I've been listening to this station for about 5 years, and while the music quality is mediocre (too recent, female, and pop) it hasn't really changed, and it's still better than most of the other stations. What has changed is the quality of the ads. I know they believe the audience is conservative, because they used to run ads for gun stuff all the time. Note that I say used to. It's been months if not longer since I've heard a gun ad. I'm not aware of any offical policy change, but the absence of gun ads is conspicuous. They advertise vaxtard shit, and while all the stations do that this station seems to do it more, though I may be biased since I listen to this one the most.
What really got me thinking about this is their ads pushing shit like mental health, self care, and of course therapy. There's nothing wrong with mental health and self care of course, but self care in particular is used by leftists to justify lazy and shitty behavior, and of course therapy in current year is nothing more than feminist brainwashing. It's interesting that all this "wellness" stuff never includes eating better, exercising, or making life improvements that solve the root cause of any mental health problems. Nope, just stay miserable and allow commie grifters to profit from it.
My job has me driving for a significant part of my 10 hour shifts. I've been trying to figure out how to get podcasts without ads which would be ideal. What I can't deal with is that server side injected shit right in the middle of the podcast. From what i can tell the best way is to find a podcast on YouTube and use a program to swipe them, and figuring out how to use the program isn't trivial.
It's not that hard. In cmd.exe:
yt-dlp.exe -f m4a http://theURL
Since youtube has versions with just the audio.
If you get ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe.exe (separate download bc patents) and put them in the same folder you can just do "yt-dpl.exe -x URL" to download a video and extract the audio. It can even use sponsorblock to remove ad segments, but that's a little harder.
Thanks. Command line stuff doesn't come natural to me but I can usually figure it out. I just hadn't found the time and motivation.
Check out Stacher, it's a GUI for yt-dl and can integrate ffmpeg and ffprobe as well.