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- We Are Comcast!
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Broadcast on Daily Feed stations 04/15/04
Max FaTass delivers a direct message to cable customers, and answers their
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Broadcast on Daily Feed stations 04/15/04 Max FaTass delivers a direct message to cable customers, and answers their questions.
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broadcast on Daily Feed stations 04/15/04
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Review of We Are Comcast!
Remember what the dormouse said. Feed your head, daily.
Perhaps it's impossible to derail the runaway train of public radio news that, binging on branding, takes itself too seriously and its subjects not skeptically enough. But The Daily Feed might just be the penny on the tracks to wreck things nicely; if not, it will survive as the smooth, shiny coin of the realm for listeners who still scrutinize news.
Okay, it may not be the first thing that leaps to mind, but Frank Benlin and Max Knobny's Hasty 'Poons are Core exemplars of Honesty, Civil Discourse, and Pacing – Mind, Heart, and Craft. These dudes know news, they skewer it instead of skewing it, and they do it right tight.
Featuring, among others: Swiftboats Against Social Security, Jeff Gannon for Naked Liberty, Al Cada from Cada's Texas Toyota (who sends a "big ol' slathering Texas Ranch sandwich" to a soldier on the frontlines for every SUV sold).
And in this "We Are Comcast" episode, Max FaTass speaks loudly and carries a big shtick. "Dear Comcast, Are you evil or just don't care?"
"Well, we're not evil." Knobny's voicings are a beautiful irritation, itching into your ear, making you scratch your brain.
Smart silly fast fun done. There's the recipe. In your 86,400 daily seconds, you can force yourself to feed 90 of these, second to none.