- 6:10 PM, Tuesday,
February 6th, 2024:
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- Jesus is this day
really happening? Uhm.... so I guess I get
to that a bit later. First setting up the
video...
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- This is JD
Carrere, the wildly focused man I spoke about a couple
entries back. He made the trek up from Anaheim in,
like, the most rain. Well... since the last time it
was "the most rain". Let's just say this: you postpone
this meeting if you're anyone else in LA. I don't. He
doesn't. Anyone else does. Or, well, it feels like
that. What you're about to see (or be PRESENT AT
if you own a headset) is two guys meeting for the
first time with a mutual respect and by the time the
video is even uploaded we've already spent the day
scheming, writing, making the introductions, booking
the meetings. Hell, I had this edited, rendered
and uploading, intro letter written, included his
notes and he sent out 4 introductions
BEFORE NOON. It felt like I was working at Get
Shit Done Productions. But I am way ahead of
myself here. Watch/listen or be present at the
podcast... it's very cool we got the day we met
documented like this.
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- So that actually
went on another 10 minutes getting into his experience
with Katrina and othe
- r stuff so wildly
far off topic we didn't know how to end it.
Considering this upload was 46 gigs and I have to
upload that 3 times? Had to pull the rug at an
inflection point. So after this we grabbed some lunch
at Salsa and Beer and he told me about the youth
program back in New Orleans which is where is heart is
for sure. He thinks this format is the future and
wants to give those kids a leg up by learning how to
film this way now, so when they graduate they're ready
to take on the world. So awesome. He's gonna find a
way to make a week there happen and my adventures
continue...
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- ...of course in
the present, we need to get his contacts to see these
reels and how it applies to them. That was today and
as I mentioned, it has already happened with
meetings sent and as well I have my initial 20 contact
list being filtered down to their OWN meetings... I'm
honestly going to have to stop contacting new people
now because there's so much going on.
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- Of course
I would be remiss if I didn't mention that
this whole process is the anti-August. Shit, what
Randy and Brian did for me in July was the
anti-August. Oh and THAT. Fuck. I've kept that out of
the journey because it's not really settled and
I have too much inside info, but suffice to
say: CD92.9 is no more and I was almost in
Columbus filming everything this week. AHHH - off
topic. Suffice to say, it's pretty easy to see who
friends are and I keep trying to compare people
to one event, but the truth is? That event is what
stands out. If you strip away the emotion and just
state the facts in a timeline? EVERYONE falls over at
what happened in August. Everyone. JD isn't being
EXCEPTIONAL because he's being respectful... he's
being respectful. The reverse is the exception. No,
what JD does that IS exceptional is
GETS SHIT DONE. He doesn't waste time, he
doesn't make excuses, he just does it. He just proves
it.
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- We're gonna have
one helluva 2024, man. And to be able to still feel
that after the atomic BOMB dropped a couple weeks ago
is head-spinning. Oh, and can it please be Monday,
February 12th? Still getting updates from the airlines
about UPGRADING MY SEAT! Shit like that.
Like I just need to get past the goddamned Super
Bowl.
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- Man, I'm so
excited.
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- Adam
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