HTA-0584: KRON4 News Weekend — Promo Segment with Upcoming Stories

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Henry teases upcoming segments on KRON4 News Weekend including a trained animal segment.

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Hey, coming up on Cron 4 News Weekend, wait a minute, why am I doing it?

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We have a trained professional journalist here, Lynn Shearer.

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You do the tease, okay?

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Okay, okay.

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So, do you like to swim or think you'd like to swim or know someone who likes to swim?

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I've written a new book.

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It's called Swim, Why We Love the Water.

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Stay tuned.

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Lynn Shearer, coming up Cron 4 News Weekend.

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Great.

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Welcome back to Cron 4 News Weekend.

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So she has, like Lord Byron, swum the Hellespont.

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She has spent a great deal of her time in the water.

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She has won medals.

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And by the way, she happens to be an award-winning journalist.

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Lynn Shearer of ABC's 2020 is now author Lynn Shearer, author of the book called Swim.

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And she has begged us to please show the cover.

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Hey, Lila, can you show that cover, please?

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Let it snow fall.

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Well, you know what?

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I get to say this because I didn't design it.

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It is the most spectacular.

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Look at that.

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It is the most spectacular cover.

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You have to admit, seriously.

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It is a provocatively beautiful cover.

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It really is.

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It says everything about the book I wanted it to say, which is the joy of swimming, the beauty of it.

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So why would you, after all those years as a journalist, you know, doing hardening,

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A serious journalist.

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Yeah, suddenly talk about sticking your body in the water.

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Because I only write books about things I'm passionate about, and this is one of them.

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You know, I did a book about giraffes.

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I did a book about Susan B. Anthony.

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This is something I really care about.

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And I like owning a subject.

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I like finding out all about it.

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And swimming to me is, it's magical.

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It soothes me.

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It calms me.

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It gets me excited.

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It's a wonderful full-body massage.

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It's the cheapest antidepressant in the world.

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I just love being in the water.

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Okay.

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What's amazing, though, is that you've managed to tease out a whole book from the fact that you like getting wet.

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Yes.

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There are a lot of aspects to swimming.

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that really are quite remarkable.

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So just for starters, tell us about the amazing quests you have gone on.

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Well, when I decided to do the book, and I wanted to do the history of swimming,

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and I've got all that quirky stuff.

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The history? What the heck is the history of swimming?

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Oh, the history. We'll start there. The history's great.

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There was not one of those who ate the first oyster moment.

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Swimming has always been with us.

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There are cave paintings of swimmers, prehistory.

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There are several Egyptian hieroglyphs of swimmers.

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Julius Caesar was a well-known, renowned, strong swimmer.

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Saved the empire once by swimming across the water.

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Chairman Mao.

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Chairman Mao was a swimmer.

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Political moment when Chairman Mao swam in the Yangtze.

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Putin's a big swimmer.

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And we've had presidential swimmers.

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Gerald Ford was a wonderful swimmer.

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President John Quincy Adams, way back when, used to skinny dip in the Potomac every day.

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And almost died.

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And almost died once, almost drowned.

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And Mrs. Adams was not amused.

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He did not swim again.

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And then we have the fact that there was a White House indoor swimming pool built for FDR, who, of course, had polio.

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This was his only form of exercise.

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Used by JFK for swimming and other things, we're told.

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And then it was bricked over and made into a press room on top of it by, ironically, Richard M. Nixon.

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So we now have a press room.

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And at the end where you always see the press secretary and the members of the administration talking,

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That is located directly over the deep end.

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See, I think swimming is just a metaphor for life.

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And bathing suits, big fashion issue.

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The bikini was a major factor.

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Well, women, women in bathing suits, we used to have to cover most of our bodies.

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Remember the old bathing suits?

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Women were bloomers.

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I have a picture in the book of a policeman measuring the distance between the bottom of a woman's bathing skirt and her knee because you shouldn't have too much flesh showing.

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Lynch here has managed to make swimming into a remarkable chronicle of history and of personal involvement and of personal achievement.

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Lynch here, thank you so much. It's been great meeting you.

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Thanks, Henry. Love it.

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We're taking a break. When we come back, we're doing a bit of a change.

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We're going to be talking about health in Alameda County. You're watching Crown 4 News Weekend.