show recap 11.15.11

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1. Cyndi says

   November 17, 2011 at 3:08 pm

   Jenny,

   I have really enjoyed your show for the most part for the past few years. I appreciate the advice you have given me in the past. I have tried really hard to hang in and keep listening but I had to turn the radio off Tuesday when Lilly got stuck on her rampage and this wasn’t the first time I have had to do that. I appreciate someone being passionate about their beliefs but if she has to bully people, talk loudly over them, be beligerant and rude and continuously insult them in order to make her point then that, unfortunately, makes her seem unintelligent and also makes it seem like the stand she is taking isn’t as strong as she would like people to think. It’s particularly bad when she startes shreaking and chanting “whatever, whatever, whatever” over and over again. I realize that’s the name of your show, but she sounds like a teenager who doesn’t agree with their parents when she behaves that way. It actually gives me a headache to keep listening when she gets that way. She claimed she hadn’t insulted anyone but she did many times during that “discussion”. I realize you and Lilly don’t care if you lose one listener, but from the amount of callers who seemed to feel very much like I do about it, you are chancing losing a lot of listeners. You encourage people to call in to the show but, honestly, I can’t see why anyone would want to call in if they dare to not agree with Lilly, or at all for that matter. It can be difficult for some people (me included) to call in the first place without thinking a bully might lash out on the other end. If you are going to claim you are having a discussion, or even a debate, both require talking AND listening. What you had that night was a Lilly Soapbox session and it does not make for effective radio, i.e. when everyone talks at once, no one listening can possibly hear what any single person is saying, even if they think they are being louder than the others. What gives her the right to be passionate about her beliefs but others aren’t allowed to express their passion about their own? She can feel free to trash my thoughts if she wants to, loudly and rudely, just as she does to everyone else because I won’t be tuned in to hear it. I’m sorry, but my 2 hour commute seems it would be more enjoyable if I find something else to listen to, or even spent in silence for that matter.

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   • melissa csepli says

     December 6, 2011 at 10:33 pm

     just wanted to say ditto i agree totally with cyndi who wrote in on 11/17/2011 regarding lily super annoying and i too want to listen to you and most of your staff, but she is just too much with her passion. dont want to quit listening but dont want to be annoyed either. thanks i do think you are great very open minded.

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