SATURDAY POST
HAD IT NOT INVOLVED a very important issue in this region; mass transit and the pros and cons of such transportation in the Bay Area, it would have been a half-hour round of massive belly laughs on KCBS' weekend "In Depth" program, this week hosted by completely lost reporter/anchor, Holly Quan.
If you care to listen to the travesty that bordered on dual valley-girl incompetency, give a listen here (AUDIO)
Quan interviewed, (more like chatty-chatted, actually) some millennial chick named Rachel Hyden, from a SF Transit agency. Good heavens, if this woman is running a transit authority we're all stuck and locked in the Caldecott Tunnel.Hyden sounded like a mall chick selling cosmetics at the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek. Including the usual mass usage of beginning every answer with "so," Hyden was discombobulated at best and totally incompetent and irritating at worst. She also wasn't helped by mass poser/lightweight, Quan who seriously doesn't know how to ask a question without overly pontificating about nothing that makes sense. Quan and Hayden sounded like two prom queens from the suburbs auditioning for a skit on 'Saturday Night Live'; I was giggling so hard I forgot it was KCBS but you know how I feel about the once-great all-news station.
*Speaking of KCBS that new station ID with the suggestive female VO at the top of the hour sounds more like a porn operator announcing the schedule; it's obviously a subtle (or not so subtle) attempt to get the attention of young male tech execs driving in their car during rush hout. I'll admit it's different and somewhat amusing, to say the least.
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*Just listen to the amount of noise in the morning on Bay Area radio and you'll understand the advent of mass mediocrity.
The act of simple conversation has been kidnapped by the onslaught of yappers and bozos talking, shouting, actually, over each other. There is no such thing as cogent dialogue. The hyena laugh, real and taped, is the centerpiece of so many of the morning zoos, even the so-called political ones whose own self-worth has become irrelevant and dependent on the fakery. It shows what these yahoos think of themselves that they have to play taped hyena yelps; they should really be carnival barkers.
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"The act of simple conversation has been kidnapped by the onslaught of yappers and bozos talking, shouting, actually, over each other. There is no such thing as cogent dialogue. The hyena laugh, real and taped, is the centerpiece of so many of the morning zoos, even the so-called political ones whose own self-worth has become irrelevant and dependent on the fakery."
ReplyDeleteYou literally just described the majority of the current liberal left wing talkers not to mention the majority of the people on social media bitching and complaining and living in left wing echo chambers.
I'm so glad right wingers don't do this...The country would be in a real mess if it did instead of the social and political utopia it is.
DeleteI too have heard this hyena laugh you speak of. I hear it most on KGO when a certain Bernie supporter with a bosom tries to talk politics. I also hear it quite regularly when a self described comedian hosts on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteCopeland = ZERO
Delete"Hyden sounded like a mall chick selling cosmetics at the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek. Including the usual mass usage of beginning every answer with "so," Hyden was discombobulated at best and totally incompetent and irritating at worst."
ReplyDeleteTry listening to Marty Lurie's baseball talk show on KNBR weekends during Giants season. Marty has a cohost, Carmen Kiew, who overuses the phrase "I mean". I counted no less than 8 "I mean's" one time in the span of a minute when she was trying to make a point and ask a question. How do these people make it on the air?
Kissing ass. Works every time!
DeleteYou think that's bad: This is America's highest-ranked native-born chess playing female. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJKp26M7R4g
ReplyDeleteYou go, grrrl!
if you want to have a relaxed informative intelligent worldly listen, tune into Ryan Covay's puff and Pass.
ReplyDeleteWhile I enjoy Ryan, he reminds me of Clint Eastwood's son in the movie Gran Torino. White kid that tried too hard to be hip and black.
DeleteWhy walk thru the poop...when you can drive over the poop.
ReplyDelete'Like ya-know?'
That's Rich,...a pooper scooper!
ReplyDeleteHey 10:42am. That's rich that you call out liberal host but don't mention the most annoying fake laugh on radio. The SUSS-man and Katie Green. There constant fake laughter is incredibly annoying. I tell ya.
ReplyDeleteSince we are on the subject of annoying radio hosts. How the heck did Mark Levin ever get a radio show with that voice of his?
Also since his name was mentioned by 11:04 AM, Marty Lurie is a human sleeping pill. I don't know how KNBR keeps any audience during the Giants season when this guy is on what seems like 48 hours every weekend.
Incorrect. The most "annoying fake laugh" on radio belongs to the geriatric lady on KGO that tries to talk politics but just cant quite grasp the subject matter.
DeleteMark Levin? Wasn't he the chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese? And didn't he work in the Reagan administration? What has some of the beloved KGO hosts accomplished in their lives to warrant a radio show?
What happened to Jane McMillan? Wasn't she always the one who would host In Depth? Haven't heard her in a while.
ReplyDeleteJane McMillan, if I recall correctly, is married to Mike Sugerman, both of whom left KCBS to move to New York City about a year ago. Mike has done fill-ins on the CBS Radio Network's hourly newscasts. Jane, unless she's asked to interview New Yorkers for In Depth, isn't likely to be heard on that KCBS program anytime soon.
DeleteActually, that’s Janice Wright you’re talking about. Jane McMillan, if I recall correctly, was Assistant ND.
DeleteRich---two things.
ReplyDelete1) KCBS' new ID: You must watch some really strange porn. That is the least sexy female voice I've heard in a while. Nick Michaels (the male voice for at least ten years) died earlier this year and I guess they needed to make a change. They've also thrown away a great positioner---"What's happening and why." "When you need to know" just isn't at that level.
2) KCSM is the best jazz station in the Bay Area. There's another?
I think Quan's "guest" actually had a fairly comprehensive understanding of transit issues - except 1) WHO REALLY CARES?? and 2) like, every other word, like, was "like".....very tedious to listen to. No "practice" for either of these gals prior to the "interview"....bad gig. I switched to MSNBC....
ReplyDeleteI thought the display ad on your site said "Pelvic C*ck", not CLOCK. Haha! Also, 8:11 "human sleeping pill" funny AF!
ReplyDeleteThe KCBS top of the hour station ID is horrific. The female voice is cringe-worthy. For a major news station to employ such lack of talent is beyond belief.
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