The Fox News Reporter Who Quit to Live an Orthodox Homesteading Life
Heavy Things Lightly

The Fox News Reporter Who Quit to Live an Orthodox Homesteading Life

B1IntermediateSeptember 25, 20261 hr 34 min
  • Interview
  • Religion

Find this episode on YouTube: Holly Hickman went from Columbia Journalism and Fox News Radio covering NASA and the 2008 election — to milking cows, making cheese, and converting to Orthodoxy.In this episode of Heavy Things Lightly, Holly tells John how news really works: 7am editorial meetings, White House press releases, assignment editors feeding you quotes, and how language in the AP Stylebook quietly frames everything. She talks Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris, asking astronaut Tom Jones "where's heaven?", getting planted by Rod Dreher, Columbia after 9/11, and why she walked away.Then the turn: sneaking to church in So...

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So what's the deal? So you and I met on the interwebs. As soon as we like crossed paths, I don't know. You seem like you kind of think that like my podcast is cool.

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You said that before. I have, I think I have it actually on my website. That you're my favorite podcast. I told you why.

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Well, first of all, you saw that. Yeah. or something? No, no, you know what it is. You have a complete openness, you have a curiosity, and you have a complete lack of vanity. And I mean that in the best way.

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