Craig Brewer
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Podcast Appearances
It really was.
That's one thing that I ā when I look back, I'm so grateful for, that I really had like a real diverse childhood, people that were working on submarines with their dads.
I'll say it, like nerds.
I was one of them.
I was always like a chubby kid, but then I discovered like Michael Jackson and me and my buddies, we like saved up on layaway at the store called Merry-Go-Round for the Michael Jackson zipper jacket that he wore and beat it.
I wore it to church and mortified my mother.
It was a time when like ā
Saturday Night Live was really big in my life.
Eddie Murphy was on it.
Prince was something that just blew me away with Purple Rain.
So all my friends were just the strangest collection of people.
But it was very much a community.
My mother was involved in ā she was on the school board.
I was in children's theater and children's theater just rescued me.
I mean I come from a sports family.
My grandfather was on the first New York Mets team and he played for the Yankees.
And then later he was a celebrity.
He was in these light beer commercials for ā where he would ā
He was at the end of ā there was a gang called the Light Beer Gang, and they argued whether light beer tastes great or was less filling.