The Great American Stay-At-Home-Wives Conspiracy and Scott Taylor
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Through the art of war B. Scott Taylor battles the Stay At Home Wives, and strategically implements his production company and life. The Great American Stay-At-Home-Wives Conspiracy and Scott Taylor. How this man’s retirement got him in the middle of it all.
Money, sex, and a conspiracy that runs so deep that the very core of the earth has been pushed lower than Paris Hilton’s jeans and now has to ask the organizers of this group for permission to center itself. For a plot of this proportion, it is a wonder that it has gone unrecognized, that is until Scott Taylor (aka Mike millionaire) covert operative, blasted it on to the surface sending the organizers dashing for their silicon breast protectors. I am speaking of Scott Taylor’s new book “The Great American Stay-At-Home-Wives Conspiracy.” Taylor, along with the help of Emmy award winning television writer/producer Dan Merchant, have teamed together to write a hilarious rendition of a man who retires a millionaire in his 30’s and now has way too much free time at the pool. The book’s main character “Mike” stumbles on to a scheme at a ritzy private club in which the stay at home wives are plotting together (in designer swimwear) a plan to get their husbands to dole out the extravagant gifts to them. Meanwhile, their role has turned more from mother and homemaker to that of a cosmetic surgery spokes model that is known more for her automobile than her family. It is funny. It reads like your watching a movie and you can practically here the rim shots as the main character launches a self-torturing expose´ of where you are in life when you work your butt off only to discover that you have become a million dollar pawn. “Mike” is classic and I found myself turning each page wondering if he was going to “win.” The book can be found at www.powells.com. A safe bet would be that you’d laugh out loud at least once while reading it. The book closely mirrors Taylor’s real life though he admits that it has been hugely exaggerated (wink, wink.) Aside from the book review, Flossin’ is also interested in the success phase of Scott Taylor and we asked him to share some insight. What is the insight Mr. Taylor when you come from being raised by a single mother who never made more that $12,000 a year to being able to retire at 38 having had sold your internet company for just under 100 million dollars?
The Insight
“You feel a mixture of complete elation with guilt of why did this happen to me? This is crazy. When you come from a place where you’re dreaming about these things and then they come true, it’s the zone people fantasize about. I remember I was driving back from the airport after we closed the deal and I am like, no way! I have to check my account. How long until the money hits my account? Then you feel guilty because you actually are touching the thing that people dream about and you have the responsibility to not blow it and to not be an asshole, because all of the sudden you’re a hero. Everybody wants to talk to you and buy you lunch. Meanwhile, I’m thinking I’m a jet mechanic that almost failed out of high school. I thank God for the blessing and everything else is for a bigger purpose. Then your friends freak out because when you make money this way, you're not a Stanford MBA that does it with everyone else in your peer group that aspires to that level, you’re the flunky that does it. The flunky who does it has all of his buddies who are basically the same and then all of the sudden you shoot out and now they have to look and themselves. Their wives are needling them saying, look at Scott. Why can’t you make any money? Why are we broke all the time? Why can’t you start an internet company? So then there is this resentment from your buddies, who when you say ‘come with me I rented this yacht let’s go to St Barnes. It’s going to be great!’ Their response is, ‘you know I don’t know if I want to go. Why do you have to be showing your shit like that?’ They feel like you’re putting it in their face because you're trying to grandstand and your not, you just want to give everybody everything. You start feeling philanthropic, donating wings to hospitals and giving money away until you realize that people just keep grabbing it and then your like eerrrt! Put on the brakes. You go through that nouveau riche syndrome of spending money. I feel like I didn’t change but that my friends got weird because now I have senators and governors calling me, you know all the bullshit of the superficial friends that like you because you got money and yet you start to gravitate toward people that have money because they understand. My deal is nothing because the guy up the street sold his company for a billion dollars. You got to kind of get that. It’s a complicated social experience.”
As Flossin' Magazine listened to Scott Taylor, we wondered where his thoughts were on a more abstract scale. What thoughts does a man like this have in regards to the old eastern philosophical queries? We asked Scott to speak to us briefly on Life, Death and Love.
On Life “It’s an amazing gift that we are all given by God and I believe it is our duty to live life to the fullest and to be true to ourselves.”
On Death “It’s inevitable, and we have to be prepared that it can happen at any time. We shouldn’t fear it, but use it as a sense of urgency to complete the things we can while we are alive.”
On Love “Love? (Deep sigh) Love is a very complicated word that means many things. Good bad, happy sad, probably the most complicated word I know.”
The social and interpersonal reflections of a millionaire may be complicated but gratefully they do have the luxury of releasing some of the tension they feel inside by flossin’ the toys.
The Toys:
“I had a saying on my wall that said, fuel the jet. It was a line out of the Larry Flint movie “Hustler.” In the movie, he picked up the phone and said James fuel the jet were going to, you know where ever. Then he is in the suburban rolling up on the tarmac he hops in the Jet and it’s like whoosh! He’s in the air. I was thinking are you kidding me? That was so cool. I’m going to do that someday. So someday came and I chartered a private Jet from Chicago to Portland that cost me something like $30,000, and then it was done. I was thinking okay, that was cool but expensive.” Other favorite toys are the sound system in house $50,000, it’s all computerized and set up for the technologically challenged. The Porsche 911, you can feel the fire in him when he mentions it. “I walked into the dealership looking like a bum and nobody paid attention to me and there was my car sitting in the showroom floor with signs around it saying please do not touch. I am thinking this is my car so I get in it and the sales guys swarm in asking me to please get out. I tell them I want to buy it and they tell me that it is expensive maybe I should look at the Camry. I tell them this is my car, here’s $110,000 could I please get the keys. It was great. I think I got 3 speeding tickets on the way home but it was worth it. The thing that I feel flossin’ about the most though is flying first class to New York, and walking into Plaza and getting the biggest penthouse suite they have, it’s like a 1,000 bucks a night. One time my brother and brother-in-law came down and we walked into this suite, everything’s gold leaf and I’m in my jeans and hat like a lottery winner, it was crazy. We got the Bentley from the hotel and we just went around throwing money all over the place like the nouveau riche.” He shakes his head and laughs, “It was stupid, stupid. You know I just love going out with friends and spending $2,500 on dinner but then sometimes I have wicked buyers remorse and I go whoa! Do I have any points with Delta? I just can’t shake growing up poor most of my life. When I go to Las Vegas, I’ve got friends who bet $100,000 and I go with $500 and if I lose it I am freaking out, I’m sweating and mad. Yeah, so I am a freak. I spend so much money one day and argue over $10 the next.”
Though the toys and lifestyle can be fun, Flossin’ wanted to know if it is enough to make Taylor feel satisfied.
Satisfied:
“If I got shot in the head right now I would die a satisfied man because I am 500 percent over of anything that I could ever have dreamed of. Yet I look at my European friend and think man, they live life. I have this one friend from there who is a contractor and could just make tons of money because he is so good, but he does just enough so that he can fish, drink, and smoke. He’s in control of his life. He’s not caught on the hamster wheel or anything he is just doing his thing. I get caught between that and wanting to take over the world.” He laughs at his inner struggle.
The World Takeover
“So I keep feeling compelled to do things my latest venture is a production company called TAOW. I came up with the name from the book ‘The Art Of War.’ I wanted my company to be something that had to do with the art of strategy. Then I started looking at the book for symbols and the one I took was shih. (The original meaning of shih was the power of the ruler- his control over others and his ability to affect them from a distance.) I went and got the license plate for my car that said TOAW so that when people would ask me about it, I would feel motivated that this is the company that I am going to start some day. So here we are at someday. When my partners came to me with the idea I said, "You know I like it, but the only change I am going to make is that we are going to have the largest production company in North America in five years and I am going to sell it for at least 200 million bucks." They just looked at me like, 'You’re a freak. Why can’t you just do a couple of concerts, and make some money?' He laughs. “Within the first 8 months we got contracts for the Republican and Democratic conventions, which are arguably some of the biggest events you can do." Another big project his company will handle brings us back full circle to where we began. “The Great American Stay-At-Home-Wives Conspiracy.”
The Book
“I felt a burning desire to write this book and it’s going to be a really big deal. I felt compelled to write it when I took time off after selling my company. I would go to the pool and hang out at Starbucks. The neighborhood in which I lived in had a lot of stay at home moms. When I was part of the rat race, my wife didn’t work out of the home so I remember coming home from work, the wife meets you at the door like a time bomb saying you need to take the kids man. I need a break and can we go out to dinner, I’m too tired to cook. Having said that, now I am at the pool. I see all the wives, it's summer, and there are no kids, and its like 9 or 10 in the morning. Meanwhile, the dry-cleaning hasn’t been picked up and there is no milk in the fridge; so my wild imagination started going. I’m thinking look at these wives. I know their husbands, the poor saps, come home and get bum rushed by their wives and they don’t even know. So here I am, behind enemy lines, and I’m thinking I owe it to the fellas to look into this. When did this all happen? Why do guys drink coffee but women Chai tea? Why do you get dizzy after your wife talks to you? Is their some sort of wife speak? Every day I wake up and go to Starbucks for research. One time I was with my buddy who said watch this. It was around 9 am and I see the mini vans and the suburbans pull in like the precession of the Blue Angles. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh into the parking lot. The doors would open and then you see them, the entire house fraus stepping out in spandex marching into Starbaucks. For 3 years I would write down my imagination on this subject and later I met Dan Merchant who agreed to conspire with me to pull it together in this book. Now here we are talking book tours and movie rights.”
This is the flossin’ phase of Scott Taylor, it’s the insight of when you arrive. Like “Mike” the character in his book, I find myself rooting for Taylor to win so we’re going to turn the page and keep our eye on this one. A person that can make us do that is always flossin’.
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