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Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

Covid ramble

Is That Something You Might Be Interested In

Doug Ellin

Tv & Film

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

Action Park Media

0:06.0

Official podcast and supposedly official television show.

0:24.7

I am locked up in COVID quarantine in Aspen, Colorado.

0:31.5

How about you, Ted?

0:32.4

How's life over there?

0:34.4

You got some medical ailments yourself.

0:36.1

Are we allowed to talk about that?

0:37.2

It's been a very interesting couple of weeks for us here.

0:41.4

I mean, we went from a masterful, by the way. I've said this a lot of times on a podcast,

0:46.8

but Ted has experienced, without a doubt, the easiest, simplest production in the history of the business, the probably

0:59.1

simplest script development and everything. Now, obviously, you know, we were all in charge of that,

1:03.9

which made it so. And if everybody hates it, we'll decide that it was a failed script

1:09.2

development. But the fact is, it was extremely smooth and normally an independent film casting as a nightmare.

1:15.2

This was perfect.

1:16.8

Getting our crew together was perfect and everything.

1:19.6

So pitches can go many number of ways.

1:24.5

And I have done hundreds and hundreds of them over the years. And we had our first

1:29.7

pitch, which I believe, Ted, am I wrong? Is your first pitch meeting or no? I've been in a pitch

1:34.5

meeting before, but never any content that I, that was, I was involved with like, oh, this is me

1:40.0

producing it. But what do you mean? Like what kind of pitch meeting? Oh, someone was pitching you.

1:44.6

No. Well, yes, people have pitched me. But I've also, I was also in a pitch meeting.

1:51.0

A few years back, I was attempting to partner with some guys who were developing a lot of true

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