Ep 192 | The American Dream - Steve Mokate & Todd Terry are Living Theirs...
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shoeing the Fat Special American Dream segment today and I have two movie stars and television stars in studio in Dallas Texas here in the Mercury |
| 0:16.2 | Studios Erving Texas I have a Steve Poccan and a Todd Terry why are you laughing? We're laughing. I don't know. |
| 0:26.0 | What should I say wrong? You lost us at movie stuff. Yeah, you did. Oh, I did. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, so the reason I had you both in is really you guys are living here in in the |
| 0:36.0 | Metroplex and you're you know you're living your American dream I mean you're |
| 0:40.8 | acting in television and movies things that people see all the time and they |
| 0:46.5 | think to themselves I could do that. I could do that. And you in particular Steve are, you know, you're a man that's done a load of different characters throughout your career now, but you still hold down a regular job. That's why I thought so funny a while ago |
| 1:06.7 | when the actor got in trouble for working at Whole Foods, or he were at Trader Joe's and I thought so yeah I mean he wants the everyday |
| 1:18.3 | income and then when he can work he can work right that's I mean that's what you're |
| 1:21.6 | doing right right and most actors have a second job work. Right. Right. |
| 1:23.0 | And most actors have a second job. |
| 1:25.0 | There's like 150,000 SAG actors, Todd, something like that. |
| 1:29.7 | And the average income is under 20,000. |
| 1:31.8 | People don't realize that. not everybody is a Brad Pitt or |
| 1:34.8 | say I was gonna ask to be in one of your shows but now no yeah the average |
| 1:39.8 | actor doesn't make enough to to get by just on their acting income. That's the sad truth about it. |
| 1:45.6 | That carrot is always dangling in front of you. Right. So it's just around the corner. |
| 1:50.8 | Every time you audition, that could be the thing that allows you to quit that second job so I know I know you time you started |
| 1:59.9 | acting early on right I mean this was this has been really your life |
| 2:04.5 | uh... i know that you have you know your |
| 2:06.5 | your uh... your uh... your uh... your uh... your uh... your uh... your heart in real estate |
| 2:08.7 | yeah on the side |
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