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Jake Bell

Jake Bell

Broadway production manager and founder of Jake Bell Production Services; 2026 Tony Honors recipient for 45+ years of technical production on major Broadway shows including Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables.

Jul 23, 2026

16:39
If, if it's gonna be some combination of this moving forward, you have to have some believability be behind it once this thing resets on itself.
16:47
I have two answers to your question, and, and I really love the way you phrased that, David, so thank you for that.
16:51
So if there is not any sort of major reset, which I do think that's in play, I don't know exactly what that's gonna look like.
17:00
I have a couple theories that you might call me a tinfoil hatter, but I'll, I'll leave that aside for now.
17:05
If there is not a financial reset, I think the path for gold is to double from its current valuation.
17:12
I think 9 to $10,000 an ounce over the next couple of years is exactly where it's headed.
17:16
I do not pull that number out of thin air.

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JamieHOST
15:46
Bell, did you even like the album? Let's give it one last
15:49
look.
15:51
Yeah, no, it's good.
15:52
Like I said, I think the only thing is that I was like, it's hard when you're reviewing an album because it's like I'm actively listening, and there's many times where I'm like, I'm kind of done.
15:59
But I don't think I hit that point very often.
16:01
I think most of the time I was like, this is great, more of it's great, whatever.
16:05
It feels like when you see a band live and they extend songs because they do more jam sessions, this is just you get that on the album instead of having to wait to see them live.

57 MINS LATER

JamieHOST
72:49
My God.
2:19
Okay, so distinguish that for me.
2:22
Well, first of all, uh, before Cameron came to the United States, it really was a term that wasn't used.
2:28
Uh, Cameron had them in, in London in, in all of his shows, and, uh, he was disappointed when he brought Cats here that he didn't have that person who was in charge of all of the technical parts of it.
2:39
It was individually controlled by each department head.
2:42
And, uh, he determined that he needed that position, so, uh, he, he looked for someone who had a, a background in, uh, all aspects of it, production stage manager being one of those aspects where you kind of know everything about what everybody else is doing.
2:57
But the production manager job begins, uh, on a new show with literally a blank piece of paper and, and nothing to fill it.
3:07
There, at that point, if there is a script, it's gonna be changed a ton.
6:27
And you're like, "Aha, it works." [laughs]

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