Belly up, fired, and retired

grateful wrote:

Phanick!-Hatch wrote:

Around 75% of the route underground
The full DC–Baltimore ride was projected to take about 15 minutes

Same problem with the purple line. If we can get to Baltimore in 15-minutes, that means they can get to us in 15-minutes, crime the place up, then have a quick escape back.

This was the majorly flawed logic that landed the UMD Green Line station nearly 2 miles from the campus center. All despite the fact that the campus is mostly open and plenty of cheaper Metrobuses make lots of stops on campus.

30k seems like the spot.

Howard Stern

I guess some on this board will say politics has nothing to do with it…..

hutch wrote:
I guess some on this board will say politics has nothing to do with it…..

I mean, does anyone still care about anything Stern says or does?

Unfortunately this generation is engaged with the Joe Rogan, Barstool, Theo type podcasts.

So people only care about Trump supporting media figures?


Weird

Yada wrote:

hutch wrote:
I guess some on this board will say politics has nothing to do with it…..

I mean, does anyone still care about anything Stern says or does?

Unfortunately this generation is engaged with the Joe Rogan, Barstool, Theo type podcasts.

Literally did not realize Stern was still doing his show. Howard Stern is like having a subscription to Penthouse — feels a relic of a bygone era.

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:

hutch wrote:
I guess some on this board will say politics has nothing to do with it…..

I mean, does anyone still care about anything Stern says or does?

Unfortunately this generation is engaged with the Joe Rogan, Barstool, Theo type podcasts.

Literally did not realize Stern was still doing his show. Howard Stern is like having a subscription to Penthouse — feels a relic of a bygone era.

Did you have a Penthouse subscription yourself, or just buy one for Hutch?

Neither.

hutch wrote:
So people only care about Trump supporting media figures?


Weird

Huh? I didn't say that… but a media company isn't going to pay him Rogan/call her daddy type numbers. As Jules said,  seems to be a relic of the past and my guess the average age of a stern listener is 58 years old.

Yada wrote:

hutch wrote:
I guess some on this board will say politics has nothing to do with it…..

I mean, does anyone still care about anything Stern says or does?

Unfortunately this generation is engaged with the Joe Rogan, Barstool, Theo type podcasts.

have to agree with yada, with the way media has been split up due to how people consume is so different
Sirius was paying him a 5 year $500 million contract, I just don't see how they can get their money back
I think when he orignally came on, it made a big difference and got people to buy sirus subs

I'll leave these two tid bits here:
For 2024, SiriusXM posted a net loss of about -US$1.67 billion, with an operating loss of roughly -US$1.52 billion
recent reports show Stern’s reach has diminished dramatically—with listener numbers dropping from an estimated 20 million down to as low as 125,000 daily listeners

estimates on age are a little lower tho
Based on available audience composition, a current average age near 45

When there’s nobody left on the air that takes issue with Trump you may see things differently.

hutch wrote:
When there’s nobody left on the air that takes issue with Trump you may see things differently.

welp, if seth takes down this board, then I'll know the fix is in


I'm not sure if you know this, but media personalities (even the news) are FOR PROFIT
so if it's not making money, there is no emotion about cutting it

hutch wrote:
When there’s nobody left on the air that takes issue with Trump you may see things differently.

You're arguing again with someone that has the same opinion as you. Do I think it's positive that this is the way things are? Absolutely not… is there anything I/we can do? Absolutely not.

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:

hutch wrote:
I guess some on this board will say politics has nothing to do with it…..

I mean, does anyone still care about anything Stern says or does?

Unfortunately this generation is engaged with the Joe Rogan, Barstool, Theo type podcasts.

Literally did not realize Stern was still doing his show. Howard Stern is like having a subscription to Penthouse — feels a relic of a bygone era.

I’ll take it a step further. Listening to Howard Stern now (and I think the past 10 or so years) is like having a subscription to Penthouse if Penthouse now only has pictures of women eating lunch in fancy restaurants.  Stern is just completely different than he was.

You all have no experience in living in more authoritarian regimes…even authoritarian democracies….

I have seen all this before…multiple times…you all haven’t…so you apply the standard paradigm to these things: profit, relevance, ratings etc

In authoritarian regimes the media that doesn’t cozy up to the ruler disappears.

fair

Mobius wrote:
if Penthouse now only has pictures of women eating lunch in fancy restaurants. 

Are you suggesting an alternate reality wherein Julian’s Penthouse exists? I want whatever this guy is on.

Claire's

where will teens and tweens get their ear's pierced now?

hutch wrote:
You all have no experience in living in more authoritarian regimes…even authoritarian democracies….

I have seen all this before…multiple times…you all haven’t…so you apply the standard paradigm to these things: profit, relevance, ratings etc

In authoritarian regimes the media that doesn’t cozy up to the ruler disappears.

Haven't you lived in the US for 30+ years? I think politics/media/etc. is a bit different now than 1990s Argentina?