pudge's Journal: KVI 570 Rips On Me For an Hour

Pretty much the whole first hour and much of the second hour of The Commentators, a talk show on Seattle's biggest talk radio station, was directed at me and my song, Osama Bin Laden, You Ruined My Birthday.

Feel free to listen to the whole thing. (Link fixed!)

The liberal host, Ken Schram, was exceedingly unkind. The conservative host, John Carlson, was not kind either, but he at least almost got it. Both of them thought the song was serious. That I was actually saying what the protagonist of the song is saying, seriously, for myself.

They had lots of people call in, some saying my song was "disgsting," some saying it was "funny." One insightful guy correctly said it was a parody of other people, not seriously stating what I think myself.

The whole thing was awesome.

Bad Link?

[johndiii]

It appears that the "listen to the whole thing" link is broken. I tried removing the spaces, but that did not help.

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[pudge]

They removed the file shortly after I posted the link.

Hmmmmmm.

First time listener?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Fake outrage and manufactured disagreement is what The Commentators is all about.

KVI's gone way downhill. I can't believe that their entire evening schedule is crackpot tin-foil stuff.

Ken's got his act down pat, though. I don't know if I can say the same for Carlson.

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[pudge]

But this was overboard even for him. :-)

I talked to Suits last night at a 9/11 memorial thing. He said Schram was even outraged OFF the air. :D

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[BadAnalogyGuy]

Schram hinted that you personally forwarded him the audio. Are you just poking the hornet's nest?

Sarcasm is Complex

[Nymz]

Oftentimes, I've seen sacastic posts get rated Overrated (without a previous rating), then Insightful, and then arrive at a 5 Funny.

I figure some people will think your song is offensive to one political party or the other, some will think it's an insightful look at societal attitudes, and then some will think it's just plain funny. So shame on you for being an email-troll (sending that song to the radio station). And congratulations to you, because a true artist is one whom writes a song that everyone c