Daryn Kagan

I cannot believe we're here.

I'm so happy we're here.

I mean, that's beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond.

And in the order, ice skating, far more important.

For the record, I believe I graduated before you were born.

However, we did not only share the high school.

There's one legendary journalism teacher who taught there forever, Mr. Chesterton.

Yes, Mr. C., who launched some significant careers and just significant people.

It was a great place to put your time.

But we should also say the reason we did meet was because at an incredibly young age for this kind of career, you landed CNN, which took me quite a few more stops to get to.

NBC Los Angeles was my ultimate dream.

And here we are.

And I'm so proud of everything that you've done.

And yeah, I mean, that's just what you do.

You be good and you be nice.

That's what I always tell people.

Be really good at your job and be nice to other people because, well, just because.

But also that person you're being good to might one day just be a badass boss woman who you're thrilled to be on her podcast.

Thank you for that credit.

I would also say I felt like at CNN, that really was not my experience.