Judd Apatow

And so they treasured that stuff.

And they also thought comedians were the coolest people.

And when I said I wanted to be a comedian, you know, they were like, great.

And so if I wanted to go to an open mic at a comedy club at 17, my dad would drive me to Chuckles and then come back two hours later in the middle of the night to pick me up.

Like, they thought I would make it.

And so I think somewhere in me that gave me a lot of confidence because when I talked to them about it, it was like there was no chance that I wouldn't make it.

He was a man from the Bronx.

And after World War II, he would...

take the money from his job and hire jazz players to record songs.

He would get them printed up himself and then go to the record stores and sell them by hand.

And then at some point got hired by labels to run their jazz and blues departments.

So he was, you know, one of those people who figured out how do you record jazz?

Where do the microphones go?

You know, like he was,

A real innovator.

And he did Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie music.

Dinah Washington.

Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley.

He produced the first Janis Joplin album.

And he was a real inspiration because he was a hustler and it made me think, oh, you have to create your own path.