My Buzzfeed Audition Post

I've noticed for the most part that all the internet is nowadays is memes, cooking videos, some website ranking things. or some quiz telling you what you are. All of this climaxed for me when a certain website put out a quiz asking "Which one of Jesus's disciples are you?" At that point I figured it would be a good time to stay away from that site and maybe start to filter what I was reading. Unfortunately it was a little harder to avoid than I had hope. Now here I am writing something that you can find on any of thousands of websites/blogs. You win internet, as always.  So without further ado, my audition post for Buzzfeed.

The Definitive Reveiws of SiriusXM channels

(.....according to my presets)

2 - SiriusXM 1 Hits 
The station for the person that doesn't have an FM radio. Every city has their one pop station. So since this is satellite radio, I guess this is universe's? This is the place to go when you just need that Taylor Swift or Katy Perry fix.

8- 80's on 8
Let me start by saying that the simplicity of the name of this station (along with channels 5, 6, 7 & 9) is a big selling point for me. As far as content, you really can't go wrong with some good 80's music. I'm sure you've been to an 80's themed party at one point or another in your life, well this is the soundtrack to that drunken night where you wore your uncle's Member's only jacket.

9 - 90's on 9
Another great station for some classics. Wide range of music here going from grunge all the way to over abundance of boy bands that emerged in the late 90's. If you're my age this will take you back to a time where your biggest worry in life was how you were going to scrap enough change to give to the ice cream truck.

10 - Pop2k
I'll be honest, I'll hear some songs come on this station and think to myself "Holy crap, I'm getting old." I mean we're at a point that there's a whole decade in the 2000's that already has it's on channel. I'm not entirely sure how to describe this channel except I always seem to find myself stopping here whenever I hear a rap song as this was the point in my life where I started to listen to it. Country Grammar forever!

11 & 12 - KIIS (LA) / Z100 (NY)
Basically everything you get on channel 2 just with the DJ's talking about some local stuff. Kind of pointless if all you want is music since channel 2 is commercial free. (I say it's pointless but they are on my presets)

17 - SiriusXM Love
Well, this station is filled with baby making music. Enjoy.

18 - SiriusXM Limited Edition
This is a hit or miss. This changes every week or two with a different theme. As I'm writing it just so happens to be a great week, it's Neil Diamond radio week. One of America's greatest songwriters. But it's not always Neil. During Super Bowl week they had stadium anthems which was another winner. Those are really the only two that I can remember but I'm sure at one point they'll have something you'll like.

24 - Radio Margaritaville
I basically just have this station on standby hoping when I sporadically switch to it "Fins" is on. Go Dolphins!

34 - Lithium
It's just the 90's on 9 station with only rock songs. Officially it's alternative/grunge but it's rock from the 90's. It's always good, espicially on those days you get hear Spin Doctors - "Two Princess"

36 - Alt Nation
To be frank, I have no clue why this is on my presets. I couldn't even tell you what New Alternative Rock sounds like. 21 Pilots? Is that even rock?

39 - Hair Nation
OH YEA! Now thats what I'm talking about. Takes you back to those glamour rock days where VH1 Behind the Music got 92% of it's episodes from. This time was all about "sex, drugs and rock and roll" and these Hair Bands took that to the max. Just a great station where you can just bang your head and enjoy the good times.

43 - Classic Hip Hop
Basically when you weed out all the pop hits from channel 9 and the rock hits from channel 34 you're left with this. Great for those who like hip hop when they actually rapped about something. We all have that older cousin that will tell you about he remembers when this song came out.

71 - Siriusly Sinatra
Old Blue Eyes. Easy listening station that's all Sinatra, all the time. I tend to find myself tuning in here after I've had a few too many. Great for singing along and remembering a time where men would dress in suits all the time, smoke anywhere they wanted and drank so much alcohol that they were basically always drunk.

72 - On Broadway
Ok, no judging. I accidentally came across this station and a song from Book of Mormon was playing so I let it ride. My girlfriend was in the car and realized what the station was. And her being the giant fan of musicals that she is, naturally the channel stayed.

80 - ESPN Radio
Pretty self explanatory. Sports. People talking about sports. That's basically everything. Nothing really special just what you get on TV without pictures.

85 - SiriusXM FC
People talking about soccer and your occasional game on the weekend. Solid station. You'll get some good insight from some personalities that usually don't have a platform.


Overall I really enjoy my SiriusXM radio. What I don't enjoy is the price. I had my 3 month free trial when I got my new car. I got a promo of 5 months for $25 to try to keep me locked in, it did. Then when that was done I paid $10 a month for a few months. Then when I went to cancel, I was offered the 5/$25 again, which I took. To be honest though, if you could afford it, go for it. It's quality entertainment with high quality sound, and no commercials!

Having said all of that there is an alternative. If you have an iPhone, I highly suggest Apple Music. It's a great way to access the entire iTunes library and if you have a college email you get it for only $4.99/month (a steal). And if you need some talk radio in your life, there's countless podcasts out there that you can listen to.

.....much like there's thousands of blogs out there. Which makes me think why are you reading this? Why am I writing this? I'll tell you why....

....in my next post 😉

Sports Medi-ugh

Just realized I never posted this from May of 2015.....I'm not very good at this blogging thing.


There's no more sports in sports media. ESPN is more E!-SPN than anything nowadays, and Fox Sports is leaning more towards Fox News....neither of those are a good thing.

The reason I'm writing this because of this Frank Clark story that's in the news. He beat allegedly beat his girlfriend and that got him kicked of the Michigan football team. The Seahawks "investigated" him and still drafted him. A horrible story. My concern is why is this something that needs to take up several segments on a sports show. I know if there's something on TV I don't like I can always change the channel. Thats why I don't watch E!, Bravo, A&E, Lifetime, Oxygen, O! Network, WE, TLC, CNN, Fox News, Showtime, HGTV, CBS, CSPAN, CNBC, MSNBC, Golf Channel, MTV, or VH1. But when all the channels I do watch are talking about the same thing, it's difficult to find alternatives. I just saw Fox Sports 1 have a panel discuss Frank Clark for five minutes. Get the story out there, let people know what happened and that's it. What bothers me most is that we're subjected to watch these people talk about a man who is accused of doing some horrific things to a woman, when there is hundreds and hundreds of other athletes performing that aren't accused of these things and we're not hearing anything about them. 

Floyd Mayweather is another great example of all of this. It seemed like the only thing people were interested in talking about the week leading up to the biggest fight in years was his history of domestic violence, which is horrid. There was talk of trying to get people to boycott the fight. You know what would've been a great way of getting people to boycott the fight? How about informing the public of what a boring fight it was going to be? The man hasn't had an entertaining fight since 2007. I am no expert by any means, but I knew going in it was going to be a snooze fest. 

Let me be clear about one thing, the above is terribly written. I've had too much ice cream and been listening to sports stations talk about domestic violence for about the 567th time in the last 6 months. I'm just tired of it. I can't blame them for talking about. And the thing that pisses me off more than anything is that they have to. Because there's still these stupid "men" that see the need to lay their hands on a woman. My strife with the media is really a strife with all these people that continue to do these horrific acts. Maybe I'll just become Batman and stop all the violence in the world.