All right here we go. What's up Brian? How are you? Hey good. Thanks for being here man appreciate it. Yeah, I'm psyched about it. I'm psyched about having you. Yeah, I'm now adjusting to the sound. Oh, in your ears? Yeah, my ears and is it muffled? It has it all sounding.

All right, good. All right, cool. So we were just talking about your books and I tried, let's save it. Let's save it for the podcast because I wanted it to sound fresh

I want you to reset it. So tell me about you wrote two books. I wrote two books and you know as you know I'm a you know movie writer and a movie

in television producer. To say it mildly. I mean made some fucking amazing

movies. Wow thanks. Thanks Joe. My pleasure. Yeah, and in all this, I think, you know, my whole life and whatever those stories are, the movies are and the successes I kind of think

Anyone that's really focused can can do what I do so that was kind of the end product of the first book which was it was called a curious mind the secret to a bigger life

and that book is really about I mean how much do you want to know about it?

Everything whatever you want to know about it?

Everything.

Whatever you want to tell me.

Okay. So basically I couldn't read it all in elementary school.

And it caused a lot of a lot of shame and then a lot of trauma.

Did you have dyslexia?

I had dyslexia.

Very, quite acute dyslexia.

And I think we're out in Woodland Hills, which was the fancy part of the valley.

I grew up in the flats of Sherman Oaks, actually as a little kid going to Riverside Drive Elementary School and then later to Nobel Junior High and then

later Chatsworth High School.

And in elementary school I couldn't read it all and they didn't classify it as dyslexia that it was just you're slow you're dumb you why can't you answer this is just you're

slow you're dumb you why can't you answer this and then you'd say I can't read

and then that didn't make sense.

It just didn't, none of those things computed really that somebody couldn't actually read

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