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The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.8 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:12.8 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.7 | So we got canceled in the ABC and we went to Fox and of course the president of Fox got |
| 0:21.8 | fired and they replaced them with one of the worst men I've ever worked with. |
| 0:27.5 | Just a terrible man I can't mention his name but it was John Matoi and and |
| 0:34.9 | and and we came on Fox after the Simpsons and the ratings were huge and was like |
| 0:42.1 | hey you did it you have a hit but this new president of Fox it wasn't his hit |
| 0:47.3 | and he hated the show but so he just didn't publicize the critic every week he |
| 0:53.3 | called me at the office well I hated last night's show to you. |
| 0:56.7 | You would call you to tell you he'd say I hated that show and finally he said what would |
| 1:01.1 | you say to him would you say hey thanks yeah I don't really don't remember I mean we |
| 1:05.9 | were really flabbergasted and I remember the great moment where he says he said I'm |
| 1:11.8 | going to show you why your show is terrible and we go to his office and he's sitting |
| 1:16.4 | there with a bunch of his assistants and aides and secretaries and he goes now watch |
| 1:20.8 | this episode he puts in the tape player and everybody starts laughing and they're |
| 1:25.3 | laughing all the way through and he's like why are you laughing what's the matter |
| 1:28.2 | with you and he was just impossible. Steve can we get him on the phone right now |
| 1:33.0 | we're Steve. Try try to get him on the phone right now. |
| 1:36.2 | Okay fine. |
| 1:37.2 | So. |
| 1:48.2 | Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to Stand Up New York. |
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