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@standupkid conversationsEpisode 20: Bret Baier, Fox NewsAs Fox News marks its 25th anniversary this week, the network sits as the unrivaled ratings king of cable news, finishing the third quarter with an average prime time audience of 2.372 million viewers—more than CNN and MSNBC combined—a win that marks Fox’s 79th consecutive quarter as the most-watched cable news network. “We’ve made huge strides over 25 years,” Fox anchor Bret Baier told me. “When Fox started it was this niche market. It turned out the niche was literally half the country.”Previous episode:In Episode 19 of the podcast, I spoke with Fox Busines...
2021-10-0630 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 19, Stuart Varney, Fox Business NetworkStuart Varney is a busy man—and he’s about to get even busier. Varney anchors host of Fox Business Network’s market opening program, Varney & Company, a fixture of the network’s programming that’s often the highest-rated financial program on cable. But starting today, Varney takes on part of FBN’s prime time lineup as well, with the debut of American Built with Stuart Varney, which focuses on architects, engineers and historians and the iconic projects they created, like the Hoover Dam and the Hubble Space Telescope.Previous episode:In Episode 18 of the podcast, I spoke with...
2021-09-2028 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 18: Jennifer Griffin, Fox NewsFor Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, it was in a quiet moment, exhausted after a nonstop month of work that the emotional impact of America’s exit from Afghanistan caught up with her. It was her first Saturday off in weeks, and she attended convocation at Georgetown, where her daughters had just started college.“I sat there listening, feeling extremely emotional at the idea that they made the announcement that 60% of the Georgetown class were women this year,” Griffin told me, the pain and sadness catching in her throat. “And I just thought of those Afghan universi...
2021-09-1435 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 17: Rebecca Jarvis, 'The Drop Out: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial'This week, Elizabeth Holmes, once described as America’s first self-made female billionaire, goes on trial for fraud. She’s accused of defrauding investors, doctors and patients who believed in the promise of her company, Theranos, which promised to test for hundreds of diseases—all from a single drop of blood.ABC News chief business, technology and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis has covered Holmes and Thernos extensively, and this week her podcast, The Drop Out, returns for a new season focused on the trial. “For me, part of the joy of doing the work with The Drop Out...
2021-08-3134 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 16: Dan Slepian, 'Dateline NBC' and '13 Alibis'After spending nearly 30 years on death row, Ogrod was released from prison after an investigation uncovered misconduct by police and prosecutors. In his first national interview, set to air Friday night on Dateline NBC, Ogrod tells NBC’s Lester Holt how he was pressured to sign a confession filled with details he knew nothing about.“I think that we would be stunned as a country to get a real understanding of how many people have been taken from their families, and put in prison for crimes they didn't commit,” says Dateline supervising producer Dan Slepian, who worked on the st...
2021-08-1131 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 15: Bill Kurtis, 'We Interrupt This Broadcast'Veteran anchorman Bill Kurtis has one of broadcasting’s most identifiable voices, familiar to viewers in Chicago, where he anchored newscasts at CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV for decades alongside Walter Jacobson. Today, he can be heard on true crime shows like American Justice, Cold Case Files and American Justice. He was also the narrator of the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. If you don’t watch movies or television, you can catch Kurtis as the announcer and scorekeeper of NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.Now Kurtis is adding a podcast to his credits, hosting We...
2021-08-0335 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 14: Brian Williams, 'We Interrupt This Broadcast'As the anchor of MSNBC’s nightly The 11th Hour, Brian Williams is no stranger to live coverage of major breaking news, and now he’s narrating a new podcast about broadcast news, We Interrupt This Broadcast, which tells each story through the voices of the broadcast journalists, producers, photographers and others who covered the story on that day.Based on the book of the same name by writer Joe Garner, We Interrupt This Broadcast tells each story as it unfolded through the eyes of reporters, news anchors and the photographers, producers and technical crews that drop everything to c...
2021-07-2730 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 13: Chris Wallace, 'Fox News Sunday'This weekend will mark the 25th anniversary of Fox News Sunday, the public affairs program which debuted April 28, 1996 with the late Tony Snow as host. Chris Wallace took over as host in 2003 and will mark the anniversary with a special edition of FNS, which airs Sunday mornings on Fox Broadcasting stations and later in the day on Fox News Channel.“When I came on [in 2003], I wanted to put Fox News Sunday at the forefront of the conversation, that it would be taken as seriously and make as much if not more news than any of the other Su...
2021-04-2328 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 12: Cynthia McFadden, NBC News“Until the world is vaccinated, no one is vaccinated,” said NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden. “The virus will continue to spread. This pandemic could go on for another 7 years if we don’t succeed in distributing the vaccine around the world.”McFadden recently traveled to Copenhagen and Uganda, where she had exclusive access to the international teams working to bring Covid-19 vaccines to some of the most vulnerable—and remote—communities on Earth. “We got to see a small part of a very big puzzle,” McFadden said.McFadden took two international flights, a soaking boat ride and then a three-h...
2021-04-2037 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 11: Eugene Daniels, PoliticoPolitico reporter Eugene Daniels says his grandmother, who was active in politics and the civil rights movement, instilled in him both a love of history and politics. She died in 2012, but he knows she would have loved seeing him step into his new role: covering Vice President Kamala Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and the First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden as part of Politico’s White House team. He’d also be one of the new writers producing Politico’s iconic Playbook.“When I go into the White House it’s not lost on me the reason that I’m there...
2021-03-0933 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 10: Kate Snow, NBC NewsThe pandemic has impacted everyone, but new research by NBC News shows our kids are under heightened stress, and it’s taking the pleasure out of school—and for some kids, creating serious mental anguish and pain. For NBC’s weeklong series “Kids Under Pressure,” correspondent Kate Snow talked to kids about how they’re coping, and in our conversation, we discussed the series and why Snow decided last year to write about the stress she felt when her husband fell ill with Covid, leading her to seek treatment with a therapist.Here’s Kate’s story, 'I am see...
2021-02-1823 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 9: David Katz, 'Barack Before Obama'In his new book, Barack Before Obama, David Katz takes us back to a time when Barack Obama could walk on a crowded New York City sidewalk just like any other guy, talking on his phone, without a single person rushing up to him to shake his hand or try and grab a selfie:The book—filled with hundreds of rarely or never-before-seen photos (like the one above, which shows Obama having his hair cut by his longtime barber, James Zariff Smith, who would open his shop after hours to cut the candidate’s hair after long days camp...
2020-12-0429 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 8: Jon Sternfeld, 'Unprepared'As Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, many families are feeling the tension: wanting to follow the traditions of the holiday and gather with family and friends—versus the realities of the pandemic, which is accelerating in virtually every part of the country. In his new book, Unprepared, Jon Sternfeld documents the coronavirus’ spread from Wuhan, China to the U.S., and how public health officials and the nation’s elected leaders responded—some with great empathy and a commitment to science, and others with a stubborn refusal to take the virus seriously.In our conversation, we talked a...
2020-11-2529 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 7: Neil Cavuto, Fox NewsFox News anchor Neil Cavuto says he doesn’t see stories in red or blue, but green—he tends to look at the news as it impacts business. But even as he steers clear of the partisanship that makes up much of the cable news world, he still hears from viewers who think he’s either way too tough—or not tough enough—on figures like President Trump. “My job isn’t to do that,” he says of viewers who wish Cavuto would be more loyal to Trump. We talked after the election, which brought Cavuto back to the Fox News stu...
2020-11-1332 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 6: Kal Penn, Kal Penn Approves This MessageKal Penn’s new show, Kal Penn Approves This Message, takes on the same divisive political issues often debated on cable news—but his approach is totally different. “Cable news is not a place where you’re going to get these nuanced conversations and young people don’t watch cable news anyway,” Penn told me.The series, which debuted with a six-episode season on Freeform in September, has just dropped the season finale (on Freeform last night, and streaming on Hulu beginning today), focuses on young viewers—Millennials and Gen Z—and Penn says he finds them far less entrenched...
2020-10-2818 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 5: Arnon Mishkin, Fox News Decision DeskOn Election Night, viewers watching Fox News won’t see much of Arnon Mishkin, but as Director of the Fox News Decision Desk, he will play a crucial role in how the top-rated news network covers the results of the 2020 election—and, if he can, it’s Mishkin who will make the call on projecting a winner. “If the margin between the candidates is significant, there’s a chance of a call on Election Night,” he says, but don’t count on it. “When you’re in my position, you’re looking at various different scenarios, and we want to make sure we’re prep...
2020-10-2127 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 4: Seyward Darby, 'Sisters in Hate'In her new book, Sisters in Hate, Seyward Darby turns our focus away from the image that often springs to mind when we think of white nationalism—that of angry, often armed white men. As she writes of the men who marched with burning torches in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, the “iconic images…show illuminated male faces—grimacing, grinning, threatening.”But in a video posted online from that night, Darby was struck by a woman who stepped from the crowd to confront a counter-protester—using a racial slur to accuse the person of being a race traitor by failing to join the...
2020-10-1438 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 3: Carl Hoffman, Liar's CircusCarl Hoffman is a very brave man—and one hell of a reporter. In 2019, he set out on one of the most audacious reporting gigs ever: driving thousands of miles across the country attending President Trump’s MAGA rallies. He had no Trump supporters among his friends, and really didn’t know any of the president’s die-hard supporters personally. Why did they stick with him through every scandal, every outrage, and lie after lie after lie?By embedding himself in the rallies—lining up outside huge arenas in the cold the night before the event to spend the night...
2020-10-0736 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 2: Jean Guerrero, 'Hatemonger'Last night, during the chaotic and discouraging debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the president refused to condemn white nationalism—and even appeared to send a message directly to the Proud Boys, a far-right neo-fascist group, saying “stand back and stand by.” The group heard the message—and celebrated it.How did we get here? How could an American president be so comfortable engaging with hate groups? Journalist Jean Guerrero points to Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser to the president—and the man she says has “radicalized” Donald Trump. Her new book, Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White...
2020-09-3030 min
@standupkid conversationsEpisode 1: Keith Morrison, 'Dateline NBC'On Thursday night, Keith Morrison kicks off the 29th season of NBC’s Dateline, which is now the network’s longest-running show in prime time. The story, a true crime mystery which plays out across two hours, focuses on the survivor of a horrific attack who believes police have the wrong suspect. Or, as Morrison put it when I asked him about the story, “oh my…”Indeed. Few reporters have as distinctive a style as Morrison, whose delivery led Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader to make Morrison into a popcorn-munching and mayhem-loving recurring character. In the first episode of t...
2020-09-2319 min
Coaches'' Corner with Coach AndrewCoaches' Corner with Coach Andrew Poretz with guest Mark Joyella, "The Coach Reporter"Coach Andrew Poretz interviews life coaches, business coaches and other coaches to discuss all aspects of coaching and business. We'll also take your questions, and you might have the opportunity for live coaching right on the show! Mark Joyella is the "CoachReporter," the Community Supported Journalist at the nonprofit Coaching Commons, covering the field of coaching worldwide.
2009-08-1459 min