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I'm going to tell you what

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the one is told a copy from the today show

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this week on my podcast making space I am joined

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by someone I think you might know Dateline

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NBC correspondent and beloved

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journalist Keith Morrison. He

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and I have known each other for a very long

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time and I consider him not only to be a

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colleague but a friend in this

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episode we dive into everything from his

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early days getting started in journalism to

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now becoming a pop culture icon.

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I hope you enjoy the sneak preview of our

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conversation. Keith

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first of all I just want anyone

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who's listening to know this I've known

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you for a long long time since

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I first started working at

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Dateline and I have to

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say you were one of the warmest

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and most kindest spirits because it can

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be scary stepping into this whole sort

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of network thing and it

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struck me like I have to say when

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I started working at Dateline and met you

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my heart just kind of rested because I

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was like this really nice cool people work

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here so tell me about

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you becoming a journalist because you have this

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as I think one of the old other

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producers described you're like you like the Mister

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Rogers of of murder of

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the trees you've got that vibe so how

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did you how did you decide this was

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the right field for you. I

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didn't really. Mostly failed

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out of other fields. But but

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it to your first point. When

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I went to Dateline myself it was it

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was the same kind of feeling because it

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is I mean what's

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that famous line the TV

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businesses accrual money trench

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were thieves and pimps run free and good

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men die like dogs. It's but

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Dateline wasn't like that they line has always

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been a family of people who care about

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each other and you know

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you came on everybody cared about you

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and it was and I felt the

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same way myself so that's

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yeah that's that's Dateline. fine. But

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I, you know, I got

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into this business just because, well,

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do you really care? Does it? A long,

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long, long time ago. I actually really want to know. I want

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to know. I want to know. A

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long time ago, I was

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busy doing things other than what

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I was supposed to be doing at college. There's

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like political clubs

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and things, very important stuff. But

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I didn't pay any attention to my studies and stuff. My

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dean, the dean of the school I was

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in, said, why don't you go away

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for a couple of years and grow up and you maybe

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you should come back after that. I

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wasn't self-adulter, of course, but I'd said that's

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fine. I would. I didn't have any choice.

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And my dad was a preacher. This

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was in, it was, I was let

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go from the school in about February. My

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dad was a preacher and every spring

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they would send young theology students

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out to the little

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small towns around Saskatchewan to

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fill in for ministers who were taking a month

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off. So you spend the whole summer

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doing that. And

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I had, you know, I wasn't in theology school, but I

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thought, well, I've been around my dad when he's

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preaching for my whole life, so I sort of

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know what to do. So I

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did that for the summer. And that's

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what made me realize I didn't want to be in the religion

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business. When

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that was over, then I was really stuck. I didn't know

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what to do. And I was

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too soon to go back to school. So

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I was sitting in my grandfather's

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house one day watching television and

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the early evening local news came

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on and this guy started

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reading a story about something or other. And

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it was like a little revelation that came

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over me. And I said to myself, I

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can do better than that. And

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so I started applying around

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local TV and radio

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stations until somebody hired

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me in a little radio station. Thanks

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for listening. You can hear my full

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conversation with Keith Morrison by searching, making

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