Dana Perino Shares Life and Career Advice
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Guests: Dana Perino & Benedict Whalen
Host Scot Bertram talks with Dana Perino, co-host of Fox News’ The Five and America's Newsroom and former White House Press Secretary, about the lessons she's learned over the course of her career and her new book I Wish Someone Had Told Me . . .: The Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a Meaningful Life. And Benedict Whalen, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, gives a biographical sketch of American writer and humorist Mark Twain.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners |
| 0:23.7 | across the country. His humor is satirical and satire is often used to point out real flaws in society. |
| 0:30.8 | And so he wasn't simply humorous just for the sake of a joke. I mean, sometimes, of course he was, |
| 0:35.9 | but he often had, there was that edge to the satire that was socially concerned and socially |
| 0:41.6 | critical. |
| 0:42.3 | So that's an important thing that we regularly see in his fiction as well. |
| 0:45.8 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:55.8 | That was Dr. Benedict Whalen, Associate Professor of English here at Hillsdale College. We'll talk with him later on |
| 1:01.0 | today to get a biographical sketch of Mark Twain. First, we're joined by Dana Perino. She is |
| 1:07.7 | Fox News host of the five, one of the co-hosts there, as well as co-anchor of America's |
| 1:12.6 | Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino, also former White House Press Secretary and author. |
| 1:18.6 | Her brand new book is, I Wish Someone Had Told Me, the Best Advice for Building a Great Career and a |
| 1:24.2 | meaningful life. Dana, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:28.1 | Thank you. I'm thrilled to be here, and I really have enjoyed listening to you in lots of different places, |
| 1:33.1 | including one of my favorite podcasts, the three martini lunch, which I never have had, |
| 1:37.8 | actual three martini lunch, but I enjoy the podcast very much and your insights and analysis. And I think it's always very helpful, |
| 1:46.4 | especially for me to listen to somebody who's at a great institution like Hillsdale and somebody |
| 1:50.8 | who is not in a D.C. or New York or L.A. bubble. Yes. It is not anything close to that here |
| 1:56.9 | in Hillsdale. We are 90 minutes away from anything. So we, your book is very persuasive in giving |
| 2:03.5 | people great advice about career and life. You are joined in the book, though, by a number of |
| 2:09.5 | contributors. I want to give you the opportunity to introduce what we call your co-hosts for I |
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