Always Wear your Producer Hat

Part of being a personality is leading an interesting life. When you take up a new challenge or hobby, go to a new place for dinner or read something in a section of the bookstore you never frequent, you may stumble on content ideas for your show. 

And when you do it, you have to have your producer’s hat on, pausing to jot down a note when something happens. 

Chris and I finally went to the sushi-making class I gave him for Christmas, which included unlimited sake and wine. We stood next to another couple and had a fun evening. AND, the couple gave me two ideas to include in this newsletter, unbeknownst to them. 

Topic #1: The couple had been married for two years. As I suspected, they met on Tinder. But what he confessed to us was that he hired a company to swipe right and engage with the women on the app for him. He coached them to be funny and casual, in his voice, and weed out the riff-raff. When they found Julie, he jumped in and took over the chat with her. After she referenced jokes (that he did not write for himself) he finally had to come clean. 

Would you marry someone when your initial impression of them wasn’t even them?! 

Topic #2: After casually chatting during class, he said, “We’d love to have sushi with you guys sometime,” and asked for our numbers. Chris is convinced that they are swingers. We have not responded to the text yet (but some smartass reading this will tell me I should do it! For the content!). 

One of the most important muscles for anyone who works on a show is to live their life on two levels: One, live an interesting life. And two, always be asking, Is this something I can use for the show?