Why I Stopped Listening to Coast to Coast AM in 2020
And why that’s not changing after the events of January 6, 2021
Nothing factual, nothing fictional, interchangeable… all sensational. This is the age of confusion.
— Puscifier (2020), “Grey Zone”
To my wife’s surprise, I canceled my 20-year subscription to Coast to Coast AM in 2020. For years, I’ve been annoying her by listening to such “wackadoodles.” It may actually surprise you that I even had a subscription.
“Isn’t it that late night radio show about aliens?” Well, yeah. It has been quite a bit more than that. Big Foot hunters and what not are definitely a big part of Coast to Coast. But I’ve also heard interesting interviews with Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
That’s not why I listened to Coast to Coast for so long. As a rhetorician — a sophist even — I love hearing and analyzing different arguments, even ones I disagree with. A creative argument holds great interest for me. In the past, Coast to Coast AM has been a delicious smorgasbord of just that. To some degree that’s probably still somewhat true, but some food has definitely spoiled.
