Hey everybody and welcome to Rob Zervations. I am Rob Leifeld. I am piloting this ship and keeping it aloft in the skies, avoiding the pratfalls of the dangerous cliffs and peaks and forests and all the other stuff that you got to maneuver when you're you're flying

a craft as delicate as this podcast, right?

Okay, so hey, thanks for joining with me.

As you guys often do, and I truly appreciate the opportunity to hang out with you guys.

We are going to dive into a couple of

fun subjects today starting off immediately is a blind item i love blind items uh uh the gossip columns

used to just revel in them in the newspaper or uh you know such such famous celebrity reporters like Rona Barrett.

If you've never heard of Rona Barrett, man, she was the Johnny on the scene, Jill on the

scene when it came to celebrity interviews, celebrity news breaks back in the 70s and the early 80s

breaking up and then uh growing up and then

of course entertainment tonight happened and and then mary heart gave us all the great entertainment

news but uh blind items would often appear in uh the la times that i read or or or um different

interview magazines.

Sometimes I still see them with sports sites and sports publications.

And it's when you don't want to give the names, and I'm not going to give the names today.

And it leads you the fun of it as you go, huh, I wonder, I wonder who's being discussed here.

I've done one previous blind item podcast.

I forgot the name of the podcast, but it was like an entire episode of a gentleman who had

taken work with me through an intermediary, an agent, and who at the end of the

podcast, you'll find out we find out he didn't do the lion's share of the work that he had been

signing his name to, or we had been told that was being generated by him.

And we found this out because this gentleman and many of his studio mates came to visit

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