Not really the atmosphere I want to work in, he thought. Part of the interview took place at a strip club. He was up for a morning spot on WFLZ-FM 93.3, then known as the Power Pig.

'I think it would have been good for all of those things.'īeck's first interview for a job in Tampa radio came in the mid-'90s. Good for whom? Good for Beck? Good for the national dialogue? Good for America? 'Had I stayed there, I think I would have been a little more connected to people, which would have been good.' 'Perhaps if I would have lived in Tampa and not in Manhattan, I may have taken a different path, because it would have kept me more grounded, I think,' he said. It's a homecoming of sorts, an experience the Seattle-area native and Dallas-area resident likens to 'going back and thinking about your college days, the things that you really learned, the people who taught you.'Īddicted to Outrage is a book about our nation's combustible cultural state, one which owes quite a lot to controversial demagogues like Beck - and especially his time in Tampa, the last place he lived before becoming who he is. 30, speaking about his new book Addicted to Outrage at the David A.

When he left two years later, he was a national star well on his way to becoming a bestselling author, Fox News fixture and one of the most polarizing pundits in America.īeck returns to Tampa on Nov. Glenn Beck came to Tampa a divorced, 30-something recovering alcoholic and radio journeyman, fighting for a foothold in talk. 'It was about a week and a half later that we realized, 'Oh my gosh, we got out of the shark thing,' ' he said.

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