I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to a special online edition of the treatment, talking about the

Independent Spirit Awards with its host, Joel McHale.

Yes. Thank you for being here.

Thank you for having me.

When you got the offer to do this, what did you, what was your first thought?

I, well, was excited, but I thought, oh, no, it's right in the middle of community production,

so there's no way I'm going to be able to do it.

But as we looked at the community schedule, it worked perfect.

It just happened to work out because this is my hiatus week.

We just finished three weeks.

Is your hiatus week?

Yeah, hiatus week.

Well, we go three on, one off, three on one off. We're shooting a new episode starting this Saturday, the same day as the Independence Feud Awards.

So obviously, I will not be there for that day of shooting, but we do shoot Sunday as well.

So which begs the question, how many of these movies have you had a chance to even watch, given your work schedule?

Well, I did get the screeners before the holiday break.

So that was two weeks off, and we went back home to Seattle.

So I was able to watch none.

So you still keep a place in Seattle?

Is that still a home for me?

No, but everyone keeps place.

I mean, meaning my parents are there.

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