I would agree. My two cents worth is that the show should have been renamed once Schrader took over and they should have played up the Upper Midwest angle. Kind of like Punnett used to do when he lived there. It is an interesting region in it's own right.
You read my mind. Schrader does his own show his way and doesn’t need to be propped up with legacy squatter advertisement or the bullshit baggage that comes with it. If it is “Art Bells†Midnight in the Desert, where does Dave fit in? Does the widow get a royalty check now?
I don’t recall NBC calling it Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show when Leno took over...