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Jeff Kuhner has Reportedly been infected with COVID

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Someone correct me if I’m wrong. If Kuhner, or anyone else, who works from home and doesn’t come into the office, doesn’t have to get vaxxed.

Either way, I hope the Kuhnerman has good health now and going forward.
 
Someone correct me if I’m wrong. If Kuhner, or anyone else, who works from home and doesn’t come into the office, doesn’t have to get vaxxed.

Either way, I hope the Kuhnerman has good health now and going forward.
For now but iHeartRadio has a December 27th deadline for staff members to update their vaccine records to enter their New York offices.

 
The whole "supernatural/conspiracy/wacko talk" format pioneered by Art Bell has always been about behaving like an illogical, reality-denying nitwit.
Thing is, Art Bell was entertaining and didn’t exactly take himself too seriously. None of his protégés got that.
 
Kuhner did his show two days when he was sick.

According to what he said on the air, he thinks he got it from one of his children. I can definitely relate to that. My daughter, who is in pre-school, has been sent home twice in the past 4 weeks as being a "close contact" with someone in her class who tested positive. Fortunately (AFAIK) she never developed it, although she's been mildly sick a couple of times in the past month.

Kuhner has also said on air in the past he is diabetic and has asthma. So he has a couple of health issues which are known to create complications with COVID.

If I were him (and in many respects, I am, I'm slightly older than he is and I am borderline type 2 diabetic and have mild asthma) I would have gotten the jab (and I did, for those reasons). I wasn't particularly thrilled about taking an untested 'vaccine', especially MRNA technology. Eventually I opted for the J&J vaccine due to my concerns with MRNA technology.

Kuhner isn't anti-vax. He has stated he would "likely" take the NovaVax shot once it was approved, because it is a more traditional protein-based vaccination. He has concerns about the MRNA vaccines, as I did. That's why I opted to take the J&J, which is a viral-vector vaccine.

Sadly, there is a lot of misinformation and Alex-Jones-like conspiracy-nut stuff that comes out of his show. I can't figure out if its just plain ignorance, or an act.


True it sounds like some of the right have followed Trump's actions and get vaccinated for real.

But in rhetoric they have to deal with governors campaigns that are more radical than Trump himself when it comes to the vaccine requirements.




But if Kuhner has to remain relevant to his audience he has to look radical like Candace Owens or face getting fired from Iheart. or face an audience that's crazier than Kuhner himself apparently.
 
without taking this topic off the rails, what The Bad Orange Man said was it should be up to the individual as to get the jab or not.

I can agree with him on that point
I can too, with the caveat that, if people decline to get the vaccine, they're on the hook for their own medical bills if they catch Covid and become seriously ill. If they chose to follow advice from an uneducated talk show host or politician rather than medical science and chose not to get the jab, that is indeed their choice. But some choices come with ramifications. In this case, the choice not to get the jab should indicate they've also made the choice to cover any medical bills for their own treatment if they get sick.
 
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Tuned into RKO just after 6a Monday morning to see if CK was back. I didn't hear CK shout his signature GOOD MORNING Boston open or Nancy Shack's sultry tones that are reminiscent of a woman on a late night 900 number spot. RKO is running that generic news program hosted by a guy called Bloomdaddy. His first guest was a bottle cap expert talking about the dangers posed by out of control flying Champaign corks. I for one feel much better heading into New Years Eve knowing that these out of control identified flying objects can reach speeds of more that 25 mph. For those listening online you can hear the breaking news update from October 15th. This same report has been running everyday since the middle of October.
 
Tuned into RKO just after 6a Monday morning to see if CK was back. I didn't hear CK shout his signature GOOD MORNING Boston open or Nancy Shack's sultry tones that are reminiscent of a woman on a late night 900 number spot. RKO is running that generic news program hosted by a guy called Bloomdaddy. His first guest was a bottle cap expert talking about the dangers posed by out of control flying Champaign corks. I for one feel much better heading into New Years Eve knowing that these out of control identified flying objects can reach speeds of more that 25 mph. For those listening online you can hear the breaking news update from October 15th. This same report has been running everyday since the middle of October.
OMG OMG OMG we're all gonna die from injuries sustained from flying Champagne corks, OMG OMG OMG! Better wear a mask, just in case! Michael Harrison was filling in for Jim Polito on Talk1200 so I turned on RKO to see who was filling in for Kuhner, Sandy's been doing promos on Talk1200 saying they'll be back after the New Year so I was curious as to who the fill in would be and as soon as I heard him say Bloomdaddy I immediately switched back to Talk1200. He filled in on Talk1200 awhile back and all he did was talk about how he's divorced, yawn.
 
RKO is running that generic news program hosted by a guy called Bloomdaddy. His first guest was a bottle cap expert talking about the dangers posed by out of control flying Champaign corks. I for one feel much better heading into New Years Eve knowing that these out of control identified flying objects can reach speeds of more that 25 mph.
Bloomdaddy (David Bloomquist) broadcasts from WWVA in Wheeling, WV. It seems Clear Channel started syndicating him on a few stations in that general area of the country. They've also used him to fill in on some Pittsburgh area stations on occasion.
 
Would they have considered Doug VB Goudie from sister WGY? Unless he's on a holiday break... Our area familiar with VB...

Howie Carr had someone from Cape Gun Works in for him yesterday. In the past his fill ins have included his producers, Col David Hunt, Curt Schilling, etc Schilling was marketed as a Saturday morning show by Howie Carr Radio Network but couldn't clear any stations; was online only for awhile. Grace Curley fared better.
Kuhner himself did fill ins for Howie awhile back.
He's been with RKO awhile now..when the 2013 marathon bombings occurred he was brought in to do 7 pm extra shows.
 
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Thing is, Art Bell was entertaining and didn’t exactly take himself too seriously. None of his protégés got that.

I met Art at his house in 2015, about a month before he relaunched his talk show.

We didnt get too in depth about much, but i kinda gathered that ...that he liked what he did, that he didnt necessarily beleive everything he said, but he knew his listeners did... he put on a good show without being ove the top like Alex jones.
 
he didnt necessarily beleive everything he said, but he knew his listeners did.
This is what I've always hoped Michael Savage was all about. Tossing the most outrageous stuff he could out there knowing that his fans lapped it up, mindlessly. Good to see Bell, whose show I despised, had the same low opinion of the people who made his show a success.
 
This is what I've always hoped Michael Savage was all about. Tossing the most outrageous stuff he could out there knowing that his fans lapped it up, mindlessly. Good to see Bell, whose show I despised, had the same low opinion of the people who made his show a success.
I never said he had a low opinion..... I don't think he did. To me, theres a difference between having a low opinion of someone and giving someone something they want.

He was a gracious host at his house... got to see his awesome ham shack and antennas too
 
Why do you 'despise' his show.

Who said he "had a low opinion" of his listeners?
Because he peddled hokum and let his listeners believe it. Did he preface his discussions of UFOs, crop circles, and the like with "Of course, this is nonsense" or some other disclaimer? Americans are being fed enough pseudo-science and science denial without having it pushed on them as "entertainment" without being told that what they're hearing is fiction or, at best, improbably speculation.
 
Because he peddled hokum and let his listeners believe it. Did he preface his discussions of UFOs, crop circles, and the like with "Of course, this is nonsense" or some other disclaimer? Americans are being fed enough pseudo-science and science denial without having it pushed on them as "entertainment" without being told that what they're hearing is fiction or, at best, improbably speculation.
If people believe everything they hear and see from the media and the government then they deserve what they get!
 
Because he peddled hokum and let his listeners believe it. Did he preface his discussions of UFOs, crop circles, and the like with "Of course, this is nonsense" or some other disclaimer? Americans are being fed enough pseudo-science and science denial without having it pushed on them as "entertainment" without being told that what they're hearing is fiction or, at best, improbably speculation.

I don't think he "peddled" hokum. He had some discussions about some fascinating things that are worthy of interesting discussion. i.e. Before we found out that crop circles were man-made...it was a fascinating topic to most people.

Nearly 2/3rds of Americans believe in some form of the paranormal.
 
Because he peddled hokum and let his listeners believe it. Did he preface his discussions of UFOs, crop circles, and the like with "Of course, this is nonsense" or some other disclaimer? Americans are being fed enough pseudo-science and science denial without having it pushed on them as "entertainment" without being told that what they're hearing is fiction or, at best, improbably speculation.

You don't believe it's likely that UFOs are very real? Which is certainly worthy of discussion.
I get Alex Jones hawking stuff like iodine pills to his audience is nonsense, but things like UFOs or ghosts, or the other topics that a show like Coast 2 Coast entertains are fun.
 
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