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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Ryan Seacrest

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Interview, Society & Culture, Movies, Technology, Celebrity, News, Politics, Tv, Music, Tv & Film, Broadway, Pop Culture

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Willie sits down with the busiest man in show business, Ryan Seacrest. They talk about the hustle that has taken him from "High School Radio DJ" to media titan, and his new gig as host of "Wheel of Fortune".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie guys here with another episode of the Sunday sit down podcast.

0:10.1

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:12.7

Got a great one for you this week with the busiest man in show business, Mr. Ryan C. Crest.

0:19.7

You know about everything this man does, the host of American Idol, New Year's Eve in

0:24.2

Times Square.

0:25.2

He hosted live with Kelly and Ryan for a bunch of years in the morning.

0:29.7

He executive produces tons of reality shows that you know and love.

0:33.8

You know he's got three radio shows and has filled the shoes in jobs of his heroes growing

0:39.5

up.

0:40.5

People like Casey Kasim and Rick D's and Dick Clark, even Merv Griffin now as the new host

0:47.4

of Wheel of Fortune.

0:49.1

All these people he looked up to, he's worked for or with over the years.

0:53.8

You won't believe it when you hear him talk, but from the time he's about 10 years old

0:57.3

growing up outside Atlanta, he knew what he wanted to be, which was a radio guy, a broadcaster.

1:02.1

He mowed lawns, saved money, not to buy like a baseball glove or GI Joe's or any of that

1:07.7

stuff.

1:09.2

He wanted a mixer and a headset so he could start doing radio broadcasts at home and he

1:14.0

did it.

1:15.0

It's a guy who's known what he wanted from a young age.

1:17.4

He went to the University of Georgia for a little while, left at 19 to go to LA and begin

1:23.0

this career of his and look at him now.

1:25.6

It has brought him to a place of success and this is really cool and this is why he was

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