Sarah, do I dare look at deadline and see what they're saying about other people's pilots?

Don't do it. No good can come from that.

Hi and welcome to Happier and Hollywood, the podcast about how to be happier, healthier,

sane or more creative, more successful, and more productive, and a back-fighting, superficial,

chaotic, unpredictable, fundamentally insane world.

I'm Sarah Fain, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and with me as my high school friend

and writing partner Liz. That's me, Liz Kraft. On this podcast, we talk about being

writers in Hollywood, how we balance a career in friendship and how to survive the war

of attrition that is life in Los Angeles. In this episode, we're going to talk about

how to remove ourselves from the spin zone, and we don't mean any of the news networks.

We'll also have a hit and bombs retrospective. What were our biggest hits and bombs of 2019?

And this week's Hollywood hack has to do with timing. Timing is everything, but first and update.

Yes, Sarah, we have merch. Yes, and we're not going to sell it yet, but we are so excited about it

that we're telling you about it anyway. We have been searching for kind of the perfect

merch item that was fun and something that people would like really use and that would last,

and we found it. We will soon reveal more. Stay tuned in the new year, and we hope everyone had a

very happy holiday and a Merry Christmas. Yes. Okay, Sarah, it's time for from the treadmill

desk, and which we discuss what's most pressing in our works' likeies. And this week it's removing

ourselves from the spin zone. Yes, specifically the spinning out zone. This is prime time for people

just totally spinning out all over Los Angeles because people are turning in drafts of their pilots.

What first drafts, second drafts depends on where you are in the process, but people are freaking

out about how those pilots are being received, whether they're going to get picked up to pilot,

...