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...might not think people would choose to listen to conversations in a frat house. Yet every afternoon Opie and Anthony spend four hours calling each other gay, drooling over hot moms and barraging women to "whip 'em out." It's not even a carefully constructed frat chat: an hour before airtime, six staff members, all guys, sit around watching Jackass, shooting baskets and occasionally surfing news websites. They're less like people preparing for a radio show than people waiting for a pizza...
Sometimes they'll even pretend to listen to people outside the frat. "If a group gets p_____ off at something we're doing--say, the gay community--and a guy calls in, and he's gay and articulate and doesn't have too gay a voice, we give him an open forum," says Opie, slipping into a moment of earnestness. Then he snaps out of it. "Then we call him a f_____ and bring on the next stripper...
...teachers are way more enthusiastic and exciting to listen to than what I am used to back home” says Jan-Willem Muller, a college student from Rotterdam. “They are interesting, fun, and I am learning...
...that's what a White House loves to hear. Every White House has done its share of jawboning the Fed to lower rates, economic growth being very good politics. And few Fed chairman listen, as the elder Bush so painfully learned in 1991 when Greenspan's caution in lowering ushered in the recession that ushered Bush out. So Bush the younger, who probably still hears about that around the barbecue pit in Kennebunkport, appears to be insuring himself as best he can against a similar fate...
...trio's sound, which--on albums released on the small Pacific Northwest labels Chainsaw and Kill Rock Stars--has become at once bigger and more agile, harsher and more unpredictable, since the band formed in 1994 in Olympia, Wash. The world is organized so as not to have to listen to songs as frightening and fast as Youth Decay, from last year's album All Hands on the Bad One, and there are thousands of people living in the world desperate to hear a song so unafraid of its own noise, to go to a show precisely to feel unafraid...