I’ve tried multiple times to give Savage a fair crack of the whip but he wears me out quickly every time.
His show lacks any sort of narrative thread (other than his tiresome digressions - he’s the only one to have a childhood and/or New York origins, you know). The problem is made worse by its stop-start nature vis-a-vis ad breaks. All radio shows have them of course but his are quite frequent. If you look at a visual representation (i.e. a waveform view) of his show it’s obvious that the final hour (or segment) is pre-recorded and merely tacked on. For all we know other segments are as well.
His rants could be made into 1-minute clips and rearranged in random order and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. In fact, that may be how his show is actually constructed. Admittedly, listening to someone with an axe to grind with Marxists in academia is entertaining but only for a few minutes.
And then there are the incessant book plugs. Thin-skinned, paranoid and insecure, he refuses to credit the greatest thinkers in the history of Western Civilization for any prior thought on liberty or political science. Instead, he claims (or implies) that every idea or concept expressed is his and his alone. The fact is that a brilliant mind/fantastic writer wouldn’t need to waste a significant portion of his airtime selling his own book - the public would seek it out on their own.
His ‘this is the last book I will ever write’ statement (threat? promise?) has a touch of the Howard Beale about it but without future books to plug how will he fill the airtime?
You summed him up better than I could have wrote but agree with completely.
Compared to him, Mike Malloy is a cheerful, warm hearted optimist.
so don’t listen. He may not be your cup of tea but he does have a better than decent size following