This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

It seems like it's not always coming up with the new, new, absurdist idea,

but kind of combining old concepts together in a new way.

Yeah, that was a big breakthrough for me because when you start,

you just want to be original all the time and if something's been done,

you don't want to do it. I think if you're creative, that's your instinct.

But there aren't a zillion original stories, so what you have to do is take an old story

and make it original. Put your own spin on it.

It's a perspective on life. I think you're just always looking for the twist.

And why do you think you have a twisted perspective on life?

It's exactly the way I've seen the world, which is it's so much more fun

to be looking for that thing that makes you laugh.

Okay, well, I am really honored to have a living piece of television,

history in the room. I hope you don't mind me saying that.

No, that's okay.

Nell Scovall. Could you call me iconic?

Your iconic. You are iconic. You're an icon.

I've always wanted to be called iconic.

Well, now you're officially iconic. Nell Scovall, you just wrote a came out of the book,

just the funny parts, but I'm glad you came out with that this book because it gives me an excuse

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