Joe Frank

... uh, interesting.

You know, the, the unmentioned thing is that the film's very obviously influenced by Joe Frank, the writer and performer of radio dramas and monologues.

It's l- been alleged by Joe Frank, and others, that the opening act is basically ripping off a 1982 monologue he had called Lies, which is the first-

Mm-hmm

... uh, title of this script.

Ding, ding, ding, ding.

Joe Frank took a private flight over Malibu and he pretended there was an issue with the plane.

And then he said, I need your help.

Go through the checklist.

He's such a brilliant writer and thinker, and I'm going to listen to his radio stuff next because I really watched all of them in a row.

And someone compared him to Joe Frank, and I was like, okay, I got to get into this guy.

And it was one of those things where I watched like five in a row, and I'm like, yep, I'm totally in love with

him.

Like you have to go for it.

So, um, They were just so great to work with, Greenstone, Jim and Joe Frank, and all of them.

And then I got my pretty shop that was like they could actually paint it how I wanted and the floors, just all this stuff.

Well, I opened up then April 20th of 2020, a month into the pandemic.