Has party-driven Talk radio – both liberal and conservative – hit its saturation point?
JD: Absolutely. We’re way beyond the saturation point. People just want to find a place where they can laugh, get pissed off, learn something they didn’t know, have their feelings validated, or think about something in a different way. It’s easy to pick sides. It’s easy to prop up a party every day; it’s hard to write a new show every day, and thankfully, I have a lot of good guys who work on the show that help me do that. RI: Do you think some other Talk hosts are playing a character, or just pretending because it gets them ratings and advertisers? JD: That’s what I’m hearing, but I don’t listen to Talk radio anymore. I stopped listening to other people. Vin Scully, the announcer for the Dodgers, said he watches baseball games without sound, because he doesn’t want what someone else says to affect him. It’s the same thing with Talk radio. I don’t care if the guy before me talked about the same thing that I’m going to talk about. I’m talking about it with my perspective and the audienc
