My Daily Walk – The Aristotle Quote

My Daily Walk is a podcast with a Hollywood producer who records a podcast when he goes for a walk. The Aristotle Quote, AHG talks about a project he’s working on and how an old quote describes where he is.

Well begun is half done. Now, that rolls off the tongue pretty smoothly, poetically in English. But that’s Aristotle. He didn’t speak English. But he said something to that effect. Well begun is half done. Good morning, and welcome to my daily walk. The daily half hour podcast where this anonymous Hollywood guy walks around and talks. Walk and talk.

So yesterday’s topic was … I don’t know. I don’t know if I really even stayed on topic, or had a topic per se. Was living as though you believe in God, whether you believe in God or not. Something like that. But I don’t know if I had a clearly thought out notion. And that’s the nature of this beast. I am speaking extemporaneously and picking topics that strike me as something I might be able to babble on about for half an hour. Maybe not. Maybe I’m overestimating my ability to yammer on in an interesting way.

But this isn’t so much about entertaining anyone, it’s about documenting a journey that I’m on. As I mentioned, as I frequently mention, I’m the Hollywood guy. Good God, that’s not at all what I am. Not in that sense. But I do work in the entertainment industry, and I have multiple projects that I’m working on. None of them that pay me. No, I mean, I am and have been a paid worker in the entertainment industry. But there’s one particular project I’m working on right now that is occupying 100% of my efforts. And I suspect it could turn into something interesting to people.

And so this daily walk, it’s an honest, sincere, straightforward, from the heart running commentary on my day-to-day thoughts. Every now and then I’ll introduce something that is going on. Maybe. There’s things called NDAs. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned that here before, but that’s just a kind of baseline legal contract. In any business when there are deals or projects a nondisclosure agreement is the protection of the confidentiality. NDA, non-disclosure. You can’t talk about certain things.

So what can I say? Maybe I’ll just get to today’s topic, earlier than normal. Another formatting issue is, I will start with a tease, I guess. Do an intro. I haven’t even gotten intro down, the good morning. I don’t know what time it is where you are, but it’s morning here. Welcome to my daily walk. I don’t know. I guess I’ll come up with a catch phrase, a slogan, all of that stuff. Why? People like structure and people like familiarity.

So it’ll go, tease, some kind of prepared intro, and then a review of previous topic, previous day’s topic. Another thing that I was thinking about doing … Review of the previous day’s topic, and then move on to the day’s topic. And sometimes, I think it was Tuesday, I went 20 minutes in to a 30 minute session before I even got to the day’s topic. So I’ll try not to go more than 10 minutes before getting to the topic because that’s an unfair tease. I’m already eight minutes in on this one.

But another thing I’m thinking about is maybe announcing on Mondays the list of topics for the week. I don’t know if that’s a good idea or not, but … Since this is day four, tomorrow’s topic, I think … At least this will have written down. And I don’t remember exactly what I was thinking when I wrote it down. Meeting the author. Meeting the author. I don’t know. I have a few ideas as to what I was intending. Maybe we’ll hash it out tomorrow.

So today.