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Life is Short with Justin Long

Katie Couric 😳🙄🤓

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Katie Couric (Stand Up To Cancer, Katie Couric Media) talks to Justin about how she has approached challenging and high profile interviews over the years, she tells Justin about what she has learned about her interviewing style, and Katie and Justin bond over their love of Leslie Jordan.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

I called my mother yesterday as I do almost every day

0:16.0

returning her phone call several phone calls and she

0:19.5

was upset with me. She said I

0:22.8

opened the Google and there I was. I said, what do you mean? She said I was right on the AOL.

0:29.0

I a story about the two of us together about me and my cancer. What is going on?

0:35.5

And I've forgotten to tell her that I did an interview a couple weeks ago for this cancer charity.

0:41.0

It's a support group called SurvivorNet. This sounds like humble brand.

0:44.5

You are such a wonderful person.

0:46.0

I know, but I'm telling you how it happened and I did this thing for Kappa Kai Zou shout out.

0:50.0

It was a camp for kids that burned down in the fires in California.

0:53.5

Somebody reached out about this interview and I did it to help you know bring more awareness to the charity.

0:58.0

Whatever I forgot to tell my mother that it was all about the interview was about how mom had cancer.

1:04.0

Which she did 15 years ago and what it was like for us.

1:08.0

And you described her as having a really good attitude during the process and being perky.

1:13.0

And I started yesterday too and she was like, she told me the whole story too.

1:16.0

She's like, I realize that he was talking about me and described me as perky.

1:20.5

I said, well, she maybe you weren't perky but it's still nice that he did.

1:25.0

He mentioned you and he did this nice thing for charity. She's like, I know it is.

1:30.5

But I wasn't perky. I don't know why she was all hung up on that.

1:33.5

She was perky. I don't remember her being really anyway.

1:36.5

Speaking of perky. Oh yeah. Okay. Let's perk up the show.

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