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state that the occasional back and forth is where the show is at its best. āIf everybody on the air agreed with everybody else, it would just be stultifyingly dull,ā he said. āRush
Limbaugh makes a billion dollars for every penny I make, so he must be doing something right. The only people that get on the air to talk to Rush Limbaugh are people that agree with Rush Limbaugh. Itās always, āMega dittos, Rush. I agree with everything youāve ever said in your life! Well, of course you do because Iām the smartestā ā and thatās great, heās doing a wonderful job and heās very successful. I couldnāt do that. Iāve never learned anything from talking. I learn from listening. So I want to hear what people have to say.ā He is joined by SXM Producer Dan Bezilla and associate producer Margeaux Gagnon.
279:. "Our first show was the day after Matt Kenseth won the championship. You couldnāt have picked a worse time to start a racing show. It was the end of the season. All of the drivers were either on an island or a boat somewhere. The race fans didnāt know we existed. We were brand new, and in the middle of a stick-and-ball sports channel. We would come on, do our three hours and lead into "World Soccer Daily." There was zero listener transfer from our show to the next. Somehow, we made a go of it and soldiered on. It's been 11 years, now, and it doesnāt seem possible."
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Moody is known for his no-nonsense style of hosting, humor and outspoken opinions. He's a vocal advocate of free speech because "it puts the ātalkā in ātalk radio.ā" However, when callers go off the beaten path, he's known to fight back and straighten those callers out. Moody and many of his callers
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Moody is the lead turn announcer for MRN, calling the first and second turns for the network's broadcasts of NASCAR Cup Series, XFINITY and
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as a garage reporter. "I think it was one of the only
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to serve as their NASCAR anchorman, Squier selected Moody to replace him as the track's public address announcer. "I still donāt know how he picked me," said Moody. "He may have read some of my newspaper columns and thought I had a workable vocabulary. More likely, I was just standing there with my
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finger in my nose and he figured, 'this is a kid with time on his hands.'" David used to announce for high school basketball, hockey, and football games from the time he was young.
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