What about the actual formation of the company? Like, Mickey Liddell played a part in it? A huge part, yeah.

So Mickey Liddell at LD Entertainment played a huge part.

It started with, I had just finished doing the movie The Wedding Ringer at Sony, and it tested really well.

And the head of the studio came and was like, okay, what are we doing next? What are we doing next? And I was like, you know, there's a script that I really want to do.

And I gave it to him and he's like, can't do it, we can't do R-rated high school comedies.

And I was like, I don't understand.

These are the movies we grew up on, like Porky's and all the John Hughes movies and American Pie.

like even slightly different genre lanes or like, or do you see yourself on a consistent kind of path?

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... escape at this?" Then he's like, "Yeah, I got you, I got you.

Don't worry." I'm like, "All right." We end up going, and, um, we go to SoFi, and my son is so psyched.

Like, he's been talking about this for weeks and weeks and weeks.

We go, show up, and we're not allowed in because he's not 16.

And I'm like, "I'm on a list," and da.

You're like, I gotta call someone.

H- what were some of the challenges, the struggles, the stories that went into, uh, filming the actual movie?

That's all I remember about that.

That seems to be my thing.

I just put people in freezers.

No, but I also like, that was an example in high school.

We were in Mr. Mentz's class.

I hope Mr. Mentz is listening to this podcast, but we would make these films.

And the whole point was.

One thing as I look this up, we've been using social media a lot to kind of test out whether or not to go forward with a project, which is something new, which I think you want to talk about that a little bit, how you're using that.

What was the big break? Was it working for Joel? And if that was the big break, how did you get that?

So I basically, that summer, I came back to school and I just suddenly knew exactly what I wanted to do.

So my junior year in college, I was just writing.

I just started writing.

I took every class.

I was taking...

I was taking literally every drama class, every film class.

Six years ago, I think you shocked a lot of people by buying a high school in Syracuse and then leaving beautiful, sunny, communist California for... dark, wintry, communist, well, I don't know if it's God, but Syracuse.