This is an IHeart podcast.

It's that time.

Lock and load.

The Michael Derry Show is on the air.

I didn't always use so much sound on our show.

When we started, it was mostly me talking.

But I noticed that Rush would make points using sound.

And then playoff of that.

And I notice, if I told you, you know, Howard Stern had built up a lot of capital with a certain demographic, his tribe, his listeners, over many years.

And sure, he had alienated a lot of them over his weirdness over COVID and different things.

A lot of them just grew out of Stern.

And that happens.

I mean, look, there are people, I don't care who you are, in time they tire of listening to you because they get older because they change their listening patterns because

they change their politics because whatever that may be.

But Stern laid it all on the line.

He didn't just have Joe Biden on his show.

He had a guy that Jake Tapper writes about as his kind of maya culpa that was brain dead.

This was May of last year.

This is a matter of days before they smothered Biden and put Kamala Harris in there.

Biden was in such bad shape.

They knew America had learned enough of how bad off he was, that there was no way anybody'd vote for him.

so they set him up for a debate so he would lose and that would be the supposed groundswell of organic calls from the grassroots and the donors and the congressman the the the the

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