A Nation Of Chumps For DUMMIES

 A Nation Of Chumps

Program Host: Walter Kovacs 

Co-Host: Sandy Lathers

Radio Station: KFAI 90.3 FM

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota 

Original Airdate: December, 1992 


About The Program:

A Nation Of Chumps was an experimental and resolutely non-traditional radio program.  


Broadcast overnight, it examined aspects of the broader American culture through the lens of the nation’s subcultural and countercultural movements.  


Hosts Kovaks and Lathers took regular calls from listeners, which in turn garnered engaged, active audience participation.


In reflecting upon their regular examinations, the hosts would inject ample amounts of both studio-created and audience-sourced audio verite.


Its blend of “talk radio” and free-form music selection struck a chord of immediacy, and the program often intertwined with the local community in unpredictable ways, becoming as much an experiment in human nature as a form of entertainment.


Engaging and sometimes controversial, the program ended in 1994 after roughly three years of carefully curated audio adventurism.


About KFAI:

KFAI (“Fresh Air Radio”) is a non-commercial, volunteer-based community radio station founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1978.  It is still broadcasting throughout the Twin Cities metro area, and also streams online at KFAI.org.

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