Mayim Bialik and the Double Intro Mistake

Maya Belik was Amy on The Big Bang Theory. She was TV's

Blossom, and on her podcast, she just did one of the easiest

mistakes to fix, but it's really annoying.

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Yeah, this is an easy mistake to create, and what we're talking

about is the double intro, where you start off the episode and

you explain who the guest is. So here is Mayim explaining that

Chuck Lore, the producer of The Big Bang Theory, is coming on to

the show.

He was the most successful television producer in the

world, creating shows like The Big Bang Theory, Dharma and

Greg, Young Sheldon, and Two and a Half Men.

Holland Taylor's character on Two and a Half Men. She was my

mother with money.

That's the only thing you have to tell a therapist on a first

meeting.

Dharma and Greg, can I create a female lead who's loving and

joyful. Would they be funny?

What do you remember of the tiara episode?

Sierra was a tour de force for you. I don't think I've ever

laughed harder in my life.

What you don't know about him is that he escaped a 1 billion year

contract with the Church of Scientology.

I was so desperate. I drank the Kool-Aid. Took me about 10 years

to wake up.

Notice I don't have to listen to this now. She just told me what

happened.

Battled alcoholism, fought his way out of poverty, was in a

series of public battles with Hollywood's biggest stars.

When Charlie left the show and went on that Tiger Blood tour, I

had no skills or understanding how to deal with this. It was

really painful.

And again, I've just heard he just wrapped it up. Do I need to

hear this now?

We felt like you had two kids, and one was misbehaving, and we

wanted to be the kid that wasn't misbehaving. We're going to take

a sneak peek behind the curtain of fame, celebrity, addiction,

and success with the man who has shaped the culture of modern

America through 1000s of episodes of television, Chuck

Laurie joins us on Miami Alex Breakdown.

So that sneak peek behind the curtain of Chuck Laurie, but

then she does a little. This is on YouTube, so there's a little

branding slide, and then she comes back on, and here's what

she says:

What does it take to go from a childhood shaped by fear,

addiction, poverty, and family turmoil to becoming the creative

mastermind behind some of television's biggest and most

popular sitcoms?

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to ding a bell every time

she tells us something that she's already told us, and

realized she could be getting to the interview, but instead she's

telling us this

today. The creator of The Big Bang Theory, Chuck Laurie, is

with us. He's going to talk about his memoir sitcom, and

he's best known for creating not only The Big Bang Theory, but

Two and a Half Men, Young Sheldon, Mom, and Stewart fails

to save the universe. Chuck's going to talk about all of the

pieces of his life that lined up from his failed music career to

wandering into an animation studio in Sherman Oaks and

getting a job writing afternoon cartoons to how he ended up

creating the most successful comedy in television history,

it's an unexpected journey, including a stint in Scientology

and writing the theme song for the Teenage Mutant Ninja

Turtles. It's such a pleasure to welcome Chuck here in person. I

also had the pleasure of doing some events for this book, but

this is a really, really special conversation. And yes, he's

going to talk about the Big Bang Theory, we're going to talk

about the tiara. We're going to talk about spanking. We're going

to talk about casting. All those things. He's also going to talk

about the very public struggle and battle that he had with

Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men and how he got through it.

It's a pleasure to welcome in person to the breakdown, Chuck

Laurie. Welcome.

And so, if you look at the extra information that she provided

that he had a failed music career and he wrote the theme to

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are these the thing they're like

oh I've got to listen to this now just get to the interview I

also think it's slightly self serving because she's like we're

gonna talk about the Tiara episode of The Big Bang Theory

and the spanking. And granted, the spanking one was hilarious.

And I mean, there, I love that show. But I was like, oh, we

have to talk about the episodes that I was really prominent in.

I'm like, really? Do we have to? So you know, that was kind.

Interesting, but the one that I was just like, wow, she because

that's a long intro. The second one, we're and it's just what

70% something she already said, and this is super easy to do

because when you do the interview, in some cases you

will introduce the guest to their face. You know, hey,

coming today, blah blah blah. We're here with so and so, and

then later when you put the episode together, you create an

intro, forgetting that you already did one. And most of the

time, the one you do later is the one you keep because you now

have done the interview, and you can do a much better tease

because you know what you talked about, but what you're doing is

you're stopping your audience from getting to the good stuff.

Picture yourself as a Walmart greeter, and somebody walks into

the store, and they're like, "You're like, hey, welcome to

Walmart," and they like, "Thanks," and then you're like,

no, no, I got more to say to you here. I I really hope you have a

great time at Walmart. Like, I just want to go. I just need you

know eggs and milk. Can I please? No, no, I've got to say,

think of it that way. You're stopping them from getting to

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