20 Minutes with Chris Core: Formerly of WMAL-AM – Mark Kaye Exclusive Interview
March 6, 2008 by Mark Kaye
Filed under Celebrity Interviews
It’s been less than a week since Chris Core’s last show on WMAL-AM. This morning I got 20 minutes of his time to talk about his past, present and future. After 33 years in one place the man has some incredible stories and some strong opinions. I originally envisioned this interview as a radio version of “Inside the Actors Studio” starring me as “Radio James Lipton” and Chris Core as, well, Chris Core. However, as we started talking that plan got tossed out the window because it was more fun just to talk. After all, it is what Chris Core does best!
We talked about everything! Including:
- What “went down” after his final broadcast
- Why he’s been labeled a “flaming liberal”
- What he thinks of some other “Talk Stars”
- What got delivered to the WMAL studios the day he was fired
- His meeting with Paul Harvey
- His political aspirations
- What he REALLY wants to do next!
I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did.
(The video is an abridged version of the entire interview. YouTube does not allow users to upload videos longer than ten minutes. To hear the complete unedited interview CLICK HERE.)
Visit Chris Core’s new and improved website ChrisCoreTalks.com (Turbo charged with extra bandwidth!)
Read Chris’ official goodbye at WMAL.com
For the latest on Chris Core’s career and to find out where he lands next visit DCRTV.com as I am sure they will know before anyone else (Including Chris Core!)
Please feel free to comment before you go! 
I can’t believe it! What is happening to Washington radio??????? I mostly listened to WMAL for Chris Core. I listened to him for, oh, the last 15 years. I will miss him and look forward to where he will go from here.
Dear Mark:
Great interview with one of my favorite people, Chris Core. The very experience Chris Core discribes regarding Paul Harvey I enjoyed with Crhis. When he and Bill Trumbull had the successful “Two For the Road,” later renamed “Trumbull and Core,” show, I would send in humorous and human interest material to him. I enjoy hearing the two guys using it and adding
their own bit of zaniness each time. After they used about 6 or 7 pieces, I received a call from Chris Core
saying how much they enjoyed using my material; then he asked, “What can we do for you?” I said, “I’d love to sit in the studio with you guys while you do the show.” Chris said, “How about tomorrow?” So that I did and it was an enjoyable and memorable day. He also sometimes plugged my Post pieces on the air. In today’s interview, I could really understood the Paul Harvey story he shared with you, Mark, about Chris’s
hearing that unique voice directed at him. I once got a phone call from Mr. Harvey in praise of a story of mine he’d read. It was, as Chris said, awsome. I know Chris will land solidly on both feet. I just hope its something we can share in. – Vance
That’s a fantastic story! Thanks so much for the comment!
With all the Left or Right stuff on talk radio,
Chris Core’s sage refereeing of current events is a treasure. .
Chris, land on both feet and show ‘em!
I’ll follow, wherever! (and so will many others..)
You are a Right Wing Nut…..OOPS, I meant Leftie!
Folks, see how rational discussion causes one to step into new arenas of thought..
If you are a conservative I can make a watch with a hammer…You were perpetrating a fraud…I think we were listening to your wife more so than you…
I visit DC often, when I do I listen to Chris with admiration and pleasure.
But listening also causes me a bit of …. guilt? I guess is what I sometimes feel when I hear Chris.
Chirs is so deeply kind and at the same time very rational and intelectual that I feel like I’m not as good person as I’d like to be. I’m 56 I’m not having an identify chisis, thats not it.. He sets a higher standard for me. He is inspirational , what more can one ask of a leader? Tell him I’ll raise money for any politcal campaign he is involved with.
Although Chris sometimes addressed some interesting topics on his radio talk show, I had to stop listening to him because he would so often cut people off. It got to be really stressful when I was listening, because I knew if a caller didn’t blurt out his comment in ten seconds or less, Chris would cut him off. I know some people want to blather on forever, but Chris was excessive. He also fell prey to D.C.itis – arrogance that so many people in the D.C. area exhibit because they believe they are so important. On a fairly frequent basis through the years, Chris would justify speeding, and castigate people who try to abide by the speed limit. He often said that people should be able to drive whatever speed they wanted based on conditions. The driving bullies really didn’t need that encouragement. Anyway, it has been proven that cars get better gas mileage when the driver tries to stay at least within ten miles of the speed limit.