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" The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent. "
Willie Geist
Welcome
Tent
Me
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" I can't say for sure where I was headed the first time my mom put a blue blazer on me. Church, probably. West Side Presbyterian in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specifically, where my blazer was paired with a clip-on tie and a pair of khakis for a Sunday morning with my fellow congregants. "
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Time
Me
" I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice. "
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Voice
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" In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. "
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Dressed
Golf
" My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink. "
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Doing
Him
Hope
" I got into television in 1998 when I didn't have a computer or even an email address. "
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Even
Got
Television
" The nice thing about 'Morning Joe' is that I do get to do serious news sometimes. "
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News
Sometimes
Serious
" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "
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Work
Long
Job
" I keep my politics a little closer to me than others do. "
Willie Geist
Keep
Little
Politics
" Golf is the only sport where watching the game is arguably as grueling physically as playing it. "
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Playing
Watching
Only
" In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while. "
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Like
Deepest
Live
" When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. "
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Blue
Like
You
" High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game. "
Willie Geist
New York
Football
New
" I'm not a coffee drinker, so my drink is kind of like a girlie skim chai latte. I'm not proud of it, but it's really good. "
Willie Geist
Drink
Good
Coffee
" People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing. "
Willie Geist
Media
People
Story
" I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself. "
Willie Geist
Anybody
Me
Quite
" I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open. "
Willie Geist
Eat
Dark
Bed
" You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself. "
Willie Geist
Say
Queen
King
" An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team. "
Willie Geist
Day
Me
Smart
" I was a landscaper for three years and loved it. "
Willie Geist
Loved
Three
Years
" My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. "
Willie Geist
Book
I Am
History
" I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden. "
Willie Geist
Always
Policy
Done
" It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference. "
Willie Geist
Fun
Think
Writing
" My routine is to ride that snooze button as far as it will take me, take a quick shower, get dressed in the dark and bolt out the door. "
Willie Geist
Dressed
Routine
Door
" I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim. "
Willie Geist
Basketball
Need
My Life
" Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same. "
Willie Geist
Comedy
Same
Just
" Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived. "
Willie Geist
Thinking
World
Yourself
" Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute you put on that Baby Bjorn, there's no turning back. It's like buying a minivan. You lose a little piece of yourself when you get that Baby Bjorn. "
Willie Geist
You
Yourself
Lose
" The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen. "
Willie Geist
Bed
Great
New York
" I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes. "
Willie Geist
Start
Pretty
Letters
" When you live in New York City, you run up a long list of things you've been meaning to do. "
Willie Geist
Run
New York
Meaning