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EP558: Chuck Dixon - How To Make Yourself Irreplaceable
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“Even if you don't believe it yourself, you never apologize for your own work.”
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become irreplaceable in your field, to carve out a niche where your expertise shines and your contributions are valued?
Chuck Dixon's story is an unwavering passion and relentless pursuit. From his early days, he harbored a deep love for comic books, dedicating himself to mastering the art of storytelling within this dynamic medium. Without a backup plan, he immersed himself fully, chasing his dream with determination and grit.
In a world where Marvel and DC are perceived as rivals, he reveals a different reality—a camaraderie fueled by a shared passion for storytelling. Despite shifts in editorial leadership and industry dynamics, Chuck remained focused on his craft, embracing opportunities to work on beloved characters like Punisher and Batman. The comic book industry has undergone significant changes over the years, with mainstream publishers facing criticism for prioritizing political agendas over storytelling quality. In response, he embraced independent and crowdfunding platforms, connecting directly with audiences who yearned for authentic narratives free from external influence.
Chuck’s story offers valuable insights for aspiring thought leaders. From never apologizing for your work to avoiding office politics and striving to become indispensable, his principles underscore the importance of resilience, integrity, and dedication in achieving success.
Expert action steps:
- Never apologize for your work.
- Avoid office politics.
- Strive to be the go-to person.
Here's how to connect with Chuck Dixon:
-Explore Chuck Dixon's collection of works available on Amazon. Simply search his name to find his books and other projects.
-Connect with Chuck on Facebook and other social media platforms to stay updated on his latest projects, news, and insights.
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-Don't miss Chuck's weekly show, "Ask Chuck Dixon," on YouTube.
-Learn more about Cuck by visiting his website: https://www.chuckdixon.net/p/chuck-dixon-is-veteran-comic-book.html
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Transcript
Chuck Dixon's Journey to Comic Books
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I write comic books primarily. I never really wanted to do anything else. I didn't have a plan B. Worked a lot of jobs I didn't like. No formal education. I just read a lot and studied comics and learned the language of comics. And once I got a break, I just never left. I got hired by Larry Hama at Marvel. I had a lot of faith in myself. I had the mixture of ignorance and confidence that every creator needs.
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I proved my reliability, proved that I could keep my promises and meet deadlines, and I never looked back.
Introduction to Thought Leader Revolution
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Welcome to the Thought Leader Revolution with Nikki Ballou. Join the revolution. There's never been a better time in history to speak your truth, find your freedom, and make your fortune. Each week, we interview the world's top thought leaders and learn the secrets of how they built a six- to seven-figure practice. This episode has been brought to you by eCircleAcademy.com, the proven system to add six to seven figures a year to your thought leader practice.
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the podcast, The Thought Leader Revolution. I'm your host, Nicky Baloo. And boy, do we have a very special, very exciting guest lined up for you today.
Chuck Dixon: A Comic Book Legend
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Speaker
Today's guest is a legend in the comic book industry. He's a man who has been involved in some of the most iconic characters in comic book history, including my all-time favorite, Batman.
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He also has created his own company and he's a bestselling author. I am speaking, of course, of none other than the one, the only, the legendary Chuck Dixon. Welcome to the show, Chuck. Wow. What an intro.
00:01:45
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You know, I have to live up to it. There you go, man. There you go. You know, I copied Bruce Buffer. I don't know if you ever watch any UFC fights, but I love the way that guy introduces his fighters. So I just kind of copied him, copied his style. So there you go. So Chuck, really great to have you here.
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Let me tell you a little bit about my listener. My listener tends to be entrepreneurial, freedom-minded. They're the kind of person who's looking to take themselves to another level in life and in business. And like me, they tend to be of a libertarian breadth. They believe in the promise of America and of freedom, free expression, free enterprise.
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They come here, not because of me, because I'm here every week. They're here because of you. They want to learn from you, learn about you. Some will probably know who you are, but a bunch of them won't. So why don't we start by you telling us your backstory.
Getting the Big Break in Comics
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How'd you get to be the great Chuck Dixon? I don't know. I write comics books primarily. I never really wanted to do anything else. I didn't have a plan B. I just aimed myself at working in the comic book industry. I've done it since I was a kid and worked a lot of jobs I didn't like.
00:02:59
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I got no formal education. I just read a lot and studied comics and learned the language of comics and just kept at it until I got a break. And once I got a break, I just never left. That's a good story. So tell us about your first break. How'd your first break happen and what was it? Well, my first big break. Well, I got two breaks simultaneously. It's like 1986. 1985, actually, I got
00:03:30
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I got hired to write Airboy, which was a regular feature at Eclipse Comics. And within two weeks, I got hired by Larry Hama at Marvel to write for Savage Tales and ultimately for Savage Sword of Conan. So I kind of got two breaks at the same time. And I proved my reliability. I proved that I could keep my promises and meet deadlines.
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I never looked back. That's amazing.
Persistence in Comics
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That's amazing. I mean, having a dream from a young age and keeping at that dream is the key to success. A lot of people don't understand that. A lot of people go after something and, you know, when they hit a little bit of adversity, they quit. You know, what made you stick it out? Well, um,
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I never wanted to do anything else. That was the problem. You know, I sort of never prepared a backup plan. And what kept me going was that most comic books were really poorly written. And I just knew I could do a better job because I was really dedicated to the medium. I really, you know, I love the characters. I love Batman, I love Spider-Man, all the rest of it. But what I really loved was the medium. I really love this storytelling.
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structure and the way it worked and this art form.
Belief and Influence in Creativity
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And I just wanted to be in it. And I took every rejection notice as I don't know what they're talking about.
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I had a lot of faith in myself. I had the mixture of ignorance and confidence that every creator needs. Amen, amen. At some level, every entrepreneur is a creator as well. They're gonna need that same mixture of ignorance and confidence. And imagination, you have to see yourself in that place. You do. Are you familiar with Steve Pressfield? Yeah, the name rings a bell.
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He wrote a bunch of pretty famous books. His most famous book was The Legend of Bagger Vance, which became a movie with Matt Damon and Will Smith. And then he wrote a bunch of books for artists. The first one was called The War of Art. And he goes on and he talks about what it takes to become successful as an artist, as a writer in particular.
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One of the things that he talks about in his work is that if you want to succeed at your craft, you've got to find a way to put yourself in close proximity with where people do the kind of work that you want to do. He wrote a book about it called, Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be. Great title for a book, right?
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So you got yourself your big break at Eclipse and at Marvel.
Building Professional Relationships
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So walk us through the story. What happened next for you? Well, I, you know, I kind of, you know, build a relationship. My main editor at Eclipse was Kat Ironwood. And, you know, I built a relationship with her. I was in Pennsylvania. They were in California. This is all my phone. This is before email.
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And like I said, I proved my reliability. I proved that if I say it's going to be there on Friday, it's going to be there on Friday. If I say I can get this done by tomorrow, I got it done by the next day. So that's important when you're dealing with periodicals. They want the stuff on time. They've got to have content. And then after a while, Kat would turn to me and say, look, we need a five-page story to fill out this issue of whatever. Yeah, I can do that. So I made myself the go-to guy.
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At Marvel with Larry, it was harder to prove yourself because Larry had, he set a really high bar and he put you through the acid test. You had to go through his test of fire. But once I did that and he realized that I was reliable, I was conscientious, I really cared about the quality of my work. And also I saw Conan and the other characters the same way he did.
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Um, he couldn't do enough for me. I mean, he went to other editors at Marvel and said, you should hire this guy. You should use this guy. Uh, you know, he's really proven himself. So, you know, uh, and from there I just, you know, built relationships with, with various editors. And I always looked upon my editor, not as my boss, but as my partner, you know, we're working together to create a quality product. And if, if I ran into editors who weren't interested in quality product, I didn't want to work with them.
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Amen. So I've seen that in the comic book industry, a lot of the better known names like yourself, Frank Miller, and so forth, seem to work at a lot of different comic book companies. So you've worked at Marvel, you've worked at DC, and from an outsider's point of view, those companies seem like they're blood enemies. They'd be at each other's throats. So how did all that work?
Marvel vs DC Rivalry
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Well, I mean, that's a rivalry that they like to present as hostile, but it's never been that way. They realize they're both in the same business. Their successes rely upon one another. I mean, Marvel doesn't want to see DC go out of business anymore, and DC wants to see Marvel go out of business because they're kind of joined at the hip.
00:09:20
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And they exchange people all the time. I mean, you know, editors move back and forth. I mean, you know, Stan Lee and the guys at DC, they used to go out to dinner together, out to lunch together. So it really was a friendly rival. So yeah, there was never anything like, oh, you worked for Marvel, you can't work here. You know, if you were successful at one company, the other company wanted you.
00:09:47
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as much as they could get out of you. That's why they always, I mean, DC started a program of exclusives where you can only work for them. You go year by year, you know, just to hold on to you because there was so much travel and back and forth between the two companies. So when you were going through the ranks, what were some of your favorite experiences and what were some of your favorite characters that you really, uh,
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identified with or empathize with and enjoyed creating stories
Writing the Punisher and Batman
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for. Well, my favorite character will always be the Punisher. I had an affinity for Frank Castle. I don't know what that says about me. He's the only character that when I wasn't being paid the right stories for him anymore, I still think of Punisher stories. It's hard to watch the news or read the newspaper and not think, hey, Frank Castle would fit in here.
00:10:43
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I mean, Frank Castle would be in Ukraine right now. You know, things like that. So I know those were good experiences. And then just getting to work on Batman was literally a dream come true. I mean, I never pitched for Batman. I never tried to write Batman. I got hired based on
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my writing on Airboy to come into the Batman offices. And I got a thrill every time I would type the words Batman and Robin. No kidding man, that's awesome stuff. Which I'm grateful now that I can look back and realize I really did appreciate the opportunity. I took every advantage I could and I really enjoyed every minute of avoiding Batman.
00:11:29
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Batman is fantastic. I mean, I ordered one of your compilations of Batman and Wildcat and I read the whole thing in the afternoon. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. It's a blast. So I wanted to get your thoughts on the comic book industry today.
Critique of the Comic Industry
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What's happened to the industry today compared to what it was like 10, 20, 30 years ago when you were
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working with Marvel and DC and coming up the ranks? Well, it's pretty much, you know, it went into a doom spiral. It doesn't appear to be ending. Either company, they don't seem to be wising up to what's going on.
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And this pretty much started, you know, when the old guard editors like Larry Hama, Denny O'Neill, Archie Goodwin, when they retired, it was the end of an era. And they were replaced with editors who were largely indifferent to comics. They were looking to move on to other careers. They weren't lifers like comic book people used to be.
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You know, in my day when you got into comics, that's what you wanted to do for the rest of your life. And these are people who I call tourists. And their indifference created a vacuum and that vacuum left it open to activists getting hired at the company and then trying to basically turn Marvel and DC into propaganda mills for their own personal political agendas. And that's really when the wheels came off.
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and the audience fled, and the level of craft declined. In comics, for the most part, the output of DC and Marvel is way below par. There's some bright spots. There's some really talented people still working, but for the majority of the output they're doing, it's way below the expected level of quality that, you know, you and I wanted in a comic, and expected in a comic decades.
00:13:41
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It's interesting because I've noticed that and I'm not really buying any of the comics that have been written in recent years I'm buying old stuff like your old stuff Frank Frank Miller's old stuff Chris Claremont sold stuff The new stuff is just some woke garbage. That's a hot. That's a hot mess and is doing a disservice to the industry, but it appears that a lot of
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A lot of good freedom-loving Americans in a variety of industries seem to have either inadvertently or through carelessness allowed these activists to get into their institutions and march through their institutions and destroy them. One of the things that
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really upset me was seeing all these companies that used to be great iconic American brands go completely woke. So I teamed up with a man named Wayne Allen Root who is a conservative radio and television talk show host who interviews Donald Trump a lot and we wrote a couple of books
00:14:46
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basically to sound the alarm and to get people to stop going to these woke companies. So one of them was this one called The Great Patriot Protest and Boycott Book. It's a list of 116 woke companies, and we told people to avoid them, and we took aim at Disney.
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And I don't want to say that we're the cause of it, but we certainly had a lot to do with raising the attention of what Disney was doing and getting people to turn away from that company. And then we wrote this book called The Great Patriot Bicot Book, which is a list of non-woke companies. One of them was Public Square, which now has thousands of non-woke companies on it. It got the attention of Donald Trump. He endorsed it, which was kind of nice.
00:15:31
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all of that other good stuff, but you decided to do something to keep the flame of great storytelling in comics alive.
Adapting to Industry Changes
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Would you mind sharing with us that thought process and what you ended up doing?
00:15:49
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Well, I mean, you know, back in the day, back in the 90s, you know, when comics were hot and I was getting tons and tons of work, I was doing like, for a period, I was doing like eight monthlies. You know, largely the editorial group and the freelancers, they're largely liberal. I'm not gonna say leftist, they were liberal. I wasn't.
00:16:08
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Uh, but it didn't matter. It didn't matter back then. Uh, you know, we go to lunch, we go to dinner, we go to summits and we'd argue politics and then go right back to work, you know, no harm, no foul. And, uh, but that all changed, but you know, I didn't want to stop working. So, you know, I, uh, I self published for awhile and then moved into the crowdfunding sphere.
00:16:31
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as crowdfunding and comics grew and the audience for crowdfunding grew, it's basically like a second career.
00:16:41
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You know, it's a second resurgence of popularity for me working in that sphere. And, you know, we're starting to see serious numbers as we serve the underserved comic book readership who have walked away entirely from DC and Marvel. They don't even pay attention anymore. And, you know, we're basically creating the kind of comics that they want and getting a lot of success for it.
00:17:06
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You are, I bought a couple of them and I've read them, they're a lot of fun. They're like the old fashioned stories, they're great. And tell me about the company, tell me about the vision that you have for it and where you see it going over the next few years.
00:17:20
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Well, I mean, I worked for a variety of guys, you know, Graham Nolan. I'm currently writing a follow up to our Joe Frankenstein. Graham runs Compass Comics, him and his wife, Julie, on Compass Comics. I'm doing a lot of work recently for Eric July with the Riverburst Comics. Eric's kind of the new crowdfunding king.
00:17:39
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We recently did a $1.3 million crowdfunding campaign for a comment that I wrote, and I've written three more projects for him that'll come out throughout the rest of the year. But he's had enormous success, and he gets good numbers. I mean, he gets numbers. He's getting DC and Marvel numbers on the...
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trade paperbacks. He doesn't publish comic books. He publishes, you know, trade paperbacks. These things are 100 pages plus, and he's getting terrific numbers. And, you know, there's other people, you know, in the business as well. Richard Meyer and Billy Tucci and Brian Polito and people like that who are having tremendous success reaching out to the comic book public, the comic book readership.
00:18:31
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who are frankly frustrated with the big two companies. As they should be. So I picked up a copy of this book just recently. Tell me about this and how did this come about?
Transition to E-books and Film Adaptation
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It was largely my wife kept saying, you know, you should think about writing e-books. I'm like, well, I'm not a prose guy. I'm a comic book writer. I'm not an, I've never wanted to be a novelist, but I wasn't getting as much comic book work. And she kept saying there's money here. There's money to be made. You would own it, you know, entirely. So I did it. I got into ebook publishing.
00:19:13
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And I did well for a while till Amazon started goofing around with the algorithms. And eventually I had to go over to a publisher. But the Levon Cade books, Levon Trays is the first one. It's vigilante justice action stuff. It's like the adventure paperbacks of the 70s. I like to think it's a little more grounded in reality and it scratches my punishment.
00:19:40
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And it all, it all paid off because, you know, in a few weeks they start filming the adaptation of Levon's trade with Jason Statham. So. Buddy, that's fantastic. Congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone. David Ayers directing it. The guy that directed Fury. So yeah, I'm pretty excited.
00:20:04
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And those guys, Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone are not activists. They're actually good old fashioned regular actors. And if you get in their face too much, they'll knock you on your keister. So God bless them both. I love them.
00:20:21
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They are plain talking guys. Plain talking guys. Well said. I really enjoyed watching Tulsa Kings. I thought that was a lot of fun. I don't know if you saw that. That was awesome. There's so much of Sly in that story. I've been working with Sly for a number of years and you get to know he's looking at his work and you see that's a lot of him there.
00:20:45
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So he just does an act in projects. He brings his whole creative force to everything he works on. Guys, workaholic, man. He's a total stud. He is a total stud. And look at what kind of shape he's in, man. I'm 56. I think I'm in decent shape.
Criticism of the 'Woke' Movement
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But, man, compared to him, I got a ways to go. Yeah, I'm a few years behind him. And I wish I looked like that at 30. Straight up.
00:21:15
Speaker
That's awesome, that's awesome. So if I were to ask you to give some advice to my listener about how to be successful in the face of this modern onslaught by the left and the cultural Marxist trying to shut us up, what would your advice be?
00:21:43
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Well, first of all, they haven't won. I get people ask me all the time, when is the woke ever going to be over? And I was thinking the other day, did it ever really begin? Because no one bought it. I mean, outside of Barbie, there's no woke movie that made any money. And Barbie, they had to cover it all up in pastel goofiness to sell it. But there's no, you think of all these woke movies they made, all the movies they made that were against the Iraq war,
00:22:14
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All these movies they make that are all about race controversies and things like, they don't make any money. Nobody wants to see that. Nobody gives a crap about that stuff. And they're finally learning this after they've gone tens of billions of dollars in debt. Some of these studios are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy because of these stupid decisions.
00:22:37
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And I realized the woke era never really started because everybody rejected it. The majority rejected it. And to be successful now, you just have to find those people that rejected it, and there's lots of them.
00:22:52
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I mean, there's a ready audience for this stuff. And we see it over and over. I mean, The Daily Wire has had tremendous success. They have. I love Lady Ballers. Did you see that? That was fun. I haven't seen it, but I mean, you've got to see it, man. You've got to see it. It's so good. I mean, you know, I saw Run, Hide, Fight. I saw The Western they made with Gina Carano. It's like these are real movies. These are really good stuff. And they've been successful. Other people have been successful.
00:23:18
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I've been successful and I really think that this madness is coming to an end, except that Disney just seems to keep doubling down for whatever reason. Yeah, I think that there's going to be a time where they're going to have to stop doubling down because they've lost over $100 billion in their market cap.
00:23:37
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and that is not sustainable. That's not even for Disney. Nobody can lose a hundred billion dollars in- Yeah, but their board structure is so weird and I don't know why the shareholders haven't just said, no, enough of this.
00:23:53
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No, but you know, apparently there's a fight coming. So we'll see what happens. Yeah. And I'm rooting for the for the side of the good guys of light and
Upholding American Ideals in Storytelling
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right. Because, yeah, in my opinion, America
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in a way is God's light to the world. The United States of America is the only nation in the history of the world that was conceived in the idea that men could live free and that they did not need a tyrant overseeing every little aspect of their lives.
00:24:33
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Unfortunately, when there's light, darkness inevitably wants to intrude, and the forces of evil, the forces of the devil, quite frankly, have been attempting for over a hundred years to topple America.
00:24:50
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They've had some success in marching through the institutions and in doing what they do, but when I see men like you stand up against these guys and go out there and do your own thing and still stand up for the purity of the American ideal in your work, and I know perhaps you don't, on a daily basis, speak about this in this fashion, but that's really what you're doing. You're standing up for traditional American artists who loved America, who loved everything she was about,
00:25:18
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and wanted to tell stories that would, in a wonderful way, capture the imagination of the public and show them that, hey, these stories represent the best of our ideals, the best of the American ideal.
00:25:35
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I think it's awesome that you're doing what you're doing. I'm going to buy everything you've ever done. It might take me a while, but that's my plan. That's my way of supporting you. And I want to tell my listeners to do the same. I bought a whole bunch of your stuff and I'm in the process of plowing through it and reading it. And I want to see you keep doing what you're doing.
00:25:57
Speaker
Brother, if you've got folks that are like you, I want to meet them. I want to bring them on my show. Definitely. I'll definitely hook you up with some awesome people to talk to. I'd love that. I'd love that. And, you know, John Delarose, he's great. I bought a bunch of his stuff. He's come on the show. He writes for PJ Media.
00:26:18
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My my good friend who used to be the founder of PJ media actually still is the founder But he doesn't work there anymore. His name is Roger Simon. He's come on the show. He was a liberal who got mugged by reality after 9-11
00:26:34
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He's no longer a liberal. He was never a leftist to begin with. I want to meet more of these people and let's tell their stories. I'm excited about the movie coming out with Jason Statham.
00:26:48
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God bless me. When it's coming out, let me know. I'd love to interview him, love to interview you, love to interview the director, the producer, all those guys. It'd be phenomenal. And I'll be happy to introduce you to Wayne Allen Root. He's got a really big TV show on Real America's Voice Network. I think he'd love to have you on. His producer is a good friend of mine, Andrew Paul. Okay. Yeah, anytime. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:11
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I'll hook you up with some comic career. I mean, you need to talk to Graham Nolan, man. He's like him and his wife to build this comic company on their own. And he's a force to be reckoned with. So I'd love to meet him. Love to talk to him. And listen, I got an idea for you. So my buddy, Roger Simon, he's keen on writing some really cool stories from the past and
00:27:37
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It just hit me now. He's been trying to turn him into movies. You know, he's got to raise up 30 million to do that. But maybe you could take a version of it and turn it into a comic book. And I'll tell you what it is offline, because I don't want everybody to know about it. It's on the march. But it's a phenomenal story. And maybe I connect you with Roger because, you know, he was an Academy Award nominated screenwriter before Hollywood stopped hiring him when they went completely crazy.
00:28:04
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A lot of movie projects start out as comics, as we know. I mean, I've done a number of movie treatments into comics. So, you know, it helps raise investor money. You know, that is a fantastic point. Thank you for making it.
00:28:24
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Chuck, God bless you, man. Thanks for doing what you do. I will make some connections on the back end with you and some of the folks I know to get you on some other shows. And please introduce me to Graham and other folks in the industry. Absolutely. And let's rock and roll. I'll send you my personal cell number. Let's stay in touch.
Engaging with Chuck Dixon's Work
00:28:44
Speaker
I love what you're doing and I want to continue to support you with it in lots and lots of different ways.
00:28:50
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Thank you. Thank you. You bet. So listen, if somebody's interested in buying your stuff, is there a place where you have all of it? Is there a place they can engage with you? Do you have a list that you communicate with? What's the best way for them to get connected with you? I'm on Facebook. I'm on X. You can go on Amazon, put my name in. I have a weekly show called Ask Chuck Dixon on YouTube.
00:29:17
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So, you know, just plug my name into YouTube. It'll take you to my channel. And yeah, I mean, there's plenty of ways to reach out to me. Okay. Well, make sure we put all of those in the show notes and we'll get that going. So Chuck, we finish off by asking you as our guest expert for
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your top three expert action steps. These are your three best pieces of life, business, career advice for my listener in bullet point form to help them elevate themselves to the next level. So what do you say?
Advice on Professional Growth
00:29:50
Speaker
Well, I mean, just from my own experience, never apologize for your work. You know, never say, I wasn't feeling well when I wrote this or I wasn't. No, this is the best thing you've ever read, even if you don't believe it yourself.
00:30:03
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You never apologize for your own work. My other one is don't get involved in office politics. I never did that. I was always like, I don't care. I don't care who hates who, who's talking about who, who's cheating on who. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to know about it. I'm just about to work. And the other one is.
00:30:28
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Try to be the go to guy. Whatever job you have, whatever you're going for, you want to be the most important person there. You want to be the person they turn to in an emergency. And I was always that every company I ever worked for. We need to script by tomorrow. OK, I can do it. I'll stay up all night, but I can do it. And that way you make yourself irreplaceable. Yeah.
00:30:52
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You know what? I think I might call this episode how to make yourself irreplaceable. I think that is a great, great title.
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for this episode. Chuck Dixon, thanks for coming on. Real pleasure, real honor to have you here. God bless you. Thank you. Absolutely. And that wraps up another exciting episode of the podcast, The Thought Leader Revolution. To find out more about today's incredible guests, the legendary, one and only Chuck Dixon. Go to the show notes at thethoughtleaderrevolution.com or wherever you listen to this episode, be it iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Audible or what have you. Until next time, goodbye.
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