John Stossel

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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John Stossel: vodka martini (2 1/2 ounces vodka, 1/2 ounce dry vermouth, lemon twist) 19-time Emmy Award winning John Stossel shares how his Jewish parents emigrated from Germany to the USA in the 1920s, recalls his first job working as an office gopher in an Oregon newsroom in 1969, moving to NYC to work for CBS and having fun while renting Hamptons summer homes with John Tesh and Arnold Diaz in the 1980s, considers the talents of Barbara Walters, tells how he conquered his childhood stutter but not before it led to his most embarrassing moment ever on live TV, reflects on the decades of his past writings, and offers some good advice.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:03.5	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:24.5	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host doug brunt today we're talking with john stossel he's the winner of 19 emmy awards five
0:29.7	national press awards a peabody award and he's the new york times bestselling author of three books
0:34.8	john's been at the top of his field in journalism since the
0:37.5	1980s, from CBS to ABC to Fox Business, and he remains at the top, even in this age of new
0:43.6	media with his work on Stossel TV. His YouTube channel alone has 800,000 subscribers who
0:49.7	tune in for his reporting and interviews, and along with Bert Reynolds and Tom Selleck, rounds out the top
0:56.4	three iconic mustaches of the last 50 years. John, thanks for coming in. It's great to see you again.
1:01.8	Thank you, Doug. Boy, I don't feel like I'm at the top. I feel as a libertarian, I'm at the bottom
1:07.6	and getting stomped on all the time, but it's good to hear you say those things.
1:12.0	Well, you are leading the way in voices. It's amazing that the YouTube presence you've got is
1:17.0	massive and growing. Well, Facebook, I have my Twitter, I have a million followers, and Facebook was huge
1:25.9	until the climate zealots got them to shut me down.
1:30.8	Have you been shut down on Facebook, but not YouTube?
1:34.0	Right, not YouTube.
1:35.4	And Facebook not totally shut down.
1:37.4	They just throttle you.
1:39.0	So we had a piece, got 30 million views.
1:42.3	And we routinely got a million or three million,
1:46.1	and now we get 300,000.
1:48.8	So from a million to thousands.
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