Please Watch My Emmy Winning Movie, The Pez Outlaw on Amazon Prime & Peacock. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Best actor at SXSW.
It's My Story.
ebay link to Pez Outlaw Collectibles.
Who knows what will happen, but with the help of Larry Mason we are now looking at AI to help write the Pez Outlaw Book.The plan would be for AI to look at & digest everything that I have written into a proper book.With the help of others as proof readers. No idea how it will go but Larry & I are optimistic that it might at the very least be a beginning.
Here's my problem. I can write a thought & express it as say a 2 page post, but my mind jumps around to much to put all these thoughts together as a book. Add to that I am a bit Dyslexic, I can't spell for poop & have no idea of sentence or paragraph structure.
So AI???????
Larry Mason Wrote the following in his words, The rough draft of a Pez Outlaw Book Forward.The unfinished story of Steve GlewThe term outlaw brings to mind various images. In westerns you can spot him right away because he almost always wear a black hat. But in this story, the black cowboy hat is exchanged for a green buck hat. The outlaw here is Steve Glew, a gnome-like unassuming man with a unique laugh that sticks in your mind. His adventures are so wild some would almost think they are fiction. Getting passed intel like you would see in a spy movie, searched at gunpoint by border agents, … seriously? Follow Steve through his ups and downs in life, the highs and lows in his business adventures, and how love is really the glue (Glew) that binds. But unlike David and Goliath, sometimes the underdog doesn’t win. Sometimes the underdog simply endures. Going deeper into the Pez Outlaw story than what the documentary covered, you will better understand the impact the Pez Outlaw made and why the story just might not have an ending - yet
The Pez Outlaw Movie is on Peacock & Amazon Prime.
My whole life I have been in search of something that gives my Life meaning. Who would have thought that a Pez dispenser would be the answer to that question?
I have never understood Life, let alone fit into it. We do what we must to find our path. The fact that I deal with Mental health issues & substance abuse has of course hindered my journey.
Anxiety being around people n depression cycles began when I was 15yrs old. I turned to alcahol then drugs in an attempt to fit in. It worked for a while, but by 19-20 I'd pushed that further than you should.
That's when I met Kathy, from here forward she will be refered to as Mom. Mom was my salvation, she spent the next 25yrs putting me back together. Rebuilding a tortured soul. She never asked why, she just did the work. Now you all might think n by todays way of thinking, she coulda done better. That's absolutely true, she could have. Thing is that kind of love n work comes back to you. My soul purpose in life now is to take care of her. No questions only love.
Mom has always indulged my excentricities, allowing me to find my way. this led to obsessions of various types. Collecting/hoarding. Toys, Cereal boxes, premiums n finally Pez.
Dogs n Houses
Before we moved out to the farm in 1975, where we still live. Mom n I lived for a time in the house next door to where I grew up. Dogs have always been a big part of our lives. By 1974 ish we had somewhere between 20 n 25 dogs. All were sight hounds because we were into amature dog coursing. Dogs chase a rabbit skin on a string in a big oval or straight line.
As you might imagine the city of Lansing had something to say about that. I ended up in front of a judge trying to explain myself. Story of my life. Anyway, I promised the judge that we were trying to find some land n move out to the country. The judge said Okee Dokey. Get that done n I will dissmiss these charges.
So that's how we ended up on the farm we live on today. 48 years now.
The Farm
For the 1st 20 years here on the farm we lived in a really old farm house. Joshua (my son) n I reroofed it n wrapped it in platic during the winters. We burned wood for heat. I musta went through a wood stove every 3 or 4yrs before I burned then up.
During those years I was an accumulator. Every nook n crany had treasures stuffed in it. I had a 2ft square on my side of the bed to get in and out. Treasures gave me purpose n gratification. Like the girl sings, A Million little Band-Aids.
During those 1st 20yrs here on the farm I worked in town as a macinist n a welder. Basically I was a Glorified Blacksmith. We also got down from 25 Dogs to 5, but we aquired Cows, chickens, rabbits, pigs, sheep n finally goats. A horse or 2 but that part came on hard later.
Horses
With the New House n Pez Money came horses.
Men you are really messing up when you fight your partner in Life's Bliss. If I could do it over I would encourage Moms desire n ownership of horses back in 1975. Here's my rule about a horse farm. If you want to survive you need 1 more horse as a paying boarder than you own. Right now 6 of the horses on our farm are ours n 7 are boarders
We raised our children in that drafty, God Awful old farm house. In 1995 when we let the Fire Department burn it down for practice Mom n I just drove away. We really had a serious love hate relationship with that old farm house. Our attachment is n always has been with our land. When we got the New house in 1995 it was a dream come true. Albeit a modular home, but who cared it was brand NEW!
Prior to 1992
1992 was a change in our lives, before that we did not have much money, Bills were hard. Mom n I have seen quite a few hard times with money. The Carter years were especially hard. Then came our worst from 2002 to approx 2019. But from 1992 to 2002 we lived our dreams "PEZ MONEY"
1975-1985
for the 1st 5yrs on the farm we were finding our way. Homesteaders/Back to the Earth. We transitioned from Dog racing to Back to Earthers. Gardens, Burning wood for heat n all sorts of farm animals.
1985 - 1992
That 1st decade on the farm was very hard work. Poor mean Muscle to survive. By 1985 I needed more imediate gratification to sooth my demons. I've always collected Cereal items. I made a huge mistake though I was drawn to cereal premium, probably because as a child with 4 brothers I didn't get them all. Anyway I should have collected cereal boxes as I do now not premiums.
But in 1985 I branched out to obsessively aquiring Toys. Ussually closeout toys at Toysrus that I believed were good. Peewee Herman etc. Loved The Odd toys that I was drawn to.
2 Early Adventures Blazed The Trail for what became Pez Outlaw. These 2 collectibles are where I went to school for what became the Biggest thing I have ever done in my Life. SO FAR!
McDonalds Happy meal Toys n Cereal Boxes & cereal premiums.
Our Presentation was so extensive n Massive that The Folks at The Mcdonalds convention thought we were actually this special sought after group From McDonals Corp. This became a recurring theme for almost the next 2 decades. Joshua n I always put on eye popping presentations.
The great Cereal Premiums Caper.
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The other project or scheme that I had going around the same time was cereal premiums. Mailing away for the free toys or items you got for sending in upcs. You know the limits they now put in forms on the backs of cereal boxes. That was me. In a one year period I redeemed over 30,000 items from cereal companies, mostly Kellogg's. After doing it for about a year I realized there were no limits to how many toys you could send away for. So I started buying upcs from the refunder ladies, by running ads to buy them in there news letter. I also began working weekends at 3 recycling locations. Through all of these methods and a small inheritance from my grandmother. I accumulated a huge amount of upcs, along with the required original cut off the box forms. At this point I put my plan into action. I spent every night for months filling out forms and licking stamps. 
The avalanche of stuff that started to arrive caught our little post office by huge surprise. Finally they just started calling, saying we have 5 bags of stuff. Can you come and get it? This went on for months, resulting in that line on Kellogg's forms that limits how many you can mail away for. As I said, that was me. I don't think until that 1 year period anybody had ever really taken it to that extreme. Crazy is easy.
Volunteering at recycling centers is also the reason I currently have more early 1990s cereal box listings on ebay than anyone else. I used to bring home bags and bags of cereal boxes every weekend. At this moment approx 1/2 of all cereal boxes on ebay are my listings. I have also bought cereal boxes from sales reps and the printers who originally made them for Ralston etc. In the past year cereal boxes have helped quite a bit. 
On a personal not. Recently on a cereal box collectors website it was stated that I bought all my cereal boxes, because I was speculating. Yes I felt the boxes had value. No, I did not buy them. The majority of boxes I have were acquired volunteering at recycling centers. Several of them years at a time. I personally love cereal boxes. I am obsessive but not a completest. So acquiring thousands of boxes I love was what you do, naturally.