Weimer: When you first went out to make videos, was there a type of person or content that you were looking for? A stereotype of NYC that those that live there love and are obviously proud of. When we first started, we were pretty reliant on the host, Trent, to go around and talk to any stranger we could find. After the pandemic hit, we came back and the city was so quiet.
There was really no energy for us to go up and receive from people like we were getting before. So, we changed the style of the show up a lot. We started to look for individual characters who had interesting personalities, events like Knicks games, and public reactions - like when Andrew Cuomo got kicked out of office. Weimer: How do you decide where in New York City to shoot?īyrne: We try and make it so the videos are shot at places in New York City that you’re not familiar with from movies. Weimer: Trent, how do you find the courage or confidence to walk up to groups of people with a microphone? What’s your background like before Sidetalk? Sometimes, we’ll do something in Times Square but that’s more so because there’s an interesting character there.
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Simonian: In high school, I was the host and producer of our high school’s TV broadcast. So, I started practicing then and just go up to student and teachers. Ultimately, it just comes down to the confidence you go up to groups of people with. We’re also are very friendly with everyone we interview. We make sure they know what they’re getting into. Weimer: I noticed you mentioned that the way your Instagram account grew its first 10,000 followers was from a caption tag from The story is pretty funny. I’m from Los Angeles and I used to always tune into Nico’s page just to learn about New York City.
I would always learn about these funny characters and cool stuff that was going on in the city. So, eventually he started to like our page when we had around 1,000 followers and he said, ‘these kids are onto something’, which was really cool. Then, he shouted out our Purim video which got us to 10,000 followers and we’ve had a presence in New York ever since.
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