WEBVTT - “I’M DISABLED AND TERRITORIAL ABOUT IT” 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:02.880 Hello, Hey, what's up? 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:03.680 Hi there? 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:05.479 Who's this. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:08.760 Hunter? Hunter? S? 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.360 Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Is 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.320 that Hunter? Is that Hunter S Thompson Fear and Loathing 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:16.320 in Las Vegas? That's him? 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:16.560 Right? 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:18.400 Yes? 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.280 I believe that is him. Well, I can only assume 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:23.439 I got part of my name from. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.840 There, but you never know it was him Hunter, But 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.560 now it is you. What's going on? 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:29.960 Man? 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.360 How can I get you today? What's what's happening? 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.720 Well? I guess for all that, for all the viewers 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.640 out there, my name is Hunter. I have a multitude 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:46.280 of disabilities, and for some reason, I generally like to 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.879 see myself as a more chill person. But whenever I 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.200 meet other people named Hunter or other people with disabilities, 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:58.240 I get really I can only describe it as territorial. Almost. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.840 Yeah, man, it's as uh it says, I get weirdly 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.839 territorial when I meet other disabled folks or other people 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.319 name Hunter. Now, you said territorial is the only way 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.000 to describe this. How would you describe this feeling? 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.600 Almost? I guess the part of it almost feel just 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.880 because I'm you know, I moved around military wise, I'm 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.000 so used to being like almost like one of a 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.080 kind almost, and I think like a weird, weird part 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.480 of me just has kind of like just kind of 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.640 neat on one hand to see, oh that I'm not 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:37.000 the only one out here with any particular things. But 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.400 at the same time, another part of me almost feels like, well, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.080 now I'm not special anymore, and that almost almost kind 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.200 of bumps me out a little bit. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:48.400 When you were growing up, go. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.320 Ahead, I was gonna say never never had a real 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.920 problem with any any of any of one. I just 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.280 thought it was just a weird thing that I hopefully 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.880 hold on, Like do you hear input on any sort 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.040 of growing up? I never really had this issue. I 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.040 didn't notice. This is how I more so graduated high school. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.320 Mm hmmm. How old are you now? 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:12.320 Twenty five? 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:19.280 Cool? So growing up? Like okay, so growing up, what 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.800 like did you was be it was like the identity 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:28.160 of being disabled like important to you? 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:28.280 No? 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.000 Oh, it was for the most part, like I barely 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.640 noticed it growing up. It didn't become more noticeable until 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:35.440 I got older. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.799 Okay, can I ask and you don't have to tell 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.639 me shit, but what what what is your disability? 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.880 I have cerebral palsy scoliosis, and then my doctor says 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:51.600 I might have a little bit of arthriis in my back, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:52.880 so I got to get checked up for that at 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:53.520 some point as well. 0:02:55.000 --> 0:03:00.440 And like nowadays, like you would would you consider your 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.040 disability like I would you consider it a big part 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.920 of who you are or how you define yourself or 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.400 your personality or anything like that. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.160 I think because it's at the point where I can 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.280 actually notice how it affects everything, and just how over 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.040 time this changes what I've done and how I do things. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.840 Why do you think that when you were a kid 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.720 you barely noticed it, but now at twenty five, it's 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.359 like a cornerstone of who you are? 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.480 Well, I guess because as a kid, you know you're 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.960 you just you have a lot of energy. You use it. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.680 But of course I always instead of using it to 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.000 take care of myself, I'd rad just went off and 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.720 did whatever made me happy. And I can only imagine 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.840 now a lot of that's just catching up with me. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.800 Now do you have like like how else I mean, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:58.000 aside from being disabled, Like, how else do you define yourself? 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.800 What else is important in your identity? 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:09.520 Well, identity wise, I I think it's important I guess 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.920 I mentioned I'm on the more uh quiet side initially, 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.840 but I do tend to open up as long as 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.760 someone else starts the conversation. Sure, I generally try to 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.839 be on the more friendly side of things, which is 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.960 why I find my weird I guess my weird feelings 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.200 of meeting other people's with similar ailments to be just 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:32.400 baffling to me. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:33.560 Mm hmm. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.400 This is because I never I never have the issue 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.200 with the person as a whole, like as an individual. 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.920 It's just like I can only explain it. I was like, oh, hey, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.839 I'm I'm I'm the this is this is the space 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.640 I've occupied for so long, You're you're in my space. Yeah, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.680 but again this is I don't have a problem with 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:54.719 them every normally. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.200 This is one of those I have these two these 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.919 these thoughts that you have or feelings you have that 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.320 are like guttural, and then there's a second part of you, 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.200 deeper in your brain that looks at that feeling, that 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.680 guttural feeling that you have and goes, why the fuck 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:11.880 am I feeling like this? 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.919 Oh? Exactly, no one on money. And I find it 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.560 funny because it's like, of all the things to like 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.839 have happened. Every time I meet someone similar, it's like 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.680 this is what I think, and not like oh cool, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.320 I got to meet someone else. It's my first thought of, hey, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.080 this is this is my turp? Are you coming after 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:27.479 my friends? 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:27.560 No? 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:28.640 One can't have that right. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.240 Right right right? I feel like there's a way, you know, 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.040 yeah I have. I have that too, where like you're 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.880 talking to someone and you're thinking something and you're like, well, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.680 the fuck did I think that? I should? You know? 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.840 Where's that coming from? You know? Like I but there's 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.799 I think there's a there's a power in that self 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.760 awareness that you can use, right like, because you can 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:59.000 theoretically you can, to some degree, I think, train your 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:04.320 brain to not feel certain I don't know, I'm I 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.840 Actually this is something I have thought about a while, 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.600 Like can you train your brain against these certain guttural feelings? 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.240 You can try. You can definitely, like have be be 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.800 mindful of it. And every time you're talking to another 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.880 disabled person and something in your brain goes like, hey, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.360 I'm the only motherfucker with cerebral palsy on this block. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.040 All right, this person's on my turf. You gotta you 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.280 look at that thought and you're like, you know, you 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.760 understand that you do not desire for that to be 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.320 in the in the lexicon of your brain and you 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.400 and you take it and you put it away, you know, right. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.560 I think I think for me too, at least I'm 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.800 we're an up toward at least in my friend group, 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.599 Like I'm constantly joking about my own my own ailments. 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:54.200 I'm very self deprivation wise in my in my humor 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.920 love it m So it's it's enough towards like I 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.120 know this isn't really a problem, but you know that 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:09.160 it's just interesting to think. Definitely think I can definitely 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.000 train myself to not go go to that right away. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.280 Okay, I gotta ask you this. I get it. I 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.640 get where you're coming from, what the cerebral p with 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:24.320 like the you know, being territorial about disabilities. I get. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.160 I understand kind of why you might be having those thoughts, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.800 But I have I have no idea why you're territorial 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.040 about other people named Hunter. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.560 I don't know. I think part of that just comes 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.560 to at least growing up, like I was, finding at 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.120 least all the places I've lived, finding someone named Hunter 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.120 was a rare thing, and now it's becoming more common, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.840 and the more the more often I hear someone else 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.920 being called that's not me, the more like weird and confused, 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.880 but just I just get confused. And you know the 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:55.800 part of that, I think also comes back to what 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.760 golf see, I'm not I'm not as special as it 0:07:57.880 --> 0:07:58.280 used to be. 0:07:58.800 --> 0:07:59.160 Mm hmm. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.320 You know what, how actually, now that I'm thinking about 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.840 it every time, now that I'm thinking about it in 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:09.600 the two or three times in my life I've ever 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.000 met another lyle, there is a little part of my 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:19.000 brain that goes like, yeah, fuck this guy, right. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.920 And I wonder, I wonder how much of that comes 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.480 to When I was a kid, there was another person 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.680 in my kindergarten class named Hunter s And from what 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:27.680 I remember. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:29.400 I almost have wanted to kill him. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.720 I thought he was loud and obnoxiousness like I just uh. 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.240 And I wonder how much of my subconscious mind associates 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:41.920 other people with that specific Hunter, despite you know, everyone 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.760 being so different. It's like, oh, this is a far 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.679 cry from who they used to be when they were 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.760 in kindergarten. I doubt this person named Hunter I'm talking 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:49.240 to is that. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.840 And now let me ask you this has this terror, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.400 this territorial thing that goes It just goes on in 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.640 your brain, right, It's going on in your brain and 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.640 you're looking at it, and you're going, why the fuck 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.760 am I thinking like this? Has there ever been a 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:09.680 time where any of your these thoughts of territorialness have 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.360 ever creeped their way in or manifested themselves in your 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.480 words or actions to these these other people? 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.760 I want to say no, But a part of me, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:29.720 just because I'm typically shire around, you know, meeting new folks. Yeah, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.520 I wonder if to a degree that manifests itself as 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.040 almost like a standoutiousness. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.800 Mm, but I don't think so. Mm hmm. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.040 Well yeah, man, I think, but I think I would 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.679 just uh yeah. It's hard. It's hard to get your 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.960 brain to not think thoughts that you don't want it 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.440 to think. But in the brief moment, I was in 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.520 the brief moments where you do. It's like lucid dreaming, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.760 you know what I mean. Like when you when you 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.600 when you have that awareness that you're dreaming, and you 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.360 all of a sudden you could control your dreams. You 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:03.880 can kind of do that with your thoughts too, Like 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.480 you have this awareness that you're acting or thinking in 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.199 a certain way that you don't like, you can take 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.480 you can rein it in and you can go. You 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.440 know what, there's there's room in town for multiple coool 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:20.120 disabled guys named Hunter, right, And. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.680 I know at least where I grops. I'm from Washington State. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.200 It was a very communal you know, if I find 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.120 out other folks with disabilities like it is a community thing. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.320 We were all Everyone was nice, everyone was friendly. So 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:35.440 it's like, there should be no reason that this thought 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:40.040 even occurred to begin with, let alone after high school. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.520 Alternatively, you could challenge them to a duel, and that 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.199 would I don't know if that'd be healthy, but it'd 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:46.600 be sick. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.120 It would be very it would be interesting, But I 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.040 feel like I'd get more stuck on the kind of 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.320 duel and that would essentially have them be aw it 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.920 go away in boredom, because I feel like I'd get 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.520 a little too specific. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.720 All right, Let's say I'm all right. Let's say I 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.960 roll up to you and I'm Hunter, and you don't 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.600 like the sweat of my brow, and you don't like 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.320 my name, and you don't like that I'm in a wheelchair, 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.600 and you want to duel me? What what? How would you? 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.200 What would the what would the parameters of the duel be? 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.720 Oh, I guys first and foremost said, and I'd have 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.720 to find, of course, something that works for the both 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.400 of us and both of our ailments, because you know, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.840 I want this to be a fear duel, and now 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.880 a do I consipally want to because I'm while I'm 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.800 han some issues walking, I'm still not wheelchair bount yet, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.000 so I'd want to make sure to establish some fear ground. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.400 But ideally we'd find something that we both can we 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:57.520 could both do to a healthy and skillful enough degree 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.199 to where it doesn't come off as a one sided duel, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.440 you know, because I imagine if we're gonna have a duel, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.319 you know, it's gonna be like an old, old Wild 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.880 West movie. There's gonna be a lot of onlookers. Everyone's 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.040 coming to the center of town ready to watch watch 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.640 everything just go down. So I hopefully find time that 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.040 we're both good enough at so we don't quite embarrass 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.200 ourselves in front of everyone else. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.480 Do you if you're in a wheelchair, can you ride 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:22.960 a horse? 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.199 You know, I has a good question because I me 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.960 me personally, I've been fortunate enough to where I, like 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:36.000 I said, only only recently have I really struggled with walking. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.040 And I think that's more from the scholistice of anything. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:44.480 But I do remember seeing this gentleman on TikTok whose 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.800 sister tends to get him a lot of gifts that 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:53.000 don't quite fit him and his disability. So I know 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.600 and wanted the TikTok. She put her brother on a 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.920 bike and it just kind of fell over with him 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.880 on it. I imagine with a lot of upper body strengths, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.720 you'd probably be able to hang on to the horse, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.560 but I don't think you'd be able to get a 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.960 good I guess, like a kicken to push the horse forward. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.480 You know, So jousting is out if you were to 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.760 all right, let me I'll phrase you this before we go. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:17.600 What's your name again? 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:17.960 Hunter? 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:23.280 Hunter? If you could pick, what would you pick as 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.320 the as the dueling activity. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.080 It's gotta be. I feel like there's gotta be a 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.679 spectacle to it for sure. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.760 Right, you just want to do chest. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.040 I generally if we can put on a bunch of 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.400 suits of armor and fight with swords or poss some hands, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.520 like I feel like that'd probably be the way to go. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.199 Let me know if you do this, because I want to, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.160 I want to m see it. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.000 I will keep you posted. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.680 Good sir, Hunter, thanks for talking about I hope this 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:57.600 conversation was of of any remote kind of sort of 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.880 minuscule amount of good for you. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.280 Oh no, it's saying fantastica. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.040 I appreciate a lot. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:04.680 Think you get there. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:05.959 Anything else you want to say to the people of 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.040 the computer before we go. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.280 Hunter, I guess, I guess. I hope everyone else is 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.400 enjoying them some timing, and I say, and also of 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.400 things to be all dark, things will get better. I've 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.960 hand many on and off in the last two years. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.840 You folks can get through it. You'll have yourself in 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:25.240 my sight. 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:31.880 Thank you, Hunter, Take care, take care. If there are 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.760 any liles out there who would be willing to accept 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:43.080 my challenge of fighting to the death with shotguns, let 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:43.320 me know. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:48.680 Hello. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.320 It's your name, partner, my Corey. It says here you 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.040 texted me saying I used to work for Paul Rudd 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.480 and now I can't stand the guy. 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.360 Yeah, yeah, dude. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.280 Off, all right, you know this is the the tell 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.360 all is this the first? This is some real this 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.240 is a hot goss that you're about to drop on 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.920 the Therapy Gecko show. I don't know if I want 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.000 to m Z knocking down my door, but fuck. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.080 It, I signed an NDA, but you know, enough times 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.520 past I wonder, I wonder. 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.880 I for okay, I think we're good. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.160 So I worked on a I worked on a show 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.440 with him. The show was called The Shrink next Door. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.520 In my job, I was a production secretary, which is 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:43.320 a production office position. Basically, you're like the lackeys of 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.720 the producers. If like the producer wants you to get 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.720 something done, like hire a vendor to do X. I'm 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.440 just the guy who communicates with a vendor and gets 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.920 things done. And we were shooting in Los Angeles. Paul 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.880 Rudd lives in New York. He's from New York. He's 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:04.080 a New York guy, right. So my job, I was 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.520 assigned the job of helping Paul Rudd find a home 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.000 in Los Angeles for him to stay for like six 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.600 months for the duration of the shoot because he wanted 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.600 like a home home, so I had to I had 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.080 to help him find the home home. So what I 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.040 did was I reached out to realtors and I would 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.000 get the best properties they had in the budget. I 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.120 found out what his budget was for months, and it's 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.160 not his money. He's spending productions paying for him to 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.360 come out, because you know, it kind of makes sense. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.120 If you're making the guy come live somewhere to shoot, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.840 you might as well pay for his home. So his 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.160 budget was crazy. And this was back in like twenty 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.960 twenty one, so it was like in the middle of 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.280 the pandemic, so it was tough. I had to like 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.000 find realtors I could work with, so I had a 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:49.760 bunch of properties. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.920 I like it. Let me ask you, Let me ask 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.600 you something this real. What's your name again? 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.280 My name's Corey. Are you for a while, so if 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:58.760 I need to speed it up? Please? 0:16:58.920 --> 0:16:59.160 Are you? 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.920 Are you? Are you sure you're well? 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:02.040 No? 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.480 This is all Look, here's the thing. This is all 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.600 fascinating information for me. But are you sure you're allowed 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:09.560 to tell us all this? 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.840 I think the NBA I signed pertains to the pertains 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.520 to the content of the product, which has already been released, 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.240 so like I couldn't tell I had access to scripts. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.280 I couldn't tell you before it was released what was 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.320 in the scripts? My guess Okay, all right, this is 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:30.959 a good question. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.320 I guess. I want to make sure that nobody's gonna 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.639 I want to make sure that Paul Rudd's not gonna 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.280 fucking snipe you while you're on the phone with me. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.320 This is a good point. I'll avoid numbers going forward. Paul, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.600 I have if you hear this, I have respect for 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.680 you in your position. You ticks me off a little bit, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:48.160 but you know. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.640 I thought you well, I thought you hate Okay, let's 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:52.400 let's keep going because I thought you hated the guy. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:53.239 I want to hear about this. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.119 Oh okay, so okay. So he pissed me off, and 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.040 then the same year he pisses me off, he becomes 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.239 like this guy alive. And that's the thing, like like 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.159 he like the guy's always been popular since he's been 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.200 a movie star. But then like this year he exploded, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.560 of course when he pisses me off. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.000 So like, why did he piss you off? 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.800 Okay, okay, okay, okay. So like basically I had to 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.840 do like my whole job transition from being a production 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.919 secretary to being Paul Rudd's realtor basically finding him. I 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.719 was in contact with multiple realtors, multiple properties, sending him 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:31.679 to the properties making spreadsheets and I finally like, narrow it 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.359 down to like four properties. I went to twelve properties. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.760 He wanted me to be a videographer for him. Video 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:40.640 all the properties, edit the videos down to like four minutes, synopsises, 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.440 and narrate, so like this was my whole job was falling. Finally, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.200 Paul read a home for two weeks and he needed 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.520 to move in. I had two weeks to find the 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:49.960 home and need to move in in two weeks, like 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.560 things needed to move. This was hard. So the work 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.160 was laborious, difficult and frustrating, and the communication from him 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:02.320 was very poor, and like, we get close to locking 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.360 in one place, and like I thought we had it, 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:05.920 and then all of a sudden, he's like, I don't 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:07.840 like the vibe at this place, so we're changing it up. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.560 So we changed it up. And I was like, I 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:11.679 was a good sport. That was a good sport. I 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.200 find this, I find a place. It's Gerard Butler's home. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:22.200 I might be sharing too much again, are. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.200 You are you sure? Are you whatever? 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:27.560 Man, We'll go with it. We'll go with it. Lord, Paul, 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:32.880 I'm sorry, you know we're good, but moving forward. Yeah, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.200 we get Gerard Butler's home, I do video tours with it. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.760 We we settle on it. Good done, deal, deal is signed, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.159 and then he obviously is like, wait, Core, are you 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.480 free for more work? I was like, okay, okay, I 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.200 think I should probably get back to the production stuff. 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.199 But you know, it's Paul read I'll do. I'll do 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:50.399 what he wants me to do. He's like, can you 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.440 make me a home gym in Gerard Butler's home? And 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.600 this is like again at the start of the pandemic context, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.520 it's in Los Angeles, Like everyone's trying to make a 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.000 home gym now because no one wants to go to 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:01.399 the gym. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.879 This this this this making a home gym? Is this 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.119 like an extra thing on top of what you already 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:08.040 get paid from the production. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.680 No, I would still even be doing a production secretary, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:15.320 but I'm hired by a production company that is making 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.199 something that Paul Rudd is an executive producer for. So 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.520 in the structure of things, like I kind of work 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.240 for Paul Rudd, like his assistant should be doing this job. 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.800 But because the indirect way I worked for him and 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.760