And so from the social side, whatever about the economics, what's happening?

Well, there's a...

The GA Club have done tremendous, are doing tremendous work down below.

The High Knowledge Club, the St. Patrick's Day Committee have brought...

The Agriculture Show is the pinnacle event of the calendar year.

Everybody gets together for that.

So, like, there's a huge social aspect of... within the village.

Is it welcoming here?

Have you seen that kind of like, did you see it kind of happening in real time for you? Because like, it does feel like the last decade, 15 years, 20 years, I mean, and I like superhero films, don't get me wrong, we're talking about a graphic novel that's comic, you know, there's the comic world, the good ones are great, but I don't know, is it depressing for you as someone that kind of came of age in a time where you were allowed a little bit of artistic freedom?

Well, like getting back to the, when I was doing Say Anything, right, so...

The producer of it was Polly Platt.

Polly Platt was married and worked with Peter Bogdanovich.

So she had made Paper Moon, Last Picture Show.

I mean, great films, right? Really cool, seminal, amazing films.

So she was like, that was her mindset.

love and mercy i want to give some love too because that's sure that's a great performance and it's it's it's a fascinating structured film that where you're kind of essentially sharing brian with great paul dano um did you form a relationship with with brian wilson when you were yeah

Of course.

So...

It's a good thing if journalists and, you know, papers dig into what the powerful and the government's doing in your name, and as they say, News is something that they don't want you to print and all the rest is public relations.

So you got to print stuff that make powerful people angry.

And that's that's the way democracies work.

So we have announced we do lots of great stuff.

And if you check out the org, you can join.

It's almost like a buddy comedy, almost, but you have to find Jackie Gleason.

A few years, that's about

it.

A few years, but, all right, well, then we.

Filipino age, well.

Okay, hopefully, yeah.

You look great, don't worry.

The monkey glands are working, right, as they say.

I don't know.

[laughs]

Like, there's no way anybody could call you or find you, and it was just a different, it was a different feel.

Even a, the ro- r- a road trip as a, um, as a device, you know, narrative device or as a metaphor, had a different feel back then.

I mean, you were really...

When you, if you were gone, you were gone.

And so I, um, I was into that, and I was into, um, you know, this, um, two characters, um, kind of outcasts who are thrown together.

And, um, everybody's as smart as the audience, you know, or the readers, you know? Everybody knows everything in advance.

Did you have the end point in mind? Because without spoiling too much, it ends at a very different place than it begins.

[laughs] Woo! [clapping]

[laughs] As I said, there, people like that character and that film a lot, which is pretty cool.

Live Nation still does some screenings of the, of the movie, and, um, we do a Q&A afterwards.

Um, and people get pretty rowdy, which is fun, and a guy came up to the mic right over there and he said, "My wife left me because she said I wasn't you."

... become so derivative at the end of his career.

Well, the origin of it was I loved this, uh, I like, love this artist, uh, Artaud, and then, uh, I thought, "Well, it's, no one is going, no one's gonna give me money to make that movie yet."

[laughs]

As I said, there, people like that character in that film a lot which is pretty cool.

Live Nation still does some screenings of the, of the movie, and, um, we do a Q&A afterwards.

Um, and people get pretty rowdy which is fun, and a guy came up to the mic right over there and he said, "My wife left me because she said I wasn't you."

... at the end of his career.

Well, the origin of it was I loved this, uh, I like, loved this artist, uh, Artaud, and then, uh, I thought, "Well, it's, no one is going, no one's gonna give me money to make that movie yet."