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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Honestly I skipped the music part of your post cause I didn't really care TBH, but I hate Dr. Phil too. Dude's a pimple on the ass of society with the same gimmick as news reporters who do stories on missing white girls: give people a train wreck to watch and make them think they're actually being the opposite of exploitative. The only one I hate worse is Dr. Oz since he's an actual medical doctor who uses his degree to push weight loss tips on the kind of double-digit IQ women who watch soap operas. And yes I watch soap operas but I'm a dude so I'm immune to that stereotype.
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I've seen clips of some show called "The Doctors" I think, where it's an Oprah-style circlejerk with two doctors who give tips or whatever. I hate people like Tyra, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Oprah, etc, but I think I hate their audience members more. They strike me s the type of people who sniff sniff their own socks and are constantly beating off on some moral high ground.
And I'm sure the check is nice and hefty, but it baffles me that these families willingly go on these shows. "Hunny, we are having a lot of problems in our marriage and with our children. We are on a crash course for rock bottom, what do you think we should do?" "Sweetheart, I think we should go on national television and expose all of our embarrassing and humiliating secrets of our life and have some psuedo-intellectual tell us in front of millions of people how terrible we are as people." "Good idea, babe. What's Dr. Phil's number?"
I think I actually have more respect for the goons who would go on Springer because they took it less seriously. They knew they were white-trash or ghetto f
uck-ups and they were too far down the rabbit hole to ever crawl out. Speaking of Springer, anyone ever catch the Wilkos show? The one with Springer's old security guy, Steve. Man, what a sh
itty show that is. He somehow managed to take 80% of Dr. Phil's holier-than-thou aura and mix it with 5% of Springer's charisma, wittiness, and hilariousness to form a steamy turd of a show. The other 15% is intimidating scrawny caterpillar-moustached 35 year olds into almost pissing themselves on stage until the crowd is cued to chant "Steve! Steve! Steve!"
Unrelated to crap talk shows, what's the best downloading service now? I have just been using Pandora for music needs for a long time, but there's a few albums I want to download including the Chevelle ones Rezz posted about. Are torrents still a thing?