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Lee Syatt: What Was I Thinking?

#037 - Los Angeles is a weird place: stories from a decade in LA

Lee Syatt: What Was I Thinking?

Lee Syatt

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

I spent (almost) 10 years in Los Angeles. It gave me opportunities that I would have never gotten anywhere else, but that's not always a good thing. This week on the What Was I Thinking podcast I talk about all of my favorite LA stories. Including, why I was my agent's favorite fat person.

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0:00.0

Los Angeles is a weird place.

0:03.0

It's a very, I'll say unique place, that's a nice way to put it.

0:07.0

I spent almost a full decade there, not exactly a full decade, but like nine and a half years and I have

0:17.6

mixed feelings about it I I went there like full of hope and I got to do some really cool things I mean obviously

0:28.6

a lot of you know me from the church which is great and and that was fun but and I spoke about this on

0:34.3

other episodes but I went there I moved there to work on well I was going to

0:41.8

say to work on reality TV I went there to be an editor.

0:45.0

And I don't even, to be honest, know if I was ever, if I ever thought I'd be like a movie editor but like TV

0:55.8

Even commercials would have been cool

0:59.4

And I did it for about three years and I didn't I never made it to full editor for those of you

1:05.1

who don't know it starts off most people start off as a PA but that's not even

1:09.7

really related to editing at all and then you move on to assistant editor. You could also be

1:15.2

a digitizer before that but I always never digitizer which is just basically

1:19.9

getting the the footage into the system which is what a lot of assistant editors do

1:25.3

but for even a bit one of the biggest shows I worked on Hell's Kitchen there were

1:30.3

people who just digitized the entire time.

1:35.0

But I did it for like three, three and a half years.

1:38.0

I worked, like I said, I worked on Hell's Kitchen, I worked on America's Funnestown videos, I worked on the Caesar Milan show, I worked on a lot

1:46.2

of shitty shows too, and that was, again, sort of like LA, it was mixed.

1:55.0

It was very exciting. I remember the first time, I even have a screenshot of it.

1:59.0

I remember the first time I saw my name on in the credits on a TV show that was

2:06.4

for America's Fun on videos and it was an amazing feeling that was one of the

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