Hey there, Nick's fans.

Hey there, Nick's fans. How are you doing?

It's your boy, Jonathan Mack, you're with you for another episode of the Nix Film School podcast coming at you on a Wednesday, September 21st, which a special day, which I will get to in a second.

Why it is a special day.

But first, let me introduce the program that you're about to hear. It is a crossover edition of the Nix Film School

podcast, a crossover that we have done before, but not in a long time. I'm fairly certain

the last time we did a true crossover episode with these guys, it was me and J.B. doing it with

just Craig and Barry. So Craig and Barry of Hardinick's Life, that is the crossover we're

about to hear. And for anybody who doesn't know about Hardinick's life, I will just say up front, it is a different sort of show than we have here at Nick's Film School, as you will hear, on this part one of a two-part crossover.

If you want to hear part two of the conversation, go over to their feed.

And you should go over their feed regardless.

They do great work over there, albeit different work that we do.

Again, it's Craig Barry and Blandy.

I'm going to just tell my little story.

So, like, I was not a person that was in the podcast space, meaning I didn't listen to podcasts until kind of late

in the game.

And the first Nick's podcast I ever listened to, this is a true story.

I was on the train home back to Long Island from the Barclays Center, I think, or maybe it was the next night. Yeah, no, it had to be

the next night because they couldn't have recorded it in the moment. But it was the night after,

I think, K.P. Torres ACL. And I was like bummed out. And I just wanted to listen to something

that would put me, I don't know, in better

spirits. And so I discovered this podcast called It's a Hard Next Life. And I was like, what a more,

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