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Mike Drop

024 Lara Logan

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.96.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 211 minutes

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Summary

6 years ago, Lara Logan interviewed me for a 60 minutes piece. I had the opportunity to interview her in similar fashion. Like you’ve never heard or seen her before, her amazing journey & career as a world renowned journalist, in some of the most dangerous places on earth. The bravery & courage she shows in this interview sharing details of being in war zones as well as being sexually assaulted in Egypt is impossible to overstate. Enter the world of one of the most badass women to ever grace the news worl

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0:00.0

Welcome to Mic Drop. The podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.

0:19.0

Ladies and gentlemen it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast.

0:26.0

She is a wife and a mother and Emmy award-winning journalist to include the Dupont Award for her work in Afghanistan.

0:34.0

She's most famous for the many years she has spent at 60 minutes including interviewing me for the special.

0:39.0

She can drink me under the table and swears enough to make my former teammates blush and Barbara Walters dresses up for her for fucking Halloween.

0:47.0

Welcome to the stage ladies and gentlemen Laura Logan.

0:50.0

Thanks Mic.

0:51.0

Thank you for being here. Thank you for inviting me into your home. It's an amazing place to be and we were just talking before we got started to me the irony and just the duality or the weird factor I guess of six years ago almost to the day actually I mean because it was about this time six years ago for the 60 minutes piece where you were in my house interviewing me and so to be able to do that is is beyond an honor frankly so I really can't thank you enough for having us down here and then being able to do this with you.

1:20.0

And just before I did this I was the event and one of the guys who came up to me afterwards at the event said guess what his favorite story of all time was of my one 60 minutes.

1:32.0

It couldn't have been mine.

1:33.0

It was. Seriously.

1:35.0

What do you really mean me laugh because I knew I was about to see you.

1:38.0

That's crazy.

1:39.0

That was the event you just did.

1:41.0

Yeah.

1:42.0

That's awesome.

1:43.0

Yeah.

1:44.0

I mean it's a crazy turn of events and you know again it's just it's pretty surreal to be to be interviewing you so I appreciate you letting us come do it.

1:52.0

Thanks.

1:53.0

I like to throw out a couple of just you know kind of stupid questions to get the ball roll and not that you need to be broken in or or anything like that but you know I like to provide a little bit of backstory for the listener because we do have kind of a wide swath whether it's a full of people who have absolutely no idea who I am.

2:10.0

I think most people do but you know there's whether it's a beta male or a Mormon grandmother listening you know people like to hear weird shit so what is your favorite breakfast dish.

2:21.0

Bacon.

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