I gave a speech at Northeastern on Monday. Went great, fun crowd, had a good time. The students who run the speaker bureau at Northeastern told me something that made me very happy:
This semester, they brought four other speakers to campus. Spike Lee, Greg Behrendt, Frank Warren and me. I outdrew all of them...COMBINED.
Those three drew 350, 300 and 400, respectively. I sold out the auditorium they put me in, capacity 1050. And that was only Northeastern students--there were a couple hundred kids from other schools that they wouldn't let in. I could have filled 1500 without breaking a sweat.
There is a huge market for this movie. If we do the film right, this thing is going to fucking explode.
[On a side note, kinda unrelated to this movie--they said I not only drew the most people of any speaker, but I was the nicest person to deal with. Apparently each of those guys were super prima donnas and assholes to the staff at Northeastern. That just makes no fucking sense to me. Why would you be a dick to people who support you? Stupid.]
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