Wendy, when we started these podcasts back in the late 1960s, if somebody would have said to you or to me i bet you guys do

45 of them and maybe more i would a laugh hysterically there's no way anyone could pull off

45 hours of salt well solid entertainment what is solid entertainment 45 hours of anything right

but here we are episode 45 i'm bill'm Bill F. That's Wendy Snyder. You already know who you are. Thank you so much for tuning in. Welcome to the show. Wendy, how are you? Bill, I asked you this before we got started. And, I mean, we've got to pump it up. I don't know what else to do. I just, I am beside, we had to raise the roof.

Hoo, who, who, I'm doing it right now. I'm doing it. It turns out Arsenio was right all along.

We made fun, but he turns out to have been a genius. You know what? He did turn out to be a genius,

which surprises me because as a talk show host, he was not that great.

But doesn't he have his hand in a lot of productions that are making a ton of money?

No. Does he?

Who am I thinking of?

Is it Byron Allen?

Byron Allen does.

Wait, are you joking?

No, Byron Allen is connected with tons of projects and is a very, very wealthy man.

Okay.

And Byron Allen was always the guy, like, if you were thinking, oh, we can get Arsenio to do this, but Arsenio couldn't do it.

You would get Byron Allen. He was the proxy to Arsenio.

But now, it turns out, if you watch TV after midnight,

almost any show you watch, if you read the credits, he has a hand and he's a producer,

executive producer, Byron Allen is. How did that happen?

It just, an idea whose time has come. I'm talking about producing this podcast.

You know, his description, it says,

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