Hey, uh, welcome to the show. This is Greg Fitzsimmons.

Alison Rosen. So my voice went a little high on that one. Oh, that's better. How's it going, Greg?

It's going pretty good. I am realizing that in life to compare is to despair. And I think when

you're in the entertainment industry, it's very easy to fall into the trap of looking at how

some people around you were doing and thinking, why aren't I doing as well? And then you got to stop

and go, hey, wait a minute. There are starving people who don't even get to shower and are in

war torn countries. And then I think those are the people I need to get to listen to my podcast.

Yes. Go outside. You live in beautiful Venice. Go outside. Look at the people living on the sidewalk,

Greg. Yes. Make yourself feel better. Look at the less fortunate and use them to make

yourself feel better. That's a little bit of a holiday spirit. Right. And there are there are

days where you don't have to look that hard to feel better. Like you can look at a guy at Starbucks

who's maybe got like a suitcase with him. And you're like, okay, that guy might be homeless. And

that makes you feel better about yourself. But then there's days where you look at him and you go,

yeah, but look at that full head of hair he's got. And look at that beautiful dog and my dog

died. And then you got to, you got to dig deeper. And then you got to go like, I got to get online and

look at some Pakistani kids. Right. I need to find those, those people that live in trash heaps.

That's the problem with feeling bad is that you get that first hit or rather, that's the problem with

when someone else's misfortune reminds you how good you have it. You get that first hit and then

you need something bigger. You got to feed the beast. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. You become addicted to

the misfortune of others. Yeah. That's how people become true. Good Samaritans. Right. Pity.

I mean, before long, you're out there saving people. You've saved a number of people. I've saved

three people in my life. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold on a second. I saved

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