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'Talk of CNN'

Aired January 22, 2003 - 06:52   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's back. "American Idol," that exercise in ego, elusive talent and public humiliation made its second season premier last night. Everybody's a critic, including the folks at The Dave Ryan In the Morning Show. They're on 101.3 KDWB Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Hey, how cold is it there?

DAVE RYAN, KDWB RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Right now minus one.

ANGIE: Oh, god.

RYAN: It's. This is not bad. For this time of the year, I think I've seen it 35 below around this time of the year. It's only one degree below right now.

COSTELLO: Oh, well, that's nothing.

RYAN: Carol, we...

COSTELLO: Hey, did you...

RYAN: We could all sing better than the people that they had on "American Idol" last night. It was dreadful.

COSTELLO: It was, why -- it was a two hour "American Idol" special. Like who watched it all two hours, do you think?

ANGIE: Ah, you don't want to know.

RYAN: Yes, I think Angie did. I did not.

ANGIE: But Dick did.

COSTELLO: Oh, and that Simon Cowell, what's his name? Simon Cowell?

ANGIE: Cowell.

COSTELLO: He's just so mean.

ANGIE: That's the best part of it. If Simon wasn't on that show, it wouldn't be as interesting.

RYAN: See, I think the thing is that really captivated everybody last summer when the show was on for the first time, Carol, was you're watching this show which is basically it's a talent show. But what really made it different was people were being honest with these people that could not sing for the first time. They'd -- a lot of these people have never been told in their entire lives that they can't sing.

I mean think about it, if you have a kid or you have a friend and they really can't sing but they want to become a singer, are you going to be the one to tell them they sing like, you know, like, they sound like...

ANGIE: A dying cat?

RYAN: Exactly. So...

COSTELLO: I don't know. My family's pretty brutal with me.

RYAN: I'm sure you can sing just fine.

COSTELLO: But listen to some of the stuff that Simon said last night. This is from the "Washington Post" because, of course, they wrote an article on it.

RYAN: All right.

COSTELLO: He said to one New Yorker, "I've heard better people sing outside of subway stations."

RYAN: Yes.

COSTELLO: To a Mariah Carey emulator, "Go back to your vocal coach and demand a refund." To this unfortunate soul he said, "If you were to win and sing a son, he would kill the American record industry. That's how bad you were."

ANGIE: That was my favorite quote from last night.

RYAN: Now, the girl that, she was so excited and she was, they had a picture of her taken with her hero, Mariah Carey, and she kind of was cultivating the Mariah Carey look with the hair and everything and I'm telling you, she was brutal. And it was tough for the judges to tell her, but that's what makes the show so great is that, I mean a lot of reality TV is not really real, as we've been reading a lot lately and hearing from you guys and everywhere else. But this is real. These are real kids who really think they can sing and a lot of them can't.

COSTELLO: I know, but many of them had tears streaming down their faces. It's just mean.

RYAN: Hey, you know what? I had tears streaming down my face listening to them sing. It was terrible. My ears hurt. I got a headache. My stomach ached. Terrible.

COSTELLO: All right, Dave and Angie, thanks for joining us this morning and try to stay warm up there.

RYAN: Thanks, Carol. ANGIE: Thank you.

RYAN: Thank you.

COSTELLO: OK.

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Aired January 22, 2003 - 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 back. "American Idol," that exercise in ego, elusive talent and public humiliation made its second season premier last night. Everybody's a critic, including the folks at The Dave Ryan In the Morning Show. They're on 101.3 KDWB Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Hey, how cold is it there?

DAVE RYAN, KDWB RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: Right now minus one.

ANGIE: Oh, god.

RYAN: It's. This is not bad. For this time of the year, I think I've seen it 35 below around this time of the year. It's only one degree below right now.

COSTELLO: Oh, well, that's nothing.

RYAN: Carol, we...

COSTELLO: Hey, did you...

RYAN: We could all sing better than the people that they had on "American Idol" last night. It was dreadful.

COSTELLO: It was, why -- it was a two hour "American Idol" special. Like who watched it all two hours, do you think?

ANGIE: Ah, you don't want to know.

RYAN: Yes, I think Angie did. I did not.

ANGIE: But Dick did.

COSTELLO: Oh, and that Simon Cowell, what's his name? Simon Cowell?

ANGIE: Cowell.

COSTELLO: He's just so mean.

ANGIE: That's the best part of it. If Simon wasn't on that show, it wouldn't be as interesting.

RYAN: See, I think the thing is that really captivated everybody last summer when the show was on for the first time, Carol, was you're watching this show which is basically it's a talent show. But what really made it different was people were being honest with these people that could not sing for the first time. They'd -- a lot of these people have never been told in their entire lives that they can't sing.

I mean think about it, if you have a kid or you have a friend and they really can't sing but they want to become a singer, are you going to be the one to tell them they sing like, you know, like, they sound like...

ANGIE: A dying cat?

RYAN: Exactly. So...

COSTELLO: I don't know. My family's pretty brutal with me.

RYAN: I'm sure you can sing just fine.

COSTELLO: But listen to some of the stuff that Simon said last night. This is from the "Washington Post" because, of course, they wrote an article on it.

RYAN: All right.

COSTELLO: He said to one New Yorker, "I've heard better people sing outside of subway stations."

RYAN: Yes.

COSTELLO: To a Mariah Carey emulator, "Go back to your vocal coach and demand a refund." To this unfortunate soul he said, "If you were to win and sing a son, he would kill the American record industry. That's how bad you were."

ANGIE: That was my favorite quote from last night.

RYAN: Now, the girl that, she was so excited and she was, they had a picture of her taken with her hero, Mariah Carey, and she kind of was cultivating the Mariah Carey look with the hair and everything and I'm telling you, she was brutal. And it was tough for the judges to tell her, but that's what makes the show so great is that, I mean a lot of reality TV is not really real, as we've been reading a lot lately and hearing from you guys and everywhere else. But this is real. These are real kids who really think they can sing and a lot of them can't.

COSTELLO: I know, but many of them had tears streaming down their faces. It's just mean.

RYAN: Hey, you know what? I had tears streaming down my face listening to them sing. It was terrible. My ears hurt. I got a headache. My stomach ached. Terrible.

COSTELLO: All right, Dave and Angie, thanks for joining us this morning and try to stay warm up there.

RYAN: Thanks, Carol. ANGIE: Thank you.

RYAN: Thank you.

COSTELLO: OK.

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