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The really cool thing about talking to Deborah Norville is that now that she's this big old national star, she got her start here locally in Atlanta. You born and raised here? Yeah, I'm from Dalton. Oh, is that right? And went to University of Georgia, started working here in Atlanta, Channel 5 when I was still in college. Yeah? So, yeah, this is all home for me. It's great to be back. Tell us about the old University of Georgia days.

Oh, man, it was so much fun.

I was at Georgia.

I don't know. college. So yeah, this is all home for me. It's great to be back. Tell us about the old

University of Georgia days. Oh, man, it was so much fun. I was at Georgia. I don't know how Georgia's ranked nationally now, but when... It's getting up there now. It's not like... I'm not talking at the academics. It was one of Playboys' top ten party schools when I was there. I'm thinking it's probably still there.

It's still there.

I'm hanging out with Deborah Norville this morning.

Okay, so the progression goes University of Georgia,

and then do you like, when I was there. I'm thinking it's probably still there. It's still there. I'm hanging out with Deborah Norville this morning.

Okay, so the progression goes University of Georgia.

And then do you like work in a small little, little, anybody in Georgia town before you go to WAGA? No, I started at Wagga when I was still here. It was the freakyest thing, the guy who was running Channel 5. His wife was flipping channels, and I was doing this internship on Channel 8 on Georgia Public TV covering the legislature.

Sort of a forerunner of what they do now on C-SPAN and the wife saw me and she showed me to the husband and he said well you know she looks like she's got some potential and I got this phone call to come in and be an intern I like man this is awesome so I come in three days into this internship. They were low on reporters and they said,

hey, Norville, go cover this story. And they sent me up to Stone Mountain to cover the DeKalb County Fireman's Family Picnic. I had like the little angel on one shoulder saying, Deborah, you must tell them. You haven't had news writing. You're not qualified to do this story. And then the little one in the red suit on the other show. I shut up. If it's important,

they'll figure it out. So then we get

in the news van, and the cameraman started

smoke. to do this story. And then the little one in the red suit on the other show is like, oh, shut up. If it's important, they'll figure it out.

So then we get in the news van and the cameraman started smoking dope.

No way.

I'm kidding. I'm thinking, good God, is this what they do in this writing?

I had this vision of the dog that guests the people of the burning buildings is also being the drug dog.

And I could just imagine, you know, this German Shepherd latching onto my thighs and wrestling me to the ground because I'm tested positive for dope.

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