We've reached the point where we're bouncing radio waves off teenagers to figure out which ones are packing heat between Algebra II and study hall. This is the innovation. This is the solution. Technology over legislation. Algorithms over accountability. Wi-Fi detection instead of one damn hard decision from the spineless elected officials we keep sending back to Harrisburg. Guns are the leading cause of death for American children, but sure, let's talk about the Wi-Fi thing.
December 27, 2025
Train is one of the most unfairly dismissed bands in modern rock history. They committed the unforgivable sin of making people happy without apology, and the rock establishment has never forgiven them for it. "Hey, Soul Sister," "Drops of Jupiter," "Meet Virginia"—these aren't niche cult favorites, these are songs that have soundtracked millions of lives. But because regular people connect with their music, because their grandmother asks about "that Hey Soul Sister song," Train gets dismissed as wedding band rock. They deserve better.
November 8, 2025
The King of All Media has become the most boring man in radio. Howard Stern has transformed into exactly the kind of self-absorbed, repetitive, celebrity-obsessed bore that 1990s Howard would have eviscerated on air. The guitar obsession, the social phobia routine, the fishing-for-compliments about his looks, the softball celebrity interviews—it's all become tiresome performance art. Where's the Howard who made radio dangerous? He's gone, replaced by a 70-year-old man who wants to be liked by Hollywood.
November 5, 2025
Apollo Creed, Goose, Han Solo, Omar Little, Dick Hallorann, Henry Blake—character deaths that still upset us decades later because they didn't need to happen. Death in fiction should matter. When a character dies, it should break something in us that can't be fixed by the next episode or sequel. It should be inevitable, earned, and necessary to the story being told. These deaths were none of those things.
2024
Have you ever listened to NPR? I mean really listened? Doualy Xaykaothao, Shankar Vedantam, Mandalit del Barco, Sylvia Poggioli, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton. The United States is 60% white, but NPR's staff sounds like the United Nations Security Council. This isn't diversity—this is affirmative action for exotic-sounding names, regardless of what you actually look like or where you're from. And Brad? Brad will never get hired.
2024