Hi everybody, I'm Josh Mankiewicz and I'm here with NBC News correspondent Blaine Alexander.

Hello, hello, so glad to be here.

And we're talking Dateline.

Now the episode that we're going to be talking about is called 65 Seconds and it's Blaine's

episode.

And if you didn't see it on TV or if you haven't listened to the podcast, it's in the podcast

list right below this one.

So go listen to it or watch it and then come back here.

First of all, welcome to Dateline.

This was your first episode and I hope there are many, many more.

Thank you so much.

It is very good to be here in the Dateline world to be sitting here and talking to you about

this.

It was quite an experience.

I really enjoyed the process, so I'm glad to be part of it.

Thank you.

Now a little bit of background for people who only watch Dateline.

Blaine's a correspondent in the NBC News Atlanta Bureau, parenthetically, I used to be a correspondent

in the ABC News Atlanta Bureau, but that was before Blaine was born.

And it was an interesting time when I was there and we were all very excited about fire,

which had recently been invented.

Anyway, but Blaine is a correspondent right now in the NBC Atlanta Bureau and has just

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