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3:09 PM, Friday, September 17th, 2021:   DONALD. DAMNIT DONALD.   Every time the "Mayor and Me" project comes on and the idea of pitching it starts to become a reality, that is my reaction: DONALD. YA KILLIN ME DON...   The reason? Is because Don won't do the work. Remember that scene in Mad Men? Just do the work Don. Our good Journey friend Joel Murray said that line and that's what DOESN'T HAPPEN here. I bring it up and Don laughs "yeah, just let me know when to show up!"   <annoyed face>   Shows don't "just happen". Ya gotta kinda live, eat and breathe them. Ya need to have passion and you need to push it with that passion. Passion I inevitably have for a moment until I go to make the reel and I just get annoyed. I remember how frustrating it is working with Don. Doesn't matter how much I like him... he just seemingly can take or leave ANYTHING. Wonderfully fun attitude when you're just hanging having a drink. Devastatingly frustrating when you're trying to work on a project. I think half of it comes from him just not thinking he's good enough. Or that we're good enough. He really seems to need someone else to beat him over the head with shit and it can't be me. Or him. I know for absolute damn sure this is a reality show, but I cannot do it all by myself.   Then enters Danny and, well, it comes back to mind...     Danny has a production company that is producing some extremely ambitious shit. One in the "Back to the Future universe" and one, a biopic, with a very famous dead celebrity and an actor that is perfect. Where do we fit in? Mayyyyybe those things take forever and he wants to do something in the meantime? "Mayor and Me" is easy. It's cheap. It's a feel good show idea in a Ted Lasso world that is screaming for this type of content.   And ya know what? Just maybe that was the reel I need to pass around. I need SOMEONE other than me to be excited about this, ya know? My whole life is being the crazy dude with crazy ideas in a vacuum that no one understnads until I do it and they go "oh, that's what you meant - AWESOME!". And that's great that I've been able to do that, but I'm tired. I have enough energy to do the journey and the documentaries. Past that? I need some other energy joining in the fight. This complete vacuum idea maker shit gets harder and harder as the years pass.   So I put this out here and see where it goes. But considering I've had this idea for 6 years and it isn't remotely dying down? I have to believe this has legs. It's absolutely the show that won't let go.   Adam