Nick's Film Schoolians and everybody who's a purveyor of Nick's content on the internet.

I'm Jeff Johnson, here with the dean of Nick's film school.

The substack savior. The man with a thousand and one log lines, my guy, Jonathan

Macri, in the building for Casual Friday Live. John, this is only the second episode

of the season. So right now, after you, the bar is the ceiling. Oh, is the roof. So we got

you in the building. How are you feeling today, man? That's very silly of you to say.

Uh, man, you, you like bring so much energy to this, to the top of the show. And I love it.

Because that's like, you know, I'm a little older than you. So I remember

the days of like, you know, Mike and the Mad Dog went their heyday and Chris Russo would

always start off the show with like that, that long drawn out like, how you doing everybody.

And I remember when I was a kid, I was like, man, if I ever have a show,

I'm going to start off episodes like that. And now I start off. I'm like, all right, let's talk

about this stuff. What are we going on? Drag me out of bed for this nonsense. No, I'm good, man. It's

great. It's great to be here on casual Fridays with you. I love that we're doing this this year.

And I'm feeling good, man.

It's like, you know, everything right now,

I think you could say this probably about most NBA teams.

But certainly the Knicks, like everything is,

is candy canes and gumdrops.

Like, it's cool.

It's like, I'm excited.

It's like, I'll say this. Like each, we'll do the vibe check in a

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