Gentle Prodding
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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A&G's loving tribute to broadcasting legend, Larry King.
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| 0:00.0 | The Great Beyond. Hello. It's one more thing. |
| 0:03.7 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:05.0 | One more thing. |
| 0:10.3 | Larry King, the broadcaster, died over the weekend at age 87. |
| 0:15.4 | He was one of my early radio influences, because his radio show at night, I absolutely loved. |
| 0:23.1 | You know, for all the fun that were made of his newspaper columns, I always liked them. |
| 0:27.7 | Always read it. If I didn't like it, I wouldn't read it. |
| 0:30.0 | I hope my mockery over the years has never come across as anything. |
| 0:34.1 | He is an absolute legend, and I'm a fan of his entire catalog. |
| 0:38.8 | Oh, yeah. He just was so delightfully him. It was impossible not to make fun with him. I don't even think I was making fun of him. |
| 0:45.9 | Well, and he was so distinctive of a character. His look, his voice, just the whole thing. |
| 0:49.9 | He made no claim of being a journalist, said the New York Times, although his show sometimes made news, |
| 0:54.8 | and he interviewed every newsmaker that existed over many, many decades. |
| 0:59.1 | He was not confrontational. |
| 1:00.7 | He rarely asked anyone, let alone a politician or a policymaker, a tougher technical question, |
| 1:06.1 | preferring gentle prods to get guests to say interesting things about themselves. |
| 1:10.5 | He once asked President Nixon, when you drive by Watergate, do you feel weird? |
| 1:17.1 | What a great question. |
| 1:18.5 | That is a great question. |
| 1:19.6 | You know what? |
| 1:20.6 | I'm desperate to know what the answer was. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah, I know. |
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