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08-01-2023, 11:09 PM
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He was local and I have a memory of seeing him speak once, perhaps it was at that New Age bookshop in Mountain View. Perhaps it is a false memory. I enjoyed his radio show and was a fan of his book Crazy Wisdom although I suspect it wouldn’t do as much for me now as it did at the turn of the millennium. I always admired his catchphrase:
If you don't like the news ... go out and make some of your own.
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I used to listen to Scoop's report on KPIG every morning on the drive in to work. Somehow, I thought he'd already passed, or at least was in bad health for a few years.
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That name seems very familiar. I especially remember the tag line.
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(08-02-2023, 05:19 AM)Greg Wrote: That name seems very familiar. I especially remember the tag line.
He was a fixture on KFOG.
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Yep. Back when KFOG was great.
He was also a noted Buddhist.
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Yeah, it was great then. I liked the way he did the news. I didn't see anything about this except here. I vaguely remember reading a few years ago that he was ill.
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I was thinking I heard Mr. Nisker on The Quake back in the 1980s. I had to do some research to even come up with the Quake. But I can't find any record of Nisker working there. I must have heard him somewhere else.
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I vaguely remember his news reports being interrupted occasionally by his dogs barking in the background and him pausing to yell at them. Whether he was or not, he seemed like a typical, aged hippy: crunchy, maybe anti-con-trail, certainly anti-republican.
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