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This is for flyover country. But we don't call it that. Yeah. No, me and you are flyover country. Me and you are We're the Heartland. Ah, the Heartland of the Pod. Finally. Finally. Not those coastal elite shitheads. Those fucking bastards. They signed the souls to the dead No we're director raised uh on uh on corn husks and uh and alfalfa . The two of us. That's right. Now you're um Yes, Keith. Before we get into we're here to talk about your movie. Yeah. And anybody who clicked in knows that 'cause it's the title. But you did it for me with Nick Again. So this is you know the week it's coming out. Tit for tat. It's coming out this Friday in theaters. It is, yeah, April 24th. Go s go get tickets, guys. It's actually genuinely very important because opening weekend really matters. Also, this movie is so fun to see in theaters. I can show you. Okay. I don't have any idea. I don't think You think this is just domestic this weekend? I think it is. I think it is just mystic. But it's going to go as wide as possible. So it will be like around. It's going to be in like at least 1,500, possibly 2,000 theaters. So the so the pot will get back to, we were in the middle of kind of the John Hamm episode. We had done Shironnie 2, Ronnie and Clyde. And then we wanted to hear from John Hamm. We wanted to talk about some of the other shorts or uh sketches rather. Yeah. So we'll get back to that. And this week I did the pop star screening and I was the only one because Andy is still shooting his movie and you had dates on either side of it, you know, in on the east coast and New Orleans and stuff. So you couldn't super bummed not to go. How was it? Was it wonderful? So thank you. There was a lot. I mean, when someone yelled Quay Army, almost the entire place did it. So clearly it was a bunch of people that will hear this. And it's like I wouldn't say it was everyone though. It was like maybe forty percent. And so for the the or elite, maybe half, but like that makes it so you have to then be like, hey, for those of you who don't know, we have a podcast. Well so this was moderated uh by by one of the two Daniels, Daniel Scheiner . He's just the best for doing it. Uh for people that don't know the Daniels did like uh everything everywhere all at once and the turn down for what video? They're pretty I like that those are your two touchdowns. Those are my two And the turn down for what yeah. I mean those are they did a lot of amazing things, but those are two of the standouts in my mind. You know, they did their farting corpse movie as as everyone calls it, of course Swiss Army Man. Swiss Army Man's fantastic. Anyways, but he moderated, which was very sweet, and I would say it was 60% of the audience, but it felt like a 50%, and then he was starting to try to explain Quaid Army and I was like, just don't bother the Yeah. They the and the ones the enough of this people know. But it was so fun. And it was at this theater in LA called the Egyptian theater that Netflix bought a few years ago and renovated for like seventy million dollars. And it's a single screen like old Hollywood theater on Hollywood Boulevard that I had never been in before. They're definitely gonna make their money back on that one for sure. Uh but then there's a a company or whatever you'd want to call it called American Cinematech that does the programming for the Aero Theater in Santa Monica and the Los Feliz three, which are both very small theaters, kind of on either ends of parts of LA and then this is kind of right in the middle and they do amazing like I'm just so glad that things like it still exist. 'Cause kinda like New Beverly and the Vista to the Tarantino ones where every day you can check and all of a sudden it's like, oh, they're playing the fugitive today or uh some old Oh dude, I mean you you came to the R LA premiere uh at Viddyts for for Oh yeah, that's another one. Video that does amazing. They had just played beaches. What is the slope like? What what is the rake like at the Egyptian? 'Cause it matters so much. Now having gone to so many different theaters around the country for over your dead body coming out uh uh this Friday, April twenty fourth, uh like the the rake matters so much. It's almost like when um Brian was telling us about low ceilings and how it really affects performance for when we were doing a live show. But like it's the same thing with theaters where like a low rake is so nice for theaters. It just like laughs like it's it feels so punchy. Oh my god, they're the best. Yeah. But what it did do is by having normal seats, not recliners and stuff like that, and having them right next to each other and with not a big, you know, slope in front of you, rake. What's another word for it? I don't know. The uh grade. Grade, yeah, exactly. Like it creates a sense of community between the audience way more. Like too? Yeah, you hear your neighbors. So the Egyptian was somewhere right in between. It was actually really good. Yeah. Because it wasn't like the theaters we grew up with where it's almost flat where you really could get screwed with somebody tall in front of you, especially when we were kids. Yeah. It was a little steeper than that. But uh I think that's what you want. You want like a little bit so you're right over the person's head, but it still has that sense of community 'cause you really feel it. Like movies like that. Yeah, with movies that are asking for an audience to interact with it, you know, laughing or being scared or whatever, yeah, it makes a huge difference. Yeah. Uh the weekend Naked Gun came out and I went around to those theaters. It was not a bummer, but it was interesting going to the ones that were the most luxurious for the audience where the everyone gets their own big recliner. Yeah. Because you're in an auditorium that should fit two hundred people and it's that it's like seventy five chairs. Yeah. And you really even when it killed and everyone laughed, it didn't feel like the other theater down just even in the same It's 'cause the it's cause the sound is going in a straight line so if it's going right over people's heads you're actually not hearing the person behind you laughing and it really matters. It's so like it's so fun to see like a comedy or especially like with a movie like like ours, like traveling around the country or Popstar or anything that we've made, like it's so fun to see the reactions like it. Like South by was amazing. Like, you know, we won the audience award with that. But like the one in Chicago was so fantastic. I just went to one in Orlando that was incredible. That was recliners, but it was more of that kind of rake sort of thing. So it was like it was almost like being in someone's living room, honestly. And that was oh God. I'm really bummed I missed the pop star one though. You know what was you know it was interesting just talking nerding out about theaters for one more second. So the night the the Saturday night or Friday night I can't remember when I did the little going around LA looking at different theaters, I went to the Universal City Walk and there was a screening that was like let's say an eight o'clock and an eight thirty, right? And so I kind of peeked my head into it. I introed one and then I peeked my head into the other. And um they were such a different experience. Like the people that were in one theater was like a 300 seat or 250. They were both sold out, but it felt sold out. Do you know what I mean? Like it felt like a giant energy because it was a lower rake and not the um huge seats. There's still big padded seats, but not the ones that are like creating all this space around you. And the screen was huge and it was properly um masked, you know, like meaning the movie, you know, is is 240 and it was black all around it so it felt really clean. Mm-hmm to certain theaters and it's almost like when you're watching on TV and you can see the black like grey letter boxing around it because they you can still see it. And then we had a bunch of friends, uh their whole family had gone and seen it in the neighbor ing theater, like still the universe they're in this AMC, the same complex. So they would think they're having the exact same experience. But theirs was the other way that I was talking about with the like the reclin ers and the bad screen and the sound didn't look as good. And it's interesting because it's a different experience. But all those people would leave saying we saw it at the same theater the same night, but they didn't really even have the same experience. And you should see it regardless of what the theater uh experience is like. Because here's the thing. Yeah it's not the same as streaming for any Yeah You're not wrong. All right, but wait one more thing and then we'll really get into it. This is a good segue, actually. So I'm watching Pop Star . It looked great, by the way, and sounded great because this theater's been redone. So it was playing off DCP. It's the first time I saw with an audience since the premiere. Yeah. It was a real treat. I wish you guys had been there. Yeah. And it gets towards the end and it's the scene where Andy has put on prosthetics and has gone to s visit you at a nightclub and people have been making fun of him. Sarah Serbin said he kinda looks like a Matthew Modine if he got like stung by bees or something, et cetera, Nazi propaganda. And then it gets to your part and it turns into Jason Siegel. This is what you want to start with? Well, this is the transition. This is a segue. It's called Segway you say you look kinda look like Jason Siegel right now and he goes, Oh my god, yeah, like Sarah Marshall, like from forgetting Sarah Marshall, and you're like, Oh my god, I love that movie, I love that movie too. Yeah. And then he's kinda like, Hey and he starts doing an impression like Sarah Marshall, I'm oh I'm gonna forget her, kind of and he kind of does these like kind of dopey little looks that actually do forget feel pretty Siegel esque in hindsight now, having just seen Siegel a lot in your movie. And we worried about it after we did. We like, God, it's really funny. We're saying we like him and we like his movie. We do like Siegel in real life. We didn't know him that well, but we had all interacted with him at various times. And Jed Apatel who produced Pop Star, of course produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall and made Freaks and Geeks. So he's worked with him since he was a child. He had yes, he had discovered Jason and worked with him since he was a child. Exactly, since he was a teenager. Yeah. So we really just were like, Judd, can we is the what's going on here And he's like, No, I think Jason will be fine with this. And we were like, Do we should we like show it to him? Like, what do we do? We don't want to make him bad for no reason. It's not it's uh not even our style of joke, really at anyone. And uh he just kinda said, nah, just roll with it, it's fine. And we just kinda went, okay. But it made us uncomfortable exactly for that reason because we're not usually we're not we don't I mean obviously more so now, having worked with you . It's a little bit like your um your Pam joke from uh I think it came out. Yeah, from that hit from my hit song. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Just uh years later when you're like she was like that's why I wanted to make Nick again because I love that joke so much. Well to answer your question, me and Jason have never talked about it. Not for yeah, let's let's get a voice note right now. This is the time. I sent a voice note, but it's not about that. But let's I do uh if I'm being honest, like what I thought was gonna happen was because I was so geeked that he was gonna do the movie, it was so such a perfect role for him. He's sympathetic, but like obviously he can go dark. He's a great actor. He can also do like comedy. Obviously, incredibly well. Like for all those reasons, I was like, fuck, this guy's perfect. And I was like, he's gonna say yes, and then right before the movie is about to shoot, he's gonna be like, Fuck you. Like I know what you look like. He didn't look like me. I'm bailing on your shit. Gotcha. Bing bong. That'd have been a great prank. But you know what? It's not too late for the second half of that prank. We don't know. Yeah. He's probably doing some talk shows this week. Maybe he'll be like, you know what? Yeah. Maybe he'll show up in prosthetics that look like you. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. He's in a lot of prosthetic makeup in this movie and I will say like he looks he gets so fucked up he wears his arc of his of his character on his face and body in this movie and so there's a ton of like crazy special effects makeup and by the end he's pretty fucked up. He's a little swollen. And I was spoiled. This is a spoiler-free um interview today. Yeah. Yeah. But you can see from the from the trailer. He gets he gets a bit he gets pretty torn. His face is a bit swollen. Yeah. We'll try to do no spoilers, but it is some other things. Well then no the what's good about this movie though is that there's so many twists and turns, it's very hard to like ruin everything. Because this movie goes in way . Well let me say the nice things. Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry. Yeah, you go. Ah, there's no way. What if you don't like and it's really nice that What if you don't twists and turns though? You know what I mean like then I'm just gonna go. What if you're more like someone that wants to be on the Autobahn and just kinda Aaron Powell You like mundane. The mundane. No, no, fast. It's fucking dangerous, but it's just a straightaway. I want my story points to be to be exactly where I think they should go, hell there's a McDonald's. I've been to McDonald's before. Yeah. I'm trying to think of a good movie that just goes from A to B. That's it. B's the end, A's the beginning. It's a straight line. What's a good road trip movie? You know? I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Well no, they still always put twists and turns. These fuckers, these Hollywood elites . Not us. I don't like the twists and turns. That's why we're corn fed. Support comes from Home Chef. Home Chef is helping all of us. Reset with simple recipes, fresh ingredients, and meals that feel balanced and achievable. It's the easiest way to get back into a routine without resorting to takeout. You know who else use? Home Chef? Jack Quaid. That's right. 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Alright, so let's let's go back to the beginning here, Yorm. We'll decide, you know, how detail we want to get. But basically, um, how were you approached about this movie in the very like the very, very, very first time it came? Did you have a general meeting? What did you do? No, you will appreciate this because this came about because Tommy, I'm gonna say his last name is Wir cola because I wanna like really put some Norwegian stank on it. I hope that's how you actually say it. But Tommy, uh, who did Violent Night, he's done a whole bunch of other movies, he was on set with my producer for this movie, Guy Danella, and apparently every day he was quoting McGruber and Pop Star and Hot Rod. Like over and over. And Guy like who is is a real go-getter of a producer, like I've never met anybody like this dude, was like, let's call him. Let's let's call that guy. Like, let's hit him up and so uh he he called me we had like an hour long conversation but he like out of the blue like hit me up we like vibed out for like an hour the Venn diagram of what Tommy does and what I do is uh similar in that like Tommy's like a action comedy guy and I'm comedy action. So like there's there's a bit of crossover there. So I was like, yeah, like I love Tommy's stuff and da da da and so then a week later guy called me up and was like, hey, I don't know if you'd ever would you ever want to do a remake And I was like, no, like absolutely not. Like I have no interest in that. Um he was like, well just just just watch this movie that Tommy did. He's a couple years old. It was like I think right before the pandemic, which is even crazier to like do a uh recent remake. Um but it's he was like, it's on Netflix, it's called The Trip. I watched it and then I he was like, and just read read the script. And I couldn't get it out of my head. The script is by Nick and Brian of uh Britannic, the sketch comedy troop. They're really fucking funny dudes. And I couldn't get the movie out of my head just because of kind of what I'm talking about with the it doesn't move how you think the movie's gonna move, which I really appreciated. So the structure of it was really exciting for me. How different these are genuine questions that I've never asked. How different is the script that you read from the original Finnish movie? Which was another part of it that I was like, oh man. Even the comedy's the same? The comedy, okay. This is the major difference between the two films. And it's actually, I think, really fun to watch the the difference. Obviously, I want everyone to go see ours first because it's coming up Yeah yeah yeah but um if you turn on Netflix there's this cartoon actually that you could watch it's called Digman. Oh yeah Digman, yeah, check that out. Yeah yeah. Oh Prime Prime. Yeah. Also, if you're on Prime, check out uh Last One Laughing. Fucking great show. Um anyway, but like uh but this isn't actually in the theaters, guys, so you can't see it streaming. So um but the major difference though between the two movies is like the original the comedy is sort of coming out of a very dar k place. Like it's a very it's a very emotionally dark movie, which is exactly what Tommy wanted it to be. I love the original, but it's also like that's not me. And it's not really Nick and Brian and like an so with I wanted the characters to be more sympathetic than they are in the original. Like the original, like they're gonna murder each other. And they it goes hard in this in this version for sure. But I really wanted to earn I don't want to ruin anything, but like but their relationship and the arc of their relationship in in this version. So that that was like very instrumental in like hiring Jason and Sam, like the chemistry between the two of them. Um there's a big shift in this movie in that uh the Juliet Lewis character is a major difference of like the addition of her and it really creates this sort of symmetry with the relationship stories in this movie, which I think is very different than the original. So it's it's both very much the original structure. Again, nobody has seen it but Tim Olifamp and Julia Lewis are are a couple are a a different couple in the movie. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So that's that's a major difference. And then I think that like the other thing is is just I'm pushing the comedy. Weirdly, like in making a remake, I didn't want to make the like the American, like this is a softer version. So it's it's it's a more violent movie and I think actually weirdly gory . Um but it's all I'm all pushing everything into a more comedic kind of realm. Well this this movie was like a tri ck of like keeping all of these different tones alive and then stitching it all together with the comedy and like creating a cohesive tone, which I was like that was like the challenge of the movie. That's why I wanted to do it. I'm very proud that I think that we've actually achieved that. And honestly, like one of the big things was like, can I make something that I think is as good as the original? And I think I think we achieved that. So that was really the reason why I wanted to do it. I never watched the original 'cause I'm I'm on team Yorma, you know what I mean? Oh yeah, thanks. I mean you should. You should. It would be fun to watch the original. But what if I like it more though? That would throw me that would really fuck me up. Sure . And then the funny part to me is that so it's a Finnish movie. Yes. Tommy is from Finland. Well no no no. Tommy's Nor Norwegian. We shot it in Finland, yes. Well your movie. No no no, but what about his? Is his movie Norwegian then? Just say that. That's clear. Okay. So then so and it's also about family drama. So they're very they're kind of like sister movies. Anyways, the Finland part of it, then where does Finland come into the picture at all? Aaron Ross Powell So one of the production companies, XYZ, had done a movie with Karen Gillen, who's a producer on this film, executive producer on this film. And the way it came about, Nick, one of the writers, is married to Karen . They were shooting a movie for XYZ in Finland called Duel. And then it came about that the script was up. They had rights to the script, and they asked Nick and his partner Brian to write the script. So like so they had a connection to Finland already. They loved shooting in Finland. And then when it came time to shoot this movie, my options, because it's a cabin on a lake, there are I think 17,000 lakes in Finland. And when it came time to to share my two options for budgetary reasons were uh Winnipeg and Finland. Well, wait, well you should say the movie takes place in upstate New York. Yes. The setting is like it starts like their where's their house supposed to be when they're at home? Where neighborhood in New York where are they supposed to live? Oh oh oh I mean like I was always thinking it was it was like Astoria uh in Queens, but like so they live somewhere in in the city and then they're driving up to a cabin in upstate New York somewhere. And so it had to look like that. Yeah. She's an actress. He's a sort of hacky director. She's like doing off Broadway stuff and he's like they're it's about a couple who is uh on the outs in their relationship and has lost their way, and they both decide to kill each other unbeknownst to each other. Trevor Burrus, calling them hacky feels a little harsh because He's well, okay, not hacky. He's just his life has not gone. Where he wanted to go directory. But directing commercials is you know, for some people that could be the whole dream and that would still be Pepsi had was fine. I did. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Callin' him out. Hey. We'll bleep him. All right. So Finland looks a lot like upstate New York. Oh, and by the way, when I was driving from Helsinki to where we shot, second big biggest uh city in uh in Finland called Tempere, which is like two hundred thousand people, perfect, like perfect location. Like we found this amazing cabin. It was so awesome. Cabins in in uh Finland bizarrely don't have running water a lot of them or bathrooms, which I did not understand at all. Aaron Ross Powell So where do people is it like outhouses? I don't know. There was no outhouse built into this cabin either. So I have no idea where So they're like camping, indoor camping. So you have to And then how do you get water? Is there like a pump thing outside? I don't I don't know. They had a sink. I d I never really even tried it, but there was no bathroom in in this cabin. We did a like a build on stage so like the interiors are all on stage there. But yeah it was it was a fantastic are there proper sound stages in that little city in Finland? No dude and we were the options that we had for sound stages we ended up in like a big warehouse that they would use to store boats in the winter. That makes more sense. And so they so there were some boats in our warehouse at one point. And then one of the options was we were going to be in a pick leball stadium. Like that was one of the places that we were Yeah. It's like where they film the All-Star. Have you ever looked at any of the photos of when they shot Home Alone where they built the stage? No, no, where is that? It's uh it was in Chicago or outside you know suburbs of Chicago and it was a um I love that you know that I think it was a high school and it was in like the gymnasium and in the swimming pool and stuff. John Hughes just wanted to like be right down the street from his house. The whole movies in Chicago, right? And then so and the house, the real house from the exteriors was. Yeah. So they just had to find somewhere, but of course, there was no sound stages. Wonder if they did it like right close to all their other locations. Yeah, I don't know. Uh everything was pretty close. It was like it was very easy to get a round and uh and honestly, like everything in this movie just sort of fell into place and a really and then honestly shooting in Finland was like it became like destination wedding like where it's like because we're all just stuck together. Like it would just super bonded the cast. I had way more time to like be able to like actually rehearse things, um, which is great. And then and we like we all spent Thanksgiving together. Um Yeah, no one has it is the I always am pushing the shoot in LA so that we can sleep in your own bed and see your family and stuff. Yeah. But then that is the benefit of it's the same as when we did hot rod in Vancouver. When you force everybody to go somewhere when nobody knows anybody, then it's summer camp and everybody just totally gets to know each other in a really different way because nobody has anything to do. So on Saturday afternoons like well I'll have a barbecue at my house or let's all go see a movie or dude, on on a Sunday, I literally appealed like T Tim off and was like, hey, let's make this little music video. So I made like a 30 second music video with him. I was like, all right, all right. It's a perfect use of time. Guys, Yorm here, special video message . I know we don't usually do that. Uh the movie is coming out Friday. I'm so excited about it. I really, really hope you guys see it in the theaters. It would make me so happy. It's such a fun movie to see in the theaters. I've been traveling around the country showing it to audiences. It's it's been raucous. Um, we won the audience award in South by. I'm just gonna keep saying that. It is really such a good time. The cast is awesome. So please see it. And uh IFC has sponsored our podcast this week. Thank you, IFC. Uh so we're gonna show either the trailer or a scene or both. I'm not sure what we're showing, but take it away. Please go see it this Friday, April 24th, over your dead body. All right. Love you guys. Lisa , we're going up to the cabin this weekend, did I tell you that? No. Uh how are things with you, Lisa? Did you not rush the garlic? It needs to be sliced. Yes, Jeff! This could be a mess! Lisa's planting a big hike by herself up into the mountains. Okay . It's also supposed to snow up there. Which feels even more dangerous I think you were gonna cut me up and sink me to the bottom of the lake. You wouldn't have felt anything. Oh, okay. Because I am considerate. Yeah, you're real considerate. Should we renew our vows? 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Mm-hmm. Dream Team. New habitats. Zootopia has a secret reptile population. You can watch the record-breaking phenomenon at home. You're clearly we're gonna at Zootopia 2. Now available on Disney Plus rated PG . Let's talk about cast if you've got some good voice notes. So Siegel we we, you know, fans of, but we had kinda met him over the years. And then I had him uh like I met him like playing piano at Chateau Marmont. That was like w like where I first saw and and said hello to him. I he would never remember that. But yeah. And I was like that guy's really good at piano. I went to the if you recall, I went to the set of knocked up before shooting Har od to just have seen a movie set since I had never seen a Yeah, do we uh we might have talked about it on the hot episode, so forgive me uh uh the quids and quads, if uh uh that's paying respect for you know across the pond quaids. Yeah, I got you. For the quids and quads. Uh oh wait, l let me just take a total detour. I texted you guys. I saw a comment on the YouTube video from last time and I thought it was really worthwhile. So this is uh an episode isn't going to be complete if it doesn't mention Alf. And I know the other guys aren't here, but I just would be remiss not to talk about we were going off last week, Yorm, about what if it turned out he wasn't an alien and that was just the dad's lie 'cause he had fucked an Ardvark and brought it home. I mean everybody that's listening to this knows everything I'm saying already. It's obvious. And he told him like this is an alien to his family, but really it was just his bastard child who he wanted to raise now and have in the house and he made up all the stuff and then this was the comment. It was if in the finale of Alf, the mom has a Kaiser Sose style scene where she sees Melmack plate in the cupboard and puts it all together, realizes it was all a lie that her husband had made up. She reads the back of the plate and goes, Oh god. Melmac? Wait, maybe this thing wasn't an alien . I like I like thinking that the show Alf wasn't weird enough. Maybe my husband actually smoked maybe he smoked Maybe he smoked f and fucked an art work. Maybe that's more realistic and brought home. The eighties was a better decade. May maybe it was possible. Make sure you beep what I said, of course. As is as we do. All right, that was a good little break. It felt important. I saw her at Vidyots at the LA premiere from afar. She was uh nine months pregnant. She's the fucking j am. I've been a fan of hers. I mean, I'm sure I had seen her in something else, but our friend Matt made Ready or Not and Ready or Not 2. Yeah. And when he made Ready or Not, I was like, whoa, where did this woman come from? She's so funny and likable and gorgeo us. Yeah. And I mean obviously just the rarest find of a movie star. Yeah. And I know you talked to Matt before casting her and got the, you know, the full throated oh yeah, she's amazing. I was I was genuinely nervous for how good looking she is, the of like if this was gonna make sense and da da and then like couldn't have been more of a you have to hire her from Matt. Like she's unbelievably she's just like such a fun person to be around, but like does the work. She's a great actress. And she she really, really is. And like it was, it was honestly like that was one of the other things that I really enjoyed about doing this movie is that there are quite a few real like sit in a a moment acting scenes, like I hate to say real quote unquote acting scenes, but like they're and to like leave the camera on actors, not interrupt , like let scenes play out, let people have facial movements and process things and blah blah blah because there's a lot going on in this movie that's like backstory that if you watched it a second time then you'd be like, oh, this is a different I don't wanna ruin anything, but like um but yeah she's she was phenomenal. She's also like so fun and nerdy. Uh like Sam was obsessed with and probably still is obsessed with uh Prince of Persia, the video game. And her and uh Jimmy Warden, who she is married to, wrote Cocaine Bearer, really fucking funny dude. We were we've actually uh for party over here, we're trying to work with him on a show, um, and his writing partner, but they both love Prince of Persia so much that they had to get two different video game systems because they couldn't share because they wanted to play at the same time. But I'm like, oh my god, these fucking wonderful nerds. Is there a new Prince of Persia? I used to play it on a computer at home. way back Really? Like my parents' computer, like I'm talking about in the back high school. Yeah. Is there a new life? And better and better. I mean like as you know, me and my son got obsessed with Breath of the Wild, like fantastic. Link has certainly changed over the years. Yeah, oh yeah. Look at this. There's uh Prince of Persia, the lost crown from January 2024. I wonder if that's the one I mean, will you ask her which one she likes? Yeah, I will. Or her her apartment, but it was always very funny to go over there and just hear the sounds of Prince of Persia in the background. And of course the Jake Gyllenhaal film version is one of her favorites. Oh yeah, for sure. Let's just put that out there. Also, Sam, like like just talking about her work ethic, she she I don't want to put her on blast, but she like a psychopath, like prints out the entire script and then pastes it on her wall. So it the other thing about her apartment was that just all of everywhere. Like it's like homeland. Like she's like Claire Danes in Homeland, like no, this leads to this, leads to that. She had the red string connecting all the moments. Yeah. Well, and then talking about Jason Siegel and his work ethic. Like so Jason lived outside of town and he had this place that was like in the middle of nowhere because he's like he's a romantic. Like he loves being by himself, like experiencing things by by himself. And Jason would record like a lot of actors do that like to learn their lines, he would record the whole script. So he had a version where he recorded him doing all of the whole script, doing all everyone's parts, listen to that. And then he had a different version which was everyone's lines except his and he would do the entire script walking around and like honestly when he first got to Finland he told me that he was like he got up at like three o'clock in the morning I don't know he was like on a time zone thing or whatever. But he walked from like three to six in the morning just listening to the script. Like talk about dialed in, like it was amazing. That's such a um kind of psychopath almost. You know what I mean? Yeah, but that's such a treat to have actors that are taking it that seriously and know all their stuff. Yeah. So you can just turn the camera on and they do it. Yeah. I mean like I th I think the only potential disadvantage is that they're so used to doing it a certain type of way that occasionally you have to like, you know, jar things a little bit because like they're so dialed in with the lines, but they may have like now the worn the grooves a little bit. That's interesting. Like you can feel that a choice that they made of how to say it is now become calcif like you do three takes they're identical because they've already done it forty times, a hundred times at home. So you're it is I'm sure you've had this like this experience before, but like there was one scene, it was a dining room scene that we did and uh even it happens with with me watching a scene where it's like you do like, you know, five takes and you're like, those are all great. And then you have to stop and think, like, what would actually be happening in this situation? Like there's one where he wakes up and he's been taked , which is in the trailer, so I'm not ruining anything. But like, but he wakes up and like I hadn't really given him the note of like play the grogginess of waking up more. And then that is the take that we use for like the first half of the scene. Like I only got like one or two takes of that version. But it's like always having to like It's surprising when there's something that obvious that because everyone's been sitting with the script for a while and everyone's in a rush. Yeah. And you're like, all right, let's bring it up. And then you and then what I noticed, even just was shooting this pilot the other day with um Jake Johnson and Keith David and everybody. Um , like they would do two quick takes and then look to me for like a direction, and I'd be like, yo, I need to process this in my brain for a second. Yeah. Like it I don't necessarily have immediate like especially if you can tell something's not quite right, you don't necessarily know the answer immediately. Like sometimes I have to sit there because it can be as simple as like, oh, you're just doing it too fast. Like it's a groggier scene. And sometimes you know it right away. Yeah. But sometimes it's a testament to your actors, right? Because we were working with pretty highly calibrated actors who have done this for years and years and years. So you are like taken in with like, oh you're doing this very well. Yeah, you can get you can get tricked because they're too good. But but honestly like a big a big thing for me and I I weirdly I really noticed this on when I was doing the Pepsi commercial, the Super Bowl Pepsi commercial with Ben Stiller and Steve Martin, because we had so little time to work with them together. They had like half an hour. And it was one of the moments that I was like, I was very proud of myself for being like, stop the cameras, let's talk, let's figure this out like together and slow it down. Like who gives a fuck about time if it's wrong? Yeah. It was like really like those moments where you're like, stop, nobody stress out. We're gonna get there, but sit there, figure out what Yeah, well stiller's always gonna be happy to stop everything to to figure it out. But like but all these people like Those are those are for just killer professionals. Like Oh, un unreal. You're never gonna get bad takes out of them. You're just gonna get different takes. No, but but but it's even beyond that to me, because like there's a moment and we haven't talked about this, but like uh we were talking through the the fur there's a flashback that happens. And it was Tim's suggestion to be like, it would be neat if at the start of a flashback there's something that's being said that's sort of a mystery of what I'm talking about that is resolved by the end of the flashback. And I was like, that's such a fucking good note. And honestly, like as a director, I feel like I'm constantly having to be like, like listen to the good ideas. None of this should be about your ego. It's like literally like work with the people that have been doing this for fucking years and years and years. And like, you know, those ideas that come up, I mean, you know, it's it feels like such a blessing and you 're so grateful when you're like, fuck, that's so much better. Like, thank you for that suggestion. Yeah, it is the it is the best. Did when we did the naked gun one, did we talk about the um the scene where the chargers for her the electric car are all getting ripped out of the ground? I think we did but but but tell again. It's just w so in the script all the chargers get ripped out and the the the cables are getting ripped out of the ground and then they go up the wall just like they do in the movie and then they rip a big hole in the wall, right? Yeah. But in the script it said police squad swimming pool on the wall, like recreation center and swimming pool. And when the wall ripped open, you know, like 10,000 gallons of water would spill out with a bunch of pricey joke. And and with a bunch of cops, like big Chicago looking cops in like little bathing suits that would like f spill out onto the ground like fishes, like and flop around on the like fish. And we really went down the road like they had figured out how we could do a tank and how we could do it there, but then they were like the stunt people can't all be in the water because they could drown while we're getting ready. So they'd have to kind of, you know, like jump, dive into the water as it's spilling out from the sides, and we'd have to shoot kind of from the side. And we were just going through all this and it was going to be impossible to reset. Yeah. And then we were like, God, what else could it be? And we hadn't like spent a lot of time thinking about it, but very quickly, uh, Bill Bretsky, the um production designer was like, What if it's the prison? And I was like, Oh my god, that's so much better on so many levels. So much better. That's and I and it's one of the rare there aren't that many ideas that came from outside me or the writers. Sure. Dan Doug, but that's a huge joke. But they happen. They they happen, you know, somebody and and it was like, oh my God. There's all those moments that like that happen where it's like somebody like brings you a prop that you're like, oh fuck, that gives me an idea for this. Like maybe it's not like the idea that you're gonna use, but like it it becomes another idea, which is is great. Did like I I I got a question on that. So did you always know that for the credits you were gonna have the sort of swim pool because that sort of like would cannibalize that a little bit. Like, you know, 'cause at the end of your movie that you go to like the retreat where it's like the you know I wouldn't even call it. Oh I can see the cops there. Yeah, no the weakness. At a sandals style resort, but they were by the beach. And you know what? I hadn't really visualized how the other cops would look there. So it would have yeah, you're right. Seeing it would have been like a similar thing. So e better on that level too. Even better on that. But also just infinitely re more re peatable. You know, obviously we had to rebuild the wall and break the wall again. We did it twice. Yeah. And it's so much funnier, just like of course. And it makes more sense. Makes more sense, but it also it like is with his character of like you want like Liam's character to always be causing more chaos. Yeah, letting out criminals is so much like making cops fall out of things just annoying. Letting out criminals is the terrible complete opposite. Yeah, it's just was better on that's great. Like it made our other one just suck. I was like, oh, ours sucks. That's it. And it was like I felt dumb for not having thought of it. Yeah, it's it's the best when you're like you're like, how did we not come up with that? That's what it was. It was such a no -brainer. We felt like idiots. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Support comes from Aura frames. There's just no way you could properly thank your mom for everything she does. Aura frames come pretty close. I just cannot sing the praises of aura frames more as Mother's Day gift. Got one for my mom. 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I wouldn't say this is people sometimes use the word horror, and as somebody who doesn't like horror movies, I don't quite put I wonder like Matt would really know all the like talking about horror versus thriller. To me, like I would just say this was dark dark comedy with like, you know, it has horror elements, I guess, but like or horrific elements. It's a thriller comedy is what I would say that the part it takes from horror is like it's a little gory than yeah you think it's gonna be. It shows things a little more. Yeah. But it could easily like if you just didn't show those things, then it just becomes an action comedy. Yeah. Because to me, like and I might just be wrong and so I'm sure the comments will do it, like horror gets something a little s supernatural. Like even Science of the Lambs is called a horror movie. But when I watch it, I'm like it's tripping. I mean it's definitely scary. Yeah, yeah. It's very sc it is scary. So I think it's a pretty heightened world too. Like it's But it's still because it's in the real world it feels more like a thriller. Well the other thing the other thing about the word horror, because I'm right I'm right there with you like I'm squeamish about a lot of stuff and like one of the things I was sort of proud of because there are some gory moments in this movie is like my mom and my mother-in-law like have laughed at some of the most horrendous parts of this movie. Like and I've had quite a few people be like, I'm not usually able to see Gore and like because this movie is so funny, it like was totally palatable for like people that were not like super . It was shocking how big the laughs were on like I won't describe it here necessarily, but on something that if I just described it is just horrible. Just you know, somebody being let's say stabbed in the head. Yeah. And the audience was like, ha ha ha ha just ing as if it was the funniest thing they ever seen. But it has to do with how much you know those characters don't want to be doing that. Yeah. And how they can't believe this is what it's come to Well that that is, I will say, one of the tricks and one of the things that not surprisingly, because especially for like people like you and I, who are always trying to sort of push the comedy, was like one of the things I had to watch was just like always sort of maintaining the reality regardless of how crazy the reality gets, which is like this movie goes to crazy places. But it really was important for me to be like if I was pushing the comedy too much and breaking the reality that I was like I had to pull back. Like there's even uh as you saw like a lonely island joke that I had to take out. Oh right. Yeah. Wait, well that's out. So you does it ruin anything to say what it was? No, it's uh it's not. There was a moment where uh where Timothy Oliphant is on a boat and then he and he's just singing to himself, I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat, motherfucker. Wait, whatever happened to those guys, they still do skits. Yeah. Yeah, that would not have that would have felt self indulgent. But also are you putting together deleted things and stuff like for iTunes bonus features? Yeah, and I'll say the thing I'm most excited about, the bonus features , is uh but again, see it in theaters. I don't know when this shit's coming out and streaming. Maybe we'll never put it on streaming. Yeah. It could easily never come out, you guys. Go see it this weekend. Over your dead body. Um but our mutual homie and uh guy you scooped many years ago doing the wash, David Neednogle. David is our like go-to VFX man. He did 300 shots for this uh this movie and he for us. He did an awesome series of like there's a lot of like pretty violent gags in the movie and he does a plate like version of like how to do each of these things. So like a thing like I'm not gonna say what what is actually happening but like but there's a series of like this is the A plate this is the B side the like these are the like blank plate that you need to like make this gag work and then hilariously so we're gonna put all of that on the on the extras when this eventually comes out. But maybe it never will. Um is that he's doing it with his like daughters. So it's like his thirteen year old girl like like getting their head like well I'm uh Yeah, yeah. That's how he's always done it. We had we had videos of his daughter doing in Popstar when uh Andy's doing the quick change thing where it's the uh cloth tube that goes over his body and when it comes down he's wearing a you know a cowboy outfit or whatever and then he's naked. Yeah. Obviously not . He didn't with any well he didn't of the wardrobe either. It was just with like she's in a blue outfit. Now she's in a red outfit. It was a proof of concept. Yeah. But it even back then it was videos of his daughter. We've se theen th othering so much more funny. Yeah, because they're violent. It's super funny. That's hilarious. Doing doing all the action shit was this. Because like for me, I was actually weirdly like nervous of like the real action stuff. 'Cause it's like eighty seven North, like who did like John Wick and like uh Bullets. Yeah, the producing team that came in, at least you knew you were with people that have done you knew the comedy part, but they've done all the action stuff before. You you did this with Nikki Gun of going through like the the process and then I'm sure it was very similar in that like you're adding comedy within that like so you're getting all the benefits of these amazing fucking choreographers and they're they're mocking up stuff and then you're adding like, I want this to because you're sort of trying to like it's almost like the comedy's enhancing the action because it creates these breaks in it where you're getting like a real laugh, especially for your your movie, obviously, but you're getting like a real laugh and then you're going straight back into the action and like one's enhancing the other. So it was really fun for me to like work with these super professional in the same way it was, I'm sure for you for for Naked Gun. It was it was such a rad experience to like you know, one hand washing the other kind of thing. Yeah, but you guys also had so little time. How many days was the shoot? This is thirty two. Yeah. And there's there's a lot of gags and just hard when it comes to action stuff because depending on the stunt, things can really slow down for safety reasons and and for effects reasons. I mean if you're spraying blood then you take two, whereas is it a whole new change of clothes to get the blood off and it can slow stuff down a lot. We would just veer towards it's a cartoon. So like it'd be like, so should his shirt rip? And I'd be like, nope. He'll just be perfect again in the next shot because you know, he's wearing that suit. I mean, you barely notice, but Liam's wearing the same suit the whole movie, basically. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. He's just in that gray suit all the time, like a cartoon character. Like that's what he looks like. Exactly. Like that's just what he wears. Dude, that shit is big swing comedy, dude. That's awesome. He's in he's in a uh blue suit at one point a little bit, but barely ever. And it was even him. He was like, Why don't I just wear this the whole time? And you're like, Yeah. I think we changed his shirt underneath, but barely. And I mean when they go on the date when he gets home, you know, then he's in like the sweater and stuff but basically but days are passing in the movie. You know, the movies are in the montage, like when it's uh uh meant to convey days and and Yes. And and he's on a in a cabin, so he's in snow clothes and cozy. But like days are passing. Then when the montage is over, he's back in that suit, even though it's the next day. So did he get it dry clean? I mean, for this, for this, like, because there's so much special effects makeup, and they're so good at being like this injury, because it was always like the scene after that you would actually see what had caused the injury in the previous and you're shooting out of order sometimes. So you're having to create the being Yeah so you like so you proved that all in the beginning of like this is this like this is cause this is damage, this is like what happens the but it was it was happening chronologically in terms of like you see the fight and then in the next scene you start to see the swelling from what happened. So they have to be so on point with like how that other and then the only thing we actually shot out of order really because obviously like I wanted to shoot as m as much as uh you can in in order was it was so cold in Finland that we had to shoot some of the boat there's like a bunch of boat stuff. And Jason gets in the water for it was freezing. Like freezing. And he was so game. But that was the only thing that we actually had to like do. And it was to the point where like he wanted to go again. We have a crane like zooming at him. We almost hit him with the c with the crane. And like and he was like, Let's go again. I was like, dude, no. Like I'm looking at this. We got this. Like you're see he's wearing like a wetsuit under his clothes? Yeah, he's wearing yeah, he's uh I think they call it dry dry suits. or something But yeah. I've never heard of it. Maybe that's for the camera ops. I'm I'm not sure. Anyway. But you know, he's still freezing when he he gets out. I mean it's it's really but we had to like do that early days 'cause it was genuinely d dangerous for the actors. Alright, well now it's time for me to do the pitch of selling this that you keep trying to do. Oh. And it just comes off crass. But as I'm not a classy dude. Hey Keep, I'm not a classy guy . But here's the re the reality of it is you made the whole movie, it's gonna come out. And the truth is people already like it, Yorm. And so we were texting the other day and it's already you already did your job really well. Thanks man. Anything else from my opinion in my pep talk to you is gravy because people love it. Those screenings were fantastic. This is a side note, but I rem I always remember Sandler talking about the movie Spanglish how in the theater, even though that movie's more drama than comedy, it's a James L. Brooks movie, he was talking about how it would just get these enormous laughs. Yeah. And he was like, oh my God. Like those are laughs that are bigger than the ones I get in my movies where I'm trying to be funny all the time. And it's that thing of like when you're in a movie where the story is working so well, it can get laughs that are actually, you know, like pop star and they're gonna have to work so hard for every laugh because that's what it is promising you. Whereas this movie's getting just as big laughs the way that horror or drama can. Yeah. Because you're being pulled into the story and then are so with the characters that the littlest thing. Yeah. Like just the way she says something to him about the like you know, way she's cutting garlic is a huge laugh, even though it's like just the littlest thing. It's not a written thing. It's awesome when it when it's a like a a visual joke too. Like there's a moment in the kitchen where she's like tiptoeing at one point and like it kills. Yes. And it is like uh just a visual thing. But they're like not jokes, so to speak. They're just character moments, things blooming from character. Yeah. Uh anyways, that was a t a tangent, but it really was fun to see this in a big theater. I guess that's my pitch. And it's just uh would be great for your to not be like super bummed after it comes out even though like my that's the real pitch. My guys my pep talk to him is still true, which is I'm saying he already has one. He set out to make something and it came out good and it doesn't matter w truthfully when people see it. I mean that's not what he wants me to say. But in ten years he'll be doing a screening of this the way that I was just that one for Popstar. And he should have been at that one too. But point being is it's already done. Like if he can jump forward in his head, it's already done. But that's still Well, the reason the reason I I think it is really important to like to see it though is because whenever t people talk about like comedies, I'm like, you gotta go see 'em so that we can make more of 'em. You know what I mean? Like it like it helps everybody. Yeah, but and you just don't wanna get sad. Oh yeah, like okay, that so that's the real pitch to the quads is that don't make me sad opening a chance. Yeah, helping out to not be sad. Because that's the thing. Like ultimately, you know what I mean? It's like famous people go on talk shows every week and say, please go see my movie. It doesn't really mean anything because you're gonna get to make another movie because it's already good. Like in general people can kinda say like I just hope it does well enough that they let me make another, but I can tell you you can already make another 'cause it's already good. And you're not gonna make more money from it doing good. So what's in it for you is to not get sad. Yeah. It's just your mental health. Well, and by the way, like how how sad did we get on all of the things that we've got. Well that's what I'm saying. The heartbreak of hot rod, you don't want to feel that again. Oh God. Hot rod, fucking McGruber, fucking pop star. Exactly. All things we were incredibly proud of. Exactly. So just super friggin'. He's been through a lot. He's been I've been through a lot. He's been through a lot. He's already on every pill you can take. So he's not gonna he's not gonna be able to mask it with drug He can't just take a bunch of like sedatives. He's at max drugged out already. There's nowhere to go here. Yeah. This is all true. Thanks, Keith, for that rousing endorsement. So that's well everything else sounds, you know, Pat. It sounds like whatever what is somebody gonna do? Go on and not tell you to see whatever it is? I mean that's the whole job. But this is real. Well go go out there and see it before it sells out, guys, because uh you know, this is uh hot off the the hotcakes press. Yeah. This Friday over your dead body, April twenty fourth. If you want him to get sad, I'm gonna be so sad for him, guys. Can I play you uh Jason Siegel's uh voice note? Yeah, yeah. What what did you ask them for? Well I okay so I got I got a voice note from Siegel. I just said, hey, are there any remembrances that you had from the and I will say that I disagree with this voice note . All right. You've already listened to it. Okay, good. Yeah. And so I'll I'll give you my response after we listen to it. All right, let's roll it. Yeah, I guess the moment that stands out most to me from shooting is um the trust that I had established with Yorma, my director, who I knew would um never betray me in any way. And we did a scene where Sam and I are laying unconscious on the ground having just fallen through the ceiling. And we're about to roll , and someone said there would probably still be some wood falling. And Yorma called out, Do we have any wood? And uh someone said, Yeah, here's a two by four. And then Yorma came up and said I'm gonna drop this on your head and I whispered I don't want that and then Yorma said okay and then he called action and then quickly whispered I'm gonna do it anyway. And then dropped a solid piece of wood on my head with a clunk. And when they yelled cut, I had never seen Sam look so appalled and shocked in my whole life. And then the guy did it again.xt Ne take. But wouldn't change it for the world. Love you, Yorma. Bye. Okay. Yeah, what do you mean ? Yeah. Okay. I'm just gonna read you my rebuttal of what I said to to Siegel after he said that which I wrote back to him. I said, This is very funny. It was a pr it was prop wood and very light. So you are entirely inaccurate and a liar. But this is a very funny re retelling. He said, I haven't been able to write since since from the brain damage. I said it's good that you were paid so little that you can't afford a lawyer. Good for me at least. That made me laugh. I assume you laughed and then coughed up blood a little from your never healing internal injuries. Love you, pal. Love you, pal. That was our exchange. So So it was a prop. It was not just prop wood. Really dramatic. What a little whiny. Yeah. And he probably told Sam it was real and that's why her looking aghast might have been true. Like I can't believe he's doing that to him. Yeah. Okay. So he's trying to turn turn the rest of the crew against you is the point. I mean, I will say that Sam did seem kind of a cast. Yeah, she might have thought it was real and 'cause I did I because I did whisper that I'm just gonna do it. Yeah. Um all right, here's Sam's note. Okay. Hello podcasting gang . Yom asked me to tell a little tale from the incredible Over Your Dead body shoot. And I think one of the best and the silliest memories I have is the trailers that we had had very thin walls. So you could sort of hear everything anyone said if you were like next to them. And Jason's room was next to mine. And so at lunch, they would bring us these incredible meals, shout out to the catering. And I suddenly start hearing Jason in his trailer going, oh yeah. Oh, oh my God. Oh shit. That is good . And and And it was sort of it was day one of shooting, so I really didn't know. I was in quite a predicament. I was laughing but also didn't know whether to say like hey um it was a private moment I can I can hear you when you eat and this happened every day every lunchtime I'd be like trying to have a nap or something and I'd just hear him having a wail of a time eating. The wheel of a time. Um yeah, it makes me giggle. And then eventually I had to be like, hey, dude, I could fully hear you. And then he just uh instead of stopping, he ramped it up even more. Like Um, yeah . I'm sure Jason will tell you about the time that Yorma dropped wood on his head without consent a few times. I hope he tells that story. Haha, that's also a fave. Anyway, um it was one of the best and most fun times I've had on a job and yeah. Love you, Yoma. Let's do it again. That was wonderful. Well I had a follow-up question that I wish she was live, I wanted to ask, which is well I guess it's a question for Siegel, which is if she confronted him, I thought she was gonna say he said like I've been doing that for you as a bit, but instead he just got louder, like as if he went, Oh that's funny, I'll now I'll do it even louder. But what was he doing it for before? No, he's doing it because he's in the moment. He's a man, he's a Zen man in the moment, enjoying food. And like he told the story kinda on Kimmel, but he went to like a food court and was like eating a donut and he was like doing the same, like mm, yeah. Like by the way, this is in fucking Finland. So he's buying self stowing by culture. Oh hell yeah. Oh that's good. But just by himself. Just to give you like some context, my first AD Anti, like my impression of him was I am Auntie, I'm doing a joke. No, I'm serious, no I'm doing a joke. He was like a beautiful looking navy SEAL, like tacked up, like dude. Like he was just like so stoic. Like that movie Sisu , like which is about like perseverance against all odds no matter what, is like that's Finland, 100%. So h to have a big dude just being like, oh yeah, this boot is good. It's' likes like it that is not normal in Finland. So he got stopped after like eating at this place by like this woman who was like this security guard who was trying to take his car keys because she was like, You're clearly super high. And he had to be and he had to be like, No, I'm American. No, I'm just this is how we are. We're this dumb all the time. When we enjoy something, we're gonna let you know. I just like him being alone, being like, oh shit. Oh yeah. By the way, catering was super good. And this is the first time I've ever had catering where there was no options. They just made you one thing. They just made you a meal. Oh, that's really so good. That sounds very good, honestly. Oh well, this was a treat. Yeah, thanks for talking about my movie. Um thank you for those voice notes. Um it made me want to go to a dinner with Samara and Jason and hear a ton of it. So invite me when you're in LA and wrangling them into a dinner, just be like a Kiva's tagnol And her Australian accent is spot on. She's doing it so bel so believable. She has a couple she has a couple Australianisms that I really fucking like. And that actually fair does a lot. Dude, they've they feel like they're straight out of our podcast too, 'cause she calls uh somebody a Gronk. And like and that sounds like a very much like uh this podcast. Oh Not a gronk. Yeah. You fucking gronk. Not a not a gronk. A gronk. That is really good. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of dinners, I loved this moment was uh when we were in Finland. We were out to have a very nice dinner, all the cast together, and Timothy and Juliet were talking and they were talking about they were like, Oh yeah, what did you do with Leo? And I was like, Oh, Leo DiCaprio, they both worked with Leo. And I was like, Wait, Juliet, what'd what do you do with uh Leonardo? And and she was like, Oh, this movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape? And I was like, Yep, yep, no, I know it. It's uh right. You are uh amazing actor. Who's been doing it for forty years. Yep. All right, well, Yorm, it's been a pleasure. I hope we talked some quads into a theatrical experience this coming weekend. And thank you in advance to them and congratulations to you, Yorm. And it's nice to, you know, get real with you without Oh my god. Thank you for bringing that up. It's always a pleasure to do that. A real director, a real artist. Like getting getting down to brass tacks. Can't you just be real for a second? Oh my god. Exactly. Exactly. What are they so afraid of? Yeah.