"I trusted him. He believed in me tirelessly. He put me front and center with everything. I've never had an executive believe in me as much as he did."
"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."
"I get 15 hours a week of live radio on Sirius XM, but I get one hour which is really more like 40 minutes of programming on CNN. It's four different segments and that's it."
"I said, 'Well, can you tell me what it is? Because it sounds pretty big if you're trying to cajole me into a pre-tape'. And he said that he couldn't."
The event with Ramaswamy comes weeks after Smerconish hosted a similar event with 2024 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The SiriusXM host has said he wants to host as many potential candidates as possible.
"There's universal praise for Kaitlan Collins and appropriately so. Even the people who are most upset at this event having transpired, go to great lengths to say 'But she did wonderful'."
"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."
"What I saw was part circus, part radio festival, and part New England sports fans reunion. I couldn't help but sit there and think about how radio should be taking notes."