1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Right news round up in Information Oval at hour. Here's 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: a toll free telephone number if you want to be 3 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: a part of the program, and say eight hundred and 4 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: ninety four to one Sean if you want to join us. So, 5 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: we had Matt Towery joining us in Washington, d C. 6 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Yesterday and by the way, we have part two of 7 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: my interview with jd Vance. We've gotten so much, so 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: much feedback on it. Linda, did you see all the 9 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: social media pick up on it? It was massive? 10 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, people were very excited about that segment and 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: Pam Bondi. 12 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: We also had and I spend time with RFK Junior 13 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: and doctor Oz and they'll join us tonight. 14 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: Really really productive day. 15 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: I did other things that I can't talk about yet, 16 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: and as soon as I can, I will and important things. 17 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: And I'm actually headed back to d C. 18 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: I have another trip planned for reasons that I can't 19 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: disclose either. Boy, I'm really sharing a lot with the 20 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: audience today. But anyway, So we had our friend Matt 21 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: Towery in studio and I I was a local radio 22 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: host in Huntsville, Alabama, and I got a call one 23 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: day from Eric Sidell, better known as Slugo on this program. 24 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: Still friends with him to this day, still friends with 25 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: the owner of the radio station at the time when 26 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: I worked in Huntsville. As a matter of fact, I'm 27 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: friends with everybody I've ever worked for. It's crazy and anyway, 28 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: and I go to Atlanta. I auditioned for two days 29 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: and I realized why I am auditioning because the star 30 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: radio host in the market at the time for somewhat 31 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: thirty years was a guy by the name of Neil Bortz, 32 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: and he had jump ship from Sidell station, the news 33 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: Monster we called it back in the day, to what 34 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: he referred to affectionately as the ex wife, to another station, 35 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: and I got hired over after the two day audition. 36 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Little did I know I was going up against a 37 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: monster in the market, but it was an originally not 38 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: planned to be that. So I told this whole story yesterday. 39 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: This is like old school, old fashioned hardcore deep in 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: the paint, you know, radio war days. And I learned 41 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: a lot from Neil, and I have to give him 42 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: credit because I'm better as if I'm any good at 43 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: Paul Radio, in part is because I would listen to Neil, 44 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: and I knew that my career was being threatened every day. 45 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: Long story short, he initially went over to the news 46 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: station and was going up against Russia twelve to three. 47 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: And then one day, my first day I'm going on vacation. 48 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: I'm driving a Hartsfield Airport and I turn on Neil 49 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: and I listen to him. Tell me, Sean, I know 50 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 1: you're listening to this program. And I'm like, how and 51 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: how the hell does this man know I'm listening to 52 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 1: his program and I was, and I listened the whole 53 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: way and he's like, well, your phone's about to ring 54 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be slug and Slugo is going to 55 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: tell you to come back and not go on vacation, 56 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: because starting Monday morning, I was on nine to noon 57 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: at eight forty five, he was going to get a 58 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: fifteen minute jump on me. I'm going back to my 59 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: old time slot and I'm taking my audience back with me, 60 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: and I'm listening to this. I then arrive at Hartsfield 61 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: all Slugo say I'm coming back. He didn't have to 62 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: call me. I called him. He would not allow me 63 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: to come back. I didn't have I had no power 64 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: to fight him because I was still new, fresh to 65 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: the market. And it was the worst vacation of my life, 66 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: worst week of my life. And that began a series 67 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: of radio wars. And then one day I'm driving into work. 68 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: It's six fifteen in the morning, and I tuned into 69 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: Neil's station just to see what they're talking about. 70 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 2: It's six fifteen. 71 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: Not only was Neil there, he telegraphed his entire show, 72 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: and he had read every newspaper, knew every news story, 73 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: and I was just driving to work. I hadn't done 74 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: any work yet. I was never ever late to work again. 75 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: I was there at five o'clock every day, and I 76 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: would tune in and he would telegraph his show every 77 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: day at six fifteen. I'd take notes, and if he 78 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: was going to be talking about a topic he didn't 79 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: do many guests I did. I'd find the guest that 80 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 1: he would be talking about at the beginning of his show, 81 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: and you had a choice. You can hear the people directly, 82 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: or you could listen to Neil talk about the people 83 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: that were in my studio anyway, So it was kind 84 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: of a fun radio story. The irony of all of 85 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: this is we became really close friends. Even you know, 86 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: I was only there four years, but he swears he 87 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: ran me out of town to the Fox News channel 88 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: kind of a joke. But we became really good friends. 89 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: We'd even talk to each other in breaks. We had 90 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: a very both were very competitive, but we had respect. 91 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: I think we had respect for each other. I certainly 92 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: respected him, and if I didn't learn that, I had 93 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 1: to work harder. I don't think i'd be here today. 94 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: And it's a pleasure to welcome back my dear friend, 95 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: Neil Boorts. How are you, I'm fining what part of 96 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: that story is not true? 97 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 3: Well, no, it's all true. It's all true. I heard 98 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 3: you were going. How did you know? 99 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: I was listening on my way on my first vacation 100 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: ever since I had taken that job six months six 101 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: months into that job. 102 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 3: Well wait a minute, we were in Atlanta, and who 103 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 3: wasn't listening to me? 104 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 2: Actually, that's not true. 105 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: If you go back and I have the history books, 106 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: Arbitron used to do ratings in three month intervals. 107 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 2: There were three books in a row. 108 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: And I told this to Matt Towery yesterday, where between 109 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: the two of us we had twenty five percent of 110 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: the market in men twenty five point fifty four, which 111 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: for those that don't understand ratings. That is a massive 112 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: number in the key demographic, and we both had and 113 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: it's almost impossible mathematically for it to work out this way. 114 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: We had nine months in a row, we both had 115 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: a twelve and a half share each. 116 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: So but I think I think, actually it was higher 117 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 3: than that. 118 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,679 Speaker 1: It could have been. You know, that's the number I remember. 119 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know if I can go 120 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: back and find those old books. But you did not 121 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: know the story of that day that I tuned in 122 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,679 Speaker 1: and heard you at six fifteen in the morning. 123 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,479 Speaker 2: What time did you get to work every day? I 124 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 2: never asked you that. 125 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 3: Well, I usually got there about four or four thirty 126 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:28,119 Speaker 3: in the morning. 127 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: Okay, So I realized I'm never going to be late again. 128 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: And the interesting thing was you had read every newspaper. 129 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: You were fully prepared to do your show at six fifteen. 130 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: What the heck did you do for the for the 131 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: next two hours two and a half hours. 132 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 3: I spent that time bothering other people at the radio station. 133 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: Oh, I could tell stories. They're so bad, the stories 134 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: about you, and especially about Monica Kaufman, that if I 135 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: told them in this day and age, I know you 136 00:06:58,960 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: dear friends with her. 137 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 3: By the way, Uh yeah, Monica and I get along 138 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 3: just great. But you know, well I messed with you 139 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 3: a good deal too, you know. 140 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you and everybody in the market. You couldn't 141 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: stand the fact that I was younger and prettier than you. 142 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 3: Well listen, who isn't I'm the radio at that radio station. 143 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 3: You're mentioning on my ID card that I were around 144 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 3: the neck. They didn't put a picture of me. They 145 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 3: put a picture of Homer Simpson. 146 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: That's absolutely positively true. By the way, I have a 147 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: special guest to say hello to you, the guy that 148 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: hired me to replace you after you took the money 149 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: and ran to the other stations. Slugo, Eric's Idella's with us, Slugo, 150 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: why did you not let me return? When I called 151 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: you from Hartsfield Airport and Neil was going to was 152 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: moving from twelve to three back to his old time slot, 153 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 1: I was furious at you. 154 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 4: Well, I'm calling today to let you know you can 155 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 4: go on vacation now, Okay. 156 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: I really appreciated Slugo and you two, for a while, 157 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: by the way, hated each other. I think I had 158 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: to bridge that gap, didn't I well, no, wait a minute. 159 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 3: After I left, Neil, Yeah, can't you hear me? 160 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 4: Yes, I can hear you. 161 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 3: Okay, after I left, Slugo sent a picture of you 162 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 3: hammering nails into my coffin since. 163 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: I remember that one the final nail in your car. 164 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: By the way, I did not approve of it. And 165 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: there was one rating book and you had never been beaten, 166 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: and you're never going to admit it. I beat you, 167 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: and you did win one demographic like sixty five and older, 168 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: and so Pluggo in his genius and other people that 169 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: we work with at the time decided to send you 170 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: a gift package of like denture cream and depends and 171 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: say congratulations, you won the sixty five plus demo. 172 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 4: Actually, I think that was Nancy's idea. 173 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: Probably I wasn't Nancy or your Slugo, No, it was 174 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: probably Nancy's. Okay, we'll put it off on poor Nancy's intech. 175 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: Now this may sound inside baseball, but there's a lot 176 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: of lessons to be learned here. 177 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 2: Logo. 178 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: Did I even tell you about the first day that 179 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: I was listening to Neil at six fifteen with Scott 180 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: Slade and I heard them and I it put panic 181 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: in my heart, and how prepared he was, and I 182 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: realized I got to work harder. 183 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 4: Man, who is the attorney you faced him on? Who 184 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 4: is going to be coming into his show from the Oh? 185 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 2: No, well that's well. 186 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: It was right after the OJ Simpson case, and Bob 187 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: Shapiro to this day is still a dear friend of mine. 188 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: I heard Neil telegraph that morning at six fifteen that 189 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: he had Bob Shapiro on, and Neil rarely had guests 190 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: on though. I looked at Eric Stegner, who still works 191 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 1: with me, and I said, what the hell? Why does 192 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: he have Neil Bob Shapiro? Why didn't we book him? 193 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: And anyway? He said, you know what, I think, he's 194 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: on ninety nine next, let me call over. He called over. 195 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: He was free at nine o'clock. We got him before 196 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: Neil did. And then when the hour was ending and 197 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: he was supposed to go over to Neil show, I said, 198 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: would you mind staying a little bit longer? You know 199 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: what happened from there? When he finally got over to 200 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: your place around eleven. 201 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 3: I wouldn't put him up. 202 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 2: I mean, we all. 203 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: Became close, and we all remain close. Although Port says, 204 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: you never know where this guy is. He's got this 205 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: big bus that he travels around in. I've tried to 206 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:23,079 Speaker 1: convince you numerous times to go back on the air 207 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: full time. You won't listen to me. How many years 208 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: were you on talk radio? How many years did you 209 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 1: do talk radio? 210 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:29,960 Speaker 3: Forty seven? 211 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, something unbelievable. 212 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: We'll wait him out. In forty seven, it was thirty seven, 213 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 3: thirty seven years. 214 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,839 Speaker 1: Okay, Now I think it would be better told by 215 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,559 Speaker 1: slug O. Slugo, do you want to tell the world 216 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: how cold hearted Neil is and how he got his 217 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: first radio job at Ring Radio. 218 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 4: I'm not going to go into that. That's Neil's story 219 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 4: to tell, but I will tell you that I've always 220 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 4: thought Neil have some of the best radio instincts of anybody. 221 00:10:58,360 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 3: I've ever worked. 222 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: That's why you You paid him a lot more money 223 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: than you paid me. You got me for like third sheep. 224 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: When you paid me and you hired me. 225 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 4: You were the diamond in the rough, you know, looks hoochie, 226 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 4: an ambassador much like Moses. And we plucked you out 227 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 4: of the water and we gave you life. 228 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: Okay, I really can't complain, all right, Neil tell everybody 229 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: how you started in talk radio, because this is the 230 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: coldest hearted story of all time, but it's actually brilliant. 231 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 3: On the other hand, well it may be cold hearted, 232 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 3: but somebody had to do it. I was a big 233 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,840 Speaker 3: fan of a talk show host on what they called 234 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 3: at that time, Ring Radio, and I would go whenever 235 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 3: he made a speech. I was there, We would go 236 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 3: to lunch together. Then one time I'm sitting at home 237 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 3: on Sunday and I hear on the news that evening 238 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 3: that this particular talk show host, his name was herb Elfman, 239 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 3: that he committed suicide. He shot himself dead right there, 240 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,199 Speaker 3: and so I said, well, I wonder who's going to 241 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 3: do the show tomorrow. So I got a lawn chair 242 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 3: and a thermos of coffee and I went and sat 243 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 3: on the sidewalk outside the radio station waited. Everybody got there. 244 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 3: The station was only on the air during daytime, and 245 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 3: they said what are you doing here? And I said, oh, 246 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 3: you haven't heard HERB is not going to come in 247 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 3: to date. 248 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: And so you basically jumped on the guy's grave and 249 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: you got hired. And thirty seven years later, you know, 250 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: you were still a top rated host and one of 251 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: the most well known personalities in Atlanta radio history, and 252 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: then you became nationally syndicated as well. 253 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't jump on the grave. I dug him 254 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 3: up and jumped on him. 255 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: He did, come on, Slugo, that is cold. That is cold, cold, cold. 256 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 4: It is It is Neil's story to tell, not mine. 257 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 4: But it is cold, oh man. 258 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 3: Also, so that's natural for me. 259 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 2: You know we did other things to mess with you too. 260 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 2: Did you know? 261 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: We used to feed you purposely stories so that you 262 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: would talk about the same top every day. If there 263 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: was a gun topic, a plane topic, what else? What 264 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: are the stories did we always want Neil to talk 265 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: about because the research showed that people got bored when 266 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: he talked about is Slugo? There were a couple of 267 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: other We found ways to get that information to you. 268 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: Or we'd have somebody call in and set you off, 269 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: and then you'd you'd go right down the predictable path. 270 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 2: You know we did that. 271 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 3: You also took some recordings of some uncomplimentary things I 272 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 3: said about the owners of my new radio station, and 273 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 3: you sent them. 274 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 2: That you can blame Slugo for that. I had no 275 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 2: role in that. 276 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 3: You keep trying to absolve yourself of responsibility for those. 277 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 1: I did not have any role in that part. Slugo, 278 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 1: you have to defend me here. 279 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 4: Well, I remember some of the acronyms for WSB that 280 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 4: he developed. 281 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: Like we suck and blither and all the way. I'm 282 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: still on the station, so I gotta be nice here. 283 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: But I think they'll find it amusing. So boring that was, 284 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: but at the time they were until you got there, 285 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: and then Greg most Sherry, I'll tell you what, we'll 286 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: pick it up a couple more minutes. On the other side, 287 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: if you guys have nothing to do, you're both retired, 288 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: so I assume you have nothing to do, and I 289 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: mean that complimentary. More with Neil Boards, more of Eric 290 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: Shidell's SLUGO. On the other side, a little bit more 291 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: of the radio war. Then with the phones. Eight hundred 292 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: nine to four one shown is on number as we 293 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: roll along, So we're doing old radio war stories. And 294 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: when I'd only been a professional radio host for two years, 295 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: I had started in what eighty seven, and I guess 296 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: my first job was in nineteen ninety in Huntsville, Alabama. 297 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: Then I'm Eric Sidell, who's with us Sluggo. We call 298 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: him hired me in Atlanta, and I went up against 299 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: this unbelievable giant in the market, Neil Borts, and I 300 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: realized that if I didn't work hard, Neil Boorts was 301 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: going to do to me what he did to so 302 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: many others before me, and that's run them the hell 303 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 1: out of town. And I was not going to let 304 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: that happen, or at least fight my heart to do so. 305 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: After about the first year and slogo, this is a 306 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: story for you to tell. And it taught me something 307 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: about research. And you did. You brought me in your 308 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: office one day and you sat me down. Do you 309 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: remember what you told me, because I remember what I 310 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: told you. 311 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 4: Well, okay, first of all, let me give this some perspective. 312 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 4: Neil worked for a company that was doing research every 313 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 4: five seconds in the market. They were constantly aware of 314 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 4: what was going on in the market. You and I 315 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 4: were working for a company that didn't have those pockets 316 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 4: as deep, and we did our first major research about 317 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 4: a year after you came to the radio station. And 318 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 4: before that research came in, we had been telling you, Sean, 319 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 4: this is not New York. You need to ease back 320 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 4: on the callers. We're in the Deep South and you 321 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 4: weren't listening. 322 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 2: And by that just think of perspective. 323 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: I grew up listening to the likes of Bob Grant, 324 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: you know, one of the great pioneers of talk radio, 325 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: but also geniuses like Barry Farber and Barry Gray. But hey, 326 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: get off my phone, use some bag, you low life, 327 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: you dirt bag, get off my phone. 328 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 4: You know, that was not Farber's technique, but it certainly 329 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 4: was Bob that was That. 330 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: Was Bob Grant's for sure. Bob Grant, you know, eventually 331 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: got fired in part because he was so controversial. 332 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 4: But anyway, so you came in and are you talking 333 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 4: about after the research came in or. 334 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: After the research came in. You didn't let me know 335 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: you did research. I figured out you did research, But 336 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: you sat me down in your office. Nancy Zentag was 337 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: in the room and you leaned into me about this 338 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: very issue that. 339 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: You know, you grew up. 340 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: You grew up with one type of talk radio that 341 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: you listened to, and you now live in the South. 342 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: And the bottom line was, people love my conservative positions. 343 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 2: It was the beginning of the rise of New Kingridge. 344 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: But they didn't like stylistically that I was harsh on callers, 345 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: and you know that. 346 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 4: You were perfect politically, you were perfect for our demographic, 347 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 4: for our target. But you still had that edge of 348 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 4: a New Yorker in you. And I think, and you said, 349 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 4: you've lost confidence in me, and I said, no, that's. 350 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 1: What I said. Well, you do remember I did say that. 351 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: I said in that meeting, I looked at you and 352 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: I said, you lost confidence in me? 353 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 4: No, And the fact is we had not, and if anything, 354 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 4: we just wanted to help improve you, develop you more. 355 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 4: And so the research which you really weren't supposed to 356 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 4: see until you stole it from somebody's office. 357 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: And I was curious, but didn't steal it. I borrowed it. 358 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: There's a difference. I returned it. 359 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:47,119 Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, okay, that's not stealing, it's borrowing. 360 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:48,680 Speaker 2: I didn't even say, by the matter. 361 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it never left Arnie Kotinsky's 362 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 1: room because I read it, you know, one night overnight, 363 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: and I didn't stop reading it till I read the 364 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:00,919 Speaker 1: very last page in a was very It was a 365 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: thick book. 366 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 4: Yes, what did you sit in his office and read it? 367 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 2: Yes? I did. 368 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 4: My god, you were squatting too, so You're bad anyway 369 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 4: you had seen the One of the things that that 370 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,360 Speaker 4: struck me really wrong was that the guy who analyzed 371 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 4: the research said you should think about replacing Sean. There 372 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 4: was no way. 373 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: D words were You may want to rethink John Hannity 374 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: at some point. 375 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 5: Okay, okay, well either way, you and I both I remember, 376 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 5: okay and you, but you read the transcripts of what 377 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 5: people said to death. 378 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 2: The verbatims, the verbatims said to. 379 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 4: Them in the research, and that that rang a bell 380 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,199 Speaker 4: for you. You finally you No, that woke me up. 381 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 2: That's that's what changed me. On a dime. 382 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: I changed from that day moving forward. Now, what I 383 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 1: learned is it called perceptual studies in radio. 384 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 3: Neil. 385 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: You've read a ton of research over the years, or 386 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: at least they've told you about it. I'm sure you 387 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: could care less. You are going to do what you 388 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: were going to do. You were a legend. I was 389 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: not in that market, so I had to work harder. 390 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: And what I learned is the audience was dead on, honest, 391 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 1: and the audience was right, and I needed to read 392 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: it in black and white and let it absorb it 393 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: and let it hit me in the face hard. 394 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 4: And dating what we have been saying to you. 395 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: It did, but you didn't. You weren't saying it in 396 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: a way that just screamed at me. It screamed off 397 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: the page. Love his politics. He needs to stop hanging 398 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: up on people and telling them to shut up right right. 399 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 4: But you know, look, it was the same thing we 400 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 4: were just telling you, maybe a little more graphically, but 401 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 4: but the fact is it was. It affirmed and validated 402 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 4: what we have been saying to you. And you had 403 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 4: to see that third party validation to really wake up. 404 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,879 Speaker 1: It was the audience that woke me up. Neil, did 405 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: you ever read research? A lot of hosts can't handle it. 406 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 3: Well. A couple of things, Sean. First of all, you 407 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 3: you listened to Bob Grant and the others. I never 408 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 3: listened to anybody else on talk radio. I did listen 409 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 3: to you when we were head to head competing. Other 410 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 3: than that, I was never a Limbaugh listener. You know, 411 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 3: I didn't want them to affect the way I did 412 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 3: my job, so I didn't walk to them. 413 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 1: I put that as a feather in my cap. If 414 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:28,680 Speaker 1: I was in your head that much, that's a good thing. 415 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 3: You're the only one but didn't remember you and I 416 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 3: would go to news breaks at the same time. We'd 417 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 3: get on the phone and talk. 418 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: We did, and you know, sometimes I would just wait 419 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: for you to break before I'd take my break. And 420 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: I've had my Eric Stanger monitoring when you went to 421 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: a break. 422 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 3: I wouldn't listen. We were having a great time. But now, 423 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 3: what you haven't told, and I want you to tell 424 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 3: this story too, is that when I moved full time 425 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 3: down the Florida, I had the best radio studio. You 426 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 3: did your shop there. It was a radio studio. 427 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,360 Speaker 1: It was phenomenal. And here's the beauty of it all. 428 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: Neil and I became best friends in the while we 429 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: were still competitors. I had deep respect for Neil Sluggo 430 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: and I have remained friends ever since. I had to 431 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: go to his house and say, is it okay if 432 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 1: I take this opportunity in working Fox News. At that point, 433 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: nobody knew what national cable news really was but for CNN, 434 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: and Eric was very supportive and said, if this is 435 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: what you want to do, I support you. 436 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 2: You were great. Not everybody was great, but you were great. 437 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 3: Oh. I was jealous, but then I. 438 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: Know you were you But you're full of crap because 439 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: you went on the air and said I drove I 440 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: drove Hannity out of town. 441 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 3: Oh well, I mean, look at the ratings at that point. 442 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: You know, ratings at that point were fine. I was 443 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: still kicking ass until you guys got the braves back, 444 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: and then it started to hurt. 445 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 3: Pearl White ass. No, you weren't. 446 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 1: I was still doing well in the marketplace, has no doubt. 447 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: I will tell you. I'm very grateful to both of 448 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: you for very different reasons. Is and the fact that 449 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: we've all been able to stay friends all these years 450 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:07,719 Speaker 1: is one of the little part of the story. Did 451 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: you know that Greg most Sherry was sending out tapes 452 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: of my show to stations around the country to get 453 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: me job offers, to get me away from you. 454 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 3: That's standard procedure. 455 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was standard procedure. 456 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 4: Let me Sean, let me tell you a little story. 457 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 4: The first time I ran into that technique, that tactic, 458 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 4: I was working in Philadelphia at a CBS Radio station 459 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 4: owned radio station in news and I got a call 460 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 4: from a competing news director on another station who I've 461 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 4: never met. I've never met, and he said, I've given 462 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 4: your name to a former boss of BUNE in Atlanta. 463 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 4: He's looking for a news director. And I said, Paul, 464 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 4: we've never met, why would you do that? And he said, 465 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 4: and this caught me by surprise, he said, I want 466 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 4: your ass out of this money. 467 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty blunt. 468 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: I was shocked when when most Shecherry told me that, 469 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: I was absolutely shocked. I want to say one last 470 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: thing now, this is the most interesting part about Neil 471 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: to me, and wellgo tell me if I'm right or 472 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: wrong here. Neil is so dynamic on air. And by 473 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: the way, when you had Belinda and Royal, God rest 474 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: his soul. He was such a nice guy and I 475 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: don't think there was a better chemistry. Although Linda's close, 476 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: he's crushing it for us. And when you had that 477 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: team around you, and your ability to use that team 478 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: to enhance the show and create a family atmosphere that 479 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: everybody wanted to be a part of, it was very 480 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 1: special for radio. 481 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 2: In my mind, well, it. 482 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 3: Just came natural to all of us, It really did. 483 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 3: Belinda and I are still very close. I can tell 484 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 3: you that her dog had an acl surgery this morning. 485 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 3: That's how close we are. Oh my gosh. That was 486 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 3: so I asked her how many acls does the dog have? 487 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 3: And she didn't know. 488 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 2: I don't know either, slug O, you want to give 489 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 2: it a shot. You love dogs, Oh I do. 490 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 4: I do. We've been since nineteen ninety nine, we've been 491 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 4: rescuing Golden Retrievers and they're incredible, just incredible. 492 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 1: Well, I just want to say to both of you, 493 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: I'm very grateful to both of you. A Sluggo, you 494 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: took a chance on me, you were patient with me. 495 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know what I didn't know at the time. 496 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: I got a big, big wake up call, and ever 497 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: since that day, I will periodically make sure that I 498 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: read the audience comments about me, not online, because online 499 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: is not a real world. You have people naked in 500 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: their parents' basement, anonymous keyboard warriors. They don't concern me. 501 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: But research projects look for real listeners. They give you real, 502 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: honest feedback, and if you listen to it, it will 503 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: make you better at what you do. When you go 504 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: up again, somebody is talented and gifted as Neil and 505 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 1: I think in the history of talk radio, one of 506 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: the best talk show hosts ever. It's either you get 507 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: better or you're done. It's that simple, you will not survive. 508 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 3: Well, Sean, I just thank God every day that I 509 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 3: didn't have to make a living being a lawyer. 510 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 2: You remember what you said to me after nine to eleven? 511 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: What remember a conversation we had and you had always said, 512 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: I'm I'm on the air for kicks and giggles. 513 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 2: I'm not. 514 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: I don't take myself seriously. None of this is serious. 515 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: And you said, hannay, you believe all this and you're 516 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,640 Speaker 1: more serious than I am. And I said, you're right. 517 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: And then after nine to eleven, do you you don't 518 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: remember what you said to me? I don't you said 519 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: to me you were right, I was wrong, and you 520 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: weren't saying it in a way that was negative at all. 521 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 1: He was saying, this is real, this is serious, and 522 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: I am I am looking at my job entirely differently. 523 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 3: Now. Well, I mean that woke up a lot of people. 524 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 3: I've always stopped at a talk show host is first 525 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 3: and foremost an entertainer, and we're not there to change 526 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 3: the world. But then later on, after nine to eleven 527 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 3: and the various ethnic invasions we've had of this country Minnesota, 528 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 3: it occurs to me that there's just a lot more 529 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 3: to it than fun and games. There's very important information 530 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 3: to be to be sent to the public out there. 531 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 3: Just try to do it in an entertaining way to 532 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 3: keep them listening and hopefully make a difference along the line. 533 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: You know, now, the difference I want to make is 534 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 3: a water level in the hot tub when I'm sitting 535 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 3: in it at an evening. 536 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I will tell you this. I'm gonna 537 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: end with this. If it wasn't for the for talk radio, 538 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: and then of course Rush took it to a whole 539 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: new level, and we're all grateful to him for that, 540 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: and we all miss him dearly. If it wasn't for 541 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: talk radio, we wouldn't have had an alternative point of 542 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: view in this country. If it wasn't for Fox News, 543 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have an alternative point of view in this country. 544 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: The fact that I've been blessed to do both in 545 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 1: my life and career and have people like you make 546 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: me better in different ways, I'm just grateful to both 547 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: of you. You're both very good men. Dear friends. Bill 548 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: Dunovan in Alabama also gave me a shot. They hired 549 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: me over the phone there and I had no experience 550 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: doing radio full time. I got lucky he hired me. 551 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: So I just want to say thanks to both of you, 552 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of fun to rehash some crazy 553 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: radio days. 554 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 2: Man, they were. 555 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 4: Crazy, Yeah, Sean, they were fun days too. 556 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 3: The World War because you fell off that roof. 557 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, I fell off the roof. Neil hit the ground 558 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: and woke up a conservative. It was all good, Yeah, 559 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: I know it all right. God bless you both. You're 560 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,400 Speaker 1: both amazing people and dear friends. Neil Boortz, Eric's Lugo Sidel, 561 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 1: Thank you both. I wrap things up to today. Let 562 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: not your heartpy troubled. Hannity Tonight, nine Eastern on the 563 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: Fox News Channel, Part two. It's really interesting my interview 564 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 1: would ad Van's the vice president. Also, while in DC, 565 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: I spend time with RFK Junior and doctor memon Oz 566 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: will get that in. We have a lot on the 567 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: nuttiness and insanity of the radical left. They are cracking 568 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: up and it's getting worse by the day. And the 569 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 1: news you'll never get from the mainstream media. Mob nine 570 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 1: Eastern Tonight, Hannity, Fox will see them back here tomorrow. 571 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: Thank you for making this show possible.