On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, D. Peter Maus wrote:

On 1/27/16 15:12 , dxAce wrote:


DhiaDuit wrote:

cats listen to that thar coast to coast Phoney Baloney BS?
www.michaelsheiser.com www.sitchiniswrong.com
Along about midnight doggy and I are hittin the sack. I listen to
doggy snoring.

I used to listen to it a lot years ago, back when Art Bell was
running the show. Always some interesting topics, but certainly just
a lot of fun listening to the kooks call in!





Sadly, 'kooks' describe many, if not most, callers to talk radio, these
days.

I always thought Art Bell could have a great show, if he actually went
after interesting topics.

Too often it was the weird. Every so often he'd have a guest on to talk
about a "real" subject, and that was pretty good. I never heard "Long
John" Nebel, so perhaps I'm imposing too much, but it sounded like he
would get interesting guest on to talk about interesting things. That can
be pretty good overnight, let them talk rather than squeeze them in
between ads and the news.

Gee, even about fifteen years ago, the local talk station would have a
more "free form" to it, if a popular guest was still getting callers, they
might add some time. Now they barely want that guest on, she gets 30
minutes at much greater intervals. Meanwhile the hosts are giving out the
phone numbers, and telling the callers they have to move on (rather than
let the caller have a rebuttal), but then the host rehashes what he's been
saying, because there are no more callers.

Michael