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Been There... Done That!
of any other drugs. He said a writer friend had told him that I was a straight-laced country boy and probably wouldn’t put up with drug use, especially cocaine. I stayed with talking about pain pills because that’s all I knew and Barry was OK with that and set up a meeting for Dan and me to come to his office at NBC. He told me he wanted to talk to me before the meeting because I would be a part of the deal. My question was, “How big was this deal?” He said they wanted to make a new series on Grizzly Adams and to start with it would be a ten-million-dollar deal. The one stipulation was, other than pain pills, no drugs! I didn’t have a problem with that and told Barry, “If drugs come in, I’ll be right with you, gone!” The day of the meeting, when Dan came in, I immediately knew something was wrong. Dan started talking like an auctioneer and then his damned nose started bleeding. I saw something that day that not everybody gets to see, $10,000,000 waltzing right out the door. I don’t care how famous people are, my time as a peon is valuable too. See ya, Dan and he has since passed away.
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