Rush?s Health in Limbo - The End Has Come

[byco42]

As will be for us all.

I was never in this choir but I?ve performed this number in a few.

Wow that was great.

 

[Spartanmack]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Zc49qAhng

CKLW?

I enjoy opinion commentary - both Republitard and Libtard - when the people are generally funny, and generally not that pissed off.

I don’t really like Mark Levine that much.

CKLW sounds familiar but i'm not sure.

I agree on Levine - I prefer his books because there's a lot less yelling but he was on during my commute home so I listened a bit here and there. That was when there was a libtard talk radio station which I listened to a lot more because I got way more laughs out of Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder - have to be two of the dumbest people to ever be on the radio. Randi Rhodes (not the Quiet Riot/Ozzy Osbourne one) gave them a run for their money - she was on after the other two idiots so I'd catch her on nights when I worked late.

Edit: according to Al Gore's world wide web, in the late 80s, 99.5 was WDFX "The Fox" - I'm not saying the internet is wrong, but that doesn't really ring a bell for me.

Edit 2: how could I forget 94.7fm WCSX Detroit's classic rock station. Man, Detroit radio was so much better than NY or Chicago.

 

[byco42]

Rush Limbaugh sleeps with the fishes.

agreed, I think his influence was exaggerated. when I was in college, a few of my high school friends told me about him but I didn't really listen to the radio much at all and when I did, it was pretty much only music - 101.1fm WRIF and 98.7fm WLLZ, maybe a little 99.5 (I forget the call sign) and 96.3fm WHYT when I was in grade school. I think there was a pretty decent Canadian station in the high 80s, 88.7 maybe. Anyway, as an adult when I started listening to talk radio more, I'd hear about Rush Limbaugh here and there but never listened to his show. I listen to NPR and some local sports talk radio when I don't have a music station on. I listened to Mark Levine every now and then but don't even know if he's still on.

Anyway, RIP Rush Limbaugh.

You should have heard Detroit FM radio in the early 70s. It was amazing. And then it was ruined within two years when the sponsors sanitized it.

Music with no ads, or very few, read by the DJs.

“Who ate my f***in sandwich?” Was one of many gems from the DJs that I heard as an impressionable 14-year-old kid.

Go to 1:02 of this and listen to the DJ ... be sure to listen long enough to hear the ad @ 3:04 (Arthur Penhallow does the read) ... also scroll to 4:40 ... absolute gold.

And 9:40 on ... must listen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESmPADLLEd8

 

[tinselwolverine]

CKLW sounds familiar but i'm not sure.

I agree on Levine - I prefer his books because https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Zc49qAhng there's a lot less yelling but he was on during my commute home so I listened a bit here and there. That was when there was a libtard talk radio station which I listened to a lot more because I got way more laughs out of Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder - have to be two of the dumbest people to ever be on the radio. Randi Rhodes (not the Quiet Riot/Ozzy Osbourne one) gave them a run for their money - she was on after the other two idiots so I'd catch her on nights when I worked late.

Edit: according to Al Gore's world wide web, in the late 80s, 99.5 was WDFX "The Fox" - I'm not saying the internet is wrong, but that doesn't really ring a bell for me.

Edit 2: how could I forget 94.7fm WCSX Detroit's classic rock station. Man, Detroit radio was so much better than NY or Chicago.

Don?t know who the guy is; Jeanene?s hyperbole is definitely so over the top cringeworthy that ya can?t help but laugh.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I failed to correctly Bolden WRIF in the SM post I quoted with a clip from the upside of anger, but the scene was set in the WRIF radio station - don’t know if it was actually filmed there – and of course, features a cameo of legendary Arthur Penhallow.

 

[Spartanmack]

I failed to correctly Bolden WRIF in the SM post I quoted with a clip from the upside of anger, but the scene was set in the WRIF radio station - don’t know if it was actually filmed there – and of course, features a cameo of legendary Arthur Penhallow.

I caught that - recognized the logo on the glass door immediately. I think that bumper sticker was on every Trapper Keeper I had through 8th grade.

 

[Spartanmack]

Don?t know who the guy is; Jeanene?s hyperbole is definitely so over the top cringeworthy that ya can?t help but laugh.

Sam Seder is a little whiny bitch boy that makes Chris Hayes look like an Alpha male.

 

[Spartanmack]

You should have heard Detroit FM radio in the early 70s. It was amazing. And then it was ruined within two years when the sponsors sanitized it.

Music with no ads, or very few, read by the DJs.

“Who ate my f***in sandwich?” Was one of many gems from the DJs that I heard as an impressionable 14-year-old kid.

Go to 1:02 of this and listen to the DJ ... be sure to listen long enough to hear the ad (about a minute later) ... also scroll to 4:40 ... absolute gold.

And 9:40 on ... must listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESmPADLLEd8

we didn't move to the Detroit area until May of 1978 and I didn't start listening to the radio regularly until a couple years later (I was a toddler/preschooler in the early 70s) so my baseline is quite a bit different - the morning show with Dick the Bruiser and Arthur Penhallow are my "glory days"

can't get youtube at work and my cell phone battery just died, will have to listen when I get home later.

Edit: In post 22 I followed up the one you quoted with a coupe more stations from the 80s and early 90s and made the point that Detroit radio (at least then) was so much better than anywhere else i've lived (Chicago and NYC both stink, maybe that's a function of the times but I remember my dad, who didn't grow up in Detroit telling me Detroit was always known as a great radio town - a lot of household names got their starts there or became syndicated from there).

 

[Mitchrapp]

Rest in peace.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I caught that - recognized the logo on the glass door immediately. I think that bumper sticker was on every Trapper Keeper I had through 8th grade.

If you haven’t seen it it’s a pretty good movie.

I’m a little biased, I have a fondness for stories set in the Detroit area, stories that are about the Detroit Tigers, and movies with really really smoking babes, of which there are numerous in The Upside of Anger.

 

[Michchamp]

CKLW was a Canadian easy listening station; I don't think it was even FM.

You're thinking of 89X (88.7 FM), a longtime alternative rock station that just changed formats

 

[Michchamp]

that sucks, but IMO, anybody that is weak minded enough to let themselves be "poisoned" by a radio host, probably isn't worth spending time with anyway.

we pretty much reluctantly concluded that.

there's also the matter of perspective. Since it's Rush and not the individual(s) on one side who is responsible, I wonder what influencers were responsible for poisoning the minds of those on the other side of that rupture.

this is not some "both sides do it" bullshit... it was basic decency; the family members I knew that got into his show couldn't even manage to have a conversation about ANYTHING at holidays without dragging these heated "culture war" issues Rush made a big deal about into them. And it wasn't like half my family was liberal, and the other half was Conservative... they were ALL conservative, catholic midwesterners.

 

[tinselwolverine]

we pretty much reluctantly concluded that.



this is not some "both sides do it" bullshit... it was basic decency; the family members I knew that got into his show couldn't even manage to have a conversation about ANYTHING at holidays without dragging these heated "culture war" issues Rush made a big deal about into them. And it wasn't like half my family was liberal, and the other half was Conservative... they were ALL conservative, catholic midwesterners.

No, I know LMFT? But it sounds to me like there were some shit going on there that had nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh. I?m guessing that if Rush Limbaugh never came along, there would?ve been conflict over something else.

Oh lots of families have conflicts. That?s why there?s so many LMFT.

 

[byco42]

CKLW was a Canadian easy listening station; I don't think it was even FM.

You're thinking of 89X (88.7 FM), a longtime alternative rock station that just changed formats

CKLW was an FM station and the AM version was a monster top-40 station in my youth, heard all over the US and even internationally. It got even better to me when there was a Canadian quota imposed on the playlist in the early 70s.

The FM station was country in the 1970s and moved on to jazz, then something else. 93.9 was the frequency, bit the FM version had too much competition in Detroit to compete.

 

[byco42]

No, I know LMFT? But it sounds to me like there were some shit going on there that had nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh. I?m guessing that if Rush Limbaugh never came along, there would?ve been conflict over something else.

Oh lots of families have conflicts. That?s why there?s so many LMFT.

Our family and in-laws are all over the map in regards to politics, but it has never interfered with our relationships, which are in varying degrees of interest, but completely civil, to my knowledge.

But, then, I?ve not sprung my firm belief that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced. That may be too much for some to bear.

 

[Spartanmack]

If you haven?t seen it it?s a pretty good movie.

I?m a little biased, I have a fondness for stories set in the Detroit area, stories that are about the Detroit Tigers, and movies with really really smoking babes, of which there are numerous in The Upside of Anger.

have you seen the Ty Cobb movie starring Tommy Lee Jones? I've seen parts but never got around to seeing the whole thing. From what I saw of it, it looked pretty good - although, I'm not aware of the history, other than I heard Cobb was a real jerk.

 

[Gulo Blue]

But, then, I’ve not sprung my firm belief that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced. That may be too much for some to bear.

This is a thing!

Is this a rabbit hole I want to dig into?

Is it all based on I am the Walrus?

 

[Spartanmack]

we pretty much reluctantly concluded that.



this is not some "both sides do it" bullshit... it was basic decency; the family members I knew that got into his show couldn't even manage to have a conversation about ANYTHING at holidays without dragging these heated "culture war" issues Rush made a big deal about into them. And it wasn't like half my family was liberal, and the other half was Conservative... they were ALL conservative, catholic midwesterners.

it's always someone else's fault. admittedly, i was not a listener so I'm not familiar with his positions or views but I'm skeptical of the claims from people like you who say he was a hateful bigot given everyone who disagrees with people like you get the same label.

 

[byco42]

have you seen the Ty Cobb movie starring Tommy Lee Jones? I've seen parts but never got around to seeing the whole thing. From what I saw of it, it looked pretty good - although, I'm not aware of the history, other than I heard Cobb was a real jerk.

It?s based on the fictional account of Cobb written by Al Stump, which has had a large role in fomenting all the mis-information about Cobb. Not recommended.

 

[Michchamp]

It?s based on the fictional account of Cobb written by Al Stump, which has had a large role in fomenting all the mis-information about Cobb. Not recommended.

It sounds like Al Stump learned a nasty Ty Cobb sold more books than a decent one. It's telling he changed his tune long after Ty Cobb died... didn't want to give the man a chance to testify in his own defense.