has a name, too. She comes on the show. Her name is Muffy. We have moments with Muffy when she talks about what's going on. And when there's no man in my life she is a bitch. She's complaining and she's got a smoker's cough. It's real bad.
In closing, would you ever have Mr. Skin on your new show?
I would love to have Mr. Skin on the show. We had Mr. Skin on the show once before, a long time ago before we lost him to a competing morning show in New York City. But I would love to welcome Mr. Skin back on the show again. He was a terrific guest. We would have a welcome-home party for Mr. Skin.
All images of The Radio Chick courtesy of TheRadioChick.com
