I'll agree he knows what he's doing. That doesn't, in any way, excuse that what he's doing sucks.
I'd prefer vapid and soul-crushing from someone honestly giving it over a charlatan who happens to play vapid and soul-crushing (on the radio) because it pays well.
YMMV.
So are they really looking at poaching Hardy or Keefe?
I like them both, I can't see either one dealing with Gerry & Kirk or were you referring to other opps at the station?
Also, why does Adam Jones have a job? I'd much rather see someone like Arcand get that role, it seems unanimous that everyone hates Adam Jones.
I still can't figure out if Kirk is a giant act or if he's really just an asshole obsessed with certain things and can't let it go. His obsession with Fred Toucher, the whole podcast where he just kept going back to the well on the "The Globe hates us" to "Mazz is a Globe guy" which as you said is 100% not true and Kirk knows it, to Andrew/Andy Mahoney.
It's like he gets caught up on something and just can't let it go. He'd be much more tolerable if he just toned that crap back a bit and was just more of a general asshole.