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And we're here. Steve Berg. Steve Berg. Steve, it's Steve Berg. Steve, this is our second intro. We've done some ads. You are particularly spiced up today. Is it, what's going on? What's the combination inside of you right now? What have you done? Well, I woke up. I played tennis with my friend Brad, who's a foot surgeon, and I got the best of him. And so I'm feeling pretty good. You mean he had foot surgery? No, he's a foot surgeon. Right before the match. If you're a surgeon, that means you're a good tennis player. But I also demand that we don't play at the country club, but we play at the city courts because I'm a man of the people. Oh, this is the worst. It's terrible. I apologize. I'm the Woody Guthrie of tennis. You know, so it should be a, it's a sport for the people. I'm, you know. Yeah, tennis is a sport for the people. It is. It is. Very egalitarian. Gareth, you just were at a film festival for your movie. How was it?

It was great. It is. It is. Very egalitarian. Gareth, you just were at a film festival for your movie. How was it?

It was great. We had Give It Up at the CineQuest Film Festival.

And it was great. I mean, seeing it on the big screen and all that.

But I'm curious what, because I've been to South by Southwest, you were just there.

Yeah. And I'm curious what your experience is. You know what I did that I think is not the move? I went to all the screenings, not just the big one. I went to all of them. And I was like, I should have done this. You don't need to. Yeah, that's what I've done. The director needs to. Yeah, right. He did.

So, yeah, somebody should's what I felt. The director needs to. Yeah, right.

He did.

So, yeah, somebody should, uh, I, what I do is I fly in.

I do the premiere night.

I do the press date and then I fly out.

Yeah.

That's smart.

It's, I don't think it's, I don't think it's there to party to it's like, you're in and out.

You're presenting it. It's like the audience where you're all there. They're there for the whole festival. If you're in it, it almost feels like a four-day birthday party. Yeah. Awesome. It's really also. I would be a pig and shit. I'll be there for 40 days, man, long after it's over.

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