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Savannah Guthrie

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first: 2018-06-04
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“So I had a tape. You know, and as you know, as a journalist, it's like you have to have clips. Those were my clips. Yeah. And so I”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those long form pieces were written, and I really aspired to write like that. But I had to get a job and I ended up finding a part time job at the TV station, the PBS station at the University of Arizona. So I worked there three years. So I kind of started learning about TV. By the end, I had convinced the news director there to let me do a few pieces, a few stories, which were terrible, but he let me do it.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's funny. I wanted to be a print reporter. In fact, my journalism degree was 100% print. I had a bunch of old journalism professors who really turned their nose up at broadcast. You know, they did not consider those real reporters at all. Journal”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Well, I should give the update to the Slacker around halfway through college. I like suddenly something clicked for me. I think it was taking journalism classes and being excited about that and getting some encouragement from professors and feeling like, wait a, you know, who'd say, you're a good writer, you know? And, you know, it's like sometimes that's just all it takes. Someone say like, You're kind of good at that. And you're like, I want to keep doing that. You just want to keep trying and trying. And that happened to me.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then I had the big should I go to law school? Then that was my moment when I decided to leave TV and go to law school”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no, I went from there to Tucson. I went back to Tucson and I anchored and reported for Channel 4 and Tucson for like four years or something.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And rolling down again. Totally, because I was paid $12,000 a year, it was this sort of nothing job, but I was lucky to get it. I had been sending out tapes for six months and never hearing a word. I was thrilled to have that job. And now that was my big chance. And then also it was embarrassing to turn around and come right back home. And then also I kind of spent the money I had moving going up there. So then I was like kind of, oh my goodness, now how am I going to get going again? And so it was hard in that moment, but I just came home, sent out a few more tapes. And about actually by luck, a month later got a job in Columbia, Missouri, which I consider my really my real first job in TV.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I moved all my stuff up there, started work. I had worked a few days and then they called a staff meeting, which is hilarious because it was like six people. And they're like, we are closing the station. And I was shocked and devastated. Because I was like, it was just awful.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She helped me get myself all set. It was a one man band job. Shoot your own stuff, reporter, weekend anchor, Butte Montana. It was an NBC station owned by, that was the affiliate, newsroom staff of four, of which I was one quarter.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And be there and hang out with her and have a glass of wine with her and be her best friend, which is I would have liked to be too if she had held on to me, if she had indicated at all, because I was scared to death to leave, go try to be a TV reporter and move to a place I'd never. Lived let alone by myself, you know, not knowing a soul. That was loving God. That was hilarious.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is because ultimately it was sacrificial because there's nothing she wouldn't have wanted more than just to have me hang around.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so, you know, but I mean, I don't mean to make myself sound like a basket case, but that's like, I think what was going on with me internally. So when it was time to leave, not only did I, it was hard for me to leave my mom, I felt a lot of guilt about leaving her alone. Sure. And the most important thing she ever did for me was she said, Savannah, if you can't leave me, then I didn't do my job right.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think we all responded in different ways to my dad passing, but my mom and my sister always kind of, you know, they had more of a combative relationship. And I was like, I couldn't have hung on to my mom harder, almost to the point. Like sometimes I think I would physically hug her too hard. Like she'd be like, Savannah, like you're almost like too much, you know? And I kind of remember almost being like hurt by that a little bit. Like she just couldn't handle the amount of just how much I needed her. It was like it was almost too much for her to bear.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, thankfully. Yes, I know. But yes, I, so yeah, it was hard because I had lived at home all that time. I was very, very, very attached to my mom.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that also was kind of good because we were trying to all be together and take care of her too. Yeah. My sister and I had this little pact all through college, and my mom never knew about it. You know, if it's Friday night, one of us goes out Wednesdays with mom, Saturday night, one goes out. So we would just trade like, could I have Saturday night this night, this weekend?”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ridiculous. And my mom, you know, my dad had just died. So I think my mom, it's like she knew, but she didn't know. She was just like, she was trying to survive. She didn't have time to ride herd on that. So I remember I took the SAT. I didn't study for it. I remember kind of being like, oh, the SATs tomorrow. Yeah, I got to go take that test. So I did okay. And so, and by the way, I loved the University of Arizona, but it was my school that I lived that was in my town and I didn't even live. I mean, we really couldn't afford to live in the dorms. You know, my mom was like, look, I can pay for your school. I want you to, I'll do that, but you have to live at home. I can't pay for an apartment for you or your sister. So we lived at home.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not at all. So I was kind of just like lazing through high school. I had a 2.5 GPA. I had 35 unexcused absences in my last year in high school because I was always like ditching to go cigarettes all the time.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. Yeah, like my proof that high school losers can actually, it's better to not peak in high school, don't you think? It's better to. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, but I always had friends, thankfully, but I wasn't particularly attractive or anything, and I don't think boys really liked me for a long time.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I didn't really like it. It was like one of those classic high school deals. Like, no, no one asked me to the prom, but I like sort of was like, I had a job and there was like a guy who was like a part-time construction worker. And I was like, do you want to go to the prom? He was like, he was like 19. I was probably 17. And then maybe we kind of went, but I don't think we ever went in. So yeah, I didn't have a date to the prom. Yeah.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, David, how do I put this? I really didn't have any options because I was a high school slacker. I had terrible grades. I never even thought about where I was going.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I don't believe God's afraid of our questions or our doubts. Know, and that's the kind of children I hope to raise, but I'm going to teach them about Jesus and I'm going to teach him Jesus loves you. And then we'll see. I'll let him take it from there.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They were applied that they were just, they just love their grandkids so much. And there will come a time as there comes a time in any person's life when it is theirs to choose who is God? Do I believe in God? Like how will I, what is going to be my relationship with God? Is there even a God? I want to raise kids who can have that conversation.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not really. I think I'm like reasonably healthy, but I'm not unaware of the possibility. Of course, you know, when I'm an older mom. So I do think about that too. You know, like I didn't have my first baby until I was 41. So, yeah, so basically he agrees and I'm kind of teaching them faith. They come to church with me every Sunday. You know, it was hilarious when my daughter burst into Jesus loves me when we were celebrating Hanukkah one year, which was amazing. And Mike's parents are the best. And they were like,”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Too young, as my father did. I want them to have a friend to carry them through life as I did. I feel that responsibility.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anyway, so yes, that was one of the things we talked a lot about because, you know, he is, of course, is Jewish and his culture is extremely important to him. And I think he would say he doesn't consider himself particularly religious. So we are raising them in both. So they're aware of their heritage. But one thing I did say, and he agrees, is that when you're talking about little kids, Not throwing a religious studies seminar. Like, I can't tell my 18 month old or my three year old about the great religions of the world. They're too little for that. And I feel very strongly because my faith is important to me that I... I want to tell them about the God that I know. I want them to make friends with God because I know if I were to die.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We had good dated so long, everybody be like, oh, you have a good time. You know, like, by the time we finally got engaged, people were like, what? No. If and I wasn't, I was surprised. I actually broke up with him on the day we got engaged, but that's another story.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Find me too. Believe me, my mom was like, just let me know if anything happens. You know, when you're first dating someone and you go on, like you're like, oh, we're going on a weekend trip. When you come back, all your girlfriends are like so.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's a really good question. It's one of the things that really preoccupied me in our long, long, protracted dating career. I think we dated for like six years.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Must be, yeah But I wish that more people would talk about it. I mean, like you had Anna Marie Cox on. On your podcast, which I listen to and told you I was really an admirer of the whole conversation. But she's somebody who became a Christian. And I don't know her at all. But when I read that, I reached out to her because I felt like, hey, I kind of understand the world you're living in. And I just wanted to say like you're not alone.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You do? Yes, it does. It's like that final step will be. And so, yeah, so I actually like it. I wish I, so yes, in some worries I might feel like an ambassador.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, we're trying to be in the debate team or try to say, like, well, how come the Bible contradicts itself here and there? You know, like there's so many theological questions, all of those things. I don't mean to make it a cop-out, but if I talk about my faith, I'm talking about something really personal. And I think it is intellectual. I do not think it's inconsistent with your intelligence, your intellect, knowledge, academics, but I do think it's ultimately visceral. It's faith.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also has a podcast and writes billions and has been really successful. And he's an adorable example. He is a giant-the-wool atheist or agnostic, but he always, he really respects my faith and is very curious about it. In like the most genuine way. Like, tell me about that. I want to know why you think that and not in the way of like you see in your college dorm room when people are like trying to win an argument.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I find most people are really, I mean, there's a certain curiosity, but I haven't experienced happily condescension, which I think I might assume people would be like, well, that's nice. Well, we all need a crutch or we all need a thing. I think there's like genuine curiosity about it. I have a friend through Mike is how I've come to know him, Brian Kopliman. Yeah, Mike Feldman, my husband, and he grew up with this guy, Brian Koppelman, who.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know I'm like the weirdo bedardo at every New York dinner party. People are like, whoa, one of those. It's an evangelical Christian. Come on over here. Let's talk to her. You know, and I guess I'm older now and I'm not the little kid I used to be. I'm happy to talk about it and if people are curious.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I mean, put yourself in our feelings, and like, I want to cry all day. No, she couldn't let herself cry. Yeah. So I think that's another reason why it's like I just had to you have a choice at that point. It's like you could, it's like you can leave God, but it's like, man, no God, don't leave me now. Like, I need you more than ever. So in some ways, it's also a faith strengthener. And yeah, just over the years, it's just been really important.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think lots of different things are faith shakers, and that was one of them, although at that time it was like, I couldn't have the luxury of doubting my faith because I needed it so badly. You know, I needed so badly to pray. I needed so badly to turn to God because my mom, while being a solid rock, did not have the emotional capacity, I think, at that time to really comfort us. She got it done. She was rock solid. I marvel at her. She's made everything possible for all of us. But it's like,”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But my sister always says God was the sixth member of our family. And I actually think that's very nice way to put it and a very truthful way to put it and something I hope to emulate because we all had a really abiding feeling of that God loved us and that we were. Like in a family with God, and I have had different and wavering phases of faithfulness, but ultimately it's always been like at my core, like the most important thing. And I feel I couldn't have done anything in my life to this day without that strong God that he's here, that he's good, that He loves me in spite of all rationale, you know? So you must have.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, definitely. And his mom. I mean, they're just like, he's like a whole podcast in and of itself, but that changed so much for him. And then by extension, all of us. And so that was when I was pretty young. And I can remember seeing my parents get baptized. Know like in Baptist Church, like they dunk you under. I can remember it. And I was little. And so we grew up in that church and we were for a while like very churchy. We would go Sunday morning, then Sunday school, then go home, have lunch, come back, Sunday night service and choir practice, and Wednesday night. So, you know, everything was set up for me to like not ever want to go to church again because that's just way too much church.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Come forward and someone will pray with you. And my dad talked about how he's like, I had no idea what I was doing, but I found myself walking to the front of the church And he had this redemption experience. And, you know, it didn't make him perfect after that at all. In fact, like one of the most defining attributes my father had was like this weighing awareness of his own sin and his own failings as a human. He most of them.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then he met my mom. She thinks she thinks she kind of saved his life by calming him down. And my mom grew up Catholic, but she had really not, as a young person, was just kind of she thought the Catholics were too rigid. So neither one of them were particularly religious. And the way she tells it is that, I think when I was about four or five years old, maybe a little younger, three, My father looked at all of us. I was the youngest and was like, do you think like we should get these kids in church or something? Like, shouldn't they have, shouldn't they believe in something? And so they found this church, and it was a Baptist church in Tucson, Arizona. And I know, I remember very well my dad telling me the story of one time he was sitting there listening to the sermon. And it was one of those Baptist churches where they always at every end of every service, there's like, they call it an invitation where they say, like, if you feel the spirit talking to you.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's rough. Yeah, from like the 30s and 40s. So he had no. And he was like, he had some wild living. You know, my father was a drinker. He had gotten in like 10 car accidents before he was 25. I mean, he was a wild one.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, we had a very, I don't, I hate the word religion, although it was sort of religious. I mean, we had a very faithful household. You know, my parents, when they met weren't religious at all. My dad, you know, he grew up in a place where they were all Protestants and they had like, he would talk about Harlan County, you know, there were like Pentecostal churches where there were like the snake charmers and stuff. Like they'd pass the snake. And if the snake bit you, that meant like the devil was in you and all kinds of like really wild stuff.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. And it is that it's a strange time because you put all that on yourself like you're supposed to be grown up because all teenagers think they're grown up. They don't know that they're not, and they still need their parents, and they're always going to need their parents.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know, and you don't have that compassion for yourself to say, Oh, you're just a kid, you still need your dad. You know, you think I remember thinking like I shouldn't be that upset because I had him almost till I was 18 and that's when you're adult. So like I was really only entitled to 18 years and I got 16. So, you know, and that's kind of how I was like, so you should be happy that you had those 16 years. But that was my first thought. We still need him.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just knew something awful had happened. I mean, it just was like, and I started to say, no, no, no, no, no. And my mom just said it really fast. Dad died And I mean, it makes me cry to think about it. I haven't talked about it in a long time. I just screamed. I just screamed. It just was what I really remember saying almost right away. But we still need him. Because when you're 16, you kind of think you're just about grown up.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, of course. I can still see it, you know. It was a Friday night and I had been out with friends and I walked in the front door and the light, I could see, we had sort of like a foyer kind of. Sounds fancy, just a room before the main living room. And there were some doors that you could kind of see through. What I remember about is walking in the front door and immediately noticing the lights were on. Usually all the lights wouldn't be on because we were supposed to have a midnight curfew come in and say, mom and dad, we're home. And that was it. They didn't stay up, wait for us. But I looked through and I saw my sister and my mom sitting on the couch with their heads bowed. And I knew in that second something was wrong. It was like in the air, you know? And to me, I can still see, I started to walk in. They started to walk forward to me.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's crazy for me to think about, first of all, I'm 46 now. That's how old my mother was, you know, which when you're a kid, you're like, oh, well, she's in her 40s. Now I think that that's such a young age and she had three kids and she hadn't worked outside the home at all. She had been a stay-at-home, even though she'd gotten her degree. She had always stayed at home. So I can't even imagine her terror. Losing her husband and then having one of my oldest brother in college, my sister and I both in high school, and she's looking around going, what am I going to do? Know, so she's incredible.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I think that's why we always connected, you know, because those of us who lost parent young, we all know each other. In some sense. But he had a heart attack. And I was 16.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not at all. I mean, I in elementary school, I was like, you know, I think I was a decent kid. But in high school, I was kind of a slacker. You know, I wasn't a terrible kid, but I was not highly motivated. And the 80s, that particular part, that 1985 to 1989 were like such a difficult time in our whole larger family. I mean, first of all, my father died in 1988.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Does I mean, I remember, and I honestly don't remember if I said, hey, that's my uncle, or I didn't. I just know I remember the struggle in my own mind, like wanting to say, that's my uncle, don't say that, but also just wanting to blend in. Because all I any kid ever wants to do is just be normal. Like, you know, I wished my name was Bridget or Denise, not Savannah. Like, why did I have to have this stupid, different name that no one had such a cool name? Now I like it, but you know, as a kid, it was like you'd go to the safe way and they'd have those little keychains or license plates. It was the 70s with a rainbow. And it'd be like, Amy, Jennifer. And I'm like, there's never a savannah. So, you know, all else to say, it's a tangent. But, you know, as kids, we just want to blend in. We don't know how to be different.”
2018-06-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 248 — Savannah Guthrie · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source