A true life movie or dynamic series ready for development
For forty years, my life was governed by the Perfect Cue. As a corporate showman, I was the man in the headset, the architect of precision. I produced massive conventions and show spectacles around legends like Bob Hope, Michael Jackson, Wynona Judd, Lee Greenwood, Celine Dion and many more.
In that world, "Standby" meant silence, and "GO" meant Big Money in pyrotechnics and technology fired with surgical accuracy. I lived for the thrill of the flawlessly executed show, where every light hit its mark and every cue was met with applause.
I lived in a life of fast cars, speedboats, motorcycles and beautiful women.
But my greatest production didn't happen under a spotlight. It happened when I impulsively got married, bought a river ranch and realized that nature doesn’t wait for a "Standby."
Weekend Redneck is the true story of what happens when a high-flying showman trades a headset for a lasso. It’s the journey from the boardroom to the barn, where the "cues" are given by a runaway horse named Gal and a sinking airboat in an alligator infested swamp that refuses to follow the script.
In the city, I was the master of the stage; in the country, I was a "Weekend Redneck" out of my depth, learning through dark humor and expensive pitfalls that you can’t micromanage a mud pit.
Then came 2008. The financial crash was a "GO" cue I never saw coming. It called in a $1.5M debt and threatened to take everything—the ranch, the dreams, and the future I was building for my family.
This movie is about the Relentless Reinvention that followed. It’s about my wife, Nancy, who stayed grounded when I was spiraling; my son, Zachary, who survived a terrifying NICU start to become my right-hand man; and my daughter, Madison, my "Little Princess" who reminded me that even in a 600-square-foot apartment, the show must go on.
It’s the story of how I used "small-town grit" to climb back onto the national stage, with the National Christmas Tree Lighting at the White House—not as a man chasing trophies, but as a man who finally understands that the most important cue in life is the one that brings you home to the people you love.
