ABC News Correspondent Kaylee Hartung & Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Hartung & Mailbag Stew & Bruce are joined by Kaylee Hartung to discuss her personal battle with COVID-19 and the reporting she has done on the global pandemic. Motivational speaker Jon Gordon gives insight on how you can improve your mental health during social isolation. Plus, your mailbag questions on college football.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:19.4 | Bruce, we've got a loaded show today. We've |
| 0:22.3 | got two guests. First up is going to be our friend Kaylee Hartong from ABC News. |
| 0:27.8 | Kaylee's been, first of all, we all know Kaylee from when she was a college football reporter |
| 0:32.2 | for ESPN. She's been very open about the journey she just went through of having tested positive for COVID-19 and |
| 0:40.9 | what that whole period was like for her. We want to talk to her. We're also having on John |
| 0:49.2 | Gordon, who is a motivational speaker who works with a lot of the top couch football programs. |
| 0:56.3 | And then Bruce, I promise people, promise, we are actually going to answer your questions about |
| 1:01.4 | football this week. |
| 1:02.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:08.3 | We are very pleased now to be joined by our friend, Kaylee Hartung. |
| 1:12.0 | You probably remember her from her days as an ESPN sideline reporter, but now she is a |
| 1:18.4 | national news reporter for ABC. |
| 1:21.6 | And the first person in my life that I know who actually tested positive for coronavirus from having covered |
| 1:30.5 | at Kaylee first of all just letting people know you're recovered now you're healthy you're |
| 1:35.2 | back on TV but take us through this Odyssey that you went through I am thank you guys so |
| 1:41.3 | much for having me and thank you both for your friendship and support |
| 1:44.7 | during this this whole ordeal. I really appreciate. Really appreciate the kindness that I |
| 1:51.5 | received from both of you. So glad to be here with you and glad to say yes, I am, I am doing well now. |
| 1:58.3 | So it was the first week of March that I went to Seattle and I was covering |
| 2:04.7 | the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. You know, there was a nursing home there that was |
| 2:09.5 | really the epicenter of it all. And I spent a week there really seeing firsthand the toll that |
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