 now and then and you have to respond to stuff happening in real time in real time on the stage if something if something crazy happens you need to be able to comment on it or else your host is going to look oblivious and like completely out of touch so it's usually it starts probably about a month out maybe a little bit longer that's when you start the big swing ideas i'll give an example of something that i wasn't able to get to happen on the grammys even though we got it right up to the goal line