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The Business

Dan Taberski on his new podcast ‘Running from COPS’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As a follow-up to his podcasts about exercise guru Richard Simmons and then Y2K, Dan Taberski set out to investigate the darker aspects of the long-running show ‘Cops.’ Taberski tells us about making ‘Running from COPS,’ the product of an 18-month deep-dive into in the show. Turns out, if you live in a town where it films, ‘Cops’ might come for you whether you’re a bad boy or not.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:04.2

Once he realized that we weren't screwing around, and we had watched 846 episodes of cops and analyzed them all and did a huge data analysis, I think it was just sort of like, well, I got it.

0:15.8

Dan Tversky set out to investigate the darker aspects of the long-running show, Cops.

0:20.6

When he asked for

0:21.3

an interview with series creator John Langley, he was shut out at first. Then Langley learned

0:26.6

the podcast was happening with or without him. Daberski tells us about making Running from

0:31.8

Cops the product of an 18-month deep dive into the show. Turns out if you live in a town

0:37.0

where it films, cops might come for you,

0:39.4

whether you're a bad boy or not. Tiberski also reflects on his time as a daily show field producer

0:44.8

during the John Stewart years and talks about blowback from his earlier podcast about exercise

0:50.3

guru Richard Simmons. But first on the news banter, Iron Man is more like Platinum Man.

0:56.8

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

1:04.0

I am joined by my superhero sidekick in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

1:09.5

Hello, Matt.

1:10.1

Hi there.

1:10.4

So, superheroes, Disney, as we of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, superheroes.

1:11.9

Disney, as we, I think, predicted because, duh, is raking in money hand over fist on Avengers end game, just shattering record after record.

1:21.0

With this completion of the Avengers arc, Robert Downey Jr., I don't know how to quite phrase it. He has made out very, very well for playing Ironman.

1:31.5

To say that somebody deserves the kind of payday that he has gotten, probably sounds crazy to a lot of people in the real world.

1:38.9

But certainly, if you're going to give credit, Kevin Feigy and the team at Marvel deserve credit.

1:44.0

But putting Robert

1:45.1

Downey Jr. in as Iron Man at a time when he was really considered borderline unemployable, drug

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