{"id":48,"date":"2006-03-31T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T20:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-03-31T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T20:34:22","slug":"fm-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"FM wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Howard Stern went to satellite radio in January, morning FM radio has been nigh unlistenable in my neck of the woods.<br \/>\nHis replacement, &#8220;Rover&#8221; is about as bland and boring as listening to the AM farm report on pork belly futures. His ads are truthful, tho &#8211; they used to read &#8220;Radio With Bite&#8221;. It&#8217;s true. The dude&#8217;s show <em>does<\/em> bite.<br \/>\nChicago Public Radio has been doing their pledge drive, so screw trying to listen to that.<br \/>\nWXRT&#8217;s &#8220;Regular Guy&#8221; is perhaps the most honest movie reviews ever, but he&#8217;s only on for 5 minutes on Tuesday &#038; Thursday and their beloved Lin Brehmer gets a little too faux-philosophic for me.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been sticking to the tape\/disc head unit and the 6 disc changer.<\/p>\n<p>Afternoons are much better, mostly because of Steve Dahl. He gets too far into Bears crap than I care to hear sometimes, but overall an entertaining listen (especially when his Swiss friend, Chef Hans, does the Swiss Sports Report). While talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?q=scott+podsednik&#038;clownpenis=fart\">Scott Posednik<\/a> and his newly pulled groin muscle, he said something to the effect of &#8220;Well, at least that&#8217;s a legitamite injury that keeps a player from performing well. You know, unlike the Cubs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HAH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Howard Stern went to satellite radio in January, morning FM radio has been nigh unlistenable in my neck of the woods. His replacement, &#8220;Rover&#8221; is about as bland and boring as listening to the AM farm report on pork belly futures. His ads are truthful, tho &#8211; they used to read &#8220;Radio With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}