“We were at a point in the contract where I had an out,” he said. “And there are other things I’d like to do and the time that was involved was consuming me, literally consuming me. So I thought, OK, I can keep doing this with the unrealized hopes that they’re going to start clearing me on other markets and really make this thing where it has the footprint that it needs and the revenue that would make justifiable for me that kind of time. But, in reality, I just didn’t want to be pinned down without some kind of guarantee that that was going to happen. And when that wasn’t coming, you know, it was the right decision to make.”

“I really did love doing it, that’s the hard part,” Huckabee added…

“I think that every listener of talk radio is almost engaging, and I mean this with a great deal of respect and this is not a criticism, but it’s almost like audio-voyeurism,” Huckabee said. “You can hear the conversation somebody else is having and if it’s what you think, you say, ‘Boy, I feel comforted that I’m not the only one who thinks that way.’ Or, if it’s the opposite, then you can say, ‘That guy’s an idiot. Boy, would I love to give him a piece of my mind.’ Either way, the listener wins.”