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Cosmocat

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18. Yeah, I have done dozens of TV interviews at this point

Reply to Fil1957 (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 04:24 PM

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never had a bad experience, everyone of them have been professional and did a solid job.

No, they aren't rocket scientists and its actually a very unglamorous job working to set up up stories, getting there, figuring out how to shoot them, then editing them.

But, the all seemed like average americans hustling to make a $, most of who seemed to genuinely be interested in what you were doing - its part of what makes the job full filling to try to do things that interest them while having to answer to their producer.

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