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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 15 - Tom Shadyac: The Man Who Gave Away 50 Million Dollars and Moved Into a Trailer Park

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Tom Shadyac, one of the most prolific comedy directors in Hollywood, joins The James Altucher Show. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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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