Ronny Chieng
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so, like, I think when you're making an honest story about someone, about either a song like We Are the World or in the stringer about an iconic photograph, it's like, what is the honesty and what is the emotional truth?
Instead of, like, facts, I think journalists who have studied under a very certain rigor, that's what their pursuit is.
And so...
I'm usually observing maybe journalists or subjects.
So then it becomes part of that story.
Right.
And technically speaking, you were in the room filming this.
And I mean, you don't speak Korean.
And these guys are speaking a lot of Korean.
I mean, how did you technically figure that out?
I mean, thankfully our producer set up this live in-ear recording for us so I could hear what they were saying.
The problem is there's seven of them who are talking simultaneously.
So that got a little- Right.
Did you just go in the room and go, shut the up, all of you.
Like one at a time, you .
I told you I was a fly on the wall.
Maybe if you were directing it, you might do that.
Oh, if I was directing it, oof, it would be...
Your heart, your heart.
One at a time.