Welcome to Why Not Me The World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.

Broadcasting from Music City, USA. Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as our guests tell us their stories.

Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry. Real life people who

will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.

Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,

and a better understanding for autism around the World. Today's guest is John from Show Boat TV.

He has a great story to tell. He works within the entertainment business. He also works with autistic people and the special needs and just the diversity that he works with is just outstanding.

So, welcome to the show. Tony, thank you so much. The

pleasure is all mine. So how long have you been doing this and how did it develop

into helping people with autism and special needs within your TV station?

I suppose we really got to go right back to the beginning because I was a mobile DJ in the

80s and 90s and I had to stop doing that I'll cut very long story very sure

okay but I had to stop that because I had a hernia and couldn't carry the equipment

round and I've always been an entertainer generally.

Okay.

So the idea of giving up my hobby and selling all my equipment and sitting down and watching Saturday night TV was just horrendous.

Sure. So I with the money that was accrued in from the sale of the equipment I bought some

video equipment, video cameras, video editing, stuff like that.

And then everybody said, oh, you've got to go from weddings now, are you?

I said, well, no, I've done 15 years worth of weddings and birthday parties and things.

I want to do something different so a drama group came to me and said let's do a film now we had no experience whatsoever with films so and it was terrible

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