When I envision the end of the world, I imagine flaming rocks hurtling down from the sky and pools of lava in the streets and the world descending into chaos while joy read is on TV as calm as ever

delivering the news until the studio burns out i'll be here i'm on cable the studio is surrounded

by a ring of fire we have we have we have Miguel al-migera outside in the flames Miguel how

are you joy I'm dying now let's go to Ron Mott.

Who is not Ron Allen.

You know they're interchangeable.

Joy.

Joey, it's quite warm.

Quite, quite warm out here.

Back to you.

Even if the apocalypse hasn't started yet, being a cable TV news host is tough.

You're consuming tons of information. You're trying to

deliver it in a way that's both fair and compelling. You're constantly under pressure. You feel

pressure to get the story right. Pressure to broadcast live to hundreds of thousands of people,

to be fast with new information, to not only be fair, but to be perceived as fair, and

to be compelling and get good ratings. It's a hard job to get right, and one of the best

in the game is my friend Joy Reid. She's the host of AM Joy every Saturday and Sunday

morning from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on MSNBC. And she's a constant guest host

for Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O'Donnell. So she's on the air all the time.

And she's always on top of every fact. And she's witty and she's fun and she's unflappable in any situation.

If she seems like the kind of sister who reads the whole book and all the footnotes

and then dances till late at a Brooklyn house party, it's because she is. Not only is Joy

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