The Democrat Utopia

teachercd said:
You do have to admit though that Rush created an amazing radio following.  And he had a great radio voice.

In terms of biggest radio guys ever...

Rush

Stern

Jim Rome

Maybe in that order???
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Last week I listened to the Howard Stern 9/11 broadcast. Really an incredible listen. Hearing them go from their normal banter to talking about the attacks, kinda cracking jokes here and there and then fully realizing what’s going on. Wild stuff. There’s a couple different uploads on YouTube. 

 
Fru said:
Last week I listened to the Howard Stern 9/11 broadcast. Really an incredible listen. Hearing them go from their normal banter to talking about the attacks, kinda cracking jokes here and there and then fully realizing what’s going on. Wild stuff. There’s a couple different uploads on YouTube. 
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I have never heard it.  I always thought he was great at interviewing people and he was so funny.  

I am going to go check that out later and give some of my students a "study hall" so I can listen. 

 
teachercd said:
I have never heard it.  I always thought he was great at interviewing people and he was so funny.  

I am going to go check that out later and give some of my students a "study hall" so I can listen. 
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Give it a listen. I just learned about it and heard it a couple months ago. It's really like a time capsule of what life was like back then, and all the emotions we all felt as we figured out what was happening. 

 
teachercd said:
I have never heard it.  I always thought he was great at interviewing people and he was so funny.  

I am going to go check that out later and give some of my students a "study hall" so I can listen. 
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If you can, I would recommend one that starts from the beginning, or as close to the beginning of the show where it’s just mindless banter about Pamela Anderson, because to Zrod’s point, it’s a great time capsule of what life, media etc used to be like. 

ZRod said:
Give it a listen. I just learned about it and heard it a couple months ago. It's really like a time capsule of what life was like back then, and all the emotions we all felt as we figured out what was happening. 
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Speaking to the time capsule part, one thing that really stood out to me was how little they talked about Bush and Cheney. They mentioned both through out the broadcast but kind of in a passive way. Not anything like what it’d be today if something like that happened. It’d go immediately to partisan talk. 

 
ZRod said:
Give it a listen. I just learned about it and heard it a couple months ago. It's really like a time capsule of what life was like back then, and all the emotions we all felt as we figured out what was happening. 
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I just showed a ton of clips of 9/11 in class the other day, we are at the point now where my HS students don't really understand what it was really like that day.

 
Fru said:
If you can, I would recommend one that starts from the beginning, or as close to the beginning of the show where it’s just mindless banter about Pamela Anderson, because to Zrod’s point, it’s a great time capsule of what life, media etc used to be like. 

Speaking to the time capsule part, one thing that really stood out to me was how little they talked about Bush and Cheney. They mentioned both through out the broadcast but kind of in a passive way. Not anything like what it’d be today if something like that happened. It’d go immediately to partisan talk. 
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I will try but today is a pretty busy gender-changing day here at school.  Gotta hit my quota. 

 
Fru said:
Last week I listened to the Howard Stern 9/11 broadcast. Really an incredible listen. Hearing them go from their normal banter to talking about the attacks, kinda cracking jokes here and there and then fully realizing what’s going on. Wild stuff. There’s a couple different uploads on YouTube. 
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I was listening to that live while it happened.   I lived in a smaller town outside of Columbus Ohio at the time and had a 45 minute drive into the office.  Almost always had his show on.  They thought it was a small Cessna type plane at first.  

 
Fru said:
If you can, I would recommend one that starts from the beginning, or as close to the beginning of the show where it’s just mindless banter about Pamela Anderson, because to Zrod’s point, it’s a great time capsule of what life, media etc used to be like. 

Speaking to the time capsule part, one thing that really stood out to me was how little they talked about Bush and Cheney. They mentioned both through out the broadcast but kind of in a passive way. Not anything like what it’d be today if something like that happened. It’d go immediately to partisan talk. 
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Well, there was no Iraq war yet, no war on terror, no department of homeland security, no patriot act, no torture, no major policies implemented really.

 
teachercd said:
I just showed a ton of clips of 9/11 in class the other day, we are at the point now where my HS students don't really understand what it was really like that day.
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I don't think that's possible for anyone who was younger than 10 when it happened. You can't know what life was like before we got attacked. I mean, we have no idea what Pearl Harbor was really like, and I feel that was or should have been less shocking because there was a world war going on at the time and the majority were military personnel. Also, it wasn't televised on live TV.

 
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