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Related: About this forumJesus on the Radio: what's it like where *you* live?
My first-ever cross-post!
When I lived in the Bible Belt, religious stations were mostly on the AM band (and a couple of stations were broadcasting Focus on the Family, bleah) but now that I'm in a small town in the northwest most of them are on FM and there are more of them, which I find odd and wasn't even expecting. So how 'bout it? Lots of radio religion where you live?
And just because their music is amazing and I love it (and I cribbed the OP title from them), Guster:
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cbayer
(146,218 posts)I occasionally listen in the car just for practice.
On road trips across the US, we have heard some outrageous radio. Truly jaw dropping stuff about women and gays and minorities.
I am repeatedly tricked by the music. I'm thinking, "this station isn't that bad", then I hear one of the key words and the whole thing collapses for me.
But 99% of the time I am listening to NPR or The Loft on Sirus. The only thing religious I ever hear is that show with Krista Tippet, which I really like, and some of the DJ's on sirius play music with religious themes at times, nothing offensive.
Congratulations on your first cross-post. I hope it goes really well.
Rob H.
(5,340 posts)I used to listen occasionally to kind of keep tabs on what the ultraconservative religious were up to--the unnerving thing was realizing that their regular listeners actually believed what they were hearing. They had bits from "Answers in Genesis," too, which somehow made it even worse.
That's a good way to learn a language if the brother of a friend of mine is any indication, btw. He came here from Spain at 13 knowing almost no English but picked it up pretty quickly by insisting people speak only English to him and watching TONS of American TV.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)were the local broadcasts. Focus has code words and try to say things in a way that their target audience will understand but won't utterly appall others. But some of those local stations and their preachers were the worst I have heard.
I am trying really hard to learn spanish, and I'm doing ok. I don't get TV right now or I would watch soap operas. But every chance I get, I speak with people. Even if they answer me in english, I respond back in spanish and tell them I want to learn.
And Duolingo is a great, free online program for a number of languages.
I am determined, senor.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)...Cross Post...
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I had to read that three times and it's true about the last one that laughs.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)I shouldn't post sleepy. It was all meant in good humor. I have a weakness for bad puns and wordplay. :p
cbayer
(146,218 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Seriously, the only time I turn on a radio, is when my car gets a case of the dumb and switches back to it. If I could rip out the XM and Radio functionality, I would. Problem is, the car's telematics are integrated with the climate and navigation systems.
So, basically I have a radio I'll never use, and a XM Radio advert on my dash that I can never get rid of. Maybe I should cover the button with a piece of tape or something.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)This is why god created podcasts.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)and whatever else I want to put ON the phone, rather than stream.
Plus audiobooks, etc.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Every major city in this state has at least one Christian radio station. Some are featured rather prominently on Right Wing Watch. But then, I have been told I am but a simple hillbilly, my opinions irreparably tainted by the backwoods boonies in which I live:
Leontius
(2,270 posts)that pollutes the airwaves any day.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)but only for a while.