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In 1971, a 19-year-old Irishman named William began studying physics and computer science at a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, when he was certainly smart enough to complete the four-year degree. After a year of being at school, he decided to leave school because he felt that this was not the path he wanted to follow, so he returned home to a town about 30 minutes north of Belfast, where he got a job as Forklift driver. and truck driver for the Guinness brewery and, although he loved this job, he still felt that this was not the path for him, he needed to do something more with his life and that is why he decided to follow what two of his brothers had done .

What it was like to become a school teacher, he had always admired his school teachers as a child and idolized his two brothers who had become teachers, so he felt it was the right choice, so William applied. a four-year teaching school in Newcastle in England and after being accepted, he flew to England, settled and then began his studies. The first year was great. He loved what he did. He felt like this was a perfect fit and he was getting good grades. Everything was going exactly as planned. but then second year happened and everything went off the rails, a requirement to graduate from this four year teaching school was that all aspiring teachers starting in their second year had to go teach real lessons to real students, they basically had to go to secondary and primary schools. schools and they would replace the real teacher and give a real lesson and they would be graded on their ability to do that, but all the aspiring teachers knew that when these real lessons were given to real students, what really ended up happening was that the students didn't They took the aspiring teachers, seriously, they saw them as some kind of substitute teachers, so they didn't respect them or listen to them, so typically these actual teaching sessions just devolved into the aspiring teachers desperately trying to calm the students down. his students for a long time. enough for them to listen to his lesson plan for just a second, but it usually didn't work and before long the day was over and nothing was accomplished, so in Williams' second year, when it was his turn to move up to a high level . school and manage his lesson plan, he went there knowing what he was up against.

He really didn't expect everything to go well, but he decided that he would go in there with a positive attitude and try to do the best he could, but as soon as he entered his classroom, he immediately realized that he was going to feel overwhelmed. They all stood up and talked to each other and turned around and saw William coming in and had this moment where they realized that his real teacher wasn't going to teach them that. Today is going to be this substitute William and everyone started laughing and joking happily and just turned their backs on William and kept talking to each other, so William comes in and puts his stuff on the desk and tries to get the class. to hear him saying hello everyone, come sit down, it's time to listen, I'm your new teacher for the day, but the kids just weren't listening, so finally William, who was a very big guy, he was six foot four, was in he was in great shape, he positioned himself and then he shouted to the class to sit down right now and at that moment the class turned and looked at William and sized him up and most of them decided that okay, it's time to sit down and so the 99 The class falls silent and sits down, except for one boy, it was a 15 year old boy who was at the back of the room and was standing defiantly with his arms crossed looking at William with a smile on his face and everyone at him. your surroundings. his cronies were sitting there looking at him laughing and looking at William and laughing at him knowing that a confrontation was about to ensue and then William is looking at this kid trying to get him to sit down without saying anything and this kid is just cruel assaulting him with his arms crossed and nothing happens, so William walks up to him and leans over his shoulder and says you have to go out into the hall right now, I'll meet you there and then William turned around. and started walking back to the front of the room hoping that this would have worked, that this 15 year old boy would have just followed him and walked into the hallway and that would be it, but when he turned around again, the 15 year old boy years he hadn't moved, he was still standing in the back of the classroom with his arms crossed looking at William, basically saying "do me" and at this William lost his mind, he was so angry and frustrated at how incredibly disrespectful he was being this boy and Actually, the whole class was telling him that he had just lost control and he ran up to a boy in the back of the room and got in his face and remembered that William is six foot four, a big guy and He gets right in the kid's face and he says go out in the hallway right now and this kid doesn't flinch but instead reaches into his pocket and pulls out a knife and holds it up to William and William without hesitation just finishes and punches this guy. child on the side of the head and sends him flying over a child sitting at a desk, flies over this child and collapses in a corner and then, when he gets up, he drops the knife and raises his hands and says: "He's OK, it's OK".

I'm going out of the hallway and William says for him to get out of the hallway right now, so the boy runs out of the classroom, he goes out into the hallway and the whole class is totally silent, no one wants to even look at William. Everyone just looks at their desk trying to be as quiet as possible and William returns to the front of the class and proceeds to teach the rest of the lesson as soon as the high school finds out that this would-be teacher William had basically knocked one out. of his students even though it seemed like it might have been a little deserved, they immediately told the teacher's college and the teacher's college immediately expelled William and now William is suddenly out of a job and he's kind of lost in the world again.

I don't know what he wants to do now because he had really committed to being a teacher, so he goes back home to Northern Ireland and starts thinking about "do you know what he's going to do next?" and he keeps thinking that he should do this thing that he was always interested in, but had never taken seriously because it felt too risky, but now that basically everything in his life had fallen apart, he had nothing to lose, so he decided what the hell I will do. He always wanted to do and that was act on stage, so he went and auditioned with a local theater company in Belfast.

He was accepted into the theater company and then, four years later, a Hollywood filmmaker discovered him performing on stage and cast him. him in a movie and the rest, as they say, is history. William Neeson, better known as Liam Neeson, would go on to star in dozens of great movies and television shows and is probably best known for his epic role in the film where he is this company. Operative with a particular set of

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and in this movie he punches a lot of people in the face like when he was a teacher in 1963, when Tim Dick was only 10 years old, he went to his friend's house and snuck a bottle of whiskey from one of his shelves, took it out and poured himself a glass filled to the brim with whiskey and then drank it in a big call.

Tim had grown up idolizing cowboys on television and every time he saw them they would come galloping toward him. In some town they would go to the bar and sit at the bar drinking shots of whiskey, so Tim always assumed that whiskey must be a refreshing drink. totally awesome for these guys to drink in the desert heat, but unfortunately for tim, after drinking this huge glass of whiskey, it was not refreshing, it tasted like gasoline and his chest felt like it was on fire, but instead of being put out by alcohol and waiting until he was older and older to try again, tim.

I thought you knew that the next time I drink whiskey I just need to dilute it a little bit, so for the next year, Tim continued to sneak whiskey out of his friends' cabinets and drink this watered down whiskey and then when he turned 11, his father , who he was very close to, tragically died in a car accident and Tim didn't really have a good way to cope with the pain of losing his father, so he took to drinking even more than he already was. Before long, Tim was like this kid who was basically an alcoholic but hid it really well.

He graduated from high school. He graduated from college and no one really knew that he was drinking as much as he did, but after graduating from college he started living alone. In Michigan there was no structure or person to stop Tim from going overboard with his substance abuse, so not only did his drinking get completely out of control, but he began using and selling drugs, specifically cocaine, in 1978. when Tim was 25 years old. When he and his drug dealing partner were scheduled to be involved in the biggest drug deal of their careers, they would sell about a pound and a half of cocaine to a guy named Michael Pifer and he would buy it for 42,000, which when you adjust that to inflation would be like buying it for 175,000 in 2021.

Tim and his partner were very excited about all the money they were going to make, but they were equally worried that the transaction could go wrong, so Tim decided to ease his nerves and make this a safer drug deal, decided they would do the transaction inside a public airport because Tim had seen that on TV and believed it would give them an extra layer of security, and so on. this deal is going to happen tim takes the pound and a half of cocaine, puts it inside a brown adidas gym bag and also throws a padlock with a key inside this bag, closes the zipper, gets out and throws the bag in the back of his car and drives to Kalamazoo International Airport in Michigan, when he gets there he parks in the big parking lot right outside the front doors and as soon as he's parked he goes to the back of his car and pulls this out. brown Adidas bag, he puts it over his shoulder, closes the trunk and then waits for his partner to show up a couple of minutes later, just in time, his partner pulls into the parking lot, parks nearby and then the two of them, very casually , they start walking towards the entrance doors of this airport they go up the stairs, they enter the entrance doors and as soon as they are inside, they look around and find Michael Pifer, he is standing against the wall right in the area that there was said it would be. ser and so without making any type of contact with michael tim and his partner turn the corner and go to a nearby locker room once inside tim takes the padlock out of the brown bag and then puts the bag with the drugs in it and places it inside a locker, he closes it and then uses the lock he just took out to close the glocker and then he and his partner leave the locker room, as soon as they come out to the main terminal, they start walking towards michael pifer and as they get closer and closer, the partner tim breaks off and heads to a bank on the other side of the terminal and tim continues walking until he reaches michael and then, when he reaches michael, he very discreetly hands him the key to the locker lock and tells him what number The drugs are in the locker.

Michael doesn't say anything. He takes the key and goes to the locker room. Tim turns around and approaches his teammate and sits on the bench and waits while Michael goes into the locker room. He uses the key, opens the lock, opens the locker. , he checks to make sure the drugs are still there, they are as soon as it is confirmed, he takes the bag, throws it over his shoulder and heads back to the main terminal to meet up with tim and his partner tim and his partner are sitting on the bench , they see michael coming out of the locker room and they expect michael to walk up and basically hand them a bag full of 42 thousand dollars, but instead michael walks up to them, pulls out a gun, points it at them and says i'm an officer of police, you are under arrest, it would turn out this was a sting operation, michael pifer, the undercover police officer had been following tim and his partner for months in michigan at the time, if he was caught trying to sell 650 grams or more of cocaine, there was an automatic sentence of life in prison and tim and his partner had just been arrested trying to sell over 650 grams of cocaine, etc.

Facing life in prison, Tim accepted a deal that gave him a lesser sentence in exchange for information on other drug dealers, so he would ultimately serve two years and four months in a federal penitentiary before being released.released. Tim would say that his time in prison was absolutely miserable but it was necessary, it matured him a lot and honed his sense of humor. Tim was always a very funny guy, he was always the class clown and the guy who joked, but in prison he found it a very difficult task to get these. He hardened the prisoners and the prison guards to laugh at his jokes, But eventually, with enough practice and repetition, he could make anyone in that prison laugh at him, and when he came out, he was like an incredible comedian, and so he decided, you know what, why don't I pursue a career in comedy?

Four years later, Tim Dick, better known as Tim Allen, landed the lead role in the hit television show Home Improvement and from there went on to star in dozens of more movies and television shows, but he is probably best known for his voice acting in the popular Toy Story film series, where he plays Buzz Lightyear. Today, Tim is sober and has been for decades. In 1964, during his last semester of college in Wisconsin, a 21-year-old man named Harry decided to take an acting class. He believed that an acting class would be easy and he had always been quite shy, so he thought that this class could help him overcome that, but this class ended up having a much bigger impact on Harry's life than ever before.

I could have imagined that not only did he meet his future wife in this class, but he also realized that he loved acting, something he never thought he would like and decided after college that that was what he was going to pursue and, So, after graduating, the year he and his girlfriend get married and then fly to Hollywood, California, where Harry auditions for Columbia Pictures' new talent program, which is basically a program designed to help new actors and actresses to get roles in Hollywood because it is very difficult to do so. They accepted him on this show, he signed a contract with them that pays him almost nothing and they immediately started looking for him for different roles, TV shows and movies, but no one is interested in Harry, no one, the only roles he was getting were incredibly minors and generally didn't speak, so he wasn't really advancing his career in 1966, so two years after he and his wife arrived in hollywood, harry received what seemed like his first big break, he was offered a speaking role in one movie, although it was very In a minor role, it was a 60 second part where Harry basically appeared on the screen in this hotel and started calling out to a particular guest and when he finds this guest, he walks up, gives him a piece of paper and then he leaves, so it's a forgettable scene but it's a real scene in a real movie and this was a big deal for Harry and after Harry goes to the studio and films his whole scene and it's all done, returns to the headquarters of the new talent. at Columbia Pictures and as soon as he walks in, one of the producers who was in charge of this new talent show, who apparently had already had the opportunity to see this 60-second scene in this movie that Harry was in, calls Harry and he asks him to come up to his office for a second so the couple goes up to his office, they both sit down and the guy looks at him and says look, I just have to shoot you right here, you're not going to make it in Hollywood.

You're Not Going to Be a Movie Star When Tony Curtis was told to carry groceries across this room in one of his first movies, everyone knew immediately, as he carried those groceries, that this guy, he was going to be a star. movie, could be seen in the scene. even though all he was doing was carrying the groceries and when you did your scene as the bellman walking through the hotel I just didn't see it you don't have the x factor you're not going to be a movie star for reference tony curtis The guy at What this producer was referring to was a huge movie star in the 1950s and 1960s, so Harry, after receiving this horrible comment about him, pauses for a second and then leans over the table and looks at this producer. , he narrows his eyes and says.

You know, if Tony was such a good actor, shouldn't we have believed that he was just a grocery delivery boy, not a movie star? And given this very intelligent comment from Alec, the producer fired Harry on the spot. Harry would hire similar new talent. show deal with Universal Studios, but again she couldn't get a real role to save his life and the answer she finally got was Harry, you're just not pretty enough and you're not really that talented. In the mid-1970s, Harry was in his early 30s and, although he still aspired to be an actor and wanted to be an actor, he was making almost no money acting, so he decided that instead of acting he would become a carpenter. , which would be his full-time job. even though he literally knew nothing about carpentry, just because he has an interest in carpentry, he goes to the library and checks out all these books on how to be a carpenter and for the next two weeks he studies these books and makes a couple of them. projects around his own house and he finally felt confident enough or was just desperate enough for money that he started going through his network and asking people in Hollywood if they needed any carpentry, if they needed help from a carpenter and, surprisingly, Many people accepted his offer and hired him to be their carpenter and before long Harry was nicknamed the carpenter to the stars, which was somewhat ironic because he was actually not a very good carpenter and was regularly seen at work, Literally holding a book that taught him how to be a carpenter while doing the carpentry with his other hand In 1976, Harry was a full-fledged carpenter and had been for about a year when one of his closest friends named Fred Roos who was a director casting and film The producer called him and told him that he had a unique opportunity for him now, at this point Harry was no longer looking for any more acting roles, he thought that ship had sailed even though he wished he could be an actor right now .

He had a wife, he had two kids and that's why he's thinking I have to keep doing this carpentry thing because I have to pay the bills, so he says to Fred, you know, I appreciate the offer of whatever it is, but it does have to do with by acting like you. I know I'm just not interested and Fred, who was one of the few people in Hollywood who fundamentally believed that Harry was destined to be a star, told Harry that no, no, this is different, it's not just going out and trying the paper and I hope for the best, this is like putting yourself in a good position and maybe someone will find out that you are as talented as you really are, so Harry says okay, tell me about this opportunity, you know I'm interested and Fred explained to him that this existed. really talented and eccentric film director who was trying to cast an upcoming movie and the way he did it was a little strange, instead of each of the actors and actresses showing up and auditioning individually for their roles, He would group together batches of actors and actresses and have them audition as a group because that way he could tell if there was chemistry between some of the actors and actresses and he could gauge their individual talent, so he already had all of these groups planned, except for one of the Al group was missing a male actor, someone had dropped out at the last minute and was not going to be there on the day of the audition, so when Fred Roose found out that this director was going to be short, he immediately contacted this person.

I said to the director: Hey, I've got your guy, there's this guy, Harry, he's acted a little bit, he's incredibly talented, you've got to give him a chance, you know, at the very least, he can get in there and he can at least read the lines and I'm going to help you do this audition, but I know he's available that day and I know he'd love to help, so this director says to Fred, okay, thanks, I'd love for you to come, but I'm stressing him out because he's not auditioning for none. For part of this movie, I won't bring any people in and will only include them.

It takes me a long time to find people I want to audition for and he's not one of them, he's just there to facilitate the audition that he's just going to do. He read the lines so the other people in his group could audition, and after Fred stopped explaining this situation, Harry was actually a little upset, he was upset because Fred had basically already volunteered him and so So much so, I couldn't even say no without doing it. Fred looks bad and didn't like the idea that this was basically a waste of time. They were asking him to read the lines but he didn't even try, so how was this even a chance?, but Fred told him to look at the worst case scenario.

Some pretty powerful people in Hollywood, this director is very important, the people there are going to do big business in Hollywood, so you will meet them and maybe they will recognize your talent or maybe you will get new clients for your carpentry business, so it doesn't matter . what you get is some of that, so finally Harry says okay, I'll go do this and then Harry goes to this audition, he's handed the script and he's repeatedly reminded not to try to audition, not to try to act, just read the lines. . I don't care if you're monotonous, you're just reading these lines because you're not auditioning everyone else, you're not, it's so clear and Harry says yeah, I get it, I'm just reading the lines and then Harry sits down. and he starts reading the lines and he's trying to do what he was told to do, but the way he really felt and his real personality started to leak out, he started to come off as a really grumpy, sarcastic guy who just didn't care about anyone .

There he was totally bitter about being in the situation he found himself in and apparently this is exactly what the director was looking for in one of the characters he was trying to cast, that happy-go-lucky bully alpha male type who just doesn't care about anyone. and over the course of the day, as he reads the script over and over again, not caring at all how he performs, he just reads these lines and being himself, he was actually doing this incredible job playing one of the characters. And then they let Harry go all day, no one told him that they were looking at him as a potential character, and then at the end of the day when Harry was about to throw the script in the trash and leave the movie without talking to anyone . the director better known as george lucas approaches harry better known as harrison ford and says wait a minute, i was wrong you are perfect for this movie star wars you need to play han solo so harrison ford said okay, i will play han solo and that role as han only propelled harrison ford to the mega star we know him as today a few years after harrison had starred in star wars and was a top

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, he was in a hollywood studio in one of his restaurants when one of The waiters came to him with the silver tray and on this silver tray there was a single business card, so Harrison walks over and takes the business card.

The waiter walks away and looks at the card and on it is handwritten the phrase I missed. my bet and he turned the card over and it was the name of that producer from the talent show who had called Harry into his office and told him you're never going to make it in Hollywood and you're fired, it was that guy and apparently there was sent the waiter to make amends because he was having lunch at the same restaurant and so Harrison would later say in interviews that at the time he received this card and until today that he was doing this interview, he said that he It was with immense pleasure that when he looked up from this business card and understood the situation, he knew that this guy was somewhere in the room.

As he looked around the room, he couldn't recognize the guy because he didn't know what he looked like. no one, so instead of wasting any more time looking for this producer, he looked at the card, threw it away and went back to lunch, so that'll be it guys, if you found the secret in today's episode, let us know in the section comments what is it. es and where you found it, so give us the timestamp and if you're the first to do it, we'll put you at the top of the comments section if you learned something from today's episode and haven't already. replace the sneaky like button dollars with stanley nichols.

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