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welcome everybody and thanks for checking out another episode of the Celebrity Jobber Podcast. I'm Jeff ZITO Streaming on iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Wherever you listen to podcasts, please hit that subscribe button. Would love to get a five star rating out of you and please leave a review. If you wanted to check out past guests and episodes, you can do so online@celebrityjobber.com and you can also follow on Instagram celebrity_jobberpodcast. Also, the YouTube channel is at YouTube.com the Signce Celebrity Jobber. We've been doing this for going on four years now and we are talking with celebrities about their former life. Who were they before they became famous? Was it lucky? Were their parents famous? What did they do for work? I'm a big fan of the movie Super Troopers starring the Broken Lizard Comedy troupe. We're going to talk about how those guys initially got together and we're going to find out a little bit about my guest today who plays the role of State Trooper McIntyre Womack in super Troopers. And by the way, we're going to talk about Super Troopers 3, which is scheduled to hit the theaters this summer. He'll also be appearing this Saturday, February 21st at the Florida Man Games in Bradenton, Florida, which is actually right down the road from where I live. About 15 years ago I had him on my radio show and when we were off the air he told me a great story on when he was back in high school, he tripped on acid with a kid who ended up becoming a very famous news reporter. But he made me promise not not to out the guy. And to this day I've kept my promise. What would have become of this guy if it wasn't for the movie Super Troopers or the Broken Lizard Comedy troupe? What did he want to do with his life? What was his major in college? And what was his first job? And the moment that changed his life forever from the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe and State Trooper McIntyre Womack from the movie Super Troopers. Steve Lemmy is my guest this week on Celebrity Jobber the Celebrity Jobber Podcast with Jeff Zito. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, give a five star rating and leave a review. Check out all our past episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you pod. What if these celebrities weren't famous? What would they have become? What was their first job? We're about to find out. Hey Steve, how's it going man?
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It's fantastic. How are you doing?
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I'm doing great, man. I mean, this is a Big deal. You have no idea. I. You have no idea who you're talking to. I may. I may take a little credit and in kind of inventing this genre of sport maybe 15 years ago, when we held the very first Gatorlympics in Southwest Florida. So this is a very exciting topic to me.
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Oh, good. It's insane. And I. And I love it. You know, I saw it last year. They actually contacted me because the marquee event of the Florida Main Games, and this is only. This is the third year they're doing it right, was something called the Evading Arrest obstacle course. And because. Even. Because I made Super Troopers, they asked if I would introduce the event, and I couldn't do it. But I saw footage of all of the, you know, different events, and I was like, this needs to be on television somehow.
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Right?
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And so I reached back out to the creators of this of the Florida Man Games and, you know, asked if they wouldn't mind if I shot it as a pilot. Oh, you know, they. Yeah, so we're shooting it this year as a TV pilot with, like, 12 cameras, but in the process, they asked, would you like to come down and, you know, like, do something? Either be a commentator or something like that. So. So I'm gonna be a sideline reporter.
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Okay.
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With my friend. I'm bringing another one of the Super Troopers down. My friend Kevin Heffernan, Farva officer.
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Yes. A leader. A leader of cola. A goddamn leader of cola. Okay.
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That's the man.
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This. This is. You have no idea how bad timing this is for me, Steve. I'm a super fan of the Super Troopers.
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The.
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This Florida Man Games is going on right down the road from my house. I could tell you stories about when I was a younger kid at that drag strip, tripping on acid, the whole nine. And just an FYI was a long time ago, but you told me a secret about being in high school, tripping on acid with a very famous newsman. I just want you to know I never told.
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Okay?
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I never told.
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I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I still. Every now and then, I still. You know, I went on a. When we came out with. We came out with a movie, Broken Music came out with a movie called Quasi.
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Yeah.
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A couple of years ago that was on Hulu, and I went on a talk show, and they were friends of this particular reporter, and I really wanted to tell the story, but I still haven't told.
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Somehow you trusted us with this information, so we won't again. We won't. We won't. We Won't screw you over. We won't out ya. So go ahead. Sorry.
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I just want to say. But that's. That's because you're Floridian.
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Is that why?
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Code in Florida. There's a code in Florida which is, you know, snitches get stitched.
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That's right. So. So. So being a sideline reporter of the Florida Man Games is your current job. This is your latest gig. Can you get in the old way back machine and tell me a little bit about your very first job ever?
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Like, my first showbiz job or my. My first job job? I was a pizza delivery boy in New York city at age 13.
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Really? So were you delivering on a bicycle?
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No, no. Like, I was just walking.
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Okay.
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You know, the. The range. Their range wasn't too far.
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Okay.
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But. But then actually, my first professional gig came shortly after that because I was a breakdancer, you know, in the. In the 80s. It was, you know, hip hop was. Had exploded, you know, a few years before. And then flash dance came out, and all of a sudden, breakdancing was in front of everybody's eyeballs. And I fell in love with it. And so I learned how to break dance, and I was doing it on the street, and I was approached, and somebody asked if I wanted to do it for a TV commercial. And so I auditioned and I got the part. And ironically, they wanted me to look like I was in my 20s. I was, you know, 14 years old. And so they put a fake mustache on. Yeah, that seems to be my calling card, is my mustache. And. And I got paid to do it. And after that, I was like, man, I want to be in showbiz because I got paid a lot of money to break dance. And I got out of school and I got to work with two models. And so, you know, I was like, this is fantastic. So that was my first professional. Wow.
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What was the commercial for? Do you remember?
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It was for a clothing company named Bobby Brooks, but this one was going to be shown in Colombia only. So the narration is in Spanish. Bobby Brooks, linea masculinate. And it's me in the clothes breakdancing. And these two foxy lady cops come along and they bust me. They put me up against the wall. And while they're frisking me, they're like, ooh, look at these clothes. And then I spin around and I break dance my way out of.
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Is there footage. Is there footage of this anywhere or.
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No, I've got it on my phone in my favorites, because I like to tell Everybody this story and show it to them.
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Oh, man, I've never heard this story. That's incredible. The Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Zito. The Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Zito. You know what? Steve Lemmy, again, you know, a big fan of Super Troopers. I had J. Chandrasekar on this podcast. He actually, we got, we got the most downloads and the most views on tick tock and all that when talking about Super Troopers 3. And this was a couple of years ago. So Super Troopers 3, is it finished? It's ready to go in theaters this August. Tell me a little bit about
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is finished. We actually had. I wasn't there because I'm in Miami today, but we had an informal test screening last night where we showed like a long version of the movie just to see where the laughs are and where they're not. You know, sometimes you think a joke is gonna be huge and no one responds, and there's things that you didn't even plan that the audience applauds at. So we had that screening last night and it went very well. And. Yeah. So then we have a few more months to finish it, and then August is when it comes out, I believe. August 8th.
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Okay. Remember, so, I mean, you've been with these guys, the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, forever. And I, I know there's. This is great talking to you because there's your Wikipedia page. You gotta hire somebody to really, you know, you're. You're too big of a star for this Wikipedia page you have here. Just. I'm just saying. Yeah, but. But tell me a little before Broken Lizard, like, you went to high school in New York for a year, you left, you went to Colorado. What was going on with that? Did your dad have some kind of job where he had to move around?
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I grew up and I was born and raised in New York City. So I was, I was at the same school until my sophomore year. I started when I was, you know, two and a half and went, you know, my whole life. Sophomore year, I got in a little trouble, okay, at my New York, New York City high school. It's a longer story, nothing major. I. I basically bought a term paper, okay, From a catalog that I got out of the back of National Lampoon magazine, okay. And it turned out that the paper itself was fully plagiarized, so I got busted for plagiarism. And this. I went to a pretty hoity toity private school because my mom was a Spanish teacher there and I had a scholarship, okay. But they were going to kick me out and turns out the headmaster of the school really liked me. And he said, you know, we're gonna kick you out. My advice to you is withdraw so you don't get an expulsion on your transcript. And I'm on the board of trustees at this great boarding school in Colorado Springs, the Fountain Valley School. And I can just get in there. And I said, I'll take the deal. Oh, wow. I went out. I went out there for. Then my sophomore and junior year, had a great time as wonderful place. But I asked him, could I come back if I want to? And he said, yes, but you'll have to have a certain grade point average. I hit it. I hit the gpa, and I came back for my senior year. And so I graduated from my New York City.
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Okay.
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In my senior year.
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Oh, my gosh. So when did. When did Heffernan and Chandrasekar and the other Broken Lizard guys come into your life? Was that during college? Was it after college?
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In college. So I went. I went to Colgate University, and those guys were a year ahead of me, and we wound up being in the same fraternity. And actually then my junior year, Jay and Kevin started a sketch comedy group. And I, you know, the school made me audition, made everyone audition for it, just so it's, you know, it's fair play. But I auditioned, and they determined that I could play, like, the sleazy guy.
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The mustache guy. Yeah, of course.
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Yeah. And so, you know, so. And the first show we did was magic. You know, we realized we had something. And then when I got done with college, I came back to New York City. Those guys had moved to New York and were just kind of bumming around. And we decided we were going to start the sketch comedy group again in New York City. And so we went right to work. And, you know, I say this without being cheeky, the only place that would take us, because there's a bunch of guys. There were like, you know, eight guys, right? The only place that would take us was a gay cabaret club down in the Village.
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Really?
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Yeah. No one. No one. We hadn't done anything. We were 21 years old. But they. I think they thought we were a group of gay guys. So they said, okay, yeah, we'll give you Monday nights upstairs in the. In the two drink minimum room.
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Right.
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And so, you know, we were 21, and we knew all the people that had graduated, you know, two and three and four years before us. And so our very first show, we packed the place and our crowd drank them out of beer.
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Oh, wow.
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Into the show. There were empty beer bottles covering the entire surface of every table. They said, okay, we're gonna give you Saturday nights also.
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Wow.
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And so then our second show, the same thing happened. Probably all our same friends came, drank them out of beer, and then they extended us for the summer. And then after the third show, they gave us a two year contract. And that's how we kind of learned the way the industry works. You bring in the. You bring in the butts and the seat.
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Right.
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And you get more gigs.
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That's right. Celebrity Jobber. The Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Szeto. So what were you majoring in college? Number one. Number two, were your parents disappointed when you said, mom, dad, I'm dropping out and forming a sketch comedy group with my pals?
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I was a fine arts major. I was a painter.
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Okay.
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Painting major. My favorite, you know, my favorite artist was Salvador Dali. And I had. I'd come down to the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Yeah. After my freshman year and was like, I want to do that. I want to be a painter. And I still wanted to be an actor of some kind, but they were not pleased with me because, you know, my mom was a teacher. I told you, she was Spanish teacher at this hoity toity private school. My father was an immigrant who had, you know, he was a chemical engineer in Argentina. And at 30, he came to this country, didn't speak any English. And so he was told, number one, he had to learn English, number two, he had to get an American degree in chemical engineering and do the whole thing over again. Which he did. He did. He did both of those things. And then he wound up getting two masters, like one in business administration. And I can't remember what the other one was, but I think it was just Latin American affairs.
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So pretty brilliant guy.
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Brilliant guy, incredibly smart. And so when I dropped out of college, you know, he still. I'll tell you this. When they saw the first show on that Monday night in New York City, he realized I was pursuing something and everything changed again. He stopped being mad at me.
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Really?
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You go for it.
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Wow.
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You go for it.
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Wow.
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I sat next to him at the premiere of Super Troopers, and when the 20th Century Fox fanfare plays at the beginning, you know, I looked over at him and he had tears, you know, they were streaming down his cheek. That was sort of American dream.
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Yeah, absolutely. Oh, that's an amazing story. That's a fantastic story. Very cool.
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But even then, even then, he could never talk about the fact that I had dropped out of college. Right. Because he Also paid, you know, he paid like, yeah, a lot of money to send me to that college.
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What do you think he would have done? I mean, as a fine arts major, what do you think you would have done with that degree?
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I have no idea. And I thought about that, you know, when as we made a movie called Puddle Cruiser before Troopers and that didn't. Nothing happened with that. And there were times where I was like 26, 27 thinking about the fact that I didn't have a degree. I didn't have a degree anyway and what was I going to do with my life? And that was very stressful. And then we made Super Troopers and things began to look a little bit more promising.
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Celebrity Jobber the Celebrity Jobber podcast with Jeff Zito. And here you are as a sideline reporter for the Florida Man Games, which by the way, the old DeSoto Speedway that's on State Road 64 in Bradenton. I'm going to be in Phoenix this Saturday, so I'm so upset that I'm not going to be able to go out and meet you. It's right down the road. But I'm sure there will be a next time because I live right down the road from the Dolly Museum as well. So the Florida Man Games tickets available right now. I posted links on Facebook, on Twitter, on Insta already. So you can just visit my socials and you can get tickets to the Florida Man Games. Steve Lemmy, a real pleasure. Can you plug your, your social media handles as well?
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Yeah, I'm at, I'm on Instagram at Steve Underscore Lemmy. And let's see. Let me. Yeah, Florida Man Games is. Or The Florida Man Games.com is where you can get tickets. Think there's a VIP party. So if you get VIP tickets on Friday, there's a big Florida style cookout where we'll just be hanging out and socializing. That should be pretty fun.
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And that's this Friday. Oh, I can make that. I might be able to make that, Steve.
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Yeah, that's Friday. I believe it's 3 o'. Clock.
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Okay.
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And it goes. Goes into the night. That'll be fun. And yeah, so. And then Super Troopers come three comes out in August. So you know, it's. By the way, the Florida Main Games to me is like it's so perfect. It's such a great. As long as people don't bring politics into anything right anymore. It's like the Florida attitude is so great and that's what's captured Florida Main Games. It's like we're just having a good time.
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We need a break from all that crap. And, you know, here in Florida, hopefully. I can't wait to see what some of the events are like. You know, back in the day when we did the Gator Olympics, we had the toilet seat ring toss, which was like, kind of like horseshoes. We had a cigarette flick for distance. I can't wait to see what some of the events are at the Florida Man Games. Again, it's at the Freedom Factory on State Road 64 in Bradenton. Steve Lemmy from Super Troopers 3 in theaters this August. Your secret safe with me, pal. And it's been a real honor. Thanks so much.
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My pleasure. We'll be talking soon, Jeff.
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Take care. Okay, so tickets available online@thefloridamangames.com I'm so upset that I'm going to miss this. The floridamangames.com Saturday, February 21 Man, I am such a huge fan of Super Troopers. And I thought Steve Lemmy's story was just incredible. Immigrant father, I think he said he was from Colombia. Brilliant guy, very smart chemical engineer. His mother was a Spanish teacher at a very prestigious school in New York City. Steve got in trouble at that school for buying a term paper out of the back of a National Lampoon magazine. Shipped him off to some private boarding school in Colorado. Went to college at Colgate University, where he met the guys from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, Jay Chandra Sakar, Kevin Heffernan, and talked about how they got a gig at this gay cabaret in the village, and all their friends showed up, drank them out of beer, and as they say, you know, the rest was history. They ended up getting a two year contract at this place. If you want to go back and check out the episode that I had with another member of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, Jay Chandrasekar. It's actually episode number 41, a pretty long and detailed story about the. The whole Super Troopers thing and how those guys actually landed that gig, which was the life changing moment for all of them. But it's episode 41 on celebrityjobber.com with Jay Chandrasekar. And I was really moved by when Steve said they were watching the premiere of Super Troopers and he's sitting next to his dad and the 20th Century Fox theme song came on. Bump. Sorry, you know how it goes. And that song came on and he looked over and his father had tears coming from his eyes. I thought that was really, really cool. You know, like he said his father was like a really smart guy, had a degree from Columbia in chemical engineering. He moved to the States. They made him get another degree in in America for chemical engineering. So he did the whole thing over in English and then on top of that got two master's degrees. So he was kind of pissed off at his kid for saying, hey, dad, I'm dropping out of college and I'm forming a sketch comedy troupe with my buddies. You could see how the old man could be very disappointed from his kid's decision of dropping out of college to screw around with his buddies. But I think it all came full circle at that movie premiere. First job as a pizza delivery boy in New York City. But I thought the story was his first professional job. Right after the pizza gig. He's like 13. Breakdancing was huge in New York City. I know this because I also was a breakdancer and took lessons. And he was actually discovered on the street breakdancing and did a commercial for some clothing company in Colombia. And I tried searching for the footage, I can't find it. But Steve says he's got it on his phone every time he wants to tell the story. He's got a little bit of a visual aid. I thought that was awesome. If you're in the Tampa Bay area, tickets online. The floridamangames.com Saturday, February 21st this August, Super Troopers 3 hits theaters. What an incredible story from Steve Lemmy. And thank you for checking out another episode of the Celebrity Jobber podcast streaming on iHeart, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you check out podcasts. So please subscribe. Would love a five star rating and please leave a review. And of course, you could check out past guests and episodes online@celebrityjobber.com what would Steve Lemmy have done for a living with a fine arts degree? Who knows? Maybe he would have been a famous painter. But usually famous painters don't become famous until after they die. And as far as I know, Steve Lemmy is in pretty good health. You know, got a little taste of fame when he was discovered as a breakdancer. That's where it all started. It's such a great story. Anyway, thanks again for checking out another episode of the Celebrity Jobber podcast. And until next week, I'll see you then. I'm Jeff Zito.