Posted on 08/01/2014 6:09:33 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The Conservative talker quit his show during the middle of his program 7/31. “The Jason Lewis Show” is syndicated by Genesis Communications. Lewis spent a decade at KSTP-AM in the Twin Cities before leaving the station in 2003 for a job at WBT in Charlotte. He returned to the Twin Cities in 2006 for a job at KTLK. Lewis’ show was syndicated in 2009. His flagship was Clear Channel’s KTLK.
“He told me two months ago he intended to retire Aug. 1,” Mike Crusham, president and market manager of CCME Minneapolis/St. Paul told The St. Paul Pioneer Press. “He decided not to go public with it until today. I think he is serious about it. I hope he is not. He is one of the best talk show hosts I have ever worked with or listened to.”
A couple of hours after he quit, Lewis said via his Twitter account: “Today I left the radio biz for something better.”
The tweet included the hashtag #GoingGalt and a link to the website galt.io.
The site says this about “Going Galt”: “A phrase derived from the iconic Ayn Rand novel ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ In the book, the ‘producers’ or ‘men of the minds’ — as the famed author put it — decide to go out on ‘strike’ as a protest against those who would attack them politically.”
Also on the site is a 15-minute clip featuring Lewis that, according to galt.io, is a “parody of what it is like working in a highly regulated industry and some of the events that led to his decision” to quit the radio show.
A Jan. 30 article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal describes galt.io as a “Libertarian tech startup” co-founded by Lewis.
Clear Channel’s Crusham said the station is planning on running the “Joe Pags Show,” from WOAI in San Antonio, starting next week in Lewis’ KTLK time slot.
Wait. That Joe Pags is also replacing Andy Dean next week.
What a coingkidink!
It’s in his movie Going Galt at galt.io.
I guess you didn’t watch it.
It’s a conservative/libertarian site that right now is a way to setup causes like fund local rally’s or network. It’s a way to organize activities or back candidates for school board, elections or whatever you want to setup. It’s a fun attempt to be the grass roots conservative version of like moveon.org. I bought in early as I was a listener to his show.
The economy has already grown to over 1.1 billion Galtcoins and 6.4 million shares owned.
I did watch it. I didn’t notice a tattoo.
I was listening then. Weirdest thing I ever heard live on local radio.
Same here. I went to his first town hall meeting at the studio where all the ‘welfare rights’ queens came to whine and the social security reform event with Rod Grams.
I miss when we had a real senator.
at the studio
That tiny thing in the swamp in Maplewood?
Clear channel is worse than Comcast. I don’t blame him.
I think Mischke was the first one to go Galt, but he got fired from WCCO. I will be surprised if Lewis doesn’t end up doing a podcast affiliated with Barnard’s new empire.
nope. it was at the KSTP TV studio on University.
I thought Mischke quit. I was listening to him that night. Was that just bravura?
Mischke is the most original voice I have ever heard in any medium.
I used to hear Mischke a lot. I never heard him say anything of any significance whatsoever. Unutterably trivial. He made Pee Wee Herman sound like Winston Churchill.
Here is the actual audio of Jason’s show when it happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldswWSU21-U
Beginning at 3:20 it sounds very much like acting to me. And Conry just happened to be hanging around available to do a show?
Listen to Mischke’s interviews. They are excellent.
Do they have snacks?
OH Yeah!
Cool story
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