pb: I listened to Phil for the comedy, and I don't watch/listen to comedy for any other purpose than to be entertained. I did a lot of my listening to Phil while I was driving, or while I was puttering around in my workshop, or doing something else that didn't require 110% of my attention, and I could listen and chew gum at the same time.
Actually, the vast majority of talk radio is noise to me...especially the kind of crap NPR was always blatting every time I tried to listen to it. There was always a leftoidal bias in everything I heard, so I finally gave up. Have they changed? If so, that's great, but it sure wasn't the way it used to be. I didn’t need the stress of listening to their perpetual spin.
Same for the news; what a load of crap. It's mostly who killed, raped, robbed, or otherwise screwed with whom, or what new forms of coercion the state is trying to whup on the sheep whose capacity for tolerating attacks on their freedom is apparently inexhaustible.
A sort of mentor I used to know once told me this:
- "Your most valuable asset is your attitude. Protect it. Have the discernment not to constantly expose yourself to stuff that destroys your motivation, your happiness, and your willingness to see opportunity where others see only downside. Be realistic, and don't put your head in the sand. But there's already enough trouble in the world. You might not be able to keep it from knocking on your door, but you don't have to invite it in and give it a comfortable place to sit."
That was some of the most valuable advice I ever heard from anyone.
So, I was usually thankful for the comedic respite from the daily grind that I got from Phil’s show. Admittedly, his politics were haywire—a confused hodgepodge of left and right ideology. Fortunately, there wasn’t much of that at the time I was listening (mostly while he was on KFI 640 AM in L.A.).
I listened for the comedy...period. I wasn’t there to be educated, informed, persuaded, convinced, or indoctrinated. I just listened for the laughs, and Phil provided those by the boatload.