We Can Cut The Tantrum In Post

I was one of two broadcast engineers working on a TV mobile broadcasting a Los Angeles Dodger baseball game. One of the videotape recorders (yeah, this was a looooong time ago) was acting up. I noticed that the other tech was already working on it.

The producer was raging in front of the mobile broadcast unit (basically the television production truck), and I went up to the front. He started yelling at me:

Producer: “This is such a s***ty mobile! Nothing ever works! You’re all running a total s*** show here all the god-d*** time!”

There were about ten other production people there also, quietly sinking into their chairs, trying to do their jobs in the middle of this production.

After about five long minutes of his tirade, he stops and asks me:

Producer: “Well?! Are you going to just stand there or are you going to do something about this?!”

Me: “Sorry, I was waiting for you to finish. My mama always said the best way to deal with a tantrum is to let them cry it all out. Anyway, the other tech fixed the problem about three minutes ago.”

You could have heard a pin drop.