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

This is the James Altiger Show.

It's been almost 10 years since I've started this podcast and first off, I'm going to

recommend that everybody start a podcast or at least have the philosophy I did when I

started this, which is I didn't want anyone else to give me a show.

For 20 years, I've been pitching like TV shows, radio shows, all kinds of shows.

And it's really hard to pitch a TV show.

It's really, you get in a room with a bunch of, I'm going to say it, not very bright people.

Actually, I shouldn't say that.

Some of them probably are very bright, but they're also scared.

They're scared of taking on, they're off taking risks that are going to get them fired.

Everybody in the TV business, and look, I worked in the TV business.

I worked at HBO for several years.

And again, I've had experience pitching shows to every single network in the world.

And they always say we want to do something new.

We want to be the first to do something new.

We want to take risks.

And then at the end of the day, nobody wants to do anything new and nobody wants to take

any risks.

And so, and ever since I was a kid, I love the idea of having an interview show, of being

like a talk show host.

I mean, I loved it.

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