Q Yeah, what was the process of getting out of the mailroom? I imagine that you have, you know, a few really iconic stories from the mailroom, but There were plenty of days that were just photocopying. Is that roughly correct?
A Yeah. I mean, we did, we, we did shopping for groceries. We, we copied scripts, we delivered scripts. So there was a whole set of kind of stories on that. And honestly, we could, we could fill a lot of podcasts with just the different things that we kind of did, but look, it re it rewarded hard work and rewarded attention to detail. Um, ultimately, and you got invited to the retreats, right? And CA did these retreats every year. And after one of them, I had some thoughts, I wrote them down, um, And I hand delivered a letter to the managing partner saying, I was at the retreat and here are my thoughts, right? I wish I still had it. I don't know what I said. And then I didn't hear anything for a long time, but when I came off, ah, what was called the runs, where you delivered scripts, you, um, then waited to be picked for a desk. And only the top five got to interview for desks to try and not keep people jammed there too long. But the desk of Brian Lord opened up, and he was the co-chairman and is now the CEO. And he asked to interview me, because he had read my memo, and he said, I want to interview the kid from the memo, even though he's not in the top five, I don't care. So I went up, and, uh, I'd never really met him or spent any time with him before, but we sat down, and, um, somehow we got talking to about John Steinbeck, which, uh, was my favorite writer, and I was reading…
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