Mancow Muller ｜ 08-08-25
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Summary
Former radio host Eric Mancow joins me to discuss Howard Stern's exit from Sirius XM and the impact it will have on the radio industry and the world at large. He also talks about why Howard Stern should have been allowed to do more than he did.
Transcript
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The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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Reported to you yesterday that Sirius XM has terminated the $100 million a year contact for Howard Stern.
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Joining us now is radio legend Eric Mancow Mueller, better known as The Mancow,
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who went head-to-head with Howard Stern in the Chicago radio market and vanquished Stern.
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In my own case, not only did I never understand Stern's humor,
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but I hated the way that he loved to utilize Donald Trump to boost his ratings before Trump was in politics,
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but then turned on Trump like a rabid dog once Trump decided to make America great again.
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He stormed into the Chicago radio scene, originally with Mancow's Morning Madhouse,
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emerging as a giant in the radio industry, known for his daring stunts, his sharp wit,
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He's a best-selling author, appeared on several hit TV and reality shows.
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He is a gourmand, a boulevardier, a bon vivant, a man about town, a raconteur,
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and a man from whom I have learned virtually everything I know about radio.
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The Die Hard movie with Bruce Willis is what I hear about a lot now.
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People want to see who I am, and Bruce is not going to be doing many more.
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But what I want to say, the main point I want to get out is Oprah was allowed to do all kinds
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of assertive things and excretory things, and so was Stern, that I wasn't allowed to do
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And I've been saying it for 30 years, and people thought I was crazy, of course.
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And we see now, without USAID and other government help, they don't exist.
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And you tell people this 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and they think you're crazy.
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They think, just like everybody would argue with me, that you were a Russian spy.
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And so you feel like a crazy man because you know the truth.
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Howard Stern was set upon the American radioscape.
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Believe me, we have to deal with the FCC, a government agency.
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But I still had to hire a lawyer and fight it against the government.
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In every audience survey and in every market where I competed against him, I didn't just hold my own.
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And people given a choice always wanted me, look, he was there for one reason.
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Yes, he gave you cake and circus and all the BS.
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He was allowed to talk about boobies and get the young men.
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But it was really about neutering men and making them into good little subservient communists.
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He was a mouthpiece, a propagandist, and a sellout.
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So just like the freak shows would have a great banner and you would go into the freak show and it would always be a letdown, the same thing, you get your boobies.
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And then you get in and it's a good neutering of men.
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You need to tell my audience what you really think.
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Look, I recall that Howard Stern often used the N-word.
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But somehow he got away with it in a way that no one else could do.
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And look, I was offered to replace him in New York.
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I mean, my numbers dwarfed Anderson Cooper and all these guys.
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The same thing when I had better numbers than, you know, the Daily Show.
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So, look, you've been – look at the dumbing down of society, Roger.
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I was at Comic-Con for a week with a guy that played Flash Gordon, Sam Jones.
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And I don't know if you remember that old movie, Flash Gordon, 1982 Queen soundtrack.
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And they've given us entertainment that is to neuter you.
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Because the government backing – how am I going to fight the government?
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I was asked to run against J.B. Pritzker here in Illinois.
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And the people are really getting the short end of the stick.
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You are probably the number one rock and roll fan in the country.
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I introduced John Lodge of the Moody Blues the last two nights in Chicago.
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I was instrumental in getting the Moody Blues in the Rocker Hall of Fame.
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They have seven albums, starting with Days of Future Past, I think, are masterpieces.
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But when you talk about perfect albums – and every one of their albums had clunkers – but
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perfect albums without clunkers, you're talking about seven Moody Blues albums.
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Question of Balance is probably the masterpiece.
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But I would have to say the Moody Blues, which nobody would agree with.
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Well, I can definitely testify for your love at the Kinks because the last time I was a
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guest at your home in Chicago, outside of Chicago, you played the album 12 times in
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In your opinion – it's a tough one – the greatest rock guitarist of all time.
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And Billy Corgan, my neighbor here, Billy Corgan, the Smashing Pumpkins, is a great underrated
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The Edge is great, but it's all done through effects.
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And the greatest entertainer of all time, I would either say, if I may, I would either
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So two controversial people to say, but just you're talking about great artists that have
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Al Jolson, who has his first Broadway hit in 1912 and is the male vocalist of the year,
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A guy who dominated Broadway, then makes the first talking picture, then a radio star goes
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into an eclipse, but it makes a tremendous comeback when Metry and Goldwyn Mayers makes
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the Jolson story, which remains my favorite movie of all time, with Jolson Sings Again,
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and the sequel being my second favorite movie of all time.
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Of course, politically incorrect to recognize the enormous talent of Al Jolson.
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So to me, the greatest guitarist of all time would either be one of the Kings.
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It would either be B.B. King, Albert King, or Freddie King.
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But that, of course, is a little bit more in the blues genre.
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The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has now released the classified
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Russiagate files, proving beyond any doubt that Barack Obama, CIA director John Brennan,
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James Clapper, and the whole gang were responsible for framing Trump as a Russian agent with
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completely fraudulent, fabricated intelligence.
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And, Wes, we just found out that through an email that was declassified that Hillary Clinton
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What do you expect to happen to these criminals now that they've been exposed?
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And do you have any confidence that they will actually pay any penalty?
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Roger, casting aside the man-cow mask of play and speaking to you as my friend, people don't
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And the fact that you can sit here on the radio and talk about it so detached is shocking.
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And I'm sorry that our country put you through this hell.
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And in the end, you know that God wins and good wins.
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I hope that the creep that's running for mayor of New York doesn't win.
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But I believe they have video of Barack Obama and the butler, the chef, being drowned.
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I believe they have surveillance photo and video.
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I believe that Breitbart was killed and they found out that information.
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I was going to do a show on Fox, signed, sealed, and delivered days after he was murdered.
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Andrew Breitbart, you may or may not remember, but we were going to do a show called Future
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I believe part of the frazzled rip story involving Hillary, these are demonic people.
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The sex things with children is it's not sexual.
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I knew Barack Obama before he was Barack Obama when he was buried in Illinois and he was a
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And we really have been just fed a lot of lies and we've been led by a lot of evil.
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And I'm sorry that you went through that and your lovely wife.
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But who cares now that you've lost everything and they put you through hell for years.
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Well, as you know, it is only through the grace of God and my faith, the restoration of my faith,
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When they indicted me on fabricated crimes in order to try to pressure me into testifying
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I don't know how people like Michael Cohen live with themselves.
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So if you were President Trump's top advisor, and I know he's a good friend of yours, but
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if you were his top advisor in the White House, what would be your top priority?
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What would you put at the top of his list of things to do to make America great again?
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Right now, but there was a thing that Obama repealed about fake news and propaganda and
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They need to restore that act that Obama destroyed.
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And we need to restore the act that foreign agents cannot run for office, public offices.
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I'm going to be there in December with the Moody Blues, Justin Hayward.
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It's unbelievable what we've given up, the culture that we've...
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The cautioning, the stupidity, the neutering of the...
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And, yeah, so I would say no foreigners can hold office.
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You've got to be born in America and also make it so the media cannot lie.
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It's amazing how they're reporting all this Tulsi Gabbard stuff.
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You're not old enough to remember them, are you?
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Of course, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of being Russian spies
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and actually stealing the country's atomic secrets.
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But, you know, they should get the treatment that the Rosenbergs got.
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And, yes, McCarthy was a drunk, but he was right.
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But we really were filled with, you know, Hollywood really was filled with communists.
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Our government really was filled with communists.
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But, you know, little solace now after all we've been through.
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I think you can make a very good case that there was and is a seditious conspiracy
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And that manifested itself, most recently, as the raid on Donald Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago
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Until you've had your home raided, as I had at 6 o'clock in the morning by 29 heavily armed
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FBI agents in full SWAT gear, brandishing M4 fully assault, automatic assault weapons,
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just to arrest little old me for the first time, nonviolent alleged crime of lying to
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When we've now established that there was nothing to lie about there, I had no motive
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to lie since there was no Russian collusion to cover up.
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You can't even imagine the sense of violation that stays with you for the rest of your life.
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If something goes bump in the night, she thinks the whole thing is happening again.
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It's, you know, it is only through prayer that we are fully restored.
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We're talking to the man-cow radio legend right here on The Roger Stone Show, right here in
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He is the man who drove Howard Stern out of both Chicago and virtually every major AM radio
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We're kind of celebrating the end of Howard Stern's career.
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I guess I just didn't get it, or maybe it was his politics that I didn't get.
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One thing I want to clarify in the little time we have left here.
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You knew legendary Fox pioneer Roger Ailes, a man who has been vilified after he's gone
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on to his maker and can no longer defend himself.
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The smears and falsehoods that have been spread about him disgust me.
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Tell us about your experience with Roger Ailes and the Roger Ailes you knew.
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Well, he was he was a man and he was a man of great honor and he stuck by me through thick
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And that's what everybody will tell you, except for I forget the woman Gretchen or whatever
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Roger, I'm going to tell you something, Roger, Roger, about Roger, Roger, Roger, Roger.
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And the head of Stern's boss called me and said, Roger Ailes is calling me.
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You know, I want to say one thing about Stern, brother.
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You know, he wore sunglasses and the wig and looked down all the time.
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He had 23 writers in another room and everything was scripted.
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And we beat him in 330 markets, not every market.
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But where I wasn't on, I couldn't beat him, obviously.
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And the government helped him because of his communism.
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Of course, I made the same point about Bill Maher, whose show I did numerous times.
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I actually did his original pilot for Politically Incorrect.
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But when you get to your dressing room, his producer comes in and says, please do me one favor.
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And, you know, Bill Maher is not even faintly amusing without a platoon of comedy writers.
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I'm particularly unhappy about the fact that he impugned my integrity.
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Then he admitted there was no Russian collusion.
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But, of course, he would never have me back to clear my name.
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In any event, I want to thank my guest, radio legend Mancow, from whom I have learned enormously
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virtually everything I know about the medium of radio and how to keep all you folks interested.
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And I want to issue a very special thanks to Mancow, who's been more than just a friend.
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As I've embarked in this radio career, he's really been more like a mentor, teaching me the ropes
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so I can come here and entertain you five nights a week and for two hours on Sunday.
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And to my friends out there listening in the Stone Zone, God bless you.
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