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Dan Slepian

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
101 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

These are very carefully scripted and planned segments to make up certain hit times to pull out an hour.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Of course.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

So when we hear, we did that for an hour, and there is an hour-long version of this that will be in syndication.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

But when we heard we needed to fit that time slot, that meant we needed to cut out 12 minutes of material.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

It's like cutting off an arm or something.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Exactly right.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

So the questions that the audience has make sense.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

And the answer is we had to take out 12 minutes of material to fill that time spot.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

I guess he's kind of like his son.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

He's quirky.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

You know, it's like Lester was like, Tom, where were you?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

And he was like, oh, you know, I just decided to go for a walk, and it was a nice day, and there was the train, and I decided to get on the train.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

And, you know, it's just like, where's Waldo?

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

You know, he was just kind of going, you know, and so...

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

He clearly didn't think his son would be concerned.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

It's odd behavior for sure, but it happened.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

Yeah, so this is the part that I had read some comments and heard some people will make.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

They thought that Tom and his father planned this, like that they were in on it together to falsely confess for a settlement or something.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

That's not what happened.

Dateline NBC
Talking Dateline: The Ruse

He went to go visit his brother, and then he decided to see his daughter and was going to go fly to see his daughter.