Gary Alan - Open Mic on Interviews with Extraordinary News Makers

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We will be on the air with Gary

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Allen, who is a television,
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professional. We'll be talking about how
current events are impacting our lives in the

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way that we work. And here
a few key interviews Gary has done with

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extraordinary newsmakers over the years, and
if we're really lucky, he will share

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some of his variations of various voices
and accents that he's able to employ.

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It's so fun. I'm here,
Gary, I'm welcoming you to working on

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purpose, and I was telling our
listeners that if we're really lucky, you'll

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share with us some of that range
of various voice work you can do for

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us. So I think you're calling
in from Rockledge, Florida. Is that

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right? Right? It's just a
near Cocoa Beach area. As a matter

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of fact, I can watch all
the launches from the cape from my own

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backyard. Darn it. That sounds
fantastic, very excited, very inspirationally thrilling.

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For those who have never witnessed it
up close and in person, it

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is really really dramatic when that rocket
lifts off and then eventually the ground shakes

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and it's just fantastic and we get
to see it. You can watch it

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from the state of Florida at night, if there's a launch at night,

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even all the way down to Miami
Beach, you can see the plume of

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the of the rocket jets coming out. You can see that from all the

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way down in Miami. In Cuba. It really is fantastic, It really

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is. And it's great for this
area to see that the cape is coming

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back and the jobs are coming back, because this is an area that was

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hard hit when NASA really quit launching
any shuttles or anything in the in the

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last ten fifteen years. And when
was the last launch it, I can't

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remember exactly when it was Gary,
Well, it was about ten years ago.

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I'm not a big NASA person myself, although I love aviation, but

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I've never been much for the NASA
programs. I love to watch it,

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but I'm not big up on the
history. But it's been about ten years,

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maybe a little bit longer. It
started during the first couple of years

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of the Obama administration, which was
something that the Bush administration had already cut

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the budget for Obama got blamed for
it, but the truth is that it

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was cut before then because NASA just
couldn't compete any longer. And to tell

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you the truth, privatize. Privatizing
the efforts now has really brought about a

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number of companies in the private sector
and it's really bringing back the jobs here.

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And it's really miraculous to see what's
going on with SpaceX and the other

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companies of what they're producing and coming
up with as far as space travel in

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the future. I just want to
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What I want to comment on first
is just the sheer wonder of what the

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human mind and spirit can create,
right when, when so motivated, when

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so inspired, what we can actually
do is a species is pretty phenomenal,

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both on the good side and also
on the bad side on occasion. Yeah,

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but it is a shame that when
technology continues to move forward, if

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there's something ill that can come from
it and the bad guys get a hold

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of it, they will do that. I mean, there's no doubt about

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it. But if you think back
to all the technology that has come out

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of the space program, it's absolutely
wonderful. And if you look at Star

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Trek and you look at all the
stuff that we used to go all,

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well, nobody's ever going to be
able to flip open a phone and talk,

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Well, here we are, and
Doc will never be able to put

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something over your forehead and push a
couple of buttons and suddenly whatever is wrong

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with you might be cured. Well, that's coming too, and a thousand

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and one other things have happened because
of space technology and exploration, and it

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will continue to move that way,
and that's wonderful. But yes, there's

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always the other side of the sword. If something good comes along, the

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bad guys will find a way to
utilize it and use it against people to

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benefit their own needs that they have. Yes, I unfortunately know that to

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be true because I've studied history like
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other thing that I want I wanted
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like what you said, Gary,
I remember when I watched it and I

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thought, Wow, who comes up
with this stuff? This is insane,

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This will never happen. And I
can't take the number of times that I

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have thought back on the Jetsons and
Star Wars and I thought, wow,

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you know what it's coming to pass? What I want to know is those

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people who created those works, how
where did their ideas come from? Where

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did their vision come from? I
have no idea. Do you have any

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insight into that? Well, you
know, I like to watch on TV

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these programs Aliens from Outer Space and
stuff where they're thinking about UFOs coming down

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here and they say that maybe,
you know, people from another planet have

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come down here and have passed their
wisdom on the people in over generations,

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we've seen it come true when it
came to inventions and modernization of the world.

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I don't know. I you know, I'm told by a friend of

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mine who works at NASA now that
they do have plans on the board for

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space travel beyond Mars, and they
have the idea for the space capsules and

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the space ships to do it with, but they just don't have the technology

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to go along with it at the
moment. So obviously there are a lot

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of visionaries out there and scientists that
have this idea that maybe roams around in

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their head to where you and I
don't think you know that they use both

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sides of their brain, where most
of us only use a small portion of

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it, and then maybe that's where
it comes from I'm always astonished at what's

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on the drawing boards in aviation in
general, and when it comes to technology,

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I'm sure there's technology out out on
somebody's drawing board. Now that we

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go not that can't happen, and
low and beholden about fifty years, it

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probably will happen. Well, let's
talk about some of the current things that

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are happening related to just that,
Gary So, and then at some point

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I really want you to share with
the listeners just how it is you got

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into this space that you've been in
for all this time. I think it's

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fascinating the career that you've had.
But let's look at Uber right, what

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happened with Uber recently? They are
one of the automated cars, and Phoenix

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ran over and killed a pedestrian.
So here we've been. I've never been

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a proponent of having cars without drivers. I'm sorry. I realize our technology

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is improving every day, but a
car without a driver is like having us

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And they say aircraft in the air
without a pilot, I'm sorry. There's

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there's always something that can go wrong. There's always that aspect of life that

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if it can go wrong, it
will go wrong. It may not go

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wrong every time, but I still
think there needs to be somebody in a

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driver's seat monitoring the systems in order
for something like that not to happen.

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And I'm sorry, but I just
did not a believer in driverless cars.

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I can appreciate that. And you
know, one of the reasons that I

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loved that you and I met thanks
to LinkedIn is I'm so interested in your

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take on current events. I mean, you're a guy who just you know,

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you do research, you You're you're
really aware of what's going on.

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And I wanted to be able to
share with our listeners kind of and tap

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into that mind of years of what
you thought and how how some of these

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more recent occurrences and events impact our
daily lives and of course the way that

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we work. And I had somebody
on the show a few weeks ago,

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Gary, who was talking about how
he really thought that, you know,

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driverless cars and smart cities would really
change and improve the way that we live

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and work. And so to have
your perspective on a different side is great

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because it balances the conversation. Yeah, I see it. If it was

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in a small area, in other
words, if you lived in a small

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community, like we have a community
not far from here where most of the

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people who live their driver around in
golf carts all day long. I cure

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see where that possibly could work.
But driving on the Interstate, or driving

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on any on roadway where there's traffic, lights and everything and anything could go

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wrong. What if you get a
flat tire, What if a car is

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weaving out of control? What if
the computer goes bad? I mean,

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for those of us that own computers, and that's probably ninety percent of your

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listening audience, if not more,
When the computer goes down, what do

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you do? Well, the same
thing in a car. What if a

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computer goes down? And I'm sure
that's what happened in Utah where where the

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person was killed. Is the computer
went haywire. You know, So until

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they really improve it, and someday
they will, I'm sure someday they will,

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but I just don't see it now. I just don't see it right

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now. They need to work out
the kinks. And you know, I

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think what was the Utah I think
has now said that the driverless cars could

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no longer go on the roadways until
they have all this stuff figured out.

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Yeah, I thought it was Phoenix
Arizone. That could be. It could

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be Utahnics, it could be I'm
I'm up on things, but I'm not

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as up as I as I am
as I as I would like to be

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one. But yeah, I just
don't see it. It's it's I'm sorry,

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I just don't. It's like there
used to be a joke in aviation.

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My dad was a captain for one
of the airlines, and they used

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to have an old joke that someday
there'll be a dog and a man in

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a cockpit. The dog the man
is there to monitor all the systems and

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make sure everything is going well,
and the dog there is. The dog

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is there to bite him if he
touches anything. Well, I don't I

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don't really see that happening. I
really firmly believe they'll always have to be

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somebody in the seat. I don't
unless it's sort of like if you go

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to Disney World and they're they're running
on a track of some kind or a

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lightbeam that gets them from point A
to point B on short trips. But

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I don't know. Maybe I'm being
short sighted, but I just until they

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work all this stuff out, I
wouldn't be able to get into a dracles

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car. It's like it's like they
say, now there's mortar oil you can

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put in your car and you don't
have to change it for a year.

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Well, okay, maybe, I
don't know what if you end up with

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a leak in the car and you're
leaking oil, you know that's not going

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to last a year. So you
know, I'm all for modern technology because

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it does move us ahead, but
sometimes maybe we're a little ahead of the

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spectrum as far as whether this is
really going to work for everyone. Until

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everyone catches up, I think that's
part of the problem as well. Well.

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There was also even in the Wall
Street Journal today, Gary, you

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might have seen that there was something
in there about Tesla's shares falling as regulars

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looked into the fatal crash it had
some time ago. So it's it's certainly

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causing some conversation. And again my
vantage point is I'm I'm connected to the

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world of work. So there are
people that are slogging away trying to improve

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that technology and bring it to the
common marketplace. And then of course there

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are those people who are concerned like
you about it. And what I find

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interesting, of course, is that
it's even being worked on the way that

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it is. It's out there.
So I'm interested in hearing a bit more

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about some of your perspective and some
other things that you're hearing about that you

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know of in terms of common current
events that you think, you know,

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really make a difference to our daily
lives. What's going on in that mind

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of yours that would splash over to
the rest. I mean, you know,

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there's there's the technology that keeps moving
forward. I'm for it to a

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certain extent, but like when you
go to the grocery store and a lot

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of grocery stores now have the automated
checkout that you can check yourself out.

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Ye, I don't like that because
it eliminates jobs. They could have one

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person stand there and watch over the
five or six machines. Meanwhile they've eliminated

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five or six jobs from the grocery
store. Now where is that person going

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to go to get work? So
for all the progress that we go and

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we make and we move forward with, there's also the idea that it eliminates

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people from working. You know,
there was a time in carfin manufacturing when

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it stuhing with people in the factory. Well, now they have a lot

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of automated machines. Therefore they don't
need as many people. So while we're

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moving forward and I love progress,
we also have to keep in mind we

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need to keep people working. We
need to take those same four people now

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that have been eliminated from being cashiers
and train them in something else in the

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grocery store so they can bring home
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You know, I understand that our
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bigger the aircraft that we produce,
the less pilots we need, the less

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flight attendants we need. And right
now the airlines are dying for pilots.

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They're just not enough of them coming
out of the military anymore, and they

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need them badly. But they don't
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father flew, when there were three
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now they even want to eliminate the
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have one guy up front. So
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but let's keep in mind we cannot
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put food on the table for their
families. I do understand that carry and

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of course, part of what I'm
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space of talent development, talent management, organizational transformation, performance breakthrough. What

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I'm really interested in, because I
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What I want to know and would
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various guests about this, is how
can we begin to further develop these workers

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because if they don't have the checkers
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you know where like for example,
I noticed the guy at the airport,

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the security there's no longer a person
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There's now a conveyor. Okay,
well, let's what would happen if and

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what would it look like to help
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still use those people, but in
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I think? So, you know, it's like getting one of the part

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time jobs that I had when I
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a skycap remember that sure walk or
helping people with their bags when they arrived,

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whether I was in departure or arrivals. Now you can go for a

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dollar, I think, and get
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the ticket counter or to the gate
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somebody will collect them and bring them
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you're still eliminating jobs. But there's
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that job is almost being eliminated because
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But there are jobs out there that
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think. I think employers are starting
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we're displacing these people because we're going
into something else, but we need

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to find a way to train these
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have jobs. Unfortunately, and I've
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have too. You know, there
are a lot of positions that are open

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in corporations and like at Disney and
places, and aren't people qualified to do

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the jobs. That's another problem that
for some reason or another, we're lagging

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in the technology education as far as
getting people equipped for what's going to be

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happening over the next couple of decades
or so. And that's what happened with

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the steel industry. They didn't bother
to upgrade the equipment, and we lost

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the steel industry to foreign countries.
And I think we've learned from that,

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and I think we're trying to equip
the employees of tomorrow to be prepared and

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ready to rock and roll when these
new technologies come along, starting to get

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people ready to go. Now.
You know, the air Force, the

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Navy, and the Marine Corps.
They're thinking about fighter aircraft for instance,

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that no longer have pilots, but
they're training those people to fly the automated

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aircraft the way that they are now. So I think it's great that at

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least the employers are recognized. We
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on the street. We need to
have them cross train in another aspect of

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the business or something related to it. Quickly. We're going to talk more

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about that. Gary, it's time
to grab our first break, but I

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If you're just joining us, my
guest is Gary Allen, who is a

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television, radio, podcast broadcast interview
professional. He is from the state of

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Florida, and we've been talking before
about some of the trans special religio to

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transportation that impact those of us in
our everyday lives as well as how we

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go to work here. At some
point I want him to talk about his

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views of what's happening in the presidency. But before we get into that,

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I want to just chime into a
bit about what we were saying before the

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break about how technology is in many
cases taking some of the jobs away from

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people, and the importance of companies
to try to take a proactive view about

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what's coming down the bike and how
can they train up their employees so they

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have still employment but maybe in a
different capacity. And I just really wanted

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to chime into that and say that
that is something that's very much in my

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sight and I am all about helping
employers do just that. I'm interest did

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in the conversations around that. So
listeners, those of you are interested in

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in artificial intelligence and robotics, convene
with me to join me on social media,

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contact me. I want to I
want to presence more of that space,

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so Gary, thank you for your
views on that pleasure. Yeah,

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thank you very much for being here
and sharing all of that, all of

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your passion and your voices and your
your your research and everything else. Y

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ask you a question because I'm curious
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employers are saying what I what I
said that unfortunately when when jobs are out

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there, there isn't enough qualified people. Because I just sought the other night

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on sixteen minutes, they say I
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what I need to be done.
Are you finding that as well? Yes,

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sir, I am absolutely there that
there's a lot of companies that are

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still completely hiring and are interested in
doing more of it. However, just

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finding the quality of talent they're looking
for or the depth of competency they're looking

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for is difficult. And then in
some markets, Gary just frankly scrambling to

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find a sufficient volume of talent to
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I was I was in Denver visiting
a friend, and I was chatting with

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some of the local business owners there
that she knew, and they were saying,

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you know, we would just hold
our breath because we have underperforming employees,

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but we dare not let them go
because we can't find talent to backfill

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them. Yeah, so that is
a shame. That's as I said earlier,

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the airlines are finding it difficult now
to get pilots to fly the planes

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because the guys, young men and
women are staying in the air Force or

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Navy or Marine corps longer because they're
finding that the airlines are not paying what

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they used to pay. And they're
still paying very well, but they're not

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paying what they used to and careers
in the airlines now are not what they

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used to be. I mean,
the airlines have been marginalized down in so

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much. Most of the carriers when
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be around the major carriers are not
around anymore, about four or five airlines,

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and so you know, the guys
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and women are not coming out.
They're just staying in there. Hey,

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I can retire a colonel and be
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work for an airline and I start
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which is these little commuter outfits pay
nothing. So yeah, I mean,

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the technology is in some cases it's
the people are there to fill it,

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but they're not getting paid enough to
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to point B. Yeah. Well, as I said, I'm interested in

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continue in that conversation because I think
that needs more used to be presence in

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order to be able to address the
opportunity and the issues, you know for

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sure, Oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean it's like radio radio used

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to pay very well when the mom
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when the major corporations took over,
suddenly they didn't need full time people,

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and out of nowhere, benefits went
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window, and now stations are augmented
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the country by about half a dozen
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they're making all the money and other
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sometimes very good and sometimes it lags. And you can tell that in the

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radio business by the bankruptcies that are
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stations, other networks owned by corporations. They just can't keep moving forward with

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these small radio stations that bring in
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let's grab this real quick. I
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wanted to hear a little bit about
how it was you chose the career that

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you've been in. You've been in
this space for quite some time. You

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are a true professional, You've been
through many many ups and downs in the

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industry. For why did you choose
this space and what do you like about

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it? Well, I didn't choose
it. It kind of chose me.

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I wanted to be like my dad. I wanted to fly airplanes for a

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living, and I was doing well
with that. I went into the Air

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Force and flew in the Air Force
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But I suffered a concussion just before
I was to be discharged, and the

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concussion left me with a little slight
impairment, and that was all that was

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necessary at that time for me to
be disqualified to go any further. So

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it kind of happened by accident in
that when I was at the university.

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When I was at George Washington University
in DC. To start off with,

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a friend of mine worked for the
local radio station and also worked at a

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college radio station, not the college
I went to, but another one.

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company a couple of nights and kind of

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liked what he was doing and kind
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to Florida, where I'm from,
the Miami area, went to the University

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of Miami, got an internship at
a local radio station, WIOD, and

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I interned for Larry King as one
of his board ops, and I just

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became enamored with it. I realized, hey, I mean, I'll talk

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your ear off anyway, but I
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doing music radio down in Miami,
and then I was a sidekick for somebody

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for a long period of time.
We had a morning show and we did

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good with that and developed all these
characters that I've done over the years.

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But it really wasn't where I initially
wanted my life to go. I wanted

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my age now to be retired from
the airlines and be like my mom and

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dad and traveled the world. But
it didn't quite work out that way.

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And then I also did some acting
in Los Angeles, where I was for

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a number of years. I lived
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So yeah, I've been up and
down with this business, in and out,

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and but I'll tell you what I
wouldn't trade it for all the money

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in the world. I did take
a period of my life off from the

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age of thirty nine to forty nine
and took care of my mom and dad.

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I stopped my entire world, my
entire career and took care of them

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until they both passed away. But
during that time I had a glorious time

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taking care of them. And in
the business, I've got an opportunity to

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meet an awful lot of wonderful people, and I've gotten to travel all around

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the world in one way or another. Sounds spectacular to me, and I

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may I think great friends along the
way that are friends of mine to this

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very day. And that's another part
of the show busin the world, that

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you know, you make great friends
and they stay with you, and you

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know I can call them up and
have them on my show anytime I want.

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It's a great point. Gary,
I haven't been at this nearly as

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long as you have, and I'm
not near the professional that you are,

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but I can tell you that some
of the friends you're you're doing a wonderful

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job, and you're as professional as
I've ever heard anybody, and you probably

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are a lot better than I am, that's for sure. Well, thank

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you, Gary. What I wanted
to certainly and echo was boy, I

409
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have really made some amazing friends having
them on my show and being part of

410
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that space. I don't know what
it is, it just brings you together.

411
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So also echo that keep you young. Oh good good. I'm glad

412
00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:06.640
for that. And at my age
I need all the help I can get

413
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:10.480
in that area. I got that, Garrie. Okay, well let's do

414
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.400
this. If you don't mind,
I would like to hear I want to

415
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.319
say the last part of the show, to hear about some of the folks

416
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.200
that you've had the chance to talk
to over the years that were great newsmakers.

417
00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:23.640
But here, everybody in the United
States, certainly and other parts of

418
00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:29.079
the world this show is listened to
across the globe is impacted by what's happening

419
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:33.640
in the US presidency. Talk to
us a bit about what's going on there

420
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:40.039
and how that impacts us. It's
a shame that we have lowered our standards

421
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:48.079
for our politicians in general. It's
a shame that certain interest groups lobbyists have

422
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:52.240
gotten involved in politics, which has
always been there, even from the inception

423
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:57.079
of our founding fathers. And it's
a shame that our founding fathers don't come

424
00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:02.000
back today and teach some of these
pelficians in Washington what it really is to

425
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:06.599
be a patriot instead of what they
think needs to be a patriot. I'm

426
00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:11.039
disgusted by the person that sits in
the White House because I worked in that

427
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:17.000
White House for a president actually two
one who was the last one to resign

428
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:22.000
from office, and then the gentleman
that followed afterwards. This man that's sitting

429
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.599
there now has this world upside down, and he thinks it's fun. He

430
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:32.279
likes this turmoil. I was talking
to a friend of mine just the last

431
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:36.119
night and he said, when this
is all said and done and this man

432
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:42.279
is impeached, it'll make Watergate look
like nothing. This man is disgraced this

433
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:47.799
country in so many ways. And
for that thirty five to forty percent who

434
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.279
I was watching the other night on
TV, these five women from the state

435
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:57.000
of Texas who were interviewed that think
he was ordained by God to be president

436
00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:03.160
of the United States. Give him
for everything he said and done, but

437
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:10.279
they won't forgive Bill Clinton. And
they think Obama was the Antichrist. Yeah,

438
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:14.839
and they're hypocrites. I mean,
these were five women who are housewives

439
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:19.319
who probably don't have careers, and
you know, they whatever, but they're

440
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:25.039
hypocrites. They would like to see
him in the presidency forever, which is

441
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.720
one of the things I think he's
trying to head towards because he loves dictators.

442
00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:33.359
But he's turned the entire political system
upside down and it's going to take

443
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:38.119
years after he is out of office
before we recover from it unless people get

444
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:42.519
smart real fast. And having been
a lot of my friends call me up

445
00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:45.480
and say, you were there for
the end of Watergate. What do you

446
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.039
think? And I say, this
is Watergate. It may be different.

447
00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:52.559
And people are impatient, but it
took about two and a half years before

448
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.960
they finally got Nixon. And when
they did, the Republicans themselves went up

449
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.119
to the hill and said we can
no longer support you. You're about to

450
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:02.880
be impeached. Do you want to
resign or do you want to go through

451
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.279
impeachment? Nixon said, I want
to spare the country. I will resign,

452
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:13.240
and he left. This guy will
not resign. He'll fight. But

453
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:17.000
he can't find a lawyer in Washington
to work with him because he doesn't pay

454
00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:22.160
his bills. He's a deadbeat in
that sense. And even the people of

455
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.519
the RNs say the people in that
White House are scared to death anybody to

456
00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:29.119
go to work for him because they're
going to end up paying a lawyer's bill

457
00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.440
to get themselves out of trouble.
This man is trouble now. I saw

458
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:38.240
it coming. I didn't know this
extent of it. But he has destroyed

459
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:45.680
any friendships that we have around the
world with his arrogance and his stupidity.

460
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:51.119
And I mean, he doesn't care
to be prepared for anything that he does.

461
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:55.359
He just talks off the cuff or
tweets it, and I don't know.

462
00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:59.319
I mean, I don't care about
the sex scandals so much, although

463
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:01.519
that's one of the things that's going
to bring him down in a sense.

464
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:07.640
But I think he's right about one
thing. He could shoot somebody on Fifth

465
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:13.039
Avenue and the people that follow him
would forgive him no matter what. Well

466
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.480
he said that, yeah, he
said that during the campaign. He said

467
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:22.720
I could literally shoot somebody and nothing
would happen. He is a despicable human

468
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.559
being. He's using the White House
and his family to bring more money into

469
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.079
the pot. And I think what's
going to happen is when he's impeached,

470
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:35.240
they'll still find cover for him.
They'll still find a way to cover for

471
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:38.640
him that he's done anything wrong.
I don't know what this guy has on

472
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:43.279
the whole world, but my god, they a lot of people should excuse

473
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:45.519
him. And I don't know if
it's because they're ignorant, or whether they're

474
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.680
blind, or whether they just are
afraid. One of my friends said,

475
00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:54.119
I think one of the things why
he went after Obama with his birth certificate

476
00:33:54.559 --> 00:34:00.039
was that it's hard for the old
white businessman to think that the minorities are

477
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:06.000
now becoming the majority. A problem
with people of color running this country.

478
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:10.480
Many people of color, all colors, all backgrounds, all religions, are

479
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.400
highly intelligent, motivated people who want
to do the right and decent thing.

480
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:22.480
This guy doesn't. He likes turmoil, he loves disruption. He's a corrupt

481
00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.760
individual. If you look back at
least at his businesses in the casinos.

482
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.360
He would have people come in and
work in the casinos. He'd paid them

483
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:32.920
only half of what he owes them, and then he'd take them to court

484
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:37.239
to fight the rest of the other
half, complaining that they didn't do decent

485
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:38.960
work. Then when the work needed
to be done again, he'd call them

486
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:45.800
back in only at half the price. He still hasn't paid those Polish workers

487
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:50.400
in New York that he was sued
over what he owed them. He paid

488
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:53.960
a fine to the US government,
but he's never paid them. It's unbelievable

489
00:34:54.920 --> 00:35:01.800
who they elected president this time that
twenty years couldn't even get one vote out

490
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:07.480
of somebody. And the man is
a congenital wire and the people that he

491
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:15.119
surrounded himself with are just as bad. These are ill equipped individuals sitting in

492
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:20.079
that White House running our country,
and we are in dire need of intelligence

493
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:23.719
and somebody who's an adult to get
in there. And you know what his

494
00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:30.800
new nickname is? Now? Now, what is it? Spanky? Where's

495
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:37.199
that come from? Because of what
happened the other night on sixty minutes with

496
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:44.000
the where Stormy Daniels spanked them once
with the magazine. Is his new nickname,

497
00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:46.519
according to my friends in Washington,
is now Spanky. That's his code

498
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:53.119
name by the Secret Service. I
hadn't heard. This is some of the

499
00:35:53.159 --> 00:36:00.800
news that I somehow miss. It's
incredible the depths of that that this country

500
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.960
has gone to put somebody in the
White House who doesn't even deserve to be

501
00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.559
a dog catcher. But eventually the
people will wake up. It's sort of

502
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.599
like what happened in Parkland. The
NRA is making fools or trying to of

503
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:20.280
those kids that are protesting. First, people like Alex Jones calls them their

504
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:23.239
actors. They really didn't go to
that school. Now the NRA is trying

505
00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:29.199
to discredit them in every way shape
impossible because they're afraid. I don't know

506
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:32.480
of what, but they're afraid,
I guess of. I mean, Remington

507
00:36:32.599 --> 00:36:37.400
filed bankruptcy the other day because people
aren't buying guns like they were anymore.

508
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:42.159
Really, the crazy time we live
in. It's an interesting time, but

509
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:47.519
it's a crazy time. I would
have to agree with that. Well,

510
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:52.039
let me say that you've presence from
me several pieces of news that that's not

511
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:55.239
my radar at all. So this
is a good time for us to go

512
00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:58.559
ahead and go for our next break, because afterwards, what I want to

513
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.800
get into is some of those conversations
that you've had with some of the more

514
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:07.440
the more interesting, newsworthy people that
you've somehow cross path with. So stay

515
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.079
with us. We'll be right back. I'm Elise Cortez, your host with

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It on the Air with Gary Allen, who is a television, radio,

517
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:16.000
podcast, broadcast interview professional. Stay
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back to Working on Purpose. Thanks
for staying with us, and welcome back

542
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:00.960
to Working on Purpose. If you're
just tuning in, My guest is Gary

543
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Allen, who is a television radio, podcast broadcast interview professional. I'm your

544
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.679
host, Alice Cortez for this last
segment here, listeners, I really wanted

545
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:13.519
to see if we could get Garret
to share with us just some of the

546
00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:19.639
recollections he has of guests he's interviewed
over the year, some of these worthy

547
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:22.400
newsmakers, as I think he's called
them so so. Gary, who comes

548
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.960
to mind that he had a conversation
with that you think is interesting that you'd

549
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.719
like to share. Well, my
former boss, Richard Nixon, not that

550
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.960
I interviewed him on my radio show, but I often had many conversations with

551
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.119
him, and I remember he said
something to me that resonates so much in

552
00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:44.400
this last fifteen years. And we
were talking on the day that he ceased

553
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:49.719
to be president when we were on
Air Force one heading back to California,

554
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.400
and I remember he talked to everybody
on board that was staff, part of

555
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:57.360
the airlift wing, and he said, point BLANKIE said, Gary, I

556
00:40:57.400 --> 00:41:02.559
just want you to know that whatever
party the religious right gets connected with,

557
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:08.679
they're doomed. And I didn't.
It didn't resonate with me at the time,

558
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:14.679
but it has since. And he
also said to me on the way

559
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:16.320
out the door of Air Force one, he said, I also want you

560
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:21.239
to remember, Gary, Republicans,
Democrats, liberals conservatives were all full of

561
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.800
crap, will steal your money and
put it in our pockets. I always

562
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:31.519
got a kick out of that.
Some of the more memorable interviews that I've

563
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:35.880
had have not always been with some
of the most famous people in the world,

564
00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.159
although I've had the privilege of having
celebrities on the program, like Wink

565
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:46.039
Martindale, who was very very good
friends with Elvis Presley. And if there's

566
00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:51.440
one thing I've taken away from all
the people that I've ever interviewed, some

567
00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:54.320
of them are no longer here,
like the late Richie Martin. D Martin's

568
00:41:54.480 --> 00:42:00.639
youngest son. Richie and I were
very good friends, is that they all

569
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:06.920
had the sense of integrity within themselves. The people that I surround myself with

570
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.599
friends are people that I can count
on, people that are there for me.

571
00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:14.199
My own brother, for instance,
up in Boston, mass He's a

572
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:20.119
Greek Orthodox priest at Saint Annagadees,
and I can always go to him for

573
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.000
counsel because he's going to tell me
the truth. He knows everything about me,

574
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:27.440
still loves me as a brother,
but he's going to tell me the

575
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:31.800
truth. And I think that's what
I've always taken from and what I try

576
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:37.280
to do with my show for my
listeners, I always give them the truth.

577
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.199
If I don't know the true facts, I won't mention it. And

578
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:44.639
the people that I've talked to over
the years, whether it be the Attorney

579
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:47.920
General in Illinois who I worked for, or a station manager that I worked

580
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:52.880
for, I look for the truth. I don't look for gossip. I

581
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:55.920
don't have time for that. I
can't stand gossip. I mean, if

582
00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:00.000
it's news gossip, that's one thing. But if it's real gossip of the

583
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.840
water cooler stuff, I'm not interested
in that. I don't have time for

584
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:07.760
that. Some of the people that
i've I've gotten the greatest advice from.

585
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.719
One was Wayne Newton. When I
got to Las Vegas. He said,

586
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:16.360
as a performer, in this town, it's a big little town. If

587
00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:22.320
you sneeze in the morning, they'll
know about it in the afternoon. And

588
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.679
if you drink heavily, you better
knock it off because this is not the

589
00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:31.400
kind of town you can do that
in. I remember my first program director

590
00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:36.360
who's still my friend to this day, John Harper, who I work for

591
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.519
here in the Cocoa area, because
that's why he brought me over here.

592
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:42.800
He always said, be real on
the air. Don't be phony, don't

593
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:46.159
be fake, be real. Be
the real Gary, the pretend Gary,

594
00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:50.440
not the show biz Gary. Or
as he recently said to me, don't

595
00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:53.079
be the Sean Hennedy Gary, the
guy who makes it up as he goes

596
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:59.239
along and twists it and turns it
till it's not what the real story is.

597
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:02.519
But I guess the best advice I
ever heard was from Jackie Gleeson that

598
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:07.519
he told a lot of people,
and that is be nice on the way

599
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:09.199
up, because you're going to meet
the same people on the way down.

600
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.679
And my mom and dad were probably
my biggest heroes in my life, even

601
00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:22.000
though my older brother Michael played professional
football. My mom and dad were my

602
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.159
best heroes, and they always said, be who you really are. Just

603
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:29.440
be you. You don't need to
be anybody else, you don't need me

604
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:31.920
do special, you don't need to
be anything, just be you. And

605
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.760
I think that's really done me well. In Hollywood, I was able to

606
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.960
make connections by being nice to people, not being a prima donna or anything

607
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:46.400
like that, because they appreciate that, and the old time actors, they

608
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:52.320
really appreciate that. Being good and
being nice to people is great. I

609
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:58.159
mean, I'll give you an illustration. I was performing at the MGM Grant

610
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:01.039
one night and it was about three
o'clock in the morning. I got off

611
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:06.960
stage the final show, I go
home. I pick up something to eat.

612
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On the way home. I get
a phone call at six o'clock in

613
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:13.599
the morning my time, which is
nine o'clock Eastern, and it's a buddy

614
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of mine who works for Simon and
Schuster, and he says, Gary,

615
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:20.480
I need you to do your Bill
Clinton impersonation. And I said, oh,

616
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:22.400
Stan, I just am getting to
bed, I'm tired and everything.

617
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:24.199
He said, no, no,
please, I'm going to count the three.

618
00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:28.559
I'm going to turn the phone over
to somebody and do your Bill Clinton

619
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impersonation. So he counted the three
and I did, Hey, this is

620
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.920
Bill Clinton, and let me just
say this, it's a pleasure for me

621
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.239
to be here, and I'm glad
that I'm talking to you. And who

622
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:40.960
do you think is on the other
end of the phone? Bill Clinton?

623
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:50.039
No? Hillary? And she's laughing
like crazy on the other end. I

624
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.480
met her a couple of times because
I said to her that morning, I

625
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:57.639
said, hey, you and I
have a mutual friend Brian McPartland, who

626
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.320
was Bill's chief advance. He said, she said, oh my god,

627
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:07.320
you know Brian, I said,
yes absolutely, and so for all intense

628
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:09.199
purposes. You never know who you're
going to talk to. And I've done

629
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:13.440
that impression in front of Bill Clinton
a couple of times and he loved it.

630
00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:17.320
And I and I the only time
that I ever did an impersonation in

631
00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:22.679
front of somebody was Arnold Schwarzenegger and
he didn't like it. You know,

632
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:27.159
he didn't like that. You know
that we heal now listen to me later.

633
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.639
You know, we're going to do
this now and everything is going to

634
00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:32.079
be great. You know when I
when I married into the Kennedy family was

635
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:36.880
like married into the mob, you
know, one of those things. He

636
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:42.000
didn't like it, you know.
But I've I've been surrounded by some really

637
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.400
wonderful people. My ex wife who
has now passed on unfortunately, she passed

638
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.639
away a few years ago along after
we were divorced. She was a great

639
00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:53.679
inspiration to me. Now there's a
hero. She started out as a part

640
00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:59.119
time secretary at Jay Walda Thompson and
worked herself up to an administrator or the

641
00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:04.440
creative Department. That's something it really
is, I mean, and she came

642
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.960
from meager beginnings, and I had
all every opportunity in the world, and

643
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:13.079
I blew it numerous times with different
things that I was involved with. But

644
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.960
as far as some of the people
that I've had, weak Martindale, who's

645
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:20.239
a good friend of mine, the
gentleman that was on my show last night,

646
00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:23.039
Bruce Marron, one of the top
agents in La and Las Vegas.

647
00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:28.000
I've been very, very lucky.
God has blessed me in so many ways

648
00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:32.480
with having wonderful people around me that
I've learned from that I get advice from

649
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.280
that I can trust. And I
think if there's anything I could ever say

650
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.840
to anybody is if you surround yourself
with people that you can trust, you'll

651
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.639
never go wrong and get rid of
the negative people out of your life because

652
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:46.800
there's always enough of that. They'll
tell you you can't do this, you

653
00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:51.440
can't do that, because they can't
or they don't or they don't want to.

654
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:52.719
And all you got to do is
put forth a little bit of an

655
00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:57.000
effort and you could be a big
success in this country, if not the

656
00:47:57.039 --> 00:48:00.960
world. It doesn't take supernatural brains
to get anywhere, because the guy in

657
00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:07.199
the White House certainly proves that time
in and time out. But well,

658
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:12.239
I really I really enjoy being around
people who have something to say and something

659
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.199
important to say, and something to
give to people. And my faith is

660
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:21.639
very important to me. My faith
is extremely important to me. I don't

661
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:25.440
push it on people, I don't
proselytize, but it's important. M Well,

662
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:29.039
a couple of things you said,
Gary. First, I really want

663
00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:31.960
to acknowledge that you're one of the
very first people on that I've heard talk

664
00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:40.559
about so glowingly their their ex spouse
with respect, with acknowledgement of her contribution

665
00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:44.880
to your life. I can tell
you I very very seldom hear that,

666
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.400
and I really really applaud that,
And I would like to hold that up

667
00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:52.280
as a possibility for listeners out there, who many of which have probably gone

668
00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.239
through some kind of separation from a
from a significant other as I have.

669
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:59.199
And so I want you to know
that I really saw that as a real

670
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:02.599
example, and I thank you for
that. Gracie taught me a lot about

671
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:07.960
marketing, a lot about things.
She put instilled a lot of good things

672
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.639
into my heart, and unfortunately,
like I said, she's gone now,

673
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:15.800
but she was a wonderful example of
just putting your nose to the grindstone and

674
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.599
getting there. And my mother,
let me tell you, at least,

675
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:22.559
anything that I ever hope to be
in my life as long as I'm on

676
00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:29.320
this planet is because of the sacrifice
my mother made for me and other members

677
00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:31.559
of my family. My mother was
the greatest. She stood five foot eight

678
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:37.119
and you didn't faster back or anything. But she was a dynamite. She

679
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:39.719
was. She was a woman's liberal
waan before that phrase ever became popular.

680
00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:44.440
And my father was an X marine
if there is such a thing as an

681
00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:50.159
ex marine, and he instilled honesty
in me, be honest, you know,

682
00:49:51.079 --> 00:49:54.320
yeah, yeah, And those are
the important things that I hold true.

683
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:57.800
The only thing missing in my life
is somebody to share it with.

684
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:01.039
That's the only thing that's missing in
my life because I'm looking for somebody of

685
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:06.400
value, not just about a being
about a boom, you know, because

686
00:50:06.440 --> 00:50:07.400
after that's over, what are you
going to talk about? You know?

687
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:13.480
I think seriously, you know,
what can you talk about? So you

688
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:15.360
know, it all comes together?
And I think it's important, like I

689
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.400
said, for people to surround themselves
with people that know you and love you

690
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:22.599
and care about you and are willing
to be honest with you. And that's

691
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:27.440
the best thing you can have.
And all the friends in the world are

692
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:32.119
great, but family is the important
thing. That's the most important ingredient.

693
00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:38.719
Family beautiful. And I acknowledge also
what you said, what's missing in your

694
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:42.840
life is someone to share it with. And I can really appreciate that too,

695
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.480
Gary. And the other thing when
you look at my picture, you

696
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.320
know why stopping? I mean,
you know, I mean just because I

697
00:50:50.360 --> 00:50:52.000
look like jay Leno and I can
sound like jay Lenod doesn't mean I have

698
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:54.559
the money like jay Leno. I
mean, you know, you know what

699
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:59.960
it is. That was the other
thing I was gonna say is thank you

700
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.079
for bringing your voices. I was
hoping that you would, Yeah, and

701
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:13.519
I was request I promise my listener
is a little bit of entertainment. So

702
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:17.000
thank you for bringing it. Oh. Yeah, you know Grover is always

703
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:22.800
available to do voices and stuff.
Yes he is. Yeah him. Oh,

704
00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:25.760
I remember Grover. That takes me
way back, way back. I

705
00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:29.480
mean, you know, when Elmo
first came down the scene, I looked

706
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:31.199
at some people I was with and
I said, that's going to be a

707
00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:32.800
hit and they said, how can
you tell? I said, look,

708
00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:36.639
he's red, he's got an orange
nose, he's kind of funny, and

709
00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:38.400
the way he talks away he moves, kids are gonna love him. They

710
00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:40.440
said, oh, you don't know
what you're talking about. I said,

711
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:45.280
now, well, you know,
but the kid I love it. I

712
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.639
still am inside. I'm still a
kid. I mean, I maybe sixty

713
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.920
five, but I'm still got a
heart of a kid. I really do

714
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:57.440
love Christmas. I love the idea
of seeing Santa's village and the trains and

715
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.719
everything underneath the tree and all that. I still go back to my early

716
00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:04.519
days in Wilkesburg, Pennsylvania, where
we had nothing. I mean, that

717
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:08.440
was poverty row and I those are
the most cherished times in my life,

718
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:12.360
you know. And that's the thing
that I kind of live by. You

719
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:15.199
don't have to have a whole lot
of money to be happy. You really

720
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:19.360
don't. No, you don't,
No, you don't really don't. But

721
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.960
it kind of makes the day go
by nice though. It does. It

722
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:27.519
does, it does, it does, Yeah, yeah, it does,

723
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:30.599
Dick Dick, unless you're Homer Simpson. And then you've got March, and

724
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:37.360
then you got a real problem.
Oh my gosh, this is a great

725
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:39.199
finish to my foot, to my
day. Gary. All right, well,

726
00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:43.039
we've got just about one minute left
here. What would you like to

727
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:47.159
leave our listeners with, kind sir, Well, if anything, I hope

728
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:51.639
they've enjoyed the hour, and I
hope they've understood that I'm real, I'm

729
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.000
not fake, I'm not phony.
If I've offended anybody by bringing up the

730
00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:59.320
President, because I know you come
from a state that really loves him,

731
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:02.000
I'm sorry, but you know,
I speak the truth. I don't lie.

732
00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:05.880
But if anything, I just you
know, to everybody, we're coming

733
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:08.239
up on the holiday weekend, let's
remember what this is all about. The

734
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:13.960
greatest person that ever walked the face
of the earth is remembered on this day,

735
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:17.400
and let's remember what he sacrificed for
all of us so we could,

736
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.519
so we could, you know,
eventually go to heaven. And I'm just

737
00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:25.199
pushing that for a moment, but
above everything else, like I say at

738
00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:29.360
the end of my show, just
take care of yourselves and take care of

739
00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:32.800
each other, and I think it'll
all work out very nice. Finished Gary,

740
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:36.599
And certainly one of the things I
want to acknowledge is I bring on

741
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:40.800
guests up with various viewpoints on purpose, because it's important to have a varied

742
00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:45.800
conversation about different topics, and so
I appreciate your perspective very much. I

743
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:51.559
appreciate your passion. I appreciate the
fact that you really do live transparently and

744
00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:53.239
you show yourself to be who you
are. It has been wonderful to have

745
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:55.719
you on the show. Gary,
Thank you for joining us. It's been

746
00:53:55.760 --> 00:54:00.199
a wonderful to be with you.
God bless you, and please have a

747
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:04.679
safe and sound weekend. I plan
too, and listeners. If you want

748
00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.280
to learn more about Gary Allen or
cut some of his interviews, visit his

749
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:10.519
website. It's Gary Allen Talkshow dot
com. Let me spell that for you.

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00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:19.119
G A R Y A l A
N t A l K Show Gary

751
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:22.800
Ellen Talkshow dot Com. Join us
next week when we're on the Earth doctor

752
00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:28.039
Darren Martin, who is the cultural
architect, we'll be talking about the incredibly

753
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:30.679
low employee engagement in the United States, what companies are doing to contribute to

754
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:35.039
that problem, and how some companies
have truly cracked the code to improve or

755
00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:37.360
ignite employee engagement. See you then, and remember that work is at least

756
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:46.360
one third of our lives, so
let's work on Purpose. We hope you've

757
00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:51.679
enjoyed this week's program. Be sure
to tune into Working on Purpose featuring your

758
00:54:51.679 --> 00:54:57.079
host Alis Cortez, every Wednesday at
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759
00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:01.119
the Voice America Empowerment Channel. This
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