Brand Ambassador, Billy Baraw
Programs: Disney's Give a Day, Get a Disney Day; Energizer's Energi to Go Sampling; Negra Modelo and Modelo Especial Glassware Promotions; New York Lottery's Minute To Win It Challenge Tour
What is your hidden talent? I have the uncanny ability to make a mean playlist for any situation.
What is your favorite city to visit, and why? Wilmington North Carolina. A very good friend of mine lives down there and on top of that:
- The waves are perfect and water is warm into October
- All kinds of creative pursuits are going on. There's a theater that looks like it's been there since the Civil War and the people performing on it are great.
- Met the Guinness Book of World Records holder for the person who sang Karaoke songs consecutively the longest.
- People are friendly
- Cheap and real good food.
- The Satellite Bar and Lounge
What is your favorite Pro Motion memory? It had to be New Orleans and Energi To Go at Jazzfest. New York Lottery with Yolanda and Jina was definitely close but in the span of six days I:
- bummed a cigarette off of Jason Segel
- listened to B.B King and The Dead Weather and Mystical
- was fed the finest cornmeal catfish, shrimp fried rice and salad from a particularly friendly resident Tony and I know as Miss Maggie
- sang Goodnight Irene with Tim Robbins on Frenchman Street
- the typical things one does when it is their first time in New Orleans... which included eating rabbit stew
When you're not leading Pro Motion street teams or rocking mobile tours, what are you up to? Making movies! I ran into Colin Quinn some time back and asked him for some advice on what a "starving actor" should do. He said go home and make the story of your home town. So I took his advice in a way and have been making unique little movies across the northeast ever since.
(Here comes the shameless self promotion.) If you want to see the last thing I did check out 'Indemnity Campus Movie Fest' on YouTube. It isn't the happiest of movies but it won us a Best Picture Award.
To whom would you like to give a shout-out? Gretchen Dizer
Are they really opening up an Earl of Sandwich within 30 blocks of the only Chick-fil-A in the state of New York? Which one will you eat at most often? If massive billboards in Times Square are to be believed then Heck-Fire-Yes the Earl of Sandwich will be there. But I must confess, until I have the opportunity to drive around the higher ups of Earl of Sandwich while they are wearing full body Cow costumes... Chick-fil-A will always be number one.
Where have all the cowboys gone?
They're in New York, they're nude and your grandma at some point at has paid five dollars to pinch their "Tuckus".
If you could teach everyone in the world one thing what would it be? I think it would be to create and sustain a meditation practice. Taking 15 minutes a day to sit down with your thoughts, acknowledge them and clear them away has had a profound effect on my life.