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    Dripping with Smarts

    Rob Long discover how much he like agents. Even when they're making no sense at all.

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    By Rob Long • Mar 1, 2012 • 3m Listen

    Before you can be in production on a television show you must first go through something called "pre-production," which is, for my money, the most fun part of the whole process. Pre-production is all drumroll, all hypotheticals. You're thinking up stories and putting together a production staff and picking out dry-erase board sizes and in general doing the kind of fun preparation work that everybody likes to do, without any of the grueling this-is-really-happening-now work you have to do in production...

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