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Greg Fitzsimmons

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

Well, that's โ€“ Tom O'Neill wrote this book.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

It took him 20 years.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

And I was his next-door neighbor for that entire time.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

And he wrote every single day.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

But he kept uncovering more and more information about it.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

So he's a perfectionist.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

That's the other guy you don't want is the perfectionist.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

The worst part is he pitched it.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

It started off as a magazine article for Premiere and they paid him to, you know, they gave him three months to write the story.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

And then he kept delaying it, delaying it.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

It was like the 50th anniversary of the murders, kept delaying it, kept and kept finding more stuff delaying.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

This went on for a year and finally they fired him.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

But he had the rights to the material.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

He took it to a major publisher and they gave him $1.3 million as an advance.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

And then over the next 10 years, he kept pushing off, handing it in.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

And then they sued him for, like you said, they gave him about half the money.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

They sued him for the money back, which he didn't have.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

He spent it all.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

Sure.

Adam Carolla Show
Greg Fitzsimmons talks Big Hogs, Quitting Sobriety, and Conjugal Visits

So now he was teaching English as a second language driving an Uber for another 10 years, and then he sold it to another publishing company.