Layered Thoughts

On Tuesday and Wednesday nights, I get back to my car from school using the trolley, which gets me to my car right around 10pm.  One of the radio stations down here plays “Love Line”, a show I grew up listening to on KROQ back home but now its on a K-Whatever station that I can’t remember at the moment. I used to listen to Love Line when it was Dr. Drew and Adam Corolla and I don’t know if the reason I liked it back then was because I was like 13 and anything about sex was the coolest thing ever or if because the show was truly better back then.  But now I just can’t listen to it. First of all, the fact that a psychologist is giving out sometimes serious advice to kids who have deemed their problems bad enough to warrant calling into a nationally broadcasted radio show to ask about them seems sketchy enough. Granted, most of the calls consist of kids calling in saying “I was tossing off and some got in my eye, should I go get tested now?” But then there are much more serious questions. Like tonight, a girl called in saying that she had to share a bed with her dad a few nights ago because they had family in town and she had nowhere to sleep and that she woke up in the middle of the night and the bed was rocking and though she didn’t look to see, she thought it was because her dad was masterbating.  The girl was literally telling this through tears.  While she’s saying it, Stryker (the guy who replaced Adam Corolla) is mildly chuckling as he’s asking for more info.  Dr. Drew starts his response in a serious manner, asking if she actually did see anything or if there has ever been any other abnormal activities from her dad before, which she answered no to both. Both hosts then proceeded to laugh as they finished their responses, telling the girl to give her father a break, it was probably nothing, and even if it was something, it was probably in his sleep anyways. What kind of fucked up 30 second pschological assessment is that? They know nothing of the father, nothing of the girl, and end up laughing at her on a very popular radio station after she fearfully told a story about how there was a possibility that her dad’s masterbating had woken up a few nights prior. While it is pretty odd that the girl (22 years old) shared a bed with her father, I don’t find it that odd depending on the quality of the father daughter relationship up to that point. But to laugh at the situation just straight up appalled me. The show has seemed to have lapsed to a state of merely laughing at everyone who calls in, with some of the people actually having real, sincere problems. What a waste of air time.

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