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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Ep 378 | The Matt Lauer Story | Guest: John Ziegler

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News Commentary, Society & Culture, Daily News, News

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode 'The Matt Lauer Story' John Ziegler joins Chewing The Fat to talk about his conversation with Matt Lauer. Do you remember the Ronan Farrow story about Matt Lauer well John is here to tell it all. Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Phil Robertson here, they told me Hollywood doesn't want hard stories these days.

0:05.2

Well, my story's about as messy as they come, but it turns out our movie, The Blind,

0:11.5

is reaching a mighty throng out there. You break a few box office records

0:16.5

and suddenly Hollywood takes notice that this is a message you'll want to hear.

0:23.3

You're never too far gone.

0:25.2

God can reach you.

0:26.9

Wherever you are, no matter how dark things have gotten,

0:29.9

if you're lost, he can give you refuge. If you're weary, he can bring you strength.

0:36.4

It was hard to watch my darkest moments on the screen.

0:40.6

But when I hear that people are finding hope after seeing this movie, I know the embarrassment was worth it.

0:48.7

I hope you'll watch the blind and share it with someone who needs to know it's not too late to turn it around.

0:55.5

On the blind today at blaze TV.com slash the blind.

1:00.0

And now a a Blaze Media Podcast. You know way back in another lifetime of October of 2019 you did a story talking about your meet up with Matt

1:25.8

Lauer and how you were, you know, fairly impressed and thought that, you know, his

1:31.8

story needed to be told, but was there a place to tell it and then it kind of went away and then a few days ago here in

1:39.6

20-20 in our new world and the the new shadow of the pandemic.

1:44.0

Matt released his expose on the Ronan Ferro debacle that I'll call or I'm sorry his book and and what transpired from there

1:58.4

walk me through a little bit about the process of how you and Matt got together.

2:03.0

Yeah this is a fascinating element of a remarkable story because obviously, you know, I am not a celebrity journalist.

2:12.0

I'm a senior columnist at Mediite. I am not a celebrity journalist.

2:12.8

I'm a senior columnist at Mediite.

2:15.0

And you guys at the Blaze know who I am,

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