#3 On the Media w/ Alexander Trowbridge & Matt Negrin
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Bob Crawford of the Avett Brothers talks to Producer Alexander Trowbridge and Writer Matt Negrin of Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect," which is hosted by "Game Change" authors Mark Halpern and John Heilemann. The show was also recently picked up by MSNBC. They discuss how they got involved with the show, the history of entertainment news, and their take on the rules of politics in the 21st Century. They also discuss the impact of Jon Stewart and the "Daily Show" on the history of the news media. The show begins with a conversation between Bob Crawford and historian/co-host Dr. Benjamin Sawyer of Middle Tennessee State University. Recorded Wednesday, May 11 at Bloomberg Studios in New York City.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the road to now. |
| 0:02.6 | In the media, we love Trump because he does such crazy stuff, |
| 0:05.9 | and that's just what we cover. We cover crazy. |
| 0:09.2 | When we visualize Trump in his pajamas, |
| 0:12.2 | is he wearing a stocking cap? |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, wow. You know, I hadn't ever thought about that, |
| 0:17.7 | but maybe it's more of like a helmet. |
| 0:19.2 | Like just some sort of, like, what the guy has in the first Zoolander over his hand. |
| 0:23.9 | What do Mark and John think about these things? |
| 0:27.0 | How widely can one roll their eyes? |
| 0:31.2 | I'm Bob Crawford. |
| 0:32.4 | And I'm Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:33.3 | This is The Road to Now. |
| 0:35.1 | And we are here at George Mason University, where the Ava brothers are about to play a show tonight. We just wrapped up recording another podcast here. And now this podcast you're about to hear is going to be, don't you tell them about it, Bob. Well, last week I was in New York City, and I visited the studios of Bloomberg, and I got to sit down with Matt Negren and Alex Trowbridge, who are writers |
| 0:55.2 | and producers for With All Due Respect, which could be seen on Bloomberg, 5 o'clock weekdays, |
| 1:00.8 | and then rebroadcast at 6 p.m. on MSNBC. And if you haven't seen the show, it's the |
| 1:09.0 | daily show-esque, but it's more serious, it's a serious political commentary show, |
| 1:15.2 | but they are able to add an element of wit and charm. |
| 1:18.7 | They are. |
| 1:19.6 | Which Matt are so, Matt and Alex are so great at doing. |
| 1:22.3 | Right. |
| 1:22.5 | And I listened to this, I wasn't there for this interview, but I've listened to it and talked to Bob about it. |
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