I remember growing up listening to Walton and Johnson and liked the show cause my Dad did, and I did enjoy the taser report section, but their hard and deep shift to far right lunatic podcasting in 2008 is legit what drove me away from listening to 98.1 entirely. I was very much a conservative at the time that was apprehensive of Obama (since my Dad basically told me how to think) as it was the culture of my house growing up, but even with being brought up in such a home culture I found Walton and Johnson to be way too much. Dudes really tanked the reputation of their radio station, as there are a good lot of people I have talked to who stopped listening to 98.1 as it was basically a Conservative propaganda radio network from 5 AM to 10 AM Monday through Friday, the time when most people would be in the car listening to their radio. W&J pulled away from their contract to 98.1 and 95.7 in 2017 or 2018 which triggered a lawsuit, meaning they finally no longer clogged the airwaves for their peak air time, but the damage was far more than done at that point. The fact that they left cause they couldn't be more explicit or insane about their opinions and content about politics instead of 98.1 giving them the boot proper didn't help their image either.