Chapter 39 I am the unusual one
He was taken to the headquarters of AM TV and was putting on makeup in the dressing room, Jester felt a little groggy.
A few hours of sleep could not make up for Jester's sleepiness, but for the filming of this show, Jester had to cheer up.
The master belt I took before was originally planned to bring it with me, but considering that the editing time might not be enough, I sent an airmail directly on the afternoon of the shooting and sent it to the headquarters of AM TV a day ago.
AM TV attaches great importance to "Chicago Morning", and it can be seen from their boss spending a lot of money to invite Oprah to come.
You should know that a show anchor now has only a salary of 30,000 US dollars.
Of course, Oprah did not disappoint everyone's expectations and made drastic reforms to this show as soon as she came. She removed all the romantic and unrelated topics in the "Chicago Morning" program, and replaced them with social hot topics and controversial topics that people care about. She never did what others were interested in. On the contrary, she always tasted the first thing no one dared to do.
But she would not do other talk shows that deliberately set up some gimmicks to challenge human bad taste in order to attract audiences. These shows that offer personal privacy as the topic, or show dysfunctional individuals and families, and expose and humiliate people in difficulties as the pleasure of being happy. What she does is to find ways to soothe and help them, make them feel better, start from the heart, and improve themselves.
It has been almost a month since she came to AM TV to host this show, and the ratings have soared. Not only has she tied Phil Dangner's talk show, but she even vaguely surpassed it.
"Opra is a very good host, you will definitely fall in love with her!" The person who styled Jester was a middle-aged black woman. Obviously, she loved Oprah very much. While rubbing Jester's dark circles, she kept saying good things about Oprah.
Jester also had to reconcile a few words from time to time, pretending to be familiar with him to express his agreement. In fact, even in his previous life, he had only heard of Oprah's name, and had never watched her show, let alone this life.
"Twenty minutes left." At this moment, a staff member appeared at the door of the dressing room and shouted into it.
"Didn't there be any prior interview draft?" Jester asked the staff curiously. When he was in China in his previous life, he heard that many such interview programs would give interviewers an interview draft in advance, which contained questions that the host would ask. If an interviewer did not want to be mentioned, he could mark it in advance, which could also make the entire interview more smooth and more like a show.
Unexpectedly, the staff member just smiled and said, "Ms. Oprah's interview has no interview draft. You just need to chat with her like a friend. Before the official video is recorded, she will ask you what you don't want to be asked or what you are taboo topics. You can rest assured."
Jester nodded after hearing this, thinking that this is OK. To be honest, he doesn't like the kind of interviews that seem to have been arranged long ago and are show-like.
This interview method is not arranged in advance, as if it is a friend chatting, which makes him feel very interesting.
The studio was not very big, with a sofa on the table, and a black woman in her thirties was sitting there watching something seriously.
There were also many viewers sitting below the stage - Jester knew that most of them were relatives and friends of TV station staff. He had seen some introductions about such programs before, and it was not easy to find so many viewers on the spot.
She looked at the backstage entrance from time to time, and when she saw Jester appear, she immediately stood up.
Jester saw Oprah's photos in his previous life. Of course, it was after she became famous. She was in her fifties at that time, but he could still see the shadows in the photo from the face of this young-looking black woman in front of him.
"Hello, Jester Li, the Chinese name Li Jie, you can call me Jester." Jester took the initiative to walk forward and handed his right hand.
"Opra Winfrey, you can call me Opp." Oprah also stretched out his hand and held it with Jester, and then gave him a hug.
"Please sit." Then Oprah pointed to the sofa beside her and signaled Jester to sit down.
"Jess, before the official start, I want to ask, do you have any questions you don't want to be asked?" Oprah didn't have any written manuscripts in her hand. She sat aside like a friend and started chatting with a smile.
Yes, although Jester knew that he was being interviewed and the other party was asking him some questions, Oprah's extremely friendly tone made him really feel that he felt the same intimacy as a real friend's chat. This is a rare talent for hosting.
"No." Jester replied, shaking his head with a smile.
"Okay, let's start recording?" Oprah also smiled and said when she heard Jester's answer.
Jace nodded.
Then Oprah made a gesture to the side, and the person in charge of the film crew nodded and replied with an OK gesture. At the same time, Oprah also started her interview, which is more accurate and should be chatted.
That's how Jester feels.
"I heard you are only nineteen years old this year? Or is it a UCLA student?"
When asked this question, Oprah's tone was simple and a little surprised. This tone could also motivate the audience's emotions, especially when this episode was broadcast, it would make the audience have such an idea. Is the founder of Mars Entertainment and the producer of "American Cubes", really a college student who is only nineteen years old?
This successfully mobilized the audience's interest in continuing to watch, because most people were interested in such topics.
"Yes, I'm still a sophomore in UCLA, and I'm studying electrical engineering. I'm starting my junior year at the end of my holiday." Jester replied truthfully with a smile.
"It's amazing, I think about what I was doing when I was nineteen... Well, it's a bit hard to say." Oprah made a look of memories, and then continued in a somewhat disgusting tone, "I just came out of the Secondary Management Office at that time, and I was almost a completely bad girl, slutty, smoking, drinking, and taking drugs, getting deeper and deeper, doing anything bad, and I could hardly see any hope. Even if there was any hope for rebirth, it wouldn't be me."
Hearing these words, Jester was very interested in Oprah's experience. He had only heard of her name in his previous life, but was not very familiar with her experience. He would never have thought that the past of that legendary figure in the future would be so dark. Moreover, a host and a woman would have to dare not hide some of his past unspeakable experiences in a TV show. This is not something that everyone dares, especially a public figure.
But Oprah dared, and it was unpretentious and unconcealed.
In fact, Jester didn't know more. Oprah's childhood life can almost be described as dark. She was raped by her cousin when she was nine years old, and was abused by several relatives in turn... This experience was also revealed by Oprah himself in her own show. She described her mood in pain at that time, "I was almost destroyed. I have told me that I have been cured for so many years, but I haven't."
"It's regrettable." When Jester heard Oprah's description, he was a little confused about what to say, so he could only say one sentence.
"No." Oprah just shook her head when she heard this. Her tone began to change, no longer so low and pessimistic. As her tone slightly improved, she actually gave Jester a feeling of sunshine. "Because of this, my mother had to send me to my father. They divorced when I was very young. My father completely changed me, just like Higgins, a linguistic professor in "My Fair Lady", transformed Eliza Doolittle. He made a very detailed and rigorous transformation plan for me - for example, ordering me to recite 20 words a week, otherwise I wouldn't want to eat."
While talking, Oprah actually laughed.
This made Jester's face look surprised. He has seen countless similar examples of strict fathers in China, and this will also be widely praised as a good name. But the United States is different. If you don't give a child a meal, no matter what reason you have, this is abuse.
It was to be condemned, but Oprah spoke so frankly, and her face was full of gratitude.
It can be seen from her expression full of pride and admiration that she admires and is very grateful to her father.
"He saved my life. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been sitting here and chatting with you now." Oprah said sincerely.
"My experience is not as good as you..." For a moment, Jester didn't expect a suitable word to describe it.
"Okay, this is your interview. Look, I almost forgot this and almost became mine after chatting with you." Oprah smiled and ended the previous topic, and then started her new question, "I heard that you are an Asian? And your mother is a white man?"
"Yes, my grandfather was once a Chinese soldier. He participated in World War II. He was injured and won medals in China. After World War II, he came to the United States. My father was also born in the same year." Jester still answered truthfully.
In fact, there is no need to ask too in-depth questions for this type of interview program. The audience is interested in the gimmick of a company founded by a 19-year-old college student who has exceeded 100 million US dollars in one month. In the eyes of many people, this is a typical American dream and a goal for which countless people strive for.
And when they looked at Jester, they were like Gates who dropped out of school to found Apple and founded Microsoft.
They were not very interested in other information about Jester. What they were interested in was who Jester? How did he succeed? How did he make the fascinating American Cube? Will he drop out of school and start a business like Jobs, Gates and others?
"You can hardly tell the characteristics of a mixed race child from your appearance. Generally, a mixed race child has a little bit of characteristics of both parties." After talking about a few trivial matters, Oprah suddenly asked curiously.
"Actually, my nose is very similar to my mother. Yellow people rarely see a nose like me. It only has a more prominent appearance, such as skin color, pupils, hair color, etc., just follow my father." Jester smiled, then suddenly shrugged his shoulders and said humorously, "Since the average person is what you said, I am the extraordinary one."
Oprah was also amused by Jester's humor and laughed.
"Then your company's career is so good now, and you are still a student. What do you think? Do you continue your studies or learn from those successful seniors, and you mainly drop out of school and career?" Oprah finally asked a key question that the audience paid the most attention to in this interview.
Hearing this question, Jester frowned and he was indeed a little difficult to answer.
He hopes to continue to go to school, but as his company's business increases, it will inevitably squeeze out his time in school, and even he has no time to go to school. All his time must be devoted to the company's affairs. This is a problem he must face.
Jester never thought that life only requires making money, becoming famous, and gaining fame, although part of the purpose of going to school is to get these.
Learning until he is old. This sentence Taizu often talks about is Jester's motto before he is reborn. Learning is a pleasure for him. Therefore, he used to be extensive, read all kinds of books, and also learns interesting and curious things when he encounters them. Especially after he is interested in games, he even taught several programming languages by himself. Although he is not very proficient, he can also copy and make some classic games.
And he also enjoyed the pleasure of gaining knowledge.
"I won't choose to drop out of school." Jester's tone was very firm, and his tone was unquestionable that he had never had before.
This surprised Oprah. It was not more than ten years ago. With Gates and Jobs' precedent, it was not a embarrassing thing for young people to drop out of school and start a business. It was even a trend. And it was indeed a way to do this. The energy required to open a company is very large. Few people can do it while studying hard while handling a company with sales of tens of millions or even over 100 million.
Such people can only appear in some fantasy novels.
"I will continue my studies, for sure, I am very interested in electrical engineering, and I think..." As he said this, Jester suddenly smiled humorously and continued.
"Who knows what the future will be like? You must know that now is the most downturn in electronic games. I go against the trend, shouting loudly slogans to revive the electronic games, and choosing to oppose almost everyone's predictions. Although my first game has many fans and they are supporting me, I believe there are more people, far more people than those who hope that I will succeed, waiting to see my jokes. Maybe the next game will fail, which will make my fans despair about electronic games again, and my company has also entered the footsteps of Atari. In fact, I still seem a bit arrogant. My company is far from being compared with Atari, and they will point at the body of my company and laugh. This is the end of arrogance, so..."
Jester laughed and said, her funny words also attracted everyone's attention, and then he suddenly changed his voice, "When I want to find a job and live a normal life, how can I write on my resume? A second-year college student who dropped out of college chose an industry that was not optimistic about by everyone, lost enough to buy so much money from your company, and finally the company went bankrupt..." As he said that, Jester couldn't help laughing at first.
Then, everyone laughed with him.
Including Oprah.
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