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CNN Live At Daybreak

Interview with Jeff Dauler, Melissa Carter, Bert Weiss

Aired August 06, 2002 - 06:50   ET

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

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: You just knew this was coming, Jay Leno skewered Anna Nicole Smith and her new reality show on his "Tonight Show" monologue last night. And it's in our DAYBREAK Laugh Track this morning.
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JAY LENO, "TONIGHT SHOW" HOST: How many watched Anna Nicole Smith? Did you see that? You see that thing on the E Channel? I think the E stands for enormous. Oh my god. Should have put that thing on the Food Channel. Stop it.

You know, I never thought I'd say this, but Ozzy Osbourne is starting to look coherent now, you know? Ozzy Osbourne looks like "Meet The Press" after watching this -- did you see it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No I didn't.

LENO: Oh my god. And they call it a reality show. See, that's what I love about L.A. It's the only place where a woman with bleached blonde hair, collagen lips, fake boobs is considered reality. That's reality.

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COSTELLO: Oh, a lot of people are still talking about Anna Nicole Smith, including our friends from "The Bert Show" on Q100 right here in Atlanta. And they're on the phone with us this morning.

Good morning, guys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, Carol. Good morning, Chad.

CHAD MYERS, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: Good morning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you guys today?

MYERS: Awake.

COSTELLO: Yes, that's about it, though. Hey...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was that, Chad? Are you guys doing the musical CNN today?

MYERS: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello. MYERS: I was singing a little country earlier, singing a little Garth on the air.

COSTELLO: And it was bad.

MYERS: Yes, it was.

COSTELLO: Hey, what did you guys think of the "Anna Nicole Smith Show?"

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just sloppy. She is just a sloppy human being. And we were trying to decide yesterday if this thing really has any legs or not and, you know, Melissa loved the show. I absolutely hated it.

MELISSA CARTER, Q100, "THE BERT SHOW": Yes, I thought it -- well, because I, I guess I went in expecting a freak show and that's what I got.

COSTELLO: Yes, but there's not anything substantive in the freak show.

CARTER: You know, Carol, that's a good point because I think that like with the Osbournes, I mean, you know, they're kind of freaky but yet there is some kind of family unity and family love there. And, yes, I will go back and watch this show again next week, but I don't know if it will last because of the fact there's nothing, there's no roots to it.

COSTELLO: Wow, and she's just so incoherent and on something and...

MYERS: Yes, do you think she was over medicated or something? It just seemed like that to me.

BERT WEISS, Q100, "THE BERT SHOW": Well, here's what we figured out yesterday. We figured that the drugs are in her makeup because if you notice...

MYERS: It's like a patch.

WEISS: ... they were following her around when she had all the makeup on. She couldn't speak at all. When they were on the patio with her and she didn't have any makeup on, she was fine.

COSTELLO: She was fine.

WEISS: It's drug makeup.

COSTELLO: Hey, we want to switch subjects quickly here, because a lot of people have been e-mailing us on this topic this morning. It's about the mom trying to get her kids to stop smoking.

WEISS: Yes, this is the real case here of, I mean, maybe over the top tough love. Here's a woman in Milwaukee that keeps telling her 16-year-olds, you know, don't smoke, don't smoke, you know, you're too young, it's bad for you. And they're not listening to her at all. So what she decided to do is she takes a couple of pictures of them, turns them into a poster and now she's hanging them all over convenience stories in their hometown.

But as soon as she puts them up, what do the kids to?

COSTELLO: They tear 'em down.

WEISS: They tear 'em down.

MYERS: Yes.

WEISS: So I don't know what the real lesson is here about that.

COSTELLO: They look like mug shots, don't you think?

WEISS: Well, that may be a picture into their future.

MYERS: I think so.

COSTELLO: Well, we want to read a few e-mails that we've gotten from our viewers on this subject about whether mom is doing the right thing.

MYERS: Yes, a lot of them, a lot of folks think it's tough love and I mean we've had shows about tough love and Colleen here says that she actually sent her daughter's driver's license back to the state with parental suspension on it when she proved she wasn't responsible enough to drive. I can't imagine how that would probably torque off a 16-year-old, huh?

COSTELLO: But most of the e-mailers thought it was a bad idea, right?

MYERS: I think so. I think people think it's going to backfire on the mom and that the mom is going to lose respect from the kids and the kids are just going to go their own way and you're not going to be able to go after that.

COSTELLO: Well, and did you guys see how the kids looked with their hats on backwards?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, well, I just think that's kind of a look today anyway. I don't know that that means that they're going to be, you know, felons or anything. But it just seems like there's a fine line between showing your kids that you care about their health and embarrassing them in public, you know?

COSTELLO: Yes, exactly.

Hey, your listeners wrote in about what they'd like to see on 9/11. And you say it's interesting. So what is it? Spill it.

WEISS: Yes, because we were, we really just don't know how to handle that day just yet on the air. So we asked them to e-mail us and give us some kind, some, just some direction. And we got hundreds of e-mails on it.

JEFF DAULER, Q100, "THE BERT SHOW": Yes, we probably got close to 1,000 e-mails and I would say easily 85 percent of them said do not address it at all other than maybe a, you know, moment of silence or a patriotic song.

COSTELLO: Really?

DAULER: Yes, people really think they're going to be inundated from, you know, all of the television networks and, you know, TV specials and, you know, the news talk radio stations. And I think they're going to be looking toward us and, you know, other music-based radio stations to be a little more fun and a little more, you know, less morose about the whole thing and a little more, you know, a little more of a distraction.

COSTELLO: Yes. Well, that's interesting, because I think every TV station in America is going to do a very long ceremonious...

MYERS: Twelve hours for some of them, non-stop, yes.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes, 12 hours.

MYERS: Yes.

DAULER: Yes, well, you guys should try that, also. Just ignore it the entire day. See what kind of reaction you guys get.

MYERS: Yes, I don't think that's going to fly.

COSTELLO: I don't think we should.

MYERS: But we'll be listening.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, guys. Thanks so much for checking in.

COSTELLO: Thanks for "The Bert Show." We'll catch you again next week.

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