Terrorists Protest The Eagles Of Death Metal — Papa’s Basement 474
We recorded this almost two weeks ago, so I remember very little of the content. It was a jumble of thoughts after the terrorist attacks in France and a meditation […]
Terrestrial radio fucking sucks. That sentence both random and vulgar without context, so permit me to elaborate: There was a time I loved radio. As a kid, my local “guy talk” station, WJFK, started my day with Howard Stern and gave me Don & Mike in the afternoon. It was the first and only style of comedy to grab me by the throat and “speak” to me, for lack of a better term. I was too stupid to realize in my youth that I should have gone into the medium as soon as I could, and instead listen to my foolish immigrant parents, who demanded academic success and steered me toward college (which I barely limped through, so haha mom and dad, the joke’s on you).
In the ensuing decades, radio has been eviscerated by boosts in the FCC’s power to censor via fining, not to mention its previous advertising revenue increasingly being funneled into online marketing. What’s left are toothless music stations that play the same songs every hour, milquetoast sports talk to quench the thirsts for entertainment of men and horrid mixed-gender celeb-news cackle-thons (like the aforementioned Kane Show) to appeal to the ladies.
Into this, the Papa’s Basement Show will finally be injected, heard on terrestrial air at a local community station. Pete Maybe and I do a “clean” show in celebration of this, tackling the local Kane Show and also spending a segment focusing on the fact that Queen’s Roger Taylor kinda made a hot chick…and that the Internet agrees. Please share and enjoy.
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