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KTLA Reporter Rachel Menitoff Reacts to Viral Cockroach Moment · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Ryan Seacrest and everybody else sisany Tanya in the back room.
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  Speaker 1: We have a local star coming on with us right
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  Speaker 1: now who has gone viral.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I bring up composure.
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  Speaker 1: There are some people who are so laser focused at
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  Speaker 1: a task that they can stay completely composed and focused
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  Speaker 1: and do what they need to do. Rachel Mentav from
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  Speaker 1: Katla Channel five, who's doing a live shot on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: and she remained fully focused on her report while a
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  Speaker 1: flying cockroach hit her chest and crawled up the side
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  Speaker 1: of her neck, and she joins us now she's inside.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed, just in case there are any other insects today.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Rachel, how are you nice to see you?
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  Speaker 3: Hi Ryan, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Incredible composure in a live shot. You might this has
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  Speaker 1: gone viral. People are talking about this cockroach that was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, flying and then landing on your chest.
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  Speaker 3: I know, oh, I know. I mean people have been
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  Speaker 3: messaging me for the last two days. For me, it's
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  Speaker 3: what I normally do. You know, we were doing a
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  Speaker 3: live shot about the extreme heat and it was at
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  Speaker 3: the very end of our report and the bug started
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  Speaker 3: crawling on me and I just said to myself, my
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  Speaker 3: internal voice was like you know what, Just keep going,
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  Speaker 3: just keep going. Yeah, I felt it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you not. Did you think it was a
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  Speaker 2: cockroach though? Or did you like think it was something else?
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  Speaker 3: You know, we saw the cockroaches on the ground, little
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  Speaker 3: did I know, Little did I know that they fly?
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  Speaker 3: So I had a feeling. And then when my photographer
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  Speaker 3: covered his face and kind of like ducked behind the camera,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, you know, something's wrong, you know, something's
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  Speaker 3: definitely wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't it funny how You've done so many live
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  Speaker 1: shots and reporting and the cockroach landing on your chest
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  Speaker 1: is what people want.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the thousands of live shots that I've done,
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  Speaker 3: this one seems to be the most popular.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know? I have to tell you I can
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  Speaker 1: relate in a way. I was hosting the e Live
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  Speaker 1: from the Red Carpet Show at the Oscars, and Sasha
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  Speaker 1: Baron Cohen was dressed up as one of his characters
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  Speaker 1: in a movie, and as I was talking to him
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  Speaker 1: or somebody else in my talks, he threw an urn
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  Speaker 1: of ashes onto my jacket and I continued to just
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  Speaker 1: talk on the air, and you know, didn't skip a.
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  Speaker 2: Beat until I looked down and realized, oh.
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  Speaker 1: It was bis quick, made to look like somebody's ashes,
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  Speaker 1: and we continued on. So I kind of know the
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  Speaker 1: feeling of something like that happening. I packed now two
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  Speaker 1: jackets when I do a live shot, that's so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to have a backup just in case anything
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  Speaker 1: like that happens. But you were remarkably composed. So we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you for the viral moment, but
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  Speaker 1: also the great local reporting in the heat too, that's
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  Speaker 1: not so fun.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. And you know what, our story was important.
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  Speaker 3: It was an important story. We had talked to so
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  Speaker 3: many people, athletes, we talked to a girls soccer team,
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  Speaker 3: and I just didn't want to derail the story, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to get the story out there. And I
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  Speaker 3: knew if I took notice of this cockroach that I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be able to.
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  Speaker 2: That would be selfish, That'd be very selfish.
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  Speaker 3: It would be exactly, I mean it exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All down your shirt. Honestly, I would have been down
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  Speaker 2: the street. Yeah yeah, well.
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  Speaker 3: You know it was hard, but I I just my
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  Speaker 3: voice inside was just like keep going and then shake
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  Speaker 3: me off at the end.
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  Speaker 2: You know, shake it off. At the end your wild
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  Speaker 2: all right, Well you can see the video. It has
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  Speaker 2: gone viral.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, you know, I got part of
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  Speaker 1: my live TV start in the entertainment department i KTLA
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  Speaker 1: Channel five, filling in for Sam Rubin way back today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so some of my first live TV experience was actually
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  Speaker 1: doing the hits in the newsroom and then going to
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  Speaker 1: the desk.
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  Speaker 3: So I've held that microphone that you were holding exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know what it's like.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it's like. I do. Well, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for coming on and we'll be watching on Channel five.
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  Speaker 3: Take good care, Rachel, thanks so much, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, bye bye bye