32 Facts About Phil Valentine

Philip Carr Valentine was an American conservative talk radio host, author and actor.

Phil Valentine was an opponent of a proposed state income tax in Tennessee and denied climate change.

Phil Valentine died from complications of COVID-19 on August 21,2021.

Phil Valentine was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, to Betsy Carr and six-term Democratic US Representative Tim Phil Valentine.

Phil Valentine scored high on IQ tests but received poor grades in school.

Phil Valentine blamed his trouble concentrating in school on an attention deficit disorder.

At 13, Phil Valentine fronted a band called The Nashville Five.

Phil Valentine's father provided opportunities for gigs at Democratic Party events.

Phil Valentine attended East Carolina University to study business, then transferred to the Connecticut School of Broadcasting after a friend encouraged Valentine go into radio because of his deep voice.

Phil Valentine began his radio career at small-market radio stations in North Carolina after graduating from broadcasting school.

In June 1995, Valentine started The Phil Valentine Show, a talk-radio show on Nashville radio station WWTN while performing in television commercials.

When WWDB was sold in 1998, Phil Valentine worked in New York City at WABC.

On July 8,2004, Phil Valentine returned to talk radio at WWTN.

From 2007 to 2019, the nationally syndicated The Phil Valentine Show aired on 100 stations.

Phil Valentine ranked No 47 on the 2021 Heavy Hundred, a list of the top 100 radio talk-show hosts as determined by Talkers, a talk-media trade magazine.

Phil Valentine was voted Best Conservative in a 2018 Nashville Scene readers' poll.

In 2019, Phil Valentine returned to broadcasting at WWTN, where he worked until his death.

Phil Valentine authored three nonfiction books, The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z, Right from the Heart: The ABC's of Reality in America, and Tax Revolt: The Rebellion Against an Overbearing, Bloated, Arrogant, and Abusive Government.

Phil Valentine wrote three novels, The Godplayers, The First Face of Janus, and Barbican.

On January 26,2012, Phil Valentine wrote, produced and starred in the documentary An Inconsistent Truth as a response to the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth.

In 2012, Phil Valentine won the Excellence in Filmmaking award at the libertarian Anthem Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Nevada Film Festival in Las Vegas.

Phil Valentine performed in an episode of ABC's Threat Matrix television drama and the 2015 movie The Secret Handshake.

Phil Valentine opposed a state income tax and urged his listeners to swarm the Tennessee state capitol to voice their opposition.

Phil Valentine said Sundquist committed political adultery after promising in his 1994 gubernatorial campaign to veto any state income tax.

The measure failed in the legislature and Phil Valentine emerged as a hero among conservatives in Tennessee.

Phil Valentine, who blamed Chinese Communism for its failure to contain the pandemic was a skeptic of wearing masks to prevent COVID-19 and suggested that only those with underlying health conditions should be vaccinated against the illness.

Phil Valentine performed a parody song, "Vaxman", in the style of the 1966 Beatles song "Taxman", altering the lyrics to parody vaccination efforts.

Phil Valentine compared vaccination status badges worn by medical workers with the yellow badges German Jews were ordered to wear by the Nazis.

Phil Valentine predicted his chance of dying from COVID-19 was less than one percent.

Phil Valentine co-hosted PodGOATs, a nonpolitical podcast, with his son, Campbell.

Mark Phil Valentine announced on July 30,2021, that Phil Valentine required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which acts as an artificial lung and heart for the body.

Phil Valentine died of complications of COVID-19 on August 21,2021.