Mark Halperin

You had to print them out as they came in.

And you had to assemble them into 50-page packets.

And then you had to run them all over the building because different people needed them.

They needed them in the graphics department, the tape department, the control room.

They needed them around World News Tonight.

And I have a great sense of direction normally.

I really do.

It's one of my probably strongest things.

But I could not figure out this building.

I would just, I would be, I would be getting lost.

I'd go down the wrong corridor because it was, it was, it was a, it was a long walk.

Like if you did it without getting lost, going from where World News Tonight was to all the places you needed to drop these script packs, it probably 15 minutes, but I would get lost.

And my colleagues thought that was ridiculous and not helpful to the cause.

So I got a lot of anxiety about it.

And, uh, this is my first job.

And, uh,

And the anxiety did not make me focus and do better.

It made me it made me get more lost.

So that was that still, as you can tell from the tone in my voice and the little sweat breaking out here, it's still a pretty traumatic experience to me.

And then I worked in that building for many years and I still found it a little confusing, even though, again, I have a very good sense of direction normally.