ScamSchoolBrian

Hang on. Let me call her.

Okay. I clearly just woke her up: http://shwood.com/Reddit/mom.wav

Apparently she wants you guys to know that I'm "deep."

The hair was a weird thing: In real life, everywhere I went it made people smile. The moment I walked on a plane it made everyone happy.

But on screen, it just played differently. What read IRL as "I'm confident and friendly and can't wait to talk to you," once on-screen became "I'm loud and insecure and I'm in your face!"

So the big moment was when I realized that my day job was shifting from being onstage to on-screen. The first few years of scam school, I was a stage performer who dabbled in online video. Nowadays I'm that guy from the internet who you occasionally get to see onstage.

oh, shoot-- I hadn't even considered sneaky stuff on suits before. There's a number of simple alterations that make it possible to pull off some incredible magic tricks!

But yes: we desperately need a simple primer on fashion stuff. When we shot Hacking the System, there was like 7 people surrounding me, and not one of us knew that I was buttoning the completely wrong button on my suit.

In fact: the show made it past production and went to air with me totally revealing what a dumbass I am about wearing a suit.

ONE OF US!

Real talk: I do sometimes get super-drained. Losing my brother and having the world catch fire over the last 2 years was pretty rough. But I try to remember each morning that I'm here to serve others, and that the tally is always the same: I owe you guys everything, and the world owes me nothing.

It's a simplification of the actual quote he said, but Einstein was alleged to have been asked "what is the purpose of life?" To which he's supposed to have said "It's obvious: to serve."

Even if that never got said, I've taken the sentiment pretty seriously. If I do my job just right, I'll maybe make a dent in the universe that will echo a fair bit long after I'm gone. That'd be pretty cool.