Listenin' to R & B
Since moving down here, I’ve gotten hooked on Rick & Bubba’s morning talk radio show on Y102 (the equivalent of Z100 in NYC – it mostly plays Top 40 hits). The following is a list of topics from Rick & Bubba’s morning radio show:
1) Rick (or was it Bubba?) got too competitive at a Church carnival and broke his son’s Sunday school teacher’s nose while boxing on a moonwalk.
2) A call-in segment on being aware of and preventing internet predators
3) Why moms and dads have different parenting responsibilities: Dads are the playmates and Moms are the caretakers. (This message was affirmed by a university student who called in and informed listeners this is exactly what she learned in her family life and parenting class)
4) Effusive praise for Geraldo, who stated on the air that we’re going to be in Iraq a long time, so anyone that has a problem with the war should “get over it” (Note: I haven’t independently confirmed Geraldo’s statement);
5) Extensive critical analysis of Connie Chung’s farewell parody song (which was indeed atrocious) on her weekend cable news show with Maury Povich.
6) Interspersed throughout has been ongoing discussion of the World Cup results (Rick or Bubba, I forget which, isn’t a big fan of soccer, but loves tennis)
Admittedly, I’ve been impressed with how substantive R&B’s content is – they’re both pretty well versed on world events and are certainly entertaining. I was holding out some hope that R&B would offer at least a taste of liberalism, especially since the entertainment industry and most of all, morning shock jocks, generally trends toward liberal and boundary-busting ideas. But my hope went out the window on the same day that R&B started singing Geraldo’s praises, which was the same day that they hailed Ronald Regan for prophesying the Star Wars missile defense system and then proceeded to call Democrats multiple variations of “whiners”, “whiny liberals” and “folks that complain a whole lot but don’t do anything”. Listening to R&B is when I have my “duh moments” that not everyone in this country thinks of progressivism as a positive trait. By the same token it also gives me a window into what politicians mean when they stress “family values” – a lifestyle that is family-safe and centric, that is humorous (with clean jokes, of course), where men and women stick to traditional gender roles and where faith plays a significant part of one’s outlook.
1) Rick (or was it Bubba?) got too competitive at a Church carnival and broke his son’s Sunday school teacher’s nose while boxing on a moonwalk.
2) A call-in segment on being aware of and preventing internet predators
3) Why moms and dads have different parenting responsibilities: Dads are the playmates and Moms are the caretakers. (This message was affirmed by a university student who called in and informed listeners this is exactly what she learned in her family life and parenting class)
4) Effusive praise for Geraldo, who stated on the air that we’re going to be in Iraq a long time, so anyone that has a problem with the war should “get over it” (Note: I haven’t independently confirmed Geraldo’s statement);
5) Extensive critical analysis of Connie Chung’s farewell parody song (which was indeed atrocious) on her weekend cable news show with Maury Povich.
6) Interspersed throughout has been ongoing discussion of the World Cup results (Rick or Bubba, I forget which, isn’t a big fan of soccer, but loves tennis)
Admittedly, I’ve been impressed with how substantive R&B’s content is – they’re both pretty well versed on world events and are certainly entertaining. I was holding out some hope that R&B would offer at least a taste of liberalism, especially since the entertainment industry and most of all, morning shock jocks, generally trends toward liberal and boundary-busting ideas. But my hope went out the window on the same day that R&B started singing Geraldo’s praises, which was the same day that they hailed Ronald Regan for prophesying the Star Wars missile defense system and then proceeded to call Democrats multiple variations of “whiners”, “whiny liberals” and “folks that complain a whole lot but don’t do anything”. Listening to R&B is when I have my “duh moments” that not everyone in this country thinks of progressivism as a positive trait. By the same token it also gives me a window into what politicians mean when they stress “family values” – a lifestyle that is family-safe and centric, that is humorous (with clean jokes, of course), where men and women stick to traditional gender roles and where faith plays a significant part of one’s outlook.
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