'Bachelor' Producer Elan Gale Thinks 'You're Not That Great'

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🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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"You're Not That Great" is a self-up send-up by Gale, Executive Producer of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. He talks to Sam about the book, The Bachelor, Christian rock, embracing negative emotions, and his struggle with addiction. Email the show at [email protected] or tweet @NPRItsBeenAMin with your feedback. Follow Sam on Twitter @samsanders and producers Brent Baughman @brentbaughman and Anjuli Sastry @AnjuliSastry.

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0:17.8	Hey y'all, Sam Sanders here.
0:27.9	It's been a minute.
0:28.9	I hope you're well.
0:29.9	If you are like me, you have already made and broken about 12 New Year's resolutions
0:35.3	so far.
0:36.3	So keep you and me on track.
0:38.4	We have a chat today with the guy who wrote kind of a self-help book.
0:42.7	It's actually kind of an anti-self-help book.
0:45.8	I'll explain.
0:46.8	I'm talking about Elon Gale.
0:48.6	Elon is one of the executive producers of two really big shows on ABC, The Bachelor and
0:53.7	The Bachelor Red.
0:54.8	You may have heard of them.
0:56.7	Before you start running through your preconceived notions of reality TV, let me just say about
1:02.0	every part of this conversation up into my ideas about reality TV and those who make it.
1:08.2	As for the self-help book I mentioned, it is called You Are Not That Great and Neither
1:12.5	Is Anyone Else.
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