This is a bonus episode of the divided dial from On the Media. I'm Katie Thornton.

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who listened to this series over the last few weeks.

It was an honor and a joy to report it.

If somehow you're coming to this OTM midweek podcast and you have no idea what I'm talking about,

you can scroll down the feed in whichever app you use and find all five episodes of our mini series The Divided Dial or go to On the Media.org.

We covered a lot of ground in this series.

So in this bonus episode, I just wanted to have an opportunity to hear from some of the folks who I couldn't fit into the series,

but whose stories I really wanted to share with you all.

We're going to hear from a concerned citizen who tried to take the issue of combating on air conspiracy theories into her own hands,

a journalist who went into the belly of the beast and a former talk radio host.

But first, let's hear from some of the people on the receiving end of the right wing broadcasts.

The listeners in the On the Media newsletter a couple of weeks ago and at the end of episode four,

I asked you OTM listeners to send us voice memos,

describing your experiences with this type of talk radio.

As you may remember, episode four talked a lot about Rush Limbaugh and how he was the right guy at the right moment

when deregulation, technological changes and some innovative distribution tactics helped him explode across the country.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of you left those voice mails about Limbaugh.

So let's hear those messages.

Hi, my name is Jen and I'm what they call a Rush baby.

I became a Rush Limbaugh listener when he debuted on KNBR in San Francisco during the Clinton presidency.

Hey, OTM, I was a young girl in the 9 news and a group in South Texas in a home with Rush Limbaugh on the radio.

When I was growing up, my father would play Rush Limbaugh.

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