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My name is Michael Orkin and I'm a television producer. My hardest day as a television producer
is tough to come up with because there are plenty of them. They're all pretty hard. I'm
going to go with stressful as my hardest. I had shot for a day a story on base jumping
and in this story I was getting about six people to climb up a radio antenna with parachutes,
jump off, cut away the main chute and have another one open all within eight hundred
feet of the ground. That's eight hundred feet from the ground, jump off, have a parachute
open, cut that parachute away, fall again, have another parachute open and make it to
the ground safely. So the did that for a day and I put it all together and showed it to
my boss who said, "It's just not good enough. We need some more." So after one stressful
day of watching people risk their lives for my tv show, I had to do it a second day, really
pushing my luck. And I'll never... I don't ever remember being quite so stressed out
as feeling like I was putting six peoples' lives in jeopardy for a tv show. That wasn't
something I'd ever want to do again.