Shows like this have a flow that the listener doesn’t actually participate in—the hosts have gone home, you’re the only one in the room, and it’s a dead conversation that’s already happened—but, given the intimacy of how the product is consumed, can get the same psychic impression. On your commute, while you do laundry or cook dinner, your best friend lives in your phone.
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The personalities here may seem ugly or garish, even repellent, to many reading this. The shows largely consist of stupid clichés spoken by repulsive people. They are often plainly thought destroying. That is precisely the reason for their popularity.
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Other favourites: Chapo, Trillbillies, Death is Just Around the Corner, Death // Sentence, Heat Death of the Universe, not Canadaland, not Red Scare
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