June 27, 2023 • 23 mins
Today we interview Benjamin Nandy, a Newscaster at Westchester. We learn about how about taking a step forward and pursuing your own career.
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Hello, welcome to the Careers4Kids podcast where kids learn careers.
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This is Maxwell Valencia.
And this is Henry Morrison.
And today we have Benjamin Nandy, a newscaster at Westchester.
Hello Mr. Nandy, I'm interested in what a newscaster is about it.
I hope to have an amazing interview with you.
Hey gang, how you doing?
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I am really nervous, but hopefully you'll walk me through it.
I've never done an interview for a podcast before.
I've never been the guy who got interviewed.
So well, we're going to try to make this as easy as possible.
We have an easy question.
Pills, what do you currently do right now?
Like, how do you do the job?
And like, oh, you had to come out of the gates with the hard hitting question.
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OK, I'm a reporter.
I'm a journalist.
I'm with News 12 Westchester and News 12 Hudson Valley.
It's a news service provided by Optimum.
If you have Optimum, then you have News 12.
Oh yeah, I have Optimum.
But really, if you have the internet nowadays, you have News 12.
Yep.
So tell us more about your career and how did you get to this position?
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Yeah, it's so interesting.
How did you?
Well, I think I've lived in about seven or eight places.
So it was kind of a long journey.
I started in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
What's that?
It's cowboy country, but it's really actually it was the best move I ever made going there
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for my first real paying job.
I mean, I got interested in it by being an intern at a station Action News in Philly,
Philadelphia.
And but Wyoming was my first real job where I was anchoring and recording and doing the
whole thing.
And it was yeah, that was a really smart move.
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And then from there went to gosh, Atlantic City, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky.
Now I'm here.
Whoa, that's like a really like good like how you just got to this.
It's like insane.
Like a lot of places.
Which one?
Actually, I have a question for the next one.
Which one was your favorite place?
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I know it's totally off topic, but what was your favorite place to live?
Oh, well, I mean this currently.
This is the best place I've ever worked at when I'm out in the community.
I mean, because people watch News 12 nonstop all the time over dinner while they're ironing
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their clothes in the morning.
It's a really big deal.
And it's kind of humbling really.
So definitely News 12, but before that, Alabama.
I worked at the Fox affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, and I was the weekend anchor and
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I kind of ran the show and kind of ran like a team.
There was like five or six hours and it was that was really cool.
I would say that was my favorite after after News 12.
I'd be like really I'm like interested in like I like a newscast like anchors and stuff.
But what part of your job do you enjoy the most and dislike the most of being like in
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the news?
Oh, that I like the most?
Yeah, and dislike.
I guess I like that being a local news reporter.
I really like it because once you do a story with somebody, you're connected with that
person and that person can be a source for stories down the road.
You can have coffee with that person and make some kind of friendship professional obviously,
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but in order to get other stories and learn more about like what the story was that you
did with them in the first place.
That's a big deal to me.
If you're a national news reporter, which I don't really want to be on like the nightly
news or anything, those are more they call that parachuting where you just go into a
community, you don't know anybody and you try and you do the story and then you fly
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somewhere else and you don't ever see those people again.
And so it's a big difference between local news and national news.
And that's really what I like the most about local news.
And what do you dislike the most about your job?
Dislike.
I guess during the course of my day, I dislike having to find bathrooms or places to wash
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my hands while I'm seriously while I'm trying to hit a deadline at three o'clock or five
o'clock.
They're very random, but very true.
Disruptions like that.
It can be kind of tough.
I mean, I got to say, yeah, I guess I should have practically thought more about this one.
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But that was that's it really can throw a wrench in your day when you have deadlines
and you work on deadlines every day.
So that not just go to the bathroom, I mean, but like washing your hands or doing like
doing a personal task.
I find myself in a vacuum between like when I wake up in the morning and when I hit my
deadline at six and it's hard for me to do a lot of other things.
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Obviously, you know, if my mom calls, I want to talk to her or I need to wash up because
I was out in the mud doing a live shot.
I need to do that.
But it's it throws me off a little bit.
So I guess that's my answer.
I don't know.
Was that good?
I don't know what I'm talking about.
It doesn't it doesn't really matter.
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I mean, I guess it does.
But it matters, people are watching or learning or listening to this, right?
I hope so.
Yeah.
I mean, we're not we're not we're not super.
We're not like I don't want to go off topic.
But let's just say only a handful of people are listening to this so far.
We hope to keep growing.
But yes.
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Yeah.
I'm interested in this.
I think you guys definitely got it.
You have the magic sauce, the two of you.
So I think if it's not this project, it will be something else.
And then eventually at one point, a lot of people are going to watch this.
That's my prediction.
Or listen to this.
I'm sorry.
We ever listening to this.
We thank you so much.
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You're supporting us so much.
No problem.
Pleasure.
Yeah.
So was this the dream job you imagined yourself doing when you were a little kid or just when
you were a kid in general, whatever.
But like, was this the dream job you imagined yourself doing?
When I was real little, I guess, like I had dream like my dream job was being a football
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player or a tennis player or I don't know, something like that.
Or a flight attendant.
I always thought that was so cool.
When I became a teenager and I started thinking about my career, it was definitely news reporter.
So that's kind of what I knew when I was in high school when I started gearing my studies
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towards journalism.
So you were at the people that actually decided to go ahead and like pursue that.
Like I know a lot of people who just have like this like dream or imagine doing a job
they love or just want to do when they're older than doing like a more boring job that
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like you just I don't know that you dislike because it makes more money.
But this like you actually pursued, you actually pursued it.
Which is really awesome in my opinion.
How you actually went ahead, took this thing when you were a teenager and actually went
out and did it.
Awesome.
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So thank you for saying that.
It was it was it's not very glamorous but I'm glad I'm glad I made that decision.
I really could not imagine myself really doing anything else because it's I don't think I'd
be that great at anything else.
I would be okay but this is what I'm most passionate about telling people's stories
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and harassing public officials.
Congratulations for making that decision.
Thank you.
Woo.
Are we clapping?
I saw clapping I didn't hear it though.
Yeah we congratulate you.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Congratulations to you and this podcast.
Thanks.
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And who were like your main idols when you were young?
Like who did you like inspire you to like?
It doesn't have to be a newscaster but like who like made you like want to like pursue
different things.
Well there were a few newscasters that inspired me a couple local newscasters and Peter Jennings.
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I don't know if you know who that is.
Oh yeah I do.
Oh you do okay.
He was awesome.
He started out being I think he started out being an anchor and then but then he went
out into the field and he was recording all over the world.
That like gave him that really seasoned him to be a news anchor later on that people really
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trusted and I did.
I mean I would go play in traffic if Peter Jennings said I should have because he was
the man and so professionally I think I definitely was inspired by and admired him.
Other people well gosh Rando Cunningham I really he was the quarterback the Eagles in
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the late 80s and early 90s and I loved him.
Look it up on YouTube he punted a ball 91 yards one time.
He's just an amazing athlete and he almost won the Super Bowl or almost got there had
like two or three good runs where he almost like went to the Super Bowl and won it.
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But he was in Philly and I was a Philadelphia Eagles fan so that's one that comes to mind
that I really looked up to and I thought was awesome.
Sounds like I know a little bit of him but like because of course you're an anchor and
you're definitely gonna like know more about this stuff he just sounds like an awesome
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guy and I can get why you looked up to him.
Like moving on why did you pick this job like what made you do this of course like the teenager
thing you can imagine yourself doing any other thing but what was like what motivated you
to make that decision.
To be honest when I first first first got into it I was excited more superficially I
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just thought that it would be fun to be the guy on the screen saying the things and that
was kind of my intention getting into it and then after six months not even after a few
months of my first well my first internship taught me a lot but really after my first
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few months of my first job after that I learned that it wasn't very glamorous and that we
were really working for people.
This is like what we do is constitutionally enshrined.
It's a big deal and they don't have this kind of thing in many other countries where you
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can get accurate reliable information from other humans and so after a while I started
to look more deeply into it and actually and really started to remember have flashbacks
of my ethics courses in college and then that's what made me stay with it.
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So I got into it because I wanted to be famous I stayed in it because I love people.
Well once again it's cool that you pursued that but like some of the more reasoning behind
it behind it like you just wanted to connect with the people is like that's it that's once
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again an awesome thing.
Yeah so I think Maxwell is another question for you.
Hit me.
What was the biggest highlight of your entire career?
I well I'm looking at a few awards that I won here on the wall one is an award from
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Associated Press which is well if the Associated Press says he did anything good then you should
believe them you should feel good about it and I got an AP award for our area locally
or I'm reading it it is best news series and that was when I was covering these asylum
seekers from Guatemala.
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This is amazing I hope we have time for it.
There's a city Kingston which is it's about 90 miles north of New York City it's pretty
small and starting in say 2017 2018 families started arriving in Kingston from this one
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village in Guatemala and they were all like neighbors from the same village and they were
indigenous people they were Mayan and they were coming at like at a rate of about one
or two families a week so right now we have a few hundred families in Kingston who are
all from this same village in Guatemala which blows me away that they have that in Kingston
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and so I really reported about their culture and what they're like but I also reported
on their challenges they're seeking asylum many of them are walking around with leg bands
that they have to wear so the government knows where they are because they're legally present
they are in a way in custody of the federal government while they seek asylum and they're
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seeking asylum because of persecution in their home country because they're indigenous so
I if we didn't do those stories nobody would have known really what who they were or know
why the school population suddenly started to shoot up with more students so I think
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we brought a lot to light there and we definitely dignified these families that were coming
in and were not being paid a whole lot of attention to before but they are now that's
really cool thank you yeah I'm pretty proud of that and a lot of the other immigration
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and housing stories that I've done immigration and housing that's uh that's kind of my wheelhouse
okay so um don't mind my little sister if you start screaming in the background but
um anyways what are what are the biggest challenges that you think can be solved by my generation
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that you would want us to solve for you like I don't know we like of course climate change
but like what else um okay I got a couple oh one is misinformation oh yeah that's probably
a really big thing being a newscaster misinformation especially what it's 2023 so the last 10 years
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um I think the uh adults or people who are professionals could have done better or just
adults generally could have done better uh handling that spotting that preparing for
it and then for another thing we know that there we might now know what causes misinformation
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like people maybe from other countries or other groups and so we know that it happens
and we know what they did during previous elections or previous campaigns but we were
the people like Americans that would click on it and believe it and share it and so that's
a big deal and so hopefully the next generation can move beyond that and just maybe be a little
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more deliberate and a little more thoughtful I think that's a that will go a long way toward
uh misinformation mess that we're in right now yeah I mean I can understand that thinking
like since like let's just say 2013 or so like 10 years ago like I just feel like well
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I don't really it's not all just some I feel like more and more newscasters or anchors
or just the news has gotten just I don't know just the media has had more misinformation
like yes like I saw one like in the last decade and um definitely um also that like newscasters
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I'm not saying you do this don't get offended by this no of course not but oh my gosh I'm
gonna be so like some of them it's not you not you but some of them you're talking about
me no I'm kidding but some of them have done more with the media and then the media at
the same time is just a lot of the media in the past 10 years has been just going with
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what like the big companies say so like it's only like probably a smaller percentage of
it but I can definitely get that that's like the only take I can have on it because I don't
know much about it but yeah that's pretty much it so yeah there's many like misinformation
um my other thing was batteries if you can solve that that would be great oh or really
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anything that like powers another thing and makes things go that's a big challenge that I run into
all the time with having to recharge batteries or call my manager to get new batteries batteries
batteries so if you can solve that that would be awesome that was that's so annoying let's say
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someone listening to this podcast wants to be a newscaster like following your footsteps what
would you tell him or her I would tell them not to be afraid to go to a place like Wyoming
and just not to have reservations about where you go or what media outlet you work for starting out
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because everything is is what you make of it that's how I've always looked at all my jobs
um that's why all my jobs have been pretty positive experiences so I guess that would be
my advice things are what you are a job this job especially is it's what you make of it you can
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you can shape your own path in this business and um you can have influence like that
oh really oh I didn't like that one but I guess it was okay but it but either way if your speech
was good or not or it wasn't really speech but whatever you were saying if it was good or not
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it doesn't matter as long as putting out a good message and I think that was so
uh yeah congrats on that too I know you were nervous so thank you what is your main
what is your main life advice for kids listening to this podcast
life advice or just advice in general yeah general
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to try and bring us back to kindness and so like whenever you get worked up or
you're about to do something out of character to just stop and breathe that's what I tell all my
friends and my family my wife my co-workers um myself if I get a little antsy to stop and
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breathe I mean it's like deep in the nose out the mouth whistling it out stop and think
oh that's my best advice I mean that's good yeah that I feel like if people followed that advice
I feel like there'd just be a lot less just a lot less I mean I don't know the first thing that came
to mind for me was crime it'd be a lot less crime people just thought yeah there's so much crime
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yeah people are getting higher yeah well we'll cover things where somebody's saying in court
like I that I I wish I would have stopped and thought or I wish I would have just reconsidered
when they're being uh tried or sentenced for killing somebody yep or just even that not just
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like not just throwing somebody like a bunch of crimes rappery like a lot of a lot of crimes
like I don't know what you're saying killing someone like I know that there's not everything
exposed in like those court cases like there's still stuff that went behind it but like you like
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I forget what I was gonna say now dang it but like um it's pretty much just like if they just
would have thought like it more in the moment like they wouldn't have done it like I don't know oh
like I feel like a lot of like a lot of just let's just say murders for example yeah pressure like
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because the person's under pressure and like a decision or something like a lot of them like
even if it's not like an immediate decision a lot of them just feel I feel like it's because of
pressure so people just instead of doing it I mean like that that sounds so bad but like just stop and
think in the moment before you do it yes that that's good that sounds really creepy coming from
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me you're very very creepy no that's wise you're the wise old man wrap things up no that's thank
you so much for allowing us to interview you I know you're a bit nervous but I'm sure more kids
will be inspired to take a path of news camping because of this interview yes a wise wise 12 year
old okay but yeah so thanks for coming on the show and you know good luck with your career
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and well we hope it still hope it still is interesting to you a lot yeah on the road so
yeah so thank you bye thank you
Hello, welcome to the Careers4Kids podcast where kids learn careers.
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This is Maxwell Valencia.
And this is Henry Morrison.
And today we have Benjamin Nandy, a newscaster at Westchester.
Hello Mr. Nandy, I'm interested in what a newscaster is about it.
I hope to have an amazing interview with you.
Hey gang, how you doing?
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I am really nervous, but hopefully you'll walk me through it.
I've never done an interview for a podcast before.
I've never been the guy who got interviewed.
So well, we're going to try to make this as easy as possible.
We have an easy question.
Pills, what do you currently do right now?
Like, how do you do the job?
And like, oh, you had to come out of the gates with the hard hitting question.
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OK, I'm a reporter.
I'm a journalist.
I'm with News 12 Westchester and News 12 Hudson Valley.
It's a news service provided by Optimum.
If you have Optimum, then you have News 12.
Oh yeah, I have Optimum.
But really, if you have the internet nowadays, you have News 12.
Yep.
So tell us more about your career and how did you get to this position?
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Yeah, it's so interesting.
How did you?
Well, I think I've lived in about seven or eight places.
So it was kind of a long journey.
I started in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
What's that?
It's cowboy country, but it's really actually it was the best move I ever made going there
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for my first real paying job.
I mean, I got interested in it by being an intern at a station Action News in Philly,
Philadelphia.
And but Wyoming was my first real job where I was anchoring and recording and doing the
whole thing.
And it was yeah, that was a really smart move.
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And then from there went to gosh, Atlantic City, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky.
Now I'm here.
Whoa, that's like a really like good like how you just got to this.
It's like insane.
Like a lot of places.
Which one?
Actually, I have a question for the next one.
Which one was your favorite place?
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I know it's totally off topic, but what was your favorite place to live?
Oh, well, I mean this currently.
This is the best place I've ever worked at when I'm out in the community.
I mean, because people watch News 12 nonstop all the time over dinner while they're ironing
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their clothes in the morning.
It's a really big deal.
And it's kind of humbling really.
So definitely News 12, but before that, Alabama.
I worked at the Fox affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, and I was the weekend anchor and
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I kind of ran the show and kind of ran like a team.
There was like five or six hours and it was that was really cool.
I would say that was my favorite after after News 12.
I'd be like really I'm like interested in like I like a newscast like anchors and stuff.
But what part of your job do you enjoy the most and dislike the most of being like in
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the news?
Oh, that I like the most?
Yeah, and dislike.
I guess I like that being a local news reporter.
I really like it because once you do a story with somebody, you're connected with that
person and that person can be a source for stories down the road.
You can have coffee with that person and make some kind of friendship professional obviously,
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but in order to get other stories and learn more about like what the story was that you
did with them in the first place.
That's a big deal to me.
If you're a national news reporter, which I don't really want to be on like the nightly
news or anything, those are more they call that parachuting where you just go into a
community, you don't know anybody and you try and you do the story and then you fly
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somewhere else and you don't ever see those people again.
And so it's a big difference between local news and national news.
And that's really what I like the most about local news.
And what do you dislike the most about your job?
Dislike.
I guess during the course of my day, I dislike having to find bathrooms or places to wash
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my hands while I'm seriously while I'm trying to hit a deadline at three o'clock or five
o'clock.
They're very random, but very true.
Disruptions like that.
It can be kind of tough.
I mean, I got to say, yeah, I guess I should have practically thought more about this one.
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But that was that's it really can throw a wrench in your day when you have deadlines
and you work on deadlines every day.
So that not just go to the bathroom, I mean, but like washing your hands or doing like
doing a personal task.
I find myself in a vacuum between like when I wake up in the morning and when I hit my
deadline at six and it's hard for me to do a lot of other things.
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Obviously, you know, if my mom calls, I want to talk to her or I need to wash up because
I was out in the mud doing a live shot.
I need to do that.
But it's it throws me off a little bit.
So I guess that's my answer.
I don't know.
Was that good?
I don't know what I'm talking about.
It doesn't it doesn't really matter.
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I mean, I guess it does.
But it matters, people are watching or learning or listening to this, right?
I hope so.
Yeah.
I mean, we're not we're not we're not super.
We're not like I don't want to go off topic.
But let's just say only a handful of people are listening to this so far.
We hope to keep growing.
But yes.
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Yeah.
I'm interested in this.
I think you guys definitely got it.
You have the magic sauce, the two of you.
So I think if it's not this project, it will be something else.
And then eventually at one point, a lot of people are going to watch this.
That's my prediction.
Or listen to this.
I'm sorry.
We ever listening to this.
We thank you so much.
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You're supporting us so much.
No problem.
Pleasure.
Yeah.
So was this the dream job you imagined yourself doing when you were a little kid or just when
you were a kid in general, whatever.
But like, was this the dream job you imagined yourself doing?
When I was real little, I guess, like I had dream like my dream job was being a football
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player or a tennis player or I don't know, something like that.
Or a flight attendant.
I always thought that was so cool.
When I became a teenager and I started thinking about my career, it was definitely news reporter.
So that's kind of what I knew when I was in high school when I started gearing my studies
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towards journalism.
So you were at the people that actually decided to go ahead and like pursue that.
Like I know a lot of people who just have like this like dream or imagine doing a job
they love or just want to do when they're older than doing like a more boring job that
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like you just I don't know that you dislike because it makes more money.
But this like you actually pursued, you actually pursued it.
Which is really awesome in my opinion.
How you actually went ahead, took this thing when you were a teenager and actually went
out and did it.
Awesome.
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So thank you for saying that.
It was it was it's not very glamorous but I'm glad I'm glad I made that decision.
I really could not imagine myself really doing anything else because it's I don't think I'd
be that great at anything else.
I would be okay but this is what I'm most passionate about telling people's stories
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and harassing public officials.
Congratulations for making that decision.
Thank you.
Woo.
Are we clapping?
I saw clapping I didn't hear it though.
Yeah we congratulate you.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Congratulations to you and this podcast.
Thanks.
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And who were like your main idols when you were young?
Like who did you like inspire you to like?
It doesn't have to be a newscaster but like who like made you like want to like pursue
different things.
Well there were a few newscasters that inspired me a couple local newscasters and Peter Jennings.
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I don't know if you know who that is.
Oh yeah I do.
Oh you do okay.
He was awesome.
He started out being I think he started out being an anchor and then but then he went
out into the field and he was recording all over the world.
That like gave him that really seasoned him to be a news anchor later on that people really
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trusted and I did.
I mean I would go play in traffic if Peter Jennings said I should have because he was
the man and so professionally I think I definitely was inspired by and admired him.
Other people well gosh Rando Cunningham I really he was the quarterback the Eagles in
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the late 80s and early 90s and I loved him.
Look it up on YouTube he punted a ball 91 yards one time.
He's just an amazing athlete and he almost won the Super Bowl or almost got there had
like two or three good runs where he almost like went to the Super Bowl and won it.
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But he was in Philly and I was a Philadelphia Eagles fan so that's one that comes to mind
that I really looked up to and I thought was awesome.
Sounds like I know a little bit of him but like because of course you're an anchor and
you're definitely gonna like know more about this stuff he just sounds like an awesome
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guy and I can get why you looked up to him.
Like moving on why did you pick this job like what made you do this of course like the teenager
thing you can imagine yourself doing any other thing but what was like what motivated you
to make that decision.
To be honest when I first first first got into it I was excited more superficially I
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just thought that it would be fun to be the guy on the screen saying the things and that
was kind of my intention getting into it and then after six months not even after a few
months of my first well my first internship taught me a lot but really after my first
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few months of my first job after that I learned that it wasn't very glamorous and that we
were really working for people.
This is like what we do is constitutionally enshrined.
It's a big deal and they don't have this kind of thing in many other countries where you
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can get accurate reliable information from other humans and so after a while I started
to look more deeply into it and actually and really started to remember have flashbacks
of my ethics courses in college and then that's what made me stay with it.
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So I got into it because I wanted to be famous I stayed in it because I love people.
Well once again it's cool that you pursued that but like some of the more reasoning behind
it behind it like you just wanted to connect with the people is like that's it that's once
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again an awesome thing.
Yeah so I think Maxwell is another question for you.
Hit me.
What was the biggest highlight of your entire career?
I well I'm looking at a few awards that I won here on the wall one is an award from
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Associated Press which is well if the Associated Press says he did anything good then you should
believe them you should feel good about it and I got an AP award for our area locally
or I'm reading it it is best news series and that was when I was covering these asylum
seekers from Guatemala.
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This is amazing I hope we have time for it.
There's a city Kingston which is it's about 90 miles north of New York City it's pretty
small and starting in say 2017 2018 families started arriving in Kingston from this one
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village in Guatemala and they were all like neighbors from the same village and they were
indigenous people they were Mayan and they were coming at like at a rate of about one
or two families a week so right now we have a few hundred families in Kingston who are
all from this same village in Guatemala which blows me away that they have that in Kingston
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and so I really reported about their culture and what they're like but I also reported
on their challenges they're seeking asylum many of them are walking around with leg bands
that they have to wear so the government knows where they are because they're legally present
they are in a way in custody of the federal government while they seek asylum and they're
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seeking asylum because of persecution in their home country because they're indigenous so
I if we didn't do those stories nobody would have known really what who they were or know
why the school population suddenly started to shoot up with more students so I think
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we brought a lot to light there and we definitely dignified these families that were coming
in and were not being paid a whole lot of attention to before but they are now that's
really cool thank you yeah I'm pretty proud of that and a lot of the other immigration
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and housing stories that I've done immigration and housing that's uh that's kind of my wheelhouse
okay so um don't mind my little sister if you start screaming in the background but
um anyways what are what are the biggest challenges that you think can be solved by my generation
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that you would want us to solve for you like I don't know we like of course climate change
but like what else um okay I got a couple oh one is misinformation oh yeah that's probably
a really big thing being a newscaster misinformation especially what it's 2023 so the last 10 years
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um I think the uh adults or people who are professionals could have done better or just
adults generally could have done better uh handling that spotting that preparing for
it and then for another thing we know that there we might now know what causes misinformation
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like people maybe from other countries or other groups and so we know that it happens
and we know what they did during previous elections or previous campaigns but we were
the people like Americans that would click on it and believe it and share it and so that's
a big deal and so hopefully the next generation can move beyond that and just maybe be a little
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more deliberate and a little more thoughtful I think that's a that will go a long way toward
uh misinformation mess that we're in right now yeah I mean I can understand that thinking
like since like let's just say 2013 or so like 10 years ago like I just feel like well
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I don't really it's not all just some I feel like more and more newscasters or anchors
or just the news has gotten just I don't know just the media has had more misinformation
like yes like I saw one like in the last decade and um definitely um also that like newscasters
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I'm not saying you do this don't get offended by this no of course not but oh my gosh I'm
gonna be so like some of them it's not you not you but some of them you're talking about
me no I'm kidding but some of them have done more with the media and then the media at
the same time is just a lot of the media in the past 10 years has been just going with
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what like the big companies say so like it's only like probably a smaller percentage of
it but I can definitely get that that's like the only take I can have on it because I don't
know much about it but yeah that's pretty much it so yeah there's many like misinformation
um my other thing was batteries if you can solve that that would be great oh or really
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anything that like powers another thing and makes things go that's a big challenge that I run into
all the time with having to recharge batteries or call my manager to get new batteries batteries
batteries so if you can solve that that would be awesome that was that's so annoying let's say
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someone listening to this podcast wants to be a newscaster like following your footsteps what
would you tell him or her I would tell them not to be afraid to go to a place like Wyoming
and just not to have reservations about where you go or what media outlet you work for starting out
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because everything is is what you make of it that's how I've always looked at all my jobs
um that's why all my jobs have been pretty positive experiences so I guess that would be
my advice things are what you are a job this job especially is it's what you make of it you can
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you can shape your own path in this business and um you can have influence like that
oh really oh I didn't like that one but I guess it was okay but it but either way if your speech
was good or not or it wasn't really speech but whatever you were saying if it was good or not
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it doesn't matter as long as putting out a good message and I think that was so
uh yeah congrats on that too I know you were nervous so thank you what is your main
what is your main life advice for kids listening to this podcast
life advice or just advice in general yeah general
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to try and bring us back to kindness and so like whenever you get worked up or
you're about to do something out of character to just stop and breathe that's what I tell all my
friends and my family my wife my co-workers um myself if I get a little antsy to stop and
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breathe I mean it's like deep in the nose out the mouth whistling it out stop and think
oh that's my best advice I mean that's good yeah that I feel like if people followed that advice
I feel like there'd just be a lot less just a lot less I mean I don't know the first thing that came
to mind for me was crime it'd be a lot less crime people just thought yeah there's so much crime
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yeah people are getting higher yeah well we'll cover things where somebody's saying in court
like I that I I wish I would have stopped and thought or I wish I would have just reconsidered
when they're being uh tried or sentenced for killing somebody yep or just even that not just
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like not just throwing somebody like a bunch of crimes rappery like a lot of a lot of crimes
like I don't know what you're saying killing someone like I know that there's not everything
exposed in like those court cases like there's still stuff that went behind it but like you like
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I forget what I was gonna say now dang it but like um it's pretty much just like if they just
would have thought like it more in the moment like they wouldn't have done it like I don't know oh
like I feel like a lot of like a lot of just let's just say murders for example yeah pressure like
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because the person's under pressure and like a decision or something like a lot of them like
even if it's not like an immediate decision a lot of them just feel I feel like it's because of
pressure so people just instead of doing it I mean like that that sounds so bad but like just stop and
think in the moment before you do it yes that that's good that sounds really creepy coming from
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me you're very very creepy no that's wise you're the wise old man wrap things up no that's thank
you so much for allowing us to interview you I know you're a bit nervous but I'm sure more kids
will be inspired to take a path of news camping because of this interview yes a wise wise 12 year
old okay but yeah so thanks for coming on the show and you know good luck with your career
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and well we hope it still hope it still is interesting to you a lot yeah on the road so
yeah so thank you bye thank you
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