Termite TV - Life Stories

Okay, my name is John Edwin T. People call me Jet. Like an airplane, because of my initials. I was in a band one time in north Florida called the Common Johns there were 5 of us named John and we're forced to come up with nicknames 'cause we're all named John. Any time you'd say hey john what's up, everybody'd go huh? And that means, we all came up with nicknames for each other. And mine's Jet. Actually my little brother gave it to me in a video arcade (...) WE were playing and I didn't know what to put in on the high score, everyone was putting in little cute things in with 3 letters back in the day when you could only put 3 letters in. And he said put your initials in and he started calling me Jet, I was like 12 or 13 years old. I was born in Marysville, Missouri. Don't remember anything about the place. My dad (...) in high school twice and lost by a narrow margin both times. Grew up in New Mexico, his name was Don (...) Got to meet a whole lot of interesting people but as a result of eastern New Mexico in the desert, there was only one street in our town that had trees and grass and that's where the rich people lived. So when I was a little kid we'd come down to Oklahoma to visit relatives and I thought everyone in Oklahoma was rich because they all had trees and grass. They must all be rich. It probably helped that it was right in the middle of the (...) when I was initially visiting Oklahoma. But dad died of cancer when I was about 13 years old. We packed up and moved to Beverly, actually to Texas. And kept moving around for a while. Started college when I was 16 years old at Santa Edward's University transferred to O.U. Couldn't get the fraternity life as a 16 year old being hazed, so I dropped out of school and joined the Navy for four years. When I got outta the Navy I went to work for a little place in florida called backstreet studios. Bob (...), Bob Clance and Dave (...) I made music videos and stuff like that, got into acting as a sideline. Thought I wanted to be an actor for a living. So I went back to University, discovered that I couldn't get cast. But somehow I ended up getting cast as a professional actor outside the university. SO I started pursuing that career. Said never go to California unless there's a job waiting for you there because you'll just dry up otherwise. Got a job in California, went out there to do it. For a nonprofit theatrical company. Check still bounced even though some really big wigs were living in the neighborhood there. Ya know, that's the problem with non profit. Non profit. So I came back to school, studying to get my master's in accountancy, trying to learn the business so to speak. Worked in a lot of interesting restaurants as an actor, met a lot of interesting people, all sorts of celebrities, and I've discovered the fact that celebrity doesn't mean much. No matter how famous you get you're still a person, you still have the same person and have the same person problems that people have. I'd like to say that I feel really blessed that I have the people in my life that I've got. My mother taught me early on that maintaining a sense of spirituality was really vital and necessary to have a happy life. My sister and I think were really fortunate to listen to that. My new dad was a (...) as well. Due to the fact that so many of us has such mixed up mannerisms, I now have two brothers, two sisters and it's just, ya know, the bigger the family is the happier everyone is. And, I guess the shameful part of my life is that i've been married twice. I seem to have a really bad taste in women, but fortunately I discovered that if I let friends set me up I meet really nice ones and I've met another one and her name is Myrna Helen and we're in love with each other and I've never felt this way before in my life. And believe me it can happen to you. God can reach down and touch you on the shoulder and say pay attention, this is the one. you can feel the little electric shock go as you grab each other's hand. Really fall for each other hard and know what you're gonna do for the rest of your life with each other and smile and be happy and laugh a lot and have little babies and don't let anybody tell you that you can't achieve happiness in life because they're lying. It's just not true. And I guess that's all I have to say.