I really enjoyed his show, when I worked jobs that allowed me time to listen to him. Sad to see him go. He took this cancer fight on with great courage.
One of the amazing things about his radio work is that he never hurried through what he had to say. No music needed. He would lay his essay for the day or the hour out, in simple clear sentences, and never hurried it and was never afraid to pause for effect or to find the right word.
Odd, I heard on the radio that it was blood cancer.
No way in God's world did he invent the genre' of talk radio.
Political (and religious) radio was around in the mid 1920's (the effective dawn of the medium).