Full Transcript for Andrew J. Nagy #20 Project: Long Night

is, yeah. 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:39.759 October 3rd uh is the release date for episode one, and then we're gonna release one of the six episodes every consecutive Saturday after that. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:40.959 Awesome. 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:47.519 And so a no without wanting to let people know exactly everything that is in the episodes. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:54.480 Um, what are your hopes for your audience to grab from listening and tuning in? 00:05:55.439 --> 00:06:02.079 Well, first and foremost, uh, you know, I would I would like people to enjoy it. 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.160 Um this is a different beast for some people. 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.839 Um, not many people listen to necessarily audio dramas or what were once known as radio plays. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:18.959 So we have a lot of actors, 47 actors this time around, oh wow over those six episodes. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:24.480 And uh and and and it's basically we designed it with a soundscape that sounds like a movie. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:26.639 The only thing that's not there is the picture. 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:30.560 So uh, you know, sit back and relax and enjoy the show. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:32.480 Um that's number one. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:40.399 Number two, um I guess at its core, there are two major pieces to the story. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:55.439 The first one um is it's answering a question for science fiction, which is how do we get from where we are today into the futures like Star Trek or Blade Runner or Mad Max or The Matrix? 00:06:55.839 --> 00:06:56.240 You know. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:03.600 Um because most of those shows go, yeah, some event happened, and they're very vague around the the specifics of that event. 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:14.240 Um and they never really get into the nitty-gritty of like, oh, how do we get to the point where people accept you know cybernetic augmentation? 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:21.040 How do we get to the point where society is okay and understands that we need to work together fully? 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.480 Or how do we fall into total dystopia? 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:31.199 And and and Project Long Knight is trying to answer those questions by the end of its run. 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:31.839 Okay. 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:35.279 Not the end of this season, the end of the whole story. 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.839 So this is a longevity thing that you're thinking of as well, too. 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.920 Like, uh, you know, so your first season is gonna have six episodes. 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.439 What is the kind of timeline length that you're hoping for? 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:50.319 We have a total of five seasons planned. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:51.439 Five seasons. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:52.000 Okay. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.639 So again, we're doing season zero here ourselves. 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:59.600 Um, we're handing that out to everybody for free. 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:05.759 Um in the hopes that people will uh latch onto it, enjoy our work. 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:15.680 Uh again, there's been across both productions, there's been 165 people as of today, uh, including myself, that have worked on this project. 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:24.639 And and if people like what they hear and they're willing to, you know, support us a bit and we can move forward with the next seasons, we're going to. 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:25.199 Yeah. 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:30.399 My ideal would be to do uh the next two seasons. 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:36.879 And if people want to continue after the next two seasons, we can move on to the final two seasons after that. 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:37.600 Okay. 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:38.480 I love that. 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:43.279 It's good to have a um, you know, a timestamp of where you want things to go. 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:44.799 I love that for sure. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:46.639 Well, I'm excited for you, man. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:48.240 I'm definitely excited for you. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:55.120 And you're you're right when you mention those kind of movies, you know, when I think of it, it's it's hard to know what happens in the middle grounds. 00:08:55.200 --> 00:09:06.320 And so that what you're talking about could be definitely um a bridge for from start to finish to where things are or where things are going with technology and advancements. 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:11.039 I know there's some folks out there that are a little concerned, a little worried about it. 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.000 I have no idea what my opinion is about it. 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:19.039 It's definitely, you know, very, very quick changing, that's for sure. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:19.600 Absolutely. 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:20.960 Um yeah. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:23.919 And our show addresses a lot of that concern. 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.080 Um, I know I wrote the first script, like I said, 18 years ago. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:28.480 Yeah. 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.679 Um, but we really wrote the bulk of it about 15. 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:33.279 So in 2011-ish. 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:41.840 Um and at that time we had concerns about where technology was going and how fast and everything like that. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:46.799 And and it just became I don't want to say prophetic. 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.440 Uh really all we did was go, we had a problem in the script. 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:50.320 How do we fix this? 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.480 Okay, well, we'll go this route with technology. 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:54.639 Okay, well, we'll go this route with this thing. 00:09:55.200 --> 00:10:06.480 And and unfortunately or fortunately, uh, we saw the world actually develop similar answers uh to what we had written in our science fiction. 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:17.360 So 15-ish years ago, your projections for where the script was going, how does it match up to let's say where technology and AI are going right now?

00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.919 Um in some cases it's really accurate. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:23.919 And and it happened really fast too. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.519 Like I remember a story. 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:31.120 We were in the middle of writing a uh we needed a computer virus that could do certain things. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:31.679 Yeah. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:38.720 Uh I'm not gonna spoil too much about it, but the virus locks a company out of its out of its data. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:44.159 Um and we had been going like there's no viruses like this in the world. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.919 We had done our research on it. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:53.519 Uh, and so we created a a virus from our minds going, okay, I want it to do this and this and this and this, and this is how it needs to be implemented. 00:10:53.759 --> 00:11:01.840 And then uh, entertainingly enough, uh a similar virus happened uh about nine months later. 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.039 That was in 2012. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:08.879 Nine in the summertime there, and we're like, oh, that's weird. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:10.639 We just filmed this. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.320 Um, you know, so some of it was like scary close. 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:14.799 Yeah. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:22.159 Other things I'm hoping aren't aren't happening and don't happen, but you know, it's science fiction. 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:25.840 Sometimes it shows up whether we want it to or not. 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:27.200 Yeah, fair enough. 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:43.840 And I definitely know um anytime there's some major advancement in times life, you know, of ages, whether it's the industrial age, the you know, uh pitchfork age, whatever it is, you know, there's always a fear of technology and an advancement. 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.600 And um but this is definitely a different time for sure. 00:11:47.759 --> 00:12:05.039 I mean, you have AI doing things that people have worked quite a few years doing as well, too, and things can be done like that, and you know, conversations of where people's jobs and stuff are gonna go, not to get too you know scary or anything like that, but it's definitely uh interesting time to say the least, I would say. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.840 And I think it's uh yeah, I think it's a perfect fit-in time for your your work to just be around the corner. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.600 I truly do, actually. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.240 Um it might have been I'm happy to hear somebody think so. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:17.039 No, I'm kidding. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:18.240 Yeah, this too. 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:29.440 I think the thing is that like most good stories, we have a we have a a warning and a lesson written into it uh intrinsically. 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.960 And so I think it's a good time for those to come forward. 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:34.320 Um yeah. 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.159 I like that, yeah. 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.440 Um that's very creative for sure. 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:44.559 So in your bio, it says you've been acting since the age of three. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:46.799 I did not know that, Andrew, about yourself. 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:50.000 No, that's a that's a long time, brother. 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:51.519 It is a long time. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.399 Uh so it actually it's a funny story. 00:12:54.559 --> 00:13:02.080 Um, so this would have been 1992, so I was almost turning four. 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:02.639 Okay. 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:22.320 And I had gone on um a radio station in Saskatoon used to do these uh contests where you could go in and do a skit or do something, and the rest of Saskatoon would vote on who did the best one and they would win movie tickets for the movie coming out. 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:23.200 Oh yeah. 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:32.240 And uh as I'm sure you know, I'm a huge Batman fan, so Batman Returns is coming out in June, right a right around the time of my birthday. 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:37.759 And so my mom woke me up at an unbelievable hour for a three-year-old. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:50.559 Um, well, maybe not, you have kids, I have kids, we know it's not necessarily true, but i being pulled from bed, dressed, and taken to a a different location is kind of weird uh for a three-year-old in the morning. 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.399 And uh they put me on the radio station and I had an interview. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:56.399 And uh I remember bits of it. 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.399 I remember him going, like, How old are you? 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:00.000 And I like hold up my fingers. 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:04.240 He's like, For those of you who can't see, Andrew just held up four fingers. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:05.279 You know. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:12.159 Um and he asked me a bunch of questions and he finally gets to the part of, Well, what do you want to be when you grow up? 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:18.639 And I went, I'm gonna be Batman, and my batsuit's gonna come out from under my skin and I'm gonna help people. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:31.759 And uh that was kind of the beginning of the acting journey because a little bit later my mom sat me down and we had a conversation, and she said, You can either go this route or you can go into acting, that allows you to be Batman. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.360 I was like, Well, Batman, I'm gonna take acting. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:43.360 So they put me into acting courses, and you know, we moved through that over the few years, and it was a big it was a big journey. 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.320 My first audition, I think, was a year later. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:48.080 A year later. 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:58.480 And since then you've been in and out of doing uh films here in Saskatchewan where you used to live, but now you live in Alberta, of course, so right with your uh family. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.919 How many years have you lived in Alberta now, out of curiosity?

00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:15.279 Uh well, I've moved around a lot, so um I I would say I'm about fifteen years maybe in and out of Alberta. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:27.840 So I I graduated from Airdrie, uh, moved back to Saskatchewan for your university, moved back to Calgary, Airdrie area for a few years, moved back to Saskatchewan, which is when I met you. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:28.159 Yeah. 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:29.919 And now I'm back out there again. 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:35.039 So about I would say, I would say around the 15 years mark. 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.159 Yeah, okay. 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:48.559 And so just because I'll be honest, I'm very green, I'm very rookie when it comes to the acting world and what it has to offer, like in Saskatchewan and Alberta, how do those two provinces match up out of curiosity? 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:51.120 Uh depends on the time frame. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:52.480 Uh I was lucky. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:16:04.799 Uh, when I was still working in in Saskatchewan, they still had the the film tax credit, and so we had quite a few um TV shows, reenactment shows, those kind of things being filmed here. 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:12.399 Uh mostly I worked in Regina area and then I did stage in Saskatoon and and Prince Albert and here. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.000 Um sorry, here. 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:15.679 I'm visiting my family in Regina. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:16.639 Oh, okay. 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:18.159 So you are in Saskatchewan. 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:21.120 I I am currently in re in in in Saskatchewan. 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:26.000 Uh but the you know, it was good for that, but it's a small pond. 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:35.279 Um and and so I moved to Alberta and I was in a lot more sh like television and film out there. 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:40.960 Um, you know, TV shows like Hell on Wheels or uh uh the movie Inception. 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:45.440 Like I had I had quite a few credits to my name by the time I stepped out of the acting light. 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:45.919 Yeah. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.440 Um but I moved around a lot too. 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:56.159 Like I was in DC for a little while doing shows, I was down in LA doing two shows at one point where I lived there for four months. 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:58.559 Um just lots. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:03.600 And and and and in and in regards to how the industry is, it's similar everywhere. 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:10.319 The question is uh how much money is put towards the projects. 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:11.359 That makes sense. 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:17.119 So you know, out here we did war scenes with 20 people. 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:27.119 Uh in Alberta we did war scenes with hundreds of people and explosions and all this other stuff because that was what they had the budget for, that kind of a thing. 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:28.000 Yeah. 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:36.799 You got to definitely see a big wide um, you know, difference between one

place to another and different budgets, of course. 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:49.839 That would have definitely been an eye-opening experience of what that industry kind of entails, what probably a lot of people in this world actually don't get to see behind the scenes and different, you know, directors doing different things and uh whatnot. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:59.119 Um so was that one of the things that sh dragged you to want to be a director yourself and start putting out your own project projects? 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.359 Um no, not really. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.759 Um I I I guess I guess we can start a little bit further back. 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.240 I always thought that being an actor was telling stories, which is what I like to do. 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:18.000 I love to tell stories, especially ones that have some sort of meaning to them or some sort of lesson in them. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:41.039 Um the biggest thing for me that switched me into a director was I was actually sitting uh in it was May long weekend in 2011, and I was at a friend's house, and a couple of friends of mine uh turned to me and basically went, Hey, uh did you ever write a script that you wanted to act in? 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.000 I was in full swing. 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:46.000 I was like fifteen or sixteen years professionally acting at that point. 00:18:47.119 --> 00:19:01.039 And I said, Well, yeah, I've got this thing that I wrote in university when I was having a bad bout of insomnia, and I wrote it at seven pages long or something like that, and I talked about it, and it ended up being an episode in Project Long Knight. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:03.759 It was the s it was the episode that started this whole thing. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:13.119 And so we talked about it for a few hours, you know, around the fire and stuff, and I left it was I I left laughing because they're like, Oh yeah, we can do it. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:31.599 I was like, You guys don't even know what you like, we need lighting, we need cameras, we need directors, we need stunt people, we need a warehouse with a mezzanine, like where are you gonna find a warehouse with a second or third story balcony that I can step out onto, you know, um, that they're gonna let us film overnight in. 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:32.319 You know. 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:36.559 Cra crazy thoughts for me, and I and I I wasn't going to do it. 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:38.160 I was like, you guys are nuts. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:53.440 And then three weeks later I was uh house-sitting my girlfriend's family house because they were away, and I sat down and I wrote a script that uh at the end tied directly into that other script that I wrote a few years earlier. 00:19:53.759 --> 00:20:04.400 And then I took it to the two of my the my two friends here in Katia, the ones that had that conversation with me, and I was like, okay, well, if we're gonna even consider this, these things need rework. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.559 And I'm expecting to hand them these two scripts and they go, Oh, that's crazy, no. 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:10.559 Uh but they pushed. 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:12.799 They said, no, we can do this, we can figure this stuff out. 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:19.839 Let's do this one first and then do the scary one with the warehouse down the road when we find it, because we need time to find that. 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:23.119 And people started joining us on this thing. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:31.200 We got to about I don't know, ten people maybe by the time October 3rd, 2011 rolled around and we started filming that day. 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:40.720 And then, you know, a few years later we're done filming all of these cool things, including that really cool warehouse with a mezzanine and everything involved. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:46.400 And and what ended up happening to to lead to me picking to be a director was twofold. 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:57.119 One, I was uh uh suffering from a a bout of ego uh going, oh, I can't let somebody else do this. 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:13.279 Um and and number two was just there was uh a level of passion that I had unconsciously built towards the product towards the project itself that uh said that I needed to direct. 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:18.720 Um I have learned since I don't want to direct and act at the same time. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:19.920 That makes sense. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.839 That would be definitely challenging. 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:23.759 That would be challenging. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:30.480 Yeah, no, well, you have to see things from a different angle, obviously, quite physically and literally, yeah. 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.319 And uh the talk about ego. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:41.839 I think ego can be one of our best friends when it comes to m more or less nurturing the confidence side of ourselves, but it can also be our worst enemy as well sometimes. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:47.119 And I think that was one of the times that it was one of your good friends, your ego there in a good way. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:59.680 In a good way, yeah, especially because I was going through I went through a really tough uh relationship separation at the time, and the project was already started by the time. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.519 That happened and I just dove into it. 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:10.480 Um not necessarily the healthiest thing, but I believe art comes in three re comes for comes from three places. 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:10.960 Yeah. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.759 One of them is a place where you need to heal. 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:20.960 You need to get that emotion put out for the world to see, whether it's two or three people or a hundred. 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:21.599 Yeah. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:30.720 Um so I poured into the writing, I poured into the directing, I poured into the acting, a lot of raw, truthful emotions. 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:36.880 Uh and

I was originally I had the blinders on, I couldn't see anything. 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:37.359 Yeah. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:39.680 But like I said earlier, there's a story. 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:55.119 I I guess I can jump into it now, but um our lead actress at the time, Devin, she uh we had we were finishing up that that second script that I told you about, which was uh which turned into the episode Heritage, our last episode. 00:22:55.839 --> 00:23:05.200 And we had done a couple of filming days, probably four or five filming days that were three or four hours long, like shorter days when it comes to film. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:07.279 And we were pushing. 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:19.440 I um I was really stressed out, I was having uh crisis, an existential crisis around the project and stuff, because uh there was a lot of stress around getting it done. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:26.640 And I had decided that I was done, I was quitting uh because I was still in ego mode, I was still this is about me. 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:29.440 I hadn't learned my lessons yet. 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:42.960 And we went in on my birthday to finish the last day of filming, so we filmed I think six or seven scenes, which equated to about 13 hours of the day being put to work, uh with like a 10-minute lunch. 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:43.440 Wow. 00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:46.240 Eat on the drive to the next location kind of thing. 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:55.039 Yeah, and the cast and crew hadn't experienced that yet, and so it was a long, hard day for them in many ways. 00:23:55.200 --> 00:24:01.839 But we went to a firing range and that was our final scene for the day. 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.559 And we were setting up, everything. 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:09.599 I turned around, and my lead actress had just like I saw the door closing behind her kind of thing. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.160 I was like, oh, that's that's something I should go talk about. 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:28.240 And I uh I followed her out, her her boyfriend at the time came with me and we sat and we found her and she was having a breakdown, she she was crying, and you know, I don't want to hurt you, you're my best friend. 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:38.880 Because at the time I was playing Kale, which was the main character, it is the main character, and her character has some beef with me, and she's like, I don't want to kill you, I don't want to shoot you, that kind of thing. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.039 She was shooting at pictures of me. 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:57.119 Um and she was having a hard time separating the acting from real life, which is something that happens a lot um with acting because it is a very raw emotional state that you're in when you're when you're performing at those levels. 00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:57.920 Yeah. 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:04.319 I've heard that before, to be honest, that a lot of actors try and do that actually, so like they are their character, right? 00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:04.799 Yeah. 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:08.319 Well, it's and not necessarily that they are their character, even just the emotions. 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:08.960 Oh, yeah. 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:12.799 We can separate, like again, I've I've done acting for a very long time. 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:22.319 You can tell this is me and this is Bob in the script, but the emotions are real, they're very strong. 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:31.039 Um, one of the things that you learn very early in acting school is you're acting truthfully under imaginary circumstances. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.880 And so people get that wrong. 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:43.759 Uh that's a whole different set of stories, but it's it they're trying to be as real and as true as they can while imagining they are someone else. 00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:46.000 They're may playing make belief, you know. 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:50.960 Um, but on a much, much more intense level than make belief usually gets. 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:51.599 Yeah. 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:55.519 But uh yeah, I found her and I said, you know what, here's what we're gonna do. 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:58.720 And and I'm freaking out in my head, going, I'm leaving tomorrow. 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:00.319 I'm I'm moving away. 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:08.559 I'm so sick of this show, I'm so sick of fighting and stress and this mental load that I'm under with the breakup and everything else. 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:15.039 And I'm just thinking of myself, but I I sat there, I pulled myself out of out of it long enough to go, you know what, okay, here. 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.559 I'm gonna get everybody to pack up the non-essential stuff. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:28.319 We're gonna strip the the set down to the bare basics of what we need for the shots, and then we're gonna wait for you or give you what half an hour sound good? 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:33.039 She nodded, and I said, Okay, well then I'll be back in a half an hour and we can figure it out. 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:36.880 And if you say no, we're not doing it today, that's fine. 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:44.079 We will book another day, I will find another day that works with the firing range, everybody else can find another day, and no one's gonna judge you. 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:46.240 Like this is not we're your friends. 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.440 All of us were friends by that point in time, for sure. 00:26:50.079 --> 00:27:00.640 And so I went out, I got everybody set up, we took everything that we didn't need down, kept the basics up there, kept the camera set up and ready to roll, sounded, all that stuff was set. 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:06.400 And uh we had we we all went outside because it was dark in in the shooting range, it's an indoor shooting range. 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:08.880 And so we were standing outside. 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.000 Some of the casts were having cigarettes because they're smokers. 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:14.000 Or sorry, not cast,

some of the crew. 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:16.720 And uh and she came outside, she's like, I'm ready. 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.079 Just very soft voice, and she's like, I'm ready. 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:22.400 And so I said, Alright, let's go. 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:24.720 Everyone put out their cigarettes, we went inside. 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:30.480 Um, you know, we we did the shoot in 20 minutes or so, and it was amazing. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:41.599 The the raw emotion that she had expunged just really brought that scene more depth than there would have been necessarily before. 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.759 I can't say that, but that's what it felt like. 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:44.160 Yeah. 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:46.640 So we wrapped it all up and we were out of there. 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:47.279 Yeah. 00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:52.880 And we were going, and and I I had this feeling, I was like, I need to ask. 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.400 I need to ask a question here, and I'm not sure what it is. 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:07.279 So I was standing outside, people were getting in the cars and driving away, and Devin and her boyfriend came out, and I said, you know, why'd you come back? 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:10.880 You know, you didn't have to, no one would have blamed you. 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.400 But why'd you step back onto the set? 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:33.039 And she she looked at me and I can remember it, like red red rimmed eyes, everything, because she had been crying for so long, like it was still there, and she said, Well, because of you You've done all of this stuff for us. 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:42.799 You've worked so hard to make this production and keep this community together and cohesive, and and we're all becoming friends because of what you're doing. 00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:44.799 I didn't want to let you down. 00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.640 And I I won't lie to you, I I was hit. 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:53.519 I was I I I cried on the drive home because I'm alone. 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:55.839 And I'm like, what the heck is this? 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:14.799 Because I'm I'm fighting with this egotistical part of myself that wants it to be about me, and this part of myself that knows that it hasn't been about me for a long time, and that this just revealed it from me, pulled me out of my depression long enough to to recognize it. 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:20.319 And I sat there and I had a really long reflection most of the night. 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:31.839 The next day, day after my birthday, we had uh like a fire like a barbecue fire kind of scenario where it was kind of like a congratulations, we wrapped this episode. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:32.400 Yeah. 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:37.200 And and I had asked my parents to drive out from Saskatchewan to come get me. 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:43.759 I was leaving and I didn't message them because I was gonna tell everybody I'm done and I'm out of here at this thing. 00:29:43.839 -->

00:29:46.319 And I had a change of heart. 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:52.559 I knew I had a responsibility now that was there before. 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:54.960 I just didn't know what it was to continue. 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.400 And uh it was it really changed me. 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:13.680 Um I ended up staying, um and we pushed through through uh four at that time there was five episodes, so we pushed through five more episodes, four sorry, four more episodes um all the way through into twenty fourteen. 00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:15.920 And then I came out to Saskatchewan. 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:20.880 But we had we had completed the the the production side of it. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:21.759 It was great. 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:35.440 And and and I I can't thank enough Devin or any of the other casting crew for the many, many things that they taught me on that project about not just not just the story in them, but about me. 00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:36.400 Yeah. 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:38.960 That's a beautiful story, my man. 00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:41.359 That's a really powerful story. 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:42.559 I love that. 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.279 I love how it all wrapped up in the end. 00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:51.440 Yeah, you know, reflection going through those kind of highs and lows and moments of life. 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:57.039 I think that's where some of the ultimate art is created, for sure. 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:06.720 And you really hit uh some heartstrings when you said, you know, when you're going through some tough stuff, you can deal with it in a few different ways, and art's one of them. 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:08.640 And that is so true. 00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:16.880 I've definitely seen a lot of people go through some tough times and help themselves out by discovering an art form. 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:27.200 And I'll be honest, I'm one of them myself, you know, and it's such a beautiful outlet compared to the alternative, you know, to not have anything. 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:28.319 Absolutely. 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:29.680 It's hard. 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:36.480 Um and I've seen it a lot in recent years where people have nothing for themselves. 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:37.359 Yeah. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:47.119 And uh to be honest, even after that project, uh that version of the project, the filming, uh, when I came out to Saskatchewan, I didn't have anything either. 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:48.240 I just worked. 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.559 And I worked and I worked and I worked and I pushed myself. 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:55.039 And uh and it was another lesson. 00:31:55.119 --> 00:32:04.160 It was funny, it's a lesson I had already learned, but I had to learn it again, where it's like you need to do something for your soul, if you will. 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:12.079 You need to do something not to be productive, but to be true to what's going on inside you. 00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:18.559 And sometimes that's a

an old hobby, sometimes that's an art, sometimes that's just going fishing. 00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:19.279 You know. 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:19.920 Yep. 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.480 You need to take care of yourself that way. 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:27.200 And and we forget that in this day and age very often, I think. 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:29.359 Amen to that, brother. 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:30.480 My goodness. 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.480 It's funny I sent you some show notes for those who are listening. 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:41.599 I haven't even looked at my little document that I pulled up for show notes just to keep uh an idea going here and there uh for flow. 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:45.359 But um that's that's exactly what needed to happen. 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:52.559 That's what needed to be said because this podcast is, you know, I want to be able to share people's beautiful art and creative work. 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:56.240 I want to share their empowerment, their strength that they have to offer this world. 00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:01.119 And I want to share with people beautiful messages like you just shared right there. 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:12.640 Man, if I could clip that, which I'm going to, that is what needs to be heard because it brings people into a little bit more of your story, a little bit more of your understanding and just who you are. 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:18.000 And it's somebody I've appreciated since the day we met years ago now, which is crazy. 00:33:18.160 --> 00:33:18.799 It's crazy. 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.599 We're getting older. 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:23.519 It's wild, brother. 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:28.400 It's wild, but um, that's the life journey that we're on, which is pretty cool. 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.559 Now to kind of take a little bit of a you know, a different path. 00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.200 I want to talk a little bit more about your journey, your your story. 00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:41.920 You were telling me that um there's some things that arose. 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:53.119 So I was asking you basically what are some of the challenges that you've had to face in order to try and get on the other side of getting this project long night out and continue with your productions and everything. 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:59.759 Uh, you shared a little bit just before we're on camera here, and I'd like to know a little bit more about it. 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:02.079 So if are you comfortable sharing? 00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:03.599 Yeah, absolutely. 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:16.400 Um, so there's been a few, because we like I said, we had done two versions of this show, Project Long Knight and mini-series, uh, which we're now re referring to as Legacy, um, which was the filming. 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:21.119 Um, and so we we never got that one uh cut together and stuff. 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:33.440 There were things that happened, um, things out of our control where we lost some of the footage, um we've we didn't have the resources to get an editor in to edit the show. 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:37.280 Uh I ended up trying to learn and doing a bunch of editing myself. 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:44.800 I got through rough cuts, but I I couldn't colorize, I couldn't do uh a bunch of the things that got us to that point. 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:50.719 And so when this version came around, some of the hurdles that came up were similar. 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:59.039 Um we managed to lock in an editor and and Dana, who is our Dana Keem, who is our editor, is amazing. 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:10.880 Um I I really hope everyone can when they listen to it appreciate and and give appreciation to her for building the soundscapes because she really did make it sound like a movie. 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:15.679 Like you can hear whatever you need to hear in that scene to help you understand it. 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:24.559 Footsteps, fights, um uh uh sound effects in the background, like a light, you know, chairs moving, those kind of things. 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:27.119 She really built that soundscape out wonderfully. 00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:34.159 But some of our hurdles was rebuilding the team and finding the right people for it. 00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:40.800 Not everybody could come back, but most of them expressed uh a want to return. 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:46.559 But because of when we were recording this new version, they weren't able to make it back. 00:35:47.039 --> 00:36:03.119 Um and then through the couple years here, um a few of us had some medical issues, uh, myself included, or I was bedridden for nearly seven months uh over this last winter. 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:13.920 And uh and I I'm just getting back on my feet health-wise, but uh I wasn't gonna let uh the show slip away again. 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:31.760 I I have we added forty forty-three or forty-seven more people somewhere in there, brand new people who had never been part of the show originally uh this time around, and I really wasn't going to let people sit in the dark for another ten years because my health was there. 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:48.480 So we managed to get to a point where the team was able to work and do a lot of the work while I was unavailable, so that when I came back, it was mostly there, and and I can't give enough credit to those people for the work that they gave us. 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:56.000 Yeah, like you were saying, uh your friend there before you guys finished the last scene of your your um production. 00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:03.199 You know, she was saying, Well, you, you created this community, so now it's a little bit bigger of a community, right? 00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:05.840 So a little bit more stuff on your shoulders for sure. 00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:16.159 And I could see how that would also be um not pressure, but you know, a desire to fulfill that community as well, too, even while you're bedridden. 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:18.400 Yeah, I see it as

a responsibility. 00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:18.880 Yeah. 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:27.679 Um, they put their trust and life into the project and into me pushing it across that finish line for them. 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:28.239 Yeah. 00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:39.280 And while I didn't do it alone, uh it's definitely one of those things where it it weighed very heavily on me the first time around. 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:43.440 Um there was a lot of guilt involved in not getting it completed. 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:52.239 And I saw this version as a as a way to show everyone the work that they did and and get it there. 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:59.760 And and the thing that's great about it is that the community isn't just the 165 people that worked on the show. 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:03.199 It's the friends of those people, the family of those people. 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:12.320 And and there's a responsibility that I've taken on to at the very least get it out for them. 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:12.880 Yeah. 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:21.920 You know, if we can have more people join the join the cause, join the rally behind the Project Long Night Flag so that we can keep it going, that'd be even better. 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:26.159 But it's really important to me that they get to see. 00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.440 Because I've been watching it. 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:36.000 I've been watching the sh the the the footage, I knew the story, I could see it all, even though it wasn't cut together, I knew what it looked like, I knew what it sounded like, and it was amazing. 00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:38.960 And I just wanted to get that out for them. 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:39.920 Yeah. 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:52.639 Well, each one of those individuals has a family tree or has a friend tree, you know, and that's another five, ten, twenty, thirty people, forty people, whatever it is, right? 00:38:52.800 --> 00:39:00.320 So one person is an absolute ripple effect in their own family trees, in their own friend circles, whatever it is. 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:19.840 And so that's a lot of people that could possibly be affected in a positive way, in a good way, you know, have art come to expression, to come to fruition, and to see somebody who they care about deeply be a part of something that they love and enjoy themselves and love being a part of, of course. 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:22.000 And it's building a community. 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:28.960 And one of the toughest things that this world, you know, forgets sometimes is that community is important. 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:33.679 I definitely have needed to find my own community in different places at times. 00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:52.000 We found each other in a different community before, of course, and uh, you know, we know which one that is, but um yeah, I think a human being needs a community, they need connection because without connection, that is a big missing piece of the human experience. 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.039 Absolutely. 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:53.679 Yeah. 00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:56.480 And we have a responsibility to those people. 00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:57.039 Yeah. 00:39:57.280 --> 00:40:18.559 You know, it varies depending on how connected you are with them, but there's a responsibility from person to person that needs to be respected because I mean everyone everyone's probably experienced some sort of disappointment. 00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:24.000 Uh everybody's experienced some sort of betrayal, I I would imagine. 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:25.360 And they suck. 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:36.079 But the responsibility for the rest of us who didn't do that is to show that we do we can and do better. 00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:36.800 Yeah. 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:41.280 And I and I think that, you know, it's important. 00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:50.400 It's important in every age of of humanity, you know, to to keep that hope going because it doesn't look good if we let it slide. 00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:51.360 Yeah. 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.840 Yeah, and sometimes those experiences definitely help shape us for what's next. 00:40:56.079 --> 00:41:02.719 I know I'm definitely, you know, I'm not the same friend that I was 15 years ago with my friends back in the day. 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:11.519 I'm a I would like to say a better friend now with all those experiences, because I've had experiences happen to me and I want to be better with it. 00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:14.239 Uh, but sometimes we make mistakes as well, too, right? 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:14.960 Plain and simple. 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:23.280 And when we're younger, um not as knowledged and seasoned, we have more mistakes to make sometimes as well. 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:24.079 Exactly. 00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:25.280 And it's a lesson, right? 00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:27.920 Yeah, all that we can hope is that we do better next time. 00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:28.639 Yeah. 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:30.639 Yeah, plain and simple, brother. 00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:32.079 I appreciate that. 00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:32.719 Okay. 00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:59.599 Now I would love for people who are interested in the work that you do to be able to find you, to be able to listen to you, to be able to, if they are in the Edmonton, Alberta area, or if you're doing filming or producing in other places, how do they get a part of the project or ask if they can help and assist in any short uh big way or small way? 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:02.079 How would people get a hold of you? 00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:07.280 Well, the easiest way would be to go onto our social media right now. 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:11.360 Um so we've we've got Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. 00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:16.480 Um it's Noble Story Productions, is the is the page. 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:21.840 Um and on uh Instagram, it's noble.story. 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:23.679 So those would be the easiest ones. 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:29.360 If you if you message

us there or if you follow and like and stuff, a comment in there, we will respond to you. 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:36.159 It's myself and and one of the ladies who's helping me with the marketing at the moment, uh, Sarah. 00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:42.559 And uh we also are on YouTube, Noble Story Productions again. 00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:50.400 If you look up Project Colon Long Night, night is in nighttime, that uh that'll take you to our trailer. 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:52.960 Um it's the one with the waveform. 00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:55.119 There's an old trailer from forever ago. 00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:55.920 Please don't watch it. 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:57.760 It it wasn't edited. 00:42:58.159 --> 00:42:59.760 It was all raw footage at the time. 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:01.119 One of those lessons, eh? 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:02.320 One of those lessons. 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:02.960 Uh yeah. 00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:04.480 It's what it is. 00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.280 I I left it up there because it's a it's a fun relic. 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:08.480 It is, man. 00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:12.639 And you know, some of the biggest movies, some of the biggest podcasts, whatever. 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:18.719 You go to episode one, they are different than what episode a thousand is if people last that long. 00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:24.559 They didn't fall into they didn't they didn't fall into their stride yet, especially older ones. 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:29.119 I love stuff from the 90s where it's like, oh, I remember this being a lot better. 00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:34.159 You get a little bit into season one, season two, you're like, okay, okay, I'm starting to see what I remember. 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:34.960 You know. 00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:38.320 Um another place that you can find us is on Patreon. 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:42.800 If you feel you want to help more on a monetary fashion. 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:48.800 Um, I don't know if I said this earlier or not, but everybody worked for free to get this production made. 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:49.679 That's incredible. 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:51.599 That's incredible. 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:59.519 So the the first goal of the Patreon is to back pay everyone to get some money back into their pockets as a thank you. 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:08.079 Um and then after we've done that to then be able to pay them to come in beforehand for the following seasons. 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:10.559 And so to fund those things would be amazing. 00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:13.119 Um Yeah. 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:20.719 And and I'm not taking a cut uh I I don't know if I've said that before on any of the interviews, but my cut is absolute last. 00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:28.239 Everybody gets fully paid, the seasons get made, and I'll take a cut at the end of the work because it's not about me anymore. 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:34.079 It's about making sure everybody else is getting respected for what they're for what they're bringing to the

table. 00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:36.159 I love that brother. 00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:39.920 That's uh that's a leader right there, man. 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:41.599 I I try. 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:53.519 It was one of that was also one of the lessons is that what a leader is and that I could be one was definitely a major one that I I learned in in the production, the first production. 00:44:53.840 --> 00:45:02.320 And then carrying over the things that I learned after running a business and stuff like that, and going back to the production in this current form. 00:45:02.639 --> 00:45:06.719 Taking those lessons and hopefully doing a better job than I did the first time. 00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:09.679 Like we said, we're we're just learning in this life. 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:14.719 I'm st I'm still learning, and I will be until the day my my time on this planet's done too. 00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:18.639 So we're all in the same boat, but I appreciate that. 00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:21.440 I I appreciate your leadership traits, brother. 00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:22.320 I do. 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:30.400 Well, I'll make sure to do my best to put the links um where people can find you guys for sure. 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:37.840 But now if people are just listening in their car or whatever, driving somewhere, they can hear it from your own voice where to find you. 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:57.039 And so I think that's a great opportunity for people who are just simply listening, you know, on the road to keep that, you know, what you shared with everyone in their back of their mind for whenever they stop safely and pull over and get wherever they're going and search you guys up and maybe connect with you guys more in the future. 00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:58.639 I'm excited, yeah. 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:01.599 I'm sorry, I was just gonna say we we welcome the interaction. 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:04.239 Yeah, even just watching the show helps, honestly. 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:13.360 Yeah, which is it's your art, and you know, I know for a fact there's gonna be a lot of people that enjoy it. 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:15.679 I know for a fact, yeah. 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:28.079 And I'm gonna tune in a little bit myself when I'm on the road here and there, and I'm going to uh sit back and be entertained when I'm driving six, eight hours, twelve hours, wherever I'm going once in a while too. 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:36.880 And I'm I'm gonna make sure to uh share the word out there more after this podcast is out and you know, see where things can keep going for you guys too. 00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:37.920 I appreciate that. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:38.639 Thank you so much. 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:40.159 No worries, brother. 00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:40.719 Okay. 00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:47.679 Well, I want to thank each and every single person for listening to this podcast, whether it's just a few or whether it's a thousand. 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:56.000 But, you know, I've taken a little bit of a hiatus for the last little while, of course, doing family things, work thins over the last few months here. 00:46:56.079 --> 00:47:08.079 Um, but it's pretty amazing to keep seeing the hours and hours getting viewed on uh YouTube and you know the downloads being downloaded on Spotify podcasts, you know, um platforms and stuff. 00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:12.880 And I haven't we haven't put out another episode in a while, so it's pretty cool to see that growing. 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:21.599 So I want to thank each and every single person for you know supporting the show in that way as well, too, because it's a form of art, form of connection. 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:27.199 And I want to thank my brother Andrew Nadji for helping us connect together today. 00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.880 It's been uh privilege, it's been nice catching up with you, brother. 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:36.000 Um it's it's nice to see your face, it's been a long time since I've seen your actual face. 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:43.199 So thank you very much again uh for having us for having me here to talk about the story and to connect. 00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:48.639 I again, like you said, it's been a long time and I'm I'm happy to to do the reconnect. 00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:50.079 Right on, brother. 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:59.119 And so if anybody is interested getting hold of um these guys, and you can't find the link for whatever reason, just send me a message. 00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:02.480 I'll try my best to connect you guys too, if anyone's interested. 00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:08.079 Andrew, anything else you'd love to uh touch base on before we chime out? 00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:13.360 There's uh one more story I'd like to leave on. 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:14.079 Perfect. 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:16.800 It's another lesson from Project Long Knight. 00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:17.199 Yeah. 00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:22.079 We were going in to film one of the last days of of the shoot. 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:30.800 And uh my hairdresser for set came up to me and was like, our actor Tom. 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.400 Tom Smith, I should specify there's like five toms on the show. 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:38.159 Uh my my actor Tom Smith has very bushy eyebrows. 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:40.159 And she says, I would I just want to fix him. 00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:42.480 I was like, do what you're gonna do. 00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.480 And so she goes up and she messes with his hair and grabs the thing. 00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:51.920 Oh, there's this one hair that I just wanna just wanna clip and get rid of it and clean it up and and that way you look great on film. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.280 And Tom goes, okay. 00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:56.880 So she puts her hand under his hair and goes, just close your eyes and believe. 00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:06.639 And he kind of like looks at her in fear, hand drops, buzzes across, and cleans up these bushy eyebrows to a nice, gorgeous looking length. 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:09.280 Didn't shave them all off, just trimmed them down. 00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:10.000 Oh, okay. 00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:11.920 But everybody heard this. 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:12.480 Yeah. 00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:20.719 And she took her hand away and he's like, Oh my goodness! Like, just like losing it because he doesn't know that she didn't just shave off his eyebrows. 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:21.119 Yeah. 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:29.760 Um and I and that line, close your eyes and believe, is applicable everywhere. 00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:31.199 Yep. 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:37.440 You might not know what's coming, but if you close your eyes and believe, something good will come from it. 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:38.400 Yeah. 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:46.719 Well, folks, I think that is the best way to end this podcast. 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:50.239 Um great, great message, Andrew. 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:54.880 I think a lot of people can benefit a lot from that clip itself right there, too. 00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:56.320 So thank you, brother. 00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:58.800 And thank you, everyone who's going to be tuning in. 00:49:59.039 --> 00:50:06.719 Really appreciate uh every single person for giving us two of the most precious resources another human being can give to another human being. 00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:08.960 That's your time and energy. 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:17.679 And please go check out my brother Andrew, his crew, and all the beautiful work they're going to be releasing and has released and be entertained. 00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:19.360 So thanks everybody.