You'll mind hanging back.

You're jamming my frequencies.

I may not always be right, but I never go.

Hello and welcome to Maximum Film, episode 4.57.

I'm your host, Kevin Avery.

Alanto is away at the movies, but we'll be hearing from him a little later in the show. In the meantime, joining me, as always, she's an amazing producer and film festival programmer. Before Queen Searcy, there was the Queen of the Midwest. It's Dreia Clark. What's good?

I mean, an apt comparison. That you went to Seeres, other than like a multitude of other queens without maybe so much blood.

Actually, no, if you're a queen, you got blood on your hands.

Pretty much.

Okay, I'm so excited you brought up the Midwest because what's good with me, you know I love a regional, a weird specific regional happening.

And for once, I finally remembering to say it beforehand.

So if you're listening and you're in Minnesota, this is happening the Saturday after this

comes out on Saturday, June 6th.

So there's this annual happening event, whatever, in Lake of the Isles, which is a neighborhood in Minneapolis,

where this family, the Higgins, a few years ago, they had an enormous mammoth oak tree

that was hit by lightning and fell. It was sad. If, like, you've ever been in a place with,

like, proper, like, old- old ass trees it's a big thing

when goes so they were like well listen you know what we're going to do we're going to have a local

woods working artist shape fasten and paint this thing so that it resembles a number two pencil

so it's like a number two pencil.

So it's like a 20 foot tall enormous 20 foot or like number two pencil.

And every year on their lawn like in scaffolding, they do an annual sharpening of the pencil.

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