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Speaker 2: As I think it was President Reagan said, we're from

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Speaker 3: We're here to help Frado.

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Speaker 4: Is that in style?

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the revolution.

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Speaker 4: Sean Hennity Show more, I have the scenes information on

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Speaker 4: freaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America. All right,

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Speaker 4: It's eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn, if you

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Speaker 4: we are in Alfaretta, Georgia. Uh well, not strange territory.

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Speaker 4: To our next guest, former Speaker of the House, nuwke

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Speaker 4: Gingrich is with us. Uh boy, I remember the cop galleria.

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Speaker 4: The night was election night nineteen ninety four. I was

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Speaker 1: Do you remember Slugo.

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Speaker 2: Of course, let's go outy nude.

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Speaker 3: How are you.

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Speaker 2: Almost like it must be a gold home week.

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Speaker 3: Go back to when you were still a college professor Newton,

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Speaker 3: Days there right an all their audition.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so I did two days audition. What happened that

439
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Speaker 4: behind the scenes after that audition.

440
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Speaker 3: Well, let me you know, we go back. I was

441
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Speaker 3: telling Linda Blair and James we go back thirty one

442
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Speaker 3: years now. Right, So you were in a talk radio

443
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Speaker 3: bacinette at the time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 4: It looks like you just slipped out of your own

446
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 4: glass and had there slugo's chair nearly went right.

447
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Speaker 1: To the ground.

448
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Speaker 3: Uh, so we really had to work with you, and

449
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Speaker 3: you were You came on very strong. You had the

450
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Speaker 3: edge of a New Yorker.

451
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Speaker 4: Well, I had a much thicker New York accent at

452
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Speaker 4: the time. Yeah, I sounded like Linda.

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Speaker 3: See, I don't remember that so much as as how

454
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Speaker 3: abrupt you could be with callers and even with guests.

455
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Speaker 3: And I think and Nancy's intech our executive producer, and

456
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Speaker 3: I used to tell you you're in the Deep South, mellow

457
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Speaker 3: out a little.

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Speaker 4: You didn't really tell me until it was an until moment.

459
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Speaker 4: I don't remember if you gave me how many year

460
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Speaker 4: contract it was originally I think it was a for life,

461
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Speaker 4: was it. No, it was not for life, not even

462
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Speaker 4: close to for life.

463
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Speaker 1: And you didn't pay me very much.

464
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Speaker 3: Just for the record, well we paid you based on

465
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Speaker 3: the cost of living here, which is far less than

466
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Speaker 3: New York.

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Speaker 1: It's not that less.

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Speaker 4: But actually, in retrospect, I would never have had the

469
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Speaker 4: opportunities I had not being in Atlanta, because then I

470
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Speaker 4: started doing TV at fake News CNN and they were

471
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Speaker 4: calling me like every other day.

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Speaker 3: Well you and you also did a couple of talk

473
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Speaker 3: shows and you Gal Jesse yep, and you did done.

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Speaker 1: Here, we did. Donnie Borts was on that.

475
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you also went up on weekends and did

476
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Speaker 3: see NBC. That's where Roger Als learned about.

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Speaker 1: That's correct, So all that happened.

478
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Speaker 4: So anyway, long story short, and he's going to distort

479
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Speaker 4: the story, but I'll let you give your version of it.

480
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Speaker 4: One day you called me in your office and you

481
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Speaker 4: confronted me over my confrontational style on the air.

482
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Speaker 1: And I will tell you as you if you've ever watched.

483
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Speaker 4: Howard Stern's movie Private Parts, you know it's like when

484
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Speaker 4: you start on radio, you're selling an idiot, you know,

485
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Speaker 4: and now with chock it today's weather, he's the hot human.

486
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Speaker 4: Cancel later afternoon thunderstorms. I know, seventy eight degrees slight

487
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 4: drizzle on wwww W NBC. You know that's all real.

488
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Speaker 4: That's how you start out. I think you become your

489
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Speaker 4: best host, or the way to become the best host

490
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Speaker 4: you can be, is when you are true, truly yourself.

491
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Speaker 4: There is no doubt that New York rough and tumble.

492
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Speaker 4: Get off my phone, you creep, got into my bloodstreet,

493
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Speaker 4: and I thought that was how to do a talk show.

494
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 4: It's not my natural style. It definitely is Levin's natural style.

495
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Speaker 4: For example, get off my phone, you big dope, right,

496
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Speaker 4: but it's not mine. And so you bring me into

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Speaker 4: your office and I remember this well, and Nancy was

498
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Speaker 4: in the meeting, and I remember you're kinda in a

499
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Speaker 4: very nice way. You didn't yell, you didn't scream. He

500
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Speaker 4: just said you got to you gotta calm down. Callers

501
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 4: are I'm telling you, we're getting complaints about how not

502
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Speaker 4: what you say. They agree with you, but how you're

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Speaker 4: saying it.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right now. Greg. I knew from the

505
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Speaker 3: time I heard your tapes before we ever brought you

506
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Speaker 3: into Atlanta for the on air audition. So this is

507
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Speaker 3: the guy. Yeah, he's young, he's inexperience, but he's where

508
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 3: we need him to be politically. Okay. So I played

509
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 3: the Nancy, you know, is sort of to the left

510
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Speaker 3: of the left. But she I have to give her credit.

511
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Speaker 3: She was a terrific producer. She understood the talk talent

512
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Speaker 3: and she helped produce to your strengths. Did it with

513
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Speaker 3: Neil too when I was there. But all we needed

514
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 3: new you had to just grow, and you were young.

515
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Speaker 3: I thought you'd bring a younger audience, you know. Yeah,

516
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 3: you were young at one time, Sean.

517
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Speaker 4: And by the way, we did Yeah, I remember books

518
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Speaker 4: men twenty five fifty four were twelve and a half shares.

519
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Speaker 3: But don't forget we had the braves too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: When you lost the Braves, I said goodbye. Yeah, well

522
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Speaker 4: you did stay for the Olympics. That was very kind

523
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Speaker 4: of you. You do know what the AJAC said in

524
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Speaker 4: the year end edition in nineteen ninety six, right.

525
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Speaker 3: I remember you remember these things better than I do.

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Speaker 4: Go Well, I actually have the article saved. It said

527
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Speaker 4: nineteen ninety six was a great year. The Olympics came

528
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Speaker 4: and Sean Hannity left, Yeah, which was funny. But that meeting,

529
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Speaker 4: I remember what I said to you. I said, you've

530
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,199
Speaker 4: lost confidence in me. That's what I said to you.

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Speaker 3: And what did I say?

532
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Speaker 1: You were very nice? Honestly you were.

533
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Speaker 4: You were a great mentor, you were what you didn't

534
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Speaker 4: want to do. And then I figured out what had happened.

535
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 4: That a big research project had been conducted on the station,

536
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Speaker 4: on me, and you would not share the information with me,

537
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 4: but you wanted to filter the information to me.

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Speaker 1: It's all correct, right, Critical mass Media did it?

539
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Speaker 3: Would Joel it? Would?

540
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Speaker 2: You know?

541
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Speaker 3: We really needed to procter that to you and other talent.

542
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Speaker 4: Okay, And there are a lot of talent that really

543
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Speaker 4: can't handle research.

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Speaker 1: I'm not one of them.

545
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

546
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Speaker 4: So one night I was there late, just happened to

547
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Speaker 4: see an open office door if that was locked, not necessarily,

548
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Speaker 4: I don't recall that part that was our news store

549
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Speaker 4: that was locked.

550
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Speaker 1: And I found that perceptual.

551
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it just jumped into your hands, it did.

552
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Speaker 4: And I read the sogo. I read the whole thing.

553
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 4: I know you did, and the verbatims are what got

554
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 4: to you. The verbatims were unsolicited comments about varying hosts,

555
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 4: and the audience was shouting at me to calm the

556
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Speaker 4: hell down.

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00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: They liked my opinions, they did not like my style.

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00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 3: This is everything we were telling you too. But uh yeah, but.

559
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Speaker 1: When I had but I had to read it myself

560
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Speaker 1: to get it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I never lost confidence in you. I knew what

562
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Speaker 3: you could do. And again for our audience, the target

563
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 3: we were hitting, you were perfect for that, and it

564
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Speaker 3: was just a matter to grow into that role in

565
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Speaker 3: a more be yourself. As you said, how long can

566
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Speaker 3: you not be yourself? How long can you be that disuti?

567
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Speaker 4: Eventually the real person had cast to come out of

568
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Speaker 4: its radio.

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Speaker 1: Radio is a warmthed medium.

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Speaker 3: You can't live a lie like that, especially when and

571
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,479
Speaker 3: this is a very intimate medium.

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Speaker 1: Totally agree. So I took it seriously.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, they were probably about twenty years

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Speaker 4: in my career, and I've told I've never really got

575
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Speaker 4: into great detail.

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Speaker 1: I pay for research on myself, I know, and.

577
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Speaker 4: I would read it just the way I read the

578
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 4: research because that helped me improve more than anything, because

579
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Speaker 4: what I realized is the audience.

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Speaker 1: Is never wrong.

581
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Speaker 3: One thing I want to go back at the time

582
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Speaker 3: you had the nervous system of jello. You were. You

583
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 3: were so insecure. You've told me every day you thought

584
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 3: I'd fire you.

585
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Speaker 4: Every day after the show, I would go into the

586
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Speaker 4: into the control room, steal the tapes and make it

587
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Speaker 4: that you could not listen to the show from that

588
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 4: day because you were a meeting the whole show. I

589
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,959
Speaker 4: would have stang or walk the building and find out

590
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Speaker 4: where you were and I and do do topics you

591
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Speaker 4: didn't want me to do.

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Speaker 3: I hope you've gained some confidence in me.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I thank you.

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Speaker 4: I think Bill Donovant, I think Roger, I think everybody

595
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Speaker 4: that's had an impact on my career, and.

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Speaker 1: It's been an amazing jury.

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00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 3: Well, nobody works harder than you. I've got and that

598
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 3: your your work ethic was one of the things we

599
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 3: saw right away, and that was such a strength, and

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00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 3: it's been such a strength for you all along. Your

601
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: success to a great extent is due to you.

602
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 4: All Right, quick break more with my former boss and

603
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 4: friend Eric Slugo. Sidella is with us. We'll get to

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00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 4: your calls later on in the program. At the top

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Speaker 4: of the hour, in Christine Nomill join us and don't

606
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Speaker 4: forget our debate tonight Blue State, Red State, Red State,

607
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 4: Blue State, the Great State Debate. It's happening in Alpharetta, Georgia,

608
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Speaker 4: nine Eastern Governor Rond De Santis versus Governor Gavin Newsom.

609
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 4: I your host, will be your moderator my Alpharetta, Georgia

610
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Speaker 4: for the big Blue State Red State Debate happening tonight.

611
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 4: And Eric Slugo sidell is with us. He is my

612
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 4: former boss when I was here here locally in Atlanta.

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Speaker 4: You know that story I told about Neil Borts is true,

614
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 4: and you know I've told you that story before. And

615
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 4: I was shocked that he was at work and I

616
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Speaker 4: was still driving to work and I wasn't on for

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Speaker 4: another two and a half hours, and that he had

618
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 4: already read everything. And I'm like, I'll never survive. Then

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Speaker 4: I'm taking my first vacation. Like a year later, I'm

620
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 4: in my car now. Neil switched stations. The reason I

621
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Speaker 4: got hired by you is because he went to a

622
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Speaker 4: competing station. The one I'm on now, the good station WSB, the.

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Speaker 3: One we had doesn't exist here anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's true. So Neil's on the air.

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Speaker 4: I'm listening to him as I'm going on vacation and

626
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 4: he's like, Sean Hannity, I know you're listening. How the

627
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 4: hell do you know I'm listening. He goes, Sean, your

628
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Speaker 4: phone's about to ring. It's going to be slug O.

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Speaker 4: Slugo's going to say, come on back because of what

630
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Speaker 4: I'm about to announce starting Monday morning, I'm going back

631
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Speaker 4: to my old time slot. He was supposed to compete

632
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Speaker 4: against Rush. Didn't work out.

633
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Speaker 3: Well, No, he thought he could beat Rush and he couldn't.

634
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Speaker 4: Okay, so he's going back and then he's going to

635
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 4: start a show fifteen minutes before me. I get to

636
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 4: the airport and I'm like, I'm coming back. You would

637
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,959
Speaker 4: not let me come back, right, And I had no

638
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 4: power to fight you on that. It was the worst

639
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 4: vacation I've ever had in my life.

640
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sorry about that. I thought you needed to break.

641
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: But I you know, and I think you filled in

642
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: for me in the meantime.

643
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 3: And the ratings were incredible that they want to hear

644
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 3: a lot of blank space. Oh man, but you know

645
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 3: Nude said something I could never do this full time

646
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 3: you cushaw it is it is so the amount of

647
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 3: work that goes into this.

648
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Speaker 1: You did ask the program director all the time.

649
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was asked the manager as the manager. Sorry,

650
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 3: and there were times when I filled in when I

651
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 3: would do topics too. But for the moment, this is

652
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 3: I guess, this is why I went into management, Why

653
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 3: I couldn't do I did news. I came up through news,

654
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 3: not through talk. So you know that.

655
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Speaker 1: But you know what's odd for me is I can't

656
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Speaker 1: even believe that.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what my life would be like if

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Speaker 4: I didn't have this three hour outlet every day. You

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Speaker 4: guys talk about how hard it is. I can't think

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Speaker 4: about life without it. Not weird, No, not at all,

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Speaker 4: not at all. It's what hits you. It's in your heart.

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Speaker 1: Slugo.

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Speaker 4: I'm grateful for you and you've been friends ever since.

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Speaker 4: Bill Dunovant, grateful for him. Everybody that's helped me in

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Speaker 4: TV and radio. My current partners, I mean, they're amazing,

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Speaker 4: you know, everyone from Julie to Bob Pittman. Might I

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Speaker 4: have the best radio team. They're half here, sweet Baby

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Speaker 4: James is here, Linda Blair here, and the same with

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Speaker 4: my TV style.

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Speaker 1: Great people.

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Speaker 3: You're an easy guy to like by the way that

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Speaker 3: people don't they.

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Speaker 4: Like because I give him bonuses and I pay for lunch.

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Speaker 4: Should I pay for dinner?

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Speaker 3: You're an easy guy to like and people people should

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Speaker 3: get to know. I hope can get to know you

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Speaker 3: on a different level because you are a terrific human

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Speaker 3: to do.

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Speaker 1: You're a great mass logo. Thank you for helping me.

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Speaker 1: You were you definitely help me.

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