Jeremy Boreing: Why Conservatives Keep Missing What's Next

Now, what was your dream as a young boy?

I also wanted to be an actor, and it took about...

I don't know, three minutes in Hollywood to realize that I wasn't good enough, you know, that what I had really learned in that childhood that I had with all those opportunities afforded by these huge figures in my life, Don and Terry Caldwell, Jane Prince Jones and others who ran these sort of local theaters and in West Texas and had really invested in me from the time that I was very young.

I thought that what I'd been learning was to be an actor, but

what I'd

really

been learning

was

to create.

It was to make things.

I would walk around before a play would start.

It didn't matter if I was directing the play, if I'd written the play, or if I was acting in the play.

I would walk around with a can of black spray paint 30 minutes before the doors opened and touch up scratches on the front of the stage.

I was thinking at all times, how do we make the best thing that we can make out of nothing? We had virtually no resources.

At that time, how do we put forward the best experience for the audience so that they can be transported by what we're doing? And what I came to realize, again, through failure, through my acting career not working out, I came to realize that what I really was was a guy who makes something out of nothing.

And that making something out of nothing has all kinds of application.

Yes, I've gone on to make a lot of films.

I've even gotten to act in some films.

I've gotten to create these very successful companies.

I've created a bunch of companies that weren't very successful too along that path.

I've gotten to help create this entire medium in a very real way and this entire sort of approach to alternative conservative media, which other people, both who agree with my politics and who don't agree with my politics, have become beneficiaries of and have found success with.

That is... actually what my childhood prepared me for and i didn't know it at the time when when the daily wire was really picking up steam and starting to succeed and i wasn't doing traditionally creative work at all we hadn't moved into film yet or any of the things that we did later i did have a friend in hollywood ask you know do you regret no longer being a creative I said, what are you talking about? I've created jobs for 100 people.

I've created kind of an industry that didn't really exist in this form beforehand.

It's the exact same thing the way that I've approached it.