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I'm like, we got to check, we got to max it all together, max it all out, because I just once again looked into the skies as I did the opening. She's got a message coming through. Sorry, I got to put my thing on theater mode. Oh, theater mode.
Now I was just watching a movie. Do you remember Gajit and Spector Gajit? I do, yes, I love him. We're in the future.
Remember, Penny had a little book that was in the future, and then he had this go-go gadget watch. Whenever I see those Apple watches, I always think of... I just get text messages on my wrist, though. It's not that crazy.
I don't know, man. I remember once walking into a hockey room, I remember I was talking when he was like a young guy, and there was a blue Gatorade machine, and I used to say blue drink like Ronglin, A.L and Star Trek or whatever. And I was like, the future's now in color drinks. And I feel that once again in 2020.
Oh, wow. Looking at this Apple watch, interesting. I'm just saying we're living in an ever evolving future. The past, it predicted all this.
What do you think was the sweet spot, though, for that thing you're talking about, Mike, which is like the exact moment when we're living in the future? And it's all coming together? Because right now, I think we've gone too far, and I kind of fucking hate it. You want to pull it back up?
I think the sweet spot was in 2001. Did we stop? Like a daily year. No, the internet was too slow then.
Yeah, I'm going with phone lines. Okay, 2006. The problem is no, right now is the perfect time. If we just saw, yeah, if we stop right now, could never evolve.
We all know AI is going to eventually kill us if robots are going to come on the earth. But right now, AI is at that perfect point where it's like, it's kind of shitty. It's kind of shitty. It can be helpful, but not too helpful.
Yeah, it does make us feel like we're less than. Yes. And like for people who use Photoshop and stuff, it can produce pictures for people wanting to tell them that they're Photoshop. It's really at a perfect level for creativity.
So right now, right now, we're in the best time. And probably in the next two years, it's going to get so bad. Okay, well, here's that. Okay, I don't totally disagree with you because I do like how functional our phones are.
But I do worry about children being addicted to phones in video games. I know our generation was addicted to video games, but now it's like this whole other thing in screen time. And I kind of hate that. I hate it too.
But it's almost like, why delay the inevitable? When we grow up, we're all addicted to our phones anyway. Might as well start at young. I thought I thought I thought about kids.
You're almost behind if you don't give them the phone, because all their friends are going to have phones. Kids with their friends are just like, Daddy, you know, Molly's coding already. And I don't know how to code them. It's a modern way of living.
I like to nine your kid a calculator or something in the 90s. But what I think when you talk about the 2001 going back to then, I loved and I obviously I'm a little antiquated. I love the idea of not being reachable. Yeah, yeah.
It's interesting. We'll talk about that a lot. But it's like, I had a phone at home and you call it. And if I was out, I was out.
And it was like, I don't know, like we're going to get you 24 hours a day. You weren't constantly getting a call. Like we are in work mode all the time. Or in like a mode of reachability, we're always on because of the phone.
So it would be nice to go back to a timer. It was just like, I haven't seen Mike in a couple days. Yeah, I went to this probably happened like 10 years ago. But my friend Eli was teaching abroad and he had just gone back.
But he didn't have a phone. He was like, and we're going to meet up somewhere in downtown Toronto. And he was like, OK, I'm like 130 young in college. Yeah.
And then I was like, yeah, you can't be late or you can't change the plan. Because I don't have a phone. I'm going to be out from the morning. That's fun.
And I'm like, shit, the pressure is. Oh, I feel like if you met like someone you were interested in out in the real world without a cell phone, you fell more in love. This is perfect like Kiss Met or whatever. Like, yeah, I have to make sure I can see this person again.
If I don't get their thing, I'm never going to see them again. But now you just get their Instagram. What was the version of like creeping before phones? Like, I found the house.
Was it just like, what about us? You're going to buy a bride. It's like, that's where it lives. You're just doing a lot.
You would spy out outside the house. I'd ride by my place. I'd be in a tree. You'd hope to.
You'd find out the path maybe to get a crush. So like, oh, she walks this way home from school. Could I happen to be walking that way? Or are you going to try and be in a place that they're at?
I just recall this very, very early memory, which is very embarrassing for me to share with you now. Is that when I was like, great, two or three, I had this babysitter that maybe babysat me like one or two times. And the scenario was Sarah. I forgot her name.
But her locker happened to be right outside of my classroom. I was in grade two. She was in grade eight. And every single morning, just after announcements, but the older kids were at their locker because they started like 15 minutes later, I'd walk by her locker just away from say hi.
I was like, what am I? Walk by? And then one day she wasn't there. And her friend just looks over and just goes, she's not here today, man.
And now, I'm coming out. They knew this whole time. I'm that obvious. Yeah.
That's great. I once got there was two girls I went to high school with. And one of them, I did have a crush on one of them. But I never acted on it.
I never shared my feelings. But clearly, much like you're saying, people must have known that a crush on this girl. Anyway, somebody left a note in her locker at some point. There was some like, a declaration of love.
It was a huge note. It was like an anonymous note. And I got everyone's like, oh, my german left that. My german left.
And to this day, annoys the shit out of me. Because if I'm going to get credit or blame for something, I want to actually write the note. I never read the note. But I'm like, was it funny?
Was it funny? Like, I was going to don't put this on me. So I had to deny it. The more you deny the note, the more it seems like you were the fucking note in the locker.
So it wasn't me if you're listening. I'm not going to say the name. No, no, no. Did you ever do the move where you like walk by someone and then you turn around and you see if they turn around and look back at you?
All the time. Yeah, that was a good move. That was? Well, it was not a good move.
An exciting move. It is. And it's yeah, but it's not done anymore. Because people know they can find you somehow.
The look backs only affected because we know we only get this one fleeting moment. Probably. And you better like take it or leave it. And walking around the mall when I was young, like around seven or eight, I walk around the mall.
And you kind of see if you could get a pack of young girls to follow you. You ever do that? To follow you? That would happen.
I'd be walking around my mom. And some girls would be trailing me. Or sometimes with some male friends, we would kind of be following around a pack of girls. This was everybody did that.
No, this is like, I do remember maybe 11, 12. Like, yeah. Pack mentality was a pack of girls packing. You're sitting up there going to a nightclub these days.
Well, that age is so perfect because you're pre-pubescent. You have perfect skin. You kind of like, I always felt like I was Jonathan Tiller Thomas or something. And then you hit puberty and you're just ruined.
So yeah, that to me was my best time. When we talked about best looking time. I said 30. I lied.
It was actually great. Seven. Yeah. That was your gl I've been reading stories about this Australian guy who used to torture children and film them and sell them to millionaires and everything.
And yeah, I had to like calmer down like 11. So that fear cycle is why we can't leave our children without phones because we have access to constant fear. You know what though? I think I mentioned this when I was in Mexico a few months ago and February we were staying at a hotel.
And town was like a 30 minute walk. Just a straight shoot. And I told my dad to meet at the restaurant in town. So I was like waiting.
And he said, me at one o'clock or whatever. Like one 15 is still not there. One 20 is not there. One 30, he's not there.
So I'm counting on his phone. And I thought, I was like, yeah. I was like, and he's picked on this old man now. Because I got like 77.
And he's like, oh, these guys, locals have picked like, can happen. And there's a ransom situation. And then he showed up and he was like, oh, my phone wasn't on. I'll drop them off.
I'm friends with them all. Any time I book a trip to Mexico, I always get a message. I'll add on all the cartels in town. And they just, you know, and they'll get news stories about the cartel.
But Toronto, where we live every week, there's probably a shooting or a stabbing, you know? Have you guys been following the submarine story at all? I have. Did you know?
By the way, we should say it's still in progress. It's progress. I hope they find them. It's Wednesday.
So by the time this podcast comes out, who knows what. Yeah, you might get this in 24 hours. But as of now, they're banging on the whole item. Of course, I got nothing else to do much.
We pre-dunked. We pre-dunked. I like them. Max didn't even laugh at this perfect bit.
I know. We were sitting at the desk and the submarine came up. And I was like, yeah, it's crap. Like I guess they're banging.
And then she gave me the look that he gives. He's like, what's nothing else to do down there? So the retelling of the story gets off. All right, I'm particularly upset.
I didn't say it properly. But yeah. This is honestly my biggest fear. I'm not sure if you saw Max.
Is that what I'm saying? I'm not sure if you've been fighting on a submarine. I'm sorry. I mean, what if they have something?
And we get saved and then I have herpes or something. But I'm not sure if you've been following the dessert online, our Instagram. But recently, we're trying to get people to get to know us. So all of the people involved in the show had a question to answer, which was, what's the scariest way to die?
And I said, drowning while trapped in a tight coffin. And that's the situation that these people are in right now. I didn't think of that. Do they know if they're alive right now when they're banging?
Because is there any windows? No. I think they're making noise. Is them trying to let people know they are still alive.
Oh, they're making noise from inside. They're making noise from inside. You think they're outside the summer? I thought there's another boat down there.
And there's somebody else's scuba divers. Oh, you can't get out of the water in that. That's too much pressure. I know it's like eating a very little bit of a smoke.
I know it's like a James Cameron dock because he goes down there and went down the river. Yeah, that's why. Maybe the camera that went down there. I can withstand the pressure.
I mean, it's a tricky story to talk with. Obviously these are human beings. I think that it's a terrible story. Why do you hate it?
Why do you hate it? I think because everything about it is depressing. The idea that somebody's going to die in a submarine is depressing. The fact that these billionaires are spending their money in this stupid fucking way, I think, is depressing.
I think it's a good riff. Did you see the video of the guy talking about this thing he developed? No. It's controlled by an Xbox controller.
Did you guys see this video? What is? The fucking sub. It's like the guy that created the sub and does these tours is very easy character.
He's like, oh, we got this. And then it's like, we control it with this. He pulls out an Xbox controller. So it's like the fact that it's in this situation based on this video, assuming that it's real, if I'm sort of describing this makeshift submarine he made, it doesn't seem surprising that they're in a tricky situation.
And there was all these safety warnings in advance that something catastrophic could happen. And they charged $250, a seat. Oh, we got a photo here from Ash. Yeah.
There's the controller. Oh, my goodness. That is exactly like a PlayStation controller. Yeah.
My palms are so sweaty just talking about this. Yeah, I really dislike it. And also, like, then there's like this stuff that's actually kind of like fun and mean to talk about with the billionaires. So, who's at the book?
We had two concerts. We could all talk about that guy. That guy is fun to talk about. So, this guy's, you know, his stepfather is in a very, you know, obviously a dangerous situation that you might not get out of.
What did the guy say that his father would have wanted him to go to the point? His family would have wanted him to go. Right. What are you going to do sit around the house, just be crying?
He's like, listen, Tom is talking with him for the first time in the 20 years. What am I supposed to do? People die every day. Tom does not do it with link one of these two.
Okay, here's the question. Actually, this is where my mind went. Do you think you could be aroused in that situation? Like, if you're the steps on?
No, but seriously, if you're in a Korean area, let's go to both characters. Okay. If you're on the submarine, let's say there was a beautiful person. You're in that situation.
I am a person who gets so petrified. I couldn't. I couldn't get aroused. I didn't do it.
You couldn't agree with that. I couldn't or you... You couldn't. I don't think I could.
Could I perform an extraordinary situation? It's just about me. It's just about me getting aroused. Oh, how long are they down there?
It's somewhere you come to normalize. It's like... What's going on here? You're kind of used to it.
It's like you've thought you've been dead and normalize. That's the thing. You become a customer. That's what's never become normalized.
You're basically on death list. You're not like someone cleaning up. You're scared the whole time. You can't face your own death for two days on end.
It's like you can only think about it so much. And then you're like, so how old would you grow up? Oh, no. You can't do it.
Someone asked me for myself. Okay. If you're listening to all this, probably because it's probably going to end in some catastrophic way and we go up in a joke somewhere. There's only one way it can end.
There's two. No, there's two. There's three outcomes of your mind. There's actually three outcomes of your mind.
If they do get saved, though, this is kind of like yellow jackets or alive. We don't know what's happening. We don't know what's happening. Something's happening on that boat right now, obviously.
We don't know maybe something else. Like, yeah, there might be more of a story than just survival. Because how much food's down there? When you say it's like alive, do you think they're eating each other?
If somebody's already gone, maybe. I mean, you can't cook them. I don't even fire in the submarine. Yeah.
I don't eat that raw. Why? Can you get salmon and Nilla from a human? I don't know.
It's a covenant. Yeah. That's the least of the words. Okay.
So now let's go to the steps on scenario. So you and I probably both couldn't get up there in the, if we're in the sub. If you're the stepson, could you, do you think? I feel like when you are, even if you're like in a low point, if you go out and about and can't get swept away for a couple hours, I think you could distract yourself.
Yeah. Yeah. I think I could for sure. And in some ways it releases anxiety, but you can't be petrified.
You can't compartmentalize. Yeah. The minute that first song kicks in, you're transported back to a different time. Right.
You see your time with the point going to the sketch. It's like if you go to a concert, you can have a, yeah, there's a tweet from pop grave. Steps down a missing billionaire on Titanic submarine shoots a shot with only fans bottle as dressed as your scramble to locate his father. Wow.
It's a tweet going, uh, and the Bria at, it's like a Twitter person who's on only fans. And then Brian goes, yes, please. Oh, this is recent or this is old. Yeah.
And then, and then response to his own tweet is on to quote, please keep my family in your prayer. This is weird. This is so okay. This man must not have money and he's thinking I'm about to get a lot of money.
So he's trying to use this temporary frame in case his dad actually gets saved and then he's back to having to wait for his inheritance. Yeah. Good question. But he was able to get blue, too.
It's cheap. Yeah, but it's only probably like a thousand bucks most. I bet you. Okay.
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We gotta promote. That's what we're here. So we need to promote a show in Hamilton Tuesday, July 4th, Hamilton Ontario, 8 p.m. at the Zoetic.
Where's the Zoetic? On concession street. Are there tickets in advance? You just have to DM us and then I'll put you on a list.
You're not going to sell tickets? I don't want to sell tickets. I think people would come with support. Do you want to sell tickets though?
I think for the Zoetic, you do your family and friends list and then you open up the hundred spots left. Okay. I think people would love to pay $10 to go see the thing. It's a screen.
You're going to get almost 50 minutes of the dessert sketches. Not the whole thing, but an amazing screening version of it. Tickets are only 10 bucks. And get this.
Brody Dawson has agreed to make hot sauce and give it out to everyone in attendance. So this is sponsored by Dawson's Hot Sauce. Wow. That's very generous of them.
What does Hot Sauce do with comedy? Well, you probably don't know this, but Brody helped us out big time. So when we were shooting the basketball rap sketch, which Mike made this amazing hilarious song, and Jillian is essentially doing a rap ending that we shot at the park at the New Street in the Rally Court, but that was a blistering hot day. We had nowhere to store anyone.
We had tons of children around, people looking after the children. And we didn't think it through. We were like, where are we going to put these people? So Dawson's is right around the corner in Dawson's Hot Sauce, and Rob's school is bike repair plays.
And we stored everyone there in this nice air conditioned place. People who do makeup setup, saved us a whack of cash and a huge problem. So Brody's in the special thanks. And he's also, I don't know, just happy to be a part of it and giving out hot sauce.
And if you keep an eye out in the De Niro sketch called Bad De Niro, we're Shane and Bella are on a first date. You can see on the table shot at odds, Max's Barnhampton on the table with Dawson's Hot Sauce. So this is a real family effort. Everything about this show in Hamilton, everybody sort of touches it.
That's part of our group. It's really special. For anyone who hasn't been to a screening of a TV show, can you describe what the night will look like? I've never been to one either.
I don't know. Okay. So I think you get in. You're excited.
Maybe you grab a beer or some popcorn. They serve drinks now at theaters. So you can get a mocktail, a real cocktail, some popcorn, some treats. You sit down.
I say a few words and then boom up on the screen. How many minutes of comedy are we talking about? 40 to 45. We're going to play all of episode one and then an amalgam of episode two of some hand pick sketches that we think will play well in the theatrical environment.
I love it. Then after a Q&A or what are those? A panel? Yeah, you do a panel.
I don't know. We're kind of springing this on you, Max. You don't even know about this one. So Max may or may not be there hosting a panel.
I didn't know if we were talking about Monday. We don't need people for Monday. I don't want random pod listeners coming to Monday. There's a big Toronto screening Monday which we will talk about eventually.
We're going to talk about that in an eventized way. That one's not open to the public. That one's not open to the public. I just want to hurt people.
I feel like they think now that Monday is the good one to come. No, no, no, no. If you live in Hamilton and you're interested in being a part of the show and seeing what it's all about and being part of the kickoff of the show, I should say, is that we have a spend for you on the mountain at Kodiak. What's going on?
Kodiak. We'll put it on our Instagram. And you can come to that. We are also having an event on Monday, July, June 28th.
July 26th. June 26th. June 26th. We're not going to realize we are watching our lives.
We're going to give you a message to tell the people what it is. Oh, actually, June 26th. Monday. It's going to be.
You can't come if you're listening to this. We're telling the people because we all of the internet will be fun. We'll be there. Bruce is coming.
We'll see the photos. Tune in. Maybe into live. There we go.
We're doing two screenings. We're doing this one, which is largely for press, industry people, creative buzz. Let people see the show for the first time in a environment like that. People who worked on the show and industry people.
The Hamilton one is really, that's for the real ones. Open the public. We'll be there. Like Shane said, chatting with the Q&A after.
We can talk about the show. That's where our extended family will be our friends. If you're in the champagne, you heard us talk about them over the years. I'm sure a bunch of them will appear at the Kodiak.
It's called theater in Hamilton. It's actually called the Zawitic. And it's also right near a brand new billboard featuring our very own Shane Cunningham. It's true.
And the first time with the Billy, producer. Mate, Daniel, by the way. Just a moment. He came through and he's so great because obviously he's a Jack Wall Trades.
He edits a spot. He shoots much more stuff for our Kels, video for our Kels. And then he got this assignment to do these sort of glossy, high concept photos for the desert, which are going to be used on billboards and the cover art for the show itself, etc. And I don't know a lot about photography and there's lots of different styles of photography.
You know, this concert photography, there is wedding photography. But that sort of like high end glossy art photography, which requires a lot of photoshop editing, of editing is a whole other thing that takes many, many years of trial and error. And it's a very intensive artful project to take on. And he hasn't done a ton of this in his professional life at least, but he fucking nailed this.
Oh my god. Like, is it Matt Barnes level shit? I have no trust in anyone else that Mark Myers. I'm very codependent.
Very dependent on him, usually to trust someone I need to be able to kind of yell at them. And I'm not comfortable yelling at Nathan. So I thought he was going to not do it this well. And then we would just have to live with it.
But he went above and beyond. And it turned out twice as good as I thought it was going to. Yeah, so good. So if you have any photography needs, or like multimedia videography podcast editing, Nathan Nash is the guy to talk to you because he's so good.
Yeah, it's amazing. No, he's truly great. And that showed up to Nathan because he does it all. And he does it all exceptionally well.
So we haven't really talked since we announced the show though. I know we've been talking about two years on this podcast, but we announced it last week. And we wrote the trailer. Trailer's out 167,000 views.
That's made out of those views. Yeah, that's amazing. It's funny. It's like the trailer is very well done.
But doesn't even give you, I just can't wait for people to actually see the show. It's like, you know it's going to be a fun, Raw looking sketch comedy show. But I'm excited for you to be in the theater and watching it. Because there's nothing like being with the captive audience, all watching the same thing, shared laughter.
It's going to make you think the show is even better than you think it is. Yeah, I think it's awesome. But I am being tested a little bit after the show when we do this panel. Oh, yeah.
So we're using it. Amy Dory, who is our publicist, she's seeing how we do fielding questions. And based on how good or bad that goes, we're either going to have media training or we aren't. So I want to impress her.
And you want me to serve you the questions before. That's why I messaged you. I'm like, let me know because sometimes I'm really good. Other times, I'm terrible.
And I never know what I'm going to do. What do you want to be asked? Well, that's what you want to do. Just let me know.
And then I can tee up some funnies and make it seem like it's off the top of the door. Cool. So it's like a late night of Christmas. Or maybe some emotional things.
I don't know. I don't know which way. I'll go. I'll let you decide because I don't want to dictate too much.
I'll be like, what was the state of your marriage while filming? OK. I'll reply to nothing. But then it's a no.
But yeah, this is a big deal. It's also, yeah, so cool. And I really want to say this. I'll say this on stage too.
I feel so lucky to be involved because I know you guys did a line share of the work. And I got to work on music and actually doing all this organizational stuff, especially when it comes to the roll out of it all. But to be able to plot my name on the show that some of you guys have spent thousands of hours on it is a real honor. And I'm saying to say that completely seriously, I'm very honored to be part of it.
We're honored because we say eight original songs because you made eight original songs. Each one is better than the next. The theme song is some of the best work I think you've ever done. Thank you.
So it really set the tone having you as a part of it. And obviously, that helps create interest for the show. So we're going to get way more eyeballs because of your involvement. And yes, I from your talent and your music and your name, obviously, which helps the show in all the ways that it does.
You both, Ash and Max, Ash here, are amazing, executive producers. You're working on behalf of the show constantly in multitude of ways. And I think that's what's so great about this whole sort of endeavor is how much everybody's pitching in. Because you could easily just throw your name on it and then walk away from it.
No, no, it's so important. You are so engaged all the time on everything with the launch and all the details and sort of next steps. You know, what do we do after this? Because you're sort of famously people who think not about what's happening in the media, but five steps down the road is where your brains are.
I was actually talking to Mark about this a little bit about basketball last night because he drove me. And I was like, OK, this show is we should be super proud of it. And because it is awesome. It's so well made.
It's a show that looks like it was made for $15 million, but we know the actual budget of it, which is a fraction of that. And it is going to be like, I always find like the thing that you eventually, the thing you hear about like a director or an artist or producer, whatever, is usually the ninth thing they've done. So this is like, and I know you guys have been shooting running commercials for decades now. When it comes to like creating a TV show, like, this is going to be the first of the six thing that we do.
That's the other thing that people actually like. Really see. And by the way, everyone sees the show. And maybe there's a world where people do see the show.
That's possible. It's possible. It's possible. It's possible.
It's possible. It's possible. It's possible. But I'm like, because when people see it, they go, oh, holy shit, like, Shane's a star, Jill, he's a star.
Bell's a star. Oh, who directed this? Oh, who edited this? Oh, who wrote this?
Oh, wow. These, this team can do a bunch of stuff. They have a quality thing. Everybody wins.
Yeah. You want to be they want to who made that? How do you make it? You know, it's like a show case for something.
It's hard to work with. It's like, that's a huge part of it too. It's like, you know, we've had a good time working together, but also with the folks at Crave, like Crave have been amazing partners. You just, well, it's like it's building, too, right?
It's like, you know, it's like we have this one with Crave. Obviously, we've created the mic, how much in conversation? So we've done a show that was a different type of show in the way that we we produce it, even because it was very much produced with Bell. And it was like, three of us sort of decide what did we want to do.
And obviously Justin was very involved in that. And then this is something that was like outside of the family, meaning you they're involved, but we took it away and did it, sort of like bottom up, whereas we use the infrastructure here to do the other shows. So it's kind of cool to learn how to do different shows in different ways. And it all just becomes part of the journey along the way.
And so like you said, you're at the seventh thing. And it's like, oh, it's like, we're talking about Matt Johnson. And I was like, wait, I'll just talk about Grandma. You know, and it's like, so it's like, people are going to discover Matt Johnson, either maybe on Black or maybe three movies from now.
And they're like, oh, we did this thing called Nirvana the Band of the Show. And it's so far, listen, it's a little bit more fun. I guess. Yeah, go for it.
Local comedy creators, Matt Johnson, Jamicarela, who are known for in my world as the stars and creators of Nirvana the Band the Show, which is a very funny comedy that was on Bysland. I really like, you really like, they were guests on the podcast. And they've done a bunch of other stuff. But the thing that is getting a lot of attention now, this is like, when did Nirvana the Band the Show come out like seven years ago or something?
The thing that's getting attention today is Blackberry. This movie about the rise and fall of Blackberry, which I just saw on Monday at Varsity. It's been in Toronto Theatre's for like a over a month now. Awesome watch.
It's an indie. So like maybe you haven't heard of it, maybe you've seen the posters, Ryan's a Canadian made film about a Canadian story. And but they don't get that show without Nirvana the Band the Show and his relationships obviously, you've seen all the funds and he learned how to work through the system. And now he's going to get something, I would presume.
That's going to be like, we're going to turn on that. We're going to open up Twitter one day and we're like, Oh, Matt Johnson's making a movie with Adam Taylor. Whatever, you know, Steve Source producing his next song, whatever you consider with the highest level of success in the industry. It's like, you need those steps in order to do it.
That's why he was listening. He's got to make shit. Like make shit. And then you get to make more shit.
And it was funny. I was giving our friend Brent a whole recap of the Blackberry story. Did you know the Blackberry story? Like that?
I knew like a lately. Yeah. But I thought they did an awesome job of retelling it and describing how insane Jim Balsley is. And you know, what's the answer?
I believe so, yeah. It looks like Balsilly. It looks like Balsilly, but it thinks Balsilly. He cranks people in the movie.
There you go. And do you see it? Mike? I haven't.
No. It's one of those things I think we'll do really want streaming to. Like in any of those bio pick kind of. I haven't been to the theater since I was in this, which was a fantastic film.
That's not terrible. You would love it. It's actually good. It's one of the best ones I've seen in like two years.
You made me laugh a lot. It's so good. Wow. It's all about basically Cas have nine lives.
Honestly, just one of filming. That kind of intentional planning is so cool. Like when it comes together, you know, because it's like, you know, they probably shot a sequence. Like, OK, we're going to settle the film down in these scenes because we're at this point in the story.
And these are going to be more like the snap zooms. It's where the office and please don't destroy whatever. Like that style of filming. And then you settle into a more cinematic sort of thing.
I haven't seen film just on you guys about it and whatever. But when you set out to make something like that and you intentionally do it, and then it comes together, and it's effective and everybody's like, that's the dream. J bear show. That was the best acting in a movie.
Yeah. Yeah, because yeah, J can be very signature J sometimes. And like so of J, but he actually kind of embodies whatever the news name is. And the co-founder of the theater.
Steve Wozniak of the story. Yeah. I just heard the knobs. Yeah, yeah.
And then we saw Bruce McCullough a while ago live and Mark Little Open with Laura Silva. Yeah, Laura is in this film as well. Laura is in it. Laura plays the center.
She's great in it. He saw Market Basketball. He was in her basketball league. How is he?
Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he's very fun basketball league. I'm really, really enjoying it.
I think we talked about it recently. Yeah, we did because you got injured. Yeah, I haven't been able to play. Which I think is helping the team chemistry because it's shortening the bench.
Yeah, we're going to allow more minutes. Mark Myers is very happy because he gets to play game time. He loves to have time. Yeah.
We got a dominating win against Bob with his team last night, which felt really good. But you know what's funny? Because we were talking about our injuries. And Mike got injured and what broke your ribs or something?
Yeah, like cracked a river, bruiser rib. And then you laughed at Mike for getting injured. And then you got injured. And then my head was laughing at both of you.
Yeah, I was like, and I'm younger than you guys. I'm like, I'm not there. I'm not there. I'm a straight-up.
So we're playing this like football league. And it's seven on seven, co-ed football. And I have the kind of confidence that would suggest that I think I could be a quarterback in the NFL. I'm like, if you just like gave me a good O line, I get those and passes.
Like, I got that in me. Anyway, our team is like one in six. Well, you like six? Six one?
Yeah. I don't even think you're tall enough to be in the NFL. I could be. All right, go on.
But actually, maybe after the season, I don't think I could be all right, because we're one in six. Like, we don't win any games. And we were playing. And the other thing about being a quarterback is if we have subs, all kind of go off on defense.
I'm actually not running around a lot. And on offense, I just get to stand there and throw the ball. And I'm not actually playing defense this time, I intercept the ball. I do a couple of people.
I have the open field ahead of me. Mark Myers is actually feeling it. He's watching it, he's not happening. He's like, his hands are in the air, like we won the game.