Teresa Strasser

They will say all the time,

you can't talk about this.

Now, that's not doing your job.

Saying to somebody who's interviewing Paul Schaefer, no talking about the Letterman thing is not an effective way of doing your job because they must know that the people that are interviewing the band leader and his right-hand man for 25 years, they must know that if you don't bring it up

It's palpable.

If it doesn't come up, it's more distracting than if it's touched on.

Right, why didn't this person bring it up?

Now, what publishers should do, which they don't do because they're arrogant and stupid most of the time, is they should say...

We really can't talk about this.

Paul really can't talk about this.

But I understand that you can't just do an hour interview and pretend like it didn't exist.

What you can do and what we should do is you can bring it up.

You can say, Paul, what about all this Letterman business going on?

And then Paul can say, I really can't discuss that because of legal and because of CBS and because also, you know, Dave has asked me not to, whatever.

Fine.

Now, I've done my job.

The audience isn't bumped.

Nothing was given away.

And you've moved along and you can move along with everyone satisfied, essentially, and you can move on with the interview.

Yeah.