 How's your life been? Oh, it's very, very, I have almost no complaints. It's like, I would say, you know, I feel very, very fortunate to have the life I have. Yeah. I think, you know, if there are like parallel universes, this is the only one where this is the one I want to be in. I don't think there's one better for sure. This is what I always say. If you think you can beat this life, spin the wheel. Yeah. What are the odds? I am not spinning the wheel. You actually did the one American dream better than slip and falls. Which is movie star. Legitimately. Like other than like, yeah, I go to America, I fake hurt my neck. I get a million point eight to do nothing. To do nothing, disability, Vicodin. And this is the only one better. It's a bit more money for a bit less work. I love that he's named. People know I love money. So thank you for bringing up money. Well, I've heard them. So you don't get paid that much up front, whatever. They fix that. Listen, I'm not going to talk about money, but I just feel generally very, very, very fortunate that, you know, I mean, I would do the stuff for free when I did stand up. Most of the times I did it for free. So to be able to do this stuff for not free. And I understand there's a window, you know, especially people who come from comedy, I find there's a window. It can turn real quick, you know, that thing shuts down. Meaning the window from stand up to movies? There's a window sometimes with comedy people where they're like the hot thing for a little bit and they get their shot. You know, I don't want to name anybody, but for a couple of years they do a few movies and then it goes away and nobody wants them anymore. So I'm very aware of that, of the window shutting. I would argue that the type of movie, the big sick being your opportunity and your shot. And you guys got nominated for an Academy Award, right? Yes. Must have been incredibly fun. Yeah, I mean truly, truly unbelievable. Yeah, it was great. Again, honestly, when we were going through that, you know, that was the forced movie we did. It was very low budget. It got good reviews. It was making money, got nominated for an Oscar. And the entire time people would be like, just so you know, it's never going to be like this. I thought of that this morning because I was like, I was thinking about, was three years ago? No. This was COVID, it's four or five, right? Six, six years ago. Six, yeah. 27. Okay, right there. I remember me and David doing half-baked, we're 23. People kept going, we write the movie in March, we're shooting in July. And people go, by the way, this doesn't happen every time. And in our heads, me and David were going, not for you, it doesn't. Yeah, well then you did Chappelle's show and you're like, they were wrong. No, no, no, no, no. That's six years later. Yeah. That's the difference, seven years later. So that seven years, it doesn't feel like a long time, but when you're in it, it does, it feels like a very long time. It feels like a long time since the big set. And because you're living every day, whereas to me, you're just flying past my windshield. I'm just like, oh, Camille and Emily did a movie, cool. Great, good for them. Totally. So you do understand now that it doesn't happen every time, that it was a fucking not freak thing that you're like, we're all lucky, we're all, but. It certainly was, the result was a freak thing. And it doesn't happen. And I don't know if it will happen now. I think that movie, a movie of that size becoming like doing well at the box office. I think that was the last year that happened, because it happened to us, it happened to Lady Bird, get out with a phenomenon. So it's in its own category. But Lady Bird and us, that was the last time that movies of that size made actual good money at the box office. It's gone away now. Now you would say Big Sick and Lady Bird, I love Lady Bird. People would say those are like streaming movies. They wouldn't call them theatrical movies. So, and you know, and it hasn't, I felt like, you know, for years up until the Big Sick, you know, I was sort of like the one of the cool comedy people, you know, where I did a lot of stuff. I was in Silicon Valley. That was great. And that was pretty big. Totally forgot about it. Yeah, it was great. You know what, Soler? You run it for every episode for five years? Six years, yeah. Totally forgot. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, that's what happens. But I'm very proud of that show being on it. That was on a show called Portland. Yeah. You know, that ran for a few years. And so I felt like I was on this thing of like, oh, because I'm this cool comedy person, my world is ultimately fairly small. But within that world, I sort of felt like everything I was doing was well received. And then suddenly after the Big Sick, you go into a bigger pond. It's a lot more people and the stakes are higher and different. And I would say- When you say people, what do you mean? Audience? Like it's a bigger, so the thing I like in it too is elections. Right? So you ran, you won city council. Yeah. Yeah. Then you won state senate. Yeah. Then I'd say Big Sick was like how you got your elected member of the House of Representatives. Yeah. And then you're kind of running for senate slash president. Yeah. Running for senate while also trying to dip my toe into the presidency. And you realize like, oh, this is a different world. There's a lot more voices. There's just a lot more sense. So since then, I would say since the Big Sick, my relationship with my career and success or whatever it is, again, very, very, very grateful, very lucky, very, very happy to be what I'm doing. But it's different. It's a lot more complicated since then. Okay. With that in mind, because I think it's a really interesting point that people don't talk about very much. What kind of person do you think it favors? So do you get to this big, you're running for president, you're on the poster, which is like a different thing? Yeah. Like once, I noticed it would take, once you're on a poster. It's different. It does something to people when they see you. So once you're on the poster, you understand how fucking appealing the rock is. Yeah. You know what I mean? Where you're like, boy, oh boy, that guy's got a lot of fucking talent and virtues. Yeah. Or Kevin Hart or Vince Vaughn or like Vince in the 90s, 2000s or like you just see that it's, you're running, you're trying to get, you're trying to appeal to literally billions of people. Yeah. I remember when the Big Sick opened, we opened against a Transformers movie and you're like, oh, this is like a different level from doing a comedy in the back of a comic book store. That you're up against fake robots. You literally have to be as appealing as a fake car robot. Yeah. That you've known your entire life. Yeah. To say nothing of the relationship. Right. That like everyone on the planet knows. Yeah. And this time he has a sword. Fuck. I remember the poster for it was, it was me and Inezowie and Ray Romano and Holly Hunter and all these people on our poster, Anupam and that was just very simple, Optimus Prime standing on the moon with a big fucking sword. And I was like, that is tough. That is tough to go against. And by the way, they're charging the same for each. It's the same money for each. Popcorn's the same. Time investment is about the same. I bet both were, you know, slightly under two hours, around two hours. It's the same. But I was very, very, you know, excited because that opening weekend, they switched Transformers, the dome here, you know, it used to be Arc Light Dome was like the big movie theater in LA. They put the big sick in there and took Transformers out. That was very exciting. For me, I would say me going from doing comedy shows to being able to do movies, which I feel very lucky about, the biggest adjustment, the adjustment with that took me way too long to make. And it's weird I'm here talking about it. You got to close up your life a little bit. You got to start like getting private. You got to have a line between the personal and the public. The persona, whatever it is, you just got to like tighten shit up a little bit. And as a comedian, I was always really out there, you know, on Twitter, social media, talking about myself, like being really, really public, because that's what you have to do to sell seats on the road. It took me too long to realize, oh, now it's different and I have to really protect myself and my private life. And it took me too long to figure that out. Is it because there's more eyeballs looking at you? There's more corporate interests that can get fucked up if you say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing. That's right. It's the corporate interests, or both. And it's also people's perception of you. People's perception of someone, you know, what people think of name of famous person, let's say. John Cena. Let's say John Cena, who's a lovely guy. I don't know him that well, but he's lovely. But people have a certain perception of John Cena. There's no way that the reality of John Cena matches up with who you think he is, or who you want him to be. And I find now when people see a side of you that they don't expect, they're disappointed, they're upset, you don't fit their little perception of it. I think the parallel social relationship thing that people have with famous people. And John Cena has a much, has a much, you know, much bigger audience than I do. He's much more famous, much more successful. He's massive and he's been for a long time. It is like a very, I think he would probably welcome that he seems very, the thing I was saying about The Rock, he just seems like he doesn't have any. He's kind of shaved off his like jagged edges and he's like very presentable. I think you have to. I think that's the healthy thing to do publicly. There's no reason for you to be, especially on the level of a rock or John Cena, there's no reason for you to really show people really who you are because they don't, they don't deserve it. I mean, why should, why should people get to know exactly who you are as a human being? That's not what you're doing, you know. And what The Rock has figured out really well is how to sell a version of himself that is marketable and in person, then he protects his own personal life. Yeah. I think you have to do that. And when he does show you his personal life, it's littered with product placement. Hey, did you like that? Did you like that? Yeah. Did you like it though? You want more? 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