850 KOA midday host Mandy Connell will be out of work for a month after recovering from surgery to repair her vocal cords Thursday.

Connell revealed her absence on Wednesday.

“Tomorrow morning, I will be having surgery on my vocal cords, and if you’ve never been to the blog before, and you want to see my actual vocal cords today’s the day because I have a photograph of my vocal cords on the blog today so you can clearly see what it is that my crack surgeon is going to be removing tomorrow,” Connell shared.

She then welcomed her surgeon, Dr. David Opperman, to the program to explain what exactly she’ll be undergoing. Connell also revealed that Dr. Opperman had previously repaired a similar injury to her KOA colleague Ross Kaminsky.

“We have to address the fact that you have sort of a little bump on your vocal cord that’s interfering with the way it vibrates,” Dr. Opperman revealed. “And that’s why you don’t sound like you used to a few years ago. It’s basically interfering with the sound production in your throat. So we’re going to put you to sleep very comfortably, use a little device that lets me look directly at your vocal cords, and then under a very high-powered magnification, we’re going to remove that spot.

“We actually have to lift up some of the tissue so that we can remove it without injuring the vibration surface. And that will preserve your voice and you’ll come back talking like you did five years ago.”

The doctor went on to tell Connell that her condition was likely caused by talking on-air for more than 20 hours per week in “different pitch ranges and intonations”.

CNBC Fast Money contributors Guy Adami and Dan Nathan will launch a new weekly radio show on SiriusXM Business Radio.

In an announcement from the satellite company, it was revealed that MRKT Call will air on Mondays at 12:00 PM ET beginning next week.

“I have always believed that one of the most impactful, intimate, and powerful mediums is radio,” said Adami. “Sports radio captured the attention of an untapped audience in the 1990s, and I am convinced we can do the same with a high energy, no holds barred, intelligent approach in our market show on SiriusXM.”

In addition to discussions on the latest financial news, notes, and decisions, they’ll also offer SiriusXM subscribers the opportunity to call into the program to ask for advice on stock prices and financial decisions.

“When Guy and I founded RiskReversal Media, our goal was to take our experience demystifying market-moving news on CNBC to different platforms, meeting investors everywhere they are, in their ear, live-streaming, and on the go,” said Nathan.

“Our collaboration with SiriusXM is an exciting evolution of this strategy on a medium and service we not only use but believe is best-in-class.”

On Wednesday’s episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Shapiro unpacked the re-entry of Tucker Carlson into the news with his independent show, Tucker on Twitter.

Shapiro opened the show by playing a clip from Tucker’s Twitter broadcast, then addressed the reach Carlson had with his 10-minute-long monologue.

“These numbers are very large, 64.8 million views as of earlier this morning.”

Shapiro continued to analyze the new media landscape and the nuances of sharing videos on Twitter.

“It’s hard to measure exactly what these views look like, we have been trying to figure it out for What is a Woman as well. On Twitter video, very often within 14-15 seconds, people have tuned out, but it also happens to be the case a lot of people tune out of network news on a nightly basis.

“So those are very, very large numbers for Tucker and I would assume that as cable news continues to struggle with finding new audiences people like Tucker is going to continue to do very well in the online space.”

Shapiro then went on to assert his opinion of the mainstream media and the independent direction media is moving increasingly towards.

“Part of that obviously is also the debauchery of the media. Again, the media are the promulgators of the great myths among us. They lie on a routine basis. That means that alternative voices are having their voices heard. That’s why the numbers for this show are so large, that’s why Rogan’s numbers are so large, and that’s why Tucker’s numbers are so large. The positing of alternative sources of information is going to be the wave of the future.”