Good evening, current affairs listeners. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief

of Kurt Affairs Magazine, and I am here tonight with Tom Hartman. He is the number one

progressive talk radio host in the country.

He has managed to succeed in a field that is traditionally heavily dominated by the right,

and that is something I want to talk about with him tonight. He has written over 30 books,

and his recent book series is the Hidden History Series, the hidden history of guns on the Second

Amendment, the hidden history of the Supreme Court and the betrayal of America, the

history of the war and voting, hidden history of the of monopolies, how big business

destroyed the American dream, which we're going to discuss tonight, and most recently the

hidden history of American healthcare, why sickness bankrupts you and makes others

insanely rich. Tom Hartman, it's so nice to talk to you, such an honor. Well, thank you. It's a

pleasure being here. Okay, so I want to talk about talk radio because I've always wanted to ask

you why talk radio is so right wing, why the right has so managed to dominate this particular medium, that is your own medium.

And I guess there are two parts to this, right?

So there's the part that is the kind of political economy part about the companies that own radio stations around the country, and that sort of relates to

the stuff from the Monopoly's book. But then there's also the question of the craft of talk

radio and why conservatives seem to have perfected the craft of talk radio. So before we get to the question of the economic structure of the radio industry, I do

want to start with talk radio as a medium and why it is that all these people, Limbaugh,

Hannity, Michael Savage, Michael Medved, Glenn Beck, why have they all managed to conquer

this particular form of communication?

It is a relatively unique medium that has its essentially own rules.

And if you understand those rules, then you can be successful in that medium.

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