I caught up with an intriguing radio personality, Sirius XM Road Dog host Jimmy Mac, at the Mid-America Trucking Show a few months ago. He'd just downed four cups of TA's newly-rolled-out high energy coffee. Tired, but fully wired, with two conventions under his belt in just three days, he was in full Jimmy Mac rant mode.
"Remember Mos Eisley," he said, then drawing a parallel between the Star Wars cantina and, well, the hall of chaotic public discourse that is today's internet. To wit:
Jimmy Mac (aka James Fitzsimmons, the host of Dave Nemo Weekends) is a man whose social commentary frequently brims with cinematic references, but he's got a way of keeping his listeners on their toes. Personally, I had to hit YouTube to refresh my memory from the 1977 film he referenced there.
I first stumbled upon this unique radio personality last November around Thanksgiving, when he had a panel of Native American guests on his show. He was discussing how we might view the holiday in light of all we now know. The show turned into an homage to Native American culture, and everything that heritage gave us.
For this gearjammer, the week of Thanksgiving 2021 would be a tough one. A co-worker was down with COVID, and I was picking up the slack on his milk run, working through the holiday. I was in Cleveland, and had run myself into the ground as well with what would become yet another case of pneumonia. I was in a scramble to find something interesting on the radio just to keep awake. I scanned over to Sirius XM Channel 146, Road Dog, and there was Jimmy Mac, holding a veritable post-graduate course in the humanities on a call-in trucker show.
