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Everybody who ever worked with CRYS QUIMBY adores her. She's smart, sensitive, a great leader and she knows news radio. Crys started her broadcast career doing TV news in Macon, Georgia. She soon found herself writing and editing at CBS news giant KNX in Los Angeles. She joined WBBM in Chicago, before returning to L.A. to oversee news and programming at KNX and KFWB. Eventually, CBS Radio bosses called her to New York, where she programmed WCBS until 2008. 

Is radio dead? Don't suggest that to KJ ALLEN. He and his longtime radio partner BENJI KURTZ have assembled a fleet of stations in small Georgia markets and they are flourishing. Their motto is BETTER LOCAL RADIO. Their company, OCONEE COMMUNICATIONS is doing what radio has always done best: serving their local communities.

DAVE WILLIAMS and AMY CHODROFF were selected individually to co-host the KLIF Morning News in Dallas. Having never met they were thrown together in a small studio to sink or swim. In radio, as in life, forced partnerships don't always work. In this case, it worked wonderfully well for nearly 12 years. They started together and in 2023 retired together. But they're still friends. Here they are, together again. Sequels may follow.

DAVE GROSBY is a true Sports Talk Radio legend but more importantly to me, he's been my special friend for more than 40 years. We covered our personal history and shenanigans in our first episode of June 2022. This time we're just talking sports and radio. He is the Master.

DOUG MCINTYRE loves America and he's worried sick about its future. Beloved for his unique ability to combine common sense with passion, he has a writer's insights and an orator's ability to charm audiences with his self-effacing wit and inspired intellect. Since his retirement from KABC and WABC Doug's legion of radio fans still follow his weekly newspaper column and now are getting their Doug fix with his occasional appearances on KFI and with his first novel, Frank's Shadow, which has been universally hailed by reviewers. This conversation starts with the book and ends with a vision of America that should have us all staying awake at night.

Stage and screen actress Penny Peyser is back with her second edition of Sonnets From Suburbia - The Romance Dance. Since her first book Penny's alter ego, Lady Penelope, has also been tickling funny bones with live performances of her one woman show. You can see them on her YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/c/SonnetsfromSuburbia. And learn more about Penny on her website: https://www.sonnetsfromsuburbia.com/

MARK DAVIS is a man many political liberals don't believe exists: a sincerely compassionate conservative. The dean of Texas radio talk, Mark makes a rational appeal on local and national issues mornings on 660AM The Answer in Dallas, and can be found on Twitter, and in columns in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and nationally in McClatchy newspapers, Newsweek, Townhall.

KITTY O'NEAL is a Sacramento icon, probably the best-known name, face, and voice among celebrities in the history of California's capital city. She is certainly the best-loved. Here, she tells her story, and talks about her former radio colleagues Morton Downey Jr. and Rush Limbaugh. And yes, me, too. It's a grand reunion for us. We also talk about Skyler's Pool, the rock band Kitty created with her husband, famed restaurateur Kurt Spataro. And when the talking is done, we give you a music video of Kitty fronting the band with their original music, her dynamic voice, and wonderful scenes of River City.