Speaker unverified: evaluation

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…Were Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton hosting at this point? Exactly. Leo Laporte had me next to him and I was so nervous. I was just sweating. I went on and I delivered it and explained it. The executive producer, Paul Block was like, hey, I like what you did there, can you find more weird things to talk about that are not really known? I was thinking like, well, I know a lot of these hacking tools and stuff that I mess around with at night. We could talk more about those types of things. He was like, yeah, do more of that and let's see how you do. Let's have you come on once a week and talk about a certain tool. I look back and cringe at some of that stuff because you could just hear in my voice and the way I presented, especially in the earlier episodes, it wasn't in my DNA to be on camera. Actually, they sent me to a talent coach that would come in, record you, playback footage with you, make you watch yourself, and talk about how you hold your hands. There are these dedicated coaches that will teach you everything. I did that once. I was at Microsoft and I was going to go speak on behalf of the company to a newspaper, and they had me speak with a coach first and she videotaped. I think it was like 5K for two hours. It was this exorbitant corporate markup. She videotaped me for some of my talking points and then made me watch it back while we were sitting there at the table. It was the most painful experience.…

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