WEBVTT - Some Time With... Christian Guzek! (Part 2) 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.560 Hey there, Fana Rito's welcome to a brand new episode 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.720 of How Rude Tanerritos. This is part two of our 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.600 interview with Christian Goosik, who you'll remember as Jake Bitterman 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.320 from seasons three to four of Full House. This blast 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.199 from the past is such a fun one for me, 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.000 and we're so glad he decided to join us today. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.440 So everyone put your hands together for Christian. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:40.920 Yeah. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:42.800 So I went back. I watched. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:44.840 Three of Europe. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.760 I watched the thirteen candles of that episode, and I 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:50.479 swear I had built this up in my mind. I 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.560 was convinced I could have sworn that our kiss was 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.640 at least two full minutes. And then I got to 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.360 that part and I watched it and I'm like, it's over. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.040 It's like it was not. It was a nano second. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.240 It was a pack, and I had built it up 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.360 in my mind for like thirty something years. I was like, 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.000 it's gonna go on forever. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.199 No, it was nothing, you know, I mean, it was 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:13.640 it was just. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:15.720 Right. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:16.720 I actually watched it. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.960 But your parents were probably even like did that happen? 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.679 Did I you know. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.640 Like here we are thinking like, oh my god, it's 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.200 all They're thinking about now right, and they were just like, oh, 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.560 I've seen her kids or grandma like that. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally totally. 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.600 Oh yeah. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:34.800 Oh. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.040 I was just gonna say, I love this the evolution 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.760 of Kimmy and Jake Bitterman, because first we're sort of 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.280 like front of me is like, I'm lobbing insults at you, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.039 and you're just like whatever, gibbler, and then we end 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:47.960 up kissing and like it's like, wait a minute, we 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.880 might have feelings for each other. But by the next 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.040 episode when you come back, we're again lobbing insults at 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:58.160 each other. I'm just like chill Bitterman. So it's so 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.720 fun to watch, Like you were such a funny character. 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.160 I wish I wish it would have continued even longer 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.520 past season four because you were such a good. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:12.280 Yeah no cool I I I yeah, yeah, I feel 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.799 the same way. That's all I can say. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.000 It was real fun and really, like like I said, 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.600 it was, It's something that's just been a fun part 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.919 of my life for forever. You know. I even I 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.400 rewatched actually we didn't. We didn't rewatch the episode, but 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.000 we watched the episode of Fuller House that it was 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.760 replayed in with my. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.720 Tenure, yeah, with my ten Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.120 And I thought the same thing that you said that like, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.560 that wasn't he that was that was barely a kiss. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:42.240 That was just. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.320 Yeah, barely a kiss. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.920 But it felt so like this monumental thing in my 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.160 life at the time, and now it is at forty eight, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.840 I'm like, yeah, that was no big deal, but it 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.400 felt like, really, that's great. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.480 I'm glad you have been a monumental part of your life. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:06.840 Is that is wonderful And equally you guys all, even 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.720 you in particular Andrea, because there's been going back to that, 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.600 like at different times, people have you know, been like 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.000 you're Jake Bitnerman. Another thing that's happened with like really 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.560 close friends of mine, people that I developed relationships with 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.200 or you know, still have relationships with whatever, at different 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.880 times have almost casually like mentioned like, oh, so, you know, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.960 when's the last time you guys talked, And you know, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.480 there's been a moment where I look at them, I'm like, well, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.720 I don't fifteen and and then you see their eyes. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.200 Like oh wait, oh oh oh oh oh yeah. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.200 And I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, that existed on the show, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.760 you know, like that was a that was on the show. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.200 You you seem to have watched the show religiously, so 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.640 you probably. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.200 Even know more than I do, you know what I mean? 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.520 Oh, they do, for sure, they do. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.360 Yeah, definitely do. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.360 Yeah. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.440 So why didn't you stay in acting? What? I don't 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.480 know when exactly you left the business, if it was 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.600 right after Full House or maybe a few years later. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.360 But if you're in finance now, you obviously. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:11.840 Didn't stick with it. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.720 So what what led you out of it? 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:19.120 You know, nothing in particular. And I even consider myself 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.760 never having totally left the business. I've I've I've flirted 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.279 with it my whole life, you know, and really, like, 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.440 you know, just just like anything you know, as you 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.880 as you sort of age and grow, and you know, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.960 I like, I developed a really close knit group of 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.960 high school friends and that became its own world for 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.680 some time and sort of drew me away from wanting 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.919 to go on auditions and then, you know, sort of 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.359 in my late teens, maybe becoming bored with that. I 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.320 actually got involved with the theater group for a number 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:50.440 of years, and. 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.800 I love that. That was a whole different. 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.960 World of acting and writing that that I fell in 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.920 love with that I really just is still extremely near 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.599 and dear to my heart. Although it was all in 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.320 the theater and it wasn't I don't have any reruns 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.280 that we can go watch of that, you know, but the. 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.680 Theater is so fun and exhilarating in its own way. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're sort of as a young adult, 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.039 I really got to experience a whole different side that 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.359 I didn't even understand existed really as a kid, you know, 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.640 And that was wonderful. And then I met my wife, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.440 my now wife, you know, maybe around twenty two, and 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.320 you know, truly love at first sight. I don't know 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:38.960 why she was interest in me, but everybody. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.400 Understands why I was interested in her. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.760 You know, she's just wonderful and gorgeous and just yeah, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.440 I don't even know how much how I lucked out, 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.039 and that sort of started a new era of life 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:50.920 that you know, she lived in Huntington Beach at the time, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.960 and you know, and not even you know, I don't 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.800 say this, you know, in any upset way, but sort 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.640 of drew me away from the theater group that I 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.760 was working in at the time, and and I we 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.880 almost moved in together almost immediately. You know, oh and 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.800 and uh, and then you know, the whole finance career 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.080 that was even just an accident. You know, I just 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.040 sort of needed a job and and I had graduated 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.880 from U C. L A. And I had actually the 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.440 only time I ever got fired in my life. I 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.680 had gotten fired from the House of Blues. I was 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.400 working as a bartender. And uh, I wish, by. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:28.640 The way, it was like the most fun job you 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:29.480 could ever imagine. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:36.440 But uh, but and I, is that why you got fired? No, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.120 it was, it was, I mean, looking back on it, it was. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.240 It was really just sort of dumb instance where me 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.359 and a friend of mine got into an argument that 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.880 kind of overblown and it didn't matter much to us, 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.680 but it mattered to hr and. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.839 A yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.680 But but and I just sort of needed a job 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.320 and and I saw an ad in the newspaper at 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.680 the time when those still existed, and uh, you know, 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.520 just sort of walked in the door and met a 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.640 person who has now been a lifelong best friend of mine. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.760 And you know, I've worked with on and off and 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.640 anyhow whatever, and just happened to work in sort of 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.920 finance for a little while. And then the whole economic 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.760 crash happened, and you know, at that time. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.480 I we didn't have kids. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.520 I you know, had done okay in those years, and 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.240 was like, I think I'm gonna go to grad school. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.120 And literally like in the middle there too, I had 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.240 written a screenplay and and kind of got some recognition 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.080 from it, you know. But by the way, too, I 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.920 should I should say this. At the very same time, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:40.160 my sister, whom I'm super close with, I mean, she's 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.880 she's extraordinarily successful in the entertainment industry. She's an attorney, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.240 and she was building her career at this time, and 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.920 and and so like and and we're really really close, 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.560 you know, uh you know, her husband and whatever, We're 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.680 really close. And so there was always that connection through her, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:04.240 you know. And like when I say extraordinarily successful, like 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.880 like I could start with it in a movie with 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.520 Brad Pitt tomorrow and I'm still not even on her coattails. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:10.480 Let's put it that way, you know. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.120 Yeah, amazing, yeah yeah yeah. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.040 And she's just amazing and brilliant and everything. And so 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:19.640 there was always that connection through there. And I had 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.240 written a screenplay that that sort of just while I 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.600 was working, you know, you know, sort of my regular 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.000 job got me a lot of meetings and little jobs 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.640 and you know, I mean how the entertainment business is, right, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.840 but it never impeded just working. And then so you know, 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:40.360 the crash happened and and like everybody in financer, banking 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.880 or anything just didn't have a job anymore. And I 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.839 was like, I'm going to grad school and I learned 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.000 that Chapman had a film program that was like kind 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.640 of you know, bustling at the time. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.640 Oh yeah, it's a really great film program. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.760 Totally, and and so I had some of this sort 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.240 of you know street cred as a as a writer. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:08:59.960 That wasn't that big of a. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.160 Deal, but you know, in that world. And it was 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.160 a Sunday and the application was due on Monday, and 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.760 I looked at Melanie and I went, I'm just gonna 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.880 put together an application. Let's see what happens. And I 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.000 got into the directing program and it was like the 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.960 perfect time and I went there. It was in the 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.880 directing program that was a blast. Again, lots of people 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.760 recognized me and knew me as Jake Bitterman, even one 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.480 of my best friends to this day, I mean truly 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.920 one of my best best friends of my whole life. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.680 Like the second or third thing he said to me 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:39.080 at a mixer was you're Jake Bitterman, aren't you. I 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.480 started laughing, and I was like, yeah, totally, I take it. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:43.920 You watch the show, He's like, I love it. I've 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:49.760 seen every show like twenty times. Oh my gosh, and yeah, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.040 so much one of my best friends of this day, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.400 you know, and and so like that was even sort 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.880 of a just a break where, you know, again, mostly 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.520 because of the economy at the time, just okay, I 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.559 worked in film production, and I worked on a bunch 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.680 of short films and independent films and had a blast 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.080 doing that, and you know, and and for a time 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.040 was you know, just sort of out there whatever, shopping 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.760 my ideas around and what do we all know, the 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.160 reality of the entertainment business. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.760 It's a tricky business, you know. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.960 I think I heard you even Andrea sayana a podcast 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.400 something about how as an adult and you realize how 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.480 incredibly lucky you you you are to have had this opportunity, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:31.720 you know. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.600 Yeah, and yeah, oh yeah, well I didn't appreciate it 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.360 as a kid. As a kid, I was like, oh man, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.640 I have to miss I have to miss going to 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.400 the movies with my friends after school, I have an audition, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.080 and you know, I did not appreciate it as a kid. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.120 It's just like, oh, you know, but as a kid, 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:49.920 you don't appreciate anything. You're just kind of a dick, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.160 you know really. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.160 And that's why you got That's why you got cast 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:56.160 on the show, you know what I mean. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.280 But that all happened, and it was just fun. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.000 And then even in that world, you know, I got 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.079 to a point where, like, you know, I was working 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.320 on an independent film that you know that was a 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.480 forefriend and and it was great, and they even had 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.880 had a budget, you know for the independent world, but 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.160 it was stretched really thin. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:19.400 And uh. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.760 And I remember I was standing next to the grip truck. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.720 You know, I was sort of a low level producing 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.000 on that film and and I was standing next to 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.959 the grip truck in possibly the worst neighborhood in LA 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.640 at like three in the morning, and we were way 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.199 short on crew, and we were running late, and like 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.079 the grip truck had to stay open because everyone was 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.360 trying to go in and out of it fast. And 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.199 like I could hear, you know, like three people across 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.640 the street like talking about Okay, how can they just 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.400 take me out real quick and just get whatever they 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.840 can get out of that truck? And I just I 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.400 just remember inside my head being like, okay, okay, this 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.679 is not really yeah, this isn't actually what I want 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.560 to be doing in the entertainment business. You know what 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:00.880 I mean. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:10.640 It's not all glitz and glamour. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.280 It's you know, I think people don't realize the true 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.680 blue collar side of I've told people. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.240 I've told people for years, like Hollywood exists. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.640 On the screen, you know, go to birth for sure, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:30.160 it's yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll see it's that's where it 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:30.760 all happens. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:35.520 And yeah, you know, it exists on the screen anyhow. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.880 And so right around that time, you know, the economy 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.679 had started to pick back up, and I got an 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.200 opportunity that I just, again just sort of on a whim, 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.280 was like, okay, I just need to clear my head, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.560 you know. And I even took that opportunity that wasn't 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.239 wasn't what I'm where I'm at now. Took that opportunity 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.280 with the idea of you know, okay, I'm going to 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.720 go to this you know, small v C firm, and 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.360 and I'm going to figure out how to talk the 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.680 powers that be into putting money into movies, you know, 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.360 and and and they were primarily tech based. And that 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.120 lasted for about a year and and and and I 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.560 learned really quick like, yeah, nobody wants to talk about 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.719 putting money into movies like at all. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.640 Yeah, I mean like yeah, yeah. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.240 They're like, look, I gave my you know, I gave 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.520 my son, you know, five hundred thousand dollars to make 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.600 a movie. And it's the worst thing I've ever seen. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.040 It's basically the story you hear, you know. And uh 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.520 and and that was really tough but exciting, you know, 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.880 because it was sort of in the tech world. And 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.000 and then I got an even more boring opportunity that 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.160 that uh I say boring, but I but I love it. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.960 It's become my true career for a long time now 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.560 for another firm that I'm that I'm at now and 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.520 uh and and I've been there for a long time. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.880 And again, even there, it was always like, well, you know, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.880 I'll get together the money for an independent movie or something. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.200 And as I passed those milestones and got old or 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.640 started to go like, yeah, I don't really want to 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.360 throw my money away you. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:04.840 Know what I mean. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.199 Yeah, adulting is hard. You got to make adult decisions 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.160 and take care of your. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.720 Family come along, and then you start to see the 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:21.120 pureeness of them experiencing expression, and you love that, you know, 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.000 And like I joke around, now, you know, my career's 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.960 brought me to a pretty a good point. You know. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.760 I'm I'm, I'm, I'm very very thankful for it. You know, 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.560 That's all I can say. You know, it's given me 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.840 a lot of stability and a lot of opportunities. But 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.480 but like I even it's weird, I find myself now 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:47.120 going I'm I'm much more interested in championing and you know, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.680 and supporting friends that are you know, I mean, I 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.200 mean we all have friends of different levels of success 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.680 in this industry, some that are extraordinarily successful, some that are, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.240 you know, still just trying to plug away. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.320 You know. I like being able to support and share 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.120 on their wins. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.080 And you know, and when there's a GoFundMe going around, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.200 be like, yeah, cool, throw them a couple bucks. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.080 You know that type of thing. 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.840 Yeah, you know, I like, I like looking at my 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.720 kids and seeing what they do, you know, and and 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.760 and I even think in the back of my head, like, hey. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.480 Film has become so democratized. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.800 You know, I have an amazing vinted lens collection and 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.880 cameras and two little girls that love to perform, and 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.520 you know, and I go, okay, right now, you could 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.760 take like ten grand and make a movie, you know 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:30.160 what I mean? 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.800 Like right right. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:32.920 But at the same. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.320 Time, at my age, like I found myself also just 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:42.680 being like excited about creativity and other opportunities, you know, like. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.320 Like it's weird. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.320 I I joked around saying my career is kind of boring, right, 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.520 but it's not. I mean, it's just like any you know, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.080 I look at Excel spreadsheets and determine if this is 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:53.800 going to be profitable, you know, and and and and 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.520 well I was thinking about. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.680 That like this. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.520 I can't I can't even figure out Excel, so and 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.160 perhaps off my friend, you know what I mean. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.960 See, see, we need people like you. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.520 No, I'm who can do spreadsheets. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.600 I'm jealous of you for that. Let's put it that way. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.240 I'm jealous of you for that because I'm like, I 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.280 get my life is disorganized, ah well whatever, like yeah, 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:16.520 you know, and then. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.800 It just go BADHD off somewhere. But anyway. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.840 But but it's kind of you know, come to a 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.360 final point on all of this, you know, like I 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.359 found that. Okay, Like in my position now, creative opportunities 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.360 still come by in different ways, you know. And most 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.520 of the time, like like I get crazy calls all 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.640 the time, because anybody that's sort of looking for money 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.280 is just sort of spinning the rolodeck. Somebody's friend told 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.400 them this friend and call this person, and you know, 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.000 and so you get calls that you just you know, 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.600 and you give it a good shake, you want to 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.600 try to positive spin, but most of it is like, hey, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.960 you know, we're that's. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.400 Not what we do. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.400 You know, I can try to open the store for 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.520 you or whatever. But but I found now it's sort 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.960 of this stage in my life that once in a while, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.720 opportunities come by that are just sort of pure, you know, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.760 and and like and and also scratched that creative bug, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.080 but in a different way, you know, you know. I 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:15.800 I even like recently, you know, everybody in the world 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.679 is an AI, right, you know, And and everybody that 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.520 comes to you with an AI project is like, this 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.359 project is gonna make us Bagillians. And you're like, okay, 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.399 maybe you know what I mean. But like, like I 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.640 found a group that really all they're trying to do 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.160 is help you know, homeless people and people with mental 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.880 health struggles. And oh it's it's it's great, it's and 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.560 and like it's even this weird intersection of like, you know, 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.600 they were sort of small enough to where I could 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:49.200 really help them, you know, and and they built something 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.199 that is like I think that's just amazing. You know, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.560 Like I find myself walking out of the grocery store 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.280 and you say, you see somebody there that's asking for 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:58.920 you know, money or whatever, and Okay, give me a 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.359 couple of bucks, give me a couple of street and 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.240 then I'll stop the Oh hey, by the way, you 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.159 should use this website, you know, and and and I 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:06.800 pass it to them and then they'll sort of be like, 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.000 what's the website And I'll be like, oh, it's just look, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.040 it's a you. 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.000 Know, it works as a virtual social worker. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:13.720 It can you know, it can put you in touch 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:17.160 with you know, you know, emergency needs, emergency housing needs, 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.160 emergency food needs, you know, stuff like that. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.480 And which is so which is such a huge stumbling 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.720 block for people who are un housed, is to find 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.679 the resources, because there are resources, but find them right 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:32.840 exactly exactly. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.400 And I mean I've known that a little bit over 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.160 the years trying to help other people, and I certainly 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.720 learned about it working with this group, and and it's 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.520 it's sort of wonderful, you know because like like and 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.560 also like like you can also talk to it and 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.679 it will be a therapist to you and everything, and 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.520 it's it's built on this you know, principles of empathy 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:55.480 and all this stuff. And but it's it's, like you said, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.640 it's just simply going, hey, this can help you. And 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.520 it's funny where we have no like plan to make money. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.439 We have no path to any of that. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.080 Like, like we even talk about it, you know, in 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.240 our meetings and I'm like, well, look, I'll keep working 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.040 to keep the lights on, and you know, but there's 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.560 there's no real path to profitability other than you know, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.080 maybe some large healthcare group one day going you know, okay, 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.040 you know, and we meet with them and talk to them, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:25.919 you know, and just going all right, we're gonna, you know, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.800 sort of write you a check. But sort of the 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.080