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

This is the James Altiger Show.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

Man, I love Lucy and you know what?

I write about Lucille Ball in my upcoming books, Get the Line.

I have a small section on her because she really is a great example of choosing herself.

Her movie career had basically ended around the time she was 40 years old

and she had nothing going on.

She was doing some radio shows and those were kind of declining.

But CBS wanted to do this brand new thing.

Hey, let's do a TV series, you know, a situational comedy.

And she wanted to have her husband, Desi Arnez, be her husband on the show.

But CBS didn't want an interracial relationship on TV.

So the story of how she made the most successful TV show ever in history

and the story of just her talent and her success is incredible.

But not only that, my friend Darren Strauss wrote a novel that just came out.

It's called The Queen of Tuesday, a Lucille Ball story.

He's a great novelist.

But he interweaves his family's personal story, which is very interesting

and maybe even shocking with Lucille Ball into it.

It's a great novel.

We talk about everything from writing, Lucille Ball, choosing yourself,

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