John Kim. The Angry Therapist. Episode 224 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What it is, Bradley back again with another episode of Dropin' Bombs today in the studio |
| 1:29.4 | I am a licensed therapist and you wrote a book that went like hog shit crazy called I used to be a miserable fuck |
| 1:37.0 | I used to be a miserable fuck true story now why is that what made you so miserable and how'd you get |
| 1:42.0 | I was unhappy I was in a dark place I was going through a divorce I didn't know who I was and I was chasing |
| 1:51.0 | so instead of attracting I was chasing after shiny things |
| 1:57.4 | and so because those things didn't come at that time it was you know cars and a house and a three-picture deal and all that stuff |
| 2:04.7 | I didn't allow myself to be happy so I was just great out miserable |
| 2:08.7 | when you say three-picture deal were you trying to be a writer screenwriter yeah so you wanted to be able to sell three screenplays |
| 2:17.0 | yeah so the three-picture deals when they give you a deal for three movies and you have your little you know |
| 2:23.5 | a office on the studio said it's that whole Hollywood thing and you make movies what's that and then you make movies sure |
| 2:29.6 | was that your dream that was my dream I went to film school and all that and I grew up in LA been in L.A. |
| 2:34.2 | says I was three and all my friends were you know blown up and and doing big things and I was I felt like the kid that got left behind |
| 2:42.2 | yeah so you know it's funny when I was a young man I always wanted to be an actor oh so I yeah so I went down to L.A. |
| 2:51.2 | there was an agency William Morris agency other big yeah so yeah I mean I had a starring role in a movie three days before production the producer son got out of a drug rehab |
| 3:01.2 | yeah and ultimately they gave him my part and so the writers which was Ken Keezy he wrote one flow over the kukus nest |
| 3:09.2 | so they wrote me a part in specially for me because basically produce came along said hey I'm taking this kid out and put my kid in |
| 3:18.2 | and so once I realize what that was I'm like so the person with the money gets to make the decisions and they're like pretty much so I'm like okay |
| 3:27.2 | let me be give me a minute I'll be back so I went to go become a millionaire I thought I'd take a year I thought I'd take a year or two |
| 3:35.2 | and you know 30 years later here I am right but I always wanted to be the the movie star yeah so you're actually you know what |
| 3:44.2 | your handsome your charismatic like I can totally see that I will let me ask you this is that something still that you have |
| 3:52.2 | a something that you've locked away that's still kind of there I'm going to do it oh shit see now that I can create a movie now I'm busy with a company |
| 3:59.2 | right so so again in the next I'd say three to five years I'm going to fund a movie oh I didn't know this and I'm going to put myself in it I won't be the star star because I'm going to hire a star |
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