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Anchors Away
by Robert Burns
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/anchorsaway/subscribeA pair of veteran TV news anchors are back in business and behind the mic!Hosted by Emmy-nominated newsman Robert Burns and former TV news anchor Sara Threadgill, this podcast is built around telling it as it is.No weather. No traffic. No dramatic lead stories... and no boundaries.The duo offers hilarious hot takes on today’s world, dishes on behind-the-scenes stories they couldn't discuss on-air, and include celebrity guests - discussing life, current events, and more.
Episodes
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How to Prepare for Post-COVID Dating (Interview: Stef Safran)
According to a national poll of 500 adults in the United States by online survey and research leader QuestionPro, Covid-19 wiped out office romance. Chicago-based matchmaker, Stef Safran, from Stef and the City tells us what NOT to say when putting yourself back out there in the dating scene. How...
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How to Travel like a CNN Correspondent (Interview: Natasha Chen)
💇🏻♀️ Hair dryers, essential kits, and lots of luggage 👜 CNN National Correspondent Natasha Chen joins our hosts to reveal her top travel tips and must haves for a job on-the-go. Natasha talks about her early days as a reporter and what it took to hit, and stay on, the national TV stage.
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How to Lose Your Pandemic Weight in 15 Days (Interview: Sheree Burton)
🏋🏼♀️ Americans reportedly gained an average of 29 pounds during the pandemic (per the Washington Post)... so this week our hosts are joined by fitness expert and personal trainer Sheree Burton. 💪🏼 The mom of 3 tells the best ways to jumpstart your summer weight loss journey. What are the...
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Why New Homeowners are Having Buyers Remorse
🏡 Robert and Sara discuss why so many new homeowners are regretting the biggest buy of their lives. The top 5 reasons millennials are second-guessing their choice for the "American Dream". 👴🏻 Also - what exactly is a Geriatric Millennial... you're probably one and not even know it! Survey: A…
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How Much Money Do TV Newscasters Really Make?
💰 Show Me the Money... Please 🎥 The mystery is solved! Robert and Sara break down the salaries that TV news reporters and anchors make, using their own contracts as evidence. This reveal comes after a new study shows that Employees Are Working An Extra Day In Unpaid Overtime Each Week via Forbes.
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Reese's Makeup Brand, a Big Bunny Disappears, and Autonomous Pizza Deliveries
🍫 Made Up Like a Peanut Butter Cup 💋 Reese's Wants to Give You a Peanut Butter Glow Up Domino’s starts making autonomous pizza deliveries Bunny snatched: Record-holding giant rabbit stolen in UK
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COVID Weight Gains, Private Island Sale, and American Flag Fines
🌮 Quarantine Weight Is a Thing 😰 How Much Weight Did We Gain During Lockdowns? 2 Pounds a Month, Study Hints North Dakota man says condo association threatens $200 daily fines over American flag 'noise' Scottish island for sale with opening bid of $111,700 Swan terrorizes homeowners by…
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Wine Dream Jobs, Pizza Delivery Fails, and Free Chicken Sandwiches
🍷 🍕 🍗 Enough Said... 'Murphy-Goode' Wants to Pay You 6 Figures & Cover Your Rent Michigan DoorDash driver drops pizza on ground, stuffs it back in the box Wendy's serving free breakfast sandwich for March Madness
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A COVID Baby Bust, Yard Sale Artifacts, and Airline Seating Changes
👶🏻 Where Have All the Kids Gone 💨 The COVID baby boom is looking more like a baby bust Yard Sale Bowl Revealed To Be Rare Chinese Artifact Worth Up To $500,000 JetBlue is ending its back-to-front boarding policy
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Should 16 be the New Voting Age
🗳 Rock the Vote 🇺🇸 HAWAII LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE BILL LOWERING VOTING AGE TO 16 A California city just banned all new gas stations in zero-emissions push Nearly four in 10 university students addicted to smartphones, study finds
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7 Ways to Thrive During Divorce (Interview: Ilyssa Panitz)
👰🏻 Finding the Lighter Side ⛪️ Divorce Reporter, Ilyssa Panitz, divulges how what some consider a nasty process doesn't have to be doom and gloom. She provides 7 examples of how you can use divorce to make yourself better. Marriages and divorces both decline as pandemic poses new tests for...
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Nurses Told to Stop Saying 'Breast Milk' for Inclusion
🍼 That Is Juice Squeezed from a Person 🥛 Nurses advised to swap words such as 'breast milk' for the more inclusive 'human milk' Man with Florida tattooed on his forehead accused of calling 911 to ask for a ride home A quirky Presidents Day sale: Washington’s hair, JFK sweater
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Get Paid to Watch Netflix and Eat Pizza
📼 Professional Binge Watcher Wanted 🍕 Company paying $500 for someone to watch Netflix, eat pizza all-day The Horrifying Reason You Should Never, Ever Eat An Icicle More Positive Pandemic Baby Names Trending
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Best States for Families to Live in 2021
👨👩👧👦 Home is where you hang your hat 🏡 Best and worst states to raise a family in 2021: study Paying for poop: University study gets smelly for science States that favored cats or dogs during coronavirus pandemic: Report
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Why Pandemic Divorces Have Skyrocketed
👰🏻 There Goes the Bride 💒 Divorce rates climb as quarantine keeps couples closer Woman's garden 'stepping stone' turns out to be an ancient Roman artifact University releases annual 'banished words' list for 2021 The Funniest Tweets About Reasons Couples Have Gotten Mad At Each Other |…
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Teaching Kids Sports and Time Travel (Interview: Andrew Luria)
Guest Anchor Andrew Luria (FOX 5 San Diego) joins this week to discuss his new children's book, "The Adventures of Charlie Marley - Midnight's Moment In Time". Learn more about Amazon.com's #1 New Release. Other stories include: Scotland names its snow plows and their titles are amazing via CNET...
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Should Breakdancing be an Olympic Sport
🕺🏻 Get Down on It 🥇 2024 Olympics to Include Breakdancing 50 Weird Christmas Gifts Almost As Bizarre As The Year 2020 Squirrel Gets Drunk On Fermented Pear Because Acorns Can't Dull The Pain Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it
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Did Shoppers Overspend on Holiday Gifts
Black Friday in-store shopping dropped 52.1% as online sales broke records. Cyber Monday was the biggest online shopping day in U.S. history Netflix says Queen's Gambit is its most-watched limited series yet Elon Musk wanted to call his new tequila ‘Teslaquila’ but Mexico said no Dictionary...
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Can Video Games Improve Mental Health
Bottoms up or dig in? Pepsi debuts limited-edition Apple Pie flavor George Clooney once gave 14 friends $1 million each -- in cash Study finds 4 hours of video games a day is beneficial to your mental health EVA Air launches speed dating 'flight to nowhere'
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Are Wigs the New Must-Have Pandemic Hairstyle
💁🏻♀️ Fake Hair. Don't Care. 💇🏽♀️ Women Brush Off Middle Age, Hair Loss With Wigs And No Shame After a tight race, a French bulldog was elected mayor of this small Kentucky town That 'murder hornet' nest scientists found and destroyed had nearly 200 queens. They say they got there 'just in…
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Can Election Cookies Predict a President
🍪 I Predict a Riot 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania bakery election 'cookie poll' results are in: The winner is... This Acupuncture Mat Has Over 14,000 Positive Reviews On Amazon Sophia Loren, 86, reveals her biggest regret: 'That was the dream of my life' Chiefs' Travis Kelce on the 'Battle' of Finding…
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How COVID-19 Changed TV News (Interview: Marcus Harun)
📰 Essential Journalists 🤳🏼 Producer Marcus Harun discusses his new documentary; Essential Journalists: How Coronavirus Changed TV News Armed with 6-foot microphone poles, mask-clad reporters are filming interviews through windows to tell the stories of their communities, while worrying about...
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How to Reserve a Private Movie Theater
🎞 Let's All go to the Lobby 🍿 Boston news anchor fired for a cameo in Adam Sandler’s ‘Hubie Halloween’ Pandemic, election may scare away consumers this Halloween, researcher says AMC Offers Moviegoers the Chance to Rent Out Theaters for $99 Private Screenings
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Renting a Cave for Election Day
🏔 Political Hideaways 🗳 This week we introduce our new co-host, Sara Threadgill! Hotels.com will help you literally live under a rock on election day Reporters Calling out Other TV Reporters Sara's first "Literal Worst" calls out her husband's dirty dishes. Follow Sara on Facebook! Follow…
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How I Snuck Into Shaq's Birthday Party
🥳 Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission 🏀 Robert shares how a college kid, doing a red carpet news story for class, walked into Shaquille O'Neal's 35th birthday party and had the time of his (young) life! In a 3 minute video, his interviews included Ludacris, Gary Payton, and the big Shaqtus...
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Why Ratings Matter So Much in TV
📺 The numbers that run the TV world 📈 https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-ratings-sunday-night-football-sees-sharp-decline-in-initial-ratings-161747893.html
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How Local Gyms Have Changed
💪🏼 Let's Get Physical 🏋🏻♂️ 😷 Robert was one of the first people to visit his local New York gym after they reopened with new COVID-19 guidelines. What's that new experience like having to workout with a mask? Is it enough to deter people from going back? 🍚 After Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben's...
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Former Playboy Playmate turns Mompreneur (Interview: Colleen Shannon)
👙 Once a Playmate, Always a Playmate 🐰 Former Playboy 50th Anniversary Playmate and "The World's Sexiest DJ", Colleen Shannon, joins the show. The soon-to-be mom of 2 reveals how she might tell her kids about her modeling career, the the new business ventures she's begun during the pandemic…
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Can Zodiac Signs Predict Future Success?
♐️ What's Your Sign? ♑️
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How to Get Paid for Reviewing Sex Mattresses
🛏 Go to the Mattresses ❣️ Hey, Wanna Make $3,000 by Having Sex on a Bunch of Different Mattresses? via Men's Health. Bring your own alcohol to drink on a flight during coronavirus: rules via Business Insider Clorox wipes won't be fully stocked in stores until 2021 via CBS News Also - introducing…
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Sports Return with a Surprising Fan Favorite
⚾️ Take Me Out to the Ballgame 🏀 Bill Murray brings in the MLB season with a 7th-inning stretch song from home. Dr. Anthony Fauci's baseball card just became one of the best selling in Topps' history. Falling meatball from sandwich causes college student to fail exam. Target joins Walmart in...
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Is Student Debt a Dating Deal-Breaker
😍 No Romance without Finance 💰 Send your digital screams to Iceland. What are the best tips for recording your frustration from home and playing it back on a remote area speaker. Forget good looks and humor — 27% of millennials said they'd consider a partner's student-loan debt before dating...
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How Much Is Too Much to Spend on Sunglasses
😎 Stepping Out in Style 🕶 One host spends $400 on summer sunglasses, the other won't spend more than $50... so how much is too much for you to fork over on a pair of shades? Click HERE for the answer - via MoneyTalksNews As parents prepare for back-to-school, what exactly should they expect…
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The Best Careers for Pay Raises
🎆 Independence Day 🧨 Robert and Norma reveal their favorite parts of July 4th (and it's not the fireworks)! News to Know Stories Mentioned: Fireworks Stands go live... but should they? The Dixie Chicks change their name. Hulu Pulls 'Golden Girls' Episode That Features Characters in Mud Masks…
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3 Secrets to Staying Motivated in Life and Work (Interview: Merril Hoge)
👔 Find A Way 🤔 Special Guest: Merril Hoge, former NFL player, and inspirational speaker share the motivational phrase that's helped him throughout his career, cancer, and COVID-19. Robert and Norma detail the tactics they used to stay focused and atop their TV game. Stories Mentioned: Dolphin...
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How to Regrow TV-Worthy Hair (Interview: Jordan Sadoff)
💇🏽♀️ Big Hair, Don't Care 💇🏻♂️ For the first time, our hosts discuss the feeling of watching their hair fall out, and why one chose to opt-in for hair restoration. Special Guest: Jordan Sadoff, CEO, RESTORE Hair reveals the strange area women are trying to transplant hair. Robert and Norma...
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Does Being on TV Make You More Attractive?
🎥 You've Got to Start Somewhere 😘 Why our hosts decided to pursue careers in TV news - including one's shortsighted misunderstanding. Will viewers care about Looney Tunes giving up its guns? In the "Voiceover of the Week": A Boston-area woman and her dog get caught in a sewer (WFXT). Also the...
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Why We Walked Away from TV News
🎙 Using Our TV Voices 🗣 Robert and Norma open up about how they met and why they decided to walk away from their respective TV careers. Would either of them go back and report if a station asked for help today? Both hosts also show off their "TV Voices" to read a story about a $300 overdue...
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Trailer: Only the Best Parts of a Morning Show
Emmy Award-nominated news anchor, Robert Burns and fellow long-time news anchor Norma Holland, step away from the cameras and behind the mics to tease their new podcast. Think of it as the best parts of your favorite local morning news show without the boundaries. Subscribe NOW so you don't miss...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/anchorsaway/subscribeA pair of veteran TV news anchors are back in business and behind the mic!Hosted by Emmy-nominated newsman Robert Burns and former TV news anchor Sara Threadgill, this podcast is built around telling it as it is.No weather. No traffic. No dramatic lead stories... and no boundaries.The duo offers hilarious hot takes on today’s world, dishes on behind-the-scenes stories they couldn't discuss on-air, and include celebrity guests - discussing life, current events, and more.
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/anchorsaway/subscribeA pair of veteran TV news anchors are back in business and behind the mic!Hosted by Emmy-nominated newsman Robert Burns and former TV news anchor Sara Threadgill, this podcast is built around telling it as it is.No weather. No...
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