THE TRUMP phenomena --circa 2017; a story an hour, wide enough to create sidebars that could fill the refrigerator at
House of Prime Rib on a Friday night...the latest,
POTUS meets
Putin in a side session at
G20 mysteriously kept secret by the lawyered-up
White House.
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| Pat Thurston |
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| Ethan Bear-MAN! |
This is just one of many. Makes for compelling news-talk on the radio --only here, unlike,
Boston, New Yawk,
Chicago,
Philly, where real, genuine news-
talk on the radio exists and is thriving...here in the Bay Area we're subjected, amazingly, frighteningly, to a
TAPED, insipid, ridiculous, clown with a woman sidekick whose irritability factor is A-Grade and a voice better suited for a
Disneyland "
Up-With-People" show kidnap the AM airwaves --last week, they (the gruesome twosome) spent
twenty minutes on cream cheese. It was embarrassing even by the albatross
KGO standards. As bad as host,
Ethan Bear-
man! is, and he is, remember the anal warts known as
Mike Anthony (PD) and
Justin Wittmayer (Market Mgr) are behind this charade and should be arrested for broadcast malpractice and appear before the
World Court and convicted and sentenced to hard labor for high crimes and misdemeanors --
Cumulus is about to declare bankruptcy any moment now and this calamity is one reason why.
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| John Rothmann |
*Last
Saturday night after dinner I was listening to interesting, entertaining and important radio from 7-9 PM on the same albatross. The lines were jammed and the topic was
Trump, Trump, and Trump. Radio talk-show calls can be trivial and pathetic but the host was
Pat Thurston and her guest,
John Rothmann, so the show had a nice ebb and flow and caller interaction was well paced and fluid. What a concept! A radio program devoid of "
7-F" bullcrap and worthy of discussion. It didn't need a five-minute switch to "
trend" about "
Facebook" nor some out-of-place
Kardashian quip or fashion note. How
stuuuupid, how so OUT-OF-PLACE! More than anything else, how
INSULTING to an audience that wants MORE than that; wants to be treated like
ADULTS; wants to
TALK,
NEWS-TALK!
It would be one thing if Anthony's "
7-F" melba toast (
Facebook,
Fashion, etc) aka: "
life issues" were charging up the numbers and creating buzz but
they're NOT! Need Proof?
Take a look here. It goes far beyond the moronic sabermetrics utilized by the two stooges. Fact: they simply
DON'T WORK! And they certainly don't bring in any core demo, like say, women, aged 25-54 listen too; basically, Anthony and Wittmayer are resorting to old, prehistoric
methods that are not applicable today; women are a lot
SMARTER. They don't gravitate to bullshit, lifestyle topics and even if they did, they
wouldn't be listening to
AM Talk Radio on a Saturday Night. It's almost as silly as KGO giving away REO Speedwagon tickets in an attempt to gather up old Gen Xers. God, how silly.
Hey, guys, take it from me: when I'm not on the verge of a nervous breakdown and have to yelp for funds to make this blog stay on life support, I see lots of women. They work harder now and are much better informed than you think. They care about world issues. They are more politically wired in than you think or, guys,
Did You Miss This Occasion Recently? I never thought "
pussy hat" would become such a huge part of the 2017 lexicon, but by God, it did.
My Point: don't assume women, young, old, in the middle, are resigned to being subjected to BS stupid talk, as the nitwit
KGO dummies play to--the world changed last November and suddenly the sublime and ridiculous were moved to the back page. It's not just women, it's men too that are revolted --unfortunately,
Twittmayer and Anthony didn't get the memo. It's not only a lack of respect for the audience (not everyone is dumb)
it's a lack of respect for the host too.
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Here's the realty Rich. You can say "Millennials don't listen to _____" but my daughter listens to Pod Save America and all those other HuffPo podcasts all the time. She doesn't listen to terrestrial radio at all and never has and never will. That's because those stations are run by right-wing morons who don't realize the trend of the youth is more to the left, or at the very least, the educated trends and that's what KGO used to be. Educated radio. Now it's terrible and they're going under. There are countless podcasts doing very well across the country and yet not surprisingly not one of the "talents" on KGO would ever be intelligent enough, endearing enough, or smart enough to garner an audience like all of these podcasts are. I expect KGO to be foreign language within 18 months.
ReplyDeleteIf Jesus came back today he would be podcasting for the Huffington Post.
DeleteFACT.
90% of the media is run by 6 corporations who are bolveshik globalist by nature and use hegelian tactics to play everything and everyone off each other. As far as the youth go; it's been a slow drip off to nihilistic land for what now can be called the religious left, brought to by the Rockefeller foundation.
DeleteYou're almost aware pops, but not enough. Take a look at the many horns the award shows prop up with pop-diva's displaying symbols that were relegated to death metal bands until fairly recently. That's a baphomet brainwash going on with the children into straight dissolution of the natural self. That can't and won't last.
I've been suggesting to Rich for a good while now to start critiquing podcast...but he won't budge. Among the most impressive and thought provoking right now is Joe Rogan's.
@7:26 Don't waste your breath on these two morons.
DeleteSweet the illuminati is here
Deletecheck out Steve Jaxon on KSRO on The Drive, great interviews often and lively talk...best in Bay Area
ReplyDeleteI've been hearing for years that cumulus is on the verge of bankruptcy but here they still are fucking up everything they touch.I'm praying for the day they finally go under. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of idiots.
ReplyDeleteThurston can drive me nuts with her "feelin the Bern" Bull Shit and supporting single payer in Cali. I'm a moderate Dem but she's an ex Army, Secret Service phony that fails to think things through.
ReplyDeleteI'm in complete shock Rich passed your comment through 7:24. Rich never posts anything negative about his beloved Pat. His nose is so far up her ass I don't know where she ends and he begins. Maybe it's because they're about the same age.
DeleteThurston is far left. Rothmann was a Hillary shill that completely overlooked the rigged DNC that took Bernie down.
DeleteUltimately, that cost Hillary the election as many Bernie supporters simply stayed home rather than support that crooked cackling witch.
She is not a "secret service phony" . She was a typing clerk for the SS and in the army. There is no such place as "Cali", and single payer health insurance would relieve a lot of the deathly stress created by lack of health insurance. The only part of the equation that the bernie types don't mention, is that your taxes would take a huge hit, and the healthcare monies would come out of your check, before you receive it, an inconvenient detail.This would still be a better system than what we have at the moment.
DeleteMy wife is getting cancer treatment from Kaiser. We are very happy with the care. Single payer would make kaiser unsustainable in CALI. We use Medicare senior advantage.People need to think things through before endorsement. It is a dumb idea and too costly.The poor are adequately covered under MediCal.
DeleteSomeone needs to cattle prod Ethan and Chip into oblivion after their mouths have been stuffed with cotton balls and chili peppers. Other then that....loving the weather.
ReplyDeleteRich, I use to listen local AM radio while trying to fall asleep at night, yes waiting for the Ambien to kick in.
ReplyDeleteLast night I tried something new, I downloaded a police scanner app and listened to Chicago PD chasing bad guys all night. I'm happy to report I feel asleep before the timer turned off.
Rich has often posted negative comments about Pat, some idiot always calls her the housewife from Marin. Rich also post positive comments about Pat. Yes, Pat is dead set on single payer. I e-mailed her once, saying that in my country of birth (Denmark) we have government health care, i.e. single payer, however we also have private HMO for those who want to pay the extra premium and have the health to qualify. Pat e-mailed me back saying perhaps that was a sensible solution, however she never talks about it on the air, only single payer. Personally I like that there is a choice.
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