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A Date With Dateline

The Mank Files: Segment 3 – The Favorite One

A Date With Dateline

Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL

True Crime, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time again! Kimberly and Katie are happy to present the third installment of The Mank Files! Segment 3 is “The Favorite One” because Josh Mankiewicz opens up about, yes, you guessed it, the Dateline episode “The Favorite Son” (Season 26 Ep.11) . He discusses his new found friend Mickey, the ring, the cubic zirconia conundrum and more! If you are struggling to recall this tragic tale of family scandal, a recap of this episode is included at the end of the segment. Please enjoy this very, very special segment of The Mank Files! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.1

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0:13.5

mother lovers at multises.co.uk. Maltesers. Less light and the load for working mums.

0:20.1

Hey everybody, it's Katie here. Please enjoy this third installment of The Mink Files in which Josh

0:25.9

talks about the episode, The Favorite Sun, which is probably an all-time favorite of both mine and

0:32.2

Kimmerleys. And then stay tuned after for our recap of The Favorite Sun to refresh your memory.

0:39.2

Okay, this is, yeah, can we talk about The Favorite Sun? The Favorite Sun.

0:44.4

Mickey. This is, oh yeah. Do you remember Mickey? How can I, I can't forget? We were hoping you'd

0:49.6

say that. We're obsessed with Mickey. Mickey is one of our all-time favorite day-line interviews.

0:56.0

What great stories is Mickey and your and Mickey's time together was just Katie even made

1:05.2

up a song, Mickey, Mickey being best friends. I did. Yeah, it's song for you guys. When it was over,

1:10.6

this was the great thing. Well, let's go ahead. Let's talk about it. I'll tell you at the

1:13.7

I'll give you the punch line at the end. So first of all, how, the her way of speaking, how much was

1:19.5

cut? Did you guys try to leave as much as you could in? Okay, because I was trying to leave the

1:24.6

exchanges as intact as possible. Sometimes, if somebody trips over something or if they just

1:29.3

be twice, you know, we don't have an unlimited amount of time, but my, I would much rather,

1:35.8

you guys here, you in the audience, hear from the person in an exchange. Yeah. As opposed to me

1:43.2

saying, Katie was sitting at the end of the day, well, she was wearing a gray sweater,

1:47.0

there's a microphone in front of her, much better if that comes out in a discussion. In a discussion,

1:51.3

right. And so, and that's also, I mean, that's sort of what differentiates

1:54.8

date line from some documentary in which the correspondent is not part of it. I mean, you want to be

1:59.2

the sort of surrogate for the audience and ask the questions that they want to ask like,

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