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Welcome to the Absolutely Not podcast, where we do the most and the least at this same damn time.

I'm your host, Heather McMahon. I want to start a fire.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another episode of the Absolutely Not podcast. I'm your host, Heather McMahon.

How are you? Hope you're having a wonderful week. Very excited. We have a very special guest in House today, and she's about to join us. And I thought I'd just give a little intro. We had been DMing back and forth for quite some time. Two fellow Southern gals, you know, just two Southern gals to like to yip yap on the internet. And it just so happened. She's had a hell of a week in the press.

And we were talking to the incredible CNN reporter.

She has a show called The Source on CNN.

It's the one and only Caitlin Collins.

I'm so excited to talk to her about what it's like to be under such insane pressure.

Does she sleep as she covers the White House and the craziness that

is going on in the world while keeping us informed, staying absolutely chic. I have a lot of

glam questions. I have a lot of world questions. And we're going to get right into it. So please,

let's have a giggle and let's be informed and have a great conversation. Please welcome to the

studio, Caitlin Collins.

Caitlin, welcome to the podcast. This is really an exciting moment. And I just want to preface this.

You're a professional journalist. I am an active breathing clown. Like, that's what I do for a living.

So I hope anybody watching this, I know that the pressure is on, but I hope anybody watching this knows that I'm going to keep it regular Heather style.

I'm not changing it just because you've had a hell of a week.

But we've had this in the works for a while, just two Southern gals DMing back and forth

with mutual admiration for each other.

And it just so happens that you were coming in on one of the wildest weeks that you've had. I know. I know. Talk about timing. Talk about timing. I know. I never realized I was going to be getting the Caitlin Collins exclusive, right? Yes. My first one-on-one. Your first one-on-one after the president of the United States was like, hey, can you smile? But we are smiling here today with Caitlin Collins. Caitlin, tell me everything. How are you doing? I know you're running on two hours of sleep. You don't sleep. You came in from DC last night. How are you sustaining this schedule? It's insane. And first off, can I say, you have so many fans at CNN. Like, when I told people I was doing this, they're like, what? It's like you're meeting like Gandhi. Like, they are like so excited. I just think like people see it in are like so online and they love media and podcasts, but they also like love outlets of stuff because we cover so much serious news day and day out. So I think people just like love listening to you. They find you to be just so hilarious. Anyway, so every time I told someone

this week I was doing your podcast, they were like, what? Yeah. Well, it's like if you're in the

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