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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

The Karol Markowicz Show: Andrew Wilkow on Gen X Roots, Radio’s Evolution & Finding Joy Beyond Expectations

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Andrew Wilkow opens up about his Gen X upbringing, his path into radio, and how talk radio has transformed over the years. He shares lessons on grit, the realities of creating content in the digital era, and the advice he’d give to his younger self.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.0

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

0:08.5

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

0:15.1

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

0:18.5

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

0:23.6

What difference at this point does it make?

0:26.6

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, in the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:33.6

Hi, and welcome back to the C Markowitz show on IHeart Radio.

0:41.4

My guest today is Andrew Wilkow.

0:43.6

Andrew is host of the Wilkow majority on Sirius XM Patriot Radio at noon Eastern time Monday through Friday

0:50.0

and host of Wilkow on the Salem News Channel 9 p.m. Eastern Monday through Friday. So nice to have you on, Andrew.

0:57.5

Thanks for having me on. I love this.

0:59.5

I'm so glad to have you here because I have to tell you, of all the radio shows I do, I'm always like, I would totally be friends with Andrew.

1:08.7

And I don't know. You know, we were talking before the start of you,

1:11.6

but you're in a Gen X nostalgia moment.

1:13.6

I'm Gen X also.

1:15.6

I think we're the best generation easily.

1:18.6

Tell me what you're going through with the Gen X thing.

1:21.6

It's funny.

1:23.6

We are the generation that annoyed our parents with our music and now we annoy our children with

1:28.8

our music and you know it's funny that like right now my son is obsessed with BMX bikes I'm

1:35.9

actually wearing a t-shirt from the movie rad he watched the movie rad which is as dead center

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