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liberalla

(10,437 posts)
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 08:58 PM Monday

* * Randi Rhodes * * announces her Retirement *


A Message From Randi…
All Good Things Must Come To An End

Randi Rhodes
April 21, 2025


Dear Friends of The Randi Rhodes Show…

I am retiring.

Wednesday April 23, 2025 will be our last live show.

If you are a Randi Rhodes Show Subscriber, thank you! During the life of your subscription, you will still be able to log in with your username and password.

Your automatic renewal WILL NOT renew at the end of the month. If you would like to maintain access to the archive, you may manually renew your subscription at that time.

If you’d like a refund, please send your name and email to info@RandiRhodes.com and we’ll be happy to issue a refund.

Thank you for being part of my life. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride.

Love ALL ways,

Randi



https://randirhodes.substack.com/p/a-message-from-randi

I am sad about this, and will really miss her voice.


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hlthe2b

(109,267 posts)
1. Really abrupt... Curious (and yes, she's been at it a very long time, so it is understandable). BUt...
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 09:16 PM
Monday

I'm sensing something has come to a head... I'd have thought she would have given some notice, but not even a few days, a week or two, a month?

Strange.

liberalla

(10,437 posts)
5. I guess she said on her show that she was having a "procedure" on Thursday
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 09:35 PM
Monday

That's what kimbutgar posted and got me curious about this, and also hoping it wasn't true.
Still it seems abrupt as you said. Hopefully it's not a serious health issue causing this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220258127

hlthe2b

(109,267 posts)
6. Well, I hate to speculate...
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 09:57 PM
Monday

But it is hard not to.

I wish her the best. I listened to her all the time back in the Air America Radio days, along with Rachel, Marc Maron, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Sam Seder, Lizz Winstead, and all the others. What talent, but sadly, only RW radio seems to have much chance. Podcasts, though, have evened the field a bit.

I hope DUers who have followed her closely in recent years will weigh in if they hear anything more.

to Randi

FoxNewsSucks

(11,120 posts)
4. It's sad.
Mon Apr 21, 2025, 09:27 PM
Monday

It does seem abrupt. One by one, I expect they'll work to silence all our voices.

I'll really miss her. I've listened since Air America when she did the four-hour show.

OMGWTF

(4,681 posts)
8. Me too. I got to meet Randi in Seattle at an AM1090 Progressive Talk Radio event years ago.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 06:28 PM
Wednesday

I love Randi. She is brilliant, funny, and kind. I know she had breast cancer a while back, which is what her sister died from. Hopefully, she just decided that dealing with the burst dam of bullshit from the T💩p administration was getting to be too much. I know it is for me.

electric_blue68

(21,019 posts)
9. I wish her well, and hope her health situation will be ok. Loved Air America!
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:09 PM
Wednesday

I remember being at a Choice March in DC, and telling people..."there's a liberal radio station now!"

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