I was only admiring (not idolizing) the way he had those anchors wrapped around his finger, but I was thinking tonight at dinner that it was probably scripted (or those anchors are really inept). He would never have gotten the upper hand that way if I had been at that table, ditto some of you.
The dialogue that the newscasters may have been scripted as they usually are, but Russell's won't have been. You can quite tell he had them genuinely flabbergasted and they had no idea how to handle him. I doubt they'd've actually even let him on had they knew that's how he was going to behave
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