I don't think the embellishments are like worth the double length, if that makes sense.

No, they're not.

I do want to, I'm going to like, I have been, and I'm going to continue kind of dumping on this book a fair amount.

So I do want to like, while we were on the note earlier of talking about like how much this book does or does not successfully translate the film series sense of humor to the page, I do want to like single out the, a couple of things for praise that are like waggoner inventions that i do think are like funny in kind of the way that the movie is funny sure um one where he like i think after blowing up all the kids at the mall he like goes into like a coffee shop or something and like wants wants a hot chocolate or something and then everybody starts screaming and it's just like he killed them all just to shut him up and then he made himself a hot chocolate it was delicious and i I thought that was very funny, just to, like, completely gloss over him killing an entire room full of people.

Yes.

Yeah, that was good.

And another thing that I just thought was really, really funny in a very, very clownish way, which is, this is something that I like about the series, is how much Art really is a clown.

I'm like, all right, that's, that's a fun little stupid prank to do in this, in this book.

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Um, and he's like, "The world is, the world is, like, fucked and horrible, and there's lots of, like, awful shit, but there is also beauty." And I think, you know, like, uh, Jane's mom is, like, actually ...

Like, Nightmare on Elm Street series, the series tradition is for all parents to be awful.

Um, and, and, like, Jane's mom is ...

At one point, Jane, like, derides her cluelessness, and she's really not that clueless.

She's only clueless to the extent that Jane act- actively keeps her in the dark.

She's a pretty decent mom.

Mm

Why has Israel dominated when it comes to technology startup innovation from your perspective?

Sure.

Maybe I'll take that because I was a little bit older, so I was there when things – I don't know if things started, but I was there when they emerged.

Mike, I hope you're okay.

You're okay there.

I'm good.

I'm good.

But, okay, how did you two also come together and decide to actually raise this fund together?

No, I, I absolutely see the appeal, and I think you're exactly right in a show like this with the snappy dialogue, but what kind of challenges does that present [laughs] when you're trying to kind of let the scene play out, but you're gonna have two cameras stuck in there to capture both perspectives?

Yeah.

It's a bit, a real brain ache.

Some- 'cause sometimes it works a treat, and it's super successful, and then sometimes you can see it fall apart slightly.

So, I mean, I think as long as you don't have any hard and fast rules, where sometimes you do cross-shoot, and then you're absolutely prepared to do it a different way if the scene calls for it.

Because, you know, obviously some scenes play out where there's lots of walking and talking, and, you know, you, it's a single camera kind of ...

Essentially, there's no other way of doing it other than single camera.

... sounds very impressive.

Yeah

... well, and then, you know, the other thing that's happened is, um, people's connection to food and access to healthy local food has really dropped off, and things are, are, well, going to...

Just so much is shipped in and comes on a crate, and it's just such like a black box of food that you don't know what you're getting, um, that I just saw this opportunity to kind of, you know, reintroduce people to where food comes from and what healthy food can look like and, uh, what sourcing local can be and, um, just provide this, this space that not only provides them a very healthy, nutritious food, but also is a, a place to build community and, and truly elevate everyone's access and awareness around healthy foods.

Okay, so good thing to know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's some things, you know, that we for sure can't, but interestingly, many things we can.

And, and we're kinda playing and learning a bit more about what we can and cannot have, um, as well as, as kind of broadening our...

How are you guys, you know, massaging and navigating all of that with the, with camera movement and with framing and, and designing, you know, your, your, you know, your shot sequence from one to another? I know you've got the whole layout in front of you, but is it, is it storyboarding? Is it rehearsals? Is it feel? How do, how do you get there?

I think we, all of, all of the above.

Tick, all of the above.

I mean, it's a, and a lot of it is being a sort of appreciative...

I mean, yeah, basically it begins with fantastic writing.

So Will Smith gives us fantastic scripts, and once you've got, that's, that's the bedrock.

Uh, so y- y- you kinda take it from there, and I think each scene within each episode, you d- you know, you read the scripts.

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