on this episode of the Playbook. I have Superman. That's right, Brandon Routh. And we're going to talk about

what Superman and Templeton, Rye Whiskey, have in common. Join me for all of this and more on the Playbook.

on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host, David Meltzer.

I have a super entrepreneur. Brandon Routh, everybody knows he's an extraordinary actor,

but he's also an entrepreneur and working and helping entrepreneurs as well with Templeton

distilleries and their entrepreneur's grant program. Brandon, welcome to the Playbook.

Yeah, thanks for having me. Happy to be here.

We were talking about how circumstances change in our careers and I was looking back going,

I don't know how I've done 800 of these things and teasing you that this is editable since you're

such a consummate professional. But on the other side, I'm always amazed how many actors,

celebrities, entertainers are involved in entrepreneurship. And so my first question is,

what is it about entrepreneurship that you have a passion for because obviously acting is a

passion, you have to love it to do it. I feel the same way about entrepreneurship. What is it that

you love about entrepreneurship to get you so involved? Well, I think that first of all, my business

is my business and I am my own business and I'm the one motivating myself to do better,

to learn the skills that I need to do, to motivate myself to move out of a small town and I want

to come out here and to continue doing this in order to do that, you will have to kind of believe

in yourself. And some of that is just blind faith, I guess, to degree. So I admire anyone who has

that within them to take that chance and to see a future that isn't there, but see the potential

for it and create the path to bring that future into the real material world. And I think the

cool thing about Tempiden is yes, they're from Iowa and proud of people and businesses that are

doing good things that are coming out of Iowa. And the fact that at this time, they're investing

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