Do You Hear What I Hear?

You know you have reached the status of boring parent when you flip on the radio and the talk radio station is still playing. I find that I am much more interested in getting my daily dose of adult entertainment/news from the radio than papers or television. I love to read but the local newspaper is always slanting toward the communist point of view. I realize that this is a union town but please, anything but communism. Getting my news visually has lost the luster in this megabyte mentality news era and the socialist slant.

Now I listen to two variations of talk radio. My morning routine is with the Bob and Tom show on our very own WIOT. Bob and Tom is a group of four radio personalities who, through the use of off color humor and on air antics, manage to entertain their listeners. Some mornings are funnier than others but they normally have comedians on several times a week with fresh material and have even spawned tours of comics who travel the country in groups performing. It is definitely a great way to get the morning started with a good helping of humor.

My afternoons are geared more to the traditional talk radio. I sometimes catch the tail end of Glenn Beck and cruise into Rush Limbaugh. I try to catch the first hour of Rush because you get the big issue of the day and some discussion on it. It also helps me to get informed on what the politicians are doing to make my life more difficult. What I have found is if they are squabbling over the stupid things that normally occupy their time, they are not raising taxes or making more laws we don’t need. If they would just review the laws they have and take the ones that we don’t need off the books, they would at least be doing something constructive.

Now these two formats may appear to be miles apart. One is based on off-color humor and one is based on expanding the conservative view point. The thing they both have in common is that I know that they are entertainment. Neither Bob and Tom or Rush Limbaugh takes themselves serious enough to think they are the final word. Rush wants you to think he is, but knows that for all his influence, he is still human and subject to the same temptations as we all are. He wouldn’t have checked into drug rehab if that was not the case.

I guess it is just the phase of life I am in. I spend an hour and a half per day in the car getting back and forth to work. The radio has become a friend but the best part is the on/ off button.

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Cobb