I take my role as hashtag: influencer very seriously. Anyone can tell based on the comprehensive page where I occasionally review TV shows I may or may not have seen at least one episode of.

With my finger on the pulse of pop culture, I was recently reviewing a couple reruns of The John Larroquette Show.

Even while I was in high school in 1996, John Larroquette was questing to warn me about a future in media. In this handsomely curated clip which I absolutely did not record with my phone directly from the TV when it woke me up from my afternoon nap, he recognizes the potential challenges that lie ahead for reporters when he became an intern at a newspaper [although cobblers are enjoying a resurgence].

In a bit of foreshadowing, our cobbler names his shoe shine stand, “The Other Shoe.” You’ll want to keep that in mind.

Larroquette was also ahead of his time in seeking out places to charge electric cars, explaining he couldn’t park it on the street because kids kept unplugging it.

But this called to mind my own quest for an epic next career before I recognized for the brightest future… I should take another radio job.

You know what else comes on during my afternoon nap? The History Channel’s Food that Built America.

That’s how we learned, for instance, Dave Thomas was a KFC castaway before he started Wendy’s. And the idea of canned cranberry sauce was right in front of us the whole time.

We can all learn from these stories of self made men: The key to any successful business is to stare thoughtfully at food and think, “Why not?”

We’ve already learned about Big Scai’s Beer Frontier. I may start staring at food and develop a can’t-miss idea for an attached restaurant.

Our restaurant magnates also spend time frowning at the books.

I’m prepared to frown as long as is necessary because I’m going to get this right, doggone it. It’s possible I don’t have books, or even a ledger. That could hurt me. I do have that Kool-Aid picture in the background, though.

And then we’ll all sit back and be quietly impressed with ourselves when we innovate the solution.

You can see I’ve nailed the development of my business plan. Nothing could go wrong, just as nothing went wrong for John Larroquette as he got married at the end of a later episode.