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Should Elvis have to go to media training to promote his book??

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast? Firms?
So what is media training? I have to go to
media training class today to learn? Okay, so you know

(00:23):
I'm gonna be on the tour talking about my book, right,
but they want me to get media training. So are
you okay? Straight and as emphasema, So they want me
to do media training. Dear God, I'd rather stick my
penis and a pencil sharpeners. Terrible about the looks of

(00:44):
things that looks like you already did. I think I
know what it is a media training. I think it's
how to spin and pivot on a pointed question. So
for instance, they might ask who's the celebrity that you
slept with Elvis? And then you have to be like,
you know, I've slept with a lot of celebrities, but
let me tell you about this, and then you say
something totally different. I mean, I can do that on

(01:06):
my own. I don't need to be trained. That's what
it is. What do you think media training? I think
they have seen you on shows like Jay Leno or
when you're hanging out with Rosette may Fallon and Roseanna
Scato and the fact that you just go off on
a tangent sometimes like they'll be focused on one thing

(01:28):
and you're just like, hey, your yellow pants are fantastic.
I think they're trying to keep you focused. So their
training you had to focus, but attention to what Dan
Yell said, it's like a horse with blinders on. They
want to put the blinders on you so you don't
go astray. And there's it's more of like you have guardrails.
My god, if anyone needs media training, it's scary. Also

(01:49):
because you you drive off the freaking mountain every time
you speak on our show. You have to agree scary
is the worst at not getting to the point of
second worst. I'll tell you what they're actually bringing in
a media trainer from. She's on the train, she's on
am track coming from she's coming in from Boston or Washington,

(02:11):
DC or something. I'm gonna let you have her. Today's scary.
Pretend to be me. I have a question, like a
movie what makes her? I mean, like, who trained what
media person trained her to be a media trainer. I'll
tell you when she starts training me, I'm gonna start
asking you a question. Yeah, who do you think you
are teaching me how to be on the media. When
you were on fallon, you did create you had quite

(02:31):
a faux paw. You hit on him, and maybe people
worry you'll hit on everyone who interviews you. Good for you,
remember you didn't hit on that. Yeah, and was like, oh,
I think you're hitting on me. And you're like, oh yeah, yeah,
you swiveled in your chair. Are you turned around? And yeah?
Yeah you look you Yeah you thought I thought I
was great on Maybe I don't know. One day when
you're on felone, maybe you can experience it. That's that's

(02:53):
why you need training taking criticism. But you didn't. You didn't.
You didn't even give me any criticism that was worth
anything to see how mad you got. Imagine, I'm just
saying you're a piece of ship. Said you needed help.
But if I didn't say you needed help, you needed
help staying on training gone, not gone. Do you need
media training because you just don't speak up loudly? Well,

(03:14):
the room is so loud it's hard for me to
get a bowing crap out of his mouth. I want
to cut anyone off. But I'm thinking maybe the media
training is just them teaching you how to be an
interviewee versus being an interviewer. Okay, let me ask you,
why do you feel that I see it? Shut your
stupid mouth. The best, the best training, stopped belittling the

(03:37):
people I would like to know while she's trained. I'm
gonna find out today. Yes, Garrett, Yes, so Elvis, you've
never been on the other side of it. You've always
done the interviewing, so so it's so they probably want
you to experience what it's like just to be a
guest and not hosting. Okay, I mean, well, yeah, you know,
an interviewee like you said so, but yes, okay. So

(03:58):
I did a little Google search. I found a media
trainer and they have a page what is media training ready? Okay, okay,
tell it to Brody, because I want Brody to interview
me and I want to see how how well I
do with you. So media training enables communicators to focus
on their own interview objectives, whether facing traditional mainstream journalist,
trade reporters, or bloggers. Training participants are exposed to the

(04:19):
basic concepts of media communication, including the ground rules of
doing interviews and the dudes and don't. Real world video
examples illustrate best practices on camera drills. So you have
uh where is this drilling allows each participant to address shortcomings,
sharpened messaging, and make improvement from one round to the next. Okay,

(04:40):
what are the dudes? And don't let's get to they
don't have that list. Whoever wrote that is awful. Yeah,
but apparently they teach you how to like face the camera,
how to answer a question. Let me start learning how
to face a camera. Okay, by I'm on your show
and you're interviewing me about my book. Well, does you
have your book out? You've been interviewed many times for radio.

(05:03):
Watching back your old interviews with Jimmy Fallon or Dan Harris.
Looking back at those interviews, what would you change in
the way you you handled those as opposed to now
that you're promoting a book versus when you promoted radio.
I wouldn't change anything. I mean I was fine on
those interviews. I didn't find So what do you what
are you thinking? Very combative guests. Well know, he asked

(05:23):
me what I would change. I'm being honest. I wouldn't
change anything. But why do you think I should change
something on those interviews? Well, if you're back up the podcast,
I said you hit on Jimmy Fallon and you yelled
at me, So, okay, let me ask you a question.
Hitting on Jimmy Fallon? Is that a problem? Was that entertainment?
Was it entertaining off? So I did the right thing.
I'm still being in all Oh God, I'm looking you're

(05:45):
taking things personally. I'm still I'm still playing the role.
Do you feel like it's different promoting a radio show
where it's an ensemble cast versus this where it's such
a personal part of your life. Absolutely? What a stupid question?
Answer that. It was a baseball player the other night.
They were interviewing a baseball player the other night, and

(06:06):
they and I always think this after a game, like
they asked baseball players the dumbest questions like, so, why
do you think you didn't do well tonight? I didn't
play well? Well? What the funk do you want them?
Exactly stupid. So at this point the baseball player thought
that the question was stupid and he just went done
and he walked out, gandhi, what is wrong with looking

(06:28):
at an interviewer and say, hey, ask me a question
that means something. I think nothing is wrong with that,
And I love when people do that. Bill Belichick, the
coach of the patriots. He has the greatest press conferences
I've ever seen that because they he will literally be like,
that's a stupid question. Next he just answers yes to what.
People are going to buy your book. They're gonna learn

(06:49):
a lot about you. What did you learn about you
writing this book? A lot of stuff? You know, it's
great to be able to tell your story and read
it back and then it really, really really just hits
home where you've been in your life and why you
are the way you are because of the experiences that
you had growing up. Okay, now I've I've heard you
interviewed and talk about this book, and you say a
lot of things in your life you didn't remember. You

(07:11):
had to be reminded of things since you wrote the book.
What did you remember that you wish you would put
in the book? Oh God, a million things. Absolutely can't
wait to read it. Thanks for coming. Thank you very
much again. Elvis's book available in stores now. That's great,
and good luck and good luck with your show. Because
you ask really bad questions. I thought the last three

(07:33):
were excellent about about media training, about it, Um, I
think it's fake. I don't. I think it's that's for yesterday.
That's for like the fucking like eighties and nineties. And
when you know you don't want to be polished, I
think that you. I think the audience needs to see, uh,

(07:54):
the an authentic, genuine, honest you. And if you're too rehearsed,
they're gonna smell the bullshit a mile away. I agree.
But in going in going into an interview, it's good
to have two or three headlines ready to go. So
if anyone ever asked a question, like for instance, Brody
just asked a question, I wasn't fully prepared for it,

(08:14):
so I would have something else ready to go. So
in writing the book, in reading your book later after
you wrote it, I mean, what do you wish you
would have put in the book? See? I didn't have
an answer for that, so I should have had one
of my headlines ready to go. And in media training
they remind you you have these three major thoughts. If
ever you're at a loss of words, go to one
of these. That's not the problem I have a part

(08:36):
with it. That's not the part I have a problem with.
It's the other stuff. It's the they want to mold you,
like play dough, like these TV shows you have four
maybe five minutes if that. So they want you to
get your message out as quickly as possible and then
say something that's not going to be misquoted. Right, I
can't wait. I can't wait to meet this media trainer today.

(08:56):
Maybe they tell you the most important things that you
need to get out there if you're given like like
Nate said, like five minutes. No, it's true. I found
a few. So according to Clarity Media Group, this is
what you would learn if you took them as a class.
Avoiding negativity and staying positive. Sorry Brodie, crystallizing content into
a three minute window. Like we just talked about listening

(09:19):
to questions more effectively, branding yourself without over selling yourself,
proper body language on camera, and handling a multiple anchor interview.
So I actually made some notes. I made some notes.
What I feel are the headlines from this tour coming up.
I'm look looking them up now. So this could take

(09:39):
a few moments. So maybe someone should say something interesting.
I think that they're probably going to teach you a
lot of like catch phrases to or like keywords that
you need to nail, like they do when we're talking
about certain foods fluffy, creamy, tasty, all those kind of
things because they stick into your They're also going to
try and make you mainstream eyes your book. Ma, certain,

(10:00):
well that's not a word, but you understand where I'm
coming from, because not everybody would be right, Well, everybody's
going to be interested. They're not gonna be interested in
radio specifically, so you want to widen it for to
broaden your audience, right, So say things that are interesting.
Like my initial thoughts with this listening to my inner
voice as a child. It led me to a world

(10:21):
of radio because I wanted to be in radio when
I was a little kid. So I'm I'm trying to
tell people through this book, listen to your inner voice
as a child, because that's where you lay your foundation
for the rest of your life. I want to talk
about the significance of our role in media, especially during
nine eleven, for instance, how radio played play such an
important role in people's lives every day. I want to

(10:42):
talk about, you know, being gay, you're gay, being attracted
to guys. I'm with you on that, I knew it.
I just added that anyway I don't know, and finding
love and companionship and how everyone I don't know. So
these are some of the headlines. It doesn't matter. So
this media try and he's gonna going to teach me
how to be a media star. So, Elvis, what when

(11:04):
you go on these interviews, they're gonna want to know,
like your favorite part of the book without giving away anything,
how are you going to tell that story? I don't know.
Maybe the media trainer will tell me. You have to
have a good tease, because when Howard Stern was doing
his book, the big tease was, who is my favorite
interview of all time? So you need like a big tead.
What's your hook? What's the hook of the book. I
don't have a hook. I don't have a book hook. Daniel, Daniel,

(11:25):
what's my favorite interview of all time? Oh my god,
what's my favorite interview? You interviewed Howard Stern? No, that
would be that Daga and Shearon. I talked about how
he makes me cry. You've a great interview And the
reason why, uh a, Shearon made me cry was he
just came in and he gave it his all. He

(11:46):
connected with our audience. He gave a gift that day
and I started crying. I'm like, what a what a
great thing. How about Dr Roz the day he changed
your life? There's a whole chapter about that. Oh my
god music. No, sorry, that was just my alarm. Are
you gonna have the same story when you do all
the media shows, all the talk shows. I want to

(12:06):
try to change it up because that a lot of
people do the same story. So you'll see him do
the same story. I'll probably do the same story. Did
you mention Mariah carry bringing in a wind machine? No?
I didn't. I want to know what Gandhi's ten seventeen
am alarm was for. Yeah, why that's what it's for.
What's it for? It's our birth control? Birth control at

(12:28):
ten seventeen having sex. It's supposed to be the same
time every day. So I thought at ten seventeen we
would be finished recording the podcast few minutes, so it
will be a good time. I'm awake, I'm ready to go.
It's all solid. I will always be awake at ten seventeen. Hilarious.
So if you take it at ten, is it too late? No?
I can change it. But like you know, sometimes maybe
I'm gonna train. I don't want to bust out birth control.

(12:50):
And you're supposed to take at the same time every days.
So if you guys, don't excuse me for a second,
maybe today's place but a day so you're fine, that's
not Or I wouldn't know you plows in there, Yeah,
Elvis gay men wouldn't know that. I don't don't. I
don't know how that works. Reason they give you placebos
to keep you there pills, right, yeah, you don't. Anything

(13:15):
over twenty eight is a fake pill. Yeah, and you
can you can skip that. But the only reason they
don't let you skip it is so that you don't
forget you're in the habit of taking But why can't
you take more than one pills? Okay? Why are you
man's planning? No, why can't you take more than one pills? Well,
you can, but those last pills, it's just to keep
you taking them regularly. That last week you're on your period. Yeah, period,

(13:39):
that's right. Yeah. And by the way, it Brody, wasn't
man's planning. Any guy that has some three kids, you
know exactly where they take. I was husband's plaining because
I don't I don't hear Heather's thing pushed through it
like ten thirty at night. I'm like, howney, you might
want to. I don't want to get those pills out.
Just do what my husband did. Get fixed. Mutants is

(14:00):
so tight according to you, I'm probably I could take
pills to kill I wish I could take pills to
kill sperm. Then I could take that garlic you eat
doesn't kill it. By speaking of tight pants, go to
my Instagram story today at Radio Danielle Minaro, and you
will see how tight Nates pants are. Oh my god,
I just woke up and realized we're doing a podcast.

(14:23):
We're doing a podcast. I'm kind of gassy today from
what you. I don't know soda. I feel a little bloated.
I had. I didn't have the whole coke. I had
a little bit. I just I don't drink coke, I mean,
or PEPSI or any I just don't drink any carbonated
beverage because it makes me I hear the music. Have

(14:45):
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