Doug Brunt
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745 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Dec
Doug Brunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's my point, though. The first years, he was not set up as well as he could have been. I mean, there's a lot of talk about how those years were rough. What if he had articulated his case in a way that he had more support going into the administration?
Exactly. He's got a lot of clear air in front of him now. He did not in 16.
Yeah. You know, and he's smart, man. He knows the landscape. He knows how all the pieces are moving together. He sees a few steps ahead. And I like you, the personal feelings. Yeah.
That did not require a Nostradamus level of foresight to know that you're going to light that up.
Yeah, the idea that every morning news anchor is putting in a ton of hours of prep and work is a joke. I mean, Strahan is probably working pretty hard on the NFL side of what he's doing. And the amount of time he puts in on his GMA gig is tiny, but about what every other network morning news anchor is putting in, it's not a big lift. You're handed all these cue cards of the questions to ask.
If you have an author on, they don't read the book. They're handed a couple of questions that the producer writes for them about the book. It requires almost no prep. I remember reading something Katie Couric would sort of prep the morning she got in or something like that. I don't know all the stories, but it's not a big lift.
So Stephanopoulos probably works harder than the average morning network anchor, you know, because I think he cares about knowing the news and knowing who the politicians are. And, you know, he's got to have some expertise and you got to stay abreast of all that. But really, once you're steeped in it, it's just incremental each day. It's not a huge lift each day to prep for that.
You sort of you've got your sort of standing start already there. Going. So that whole, and by the way, I don't believe that the salaries are, you know, it's hard to bring somebody down. Stephanopoulos is already up at those levels, thanks to having been in the game for years and years. I don't think people who are newer to it, whoever replaces Hoda is not making that money.
That's the overall, right? So the demo number is probably even uglier.
It doesn't support those kind of salaries at all. I mean, the big three anchors of the network, so that's been a long, long decline. Cable news really had its heyday from like, oh, I don't know what you think, but I would say 05 to really 15, 16, 17, something like that. That was sort of the main period.
The Trump administration, the Trump show of 2016, 17, 18, really hid an underlying systemic problem.
People were leaving, people were cutting cords and leaving cable. You know, the Trump show sort of kept the numbers looking good for a little while there, but now we're seeing it, you know, how, how bad the problem is. Agreed.
Yeah.
Sometimes the neighbors don't if they attend.
Costume night? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
We had a few people. If you come over, I mean, you got to participate. So some people are not really comfortable putting on some ridiculous costume, but we love it.
We did the Ten Commandments.
Did like the zoot suit riot.
But we're all... The Incredibles, that was another good one. Oh, yeah. All the kids were sort of age-appropriate, too. Thatcher looked like Little Dash.
It was perfect. Yes.
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