Maury Povich

I can...

If I talk to a guest, for instance, about them being fired at some point, I say, well, let me tell you about when I was fired.

Let me tell you about the list of guys who I didn't get along with, who were my general managers at various stations.

And I had a list, you know, a revenge list and things like that.

And so they said, well, did you ever get revenge?

And I said, no.

Well, believe it or not, every single time, I had about five people on the list.

Every single time I was looking for revenge, at one point or another, they all got fired and I felt sorry for them.

I was so mad that I felt sorry for them instead of seeking revenge because I just know what it's like to be fired.

It's not pretty.

Some of the, uh,

most successful podcasts we've done are with comedians.

And I'm just fascinated by comedians because I think when you take a look at their work, you're taking a look at the present around the world or in our country, what the present is like.

I think comedians reflect that more than anything else.

And what I'm so excited about is

In my younger days, I was very lucky to have interviewed people like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks and Don Rickles.

That was my generation of comedy.

And now I have all these kind of youngish comics in their thirties and early forties

like Josh Johnson and Adam Friedland and Dan Soder and Mark Norman.

And next week I'm going to, I just interviewed him, he's very, very funny, Yanis Pappas.