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ing you years ago when there was a moment in your life that was more than just a moment when the phone stopped ringing. Hmm, what kind of things come up for you now because of this business? Yes, I'm using the The business is a big evolution, yes, but it's really changing. I mean, we talk about it, but you take it one at a time, but you can definitely see a change and you can see it in the movies that are coming out, you know? With the international box office becoming such a big part, yes, the movies that travel best are the ones with the least language and the least cultural confusion, you know, you know superhero movies, right?

It's very easy to follow, it's like a Good Guy. The bad guys are going to fight three times the good guys are going to win twice as if you were already done and and that will be played everywhere and so and so knows them, that's right, that's the movie that's being made, remade and remade, and people keep coming and Meanwhile, like the kind of human dramas, the kind of 20 to 70 million dollar human dramas are just gone, they're not gone and they're not coming back right, they've migrated to television, so which yeah, which is great, you know, I mean, there's really good stuff in television, you know, there's a job for you if you're creating content, if you're doing it well, very well, but it's just like that. in flux, yeah, if for people who don't understand road racing they don't understand how important the whole kind of corporate war that Ford tried to wage with Ferrari is, why should they come see this because it's a bloody movie and exciting about people and dreams and it's very relatable these aren't characters out of your league these are people you know we can handle Shelby they're actually people you want to spend time with they're really entertaining and good guys and all the conflict and all that and then everyone has, you know, people who just get in the way of their lives and trample on their dreams so they don't come true and they might think, yeah, I know who my Ford is, you know, I know who that guy in my Ford is. very relatable life despite how big and how much money you know is needed for more endeavors like car racing, soul crushers and ultimately you also know at the end of the day no

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er how much money has been invested in these cars, etc. and all that, he's just a man. sitting in that car and it all comes down to that and it all comes down to can that guy mentally stay on the knife's edge and with Lamont, can you stay on the knife's edge for 24 hours straight and not give in to the pressure ?

What it all comes down to is that it's distilled into a one-man movie, it was a marvel, yes, as a person of a certain age who has some memory of that whole era and I find it really fascinating, but also the whole conflict between the corporation , these guys that I need you to know that I need you to do this thing that we can't do right, but we really don't want you to do it your way, we have some notes, that's how many times you get that phone call, well, we couldn't. We were no longer able to film the real LeMond in the circus shot because he has totally changed.

We filmed in the old part of Lamont in the old town, which is beautiful but unrecognizable from what it was in the '60s, so yeah. We'll get into that race, there are times when we race in Georgia and then we race in Agra Dulce, you know, they were just two places for what most of it was already done in Georgia, but what they had to do What I did was because It's a 24-hour race, it goes from day to night to rain, and they had to have all this coordination about the look of the cars and the level, you know, well, how much dirt is there? how much you know and everything has to match and when you're coordinating that from all over the country and I mean, it was a lot, it was a lot of work for you, on top of this type of stunts and the driving and because all of that is on camera, there are drivers amazing that they're doing all that stuff, you know, none of that is CGI, the CGI is like the crowd right here, you know, and things that we had to put in to make sure The place was huge, yeah, it was huge, so They built it, but they built it.

There are so many that it was so well photographed and so well documented that they could build it to within an inch. Charlie, a gay bank who was on the pit crew was like 23 years old in 66 was with us and he can't, he came into the pits and said this is weird because it's unbelievable exactly what he was like so these are real guys right? go back and keep, there are pictures of these guys, right, yeah, go back and look, yeah, I looked a lot, I mean, it was helpful to understand what it sounded like and what it looked like, look, it wasn't.

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. I don't hear them and you're not giving the impression that he's not, it's not like he's someone like you're playing someone who's so well known, he's not a he. it's not that well known so Cheney, yeah Cheney, if you're someone who's in the news every day, you know people that you oppose, you know that's a very different thing than feeling so weird, so here's someone What Cheney says and points at me, but did you look at me? Who did you look at? Yeah, there aren't many interviews with Ken Miles, there are a few, but it seems like you're adopting this kind of BBC voice during the interviews, but there's footage of him driving to the right and all that, but Peter Miles, his son, was incredibly generous.

During his time, he sat with me and told me many stories about him and gave me many of my family, my own albums there and books that can be recommended, etc. That's great, very interesting, thank you for taking the time to absolutely thank you. Thank you so much. nice I appreciate it