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Before “WTF,” he was a featured personality on Air America, the short-lived progressive response to conservative talk radio.

It was never designed as the left-leaning answer to anything – not AM talk radio and certainly not to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” partly because their ascension routes wildly differ.

Joe Walsh is a former Republican congressman and conservative talk radio host who led a GOP primary challenge against Donald Trump in 2020.

“Comparing YouTube to talk radio is also a useful reminder of how potent a medium can become while still appearing marginal to those who don’t care for it or know much about it,” Herrman added.

Watching Kurzel’s film sent me back to Oliver Stone’s 1988 movie "Talk Radio," which was also inspired, in part, by that story.