Famed “Hot Mics” host Billy Bush has announced a new iteration of his podcast – “Morning Mics” – coming live from Maine.
Bush is going live at 10 a.m. Monday through Thursday from what he calls “an island in Maine.”
Though Bush didn’t name the island, one may safely presume he’s referring to North Haven in Penobscot Bay.
The Bush family – known more for its Kennebunkport summer hideout than anywhere in Maine – also owns property on North Haven.
Billy – whose cousin Jonathan Bush of Cape Elizabeth is a putative Maine GOP gubernatorial hopeful – is the nephew of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, and also the cousin of the 43rd president, George W. Bush, and of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
“Join me for a cup of coffee and a chat where you can ask me anything,” Bush said. “We’ll break down the headlines, tell stories.
“Up here in Maine, from this little island, we’re going to get real and share honest opinions and feelings. We’ll go for about a half hour, maybe 45 minutes, everyday.”
Morning Mics is available on various platforms, including X, YouTube, and TuneIn.
Bush, 53, a Colby College grad, made his name on Access Hollywood with the now-famous “hot mic” fiasco with Donald Trump just before the 2016 election.
Surprise surprise – Bush came out the other end the hottest property in broadcasting entertainment and Trump shocked the world by beating Hillary Clinton (who many feminists said that by having enabled her sexual-predator husband for decades was actually far greater a threat to women than Trump’s lame joke).
Bush, by now a household name thanks to Democrat Karens, left Access Hollywood in 2016 after being named a co-host of NBC’s Today Show.
Once the 2005 Access Hollywood recording surfaced of him and then-candidate Trump having the off-color conversation, NBC was under pressure from Democrats to can him.
Due to that incident, Bush was fired from Today in the face of political pressure from the left.
Today Show suits, meanwhile, later realized they had not just overreacted to Trump’s misogynistic joke but had real live sexual predators on their staff. (Think Matt Lauer. )
Bush emerged from the “scandal” far more popular than ever.
In 2019, Warner Brothers hired him to host Extra, a TV magazine.
He started the Hot Mics podcast seven months ago, its title a symbolic protest of his NBC ouster.
“A hot mic was the thing that led to my silencing, and now the hot mics are the vehicle by which I find an authentic, real voice,” he explained.
Hot Mics then, Morning Mics now – and from Maine, no less.
