CNN denies Don Lemon ‘benched’ over sexist comments, but he won’t be on air Monday. Pink: ‘Lady Marmalade’ video wasn’t ‘fun’ to make amid Christina Aguilera feud. Prince Harry and Meghan: When ‘South Park’ turns on you, there’s no recovering.
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Don Lemon sought to tamp down internal and external backlash to polarizing comments he made about when women are in their prime. Pink seemingly shaded her former collaborator again while discussing what it was like working together. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were ridiculed in the show’s latest episode, “The Worldwide Privacy Tour.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:16.9 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the Norma, but nice show. It's Monday and I'm your host, Rob Shooter. Garret's off today, but don't worry. We've got a ton of gossip, some really juicy gossip actually today, that we're going to jump into. So what time is it, my friends? It is tea time. |
| 0:40.5 | Ooh, the tea is hot today. |
| 0:45.6 | Sir Don Lemon is in a ton of trouble at CNN. He has apologised to the staff at CNN after his sexist comments about Nikki Haley, particularly her age, but the network and the staff, |
| 0:58.6 | they're not having any of it. |
| 1:00.7 | So CNN typically devotes their morning meetings, their editorial calls to hashing out the news cycle of the day. |
| 1:10.4 | Every network does this. |
| 1:12.1 | They have morning calls, they have afternoon calls, they have evening calls, |
| 1:15.4 | and they really put together the rundown for all their various programs. |
| 1:20.0 | They decide, what's the lead story of the day? |
| 1:22.6 | It's not dissimilar to what we do here on the naughty but nice show. |
| 1:26.7 | Before the show, I normally have a little call |
| 1:31.1 | or text with my co-hosts and we go over what's the biggest story of the day what's the lead what's |
| 1:37.2 | going to be the second story the third story we do about five stories and then we do the nicest and |
| 1:43.7 | the naughtiest of the day. |
| 1:45.0 | So what's that, five, six, seven stories a day. |
| 1:47.8 | They have to do that on every single show, television show they have on CNN, Fox, MSN. |
| 1:54.9 | They all do this. |
| 1:57.1 | And I have to give a shout out. |
| 1:58.4 | My dear friend Amy Rosenblum, who used to work for the Today Show. |
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