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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Gentle Prodding

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

News

4.8815 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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