Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, April 23rd, 1994, a founding father of Shock Jock Radio Howard Stern becomes

the Libertarian nominee for New York Governor.

New York Governor, of course, an office that has vaulted four men to the presidency.

Howard Stern was not one of them.

He ultimately dropped out after refusing to disclose his financial records, after polls showed him in the single digits

though he of course claimed his numbers were higher so yeah lots to discuss here

we're joined as always by Nicole Hammer of Columbia hello Mickey

hello Jody and Alexis Co is back author of You Never Forget Your First a book about George Washington.

So today's topic obviously very much in her wheelhouse.

Hello Alexis, thanks for doing this.

Hi, yes, I'm very excited about this topic I have immense expertise about.

I like this, you know, we're going to have a sorians on from time to time and obviously

Mickey has her area expertise and I have my, you have my consistent area of unexperte across all the areas.

But you know, I like being put in positions to draw a connection, so we'll see if you can tie this to your research.

But Mickey, let's start a little bit with Howard Stern himself and his platform.

He had a platform, and I'm making air quotes here, but it was a platform.

He had some reasons for running.

You want to lay those out and talk about whether they mattered?

Yeah, look, Howard Stern had a plan for three things.

He wanted to reinstate the death penalty,

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