Oh, let's go. Okay, man, um, well first off, I want to say thank you for showing up. Thank you for coming man. Um, I'm really, really impressed by you overall. Um, I sat down with you last week, watch the documentary that you're about to drop coming this week, right?

No, no, this week's just the first premiere, the first premiere. When is it official official?

Well, we're going to premiere it in other cities and kind of tour it. So it's not a traditional type of like release. No. Why, why do you do it differently?

Well, with my movie North Hollywood. Yeah, we turned it into Sundance. Everyone turned us down like meaning all the distributors. Yeah.

Who Netflix, that kind of stuff. Yeah. So then we did our own screening and invited people. And then they all turned us down personally like they let us know again like no, you know.

So we put the movie on our website. Okay. Did a screening at Sophie Stadium. We did the first event there. Yeah.

Took it to Paris, did a few other cities. And then we put it on iTunes went number one comedy 15 days.

This with North Hollywood North Hollywood. Right. And ended up selling it to Showtime. So that whole, we got like a bidding war between Showtime and Hollywood.

With that whole kind of experience showed me like there's a different way to put out a movie and yeah, just exploring different ways.

Why do you think why do you think I guess it is be considered mainstream Hollywood? Why do you think they were resistant to taking on your project in a way that, you know, would make it more seamless like for you to have to like go through those hoops for them to prove to then come back full circle to be like, oh wait.

Now we want to put this on Showtime. We don't want to put this here. We want to put this there. Why do you think they they had that towards you just get the style of shooting. What do you think it is genuinely.

I really don't know you have no idea. Interesting. It's crazy because like I just so I watched it and the thing that I like most about it and obviously before we get more into this.

Mikey legal civilization anything else you want to like make known before we get into the rest of this by you like what you because I was curious.

Lester's here as well. Yeah. Lester Singleton.

Lester Singleton. I'm from Los Angeles, California. Yeah, happy. Happy to have you now here with Mikey since I lose kids. Yeah, I saw a bunch of you in that film. So I'm curious.

So like do you think it's because like just the culture around like skating in general is just kind of a little rough like the style that just hit that you guys do the street stuff.

Like because I noticed it just watching the documentary. The whole thing is like we talked about the you know the hell week thing and like proving yourself and going through it.

But then also just the way people receive just skaters specifically like street skaters in general.

It's just not always well received because it's like you know going on people's property all this kind of stuff.

Do you think that's why like they you have pushed back to when you're trying to like present these projects to bigger networks.

No, I cared because that's how you get it seen by a lot of people. Yeah. And that's how you build your brand. Right.

And make more do off the movie. Of course. So I don't know why they turn me down at first. But it's like anything. Yeah.

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