Olivia Munn
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Podcast Appearances
And also I didn't have the money to go do that.
And I needed a lot of support and permission from my mom.
Graduated from University of Oklahoma with a journalism degree.
And then I worked at the NBC affiliate for one year in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
No, I was doing the assignment desk.
You've been into a newsroom before?
So there's the, we go into a newsroom, there's this assignment desk and it's where you answer the calls from people going like, I love what, you know, Jane was wearing today on the, what color was that suit?
And it's also people going like, there was a, you know, I've got a complaint about, you know, XYZ and what's happening over here on this street.
There's also all of these police scanners, paramedic scanners, fire department scanners.
And it's constantly all the time.
And your job is to hear it all and then to tell people and to be like, Conan, go to 89th Street.
And they're right there in front of me, and I hear nothing.
And I could hear producers screaming out, they're like, a school bus turned over on 29th.
And they're like, oh my gosh, there's a house fire on Robertson.
And I'm like, I'm the worst person at this job ever.