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| Mike Huckabee (Brian Wilson photo) |
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Republican
presidential candidate reflected in a recent interview with Mackenzie Weinger
at Politico on the good and the bad during his stint as a radio talker.
Cumulus Media had billed the show as “more conversation,
less confrontation” in an effort to install Huckabee as a Rush Limbaugh
alternative. But when Cumulus re-signed Limbaugh this summer for a number of
its station, Huckabee — who announced at the end of November that his show
would go off the air Dec. 12 — said he realized that it didn’t look as though
the syndicator would make any attempt to broaden his program’s reach, at least
in the near future.
As a medium, talk radio is “a very important force in
American culture and certainly in politics,” Huckabee said. And there’s also a
“a certain sort of vicarious thrill that people have of listening in on other
people’s conversations — it’s like being a junior NSA agent,” he said.
From April 2012 to December 2013, Huckabee’s show offered
listeners everything from song parodies to interviews with guests from across
the political spectrum and many from far outside the world of politics. “Frankly, some of the things that I enjoyed
most were the things that were non-political,” he said.
“Willie Nelson was a lot of fun,” Huckabee, 58, said,
calling his chat with the country legend one of his favorite interviews. “He’s
just a great guy … one of the nicest people around and just an unbelievably
gracious and humble person.”
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