You wanna know what I saw at CES? Oh, it was spectacular. There were adorable robots and smart refrigerators and, yes, we're finally getting jetpacks and flying cars! It was amazing! Also, that last part about the jetpacks and flying cars is a lie. And I saw robots ...

How predictable are you? By "you," I mean talk radio hosts, and by "predictable," I mean... okay, let's ask this: Do listeners know what to expect when they tune in to you? Are you giving them the same stuff every day, because you're superserving them with "more of what ...

And I thought 2016 was tough to get through. This is the last column for 2017, and as such, it's the obligatory look back on the year in talk radio and podcasting, which would be a very easy thing to write if my memory was better than it is. Nevertheless, I did remember ...

Everybody's an expert, of course, and so radio has been declared both dead and alive, relevant and irrelevant, outdated and, um, not outdated, I guess. Digital adherents and traditionalists have their own views, and they all think they're absolutely correct. Any ...

The biggest problem with reality is that it sometimes throws a wet blanket on your dreams. The other day, I was talking to a friend about the state of talk radio, and we started to talk about what we'd love to do if we were, by some miracle, handed the reins and told to ...

Let me tell you a story I've probably told before. I was in the men's room when all hell broke loose, and by that I don't mean it broke loose inside the bathroom. Please, that would be disgusting. No, it was happening on the air. I was the Program Director at New ...

Are you currently (or within the last year or so) a host or producer on a political talk radio station? If so, I need your help. I'm gonna ask a few questions, and I'd appreciate it if you can drop me an email answering them. Answers will be confidential and ...

People, it seems, no longer bother to read past headlines these days. It's too much trouble. You could put anything in a headline and people will skim past it, absorb it, think, oh, it's real, and move on to seething outrage over Hillary being an alien or oxygen causing ...

Let me explain myself a little better. Sometimes, in this space, I talk about how there's plenty of room and demand for "non-political" talk, which some people interpret a little too strictly. They think that means I don't want to hear ANY politics, or want nothing but ...