I've decided to listen to every episode of Free Talk Live a week, except Sunday.
Mr. Edge, consider another host or go back to the guest show format.
Huh. Thought I might be alone on this.
I have nothing personal against Stephanie. But this past Sunday, I looked at the topics list for the podcast, kinda sighed, and decided to just not listen. Eventually I suspect I may just stop checking the Sunday show all together.
You're [...]buttons.
I can't quite figure out why Stephanie irritates so many others but not me - I'm thinking it must be my mother.
When I was in my teens, it was black guys that were the most adamant to not have anyone ever call them "boy". \
Is it different now with calling women "girls"?
She sounds smart to me and I don't get irritated at all by her. Hell, Ian can get alot more annoying to me. I mean every problem has ta hammer (no state) and it gets to me sometimes.
Fred,
I have long understood that words are simply human constructs employed to convey thoughts and ideas to other humans - and sometimes animals. The words themselves have no meaning beyond the messages they are used to convey. I don't care if it's the "N word" or the "F word" or whatever - the word is innocent & it is only the intention of the speaker/writer that matter. When black guys rail against the word "boy" or Stephanie against "girl" when used in other-than-offensive context (I know, who gets to decide, right?), it has nothing to do with the word or the intention of it's user, it's just an opportunity to hop on top of a little soap box and try to browbeat - it's a power-play, and if you let the person get away with it once, they'll keep doing it again and again because it makes them feel powerful. Mark will call Ian to the carpet when he does it, but he frequently lets Stephanie slide...I don't get it.
Ian is irritating at times too - he's a huge bigot (a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from their own) though he seems to think he's got an open mind or is a good listener. Cannabis is a legitimate topic, but where's the 420 coke snort or heroin shoot? Weed just isn't that interesting - prohibition is evil, but cannabis talk just makes for boring talk radio. His smarmy jackass routine is fun to listen to, but it's hard to believe that anyone is so dense that they could have a business partner for so many years and still be so frequently incapable of understanding his words.
this post is so 10 minutes ago...I'm bored of it now.