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PSB update – News, MTV and Religiosity

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | September 25th, 2021

PSB (Patriot Soap Box) is one of my favorite channels on the net, but this is a love- hate relationship.  I love the fact they are on 24X7, but hate some of their content.  Now, understanding how difficult it must be to keep this channel up and running with good content, I forgive PSB for any perceived shortcomings they may exhibit.   They do have some first-class content and are doing an incredible job keeping this community and channel together despite being banned from almost every platform imaginable … yet somehow they survive.

Over the last few years, they have lost some of their best talent and hosts; and after the Trump coup, Trump’s continued support for the clot-shot and the abrupt cessation of Q posts on December 8th, 2020,  PSB has become less trusting of Trump and Q generally but they do not completely disown these two.  They have learned to be more skeptical and less trusting which is good.

TOO MUCH RELIGIOSITY FOR MY TASTE

Content is king, and if I wanted to listen to a sermon, I’d go to church:  In full disclosure, I am a Christian today, was raised in a Christian home and have been a Christian from my youth.  Despite this, PSB has too much religiosity for my taste.  I’m sure Pam and Radix (owners & operators of PSB) approve of all this religious content.  I do think Radix has about the right touch for my taste when she starts off her afternoon program with a Psalm.  Educated in a Catholic school, Radix appreciates the good her Catholic training provided, yet does not hesitate to criticize the bad.  She is also open-minded enough to venture off into Orthodoxy and brave enough to criticize Zionism.  This goes against many in her audience who are apparently Christian Zionist, but she soldiers-on in search for  lady truth.  Radix is smart, and objective enough to know something is wrong with Christian Zionism and point it out.  BTW, Tim Kelly and James Perloff did a great podcast on this very topic.

TOO MANY MUSIC VIDEOS FOR MY TASTE

Each PSB segment starts with a music video and ends with a music video, so if there are two segments one hour each, you would see / listen to four (4) music videos.  Additionally, many hosts pepper their program with music videos in lieu of real content.   What this means is that a news junky like me is tortured with an almost endless stream of music videos with little to no real content.  Content is king, and if I wanted to listen to music videos, I’d turn to MTV or YouTube.

Despite my criticism above, I realize this is my own personal taste which is not for everyone. PSB has some great content and I love listening to their hosts horribly mispronounce words which are common in my lexicon.  This is great entertainment and I have great belly laughs.   This is really not a criticism, since these folks are obviously common, average people who are doing their best, and more:  they are actually standing up and making a difference unlike me or others who are sitting on the sidelines as a critic. We have way too many critics.

So I say to my friends at PSB, keep up the great work and thank you for keeping this great channel together and functioning.

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Notes:

  • I haven’t written about PSB since July 1, 2018
  • I continue to support PSB financially
  • James Perloff, Jay Dyer and many others have converted to Orthodoxly