"They just axed me, dude," said Gold during a recent conversation concerning the whereabouts of the Funk. "The reason I got was because they were trying to sustain a market share and they considered my show a fringe show. This past year, I had one bad season and didn't bring in as much, but it used to be one of the top programs and raise the most amount of money. I volunteered my time there for 4½ years-I'm a free show, it didn't cost them anything-and now they're paying for a syndicated show during that slot."

"It's one of the reasons I stayed in Syracuse after college and opened a restaurant called Funk N' Waffles," continued the SU graduate Gold, "because my persona is '[Adam Gold] of The Funk Show.'"

Because of Gold's involvement with Sophistafunk, the 5 p.m. hour impeded weekly radio commitment. "Saturday nights are good nights for musicians so it was hard to always be able to do the show," he admitted. "There were a couple shows I couldn't do because I was playing a gig, and the guy I had fill in for me was a 35-year-old black dude {Kevin Dames} who knows and grew up with the music, and I'm a 20-something white boy. The station mentioned something about consistency, which could have only meant my voice, because ultimately, {Dames} was playing music right out of my CD book."

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