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" Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media. "

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" My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience? "

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