DON SMITH, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Most of the highlights involved interesting, or colorful, or illuminating exchanges between people. Whether it is people on different sides of an issue, or whether it was the kid who got to ask Charles Barkley a question one day.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would like to ask Charles Barkley why...</s>SMITH: And it was wonderful because that youngster's face was just transfigured. Never in his life did he think he would be able to do that, and he was able to do that. It interested me very much once when former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was on. That a man who was his virtually sworn enemy, a man in the audience when it began, by the end of the show said: You know, listening to you talk, I have to admit that I may have been wrong about you.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I didn't like you very much before.</s>SMITH: Any time there is some sort of insight, or enlightenment, or revelation, or great laugh or touching moment. We had Wolf Blitzer on one time and unbeknownst to him we also had his parents on. And it was, some may find it corny, I thought it was very sweet. The glittering generality is that the best elements on "TALKBACK" are those which reveal something interesting, or fascinating, or rewarding, or wonderful about he human condition.
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