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Jonathan Adams Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: renowned actor, best known for his role as neighbor Chuck
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Speaker 1: Larabee on the long running comedy Last Man Standing opposite
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Speaker 1: Tim Allentt Tim Allen Boy, I gotta talk about him.
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Speaker 1: The series is moving from ABC the Fox this fall
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Speaker 1: and premier to great ratings, which we will talk about.
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Speaker 1: He began his acting career by studying theater at Carnegie
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Speaker 1: Mellon University and went on to appear as Henry Walker
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Speaker 1: on NBC's American Dreams as Dr Daniel Goodman on Bones.
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Speaker 1: He has also made notable recurring appearances on Women's Murder Club,
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Speaker 1: Revenge Castle Dollars twenty four in hell Cats, Please work
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Speaker 1: with the money making conversations, Jonathan Adams, Hey, how you doing?
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Speaker 1: Come on? You know I don't sound like that man.
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Speaker 1: How are you just gonna just blow over that great voice?
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna just a little scratch you trying
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Speaker 1: to get by voice? Hey? How you doing? How you
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Speaker 1: doing there? I'm very good? That good? Well. First of all,
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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being the an entrepreneur, a guy who hasn't had a
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Speaker 1: career and he's having a career. And also, congratulations on
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Speaker 1: the amazingly high ratings for this series, uh that you're
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Speaker 1: starting on with Last Man Standing with Tim Allen's I know, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean that was so good. I mean, I just
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Speaker 1: really really appreciate the fans of this show. I'm just
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Speaker 1: I'm just over the moon. It was really good. That's
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Speaker 1: why you know, you do something good, something bad shocks you,
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Speaker 1: and then you get picked up. Let me just tell
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Speaker 1: you if everybody was happening with Last Man Standard, uh
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Speaker 1: for six years it was on ABC. Okay, it debated,
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Speaker 1: It debated the seventh season on Fox Friday Night Friday
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Speaker 1: Night Now with Tim Allen. Let'sa come rocketing past this
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Speaker 1: previous season high numbers on ABC. Okay, ABC said we're
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Speaker 1: done with it, Last Man Standing averaging one point eight
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Speaker 1: ratings and adults which is the key demo eighteen to
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Speaker 1: forty nine and eight million viewers and at PM. By comparison,
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Speaker 1: check this out. The season six premiere on ABC drew
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Speaker 1: at one point one rating and six million viewers. By
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Speaker 1: this season as a whole, on one point two rating
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Speaker 1: and six point four million viewers. In fact, the last
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Speaker 1: time the series drew over eight million viewers was back
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Speaker 1: in season four, and the last time I drew at
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Speaker 1: one point eight rating a better was in season two.
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Speaker 1: It did both of those this past Friday. Hallelujah. Come
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Speaker 1: on now, I'm Jason Jonathan. I know how to put
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Speaker 1: the show together. Brother. I'm not gonna just bring you
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Speaker 1: on this show and not have my facts because because
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Speaker 1: you talked to Click, you talked to click. If you talk,
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Speaker 1: if you if you talk me out, everybody gonna understand
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Speaker 1: what you said about me. Right those numbers numbers don't live. Brother,
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Speaker 1: That's all I gotta say. And it was the most
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Speaker 1: watched comedy on any night in nearly seven years on
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Speaker 1: Fox excepting NFL nights, and was my father top rated
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Speaker 1: comedy show on a Friday night. Congratulations, congratulations, so much time.
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy to be a part of it. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, well how did you become a part of it?
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Speaker 1: Let's let's talk about you know I read earlier about
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Speaker 1: how you got started. Here's the deal about me. I
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Speaker 1: got started in stand up comedy, but my degree was
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Speaker 1: in mathematics. Okay, but you this is something you wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. Correct, dude, you sound like someone after my
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Speaker 1: own heart. I never met you. You had your degree
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Speaker 1: in mathematics. Math was my favorite subject in school. I nearly,
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Speaker 1: nearly like was a math major. Loved calculus. Calculus was
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Speaker 1: my favorite thing in the world when I was in
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Speaker 1: high school. UM loved it. And uh, I just got
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Speaker 1: into acting, just you know, through side sideways. And I
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Speaker 1: got into this show kind of sideways because Um, I
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Speaker 1: auditioned for a guest star in season two, and uh
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Speaker 1: that guest star they kept asking me back, and then
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Speaker 1: they cast me back again in season three, and then
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Speaker 1: and see and four they asked me to be a
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Speaker 1: regular on the show, which, by the way, it was
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Speaker 1: one of those seasons you mentioned with one of the
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Speaker 1: best ratings. So I'm just saying no, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you're nonimating conversation. You start, Okay, I don't care about
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Speaker 1: my boy Tim Allen. Who who I know Tim Allen
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Speaker 1: because when I was doing New Orleans Punch Bunch Line
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Speaker 1: he was the headliner. And that's when I met Tim
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Speaker 1: Allen way back then, and we performed the worst week
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Speaker 1: that you can perform in New Orleans to do stand
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Speaker 1: up comedy Martin, We're a week. Oh wow, why is
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Speaker 1: that the worst week? Because nobody's there there, there in
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Speaker 1: the streets, getting drunk there in the streets. Part you
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Speaker 1: do not pay this. Here's somebody tell jokes when you
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Speaker 1: can hear those same jokes free in the streets. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So Tim and I go way back, and and I
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Speaker 1: know his career. I followed his career, and I feel
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Speaker 1: feel that he gave me excellent advice about being myself.
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Speaker 1: And I was not just trying to be a middle
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Speaker 1: act when he was the headlining act. So I know
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Speaker 1: being around him, he's given you tremendous career advice. Tim
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Speaker 1: Hallen has correct absolutely, you know, Tim, Yeah, he really has.
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Speaker 1: He's given me great advice in terms of my Crida
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Speaker 1: also has, uh, you know, kind of opened up my
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Speaker 1: eyes and you know, how you know comedy works and
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Speaker 1: how the you know, the business of comedy works. We
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Speaker 1: get to I get to work with not only Tim Allen,
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Speaker 1: but you know Jay Leno occasionally, who is also a
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Speaker 1: comedy legend, and it's just like it's like a dream
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Speaker 1: sitting there with um, you know him and Hector Alisando
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Speaker 1: and Jay Leno I get to have scenes with those
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Speaker 1: guys like all the time, and these dudes are total legends,
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Speaker 1: and I'm just sitting there soaking and I'm I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not young, but I'm just soaking it all up
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Speaker 1: and like trying to trying to glean whatever I can
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Speaker 1: from these guys. Welle. The thing about it is that
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Speaker 1: because when you look at the show, you do see
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Speaker 1: prominent resumes acting resumes on the screen, you know, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: And that's that's what I love about it. But also
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Speaker 1: I love the fact that it's it's there's a love
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Speaker 1: about it because you know, Hollywood, Hollywood, you can't really
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Speaker 1: make your car payment or your horse rent, or your
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Speaker 1: kids education on a on a on a television or
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Speaker 1: a film gig, you know, because you know, just because
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Speaker 1: it premiers or somebody said you've been picked up for
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Speaker 1: a show, that doesn't mean they're going to stay on
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Speaker 1: the air. Absolutely, that's the fear of Hollywood, because they're
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Speaker 1: don guarantees. And the fact that you've been on the
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Speaker 1: show there was four years roughly, and then all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you get counseled. Walk me through that steps
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Speaker 1: of it being counseled and then it being picked up
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Speaker 1: talk about that, Okay, well we'll see. I really think
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Speaker 1: it was, like I said, it was a business decision.
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Speaker 1: And you know, you got there's people online and people
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Speaker 1: you know, all over the place who want to say
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Speaker 1: it was a political decision. I think it was a
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Speaker 1: business decision on ABC's part in terms of the show
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Speaker 1: being Fox you know Fox Network, I mean Fox Studios
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Speaker 1: show and on an ABC on ABC, and so they
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Speaker 1: want you know, it streamlined your money and this very
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Speaker 1: very very tough television age where there's so much content
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Speaker 1: twent there and there's so much other things for people
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Speaker 1: to watching, people to seeing people to do. They needed
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Speaker 1: to they needed to, you know, like you said, Like
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Speaker 1: I said, streamline there you know their money, who who
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Speaker 1: makes it, and where it goes and how it comes from.
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Speaker 1: You know, you get a double dip if it's an
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Speaker 1: ab STU ABC Studio show on ABC network as opposed
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Speaker 1: to having to take money out as it goes along.
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Speaker 1: I think it was a business decision and I was, like,
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Speaker 1: I was devastated personally about it. Did you see it? Comment?
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Speaker 1: Did you see it happening? Are you he was? It
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Speaker 1: might not get picked up, no, but I always suspect
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Speaker 1: that it will. Do you know what I mean, if
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Speaker 1: you've ever been on television, or if you've ever been
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Speaker 1: do you know I know that you know it's already
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Speaker 1: a rough business because as a writer, you know, they
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Speaker 1: bring us on board in June, we're wrapping February, so
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Speaker 1: you have to fend for yourself between between March two
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Speaker 1: to matt you know what I'm saying, right right right,
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Speaker 1: get with your brother because you don't have a job.
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Speaker 1: And so it's interesting. But to see that this is
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Speaker 1: a show, it's with stars, prominent stars all over it,
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Speaker 1: and they get counseled and then what was one of
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Speaker 1: your what did I do next? I'm just trying to
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Speaker 1: get people understand that world that you're in because everybody
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Speaker 1: wants to be an actor. Everyone wants to come to Hollywood.
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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to say, hey, I'm the next big thing.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're an actor. We're gonna talk about later
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Speaker 1: about the flourishing varse over because I really think that's
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Speaker 1: the next level that everybody thinks they can do just
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Speaker 1: because they sound good, and that's not true. So so
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Speaker 1: so you're so you already got some multiple strings of
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Speaker 1: incomes out there, working for yourself, but this really is
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Speaker 1: one of your dominant income lanes here being on Last
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Speaker 1: man Standing, talk to us about to being counseled. What
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Speaker 1: did how did you react to it, and what were
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Speaker 1: your steps. Here's the thing I, my wife and I
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Speaker 1: have in through this before with some being Uh. I
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Speaker 1: was in the first season of Bones and Bones, as
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Speaker 1: you know, went on for nine seasons. I was not
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Speaker 1: expected to me that they would, you know, get rid
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Speaker 1: of my character and changes to somebody else. But we've
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Speaker 1: been through all this before. I was in American Dreams
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Speaker 1: Henry Walker on American Dreams, and that was canceled whatever.
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Speaker 1: So at this point when we got Last man Standing
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Speaker 1: and it all started, uh, you know, really working out
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Speaker 1: for us, we made it, you know, our decision to like,
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Speaker 1: you know, how most people need to have like you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what what what do you tell people?
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Speaker 1: How much savings they should have? Like how much? How
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Speaker 1: long savings should they should have? Six months? Six months?
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Speaker 1: My wife and I said we need to have a
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Speaker 1: year and a half or two because this because my
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Speaker 1: business is not about you know, everything being consistent. It's
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Speaker 1: really it's it's feast or famine, and so what we needed.
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Speaker 1: You know, we need to store in case of famine
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Speaker 1: all the time. And that's how we feel about this business.
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Speaker 1: So um, that's what we did. I mean we were
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Speaker 1: We want to explain to people why he goes to
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Speaker 1: a teen months because in Hollywood, you get paid and
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Speaker 1: I'd like to say chunks of money. Yeah, and so
11:18
Speaker 1: so that chunks of money will can force you to
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Speaker 1: elevate your lifestyle and and then sometimes that's good, sometimes
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Speaker 1: it's bad because if the income goes away, then you stuck. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're live in a normal everyday life, tied to
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Speaker 1: a normal everyday check, then six months works for you.
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Speaker 1: But if you if you have been married to that
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Speaker 1: chunks of lifestyle living, then you better kick out eighteen
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Speaker 1: months because so many reasons why you might not work
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Speaker 1: again in Hollywood for a long period of time. It's
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Speaker 1: tied to what they've seen you in this series. They
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Speaker 1: feel they might typecast you, they might because age discrimination,
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Speaker 1: they might not be looking for an African American male here.
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Speaker 1: They might want them more characters. So it's a lot
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Speaker 1: of things that you have to really really start wrapping
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Speaker 1: your head around when you start making these these purchases
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Speaker 1: start making these decisions to move forward. I know that
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Speaker 1: because I did many sitcoms as a writer. Mini City
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Speaker 1: comes as a producer, and I also did a lot
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Speaker 1: of casting and all that comes into play, and those
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Speaker 1: decisions makes correct exactly. Man, you get, you get for
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Speaker 1: me I personally, I mean, I get burned once and
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Speaker 1: that's it. You know what I mean, you ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: burn me again, and that's I mean, that's how it works.
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Speaker 1: With the first series I was on, and then after
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Speaker 1: that I was like, no, we need to have a
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Speaker 1: certain amount of money, and we need to have a
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Speaker 1: certain number of investments and a certain amount, you know,
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Speaker 1: going forward, so that you know, I can we can live. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You set a lifestyle and you want to maintain it,
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Speaker 1: you can you maintain it. But here's the thing though,
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Speaker 1: who's on the phone is a renowned actor, best known
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Speaker 1: for his role as neighbor Chuck Larrabie on the long
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Speaker 1: running comedy Last Man Standing. Let me share some good
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Speaker 1: news about Last Man Standard It Got was canceled on
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Speaker 1: ABC after six seasons. It was counseled stars. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: call hi my good friend. Now you know good friend
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Speaker 1: Tim Allen. Just upgrade my relationship with him. It debated
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Speaker 1: UH on Fox Friday this Friday night. It's seventh season
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Speaker 1: average one point eight rating an adults eighteen and four
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Speaker 1: to nine and eight million viewers airing at that a
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Speaker 1: PM time slot. By comparison, the season six premiere on
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Speaker 1: ABC drewing one point one rating in six million viewers
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Speaker 1: while they season while that season as a whole average
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Speaker 1: only at one point to rating in a six point
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Speaker 1: four million viewers. In fact, the last time the show
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Speaker 1: drew over eight million viewers was back in his fourth season.
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Speaker 1: That's when he officially came on board being the person
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Speaker 1: on the end of the phone that's a Jonathan, And
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Speaker 1: the last time the show drew at one point eight
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Speaker 1: Rarely needs a Better was in season two. It was
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Speaker 1: also a Fox most watch comedy on any night in
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Speaker 1: nearly seven years, excluding Interfair nights, and was by far
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Speaker 1: the top rated show of all Friday nights. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the show, Jonathan Adams. Hello, I delayed back
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Speaker 1: out there. Jonathan. You know I I know you got
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Speaker 1: a chopped liver. Brother, Thank you. I appreciate that. Now.
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Speaker 1: One thing that you know my producer answered the phone.
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Speaker 1: He said, wow, that guy has a smooth voice. Obviously
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Speaker 1: God gave you that voice. He gave a Sean his voice.
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Speaker 1: You know you know you got the voice. How do
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Speaker 1: you keep your voice in shape? First of all? Or
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Speaker 1: do you do anything to sound the way you sound. Um.
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Speaker 1: Actually no, But here's the thing though, I hate you
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Speaker 1: you more. You know, here's the I stopped smoking and drinking,
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Speaker 1: So I don't know that years ago, right, Yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: I you know, it's just that, I mean, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: People are born with what you know. People get what
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Speaker 1: they get. You know, when you get, don't get upset
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Speaker 1: and then deal with it. Right. But here's the thing
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Speaker 1: about it. You're a voice over business correct, Yeah, very
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Speaker 1: good at it, so as and entertain a business manager
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Speaker 1: represented talent. All my life, people are always coming up
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Speaker 1: to me talking about they want to be in a
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Speaker 1: voice over business. I get two things coming to bed.
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Speaker 1: What somebody wants to be in the music business or
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Speaker 1: they want to act or they want to do voice over.
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Speaker 1: Is there a plan or there is there a way
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Speaker 1: that a person could break into the business as a
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Speaker 1: voiceover artist. You gotta keep working at it. It really
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Speaker 1: is one of those places of especially voiceover, that people
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Speaker 1: people end up hiring who they like and who they
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Speaker 1: worked with before, and voices they know. And it's a
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Speaker 1: very difficult business to break into. And it's one of
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Speaker 1: those things where you have to keep plugging at it.
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Speaker 1: You can't stop because what you mean if you they
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Speaker 1: I spent you know me, you mean you you heard
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Speaker 1: my voice. I spent six months a year just auditioning. No,
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Speaker 1: maybe even longer than that, maybe like a year and
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Speaker 1: a half before I got anything of any substance, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean? And uh, you you have to
17:11
Speaker 1: keep keep working at it. And I would also even
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Speaker 1: suggest taking a few workshops, because it's not really necessarily
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Speaker 1: about um uh, the the the the education that you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get from the workshop. It's sometimes it's about the
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Speaker 1: connections you're gonna get from the people at the workshop. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I was in a workshop with so and so, I
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Speaker 1: was in a workshop with whatever, and blah blah blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, and um, I remember you
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Speaker 1: from this, that and the other thing, and it becomes
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Speaker 1: you become part of the community, which is really what
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Speaker 1: you need to be. Right. So let me ask you this.
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Speaker 1: Do you have an agent? Yes? I do, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: do have an agent. I have a voiceover agent, uh
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Speaker 1: and in my voiceover and commercial agent, and I have
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Speaker 1: a manager for theatrical and everything. Okay, So just going
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Speaker 1: through the stick with the track about to be a
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Speaker 1: VARs over because like I said, it always gets asked
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Speaker 1: to be and you know, I'm a guy who has
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Speaker 1: produced talent voice over. I don't know where to sen
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Speaker 1: you what like you you caseuper limited tested. First of all,
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Speaker 1: is that gonna happen overnight? And like you said, look
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Speaker 1: at the quality of listen to the quality of mab vos.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't like I just walked to the room and
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Speaker 1: just they signed me up. It's tied to relationships and
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Speaker 1: also position yourself where people can recommend you exactly you
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Speaker 1: got it exactly right. And so that's that's what you
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Speaker 1: gotta do and you can't and and it's very frustrating.
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Speaker 1: It is. It's a frustrating business. You spend a lot
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Speaker 1: of time going, oh man, I'm just this is never
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Speaker 1: gonna wear or you sent me out on that I
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Speaker 1: don't know. And I have a um, I have a
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Speaker 1: booth in my house now basically where I not. I
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Speaker 1: don't work from it, but I do have I do
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Speaker 1: all my auditions from that booth. So uh, if someone
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Speaker 1: I'll get a script from my agent and i'll i'll
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Speaker 1: you know, read it to my do it on do
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Speaker 1: it in the booth in my house and then send
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Speaker 1: it out to the MP three to my back to
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Speaker 1: my agent and they take it, they send it to
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Speaker 1: the clients. Ask you this other because it's a very
19:23
Speaker 1: serious question here because uh, you know, I'm connected as
19:26
Speaker 1: you know, and so how would I want in our
19:31
Speaker 1: opportunities for some of the military type commercial promotions around
19:36
Speaker 1: the country. How would I get you to not only
19:40
Speaker 1: just maybe not even just audition, but just recopy so
19:43
Speaker 1: I can present it to them. Um, you would call
19:47
Speaker 1: my agent what you do, or you could even start
19:50
Speaker 1: with my publicist, which which you guys have, and they'll
19:54
Speaker 1: get in touch with you. You know. This is what
19:56
Speaker 1: we're gonna do today. You'll be here from Roshan McDonald today.
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Speaker 1: Just this eye works on money main conversation. So you
20:03
Speaker 1: call for an interview, you're call for you're about to
20:06
Speaker 1: hear the change change in your life now because of
20:08
Speaker 1: a Sean McDonald but black. But like I said, you
20:11
Speaker 1: know the thing about it. But that's how opportunities come
20:13
Speaker 1: your way. That's what I'm saying. And that's what people
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Speaker 1: need to understand. It's not ever plan, it's never, it's never,
20:19
Speaker 1: but you gotta be ready. Like you said, you have
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Speaker 1: a booth in your house, that's what Maybe I heard that.
20:24
Speaker 1: Let me said, you're making a job out of this.
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Speaker 1: So if you if you didn't say that, then I
20:30
Speaker 1: don't I don't go to this next conversation about hey,
20:33
Speaker 1: if I send you some copy, can you cut something
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Speaker 1: for me so we can I can let some people
20:37
Speaker 1: here and recommend you for this. So what what? What?
20:41
Speaker 1: What presented that idea? What? What made you invest in
20:43
Speaker 1: yourself like that to put a booth in they call
20:46
Speaker 1: it loop and you can look things in your house
20:48
Speaker 1: and the sound proof room. Talk about that, let people here.
20:51
Speaker 1: How you have to invest in your career for opportunities
20:54
Speaker 1: that you may they even see coming right right right, Well,
20:58
Speaker 1: you know you said it exactly correctly. You know you
21:05
Speaker 1: have to you present yourself. You you put yourself out
21:09
Speaker 1: there for opportunities. You're not you're not sure you're gonna happen.
21:12
Speaker 1: But I had actually been working as a voice over
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Speaker 1: actor a great deal, and my my I moved out
21:20
Speaker 1: to I moved like out of town a little bit,
21:25
Speaker 1: Like I'm forty five minutes from downtown where I live
21:27
Speaker 1: right now, and so it gets really hard to get
21:30
Speaker 1: to my agent's office and I thought, you know what,
21:33
Speaker 1: since I moved out here, I need to have the
21:36
Speaker 1: ability to to send stuff in via MP three and
21:39
Speaker 1: not have to to slep all the way down to
21:42
Speaker 1: UH down to Hollywood to um to get my to
21:45
Speaker 1: get my auditions in and just you know, they send
21:50
Speaker 1: me stuff and it and it works. And but you
21:53
Speaker 1: do have to invest in a good microphone and a
21:55
Speaker 1: good set up in some places where and find a
21:57
Speaker 1: place that's quiet in your house and make sure that
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Speaker 1: that place stays quiet and then sound proofn blah blah
22:03
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, bah blah blah blah. So yeah,
22:07
Speaker 1: it became a necessity for me because of hers. First
22:10
Speaker 1: of all, because my location, but also it's a business move.
22:14
Speaker 1: But before we go, I want to talk about a
22:16
Speaker 1: balanced life. You're a native of Pittsburgh, your happy mare,
22:20
Speaker 1: and you have two beautiful daughters. How have you been
22:22
Speaker 1: able to balance all that over the years? You know,
22:24
Speaker 1: because like I said, there have been peaks and valleys
22:26
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of uncertainty and you still have
22:29
Speaker 1: you happily married and you have two beautiful daughters. How
22:32
Speaker 1: have you been able to balance that? I've been married
22:34
Speaker 1: for twenty five years and uh, you know, yeah, I Uh,
22:41
Speaker 1: I was gonna say blame, but I really, you know,
22:44
Speaker 1: like my wife is the one who really helps me
22:47
Speaker 1: out there. She'll she'll you know, she'll get me there,
22:51
Speaker 1: she'll get me going, She'll get me understanding that you know,
22:54
Speaker 1: we need to take a vacation and we need to
22:56
Speaker 1: do this, and we need to do that. And you know,
22:58
Speaker 1: I just say yes year because she's almost n right,
23:03
Speaker 1: So you know it's uh, it's you know, it's all
23:09
Speaker 1: about her, and I really try and keep that, keep
23:12
Speaker 1: that relationship going. You know, twenty five years is a
23:15
Speaker 1: long time, especially in Hollywood. That's like that's like seventy
23:18
Speaker 1: five years after the world. You know, I want to say,
23:21
Speaker 1: I want to follow up on that because Hollywood, unlike
23:25
Speaker 1: any other business, is driven on fear because you know,
23:28
Speaker 1: you just never know when you might miss. It kind
23:31
Speaker 1: of holds you hostage because you leave town, you you
23:34
Speaker 1: feel you might miss an audition, you know, relationship or
23:38
Speaker 1: being somewhere. So you always on that little rabbit, that
23:40
Speaker 1: little rabbit trail, that little rabbit trail for opportunities and
23:43
Speaker 1: then leading that and I did that. I'm willing to
23:46
Speaker 1: tell anybody. I did that far too long, but a
23:49
Speaker 1: lot of success came out way, don't get me wrong.
23:51
Speaker 1: But I also know that I could have done it differently.
23:54
Speaker 1: I could. I could have done it different I could
23:56
Speaker 1: have slowed down. I could have I could have believed
23:58
Speaker 1: in myself a lot more, in the in the in
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Speaker 1: the places that put in place a lot more. And
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Speaker 1: I congratulate you, my friend. Uh, I hope that you.
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Speaker 1: We will be hearing from my own my representatives about that.
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Speaker 1: I was very sincere about that audition opportunity because I
24:12
Speaker 1: am that type of person that have opportunities for people
24:15
Speaker 1: of certain talents, and I created money making conversations to
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Speaker 1: bring to the world your type of talents. And you're
24:22
Speaker 1: respectfully saying, do you keep winning, my friend, keep doing
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Speaker 1: any things that you're doing. Bless you, brother, Thank you
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