From Homeland Security to Hollywood
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
You might know him as Uncle Louie on The Goldbergs — but Louis Gregory is also an entrepreneur, music producer, and former director at the Department of Homeland Security. Gregory joins Andrew to talk about his secret past as a rapper, the challenges of working in Customs and Border Protection, and why police training really hasn't gotten better after George Floyd.
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| 0:00.0 | For whatever reason, I learned this because at one point I had aspirations of maybe pursuing |
| 0:06.9 | leadership in politics. And I learned that it was very sad to me. There was no more middle. |
| 0:13.9 | It was, there was no more moderates. It was far left or far right. And it was very hard to |
| 0:20.0 | bring people together. And that's what really what I loved about what you were doing. And I think |
| 0:25.4 | that people in general, especially people who love America, are looking for an opportunity to |
| 0:31.6 | be part of something that's not divisive, where they can love America and they don't have to |
| 0:38.4 | pit themselves against other people in the process. |
| 0:55.8 | It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast, the man behind those custom pins, I sometimes |
| 1:09.3 | wear including the the math pin. He's been a music impressario, freaking head of law enforcement |
| 1:19.2 | and actor. You might know him as Uncle Louis from the Goldbergs. And now he's running a thriving |
| 1:25.1 | growth e-commerce business, helping people commemorate their own service. Uncle Louis himself, |
| 1:32.6 | Louis Gregory, welcome Louis. Thank you for having me, man. It's great to see you. We're always |
| 1:37.3 | talking and texting. Now I get to, I feel like I'm visiting with you. Well, I feel the same way. |
| 1:42.8 | And thank you for being such a great friend and champion over the last several years. |
| 1:48.3 | So people think I've had a very career. I mean, your career beats my insolid. And I have so |
| 1:54.8 | many questions about how the heck you've done what you've done. So you started out producing rap |
| 2:02.8 | albums in New York City in the 80s, including some household names for people of our generation. |
| 2:10.4 | Well, yes, yes, and no, I started out as a rapper. I want it to be a rapper. And |
| 2:16.6 | do you want to spit some tracks right now? I mean, you have like the gear for it. |
| 2:20.8 | Yeah, man, let's do it. You ready? Yeah, do it. My flow is detriment to the mental, like, |
| 2:25.4 | oh, two to the lung, like a crock head, be strong, like strikes to an out, because it's a title |
| 2:29.7 | about. So let's get ready to rumble. How's that? Wow, we're giving up. Now I wrote that 30 years ago. |
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