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Branden Rathert misses our ‘insane’ politics [podcast]

   July 10, 2016

Branden Rathert, the award-winning afternoon drive host for News Radio 1620, is now the morning host of “Wake Up Columbia” at KSSZ (“HotTalk 93.9 The Eagle”) in Columbia, Missouri.

In 2011, Rathert won a first place award for a public affairs radio program from the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Association for a documentary based on his undercover investigation on the homeless in Escambia County.

Rathert described his new show in an interview on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks.”

“The show we do in the morning is almost like a “Daily Show,” he said. “There’s a lot of news and politics but we wrap that all in humor, and we’ve done that a lot of success. It’s been an amazing experience.”

He said he misses the “insane” politics of Pensacola and keeps up the area through Inweekly.net, ricksblog.biz and pnj.com.

“That’s what I miss, the local politics,” said Rathert. “You’ve got a politician making national news because he’s trying to give away an AR-15, oh my god. That’s what I miss the most.”

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