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Originally Posted by SuperChief
Anyone here listen to Stern on Sirius/XM? At the end of one of his latest shows, his staff went into full meltdown mode about this sort of stuff, and Howard let it play out as an example of the division we're seeing across the country. Besides being hilarious, it was truly indicative of the mess we're finding ourselves in - myself included in that.
I have no great insight about this (for now). Curious if anyone else listens to Stern.
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Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat
I listen occasionally but that show pretty much died several years ago.
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I think it was the leaked 'TED talk' that broke me, but it was breaking down for quite a while. And I was an avid listener for decades. [and it's not political because I dropped Carolla around the same time].
Maybe everyone gets old, but Stern turned into a pansy-fied version of Imus somwhere along the way. Everything is about sucking up to celebs and coo-coo-ing with his trophy wife and her cat hospital.
In in response, the 'crew' has been gasping and struggling to hide the 'strings' of how they formulate their content for a while, contrived arguments, fake calls, etc.
Whch is fine, except it's the opposite of what made him an icon. Like if Tarantino started making Hallmark TV movies.