[SPEAKER_06]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had to get that game, and now he'll be a quiet with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Start the show.

[SPEAKER_05]: T-M-O-S, classic, Friday, flashback.

[SPEAKER_04]: My dear, I love when we had, we had rented a trick out SUV for the spring break that we did down in Florida when we took the whole show down there.

[SPEAKER_04]: And coming back from lunch or shopping one day, we're going through an area that had an amazing, amazing, a saturation of,

[SPEAKER_04]: cool kids and we rolled all the windows down and played polka music as loud as we could.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm a big advocate of rolling your windows down and playing inappropriate music.

[SPEAKER_05]: My friend Demetrius, who looked exactly like David Ortiz.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, we came and he wanted to talk about tricked out SUV.

[SPEAKER_05]: We were going to play golf up in a, how do you like this town?

[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, market Virginia beautiful and it was a there were four old men with their handcarts rolling them across the parking lot of the place we were playing golf and he was playing the hip hop East hip hop you would ever hear and it was just like to see the reaction was was a beautiful thing

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean cranking it, too, like, meh, and they're looking over going, meh, and I'm not a fan.

[SPEAKER_05]: By the way, I'd probably, if I'd been the guy walking across a parking lot, I'd probably would look over and go, meh, as well.

[SPEAKER_05]: There we are.

[SPEAKER_05]: The reason I was messing with my TV shot prior to the show is that you know me, I occasionally hop on these message boards, and I will read my own press because I have an ego.

[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, I was talking about the Maddie says we need less headroom, and I'm like as soon as we do that, you know, this T-shirt is too big for me right now, as you can see, as you can play.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you've lost a white that you probably need to look to different clothes in a certain way, not quite.

[SPEAKER_05]: Not quite.

[SPEAKER_05]: Not, I don't think we're there to.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going through a closet.

[SPEAKER_02]: A two X to a one X. Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, going for a three X to a two X. Oh, yes, that this is a three X. So this is big for me right now.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thank you for bringing that up.

[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing makes me happier than we have to size.

[SPEAKER_02]: He wants to test that two to one, not three to two.

[SPEAKER_05]: But the thing, but it's a big song, isn't he?

[SPEAKER_05]: You said two to them, I mean, no, I'm fat.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm heavier and bigger than people ever give me credit for because I think I come across as small.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, you're built like a boy though.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're very wide up front.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm a very wide up front.

[SPEAKER_05]: What do you mean?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, like a like a beauty.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I got a walk.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not like a narrow face coming.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think what you're doing.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's had a low in my mind.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's a kind of way.

[SPEAKER_05]: My weight always is from the title I had to the tip of my toe.

[SPEAKER_05]: I am proportioned.

[SPEAKER_05]: I do not.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not one of these guys.

[SPEAKER_05]: Like the guy that works at the Walmart at the self checkout.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god.

[SPEAKER_05]: It looks as though.

[SPEAKER_05]: He looks like really a.

[SPEAKER_05]: He looks like a soft balloon that somebody poured BBs into, you know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Very hot.

[SPEAKER_05]: Everything has the gravity is just, you know, he looks like one of those guys that's a, Well, guy, a mascot.

[SPEAKER_05]: He looks like the Philly fanatic.

[SPEAKER_05]: He's got a Philly fanatic.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, is he fun?

[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?

[SPEAKER_04]: So he's got, did he ever do any engineering for Big Market radio?

[SPEAKER_04]: No.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he did.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, not all of them.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: How do you feel now?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: How do you feel now, Mr. Bethesda?

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think.

[SPEAKER_05]: Why are you dressed up to that?

[SPEAKER_05]: You're all dressed up.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's a new shirt.

[SPEAKER_04]: You got the shirt.

[SPEAKER_05]: You came to the studio today though.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, but I got a new shirt and I gave you it today.

[SPEAKER_04]: Do you like it?

[SPEAKER_04]: Actually, when I opened this on Christmas day, Kerry said, Mike looked so nice in his blue shirt when we did the cocktail party, I wanted to get you a blue shirt.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, that's very sweet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Where are the shoulders in that shirt?

[SPEAKER_02]: Where are your shoulders?

[SPEAKER_02]: What's that?

[SPEAKER_02]: Where does it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I can't really tell where your shoulders are.

[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you turn around and show me your ass?

[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe they're up there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just curious.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Point point to the tip of your shoulder.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm fascinating.

[SPEAKER_05]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[SPEAKER_05]: All right, so the seam, the seam, okay.

[SPEAKER_04]: Nothing is as a seam.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right, I get it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Is that where do you get that shirt?

[SPEAKER_05]: What brand is that shirt?

[SPEAKER_04]: It is an isod, lecost, and she's got a very nice shirt.

[SPEAKER_04]: She bought it online.

[SPEAKER_04]: I think through, uh, I think through Target.

[SPEAKER_04]: There I say that shirt maybe too big for you.

[SPEAKER_04]: You know what else is too big?

[SPEAKER_04]: Your mouth.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's too big for me.

[SPEAKER_05]: Monday.

[SPEAKER_05]: It is, uh, it is Monday.

[SPEAKER_05]: And we all know what that means.

[SPEAKER_05]: No, very, very,

[SPEAKER_05]: feeling good, even with my bad back, I'm feeling good about coming in here today and doing this show.

[SPEAKER_05]: And over the weekend, we lost an icon, certainly a radio and television icon, but a truly iconic individual for this show.

[SPEAKER_05]: We have a history, this show, the Michael Marishow, has a history that goes back with Larry King.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think more than anybody,

[SPEAKER_05]: I was obsessed with Larry King and to start working with Don Geronimo in the mid-1980s and find out that he shared that obsession and then we both had an obsession and I started doing parody commercials of Larry King and it just it was it seems like I've been doing that forever and

[SPEAKER_05]: in the 80s would listen to Larry King driving into work because we, uh, Larry's was an overnight show on the mutual radio network before he got on CNN.

[SPEAKER_05]: Most of you know Larry King from CNN.

[SPEAKER_05]: We knew Larry because we were the people that were listening to him.

[SPEAKER_05]: So in the industry, Larry was a god.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: All before he was other than that.

[SPEAKER_05]: his show was listened to by night owls and shift workers and students on all miters, but the radio community.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is why Larry was so iconic to radio person.

[SPEAKER_05]: Now this was we all listen on our commute to do a morning radio show.

[SPEAKER_04]: He was the only thing that was on.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it was he really kind of thing that was on.

[SPEAKER_04]: He would be, would it be fair to say he kind of invented a format?

[SPEAKER_04]: He he really did because that open phone America had that ever really been done before he did that I don't know I mean Larry's been on for so long.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard for me to know whether that was invented by him T. M. O. S. Classic

[SPEAKER_05]: You know, with Larry though, it was, it was so consistent and it taught me about that, that, you know, you want to make adjustments.

[SPEAKER_05]: You want to tweak.

[SPEAKER_05]: We've got knows we're planning some tweaks to this show that, you know, that, that, that I think that's important.

[SPEAKER_05]: But at the same time, it's that comfortable blanket.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that's what you got when you got Larry King.

[SPEAKER_05]: And Larry King was somebody who

[SPEAKER_05]: We are paths crossed continuously.

[SPEAKER_05]: I got a million Larry King stories, but where, you know, the biggest story for when we were working doing the morning show was when Alan Goodman made an arrangement to have Larry King, uh, was it might have been another one of those April Fool's days, uh, or who knows, but I don't know the date.

[SPEAKER_04]: I don't

[SPEAKER_05]: of the day, but a little George Michael, the old sports cast.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was a couple for the show on April Fool's Larry.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think just did a walk on and Larry just showed up and the reverb and you probably have a little little.

[SPEAKER_05]: I do have a clip where Larry, Larry, came in and took over our show and this is long after I've been doing the impressions of

[SPEAKER_05]: Larry King and it was just Larry being Larry we roasted Larry on at a charity function where I got up on stage and did my impression of Larry King and got you know very well received for that Larry was just something special or maybe Larry rose to us.

[SPEAKER_05]: I, it's so long ago, it's hard for me to remember the day as you shared the day we shared the day as with Larry King, we were backstage.

[SPEAKER_05]: My old newsman, very first newsman when I did a morning show was a guy named Sunny Uberoth and Sunny Uberoth was a squirrel.

[SPEAKER_05]: which means he'd like to have a car that looked like a cop car.

[SPEAKER_05]: He loved cops and because sunny down in anapolis, Maryland, new every cop, he would have cops visiting with him.

[SPEAKER_05]: In the morning, sunny, when he left, W-Y-R-E, to take another job, his job was with the mutual radio network.

[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, sunny went to work at mutual.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, sunny had Larry King's stories as well.

[SPEAKER_05]: And so it just always seemed like Larry King was overlapping with my career and then onto a CNN where I think it's pretty safe to say Larry exploded onto the National Consciousness because he was this grizzled broadcast veteran who made the transition to television and when you look at Larry, he certainly had a face for radio, but he made the transition to television.

[SPEAKER_05]: So amazingly successfully.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, he just became, and I remember based on R, R, R, R, R, what's the word I want to use here?

[SPEAKER_05]: R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R

[SPEAKER_05]: proprietary feelings about Larry Larry was one of ours.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there was probably a lot of jealousy when Larry went to CNN.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think he stayed on mutual for a while when he was just going to CNN.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And then it's just, you know, it's never going to work.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's never going to work.

[SPEAKER_05]: We were jealous.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: We were jealous of Larry doing that, but then he became just an amazing success.

[SPEAKER_04]: And also one thing that I always remember, because remember, when you were really

[SPEAKER_04]: ankle deep in Larry, I was just a listener, but a very, very intense listener.

[SPEAKER_04]: You would read his USA today column, which was what on Mondays.

[SPEAKER_05]: Larry at one point, I think, had a mutual radio show.

[SPEAKER_05]: He had a column in USA today, and he had the CNN television show.

[SPEAKER_05]: And now that make no mistake, I don't want to get the emails.

[SPEAKER_05]: And so, oh, Mike, you just mocked him.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yeah, we mocked Larry, but we mocked Larry because he brought something to the table all impressionists if you have something that you bring to the table It's fantastic and Larry was a prickly pair.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, off air as well who had an amazing ego and when we became aware of that

[SPEAKER_05]: uh... it's no surprise that the people that you know lary was an iconic broadcaster but lary also had his pick and their lows and with lary uh... you know people that worked with him uh... like to poke fun and yes and he had a good healthy i i look the guys that are like this

[SPEAKER_05]: Buddy Rich, one of my heroes, Larry King, anybody that was with listening to some of Don or my rants with people would probably say the same thing.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think if, you know, God loved the people that are able to get through this wonderful business of broadcasting, being sweetness and light every day of their life.

[SPEAKER_05]: I am jealous of them.

[SPEAKER_05]: I admire them.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's what I strive to be, but I'll never be there.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very, very difficult, Mike.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's doing all.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, Larry did it.

[SPEAKER_05]: And some of them do it a little more open.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you thrive.

[SPEAKER_02]: And in that world, you were rewarded.

[SPEAKER_02]: You just worked.

[SPEAKER_05]: You were rewarded probably more than you are today with that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think so.

[SPEAKER_05]: But with that said, it was just good fun.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it was fun to satire Larry King to make fun of Larry to poke fun at Larry, because of that voice.

[SPEAKER_05]: And because really when Robm so glad you mentioned the column, peanut butter taste better on a bagel.

[SPEAKER_05]: Just my fancy on say can't get enough gummy bears.

[SPEAKER_05]: It's just kinks thing.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, it was fantastic.

[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, up to this very, I mean, to this very moment, we still would satirize kinks things with promos that we write.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it's one of my favorite things to write.

[SPEAKER_05]: And Larry was one of my favorite impressions to do.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: And it's one of those lovely meetings of an impression I love doing.

[SPEAKER_05]: And one thank God.

[SPEAKER_05]: Now I come with the people who love to hear.

[SPEAKER_05]: And the answer to the question is, yes, we will.

[SPEAKER_05]: As soon as I get the synthesizer thing works.

[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.

[SPEAKER_05]: We'll be talking about that tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_05]: I truly wish I will too.

[SPEAKER_05]: I will guarantee you we will be having Larry from heaven.

[SPEAKER_05]: Larry might be the heaven spokesperson.

[SPEAKER_05]: He really will.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I know we have so many, I mean, we have some tapes.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have stories.

[SPEAKER_02]: For me, I was curious for both of you, and I didn't want to throw the mask text out early morning, but right did you find out that he had passed?

[SPEAKER_05]: I was watching CNN when they broke him with the news.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh wow.

[SPEAKER_02]: Mike, text is so.

[SPEAKER_05]: Mike.

[SPEAKER_05]: And Robin, I have a little competition.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you have your debt.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't care.

[SPEAKER_05]: Where we, well, it's not anything to get involved.

[SPEAKER_05]: We just, we, we get a morbid pleasure out of notifying the next person.

[SPEAKER_04]: But this was a weird one because I really thought.

[SPEAKER_04]: that he would beat this.

[SPEAKER_05]: I had no there's just something about a sort of they haven't confirmed whether it was COVID or not he went into the hospital the way I understand because of COVID COVID and I don't think he came out.

[SPEAKER_05]: I think that's the way.

[SPEAKER_05]: So I would assume it was COVID related.

[SPEAKER_02]: The last I heard might have been even from from the Stern show where and I'm paraphrasing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Is that still on?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I'm doing very well.

[SPEAKER_02]: They

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's not scary.

[SPEAKER_02]: He certainly needs that.

[SPEAKER_05]: He certainly needs that leg out.

[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.

[SPEAKER_05]: Go ahead.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think certain that something along last week, along lines, somebody should science or scientists should go see Larry, because when she was still alive, should go draw blood from Larry because if he's still kicking and he's be all of this.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Larry, Larry, Larry came on.

[SPEAKER_05]: Larry came on our show.

[SPEAKER_05]: and uh... the day after he did the done a mic show the walk on that's when he had his first heart attack i don't i don't claim i don't think we were responsible i think but he absorbed us a responsibility but he beat it like he beat everything else back then and as a matter of

[SPEAKER_05]: He was smoking better than so much back in those days.

[SPEAKER_05]: He was smoking and I remember the brand He smoked more cigarettes.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, and this is back early.

[SPEAKER_05]: That was Tony's first company.

[SPEAKER_05]: Prefactor.

[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know who I'm kidding Please no mention.

[SPEAKER_05]: I remember the the he had stained fingers Stained fingers smoked every way into the ER

[SPEAKER_05]: He spoke to all the time, and I think it's back when I don't know how early he came in.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was Alan Goodman.

[SPEAKER_05]: So it was the first five years of my radio career, my major market radio career, and he came into the studio, and I remember he had, I think he was driving, and this before he made it super big.

[SPEAKER_05]: Right.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I was in Beverly Hills, he had a apartment in New York, had an apartment in DC.

[SPEAKER_05]: He was driving an oldsmobile.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, that's how long I've known Larry King.

[SPEAKER_05]: And he had zip-ups, boots, boots, right?

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, zip-ups, boots.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I mean, we were so obsessed with Larry King, and that's why we noticed it.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yeah, nicotine stain, please.

[SPEAKER_05]: Any had zip-ups, boots.

[SPEAKER_03]: We drove an old-smobile.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, because we as disshockies were looking at what Carter did, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: And by the way, this is back when Larry just showed up with his drove his car over.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it was just like, you know, you think of these people with the, yeah,

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he didn't have that, but at the end of the day with Larry, it was for a guy like that that he gave me so much in my career not because he wanted to, but because I took it and I take as an impressionist doing that impression of Larry was and I still get laughs with that on your off the year.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you I felt

[SPEAKER_02]: So my mother texted me of all people.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, a lot of it and your mother when I posted my thread about Larry over the weekend Your mother was referenced many times.

[SPEAKER_02]: I will read to you in Spanish.

[SPEAKER_02]: What was texted to me?

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, for her Saturday more of I really do and as you know Mike is as we all get older We we rise earlier.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's just the case.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's what happens.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, she writes

[SPEAKER_02]: This is at 8.40 a.m.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure when the news broke, but 8.40 a.m.

[SPEAKER_04]: And not long.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty early up.

[SPEAKER_04]: Well, for me, I call that late morning.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, but I think that's shortly after it broke is what I'm saying.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, Scott, Nuestro Amigo.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's our friend.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Larry King.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm white, but Larry King is dead.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God, less.

[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, my.

[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that that, that's what I reach out and give you tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_02]: I cleared out for my mom because I don't, I have the heart to tell you that she's not friends with them.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not friends with them.

[SPEAKER_05]: You never give it.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's one look.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's on your head.

[SPEAKER_05]: Leave it like you never share that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Never share that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then enjoy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I called her at that moment.

[SPEAKER_02]: I said, Mom, how you doing?

[SPEAKER_02]: She was, I'm sad I've let a candle for him and his family.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh God, yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh God.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm so good.

[SPEAKER_02]: The rules of all rules is has to continue.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_04]: That's like the instinct you are now because she knows he's there at the end of the sting you don't have to fool them.

[SPEAKER_04]: They have to go away not knowing they were fooled.

[SPEAKER_05]: And this is what must happen.

[SPEAKER_05]: That's like you baked basically the the hooker walks away while the John is put in the back of the car or vice versa.

[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_05]: T. M. O. S. Classic.

[SPEAKER_04]: And like many of those moments you've mentioned, I put together a small tribute montage for Larry.

[SPEAKER_05]: Wonderful.

[SPEAKER_05]: I know you have and I'm excited to see this.

[SPEAKER_05]: I listen to this.

[SPEAKER_05]: This is for those of you.

[SPEAKER_05]: This goes way back.

[SPEAKER_05]: I take it.

[SPEAKER_04]: I scoured my archives.

[SPEAKER_04]: I do have the moment that he is on WAVA.

[SPEAKER_04]: I have some classic stuff from 60 minutes and some stuff that we've enjoyed many years through the past.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I think it'll like this.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'll only mention the time when he took over our show.

[SPEAKER_05]: Our reaction.

[SPEAKER_05]: We're laughing so, so maniacally, because he's such a big deal as far as we're trying to minimize that.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_05]: But everything he said.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right, go ahead.

[SPEAKER_01]: I shall pass through this world, but once, oh God, any good therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

[SPEAKER_06]: And now live from Washington, D.C.

[SPEAKER_06]: here's Larry.

[SPEAKER_06]: There's Betsy.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's the rap.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm Larry.

[SPEAKER_06]: I'm Larry of the corner.

[SPEAKER_06]: Honest of God.

[SPEAKER_06]: That's where I feel that's in me.

[SPEAKER_06]: I never got Brooklyn out of me.

[SPEAKER_06]: Basically, my style, I'm curious.

[SPEAKER_06]: I want to know why?

[SPEAKER_06]: Can we back?

[SPEAKER_06]: We've never gone anywhere.

[SPEAKER_06]: We start now.

[SPEAKER_06]: I thought we were on a break.

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_06]: So we've been sitting here all the time talking in that 30.

[SPEAKER_06]: Does anybody signal me?

[SPEAKER_06]: Are we on a break?

[SPEAKER_06]: did we take a break?

[SPEAKER_06]: No, we're back.

[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you never signaled me back from a break.

[SPEAKER_06]: Are we on?

[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, thanks.

[SPEAKER_06]: You need to have us ever heard his signal come back, so we have been sitting here.

[SPEAKER_06]: Welcome to the Larry King Shore, I guess, to his Robert Daily, and this is semi hysterical.

[SPEAKER_07]: If you heard, whatever you heard, we didn't encourage.

[SPEAKER_07]: I'd get on a bus and ask a bus driver.

[SPEAKER_07]: Well, what are you going to drive a bus?

[SPEAKER_07]: Or what I took was this insatiable curiosity into a profession that warmed to it.

[SPEAKER_06]: There was a major decision I spy had lunch with Alan Goodman, a couple of weeks ago, and we decided, how do we do it on the morning that fired?

[SPEAKER_06]: Allen said to me, when you're gonna drop people, how do you do it?

[SPEAKER_06]: I said, gee, I don't know how to fire people.

[SPEAKER_06]: He says, well, you know, he's two guys, I mean, they like it so much.

[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I think it would ease the bowl of it.

[SPEAKER_06]: If you were there, you know, maybe you could find a work.

[SPEAKER_06]: All right, now hold on guys, this is my hand for all.

[SPEAKER_06]: I can't believe this guy is really thrilled, I'm a listener, I listen every night.

[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to pass it along, we're going to pass it along out to the newsroom, the Mitchell Newsroom, higher top of the overlooking downtown pitiful downtown studios of Washington, Virginia Washington DC.

[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to come back with a little more open front of America, we're going to have our salute to my man, Doug Zebert, by taking him to one of his favorite places, one of mine to, the town of Cooper-Stown, New York.

[SPEAKER_06]: This is the Larry King Show in Washington.

[SPEAKER_06]: and we'll be right back.

[SPEAKER_06]: Rest in peace.

[SPEAKER_05]: No.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: You don't appreciate people until something like that.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm listening to that.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I say, because you reflect on what made that like CNN was CNN.

[SPEAKER_05]: And I think you had a lot of great moments on CNN.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I go back to the mutual show.

[SPEAKER_05]: And that was that that style he had.

[SPEAKER_05]: It was a confidence level that he had with that that talk format.

[SPEAKER_05]: And

[SPEAKER_05]: Here's what's the best thing about it when I listen to it when I reflect on it.

[SPEAKER_05]: There was a very, there was something about him and his persona that just made it special.

[SPEAKER_05]: And he can't really quantify it.

[SPEAKER_05]: You don't know what it's all about.

[SPEAKER_04]: But you said a word like that I haven't heard in all all the tributes.

[SPEAKER_04]: And that is a confidence.

[SPEAKER_04]: And in radio, the ability to stop

[SPEAKER_04]: and pause, and be that way, that requires more confidence than anyone can ever understand and he had it, because he just doesn't even have a house.

[SPEAKER_05]: So, Jim Nance and Tony Romo, my one of his stuff.

[SPEAKER_05]: He can get to that a little later.

[SPEAKER_05]: But we'll get to that a little later.

[SPEAKER_05]: My God.

[SPEAKER_02]: May I add that for me, I'll stick aside.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is, it was fascinating, and I wish it knew more,

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, for better or worse, I know a lot about Carson Daley's track and his work in Ryan secrets track track as far as career tracks are concerned and Dick Clark's track as far as how they got to where they got, but if you're track.

[SPEAKER_02]: Don't go ahead, I'm just struck.

[SPEAKER_02]: They were traveling by truck Mike.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_05]: The track of their success.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, or career is it career track is.

[SPEAKER_02]: Is it career track track?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, but you can track as a brand of bicycle and you can also track on a track.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have one maybe that's what's We have a track store nearby So go ahead.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's okay, um, but I didn't know about Larry's path

[SPEAKER_02]: on his track bicycle to get on this track to success.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm peddling.

[SPEAKER_05]: But I started in Miami.

[SPEAKER_02]: I believe you said it in Miami.

[SPEAKER_02]: You might watch his restaurant out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, he was.

[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't until watch a special on CNN, where you watch his path and his ascension to what is a national broadcast icon.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and it was impressive.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's very, very, very.

[SPEAKER_02]: Couple times.

[SPEAKER_04]: I believe his one of his big breaks and one of the reasons he got the bosses to listen to him is he was doing like an afternoon cafe show where he would do a live remote from a luncheon at or something and he was able to snag Bobby Darren for like 10 minutes.

[SPEAKER_04]: And it was just he brought him in and sat down and talk with Bobby Darren and that was his first what he credits is his first big break And but the thing about that is think how old he is that his first break involved Bobby Darren that's how long he's been around Drinks a natural.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, Sinatra loved him.

[SPEAKER_04]: Rickles that him

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_05]: It looked the rules still hold true.

[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, the three of us talk every day.

[SPEAKER_05]: So it's our job to flap our gums and do the talking.

[SPEAKER_05]: But when you do an interview, Larry said, I think he put it this way.

[SPEAKER_05]: I never learned anything by talking.

[SPEAKER_05]: Johnny Carson would sit there and let the guests that interview Jay Leno want to talk during the interview and you know Larry was a great interviewer because he would have a just a staccato question very briefly and then let them go he did he did do that nobody he had an ego make no mistake about Larry King's ego but Larry when he was

[SPEAKER_05]: bad interviewers like to say what they want to say to the celebrity.

[SPEAKER_05]: You have to take the moment no matter how excited you may be about a guest and wanting to tell them all about you, you have to just give them a question and let them roll.

[SPEAKER_04]: And really have just a normal conversation with Larry was going to do what Larry was great with and Larry was famous for not preparing for an interview that was something he took great pride in and he would ask vague questions and when you ask a vague question you don't know exactly where it's going to go but again it comes back to that confidence where he could roll with something that was unexpected.

[SPEAKER_05]: that we I have to be full disclosure we probably were two personalities or maybe me it said that business about not preparing we might have cried be as I could be but that was Larry looked it up and I want you probably before you but what I'm but I mean even if it's only shades of truth he was okay with asking a vague question what drives me crazy with talk show host is if they ask a question that they already know the answer to

[SPEAKER_04]: So why are you asking it, you know, so that the carry out that it's fun to make fun of him for saying he's curious, but I do think he was he wanted to ask the individual as we go to break here is the individual who's responsible for booking an occasional guest on the show.

[SPEAKER_05]: Would you be willing to pledge to our listening audience now that you will do a better job of facilitating guests on the micro marriage show in the year 2021?

[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely, I pledged this.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is actually a resolution I've made to myself.

[SPEAKER_04]: Really?

[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I want this to be a better show And I want I know that that's your favorite thing and I want to bring guests to the show So, but I want to do that I guess if you can do that.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I am gonna commit to this in front of all the listeners If you're able to do that we will have a meeting at the end of the year on the year and we'll say okay How do we do with guests?

[SPEAKER_05]: What a great year for guests?

[SPEAKER_05]: We got this person this person this person.

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