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Speaker 2: We got so much to talk about Tonight. Trump takes
Speaker 2: out the trash, the election turns into agenda war, and
Speaker 2: we send John Leguizamo under cover to talk to Latino voters.
Speaker 2: So let's get into Indecision twenty twenty four in America
Speaker 2: today was the environmental and public health disaster known as Halloween,
Speaker 2: where kids dress up in single use costumes. I need
Speaker 2: forty pounds of sugar because five hundred years ago people
Speaker 2: were scared of the dock or something. But it's not
Speaker 2: just kids dressing up in costumes. It's also grown men climbing.
Speaker 3: A boarder garbage truck in Green Bay that had his
Speaker 3: campaign's logo on the side.
Speaker 1: How do you like my garbage truck?
Speaker 4: This truck is an honor of Kamala.
Speaker 3: And Joe Biden. Former President Trump embraced his latest political
Speaker 3: cent piece as he amped up his attacks on Democrats.
Speaker 5: Two hundred and fifty million people are not garbage.
Speaker 1: I could tell you.
Speaker 4: The real garbages, but we won't say that.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you dressed up as a garbage man because
Speaker 3: you say Biden called your supporters garbage, and you're saying
Speaker 3: they're not garbage, but you're taking out the garbage, which
Speaker 3: is someone else, but you won't tell us who it is.
Speaker 3: And also, no one should call anyone garbage, but you
Speaker 3: just did because you're the garbage man. So, in other words,
Speaker 3: the perfect metaphor. By the way, for anyone thinking of
Speaker 3: dressing up as Trump for Halloween, you gotta be really
Speaker 3: cared for at this point because it's getting kind of
Speaker 3: closed the blackface or.
Speaker 6: What I mean.
Speaker 3: But you know what, it doesn't matter how weird you look,
Speaker 3: how stupid your metaphor is, or how badly you fucked
Speaker 3: it up, as long as you look great getting into
Speaker 3: that garbage truck.
Speaker 7: Donald Trump actually climbing, I should say, stumbling into a
Speaker 7: garbage truck.
Speaker 1: Nailed it.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, if Joe Biden did that, it
Speaker 3: would have broken every bone in his body. But look
Speaker 3: at how hot Trump is committing to the whole garbage thing.
Speaker 3: I mean, if only Joe Biden had been like all
Speaker 3: of Trump's supporters are always goggling their own piss, and
Speaker 3: he'd be like, is that what you think? I'll show you. Now.
Speaker 3: I'm not a professional expert pundit, but I think it's
Speaker 3: very unlikely that this race will be decided by the
Speaker 3: war over garbage, because there's a much more important battle
Speaker 3: here boobs versus balls.
Speaker 8: This presidential race could be a battle of the sexes
Speaker 8: this election cycle. The thirty point gender gap between men
Speaker 8: and women is stark, with NBC News polling showing women.
Speaker 6: Supporting Vice President.
Speaker 8: Harris by a fourteen point margin.
Speaker 7: If Harris wins, because women crawl over broken glass to
Speaker 7: break the glass ceiling.
Speaker 3: Okay, so there was a glass on the floor before
Speaker 3: they broke the glass ceiling. So then whether the broken
Speaker 3: glass come from if the ceiling is Why is everyone
Speaker 3: in America so bad? A metaphors? Look, I don't know
Speaker 3: why Trump does badly with women. Okay, I mean, yeah, sure,
Speaker 3: he shredded their reproductive rights or whatever, but he's only
Speaker 3: been accused of groping twenty six of them. Oh what, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 3: what's that? That was a new one? Last week? Okay
Speaker 3: twenty seven? Oh sorry, what was that? That was a
Speaker 3: new one? Yesterday. Okay, well, look, I can't understand why
Speaker 3: no one heard about it. Okay, the media had a
Speaker 3: big gobag truck story to cover. But Trump isn't giving up.
Speaker 3: He made another pitch to women last night in a
Speaker 3: way that wasn't creepy at all.
Speaker 9: Right, people told me about four weeks ago, I always say, no,
Speaker 9: I want to protect the people.
Speaker 7: I want to protect the women of our country.
Speaker 1: I want to protect the women. Sir, please don't say that.
Speaker 7: Why. They said, we think it's we think it's very
Speaker 7: inappropriate for you to say.
Speaker 1: I say why.
Speaker 7: I said, Well, I'm going to do it, whether the
Speaker 7: women like it or not.
Speaker 10: I'm going to protect them.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a name for when you take care
Speaker 3: of a woman who doesn't want you to take care
Speaker 3: of her. It's called kidnapping. And there is no situation
Speaker 3: where whether you like it or not is a good
Speaker 3: sales pitch. Unlimited shrimp, whether you like it or not
Speaker 3: would be a pass from me. So Trump's reaching out
Speaker 3: to women as successfully as he reached out to that
Speaker 3: Goby's truck door. Meanwhile, Kamala supporters are trying to win
Speaker 3: even more female voters with a stealth campaign to sway
Speaker 3: hesitant women in conservative areas.
Speaker 1: Sticky notes reminding women that their voter secret have been
Speaker 1: popping up in women's bathrooms all over the country thanks
Speaker 1: to a viral grassroots campaign by Kamala Harris supporters.
Speaker 11: This is a campaign to put these post it notes
Speaker 11: in the bathrooms, giving women the permission to vote for
Speaker 11: who they want to.
Speaker 6: So it says, nobody knows who you vote.
Speaker 10: For, so vote for who you want for.
Speaker 3: Vote hairs for women's rights.
Speaker 4: How many of these have you made?
Speaker 6: We've made thousands, thousands and thousands. I saw it online
Speaker 6: and all the women in my area, they're all doing it.
Speaker 10: They're literally driving up to Wisconsin to the truck stops
Speaker 10: just to do this.
Speaker 3: Dan, that is the most wholesome reason to visit a
Speaker 3: truck stop bathroom. I mean, just imagine how disappointed you'd
Speaker 3: be seeing one of these coming out a glory hall.
Speaker 3: But that's right, Kamala support us think there are a
Speaker 3: lot of women who would vote for her if they
Speaker 3: knew their husbands or neighbors wouldn't find out. So they're
Speaker 3: going all the way into women's bathrooms to let them know.
Speaker 3: And you may laugh at that, but polls consistently show
Speaker 3: that the most important voting block in Michigan is women
Speaker 3: on the road trips who have diarrhea. And I guess
Speaker 3: this is an interesting idea, but is there any place
Speaker 3: left that we can't be saved from political ads? I mean,
Speaker 3: a public bathroom is a sacred place where we're not
Speaker 3: Democrats or Republicans, were just Americans who are hoping a
Speaker 3: handicap person doesn't need the handicap stall while I'm in there.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if this is gonna work. I've
Speaker 3: never seen anything in a bathroom that's changed my opinion
Speaker 3: for a good time called Megan, please wash your hands.
Speaker 3: I'm not doing any of that. But if you're a
Speaker 3: woman who doesn't go to a bathroom, and I know
Speaker 3: some women don't because I've never seen my wife take
Speaker 3: a shit ever. Harry supporters have put out TV ads
Speaker 3: reminding women with conservative husbands that their votes are secret to.
Speaker 8: Your current honey, in the one place in America where
Speaker 8: women still have a right to choose, you can vote
Speaker 8: any way you want.
Speaker 6: And no one will ever know.
Speaker 3: Did you make the right choice?
Speaker 8: Shared in honey, Remember what happens in the booth stays
Speaker 8: in the booth.
Speaker 1: Did that stay in the booth?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if it could be more
Speaker 3: obvious that something was going on with those women. I mean,
Speaker 3: if I was a husband, I'd be like, wait, okay,
Speaker 3: you guys are either voting for Kamala or you're having
Speaker 3: an affair. Okay, because there's a lot of electricity here,
Speaker 3: and I'm scared, but I'm also turned on. If all
Speaker 3: that extra long staring wasn't suspicious enough, there's another ad
Speaker 3: whether women are even more obvious.
Speaker 1: You're still voting for him?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah?
Speaker 1: What about your wife?
Speaker 3: She didn't like him, but she's voting for him.
Speaker 11: Same with mine.
Speaker 3: Guys, you gotta stop mouthing Kamala. It's supposed to be
Speaker 3: a supposed to be a secret conspiracy. What voting for Kamala?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: I said, are we voting for Comela?
Speaker 1: Yes? But we have to keep it a sacred aw sin.
Speaker 1: It's the husbands will murder us.
Speaker 3: Hey, is it weird that they're like fifty years older
Speaker 3: than us. Seriously, look at those husbands, like, you don't
Speaker 3: have to mouth it. I'm pretty sure they won't listen
Speaker 3: to you even if you talk at full volume. Okay,
Speaker 3: And maybe I'm just being a heroic feminist here as usual.
Speaker 3: But isn't it a little sexist for these asks to
Speaker 3: suggest that women are morons who don't know how to vote?
Speaker 3: But you know, I guess it's okay because they're also
Speaker 3: saying that men are morons who don't know how to vote.
Speaker 3: Come on, boys, let's make America great.
Speaker 1: Care sure turn buddy.
Speaker 11: Before you cast your vote in this election, think about
Speaker 11: how it'll impact the people you care about the most. Remember,
Speaker 11: you can vote any way you want and no one
Speaker 11: will ever know.
Speaker 1: Do your patriotic duty.
Speaker 11: You better have been What happens in the booth stays
Speaker 11: in the booth.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the women are secretly voting for Kamalaw, but
Speaker 3: the men who are threatening them are also voting for Kamalaws.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be so romantic when they all find out.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like that stupid Peanut Colada song. And
Speaker 3: by the way, why is everybody in these ads voting
Speaker 3: in groups? I've never seen a group of bros just
Speaker 3: vote together like that heading to the tailgate. And also,
Speaker 3: this guy walked into the voting room with his bros,
Speaker 3: but then walked out with his family I mean, what
Speaker 3: the happening. I get the woman ad, but this ad
Speaker 3: is ridiculous. Okay, no real man is gonna prioritize his
Speaker 3: wife and daughter over a guy with his own customized
Speaker 3: garbage truck. Okay, you can't now coo that is, you
Speaker 3: can't be that now. If you're worried that trying to
Speaker 3: secretly coordinate votes with eye contact might be too confusing,
Speaker 3: well here's a new ad that will clarify absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4: All right, everyone, time to vote.
Speaker 1: Let's all vote the right way if you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, of course.
Speaker 8: Honey, Remember that this election you can vote for whoever
Speaker 8: you want, and no one has to know, no one
Speaker 8: at all. Your vote is secret from everyone, which means
Speaker 8: the choice is totally up to you. This election, let's
Speaker 8: celebrate our power to choose. So cast your ballot with confidence,
Speaker 8: because this ballot is all yours. The secret ballot is
Speaker 8: what makes America America. It's as American as apple pie.
Speaker 8: So this election day, remember don't get distracted by nodding.
Speaker 8: Focus on making your voice heard.
Speaker 6: Ready turning your ballot, honey, sure am, polls are closed.
Speaker 3: You've been standing there nodding for thirteen hours.
Speaker 7: Stop it okay, all right.
Speaker 6: Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: Will come back, John Wizamo. We'll find out what Latino votes. Nothing,
Speaker 1: don't go.
Speaker 12: Away, he welcome back to the Dawn Show.
Speaker 3: Dal Trope is doing surprisingly well with Latino voters and
Speaker 3: the polls this year. But why, John Leguizamo decides to
Speaker 3: find out.
Speaker 5: Election days almost upon US and Democrats are concerned about
Speaker 5: Donald Trump's surprising support in the Latino community. A new
Speaker 5: poll has Trump gaining ground with Latino voters.
Speaker 10: Vice President Harris struggling to hold on to let voters.
Speaker 5: So I assembled a panel of undecided and Trump curious
Speaker 5: Latino voters to see why they haven't been turned off
Speaker 5: by inflammatory statements.
Speaker 7: Like Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang
Speaker 7: members and migrant criminals from prisons and jails.
Speaker 5: Trump's rhetoric about Latinos is darker than a twelve hour
Speaker 5: chocolate moley, but does that matter to these voters. To
Speaker 5: get the unvarnished truth, I disguised myself as a representative
Speaker 5: of pro Trump super Pack the plan tell them.
Speaker 4: I was trying to better understand.
Speaker 5: How Trump could appeal to Latino voters while confronting them
Speaker 5: with Trump's racism firsthand.
Speaker 4: Can I see everybody's.
Speaker 5: ID real quick and see if you're real citizens?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 10: No, I was born in California, But where are you
Speaker 10: really from?
Speaker 4: Come on?
Speaker 6: Parents are not born from Losalvador.
Speaker 4: Salvador, Mexico. Okay, what do you like about Donald Trump?
Speaker 3: He's not evasive, it's it's pretty clear. I mean, this
Speaker 3: is someone that's been at the forefront for a very
Speaker 3: long time speaking his mind.
Speaker 13: When he was on the government, the economy was better
Speaker 13: than we have it right now.
Speaker 4: That's the part, the only part that I like.
Speaker 5: On the surface, they seem to like Trump, but as
Speaker 5: we went deeper, I gave them the tools to express
Speaker 5: themselves in a more nuanced manner. And when I'm naming
Speaker 5: the issue, and you're going to raise either one or
Speaker 5: two or three chilies to signify how spicy the issue.
Speaker 3: Is for you.
Speaker 4: Okay, the economy, wow, damn three chilies.
Speaker 1: That's spices.
Speaker 4: Spies as spicy. Okay, healthcare not as spicy, but still spicy.
Speaker 5: Arming janitors meaning arming giving weapons to janitors to protect
Speaker 5: the schools, you know, like what if a shooter comes in?
Speaker 1: Okay, No, Chili's on that.
Speaker 4: Now that I knew the issues they cared about.
Speaker 5: It was time to see if there were any Latino
Speaker 5: celebrity endorsements that might capture their vote. You guys are tough,
Speaker 5: bad buddy, Come on, bad buddy, ever swear it would
Speaker 5: get you all right, John Leguismeo, I guess I mean
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Well you two then Okay, Now it's time for the
Speaker 4: moment of truth.
Speaker 5: Let's see if witnessing Donald Trump's rhetoric firsthand makes them
Speaker 5: want to vote for him more or less.
Speaker 9: On my first day back in the White House, I
Speaker 9: will terminate every open border's policy of the Biden administration,
Speaker 9: stop the invasion of our southern border, and begin the
Speaker 9: largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
Speaker 3: It's an excellent way to fix a very, very severe problem.
Speaker 4: What do you love about deportation?
Speaker 3: You have criminals, They should all be removed.
Speaker 5: Now do you think they should deport American criminals too?
Speaker 3: The poor American criminals to wear.
Speaker 4: What's your least favorite South American country, man, Cuba?
Speaker 13: If he's saying integration of the problem, it's like you
Speaker 13: have a leak in your house, you gotta turn it off.
Speaker 13: The water supply. Fix it then ton it on. Maybe
Speaker 13: that's what he's trying to do. Like, let's closed on
Speaker 13: the border for a while.
Speaker 5: But who would you call to fiction leak if all
Speaker 5: the Latinos are gone? Nasty portation didn't seem to turn
Speaker 5: them off, Let's try something else.
Speaker 7: No control whatsoever. Nobody has any idea where these people
Speaker 7: are coming from. And we know they come from prisons,
Speaker 7: we know they come from mental institutions and san as islands,
Speaker 7: we know they are terrorists. It's poisoning the blood of
Speaker 7: our country.
Speaker 4: So what do you think of the language that he's using.
Speaker 1: It's poison. That's the last word that we're using.
Speaker 3: That's what it is.
Speaker 5: So you're saying he's a little too hitlerish, Maybe you
Speaker 5: can soften the language a little bit.
Speaker 4: That a poison the blood.
Speaker 5: Maybe what about spraining the ankle of America, giving America
Speaker 5: gastro intestinal discomfort? Any worse about if he said ruining
Speaker 5: the testicles of America. Great, So people don't seem to
Speaker 5: love the hitler stuff.
Speaker 1: Now what about this clip?
Speaker 7: How about allowing people to come to an open border thirteen.
Speaker 9: Which we're murderers and they are now happily living in
Speaker 9: the United States.
Speaker 4: You know now a murderer.
Speaker 7: I believe this.
Speaker 9: It's in their gens, and we got a lot of
Speaker 9: bad gens in our country right now.
Speaker 3: I think, uh, maybe there's better words that can be used.
Speaker 3: We all misspeak sometimes.
Speaker 4: I mean all about Trump is that he misspeaks from
Speaker 4: the heart.
Speaker 10: He missed setia hearts because he's got a lot and
Speaker 10: he maybe has a good heart.
Speaker 4: Well said, Well said.
Speaker 14: This is you know, it's gonna h stereotyping Latinos, the
Speaker 14: stereotyping immigrants, and the more that you demonize people, it
Speaker 14: doesn't bring us together.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you sir, you definitely don't have the murder gene. Okay,
Speaker 5: don't speak Spanish because it's not nice. Which presidential candidate
Speaker 5: do you think treats Latinos most like caricatures. I'm going
Speaker 5: to say a name, and if you agree, scream arriba
Speaker 5: Donald Trump? Okay, So you clearly think that Trump portrays
Speaker 5: the Latino population in an accurate and nuanced manner.
Speaker 4: No, why didn't just geme about a revote?
Speaker 10: Well, if your questions and the questions that I'm listening
Speaker 10: to you are about as you see this, what do
Speaker 10: you think I'd rather not see that.
Speaker 5: So I bet if we don't show these clips of
Speaker 5: him because they make you not want to vote for him.
Speaker 10: That's exactly the reason why many who will tell you
Speaker 10: that they don't like him is because of what he says.
Speaker 5: Now I understand the only way Trump is acceptable is
Speaker 5: if you never.
Speaker 1: See or hear him.
Speaker 5: It seems like some of these people were finally coming around,
Speaker 5: but there was something that was still bugging me. Do
Speaker 5: you want to change your answer for any one of
Speaker 5: the celebrity endorsements?
Speaker 4: Maybe to John lewisoma, you guys never saw a spawn?
Speaker 13: And did you see that his last special?
Speaker 11: It was good?
Speaker 4: What did you like most about his last special?
Speaker 13: The setting? He did it like a school setting?
Speaker 4: Well that was real, clever, real.
Speaker 5: Already two, finally feeling like we made some progress, it
Speaker 5: was time to come clean.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: I want to thank you for being here and for
Speaker 5: being so honest with me, but I have not been
Speaker 5: so honestly. My name is not really Ron Kuzmano.
Speaker 3: But no, oh know that did.
Speaker 5: Now that I've shown you all these awful things about Trump,
Speaker 5: does that change your vote?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: Democracy, thank your job.
Speaker 1: Let me come back.
Speaker 3: The legendary Kanie Chung will be joining on me on.
Speaker 15: The shelves and don't go well, hey, welcome back, go
Speaker 15: there on the show.
Speaker 3: My guest tonight is a trailblazing, award winning television journalist
Speaker 3: whose new memoir is called Connie. I used to watch
Speaker 3: her growing up as a kid. It's a huge honor
Speaker 3: for me to welcome to the stage. Is Connie charm Wow, Wow,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you,
Speaker 3: it's a huge honor to me. You. No, I can't
Speaker 3: believe you know who I am.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't really.
Speaker 1: Fair enough.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I've watched you and I can believe
Speaker 6: I'm sitting here with you too.
Speaker 3: That's very kind you grow I spent when I was
Speaker 3: a kid. I grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and
Speaker 3: we would turn on TV and watch you as a kid.
Speaker 3: So really, yeah, I can't believe that you're from me.
Speaker 3: Right now, I can tell people.
Speaker 1: Is it real?
Speaker 3: And I read your book because I got so scared
Speaker 3: of you that I actually I actually read this book
Speaker 3: for the first time in Daily So history.
Speaker 1: I read the Book of the Guests. And I'm not
Speaker 1: just saying this is a great book.
Speaker 3: It's very well written and as for me as a
Speaker 3: American history and television nerd, this is like the perfect book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it goes through.
Speaker 3: All these characters and that you were like in the
Speaker 3: middle of everything in the eighties and nineties to the
Speaker 3: point where I think you caused the most of the
Speaker 3: damage in the world because you seem to be at
Speaker 3: a you seem to be at the center of all
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I didn't do it.
Speaker 3: And not just the events, but like the characters in
Speaker 3: the book. You know, all these legendary figures, Larry Grossman
Speaker 3: on route.
Speaker 6: You know Larry Grossman. You mean an NBC was the president.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all these figures that we only know about. It's
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. These are people like you were.
Speaker 6: In They've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but you've been surprised.
Speaker 3: You guys know who Larry Grossman. They might just say yes,
Speaker 3: just say yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, say so so.
Speaker 6: And then the line detector tests to determine that was
Speaker 6: a lot.
Speaker 3: No, But Connie, Connie, these are mostly Americans. They don't
Speaker 3: learn their history. I'm not American. Therefore, I read this
Speaker 3: and I guess my point is, like you are around
Speaker 3: at the peak of network TV around all these titans,
Speaker 3: Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Walter, Cronkite, you know, mixed elbows
Speaker 3: with presidents vice presidents. I guess now that you're retired,
Speaker 3: how happy are you that you don't have to cover
Speaker 3: the trash sheet?
Speaker 6: It's uh, I'm actually glad I'm not in television news now, seriously,
Speaker 6: because it's it's not the same.
Speaker 3: Sure, Like, how can you give us some perspective of
Speaker 3: how it's kind of different? Because when you started, well
Speaker 3: you started with typewriters and now in freaking now in
Speaker 3: freaking AI creating virtual cryptocurrency. Yes, crazy, yeah, all of it.
Speaker 6: Well, we believed back in those days it was the truth,
Speaker 6: credibility and honesty and all of that, and it seems
Speaker 6: to have kind of evporated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you cheered too loud many some guy was sharing that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean is there you know, because I
Speaker 3: read your book and even even in your time when
Speaker 3: you were active, there was still misinformation and you are
Speaker 3: the victim of some fake news so to speak. People
Speaker 3: would spread rumors about it. So it wasn't like there
Speaker 3: were no problems, no.
Speaker 6: But it wasn't as rampant as it is right now.
Speaker 6: In other words, there are a lot of good reporters,
Speaker 6: there a lot of good investigative reporting, but there's a
Speaker 6: lot of misinformation too.
Speaker 3: So why do you think it is that, like trust
Speaker 3: in the media has, you know, just decreased ever since
Speaker 3: you left news, because.
Speaker 6: It's not it was an era in which news was trustworthy,
Speaker 6: but I think there was there had been a sort
Speaker 6: of creeping negativism in which people began to not believe
Speaker 6: not only government but news reporters. And they didn't trust
Speaker 6: Congress or the White House for good reason because back
Speaker 6: in the day when the government was lying to them
Speaker 6: about Vietnam and they just didn't know, they couldn't feel
Speaker 6: like they could trust Congress and the rest. And it's
Speaker 6: gotten worse now, so we're even below Congress's level, which
Speaker 6: is pretty low.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if the news is worse than Congress.
Speaker 6: You were going to ask me a question in the beginning,
Speaker 6: did Jesus side not?
Speaker 3: I decided not to because it's too vulgar. I just really, yeah,
Speaker 3: you came out. You came out. It's like I was
Speaker 3: talking to my mom. I didn't want to ask the
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, you are.
Speaker 3: Well, you the source of truth can't take the truth, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll go seventy eight.
Speaker 6: How old are you?
Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm like, I'm thirty nine, So no.
Speaker 6: Way, funny you don't look thirty nine.
Speaker 3: How old I look.
Speaker 6: Twenty five?
Speaker 3: That's good Asian? Asian, don't raising? Yeah, but do you
Speaker 3: want me to ask you that first question? It's so
Speaker 3: awkward now now that we set it up and everyone
Speaker 3: wants to know what it is now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're going to have to do it.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Well if Connie wants to ask a question, Okay, Connie.
Speaker 3: Uh sorry, mister, I don't want to call it legend.
Speaker 3: Don't call you legend or go, don't call you go.
Speaker 6: Did you give Korey anything you want to go?
Speaker 3: Uh? Uh mom, Mom? Uh sorry, sorry, just got it. Uh.
Speaker 3: So you've been retired from journalism now and during your
Speaker 3: time as a very professional trust movie source. I think
Speaker 3: it was your opinion from your book that you shouldn't
Speaker 3: give your personal opinions. You are not here to give
Speaker 3: personal opinions. You're here to deliver the news. But now
Speaker 3: that you're retired, you're unleashed. You can give your hard opinions.
Speaker 3: Right now, let's ask the tough questions, Okay, Mary Kill,
Speaker 3: Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Colson. I'm sorry, mom.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if you know this, but I
Speaker 6: actually just thought I was so nervous about the election,
Speaker 6: I decided to come out in favor of Kamala. So
Speaker 6: so you can well imagine my answer to your question.
Speaker 6: Two out of the three.
Speaker 1: Please, for the record, you got it.
Speaker 6: I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't got it.
Speaker 3: Of these are terrible. You're not married, I am married.
Speaker 3: I'm married. Okay, that doesn't answer anything.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 6: It's two out of the three.
Speaker 1: What you gave me three?
Speaker 3: Two kind of evading right now and.
Speaker 6: Not evasive. It's totally on target. Do you get it?
Speaker 3: No, that's why I don't want to ask that dumb
Speaker 3: ass question. But as some serious questions, yeah, the only
Speaker 3: one who asked me that. Okay, okay, alright, So do
Speaker 3: you feel like uh Asian people in America are kind
Speaker 3: of uniquely suited to kind of ask the tough questions
Speaker 3: because we're not seen as participating in this ongoing race
Speaker 3: war between white and black people, and so when we
Speaker 3: come in it's almost like we can get in there
Speaker 3: and get the real story. No, okay, no to the
Speaker 3: Race war or no to the art, no to getting married? Okay,
Speaker 3: so you okay, uh so you uh in this book
Speaker 3: you went to warm Beadi's house and a lot of
Speaker 3: people that were taking cocaine. What are the who else
Speaker 3: was taking drugs in Hollywood in the seventies. Now you
Speaker 3: got some really interesting stories here, like, yeah, you talk
Speaker 3: about Dan Rather being a real dick right in this book.
Speaker 3: That's not yeah, that's in her book.
Speaker 6: I didn't. You're not quoting Race.
Speaker 1: I'm not quoting you.
Speaker 3: But Dan Rather was a bit of a dick to you.
Speaker 3: I mean, is that was he a mean dude or.
Speaker 6: No? Not not on the surface. I mean he was
Speaker 6: very h uh. He was unhappy that I was sitting
Speaker 6: next to him. He didn't want me there, you know
Speaker 6: kind of you know why why because he had been
Speaker 6: doing it by himself for a long time. He replaced
Speaker 6: Walter Cronkite and then he, uh, he became His ratings
Speaker 6: started to tank, and so they decided to add me
Speaker 6: to the program. So I sat in half of Uncle
Speaker 6: Walter's chair and I was it was like a dream job.
Speaker 6: But it didn't the ratings weren't moving so much, and
Speaker 6: he really didn't want me there. It was very much
Speaker 6: like Barbara Walters when she began co anchoring with here,
Speaker 6: Let's go, when when she began co anchoring with a
Speaker 6: man who did more to her there.
Speaker 3: Either, right, And so, how did you navigate the politics
Speaker 3: of you know, the seventies newsrooms, of the huge, towering
Speaker 3: figures of media, and you were often only the only
Speaker 3: normally the only Asian. You're the only woman in the room.
Speaker 3: A lot of times, think all of you right here,
Speaker 3: This is the four of you as the only Asian
Speaker 3: person in this room full of smelly guys. And this
Speaker 3: is exactly how I felt the Daily Show to me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but how did you navigate the politics?
Speaker 6: Well? It was it was kind of hard in many
Speaker 6: ways because I saw all around me were men, and
Speaker 6: I kind of just decided I would be a guy too.
Speaker 6: I would walk like them, talk like them, have their bravado,
Speaker 6: have moxie, have you know, even use their the party
Speaker 6: mouth that they use. And I so convinced myself that
Speaker 6: I was a guy that when I'd walk past the mirror,
Speaker 6: I'd go because I.
Speaker 1: Was exactly I thought the white man.
Speaker 6: I really was convinced, right, so.
Speaker 3: You would just start swinging, you swear the guys you say,
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: You want to say?
Speaker 3: You want to say to anybody on TV? Right now?
Speaker 3: We got this basic cable No, not really, don't mean
Speaker 3: to say it for you, rather thank you. So, I
Speaker 3: mean I could talk to you forever about this. I
Speaker 3: honestly I did my research because I know how much
Speaker 3: you value people who do their homework. I do, And
Speaker 3: I want to ask, how why is it that there's
Speaker 3: no other Walter Concast that can rise out of this
Speaker 3: cesspool of American news media right now?
Speaker 6: The whole thing has changed. I mean, television news isn't
Speaker 6: what it used to be. Digital taken overse so it's
Speaker 6: it's just not going to happen. Television is a dinosaur.
Speaker 6: I mean not your.
Speaker 3: No, that's fine, down with that.
Speaker 6: I think people get the news, you know, from all
Speaker 6: sorts of sources, even I mean the Daily Show. They
Speaker 6: used to always they.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't they really shouldn't get from this show. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to get Connie, trying to say, why are you? Why
Speaker 3: are you watching this for news? But you know, it's
Speaker 3: kind of disheartening because I was hoping you could give
Speaker 3: me perspective and say, like, all these all these people
Speaker 3: who are saying this is the worst ever time for America,
Speaker 3: they're exaggerating. Used to be we had the same problems
Speaker 3: in the sixties, And you're saying, no, this is the
Speaker 3: worst time. And and I don't know if there's a
Speaker 3: way through.
Speaker 6: I have hope for the news, you know, and that
Speaker 6: we can swing that penculum right back and it'll be
Speaker 6: more responsible.
Speaker 3: Well, can you give some tips on how to swing
Speaker 3: that pendulum back or any ideas if you were in
Speaker 3: charge of.
Speaker 6: News, Well, I think one, one newspaper at a time,
Speaker 6: one television station at a time, and I think as
Speaker 6: long as we do investigative work, we're on the right track.
Speaker 6: The hard part is filling all those hours on cable.
Speaker 3: And that's where we come in to talk a bunch
Speaker 3: of shit. So we're doing right now, feeling some hours
Speaker 3: in between important stuff, just feeling the hours.
Speaker 6: No, but it is it's really hard to it's it's
Speaker 6: hard to fill that many hours.
Speaker 1: Oh, tell me about it.
Speaker 3: It's very difficult.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you're saying that if we can start with this idea,
Speaker 3: if we have to fill up all this time, we
Speaker 3: probably help.
Speaker 6: The news, but but do serious work and don't express
Speaker 6: opinions on the news. It's just that, I mean, do
Speaker 6: you really want opinion? No, I mean on the news
Speaker 6: not no.
Speaker 3: Right, mom said no, say no, plansays no, don't say
Speaker 3: yeah no no no opinion. Yeah no, I agree. If
Speaker 3: you need a source that's trustbility, that's not biased, and no,
Speaker 3: I get it. So Unfortunately that's not where the money
Speaker 3: is anymore. The money isn't saying than Rather that's.
Speaker 6: Well, then that should sell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this should sell is in the book. And the
Speaker 3: last thing I just want to say it is like
Speaker 3: the hope for the future I have is in the
Speaker 3: last chapter of this book, other than talking about the
Speaker 3: weed strain that's named after you, yea, which everybody that
Speaker 3: you should check it out. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: Have you tried.
Speaker 3: No, I don't. I don't. I don't smell weed. Yeah, don't,
Speaker 3: I don't smell weed.
Speaker 6: H If you go, if you go online, you'll see website. Yes, no,
Speaker 6: it's not my website. It's somebody started it. And I
Speaker 6: have no idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we all have no idea who we don't know?
Speaker 3: For tax purblisons, we have no idea who's selling this moment?
Speaker 6: But what it is is I'm easy to grow and
Speaker 6: low maintenance. Yes, I'm low maintenance.
Speaker 3: Read your book and you did.
Speaker 6: I did, and I don't give the scaries too much.
Speaker 6: And you can get a two pack pre World for
Speaker 6: twenty two dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have.
Speaker 6: A I just saw that. But I have to tell
Speaker 6: you one other thing. You were you were talking about
Speaker 6: the last chapter I.
Speaker 3: Was about to get to. Okay, go ahead, Okay, I
Speaker 3: think I'm I understand you guys, right, Meldon, Yeah, what's
Speaker 3: really call about the future is this idea of that
Speaker 3: there is a generation of Connie Chan of Connie's in America,
Speaker 3: Asian American girls who are the children of Asian parents,
Speaker 3: Asian parents who grew up in your generation, who admired
Speaker 3: you and named their children Kanye and so it's a
Speaker 3: whole amazing And she got the meet up with that.
Speaker 6: There are untold numbers of babies that were named after me.
Speaker 3: How does it make you feel all these people stole
Speaker 3: your name?
Speaker 6: I just flower gastaid and honored. What happened was there
Speaker 6: was this girl named Connie Wong, and she she cold
Speaker 6: emailed me and said that she was named after me.
Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it, she said. When she moved with
Speaker 6: her parents from communist China to the Midwest, she was
Speaker 6: only three years old, and her parents said, we need
Speaker 6: to give you an American name. And she only knew
Speaker 6: what she saw on television, and she said Connie or Elmo.
Speaker 6: And so she was she who discovered that all these
Speaker 6: Connie's were named after me. When I went on this
Speaker 6: book tour, I met she thinks they're untold hundreds. I
Speaker 6: don't know how many. But I met six more. And
Speaker 6: I met a Connie Chung in drag Oh, there you go,
Speaker 6: and she or he said that he can. It takes
Speaker 6: him four hours to put his make up on, and
Speaker 6: I said, dude, I can do mine in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3: I can talk to you about this book. It's a
Speaker 3: great book. Thank you, Thank you so much for all
Speaker 3: that you do.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for all that you've done, all
Speaker 1: that you other.
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