WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Joy Reid 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.240 Hey, Quest Love Supreme. 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.560 Family just wanted to give you a heads up that 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.200 the audio quality of this episode at times may not 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:09.360 be the stand that you are used to, but bear 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.680 with us. We thought this sit down with joy Read 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.200 was an important listen considering the current climate. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:20.280 Enjoy Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:21.720 Robert watching Bargin. 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.119 Okay, I've been watching this. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:32.040 Hey, I'm doing this or all damn? Why you always 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:33.440 got to ruin show Man? 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.880 No, I mean it's it's cool, like I like it. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.000 It's I liked it better than that other show that. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.320 You jump You jumped the gun a little too soon. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.959 I all right, I get it. I know Jordan's Hill 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:51.760 Productions made us work for it. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.240 And one day no, no, no, I hope one day 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.440 that he does something and it just the point is there, Like, yes, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:05.000 I have to commit to watching Lovecraft Country two to 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.600 three times every episode to catch Easter eggs. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:08.320 I didn't get. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.399 Yeah, it's too many. It's too many other shows that 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.240 I can watch once. Intead are great and I'm just like, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.560 I mean, because my wife, my wife, she loves Lovecraft 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:17.600 like she watches it. No, it's important and I will 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.880 watch it sometimes with her, and I'll be like, but 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.160 like I but like I been like, I'll be in 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.680 another room and it's just like I hear just trap 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.920 music and then I look at the screen and it's 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.200 a fucking word wolf for some ship. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.800 What the fuck is this? There's a lot of ship 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.039 joint Hello, Hello, how you doing? Welcome to myself Supreme. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.440 This is literally how we just start episodes. We just 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.600 jumping with Can we ask. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:44.000 Her real quick? 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.120 Don't love trap music? 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:45.720 Wolve? 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:47.000 Hello? Everybody? 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.400 Let's go on love Craft? Yeah or day? Are you 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:51.560 in it or not in it? 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:53.960 I'm watching it, but it traumatizes me. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.960 Right, I can only watch so much of like the 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.880 abuse of black people in history entertainment before I start 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:01.760 to really just start to lose. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:02.320 My mind a little bit. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:06.640 So I watched The Payoff The Payoffice, episode seven. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:09.440 It works in the end. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.680 I stayed with it because first of all, the Nina 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.240 Simone tracks are fire, the music is fire, and it 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.280 pays off in the end. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:17.080 But it's a. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.120 Lot, it's a lot lot. The important the important thing 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.200 about it, once I did the research was that I 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.480 didn't know the history. Okay, so I knew the history 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.800 of how modern comedy started in America, which starts with 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.920 minstrel entertainment making fun of slaves and whatnot. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.360 You know, the black face, we know that I didn't. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.360 I didn't realize that the slave was also or the 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.720 freed slave was actually the impetus for the modern horror flick, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.080 like basically the rising down the album cover Fonte, Yeah, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.280 that was the whole day, was HB. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.919 Love Right? HB. Lovecraft? 0:02:55.120 --> 0:03:00.320 Uh started writing fiction about how freed slaves were going 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.919 to destroy UH plantations and get revenge once they were freed, 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:06.720 and thus that's the. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.200 Birth of the horror genre. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.880 Like it was based on black people being the Boogeyman 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.800 and all that stuff. So which makes you. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.280 Show the ultimate buck you because them casting all these 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.600 black people and making this a black story and remix 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.160 it is like love Craft, No, white. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.360 People the real they're the real horror people. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.280 So it's it's it's it's the real. That's that's how 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.120 we get into it. Ladies and gentlemen. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.519 If you're just joining us right now, Uh, I insisted, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.960 you know, there were there was a way that would Yeah, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.120 there used to be a traditional way that we opened 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.040 the show. But then you know now that we're in COVID. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.200 I call this the COVID Open, not the Cold Open. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.000 So we just decided to not have an official intro 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.720 and just like faded in, let you eavesdrop on what 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:51.480 we're talking about. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.680 So we're talking about love Craft. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.640 But of course it would be remiss if I didn't 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.520 say that our guest today. You know, personally I look 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.400 for there's there's very few people that I look for 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.360 to be the voice of reason and the voice of calm, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.160 especially how we are now, the way that we can 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.880 tumee our news or some people are traumatized, where I'm 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.000 kind of traumatized by it now, so I don't watch 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:16.919 it twenty four to seven. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:18.640 There's only a few names. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.200 That I trust to deliver the facts that I need 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:26.000 to know what's going on, and today's guest is a 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:30.360 prime example of that. I've been watching am Joy and 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.600 of course the readout. She's my thirty rock mate. Do 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.159 you refer to that building as thirty rock? Are the 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.320 only one that calls it thirty Rocks? I call it 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:43.039 thirty rock YEP, Okay, fine, yeah, it's it's it's my 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.960 trusted source for information. Of course, when this airs today, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.080 this will be the day after the election, so we 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.440 have no clue what's going on. We got burnt the 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.840 last on This happened because you know these sort of 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.240 oh my god, we sorted we it was a celebration 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:08.640 party and then mid episode was like to read yeah, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.719 so we don't know what the results are as of 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.279 this recording. So you know this this was done a 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.839 week before. But ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to Quest 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.360 Love supremeum Joy Reid. You know, and I also want 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.000 to let you know that this is probably more of 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:30.279 a lighthearted interview about your life, not like I know you're. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.160 Tired of or are we going to be okay? 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.360 I know everyone's asking you, can you tell us something 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:36.240 that you know and. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.920 We don't know? So how are you today? 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.080 I'm good, Quest, It's so good to be here with you. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.200 You know, I'm a big fan. Can I tell my 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:45.320 quest Love story real quick? 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.479 Least know you have one? 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:48.440 Everybody has one. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.600 So the first time I met you, Quest, I actually 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.920 just got in an elevator with you at thirty Rock 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.280 and I was like, I'm thinking. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.960 Myself, Oh my god, okay, Quest of honest, how am 0:05:59.960 --> 0:06:01.919 I gonna act cool? I gotta act like normal, like 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.400 I'm not gonna say anything crazy, so I must have been. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.200 My face must have been like, like, I look like 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.480 a crazy person, probably because you just turned me and 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.440 you said hello. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:17.159 I was like, so you're you're. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.000 One thing I love is when you meet somebody that is, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.880 you know, famous, they are just as cool as they seem. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:23.839 So I would give you that. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.599 My students met you once you came out of your 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:28.840 you know, studio, and everything sahi to them. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:29.560 So you cool? 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.279 Yeah, I remember, yeah. I Actually, you know what's weird 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.039 is Uh. I would often trail you, either in the 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.039 cafeteria or like I didn't. I didn't want to be 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.320 that person like Joy or whatever, because oftentimes when I 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.040 see uh, like Brian Williams, we're kind of BFFs. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.880 But when someone yells's name Brian, he never looks. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:57.159 So usually when when news pundits and and and reporters 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.760 are in the hallways of thirty Rock, they never respond 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.360 to their name because they think that it's like a 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.520 fan or even something more dangerous closer to Rupert Pumpkin 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.360 from the King of Comedy following them. So basically, I 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.720 didn't want to be the guy like Joy it's you know, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.480 and then you just walk on by itself. Yes, I've 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.160 seen you way before that, but that's the first time 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.000 that you saw me and seeing you and then you know, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.440 I decide to, you know, to to break the ice. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.120 There has anyone ever seen me over there? You know? 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:28.520 Uh? 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.560 No, I noticed this. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.720 This new COVID opening doesn't include introducing the team. I'm sorry, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.680 forgive me, forgive me, you know what. I well, you're 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.160 supposed to jump in the conversation. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:46.920 Look, okay, I think. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.920 By now three years that we know that laya with 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.760 her Oh nice, I look at her like you. It's 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:57.200 kind of well, I thought it was braids because oh yeah, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.920 it's and we have a unpaid bill. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.080 Hey, you speak. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.200 Radio, so I gotta go with voices already high. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.960 Yes, how you doing? And uh fan tickeolo in North 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.600 Carolina right now? But up you were telling me you 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.880 voted through a driving or drive through. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:14.440 Yeah. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.960 I was like, we went, me and my wife who 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.440 went early voting the first day, which was the fifteenth, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.000 and when we pull up to our poll in place, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.200 there was a long line of cars and we thought 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.360 that was the voting line, but that was really the 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.720 line for just like the drive through, so like if 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.440 you had health problems or like you were super elderly 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.520 and couldn't stand in line, they were just you could 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.160 drive through and they give you the ballots and do 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.160 chick you in and all that. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:39.840 So that line was kind of long. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.440 So then we drove around and we saw the real 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.120 like the line for just like regular and it. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.679 Probably it don't took us for maybe like an hour. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.679 It's probably like twenty people in line, which is the 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.880 most people I've been around since March. And we was 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.720 just you know, we went and massed up and it 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:56.680 was distanced and we did it and you know, it 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:57.000 was cool. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.560 It was on about the hours to change. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.439 Good Sugar Sea the night. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:03.720 Yeah, I just want to say out of joy, that 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.120 was my whole reason for interrupting. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.760 This is a first. 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:10.319 Joy. 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.000 I know we have you for limited time, and there's 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.960 so many questions I want to ask you, but just 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.760 for this particular election cycle on what you're going through now, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.679 Like what is your average day, Like. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.920 You know, the average day is long. I mean I 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.319 was doing a weekend show for four years and it's 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.840 a different kind of schedule. You know, we don't even 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.719 start planning the show until Thursday because since Trump came along, he. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.040 Disrupts so much that we used to have a Wednesday plan. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.440 He would mess that up, so we started planning on 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:40.880 Thursdays for Saturday. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.000 But now it's a grind, you know. I used to 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.760 do a day a day side daily show. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.640 And I had forgotten, you know, I'm a little older 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:48.720 and doing it now. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:49.440 So it's a lot. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.920 We do four meeting for show meetings a day by phone, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.320 sometimes by zoom, and then in between it's like taking 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.480 a college course. You're trying to read everything. It's a 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.240 blizzard of information and he just won't stop, you know. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.199 I mean I covered the Obama administration. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.160 When I was at the cRIO and as an MSNBC analyst, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.679 and Obama lets you rest every so often. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.720 He would speak during my day side show. He's like, Obama, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.599 come on, man, you know, because he didn't do the 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.320 big ethics speaker. Every time you come out and do 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.360 a speak and go away and live his life and 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.080 be president. This guy won't let you stop looking at him. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:22.640 SHO. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.079 I love my team. We make it fun and we 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.680 try to bring a little levity to it. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.400 We bring as much as we can for us to 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.800 a traumatize public and we have fun together. But I 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.520 have to admit it's a different level of exhaustion. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.000 So is it to the place where, like, do you 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.600 personally feel comfortable? I know that, you know, for people 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.880 that don't know how television shows work, I mean there 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.439 are assistants, there are researchers, there are people that can 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.920 sort of just give you the quick version of it. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.040 Do you yourself feel comfortable with just looking away for 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.240 like two seconds or do you feel that you have 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.320 to like immerse yourself in absolute everything to get all 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.640 the information, go on social media, deep dive and all 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.760 these things, and do your own research so that you 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:12.439 can be packed with Because the way that you interview 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.360 talking heads or pun intoor whatever, it's like, how I 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:21.040 don't see how you can have like rebuttals immediately ready 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.319 and these facts ready. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.920 Like are there people feeding you in your ear? 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:24.080 Like? 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:24.839 How does that work? 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.600 So what we basically do is, you know, we start 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:28.760 off first meeting of the day. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.040 We figure out, Okay, this is what we want to 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.280 talk about, and then I go through and pegment and 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:34.920 say this is the way I want to frame it, 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.920 and then the producers go off and they you know, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:42.040 they write up the intro, so the intros are great producer, so. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.079 They you know, we then I go back. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.440 And I edited, and we make sure that you know, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.319 it's in by voice, and then I feel over with it. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.120 And so it's a real team effort to together, right, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.080 I mean, our show is people, right, It's not just 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.960 I just don't get out there just you know, information, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.880 Like we have people that are backing me up. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.960 You know, we we plan for every continue because I 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.000 like to just questions. I don't like to have question 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.360 I like to just you know, glow with questions. But 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.080 I want to make sure that no matter where I 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:11.520 want to go, we have. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.920 The backup to make sure it's factual, to make sure 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:15.720 that you know, we've got a story. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.440 That backs it up or some data that backs it up. 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:18.959 So we kind of. 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.079 Think all the places that these questions could go, and 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.440 we've got like an element ready to go. So if 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.080 I say something about a rally, but like okay, we 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:28.520 have a sound bite of that that's ready. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.840 So that's a lot of the preparation is making sure 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.040 that no matter where we end up going in these 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:35.840 conversations with something to back it up. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.439 Because we don't want to just give I just don't 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.200 I don't want to just get my opinion. I want 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.160 to make sure it's factual. So as far as how 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.079 much I immerse myself. I have described Donald Trump as 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.120 like having a toddler. Right, if you have a toddler, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.520 sometimes you want to you know, have a little out call, 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.679 you know, little cocktail break, but you still have to 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:55.560 put the baby monitor on. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.400 You still got to watch them. You can't just go 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.520 to sleep, take a nap and let the toddler, you know, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.120 home about the house. Right, we are like the baby box. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.280 I feel like you do have to watch him all 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.560 the time because, you know, some of the stuff he 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.040 says it's just dumb, but some of the stuff is dangerous. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.760 You know, he will just make a pronouncement and change 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.000 you as policy and then we have to deal with it, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:15.440 you know. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.080 And sometimes he's just riffing, but you just never know. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.720 Oh So, in terms of fact checking, like who's on 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.120 standby it? Like is it just assumed that any statement 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.160 he says is going to need a fact check? Like 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.160 how's how's that database work? Like is there just a 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:36.240 machine that you instantly have? Whatever his stats are, what 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.040 he says, or. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.120 Yeah, every producer, they're all remote, like this is the 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.440 COVID time is weird because it normally they'd all be 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.400 in the studio and they'd all be at a A 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.120 at a you know, at a MAC and they can 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.920 look up information all the ready. But now they're in 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.560 fourteen different cities, but they're still listening in on this 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.160 McCurdy machine where they can all hear it all. And 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.000 so anything that comes up we call for those facts 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.160 like then and there, because the producers of each of 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.960 the segments are always listening to the show and they're 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.959 prepared to like if I need something, they just bring 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.040 it up right away and they can get that printed 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.640 out and hand it to me. So we're always ready 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.240 to fact check this man, and we don't. We don't 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.520 play a lot of him. We don't honestly, we don't 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.680 play a lot of him. We try to minimize it 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.440 because I think people know what he says. There's no 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.320 point in playing it back because a lot of it 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:23.840 is just live. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.280 So kind just ask you. You mentioned about like what's 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.920 your daylight at work, but like what's your day like? 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.320 Because when do you wake up your like somebody's whole 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.840 mother and wife. How does that work intertrying with the 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:38.760 dailiness of this. 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.800 Yeah, and now because you know we're we're we're not 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:42.960 living in New York anymore. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.800 I unfortunately gave up New York because you know. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:51.000 More affordable house. You know, we're in the DMV area. Yeah, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.920 we're in the suburbs of DC. So all the kids 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.240 are living with us now because one loss to you know, 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.400 he was working as a usher on Broadway. 0:14:58.600 --> 0:14:59.760 That's that's done. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.000 We have one that's an artist that she's living there. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.560 And then we have the youngest one is a college 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.360 junior going junior. So they're all in the house. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.640 So that's one of the reasons. You know, a little 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.360 apartment in Harlem that was going to be a war 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:14.720 so we're like, we have moved. We got space. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.480 So really the day is you know, and my husband 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.040 runs our production company, so we we did have a 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.040 lot going on in the house all the time. And 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.680 so I wake up in the morning, my husband and 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.000 I do a walk, you know, we try to get 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.480 that health walk in and that's at like seven seven, 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:31.600 seven thirty in the morning. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.040 And then from the Monday through Friday, no. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:40.240 Matter what, unless it's just unless it's really raining. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:41.960 We did. We try to do it. I mean when 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:42.600 I'm here, I do it. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.320 In Central Park, I try. We try to do it 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.160 every day. And then after that it's just call after 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:48.960 call after call. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.760 I'm on the phone all day and that is. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.840 Tiring because it's yeah, that sounds exhausting, exhausting. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.160 And I'm either replying to texts, replying to emails, or 0:15:59.160 --> 0:15:59.880 on the phone the whole. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:01.600 So we're all in the house, but we don't really 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.000 see each other that much. We're all in our rooms. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.840 And any moment, if something were to pop off, you 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:08.960 would have to in a moment's notice. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.040 Just how often does that happen to you in a week? 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.080 I mean it happened not that often. I mean Ruth 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.120 Bader Ginsburg was one. But so I the NBC has 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:20.720 built a whole studio in my basement. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:22.720 So the studio is. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.400 Just a matter of running down into the basement and 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.320 turning the whole machine on, the lights. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.880 On, and just going. So that's good. It is bad 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.320 because now they know they have that there. 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.440 So when I'm watching a m Joy that's a green screen, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:37.640 I don't want. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.040 To for the no, for the readout, it's Basically, I'm 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.800 sitting in a chair. In front of me are the cameras, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.440 just like the cameras in the studio. Behind me is 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:50.040 a big screen TV and they can load the background. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.080 Into the TV and it looks like a little studio. 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.640 It looks just like, Yeah, I thought you came back 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:55.200 to thirty one. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.400 I was like, oh, okay, she's back. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.480 Yeah, well tonight I was in there. I saw this 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.520 for this week and next week. I'm actually in working 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.680 out of thirty rock. I'm, you know, here in my hotel. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.560 But normally the show, the five day a week show. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.800 For the readout, we're in the basement. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.880 So he's helped. It's helpful. He's in production. And then 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.480 my daughter she has to be the person that hands 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.280 me the scripts and like, so it's like a family operation. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.680 It's a family business. Yeah, are they union members or 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:21.320 not playing? 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.840 But listen, I'm like, maybe they should get a check. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.520 But yeah, I was going to say, yeah, I don't. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.080 Want to go too far, boss man. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.960 But I was curious because you said the whole production 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.840 thing that I was doing research, and I was like, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.920 wait a minute. Jordan read went to Harvard and guy 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.160 a degree in film for documentaries and so there's then 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.720 there's a whole other aspect of life that we don't 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:43.160 even know. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.480 It's it's a. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.639 Lot because we produce some we do a podcast like 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.040 this one you know that we do also one Get 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:50.240