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grew up at Channel 5 in Washington, which is now the Fox station.

And that was my first TV job.

WTTG? That's right.

Oh my gosh.

I mean, all of my success, in national television came after I married this woman.

I guarantee you that she set the table for me or I would have, you know, I would have probably been out of TV news by the time I was 50.

Yeah.

Well, actually, I think it was my first day on television.

Uh, just because I'm sitting there, and the guys are cool with me, because I've known them all for years, but now I'm actually at Channel 5.

And the first time I heard the term high spot was when I was in the locker room at Channel 5 television, ready to do my first TV.

Because people didn't talk smart.

There was no internet.

When I'm at Memphis Television, and I'm hearing all these words that I don't know what the fuck they mean, but now I can tell by context, either the snow's falling off the roof, or we're next to the Newark Airport or something.

Something's way bigger than this.

Um, my first paycheck was $50.

Or maybe you'd walk into a building with really good Wi-Fi.

Now you had, you know, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20 megabits of download if you wanted that.

So you'd get the good quality of the HLS.

So your receiver determined which quality it was going to ask for.

I didn't let you talk.

that right no you did okay okay absolutely good

and not only you know something else uh that's interesting about hls versus those real-time protocols because again as you're pointing out real-time protocol it's just once it's gone it's gone right right uh but the other limitation of a real-time stream is it's a fixed bit rate oh So whether you set it at 64, 128, 256, it is a fixed bit rate.

And if that available download bandwidth dynamically changes and gets too low, you start losing packets.

As 4G was being rolled out, you weren't always getting a 4G connection on your phone, or maybe you'd walk into a building with really good Wi-Fi.

Now you had, you know, 3, 4, 5, 10, 20 megabits of download if you wanted that, all your...

So you'd get the good quality of the HLS.

So your receiver determined which quality it was gonna ask for.

Right, right.

Uh, but the other limitation of a, of a real-time stream is it's a fixed bit rate.

So whether you set it at 64, 128, 256, it is a fixed bit rate.

Right.

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Channel 5.

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And, uh, and that Golden Girls script got me in to write for that, so I, I started writing at freelance.

And you know what? If I'm the problem, I'll step down, keep making the show.

Yeah.

You know, I, I'm not gonna put 150 people out of work.

Yeah.