Hi everybody this is Josh Manchowitz and we're talking date line and today's

guest is Andrea Canning also also talking dateline.

Nice to see you.

You too.

We're here to talk about your episode, The Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer.

Now, if you have not, you and the audience have not seen this or heard the podcast version.

It is the podcast right below this on the list of podcasts that you chose this episode for so go there listen to it or

watch it on TV and then come back here. Andrea I want to I want to congratulate you and Mario Garcia who produced this epic episode.

You spoke with a lot of people.

This might be a new record for my date lines for number of interviews.

I think the reason we had so many was obviously this case is very expansive but it was that we

started and you know sometimes when you don't get those bookings right away and

so you're so you do other bookings and you're like what can we get what can we get and then it snowballs and

then you those bookings start coming through that you were really trying to get and so

then you end up with a lot of interviews and then you discover that some of the people that you booked because you thought you couldn't get those first group of people that you wanted.

Sometimes that second group of people turns out they're great and you want to make sure they're in there.

Here's something I want to talk about right off the top.

You know, usually, Dateline stories are about things that are not known to the audience.

Like they don't know these people.

We're introducing them to the audience for the first time. audience like

they don't know these people.

What is it like and how what's different when you're covering a story

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