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FordMan100 OP t1_j9jxhuf wrote

All I can say is he must be the dumbest person in NJ. He's talking about wind turbines and how bad they are. He even said they will be leaking diesel fuel in the water when they are off shore. I think he reached a new low on the IQ scale.

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invertedeparture t1_j9jywoo wrote

That is impressive considering how insufferable most of them are. Radio these days is garbage.

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SaluteYourSports t1_j9kewz9 wrote

WFMU would like a word.

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ChrisXNJ t1_j9kpwjw wrote

WFMU is the answer. You may have to search, but there is a show for everyone on the app - which is definitely worth having. 91.1 on the airwaves, and wake & bake with clay pigeon every weekday from 6-9am is my personal favorite for a live morning show with music. I hope someone newly discovers this radio show and is as grateful as I was when I found it. Enjoy!

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SaluteYourSports t1_j9kq74i wrote

I definitely never thought I would say this about a radio station, but WFMU has so greatly improved my life. Love it so much.

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unclebonesy t1_j9o6zvy wrote

Is Dennis Elces still a DJ there? I remember him from WNEW classic rock . Always liked his weekend show because he had seagulls squawking in the background when he would talk 😂

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gordonv t1_j9k4c0g wrote

Sadly, even neutral music stations have way too many commercials and not enough selection rotation. There are songs that stay on for 3 years. It's horrible.

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eggrollking t1_j9kijj5 wrote

Check out WFMU out of NJ. Not sure what frequency they broadcast on because I use their app, but they have four stream at pretty much any given time, and it's all freeform; no bullshit corporate radio.

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globalyawning t1_j9ku651 wrote

91.1 and oh man that place has been my go to for 25 years

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eggrollking t1_j9lfo9q wrote

I'm kinda new to it; found it just a few months ago. Definitely enjoying it though! Mostly been listening to Wake and Bake.

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globalyawning t1_j9lktwa wrote

There's a random archive selector which is probably my most used bookmark

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Pigsin5pace t1_j9o5uiz wrote

Gotta check out those 9am-noon time slots. Garbage time and Kens show are my some of my favs

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eggrollking t1_j9og7du wrote

Heard Diane for the first time yesterday; that was a cool show. I'm usually listening to podcasts later in the day, but maybe I'll venture into some other WFMU content instead.

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whodisacct t1_j9kh7ri wrote

Try commercial free sun radio out of Austin. You can stream it.

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gordonv t1_j9khntn wrote

So, around 2008 I got onto the Amazon MP3 craze. Now Amazon is making it hard to buy MP3's and is forcing their own poor streaming selections.

I'd rather listen to my purchased songs in a playlist. I do like some broadcasts, but it's not my goto.

Ironically, I feel the FIOS music stations do a better job than all other mediums in the case for variety.

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eggrollking t1_j9kihle wrote

Check out WFMU out of NJ. Not sure what frequency they broadcast on because I use their app, but they have four stream at pretty much any given time, and it's all freeform; no bullshit corporate radio.

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Crusheddeer1 t1_j9lofe1 wrote

The last good station in the NJ died when 92.3 died

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9mm56h wrote

Nay Nay Nay!!! The Rat lives on!!!

(Edit: for those not in the know)

WRAT (95.9 FM, "95.9 The Rat") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Point Pleasant, New Jersey. The station is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group through licensee Beasley Media Group Licenses, LLC. It airs a mainstream rock radio format. The studios, offices and transmitter are located on Main Street at 18th Avenue in the Borough of Lake Como, New Jersey at (40°10′15.3″N 74°01′40.3″W).[1]

Also streams

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Crusheddeer1 t1_j9my22o wrote

The thing about the rat I hate is their range. It’s too small to be used daily by me. They only work in ocean and Monmouth but 92.3 used to cover everywhere for the most part of jersey from ocean and up.

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Aperfectfitz_91 t1_j9o56z5 wrote

Followed them over to IHeart. Elliot is an idiot but I love listening to him.

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gordonv t1_j9k3ufb wrote

His idiocy is not a mistake. 101.5 decided to pander to that "red crazy" crowd a long time ago. The formula isn't even unique.

#Simpsons did it.

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whodisacct t1_j9khjxe wrote

Spadea is either off the charts willfully ignorant and angry or he’s a performance artist. It’s hard to tell some times.

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EmbracedByLeaves t1_j9k8mjd wrote

Probably related to the turbines in Scotland that are currently leaking diesel into the ground from their attached diesel generators.

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FordMan100 OP t1_j9kau8e wrote

If the diesel.tanks ate underground they will leak eventually but the turbines in NJ won't have an engine powered by fuel.

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fieseldumes t1_j9mfup3 wrote

Forgive my ignorance but why would a wind turbine have a diesel generator attached and who fills it if it does lol

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_j9kxhn4 wrote

Pretty much whatever the left likes his job is to disagree with it that's how he makes his money

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sharkman1774 t1_j9k40pk wrote

He just big mad radio is a dead medium

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peter-doubt t1_j9khdgq wrote

For 101.5, they deserve it. Bigots and lame brains all the time. Even their best product (traffic reports) aren't worth suffering their verbal diarrhea

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allo_777 t1_j9k4b11 wrote

Idk bud, i like listening to espn ny and the fan on my commute.

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sharkman1774 t1_j9k6hdf wrote

Idk how you do it, it's literally 70% ads at this point. Worse than cable TV

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smurfetteshat t1_j9nim7w wrote

I never worried about them other than the whole dead marine life mystery

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whodisacct t1_j9kgtag wrote

Bill Spadea is discount rack Rush Limbaugh.

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Stund_Mullet t1_j9kvqzv wrote

I met him doing film/video work as an employee of a contractor when he was running for whatever bullshit office 20 years ago in Princeton. Can confirm he is what you would get if you crossbred a butt plug and a bag of dicks.

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VisionInPlaid t1_j9lmgs5 wrote

>Can confirm he is what you would get if you crossbred a butt plug and a bag of dicks.

That is a magnificent insult.

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njstein t1_j9mzfqw wrote

>a butt plug and a bag of dicks.

That sounds awesome though. Bill Spadea does not.

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Good-Macaroon2630 t1_j9n1dx5 wrote

Omg. Thank you!!!!! I thought my dad and I were the only ones who noticed this. I listened to the morning show on my commute for years but gave up and switched to podcasts. When he first started, he was actually good. But these past few years, bro has really gone off the rails. I mean, to the extreme…

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9k2rvm wrote

NJ 101.5 fucken kills brain cells, bruh. Except Big Joe Henry. He can stay. The rest can EABOD

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Rusty_Ferberger t1_j9k5l84 wrote

I haven't listened to Big Joe in years. That station gets 0% of my radio listening.

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gordonv t1_j9k4iio wrote

Dominsky and Doyle aren't bad. They aren't Republican drones.

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SearchContinues t1_j9k5t8u wrote

They are the only good thing left there. Dennis and Judy went Qish a few years ago. At first Judy would be the whackadoodle and Denis would play a Reaganesque conservative but it got so bad after a while I took the station off my presets. I don't even go there for Big Joe or the weather anymore.

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FordMan100 OP t1_j9lpvar wrote

I'd like to meet Judy just to ask her something. A few years back she Said dogs don't feel any pain. A few weeks after, she was talking about cutting her hand with a knife and how much it hurt.

I'd like to ask her, if dogs don't feel pain why we're you in pain after cutting your hand with a knife?

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9ptate wrote

Sorry, I had to read that a few times to get it. I got it. Damn man you are harsh.

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eggrollking t1_j9lhb6u wrote

I remember listening to D&J back in the 90s, before I was really picking up on anything political, etc. I was just out of high school, working full time, and just enjoyed listening to talk radio. Especially if it was a topic I found interesting or relatable, or just amusing. There are times I miss being kind of oblivious to the bigger picture, but what can you do, right?

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potatochipsfox t1_j9jzfng wrote

No, why would I listen to that garbage?

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philly_bits t1_j9katl0 wrote

More like MAGA101.5

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9ptjzi wrote

RedPill radio 101.5…. Leave your brains in the glovebox and leave the thinking to US!!!

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imchasingentropy t1_j9ka6rn wrote

101.5 is absolute garbage...except on the weekends. All the talking idiots go home and they play a great selection of mostly classic rock. It's amazing how good they could be if they just fired the alt right Nazis they have employed during the week.

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unclebonesy t1_j9lxsuw wrote

I stopped listening to that station 3 years ago because of Bill Spadea . He just pushes his right wing agendas, conspiracy theories, etc way to much. He doesn’t give callers with reasonable points any time and talks over them and hangs up on them only to make his right wing point be heard. I give that station 0 ratings today . I’m looking for news sources that don’t cast their agenda which is why I like NPR and BBC news

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Lyraxiana t1_j9poghf wrote

NPR has the Moth radio hour, and the most incredible stories I've ever heard, like the British man who crossed the English channel in a bathtub and almost caused an international incident.

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Telnet_to_the_Mind t1_j9kbh3j wrote

I stopped listening to that complete waste of radio frequency years ago.

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PurpleSailor t1_j9kqsg6 wrote

No, I'm not into self torture

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mjdlight t1_j9k9at4 wrote

Trade 101.5 for 91.1 or streaming at wfmu.org.

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9ptycv wrote

(Cat reading new paper gif) I’ve got to get me some of those edgy ‘FMU bumper Stickers. Really, they are neat

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gordonv t1_j9k3fh9 wrote

Check out NPR.

If your car can connect to your phone, tell it to play NPR News. No commercials, ready when you are.

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peter-doubt t1_j9ki7sw wrote

When I rent cars, I scan for them... And set all but 2 presets to those... One is likely to survive for a while

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blumpkin_donuts t1_j9k49l5 wrote

Ah, first time listening to Nazi radio huh?

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Bash_teh_fashx t1_j9kuhi4 wrote

You should check out their Facebook page. 95% of the comments are from racist ass MAGA cultists repeating the same bullshit ad nauseam. I’m not old enough to really remember but at what point did that station take such a hard right turn?

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blumpkin_donuts t1_j9kusfk wrote

They always leaned a bit right but it went hard when that fascist propagandist Bill Spadea joined.

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blumpkin_donuts t1_j9kuwp3 wrote

It's also been easy for them to do that because their audience has been dwindling and now it's basically poor blue collar and the elderly that listen.

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Bash_teh_fashx t1_j9kz1vf wrote

I’ll sometimes try to listen just to see what sort of ridiculous nonsense they’re talking about here and there, but I end up just getting pissed off. Dennis and Judy are just about as bad as Spadea, too. It’s just a constant stream of dogwhistles and misinformation. I constantly consider calling in and trolling the hell out of them but I know they’d immediately just cut me off after they realize I’m not one of their typical braindead boomer fuckwit daily listeners.

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TodayTimeDeux t1_j9k8lqx wrote

Damn, is it that bad? (I don’t listen)

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blumpkin_donuts t1_j9k9qzo wrote

I'm really trying not to sensationalize it but it really is. They could fuel the lamps in San Diego with all the minority gaslighting they do.

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Rainbowrobb t1_j9kld34 wrote

It's like if Glenn Beck and Mark Levin had a baby and repeatedly dropped it and then only fed it gym bro protein powder.

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TodayTimeDeux t1_j9kpwss wrote

Lawd. Sad how that makes perfect sense to me, not a word confusing 😵‍💫

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Bash_teh_fashx t1_j9ktnr5 wrote

No, because he’s a fucking imbecile.

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JruASAP t1_j9k5npl wrote

Big Joe and D&D are fine, but Spadea and Dennis /Judy are fucking awful.

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ShaddyDaddy123 t1_j9kkifl wrote

As a Mercer Republican, I hate how much our party has invited Spadea to every recent event, and now they are having him at a "Women of Mercer County" event, where guess what? None of the guest speakers are Mercer County Women.

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Rainbowrobb t1_j9koe5m wrote

I was a registered republican until 2009. I began listening to Siriusxm radio. David something and then Mark Levin would on while I drove 2 hours every weekend. The terms began bubbling there like Marxist which was used as a coded way for saying "I hate that our president is black". I should have left the party sooner when in the 2008 GOP primary l, they allowed birthers to be speak at the RNC convention. Then the tea party gang showed up, and they were obnoxious, but a minority.

Hot take, nearly all politicians are corrupt power hungry self serving windbags.

I began to cope in 2016 and hope that maybe some form of healthcare plan would actually be produced. It would have guaranteed multiple GOP terms of they had pulled it off. But they were proven to have zero policies and had no idea how to govern. I then looked back and tried to remember when the GOP was able to govern at a state level or national level where fear wasn't a main driving force. I'm no war hawk (like both GWB and Hillary) but the moment the prominent faces of the GOP turned on McCain and ridiculed his service...that was irredeemable for me. The tea party gang had grown and taken over the GOP. We now live in a world where Joe Biden is called a Marxist, which is insane for anyone using their memory. When objectively, he's more of a pre-Newt as speaker moderator republican from the early 1990s. It's a crazy time.

The democrat's largest issue over the last 20 years has been messaging.

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Hamonwrysangwich t1_j9n0uxi wrote

Bravo. Very well said. There's no way in the world Democrats are going to win on "defund the police".

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ToneThugsNHarmony t1_j9kor2d wrote

I don’t want the windmills off shore either, but when Spadea and the republicans claim they’re against the windmills because of their love for the whales it’s a real eye roller.

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Dr_smell t1_j9l2nw0 wrote

There was another weird thing about bear hunting recently that they’ve all seemed to have dropped

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misterxboxnj t1_j9k4k32 wrote

Does anyone other than HARDCORE right wingers listen to that station anymore? I removed it from my presets like a year ago because they've gone so far off the deep end. I guess they're playing to their audience though...honestly who else besides old white conservatives actually listen to the radio anymore?

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Keilz t1_j9kbqmr wrote

I only listen to Elvis Duran and 1010 wins lol

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FordMan100 OP t1_j9lqymd wrote

At night you can get WCBS 880 on the whole eastern seaboard.

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chunky_funky_cat t1_j9ngo13 wrote

I live in Maryland and when I first discovered this I cried because it sounded like home. I though I was crazy. I moved away all alone with no support and was desperately home sick.

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9pvmmv wrote

DX’ing was my guilty pleasure back in the day. Post streaming radio, I found it fascinating to hear stuff from 2-3 states away like it was right next to the transmitter. For me it was WOWO out of Illinois, I think some deal was cut for a local station (WLIB) to share airtime and transmission strength that gave it a boost

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TriggerTough t1_j9k4t1t wrote

Sad. A few decades ago that station was worth listening to IMO.

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Rainbowrobb t1_j9kl198 wrote

For some reason I stopped at that station while driving. I'd love for any of those callers to define "Marxism".

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Flaky_Plastic_3407 t1_j9md54k wrote

Everytime I turn on that station they make it sound like a some kind of war is going on, and everyone in the current government is an idiot and just allowing it to happen. I hate it.

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lost_in_life_34 t1_j9kl2rm wrote

this is why i have carplay and spotify in my car, so i don't have to listen to FM radio

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DerSturmbannfuror t1_j9lqifd wrote

I don't like to start my day with heartburn, so no

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jdlyga t1_j9lwe7x wrote

I haven't listened to NJ 101.5 since like 2006

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Jimmytowne t1_j9k5tpw wrote

I don’t listen to 101.5 until about 3pm

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DeepestPineTree t1_j9lm10k wrote

Only when I had to as a seasonal worker at a Halloween Pop-Up. 2-3 hours spent making fun of people who have kids one right after the other. Judging by the other comments, it isn't usually much better.

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[deleted] t1_j9lmu44 wrote

You couldn’t pay me to listen

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MarsaliRose t1_j9lv0v1 wrote

I can’t stand that man. Or any of them really. I used to listen to that station a lot but I can’t after 2016. They took a terrible turn on purpose.

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TerryTheEnlightend t1_j9pzwur wrote

I listened to 101.5 for the traffic reports (cuz at the time they were the guys doing it for North/South NJ and the major thoroughfares. Also Big Joe Henry on the weekends. Now in the age of WAZE and streaming, I had to cut Joe loose.

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tex8222 t1_j9lvvr1 wrote

101.5 ? Haven’t listened to them for 10 years or morer…

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Leftblankthistime t1_j9m2ano wrote

Spadia is absolutely trash and his misinformation campaigns on both his morning show and his other show “chasing news” are the reason we can’t have nice things in New Jersey and why some counties are flipping from blue to red. The bum needs to be stripped from the airwaves…

Or live and let live… ya know. Whatever.

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Aperfectfitz_91 t1_j9o6qa8 wrote

I refuse to listen to bill spadea suck his owns farts. Guys so confident in his beliefs and gets so defensive when someone calls in with a valid point.

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Icy-Formal975 t1_j9kdhi6 wrote

I like their rock on weekends. Some of their hosts are ok but some are a little messed up. I call in time to time and some of them have made off color comments. That being said it can be entertaining.

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Pleasant_Living1130 t1_j9om1nm wrote

Nah, that station turned into a Neo-Con propaganda-fest years ago.

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ottercreeks t1_j9onh77 wrote

101.5 talk schedule.

5 minutes of commercials, 2 minutes of traffic and weather, Another 2 minutes of commercials, 3.5 minutes of actual talk radio. Repeated throughout the day .

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Lyraxiana t1_j9por4w wrote

I prefer podcasts where I can actually learn things; ones that back up their claims and cite their sources.

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ct0 t1_j9k3w5w wrote

first time?

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_j9kxd1s wrote

Why would I want to listen to a guy that sounds like a used car salesman?

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SnooShortcuts4607 t1_j9ner2e wrote

I really only listen to Dennis and Judy. They’re top notch. D and D are ok but Deminski seems to be pretty hypocritical a lot which annoys me sometimes. Doin something right though being on air so long.

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FordMan100 OP t1_j9ohlby wrote

Top notch? What about the time they referred to a politician as "Turbine Man" because he wears a turbine for his religion? What about the time they were talking about the dog that was killed by it's owner and stuffed into a plastic garbage bag, they were making fun of the dog. What about Dennis leaving his blind dog outside one night and it froze to death? Top notch? They should have been fired years ago.

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SnooShortcuts4607 t1_j9wzw20 wrote

Sooo you think people should be fired because you don’t agree with things they say? You, my friend, are a moron. Whoever said I agree with everything they say and do? You’re what’s wrong with so many people today thinking everyone needs to agree with whatever you think, say, and do. They bring up good topics and are engaging and absolutely have good chemistry on air. It shows intellect to be able to listen to all points of view and make your own assessments about those things within a range.

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FordMan100 OP t1_j9xygmn wrote

When they promote racism and animal abuse they should be fired which they did.

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