 Hey, welcome back to where Steve the Direct actually needs some Corbin. You follow us on Instagram, Twitter, for more cheese content. Today we're doing a short though. It's called Listener. It's a royal stag production. of the short films we see are Royal Stag Productions. Oh, hold on. Remember in the alcohol video, do you remember what we did when we drank Royal Stag? When we were drunk? Yeah. What did I do? Do you remember? No. We were in Delhi, right? The next Royal Stag, you said Royal Stag and then you humped her. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I do remember that. Yeah. I was drunk. And listener, Royal Stag and we were extremely tired. We were exhausted and drunk. We were running on like three hours to eat grunge and lag. That was the night that Big B's Tasty Nuts were born. That's true. He doesn't know it, though. Listener is a short film starring Kumudmishra directed by Taran Dudija. You might remember Kumudmishra from films such as Rockstar and Article 15, among others. Gotcha. Cool. We haven't done a short film in a while, so. It has been a while. There's been all but one have been really good. It's true. I think every Royal Stag one has been great. Yup. I don't think they've done it because I don't think the one that we saw that we didn't really like was Royal Stag. Oh, okay. I could be wrong. All I know is it's been incredible, the consistency with the short films and the fact that they're ads for a whiskey. Right. I love it. It's pretty awesome. It's not Royal Stag. I'm sorry. Takes a great man to be a good listener. That's true. Mishri? Mishri, I'm very thirsty. Shall we go? Let's go to the river? We're seeing a river-like river. It's Similar. It's the same river. Ah! I'll never get scared. Mishri is walking in a river. Ah! I'm scared. I'm scared and I throw my bag at the river. I catch my foot and go immediately. I'll never get out. I was out of the house. I was there. Wow! Nobody listens to me. Nobody listens to me. They think I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old. I told Manish, my son, I told him from the first day, look Manish, don't invest in this company. Don't invest. But he didn't listen to me. He said no. I know people who are good people and who are good people. And that's it. The company bankrupted and I lost 75 lakh rupees. 75 lakh rupees. This tension and hypertension have doubled my sex life. Doctors have doubled the dose too. But nothing is happening. This is because of Manish. Man, I have not created such a huge empire. I was standing on the top of the mountain. I told him that I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old, I am old. Do you need more? I am table 4. I am 1. I have a secret. I am your man. I am a school salad. A good school salad. And I am a marti. A marti? Anything else, ma'am? I have a list of her names. I am sure that you are old. Then I will tell you the truth. I am Manish. I am Shishu. How can I say this to you? Whatever you are worried about, I am Manish. After going from here, you will feel that you are in your own right. After going home, you will see me again. Actually, I have had such a long day. I am just feeling it. Today I did something I never thought I would do with my wife's dream. I drove from my house in Badra, all the way to Mirarung. Can you imagine that? It would be two and a half hours. I could be Delhi in that much time, by plane. Jumping lanes without getting indicated also. Trains, buses, autos. People everywhere. You know, there is a place in the middle. Goregaon. Over there, there is actually a cattle crossing. Literally. Like people are now lying down. The cattle are also here. It is my whole life, you know, I feel. I feel so good. It is so awesome. I never thought I would do this. As I drive across the city With my hands on the wheel The road has a lot to say She changes her relationship status From a relationship to something. I have 77 likes so far. How are those likes? There is like 50, 60 love mutual friends. 86 comments. And all of that. One of those comments was mine. And I wrote, have a nice life. I have 4 likes. I have 4 likes. It was mine, she didn't even ask for a minute. I was like, no, I was with 342 likes. She is the best person. I have 56 comments. I am not even judging her. Then she is all the time with me. She is exactly from it. I should mention her that she is the best. I wouldn't take any of it back. 86 comments. 50 of mutual friends like her. And my friends they give say, It's been 3 days, move on. It was very easy. And you actually have the patience to set her up. Look at me sir. And listen to me. I rise off you for that. Because. Wow. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen. Okay. I didn't sleep well. Okay listen. Today we will tell you a story about the baby. The baby is like a baby. So good. So good. Damn. Another great short film. I was wondering what the little twist was? I didn't, I didn't even pick up on it. Nope. that he was not actually listening, and amazingly they were all so deeply impacted by the fact that he was such a good listener. The moral of the story is really people don't really want somebody to listen as much as they want somebody to vent to. Not all the time I'm saying in these situations they just wanted somebody to be there to vent to them and listen to them. Yeah oftentimes it's not all the time obviously not all the time with your you know immediate family significant others obviously you want somebody to actually listen to you and that's that's a very common thing I don't know if it's that way here in India because I don't believe in a lot of stereotypes when it comes to male and female roles and what men and women do but in America men and women notoriously men will hear what a for example a husband will hear what a wife is saying. SAVE! Or a dog will hear what another dog is saying. And I've been guilty of this before where you hear what someone else is saying and rather than just listen to them you find out what's wrong you try to solve it for them and there are people who don't want you to solve it. They just want to say what they want to say. And I remember saying that to somebody once and saying they got mad because I tried to solve it and they said I didn't I didn't want you to give me an answer to this I just wanted you to hear me out and I was like does not compute does not compute it's like you shared the problem and I see a solution and you don't want the solution and they said no I don't want the solution I just wanted to know that I could tell you this got it I understand we're different got it now and that's true there are people who don't know a lot of guys guys brains work obviously we're fixers and so we if there's a problem there we're going to look for a solution but you should listen yeah because I promise you if you don't first of all it's the nice selfless thing to do is to be a listener rather than a talker and you'll be asked later and you'll or you'll say something it'll be very evident you weren't listening yeah very very original concept great concept great actor yeah very good I thought he did a very good job the main guy and very funny the guy about yeah the millennial that's just concerned about how many likes yeah two good things and I don't know if this is a credit to the director giving the direction to the actors or the actors just knew this inherently coming in or if it was the cast and director but those two people specifically that our main guy demonstrated he could have a private moment and what that means is in acting classes that's a very common thing to learn especially at the beginning of an acting training is to be public and to be private in public that if you're standing in a room like he was and telling a story to yourself you're not doing it for any audience yeah you're doing it yeah and when you're doing comedy you don't play the comedy yeah you don't know it's funny yourself and that situation that guy doesn't think any of this is funny but it's funny yeah because circumstantially it's funny but for that guy it's tragic and he didn't play the funny which is what made it believable and made it funny and a good job on the continuity of it all obviously since we found out he was deaf or hearing impaired when when the plates fell he was a little late to the reaction I thought he was just intently listening yes now it's just my job I'm listening but yes he didn't really hear that no and they gave us some foreshadowing at the beginning of the film yeah I thought what he got was either gonna be makeup or hair cream or something when he opened up the little white thing and they went back to it with the same angle when you realized that a little white thing isn't what it was yeah good point I didn't pick up on that yeah I thought it was a really good short film and they're all just so good and I'm really curious to why none of them or if they are why they aren't accepted to the Oscars sincerely like some of these are Oscar worthy short films that the Oscars would love that was that was better than a couple of the short films I saw this year that were nominated so I don't know if it's because it's an ad they're not allowed to I don't know but it's it's very curious to me there's a lot that are way better than a lot of the Oscar films that I the short films that I've seen agree and I usually watch all of them I didn't get to this year just because my one and a half year old but they that's yeah they really should I don't I don't I don't understand but they're all great so let us know what other short films we should react to down and also I feel like I would be really good at this show I don't listen to at all but people think I do I wouldn't be good at this because I take everybody's for it a heart and go home sad for them ADHD is a wonderful thing I can be having 10 conversation at one time and also not be listening to you but also listening to you at the same time there's I told my wife this conversations happen all the time where like we'll have a long conversation and I'll be thinking about something totally different but I'll be you'll still responding no I won't retain okay at all but I can like I'm actually listening and I know what they're saying but it goes in one ear and out the other ear yeah because my brain just the way ADHD works it's same thing with a book I can be reading page-on-page and actually reading it and then realize I'm not paying attention to the words I'm actually reading and then do you keep reading or go back I have to go back because I'm like I have no idea what I just read that happens to me often I'll be reading something and then I'll I can go off and then I realize I've got to go back and read it but I'm one or the other when it comes to listening I'm either deeply listening paying attention and being an empath I start to feel what's going on and take it at a very personal level or I'm not connected and then I typically apologize yeah I'll I'll say I am so sorry you just need to start over because I was completely distracted so start from let us know what other short films we should react to you