 Good evening, everyone. I am so excited that you are all joining us tonight. We have quite a great group and a very special guest. My name is Lindsay Herron. I'm the director of marketing and communications at Bedford Playhouse, and I'm so excited to be hosting tonight's I think fourth installment of the a day in the life series Which is part of our virtual series a couple quick housekeeping items to take care of before we start There is a Q&A button for people using a Laptop or a PC. It's located at the bottom of your screen And if you're on an iPad or an iPhone, it's at the top of your screen So once we get through our conversation We will flip it to the audience for Questions and you can add ask questions at any time you can ask them anonymously or you can use your name whichever you prefer it give you a choice and Hopefully there will be time to get through all of them One other thing I just want to mention before we get started is that for three months now The bedford playhouse has been putting on virtual programming for free for our community and we have It takes an incredible amount of work behind the scenes to put on all that we Have been putting on and at the end of tonight's program if you Enjoyed it and you're feeling in so inclined we would be so grateful if you would go to our website bedford playhouse.org and Please consider making a donation on our ways to give age The last thing I also want to remember Mention before we start is memberships memberships are a really Important way to support the playhouse They're really affordable and the perks and the benefits are really wonderful We have so many great events that are for members only. In fact, we have one coming up later this week We we have a very full week to be honest. We have kandace brushnell from flex in the city tomorrow night We have classic Tuesdays. We have a members only event We've got a sold out drive-in movie Friday and Saturday night with our friends at john j. Homesgood Raiders of a lost ark is going to be a fun one and we have herb side concessions If you don't know we're doing bundled packages of beer and wine and fresh hot popcorn And twizzlers and we have lots of packages that you can choose from You can order those online and they're for pickup on Friday and it's sort of like a little drive-through And it's been really fun. We've enjoyed doing it and the community has really enjoyed it. So get your orders in for Friday Now we're going to transition to our event tonight special guest Is lisa laraca. She is the morning news reporter For news 12 westchester and she grew up in westchester and is proud to still call it home Lisa's works behind the scenes for a number of shows including live with regis and kathy lee And she's covered the news from westchester all the way to myrtle beach He has been at the center of breaking news events. She's covered healthcare and medical crises She's covered some hilarious human interest stories and lots of tantalizing food stories, which we are definitely going to talk about and viewers can always count on her for a enthusiasm Update on what kind of weather is going on in their area She's received the new york emmy award the edward r murrow award the associated press award the new york press club award The tele award and she's been honored by numerous organizations in our community So I would like to try and give her some at-home applause and welcome my special guest Thank you for that lovely introduction that was so nice Oh, uh, I'm just so happy to be on here with you. This is Not how we saw each other the last time but I know I know and and i'm so glad that you're encouraging people to you know to join up and help With uh bedford playhouse. I was so impressed and I thought it was such an incredible place and and the whole idea of it And um, you know, of course, we were there for a lunch with lisa Segment and that hasn't aired yet, but hopefully once things get back to normal, we'll do that Yeah, so we definitely will once our cafe is open and coming with yummy fresh food and great cocktails We'll definitely have to get that on air because we had so much fun filming it um so, uh Before we start I just want you to know that I did mention you were sort of a hometown girl And my husband is from rye Oh So before you start laughing I he did over here that you were from harrison Yes, so he encouraged me not to make this easy on you Um for for those of you that don't know harrison and rye are have one of the Most long-standing rivalries in west jester huge the fall rivalry animal former Animal harrison high school former cheerleader too. Oh, wow. Yes. There we go. So my husky pride runs deep Okay, well, I told him that I needed to be professional and I wasn't gonna you know trip you up too much But uh, he might be sabotaging your computer in the background So before we get talking, um, I thought it would be fun to share with our guests The um a short reel of clips a video that um, we'll give them a little bit of a taste of What it's really like for you and some of the situations you have found yourself in over the years With news 12 westchester. So if my fancy tech guys in the background can roll that videotape. Here we go Hey, everybody, I am so excited about that. Hold on a lot of our local celebs love Whoops doing in later my pretty and your little dog too You're gonna start on the screen right The kind of day so again just be extra careful as you're making your way around stay away from this area It's gonna be a whoa. Look at that Holy cow. All right, we're gonna Goodness, okay guys. I'm gonna throw it back to you before we get Before we get blown away out here. We're in greenberg. Let's go back to you guys And Dairy it's gonna be a whoa Whoa, we've been it's there a dairy. It's gonna be a whoa Look at that. Whoa, we've been it's there a dairy. It's gonna be a whoa Now we may be sitting on purchase street, but I'm telling you one bite of this You will swear you have been whisked away to italy and chef wrap is about to roll out his fall menu So there's even more creative stuff coming this way. We're having lunch in rye. Lisa loraca news 12 Of one more thing. Look at what an gave me and it's got elie's signature on it Delicious, right? Oh my gosh. Is that amazing start with the big one. Oh, let's go big Owner denis rubich says he likes to do things big not surprising for a guy who stands seven foot one Now if you want you can try the dog den challenge That is if you think you're taller than denis come on in See if you measure up and you can eat for free, but that's not happening today Now julius says this table is actually haunted so it could be a lot of fun to sit here But you never know what strange things may occur if you do We're having lunch in tarry town with the headless horseman. Please loraca news 12 So how do you eat exactly? This is the sprinkle room we're in the infamous sprinkle and you're telling me I need goggles It's a must. All right. All right. Put the goggles on goggles on three two one Look at this. This is great. So santa does eat more than milk and cookies We're having lunch in yoghurt's with the big news 12 What are you bringing me? I was good That jennifer says most animal shelters have volunteer programs. You just kind of have to go in and figure out What For you but your way of spending time volunteering than these little guys and that's this week's pause and pals Hello Hey everybody on this week's lunch with lisa We're taking you to a really cool local spot where you're going to find dishes that may not necessarily expect to find So tune in later. So Do you like his family? Yeah I think we're back that That is so great And I have to thank my photographer carlo pelgrino. He he kind of put all that together With stuff that we had and he's been my partner for Probably close to 15 years. We've been working together and he's amazing and he's so talented Of course you met carlo when we came So uh and he likes to have fun when we have as you saw with the with the umbrella He kind of played around with it. Oh my god. He's it's great. And I I honestly think that Being in a room with sprinkles raining down on me. I just don't know if it gets any better I I think we might need to talk about that offline You just walk around with the ice cream and you can't oh my gosh That place is called it's bonabona nictobona who is a his celebrity chef and uh He his place is in poor chester. It's amazing And it's this sprinkle room and it's very funny because he says that you know kids will come in for parties and some kids cry hysterically when they start falling and you know other kids go crazy with but I I had sprinkles I was finding them in my car for like Or like your shoes. Yeah, and your ears. I'm sure well, that's definitely I've got kids So that'll be a fun one to explore once we get out of this, you know corona mess. Yes. Yeah Um, well, so let's talk about a day in the life of lisa laraca I think one of the questions I have to ask you off the bat is I know that you start super super early So what is it like being the morning news reporter and how much coffee do you drink? I actually have an IV it just goes right Goes right into I already wake up. Yeah If the doing the morning shift is is crazy. My alarm goes off at 1 30 a.m every day Um, which is oh my gosh. Yeah, I know it's it's kind of I'm seeing And so not normal. Um, and that's because under normal circumstances Um, I have to be in the station at the station, which is in yonkers at by 3 330 So we get to the station and you know, I've I talked to my producer before I leave the house And we kind of chat a little bit about what the story for the day is going to be And you know, that gives me time on the way drive in to kind of think about it and think of you know What angles we want to use and then when I get in we write and and edit and then we have to get to Our location and normally we go up at 5 a.m. And that's our first live shot but since COVID happened we've like many tv stations we've shut down the building So I actually have not been in my own newsroom since mid march, I think it was it's been um, so and you know just for safety not to to keep all the teams, you know out so Now I have my home my work computer is in my home. So I you know, I get up. I'm still getting up at 130 Um, you know, just to because if you go off that schedule, it's very very hard You know, like you have a couple of days off like if I take say a four-day weekend or something It's killer just getting back into that again. So I'm trying to keep that steady. So I mean 130 Doesn't even feel like the morning for some right. I mean that's like I can't you know In in bed with a good book or you know, just can't put it down. I mean I know a lot of a lot of people say they're just you know, they're just going to bed at that time So, um, yeah, it did. But you know what the thing I like about it So many people say to me, you know, you've been there in news 12 for so long. Can't you get better hours you should but I But I actually I like the hours believe it or not because um I like having my day because I'm because My day starts early my work day ends early. So depending, you know on an average news day when there's not crazy breaking news or something You know, I'm done by I can be done as early as 11 30 12 o'clock And this is the time if you're in it really paints off because you can really enjoy the the nice weather So so I kind of like that That that is definitely a benefit. Um wrapping up your day at 11 30. That's pretty nice Benefit of doing this Yeah, right So what you mentioned getting uh talking to your producer in the morning and I think you know for people in our industry You know, they understand how this works, but for people listening who don't understand I thought maybe you could just talk a little bit about the flow from the news desk to The anchor to the live person in the field how that process it what that's like in the nutshell Just for people who don't really understand if you pick your own stories or Or well, um, you know, that's and that's the great thing about my job is that it changes every day You know, I never know what for the most part. I never know what my story is going to be I mean, obviously if there's an election coming up, for example, I know election day. I'm going to be at the polls or Um, you know today, for example, they finally opened the bike path on the new bridge. So I knew yeah I knew that that I would be there, uh, you know barring breaking news Um, so unless there's some kind of breaking news overnight that there's a fire if if you know, there's a shooting or a terrible accident or something um, you know that That will be my story, but for the most part And this is true of all morning Uh reporters we kind of will take the the top story from the night before And that kind of follow it up and and sort of forward it and see where that story is going Uh the next day. So that's often so as I said, you know, a lot of times the last one of the last things I do before I go to bed I look at my emails to just see what what stories the night side reporters are covering and sometimes I'll get You know emails from producers are saying hey, this is what we're thinking about for you for the morning and then My producer who you think my hours are crazy. She has to be in At midnight. That's her in time. So, you know, she's somebody who's getting up at 10 30 11 o'clock at night to go to work So she's got it even worse than I do So, um, you know, she comes in and she looks at the rundown and she puts You know the news kind of the stories and the order that they'll be going and then Uh, it kind of looks and says, okay, I think this is where, you know, I Lisa should be today And she and I will chat and you know, there's a couple of options We'll kind of talk about it. Which one we think would work best, you know for the morning Um, and you know and as far as the anchor is going the anchors come in and you know, the stories are are there Um for them and they go over them and kind of tweak them And I mean, I I anchored the mornings at news 12 For a while and to be honest, I actually prefer being live out in the field I I find there's you get a little bit more of a challenge for me. I find it, you know, more challenging I like being live. I like being out where the story is and where the people are So, um, that's you know, and that then it just kind of goes from there, you know throughout the mornings And you're constantly in touch. I'd imagine in case there's Breaking news or a development in the story that maybe has not trickled down to you and the and the Yeah, right. Well, we have people on the news desk who are, you know, monitoring the police monitors And you know, we have great viewers who will call us and say, hey, you know, there's a whole there's A lot of cops that just went by My my street or you know, there's fire engines or the house across the street is on fire And they'll you know, then I'll get a call from the producer of the desk saying, okay, we're pulling you This is where you go and you know, carlo and I pack up the the uh The camera stuff and jump in and head on to wherever it is. So right. Yeah, have you have you ever? I don't know if this is the right word, but have you ever vetoed a story Have you ever really had to stand your ground? Maybe with a producer or someone you work with and who said you're honest lisa and you said I'm not comfortable with this or I this, you know, you maybe had a reason Was there ever something that you really had to push back and said I I'm not I don't want to cover this Yeah, no, I mean as far as saying, you know, listen There are stories that every reporter says, you know, I'm drawn the short straw I do not want to have to be the one to cover this story because it's just you know, it's it's not Not just, you know, it's a difficult story. It's uh, you know, it's a comfortable story. So, um, yeah, but I I don't know that I've never said I'm not doing this, but I I've said I'm not going to do it this way, you know, for example, if you know, we've had to cover stories where Um, you know, there's been a a murder for example. And you know, you have a family who's just been through hell Basically My feeling is They don't need to have me standing You know with a with a live truck and a camera in front of their home at five o'clock in the morning You know, it's not necessary to show that So, you know, I'll say, okay, you know, they'll say we want you to go to the neighborhood Instead of where the crime scene happened and that's when I'll usually say, all right, I'll do it But I'm not standing in front of the house. I'm not doing that at five in the morning You know, unless there's tons of other media there, then you kind of have to Yeah, you're kind of but You know, there's people have this idea of what those of us who work in the media are like and you know, you watch movies And you watch some tv shows and they just you know, they show these They'll do these, uh, you know news pressers news conferences And they make us look like a wild pack of dogs every time and I'll say to my husband It's nothing like that. That's not what it's what it's like, you know, so There are times when you're covering stories like that and all of the reporters are saying I'm not going to go knock on the door. I don't want to do that or You know, or if we say, all right, look everybody is saying you got to go knock on the door To see if there is somebody who wants to give a statement. Okay. How about we all do it at one time? One of us does it right there's kind of, you know, strength in numbers and then this way We're not bothering these people and they're not, you know, answering their doors over and over again and All the reporters that I've ever been with Um, if you go up and somebody says, you know, we're not we're not commenting There's no one who says, you know, who sticks the microphone out and says, but you know, you respect their Their privacy chase them all the way to their car like in the movie They lay down on the hood of the car Exactly. I mean, there's sometimes when you, you know, in a court case you've got to chase the person But you know, they're delicate situations where you just you have to, you know, you have to be human You have to do the right thing So, you know, so in this situation, like I was saying for that, I might say, all right, I'll go To the neighborhood, but I'll stand at the end of the street. I'm not going to go right in front of the house That's like, that's a good Yeah, compromise Sure, sure. Um So when as you're talking about some of these stories, I wondered if you could give us an example of um, you know Obviously used to cover a range of topics. As you said, there could be really exciting humorous stories and then obviously there are horrific tragic tragedies and stories that you have to cover Are there um, one or two that stand out to you as um, you know, completely fun or bizarre. I mean, it could be the sprinkles. Let's be honest Could be the sprinkles raining down all over you. Yeah. Yeah But are there is there one story that stood out to you as like you you went in thinking it was one thing and you came out, you know Sort of mind blown or Yeah, I you know, I get asked a lot to you know Do you have a favorite story that you covered and and there's so many great ones? But the one that really sticks out and it's because it was such a unique experience We got to take a ride in snoopy one, which is the MetLife blimp that you know We've seen flying over westchester when there's golf tournaments and we were and this was years ago um We were doing a story out at westchester county airport and I happened to said oh what there's you know big snoopy on the side So I thought you know, I wonder if they would let me take a ride up in there and just kind of do a Story about what it's like to be a the pilot of metlife one So I called metlife and down in the city and they said yeah, you know Actually, it's we're sending it to to florida for the because this was fall We're sending it to florida for the for the winter So if you want to do it you have to do it like within the next week or so So we we got the chance to do it It was the most amazing experience and you know what westchester county looks like in in autumn It's breathtaking. Oh my god, and it was just the coolest experience and it was funny because my parents said Do you think maybe you could get them to fly over the neighborhood over the house? You know But as it turned out the guy was really great. We were circling white planes So I said, you know, my parents want to know if we can fly over the house It's actually on the way back to the airport. So he said sure we'll go The entire neighborhood was out and we have like 30 000 pictures at the bottom of the metlife look because my parents were taking the pictures But it was funny. We were so low We were able to zoom in on my mom and dad waving and we put that in the story But it was just yeah, it was just the the coolest experience and it was so much fun And you know, that's the like I said, that's the really great thing about my job because You know, normally you wouldn't get to experience something like that. So no not an average everyday work Right, right. So that stands out as one of my one of my all-time favorite stories that I got to cover That's really cool. Um, and then on the flip side, you know, if there's something that um Not to go to a dark place But is there you know, it's part of your job and and we all know what it's like to watch someone on there on air fighting back tears and You know, it was there was there a particular story that was Really difficult for you or something you had to really push, you know, oh sure. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's There's two that really stand out. There's one. This was years ago and it was a young girl um high school girl who in um, I think the mount kisco area and she was she was murdered and it was a terrible story and You know, it's one thing when you get sent to cover a funeral and it's a public official or it's a First responder because there's a lot of pomp and circumstance that goes with it in tradition, you know the sea of blue or you know, the the firefighters have the You know the the flags with the with the ladders up. So media is expected there So, you know, it's not as uncomfortable, but you know, you got your they send you to cover a private funeral That's that's uncomfortable and I remember this one particular Funeral and we pulled up and we were across the street from the church and we had just gotten out of the car And this big huge guy came Stop it across the the you know the road and I thought uh And I'll tell you I knew that was going to be the story the next day and my my stomach was in knots Well, you know the night before knowing because I knew it was going to be awful and he came up and I said Before you say all the terrible things you want to say to me You have to know that I am not going to shove my Microphone and camera in any family member space. I'm you know, we're going to stay over here I have no desire to make things worse You know on on the worst day and that's the the hardest part of my job is very often is to be someplace At the very worst moment of somebody's life whether their house is burning down or they've lost a loved one And and it's just awful and I said I you know my heart breaks for you and I'm I'm so terribly sorry Um, and he just kind of said wow, I I wasn't expecting that at all and and started apologizing to me You know saying I'm sorry. I was coming over to be such a rough guy says you have nothing to apologize for You know, so I I just very distinctly remember that and there was a an awful story here in my hometown of harrison Where it um involving murder of Several family members and it was just a horrible story and you know harrison is we're quiet here and You know, we really are you know, you throw that tight-knit community cliched kind of around But it really is true here in harrison and I I grew up here and they wanted me to do The funeral and I was saying please don't make me do this Everyone's gonna hate me. They're gonna scare everyone's gonna say how could you be the one to do this? You know, you live here and um, and I reached out to one of the family members who I happened to Have gone to school with and I said I wanted to know I'm gonna be there and I'm I'm so sorry that I have to be the one and to my surprise It said, you know, it actually makes it a little bit Better that you're the one because we know that you would never do anything to hurt us or be disrespectful and as I started talking about it on camera and talking about The way in in very difficult times the town of harrison is amazing I mean the way they come together and how we really Take care of our own and I started getting really choked up and started crying and when I went back my news director said Do you see why you had to be the one to do this? He said because no one else you could have gotten that across but you because this is personal for you So, you know, but again not not easy. So, right? Well, it it it's a it's actually a a perfect segue into something else. I wanted to mention which is your um, your love for harrison I was really struck When you and I met months ago at the playhouse um, how much emotion you had and sincerity in in talking about growing up there and um, your love of the community and football games and You I mean, I felt I just felt it from you very genuinely and so um, shout out to harrison even though i'm Smack around later for saying that but Um It's just it's nice that you can be doing your job and so close to a place that you love and is home And you don't have to learn in an entire new area and community and You know That's part of why I've stayed You know, a lot of people have asked me over the years You know, how come you didn't go Into the city how come you didn't because a lot of a lot of people that I've worked with at news 12 You know made the jump into the city stations and that was actually the plan You know in the beginning was you know news 12 is a great Jumping point. Um, so eventually I wanted to you know Go down to manhattan, but I just you know, I loved Covering the communities and the place in which I grew up. I just really loved doing that and you know I found that with news 12 I could still have a life and you know and do what I wanted to do where it's you know, it's a lot more demanding Down in the city So I just kind of you know, and I struggled with that for a while because that was always the goal And you know got to know a lot of a lot of reporters and we work side by side very often down the city And you know, some of them say listen, that's not all that's great. It's up to me, you know Um, so, uh, you know, then I had to make peace with my choice like Remember, you know, I'd see friends that I worked with and now they're you know, the city station saying oh You know, should I be doing that? But you know, this is I just really love covering the Hudson Valley Well, it it shows. Um, it shows Since you mentioned the city, I thought maybe you could give us a quick recap of of what you did for regis and kathy We because that was a show that obviously millions and millions of people watched and loved and it sort of spawned four more iterations of you know different hosts and um, you know, there was nothing like those two going at it on screen and the banter I mean, I remember it and uh, you know, so what what was your role there? Well, it was my summer internship my college summer internship the year before my senior year of college I went to college in Ohio Yes, you did so did I okay part of it all go by guys. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah went to um went to a small school Uh that not many people have heard of ashland university, but excellent radio tv uh department and so Every, you know, you do your big internship the summer before your senior year of college and so I met with the head of the department He said, you know, listen, I can get you A internship that you know any of the tv stations in cleveland or columbus if you want to stay here for summer But it's you know, you live in the number one market in the country's but I don't have connections there and so um my dad who is a elementary school principal here in westchester at the time One of his teachers her father was an executive at abc so Um gave my resume and I mean this is literally how it happened So I had you know my my resume and he was I guess impressed with what I had done up to that point in college So all he did was clip his business card to my resume and that kind of put it up on the top of the list And then the rest was up to me So I actually had a choice if you remember the show 2020 the barba walters did um and there was um I think there was like a video show and then there was Regis and Kathy Lee which at the time was called the morning show It was only in the tri-state area that summer. They were preparing to go national so um So, you know, I that was the one that I want to remember my mother saying they said anything. Maybe you should do 2020 it's national. It's a little more prestigious than I said, but I don't want to be barba walters. I want to be kathy So, um, it was really it was it was a great experience. It was an intern we got to learn about You know producing and what it takes to put a live show together every single day and Um, we both Regis and Kathy Lee were were lovely. I mean, they were very very nice to to the interns and very Kind to me. So it was a great experience That's great. Um, it's it's something that uh when I read it I thought oh, I bet there's some stories there Oh, sure. Sure. Yeah, you know, you get the chance to meet um, you know a lot of celebrities that that come in and um And it's you know, it's it's like, uh, I'm a big giants fan And uh at the time mark bravaro Was playing for the giants. He's very very handsome, you know, he everybody had, you know, all the girls had crushes on on mark bravaro So he was on so, um, I made sure I went into the the green room to meet him and tell him what a big Giants fan I was and asked him if he would sign an autograph for my dad, which we still have to this day In a uh in a frame. So perfect. Perfect. Um, well the uh, the I I see some questions starting to come in Um, I have I wanted to talk about lunch with lisa because you managed to parlay your morning news reporting into your Own segment about food, which probably is would be my dream um And that's how you and I got introduced actually. Um, but Tell then we're going to go to the lightning round of questions. Okay But first tell us quickly. How did you get become the person that got to eat all the food and talk about it on tv? Well, you know what literally my news director came to me one day and he said, what do you think about Doing a food a weekly food segment and I he said you and parlo and I said between the two of us We have about 75 bowels in our last name and you want to know if we want to do something that has to do with food Of course we do so he actually The news director came up with the idea of uh, the name lunch with lisa and originally it started out as just Focusing on lunch and then it kind of blossomed from there and it's just been so fun because You know, we don't just go to restaurants. We go to places like Benford playhouse and you know, we go to Specialty stores and I look for places that there's you know more than just food Yeah, yeah like benford playhouse because you know, I mean when we went there I was just I couldn't get over how gorgeous it was and what a what a jewel It really is and and such a special place. Yeah, it really is and and so I thought you know We have to talk more about just the cafe people need to know that this is here and what you do and You know that this is a place they need to come visit. Well, thank you We we can't wait for that segment to air really really it was fun And so now you get to hop around and whether it's lunch or breakfast or sprinkle fever You know, you get to try all these different places and meet chefs and dive in yummy meals Um, have any of them been not so yummy? Have you had an awkward bite where you're like, oh You know we've I always try to do And lunch at least has been on for three years Usually in january I try to do healthy because everybody's on a diet. You know, everybody's coming off the holidays So and I am I'm not a vegetable person. I'm sorry to say I try I just can't seem to acquire a taste for it. But and we've gone to You know vegan places and and tried, you know, and you know, take a bite and say, okay. Yeah, that's not bad You know, that's not bad. That's what everyone every chef wants to hear. It's No, I'll say oh, wow. Yeah, that's good. I'm thinking. Okay. Yeah. No, not for me Well, I love that segment and I love to make food and to cook food and to grow food and to eat food So I um, think you have the best job in the world right there. It's a pretty cool gig. I gotta say So before we go to questions, I did warn you we're going to do the lightning round. Okay, and these are um Very serious questions, lisa. I'm going to give you two answers and all you have to do is pick And tell us what you're thinking the first one is popcorn or candy Frank Sinatra or Lady Gaga Oh Frank Sinatra I had a feeling yeah Beach or mountains Beach. Yeah beach, right Now this tells you this question is going to tell you that I have a 12 year old in my house who came up with this one When you're on air, would you rather be about have the feeling of being about to sneeze for a long time or have the hiccups? Actually to think about that and like that feeling of having to sneeze is well, I'll let you answer Yeah, yeah, no, I I'd have to say the the feeling of having to sneeze because you know what I I'm just Sometimes it happens and you can't I've never had the hiccups Thank goodness. I'll watch tomorrow. I'm gonna tomorrow I'll Blame blame my husband. It's the rye Harrison thing This seems sort of silly but decaf or regular Yeah, yeah A night by the fire or a night out dancing Night by the fire actually I think Yeah, uh Kardashians or the bachelorette Honey boo boo no That'll fly some people in my office would be laughing at that Um, okay the your desert island food you're on an island for a year You've got to eat the same thing every meal for a year. What is it? What's your what can you eat over and over never gets old? I lost your audio for a second angel angel hair pasta angel hair pasta. Yeah, you can't go wrong, right? That's the italian and me. I just yeah could eat that all the time. Yeah The last one is what's your guilty pleasure when you're not doing the news? What's the what do you love to sneak up and do? Pleasure when i'm not doing the news. Hmm. I'm trying to think Well, I i'm an old movie buff. I my husband very often will walk in and say Do you not watch anything that's filmed in color? He's like, what is this that you have on? So i'm i love the classics I love well, then you are going to be very happy with classic tuesdays when it comes back at bed for Not comes back. We're so we're doing it virtually right now, but when it's back in the theater, there's just nothing like it Well, okay good to know. I hope that you don't have the hiccups on air tomorrow And now i'm going to see what some of our questions are that are coming in Please ask Lisa. What is the greatest challenge for her for her now reporting during the pandemic? and They want you to know that your dog They want to know if your dog maxwell influences your reporting It was so cute. What a cute pop. Yeah maxwell has Has legions of fans. He is a a yellow lab and he is the the classic naughty lab And so I post videos of him all the time. He's actually he's sitting over there. He's actually been very quiet I'm surprised because I figured we we hear from him at some point but The biggest challenge during during covet is you know, it is just kind of Trying to think it's just the whole Feeling of being out there and nobody's out there, especially in the beginning I mean now people are out, but you know being out there and not do do I wear a mask? You know, no one's here Do you know, what do I have to worry about the early in the very beginning? It was you know, it was Scary because you just didn't know Uh, you know what to what to expect or how to do it So now it's now that things are loosening up. It's a little bit easier But again, harlow and I we're out, you know It our job hasn't changed all that much because Harlow and I are in the car together all throughout our shift as the morning live shot team I always say We spend more time in an enclosed space than married couples do because think about it How many married couples spend eight hours a day like in a car together? I know at least he fixes your hair I know I kind of walked in with a piece of hair like this for entire meal. He probably wouldn't notice Right. No, it was so funny because I'm you know, all of a sudden I see him I I we're about to go live and I here's he going he's going in the car Why is he leaving the camera and he comes out with my air spray and he's like, you know, this is bothering me I have to I have to fix this so um, that's kind of been the challenge and you know when you and interviewing people as well because You know when you interview somebody you go up to somebody with the microphone and it's personal and now it's you know We set up a microphone stand, you know and we stand, you know several feet away And so, uh, you know just kind of learning to navigate all that was was a challenge, especially in the beginning I can't even imagine Um, okay. The next question we have is if you could interview anyone dead or alive, who would it be? Uh dead or alive, let's see. Who would I want to interview? Well, I'll pick my favorite my favorite all-time Movie actor John Wayne. I would love to sit down with John Wayne and talk to him and interview him That would be cool Yeah, people who well listen, you know people who know me know that I'm I'm a crazy John Wayne fan And that I attribute to to my late father He served in the marine corps and so the the running joke in our family is that I I saw sands of uojima before I saw my first disney movie because So, um, I I would I'd love to interview him That's a good one. Yeah, uh another question I have it coming in is what's the most dangerous situation you've ever been in On on air or or at work? Yeah Well, my first my first on-camera job. I went was in myrtle beach, south carolina Um, I had you know, I was sending out resumes and you know videos and uh, you know, I'd I'd put a Put a resume in the mailbox and then you know half hope I wouldn't get it because I really didn't want to move to yakima washington You know, so myrtle beach came and I thought wow, you know, that's that's not not so bad That's a you know a vacation spot. It's a great spot and it was quite an education because you know going to Thornton college in ohio. It's the midwest. It's a little different from new york But but it was very very different You know being a new york italian girl going to the south was was very different and I remember They had uh, there was a story and I had to I did what we then called one man band now It's called mmj multimedia journalists basically your reporter. You don't have a photographer You shoot your own video and smaller markets do that because it's less expensive and so and it's great training I think every reporter should have to do it because you just you make a better team when you eventually have A photographer because you understand your photox job and editing and that sort of thing. So anyway, um, there was a gambling They chicken fighting ring That was that had been broken up and it was kind of in in this one of the small towns outside myrtle beach and you know, it was very Uh rule, you know, and so they wanted me to go get video of where it happened and So i'm driving down the it was a dirt dirt road, you know, not even unpaid roads and so i'm standing out in the street I'm getting video and this girl comes out and starts, you know, yelling at me and i'm saying listen I'm i'm standing out in the road. I'm not on your property and the next thing I know two guys come out Come around the house with with guns. They had yeah, they had they had guns and so uh, I said, okay It's time to leave and you you did not have a chicken in the fight. I did that. No No, I did not and I thought it was it was clear you were not there for the right reason I was not there for the right reasons. No, and the best part of it was, you know I said, okay Well, I got in my car and I drove, you know down and I and meantime The news director had asked the assignment editor, you know, okay What's everybody doing and they said oh we sent Lisa to get and they said you sent her alone You don't send a reporter there alone So just as this was happening they called and I had just gotten into the car and they said, you know, are you okay? How's everything going? Oh other than the fact I'm gonna get my head blown off any second Yeah, it's all fine. And but did you get some video? Yes. I got video before I got in the car So oh my gosh classic of television news. Okay good Definitely Not where I thought you were gonna go the chicken fighting gambling ring, but that's very sketchy Yeah, yeah, um the last question I have is someone said that they read that the hardest part of being a news reporter is being nice to stupid people Do you have a story about something or someone that can remain nameless where you had to Be polite I had to be be polite It's an almost it can be an everyday occurrence Okay, okay, we get it Right now, right? Yeah. No, no. Oh gosh. No, no Um, yeah, you know there there's sometimes when you you know Part of the job is to go and get what we call m. Os which stands for man on the street And it's just you know, you're you're covering a story and they want you to talk to people Uh, you know out in the public about you know, what's going on or something? And you know, it's funny because something had just popped up In memories on facebook the other day and I forgotten it after uh osama bin laden had had been killed President obama was coming to to manhattan and down to ground zero that week. So i mean it was Every tell every media outlet you could imagine Was there and and it was very interesting because Um, you know, we're all kind of packed in and there's every language you could think of And so my photographer and I found it very interesting because we'd hear you'd hear, you know all around us like And then you hear ground zero I guess ground zero is a is a you know universal word But I you know, we're going to talk to people saying you know asking, you know, are you are you happy? You know about the news do you feel more secure about you know Since since this has happened in this one You guys said well, yeah, you know, but I I really and there's media everywhere, you know, and it's all over the news And you know, it's ranging. Yeah And and the guys is yeah, you know, but they they really just need to to get osama bin laden because until that happens And I was like How do you not you know So, uh-huh. Why do you think we're here? Yeah, so I can well guess what I have great news for we got them You made his day. Yeah. Yeah Oh my gosh. Well, that's that's that's good. Um, I think we are way over probably time. I have loved talking to you and thank you really been fun and It's good to know that you could eat angel hair pasta on an island for a year And uh, thank you for getting out of bed so early every day and doing the news for our community and keeping us up to date on, um, hurricanes and terrorism and corona virus and the amazing food at the bed for playhouse and all sorts of things that People wake up to and don't know what they're going to hear about each day But we appreciate your reporting and you make it fun to watch and um, we're grateful that you came on tonight so thank you Grateful that you that you invited me and and again for anybody who's watching and has never been to bed for playhouse As soon as things get back to normal Go you have to go. It's such Really and i'm not just saying that because i'm here with you did not pay her to say that Oh, not at all. I mean, I I just I fell in love with it It's just the coolest place and just gorgeous and all the things that you do there So keep doing the great. Thank you. Thank you We are hoping hoping to we're in phase four of reopening theaters So we will be we'll get there soon and it's going to be Exciting to all be back together again. So we can't Thank you everyone. Thank you lisa and uh, again if you enjoy tonight's program and feel like making a donation We would be so grateful. We have been operating with our doors shut For three months now and we appreciate every penny every dollar everything that You can give so please consider it and thank you lisa and I hope everyone has a great week Check out all of our exciting programming online at bed for playhouse. Thanks. Good night