It's just turning into like my confessional, isn't it like those things of those shows where like and then the person talks off camera to somebody and comments on their life. I'm James Juniors, is trifty plus, not live, and I'm coming to you again here on another Monday. I'm doing better this money than I was last money. Thank everybody for your kind words and supports through that tough time remembrance and being without the rest of the week continued that a
little bit without my stepdad. It was his birthday and he wasn't here. First time he's not here, So it's there were stages of grief that was very emotional last week, as you saw on the show here. Thank you for allowing me to do that and share that with you. But we're doing better this week and we got through it. Unless you do just get through it, you experience the emotions, you get through it. This weekend was good. I had some some fun time, some worktime. I'm finally feeling
like I'm really getting organized in my professional life and personal life. Today. I have a new book out, The Manthiana Streets. It's really good. Check it out. It's a mystery I've been working on music. I have some new music coming out for some of my artists in the next couple of months, and we're gonna my own albums and stuff, and we're gonna be very creative. I have some more audio dramas about to drop and those are
previously recorded, you know, from last year. And but my creative Jesus I can feel are flowing in terms of mind to write something new, but I decide I still want to finish all the old stuff, get it up and out, and hopefully the strikes will be over and we can go from there. But it's just it's just these strikes are just and it strikes are talking about of course on the w GA, the writers and the sagapp of the actors. It's just regret this point, heading towards one hundred and twenty
eights, you know, heading towards several weeks. I mean, for the actors, this is ridiculous and shutting down on Hollywood basically, it's just ridiculous. But I'm a Satiday with them. But I'm working on the jobs and things, and I just want to give a special special thank you to the folks who I had my first fundraising telethon a little mini one on Friday. I need I needed a goal of a couple hundred dollars to do some projects, and we hit it. We like literally hit it by a few dollars
over. So I thank you everybody contributed. I gave way two for one zoom things, so people have some free zooms coming up in there in their system, so thank you for that. And some just gave to give, so thank you. Those projects have been funded, and so there are music projects and so you will know more as they come out. I'll let you know exactly who you are and what you what you funded towards. So thank you. It costs money to produce albums and put stuff out and all that
stuff. Everything costs monthing everything, and so thank you so much. I wanted to keep I wanted to stay on track for a couple of things and real too. And also it helps my artists feel excited. It helps me feel like I'm doing something that's that's that's meaningful, and I'm a going to stay on my schedule because I've been sacrificing a lot to help everybody else. And you know, you have to learn you can, you can ask for help, You ask for all time. And for me, I'm asking for
help and I'm actually giving you something in return. So it's like I'm not just asking for the take take take, I'm actually giving you all kinds of content in exchange for what I mean I have. So I mean I'm doing some wady for things. It's not even funny, right, And I want to thank again. Even on here are my Patreon ears. I saw one increased her membership, so thank you very much. You mean getting more stuff. I put stuff on there every day. I have so much stuff my
patreon patreon dot com slash James, you should join. We have a dollar tier. There's one four dollars a month. If you don't want to spend all the money or you're not sure about subscriptions. A dollar a month, and I have so much for a dollar a month, like you get so much stuff. Then I have five dollars, ten, fifteen, ten dollars or twenty dollars. So but the ones that were my twenty and ten dollars,
I love you guys so much, thank you. But the ones that are one in five, I love you g because you know I said one hundred, one hundred, one dollars one hundred dollars and five dollars. I mean it all, it all adds up, it all adds up, and I just appreciate you guys so much. I can't believe we're at the end of almost the end of August. I don't even know where everybody went. And I'm working on September and figuring out what's having. In September, I
asked some decisions to make for October and November. December. I got some offers to do some work which I said yes, and things in January, February, March of next year. Already very excited. My weight lost journey has been wonderful, I said, I've lost over last It's been a month now, a month, a month of As of today, it's been a month. I started this journey. I lost seven pounds. But that's not even the parts because I plateau last weeken I got a little down like plateau.
That's not even who cares. The thing is, my clothes are fitting differently. I feel like my faces is starting to go down, like it's gonna get a little smaller again. I had to face my face next. I was getting big. I'm looking at older pictures, going okay, it's going to happen. But shirts like this I couldn't fit. They're starting to fit now, they're fitting me differently. I'm having more energy. I'm sleeping very well. I mean I have nothing. I mean things like that.
It's very interesting this whole journey. Working on a treadmill. I'm walking longer. I'm trying to get this weight off me because I think the weight is the part that hurts my makes my lower back hurt, my hips hurt, and things like that. So and I'm taking more organizing jobs, working more in the in the garden. So I'm doing active active active, active active. And I've been really watching what I eat. I really have. I've
been watching what I eat almost applied to my detriment. I'm trying to I let lucay once in a while, but I've been really just I'm very focused on this. I want to lose one hundred pounds by next year, so when meeting next birthday, not by December January, but like by next mark, next May. And I think, you know, I can do it. I think I can do it. I don't think it's a problem with that. I can do it. To me focusing on that, and so it's been fun. It's been it's been eye opening for me to do this
because I'm really focused. I have my food journal. We're saying, I'm almost it's the first month and someone's actually I'm ending it. I didn't plan this. It's actually ending on today wherever I have for dinner next that's the last entry. I can't believe it. It's I can't believe it. So very roy can. I have a new book. Also, I also I'm gonna show you guys something also awesome. It's my new book. I used to my next flu journal, good things kind of those who hustle. I
love it, and so I'm using this next. So I'm very excited to do that. Yes, let's be good and I will kind of im find makes all kind of all kinds of stuff I am finding that goes in there. So I was like, I'm getting some stuff separated that goes in there. I gonna do work where I'm talking to guys. Okay, let me, but I want to show you something too. So I think it's really cool thinking of anniversaries and things. So sixteen years ago, I was at
a dinner party and I was actually I was at dinner party. I want to take these out. I was at dinner party and I uh, and my life was changed. Just go just coming to La going to this dinner party, had a good time and went to Magic Castle, did a couple of things and so yeah, I go, oh yeah, I'm looking stuff. I look at my Magic Castle things. Anyway, and I had the best time. Now as funny as well. These couples is not together anymore. H the other one. I was sure and me and my my my
friend Michelle, my friends and my friend Shannon. I went to dinner party I want to visit and had a great time. But I ended up staying next to and talking to a woman named Shannon Speaker. She was a second ad on House. I believe that was your title, and she said, you should be on television. We were getting along laughing, and I'm like, I'm in a San Francisco working corporate job. I don't even start talking about I love TV, but be giving it's hard to do that right.
You can't get on TV because I can't. She was working on House, the number like the number one show of the bad season, where I was like a huge hit. It was in its fourth season, and she said, I get you on to tell you when you want to come down, and I'll get you on. So I did some smart I told my my bosses, I'm taking a week off. I had vacation time, so I get paid for that. Came down. I staying here at this house. I wasn't even living here yet, not funny. Didn't look like this when
I was here. And then I went I went on to the house. I was there and I'm in episode four, season four. I do have stuff a Dodtor Simpson and I bit the bug was bitten for me. So this picture I would not be here to stay with you guys. It wasn't for this picture I found the other day. And and Shannon is the third from the right, My friend Sharon, and that's her ex, my friend Steve. I don't know if he was with that person anymore. And I
mean my best friend Michelle. We had the best time. So to Shannon, Sharon all the thank you so much. I really I owe a lot of my beginnings because of you guys. Me coming down this thing, it made me go. I was already tired of the job that I had anyway, I was getting tired of it. Anyway, I was getting tired of it, but it gave me. It gave me an insight that all you could do background acting. I didn't know what that was. You could like,
you could actually do stuff. And it's the right timing. Its two thousand and seven. It was the right timing that technology was changing too, So that led me. It wasn't until two years later I moved to LA, but it was it led me in this thinking, Oh, I can go to LA. There isn't their option. I could do something. This was a lot of fun. The bug was bitten. I know I was going to do but I sign up with Virgal Talent and I was like, I'll they have some jobs for me La and the jobs I was living in
Sanson, Skis wasn't far away. So it's nothing. I don't remember when that was exactly. I got to look back into my archives and my journals and stuff, but I just know that I found that picture yesterday. I was like, that's why I'm here today in twenty twenty three talking to you. Imagine that, right, So this makes me smile. And this business is hard, and it's hard, and there's been times when I couldn't do it. There are times when I had to take care of family stuff.
There are times I take care of my other business stuff, my organizing business stuff. I at times when I had to leave town and live somewhere else in between of all this, and I thought I was gonna leave LA. I mean, there's there's I look back at my sixteen years in this business and go, wow, there's so much just happened. I have my own network now, I have several businesses. I'm really working hard and navigating this whole strike thing, which is expected. Its affected me also, and COVID
and a pandemic death caregiver, all this stuff. It's very interesting to go through all this stuff and try keep it together. But in the end, I wouldn't have me. I wouldn't haring other way. I mean, I plan to just the rest of my life, how long that is. And I am and I know that I'm one of the most fortunate people in this business to have a fan base and a follower group that enjoys my product whatever it is. I a friend that people who just like my musics and like
my books whatever. But you guys are supporting me, supporting my product, and I just and I know I keep doing this with your support, you guys lift me up every day. I see the comments. They're wonderful. And I and I said, when I've come, I said, I've needed help. You guys have come to my rescue. I can't even my colleagues. And my colleagues are they know, they're just like James. You just you live in the life, and I am I live the life. I
can't even can't complain at all. So thank you. So this week, as we take things day by day, right week by week, this week I am well and I'm doing well today. I'm James L. Junior. Fifty pluses audio and videos everywhere you want to be jail j MEDIAZ the YouTube channel like subscribing comments, and I will talk to you next week. Sure will talk to you next week prior week after it. Why don't you I'll talk to you guys,