When he was taken to AM TV's headquarters and put on makeup in the dressing room, Jester felt a little groggy.

A few hours of sleep can't make up for Jester's drowsiness at all, but for the filming of this show, Jester also had to cheer up.

The master tape of the previous shooting was originally planned to be brought by Jester, but considering that there might not be enough editing time, he sent an airmail directly on the afternoon of the day after the shooting, and sent it to the headquarters of AM TV a day ago.

AM TV takes "Chicago Morning" very seriously, as evidenced by the fact that their boss did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire Oprah to come.

You must know that the salary of a current program anchor is only $30,000.

Of course, Oprah also lived up to expectations, and she made a drastic reform of the show when she first came, she took out all the ups and downs in the "Chicago Morning" program, and removed all the topics that were not painful, and replaced them with social hotspots and controversial topics that people care about, she never does what others are interested in, on the contrary, she always tastes it first when no one dares to do.

But she doesn't do the gimmicks that other talk shows deliberately set up to challenge the bad taste of human beings in order to attract audiences, these are about confessing personal privacy, or showing dysfunctional individuals and families, exposing and humiliating people in distress The most Oprah despises, 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 exploded, not only equaling Phil Donner's talk show, but even vaguely surpassing it.

"Oprah is a great host, you're going to love her!" Jester was styled by a middle-aged black woman, who was obviously very fond of Oprah, and kept saying good things about Oprah while rubbing Jester's dark circles under her eyes.

And Jester didn't have to repeat a few words from time to time, pretending to be familiar with it to show his approval, in fact, he had only heard of Oprah's name even in his previous life, and had never seen her show, let alone this life.

"Twenty minutes to go." Just then, a staff member appeared at the door of the dressing room and shouted inside.

"Didn't you have a prior transcript?" Jester asked the staff with some curiosity, when he was in China in his previous life, he heard that many such talk shows would give the interviewer an interview script in advance, which had questions that the host would ask in general, and if the interviewer didn't want to be mentioned, it could be marked in advance, which could also make the whole interview more smooth and more like a show.

Unexpectedly, the staff member just smiled and said: "There is no transcript of Ms. Oprah's interview, you just need to go and chat with her like a friend, and before the official recording, she will ask you about things you don't want to be asked, or taboo topics, you can rest assured." ”

Jester nodded, thinking that it would be fine, and to be honest, he didn't really like the kind of interview that seemed to be arranged for a long time ago.

This kind of interview, which was not pre-arranged, as if it was a friend chatting, made him find it interesting.

The studio wasn't very large, and there was a couch on the stage, and a black woman in her thirties was sitting there, looking at something intently.

And at the bottom of the stage, there were also a lot of viewers - Jester knew that most of them were relatives and friends of the TV station staff, and he had seen some introductions about this kind of program before, and it was not easy to find so many viewers temporarily.

From time to time, she looked at the backstage entrance, and when she saw Jester's figure appear, she immediately stood up.

Jester had seen Oprah's picture in his last life, of course, after she became famous, and she was in her fifties at the time, but he could still see the shadow in the photo from the face of this young-looking black woman in front of him.

"Hello, Jester Li, Chinese name Li Jie, you can call me Jes." Jester stepped forward and handed his right hand.

"Oprah Winfrey, you can call me Op." Oprah held out her hand and shook it with Jester, then gave him a hug.

"You may be seated." Oprah then gestured to the couch beside her and motioned for Jester to sit down.

"Jace, before we begin, do you have any questions you don't want to be asked?" Oprah didn't have any pre-written manuscripts in her hands, she sat casually like a friend, laughed and started chatting.

Yes, although Jester knew that he was being interviewed, and the other party was also asking some questions to himself, Oprah's extremely friendly tone made him really want to feel a sense of intimacy like chatting with a real friend, which is a rare hosting talent.

"Nope." Jester smiled and shook his head in reply.

"Okay, let's start recording?" Hearing Jester's answer, Oprah also said with a smile.

Jester nodded.

Then Oprah made a gesture to the side, the head of the film crew nodded, replied with an OK gesture, and at the same time, Oprah also started her interview, more accurately, should be chatting.

That's how Jester feels, anyway.

"I heard you're only nineteen years old? Or a UCLA student? ”

Oprah's tone was simple with a little surprise when he asked this question, and this tone was also very able to arouse the audience's feelings, especially when this episode of the show was broadcast, it would make the audience have such an idea, is the founder of Mars Entertainment, the producer of "American Cubes", really a nineteen-year-old college student?

This successfully mobilized the audience's interest in continuing to watch, because the vast majority of people are interested in such topics.

"Yes, I'm a sophomore at UCLA, studying electrical engineering, and I'm starting my junior year at the end of the holidays." Jester replied truthfully with a smile.

"Amazing, I think about what I was doing when I was nineteen...... Well, it's hard to talk about. Oprah made a look of recollection, and then continued in a somewhat disgusted tone, "I just came out of the juvenile detention center, and I was almost a complete bad girl, fooling around with people, smoking, drinking, taking drugs, getting deeper and deeper, doing all kinds of bad things, and almost no hope, even if there was any hope of rebirth, it would not be me." ”

Hearing this, Jester was very interested in Oprah's experience, he had only heard her name in his previous life, but he was not very familiar with her experience, he would never have imagined that the future legend's past would be so dark, and that it would take a lot of courage for a host, but also a woman, to dare to unabashedly hide some of her unspeakable experiences in the past on a TV show, not everyone dares, especially a public figure.

But Oprah dared, and was unpretentious and unabashed.

In fact, Jester didn't know more, Oprah's childhood life could almost be described as dark, she was raped by her cousin when she was nine years old, and she was also abused by several relatives in turn...... This experience was also confided in Oprah herself on her own show, and she described her feelings painfully at the time, "I was almost ruined, I have been telling myself for so many years that I have been cured, but no." ”

"It's a pity." Jester didn't know what to say when he heard Oprah's description, so he could only say that.

"Nope." Oprah just shook her head, her tone began to change, no longer so low and pessimistic, and as her tone rose slightly, it actually gave Jester a sunny feeling, "Because of this, my mother had to send me to my father, who divorced when I was very young, and my father completely changed me, just like Higgins, the linguistics professor in My Fair Lady, transformed Eliza Doolittle, and he made a very detailed and rigorous transformation plan for me. For example, I was ordered to memorize 20 words a week, otherwise I would not want to eat. ”

As she spoke, Oprah even laughed.

This gave Jester a look of surprise on his face, he had seen countless examples of similar strict fathers in China, and this would also be widely praised as a good name, but in the United States, you don't feed a child, no matter what reason you have, this is abuse.

It was to be condemned, but Oprah said it so calmly, and with a look of gratitude on her face.

It can be seen from her pride and adoration that she admires and appreciates her father.

"He saved my life, and if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you right now." Oprah said heartily.

"My experience is not as ...... as you" For a moment, Jester couldn't think of a suitable word to describe it.

"Okay, this is your interview, you see, I almost forgot about this when I talked to you for a while, and it almost became mine." Oprah laughed and stopped the conversation, then began her new question, "I heard you're Asian?" And your mother is white? ”

"Yes, my grandfather was a Chinese soldier, participated in World War II, was wounded in China and won medals, and he came to the United States after the end of World War II, and my father was born in the same year." Jester still answered truthfully.

In fact, there is no need to ask too in-depth questions about this kind of talk show, the audience is only interested in the gimmick of a company founded by a nineteen-year-old college student whose sales exceeded $100 million a month, which in the eyes of many people, is a typical example of the American dream and the goal that countless people strive for.

And they look at Jester's present, just like they look at Gates, who dropped out of school to found Apple and dropped out to found Microsoft, a role model.

They weren't very interested in Jester's other information, they were interested in who Jester was. How did he succeed? How did he come up with that mesmerizing American Cube? Will he drop out of school and start a business like Steve Jobs, Gates, etc.

"You can hardly tell the characteristics of a half-breed by looking at your appearance, and the average half-breed has a little bit of a biracial character." After chatting a few more trivial matters, Oprah suddenly asked with some curiosity.

"Actually, no, my nose is very similar to my mother, yellow people rarely see a nose like me, but the more obvious appearance, such as skin color, pupils, hair color, these are just with my father." Jester smiled, then suddenly shrugged his shoulders and said with some humor, "Since it's usually what you said, then I'm the unusual one." ”

Oprah was also amused by Jester's humor and laughed.

"Then your current company has such a good career, and you are still a student, what do you think? Continue your studies, or do you want to follow the example of your successful predecessors and drop out to focus on your career? Oprah finally asked a key question that the audience was most concerned about in this interview.

Jester frowned at the question, he was indeed a little difficult to answer.

It is his hope to continue to go to school, but as his company's business grows, it will inevitably squeeze out his time to go to school, and even, he has no time to go to school at all, and all his time must be invested in the company's affairs, which is a problem he will inevitably face.

Jester never thought that it was enough to make money, become famous, and gain fame in order to live, although part of the purpose of going to school was to get that.

Live to learn all the time,This sentence that Taizu often hangs on his lips is Jester's motto before rebirth,Learning is a pleasure for him,So he used to dabble in a wide range,Read all kinds of books,Encounter interesting and curious things to learn,Especially after being interested in games,He is self-taught several programming languages,Although not very proficient,But can also do a few classic games。

And he also enjoyed the thrill of gaining knowledge.

"I wouldn't choose to drop out." Jester's tone was firm, and his tone was unquestionable like he had never been.

This made Oprah also surprised, now is not more than ten years ago, there are gates, Jobs's precedent in the front, capable young people drop out of school to start a business is not a shameful thing, even a trend, and this is indeed a way to have to do this, opening a company requires a lot of energy, few people can do it while studying hard and at the same time also in order to deal with a business with sales of tens of millions or even more than 100 million.

This kind of person can only appear in some fantasy novels.

"I'm going to continue my studies, that's for sure, I'm interested in electrical engineering, and I think it's ......," Jester said here, and Jester suddenly smiled humorously and continued.

"Who knows what the future holds? You know, now is the worst time for video games, I bucked the trend, shouted high-sounding slogans to revive video games, and chose to go against almost everyone's predictions, although my first game had a lot of fans, and they were supporting me, but I believe that there were many more, far more people than those who wanted me to succeed, and a lot more people were waiting to see my jokes, maybe the next game would fail, and my fans would despair of video games again, and my company would follow in the footsteps of Atari because of this. Actually, I seem to be a bit arrogant when I say this, my company is far from being comparable to Atari, and they will point to the corpse of my company and laugh, this is the end of arrogance, so ......"

Jester laughed as he spoke, her somewhat funny remark attracting everyone's attention, and then he suddenly changed his voice, "If I want to find a job and live a normal life at that time, how do I write on my resume?" A sophomore college dropout, who chooses an industry that is not favored by everyone, loses enough money to buy your company, and ends up the company going out of business......" Jester himself couldn't help but laugh at first.

Then everyone laughed along with him.

Including Oprah.

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