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Greg Grunberg Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is somebody that I encountered in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. Um. I had a short conversation with him
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  Speaker 1: before I brought up before I started, and if you
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  Speaker 1: just let him, let him know the impact he had
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  Speaker 1: on me as a person. And I think that's really
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  Speaker 1: important to the success of this young man. He's an actor, writer, producer,
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  Speaker 1: band leader, social media influencer, and charity charity fundraiser. He
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  Speaker 1: is best known for his roles in the popular TV
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  Speaker 1: series Heroes. I Love That show, The prinsor King of St.
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  Speaker 1: Louis or Masters of Sex. He was Felicity Is when
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  Speaker 1: I first encountered him in the dorm rooms of Felicity.
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  Speaker 1: On the feature side, he's started Star Wars, The Force
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  Speaker 1: Awakens and Star Trek Beyond recently start Opposed the Opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I can always see him in the dog leaning over
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  Speaker 1: that desk talking backwards to Appacino's character Paternal great series
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  Speaker 1: and will be a new Warner Brothers Motion Your Star
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  Speaker 1: is Born along with Bradley Cooper as Oscar winning, Bradley
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  Speaker 1: Cooper and Lady Gaga please walk on the Money Making Conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Grunberg, thank you so much for having introduction. Hey, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: you know when you when you have a career, man,
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  Speaker 1: don't you let it hang out on Wikipedia exactly. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to point people to IMDb. You know, my man,
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  Speaker 1: you are special man. Like I said, we accounted each
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  Speaker 1: other for the first time um in New York at
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  Speaker 1: a at a New York entrepreneurship event, and you interviewed
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  Speaker 1: me on your show, and we had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you know, like Susan and the Pad.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of like knew a lot of the same people.
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  Speaker 1: And that explains a lot about your career, because relationships
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  Speaker 1: play a major role in under the success of your career. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: That's very true. I mean when you when you come
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  Speaker 1: across something, I thought the same way about you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there there's a there's an honesty, there's a you know
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  Speaker 1: there there's a lot of people in entertain aiming and
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  Speaker 1: uh and yet there are very few and that what
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  Speaker 1: I mean by that is there's so many people trying
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  Speaker 1: to knock down the door, trying to make things happen
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  Speaker 1: but when you do get a taste of it, and
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  Speaker 1: you get an opportunity to work with people, you want
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  Speaker 1: to work with people that you like, that you trust,
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  Speaker 1: and that you know, you know you can count on,
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  Speaker 1: And so you turn to those people over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: And in those cases, inevitably you're going to cross paths
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  Speaker 1: with people that have uh, you know, relationships in common.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happened to us. I was like, you started
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  Speaker 1: talking about people, you know. I knew it was inevitable,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but absolutely. Now here's the here's the fun
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  Speaker 1: part about my relationship with great so because but I
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  Speaker 1: would just let him know he inspired me, and I
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  Speaker 1: wanted People were trying, why do you need inspiration? So
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading USA today and they did an article they
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  Speaker 1: don't still do what they still do it. They do
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  Speaker 1: a little tech article people are doing things outside their
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  Speaker 1: normal profession. And there was a Yaws mobile coupons that
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  Speaker 1: he created, he co created and it's about you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he uses Yaws of to find coupons and discounts
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  Speaker 1: for stores and establishments that are in your local area. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I read that, it was a change of jealousy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying because he was doing something out
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  Speaker 1: of his norm. You know, this man was living his
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  Speaker 1: life and I thought that was beautiful and I and
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  Speaker 1: and I went, you know something, And that's when I
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  Speaker 1: started money making conversations online with Facebook. I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: make time to do your do what you want to
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  Speaker 1: do besides what other people tell you you were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be doing. Tell everybody about the development of that
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  Speaker 1: app and why I became an important part of your
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  Speaker 1: career planning. I'd love to and I learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: from it. Um, all good? What what what happened was?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was an early adopter of technology and
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  Speaker 1: as far as how it glittered to my my career.
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  Speaker 1: Right Twitter came along, apps were happening. Um, but before Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: there was apps and the apps. To me, I immediately
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  Speaker 1: saw an opportunity. I saw it like it was like
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  Speaker 1: an industrial revolution for people that once again you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to have machinery, didn't have to have the tools
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  Speaker 1: were right there digitally for you to just come up
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  Speaker 1: and still to this day come up with an idea
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  Speaker 1: that could change the world. And and and and and
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  Speaker 1: you always looked for a problem. So my wife and I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we are coupon people. I mean, I am
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  Speaker 1: to just trying to be smart about it, right. And
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  Speaker 1: so one of the stores that we we visit all
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  Speaker 1: the time is that Bath and Beyond. We got three boys,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so that Bath and Beyond. They their business
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  Speaker 1: structure is all about using those coupons. They mail it
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  Speaker 1: out to everyone. But they're and they're huge, they're big
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  Speaker 1: cardboard coupons. They couldn't be more wasteful, right as far
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  Speaker 1: as the planets. But but most people leave him at home.
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  Speaker 1: So you get there and you go, ah, coupon at
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  Speaker 1: home whatever, We left it in the car. So we're
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  Speaker 1: walking in, you know, and I couldn't be more lazy.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm walking in and I'm thinking, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to the car to get my coupon.
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  Speaker 1: And it hit me, why doesn't someone come up to
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  Speaker 1: a app? This is at that time realized nothing. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know of anything out there, and there really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: anything up that this simple. Why doesn't come up with
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  Speaker 1: an app? That there's geolocation In the app, the phone
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  Speaker 1: knows where you are, so you push one button and
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  Speaker 1: it brings up knowing your location, brings up all the
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  Speaker 1: stores within a net that you said, So whether it's
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  Speaker 1: one mile five miles around you, all the coupons that
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  Speaker 1: are available and not you know, at that time, four
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  Speaker 1: square was out there, so you had to check in
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  Speaker 1: as the mayor and earned points and it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of gamified. I didn't want to do that at all.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about it. I always used the term
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  Speaker 1: mom proof because my mom, you know, she's in her seventies, um,
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  Speaker 1: and my dad's in his eighties. And my mom can't
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  Speaker 1: push one button and uh and and use whatever services
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  Speaker 1: is out there, then it's not worth it. It's too complicated.
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  Speaker 1: People want simplicity and they want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: do that. And if you were in a mall and
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  Speaker 1: you push this button and it directs you to a
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  Speaker 1: given store, I mean that's powerful. That's really really powerful.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought about it and that was that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't know how to do this,
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  Speaker 1: so so on twitter. UM. I started tweeting and then
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  Speaker 1: I have about a thousand followers at that time, maybe
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  Speaker 1: very very beginning. And a guy follows me and says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I really like you're acting and if there's anything I
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  Speaker 1: can do. I like the band that you have. I
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  Speaker 1: have a charity band called band from TV And he said,
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  Speaker 1: I really love that. Is there anything I can do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a developer, an app developer. Can I
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  Speaker 1: develop something for you so that you can raise more
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  Speaker 1: money for charity? So I looked at uh we we we.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at Apple. Apple does not have any if
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  Speaker 1: you think about it, not one app in the App
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  Speaker 1: Store helps charities. They just that's not something that they
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  Speaker 1: have developed yet. Um. I haven't looked at a while,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that's still the case. So it immediately
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  Speaker 1: he was I was like, uh, there's nothing we can do.
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  Speaker 1: And then I said, but I do have this idea
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  Speaker 1: to realize I'm using using Twitter two and then I'm open.
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  Speaker 1: I'm totally open, like I like you, and I sit
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  Speaker 1: down and in two minutes that's just who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've learned this from my dad. If somebody says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's I really want you to meet this guy and
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  Speaker 1: it's about a two hour, three hour drive, just go,
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  Speaker 1: get into your car. Go. You never know what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen out of that. This has been my philosophy. UM,
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  Speaker 1: and opportunities present themselves. You take advantage of the ones
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  Speaker 1: that are right for you. This was one that I
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  Speaker 1: engaged in a guy on Twitter. You know, and I
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  Speaker 1: have a million and a half people follow me on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I do this today, this back now,
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  Speaker 1: but I said, you know, I've got this idea. He
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  Speaker 1: freaked out like his because he was a digital guy
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  Speaker 1: or a you know, a developer. He was looking at
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  Speaker 1: it seeing the benefits of the analytics. Because if if
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  Speaker 1: you push a button, Let's say you're standing outside of
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  Speaker 1: a clothing store and push a button and it sends
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  Speaker 1: you into that store. Now you use a coupon, the
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  Speaker 1: store lays out three coupons in the app if you
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  Speaker 1: use the one for socks or for slacks or for sure,
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  Speaker 1: now they know you're buying habits. And now that that
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  Speaker 1: information is tremendously I didn't even think about that side
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  Speaker 1: of it. Greg Hold that thought. We're gonna come right back,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I want to know a boy Bandwagon Media,
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  Speaker 1: which is your production company? This is what's all about. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, and we'll be back with more Mr socially Conscious,
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  Speaker 1: Mr Hero money making conversations. Rashard McDonald speaking this ra
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDonald, you're listening to money making conversation on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with a good friend of mine. He's a He's
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  Speaker 1: an intelligently UH induced individual when it comes to being himself,
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  Speaker 1: recognizing the needs for others and also making time for
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  Speaker 1: his family as well as being a recognizable actor in
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  Speaker 1: the acting game, as well as being a person who
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  Speaker 1: I feel is a game changer not only in the
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  Speaker 1: social media world, but also in the UH world of
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  Speaker 1: the game of life. Greg, are you still there? I'm
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  Speaker 1: still here man now, Gregg, he was wrapping up that
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  Speaker 1: whole run about the yawser app. Now where's that? What's that?
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  Speaker 1: What's that? What's the status of the app today? So
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  Speaker 1: the app today? Um uh is? We We old the
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  Speaker 1: app to a company called Spindle. Um we we built
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  Speaker 1: it up to about a million a little over a
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  Speaker 1: million people using it. We had stores nationwide, you know,
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  Speaker 1: listing their coupons, and um we sold it to a
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  Speaker 1: company that needed to reach out to consumers. They were
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  Speaker 1: like a business to business type thing. So there I
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  Speaker 1: think relaunching the app currently. But it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a success. It wasn't one of those massive
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  Speaker 1: successes that you hear about a hundred million dollars sale
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. But it was great. My investors got their
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  Speaker 1: got their money back plus some. And and I learned
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  Speaker 1: a great, uh you know, lesson and that I can
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  Speaker 1: do stuff if I want to do it, I just
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  Speaker 1: have to just got to put your mind to it.
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  Speaker 1: But the other lesson that I learned in that is
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  Speaker 1: to stay focused because and stay in your wheelhouse. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm and you're constantly justifying in my business and what
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  Speaker 1: you do as well. You know, It's like I'm a
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  Speaker 1: I'm an actor first, I'm a writer, I'm a producer director.
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  Speaker 1: I have a production company, the Bandwagon Media. We do
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  Speaker 1: commercials and TV and film, and sometimes opportunities come that
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  Speaker 1: could distract. They're great opportunities, but they take you outside
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  Speaker 1: of your wheelhouse or outside of your brand. So that
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  Speaker 1: was I mean, what is what is some you know,
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  Speaker 1: this big actor dude from TV? Why is he telling
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  Speaker 1: me to download a coupon app? So it was it
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  Speaker 1: was that was tough, but I did it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was on l and I was all as the
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  Speaker 1: shows promoting jealous of you. I was jealous of you.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy, it was crazy, But but I've learned
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  Speaker 1: in that in that experience I've learned. Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if if I just because I see a shiny object,
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  Speaker 1: I got to make sure that it's, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. Like I've got a podcast that I do
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  Speaker 1: right now that I love and it's building and it's
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  Speaker 1: called it's called an actor, a comedian and a musician
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  Speaker 1: walk into a bar, and it's we do it from
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  Speaker 1: various different locations and it's fun, it's creative, it's still
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  Speaker 1: me entertaining, and yet there's a tech side to it
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  Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's uh, it's an app. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's on an app, you know, just like you're and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have the numbers you have. I'm growing, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm slowly growing. But I love that. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love a graphic novel series that I'm that I'm
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  Speaker 1: writing called Dream Jumper Um. And then of course i'm
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  Speaker 1: acting and you know, I'm not to go do the
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  Speaker 1: New Star Wars as well. So it's like it's it's
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  Speaker 1: you're living your life, living your life, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what this is what I like about you, Greg, is
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  Speaker 1: that is that you're not saying I should do one thing.
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  Speaker 1: You're telling what you're doing. What I tell people all
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  Speaker 1: the time. You know, you've been given that opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: open your mind and say, if I get a call,
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  Speaker 1: you look at and make sure that shiny is not
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  Speaker 1: walking off the cliff. You pursue it. That's the app
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  Speaker 1: You want to write a book, you want to start
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  Speaker 1: a production company, you want to be in a band,
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  Speaker 1: You're going to do that. You know, you're not limited.
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  Speaker 1: That's something I decided when I left IBM. I was
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  Speaker 1: at a very very successful executive. Successful executive, I don't
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  Speaker 1: stay at the comment at night. And then one day
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know something, I don't think this is
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  Speaker 1: what what I'm just supposed to just supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so you've opened your eyes to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like like this production company, that's another layer of entrepreneur
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  Speaker 1: a ship that you've gotten into. It has really taken off,
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  Speaker 1: it has, it has, and it's it's fueled all the
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  Speaker 1: creative ideas that I have. So I know that if
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  Speaker 1: I have you know, I have a little studio and
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  Speaker 1: you know it's a five thousand, six thousand square feet.
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  Speaker 1: I have the equipment and all this stuff. So if
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  Speaker 1: I come up with an idea, I can shoot it.
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  Speaker 1: And also today, you know, you come up with an idea,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need anybody's permission today. Like when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid coming up, even as an actor, if I
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  Speaker 1: needed to get tape on myself, like people said, well
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  Speaker 1: let me see a couple of scenes. I need to
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  Speaker 1: wait till somebody hired me. I need to get that tape. Today,
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  Speaker 1: you got it in the palm of your hand. That
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  Speaker 1: you know, kids that come up are young actors that
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  Speaker 1: that talk to me and they say, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: really want to I really want to do this this
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  Speaker 1: show where I'm sitting in a diner and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: shoot it stopping you. It's called a cell phone and
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  Speaker 1: the quality is good enough that you can put it
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  Speaker 1: on a big screen. So there's no limit to your
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  Speaker 1: creative creativity. It's just having you know, the wherewithal or
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  Speaker 1: you know, the belief in yourself is another thing that
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  Speaker 1: I've really learned. I know, I'm jumping all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no no, But see, I won't want
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  Speaker 1: people to hear the story because we want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about his voices and video games, his voices on animation,
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  Speaker 1: and so I just want everybody to understand. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I let everybody know your about some of your body
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  Speaker 1: of work, because you're not You're not limiting yourself. Greg.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's key to this whole interview is that
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  Speaker 1: you're telling everybody is that they're twenty four hours in
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  Speaker 1: the day. You learn to take advantage of every hour,
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  Speaker 1: and plus you have family time. Plus you have time
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  Speaker 1: for your kids. Plus you have time for your wife
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  Speaker 1: because you've you got it. You you're a happy person.
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  Speaker 1: That is why when I met you, finally finally got
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  Speaker 1: to meet you, and I say I was jealous. It
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  Speaker 1: was all their own ingest because I followed you and
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  Speaker 1: when I got to meet you, this guy is just
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  Speaker 1: as real as the person I've seen. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: you're so relatable in your roles and you can do
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  Speaker 1: so many different types of roles because guess what, in
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  Speaker 1: the end, I just think you're just being Greg. You know,
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  Speaker 1: me in a hero Greg yelling at out you know
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  Speaker 1: all right, No, I mean I do know my limits.
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  Speaker 1: I might not lie, and I love those limits. I
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  Speaker 1: love that. You know, when people come up to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's the best compliment they can possibly give me, as
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  Speaker 1: I they feel like I am their friend like that,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, it's very it's relatable and real and
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  Speaker 1: that's the best thing. And also for acting, my style
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  Speaker 1: of it's all in your eyes, Like I do as
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  Speaker 1: much listening as I do projecting as an actor, I
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  Speaker 1: do as much reacting, you know, as that to me
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  Speaker 1: is the best. Like when you're doing stand up, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you react off the audience if you have to, and
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  Speaker 1: a good stand up does that. To just go and
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: see a show where somebody is just projecting at you,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: it doesn't let you in right, you know. And I
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: don't know I think that that can be related to
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: to anything. The business stuff I've always told people and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I tell myself that all the time, is no one's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: going to give you a chance. People do not want
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: to give you as at being like, they don't want
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to give you your first chance at whatever you want
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: to do. So if I wanted to to do you know, uh,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: even acting or whatever. If you don't take a chance
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  Speaker 1: on yourself, no one else is gonna take a chance
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: on you. You got to be that person that says, yeah,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: you're good enough, I mean, and do it first, even
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: if it's taking your cell phone and recording a quick scene,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you show it to people subconsciously or consciously they go, oh,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: he's already done stuff, even though it was you that
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: gave me self that opportunity, because it really starts with you.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: You gotta prove hey, yeah, I can do this, and
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I'm confident enough to do it. And I take that
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to everything, like this band, I saw a need. My
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: son has epilepsy. There's a stigma attached epilepsy, and and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: it's scary to see people have explain to everybody exactly
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: what that is. So epilepsy is and seizures are. All
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: they are is an uncontrolled firing of the brain. So
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: in the brain there is electric electric activity. One side
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: of the brain tells the other I'm talking to you
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: right now, I'm on money making conversations and all of that. Well,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: imagine that the firing just is rapid. There's too much
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: of it going on. So two points of the brain
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  Speaker 1: that should be speaking to each other and now speaking
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: to all points of the brain. And that's why they're shaking.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: That's why their sound. You're and you're obviously lose your
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: balance and you're on the floor shaking. And now those
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: two points come back together over the course of a minute, however,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and now you're back. That's all it is. It's just
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: electroactivity of the brain. If you go to talk about
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: it dot org. That is my foundation. Uh, and it's
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: free and it's and it's all informative. Every big celebrity
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: you can imagine is on there asking the questions like
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: you just asked, is what is the seizure? And what
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: do you do if you see someone have a seizure
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and the basic stuff, and then it gets more complicated.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a Facebook for people with epilepsy.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: But but I saw a need to remove the stigma
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: because there's there's you know, the term grand mall. We
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: hear the term grand mall seizure brand mall. Is that
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the big evil, the big bad because we thought that
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: people were possessed and we're talking about sixty seventy years
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: ago that did people were so scared. It's not. It's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: just that and it can be caused by anything. My
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: son has has uh, he's he takes medication and he's
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: under control, thank god. But but um, you know, there
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: are millions and millions of people like my son who
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: are living well with epilepsy, and you know, you there's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: there should be no stigma attached to it and we
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: should all know what to do because you know, um,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I think it's like, what is it. One in five
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: people could and will have a seizure in their life.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they have epilepsy, but they could have something
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that flash lights, you know, something could cause it. Now,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the band raises funds you know this part of the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: charitable campaign for your foundation. Explain how that works. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: also any websites we can go to to make donations.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Oh sure, um, so you've got to talk about it
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: dot org to find out about epilepsy specifically in my website.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: But the band was started because I was like, how
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: do I create a business, How do I create a
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a vertical or a you know, something that's generating money
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: for for charity on an ongoing basis, And then selfishly,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: how do I have a blast? I mean, I played
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the drums. I'm not a professional musician, but I was like,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, let's so so I had that in
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: my mind. I've always wanted to do that. I was
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: on the show House and Hugh Laurie, star of the show.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I was a guest star on the show, and then
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: right out and we were talking about music he plays music.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And then I met I met this guy, Jamie Denton.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I met another guy, and the met Terry Hatcher. All
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: these people I knew had music the ability to play music,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: but they weren't in bands. And then I got asked
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to play them at the Emmy's the post Emmy party
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: for TV Guide, and they said, hey, don't you play
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in a literally this happened. Don't you play in a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: celebrity band? And I didn't. I didn't have a band,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: but I said yes. I was like sure, and I
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: put this band together and we we played this party.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And now twelve years later, we've raised over six million
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: dollars for the various charities that we support. My being epilepsy.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: But Scott Grimes, who is on Orville and he's on
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: American Dad million shows, he's does lupus, and then we've
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: got cancer. We've got this that we support about ten
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Jesse Spencer from from Chicago, Fire, Adrian past Our, Bob Guinea,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: all these wonderful, wonderful guys. Um they all have charities
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: they support. We play gigs, we play corporate gigs. So
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: there's anybody out there who's about to hire another, you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: band that like Chicago or something like that. Think about
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: hiring band from tv B, a n B from tv P,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: a band from TV dot org. We play. We're playing
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Comic Con this year, this huge concert we're about to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: play at Sony Studios for a cancer charity on the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: fifteenth of July. And we you know, we have a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: great time. We rehearse, we have fun. But the band
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is awesome. Like it's just a really fun band to have.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: We played covers the only way I tell people. It's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: familiar faces playing familiar music. And we raise money for church.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my main go to talk about it dot org.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you man for being on my show. And if
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you need me you I am a club member. Okay,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: no they know this. I can't sing, but I can host,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: So if you ever need a host, Rushean McDonald's the host. Man.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Congratulations being a comic car. You all know it's gonna
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: be packed. It's gonna be congratulations, And God bless your
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: son come along strong, and your your wife and the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: other two children. Keep being you, man, because I love you.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I literally can tell you. I love Greg Man. I
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: love you too, Man. I really appreciate it, and we
• 21:34
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