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Life is Short with Justin Long

Martha Raddatz 🤦‍♀️

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

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

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Martha Raddatz (ABC News, The Long Road Home) and Justin talk about her decades-long career as a journalist covering war zones and moderating presidential debates, what it was like to adapt her book The Long Road Home into a scripted TV series, and the time she threw up while being flown in a fighter jet.

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0:00.0

Our parents have been married almost 50 years and that is quite a feat and it's something that I really admire about them I think

0:16.8

they've had a hell of a run. I feel like there's a butt coming. No that's the introduction let's do the show show. You're right. There is a but occasionally, occasionally,

0:27.2

they struggle as does every couple to communicate their needs. And so as their offspring, as their children we we sometimes find ourselves in the middle of said negotiations and

0:41.0

recently something came up where they're changing my bedroom, my childhood bedroom, into I guess a guest room. They both had very different ideas of what they wanted this room to look like. And it didn't seem like they were on the same page

0:56.0

when it came to the look, the design of this room.

1:00.4

It required us stepping in. Yes, but now happy ending, full steam ahead, the project is well underway.

1:06.5

Yeah, they decided to add a bed, so it's now triple a bunk bed.

1:11.1

And now your childhood is officially over because the bunk beds have been dismantled.

1:16.2

I haven't seen it yet, but I've been told.

1:19.6

That's going to be hard for me.

1:20.7

Yeah, I bet.

1:21.4

It's going to be really hard. You know, because I have such, I think that the vantage

1:27.0

point of being in that bed and looking out, I had one little window I looked out, not that it was like, it wasn't like a prison cell,

1:34.0

but I happened to have a window that looked out

1:36.0

onto the street in front of us

1:38.0

and there was a fork in the road,

1:40.0

which had a stop sign that nobody stopped at.

1:43.5

And there was a lone street light that would shine down.

1:46.7

And I have such vivid memories of watching,

1:50.7

like praying for the snow to start falling in that illumination.

1:55.8

And just looking out there every night, that one, do you have that one like perspective,

2:02.3

that one angle on the world that you just know better than anything?

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