You could just listen to something else.
Not ready for Prime Time.
It’s all part of the act.
Savage is on here (NM) in Hannity’s old time slot. He’s unlistenable.
However, another station started Phil Valentine who I find quite good.
I’ve heard Mike Gallagher do this. Completely unprofessional - and tells you a lot about the personality behind the microphone.
Ditto
Savage is a moron, I would listen to Justin Bieber all day before listening to Savage.
He would hang up on people who agreed with him but weren’t good enough talkers for him.
The stations that put him on in drive time need their head examined.
All talk radio is difficult to listen to. Rush repeats himself three or four times on everything he says. Callers just meander rather than getting to the point. I haven’t listened to radio in years. I record whatever I want to listen to and play it as I drive. There are lots of free books. Start here.
You could have just stopped the thread right there. :)
Quit listening to Savage after trying to read his book. The darn thing seemed to be written for a child!
Some degree of Diva behavior is going to happen, especially in a field where it is your job description to emote and exaggerate, and examine. Still one shouldn’t forget we all have a sense of pride, even the sound engineers.
Mike can be brilliant and a grand storyteller, but he has a tendancy to strike out at other conservative talk hosts, even when they appeal to different audiences, and present no rational threat of popularity. That’s the main reason he got almost no on air support when Great Britain declared him persona non grata. The silence of other big talkers was deafening. But Mike learned nothing constructive from that experience at all.
Michael Wiener is extremely annoying to listen to. WLS recently put him on the drive time slot here in the Chicago area. I think it’s a delayed broadcast. When he starts self agrandizing I just switch to NPR. At least NPR had a segment on the Bundy standoff. Rush and Wiener had not a peep to my knowledge.
If you’d paid attention, you’d realize it was much more than mere feedback in his headphones—the show today is from a remote location and the techs completely blew it, they were not prepared to go on the air and nothing was working, callers weren’t going through, everything crashed and they had to repeatedly go to commercials and reruns. Plus his fans know he blows his stack, that’s the draw.
Listening to Weiner is bad for one’s blood pressure
In my area I receive and rank “conservative” hosts as follows:
1. Levin - Great
2. Prager - thoughtful but too sensitive about being a Jew
3. Hewitt - a bit boring
4. Gallagher - self absorbed but not scared of the race issue
5. Hannity - too moderate
6. Medved - mocking, know-it-all and GOP cheerleader
7. Savage - clown
Aside from Rush, who is a highly-trained broadcast professional, few of these talkers have high production standards, and most are just completely unprofessional. What can you expect from former contractors, antropologists, lawyers, etc who see radio as an extension of their big egos?
Board ops make about a nickel over minimum wage.
You’d have to be a Grade-A Jackwagon to yell at one.
Radio’s O’Reilley
So much for doing a remote..
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So much for a Live show today.. Stuff happens.
That one was real. But I think a lot of the radio talk show hosts berate their staffers as part of the act.