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It's Monday, January 25th, 2021 from Slated Suggestive Mike Pesca, and yes, as you know

by now, Larry King has died. You pick with his media presence from most of his life. King

was less a journalist and more an ingratiating kibbutz. I have great affection for Larry King,

his shouting out of city names, of callers eager to speak with him, be they large cities.

This is Larry King's show. We go to Atlanta, Georgia. Hello.

Or small burgs.

Honour to Bartlett, Tennessee. Hello.

He was a storyteller, but no Mark Twain, who of course lived in.

Hollywood, Connecticut. Hello. Hello. And his very best moments, King's very best

moments of broadcast were still fairly mundane. They never really took flight. His shows were

decidedly not the birthplace of aviation that would be.

Dayton Ohio. Hello.

But here's the interesting thing about Larry King. As a journalist, he wasn't. As an interviewer,

he was fair. In remembrances that I read, probably that you read, you hardly saw a reference

to a revelation that he elicited. More likely to be cited was an awkward question that

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