Ricky Lee Travolta - Marketing Genius & America's Friend

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We're live. Okay, this is cool because I had no idea if Ricky was like Ricky Lake for a female, or Ricky Lee Travolta is a male. So I just found that out, and then I'm like, oh, could he be? Is he? Is there a relationship with the John Travolta? So of course that's the first question I asked. Hi, are you related to John Travolta? Like how I said it. And so everyone, let me just say, brave, bold, handsome, kind of bald. I can't really see. Yeah, you've got all the criteria. Uh, very handsome though. So let me introduce you guys to Ricky Lee Travolta. That's all I know about him. So Ricky, take it away.

Well, Adrian, it's so fun and exciting to be talking to you and, and to be sharing time with a live audience. And then, you know, this will get reposted, no prep needed, to last in posterity. And it's just— they call me America's friend, or a reporter once followed me around, and I represent big companies, big rock stars, big Hollywood stars, people who can afford a big price tag for Advice that Steve Jobs of Apple called me and told me I'm a marketing genius. So that kind of commands a large price tag. Yet I will stop on the street and give free advice to small business owners because I'm a nice guy and they can't afford my price tag. But I'm all about people, communities. I want everybody to succeed. I don't assist a business to put other businesses out of business. I want everybody to succeed. And so this reporter saw me doing that. He said, "Man, you're America's friend." And he put it in his article and it just kind of stuck. So I'm a friendly guy. And you started off the conversation, you said, "Okay, are you a male, female? I didn't Google you." well, obviously a male. Um, but Ricky, very unique spelling of the name. Could be female, could be male. Ricky Lake, Ricky Rocket. But the other thing you asked, my relationship to John Travolta. So for most of my life, everybody including myself— John, Joey, Ellen, Margaret, and Sam— Everybody thought I was the nephew. I was offered to play Danny Zuko in the Broadway revival of Grease in 1994, replacing Ricky Paul Golden from the soap opera who originated the role. Instead, I decided to do Tony and Tina's Wedding because I didn't— even thinking I was John Travolta's nephew— I didn't want to be the coattails guy. But here is the wow. 2023, we find out official records. My father, he's currently living as Dr. Gerald Michael Beasy, B-I-E-Z-E, one of many names. My father that created Ricky Lee Travolta. Michael Salvatore Travolta doesn't exist, nor does Dr. Gerald Michael Beasley. He was born Roland Warren Beasley Jr. My grandfather Roland Beasley Sr. faked his own death in 1958, married his own widow under up name Lawrence Ernesti. My father then becomes Lawrence Ernesti Jr. Had many, many names, Lawrence Ernesti Jr. being one of them, one of the many names. He's a convicted sex offender under— right now he's convicted under that name in Lincoln, Nebraska, but pays his brother, who was born Warren Beasy and then Kevin Ernesti, and now Dennis Beasy. His brother stays in the house because he can't— Lawrence or Gerald can't leave the state. But he's the successful businessman in Lake Oswego, Oregon, under the name Dr. Gerald Michael Beasy, or Jerry, who doesn't have a Social Security number. It's all under Roland. His, his medical license and everything, he graduated from in Illinois. And if you look at the school records, it's Roland Beasy, but he was telling everybody Gerald Beasy because they didn't check records back then. My mother, my mother didn't know. So he created Ricky Lee Travolta, telling me his name was Michael Salvatore Travolta. He's a doctor, has access to medications, has access to prescribe things. He was sexually molesting me since the age of 4 and drugging me. So sad story there, right? But 2023, we discovered— work with a great team of doctors, um, and here I am. I have this great brand, Ricky Lee Travolta. I created the fame of Otherworld Computing, a $583 million tech company. I introduced the Axiotron Modbook, the iPad before the iPad, which is why Steve Jobs called me and told me I was a marketing genius. I was the new Empire, man. For Empire today, I made them the number one flooring company in the nation in less than a year. I am considered a historic autistic success story because I'm only able to do those high-level marketing things because of the superpower of autism, as opposed to the disability aspect, which is real. Because I— the other end of the autism— I, I can put together a $100 million marketing campaign while making breakfast. My mind just works different. But executive function disorder I can not really use a cell phone. I have to have an assistant for it. And that's part of my success in business, is taking what I need in real life. I can't succeed in real life without an assistant, so I apply that to business. Teamwork. Every success I've ever had— yeah, I'm the smiley pretty face, and I used to have just this beautiful long blonde hair. Um, I had to adapt my brand. Yeah, sometimes you have the— the— you don't have what you want. I would love to have my hair, but genetic, Daddy. Yes. And, uh, and so here I am, I have this brand, Ricky Lee Travolta, and I find out it's a made-up name. But I didn't make it up, and people like me and people love me, and I've done this great stuff So I'm just honest about it. Yeah, Ricky Lee Travolta, John Travolta is an amazing guy. I actually really hope to work with him on projects in the future because I never even wanted to explore that because I didn't want to be the coattails guy. Um, Joey Travolta is a brilliant film director and works with autistic kids, and so I'm really looking forward to connecting to him. If they want to look at it that way. But I never wanted to explore that before. And so it's turning a negative into a positive, tragedy into triumph. And related to— if I could just keep babbling— related to my daddy being a sex offender. Okay, it's awful. It's awful. And it made a situation where my life I've lived with a diagnosis called dissociative identity disorder. You probably don't know what that is. It used to be called multiple personality disorder, and it doesn't mean I'm crazy. It just means Daddy did bad things. So when your hero, the man that you love, the man that you, you want to love you is violating as a 4-year-old child your mind. In order to, in order to not go crazy, you have to become someone else. And so that happened, and it's never going to go away. But by acknowledging it, I'm able to be a success. So with Other World Computing. Larry O'Connor begged and begged and begged me to come up and change not only the company brand— it was a struggling little computer company, a blip on the map. It was, uh, they joked about it, it was a computer company in a rented warehouse in a cornfield. It was in the middle of nowhere, blip on the map. And he wanted it to be a success. He wanted to compete with Steve Jobs, but he was also obsessed with the fact that he was known far and wide as Lying Larry, and he didn't like that nickname. And I was the guy who could make the company famous and could change that perception of him. And so there was all these secret meetings because he had somebody heading up their marketing and public relations and told me he didn't. So he was lying to, to, uh, Jen Schomburg. And, um, I didn't find that out until I showed up for my first day, and she's the one who answered the door. Awkward. But we have all these secret meetings, and in order for me to accept a corporate position where I'm in the office, where I'm the executive spokesperson, where I'm the number 2 guy in the company, A, I have to have part ownership of company, and B, there has to be a handshake deal where he knows I have multiple personality disorder because there's a solution to it. I had to have a private office because I'm the golden boy of the company, everybody loves me, my, my concepts, my vision is making the company untold profits. But the reality is, at some point, I'm gonna start barking like a dog or talking like a Black woman from Kentucky or maybe talking like an alien. Who knows? None of it's dangerous, but I'm gonna lose the respect of everybody in the company. And so image and branding, what I'm great at on a corporate level, celebrities, Hollywood stars, rock stars. I also do with myself. As long as I have the private office, I'm the golden boy of the company. Anything's going to happen, I'm in the office, nobody sees it. Nobody sees it, it's like it didn't happen. I come out, I'm still Ricky, and everybody's happy. So acknowledging the truth, not trying to hide that I have this because it will never go away. But, and I had the same, uh, deal with Steve Silvers, um, at Empire Today. I introduced the Axiotron Modbook, the only product in the history of Apple, uh, Macworld convention. It was like the biggest— it was almost religious, uh, of this big event every year, San Francisco, California, and Steve Jobs would unveil the latest and greatest Apple product, and all the Apple-related vendors would be there and just take over the city of San Francisco. It dominated tech headlines every year. And in the history of Macworld, only one product, one company won the best of show that wasn't Apple? The Axeton Modbook. I want to say the song, but I don't know it.

Empire.

I, I was not— I don't invent things. I, I didn't invent the, the Modbook. That was Andres Hobbs. But it would have never appeared anywhere if it hadn't been for the way I structured the marketing campaign. And that's why Steve Jobs called me personally and complimented Andres, of course. But he told me I'm a marketing genius. He said, Ricky Lee Travolta is a marketing genius. And wow, from being the little kid that my mother and her brothers and so forth called me an idiot to this day, because they've never Googled me. They don't realize what I've done because they— wow, right? And then my father had special names for me too. The most notable being defective. He would make me burn moles off my body as punishment for being defective. But Steve Jobs saw a different side of me. Steve Jobs saw a genius, and so did, um, Joel Glantz, the executive vice president of Empire Today, because David Lenowitz, billionaire venture capitalist West had taken— had bought this Chicago brand Empire Carpet because it had a really pop— a big popularity in Chicago thanks to just repeated advertising with a spokesperson known as the Empire Man, which was Lynn Haldren, who wasn't really an actor or anything. He was just— he was the scriptwriter way back in the day. They bought this ad time just for pennies. Nobody was buying ad time. They bought a ton of it and were airing their first commercial. None of the actors could get the lines right. They already paid for the screen time, for the studio time. They had to shoot. Lynn is the guy who wrote the copy, who wrote the ad. And so he was the only one who knew the lines, had to step in, and was probably the most wooden spokesperson of all time. And I loved Lynn. Oh, we were dear friends. Um, but he was the first to admit he wasn't an actor. And so when David A. Lenowitz buys this brand to take it national, nobody connects to him on a national level. They only connected to him in Chicago because you adopt something that's familiar. They were airing all these ads decade after decade. It was like your cousin, your brother. They were— Chicago was just used to it. The nation wasn't. And so the brand was not doing really well. And they tried to bring in different things. They brought in, I think it was a newscaster, female newscaster. I want to say it was Minnesota, and it didn't work. And so Joel Glantz, brilliant gentleman, senior vice president, the only guy there who dated back to when Lynn Halpert started, he said, we need something different. We need something, something different. And he went out and got me because I just stolen the thunder from Steve Jobs the year that Andres and I won the best of show at Macworld. The thing that Steve Jobs was talking about, the iPhone, that's how major I commanded tech headlines. And so Joel Glantz realized I was the guy who could do it. I also was very different than this guy. Um, I had very long blonde hair. It's all gone now. This is not me, but I had just done a modeling shoot with Fabio, so this is why he sent the picture. And so I— it was like small, medium, medium, and large. It was Fabio, who's about 6'6". He's just huge. And I'm as straight as they come. I have many gay friends, but I am straight as an arrow. But even I can recognize this man was just— he was like a statue. And then his cousin from Italy, he was like medium, um, and because we all look very, very similar, and he was the medium and I was the small, which was really hurtful to my ego because I'm 5'11", and that's not really normally regarded as small, but I was compared to— I'll have to put that back later— I was compared to Fabio. And so I just done that modeling shoot, so very different image than, uh, than this guy. And I'm a very different kind of spokesperson. Normally a spokesperson recites lines, they read the words. I'm also the guy who does it behind the scenes. I come up with the campaigns. So wow, exactly what they want— the guy who can change the industry. Well, we have to have that deal because I'm going to be in the office. I have to have a private office. So Joel knew it, and Steve Silvers, not the president, and David Lenowitz, and Steve Silvers You know, did a lot of negotiation. Steve Silvers was actually later sued for embezzlement by Empire today for like $25 million. Wow. Yeah. But back in the day, that's what it took. I had to have part ownership and we had to have this agreement that I would have a private office. And I did it. I was introduced as the new Empire man. August 18th, 2007, Wrigley Field with Lou Piniella standing by on the, you know, on the field with the Cubs. And we had Lynn go out at the first pitch, um, and, uh, and then I started doing the national media and Lynn did the local. And I just— any success I've had has been by doing things different. So I didn't invent product placement, Some, some very brilliant person did, and I stumbled into it in the early days, back when I was with Other World Computing. My friend Dan Riley, he, he is a film producer and a television producer, and my first book, My Fractured Life— ah, here we go— was optioned by Dan Riley and Peter Clark and Port McGee Pictures. To be made into a feature film. And Heath Ledger actually really wanted to star in that. And we just got the film and television rights back. So unfortunately it won't be Heath, you know, God bless his soul. It would've been a phenomenal movie with him, but I think it's gonna be a phenomenal movie with a young star of today. And that's—

So you're gonna be talking about the multiple personalities? Is that like the book is you're highlighting your life and your stories?

No, this is a fiction book. This is a fiction book. It actually helped pioneer a genre called alternate history. What Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film, that's one example of how this genre has exploded. I didn't invent it. I saw a film called Fatherland, which it made the story that the Nazis had won World War to? What would life be like in that? That's a horrible thing, but it's a great concept, the what if. And so I took it and it's an alternate history. It's just about a fictional movie star. And I loaned him some of my attributes, like he did Tony and Gina's wedding. And he had this fake series on TV, and, you know, made up for the book called Then Again. And David Bryan of Bon Jovi was going to do the score, the soundtrack for the film. And just a brilliant gentleman. When I was meeting with him, he talked about this musical he had in workshop called Memphis, and we talked about different plans for that. And lo and behold, it ends up on Broadway and wins the Tony years later. But David was going David was going to do the, the music, and one of the things he was so excited about was the opportunity to do a theme song for an '80s TV show, Then Again, within the story. Because it was— Then Again was a takeoff of 21 Jump Street, young guys playing cops. And, um, so that really excited him. And so anyway, I'm with Otherworld Computing, I'm the executive, uh, spokesperson, I'm the head of all marketing and public relations at Image. I'm the head of our Otherworld Entertainment division, working with stars from the Star Trek universe. I did a project, we brought in Chase Masterson, who played Leeta on Deep Space Nine, dear friend of mine, um, one of the most beautiful women ever, just physically, but beyond that, so talented as an actress, as a singer, but also as a business person. And she has cultivated her fame into doing something good. And that's Pop Culture Hero Coalition. And they help combat bullying and do good things like that. And I just love Chase. She's the most amazing person. And I was so honored to get to start our relationship then. And we did a film. Yesterday Was a Lie. And that was all brought about from Larry wanted to start Otherworld Entertainment as a division. And I worked with Larry, um, no, uh, Roger Adler, brilliant musician, Emmy-winning musician. Um, and we were talking to George Takei about coming on for a project and Scott Bakula and all that. And so here I am doing all that great stuff, and the book My Fractured Life had been optioned by Dan Riley and Peter Clark. And Dan was producing for E! Entertainment, producing television back then. So I'm doing things different at Other World Computing, making headlines of things. I say, hey Dan, can you put our products in the back of your shots? And he laughs at me. He says, man, Ricky, that's a great idea, but that's not how it's done. It's called product placement. And he introduces me to a product placement agent. And then I learned. So when I go over to Other World Computing— or I'm sorry, when I go over to Empire Today, I go gangbusters with it. So I make— up until that point, they were paying through the nose to advertise on everything, and I took a different approach. I made us the official flooring company of everything. And I'll cite an example: Montel Williams Show, one of the most popular shows on the air at that time, and it's daily. And so I negotiated a deal where we were the official flooring company of the Montel Williams Show. And so instead of paying through the nose for advertising, we were on the show, our logo and credits every day. In addition to that, I'm appearing on the show. In addition to that, when they would have a tragedy strike in a family, their house burns down or something, and somebody builds them a house or something, Empire Today provides the carpeting, and we get the bragging rights, the headlines. And it's all networking, it's all working this big web, not one thing at a time. And that's the autism. That's what a quote-unquote normal person can't do. So official flooring, uh, company of the Montel Williams Show. I'm also appearing on every show on HGTV, Playboy Channel, doing things with them. And I tied in a lot of celebrities. Now I'll use my little visual aid. Um, this is autographed by Danny Bonaduce and Adam Carolla, two very famous individuals that I worked with and got them affiliated tying in names, doing all these things. And the result was number one flooring company in the nation in less than a year. A normal person would have done it in 10 to 20 years. They've looked at the statistics. I was able to do it because of the superpower of autism, but I had to have that private office. Because— and here's the thing, Adrian— because if it was to be taken away, it would be— it would be abuse. It would be discrimination, because they would be knowingly violating a contract, a handshake deal, and they'll be knowingly abusing a technically disabled person. And Adrian Once the brilliant Joel Glantz, who brought me in, was forced out of the company, that's what they did. They took away my— and I achieved all this success for them knowing that I had to do it my way. They bring in a woman named Marla McKaylick and a vice president who is the best friends of Steve Silver's. Todd— at least his name was Todd Johnson. Um, and, uh, he'd never had a success in business. He'd been vice president, run companies out of business, but was best friends with people and get these jobs. And so I was ordered to achieve the same results, these, these groundbreaking, legendary results that had never been achieved I was, I was demanded that I achieved those results with other people's campaigns. I couldn't make them up. I had to. And that, that doesn't work. That's not the formula for success. You can't say, here's a can of green paint, paint the house blue. That's not logical. Um, and so that's where I always go back to: you have to be honest. When I advise a company, I advise them to always be honest and accept that the truth is the truth. I wish— I wish Daddy didn't rape me. He did. I wish I didn't have multiple personalities. It's a real pain in the butt because I've never had a successful romantic relationship. I've always dreamed of The one true love. And my babysitters— my mother didn't like me, never used the words 'I love you' or 'I'm proud of you.' My father liked me in the wrong way. So my babysitters were the TV and film. And I'm 54, you know, back in those days, every Hollywood story, everything you saw on screen, boy and girl fall in love and they stay together forever. And that's what I dreamed of. But how does a woman live with somebody who becomes other people? Because it happens. And God bless the— God bless the women who have tried. Um, and again, it's a— I have found a way to look at things differently, and I punished myself forever for not having the one true love. And then one day I decided, let's not punish Ricky, let's look at the positive. I've been fortunate to have several true loves, and, um, it started with Adina Franci. My first real true love, and I probably would have married her except my father flew out and raped me. Um, and then I, I had, um, the, uh, the wonderful Jessica Lauren Fisher, one of the most brilliant, um, singers and actresses I've ever worked with, and she could have been a star. In fact, she was up for a role on, uh, Raven-Symoné's series, uh, Raven.

Oh yes, love Raven.

And, uh, I think she would have got it if she followed my advice. She was up for the best friend, and I said, you have to stand out. If you go to that, that final callback, you're just going to blend in with every other person who is up for it because they're just looking for a type. Jessica, go in pajamas, be totally different, and make that the catch for the, the character. And she didn't do it. I think if she did, it might have been different, but it doesn't matter. It, it didn't happen. She— we did, we did a production of Bye Bye Birdie together, and I did— I was supposed to do the 2005 Broadway revival of that, and the financing went away, so didn't do that. But it's a show that I've done many, many times. I got to do it once with her. And then my, my next true love, um, Sonia— now it's Sonia Travolta, she was Sonia Rahami— and I called her my time stopper. The first time that I saw her, I was running a dance studio. Uh, yeah, the, the guy that my family call an an idiot. My, my mother and her brothers call him idiot and stupid, but Steve Jobs said he's a marketing genius. Well, I became a college dance teacher, college dance professor, at the age of 20. Um, and so I'm starting to side a little more with Steve Jobs, uh, on how to classify me. But, um, I was running a dance studio, North Shore Dance Center. It's still in existence. It's North Shore Dance and Theater now. And I started that with Arla Faye, Adina Franchi's mother, my first love. Because Adina didn't have an artistic bone in her body, hated the arts, but her mom was this brilliant choreographer and dance teacher. So she loved me, taught me to dance. Got me the job as the dance professor at the college. And then later on we had North Shore Dance Center. And so, uh, Sonia, her daughter Jessica, who I still consider mine, um, Jessica was taking lessons. And normally it was Sonia's ex-husband Samer who would come and pick her up. And one day Sonia walks in, and time stopped. Ah, but the problem— I was still being raped by my father. I had multiple personality disorder. I was drinking like a fish, because when you have that kind of emotional pain, you're doing anything to cover it up. So unfortunately, the relationship never had a chance. Um, And that was repeated again with, uh, Marie. And I'd like— I'm not going to say her last name because my father's actually issuing death threats and things, and, and she doesn't want her name known, uh, very logically. Um, but she and I have a son, and she, uh, she was the one I thought would be forever. I really did. And it was, um, it was the interference of my mother's family and, and back today, um, that caused me to be misdiagnosed for about 20 years, um, because 1 in 4 autistic people, 1 in 4 autistic men, and 1 in 3 autistic women are misdiagnosed with mental illness, usually schizophrenia. And I went to the hospital, one of the top marketing people in the, in the country, and I was unconscious. And my mother's brother, Kirk Landers, um, and I believe maybe some other members of the family— they haven't revealed who, um, they're, they're not talking to me once it was found out— um, they told the hospital while I was unconscious, yeah, Um, they told them that I was schizophrenic, and they hadn't interacted with me since I was a little kid. They were basing it all on what my father, the sex offender, was telling them to cover up why I was acting out as a kid being abused. And to this day, Kirk Landers, Mike Landers, Scott Landers, and Patricia Elizabeth Landers Beasley refuse to look at hundreds of legal documents of evidence. They refused to look at the pictures of my father from the sex offender registry that you can look up online, because as Kirk Landers put it, I don't need to look at evidence, Ricky. You're crazy. Your dad is a charming guy. Refusing to look at evidence.

Ricky, I have a couple questions. Did you, did you testify then? Were you— did you have to testify against your dad to get him in prison, to put him in prison?

Oh, there's more fun there. He's issuing death threats right now. I'm in hiding. I was advised by the Schaumburg police of Schaumburg, Illinois to go into hiding because he's actively issuing threats because the Lake Oswego police have not arrested him yet. And so I will very definitely be testifying once he is arrested. The, uh, legal process works a little slow sometimes, which is really disappointing when all I want to do is be with my kids. So I have that beautiful relationship Marie, and she— the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life, and so talented. She could have had an incredible recording career. Her voice— I, I worked with Janet Jackson early in my career. I was in, in college. I was just lucky to be on the team, and I did not head the team, but I learned from them, and we, we did the promotions for Rhythm Nation. At the time, the most Grammy nominations in history for an album. I've worked with some pretty big divas. Um, I appeared with Liza Minnelli. I didn't sing with her, I was a dancer. But, um, you know, I worked with a lot of really big people. I mean, Chase, uh, Masterson, you know her as the sci-fi goddess on TV, but you should hear her sing. She should be on Audrey. Um, they're doing a Broadway revival of Gypsy right now. She should really be in line as one of the replacements for, for the main role because she has that level of talent. But my relationship with, with Marie was destroyed, destroyed, because I was— I went to the hospital unconscious, top executive in the country, one of the top 5 in marketing, and woke up not able to wipe my own behind because they had already pumped me full of like the highest doses of antipsychotic medication, which when it was discovered what had been done, uh, Darren Coulter at Shield Health was the one who discovered it because all he did was look at the medical records. Unfortunately, when you have state doctors They can be really nice people, but then they didn't graduate at the top of the class usually. And so Dr. Rita— Ritu Talwar, for 20 years, was writing down everything I was saying, and instead of acknowledging she was doing the wrong thing, kept increasing the dosage rather than taking it away. And Darren Coulter looks at the notes. All he had to do was read them and say, oh my Lord, you've been saying the truth and they've been ignoring it. Same thing with Dr. Susan Olmich, the therapist who was treating me for those 20 years, who was listening to all this about the multiple personalities and then terminated my care illegally in HIPAA violations because it was pointed out she wasn't treating the multiple personalities. Was just telling me she was. And, um, wow. And so Darren looks at the information, and that's all it took. All it took was looking at it, and within like, I don't know, a week, suddenly I'm, I'm a normal person again. And what he said was that giving that kind of medication, super powerful, to somebody who doesn't need it It's like giving massive amounts of chemotherapy medicine to somebody without cancer. I could not wipe my own behind, literally. I couldn't work. I, I couldn't even button my shirts. And I think you see that a very different version. Yes, than that. And that's all it took was a medical practitioner looking past the symptoms, looking past what somebody had told him and looking at the actual facts. Because in terms of symptoms, an autistic person who is being raped is going to exhibit the symptoms that match schizophrenia. But if you look instead of the symptoms, you look at the cause, then you get the real result. And that's becoming a problem in our medical system because there's— things are owned by corporations now. It's just a fact. I'm, I'm not going to say good or bad, it's a fact. And we need corporations for this country, we need our economy. I love the country. I'm America's friend. I want everyone to succeed. But part of the corporate ownership of the medical system is the rules that are put in place where a doctor is given a time limit of 10 minutes or 15 minutes that they— that's all they're allowed with the patient and their notes and anything. And sometimes to do the job right needs more time. My aunt, Dr. Catherine Landers, back when she owned her own practice, it took a toll on her marriage to Kirk Landers because she would be up hours and hours and hours every night like a teacher taking homework after school. Well, she had the medical files and be sitting there in bed because she was a real doctor doing real work. And that's not to insult the, the current doctors. They're, they're real doctors. They've gone gone to medical school, but I bet they would much rather have the time to do their job right. And if you're only given 10 minutes to diagnose something and reading the notes is going to take 3 hours, that's an equation for disaster. And that's— yeah, but, um, so I lost out on my relationship with, with with Marie, and then I had one last true love, and that's my business partner, uh, Deborah Swinford. She and I own Entertainability Group together. And, um, when I was— uh, gosh, as a big strong heterosexual man who loves women, I've had things up my butt that I don't want up my butt. And so it was Daddy, um, and then an organization called Thresholds. To his, uh, social workers who were supposed to be taking care of the Druid zombie. And instead, a woman named Mary Hutchinson and her supervisor Johanna stuck things up my butt. And, uh, it was 2022. I abandoned in this just awful place in Woodstock. And my, my family, the Landers— Kirk Landers, Mike Landers, Scott Landers, my mother— uh, actually, no, Scott Landers I didn't call because he was in California. Um, so my mother Patricia Elizabeth Landers Beasley, my sister Jordana Beasley Foster, Kirk Landers, Mike Landers, and Rachel Landers, my cousin. I called all of them. I'm— I've been abandoned, and I, I've never wanted to die, never in my life. And I was— it was so bad, it was like, I, I can't live here. I, I would want to kill myself. I didn't want to kill myself, and nobody would answer the phone. And so I show up on the doorstep of Deb Swinford with my cat and said, save me. And she did. She took me in, she put me in bed, she held me, she held me for I don't know, like 2, 2 days. And she talked to me. She let me talk. And that's what I needed. And she, uh, then she said— she was my best friend for 30 years because we, uh, we met doing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I played Brick, uh, which was—

wait, I missed that part. What is the name of the book? It's not a book.

Oh, oh, oh, that was then made into a movie, uh, and then I was offered the, the part of Brick, which is the, the male lead. He's a former football player who's now an alcoholic, and, and, uh, Deb played Maggie, his wife. And I took the part. It was at the Woodstock Opera House, and I took the part because Paul Newman was my— is and always will be my favorite actor. Of all time. And he did the movie. And the Woodstock Opera House is actually where he first started his acting career. And so I was like, wow, if somebody's going to take on this challenge, I don't know if I'm worthy, but I would really like to try. And so I met, I met Deb, and we stayed, we stayed friends for, you know, 30 years. We had one divot in our relationship. And that's when her best friend, Catherine Tiffany. She's apparently always hated me. I don't know why. Apparently she hates men. I don't know. She's not invited to her own family functions. Her family won't invite her to Christmas and things, so maybe she has issues. I don't know. I've always tried to be nice to her, but she— something happened. Um, Deb and I— I was directing a production of Grease, and because Deb wanted to choreograph production of Grease, and we wanted to do something together. And, uh, some mistakes were made by some of the people on staff. Um, Deb was one of them. I made mistakes. And Kathleen Tiffany got on the phone with me and told me she was going to make up all these lies, and she did. And I lived with it because I wanted the show to go on, and I knew if I was the martyr, then the show would go on, so forth. And so Deb and I had a little divot in our relationship because she was listening to her best friend who was saying all this, these lies. But eventually we reconnected. And, and so then years later, 2022, I show up on her doorstep with the cat. She takes care of me and she says, you know what, you're brilliant. I, I visited you in California when you were working with, uh, Jerry Goldman, Chief Financial Officer of Paramount, I was kind of his protégé because I was nice to him one time. He was looking for an accounting job. I redid his resume and things because I'm just a nice guy. And so he would stop production meetings to talk to me. And I didn't know it at the time. I was just calling my, my buddy in the entertainment industry for advice. Turns out, he's stopping big-time production meetings because he likes me. And Deb saw that. She had flown out to California and she had corresponded with me when I was going across the country doing Tony and Tina's Wedding and West Side Story and all this.

I love Tony and Tina's Weddings.

Oh, we could talk forever on that. And then in California, I was also working with Ben Roth, putting down the base structure for Roth Staffing, which is now—

We only have 4 minutes, I feel bad, 4 minutes, 'cause I do have to, I have another one, meeting.

Oh, okay.

Yeah. Okay, you finish it and then let me ask you. The question I want to ask you is, what is your goal? Are you, are you coming on podcasts to help other people? Because I think that you really can help. There's not a lot of conversations around multiple personalities. And of course, I'm thinking Sybil, because that's the only one that I could think of that I know. So yeah, I'm curious what your goal is. And another question is, at Empire, when you had your own office, how did they know? I mean, you could keep you in your office, but you could walk out the door and be another personality. So how did you control that? So sorry, two questions.

By not walking out the door. By not walking out the door. The rules. Everybody follows rules. And you have to have tools. So I write myself notes so that if I become somebody else, they know how to take things over. Every phone, every computer I have has the same password so that any personality can get into it and continue working. It's acknowledging the truth. And so, you know, acknowledging the truth, um, I, I redid everything for Neurotech and Otherworld Computing and all these, redid their, their logo, um, redid their packaging. They were, they were trying to sell things in white boxes because it was free from China. And I came up with fancy, uh, fancy, um, packaging because that sells. I turned it into a present. People want to open a present. It looked like a present. And so all this has been erased from the Other World Computing, um, press room. Empire Today has erased me. They've put other people's names in the articles I'm in, yet we have the actual ones. And so that's where the truth matters, because you can lie for decades while somebody's the drooling zombie. But guess what? When Darren Coulter at Geode Health— you walk into his office, he says, wow, you might be a drooling zombie, but I recognize that you're a genius. He used the word genius. Unlocks everything. And I go through my boxes and I have the evidence that shows decades of corruption that didn't have to happen. Didn't have to happen if they just told the truth. Wow, that is your goal, is the truth matters. And just be truthful and love people and embrace people and help people. That's my message.

So I have a question for you. So I am a co-host of Debate the News True Crime. Uh, and on Chatter Social, it's a live audio, social audio video app. And, uh, and I'll talk to Joe. Joseph, I think that you would be a great guest to share your story, uh, and you know what had happened. So I will get back to you on that. You've been amazing. I hate that I have to leave. I've just been so engrossed with everything, but I'm processing it all too, and it's a wow. And one last question before we go. So you said that you, that you I, I use the word school. So when you're walking around in a neighborhood, in a community, and you see the small businesses, how exactly are you schooling the small businesses? Are you talking about how they could place their products? Or like, do you see like, okay, their marketing is off? What tips do you share?

It's listening and communicating because every company is different. So the solution to success is going to be different for everybody. I don't do a formula. I individualize. So all I do is I talk to people. I love to talk, I love to listen, and if I hear somebody say, hey, I have this problem, I can usually figure out a solution. I diagnosed my friend Barb developed pain and her doctors couldn't figure it out. I analyzed the situation, realized that she had changed where she was buying her favorite food, baby carrots, and we looked at it, it was being grown in different type of soil with a different fertilizer. Took that away, boom, the pain went away. I figured things out. That's the smart thing about autistic autism. And I'm just looking forward— I'm so glad that I have the rights back to my fractured life. Um, Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses fame, he's one of my prized clients. I've made companies famous. I still do that. I still bring on, uh, corporate clients. You can get a hold of us at idlemakers@celebrityendorsements.us. US being very key. I love the world, but right now I'm America's friend, focused on America, so we choose everything.us. idlemakers@celebrityendorsements.us. We represent companies, make them famous, and celebrities, make celebrities into celebrity brands, because that's the fun stuff for for me. I'm hanging— I'm hanging out with the rock stars and Hollywood stars I grew up idolizing. And, uh, you know, at the end of the day, shouldn't work be fun? And at the end of the day, it should be for a good purpose, which is going home to your family. So I look forward to— stop being— stop being in fear of my father and his death threats and going home to my kids. That's what I'm looking forward to.

Good. I'm going to keep you in my prayers and, and Crossing my fingers. Would I be correct if I said— if I asked this question, Ricky, are you considered a savant?

I am. The term idiot savant is very applicable because I am a savant. I am— like I said, I didn't do the comparison, but they compare me to Mozart in terms of my marketing. Mozart— I wish I could write songs like him. I've had a few albums and they're not Mozart, but I will tell you Mozart was autistic, and his music has been proven to have soothing effects on autistic minds. And so it's a very applicable comparison. My super is marketing, but I'm the idiot in the regards of the executive function disorder. I'll never be able to do this without assistance. My family, the Landers, only see me as the idiot, where the rest of the world Excuse me, as the savant.

Interesting. Thank you for answering that because my, my daughter's dating a savant, so very interesting. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. And I just had a— I just did an interview the other day with, uh, Tech Rescue, and the owner, the whole idea is that for $50 a month or $400 a year, you get 24/7 all the tech support that you need, which is so cool. Anyways, I thought that was really cool. And it's a great way to help families.

Adrian, I'm going to ask— I'm all about making friends and networking, and you're now my friend. Yeah, I would love it if you would, if you would put me in contact with him. I endorse brands, and yes, I endorse big companies, but I'm focused more on smaller companies and making them big. And so maybe that is somebody who we can do something because In the tech industry, I do have a bit of a reputation. I made Other World Computing a $583 million tech leader. Steve Jobs called me a marketing genius, and I was also the spokesperson for a tier 1 ISP. You might be interested.

And I'd like to— I love it. I do have to run. Thank you so much. I will be back in touch with you. I'm going down the rabbit hole to learn everything about you. And I'll talk to Joseph regarding the true crimes. And, uh, thank you so much. And I will be back with you, and then this will be turned into a podcast. But we are friends, we're gonna stay in touch. I'm gonna follow you everywhere, everywhere, like a puppy. I'm following you. Thank you. Be safe, be careful. Thank you for being so honest and transparent, and that you