I am making some changes . . .

On Wednesday evening, at the end of Hour #2, I announced that there are going to be changes in my live radio show.  I reiterated the announcement on Thursday night's show . . . 

First change: The second hour on Wednesdays, will end at the end of this month.   As of March 1, my show will still air, Monday thru Friday, from 9:00-10:00 PM eastern time.  No second hour on Wednesday nights.  

Secondly, I am including much more news for the purpose of minimizing callers to the show.  Yep, I've had enough.

You know, every night, I talk about hard news.    EVERY NIGHT.  I give blunt, informed, lively commentary.

For a long time now, when I open the phone to callers, they talk about stuff that is completely unrelated to any of the news I just spent a half hour to 45 minutes reporting.   THEY want to talk about . . . . . whatever.

That's over.

From now on, I will report the news, take calls about that news and/or the social, political, cultural - even religious-- implications of that news.

Your calls have to matter.  They have to add something to the show.  They have to be relevant. Interesting. Worthy of airtime on my show.

Do you honestly believe that anyone in the world is interested in what you read in some magazine in 2019, about something that took place two years earlier?   NOBODY CARES.

Why should I give up my valuable airtime, that I am paying more than $3 a MINUTE for, to accommodate 2,3,4 minutes of a boring caller with old, irrelevant information that has nothing at all to do with the content of that show?

Please don't try to bullshit me that "I want people to know."  Get your own show.  See how long you last with your boring, irrelevant content.

Callers should be on-topic, have notes to refer to while they're on the air, so they can make their point and be done.   

I am so fed-up with people who drone on and on and on, and then, when I try to move them along, I hear, wait, just one more thing, and its another minute or two of horseshit content that nobody cares about.

I'm not continuing to accommodate that.  I've been patient.  I've been tolerant.   I'm being made a fool of by people who fixate on one topic, over, and over, and over again, which serves no useful purpose and is utterly boring.

So those changes are happening.  And just to be clear, if I have to ask a caller "What does that have to do with the news I reported tonight"   they are seconds away from being cut off.

I provide cutting edge news, blunt and lively commentary and I am not going to be dragged down by boring callers with useless, old, irrelevant information which, in many cases (but not all), has been going on for quite some time.