Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives, this is Jess and I am here with Billy Taylor,

who has produced, executive produced, showrun, some of my absolute favorite shows on both

Bravo and MTV, quite frankly, you worked just for a quick little rundown, you worked

on flipping out, work out, Kell on Earth, the Kelly Catron show, and on MTV you worked

on diary, TRL in the very, very early years, true life, house of style, I mean, Billy Taylor,

how are you?

Yes, wow.

You made it through the wilderness.

Yeah, somehow like Madonna.

Yeah, thank you for having me.

Of course.

Talk about myself.

No, really to talk about how lucky I've been actually because I feel like if I could have

written the script for the things I've done, it's pretty much gone the way I would have

written it.

So I feel pretty lucky about that.

And not only that, but more importantly, just figuring out what I wanted to do and then

being able to do it, I think is also part of like really one of the keys to life.

And did you study filmmaking, like did you want to be a director, like how did you get

into television production?

Did not study it at all.

I went to a small school, liberal arts school in Fredericksburg, Virginia called Mary Washington

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