Michael Savage, is another one. His show was much better before it was syndicated, when it was just local. He would talk about Shakespeare, the bible, ethnobiology, Italian recipes, all kinds of witty things. I don’t think he did much of that at all when he went national, but that was some of his best stuff.
I have no time for any talk radio personality who uses a fake name, but I found that Michael Weiner/Savage could be the most comical voice on the radio for about five minutes before it just got too exhausting to listen to him.
P.S. — Savage also officially became a fifth-rate talk radio host when it became apparent that he was using audio compression technology to alter his speech pattern on the air. No serious host in that business would ever reduce himself to that kind of sh!t. Someone like that is seen as the Milli Vanilli of the radio business.
He would talk about Shakespeare, the bible, ethnobiology, Italian recipes, all kinds of witty things.
I loved listening to that stuff. You couldn't find stuff like that anywhere else. He would read the Bible with passion and intensity and would apply what he read to himself better than a lot of Christian commentators even though at the time I doubt he was a Christian. I used to pray for him.
For awhile, he covered the asinine presidential debates. The best coverage was when he would do commentary voice-over during the debates (with his dog there). Funny as hell. A few times he would walk away from the mic and you could hear him screaming from the other side of the room, "I can't take it any more." Funny as hell.
I finally stopped listening to him when I got tired of how incredibly abusive he was to his callers. Also as most of these talk radio hosts do, he failed to see the whole enchilada when it came to individual freedom.