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KGO host talks about Bay Area radio station's abrupt signoff

Broadcasting company Cumulus Media is taking San Francisco's 80-year-old news station KGO (810 AM) off air, and it's unclear what is next for the dial.
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It's sad, but not surprising. The changes Cumulus made by fired existing hosts when they took over was a really bad decision and they never recovered from the bad will and audience alienation that caused.
 
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My girlfriend spotted someone eating at a Denny's this afternoon in a Sharks jersey. I realize the fan base is depressed after the last few seasons, but that's really bad.
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I had a brief Denny’s phase during one summer in undergrad (a lot of those 20% off your bill coupons). Don’t be hatin’.

Tearing down the one in Serramonte was long overdue though. That branch was crap.
 
I do not understand this weird new obsession people have with nostalgia for Hocus Pocus. It's a thoroughly mediocre movie that is mostly a giant waste of the talents of Bette Midler and to a slightly lesser extent Kathy Najimy.

It's not even like it's the best halloween movie of its era so it simply stands up against the competition. But somehow I see people all over social media going nuts about watching it and watching the nostalgia-fueled sequel Disney+ just put out.
 
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The Nemesis said:
I do not understand this weird new obsession people have with nostalgia for Hocus Pocus. It's a thoroughly mediocre movie that is mostly a giant waste of the talents of Bette Midler and to a slightly lesser extent Kathy Najimy.

It's not even like it's the best halloween movie of its era so it simply stands up against the competition. But somehow I see people all over social media going nuts about watching it and watching the nostalgia-fueled sequel Disney+ just put out.
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It's not new imo, I've seen people gush over Hocus Pocus for years.
 
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The Nemesis said:
I do not understand this weird new obsession people have with nostalgia for Hocus Pocus. It's a thoroughly mediocre movie that is mostly a giant waste of the talents of Bette Midler and to a slightly lesser extent Kathy Najimy.

It's not even like it's the best halloween movie of its era so it simply stands up against the competition. But somehow I see people all over social media going nuts about watching it and watching the nostalgia-fueled sequel Disney+ just put out.
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Its a teen-friendly film that millennials largely grew up watching around their favorite holiday, and now that they have money or (occasionally) kids, they're revisiting it? I've never seen it, despite being right about the perfect age, so I can't speak to its quality, but I've been informed by people around my age that I am "supposed" to rectify this.
 
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Cas said:
Its a teen-friendly film that millennials largely grew up watching around their favorite holiday, and now that they have money or (occasionally) kids, they're revisiting it? I've never seen it, despite being right about the perfect age, so I can't speak to its quality, but I've been informed by people around my age that I am "supposed" to rectify this.
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It's fine. Not the most incredible movie or anything but it's a solid Halloween watch.
 
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The Nemesis said:
I do not understand this weird new obsession people have with nostalgia for Hocus Pocus. It's a thoroughly mediocre movie that is mostly a giant waste of the talents of Bette Midler and to a slightly lesser extent Kathy Najimy.

It's not even like it's the best halloween movie of its era so it simply stands up against the competition. But somehow I see people all over social media going nuts about watching it and watching the nostalgia-fueled sequel Disney+ just put out.
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combination of marketing and #mandelaeffect

in a month we'll all go back to never bringing it up ever again
 
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Imagine only playing 3 or 5 games to determine the outcome of a Playoff Series.

Yes, is f***ing stupid, but then again so is the MLB and it's Playoffs system.
 
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Today I learned that Mad Max Fury Road owes its existence to, of all things, ReBoot. Yes, I'm talking about the 90s CG cartoon.

It turns out that the writer of Fury Road, Brendan McCarthy, was always a big fan of the Mad Max movies growing up. So when he was working on ReBoot as a writer/production designer and the show did a Mad Max parody episode ("Bad Bob") he wrote to George Miller to tell him about the parody. From this Miller called him and the two met on a trip to Los Angeles where Miller pitched a Xena/Hercules style Mad Max TV show for McCarthy to come work on. McCarthy basically said "that's a dumb idea, just make another movie."

And so they did like 20 years later, having apparently worked on it off and on since whenever it was in the 90s that all of this happened (for reference, the ReBoot episode in question originally aired in September of 95.



obligatory preparation for people to go "oh my god, the art is awful!" without remembering that this predates Toy Story by like a year, was the first ever full-length CG animated broadcast TV series ever made, and they basically began working on it in like the late 80s/early 90s and it literally took them almost half a decade to get enough episodes for a season order because nobody had any idea how to do any of this and it was all self-taught on the fly as they produced what would go to air (because it was waaaaaaayyyyy too cost-prohibitive to just make a pilot to pitch with. They had to have a full order or nothing at all). Also yes, I am still bitter that the show ended on a damn cliffhanger and the only thing they've done since was an awful in-name-only revival that was more like a bad version of Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad with the ReBoot name plastered on it.
 
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Talking about bad art, I could never get into Code Lyoko in grade school because of their ugly foreheads. Reboot was good stuff though. Recess in the morning, Reboot after school. Simpler times.
 
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