Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I want to talk about the detaining,

the arresting of a five-year-old in Minneapolis. Before we do that, though, I got an email the other

day. Annoxious email. Very snarky from someone. and we went over it the contents in uh on my

serious xm radio show but i bring it up here because he kept saying throughout this email

are you lying to uh to improve your ratings just kept saying it over and over.

It was like a central argument of his email is,

are you just doing this for ratings?

Are you lying to everybody for ratings?

You want to increase your ratings?

I cannot stress it off how little ratings have ever made a difference in my radio career.

Other things motivate, sure. ratings, nothing, like a total zero.

Never been a concern of mine at all.

A quick background of this.

My first job out of college, and radio was in a small town, Jackson, Tennessee.

It's a little town.

I don't even know if they kept ratings.

I don't even know if Arbitron did ratings. But I was the first radio show, the first morning show on the

station. So there was nothing to compare to. There were no ratings. It never crossed my mind.

And I was just starting. I was just trying to do a good job and never, never consider it.

My next real job was in San Diego. And the station I worked for, there were two talk radio

stations in town. And the one I worked for never had good ratings. We were always second to the

big talk station in town. So we never talked about ratings. Never matter. We were way down there.

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