The Professional: A Stevie Blatz Story

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Hi we're here with Stevie in the academy with red, yellow, green and the blue M&Ms

In a world that feels they need to be critical, they would

maybe describe him as odd

But in a world that was nurturing and encouraging, that world would

describe him as unconventional, unique and therefore interesting

Unfortunately, the social circles that he finds himself in tends to be

more cruel than nurturing

Good afternoon

Good morning, good evening

After almost six years of being in entertainment, at 21 years old now

I've realized a few things that I have to change

You know I was gonna do it all

I've currently done over 20 different things

You know an amateur professional or you know right around the professional end

of things and I thought I'd become a professional and-

Things have been a little rough lately and I lost the girl I cared about most

You know I can't do this anymore

And I'm also gonna change my personality a little bit and that's that

So, people can change, just a matter of when you do it

Have a great afternoon

Now are you okay with being filmed?

Because I know she'll probably have to sign a release right?

Yeah I have them in the car

Like I said lots of game supplies in here, we've got signs that we

use for different events

Yeah this is all stuff for my Smarty the Elf shows

This is the DJ, AV, lighting, photo booths, um...

as you can tell there's a lot of stuff in here

Make it easier, wheee

If you ever feel like you want to put on props during a gig

you're more than welcome to

That makes it more fun when the attendant has fun

Photo booth check lists, this is the red booth, this is gonna be a little different

than the black one based on the design

"Be calm at all times," that's the tricky part because there's gonna be

times you're gonna get stressed out

You're gonna have a line of kids or adults and they're gonna be asking you

for photos and you're reprinting and you got four people trying to get in the

booth and you're gonna get stressed

Just take your time and say hang on a second and just kind of go from there

So I would have to come here and get the stuff?

Yes or if you're local or something, if you're local to the event or

whatever I'll just meet you there

Yeah there are times when yes, it's all on you

So if it was that I would come here, you would give me a list of

specifically the colors and whatever to match the event?

- Yes, my mom runs operations - Oh, okay

So she will meet you here

So here we go, same photo quality as the big five, ten thousand dollar booths

Which side would you like to grab, that one?

Fill out that W9, send it back to me, I'll have a check for you, for today,

twenty dollar check for training

And we pay more than any other entertainment company around, everyone

else is eight bucks an hour, so we're already paying ten an hour

Can we take this off for a few minutes?

Mic?

Yeah, I gotta go upstairs for a couple minutes, just-

I could have been gone an hour or two ago!

You are ruining the business!

I'm losing everything because of you!

Thank you!

I lost another DJ company now!

This business is not going to continue more than six more months

I can't!

I owe them, I can't...

Well I lost another job tonight because I wasn't able to go because

of the weather and so the DJ company doesn't feel comfortable working

with me so guess what, gone, done

- Hello? - Hey it's me

So I lost tons and tons of money today, I lost a whole 'nother company who

doesn't want to work with me anymore

So tell me how to be positive Uncle John because I'm about to lose everything the

next few months and be about $30,000 in debt

Well, I don't know how you got into this mess

My mother wouldn't allow me to drive, she wouldn't allow me to drive an

hour or something minutes away

It's raining it's pouring it's flooding it's windy it's lightning, good, stay in the house

All you've done so far is tell me all the bad things that are weighing on you,

you haven't told me anything about what you plan to do in a positive way

I don't know, I don't know

Well then I will talk to you in a couple days

Yep, bye

I just keep getting more and more, more and more things keep happening

and it just keeps building the debt

I'm losing clients, losing events, losing this, that, you know there's

only so much one can take

And I'm just overwhelmed, overwhelmed

Spent pretty much the entire night in the car just sleeping in the back in

downtown Bethlehem, and just got home about 20 minutes ago

Why did you sleep in the car last night?

I didn't want to be at home after all the problems I went through

with my mom and dad last night and everybody screaming at me and

upsetting me and just starting trouble, midnight I said

screw it, getting the hell out

So I just drove and I ended up in downtown Bethlehem just for the fun of it

Welcome to Chik-Fil-A, how can I serve you?

Good morning, I think I'm gonna do a chicken egg and cheese bagel

Mmm

So you slept in the back here last night?

Yep

Cozy

Yep it was freezing cold

Alright

Are you charging it to my mom's card or my business account

Already did, on her card, that she called

Come here a lot?

Yeah I'm here, oh God, 10, 15 times a year

How much do you charge for face painting?

I'm throwing my two-year-old a party, it's Sesame Street themed

Okay, piece of cake, when are you looking to have the party?

It's April 22nd

Uhhhh

What happened now?

She saw the van, so the lettering worked and man, that'd be great if I could pull

in another job for that night at 150 bucks, that would be great, it's local

Never gotten into this costume before, so we're gonna see

How do I put these on?

What up, I'm testing my Batman costume for tomorrow

- It should go right across - Nah, I'm packed to the brim

Hmm, yeahhh

So what, he pays half up front?

Yeah he paid a 75 dollar deposit, TECHNICALLY I was supposed to get

the 75 now... technically

What, you mean the remaining 75?

Yeahhh

So you were expecting to get paid?

I kind of was expecting to get 75 right now, the balance

See it gets tough when you're working with another DJ company and you're not a storefront,

and it's different, like, I don't know

I'm just gonna have to lie to my mom and tell her yeah I got the balance today

and that's it and done and not make a deal of it

Otherwise if she finds out I didn't get the money she'll be like

"are you kidding me, $350 facade?"

She'll start trouble like crazy

Ah, yeahhh

Bunny!

I gotta get my bunny stuff, alright, so

Oh, oh, my bunny!

Oh, oh, my bunny! Oh!

Break a move, break it down, come on

There's an old saying that, if you find yourself in the

hole, the first thing you have to do is stop digging

But Uncle John you know a big portion of the problem is my mom

I mean she's a big problem

I can be as nice as I can be and I can say mom I'm working on it in a nice

voice and she just keeps on going and going and going

Five, ten minutes later, still going on the same thing

Okay mom, I'm literally going downstairs to work, I'm literally

on phone calls with clients

Oh no no no, you got to do this, you got to do that, pay this bill

Today is, I don't know what day it is, but I had the Northampton

Community College job fair today

Other than that we're at the warehouse right now, we're going to be loading up some

concession equipment to go over to the house to be cleaned

This table has been back and forth working events for a couple months now

and has not been cleaned

You know they see the quality you keep, and when you have broken equipment or things

that don't look right they really don't like it

Yeah baby that's heavy

Let's see if Liz got back to me

Now your machine is nice and clean and ready to

pop again another day

Okay this is something that can definitely be in this documentary, for those of you

who don't know, I do not tie ties, I just can't

You have clip-ons?

I used to have clip-ons, and now I went to the zipper tie,

they're awesome!

Check this out, I want to hold a stock in zipper ties

So much fun I love these things

So all of your ties are zipper ties?

Basically all my ties or they're already like pre-tied, and I just like

swing it up, swing it down

Do you not know how to tie a regular tie?

Never really learned how to tie a tie, I don't tie bowties, I use little

clip-on bow ties

Uhhh what's new?

Where do you wanna meet up?

I don't know, what do you want to do?

I don't know, you're the one that reached out to me so I thought

you'd have an answer

Somewhere around Easton, like near the house

I'm sure we're hungry again, well Dan's probably hungry,

well I'm hungry too

Where do you wanna go to eat?

I don't know, text me in the next few minutes I want to finish this

up, I need like 20 more minutes

Alright bye

Okay bye

What?

What did I do now?

Don't be jealous that I have friends, other than a cameraman

- Hi - Hi

- What's up? - What's up?

Nothing

Could you just order first, then you can-

I don't think she's gonna know if the phone is like, if you keep-

Did Stevie spent a lot of time on the phone when you hang out?

Oh my god, all the time I swear to God

He's always saying how he can never have a girlfriend, because