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Hey, let's take some calls.

Let's go to Peter, Manhattan.

Peter, how you doing?

Hey, Mark, besides yourself, who today is a talk radio host can shine the shoes of anybody

at a pass?

I bet you can't name three.

Sure, I can.

I can name a lot.

Well, name somebody that's a great.

You had Alan Combs.

You had...

Listen, Alan Combs was the nicest, sweetest guy. I wouldn't call him a great talk show host Nobody had great guests Well that's the science I hate to I hate to break it That's the sign of a weak talk show host They have to book a lot of great guests To get you to listen When you have celebrities On most ABCs You got to remember A celebrity life saved or Yeah, I know, but that's a week host who has totally guest, totally guest dependent shows. You know, so you think, you think your competition. I'm not going to debate, talk radio with you, sorry. But that's, that's a sign of true weakness when there's some shows where it's just guest after guest after

guest after guest which means the host knows he needs help give a rush credit rush never had a guest

on ever ever he was the highest rated talk show host ever never had a guest on now there's an

exception like once a year during a presidential campaign

he'd have the president on but otherwise no guess uh and the great listen if you're doing three

hours get too needed guests now and then just to break up the out like we have a guest here

once an hour for a few minutes to break up the hour uh but we don't depend on guests. We don't open with guests. We don't fill the hour up with a lot of guests. We have like, and like if you listen to Sean Hannity, I don't think there's a guest on for the first hour, the last hour. You put a couple of guests in there just to break it up. Now, you do need a guest here and there. it's like when you go to the concert and there's the great singer and

I'm up. Now you do need a guest here and there. It's like when you go to the concert and there's

the great singer and one song afternoon and somewhere in the middle. He goes, now the band is

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