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July 8, 2014The meeting that didn’t happen yet
July 8, 2014Today’s chat with Brian Spaeth was all over the place, but it was good. Brian and I discussed LeBron, Transformers, the Potato Salad Kickstarter and then I got sad that my favorite radio show was broken up.
- Brian’s return to twitter with the LeBron James situation
- LeBron James’ potential return to Cleveland
- The potato salad kickstarter
- People hating the potato salad kickstarter
- Brian talks about Turtlecalls experience
- The new Transformers movie is really bad
- Teflon Mark Wahlberg
- Anthony fired from Opie and Anthony
- Is he a racist?
- Should he have been fired?
- Craig gets sad over his favorite radio show being in jeopardy.
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The hardest thing to the O&A debacle is that if you take the side of not wanting Anthony to be fired, it’s completely misconstrued as you agreeing what he saying. NO, not at all, it’s deplorable in all means, no debate to that. But the guy has to lose his job on a satellite channel, not free terrestrial radio, that the user (subscriber) has willingly purchased? It should be up to the subscribers to make the call, and if people are pulling out of renewing subscriptions because he was canned, that speaks volumes of what the paying customers want. Satelite was supposed to have this freedom that terrestrial radio could never provide. And as far as SiriusXM having to take a stand that these comments don’t jive with their company policy/ethics, this is a satellite radio station that has given voices to everyone and all types of controversial station material (Vivid Radio? Gay channel? Who cares, keep them all on). It’s just odd that it was so reactionary to fire Anthony so quickly, considering what type of outlet this is.
Would LOVE to have heard Patrice O’Neal’s take on this situation if he were alive today.
great episode. i listened to it while repeatedly hitting “refresh” on twitter
That’s my take too. I don’t go hunting for things to police. In essence, we’ve now allowed GAWKER to be the moral compass for us. We’ve allowed people to be judged and defined by their absolute worst moments. No matter that Anthony has been hysterical in huge chunks of time across four hours per week day for, what, about a decade on satellite radio alone? And the people who love him and pay to listen to him had that ripped away by a bunch of people who weren’t his fans.
Regardless of the fact that I can’t co-sign for his twitter rant, this isn’t fair to me as a fan and customer of Sirius.
Thanks!
Good podcast. Also. appreciated that Brian Spaeth didn’t claim he’s not following the Cavs but then proceed to comment on their current state anyway. That’s always my podcast eject button.