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The Chuck ToddCast

Chuck's last Post Game: 'The roller coaster never stops,' with John Reiss

The Chuck ToddCast

iHeartPodcasts

Government, News

4.02.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

John Reiss, executive producer for Meet the Press during Chuck's first eight years as moderator, joins to post game a chapter of Meet the Press that brought digital expansion, a daily spin-off and a companion newsmagazine to the longest-running show in television history.

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0:00.0

Hello there I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast. This is also going to be my last post-game episode in the

0:10.4

Todd cast feed, not the last podcast, you guys are getting a lot of me forever

0:14.0

But I did want to take a moment to talk about what we have planned next of course as I said I'm not leaving

0:20.6

It's not a eulogy. You're going to see me across NBC News and like I said

0:25.1

the podcast is going to be coming to you a couple times a week. In fact, got a little formal

0:30.0

schedule announcement. Take a little break until October and then shift to a Monday,

0:34.8

Thursday podcast, broadcast schedule. We'll still have our deep dive interviews, reported

0:41.1

discussions, even our annual what if series on alternate history.

0:45.5

But before I hand over the Meet the Press Moderator desk to my great friend and colleague

0:51.1

Kristen Welker and to the team run by executive

0:54.0

producer David Gellis. I thought I'd spend a little time talking to my original

0:57.1

partner here at Meet the Press John Reese, which means yes we're going to tell

1:01.2

some more stories about meet the press.

1:02.8

Our tenure here, John took over his executive producer, meet the press from 2014,

1:09.5

just as I was getting here, as much as anyone he made the current version of the broadcast

1:13.5

what it is he helped execute my vision to make Meet the Press bigger than just

1:17.9

Sunday supporting the addition of a daily show leading heavily on Meet the Press

1:20.8

reports which he is still executive produces, and generally

1:24.6

being both the old school and new school type of partnership that we can have about TB

1:29.2

News, politics, and the future of media.

1:30.9

For those of you don't know, before he took the helmet meet the press,

1:33.8

John was also executive producer of the NBC nightly news.

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