tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14650168239370375502012-02-13T11:44:19.608-08:00Essays concerning commercial newstalk radio by Bryan Styble, the former Seattle-based and longtime call-in hostBryan Styblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12579588570002368030noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1465016823937037550.post-22767682640443331682009-09-21T16:03:00.001-07:002009-09-26T12:54:27.935-07:00

Unlike most of my erstwhile colleagues in commercial newstalk radio, I don't pretend to understand much if any of the nuts and bolts of the current healthcare debate.But I do understand the English language. And that's why I was so gratified to see President Obama's appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulis yesterday. Mind you, not because that element of the President's weekend media

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Rush Limbaugh, architect and executor of the finest and most influential broadcast in commercial newstalk radio history, has become dangerously fat and lazy.RadioactiveSeattle readers and Michael Medved Show regular listeners know that "Bryan in Seattle" doesn't do fat jokes, so I'm not referring to his girth, which he's slimmed down again anyway of late. Rather, while Limbaugh continues

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Much of conservative newstalk radio this week has been savaging the President's upcoming address to the nation's students. These hosts include my hero (if not necessarily this dedicated agnostic's ideological soul-mate) Michael Medved and the delightfully acerbic Mark Steyn (filling in for Limbaugh on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network).The charge generally is that Obama is using this as an

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Legendary conservative thinker George Gilder made a rare guest appearance in the second hour of today's Michael Medved show promoting his new book The Israel Test. This afternoon, as it happens, I couldn't get past the busy signals, much less the tough-to-impress Medved screener, so in case you're interested in what I would have said to the noted philosopher, I'll fill you in via, as the kids say

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So it turns out after all, I will be going to the Medved baseball outing as the Mariners take on the visiting Oakland Athletics at Safeco on Wednesday night (see "The Weight of Medved's Words", two entries below).So if you're there in the Medved group's portion of the stands—in $40 seats, we oughta to be in a favored section, no?—go ahead and spy a guy who looks like the fellow behind that

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Hey Mr. Levin—DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU PERSUADE BY SCREAMING SO ROUTINELY, OR DO YOU MERELY COME OFF LIKE SOME LOUT WITH SYNTHETIC PASSION !?!BRYAN STYBLE/Seattle

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Perspicacious neoconservative newstalker (and Ned Flanders doppelganger) Michael Medved is scheduled for yet another local public appearance next week. He'll be accompanying some avid Medheads and Seattle Mariners fans to the Oakland Athletics game at Safeco Field on August 26th, and I'd encourage you to attend. If f0r no other reason, it'll afford you a chance to see Medved up close and interact

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The news about suburban teen flick auteur John Hughes yesterday no doubt came as a shock to his legions of fans. After all, the famously-reclusive director and onetime wunderkind behind Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles was only 59 when he succumbed to an apparent heart attack during a morning stroll in Manhattan while on a family visit to New York.But Hughes's demise shouldn't really

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Though I bet I very nearly did a few minutes ago.But not because of my vigorous exercise regimen of a daily two- or three-mile jog pretty much seven days per week. (No, my cardio condition seems pretty decent for a 54-year-old heartbroken-by-career-evaporation guy. Or so my physicians report, I hope reliably.)Rather, I nearly ended up on a Harborview Hospital cardiac gurney today after I was

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Okay, it seems a couple people—or household pets, conceivably; forget at your own peril that widely-reprinted New Yorker cartoon with the keyboarding canine explaining to its peer, "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog"—are mystified as to why RadioactiveSeattle has remained so deafeningly silent about the fascinating tableau represented by Rush Limbaugh's recent insinuation of his hefty

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[ initial five paragraphs drafted and posted at 12:41 pm PDT ]Okay, let's see if we can get this available online before The Michael Medved Show returns from commercial break:The erudite radio newstalker and Ned Flanders doppelganger, explicating how the Obama political honeymoon has so suddenly ended, just seconds ago promoted his program's next segment—an "audience tease", as they so callously

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It's unfortunate, not to mention ironic, that The Michael Medved Show, consistently one of the two most intellectually-satisfying programs in all of commercial newstalk radio syndication, also so often attracts some of the genre's more knuckleheaded callers.(I won't deny that occasional contributor "Bryan in Seattle" is arguably one of those numbskulls; I'm just grateful Medved allows me on at

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Regular RadioactiveSeattle readers will understand why I'm celebrating today's improbable Super Bowl berth earned by the Arizona Cardinals--nee' the St. Louis Cardinals, hence the unnatural interest in the much-maligned team by this Gateway City native. After all, it's a franchise that, as one astute AP sportswriter phrased it today, "for decades has been widely considered the most dysfunctional

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When listening to Westwood One's coverage of the second round of the NFL playoffs aired locally over KJR/Seattle tonight, I could have sworn it was Rochester up in the booth doing color as the Steelers overpowered the San Diego Chargers at home in Pittsburgh.But maybe my radio bias is showing here; Jack Benny remains an all-time favorite, and whenever recalling him, I never think first of his

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I'm concerned about a growing sentiment in the Radioactive e-mailbag.Thrice recently it's been observed that the essays herein feature too many big words. And yes, there were also similar complaints lodged by some of my KIRO and WJR callers over the years, each of whom went to the trouble of accepting my standing invitation to "book yourself as a guest" on the program anyway.Sorry, but the only

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With only six minutes remaining in this morning's busier-than-usual edition of The Rush Limbaugh Program over the aptly-if-immodestly-entitled Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the host had somehow sequestered enough airtime to still shoehorn in a big football story.So following typically trenchant analyses of: bailout mania; those Islamic neo-pirates; transitional Presidential maneuvering; Tom

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Several e-mailers have privately requested that I comment on the ongoing staged relocation--relegation is a more apt word--of heritage newstalker KIRO/Seattle to the FM band.Specifically, how I see the long-term implications of the surrender of that sterling 50,000-watt amplitude-modulated signal at 710 kHz, with wide regional coverage that is impossible to attain via FM technology. Whose amazing

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As a lifelong commercial newstalk radio aficionado--and one even so fortunate as to also have been a longtime professional practitioner of this favorite media genre of mine--I am of course eternally grateful to Michael Medved. That's because each weekday he delivers Americans the second-most-intellectually-nourishing program in all of national radio syndication. (It's no mean feat being bested

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President-elect Barack Obama wasn’t even five minutes into the Q&A of his first post-election press conference this afternoon—in which he acquitted himself quite well and thus continued affirming my centrist vote for him Tuesday—when he startlingly confused two memorable moments from the frequently-fascinating distaff side of Presidential history.Elaborating on his response to a Chicago Sun-Times

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After a considerable absence, I'm back herein.My sincere appreciation is extended to all who inquired as to my unexplained nonpresence. I'll likely explain it at some point.But in the meantime, I shall make a point about President-elect Barack Obama's first press conference, concluded just moments ago.Existentially,BRYAN STYBLE/somewhere

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To the kind readers who've inquired, yes, indeed I've been away for many weeks now--not just from RadioactiveSeattle, but also, somewhat, from even listening to my favorite media genre.That distraction is mostly over, I suspect, and I look forward to catching up herein on some of the fascinating things we've all been hearing on newstalk shows of late.BRYAN STYBLE/Seattle

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It will be interesting to hear how Michael Savage opens his annoying nationally-syndicated newstalk radio show this afternoon. If the brazenly-inconsistent host were as intellectually honest as every newstalk radio audience expects its host to be, he'd begin today's broadcast with an apology, in light of the Einstein news this week.It's come out that Time's Person of the [20th] Century, the man

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While newstalk radio listeners seldom expect great broadcasting skills from the various fill-in talent who substitute for their favorite hosts, the audience minimally deserves intellectual integrity. And we didn't much get it in Krist Novocelic's work on The Ron & Don Show this afternoon, while the KIRO afternoon-drive team head to Louisiana for their New Orleans house-rebuilding shebang

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Perhaps only as momentous an obligation as the belated memorial service for the late conservative icon Bill Buckley could have caused Rush Limbaugh to take off even a single Friday in the midst of his ongoing--and so far remarkably successful--"Operation Chaos". (That's what the talk titan has dubbed his effort to confound the 2008 Democrat presidential primary process by encouraging the

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The Michael Medved ShowKTTH 770 kHzWeekday afternoons noon-3While priming his national audience for Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman's appearance on his program later in the hour, Michael Medved a few minutes ago discredited Al Franken by referring to the Democrat celebrity challenger of Coleman as "a failed radio talk show host". That's profoundly unfair and incorrect, despite Franken having in

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Just one posting below I first wrote about Mark Davis, and now this morning up again pops his crisp national newstalk hosting style! Another coincidence or two like this, and I'll surely start delusionally believing that RadioactiveSeattle is having industry impact.You see, I lamented only two nights ago about the dramatic drop-off in hosting calibre we've suffered ever since Matt Drudge last

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The Bill Cunningham ShowKVI 570 kHzSunday evenings 7-10 pm"Maybe I'm the one who's stupid!" Billy Cunningham thunderingly theorized just a few minutes ago.Not likely, Bill. But your argument sure is dumb. And, sadly, your nationally-syndicated newstalk broadcast often sounds it, too.But make no mistake: Cunningham is no dimwit. But it's also not a smart strategy for the Cincinnati-based

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Amid all the fuss generated by syndicated radio newstalk host Bill Cunningham’s promiscuous employment of Barack Obama’s improbable middle name, a perfectly sensible suggestion I offered many times over KIRO last year has still, oddly enough, yet to gain any traction whatsoever this Leap Day.Shakespeare famously asked “What’s in a name?”, but when that name happens to be Hussein, the answer

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William F. Buckley, Jr. appeared on newstalk radio shows only rarely, and I know of no instance in which he ever took listener calls. And that's one of at least two reasons I was never lucky enough to speak with the National Review founder.But oh how I longed to hear the iconic author and wit, who died at home in Connecticut this morning, available in a phone-in format. I'd have endeavored

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The greatest myth about commercial newstalk talk radio here in the new millennium is that it's principally a political genre.Actually, I began pointing this out long before my Open Lines for Open Minds work over KIRO commenced three years ago. This has been a central contention of mine since the previous century, when my San Francisco Bay Area audiences in the early 90s and then my Detroit

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The Michael Medved ShowKTTH 770 kHzWeekday afternoons 12-3Near the outset of his program each Friday, Michael Medved runs his "Call of the Week". The feature culls for re-air invariably one of the goofiest phoned-in contributions from the previous four editions of his often superb nationally-syndicated broadcast, which originates at KTTH/Seattle.Setting up the segment each time is a substantial

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The Glenn Beck ProgramKTTH 770 kHzWeekday mornings 6-9 am Beck (the respected recording artist) famously sang, "I'm a loser, Baby/So why don't you kill me?" When listening to Glenn Beck (the overrated newstalk host) on his frequently self-indulgent and ignorant broadcasts, I sometimes feel like killing my radio.In the first hour of this morning's edition of his daily syndicated show, New York

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The Rush Limbaugh ShowKTTH 770 kHz Weekdays 9-noon[plus overnight & Sunday afternoon replays]Coming from a prominent southeastern Missouri family that is quite accomplished in the law, you'd expect that Rush Limbaugh would have a pretty thorough familiarity with the United States Constitution. And he does, as he demonstrates on his dominant national newstalk show pretty much daily. But just

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If you're heading out to an Evergreen State caucus later today, consider how newstalk radio may have helped you sharpen the debating skills you'll need to sway fellow Washingtonians from supporting Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton.Of the numerous advantages radio enjoys over its more ballyhooed sister-medium television, its primacy of caller discussion is one of the three greatest (stay

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The Laura Ingraham ShowKKOL 1300 kHzMorning drive 6-9 amShortly before Mitt Romney this morning announced the suspension of his occasionally surreal campaign, the onetime GOP frontrunner acknowledged Laura Ingraham's introduction of him moments prior, thanking her as "gorgeous and brilliant".Few would dispute that the District of Columbia-based syndicated newstalker is each of those, but she'd be

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Frank ShiersKIRO 710 kHzHost (principal substitute talent)[and former longtime late-night and weekend personality]Whenever you're fortunate enough to be invited to guest-host on anyone's newstalk radio show, it's incumbent upon you to always be deferential to his name, of course. And I started subbing for Frank Shiers on only my second-ever KIRO broadcast. Consequently, I said a lot of very nice,

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The Rush Limbaugh ShowKTTH 770 kHzWeekdays 9-noon[plus overnight & Sunday afternoon replays]"Who Wants McCain?", the Excellence In Broadcasting Network's new song parody of a Creedence Clearwater Revival standard which Rush Limbaugh debuted this morning just minutes ago, is yet another demonstration that Paul Shanklin, EIB's Memphis-based musical mimic, is the best in the business.Every time

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I've long contended that the newstalk radio genre offers its audience more, arguably, than any of the myriad other available forms of news and entertainment media.A BlatherWatch poster seemed unduly dismissive of this contention, made frequently during my KIRO broadcasts and repeated in a recent BW posting I penned. But of course there's that pesky qualifier "arguably".So I shall argue the

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As I type these keystrokes, it's precisely 10:55 pm Pacific Time on a certain momentous Sunday night. Like you perhaps, right now I'm struggling to digest the conclusion, some four hours ago, of one the most memorable sporting spectacles in history--the New England Patriots losing their grasp on an undefeated season in the waning seconds of Super Bowl XLII.This particular point in time would have

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It's my solemn duty to inform the radioactive audience and, in fact, all Puget Sound newstalk radio listeners, that KIRO's new ownership regime has cancelled The Bryan Styble Program, replacing it with an as-yet-unannounced syndicated show to be pulled down off a satellite.The reason cited is "purely budgetary", and inasmuch as syndicated fare always comes to local-affiliating stations

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Famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the man who got death sentences for several members of the Manson Family, will appear on KIRO's Bryan Styble Program in the 10-11pm hour of the Sunday, January 27, 2008 broadcast.During this return radioactive engagement, Bugliosi will take listener questions and comments on his entire career, including the prosecution of Charles Manson, his book on the O.J.

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Dr. Seth Shostek will discuss the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project, the systematic radio-telescopic scanning of our galaxy for signals being broadcast by alien civilizations, during the 10pm hour of the Sunday, January 13, 2008 edition of KIRO's Bryan Styble Program. That radioactive interview shall be followed of course by two hours of Open Lines for Open Minds, featuring

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In an unprecedented break with my broadcast's long-standing and ironclad no-Dylan policy, the format shall be temporarily abandoned for the Sunday night, December 9, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program. Styble--who happens to have been a semi-professional Dylanologist in the 1970s--will telephonically interview longtime film documentarian Murray Lerner, the producer and director of Festival

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Bryan Styble will fill in on KIRO's Frank Shiers Show on Friday, November 23, 2007, from 9pm-1am.

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Bryan Styble will substitute for Carl Jeffers on the Saturday night, November 24, 2007 edition of KIRO's On Fire program, which runs 10pm-1am, into Sunday morning. Styble shall also, of course, do his own program later that Sunday 10pm-1am, featuring three hours of Open Lines for Open Minds.

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We're delighted to report that KIRO will air The Bryan Styble Program in its usual timeslot, 10 pm to 1 am Sunday nights into Monday mornings, throughout the Seahawks run toward the Super Bowl this year.

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Bryan Styble will be on KIRO this Sunday night, September 2, 2007 for his regular three-hour broadcast 10pm-1 am into Monday morning.

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The Sunday night, August 12, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program is being pre-empted on KIRO for the conclusion of Seahawks post-game coverage, as well as a pre-recorded edition of Bob Brinker's syndicated Money Talk show at 11 pm. We hope you will tune in when Styble returns for his Sunday night 10pm-1am appearance on August 19th.In the meantime, Go Seahawks!

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Nationally-syndicated radio newstalker, renowned film critic, prolific author and intellectual leading light Michael Medved has graciously agreed to appear during the 10 pm hour of the Sunday, August 5, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program on KIRO.Medved's broadcast is heard weekday afternoons noon-3pm Pacific Time on nearly 300 stations, and originates at KIRO sister-station KTTH/Seattle.

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I was saddened to learn today of the death of Sherwin Wine, the founder of the Society for Humanistic Judaism and a figure who I nominated for a Nobel Prize—well, kinda sorta. The renowned and retired Rabbi Wine was killed Saturday along with his cab driver in a taxi crash while vacationing in Morocco.Though I never got to personally know Wine very well, he was my clergyman during the mid-90s. My

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Apollo 17 Geologist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who roved the moon during NASA's final lunar landing mission in 1972, will be interviewed over KIRO/Seattle during the 10 pm hour of the Sunday night, July 22, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program.Dr. Schmitt is one of only nine still-living moonwalkers, and will take listener questions and comments.This radioactive interview will be followed by

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Longtime KIRO overnight newstalk host Bryan Styble is nowadays heard every late Sunday evening into Monday morning on The Bryan Styble Program, 10 pm-1 am Pacific Time throughout Greater Seattle-Tacoma and, with KIRO's regional nighttime signal, over much of the Pacific Northwest of the North American continent.Anyone in any time zone around the globe can tune in the program's live streaming at

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When legendary prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi telephonically appeared on The Bryan Styble Program on KIRO a couple of weeks ago, I had but a single hour to cover the most written-about investigation of all time. (That historical fact accounts for why his massive new JFK assassination book Reclaiming History is heftier than most dictionaries.)Thus, I wasn’t about to end our discussion with a joke,

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Nationally-syndicated radio newstalker and author Michael Medved, whose widely-respected daily broadcast originates weekday afternoons from KIRO sister-station KTTH/Seattle, has graciously agreed to a live interview during the 10pm hour of an upcoming Sunday evening edition of The Bryan Styble Program on KIRO, shortly following Medved's late-July return from Israel.

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Is it art? Indisputably yes. But a more interesting question is whether perhaps the tattoo—along with its less-permanent but often more-provocative cousin, the body piercing—should be also classified as a more particular, if not more peculiar, variety of artistic expression: performance art.That onstage genre has well earned its reputation for intellectual laziness, given how many of its

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Here are the startling results of a recent computer poll ranking male opinion of the most attractive women seen in the American mass media:1. Comedienne Rita Rudner2. Iconoclastic philosopher Camille Paglia3. ESPN anchor Linda Cohn4. Former CNN Headline News anchor Lynne Russell5. Actress and comedienne Sandra Bernhard"Whose total female package most turns you on?" was the question posed to an

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[originally posted December 27, 2005]With Monday Night Football ending its remarkable 35-year run on ABC last night with more of a whimper than a bang, I thought I might finally tell a story I've never shared with my talk radio audience. As it happens, this behind-the-scenes tale was my initial first-hand exposure to the staggering magnitude of the money at stake at the broadcast network level,

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Next Sunday night July 8, 2007, Bryan Styble will interview Hollywood stalwart Jayne Meadows, widow of Tonight Show originator and television legend Steve Allen, during his first radioactive hour on KIRO from 10-11 pm Pacific Time, followed as usual by two hours of Open Lines for Open Minds.

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Bryan Styble will interview legendary prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi about Reclaiming History, his massive new book on the JFK assassination, during the first hour of the July 1, 2007 edition of The Bryan Styble Program, heard on 710 KIRO 10 pm-1 am.The man who got the death penalty for Charles Manson—and, not incidentally, a guilty verdict in the 1986 posthumous “docu-trial” of Oswald—will take

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Bespectacled wit and showbiz Renaissance man Steve Allen is mostly remembered as a television pioneer, and alas, mostly forgotten as the author of dozens of sophisticated nonfiction books on a wide range of subjects. A fascinating 1989 effort featured an intentionally-inelegant title, Dumbth! Therein the Tonight Show originator condemned the decay of American intellectual standards and set forth,

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Can Bryan Styble be the only newstalk radio host in America who recognizes the inherent semantic inaccuracy of the most-uttered phrase thus far of the 21st Century? I've been explaining on-air ad nauseam (to little discernible effect so far, even amongst my KIRO callers) that the War on Terror is a serious misnomer.The verbal construction, popularized if not coined by our earnest yet

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Longtime KIRO overnight host Bryan Styble is nowadays heard every late Sunday evening into Monday morning on The Bryan Styble Program, from 10 pm to 1 am Pacific Time throughout the Greater Seattle-Tacoma and, thanks to KIRO's regional nighttime signal, over much of the Pacific Northwest of the North American continent. Anyone in any time zone around the globe can tune in at www. 710 KIRO.comFor

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