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Good old Mike Savage, an early cancel victim himself, despite great listener metrics.

Also one of the first people to be banned from the UK as an undesirable anti-woke. I think from Australia, too.

I've never actually heard any of Mike Savage's show.

Wikipedia tries to tar and feather him, but it all just makes me like him more:

Savage has summarized his political philosophy in three words: borders, language, and culture. ...

He supports the English-only movement and argues that liberalism and progressivism are degrading American culture. ...

In 2009, Savage was permanently banned from entering the United Kingdom for "seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred". ...

Weiner has cited many occurrences in his life that helped shape his conservative views. Weiner states that his opinions on welfare were partly shaped by his first job out of college as a social worker.[22] He described one incident in which his supervisor had him deliver a check to a welfare client to furnish their apartment, while his own apartment was furnished with cardboard boxes.[23] Another turning point occurred for him as a writer of health and nutrition books in the 1980s, when he experienced what he saw as "political opposition" after making the suggestion that the closure of homosexual bathhouses might be necessary in response to the emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic. ...

Savage opposes illegal immigration, citing the black tar heroin epidemic, large percentage of immigrant prisoners, illegal use of public services, and diminishing American nationalism. ...

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Savage subscribes to the white genocide conspiracy theory,[68] a white nationalist belief, which claims that white people are becoming extinct through forced assimilation or violent genocide. ... He has claimed there is a "cultural genocide being promulgated against Caucasians". ...

In a May 4, 2020, article in the Washington Examiner, Savage is quoted as saying he will refuse to take a coronavirus vaccine, saying that it will likely be "ineffective and dangerous." ...

In early November 2007, the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on radio listeners to contact companies that advertise on Savage's program to express their concerns about his comments concerning Muslims. Savage was quoted as saying Muslims "need deportation" ...

OK, I definitely like him, but I don't think he should try to humiliate anyone. That's always counterproductive and makes your own life darker.

Another lifetime ago I used to have to pick up my wife at the train station on the regular. The only station that would come in clearly while I was waiting happens to broadcast Savages show. At first I thought him to be a raving lunatic but an entertaining one, so I kept listening. Several years later he was on the afternoon drive and he got me through many a traffic jam with a combination of humor, observation and off the wall takes on hot button issues of the day. I miss that guy. I didn't always agree with him but I enjoyed listening to his program.

Another quote of his:

"Liberalism is a mental disorder"

He's been saying that since then, how true it has become.

My favorite Mike Savage memory is when he talks about the 1950s and how all men had hairy knuckles, never trimmed their ear or nose hair or their eyebrows.

I laughed, it was the same way in the 80s. No adult man past their 20s, or really no adult man maybe aside from some Gay Men and the Crooners and Actors) groomed their eyebrows or ear hair. Or only did so because their wives did it for them before a major holiday or wedding or whatnot.

Also I loved his stories about Italian Dining around San Fran "San Fran Freako!" and that the only reason he refused to move was really the food.

Oh, and his stories about the Beatniks and how they were all a buncha perverts.

Another thing Pat might like, he's huge into natural remedies and was a VERY early adopter of skepticism about Big Pharma

Yeah he sounded a bit over the edge at times and made me wonder WTF then ??? but all that stuff he had been talking of then we've been witnessing the last decade... check out some of his writings, a few I can remember:

The enemy within
Stop the coming civil war
The political zoo
etc....

FreeAmericanDOP says

Another thing Pat might like, he's huge into natural remedies and was a VERY early adopter of skepticism about Big Pharma

Ohhh yeah... exactly. I believe he has a PHD in nutrition... hence the title Dr Savage.

floki says

Another quote of his:

"Liberalism is a mental disorder"

He's been saying that since then, how true it has become.

Great guy. He used to come in 910AM in SF bay area CA. Later he got kicked out to some other channel from Sacramento.
Edit: may be 810AM don’t remember exactly, one left, the other right both own by same person!

I first heard Savage on KGO radio where he got his start; it was Sunday afternoon I believe.
Later he moved to another station, I think it was KSFO.

My mother came to visit and I said "Lets listen to him while we have our wine." She got hooked.
I bought her a CC Radio to listen to him when she went back to Connecticut.

We laughed our asses off, he was funny. I recall he had a very brief TV show, I can't recall when it ran.

I also think he's frequently full of shit but that's OK; I don't believe all the herbal stuff he goes on about for example.

Of course his son made a gazillion bucks with his energy drink RockStar.

He's secretive about his whereabouts because some guys hate him; one of his places is in Tiburon, CA but he moves around evidently.

Bill Wattenburg Is another good one used to come on KGO.
https://bayarearadio.org/inductee/bill-wattenburg