I'm floating on the water and a kayak. The ocean is in front of me and the sun is shining on my face.

It's a beautiful Sunday and I'm reminding myself to relax. I look over at Ned. He's a friend of mine. We met a few months ago in a coffee shop.

Even though his Batman hat is giving shade to his face, I can tell he's

constantly checking his freckly arms for a sunburn. But that's not the only

thing he's thinking about. Six months ago I was in Times Square. I would have

just probably finished an audition right about now. And six months later I'm on a kayak in the middle of the ocean.

All I have to do today is keep kayaking. The world is weird man. The world is weird, man.

The world is weird is a huge understatement to what Ned has experienced in the last two years.

You're listening to millennial, a podcast about coming of age.

On this episode, how do you recover when life altering

circumstances that are out of your control

completely change the course of your reality. I've never seen Ned perform before.

Darling I know I could be so true if I had someone like you. I've never seen Ned perform before but when I find this clip of him I feel like I'm

looking into a world that I've only heard him describe the life he was living before we met.

You.

Ned will never tell you that there was one defining moment that

solidified that he was going to be an actor.

He started acting when he was 15.

Well what was your goal like when you graduated from college? What was the thing that you

wanted the most?

The first thing I wanted the most was to be able to move to New York and feel like a professional on day one even as a recent college graduate.

Did you? Yeah. You did? I don't believe you. No, I did. I don't believe you. I did.

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