Hi! I’m Mike!
Some people call me LeBrain. Some of my friends in the radio community call me LaLoofah. It doesn’t matter, I’ll answer to those, but I’m a Mike. Always have been, since I was born actually.
As readers generally know by now, my radio friend Craig over at 107.5 DaveRocks has nicknames for most of his listeners. He also likes to claim that he has “only 3.5 regular listeners” according to the last surveys. I’m one, and there’s another one named “Ass Kisser Mike”. Sometimes people mix the two of us up. I’ve met Ass Kisser Mike. He’s a really nice guy. We actually met recently at a protest. (You can read all about that here.) At the time, I jokingly said that we should take a picture together to prove we’re not the same person. However there was a lot going on and we never took the picture.
Fast forward to the April 12 2017 instalment of the Craig Fee Show. Another Mike called in, a new Mike. Craig feigned disbelief, he couldn’t have three callers named Mike out of 3.5 listeners, could he? This led Craig to start the rumour that I and Ass Kisser Mike are the same person. Fake news! He also speculated that Ass Kisser Mike’s righteous beard may be fake. And of course, I could not produce a photo of the two of us together.
I assure you, my faithful readers. LeBrain and Ass Kisser Mike are two different people. One day I’ll get a photo to prove it!
Not an actual photo of LeBrain and Ass Kisser Mike
mikeladano.com 
Alternative facts, I say! 😉
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Hey I’m a Mike too but let me say for the record I’m not the Ass kisser Mike. In school, there was always another Mike in my class and two others in 8th grade! There are a lot of us Mikes out there and we can take over the world.
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Just curious if you’re a Michael or a Mike?
Same here though. There were almost always 2 Mikes in all my classes.
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I go by either, I use Michael for my books because I thought it made me sound more like an author.
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I would do exactly the, plus throw in my middle initial for credibility.
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That’s what I did because my first publisher said there was another author out there with my name.
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That must suck hearing that news!
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That remonds me of reading about Dick Wagner’s solo album and how the label figured it would be better to be called Richard Wagner.
Who knew there was a classical musician by that name and rock fans would completely ignore it.
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It wasn’t that bad. I didn’t know there were so many people out there with my name.
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You may be able to prove that you’re not the same man as Ass Kicker Mike. But I have never seen you and Mike Portnoy in the same room.
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Jade we can’t discuss that. Last time we did, the FBI swooped in.
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At least all the Mikes in this case seem like good people – it’s not a Mike Bolton Office Space situation, ‘why should I have to change my name, he’s the one who sucks!’
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Exactly! And with a name like “Ass Kisser Mike”, you might expect him to suck. But it’s the opposite. Some people think being a nice person is being an “ass kisser”, and Ass Kisser Mike is a nice person (die hard Leafs and Star Wars fan)!
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I think all of you and Run DMC’s track ‘Pass The Mic’ are the same person.
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I read this earlier in The Onion.
P.S. I am shocked after all of the media attention only 12 people showed at the protest.
It seems on Facebook everyone wants to lend support, but actually showing up and doing it is a different story.
As long as you and Belinda are not the same person, I’m good with whoever you want to impersonate.
;)
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There were closer to 40-50 people. But that reporter was only three at the very start.
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At least 40 or 50 actually went out and did it.
A good cause. I would have supported if I could.
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There is a walk coming…can’t recall if it’s May or June. It’s No Peen Jolene who is doing all the organizing, she is fantastic.
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That’s a lotta Mikes.
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If one or two of you went by “Michael” would that solve anything?
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Sadly no. Only a photo will do it!
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These are the Mikes I know, I know.
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Is the bottom left Mike Kenney, Steve Harris’s bass tech?
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Hahah no? I have no idea what he looks like. That’s film director Michael Moore on the bottom left.
Clockwise from top left:
Michael Bolton
Michael Douglas
Mike Myers
Michael Buble
Michael Jackson
Michael Moore
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