shelby holiday spoke with the producer of the show steve levitan. bigger story to me was the fact that the entire episode takes place on claire's computer screen. i find that to be the most interesting part of this. we just wanted to do it in a way that seemed as real as possible. so we just used the devices that one would use in real life. shelby: picking up a device is really easy to do, and connecting with someone across the country is really simple now. i have a feeling that producing this episode and directing it they not have been so simple. what challenges did you run into? steve: there was a lot that when went into this. first of all the hardest part , was coming up with the storyline in which we could feature all of 11 or 12 of our actors, and still stay on one person's computer screen. once we had the original idea for the story, things fell into place quickly. it was not so much how are we going to feature everyone, but how will we fit all this into one episode? originally we were going to have the actors shoot themselves holding up a pho

joining us is the cocreator and executive producer steve levitan.ood to have you with us. >> thanks. great to be here. >> you've said you're a governing councilet etgadget geek. what was the genesis for writing this episode? >> the original notion occurred to me when i was face timing with my daughter in college and i was on my computer and there were many different windows open and i was -- there were e-mails and i was working on a script and websites and all sorts of things and i could see her, but i could also see me and my wife was in the box with me and i realized you had quite an unbelievable snapshot of my life, you could tell so much about me looking at that screen. i thought it would be an interesting way to tell a story. i then brought it to the writers' room and we worked out the story line and it's a pretty interesting episode. >> steve, i think there was a story line a few years back that centered on someone in line to buy an ipad and makes you wonder, are you just a lover of apple products? did you consider using say samsung phones and

brendan: here's what i want to know from steve levitan -- how do i manage that footage once i have shot it? oh i am not -- olivia: they have a production studio behind them. tom: i would assume apple flew in like, 45 people to be sure that they got it done. let's do a data check. we will not use our itoyrss on this. what an interesting response to janet yellen's comment, yields come in dramatically, euro stronger, dollar weaker, nymex crude now solid below $50 $49.49. the vix $13.69. that is a big change. this is the flatness of the yield curve ever flatter off the yellen testimony. yen below $119. jon ferro with a nice job on this in ireland as our london team spoke with irish authorities was up under 1%. we should stop there and say that it's really something after ireland truly fell on the sword, unlike so many others. brendan: i also think michael noonan, who is the irish finance minister, can do a great job of teaching yanis varoufakis. you do not ask for things in public, you ask for things quietly, you offer things in return and you participate in all of these boring meetings whe

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