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And the ads were about things like erectile dysfunction.

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Wow this is a great collection !!! I'm so glad you brought Farrell on Konczal to my mind! With power out for 31 hours, meaning also internet (except my phone, which isn't as enjoyable), I fired up an old transistor radio to see if I could find anything useful, like when was power going to come back on. NPR station down, classical station down, college stations down. But the rest of the band was humming as if nothing happened. In fact on many stations, you couldn't tell, it was the same old program from some computer somewhere. Finally I toed into two talk radio stations, on AM then FM. It was utterly useless, no useable information, and almost impossible to bear for long because of the right wing posturing attitude. I endured nearly a whole hour to see if there would be some actual news, and in the end, nothing. The most I ever got was dumping on Bill Gates for talking about "shared sacrifice" but "those guyz never sacrifice anything." What did that have to do with multiple overlapping electrical grid failures caused by cheaping out on everything? Finally the college jazz station came back on. Seemingly playing a recorded program, but not driving me insane. Noah seems to miss that Silicon Valley billionaires lean strongly libertarian and oppose leftism, unions, and collectivism generally.

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