00:00 Former KFI talk radio producer and attorney Justin Levine joins to discuss David Foster Wallace’s 2004 essay on talk radio, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139794
13:00 Justin was fired three times from KFI, twice by PD Robin Bertolucci
17:00 Talk radio’s similarities to Top 40 radio, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139199
27:00 Justin Levine’s talk radio diet
28:00 John and Ken Show, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_John_and_Ken_Show
33:00 KABC’s Dick Cavett-style talk
35:00 Talk: A Novel by Michael Smerconish, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139199
37:00 John Ziegler, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ziegler_(talk_show_host)
39:00 David Foster Wallace, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
54:00 Big Tech was libertarian just five years ago
57:00 Blacks & Latinos have their own radio stations
1:00:00 Callers don’t matter much for talk radio
1:05:30 Marc Germain aka Mr KFI
1:09:20 Howard Stern’s boring
1:27:40 How to make your show better! David G. Hall, Media Strategist
1:42:00 Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139670
1:49:00 John M. Doris: “Making Good: Can We Realize Our Moral Aspirations?”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GORGNufWFTI
1:55:00 The Left’s New Religion – censorship
2:21:00 We compete for attention
2:25:00 Andy Ngo returns to Portland, beaten by Antifa
2:33:40 Barricade Gage on Arizona’s vote audit
2:40:00 The limits of virtue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxLNKpLcU1k
2:41:00 Anti-Vax Televangelist Rick Wiles Who Calls Covid God’s Punishment Hospitalized w/ Covid
2:44:00 Michael Flynn Casually Calls For Military Coup
2:48:00 Trump Telling People He’ll Be Reinstated As President by August
2:50:00 Tucker Carlson on covid origins
2:51:30 Vanity Fair investigation of covid origins, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins
3:02:45 Biden Creeps On Young Girl In Audience
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3:07:00 Only Fans For Israel
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