Kyle Tequila

Yeah, happy to be here, Laura.

Yeah, happy to be here, Laura.

Wow.

Wow.

This whole thing's been a whirlwind. I'm kind of speechless. So but thank you very much. It's amazing to hear stuff like that.

This whole thing's been a whirlwind. I'm kind of speechless. So but thank you very much. It's amazing to hear stuff like that.

That's a good question. Well, yeah, I've been producing movies since 2013. And anyone who is in the industry knows just how much of a behemoth producing a movie is and how awful and stressful and how much of a nightmare it is. And how it can collapse at any moment.

That's a good question. Well, yeah, I've been producing movies since 2013. And anyone who is in the industry knows just how much of a behemoth producing a movie is and how awful and stressful and how much of a nightmare it is. And how it can collapse at any moment.

And if you're not fully committed and like 24-7 on with your brain and you can't live any other life except getting this movie off the ground, it's exhausting and it's a lot. And so I'd done probably seven movies or so in some kind of producer capacity. And I'd also been editing movies and working as what's called like a post-production supervisor on a bunch of other movies.

And if you're not fully committed and like 24-7 on with your brain and you can't live any other life except getting this movie off the ground, it's exhausting and it's a lot. And so I'd done probably seven movies or so in some kind of producer capacity. And I'd also been editing movies and working as what's called like a post-production supervisor on a bunch of other movies.

I was just really, really burned out, I think, by the time this story really started to kind of come into fruition, production-wise. And I'd finished two movies in a span of two years, and they both were coming out in theaters with pretty significant releases in May and June of 2020. Wow. Which we all know the theaters were completely closed because of COVID.

I was just really, really burned out, I think, by the time this story really started to kind of come into fruition, production-wise. And I'd finished two movies in a span of two years, and they both were coming out in theaters with pretty significant releases in May and June of 2020. Wow. Which we all know the theaters were completely closed because of COVID.

So both those movies just were completely decimated. at the box office. And it was like, I killed myself trying to get those two movies made. And so like just all that happening. And then it just kind of going nowhere, just, it really hurt. It really was a big blow. And, and I just wanted nothing to do with the industry for a while.

So both those movies just were completely decimated. at the box office. And it was like, I killed myself trying to get those two movies made. And so like just all that happening. And then it just kind of going nowhere, just, it really hurt. It really was a big blow. And, and I just wanted nothing to do with the industry for a while.

And, you know, I had been recording the interviews with my dad on this show for, for a while. And, you know, the seed of the idea to turn it into a podcast, besides just being kind of like a family archive, really, which was my original intent was just to get these stories. Because I had no idea how long he had left to live because he was such a mess.

And, you know, I had been recording the interviews with my dad on this show for, for a while. And, you know, the seed of the idea to turn it into a podcast, besides just being kind of like a family archive, really, which was my original intent was just to get these stories. Because I had no idea how long he had left to live because he was such a mess.

And so I just wanted to have them so I can share them with my family and my son when he was old enough. I didn't really listen to podcasts. I think I probably listened to Serial when it came out, the first one, because it was just like this huge nationwide thing that everyone was talking about. But I wasn't really into the podcast thing.

And so I just wanted to have them so I can share them with my family and my son when he was old enough. I didn't really listen to podcasts. I think I probably listened to Serial when it came out, the first one, because it was just like this huge nationwide thing that everyone was talking about. But I wasn't really into the podcast thing.

And then for some reason, someone told me about Up and Vanished, season one. And I listened to that. And I think that kind of blew me away because... It wasn't just people talking, like there was so much production value that Payne put into it, you know, so much sound effects.

And then for some reason, someone told me about Up and Vanished, season one. And I listened to that. And I think that kind of blew me away because... It wasn't just people talking, like there was so much production value that Payne put into it, you know, so much sound effects.