Donna Halper Returns

How many times have you seen a politician, including politicians that you and I like, That someone asks them a question and they talk about the price of tea in China instead of talking about the thing that they were just asked.

Yeah.

You know? Oh, yes.

Well, what do you think? Are you going to vote for such and such? You know, I'm glad you asked that question.

And have you been to that new restaurant that just opened up? Right,

right.

And you're sitting there like, I don't recall asking about that new restaurant.

I just, are you going to vote for it? Well, you know, after I go to that new restaurant, I will think.

And the truth is, people are so cautious now.

Yeah,

they were cautious before, but they're even more cautious now because it's a gotcha culture.

And as Smith hearings, beware of those gotcha moments because you could have it blow up in your face.

Was that hilarious?

Oh, yes.

Yes.

And I do want to come back to that.

But I had a quick question about interviewing celebrities, newsmakers, politicians, et cetera, these days, because it seems like everyone's got a podcast now.

And it seems like it's less of a coup to get a celebrity interview because they're so visible in public now, not only in terms of social media feeds and posting things on the various text or photo platforms and talking about their lives on a regular basis on their own podcast.

So it's like,

however, however, as we say in Massachusetts, actually, as nobody says in Massachusetts, people all think we do.

On their podcast, just like on Trump TV, they're controlling the image.

They're not talking about anything that they don't want to talk about.

And I'm saying this kindly.

I'm not saying this to impugn the motives of people with podcasts.

Okay.