Ep. 15 - Tom Shadyac: The Man Who Gave Away 50 Million Dollars and Moved Into a Trailer Park
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2014
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast, and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.5 | This is the James Altature Show on the Standsbury Radio Network. |
| 0:16.6 | This is James Altature with the James Altature Show, and I have a very special guest today, |
| 0:22.2 | although I feel like I always have a very special guest. |
| 0:25.1 | And my co-host today, Aaron Rabbam, Aaron, all my guests are special, wouldn't you say? |
| 0:31.9 | Absolutely. |
| 0:32.9 | This is something that I find myself kind of going on repeat mode for the Standsbury Radio |
| 0:38.5 | Show that I co-host with Porter Standsbury. |
| 0:41.4 | But the truth is, we do reach out to get the best talent that we can, but James, you |
| 0:48.7 | will have exceeded expectations. |
| 0:51.8 | Yet again, the guy that you're bringing on today, I watched his documentary probably |
| 0:57.4 | six months ago, a big Netflix guy. |
| 1:00.1 | I love documentaries, especially anything that's about growth or self-help or any of that |
| 1:04.9 | type of junk, and I say junk as in just kidding because I love that stuff. |
| 1:10.3 | And he has a great documentary out there, so won't you introduce him? |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, it's Tom Shadyak. |
| 1:18.3 | You might have heard of his name, but you've definitely heard of some of his movies if |
| 1:22.8 | not all of them. |
| 1:24.2 | So obviously he did Ace Ventura, he did Lyre Lyre, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty. |
| 1:33.2 | But we're here today. |
| 1:34.2 | We're going to talk to him about his book that's about to go into paperback, Life's Operating |
| 1:39.3 | Manual, which is also based on his documentary called I Am. |
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