368 - Mike Reiss: Yes! You Should Take Chances with Your Career

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Mike Reiss started writing for The Simpsons because NO ONE else would take the job. They didn’t know they were passing up the opportunity work on what would soon become the #1 animated series on prime time TV. Mike has tons of stories about TV...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.6	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.6	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.6	When you were sitting in that room with all the writers for The Simpsons, did you say
0:19.4	like, oh my gosh, this is the game come true?
0:22.8	No.
0:24.4	I got hired at The Simpsons because nobody else wanted the job.
0:28.5	You know, a beloved cult classic.
0:31.3	It was also the lowest rated show on TV.
0:34.6	And Sam Simon called me.
0:35.6	I was like, you want to work on The Simpsons?
0:37.2	I go, what are you calling me?
0:38.9	I don't know you.
0:39.9	And he says, everyone else has turned me down.
0:43.5	It seemed not only like a surefire loser of a show, but actual career poison.
0:50.0	So I took The Simpsons job.
0:51.4	I didn't tell anyone what I was doing.
0:53.5	And it was like any summer job.
0:56.0	It's like, well, I won't be doing this forever.
0:58.3	So let's just have some fun.
0:59.9	And maybe that's the secret of the show.
1:02.7	You know, we said, no one's going to watch it.
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