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Andy Riesmeyer

Andy Riesmeyer

Television director

Sep 4, 2026

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That's when we might see some unfortunate
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weather.
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The latest right now for the National Weather Service is that Sunday morning is when we're probably going to get a little bit of precipitation.
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But again, we're still a few days out here.
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I'll say at least two or three days out.
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And this is such an unusual...
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Here's what happens with weather models, is that the European model...

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But even just the idea of a.
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misjudgments or accidents by older drivers.
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I think in the accident in March, it was blamed on a stuck accelerator pedal, something like that.
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That's commonly what ends up being the official cause.
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What is difficult is that you're talking about people who are obviously, they have a lot of experience driving, but their reaction times, the older you get, the situational awareness, that goes down.
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It opens up the question of, is there at least time to have a conversation about what does it mean to be driving at 80 plus, 90 plus? I mean, I was digging into the statistics on this because I was fascinated to learn.
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Okay, I know that it seems like these situations that happen indicate to us that maybe this is a problem in a big way.
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However, if you look at the actual raw numbers, the amount of people who are older who are getting in crashes, who are killing people, killing pedestrians with their vehicles, is incredibly low today.

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On that
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But there is apparently surveillance video.
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Yeah, witness accounts as well, which paint a bit of a different picture with Lawantara allegedly initiating the confrontation, following the victim, who was just going through trash cans, and stabbing him repeatedly in the neck.
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The presiding judge, Keith Schwartz, forcefully dismissed claims of self-defense during preliminary proceedings and now emphasizes that the victim was minding his own business and had no reason to be targeted.
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You see this a lot in LA, people going through trash cans.
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And if you're not from here...
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And you think that that's a problem? You're going to go out there and confront somebody? You think that trash is not for you? I don't go through my trash, whatever.
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There are some confrontations around this.
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What was she taking?
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writing a paper.
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Absolutely.
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Like I am, I, I've come to class.
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I haven't read the latest four chapters in whatever I'm supposed to do.
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I'm going to have to like, try to stammer my way through a question that I know Mrs. McMillan is going to ask.
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And I, it's like, that sounds like a chore, but, but you're telling me that it's fun and it's cool.
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And
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I
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If you don't need him for the fourth quarter, great, but then you have him for the next game.
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Do you think that we just peaked too early and then we ran out of steam? Because the other thing is, I mean, you got basically 10 minutes and you're still down by 25 points or whatever.
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And they're down 27 at halftime, 20 points with less than 10 minutes remaining.
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They go on this 20-point run.
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And it's just like everything shifts and you could just feel the momentum.
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Obviously, they're at MSG.
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The excitement, the crowd is way behind them.

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In the
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So we'll see what happens there.
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You cannot underestimate the dissatisfaction with the current administration.
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In the exact same way that Republicans were able to make up huge ground in the last election.
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People are very dissatisfied by the war, by inflation, by the vibes.
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They just don't like it.
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And I think that it allows for those just whoever the party in power is always always is just up whenever there's there's rampant dissatisfaction, with the exception, of course, of California, where people will just continue to be miserable and vote for the same thing over and over.
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You know, when you look at all the money that was put towards homeless housing and how many units have been created, and I don't have the hard and fast numbers in front of me, but it's like, you know, seven units, right? It's an
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insane amount of money.
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And then she starts the hardcore incubation.
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Can I tell you, you should enjoy this part right now because as soon as they hatch, I don't know if you've had hatched birds before.
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I have.
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We just recently had hummingbirds and a couple years ago had finches.
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And it is so stressful because you get attached and you start thinking about them and then they start flying.
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And you're like, are they cold? It's raining.
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I mean, I've not ever felt so attached to an inanimate object.

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Essentially, when one power goes after another power and how that ends in tragedy,
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They don't even want to think that it's a possibility that these
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two could be elected.
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40% of registered voters in California are Republicans.
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So it's just that the representation of the people who have been in power have been so good at staying in power that it is shocking.
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But I think it also shows things have gotten so bad.
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perception wise that everyone is on the table as far as an option and anybody would be better and i think this is the sort of this is the thing that's going to win this election if if a republican does anybody but anybody but the people who've been running this place for the past 40 years

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This is
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your guy now.
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But here we
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are.
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But here we continue.
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I personally think that the whole airport thing, I get it.
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There's a psychology of everybody at the airport is having a day that is preceding or following the day that you want to be having.
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Because being at the airport is the worst and you have no control.
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So any little thing that you can do to keep yourself from going postal on the Spirit Airlines check-in counter, rest in peace.

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Well,
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I'm glad
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you're at least being proactive about it.
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The thing with this, too, is that I think you probably would have done fine because this isn't for you.
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Do you know what I'm saying? Shannon says that all the time.
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It's just not for you.
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It's not for me either.
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I'm not in this world anymore.

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Because once you start realizing, oh, there's not that many of them, they must be great.
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You fly
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private.
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I think a lot of this, there's a lot to be said about this story, which is people who are in the entourage, how much did they know? How much did they turn the other cheek or just look away and say, the hand that feeds.
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I'm not going to question.
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She's young.
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She seems very young.
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I don't know how young.

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They should all be rounded up, his family included, because they're the ones probably closest to this who were the most resistant when it comes to talking to the police.
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Why? Why? It's just sitting
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there.
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And you got to pay a ticket a lot of times, too, because if they tow it from a location, it might be because it is parked illegally.
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There's a scam that was running in Hollywood that I don't know if they're still doing it, but it was in front of a nightclub where the people at the nightclub will say, yeah, go ahead and you can park right here.
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No problem.
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And then the car gets towed, taken to somewhere in South LA.
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You got to pay for it.

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Yeah, you want hospital pictures of Gary, we provide.
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So he had to fire Pam Bondi.
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I think it's funny because if you watch the press conference, especially the one that was, I believe it was a Tuesday night about the war, sort of an update on what's going on.
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You know, you look at that.
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the confidence that is presented by a politician, and then if you watch all of a sudden them firing people who are high up or considering firing other people, maybe Howard Letnick is next, perhaps.
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It's an indication, I think, that he's concerned that things are not going the way that he would like.
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The war is going on for longer than he'd like it to.
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Pam Bondi, I think, did not.

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you can't change, like
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And I heard a little bit more about your music background.
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Well, thank you.
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Now I feel uncomfortable and that there's too much attention on me.
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So let's talk about...
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No, I think the AI thing is really fascinating.
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And it is a topic that I've talked to a lot of the guests about because I'll get music producers on and I will get musicians on and things like that.
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One of the things that's interesting to me, and I hadn't heard this before, but I love it, is that someone is calling the...
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Also,
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That's still the hospital.
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No, it's not.
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I mean, I don't mean to know, but it was less traumatic.
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The recovery of pneumonia is worse, I think.
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We caught it early is what my team will say.
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my team will say we cut it early so we were very lucky i was here and i was you know i had been sick and then i got better and i thought i just had a lingering cough from from the prior thing that i had and and i knew that i was coming in to fill in with you i had three days in a row and i was really excited so i came in the first day but i woke up the day and i was like I still feel a little weird, but maybe it's just like a hangover from the old medicine and all this stuff.
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And then by the time Thursday rolled around, the second of the three days, end of the show, I had to hold this cough button down the whole time.

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he remains on duty, which just speaks to the shortage of air traffic controllers.
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Of course they all hate them now.
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Oh, wow.
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That's so fascinating.
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I did not have that.
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I didn't have that perspective when I watched it.
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But you're absolutely right.
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And maybe it's because I already, like as a self-hating man, it was like, oh, this is normal.

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Can we bet on that on PrizePix?
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Oh, really? And
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so you'll see the real weather people doing the weather while you are.
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Oh, how intimidating.
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And you'll look over and be like, oh, someone is watching Dallas Rains right now do the same weather report that I'm doing.
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And I'm doing a terrible job of it.
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That's not true.
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I mean, I like weather.
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But there is a surge of new complaints every single day.
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I think there's one in Newport.
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Yeah, it's expensive for a young 20s L.A. person.
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So we go with this girl, and we're having a nice dinner or whatever, first date.
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And I I'm sitting there.
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We're eating.
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We have our entrees.
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The guy comes back around.

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But, I mean, there's a real chance you're opening yourself up to vulnerability.
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well, be
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yourself.
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And that actually, I think, is a kinship with KFI.
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And when I started at KTLA, it was to do this web show, which was kind of like a Gary and Shannon or a Conway show on the internet for KTLA.
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Because it was like, we didn't have prompters.
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We weren't seasoned, buttoned up journalists.
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We were in a closet down the hallway.

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I kind of feel like this is a big game of risk suddenly.
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He is sneakily good at that.
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He's an incredible, you know he's a break dancer also? This is not a joke.
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He can actually break dance.
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And he can do Rapper's Delight with his eyes closed.
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It's incredible.
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He does it with his eyes closed, not from a memory perspective, but just to get into the vibe.
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Did he do it at his wedding? I was not invited.
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Gene Hackman? No, not the coach.
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Oh, cool.
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And then I'll probably do it for at least the end of the year, Mondays and Fridays.
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And then I do, I do a show on Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 here.
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Uh, and it's fun.
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It's amazing.
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You know, and I, I know that as a radio guy who's also done TV, um, it's a really different muscle-
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Mark Thompson here.
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