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kurtyboy

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9. Talk Radio

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Original post)

Thu Feb 5, 2026, 04:50 PM

Feb 5

Most truckers listen to talk radio for hours on end, every day they work. Talk radio is almost exclusively right-oriented, from a significant "leaning" to out and out reactionary bordering on seditious. In many parts of the heartland, the south, and the mountain west--across which interstate truckers must travel--there are simply no other options to while away the hours.

I suppose podcasts might be an alternative, but the bias is built in, now. When they sit down for a meal at a truckstop or are in the breakroom if they are local truckers, the conversations are mostly one-sided. The social pressure to conform surely influences a few of them.

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