Talk Radio (NOT music radio)

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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    I have a great plumber, however, he brings a boombox into my home when he's working and listens to nothing but conservative talk radio. He does great work and he's really affordable but I still feel as though I am letting myself down by not smashing it over his head.
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  • NothingSound
    NothingSound Posts: 198
    eyedclaar wrote:
    I have a great plumber, however, he brings a boombox into my home when he's working and listens to nothing but conservative talk radio. He does great work and he's really affordable but I still feel as though I am letting myself down by not smashing it over his head.

    It's because of conservative talk radio dipshits that people in this country still believe that Iraq had WMDs and was involved with 9/11.
  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    inmytree wrote:
    I do listen to him...he's a clown in my opinion...his whinny accent is amusing..

    and I work with children diagnosed with autism and can tell you that 99% are not parenting issues...

    perhaps you could try and be more critical of your boy savage...


    I don't think parenting has anything to do with the behavior of autistic children. Glad we agree on that one.

    Getting back to the thread topic, I also listen to Armstrong & Getty
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • anotherclone
    anotherclone Posts: 1,688
    Time to begin your listening day :D
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    He's got a live stream via

    http://www.970.am/
  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
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  • Lizardjam
    Lizardjam Posts: 1,121
    NothingSound wrote:
    It's because of conservative talk radio dipshits that people in this country still believe that Iraq had WMDs and was involved with 9/11.

    Um no, that would be stupid people's fault........I wouldn't blame talk show hosts for it. Granted there are many whack jobs on the radio but you have to be stupid to believe half of it.
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    I don't think parenting has anything to do with the behavior of autistic children. Glad we agree on that one.

    Getting back to the thread topic, I also listen to Armstrong & Getty

    too bad you're boy savage doesn't agree with us...

    as for this topic, I listen to local AM radio on my drive home, a fella named Harverd Jennings does a great job..
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Is he still on Talksport?
    he does the 10-1 evening slot occasionally, but it's often the tory political broadcast Collins now that he's a member of Westminster Press Gallery and spends his days loitering round the Commons.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Is he still on Talksport?

    yeah, Collins is on during the wee hours....suit you Fins. Occassionally he sits in on the mid morning show for Gaunty (which is always a welcome relief).
    Talksport is my listen of choice throughout the day, Brazil, Hawksby and Jacobs, Durham and Wright....help me through a long boring shift :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    elmer wrote:
    he does the 10-1 evening slot occasionally, but it's often the tory political broadcast Collins now that he's a member of Westminster Press Gallery and spends his days loitering round the Commons.


    I've seen him on the BBC occasionally, reviewing the papers and talking in that transatlantic drawl of his.

    As for Talksport, I didn't think that anyone could fuck that station up more than Kelvin MacKenzie did, but Moz Dee's done a spectacular job of making it pretty unlistenable.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

    As for Talksport, I didn't think that anyone could fuck that station up more than Kelvin MacKenzie did, but Moz Dee's done a spectacular job of making it pretty unlistenable.

    Who's he? :o
    All I say is, Mike Parry is a god :D listenable and then some.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    jamie uk wrote:
    yeah, Collins is on during the wee hours....suit you Fins.


    I used to enjoy the Creatures of the Night, even though it was daft.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    jamie uk wrote:
    Who's he? :o
    All I say is, Mike Parry is a god :D listenable and then some.


    Moz Dee's the bloke who's running the station now. He and Whaley didn't see eye to eye, even before the sacking incident.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I used to enjoy the Creatures of the Night, even though it was daft.

    man, I used to listen to that when I was on early shift...years ago. I always though Collins was class, though Miffy was on a meal ticket.
    Collins did the day time for a while, but they put him back to the night time, pity as I thought he was good. And Gaunty, who replaced him, is quite loathsome at times.
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Moz Dee's the bloke who's running the station now. He and Whaley didn't see eye to eye, even before the sacking incident.

    didn't realise Whaley was sacked, I guess I never heard much when he was on.
    Do you remember his tv show from the 80's?...hahaha, that was so ridiculous :)
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    jamie uk wrote:
    didn't realise Whaley was sacked, I guess I never heard much when he was on.
    Do you remember his tv show from the 80's?...hahaha, that was so ridiculous :)


    He may or may not have broken a broadcasting rule - the Representation of the People Act - by telling the people of London to "Vote Boris". There's some grey area around whether he did that just before or during the electoral period when it applied, and Whaley's hinted he's going to challenge his sacking on these grounds.

    He's on Play Radio UK on Mondays and Tuesdays, and he filled in for Clive Bull last week on LBC. It won't be long until he's got some proper slot somewhere.
    I don't share his politics, and I found him a bit stale during his last year or two on Talksport, but he's still leaps and bounds over people like Mike Mendozeoff.

    Now, Tommy Boyd was The Man, the guv'nor of talk radio:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF3mANg4990 :D
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    jamie uk wrote:
    man, I used to listen to that when I was on early shift...years ago. I always though Collins was class, though Miffy was on a meal ticket.
    Collins did the day time for a while, but they put him back to the night time, pity as I thought he was good. And Gaunty, who replaced him, is quite loathsome at times.


    Ah, Gunt as he's also known. Abysmal.

    Yep, Collins switched shifts with this much-missed, curmudgeonly old walrus:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x20cbXq8vPo
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I stopped listening to Talk Radio decades ago. It was fun for a while... but, it got boring.
    Also... it is all about RATINGS... not substance or content.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Cosmo wrote:
    I stopped listening to Talk Radio decades ago. It was fun for a while... but, it got boring.
    Also... it is all about RATINGS... not substance or content.

    Some of the stations are going like that here, too, with the reverse bid auctions, and the like. Internet speech radio is much better though in many respects: there's a lot more freedom to say what you want, and calls are largely unscreened. However, that can also encourage the nutters or the people who will call up just to call the presenter a cunt because they know they can.

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