 Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. So when it comes to the film adaptation of my novel Turtles All the Way Down, there's a thing I hope you'll keep in mind for the next few weeks, which is that I already got paid. Like, financially speaking, I don't care if you see the film. I guess if a ton of people see it, it might sell a few more books, but not that many, and honestly, the book already has a great life. So how did this come to be? Well, broadly speaking, there are two kinds of movie deals for authors. There's the kind where you get paid everything upfront, and the kind where you get some kind of financial compensation based on the movie's success. And I like the kind where you get paid upfront, but not for the reason you might expect. Let me give you an example. If I'd had a piece of the profit from The Fault in Our Stars movie, I would have made a bunch of money because it was a very successful movie. In fact, it was one of the most profitable movies of all time. And that kind of deal is pretty tempting, but there's a problem with it from my perspective, which is that if the movie is bad, I am still kind of incentivized to like it or pretend that I like it. Even if the movie furthers harmful stereotypes or narratives that I was actively trying to write against, there still might be some part of me that's like, well, but I could use a million dollars. And honestly, I just don't trust myself in the face of such perspective riches, so I like the kind of deal where you get paid everything upfront, and then I can heavily promote the movie if I really like it, and if I don't really like it, I can say nothing or say that I don't like it. I guess one of my big life goals is not to feel overly obligated to large corporations. He said, well, utterly dependent upon algorithmically generated content feeds and medicine produced by large pharmaceutical companies, which is obviously an unachievable goal, but where I can have some control over what I say and believe, I'd like to, and this is a place where I can. So there's very little financial incentive for me in saying that I think The Turtle's All the Way Down movie is brilliant with extraordinary performances and that it's the best portrayal of OCD as I experience it that I've ever seen in a movie. It's also funny and human and just really quite extraordinary. I don't know how they did it, but especially if you struggle with mental health or love someone who does, I think this is an important movie and that's why I'm going to be promoting it heavily. So Hank, despite the high number of adaptations of my work and the overall high quality of those adaptations, I've become more and more reluctant to engage with Hollywood. It's just a little cutthroat as a business like movies get canceled for tax breaks or all other kinds of ridiculous reasons. I once had a movie adaptation of my work get canceled just before it was supposed to start filming because a movie executive felt as he literally told me that an actor's eyes were too far apart. Honestly, it's just a pretty frustrating place to work sometimes and like I have cool things to do. I get to write books and professionally hate tuberculosis. These are wonderful jobs. But the thing is Hank, once in a while something works and hundreds of people come together to make something really, really wonderful. And that's what happened with The Turtles All The Way Down movie. And I just think it's one of those movies that people will really love. Like one of the points of art is to help us feel less alone, especially in the way down abstract parts of us that are hard to understand, let alone share. And I just think The Turtles All The Way Down movie does that. I wish I could show it to my younger self and be like, hey, you know this thing that you feel super alone in? You're not. The trailer for the movie is live now. There is a link in the doobly-doo. It comes out May 2nd on Max. It's also definitely the nerdfighter-reist film ever made from my books. Like there are so many little shoutouts to Nerdfighteria, including that all of the microscope footage comes from Journey to the Microcosmos' Master of Microscopes, James Weiss. Also, I'm in it. I have progressed significantly as an actor since I was cut out of the Fault in Our Stars film. I'm in the movie. I even have a line. Sarah described it as the worst performance in the film, but only because the others are so good. I just can't wait for you to see this movie. It's so special. And nobody's paying me to say that. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.