Your Talk Radio Consumption

The "Common Man" Dan Cole, PA & Dubay, and Sludge & Lake

okay:

Bumper to Bumper with Dan Barrero

not good:

The "Power Trip" Morning Show with Mike Morris and Chris Hawkey

nice treat:

When Paul Charchian from the fantasy football show subs in for Common Man, dude knows his football and is a big video game fan.

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I don't listen to Howard Stern, but not because I dislike him; before satellite he was on the local shitty alternative station and I think they were doing someting like twenty minutes of commercials per hour. I can't handle more than 12 minutes or so.

My habits had to change from lotsa NPR to Air America since the AM signal would penetrate my old building better than the FM one.

Oh yeah, and I'm jazzed that Ed Schultz is gunna be on Larry King tonight, right after Bill Clinton.

someone from chicago needs to explain "mancow" to me. he's on the laker's station and sometimes i get ten seconds of him in the morning. i understand what he's doing, just not how anyone smart enough to get a driver's license could enjoy it. it's howard without any of the things that make howard listenable.

That said, we went to Six Flags last month, and I couldn't help but keep thinking about the Extreme Sportzdude who rode roller coasters, bragging about catching some gnarly g's on the Batman ride.

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I “listen” to a fair amount of local sports talk when I’m commuting or working. the two morning hosts on the main local sports talk station were canned this week, after almost 20 years.. It’s kind of weird because the millennial dude who I witnessed go from intern -> morning show producer -> afternoon show co-host is now the program director and presumably has canned the two fellows who he interned for in the beginning. And he’s still hosting in the afternoon. Weird vibes! Morning show guys were two goofy gentle harmless boomer dudes, but man they hit on a good Bay Area vibe and I definitely got into the lore and the “history” of the show and everything.

it makes sense, radio is beyond dead, money money money. But Bay Area sports radio in general seems a lot more mellow and less “edgy” than in the rest of the country (post The Razor, RIP), it’s probably good that it’s going to get more testosteroned out so I can stop listening and stop caring one bit about the NFL

KGO AM became something called "The Spread," basically just a continuous podcast about sports betting.. so sad, it started broadcasting in January 1924

More KNBR cannings. They got rid of Tom Tolbert, the frickin heart and soul of the station. Unbelievable.

“the millennial dude who I witnessed go from intern -> morning show producer -> afternoon show co-host is now the program director and presumably has canned the two fellows who he interned for in the beginning.”

- this is false by the way, dude had nothing to do with it