You got this?

No, don't.

Just not gonna hear your voice.

Yes or no?

Yes.

Goes nervous.

Get truth is more talented than you got back.

Thank you for meeting me in the rain.

I know it's a little messy out there.

All right, so I got to see the movie last night.

It was excellent.

I love watching it with a big crowd because it's like we're all at a basketball game.

So hearing people cheer for you all during the game was really fun.

But what I loved about it was we were just cheering for you to win the game.

We were changed for you to kind of win in life overall.

So talk to me about when you first read the script.

And what's your initial dogs?

Where?

What did you say?

Yes for me, You know, I found it really inspiring.

He knows, because I think we all face adversity of sometimes or another.

Some people are more fortunate than others, but ultimately, you know, I could be difficult at times.

I'm gonna throw up hurdles, and you can either kind of give up or you can.

You push through and sports is a really good metaphor for that, you know?

And it wasn't about necessarily like winning as much as like being the best players.

That could be the best team that could be learned to cooperate.

These guys did a great job with the basketball with showing male vulnerability, which I think is something that's really important, see, And, uh, it just it was a real story about real people struggling with issues that I could kind of identify with.

And I think one of the things that movies do that's really actually create empathy, compassion for other number eight.

And I know that you were born in Atlanta, but you wasn't what you weren't raised here.

How does it feel to kind of the neck in the CD premiering this?

Oh, man.

Um, yeah.

I haven't been back since I left.

I was, like, nine or 10 years old.

It feels like flashes of my past life or kind of just coming back.

It's crazy.

Do you remember?

You have memories?

Yeah.

Remember like Waffle House?

Uh, Brewster's ice cream.

Now that place is you plan to hit it while you waffle house really want waffles houses.

Good.

One of my favorite lines from the movie is the little things.

How do you apply that in your life?

Big picture, small steps.

It applies to everything up for like, especially active small steps sitting at a booth.

Results aren't like me, and you know what I mean.

You gotta wait for the end result.

You can't.

You know, it's like it's kind of not even looking at any sort of results.

Just being in that moment, every every feeling every sensation was happening in that moment.

Every little thing where your jeans feel on your body and just feeling every little moment kind of makes what this thing was like.

Everybody was in that moment.

But I think the the thing about filmmaking is that it actually is very much like that.

It's very could be very daunting, intimidating like Oh, my God, we gotta make this movie.

We gotta pull all this stuff often.

Believe one could be really scary if you think about it in a big way.

I remember why I started directing.

I was like, I just need to think about kind of like making a little like a lay up every day, six footer, every.

Just deliver every day on the task that I need to.

I can trust that when it's done, you know, it'll come together if you think of it like you got to go out and win the game all once, you know, it's just impossible.

Well, that's all that I have.

Is there anything else you'd like to wait?