Take Me Home Tonight (2011)

Darius: What do you like about this movie? Let me ask you that.

Jordan: Hey there. Welcome to the Out of Trunk Pod with Jordan and Darius. This is our movie review segment. My name is Jordan. You can find me on all socials at Jordy B Writing.

Darius: And I'm Darius. That's Steve's I love you area on all socials.

Jordan: And we're going to be reviewing Take Me Home tonight. It's movie came out in 2011, starring Tofer Grace, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler, Theresa Palmer, and Chris Pratt. This movie is set over the course of a single night in 1988. A recent MIT graduate struggling to figure out his future poses as an investment banker to impress his high school crush at a massive Labor Day party. As the night unfolds, his deception spirals into chaos and life-changing revelations. Someone toss it to you for Act 1.

Darius: Sorry, the Zoom messed me up. Act one, the deception begins. Matt Franklin is working at a sun drenched video store, much to his father's shaken. He reluctantly attends a high school reunion party with his sister and best friend, where he bumps into his longtime crush, Tory. To impress her, he impulsively lies and claims to work at Goldman Sachs. This game reminded me of GTA Vice City. It was very, I know it wasn't set in Miami, but it was very GTA. Vice City-esque. And also it was like a White Friday.

Jordan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Darius: You know, minus the whole having compelling characters and being funny. Minus that, it was like Friday for my people. What you got back one.

Jordan: We talk a lot about like, obviously the movie is about nostalgia in the 80s and stuff. But one thing that I really miss about movies as a kid who grew up in the 90s is movies with like cool opening credits. Yeah. It's like the sequence with the yearbook and the signatures and the old photos and all the kind of 80s paraphernalia and flashback stuff. I thought that was really dope. And I love when movies have character, no pun intended, like that.

Darius: That's dope, man. What was your favorite Grand Theft Auto?

Jordan: Wait, did you say what's my favorite Grand Theft Auto?

Darius: Yeah. That's a question I had.

Jordan: Oh, that's a good one. I think. I think GTA two is probably my favorite. That's when I played the most as a kid.

Darius: So yeah. San Andreas for me. Yeah, it was the one set in L.A. with basically Bloods and Cribs, but they just switched the colors around. Ballers versus Grove Street. But it was very set in the 90s. Easy E was a character, but they didn't call him Easy E. He was called, I think it was Ryder. And, you know, I would, I am anti-remaster in general, but if they remastered that and doctored up the graphics, I would run that one back. So I would say San Andreas is my favorite Grand Theft Auto. What else you got for act one?

Jordan: I got like, so I feel like one thing they just kind of gloss over in the movies that like, his parents are like low key rich. Yeah. Because the fact that you can pay for your kids MIT education out of pocket, and that was only 1/4 of your savings as a police officer in LA is kind of insane.

Darius: Well, so this is the 80s. College was a lot less expensive back then.

Jordan: Yeah, that's true.

Darius: But still, people weren't, I mean, cash out of pocket for the full ride is nuts. Yeah. I would be so infuriated if my child got into MIT and didn't want to go.

Jordan: And just wanted to chill.

Darius: I hate all the ******* dudes, all the ******* chases I had to do and crack rocks I had to confiscate and times I had to tackle a dude with a gun in his hand.

Jordan: Just to put you in MIT. Yeah.

Darius: And you don't want to do it. This is, man, you be your own people.

Jordan: Yeah, this movie kind of is a little bit of like, it's low-key a like case study for like white privilege in a way. Because think about when they steal the car, it's like, well, yeah, you can steal a car because your best friend's dad's a cop. It's the 80s. You're white and you're obviously like from a successful family. At least one of the kids is. You're going to be okay if you get caught.

Darius: Yeah. I mean, they're snorting cocaine. Like it's Pixie dust. Like, this is it's illegal to do. White people and drugs, man. White people just talk about drugs like. They do. Like it ain't that even, like there's no laws against it. I'm like, man.

Jordan: Just like it's nothing like, and they're so open with it. It's like, you know, like I could be a police officer. I mean, I'm not even like, you know, whatever, obviously, but it's just kind of crazy. Like, it's a lot. Like I can't tell you how many times I've been offered. Coke in at the spot we hang out and it's like, no, dude, I'm cool. Like, yeah, do your thing, bro, but I'm good.

Darius: I can't say that I have. What kind of vibes are you giving off where you kick you on that stuff? I've never been offering cocaine at the spot. I can't say that I have.

Jordan: Drunk white dudes in. Maybe I don't know. Drunk white dudes in the when they want to talk in the bathroom, like, no, I'm cool, bro. Like it. You have that. I just came here to pee.

Darius: And wash my hands. That's a whole lot going on there. What happened to Topher Grace? Is he still in Hollywood?

Jordan: Yeah. Is he in a show right now? I think he, I feel like he's in a show right now. Let me check here. Cause he was in that show.

Darius: Spider-Man or something?

Jordan: Well, he was Venom on Spider-Man 3. He's been in stuff recently. I just can't remember what it is. But he was one person who turned to be normal from the cast of That Seventies Show because everybody else turned out to be weird as **** at the very least.

Darius: He was in Flight Risk, I guess, which was a Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg production last year.

Jordan: Oh **** okay, I don't know who's in that. Oh, he was in Heretic. That was that horror movie or thriller with Hugh Grant. I haven't been to watch that.

Darius: Okay, that's what it was.

Jordan: He was in that show Home Economics for two years, two seasons.

Darius: And the only normal cast member. What's wrong with the Ashton Kutcher? He's normal, right?

Jordan: So you know about Danny Masterson, right? Yeah, So Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher wrote like character like letters for him.

Darius: We've done this before. That's what you're. We just said the same thing about Tory. We not.

Jordan: I know, but sexual assault is different, bro.

Darius: So for that, dude, show me one judge that's ever read a letter and be like, oh my God.

Jordan: Well, fair.

Darius: This is.

Jordan: It wasn't going to make a difference. It wasn't going to make a difference. That is a little. I don't know, bro.

Darius: When people's family and friends get jammed up with the law, they do **** like that. And.

Jordan: Yeah, but it wasn't like it was drugs or like, you know, Something nonviolent.

Darius: I am not. First of all, the eyes I even wrote it is small. Like if that's what you got for them being weird, I can't get on board with that. That's what people do.

Jordan: Well, that's fair. She also said something about like she don't shower or bathe or some **** like that.

Darius: This is my. This is what I mean when like this is why like the cancel culture loss because y'all way overreached.

Jordan: Now I didn't care. I'm not canceling you. I'm just saying.

Darius: It's like now it's well you can't you wrote a letter to a judge because your friend who you weren't at the party you didn't do any crimes you didn't do anything you wrote a letter you wrote a character letter to a judge and therefore I don't like you any like that's just it's too many degrees removed they didn't like this is why that whole branch of activism lost because it's just overreached.

Jordan: So the thing was too was people like were saying that like Topher Grace was like stuck up because he wasn't really super close with the cast for the most part, I guess. And it turns out he just maybe he knew some **** or saw some ****. I don't know. But so that's mostly why I say that. He's a really good actor.

Darius: He's a good actor and he didn't have, you know, he can be normal. That's fine. You don't have to write the letter. But the idea that like Someone says, well, that cast was weird. And I'm like, okay, what did they do? And you say, Danny Mash, I'm like, yeah, gone. And I'm like, what did Miley Kunis and Ashley Kutcher do? And you're like, well, they wrote a letter to a judge at his sentencing and it says some nice words about them. I'm like, would they, did they participate in the crimes? No. Did they? That's all you got? I just, I don't know, man. I think we might be, we're casting too wide a net.

Jordan: It's possible. It's possible. No, you're good.

Darius: That's what people do when someone posts free Tory. You just, that's just what people do when their friends are incarcerated. You would do it if one of your friends got incarcerated. I mean, I don't know what anyone would do, but like, it's not atypical behavior at all. because they know the whole person. And even the most heinous of crimes, people aren't the entirety of their existence isn't their crimes. And they wrote a dumb letter to a judge who probably didn't even read the ****. And they threw it in a folder and gave him a sentence. Like, it's not that deep.

Jordan: Good point. So the so they steal the car to get to the party so you can kind of impress the girl. that he lied to about his job. He told her he worked at Goldman Sachs when he just works at a movie theater or a movie store.

Darius: That's the kind of lie 18 year olds tell because like you don't think about how it's going to work long term. You're just telling a lie to get you to the next lie.

Jordan: To get you to the next. Yes, exactly. He's like, I just need to get to a point where I can talk to you later. And that was his, which is interesting because like, He went to MIT, he graduated, probably did well at school. He could have just said he was an engineer. He didn't have, she wouldn't have asked what company and he could have made-up anything and she wouldn't have been able to disprove that.

Darius: That's the kind of lies young men tell though, because like they don't. It's just a lie to get you to the next sentence. It's not a lie to set up a story. It's like, yeah, I work on the moon at Goldman Sachs. I do big things there. I wear a nice suit. It's like, okay.

Jordan: No, that's true. Like I remember when I was, this is like my first adult relationship and I was, I'd just gotten laid off from my first job out of college and I was at meeting some people in my ex's life at the time. They're like, oh, what do you do? And I was like, oh, well, I'm not really working right now. I'm between jobs. What are you in? Like, what's your what fields you in? I was like, oh, I'm in communications. Mass communications. Mass communications. I tweet. I'm on TikTok.

Darius: Same difference. I communicate to the masses one way or another.

Jordan: Right. I run an independent social media operation. There you go.

Darius: Vice president of Darius LLC. You got anything else for act one?

Jordan: Yeah, I'm the CEO of Jordan Inc. One employee, and he doesn't even get paid. I'm a manager of 1.

Darius: Sole proprietorship. We have no revenue.

Jordan: Correct. Nothing but expenses. No revenue, no capital. No prospects or investors.

Darius: No, just sole proprietorship. One man shot.

Jordan: One man band over here, girl. There you go.

Darius: You want to go to Act 2.

Jordan: Yeah, so where do you have Act 2 starting? When they get to the party.

Darius: Sure. Act 2, spiraling lives and wild antics. Matt's lives gains momentum as he and Tori spend the night traversing various parties, including one at the home of a drug dealer. His sister and best friend navigate their own complicated night, which includes A dramatic car theft and a disastrous run-in with the law. Matt's fake confidence attracts him to Tori, but the pressure of the live builds. Just, you know, I always want to be transparent with the audience. I did not watch the last 30 minutes of this movie. I couldn't do it. So if you see me veering all the way off topic, that's why I'm not going to lie to you. No, just for the audience. I told you I ain't watched the rest of the **** but I don't want them to think I'm lying to them and pretending I watched something when I didn't. I did not watch the last 30 minutes of this movie.

Jordan: I hated it.

Darius: So anything for Rag 2?

Jordan: Yeah, so there's the scene where they're at the party and you could tell that his friend Barry was just like anxious or nervous because they were around a bunch of people he probably hadn't seen in four years. when you feel like you're not where you want to be in life, you don't want to see people from your past because they're going to ask you what you're doing and you don't want to answer that question. So I'm assuming that's why he wanted to like do the coke so bad. And then there's a scene in the bathroom where he's like, this is ****. And then it hits him and he just walks out the door and you hear the music play and he's just like on some other ****. This reminded me of like, have you ever been at a party and like someone takes an edible and they're like, this is trash. And then like 4 minutes later, they're on the moon.

Darius: I mean, everyone has a story like that, man. When I was in California, I was dating this one girl and she got me some caramels that were like, they were created for like stage 4 cancer patients, basically. And I ate it Friday and I swear to God I was high until Sunday afternoon. It's just, it's tough. It's tough. So be careful with those things.

Jordan: No, yeah, I learned my lesson. I was at a show in Fayetteville for a friend's feature a couple of years ago. And this girl had like these gummies and they had like, she'd refrigerate them and then they melted and then like re solidified. So you couldn't quite tell the size you're supposed to take. But I was like, I'll be here for a few hours, whatever. So I finished it and it didn't hit me at all. So I was like, okay, cool. I didn't really drink. So I drive home. I'm like an hour and a half away from home. So I'm driving and I'm at this part in the state where there's just like nowhere to stop it just did not look safe it looked very much like you know and this **** hit me and I was like oh no so I like roll down the window and I have my head out the window like the scene in the dark night with the Joker where he escapes to jail and I'm just like doing this the whole drive home.

Darius: Yeah man but to loop it back to him like walking it off man you I've been there where like you like you're so drunk, you need like a little pit stop. And so you go to the bathroom, splash your water on your face. And then when you walk out, you're a new man. So I get it. There was a scene, by this point, I really wasn't paying much attention to the movie. There was a scene where he was like about to **** some girl in the bathroom. What was going on with that? And then another guy walks in, I just was just like, this is dumb. What happened there? I want to explain that one to the audience.

Jordan: Yeah. So he's at the party. A lady can tell he's high. She's like, Oh, you want to do some? She's like, All right, cool. They go to the bathroom. She's fine as hell. So they're about to hook up. And then, like, the dude she was sitting next to comes in and he's like, Yo, like, we're in here. She's like, No, you're with me. So basically, I think they were assuming they were a couple. And that's just like what they do. Like, he was a cuck. And because they recognize that. Barry was like young and dumb or whatever, there's an easy mark. I think that's pretty much what that was, which was insane. Yeah.

Darius: Have you ever been caught at a party you weren't supposed to be yet? Like your parents told you not to go and you went anyway. Like you ever have your house party moment?

Jordan: Actually, I luckily I never had any of those moments. I either didn't go or got back in time. I mean, I think I probably broke. I mean, I broke curfew, but they never like found me. They just I dealt the next day or, you know, I was kind of kid where like, if I did something bad, I buy. Yeah, I did this. So you should let's just like, let's just get it. Get it over with.

Darius: When I was in 8th grade, 87th grade, me and a boy. Quincy, I think his other guy's name was Rudy. Just middle school friends. We caught the city bus to the bad part of town, the hood or whatever, to meet these girls at this party. And it was worth it. But I got a lot of trouble because I don't think we even got to the party to like 11 o'clock. Mind you, we're like 14 years old. 11 o'clock is like 4 A.m. Yeah, that even, like it was. We had, I snuck out past when I was supposed to be in the house. This is before cell phones. So my mom had to like call around and I didn't get to go outside for a long time after that. But the house party with the girls?

Jordan: Yeah, you kind of got to.

Darius: It was worth it. was worth it. If you are, you know, it's a seminal moment in a young man's life. Yeah. risk life and limb to *** ****. I did not *** **** that night. I was in middle school, but I thought I was. I had comments in my wallet. It did not happen, but I definitely thought I was.

Jordan: That'd be the worst when you like, when you bring them and you're like hoping and you just know, and then you go home with them still and you're like, damn it.

Darius: I mean, I was in middle school. I just, I brought them everywhere. It's because middle school.

Jordan: Yeah, I feel you.

Darius: He just just, you know, a ***** teenage boy. And, you know, always got to be prepared. But no, that was a good party. It was a good time. But I definitely paid the price for it in my freedom for a long time after that. So anything else rag to?

Jordan: Yeah, I was someone ask you, would you have told her was when he when hooked up with Tori and was like, Yeah, so I actually work at the video store. I saw you earlier today. Would you have told or would you have just kept them?

Darius: You're asking 22 year old me or 37 year old me?

Jordan: 22 year old you.

Darius: I would alive. I kept that lie alive. Yeah. 37 year old me would have felt that that was inappropriate and deceptive and came clean. But I would be lying to you today if I told you that 22 year old, 22 years old, I was as honorable as I am today. Yeah, I would have just lied. I just thought like a 22 year old man. Just think one line to get me to the next line and go from there. So.

Jordan: Right. And then also it was like you waited, like you did it right after too. Like I think I maybe would have told her like I would have taken her out and then maybe I would then I would have told her maybe it would have felt that would have been a smoother landing than like right after because it just makes her feel like a conquest.

Darius: I would have tried to follow time off that lie. All right. I've had my fun. And the truth.

Jordan: And the truth is, it's the 80s. It's so easy to ghost people. You just have to don't call them. That's it.

Darius: Yeah. Like, 22 year old me would have been like, I mean, what's one more? I'm going.

Jordan: What's one more? You already did it once, you know? Yeah.

Darius: She likes me. I'm going to blow all this up by telling her how we're going to video for what?

Jordan: And also like the odds of you ending up together forever are astronomical anyway. So, you know.

Darius: Let me get one more hack at it before we.

Jordan: Before you never click this back one more time before we pack it up.

Darius: No, I lied. I kept that lie alive. What else you got cracked too?

Jordan: Have you ever been involved in a dance off? No.

Darius: No. Absolutely not. I'm not having a problem with dance off. But me, no, not my speed, not at all.

Jordan: What's your go-to dance moves?

Darius: No, I will say I will forever be resentful of COVID because that was the one time a popular dance came out and we were inside. Okay, it was the one time The TikTok popular dance I could actually do came out. Did you do the Tootsie slide? Oh yeah, We were in the house and I was like, what the ****? I could actually do this one and I wouldn't look stupid. And we're locked in the house. That is the most, obviously.

Jordan: That's funny.

Darius: I will say that is the thing I resent most about COVID, which kind of reveals the privilege of my COVID experience. But Correct. I was mad. I was like, this, I can do this. And I won't look stupid. Even Roger Goodell could do this.

Jordan: Right.

Darius: And we were inside. And so now, I mean, And that's talk about a song that got lost in history. It did.

Jordan: But I haven't heard that song anywhere ever. And it was since.

Darius: As hot as a song could be during COVID.

Jordan: Right.

Darius: So that is my thing. All I did in during COVID was man was bake order sneakers because the sneaker market was dried out because no one else was buying sneakers going anywhere.

Jordan: Yep.

Darius: And ordered a lot of Uber Eats and Grubhub and.

Jordan: Yeah.

Darius: Drank too much and baked a lot of things and loved my sneakers.

Jordan: Yeah, that's when I had my first pod. I did that. We would like to get drunk and record the pod. I went some of the times, did that. Watched movies, took walks. I would just drive. I just get up in my car and drive just up and down Glenwood Avenue for hours. You couldn't get out and go anywhere. Yeah, man, it was awful.

Darius: And the thing is, it was only the inside part was only like 60 days. It was from March to May in North Carolina. But that **** felt like a prison bid because I would get it would be like Saturday because I work from home already from my previous job, previous role. But like when you don't go out like Saturday, my going out was just like a walk. And I was there was this podcast. It was They discontinued it now. They did like the Tyler Perry cinematic universe and they would watch his movies and talk about how bad they were. Jinx. And I just remember walking around the ******* arena. I won't name the arena because I would get my location up, but it just just like, this is my Saturday night, just walking around. And I'd get it out at 7 o'clock and that would be it. And then I'd call myself, it was either Jameson or tequila and watch, and there wasn't even no sports to watch. And just, that was, I don't, that **** is trash. Anyways, Tuesday Slide.

Jordan: It was, yeah. that was a bad time. I remember I got so bored at one point. I would just like, I think back when I was, I worked pizza part-time, whatever, and I would get off work and I'd drive downtown, I'd go to a cigar bar and the inside area was closed because it was COVID. So they had literally, it was wintertime and they had like a heater outside. People would just sit out there and smoke.

Darius: And even when things opened up, it was like half of what you were used to and just everything sucked. Anything else back to or you want to go to act three?

Jordan: Oh yeah, so I did, I did isn't a much like that kind of the 80s 80s movies I did like the uh they had all the party archetypes like they had like the the philosophical like Stoner dude where he's like everything changes but nothing changes and you had like the crazy thought you know and the the uh the preppy white boys with the the turned up collars and you know all that um also the the preppy white dudes remind me of every guy I went to high school with.

Darius: I agree. That was a nice touch on a movie that otherwise didn't care much about details. Act 3, the unmasking and the reckoning. The night culminates in a massive party where Matt's lie is exposed in front of everyone. including Tory and his father. He must face the consequences of his deception and decide whether to chase the life he wants or the one he thought he should have. The movie ends with Matt making an honest choice about his career and his relationship. And let me just say, drowning in a ball got to be on 1000 ways to die. Like you're just rolling around having a good time. And then that water starts to level. I just. Yeah, that's got to be up there, man.

Jordan: That's a really bad way to go.

Darius: But, you know, I watched a video on YouTube and there's apparently an exhibit in a museum somewhere. I forget where you get to like sit down in like a what would have been the Titanic ship and get to feel what it would have felt like if you were on the ship when it was like sinking. And they're just like sitting there and the water just it's just rising.

Jordan: And there's nothing you can do.

Darius: There's nothing you can do. Like you're so far away from the top, let alone the The life raft and that water is ice cold. Yeah. And that's just it. Like there's that's it. This is your fate. You're you got about 90 seconds left on Earth.

Jordan: And you're a popsicle. Like that's a really, really bad way to go.

Darius: That's that's rough. That's rough.

Jordan: Yeah. And Rose definitely had enough room on that ******* door to let Jack live just for the record, but for sure, for sure.

Darius: But yeah, man. And then not only that, but you got to realize no one's ever going to find your body. No, it's like your people aren't even going to get a proper burial or anything. This is just it. So true.

Jordan: And then also there's no communication really back then besides by letter. So like if you didn't tell your family you were going on the Titanic. Like you were ******. I mean, you were ****** because you died, but they were ****** because they didn't know what happened to you. Probably. There's still.

Darius: A few people from 911 who are still technically missing because they the family can confirm that they like lived in New York at the time and would have been in the area. But they have, you know, this is before you were sharing locations and texting people all day. Right. They're like, well, She lived in that borough. Like you kind of know that they probably got caught up in 9-11, but there's no real proof of it. So technically they're still missing. Like by now they probably have death certificates and everything, but for about a decade they were still missing, you know. That's crazy. Yeah. Cause how else, you know, You grew up in Indiana and you send your kid off to college in New York City and they just had to stay. And then on 9-11, they text you in the morning. Hey, how's it going? You know, I'm going to go get some coffee and then head to work and then you never hear from again and you never get their body because everything's pulverized.

Jordan: Yeah.

Darius: And you never get that close. You don't know. Were they in the building? Were they near the building? Were they, you know, you don't know anything. You just have to wait until the state declares them dead. So that's sad. I concur. What else you got for act three? I will say this. The fact is that I didn't watch the last 30 minutes. I've at least had things to say.

Jordan: Yeah, you have been on topic.

Darius: No, but it's not.

Jordan: You're like, Man, Spades is fun.

Darius: Yeah. What's your favorite Grand Theft Auto game? Well, we'll get back on topic. What about Act three?

Jordan: So I did like the conversation that he had with his dad after he got arrested or when he was getting arrested, I guess, whatever, where he's kind of where he's letting him out the car. He's like, dude, just take a ******* shot, bro. Like shoot your shot with life, essentially. And again, where he said like, you're not a fairy because you're worse than that because you've never tried at anything. I do always like that conversation that he had because I feel like that's pretty relatable. And I think I was around the same age when this movie came out. I was like 19 or 20. So I was kind of in a similar place in life. So that always hit stayed with me a little bit. But yeah, I mean, there's not a lot that happens in 30, honestly. It's really to see rise the ball, survives. His sister breaks up with the ********* boyfriend played by Chris Pratt. And then he gets the girl's number, which I will say, getting a girl's number after you hit is kind of legendary.

Darius: And what name do I put in this? Well, it's 88. So the number was the house number.

Jordan: The house phone, yeah.

Darius: You know, you had to have some real, that sometimes the number came afterwards. Oh, I was born in 88, so I wasn't around at the time. But you know, it could have, I understand how logistically that might just be the case. True. Yeah, man, the talk with the pops. I remember mine. I remember, sitting in the basement playing **** ironically, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, and my dad sitting down with me and asking me, okay, so like, what? What's the plan? So I'm forever grateful for that conversation, too. But I remember that conversation vividly. Another seminal moment in a young man's upbringing. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else? Factory.

Jordan: Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. So let's pivot. Let's pivot off that then. So you had the conversation with your dad, I guess you were like 18, 19 time period.

Darius: Give or take. Yeah.

Jordan: So what was not different? I guess what was the connection for you? Like we have to talk about like locking in and I think I'm guessing you're just like in happened to some point in your mid-20s. Was there something that he said that you didn't really click for you later on in life or was just like your maturation process that kicked in and you were finally able to kind of connect all the dots?

Darius: Well, it just he Yeah, I just, I don't, he, the quote was, you don't want to be one of these do nothing. And he said, those kind of dudes that just, they'll work a job here and there. They'll kind of float by and then they just come and go. And that's just kind of it. He was like, you want to put your stamp on life. You want to go do something. You want to go be something. You don't want to just float around making ends meet. And I mean, honestly, it kind of clicked in almost immediately. Because, I mean, very shortly, because at the time I was working at GameStop and I was, an assistant manager. I had my key. I made my little $10 an hour and I thought that was life and, very shortly thereafter, I went and applied at another, at a place that I can't say. And, that's when I don't, I just got really motivated after that. Like I just, that place gave a pathway to like, you could actually see a pathway to like middle class stability and a career. And I just, I just really wanted that. And that's why that conversation stuck with me because it was like, I thought I was doing well. I thought I was doing fine. I was an assistant manager at GameStop and I was, you know, I still, He was like, Nah, you're not. This ain't it. Right, right. Yeah, you, you. It's like he could feel that I was getting comfortable in mediocrity and he just was like, we don't do mediocre.

Jordan: And so yeah, the same what we do.

Darius: And so, yeah, that's kind of what it was. It was like I could it was a disappointment and it was like, you