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RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - Drunk Monk - 08-01-2023
He was local and I have a memory of seeing him speak once, perhaps it was at that New Age bookshop in Mountain View. Perhaps it is a false memory. I enjoyed his radio show and was a fan of his book Crazy Wisdom although I suspect it wouldn’t do as much for me now as it did at the turn of the millennium. I always admired his catchphrase:
If you don't like the news ... go out and make some of your own.
Remember when death came in threes? Now we’re all at the age when it just keeps coming…
Soon come.
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - thatguy - 08-02-2023
I used to listen to Scoop's report on KPIG every morning on the drive in to work. Somehow, I thought he'd already passed, or at least was in bad health for a few years.
--tg
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - Greg - 08-02-2023
That name seems very familiar. I especially remember the tag line.
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 08-02-2023
(08-02-2023, 05:19 AM)Greg Wrote: That name seems very familiar. I especially remember the tag line.
He was a fixture on KFOG.
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - Drunk Monk - 08-02-2023
Yep. Back when KFOG was great.
He was also a noted Buddhist.
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - King Bob - 08-04-2023
Yeah, it was great then. I liked the way he did the news. I didn't see anything about this except here. I vaguely remember reading a few years ago that he was ill.
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - Greg - 08-04-2023
I was thinking I heard Mr. Nisker on The Quake back in the 1980s. I had to do some research to even come up with the Quake. But I can't find any record of Nisker working there. I must have heard him somewhere else.
RE: RIP Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker - thatguy - 08-04-2023
I vaguely remember his news reports being interrupted occasionally by his dogs barking in the background and him pausing to yell at them. Whether he was or not, he seemed like a typical, aged hippy: crunchy, maybe anti-con-trail, certainly anti-republican.
--tg