This is what happened in 2007 when Current producer Ben Stein reached out to Big Brown Dude and asked if I had an idea for Super Bowl content.
The fact of the matter was I needed a new TV but I didn’t have the feds to make it happen. So, I devised a plot…a plot that would involved jeopardizing my good name and Donald Quintana’s good, er, OK, job at Circuit City.
As the legend goes, Donald Quintana’s co-workers saw the video on air and reported his Circuit City wearing shirt ass neck back to his supervisors.
Don’t cry for Donald Quintana–he’s since gone onto producing for real TV shows (big ups Grammy Awards this month!). Don’t cry for me, I’ve since gone onto multiple flat screens and a HOUSE (although, our LOFT was MEGA).
On the economics on this pods, they paid us about $1500 for this one. Donald and I would go on to produce over a dozen pods for Current TV. And to think, we had the choice of launching YouTube content careers or produce for Al Gore’s new TV network–and we rode with Al.
Who’s laughing now?
Stop it.