Something that I learned early on as a kid, that, if I could be funny, if I could make people laugh, that felt good for me. Years ago I worked with a comedian named Jack Mayberry, and I think he was one of the comics that, had a record number of appearances on The Tonight Show.
He said to me, when you tell a joke, it's like giving somebody a gift. You're offering them something that, is going to be meaningful to them or feel good for them. That was something that, I learned early on. That if I could make people laugh, even sometimes even if it was at my own expense , I was creating a moment of joy or happiness for people.
That was something that just early on in my mind, linked up into my mind as something that was meaningful. My father was an incredibly talented musician. He was in big band music. He loved, Glenn Miller and all of that. So he had his own orchestra. It was the George Moyer Orchestra.
And the funny thing though, is as much as my father loved music and as talented as he was, my father never believed that he could actually make a living doing music. That was just a hobby. A real man works 40 hours a week. Real man has a regular job, a real man sacrifices and suffers doing something he doesn't love to do, but because he loves his family, he provides for his family that way.
And I saw that conflict in my father. How much he loved music, but how much he hated working. He was working for the family business. He was working for his uncle. And my father was really, really unhappy. So I saw that struggle that my father had, and I realized that, well, I didn't want to be that way in my life.
I wanted to be able to do something that I enjoy doing. And I wound up discovering his super eight millimeter movie camera. And I started making, these kind of these comedy movies, these little funny short movies. I still remember this. I think I was about 13 or 14 years old, but I, I said to my dad, I said, What do you think about me making movies?
And my father said, I think it's another one of your stupid childish ideas. And man, that seared me, at the time. So I had these two things going for him. I'm like, I don't want to wind up like you and you just told me I couldn't do something. So screw you. I'm going to go out and do it.
And that's what consistently drove me to want to be in the entertainment industry, because I was passionate about being creative. And I, wasn't gonna end up like my dad. And later on, as I graduated from college and I was out there performing, I would have these conversations with my dad. My dad said,
you got to give a deadline for yourself. You've got to give yourself a point where if. Don't make it that you just go on and you do something else. And I said, you know what point that's going to be dad? I said, that's going to be the moment where they're turning that crank, and they're lowering my casket into the ground.
And as things did kind of proceed, for me, I was at least out there making a living. And there were the times that I did have, more success than others. As I said, I had a couple of independent screenplays, produced as comedies back there on the wall. There was a little bit of it was unspoken, but there was some resentment, from my father that I was out doing these things
We worked all of that stuff out before he passed away. But that was really the driving force for me. It was that I found something creatively that I want to do. I want to be able somehow inspire people or make people feel good. And I want to be able to do it on my own terms, and I want to be able to, live my life and provide for my family. All of this is kind of the convergence of all these areas of my life relative from, being creative and video production, writing, has all kind of come together to align for me to be able to do what I'm doing now.
