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… It’s become lazy on both ends. The girls also assume the guy’s
taking something so she doesn’t need to work for it. What’s wrong
with kissing off camera or touching off camera or getting to know
each other a bit? Or making the camera guy shoot three minutes of
kissing so everyone can naturally fall into the state of sex?
The girls are tearing more because they’re having rougher sex
quicker. A woman’s body needs two to three minutes to respond.
And when your body responds naturally you naturally lubricate
yourself, your walls naturally open, everything gets prepared, and
next thing you know you’re ready to have really good sex.
When I hear girls say that sex on set hurts, I tell them you gotta
allow your mind to trigger everything within your body to allow
this to naturally take place so you’re not hurting yourself. I mean an
athlete stretches before an event. Basketball players warm up before
a game. But no one warms up before a scene. And that intimacy is
the warm-up and that’s going to be something I focus on, too.
How will you manage this new production schedule?
I’d like to keep on a steady program that puts me on set four
days a month; I figure with another four days of processing, editing
and detail, that’s eight days a month for me. I’m trying to be very
scheduled with everything because I still do my Sirius shows
Sundays and Monday nights. It’s something I don’t want to give up.
Fantasy baseball is a time-consuming, grueling process that I got
very good at last year—my second year playing. First year I did finish
in last place. And Dan, I didn’t like the way it felt. So I studied my
ass off and I stayed between first and second place for almost the
entire season. This was against hosts that have been playing, 10, 15,
20 years. But man I memorized the player pool. I memorized every
player that had multi-position eligibility. I listened to baseball talk
four hours a day and what I found was doing fantasy baseball wasn’t
something I wanted to do.
But when I found out it would keep me on air all year long with
Sirius and I also found out how few women do it, I decided it was in
my best interest to do.
Sometimes you take on a challenge that’s just good for you but
you don’t want to. And when you come from doing porn for a living
and you’re always having fun, putting yourself to a test like that is
mentally awesome because it made me feel stronger as a person. It
made me say, there is no financial reward in this other than the fact
that I do get to stay on air all year. But there’s no big gain here other
than telling myself I can take four hours a day and study and commit
and I can end up doing better. Prove to myself, my boss, my peers.
Sometimes you have to do stuff you don’t want to do and make
yourself feel like a better person, and studying fantasy baseball was
just that.
I’m applying myself by looking at locations myself, scouting
locations beforehand and taking photos. Knowing exactly what I
want to shoot in each house before I shoot there. Knowing what
colors will look good there, what wardrobe. My details are so much
better, so people can pack less when they show up because I know
exactly what I want. My crew will know where to load in and where
to put the equipment because they’re not going to have to move it
twice. I know exactly where I want to shoot. That grueling detail
aspect I think came from fantasy baseball. Analyzing it and saying,
“How can I make this work with the best possible way with the least
amount of work but the most amount of detail?”
Where are you based now—still in New York City?
I’m back here full time now. I think everyone should live [in New
York] for a year of your life. It was a growing experience for me. …
After three-and-a-half years of going back and forth I started going
through this minimalist phase. I really just wanted to simplify my
life a bit. So coming back home to my house and really appreciating
it again.
I’ve been in the same place since 2005, but I traveled the first 10
years of it and then I was going back and forth to New York. This
is really the first time I feel I’ve nested. I’m on the board of my
[Homeowners Association] now. I help my neighbors with things
on the regular. Part of minimalism and my reading is I realized I
was really lacking in community. That was what pushed me to start working with charity and
that was what pushed me to wanting to start being more involved with my neighbors. It is a
great missing link for so many of us. How do you fit in? You live somewhere where you weren’t
born. We think we’re not from here so we have this different attitude. But you can plant your
feet and become part of your community through volunteer work, by going to city meetings, by
being a part of your HOA. For me it’s been a real balancing effect. It’s made me feel safer in my
neighborhood. I know my neighbors.
“WE GET BLINDED BY THE JUDGMENTS OF
OTHERS. WE GET BLINDED BY WHAT WE SEE
ON SOCIAL MEDIA. BUT WHEN YOU GO
OUT THERE, PEOPLE ARE A LOT NICER THAN
WHAT YOU EXPECT. PEOPLE WERE SO WARM
TO ME IN THE FANTASY SPORTS WORLD.“
Tell me about your ’30-for-30’ …
Before each new season—basketball, baseball, football, those are the sports I do so far—I do
30 Mock Drafts in 30 days. So every day I take an hour to do a Mock Draft. And that allows me
to really look over my team, see how comfortable I felt with taking a catcher early. Do I have
enough pitching? Did I let someone pass me by? And then my co-hosts, they break down my
baseball drafts and my basketball and football. Because they’ve been doing this longer and they
give me a report card and then I write notes on the draft. Then when I’m doing my next one I
think about what they taught me. I get a master class every day that I work because I’m working
with some of the best of the best that are analyzing my drafts and giving me all these tools to be
better. That’s why I did so well last year.
How is “The Lisa Ann Experience” podcast going so far?
One of the things I want to do with the podcast that’s different than anything I’ve done is I’m
adding time after because I want to bond with talent after that time. So if I’m having someone on
in the business I cushion about three hours after.
Last year I got to have on Raven Hart. I made us tea, got out some snacks. We just sat at my
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