Hey everyone, a few weeks ago I read an article in the New York Times titled

Celebrity Culture is Burning, which I found fascinating and relevant. So I reached out to New

York Times journalist Amanda Hess and I was so thrilled when she agreed to talk with me. And my

brother Dr. Bob also joins us and I really, really enjoyed our conversation. Please get in touch

with us here at Unqualified and tell us how you're doing. Our website is Unqualified.com.

And now here she is Amanda Hess.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to Unqualified with your host, Una Farris.

Amanda, thanks so much for doing this. Of course, yeah, I have to tell you I'm a little nervous talking

with you. That's so funny because I, you know, is like a part of my job. I do like celebrity

interviews also. And I'm always very nervous interviewing like a famous person. So can we talk about

that for a second? Sure. Because I actually, it was lower on my list of things that I wanted to ask

you. But I do wonder about interviewing techniques and how you approach something. The profiles that I've

read that you've done, I really love that you tend to not start and forgive me if you have started out

a profile with like Ferris is picking at a, you know, Tunis salad. Salad.

You could, you could have started with my greasy hair that I didn't want to show you.

Right. I mean, I'm lucky in that like the stuff that I do is often it's actually focused on the work

that the person is doing at the moment for the most part. There are some exceptions. Like I interviewed

Tina Turner. Tina Turner is probably the most famous person that I've interviewed. And she's

retired and she's been retired for a long time. So she's not really doing anything. Was she open?

She was so open. I mean, I really recommend interviewing people who are like 79 or 80 years old

because if they have anything to say, like they will say it now. Something that I, I just never got

from her public personas that she's incredibly funny. Oh, that's great. Yeah. So that was nice.

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