In a New Memoir, Katie Couric Is “Going There” — But Where Was She Exactly?

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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This week, Katie Couric, legendary onetime cohost of NBC’s Today show, talks to Inside the Hive's Joe Hagan about her frank and searing new memoir, Going There, which pulls back the curtain on her starry and sometimes starcrossed life and career. Couric recounts the sexist culture of network TV but also examines her own place in a culture that allowed alleged abusers like Matt Lauer, Jeff Fager and Les Moonves (Couric allies all) to thrive. There’s plenty of blame to go around - including Couric's charge, in her book, that Hagan’s 2007 cover story on Couric in New York magazine was a “hit job.” Hagan and Couric visit the spirits of media Past, Present and Yet to Come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there, it's Molly Jongfast, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair.
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0:38.5	Katie Curric, welcome to Inside the Hive.
0:41.4	Thank you very much, nice to be inside the Hive, versus outside the Hive.
0:47.0	Yeah, well, this is where the buzz is, you know, and now you're creating even more.
0:51.4	So thank you.
0:53.6	So I would just want to start by saying, you know, first of all, when my mom learned that
0:59.9	I was bringing you on the podcast, she was, oh my God, it's like this is the pinnacle
1:04.4	of my career as far as she's concerned, so I'm so sorry.
1:08.2	No, that is fine, you know, and at least we got here, this is good for me, but it was
1:15.6	funny because it brought back some memories of, I was thinking about the meaning of Katie
1:20.8	Curric, you know, through the years for, for we American TV viewers and myself included,
1:27.3	because I was, I've been listening to your podcast, I've been listening to your book,
1:31.3	your audio book going there for the last two days, and so like having you on here feels
1:35.5	like almost a continuum of that, because I've been listening to you for two days.
1:38.8	Right.
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