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Hey Cody, cut your hair

Dawn C. Chmielewski of the Los Angeles Times profiles Fox Business Network‘s Cody Willard, host of “Happy Hour” and discussses with him his most embarrassing interview and what he hears from friends back in his hometown of Rudioso, N.M.

Here is an excerpt:

Most embarrassing moment (on camera): ‘Happy Hour’ attracts its share of actors, entrepreneurs and newsmakers, including such recent guests as Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk and Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens. But it was Willard’s interview with an actress and former girlfriend, Jess Weixler, that stands out in his mind as the most embarrassing. She was booked as a guest on the show to talk about her role in the 2007 R-rated horror-comedy film ‘Teeth.’ But when the interview turned graphic, ‘I got completely flustered in the segment,’ he said. ‘I was blushing bright red at the end of it.’

On being a hometown celebrity: Fox Business Network is carried by the cable television operator in Willard’s hometown, where his rants about federal bailouts, stimulus packages and mortgage assistance programs have found an attentive following. But the most frequently heard comment from New Mexico? ‘Mostly, everybody from my hometown e-mails me telling me to cut my hair.’

Read more here.

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