Brian Smith

But I was, no, I was pretty good.

No, $200 a month for this little house.

Wow.

But...

And all my friends told me, it's such a bad area, Brian, don't go there.

And I'm this dumb Australian thinks, oh, they'll like me, I'm an Aussie, you know.

But it turned out that all the houses in that area had bars on the windows.

And, you know, the first night I was there, I bought a pizza and a bottle of wine and this big tall candle about, you know, 15 inches tall and I stuck it on a shelf and

in the living room and lit it and then you know drank some wine listened to music went to bed and the next morning I woke up in bed and everything went black and I ducked underneath oh my god the house is on fire because the candle didn't have a dish under it and I just let it burn through

Wait, it was like a real fire fire in this house?

Oh, the house was like rumbling with noise, yeah, on fire.

And I got up to the front door and I was fumbling with the lock and I couldn't get it open.

And the weirdest thing happened.

I remember slumping to the floor and I just said, oh, I'm going to die.

And this voice, this is going to be hard to believe, but this voice that just said very calmly, you haven't done enough with your life yet, Brian.

And I stood up and I worked my way all around the house, punching all the windows out with my fists and screaming out.

And eventually a workman who'd been a couple of houses down came up with a crowbar and got the bars off my bedroom.

to get out and then you know it was just one of those weird unexplainable moments for sure um all right so you you are in la i'm assuming you moved to a new place and yeah i've got a great place in santa monica

Well, the trends all came out of California.

Levi jeans, waterbeds, you know, all the surf brands and skate brands.