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Dan Taberski on his new podcast ‘Running from COPS’
As a follow-up to his podcasts about exercise guru Richard Simmons and then Y2K, Dan Taberski set out to investigate the darker aspects of the long-running show ‘Cops.’
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenFor his third audio documentary-style podcast, Dan Taberski set out to investigate the darker aspects of the long-running show ‘Cops.’ Taberski tells us about making ‘Running from COPS,’ the product of an 18-month deep-dive into in the show. Turns out, if you live in a town where it films, ‘Cops’ might come for you whether you’re a bad boy or not. Taberski also reflects on his time as a ‘Daily Show’ field producer during the Jon Stewart years and talks about blowback from his earlier podcast, ‘Missing Richard Simmons.’
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Dan Taberski was a longtime fan of the Fox show, ‘Cops’--a series of such lasting appeal that it’s now in its 31st season, with more than 1,000 episodes in the can.
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