Re:Is Am Radio Dead?
by UncleOxidant on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:46PM
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That last paragraph just sounds like your average right-wing Christian radio station of which there are thousands across the US. Heck, your last paragraph there could've been from Dr. Dobson on the Focus on the Family radio show which is quite mainstream among American Evangelicals (of which there are many).
As for the Loving Hut restaurants... oh, that's what I went to downtown? It did seem culty. They were playing some video on a loop about world peace, etc. I've gotta say, though, their vegan shrimp were quite good - a very good approximation down to the texture.
Re:Is Am Radio Dead?
by jhallenworld on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:25PM
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Yeah, WEZE is a religious station which is fine. But when they talk politics, oh boy. Maybe I'm isolated in the Boston area- many of the religious stations are Catholic. They also sometimes talk politics, but the crazy factor is not as high.
In the 90s, you only heard this on shortwave, but all changed after the rise of Rush Limbaugh. In the 90s on shortwave: "Janet Reno and her lesbian cronies are going to take our guns!" (this is a direct quote)
I've not tried Loving Hut yet, but I found there are two in Worcester which is not far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Hai
But late night AM, you get "Ministry in the Marketplace with Dr. Richard Hamlet" on WEZE 590. This is the craziest right wingnut radio I've ever heard, even including shortwave. Last week they were ranting on about the "death vaccine".
"By the 1950s, America had forgotten the Biblical principles that it was founded on. In the mid-60s, government-controlled education was implemented. At that time, The Foundation for American Christian Education was formed to help limit that control by educating families and even schools on the . . ."