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Making Lemons Out of Lemonade with Actor Kurt Yaeger

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Actor Kurt Yaeger (Sons of Anarchy) knows exactly what "Making Lemons out of Lemonade" means.  Kurt takes a difficult situation and handles it with grace. Listen up and be inspired by a true story and a true talent...Kurt Yaeger. 

Each week Hollywood’s most talented people in the entertainment industry share true, personal stories on the Story Worthy Podcast. Story Worthy celebrated 13 years of podcasting in July 2023 and has over 800 episodes recorded. Christine Blackburn is the creator, host and producer of Story Worthy, Story Smash the Storytelling Game Show, and My Life in 3 Songs exclusively on Spotify. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, my name's Kurt Yeager, and you're listening to Storyworthy.

0:14.4

Welcome to the Storyworthy podcast.

0:18.1

Here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Honest Finney.

0:30.6

Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we're coming to you from hot dog on a stick in the Glendale Gallery in Glendale, California. Only in L.A. are there, they're not just one restaurant for hot dogs. There are two or three or four, right? There's Viener Schnitzel. Right, there's Brat Brothers. There's pinks hot dogs on La Brea. There's pinks, right, the famous pinks, which is

0:55.1

good. Carnies hot dogs where Elvis Presley used to take all of his crew on the sunset strip. You know, if I worked for one of the wealthiest men in America at the time, and he took me out for hot dogs, I think I'd be a little disappointed. Yeah, I know what you're saying. You know that Carnies on Sunset Boulevard Honest, right across the street from Carnies, there's something

1:13.7

called the Sunset Tower. It's a hotel. Yes, beautiful old Art Deco building, yes. John Wayne used to stay at that hotel. He rented out the penthouse. He had a cow on the roof because he likes fresh milk. That's a true story. That's what he told people he had the cow for. But I'm willing to bet there was some other nefarious reason. He was a cow lover. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm thinking. But the reason that we're coming from hot dog and a stick is that they are very famous for those of you in the rest of the country who are unlucky enough to have them. Is they're famous for their lemonade? Oh my gosh. Finally, we get to the point. Okay, Honest is talking about lemonade. Honest is talking about hot dogs because tonight's guest Kurt Yeager, who is an actor. Right. His story is making lemons from lemonade. That's exactly right. You see how we twisted it up there? You say actor. I say BMX rider.

2:02.2

You know what that means, Honest?

2:03.4

That's a bicycle, isn't it?

2:15.1

And they do tricks. And I want to know this. What came first? The bicyclists or the actor. You know what I'm saying? Ah, well, I guess we'll find out. Yes, he does the X games and so forth. Ladies and gentlemen, here's what you can do.

2:16.2

You want to help out Storyworthy?

2:16.9

Yes, you do.

2:17.6

I know you do.

2:18.3

You love me.

2:18.9

I love you.

2:19.5

Here's what you do.

2:34.3

You go to Storyworthypod.com. Right there, right there. We've got the Amazon ad. You click on that. You shop as normal. You are supporting this podcast. Bingo. Simplest thing in the world. Don't need to say anything else. Just go to Amazon through our website. That's all we need. That's right.

2:34.7

And you can also find us on the Twitter, the Facebook, Stitcher.com.

2:48.7

That's a great place to find us. Sure. We're also, uh, we're going to go to MySpace because I think MySpace is going to come back. Do you think that's coming back? Yeah. Yeah. You know what brother? Why don't you be in charge of that?

2:49.6

Okay, okay.

2:53.8

So I'll clear away the tumble weeds and I'll start up our MySpace account.

2:54.6

Do that, would you?

2:52.3

And then... brother why don't you be in charge of that okay okay so i'll clear away the tumble weeds and i'll start up our my space account do that would you and then eventually we'll start a print magazine

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