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I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.
Art Bell
Politics
Bored
About
Week
Hours
Talking
I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.
Art Bell
Work
Think
Daytime
Sure
Audience
Coast
Radio is not a job; it's a way of life. You can't really ever leave it.
Art Bell
Life
You
Job
Way
Leave
Really
Radio
Ever
I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.
Art Bell
Time
Problem
Police
Gun
Nothing
Nut
Draw
Out
Out Here
Would
Outline
Had
Look
Well
Around
Arrive
Go
Just
Chalk
Porch
Floor
Zero
Here
I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.
Art Bell
Strange
Phones
Phone
Result
Those
Phone Calls
Ring
Some
Allow
Calls
Go
Very
Get
Straight
I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.
Art Bell
Strange
Air
Guest
Laugh
Tell
Weird
Get
Listen
Story
Them
Help
I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.
Art Bell
Retire
Retirement
Permanent
Am
Going
Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.
Art Bell
You
Strange
Changes
Everything
Out
Out Here
See
Bigger
Strange Things
Things
Here
Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.
Art Bell
People
Same Thing
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Seeing
Wrong
Same
Cannot
Thing
He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '
Arthur Godfrey
Time
Me
Beer
Relax
Singing
Okay
Songwriter
He
Clear
Town
Because
Contest
Said
Yeah
His
Won
Hit
Gonna
Then
Asked
Stands
Play
Started
As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market.
Arthur Godfrey
Corny
Market
True
Sound
Goal
Crack
May
Americana
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
Arthur Godfrey
Good
Writing
Singing
Band
Stage
Pulse
Back
Solo
Gigs
Point
Well
Am
Years
Bands
Get
Stopped
Good Band
Groove
Fortunate
Who
Many
Now
Play
Four
Played
Playing
I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
Arthur Godfrey
Work
Love
Home
Me
Tired
Made
Possible
Purchase
John
Piano
She
His
Lady
Which
Explained
I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.
Arthur Godfrey
Saying
Time
Me
You
Will
Busy
Give
Give Me
Could
Like
Know
Always
How
Very
Your
Moment
Start
Treated
I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
Arthur Godfrey
Work
Time
Best
Myself
Long
Long Time
Believe
Songwriters
Takes
Know
Craft
Worker
Really
Hard
Hardest
Hone
I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.
Arthur Godfrey
Good
Made
Feeling
Final
Month
Running
About
Had
Call
Said
Hit
Just
Wanted
Place
Billboard
Good Feeling
Thing
Received
If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
Arthur Godfrey
You
Wait
Gone
Down
Group
Corner
Back
Everyone
Someone
Directly
Never
Part
Head
Like
Until
Him
Talking
Always
Go
Up
Seminar
Afterwards
Then
Thing
You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'
Arthur Godfrey
Family
You
Memory
Achieve
Our
Says
Dream
Embracing
John
Songwriter
Goal
Get
Being
Agency
Your
Your Dream
Help
Now
Letter
Her
You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.
Arthur Godfrey
You
Know
Nothin
A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
Bassem Youssef
Time
Revolution
Takes
Process
Event
A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
Bassem Youssef
Truth
Satire
People
Tyranny
Think
Tend
Put
Comedians
Glorify
Overrated
Lot
Up
Role
Role Models
Models
Against
Them
Fighters
What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
Bassem Youssef
Funny
Hope
World
Everybody
States
Arab
Arab World
Muslim
Muslim World
Muslims
Arabs
About
Only
Stereotyping
Talking
Because
Up
Break
Break Up
Mean
Hollywood
Basically
The joke is mightier than the sword.
Bassem Youssef
Joke
Than
Mightier
Sword
We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
Bassem Youssef
Doctor
Engineer
Brother
Brothers
Am
Two
We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
Bassem Youssef
Problem
Comedy
Single
Every
Too
Way
Laugh
Ourselves
Misconceptions
Through
Inviting
Make
Always
Dealt
Been
American
Behind
Hollywood
Us
Fun
Media
The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.
Bassem Youssef
Good
Dark
Superhero
Could
Knight
Name
Like
Satirist
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