Part 2: Ira Rosen talks ‘60 Minutes’, plus The News (ACS Mar 4)

Adam Carolla Show

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Comedy, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Adam welcomes Ira Rosen to the podcast at the top of Part 2, and the guys chat about his time working at ‘60 Minutes’, which is one of Adam’s favorite shows. Ira also shares some behind the scenes stories, and talks about meeting Marlon Brando, as well as his relationships with various ‘60 Minutes’ hosts throughout the years. Later, Adam asks Ira to talk about the process of bringing a news story to life, and the guys go on to discuss the show’s exposé on truffles. In the last part of the show, Gina reads news stories about Chris D’Elia, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, and a plastic surgeon who virtually attended a trial while in the middle of an operation. Please support today’s sponsors: ReliefBand.com enter ADAM LightStream.com/ADAM Lifelock.com enter ADAM SimpliSafe.com/ADAM Geico.com PlutoTV

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Adam Corolla show on Podcast One.
0:08.0	Well, long time 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen is going to be joining us, talk about all those iconic 60 minutes stories, and we got the news coming up as well. It's time to check Adam's voicemail. Hey, hey, funny thing about Andrew Cuomo, huh?
0:38.0	He went from Emmy Award winner to get an M.E. Tude. You can leave us a message at 888 634, 1744.
0:49.0	Well, speaking at Emmy Award winning, our next guest, Ira Rosen, is one twenty four Emmy Awards in 40 years?
0:57.3	Is that correct?
0:58.3	Yeah, I only built shelves for twenty of them, so it's a problem. Wow, a new book, ticking clock behind the scenes at 60 minutes available now on Amazon.
1:14.0	Well, this has always been one of my favorite shows,
1:16.8	so I'm interested in all that's gone on
1:19.1	behind the scenes there.
1:20.2	So welcome to the show.
1:21.8	Thanks for having me. So you show up in
1:25.0	show up in 1980s a segment producer?
1:28.0	No, I showed up as a little pisher in 1980 with barely enough journalism experience to to get a job as a copy boy in Long Beach, California.
1:41.0	And what happened was Don, you had seen a story I'd done locally and liked it. And
1:46.4	Don was the creator of 60 minutes and he operated out of his sense of touch. He didn't
1:51.5	need a resume to say if he liked you, he didn't like you. And when I sat down with
1:55.7	Don, I told him that I learned the art of storytelling from working the lights in the Catskill
2:00.8	hotels. the comedians,
2:03.4	Hena Youngman, Jan Murray, Red Buttons.
2:06.7	And what their genius was, they told a joke,
2:09.4	like take my wife, please,
2:11.1	four words, beginning middle and, and end has motivation or I'm going to take my wife
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