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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Cool. Wish I had been hip to the station in the '90s. People seem to talk a lot about how cool Johnny Mars used to be.

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The golden age of 'XRT was the seventies and maybe early 80s. Eventually the playlist got smaller and smaller until today where it's pretty much just a Top 40 format with an alternative Top 40. They should probably try to get some DJs who aren't eligible for Medicare.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

At least they can all legally marry now.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I have 3 pair of Nike socks that I had at 14. None have holes but 1 pairs looks like it is a couple washes away from a hole.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

No picking on Terri!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think they still have a pretty damn good library, but they've really gotta step off some of their darling bands. I mean, why oh why in God's name is this station still so obsessed with the BoDeans? They're even promoting a BoDeans concert now! What, is Poi Dog Pondering not touring?

As for the DJs being too old, yeah, that's probably why Jason Thomas is doing weekday evenings. A while ago, someone posted an old promotional photo to their facebook page that had Lin Brehmer, Terri Hemmert, Frank E. Lee, Johnny Mars, Tom Marker, and Richard Milne. It was from 1992.

My dad grew up loving WLS and WCFL, and eventually worked at WLS for a summer, and so he's this big AM radio top 40 romantic who seems to forever harbor resentment toward XRT and progressive FM radio in general for ruining his outmoded concept of What Radio Ought To Be. How dare these guys talk in monotones without production music under them, or not play slick jingle packages, or play album cuts by weird bands. I had to learn that the station existed from my cool uncle. My dad likes WLS-FM now, which now plays the same tracks off Tom Petty's Greatest Hits and The Cars' Greatest Hits that XRT runs into the ground, but with an even older fart talking in between them.

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2000 5th grade graduation. Fits...snugly...but fits.

I'm still one of the youngest here and that just doesn't sound right.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I'd go with allearly to mid 80's since most of the popular music was God-awful MTV driven synthesizer lightweight drivel. XRT found and played the yet to emerge talent such as REM, Cure, etc.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

My fifth grade graduation shirt was from 1986.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I didn't have one but if I did it would have been 1992

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

They have always had their darlings.

The Pretenders
The Jayhawks
Depeche Mode
REM
The Replacements
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
etc.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Well, there's a lot that's romantic about AM radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUSF0Zd_Yw

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

XRT played that very track a few Sundays ago! I geeked out hard.


Right, right, and Richard Thompson, Peter Himmelman, Wilco, Pumpkins. But the BoDeans aren't even very good! They're not even from Chicago. I just don't get it.

Pretenders, though, I think I once went through a stretch one summer where I heard "Back on the Chain Gang" once a day.

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Steve Earle.

Aand then there are the one shot songs they play the hell out of like "Hey St. Peter", "Royals", that Goyte song, or some shit by Bruce Cockburn.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Ever since i101 went tits-up I've been hearing a lot of '90s vanilla-ass top 40 that I never thought of as being the finest rock when I originally heard it on WZOK: Gin Blossoms, Moby, Goo Goo Dolls, Spin Doctors. "Take a Picture" by Filter, even! Filter!

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He was 15 at the time

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Yeah, I graduated high school in 2001.

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Now I feel old.

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And how does THAT feel?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

No shit, I couldn't get my right arm thru any shirt I wore in 5th grade.

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

Like I want to watch Dragnet reruns and pretend Kevin James is funny




I'm guessing Kirkwood is eiter 1)a midget or 2) hit his growth spurt in 4th grade.

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Howard Stern has said that in the early years he interviewed for a job at XRT. He was either going to go there or the station in Detroit. I bet he would have loved XRT and would have never gotten into the kind of talk radio he eventually dominated.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Graduating from 5th grade is more impressive than you graduating from IU.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Says the Purdue grad...

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I missed this. This...this is some bullshit.

I think you're watering down what is a very sad situation with all of this 'XRT talk...

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

Just heard "Busload of Faith" from this fine, fine album to promote tomorrow morning's Flashback, though it must be acknowledged that they also had to mention the debut of Poi Dog Pondering.

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