Bryan Suits

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Bryan Suits
Born (1966-08-22) 22 August 1966 (age 57)
Operation Iraqi Freedom[2]
AwardsBronze Star Medal[2]
Purple Heart[2]
Other workTalk Radio host

Bryan Suits (born 1966) is an American

Seattle, Washington: KIRO (AM) and KVI, and in Los Angeles: KFI AM 640. Suits was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and lived in Lahaina, Hawaii until he was 12 years old, when his family moved to Washington. He was heard weekday afternoons on KOGO-AM/FM in San Diego in 2011–12 and Saturday evenings on KFI
from 2009 to November 2013. Suits did a brief Monday - Friday stint on KABC, Los Angeles in the 9 am – 12 noon slot beginning in 2014. However, he ultimately was summoned back to KFI hosting Saturday evening program "Dark Secret Place", Sunday evening program "Super Hyper Local Sunday"a and served as the official military and tactical sounding board for other KFI shows for related news.

In July 2021, Suits announced that he would be leaving KFI. Six months later, he would return to Seattle to host morning show, "The Bryan Suits Show" on KTTH AM 770. Suits is also available through the subscription service Patreon for military and foreign affairs news.

Biography

After graduating from Washington State University, Suits became a broker-trainee at Drexel Burnham Lambert.[1]

Personal life

Suits has one daughter, with his ex-wife Rachel Suits, named Reagan Suits. AKA his "Varmint." [4][5]

Military service

Enlisting in the

transportation of Iraqi WMDs to Syria.[6]

While in

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]

Media career


The "Bryan Suits Show" first ran Monday to Friday from 9 pm to 1 am

bladder pain syndrome
.

On March 6, 2003, an Iraqi caller named "Mohammed" confronted United for Peace and Justice spokesperson Andrea Buffa on Suits' show. The clip was posted on the KVI website and quickly circulated around the Internet. However, some individuals noted that the individual did not have an Iraqi Arab accent.[citation needed]

Suits' show was canceled by KVI on November 9, 2007.[14] Some listeners complained that November 9 was the Friday preceding the Veterans Day holiday (observed on November 11, each year in the U.S.).

Suits' show was replaced by the KVI show The Commentators with John Carlson and Ken Schram, formerly aired from 9 am to 12 noon. KVI aired the Laura Ingram show from 3 pm to 5 pm. KVI put Peter Weissbach in for an hour of Bryan's old time slot (5 – 6 pm), the host whom Suits had been brought in to replace.[citation needed]

Suits periodically filled in as a guest host from 7 to 10 pm, following the contentious removal of John Ziegler in December 2007 on KFI, AM 640 of Los Angeles.[citation needed]

Suits announced December 31, 2007 that he had accepted a position from 7 to 10 pm, following

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, and they performed the show together under the banner of "The Kennedy & Suits Show". Kennedy's final broadcast on "Kennedy & Suits" was September 30, 2009, with Suits going it solo again as the "Bryan Suits Show". In addition, Suits hosted The Dark Secret Place from 2 pm to 4 pm on Sundays, in the time slot formerly held by Kennedy before she moved to weekdays.[15]

Suits announced, on his January 8, 2010 show, that his last day at his current 7 pm KFI Los Angeles time slot would be on Friday, January 15, 2010. He planned to continue his Sunday show, Dark Secret Place on KFI. Citing family reasons, and not specific on his career move, he and his family were returning to the Seattle, Washington area. His replacement on KFI, Tim Conway Jr., would begin at the 7 pm time slot on Monday, January 18, 2010.[16]

KVI AM 570 in Seattle, announced the return of The Bryan Suits Show weekday mornings, from 5 am to 9 am, starting Monday morning, January 25, 2010.[17] Some 10 months later, KVI AM 570 in Seattle cancelled its conservative-talk lineup and switched to an Oldies format, on November 8, 2010.[18]

While The Bryan Suits Show had been canceled, once again, by KVI in the days preceding

pacific time.[21]

In November 2011, Suits became the mid-day host on KOGO in San Diego while continuing to host his weekend "The Dark Secret Place" program on KFI. Suits left KOGO in 2012.

Starting on Monday, December 16, 2013, Suits took over for Geraldo Rivera on KABC Talk Radio AM 790 from 9-to-noon (Pacific time).[22] He briefly revived his renowned "Dark Secret Place" program, in which he confines his topics of discussion to military-related matters and interviews with current or former members of the military. He abruptly ceased broadcasting the show, leaving listeners to find a note on his Facebook page stating that he would only continue doing the show in podcast form. His explanation declared in the post that the show had become "a pain in the ass" because he would have to give up personal time on the weekends to do it live, or have unspecified problems (possibly continuity errors related to developing stories) if he tried to pre-record it.

Bryan Suits' last 9-to-noon show on KABC was on 16 Jan 2015, resulting in KABC losing nearly all of the 9 to noon audience.

Brian Suits' Dark Secret Place returned to KFI AM-640 (Los Angeles) on Saturday April 4, 2015 and was heard from 8 pm to 11pm (Pacific) Saturdays, as noted in their weekend program line-up.

In April 2017, Bryan Suits started a new show, Super Hyper Local Sunday, which aired Sunday nights on KFI, 8pm to 10pm. It focused on local news from the Los Angeles County area, though often tied into other national and military related news stories.

Suits left KFI in early July 2021 continuing to upload to his online subscription service podcast, "The Dark Secret Place". His departure was cited as being a shift in political ideology by KFI leading to the limiting of speech regarding the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, 2nd Amendment rights, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Additional reasoning claimed by Suits was issues regarding his ownership of "The Dark Secret Place" and its redistribution to media platform, iHeartMedia. [23]

On February 7, 2022, it was announced that Bryan Suits would host his own "Bryan Suits Show" airing on AM 770 KTTH from 6 am till 9 am. He was a fill in host during December and January 2022. He covers both national news and Seattle news.[24]

On July 7, 2022, Bryan Suits announced via his ConnectPal channel that ConnectPal streaming service would be ceasing operations on July 31, 2022, and his "near daily" show would be moving to Patreon. He is offering 3 different levels of membership with increasing access to his exclusive paywall content.

Political Views

Suits was involved in a conflict between Geraldo Rivera and radio talk show host Tom Leykis in 2013 when Rivera apparently called both of them a "right wing jerk off." Rivera later clarified that he was only referring to Leykis.[25] Bryan has cited himself as a Top Conservative on Twitter by using the popular conservative hashtag #TCOT.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bryan Suits". KFI. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Meet the Soldiers". Military Channel. Discovery Communications, LLC. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  3. Devore, Chuck (28 April 2012). "LA Riots Revisited". Dark Secret Place (Interview). Interviewed by Bryan Suits. KFI
    .
  4. ^ "Bryan suits' wife stabbed in northend robbery". BlatherWatch. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  5. ^ "Wife Of KVI's Bryan Suits Recovering From Attack". All Access. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  6. Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. Archived from the original
    on 22 April 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Iraq election log contributors". 2005-02-01. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  8. ^ Bryan Suits (9 December 2004). "Iraq log: 9 December 2004". BBC. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  9. ^ VideoSeattle (2010-04-17), Bryan Suits - Seattle Tea Party - April 15, 2010, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2018-05-18
  10. ^ http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/radi10.shtml. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[dead link]
  11. ^ Virgin, Bill (13 November 2002). "Radio Beat: Latest word on radio talk: Listen for more changes". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  12. ^ Virgin, Bill (12 March 2003). "Radio Beat: KVI's Suits suiting up for the Army -- again". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  13. ^ Virgin, Bill (16 March 2005). "Suits re-ups with KVI after duty in Iraq". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  14. ^ Virgin, Bill (14 November 2007). "On Radio: Jim Wilke, host of 'Jazz After Hours,' celebrates 50 years in radio business". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  15. ^ Bryan Suits News! Goodbye Seattle, and hello LA!
  16. ^ "Tim Conway Jr. to replace Bryan Suits on KFI". Orange County Register. 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  17. ^ "Welcome back Bryan Suits and John Carlson to KVI" Archived 2009-11-16 at the Wayback Machine , KVI.com.
  18. ^ "KVI-A Goes Oldies On Nov. 8th". All Access. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  19. ^ Richard Wagoner (14 January 2010). "Suits' KFI evening show comes to an end". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
  20. OC Register
    . Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  21. ^ Andy Dean (16 August 2012). "Bryan Suits - Military / National Security". America Now Radio. Clear Channel Media. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  22. ^ "Brian Suits To Host 9-Noon On KABC-A". All Access. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  23. ^ https://www.connectpal.com/darksecretplace Ep. 07-11-2021, Ep. 07-15-2021, Ep. 07-17-2021
  24. ^ "KTTH debuts 'Bryan Suits Show' weekday mornings". MyNorthwest.com. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
  25. ^ "Geraldo Loses Syndication, Trashes 'Replacement' as 'Right Wing Jerk Off Rush Wannabe'". www.mediaite.com. 17 December 2013. Retrieved 2018-05-18.
  26. ^ ".thebryansuits Now I'm just another unemployed, disabled veteran. #tcot". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
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