canpakes wrote: This is the sort of thing that helps to define how these die-hard Trump fans live in an alternate reality of imaginary bogeymen and imaginary statistics. It explains a lot of Ceeboo’s ‘unbridgeable divide’.
Thanks for taking a light-hearted thread and turning it another opportunity for you to make it political - While expressing and attaching your personal opinions to mine.
If I didn't know how balanced and rational your political views were (as can be seen all over this board), I would have thought that you just suggested that I am one of those "die-hard Trump fans" that you posses so much contempt for.
No suggestion about your political preferences is implied, especially since you’ve just recently told me that you’re not much of a Trump fan in any sense, let alone a ‘die hard’ one.
But, it is a discussion about what folks listen to on the radio. And you began by mentioning listening to the Prager show. It’s not like that has no political content. ; )
canpakes wrote:I consider doing so as useful to understanding that mindset. Not so much from a logic perspective, since that doesn’t factor into it so much, but to know what these radio hosts are telling their audience, which will then reflect on the arguments that this audience makes in public.
Yeah, I think it's a smart thing to do, and I try to consume right wing sources at times for the same reason. I just find myself yelling at the radio/screen and need to shut it off after a while to retain whatever sanity I have left.
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canpakes wrote:But, it is a discussion about what folks listen to on the radio. And you began by mentioning listening to the Prager show. It’s not like that has no political content. ; )
That I listen to mostly country music - Unless it's between noon and 3pm, when I frequently listen to Prager was simply sharing the truth about what my car radio does most of the time. I was interested in learning what other people's radios were doing. It was a thread attempting to be light-hearted and fun.
EAllusion wrote:I also occasionally listen to religious right talk radio stations, which are simply a horror show at this point that I think most people are either completely unaware of or deeply into with no room inbetween. I'm fascinated by how poisonous and deceptive it is.
I usually listen to NPR in the morning but depending on the timing I'll occasionally switch over to a conservative radio channel in the evening for some of the same reasons as canpakes stated. And yeah, it's amazing to me what gets said there. I find the way they deal with callers to be the most amazing. Even callers who are clearly long time listeners with large areas of overlapping agreement get shut down hard when they quibble over something said. It's not news as it isn't beholden to journalistic standards, nor is it discussion as it's forcibly moderated and aggressive in asserting itself with an audience that already largely agrees with them.
Anyway.
I think one of the main reasons I listen to NPR or talk radio over music during my commute is it seems more conducive to the mindset needed to driving in traffic. I prefer music when driving very early or late at night when there is no traffic for example. I'm not sure why but I've noticed that. When I do listen to music it's through my old school mp3 player that all the kiddies make fun of because they use their phones for everything. I don't know about that, either. For some reason, owning music on an mp3 player makes me a senior citizen compared to kids who use streaming services and suck at discussing music in meaningful ways because kids are idiots with godlike tech available to them. IMHO.
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honorentheos wrote:I think one of the main reasons I listen to NPR or talk radio over music during my commute is it seems more conducive to the mindset needed to driving in traffic. I prefer music when driving very early or late at night when there is no traffic for example. I'm not sure why but I've noticed that.
That's an interesting observation, honor. I wonder if it's because talking requires more attention than music, which serves as a distraction to heavy traffic.
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honorentheos wrote:I think one of the main reasons I listen to NPR or talk radio over music during my commute is it seems more conducive to the mindset needed to driving in traffic. I prefer music when driving very early or late at night when there is no traffic for example. I'm not sure why but I've noticed that.
That's an interesting observation, honor. I wonder if it's because talking requires more attention than music, which serves as a distraction to heavy traffic.
I've thought it may influence the level of attention differently. I think it requires attention of a different kind, but maybe it doesn't compete with the subconscious brain activities that are largely keeping track of the other cars and really making driving the act it is? And music may conflict more with these subconscious processes? Don't know.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
honorentheos wrote:I've thought it may influence the level of attention differently. I think it requires attention of a different kind, but maybe it doesn't compete with the subconscious brain activities that are largely keeping track of the other cars and really making driving the act it is? And music may conflict more with these subconscious processes? Don't know.
Perhaps. Maybe you just don't feel comfortable bopping to the beat in heavy traffic.
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Morning commute is usually listening to NPR. On the ride home I will sometimes listen to 100.5, which is kind of a hip-hop “throw-back” station that plays a lot of RAP and R&B from the 80's through early 00's.
When I get a hankering for music though, I usually listen to something on Apple Music. I never thought I would subscribe to a streaming service, but ever since my wife got me an account as a present a year ago, I have fallen in love with it (and her, I reckon).
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Doctor Steuss wrote:Morning commute is usually listening to NPR. On the ride home I will sometimes listen to 100.5, which is kind of a hip-hop “throw-back” station that plays a lot of RAP and R&B from the 80's through early 00's.
When I get a hankering for music though, I usually listen to something on Apple Music. I never thought I would subscribe to a streaming service, but ever since my wife got me an account as a present a year ago, I have fallen in love with it (and her, I reckon).
I'm 100% with you on the subscription service. When I moved to premium Spotify it was a huge quality of life improvement in my listening (no ads, whole albums available, endless skips) that makes music all that much more enjoyable. Now I don't know if I could go without it.
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