December 29, 2024 • 12 mins
Former Buckeye captain and Hollywood actor Otis Winston is now an author!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I am so glad, Boots, that you finally get to
meet one of my all time favorite people. And when
I say this, I truly truly mean it. And if
you've ever met Otis Winston, who used to play basketball
at Ohio State, was a captain, who used to run
track for Ohio State, was a captain and then made
all these movies for Hollywood. Was a captain in that too,
at least had Winkie. And now he's an author, so
(00:24):
he's now in studio. Boots, what's the first thing I
told you that you will notice about? Smile?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Smile? Smile, He's got got good teeth.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
A million dollar smile. Otis welcome to Raw.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I should say, welcome back. You've been on the radio
with us before.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
A six five. Aren't you supposed to be eight foot
tall to play for icetate?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Actually that's how a lot of people never recognize me
because I look so short on TV next to seven footers.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, he played a forwarder guard.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
How was the guard?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
So when they see him, that's tall for guard? Absolutely absolutely, So.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How's the movie biz going?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
The movie to business going? Well, you know, just had
two movies that dropped within the past month had Venomed
the Last Dance, which was number one, and then Read
One dropped. So I'm blessed. I can't I can't thank
God enough of what he's been doing in my life.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I love that you always bring God into it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Absolutely, I have to you should.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Write everybody else did have a better life.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Absolutely. Absolutely. I am where I am because of what
He has done.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
In my life.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And I think as far as acting and the big
names that we would recognize, who do you think has
been most helpful to you in your career?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Mmmm?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
The movie I did with Jerar Butler, the Plane at
the premiere, when he pulled me aside and told me
he called me the scene Stiller. He was like, you
didn't have a lot of scenes, but every time you're
in a scene, on the scene Stiller, I can't call
me the scene Stiller. And that it meant a lot
(01:57):
because it was coming from Gerard Butler. And then when
I was talking to Tom Hardy on the set of
Venom three, he said, we brought you. We brought you
back for Venom three because of what you did on
Venom two, and we just appreciate everything that you bring
when you're here. So I loved it. I love this.
So so those two are the ones who I've personally
worked with and have a relation relationship with and that
(02:19):
I appreciate because they're they're megastars.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And you've gone, really Boots, He's gone from being an
extra head winky to having speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Part what.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, the Green Party four? You ever see the Wizard
of Oz the Witch's Army, there were winkies.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh okay, so you're kind of like there, but you're
kind of okay.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, no, So when when Oz the Green Powerfer came back,
I was I got the part as an extra before
the movie ended it. I ended up having speaking rolls
and stunt rolls and Casey Hoddenfields the first A D
deemed me the head winky because I was the one
always in control and helping and I was actually the
(03:04):
one of the short winkies and I'm six five. Everyone
had to be six ' five are taller.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Really, that was that hard to fill those.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Roles real quick. No such thing as a small role,
No such thing.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It's only a role that leads to your next role.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah yeah, So what what would be your goal to be?
I mean, you don't want to be a hot Hollywood
a leaders because you're too good of a guy.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But your goal to be type.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I would want to be and just be me and
change the way people think. I would want to be
that guy where I'm just having scenes and roles sent
to me and say, oh, this was written for you,
because when I get up there and and and I
thank god, it's that's what I do. And for fifteen
(03:49):
years I haven't had an agent or a manager, and
I've been in over forty films and TV shows and
it's all residual pay. So that's only because.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Every time your movie plays, you get that's.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Awesome, absolutely, and that's because of speaking roles.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And you talk about speaking roles and you listen to
Otis Winston talk as he is right now in the radio.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But speaking wasn't always easy for you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
In fact, your new endeavor is you are now an author.
So you went from an athlete at Ohio State to
acting and now an author.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Triple a, triple triple threat, triple A. And no one
if you would have told me when I was five,
struggling stuttering because I couldn't start. I couldn't properly speak
until I was eleven I stuttered very, very bad, and
no one thought I was ever being able to properly speak.
And when my mom moved us from Youngstown to Toronto,
one day I used to rush down the steps all
the time. And one day I came walking down and
(04:42):
it's in my book and I wasn't in a rush.
I just woke up and God just said. I just
felt him say slow down. Everything in my life slowed down.
I came walking down the steps. I'm walking into the kitchen.
I say, good morning, ma. She looked at me and said, baby,
what did you just say morning? She started crying. I'm like,
what's wrong? She says, say it again. I said, good
(05:03):
morning man. She said, do you hear yourself? I was like,
what she said, You're not stuttering and.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You didn't even notice that until your mom pointed it out.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I didn't notice it because my mom taught me that
my stutter was not a handicap. She said, it was
just my way of communicating, and it just took me longer.
So I learned how not to let myself as having
an issue. I just had to slow down and I
had to repeat myself constantly because it was a stutter.
Now I got made fun of a lot by my brothers,
(05:30):
but it made me Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Are you bigger than I am? I am.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
So funny because I tell my mom all the time
my stutter was not my stumbling block. My stutter was
my stepping stone. So in this book, everybody has a
stutter in their life, and I used stutter as a
metaphor mine's just started out as.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
A physical Do you work with other kids that have
stuttering problems?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, I have my first speaking engagement or really really,
I'm signing my book signing and kid by the name
of Carter came or a struggle with a stutter and
him and I I spent at least thirty minutes with
him just talking. Wow, that's trying to share with him
as well as my workshop. It's the key he made
his life. He'll never forget that as long as he was.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
We gotta take a break and we come back. We
have more with Otis Winston and my stutter is named Boots.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Absolutely, Yeah helped me with my stutter as I stuttered
talk too much, but when she's a out, I can't
get a word in.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So yeah, we have more with Otis and Winston. One
of our favorite guys, and you can see what otis
looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Look on boots his Facebook page. I also shared it
to my Facebook page as well.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Good and then we'll put it on Rod later on
after the show. This is Raw Indian boots were always
protected by the Undefeated America made portable tattletalel arm system
on news radio six ' ten wtvn.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Ohio State University.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Choose, That's why I did both. Just like people ask
me directing, acting, writing, which one all of them?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Do you like it?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
All?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Speaking of writing, he's here today to promote his new book.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
What's it called Stuttering to Success?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That's cool. I didn't know that was I just thought
it was just submits.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Show it up on this camera right here. So what
made you decide to write it? I mean, this is
obviously something that has been part of you your entire
life until you solved it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But still we learn who we are from our past.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
HM.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So you've always thought about probably writing this? Why did
you decide to do it right now?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Actually? I never thought about writing it because I was
living it right And then I had to realize that
what you go through in life is really never for you,
is for other people. So my stutter wasn't for me.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You said, your brothers are rougher on you. But how
about the other stud how the other kids back then that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
The kids were kids. You know, if you stutter, they
make fun of you. And I fought a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You have to back back in our day, we could fight.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, yeah, I fought a lot. I suspended in first grade,
in kindergarten and all kinds of things I was. I
was doing a lot of fighting. But what happened is
that I realized that my mom made me realize when
my brothers would make fun of us at nighttime, when
we had to get around the bed and pray, my
brothers would always be late until it was my turn,
and they'd be early, and they've just got there so
(08:12):
they can laugh because they knew I was gonna stutter.
And I remember I asked my mom and I put
it in the book. I said, why do you make
me do this? And you know they're going to make
fun of me, She says, Baby, I'm making you do
this because you're going to realize that one day you're
going to have to do stuff while people are laughing
at you. But it's not about what people do or
what they say, it's what you believe. And so I
(08:34):
had to learn how to believe in me, no matter what,
no matter what, at all times. I had to learn
how to believe in me. And that's what stuttering, stuttering
to success is done for me.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So what do you want people to get out of
this book? Sorry, but it's more than anything.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I want them to get that. It's not how you start,
it's how you finish. Just because you're stuttering doesn't mean
you stop. A stutter is just a pause, and most
people allow things they turn and they're stutter into a
hard stop. Never allow your stutter to be a stop.
It's a pause. It's a pause so that you can regroup, refocus, rethink,
and keep moving.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So once it went away, how did your brothers? What
did they do? Then?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Still found something else to pay My brother Yes, even
when I didn't deserve it, absolutely, and I remember, and
I put it in a book. I became very good
in sports because I wanted my brothers to accept. You
want to show them exactly, No, I didn't want it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I want it to be like that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yes, And then the better I got more things that happened.
It was like more competition.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So where do they buy your book at that's the
most important thing. I want everybody read it.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You can get it on Amazon. You can buy my
book on Amazon. And if you want a personalized copy,
this d m me and I have copies myself and
you can zell me cash app and I'll personalize them,
autograph sign books and I'll hand delivered to people in Columbus.
I handle. That's a handeliver. But if you don't want
(10:02):
the hand deliver personalized one, you can get it on
Amazon dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
This picture on the cover it, oh my god, you
look like I.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Can't I can't write pick the exact word for it.
You look like handsome debonair. Serious again, we're talking to
Otis Winston. The name of his new book is called
Stuttering to Success.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Gosh, we've been friends for so many years, and it
seems like I've been with you along the way for
every everything you you've have experienced, and it's been one
step after another that you keep moving upward because.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You were You were there when I first did ALLZ
the Green and Power from my very first movie, and
now here we are, my very first book, and you're
the first one to interview me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
How do you like that bootsom So, how how do
you like the Buckeye basketball team this year?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
How about them beat in Kentucky the other way?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It's like I love that? And then they won again
today today Indiana State. I believe they beat Indiana State today.
So I love it. I think coach is doing a
great job. I love how he's bringing them together.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Do you know him personally?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well? I know him personally because he always used to
talk to me about my movies while he was the
assistant coach. Oh really, so when he became the head coach,
I loved the story about him and his wife and
how they prayed about everything, and how he's very very
spiritual when it comes to his family, and now how
he's making the team a family. I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So the last minute we have with you, last minute
and a half, what do you want people to know
about you Otis Winston?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Not just that you are an.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Athlete, actor now author, but who you are and white
people need to just check you out.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Are He's all over social media? Just look up Otis Winston.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I've never been one to just toot my own horn.
You know. It was hard for me to be my
own manager and my own agent for these past fifteen years.
That's why my hashtag is God is My Agent. God
has opened up all these doors for me, and He's
allowed me to be where I am. So if people
see me, I want them to see the God in me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It's not about me, all right, thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know what I just told Boots at the beginning
of this show, at the beginning of the hour. The
one thing that we learned in church today looking forward
to New Year's is.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
To live life with more humility. And you already are
doing that.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thanks for joining us. We have you back, I have you
back on again.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Soon absolutely anytime. Otis Winston. The new book is stuttering
to success. You guys, go get it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Make that your first read of twenty twenty five. I
love you, my friend, and I'm so glad that you get.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
To support me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Who's just walking into this team excited.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Avenue Wellness ladies are going to be with us, So
I'm excited. This is a raw Mini Boots always protected
by the unefeated American made portable alarm system Tatletale from
the heartlet makes Studios on News Radio six ' ten
WTVM
I am so glad, Boots, that you finally get to
meet one of my all time favorite people. And when
I say this, I truly truly mean it. And if
you've ever met Otis Winston, who used to play basketball
at Ohio State, was a captain, who used to run
track for Ohio State, was a captain and then made
all these movies for Hollywood. Was a captain in that too,
at least had Winkie. And now he's an author, so
(00:24):
he's now in studio. Boots, what's the first thing I
told you that you will notice about? Smile?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Smile? Smile, He's got got good teeth.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
A million dollar smile. Otis welcome to Raw.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I should say, welcome back. You've been on the radio
with us before.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
A six five. Aren't you supposed to be eight foot
tall to play for icetate?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Actually that's how a lot of people never recognize me
because I look so short on TV next to seven footers.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, he played a forwarder guard.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
How was the guard?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
So when they see him, that's tall for guard? Absolutely absolutely, So.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
How's the movie biz going?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
The movie to business going? Well, you know, just had
two movies that dropped within the past month had Venomed
the Last Dance, which was number one, and then Read
One dropped. So I'm blessed. I can't I can't thank
God enough of what he's been doing in my life.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I love that you always bring God into it.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Absolutely, I have to you should.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Write everybody else did have a better life.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Absolutely. Absolutely. I am where I am because of what
He has done.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
In my life.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And I think as far as acting and the big
names that we would recognize, who do you think has
been most helpful to you in your career?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Mmmm?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
The movie I did with Jerar Butler, the Plane at
the premiere, when he pulled me aside and told me
he called me the scene Stiller. He was like, you
didn't have a lot of scenes, but every time you're
in a scene, on the scene Stiller, I can't call
me the scene Stiller. And that it meant a lot
(01:57):
because it was coming from Gerard Butler. And then when
I was talking to Tom Hardy on the set of
Venom three, he said, we brought you. We brought you
back for Venom three because of what you did on
Venom two, and we just appreciate everything that you bring
when you're here. So I loved it. I love this.
So so those two are the ones who I've personally
worked with and have a relation relationship with and that
(02:19):
I appreciate because they're they're megastars.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And you've gone, really Boots, He's gone from being an
extra head winky to having speaking.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Part what.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, the Green Party four? You ever see the Wizard
of Oz the Witch's Army, there were winkies.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Oh okay, so you're kind of like there, but you're
kind of okay.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, no, So when when Oz the Green Powerfer came back,
I was I got the part as an extra before
the movie ended it. I ended up having speaking rolls
and stunt rolls and Casey Hoddenfields the first A D
deemed me the head winky because I was the one
always in control and helping and I was actually the
(03:04):
one of the short winkies and I'm six five. Everyone
had to be six ' five are taller.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Really, that was that hard to fill those.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Roles real quick. No such thing as a small role,
No such thing.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
It's only a role that leads to your next role.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah yeah, So what what would be your goal to be?
I mean, you don't want to be a hot Hollywood
a leaders because you're too good of a guy.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
But your goal to be type.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I would want to be and just be me and
change the way people think. I would want to be
that guy where I'm just having scenes and roles sent
to me and say, oh, this was written for you,
because when I get up there and and and I
thank god, it's that's what I do. And for fifteen
(03:49):
years I haven't had an agent or a manager, and
I've been in over forty films and TV shows and
it's all residual pay. So that's only because.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Every time your movie plays, you get that's.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Awesome, absolutely, and that's because of speaking roles.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And you talk about speaking roles and you listen to
Otis Winston talk as he is right now in the radio.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
But speaking wasn't always easy for you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
In fact, your new endeavor is you are now an author.
So you went from an athlete at Ohio State to
acting and now an author.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Triple a, triple triple threat, triple A. And no one
if you would have told me when I was five,
struggling stuttering because I couldn't start. I couldn't properly speak
until I was eleven I stuttered very, very bad, and
no one thought I was ever being able to properly speak.
And when my mom moved us from Youngstown to Toronto,
one day I used to rush down the steps all
the time. And one day I came walking down and
(04:42):
it's in my book and I wasn't in a rush.
I just woke up and God just said. I just
felt him say slow down. Everything in my life slowed down.
I came walking down the steps. I'm walking into the kitchen.
I say, good morning, ma. She looked at me and said, baby,
what did you just say morning? She started crying. I'm like,
what's wrong? She says, say it again. I said, good
(05:03):
morning man. She said, do you hear yourself? I was like,
what she said, You're not stuttering and.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You didn't even notice that until your mom pointed it out.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I didn't notice it because my mom taught me that
my stutter was not a handicap. She said, it was
just my way of communicating, and it just took me longer.
So I learned how not to let myself as having
an issue. I just had to slow down and I
had to repeat myself constantly because it was a stutter.
Now I got made fun of a lot by my brothers,
(05:30):
but it made me Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Are you bigger than I am? I am.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
So funny because I tell my mom all the time
my stutter was not my stumbling block. My stutter was
my stepping stone. So in this book, everybody has a
stutter in their life, and I used stutter as a
metaphor mine's just started out as.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
A physical Do you work with other kids that have
stuttering problems?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Well, I have my first speaking engagement or really really,
I'm signing my book signing and kid by the name
of Carter came or a struggle with a stutter and
him and I I spent at least thirty minutes with
him just talking. Wow, that's trying to share with him
as well as my workshop. It's the key he made
his life. He'll never forget that as long as he was.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
We gotta take a break and we come back. We
have more with Otis Winston and my stutter is named Boots.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Absolutely, Yeah helped me with my stutter as I stuttered
talk too much, but when she's a out, I can't
get a word in.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So yeah, we have more with Otis and Winston. One
of our favorite guys, and you can see what otis
looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Look on boots his Facebook page. I also shared it
to my Facebook page as well.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Good and then we'll put it on Rod later on
after the show. This is Raw Indian boots were always
protected by the Undefeated America made portable tattletalel arm system
on news radio six ' ten wtvn.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Ohio State University.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Choose, That's why I did both. Just like people ask
me directing, acting, writing, which one all of them?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Do you like it?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
All?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Speaking of writing, he's here today to promote his new book.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
What's it called Stuttering to Success?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
That's cool. I didn't know that was I just thought
it was just submits.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Show it up on this camera right here. So what
made you decide to write it? I mean, this is
obviously something that has been part of you your entire
life until you solved it.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But still we learn who we are from our past.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
HM.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So you've always thought about probably writing this? Why did
you decide to do it right now?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Actually? I never thought about writing it because I was
living it right And then I had to realize that
what you go through in life is really never for you,
is for other people. So my stutter wasn't for me.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You said, your brothers are rougher on you. But how
about the other stud how the other kids back then that.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
The kids were kids. You know, if you stutter, they
make fun of you. And I fought a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You have to back back in our day, we could fight.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, yeah, I fought a lot. I suspended in first grade,
in kindergarten and all kinds of things I was. I
was doing a lot of fighting. But what happened is
that I realized that my mom made me realize when
my brothers would make fun of us at nighttime, when
we had to get around the bed and pray, my
brothers would always be late until it was my turn,
and they'd be early, and they've just got there so
(08:12):
they can laugh because they knew I was gonna stutter.
And I remember I asked my mom and I put
it in the book. I said, why do you make
me do this? And you know they're going to make
fun of me, She says, Baby, I'm making you do
this because you're going to realize that one day you're
going to have to do stuff while people are laughing
at you. But it's not about what people do or
what they say, it's what you believe. And so I
(08:34):
had to learn how to believe in me, no matter what,
no matter what, at all times. I had to learn
how to believe in me. And that's what stuttering, stuttering
to success is done for me.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
So what do you want people to get out of
this book? Sorry, but it's more than anything.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
I want them to get that. It's not how you start,
it's how you finish. Just because you're stuttering doesn't mean
you stop. A stutter is just a pause, and most
people allow things they turn and they're stutter into a
hard stop. Never allow your stutter to be a stop.
It's a pause. It's a pause so that you can regroup, refocus, rethink,
and keep moving.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So once it went away, how did your brothers? What
did they do? Then?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Still found something else to pay My brother Yes, even
when I didn't deserve it, absolutely, and I remember, and
I put it in a book. I became very good
in sports because I wanted my brothers to accept. You
want to show them exactly, No, I didn't want it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I want it to be like that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yes, And then the better I got more things that happened.
It was like more competition.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So where do they buy your book at that's the
most important thing. I want everybody read it.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You can get it on Amazon. You can buy my
book on Amazon. And if you want a personalized copy,
this d m me and I have copies myself and
you can zell me cash app and I'll personalize them,
autograph sign books and I'll hand delivered to people in Columbus.
I handle. That's a handeliver. But if you don't want
(10:02):
the hand deliver personalized one, you can get it on
Amazon dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
This picture on the cover it, oh my god, you
look like I.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Can't I can't write pick the exact word for it.
You look like handsome debonair. Serious again, we're talking to
Otis Winston. The name of his new book is called
Stuttering to Success.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Gosh, we've been friends for so many years, and it
seems like I've been with you along the way for
every everything you you've have experienced, and it's been one
step after another that you keep moving upward because.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
You were You were there when I first did ALLZ
the Green and Power from my very first movie, and
now here we are, my very first book, and you're
the first one to interview me.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
How do you like that bootsom So, how how do
you like the Buckeye basketball team this year?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
How about them beat in Kentucky the other way?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
It's like I love that? And then they won again
today today Indiana State. I believe they beat Indiana State today.
So I love it. I think coach is doing a
great job. I love how he's bringing them together.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Do you know him personally?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well? I know him personally because he always used to
talk to me about my movies while he was the
assistant coach. Oh really, so when he became the head coach,
I loved the story about him and his wife and
how they prayed about everything, and how he's very very
spiritual when it comes to his family, and now how
he's making the team a family. I love it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So the last minute we have with you, last minute
and a half, what do you want people to know
about you Otis Winston?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Not just that you are an.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Athlete, actor now author, but who you are and white
people need to just check you out.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Are He's all over social media? Just look up Otis Winston.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I've never been one to just toot my own horn.
You know. It was hard for me to be my
own manager and my own agent for these past fifteen years.
That's why my hashtag is God is My Agent. God
has opened up all these doors for me, and He's
allowed me to be where I am. So if people
see me, I want them to see the God in me.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It's not about me, all right, thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know what I just told Boots at the beginning
of this show, at the beginning of the hour. The
one thing that we learned in church today looking forward
to New Year's is.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
To live life with more humility. And you already are
doing that.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thanks for joining us. We have you back, I have you
back on again.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Soon absolutely anytime. Otis Winston. The new book is stuttering
to success. You guys, go get it.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Make that your first read of twenty twenty five. I
love you, my friend, and I'm so glad that you get.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
To support me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Who's just walking into this team excited.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Avenue Wellness ladies are going to be with us, So
I'm excited. This is a raw Mini Boots always protected
by the unefeated American made portable alarm system Tatletale from
the heartlet makes Studios on News Radio six ' ten
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