Dan Slepian (on The Sing Sing Files)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Dan Slepian (The Sing Sing Files, Dateline) is a journalist, television producer, and author. Dan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he liked to watch the news as a child, who some of his favorite talk show hosts were, and how he landed his first internship at NBC. Dan and Dax talk about how Dateline segments are produced, why he chose to focus on helping people that don’t have a voice, and how he chooses the stories he pursues. Dan explains how convictions are overturned, the hidden epidemic of the wrongfully incarcerated, and the depth of the problems of mass incarceration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm
0:04.4	Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:07.3	Hi. I couldn't say Dan Shepard today because our guest is Dan.
0:10.1	I would have got really confusing.
0:11.5	You're right.
0:12.1	Dan Sleppian. He is an award-winning investigative producer and a veteran dateline producer, which...
0:19.0	Boy, we love our dateline. Yeah. The topic's rough, but he's a party. Yes, and he's a great
0:26.4	storyteller, so you hear really intense stories, but you're riveted. Yes, and his retention of all the players is really second to
0:35.9	none. He has a book out September 10th called the Sing Sing Files, one journalist, six
0:42.3	innocent men in a 20 year fight for justice.
0:45.6	Man is a good episode. It shines a light on something that we talk about occasionally
0:50.5	which is like there's a lot of folks in prison that shouldn't be there.
0:54.0	Yeah. It's about the worst thought too.
0:57.0	Being innocent and having your life stolen.
0:59.0	J-G.
1:00.0	Yeah, but boy, his stories are riveting.
1:02.5	The life he's led as a journalist the last 20, 30 years
1:06.1	is incredible.
1:07.8	Please enjoy Dan Slepian.
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1:20.5	yourself from using all the templates yeah. I I sure did yeah easy peasy so easy
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