Talk Radio Sucks. Really. Really. Bad.
My commute is five minutes long, unless I hit traffic. Then it's eight minutes. But today was a five minute drive, just enough time to catch one segment of talk radio on WDFN, Sports 1130.
Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 was accused of being both a scientologist and homosexual. The highbrow conversation that WDFN is known for asked its listeners to call in and honestly tell the listening audience what offends them more, being accused of being gay or being accused of being a scientologist. There were four callers. Callers 1 and 2 both claimed that they would rather be accused of being gay than be accused of being a scientologist. Caller three would prefer to be called a scientologist than gay, because who wants to be gay. Caller four agreed with callers one and two, and found the scientolgy slight to be much more shameful than being called gay.
Without going to commercial, Stoney, the host, then mentioned the weather forecast, as in ...
Its supposed to by thunderstorming tonight, and Jersey, my dog, will be running into the bathroom to hide. But at least I know that while she is scared, she is also healthy, because she eats Purina One. I was amazed to learn that Purina One chooses only the finest of ingredients in their dog foods, and is recommended by veteranarians.
No pause for a commericial. Nothing to let the listener know that scientology vs homosexuality was finished. Just a smooth transition into pet food.
Pass the barf bag please.
Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 was accused of being both a scientologist and homosexual. The highbrow conversation that WDFN is known for asked its listeners to call in and honestly tell the listening audience what offends them more, being accused of being gay or being accused of being a scientologist. There were four callers. Callers 1 and 2 both claimed that they would rather be accused of being gay than be accused of being a scientologist. Caller three would prefer to be called a scientologist than gay, because who wants to be gay. Caller four agreed with callers one and two, and found the scientolgy slight to be much more shameful than being called gay.
Without going to commercial, Stoney, the host, then mentioned the weather forecast, as in ...
Its supposed to by thunderstorming tonight, and Jersey, my dog, will be running into the bathroom to hide. But at least I know that while she is scared, she is also healthy, because she eats Purina One. I was amazed to learn that Purina One chooses only the finest of ingredients in their dog foods, and is recommended by veteranarians.
No pause for a commericial. Nothing to let the listener know that scientology vs homosexuality was finished. Just a smooth transition into pet food.
Pass the barf bag please.
posted by Air Time at 6:12 PM
7 Comments:
It's supposed to be a sports radio channel. What's the deal? Couldn't find enough sports to talk about? Umm...like the All-Star game, or, better yet, the fact that the NHL has a tentative deal in place. Do they think people really care about that kind of crap? Scientology Vs homosexuality?!? WTF?!?
-OC
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In general I love talk radio, especially WDFN, I even listen to it at work in Pittsburgh. at least Stoney had teh weather break up the gay, scientology report.
I don't care that they were talking scientology. I hate the commercials that they weave into the conversation. It sucks.
I like that you can download books through iTunes, even though i haven't tried it yet.
HOWARD STERN RULES!!!
Air,
I agree that there is way too much variety and not enough sports on SPORTS TALK radio. And on top of that, the variety tends to be not the most enlightened of conversations.
A couple of things: As annoying as it seems, Stoney was doing an ad when he was talking about his dog. it is a cheap way of presenting ad material that implies the on-air talent actually endorses and would use the product if they had to pay for it. Stern does it, Imus does it, even Paul Harvey does it. Second, I wrote a blurb today on a test that can be used to separate those who should be hosting a sports talk show from those who shouldn't. Feel free to check it out. let me know what you think
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