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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦

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Former radio host, current radio consultant, storyteller/comedian, mostly harmless. He/him. Rochester NY on Haudenosaunee land

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · Sep 4

@lisafybush.bsky.social and I are getting ready for the biggest comedy show we've ever done together.

You've got 2 chances to see us at the @rochesterfringe.bsky.social. each show has its own unique lineup of funny friends hosting and featuring.

#ROC

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Comedy On Deck: Well Seasoned - Tickets and Shows - Show - Rochester Fringe Festival

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 1d

There's no naked bike ride like an emergency naked bike ride.

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 2d

Well, no, but only because I use FCCData.org instead. It's better.

FCCdata.org - powered by REC

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 3d

Ah.

So THAT'S why I am so obsessed with radio towers and highway markers and license plates and such.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 6d

Edition 25 about to hit the presses...

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 7d

(sympathy hugs)

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 9d

Some of my friends have had issues with them about posts concerning the Middle East, too.

Again, super protective of the power structure.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 13d

I think you're overestimating Morelle's appeal, both to GOP voters and to younger Democrats tired of the do-nothing Schumer wing of the party.

Nobody's looking for compromise right now on either side, and that's all Joe seems inclined to do with votes like Laken Riley and Charlie Kirk.

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 14d

You really think a primary challenge in a D +15 district is going to result in any Republican winning the seat in the general?

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 14d

I know of at least one potential candidate. It's early, but not very early anymore, isn't it?

And the fact that it takes that much money to stage a campaign is just depressing as hell.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 14d

If only he had a spine to actually stand up more often against the administration.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 17d

My 17 year old doesn't read any print periodicals, except when the Onion shows up in the mail, at which point it disappears and he and his friends laugh their teenage butts off.

Please don't ever change, sir.

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19d

I can't answer @billkuchman.bsky.social directly, but the answer is "probably not."

Unlike cable, OTT providers like YTTV and Fubo have retrans agreements with networks as a whole instead of individual stations. I don't think that gives them any ability to deliver out of market affiliates though.

Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 19d

Someone who understands the intricacies of cable rights — could “cable” companies like YouTube TV and Fubu take an ABC stream directly from Disney to air Kimmel in areas where the local affiliate is owned by Sinclair or Nexstar?

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19d

Not a coincidence.

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19d

It's worse than that. There's long-standing precedent back to the 60s that if a network affiliate won't clear a show, it has to be offered to another station in the market.

The logical places to carry Kimmel instead of WHAM would be Fox or CW Rochester... but that's all Sinclair here.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19d

Paramount/CBS?

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19d

Kimmel is a good start.

Now let's see CBS un-cancel Colbert.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 20d

That's awesome! Congratulations!!

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 20d

I'm thinking back to my dad's funeral three years ago.

The merch tents out front, the QR codes behind the speakers for the fundraisers, the fireworks, the online bragging about crowd size...

(touches earpiece)

Wait, that's not what actual mourning looks like?

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21d

So are you running against him next year? Is anyone?

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22d

Hey #ROC! Last chance to get tickets to see me and @lisafybush.bsky.social at @rochesterfringe.bsky.social tonight at 9!

We're so excited to get to do our longer sets for a packed room!

rochesterfringe.com/tickets-and-...

Comedy On Deck: Well Seasoned - Tickets and Shows - Show - Rochester Fringe Festival

rochesterfringe.com

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22d

By this standard, since the US is run at the national level by Republicans, ALL violent crime in the US is the responsibility of Republicans.

It's only logical.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22d

This thread from @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is good, but the reality is that "local actors" have been gone from local TV ownership for a long time now.

It's all big corps, and deals like Nexstar/TEGNA are just further consolidating what's already consolidated.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23d

3/ Why? Because one company shouldn't control local speech in half the country.

Also, we want our local TV stations to be run by local actors to preserve local identity and prevent our culture from becoming soullessly flattened - which Nexstar was already doing!

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22d

But it's also part of a bigger, sadder picture in which the economics of local TV have shifted so abruptly.

Is anyone under 50 watching linear local TV news anymore? It's hard to afford to pay anyone with any experience a livable wage, which in turn accelerates the spiral.

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22d

In theory, someone could create one again...

Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22d

The people who would attack a Morelle for a no vote on a messaging bill like this are going to attack him on plenty of other things anyway, and his yes vote won't mollify any of them.

Even if the bill is pointless, it would still be nice to see some amount of spine and courage from Jellyfish Joe.

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