{"id":69270,"date":"2021-08-29T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=69270"},"modified":"2021-08-29T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:54:12","slug":"whats-an-influencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/08\/29\/whats-an-influencer\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s an Influencer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>\u201cI wasn\u2019t looking forward to this conversation.&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut you and your questions and your reintroduction to some<br \/>\nof my past enlightened me, inspirited me, and I eagerly took the bait.<\/em><em>\u201d <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2013 <\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Ed Asner <\/strong>on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; The two episodes we did are amongst my favorites.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHe was not only a legendary actor, but a good guy and a great sport.&nbsp; Rest in peace.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>People often ask me if I\u2019m an \u201c<em>influencer<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; Honey, I was an <em>influencer <\/em>before the term existed.&nbsp; Months ago, I made a joke about <strong>Rachel Campos <\/strong>waiting for <strong><em>The View<\/em><\/strong> to ask her to replace <strong>Meghan McCain<\/strong>.&nbsp; If you don\u2019t know, Rachel is an alum of <strong><em>The Real World: San Francisco<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; She is married to a <strong><em>Real World: Boston<\/em><\/strong> alum, <strong>Sean Duffy<\/strong>, who is a former Congressional Representative from Wisconsin.&nbsp; And she\u2019s a conservative, despite living with <strong>Pedro Zamora <\/strong>and perhaps having a romance with <strong>Puck<\/strong>!&nbsp; She\u2019s twice been a finalist for <em>The View<\/em> panel, so I quipped that perhaps third time\u2019s a charm.&nbsp; Apparently, someone at <em>Fox News <\/em>read that and hired her as a co-host for the weekend edition of <strong><em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I only know this because she made a jab at <strong>Dr. Jill Biden<\/strong>, which I won\u2019t bother repeating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once again, I get to say I told you first.&nbsp; Weeks ago, I reported that <strong>Rachel Maddow <\/strong>would either step away from her <em>MSNBC <\/em>show or seriously cut back if she renewed her contract.&nbsp; Now comes word that she\u2019s signed a multi-year deal, which includes scaling back her show next season from five nights a week to once weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Time to give you an update about <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Our live chat show has been on hiatus after completing a very busy <em>Pride Month<\/em>.&nbsp; I hoped to be back after Labor Day, but some professional opportunities will be taking me out of the country for most of September.&nbsp; Fear not \u2013 we\u2019ll be back in October!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t looking forward to this conversation.&nbsp; But you and your questions and your reintroduction to some of my past enlightened me, inspirited me, and I eagerly took the bait.\u201d &nbsp; \u2013 Ed Asner on Billy Masters LIVE.&nbsp; The two episodes we did are amongst my favorites.&nbsp; He was not only a legendary actor, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69279,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69270\/revisions\/69279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}