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Talk with Radio DJs from Q100

Aired October 15, 2002 - 06:52   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's time for the Talk of CNN segment. Today, radio DJs from "The Bert Show" on q100 here in Atlanta join us by phone. We want to find out what the hot topics are in your neck of the woods.
Good morning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you, Carol?

COSTELLO: I'm pretty tired this morning, to tell you the truth. But happy to be here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tell us about it, will you? What's the matter?

COSTELLO: No, I don't want to bore you with the details.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

COSTELLO: Anyway, Jimmy Carter is still the talk of Atlanta?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, absolutely. We are so proud of our Georgia native, who won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

COSTELLO: It was a long time in coming, wasn't it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely. He's been nominated countless times and this was like a record number, 158 people or so were nominated for the Peace Prize, including the former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani. Pope John Paul was nominated. But Jimmy Carter beat 'em all out.

COSTELLO: Yes, he did.

Give us a sense of what Jimmy Carter means to Georgia? Because as you walk around Atlanta, you often see him and his wife.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. Well, I think that he is a true southerner, what people think southerners are, where they're, you know, down to earth, they, you know, stay close to home. He was, of course, from Plains, Georgia. He still lives in the house and has the ranch that his father owned and I'm sure his grandfather owned. The day that he won the Peace Prize, he was in Plains. Later that day he just walked around in the town and talked to some of his townsfolk and I mean that is in true southern fashion, absolutely.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. And actually we called him at 4:30 in the morning and he actually took our phone call and talked to us live on the day he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Only Jimmy Carter would do that.

COSTELLO: Exactly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He thought it was a radio station calling him for a prize.

COSTELLO: Somehow I doubt that.

Anyway, I wanted to talk, too, about how the sniper attacks in Washington, D.C. are affecting folks in this area. I was talking to a Boston radio station earlier this morning and they say people are scared there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think what it is is everybody in Atlanta, a lot of people in Atlanta are transplants from other parts of the country and a lot of people have come down here from D.C. so they still know people who are up in the Virginia, the Maryland, the D.C. area. And it's got 'em freaked out.

COSTELLO: Do you find that people are looking over their shoulders even in Atlanta, afraid that the sniper may move into their state?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think so. I haven't noticed that. But I don't have any direct ties to D.C. I know Bert is originally, or spent some time up in that area. BERT: Yes, I have a lot of friends and we still have family up in D.C. that say they're, you know, they don't go to the gas station anymore without pumping their gas and then going inside the little convenience store. But as far as being down in Atlanta and actually feeling it, I don't have any paranoia at all about going out here yet.

COSTELLO: Well, that's good to hear. They are having some paranoia in Boston, however.

Thank you guys very much. We'll check back with you next week.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, Carol. Bye now.

COSTELLO: OK.

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Aired October 15, 2002 - 06:52   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's time for the Talk of CNN segment. Today, radio DJs from "The Bert Show" on q100 here in Atlanta join us by phone. We want to find out what the hot topics are in your neck of the woods.
Good morning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you, Carol?

COSTELLO: I'm pretty tired this morning, to tell you the truth. But happy to be here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tell us about it, will you? What's the matter?

COSTELLO: No, I don't want to bore you with the details.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

COSTELLO: Anyway, Jimmy Carter is still the talk of Atlanta?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, absolutely. We are so proud of our Georgia native, who won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

COSTELLO: It was a long time in coming, wasn't it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely. He's been nominated countless times and this was like a record number, 158 people or so were nominated for the Peace Prize, including the former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani. Pope John Paul was nominated. But Jimmy Carter beat 'em all out.

COSTELLO: Yes, he did.

Give us a sense of what Jimmy Carter means to Georgia? Because as you walk around Atlanta, you often see him and his wife.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. Well, I think that he is a true southerner, what people think southerners are, where they're, you know, down to earth, they, you know, stay close to home. He was, of course, from Plains, Georgia. He still lives in the house and has the ranch that his father owned and I'm sure his grandfather owned. The day that he won the Peace Prize, he was in Plains. Later that day he just walked around in the town and talked to some of his townsfolk and I mean that is in true southern fashion, absolutely.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. And actually we called him at 4:30 in the morning and he actually took our phone call and talked to us live on the day he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Only Jimmy Carter would do that.

COSTELLO: Exactly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He thought it was a radio station calling him for a prize.

COSTELLO: Somehow I doubt that.

Anyway, I wanted to talk, too, about how the sniper attacks in Washington, D.C. are affecting folks in this area. I was talking to a Boston radio station earlier this morning and they say people are scared there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think what it is is everybody in Atlanta, a lot of people in Atlanta are transplants from other parts of the country and a lot of people have come down here from D.C. so they still know people who are up in the Virginia, the Maryland, the D.C. area. And it's got 'em freaked out.

COSTELLO: Do you find that people are looking over their shoulders even in Atlanta, afraid that the sniper may move into their state?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think so. I haven't noticed that. But I don't have any direct ties to D.C. I know Bert is originally, or spent some time up in that area. BERT: Yes, I have a lot of friends and we still have family up in D.C. that say they're, you know, they don't go to the gas station anymore without pumping their gas and then going inside the little convenience store. But as far as being down in Atlanta and actually feeling it, I don't have any paranoia at all about going out here yet.

COSTELLO: Well, that's good to hear. They are having some paranoia in Boston, however.

Thank you guys very much. We'll check back with you next week.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, Carol. Bye now.

COSTELLO: OK.

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