Auntie Charo's Soapbox

The first time Chris Barnett worked for KUAM, I couldn't get enough of him. He was really talented and naturally funny. He did unusually funny things. Once, he took his show to the Ordot dump. And he used to poke fun at just about everyone on the GovGuam payroll, not with sarcasm but with plain fun and games...then, for some odd reason, he had some 'words' with KUAM's owners(the Calvo's) and went to work at Hit Radio and kinda went to the dark side. He became bitter and sarcastic, almost hateful. The nice and funny Chris turned into the Chucky doll. In order to get laughs, he had to turn on or offend people. I was actually surprised that the hoity-toity Holmes clan allowed him to behave in the manner that he did on-air because didn't allow anyone else to behave in that manner before, but also guess that they had no other alternative since they were neck deep in debt and Chris was bringing in some really big bucks with his dark humor.
So.....something happened and the Calvo's either forgot whatever it was that they fired him for earlier and brought him back to the fold and probably paid him more money to return......he's toned way down and although I don't listen to his show, was exposed to it a few nights ago. I was really beginning to get into the rooster story until I realized what the story was going to be about, but even then, it still seemed to be interesting........then it got bloody and I was grossed out.
Barnett's photog had good footage of how the roosters are kept at the hill behind Tumon. How the roosters and the hens are housed is very interesting. How the roosters are trained to fight was also kind of interesting..........but when Barnett lifted his tee-shirt and the owner of the rooster began to have the rooster bite Barnett's nipples until they bled, I was totally grossed out. He could have gone out without doing that and if that wasn't enough, another member of the dysfunctional team did the same thing...the trio laughing as if it was funny having a rooster attack your breast hard enough to draw blood. Worse that those at home watching was a little girl who was about 5 or 6 years old who was with her father and saw the whole thing. I can't imagine what she thought about the savage activity...
It's such a macho/machismo thing to fight animals or eachother.
How pitiful a life it is for those roosters to spend their entire lives being kept alive just to fight eachother with sharp knives just to entertaina bunch of savages.
I guess if I were an off-island visitor and saw that video I probably would have written something not so favorable.........which brings something to mind..........how come Tony Lame-o-rena and the Governor didn't send a nasty letter to that imbrcile Mike Ogle at EXPN2 and tell him off when he was told about it on the Ray and Patti Breakfast Show. I recall that Ray told him that at times like these it would be nice if GovGuam had PIOs......hmmmm, maybe Tony was too busy with the Philippine travel office!