- 2:42 PM, Thursday,
October 30th, 2014:
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- This shit is gonna
be the death of me, man. I cannot believe how
much I'm trying to pull off.
NEED HELP.
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- That being said,
this is a red-letter day for Hats & Minigolf and
I'm extremely proud of this interview. Let's watch,
shall we?
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- The reason this is
so monumental for me is that it was clearly a
different type of interview, dealing with more serious
topics, and it still worked. That has to be true. It's
where I'm different than Comedians in Cars for example
(although the serious moments of that show seem to
work best for me), but not everyone I have on is going
to be "Funny". Most will, of course, and Dean IS
funny, but as you saw - we talked about far more
intricate issues than the other interviews. Then
again, thinking back on Jim O'Heir we were kinda
diving into being from back east and with Watanabe we
touched upon racial stereotypes, etc. But the bulk of
this interview was about conspiracy theories and the
entire concept of the personality type that believes
in them. It's fascinating to me and I believe
I made it interesting to others. That's the goal
no matter what... to engage the viewer enough that
they want to keep going. Humor obviously works, but to
me? This interview was a ton more fascinating as each
topic kinda stuck with me well into the cutaways to
the holes, etc. And the story in the car about the
lady with the husband in the FBI - just lent itself so
well to that final point: all of those
explanations ARE NOT EQUAL. There is a
massive issue right now with people not being able to
understand that. Everything has equal weight when
often it isn't remotely equal. False equilization
KILLS progress. Like absolutely decapitates it.
Because we wallow in ridiculousness instead of
agreeing on "logic". Obviously I could write ad
infinitum about this. And we could have talked all
night as well. Dean is absolutely awesome, intelligent
and I was having an absolute blast (as if you couldn't
tell).
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- But, YES! Great
episode. Great interview from my perspective (which is
trying to TEST this format to see if I really
believe in it). Next up will be interviewing a woman
and seeing if I can find the appropriate balance
there and maintain the honesty that's been in the
first interviews. I have a couple candidates so
far and that as well as a celebrity that has no
business doing this show should be the final pieces.
I have more than enough for a reel, but I'm also
quite hard on my ideas and I know damn well that
for this to work? I have to have some chops.
I have to bring something new to the table when
it comes to these interviews and even I am a bit
curious as to how I will react when playing off
the opposite sex or playing off a celebrity so clearly
above the show. You could actually argue ALL of my
guests are above my BACKYARD, lol, but I mean an
A-list-clearly-has-better-shit-to-do-gets-paid-millions-for-their-time.
Could I have the same calm energy with Will Smith?
I think I would. Where does sexual energy
fit-in when it comes to women knowing I wear my
family on my sleeve? It's a balance most people don't
think of, but it's a very real part of talk show
interviews and nearly every male talk show host is
married with a family... yet they pull it off. What is
my schtick? I don't have the nerdy, bashful
angle. So who exactly am I with the opposite sex in
this setting, or do I avoid all false flirtings?
What does the audience want to see? What works? All
fascinating to me and something that needs to be
explored if I'm going to legitimately bring something
to the table. I think it will all just fall into
place, but until it does...
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- ...man this is
exciting. I can't begin to tell you
(NO MATTER HOW EXHAUSTED I AM)
how wonderful it is to be chewing on a project that
actually has this much going for it. This really is
the path and I'm attacking it the right way. I'm
making know assumptions about my skills and trying to
put myself in difficult situations to challenge my
chops. So far, so good.
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- Batter
up!
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- Adam
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