Since the show imploded and the O&A platform went to shit ive been trying to find anything else to pass the time during my shifts. Im starting to wonder what the fuck im paying a (discounted) rate for every 6 months, because i cant find fucking SHIT. I have been up and down the dial at all times of the day and night and i cant believe the lack of actual radio shows that are broadcast 5 days a week. Even the better music shows are once a week affairs and the other 4 days and 22 hours are filled with pre recorded nonsense. I can honestly say the only show i can kinda listen to from pillar to post is The All Out Show w/ Rude Jude. Some of Sway in the morning is good, but much like the Jude show it suffers from having music shoehorned in every X minutes. this leads to the hosts doing a bit or a break instead of just flowing or letting their show naturally evolve into something other than the radio blueprint. i guess that applies mostly towards Judes show, which is pretty original and unique more so than it does Sway, who is just trying to do the same blackcentric morning zoo that he always has (he is a very rich radio legend because of his morning show. no hate) The All Out Show would be great if it wasn't focused around getting to the next song.

It seems as far as straight talk radio that isn't a sports show the options are Howard or Opie and Jimmy. I guess you can count Jason Ellis if you want, but he honestly might be the least relevant person broadcasting 5 days a week on that entire payroll. Not only does his show suck like hot shit on a wet day, he has to play music. The music fan the channel caters to are a bunch of Erik Nagels - 90's kids whos taste in music never expanded past their 20th birthday. NOFX, Sublime, Dr Dre, Eminem, Rancid, Beastie Boys, Pennywise, Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, The Ramones. That might be the most vanilla playlist of all time and only okay for a child under the age of 17.

I just cant find anything else. Is there ANYTHING to recommend? What the fuck have they been doing for the past 12 years, where is all the homegrown talent? Where is the fucking content?

I have a full google play account and listen to tens of podcasts a week but im in my car for work so much that i sometimes need to pepper in SXM music now that i have time to fill where O&A used to be. As good and well produced and perfectly edited these podcasts are i just want something more... like a real radio talk show. Podcasts are great but they aren't the same thing as a real talk radio show.

also, second question - when these celebs come in and do the sirius tour exactly who in the fuck is interviewing them? Howard, Opie, Entertainment Tonight, Jenny Mccarthy, Sway, Whookid, Sam and ERock, Ronnie B....who the fuck else is there? Like when Ethan Hawk or Neil Tyson come in are they actually going over to the indie channel to talk to the curtain jerker who work on that platform, before stopping in with Downtown Julie Brown? I dont get it.