Aloha and Namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitik with John Howellman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,

featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the corridors of power in America,

sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

On Monday, we gave you part one of the Cameron Crow experience.

And today we bring you part two of our special two-part episode on Cameron Crow,

the Oscar-winning writer-director of almost famous Jerry McGuire and a whole bunch of other movies,

talking about his new memoir, The Uncool, in which he talks about the period of his life in

which he was a teenage, wonder-kind rock music journalist for Rolling Stone and a bunch of other

publications. In part two, we talk about the second track of that book, the first track really about music,

the second track really about family.

We talk about Crow's family, his experiences growing up, and how those connected to his

desire to be on the road with rock stars rather than spending a lot of time at home and his

transition out of being a music

journalist and into being a Hollywood force first with the movie Fast Times of Richmond

High, which he wrote and then his time as a director. Briefly, we touch on his work on say anything

on Jerry McGuire. And as we've been talking about

all along, his work on almost famous, the classic film that was inspired by the events

that took place in this book, The Uncool. We will get into all of that that and even more. Cameron Crow's favorite needle drops

and all kinds of other good stuff here on this all new episode of In Politics with John

Heilman that's coming at you in three, two, one. But you cannot make friends with the rock stars.

You're going to be a true journalist, no, a rock journalist. You first never get paid much.

But you will get free records from the record company.

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