Gary Alan - Open Mic on Interviews with Extraordinary News Makers

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us this week is a special fun
treat. We will be on the air

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with Gary Allen, who is a
television, radio, podcast broadcast interview professional.

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We'll be talking about how current events
are impacting our lives in the way

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that we work and here a few
key interviews Gary has done with extraordinary newsmakers

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over the years, and if we're
really lucky, he will share some of

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

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fun. I'm here, Gary,
I'm welcoming you to working on purpose,

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

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

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So I think you're calling in from
rock Ledge, Florida. Is that right?

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Right? It's just in your Cocoa
Beach area. As a matter of

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

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Darn it. That sounds fantastic,
very excited, very inspirational, thrilling

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for those who have never witnessed it
up close and in person. It is

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

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

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

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

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

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down in Miami and Cuba. It
really is fantastic. It really isn't It's

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great for this area to see that
the cape is coming back and the jobs

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are coming back, because this is
an area that was hard hit when NASA

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really quit launching any shuttles or anything
in the last ten to fifteen years.

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And when was the last launch.
I can't remember exactly when it was going.

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Well, it was about ten years
ago. I'm not a big NASA

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person myself, although I love aviation, but I've never been much for the

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NASA programs. I love to watch
it, but I'm not big up on

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the history. But it's been about
ten years, maybe a little bit longer.

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It started during the first couple of
years of the Obama administration, which

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was something that the Bush administration had
already cut the budget for Obama got blamed

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for it, but the truth is
that it was cut before then because NASA

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just couldn't compete any longer. And
to tell you the truth, privatizing the

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efforts now has really brought about a
number of companies in the private sector and

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it's really bringing back the jobs here. And it's really miraculous to see what's

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going on with SpaceX and the other
companies of what they're producing and coming up

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with as far as space travel in
the future. I just want to say

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two things to that, Gary.
What I want to comment on first is

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just the sheer wonder of what the
human mind and spirit can create, right

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when, when so motivated, when
so inspired, what we can actually do

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as a species is pretty phenomenal,
both on the good side and also on

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the bad side on occasion. Yeah, but it is a shame that when

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technology continues to move forward, if
there's something ill that can come from it

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and the bad guys get a hold
of it, they will do that.

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I mean, there's no doubt about
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all the technology that's come out of
the space program, it's absolutely wonderful.

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And if you look at Star Trek
and you look at all the stuff that

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we used to go all, Well, nobody's ever going to be able to

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flip open a phone and talk,
Well, here we are, and Doc

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will never be able to put something
over your forehead and push a couple of

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buttons and suddenly whatever is wrong with
you might be cured. Well, that's

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coming too, and a thousand and
one other things have happened because of space

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technology and exploration, and it will
continue to move that way, and that's

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wonderful. But yes, there's always
the other side of the sword. If

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something good comes along, the bad
guys will find a way to utilize it

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and use it against people to benefit
their own needs that they have. Yes,

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I unfortunately know that to be true
because I've studied history like many of

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us out there. But the other
thing that I want I wanted to say

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about Star Wars is just like what
you said, Gary, I remember when

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I watched it and I thought,
Wow, who comes up with this stuff?

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This is insane? This will never
happen. And I can't tell the

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number of times that I have thought
back on the Jetsons and Star Wars and

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I thought, wow, you know
what it's coming to pass. What I

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want to know is those people who
created those works, how where did their

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ideas come fromward? Where did their
vision come from? I have no idea.

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Do you have any insight into that? Well, you know, I

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like to watch on TV these programs
Aliens from Outer Space and stuff where they're

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thinking about UFOs coming down here,
and they say that maybe, you know,

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people from another planet have come down
here and have passed their wisdom on

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the people, and over generations we've
seen it come true when it came to

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inventions and modernization of the world.
I don't know, you know, I'm

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told by a friend of mine who
works at NASA now that they do have

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plans on the board for space travel
beyond Mars, and they have the idea

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for the space capsules and the spaceships
to do it with, but they just

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don't have the technology to go along
with it at the moment. So obviously

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there are a lot of visionaries out
there and scientists that have this idea that

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maybe roams around in their head where
you and I don't think you know that

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they use both sides of their brain, where most of us only use a

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small portion of it, And then
maybe that's where it comes from. I'm

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always astonished at what's on the drawing
boards in aviation in general. And when

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it comes to technology, I'm sure
there's technology out out on somebody's drawing board.

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Now that we go, no,
that can't happen, and lo and

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beholden about fifty years, it probably
will happen. Well, let's talk about

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some of the current things that are
happening related to just that, Gary So,

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and then at some point I really
want you to share with the listeners

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just how it is you got into
the space that you've been in for all

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this time. I think it's fascinating
the career that you've had. But let's

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look at Uber right, what happened
with Uber recently? They are one of

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the automated cars in Phoenix ran over
and killed a pedestrian. So here we've

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never been. I've never been a
proponent of having cars without drivers. I'm

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sorry. I realize our technology is
improving every day, but a car without

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a driver is like having a and
they say aircraft in the air without a

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pilot. I'm sorry. There's always
something that can go wrong. There's always

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that aspect of life that if it
can go wrong, it will go wrong.

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It may not go wrong every time, but I still think there needs

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to be somebody in a driver's seat
monitoring the systems in order for something like

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that not to happen. And I'm
sorry, but I just did. Not

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a believer in driverless cars, I
can appreciate that. And you know,

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one of the reasons that I loved
that you and I met thanks to LinkedIn

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is I'm so interested in your take
on current events. I mean, your

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guy who just you know, you
do research, you You're you're really aware

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of what's going on. And I
wanted to be able to share with our

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listeners kind of and tap into that
mind of yours, of what you thought

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and how how some of these more
recent occurrences and events impact our daily lives

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and of course the way that we
work. And I had somebody on the

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show a few weeks ago, Gary, who was talking about how he really

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thought that, you know, driverless
cars and smart cities would really change and

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improve the way that we live and
work. And so to have your perspective

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on a different side is great because
it balances the conversation. Yeah, I

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see it if it was in a
small area, in other words, if

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you lived in a small community like
we have a community not far from here

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where most of the people who live
there drive around in golf carts all day

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long. I sure see where that
possibly could work. But driving on the

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interstate, or driving on any on
roadway where there's traffic, lights and everything

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and anything could go wrong. What
if you get a flat tire, what

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if a car is weaving out of
control? What if the computer goes bad?

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I mean, for those of us
to own computers, and that's probably

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ninety percent of your listening audience,
if not more, When the computer goes

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down, what do you do?
Well, the same thing in a car.

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What if a computer goes down?
And I'm sure that's what happened in

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Utah where where the person was killed. Is the computer went haywire. You

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know, So until they really improve
it, and someday they will, I'm

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sure someday they will, but I
just don't see it now. I just

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don't see it right now. They
need to work out the kinks. And

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you know, I think what was
the Utah I think has now said that

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the driverless cars can no longer go
on the roadways until they have all this

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stuff figured out. Yeah, I
thought it was Phoenix, Arizona that could

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be it. Could be. I'm
I'm I'm up on things, but I'm

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not as up as I as I
am as I as I would like to

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be one hundred percent. But yeah, I just don't see it. It's

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it's I'm sorry, I just don't
It's like there used to be a joke

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in aviation. My dad was a
captain for one of the airlines, and

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they used to have an old joke
that someday there'll be a dog and a

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man in a cockpit. 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 really

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see that happening. I really firmly
believe there'll always have to be somebody in

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

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World and they're running on a track
of some kind or a light beam that

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gets them from point A to point
B on short trips. But I don't

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know. Maybe I'm being shortsighted,
but I just until they work all this

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stuff out, I wouldn't be able
to get into a drive list car.

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It's like it's like they say,
now there's mortar oil you can put in

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your car and you don't have to
change it for a year. Well,

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okay, maybe I don't know what
if you end up with the leak in

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the car and your leak and oil, you know that's not going to last

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a year. So you know,
I'm all for modern technology because it does

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move us ahead. But sometimes maybe
we're a little ahead of the spectrum as

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

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

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

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seen that there was something in there
about Tesla shares falling as regular regulars looked

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

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conversation. And again my vantage point
is I'm connected to the world of work.

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So there are people that are slogging
away trying to improve that technology and

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bring it to the common marketplace.
And then of course there are those people

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who are concerned like you about it. And what I find interesting, of

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

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It's out there, so I'm interested
in hearing a bit more about some of

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

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terms of common current events that you
think, you know, really make a

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difference to our daily lives. What's
going on in that mind of yours that

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would splash over to the rest.
I mean, you know, there's the

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technology that keeps moving forward. I'm
for it to a certain extent, but

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like when you go to the grocery
store, and a lot of grocery stores

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now have the automated checkout that you
can check yourself out. I don't like

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that because it eliminates jobs. They
could have one person standing there and watch

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over the five or six machines.
Meanwhile they've eliminated five or six jobs from

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the grocery store. Now where is
that person going to go to get work?

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So for all the progress that we
go and we make and we move

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forward with, there's also the idea
that it eliminates people from working. You

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know, there was a time in
carfin manufacturing when nothing with people in the

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factory. Well, now they have
a lot of automated machines. Therefore they

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don't need as many people. So
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we also have to keep in mind
we need to keep people working.

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We need to take those same four
people now that have been eliminated from being

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cashiers and train them in something else
in the grocery store so they can bring

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home food on the table for their
families. You know, I understand that

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our technology that we have, it's
like the bigger the aircraft that we produce,

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the less pilots we need, the
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right now the airlines are dying for
pilots. They're just not enough of them

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coming out of the military anymore,
and they need them badly, But they

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don't need to need as many as
when my father flew, when there were

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three guys up front instead of two, And now they even want to eliminate

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the second guy and they only want
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yes, I'm all for modern technology, but let's keep in mind we cannot

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keep eliminating jobs for people that need
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families. I do understand that,
Garry, And of course, part of

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what I'm interested in as somebody who
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talent management, organizational transformation, performance
breakthrough, what I'm really interested in because

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I don't think I can stop that
technology bus. What I want to know

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and would be interested, and I've
been talking with various guests about this,

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is how can we begin to further
develop these workers, because if they don't

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have the checkers jobs, or they
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like for example, I noticed the
guy at the airport the security there's no

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longer a person bringing the bins back
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Okay, well, let's what would
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to help organizations train up that talent
so they can still use those people,

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but a totally different capacity, right
right, I think? So, you

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know, it's like one of the
part time jobs that I had when I

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was in college was at the airport
being a skycap yeah remember that sure walk

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or helping people with their bags when
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or arrivals. Now you can go
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get a cart and take your own
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gate, and then you know,
then somebody will collect them and bring them

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back. That's fine and dandy,
but you're still eliminating jobs, but there

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still are skycaps on the sidewalk,
and that job is almost being eliminated because

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of how much the airlines are charging. But there are jobs out there that

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are continuing to move forward that I
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realize that, you know, yeah, we're displacing these people because we're going

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into something else, but we need
to find a way to train these people,

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cross train them so they still have
jobs. Unfortunately, and I've run

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across this myself, I'm sure you
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a lot of positions that are open
in corporations and like at Disney and places,

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and there aren't people qualified to do
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for some reason or another, we're
lagging into the technology education as far as

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getting people equipped for what's going to
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or so. And that's what happened
with the with the steel industry. They

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

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countries. And I think we've learned
from that, and I think we're trying

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to equip the employees of tomorrow to
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when these new technologies come along,
starting to get people ready to go.

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Now, you know, the Air
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Corps. They're thinking about fighter aircraft
for instance, that no longer have pilots,

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but they're training those people to fly
the automated aircraft the way that they

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are now. So I think it's
great that at least the employers have recognized

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we just can't display these people and
put them on the street. We need

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to have them cross trained in another
aspect of the business or something related to

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it. Quickly. We're going to
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time to grab our first break,
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Thanks for staying with us, and
welcome back to Working on Purpose if

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you're just joining us. My guest
is Gary Allen, who is a television

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

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and we've been talking before about some
of the trends especial religious transportation that impact

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those of us in our everyday lives
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here. At some point I want
him to talk about his views of what's

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happening in the presidency. But before
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just chime into a bit about what
we were saying before the break about how

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technology is in many cases taking some
of the jobs away from people, and

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the importance of companies to try to
take a proactive view about what's coming down

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the bike and how can they train
up their employees so they have still employment

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but maybe in a different capacity.
And I just really wanted just to chime

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

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I am all about helping employers do
just that in the conversations around that.

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So listeners, those of you are
interested in in artificial intelligence and robotics,

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convene with me, join me on
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to presence more of that space.
So Gary, thank you for your views

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on that pleasure. Yeah, thank
you very much for being here and sharing

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all of that, all of your
passion and your voices and your your research

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and everything else. Ask you a
question, because I'm curious about it too.

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Are you finding that employers are saying
what I said that unfortunately when jobs

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are out there, there isn't enough
qualified people. Because I just saw it

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the other night on sixty Minutes,
they say I just can't find enough qualified

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people to do what I need to
be done. Are you finding that as

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well? Yes, sir, I
am absolutely there that there's a lot of

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companies that are still completely hiring and
are interested in doing more of it.

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However, just finding the quality of
talent they're looking for or the depth of

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competency they're looking for is difficult.
And then in some markets gary just frankly

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

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

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

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we dare not let them go because
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Yeah, so that is a shame. As I said earlier, the airlines

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are finding it difficult now to get
pilots to fly the planes because the guys,

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young men and women are staying in
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corps longer because they're finding that the
airlines are not paying what they used to

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

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

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I mean, the airlines have been
marginalized down in so much. Most

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of the carriers when I remember as
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major carriers are not around anymore,
about four or five airlines, and so

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you know, the guys in the
military and the young men and women are

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not coming out. They're just staying
in there. Hey, I can retire

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a kernel and be a lot happier
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airline and I start off at twenty
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these little commuter outfits pay nothing.
So yeah, I mean the technology is

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in some cases, it's the people
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not getting paid enough to want to
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because I think that needs more needs
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to address the opportunity and the issues, you know for sure, Yeah,

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oh yeah. I mean it's like
radio radio used to pay very well when

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the mom and pops owned the radio
stations, but when the major corporations took

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over, suddenly they didn't need full
time people, and out of nowhere,

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benefits went out the window. Pay
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are augmented to the point where it's
syndicated programming throughout the country by about half

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a dozen different people that are in
the business and they're making all the money

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and other people are not so forward. Progress is sometimes very good and sometimes

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it lags, and you can tell
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that are going on between iHeart and
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by corporations. They just can't keep
moving forward with these small radio stations that

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bring in nothing. Mm hmm.
Well, speaking of let's grab this real

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quick. I had said before,
Gary, I just wanted to hear a

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little bit about how it was you
chose the career that you've been in.

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You've been in this space for quite
some time. You are a true professional.

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You have been through many many ups
and downs in the industry. For

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why did you choose this space and
what do you like about it? Well,

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I didn't choose it. It kind
of chose me. I wanted to

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

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I was doing well with that.
I went into the Air Force and flew

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in the Air Force for a while. I flew helicopters, but I suffered

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a concussion just before I was to
be discharged, and the concussion left me

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with a little slight impairment, and
that was all that was necessary at that

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time for me to be disqualified to
go any further. So it kind of

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happened by accident in that when I
was at the university. When I was

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at George Washington University in DC,
to start off with, a friend of

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mine worked for the local radio station
and also worked at a college radio station,

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not the college I went to,
but another one, and I went

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in and kept him company a couple
of nights and kind of liked what he

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was doing and kind of got into
it. Went back down to Florida,

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where I'm from, the Miami area, went to the University of Miami,

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got an internship at a local radio
station, WIOD, and I interned for

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Larry King as one of his board
ops. I just became enamored with it.

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I realized, hey, I mean, I'll talk your ear off anyway,

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but I kind of like this,
And I started doing music radio down

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in Miami, and then I was
a sidekick for somebody for a long period

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of time. We had a morning
show and we did good with that and

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developed all these characters that I've done
over the years. But it really wasn't

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where I initially wanted my life to
go. I wanted my age now to

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be retired from the airlines and be
like my mom and dad and travel the

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world, but it didn't quite work
out that way. And then I also

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did some acting in Los Angeles,
where I was for a number of years.

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I lived in Vegas for a number
of years. So yeah, I've

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been up and down with this business
in and out, but I'll tell you

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what, I wouldn't trade it for
all the money in the world. I

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did take a period of my life
off from the age of thirty nine to

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forty nine and took care of my
mom and dad, I stopped my entire

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world, my entire career, and
took care of them until they both passed

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away. But during that time I
had a glorious time taking care of them.

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And in the business, I've gotten
an opportunity to meet an awful lot

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of wonderful people, and I've gotten
to travel all around the world in one

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way or another. Sounds spectacular to
me, and I may I think great

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friends along the way that are friends
of mine to this very day. And

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that's another part of the show business
world that you know, you make great

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friends and they stay with you,
and you know I can call them up

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and have them on my show anytime
I want. It's a great point.

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Gary. I haven't been at this
nearly as long as you have, and

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I am not near the professional that
you are, but I can tell you

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that some of the friends you're doing
a wonderful job, and you're as professional

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as I've ever heard anybody, and
you probably are a lot better than I

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am, that's for sure. Well, thank you, Gary. What I

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wanted to certainly and echo, was
boy, I have really made some amazing

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friends, having them on my show
and being part of that space. I

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don't know what it is it just
brings you together. So also let go

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that keep you young. Oh good
good. I'm glad for that. And

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at my age I need all the
help I can get in that area.

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I got that. Gary. Okay, well let's do this. If you

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don't mind, I would like to
hear I want to say the last part

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of the show to hear about some
of the folks that you've had the chance

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to talk to over the years that
were great newsmakers. But here, everybody

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in the United States, certainly and
other parts of the world the show is

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00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:30.200
listened to across the globe is impacted
by what's happening in the US presidency.

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00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.160
Talk to us a bit about what's
going on there and how that impacts us.

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00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:41.480
It's a shame that we have lowered
our standards for our politicians in general.

419
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:49.599
It's a shame that certain interest groups
lobbyists have gotten involved in politics,

420
00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:53.640
which has always been there, even
from the inception of our founding fathers.

421
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And it's a shame that our founding
fathers don't come back today and teach some

422
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:03.359
of these aeliticians in Washington what it
really is to be a patriot instead of

423
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.160
what they think needs to be a
patriot. I'm disgusted by the person that

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sits in the White House because I
worked in that White House for a president,

425
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:17.640
actually two, one who was the
last one to resign from office,

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and then the gentleman that followed afterwards. This man that's sitting there now has

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this world upside down, and he
thinks it's fun. He likes this turmoil.

428
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:33.319
I was talking to a friend of
mine just last night and he said,

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when this is all said and done
and this man is impeached, it'll

430
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make Watergate look like nothing. This
man has disgraced this country in so many

431
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.359
ways. And for that thirty five
to forty percent who I was watching the

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00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.240
other night on TV, these five
women from the state of Texas who were

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interviewed that think he was ordained by
God to be president of the United States.

434
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.319
Give him for everything he said and
done, but they won't forgive Bill

435
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:11.400
Clinton, and they think Obama was
the Antichrist. And they're hypocrites. I

436
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:17.480
mean, these were five women who
are housewives who probably don't have careers,

437
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:22.559
and you know, they whatever,
but they're hypocrites. They would like to

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00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:26.039
see him in the presidency forever,
which is one of the things I think

439
00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:30.039
he's trying to head towards because he
loves dictators. But he's turned the entire

440
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:34.960
political system upside down and it's going
to take years after he is out of

441
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:41.039
office before we recover from it unless
people get smart real fast. And having

442
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.240
been a lot of my friends call
me up and say, you were there

443
00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:45.279
for the end of Watergate. What
do you think? And I say,

444
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:49.640
this is Watergate. It may be
different, and people are impatient, but

445
00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:53.839
it took about two and a half
years before they finally got Nixon. And

446
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:56.799
when they did, the Republicans themselves
went up to the hill and said we

447
00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:01.599
can no longer support you. You're
about to be impeached. Do you want

448
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:05.759
to resign or do you want to
go through impeachment? Nixon said, I

449
00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:09.759
want to spare the country. I
will resign, and he left. This

450
00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:14.839
guy will not resign, He'll fight. But he can't find a lawyer in

451
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.279
Washington to work with him because he
doesn't pay his bills. He's a deadbeat

452
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.000
in that sense. And even the
people of the RNC say, the people

453
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:27.240
in that White House are scared to
death anybody to go to work for him,

454
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.880
because they're going to end up paying
a Lawyer's bill to get themselves out

455
00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:34.960
of trouble. This man is trouble
now. I saw it coming. I

456
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:40.519
didn't know this extent of it.
But he has destroyed any friendships that we

457
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:46.640
have around the world with his arrogance
and his stupidity. And I mean,

458
00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:52.400
he doesn't care to be prepared for
anything that he does. He just talks

459
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.839
off the cuff or tweets it.
And I don't know. I mean,

460
00:32:57.079 --> 00:33:00.559
I don't care about the sex scandal
so much, although that's one of the

461
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.000
things that's going to bring him down
in a sense. But I think he's

462
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:08.400
right about one thing. He could
shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and the people

463
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:13.720
that follow him would forgive him no
matter what. Well he said that,

464
00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:16.480
Yeah, he said that during the
campaign. He said I could literally shoot

465
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:23.319
somebody and nothing would happen. He
is a despicable human being. He's using

466
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:28.720
the White House and his family to
bring more money into the pot. And

467
00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:31.559
I think what's going to happen is
when he's impeached, they'll still find cover

468
00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:36.319
for him. They'll still find a
way to cover for him that he's done

469
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:39.400
anything wrong. I don't know what
this guy has on the whole world.

470
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:43.720
But my god, they a lot
of people sure excuse him, And I

471
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:46.680
don't know if it's because they're ignorant, or whether they're blind, or whether

472
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:52.400
they just are afraid. One of
my friends said, I think one of

473
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:57.160
the things why he went after Obama
with his birth certificate was that it's hard

474
00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:01.319
for the old white businessman to think
that the minorities are now becoming the majority.

475
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:07.319
I have a problem with people of
color running this country. Many people

476
00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:12.480
of color, all colors, all
backgrounds, all religions, are highly intelligent,

477
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.480
motivated people who want to do the
right and decent thing. This guy

478
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:22.119
doesn't. He likes turmoil, he
loves disruption. He's a corrupt individual.

479
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:27.840
If you look back at least at
his businesses in the casinos. He would

480
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.719
have people come in and work in
the casinos. He'd pay them only half

481
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:34.360
of what he owes them, and
then he'd take them to court to fight

482
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.679
the rest of the other half,
complaining that they didn't do decent work.

483
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.280
Then when the work needed to be
done again, he'd call them back in

484
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:45.199
only at half the price. He
still hasn't paid those Polish workers in New

485
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.840
York that he was sued over what
he owed them. He paid a fine

486
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:55.719
to the US government, but he's
never paid them. It's unbelievable who they

487
00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:01.920
elected president this time that twenty years
ago couldn't even get one vote out of

488
00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:07.519
somebody. And the man is a
congenital liar. And the people that he

489
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:15.159
surrounded himself with are just as bad. These are ill equipped individuals sitting in

490
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:20.119
that White House running our country,
and we are in dire need of intelligence

491
00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:23.800
and somebody who's an adult to get
in there. And you know what his

492
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:30.960
new nickname is now? Now?
What is it Spanky? Or where's that

493
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:37.440
come from? Because of what happened
the other night on sixty Minutes with the

494
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:44.039
where Stormy Daniels spanked him once with
the magazine. Is his new nickname,

495
00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:46.840
according to my friends in Washington,
is now Spanky. That's his code name

496
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:53.519
by the Secret Service. I hadn't
heard. This is some of the news

497
00:35:53.519 --> 00:36:00.119
that I somehow miss. It's incredible
the depths of that that this country has

498
00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:05.119
gone to put somebody in the White
House who doesn't even deserve to be a

499
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:09.719
dog catcher. But eventually the people
will wake up. It's sort of like

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00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:15.920
what happened in Parkland. The NRA
is making fools or trying to of those

501
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:21.159
kids that are protesting. First,
people like Alex Jones calls them their actors.

502
00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.400
They really didn't go to that school. Now the NRA is trying to

503
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:29.400
discredit them in every way shape impossible
because they're afraid. I don't know of

504
00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:34.480
what, but they're afraid, I
guess of. I mean Remington file bankruptcy

505
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.639
the other day because people aren't buying
guns like they were anymore. Oh.

506
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:40.719
Really, it's the crazy time we
live in. It's an interesting time,

507
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:47.639
but it's a crazy time. I
would have to agree with that. Well,

508
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.960
let me say that you've present for
me several pieces of news that that's

509
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.119
not on my radar at all.
So this is a good time for us

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00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:58.559
to go ahead and go for our
next break because afterwards, what I want

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00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:02.320
to get into is some of those
conversations that you've had with some of the

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00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:07.880
more interesting Newsworth people that you've somehow
cross path with. So stay with us,

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00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:09.400
We'll be right back. I'm Elise
Cortez, your host with It on

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is a television radio podcast broadcast interview professional.

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Working on Purpose. Thanks for staying
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in. My guest is Gary Allen,

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who is a television radio podcast broadcast
interview professional. I'm your host Alise Cortes

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for this last segment here, listeners, I really wanted to see if we

543
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:15.039
could get Garrett to share with us
just some of the recollections he has of

544
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:20.599
guests he's interviewed over the years.
Some of these worthy newsmakers, as I

545
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:23.599
think he's called them, so Gary, who comes to mind that you had

546
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:28.280
a conversation with that you think is
interesting that you'd like to share. Well,

547
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:30.599
my former boss, Richard Nixon,
not that I interviewed him on my

548
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:36.599
radio show, but I often had
many conversations with him, and I remember

549
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:39.760
he said something to me that resonates
so much in this last fifteen years.

550
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:45.320
And we were talking on the day
that he ceased to be president when we

551
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:51.199
were on Air Force one heading back
to California, and I remember he talked

552
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:54.719
to everybody on board that was staff
part of the airlift wing, and he

553
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:57.960
said, point blank, he said, Gary, I just want you to

554
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:06.800
know that whatever party the religious right
gets connected with, they're doomed. And

555
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:13.320
it didn't resonate with me at the
time, but it has since. And

556
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.119
he also said to me on the
way out the door of Air Force One,

557
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.039
he said, I also want you
to remember, Gary, Republicans,

558
00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:22.519
Democrats, liberals, conservatives rale full
of crap, will steal your money and

559
00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:25.599
put it in our pockets. I
always got a kick out of that.

560
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.000
Some of the more memorable interviews that
I've had have not always been with some

561
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.159
of the most famous people in the
world. Although I've had the privilege of

562
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:44.000
having celebrities on the program like Wink
Martindale, who was very very good friends

563
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.760
with Elvis Presley. And if there's
one thing I've taken away from all the

564
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.519
people that I've ever interviewed, some
of them are no longer here, like

565
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:55.960
the late Richie Martin, Dean Martin's
youngest son. Richie and I were very

566
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:02.880
good friends, is that they all
had the sense of integrity within themselves.

567
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.719
The people that I surround myself with
friends are people that I can count on,

568
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:12.199
people that are there for me.
My own brother, for instance,

569
00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:19.039
up in Boston, mass He's a
Greek Orthodox priest at Saint Annagad's and I

570
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.400
can always go to him for counsel
because he's going to tell me the truth.

571
00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:25.400
He knows everything about me, still
loves me as a brother, but

572
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:30.360
he's going to tell me the truth. And I think that's what I've always

573
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:35.400
taken from and what I try to
do with my show for my listeners,

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00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.920
I always give them the truth.
If I don't know the true facts,

575
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:43.039
I won't mention it. And the
people that I've talked to over the years,

576
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.519
whether it be the Attorney General in
Illinois who I worked for or a

577
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:52.000
station manager that I worked for.
I look for the truth. I don't

578
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.039
look for gossip. I don't have
time for that. I can't stand gossip.

579
00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:59.000
I mean, if it's news gossip, that's one thing. But if

580
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:01.960
it's real gossip, the water cooler
stuff, I'm not interested in that.

581
00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:07.599
I don't have time for that.
Some of the people that I've gotten the

582
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:12.920
greatest advice from. One was Wayne
Newton. When I got to Las Vegas.

583
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.440
He said, as a performer,
in this town, it's a big

584
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:20.159
little town. If you sneeze in
the morning, they'll know about it in

585
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:25.119
the afternoon. And if you drink
heavily, you better knock it off because

586
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:30.519
this is not the kind of town
you can do that in. I remember

587
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:35.639
my first program director who's still my
friend to this day, John Harper,

588
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.880
who I work for here in the
Cocoa area, because that's why he brought

589
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:42.079
me over here. He always said, be real on the air, don't

590
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.119
be phony, don't be fake,
be real. Be the real Gary,

591
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:49.719
not the pretend Gary, not the
show biz Gary. Or as he recently

592
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.280
said to me, don't be the
sean hennity Gary, the guy who makes

593
00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:57.960
it up as he goes along and
twists it and turns it to it's not

594
00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:01.239
what the real story is. But
I guess the best advice I ever heard

595
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.719
was from Jackie Gleeson that he told
a lot of people, and that is

596
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:08.440
be nice on the way up,
because you're going to meet the same people

597
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:15.920
on the way down. And my
mom and dad were probably my biggest heroes

598
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:21.039
in my life, even though my
older brother Michael played professional football. My

599
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.679
mom and dad were my best heroes. And they always said, be who

600
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.559
you really are. Just be you. You don't need to be anybody else.

601
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:31.000
You don't need me this special,
you don't need to be anything,

602
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:37.119
just be you. And I think
that's really done me well. In Hollywood,

603
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.400
I was able to make connections by
being nice to people, not being

604
00:44:42.440 --> 00:44:45.320
a prima donna or anything like that, because they appreciate that. And the

605
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:52.039
old time actors they really appreciate that. Being good and being nice to people

606
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.880
as great. I mean, I'll
give you an illustration. I was performing

607
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.559
at the MGM Grant one night and
it was about three o'clock in the morning.

608
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:06.239
I got off stage the final show, I go home. I pick

609
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:07.559
up something to eat. On the
way home, I get a phone call

610
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:12.480
at six o'clock in the morning my
time, which is nine o'clock Eastern.

611
00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:15.079
And it's a buddy of mine who
works for Simon and Schuster. And he

612
00:45:15.119 --> 00:45:19.840
says, Gary, I need you
to do your Bill Clinton impersonation. And

613
00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.519
I said, oh, stam,
I just am getting to bed, I'm

614
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:23.519
tired and everything. He said,
no, no, please, I'm going

615
00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:27.639
to count the three. I'm going
to turn the phone over to somebody and

616
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.280
do your Bill Clinton impersonation. So
he counted the three and I did,

617
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:34.199
Hey, this is Bill Clinton,
and let me just say this, It's

618
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.559
a pleasure for me to be here. And I'm glad that I'm talking to

619
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.719
you. And who do you think
is on the other end of the phone?

620
00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:47.800
Bill Clinton? No, Hillary,
And she's laughing like crazy on the

621
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:52.480
other end. I met her a
couple of times because I said to her

622
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.159
that morning, I said, hey, you and I have a mutual friend,

623
00:45:55.519 --> 00:46:00.800
Brian McPartland, who was Bill's chief
advance. He said, she said,

624
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:02.480
oh my god, you know Brian. I said, yes, absolutely,

625
00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:07.880
And so for all intense purposes,
you never know who you're going to

626
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.960
talk to. And I've done that
impression in front of Bill Clinton. A

627
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:16.239
couple of times and he loved it. And the only time that I ever

628
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:21.280
did an impersonation in front of somebody
was Arnold Schwarzenegger and he didn't like it.

629
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.559
You know, he didn't like the
you know that we he'll now listen

630
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:29.280
to me. Let you know,
we're going to do this now and everything

631
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:31.440
is going to be great. You
know, when I married into the Kennedy

632
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:36.760
family was like married into the mob. You know, whether of those things

633
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:42.000
he didn't like it, you know. But I've been surrounded by some really

634
00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:46.400
wonderful people. My ex wife who
has now passed on, unfortunately she passed

635
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.400
away a few years ago, long
after we were divorced. She was a

636
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:53.440
great inspiration to me. Now there's
a hero. She started out as a

637
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:59.039
part time secretary at JA Walder Thompson
and worked herself up to an administrator or

638
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:04.159
the creative department. That's something it
really is, I mean, and she

639
00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:07.840
came from meager beginnings. And I
had all every opportunity in the world,

640
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.840
and I blew it numerous times with
different things that I was involved with.

641
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:15.760
But as far as some of the
people that I've had, wake Martindale,

642
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.000
who's a good friend of mine,
the gentleman that was on my show last

643
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:23.000
night, Bruce Maron, one of
the top agents in La in Las Vegas.

644
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:27.639
I've been very, very lucky.
God has blessed me in so many

645
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:32.119
ways with having wonderful people around me
that I've learned from that I get advice

646
00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:37.039
from that I can trust. And
I think if there's anything I could ever

647
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:40.119
say to anybody is if you surround
yourself with people that you can trust,

648
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:45.360
you'll never go wrong and get rid
of the negative people out of your life,

649
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.079
because there's always that they'll tell you
you can't do this, you can't

650
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:51.800
do that because they can't or they
don't or they don't want to. And

651
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:53.679
all you got to do is put
forth a little bit of an effort and

652
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:57.320
you could be a big success in
this country, if not the world.

653
00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.280
It doesn't take supernatural brains to get
anywhere, because the guy in the White

654
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:08.360
House certainly proves that time in and
time out. Well. I really enjoy

655
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:13.239
being around people who have something to
say and something important to say, and

656
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:16.239
something to give to people. And
my faith is very important to me.

657
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.440
My faith is extremely important to me. I don't push it on people.

658
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.760
I don't proselytize, but it's important. Mm hmm. Well, a couple

659
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.800
of things you said. Gary.
First, I really want to acknowledge that

660
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:34.599
you're one of the very first people
on that I've heard talk about so glowingly

661
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:42.119
their ex spouse with respect, with
acknowledgment of her contribution to your life.

662
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.960
I can tell you I very very
seldom hear that, and I really really

663
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:49.159
applaud that, And I would like
to hold that up as a possibility for

664
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:53.119
listeners out there who many of which
have probably gone through some kind of separation

665
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:57.760
from a significant other as I have. And so I want you to know

666
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.639
that I really saw that as a
real example. And for that, Gracie

667
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:07.079
taught me a lot about marketing,
a lot about things. She put instilled

668
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:09.880
a lot of good things into my
heart. And unfortunately, like I said,

669
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:15.800
she's gone now. But she was
a wonderful example of just putting your

670
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:17.800
nose at a grindstone and getting there. And my mother, let me tell

671
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:22.920
you, at least anything that I
ever hoped to be in my life as

672
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.880
long as I'm on this planet,
is because of the sacrifice my mother made

673
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.400
for me and other members of my
family. My mother was the greatest.

674
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:35.719
She stood five foot eight and you
didn't fast her back or anything. But

675
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:38.079
she was a dynamite. She was. She was a women's liberal wam before

676
00:49:38.119 --> 00:49:43.360
that phrase ever became popular. And
my father was an ex marine, or

677
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:46.920
if there is such a thing as
an ex marine, and he instilled honesty

678
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:52.039
in me, be honest, you
know. Yeah, yeah, And those

679
00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:55.360
are the important things that I hold
true. The only thing missing in my

680
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:59.440
life is somebody to share it with. That's the only thing that's missing in

681
00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:04.519
my life because I'm looking for somebody
of value, not just about a being

682
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.440
about a boom, you know,
because after that's over, what are you

683
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:09.639
going to talk about? You know? I mean seriously, you know,

684
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:15.000
what can you talk about? So
you know, it all comes together.

685
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:16.800
And I think it's important, like
I said, for people to surround themselves

686
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:22.039
with people that know you and love
you and care about you and are willing

687
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:23.639
to be honest with you. And
that's the best thing you can have.

688
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:30.880
And all the friends in the world
are great, but family is the important

689
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:37.360
thing. That's the most important ingredient. Family beautiful. And I acknowledge also

690
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.039
what you said, what's missing in
your life is someone to share it with.

691
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:44.280
And I can really appreciate that too, Gary. And the other thing,

692
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:47.920
when you look at my picture,
you know why. I mean,

693
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:51.480
you know, I mean just because
I look like Jay Lenno and I can

694
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.199
sound like Jane Lenard doesn't mean I
have the money like Jay Leno. I

695
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:58.639
mean, you know, you know
what it is. That was the other

696
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:00.280
thing I was going to say is
thank you for bringing your voices. I

697
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:12.079
was hoping that you would and I
was going, I promise my listener is

698
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:15.960
a little bit of entertainment, So
thank you for bringing it. You know,

699
00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:20.960
Grover is always available to do voices
and stuff. Yes he is,

700
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:25.559
Kip. I remember Grover. That
takes me way back, way back.

701
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.159
I mean, you know, when
Almo first came on the scene, I

702
00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:31.119
looked at some people I was with
and I said, that's going to be

703
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:32.639
a hit. And they said,
how can you tell? I said,

704
00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:36.599
look, he's red, he's got
an orange nose, he's kind of funny,

705
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:37.440
and the way he talks, the
way he moves, kids are going

706
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:39.679
to love him. They said,
oh, you don't know what you're talking

707
00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:45.000
about. I said, no,
no, well you know, but the

708
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.440
kid I love it. I still
am inside. I'm still a kid.

709
00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:51.639
I mean, I may be sixty
five, but I'm still got the heart

710
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:53.760
of a kid. I really do
love Christmas. I love the idea of

711
00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:59.079
seeing Santa's village and the trains and
everything underneath the tree and all that.

712
00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:01.840
I still go back to my early
days in Wolfsburg, Pennsylvania, where we

713
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:07.920
had nothing. I mean, that
was poverty row and those are the most

714
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:10.639
cherished times in my life, you
know. And that's the thing that I

715
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:14.000
kind of live by. You don't
have to have a whole lot of money

716
00:52:14.039 --> 00:52:17.119
to be happy. You really don't. No, you don't. No,

717
00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:21.800
you don't, don't. But it
kind of makes the tay go by nice

718
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:25.360
though. It does. It does, it does, it does. Yeah,

719
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:30.920
it does it, big dick,
unless you're Homer Simpson. And then

720
00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:36.320
you got margin. Then you got
a real problem. Oh my gosh,

721
00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:39.239
this is a great finish to my
day. Gary. All right, well,

722
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:43.000
we've got just about one minute left
here. What would you like to

723
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:47.199
leave our listeners with, kind sir, Well, if anything, I hope

724
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:51.679
they've enjoyed the hour, and I
hope they've understood that I'm real, I'm

725
00:52:51.719 --> 00:52:55.000
not fake, I'm not phony.
If I've offended anybody by bringing up the

726
00:52:55.079 --> 00:53:00.199
President because I know you come from
a state that really loves him. I'm

727
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:02.360
sorry, but you know I speak
the truth. I don't lie. But

728
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:06.079
if anything, I just you know, to everybody. We're coming up on

729
00:53:06.119 --> 00:53:08.920
the holiday weekend. Let's remember what
this is all about. The greatest person

730
00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:14.039
that ever walked the face of the
earth is remembered on this day, and

731
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:19.599
let's remember what he sacrificed for all
of us so we could, so we

732
00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:22.039
could, you know, eventually go
to heaven. And I'm just pushing that

733
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:25.440
for a moment, but above everything
else, like I say at the end

734
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:29.760
of my show, just take care
of yourselves and take care of each other,

735
00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:32.920
and I think it'll all work out
very nice finish, Gary, And

736
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:36.960
certainly, one of the things I
want to acknowledge is I bring on guests

737
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:43.239
up with various viewpoints on purpose because
it's important to have a varied conversation about

738
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:45.440
different topics. And so I appreciate
your perspective very much. I appreciate your

739
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:51.920
passion. I appreciate the fact that
you really do live transparently and you show

740
00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:53.440
yourself to be who you are.
It has been wonderful to have you on

741
00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:57.360
the show. Gary. Thank you
for joining us. It's been a wonderful

742
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.880
to be with you. God bless
you and please have a safe and sound

743
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:05.280
weekend. I plan too and listeners. If you want to learn more about

744
00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.519
Gary Allen or cat some of his
interviews, visit his website. It's Gary

745
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:13.400
Allantalkshow dot com. Let me spell
that for you. G A R Y

746
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:20.719
A l A N t A l
K s h ow Garyllantalkshow dot com.

747
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:23.719
Join us next week when we're on
the Earth doctor Darren Martin, who is

748
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:29.119
the cultural architect, we'll be talking
about the incredibly low employee engagement in the

749
00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:31.719
United States, what companies are doing
to contribute to that problem, and how

750
00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:36.760
some companies have truly cracked the code
to improve or ignite employee engagement. See

751
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:38.119
you then, and remember that work
is at least one third of our life,

752
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:47.559
so let's work on purpose. We
hope you've enjoyed this week's program.

753
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:52.559
Be sure to tune into Working on
Purpose featuring your host Elise Cortes, every

754
00:54:52.639 --> 00:54:58.639
Wednesday at six pm Eastern Time three
pm Pacific Time on the Voice America Empowerment

755
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:10.199
Channel. This week, find your
life's purpose at work. M