Everyone thinks their lunkhead is the Worst Lunkhead in History.
But I watched my parents’ generation proudly proclaim themselves to be “Rush Babies / Ditto-Heads” (terms the host eagerly appended to his annoying fan base) and paid out the nose to listen to Howard Stern on Satellite Radio. Before that, we had coast to coast shameless shill Wolfman Jack and the perennially getting-fired Don Imus.
They all had the same schtick. They all mainlined fad diets and new age spirituality and quasi-legal drug abuse. They desperately wanted to be sports broadcasters, but failed to fully break in because of their inevitable fit of racism or sexism. Its the same bullshit decade after decade, complete with faux-libertarian toxic masculinity and hawking magic beans in a six hour long sales pitch.
Before radio we had thousands of independent Carnies. After radio we’ve consolidated and monopolized the job of Carny under the job title of DJ or Talk Radio Host or Podcaster, take your pick. But they grow these assholes in a vat under the Pentagon. They aren’t unique.
Not sure Stern fits in there with people like Limbaugh… He’s changed quite a bit and is a really good interviewer. He might have been skeezy back in the day, but I don’t believe he was ever pushing right wing conspiracy bullshit or anything.
Stern was a shameless misogynist and sex pest. He was more than happy to shill quack therapies for everything from baldness to dick pills. He wasn’t a red meat spewing white nationalist or evangelical fascist. He ended up on the seediest end of the Libertarian spectrum, where any amount of social exploitation was acceptable so long as it made you a buck and it was cool to whine about a rapper from LA saying the N-word when he can’t.
And his show was as overflowing with hoaxes and conspiracies as anyone else on the radio. It was the same kind of Joe Rogan “open your mind until your brain falls out” style of cynical incredulity. Anything to fill the time slot that got people’s attention was on the table.
Everyone thinks their lunkhead is the Worst Lunkhead in History.
But I watched my parents’ generation proudly proclaim themselves to be “Rush Babies / Ditto-Heads” (terms the host eagerly appended to his annoying fan base) and paid out the nose to listen to Howard Stern on Satellite Radio. Before that, we had coast to coast shameless shill Wolfman Jack and the perennially getting-fired Don Imus.
They all had the same schtick. They all mainlined fad diets and new age spirituality and quasi-legal drug abuse. They desperately wanted to be sports broadcasters, but failed to fully break in because of their inevitable fit of racism or sexism. Its the same bullshit decade after decade, complete with faux-libertarian toxic masculinity and hawking magic beans in a six hour long sales pitch.
Before radio we had thousands of independent Carnies. After radio we’ve consolidated and monopolized the job of Carny under the job title of DJ or Talk Radio Host or Podcaster, take your pick. But they grow these assholes in a vat under the Pentagon. They aren’t unique.
Lol there’s a conspiracy theory I want to see pick up. Joe Rogan is a synth grown under the Pentagon, meant to divide the people
Not sure Stern fits in there with people like Limbaugh… He’s changed quite a bit and is a really good interviewer. He might have been skeezy back in the day, but I don’t believe he was ever pushing right wing conspiracy bullshit or anything.
Stern was a shameless misogynist and sex pest. He was more than happy to shill quack therapies for everything from baldness to dick pills. He wasn’t a red meat spewing white nationalist or evangelical fascist. He ended up on the seediest end of the Libertarian spectrum, where any amount of social exploitation was acceptable so long as it made you a buck and it was cool to whine about a rapper from LA saying the N-word when he can’t.
And his show was as overflowing with hoaxes and conspiracies as anyone else on the radio. It was the same kind of Joe Rogan “open your mind until your brain falls out” style of cynical incredulity. Anything to fill the time slot that got people’s attention was on the table.
Sure Stern’s a turd. But he’s not a bad faith actor, and those cunce are worse for society as a whole
He’s just a series of ads riding a Sybian.
They’re hawking worse merch, sure. But its the same grift.
You should hear him talk about Israel