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I used to listen them on long drives home at night when I was younger too, I honestly cannot remember anything about the show at all other than freaky callers with obviously made-up stories and Adam and Drew would sometimes stop the call to listen to the caller's chirping smoke detector.
It was a simpler time, we didn't build whole ideological movements around a couple of goofballs on the radio, most people didn't take it seriously so the show was bad, but harmless. Like much of the media of the 80's-90's.
Somewhere along the line we started outsourcing this kind of entertainment to interactive forums and message boards and from there people started festering and ruminating on this shit because suddenly they had access to thousands of different voices to find someone to validate their feelings, and that just curdled all of society and turned the most innocuous bullshit into weapon's grade social manipulation. Now everyone hates each other because everyone only looks at absurd exaggerations of reality and then isolates themselves from even proving themselves wrong.