Making Waves: The Original Angry Talker

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Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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These days, we’re used to media that thrives on conflict and amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room. It's something we often trace back to shock jocks, like Howard Stern, and in-your-face talk show hosts like Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh. But before all those guys, there was Joe Pyne.

At the height of his career in the 1960s, the New York Times called him “The ranking nuisance of broadcasting.” Today, episode two of our series Making Waves: The Original Angry Talker.

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0:40.0	From PRX.
0:42.0	From PRX's Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries.
0:44.7	I'm Joe Richmond.
0:46.8	Today, we bring you the second installment of our mini-series, making waves.
0:51.5	About three radio personalities who were controversial,
0:55.3	pushed the boundaries,
0:57.5	had huge audiences in their time,
0:59.5	but today they're largely forgotten.
1:03.5	These days we're used to media that thrives on conflict,
1:06.4	that amplifies the most outrageous voices in the room.
1:10.1	It's something we often trace back to shock jocks like Howard Stern,
1:14.6	and in-your-face talk show hosts like Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh. But long before all those guys, there was Joe Pine.
1:18.6	At the height of his career in the 1960s, the New York Times called him the ranking nuisance of broadcasting.
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