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- speaker-0: Winning is all that I think about. I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about it. Winning is all that matters. I don't know nothing else. No nothing else. All I ever knew was how to win. Hello everyone. It's Vernon Wiggins, host of the Win and Culture Podcast. And y'all, today I have a very, very special guest in the building. Producer, director, screenwriter, author. The list goes on and on and on. We have today Dewey Allen. speaker-1: Don't do some gon speaker-0: In the building, man. speaker-1: You doing Vernon, I ain't gonna lie to you. I'm doing excellent and it's a beautiful, beautiful day outside, and I'm so excited to be on the Win and Culture Podcast. speaker-0: today. Look, man, I'm so excited to have you here today, bro. Look, hey, it's a beautiful day. You just made it even more brighter, bro. So, so glad to have you, man. Look, man, I this is an honor and a privilege for me to have you on here today, Dewey. ⁓ look, man, I have always respected what you do, the hard work you've done. man, in films and everything, business, just everything that you've done, man. ⁓ for this industry. It's been phenomenal, bro. ⁓ and you know what, man? I just gotta ask you, dude. How do you do it? How have you been doing it for so long, man? It's so well. speaker-1: The thing about doing it so long and so well is consistency. So you gotta be willing to start off small. You gotta be willing to start off with the means that you do have and treat the industry as a business. Correct. Here in the state of Louisiana, we are the industry. We we make up the entertainment film industry. So all the moves we make. is contributing to the collective of the industry in this particular state. If if your business is registered in this state. Gotcha. So once you register your business in this state, you're contributing to the industry. And you wanna steady continue to contribute to the industry in a positive way. speaker-0: Correct. Absolutely, absolutely. Do it, man. Look, I I love it. ⁓ man, a lot of people can learn a lot from you, brother. They definitely can. ⁓ I mean, man, you you've been doing this for a very, very long time, and you you've been so good at it, and you've given so many people opportunities, including me, man. I'm so thankful for it. I really am. ⁓ you're a big cornerstone ⁓ for my career, man, to be honest. And ⁓ I I thank you for it a a bunch. You know, I mean I remember man when I first met you, man, maybe over ten plus years ago, ⁓ you guys were doing a movie premiere for my side piece. speaker-1: Right, right. And Bellinoche. If you can't go to Bellinoche, hey where can you go? speaker-0: Right, right. Hey, Dewey, look, bro. I I'm not even joking. I remember when I I saw it on on the internet and I had no idea who was doing it or what it was, you know. ⁓ I I saw movie premiere on my side piece. I was like, let me go, man. I want to go to that and just ⁓ network with some folks. And look, do it, I'm not even ⁓ I probably never told you this, man, but I remember when I pulled up and ⁓ man look bro, you and your brother pulled up in a clean Old school car, bro. And I'm just sitting there, I was like, That gotta be the guys. That gotta be man, I remember that. And look, you guys got out super clean suits on bro. I say, ⁓ yeah, they are somebody. And ⁓ just take us into that whole experience, bro, or that premiere that. speaker-1: So during that premiere, my side piece, the first my side piece, ⁓ it was a great experience to let people know that the movie actually exists. And we are doing premieres here in this state and in the city. That you don't have to look on TV, you don't have to look at the Grammys and different things like that. We actually doing it right here. And we are doing it to where the film community could come and participate. So when I saw you, I knew you was moving in the industry. Got it. You know, ⁓ it's it's very seldom that I interact with someone that's stagnant or not doing anything. If you moving, that's when you get noticed. Got it. You know, so by you moving in the industry, you was doing songs, you was networking with the people you needed to network with, that That's what attracted me to start a business relationship with you. Yeah. You know, and that's thank you, thank you. And I use that model to the day. Like if you talking, then it's it's I can't I can't do nothing until you act on it. I can't make nobody act on anything. So you have to act on it yourself. And then that's when ⁓ real people that's in the industry come. speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah. Man, I mean, look, bro, like nothing but respect ⁓ for what you guys do and what y'all done. Y'all been doing it for a long time. I mean, longer before I even met you. Doing this, man. and I'm sure that it's been ⁓ a very ⁓ fulfilling road. And I I know you had bumps in it, I'm sure. So like did it ever come a time where you ⁓ you know, it was like a lot of adversity with doing it and you just kinda questioned it. Was there ever a time that and you but you was like, I gotta keep going. Did that ever happen? speaker-1: Well, ⁓ a slow point was more not knowing that I was gonna quit or per se ⁓ take a break, but what the the consistency come in is you have to make money at what you do. Got got it. You know, whether if you put in my philosophy always if you put in one dollar, you gotta make at least a dollar and ten cent. Right on. So Whatever they may whatever that might be or whatever that's gonna look like, you know. So even if you shoot a movie for gas money, five ⁓ five hundred dollars or whatever, you gotta make that five hundred dollars back. Whether you're gonna manufacture your product and sell it on the street or whatever it takes to get that money back, that's how you keep going. Right. So the slow parts come in is when you start scaling like I started scaling getting bigger. Then you need more money, you need more resources, you need more real people, ⁓ credible people. So that that's that's a slow point ⁓ of it. And another slow point was ⁓ living here in this state, you know, this this state is more of an industrial state, you know, plants and ⁓ things like that, not too much of entertainment. So doing filming is hard to get locations, ⁓ hard to find real talent that that wanna do it and actually pursuing it versus just talking about doing it or watching T V and saying, ⁓ I could do that. So yeah, you'll find yourself out there on the island, you know. You know, I found myself out there on the island like kinda by myself, you know, ⁓ maybe a few people ⁓ with me, but You need more if you want to grow bigger. And so as we start to grow, ⁓ trying to get locations and you'll have ⁓ ooh, like a lot of getting shut down, you know, by the authorities and ⁓ stuff like that. Even if you do have your paperwork, saying, you know, you might rely on your friend. Your friend might say, Well, I got this location and I know the manager and such and such, and you Bring all your equipment in there. Next thing you know, the corporate office that overrides the manager is telling you you can't be here. So you done base your whole production on that. Now you losing money. So and that that, you know, that's stuff like that kind of had me down a little bit. and you still not, you know, I'm still not seeing no money. You know, I'm still not seeing no money from it. So ⁓ that things like that. But in the in in my mind, I know I'm knowing as long as you keep going. And you stay consistent in it, you'll find your pathway and your own pathway to break that and get to where you need to get to. So it wasn't per se, I'm I'ma quit for a little while. It was just, you know, when times get hard or tough, the tough get going. You know, so you gotta use that as motivation. When it given it get hard like that and get tight like that, you know you gotta buckle down even more. to to keep on and push through the mud, you know. So that's that's kind of the the the gist of ⁓ my story for is when the slow times came, what I had to do, you know, to get through it. Yeah. speaker-0: Yeah, a absolutely, absolutely. So was that ⁓ was it like that for the very first time when you just say, Hey, look, let's let's do this? The take us through the process of the very first time you ever speaker-1: ⁓ man, that was ⁓ my goodness, that speaker-0: So today how you process works. speaker-1: ⁓ It was it's it's so much with the first time is so many obstacles. ⁓ the first time the movie didn't even come out. It didn't a guy that I trusted that knew something about filming. Wow. ⁓ had this cool ⁓ projector type ⁓ equipment camera with the ⁓ the tape in it and ⁓ wrote the movie it was called I Got That Fire. Wrote the movie. ⁓ we took about three, four days and we shot the film. and and the film ⁓ we we put the film on ⁓ took the role like the camera and put the film on a projector to play it. And none of it played. What? So no So we sit in the studio looking like all this stuff we done shot because you can't go back and shoot it. You know. ⁓ man. And I and it was like about out of like hours of footage, only like about ⁓ 10 seconds played. But when I saw them 10 seconds and I saw how them 10 seconds looked, speaker-0: ⁓ my goodness. speaker-1: I was like, I I know I could do the I just gotta figure out, I know I could do it. You know, I know I could do it. And ⁓ yeah. So that was that was like the first time the film didn't even come out. Wow, man. So I mean, I mean that I so I learned I learned I I was learning from the beginning. Yeah, you know. speaker-0: Y you didn't cheat at all, bro. You stuck with it. speaker-1: Yeah. No, it wasn't no any anything scenario you almost could think of. I didn't been through it. I know about it. ⁓ it's so many different scenarios dealing with ⁓ filmmaking, and each one of them, each film is different, even to this day. Yeah. You know, that just what to be expected that this one gonna have this challenge, this one gonna have this challenge, but that very first one. I'm talking about we had a barrel out there and we put fire in the barrel, had fire coming up, and and we had all kind of stuff we was doing, you know, and and it didn't even come out. So Creativity though. Yeah, it was creativity. So yeah, but when but when we but when my eyes saw that 10 seconds that did come out, that was like I was like, that's what I wanna do. And I know just gotta figure out how to How to make that ten seconds into one hour and thirty minutes. So that was the whole the whole thing right there. speaker-0: Did that experience motivate you to just like look I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep pushing. This is what I wanna do. Did it give you that motivation? speaker-1: It it gave it gave me a lot of motivation that so many levels like something didn't want that to come out for a reason and ⁓ but it's not gonna stop me, you know, on no kind of level, you know, that ⁓ nothing's gonna stop me from making it come out. So that that was a big motivation. right there and I knew if it if it if I could get that going it's gonna sell yeah you know from what was on that ⁓ particular tape. So ⁓ the the next one of the next hurdles was ⁓ once you do film you gotta have something that's strong enough to edit. So the ⁓ computer that we had at the time, you know, studio computer to record music on, but it's it wasn't strong enough for video. Because you know, video need more processing power and stuff like that. So we had to upgrade all the ⁓ editing ⁓ equipment and software and wow, you know, you know, editing at that time was on CDs. So you had to buy a final thing with final cut, and final cut was fourteen CDs you got in the in the packet. And you had to put those four to each one of them had to work. And you had to have a computer, you had to have a key. to make all that go in and all of it had to work on a strong enough computer. And I went to Cun's and signed a note to get the computer. So that's how I got my first real editing computer. ⁓ And somebody sold me their final cut ⁓ at a cheaper price. I think it was like 14, 1400 or something like that. So it was real high. They sold it to me for 700. And that's how I that's how I started. speaker-0: So this was f for your second film, or that was the first one or speaker-1: That was I think that was like maybe the second film. Okay. But I know I needed to once it shot it gotta be edited. Right. So it wasn't no editors in Baton Rouge ⁓ that was gonna edit something like what I had did. And and the closest editor wanted like twenty grand, so ⁓ just to even touch it. So speaker-0: So he was like, look, I'm gonna go ahead on and do this. speaker-1: Yeah, I'm like, I don't even got twenty dollars, talking about twenty grand, you know. So I gotta go sign a note to get a c to get the computer. So I done spun all my money, you know, first time filmmakers always spend all their money on on shooting it and don't even think about the edit, you know. Post yeah, the post production. So I I did that same mistake too, you know, and just sh or spun all the money I had on the film and ⁓ not on ⁓ wasn't worrying about post production 'til I got there and knew I needed money for that too. So speaker-0: All right, Dewey. We've been going over a lot of great stuff about you, a lot of great things that you've done. ⁓ talked about your background and everything. So I wanna get into present day, Dewey. You know, ⁓ everything, you know, I feel like everything that you've accomplished, ⁓ you know, from the past it made you who you are today, one hundred percent in my opinion. And ⁓ man, I I just wanna ⁓ get into, you know, look, great producer, great director. You do everything great in my in my mind. But I want to get into the acting side of Dewey. The Bob Hancock role, man. From my side piece, full body massage, do it, man. Look, how was the preparation for that? How did you prepare for that role? speaker-1: So how I prepare for ⁓ Bob Hancock is Bob is more of a ⁓ unique personality. ⁓ he's authentic, ⁓ he's somebody everybody can relate to, and he's no nonsense. Right. So Bob is similar to me. ⁓ so it was it was real easy to get into the role. ⁓ and and I like the different things he was doing as he evolved ⁓ throughout the film. You know, But getting prepared for him, you know, I just I just get into the lines and I make those lines my own. and I I read into ⁓ and I make make every role I make it mine. You know, I I become that character. speaker-0: Absolutely. Absolutely, man. I was like Bob Hancock at the coffee shop, baby. Yeah. So like when you know, for preparation for yourself, I know we discussed that, but like any like the actors that are working with you, like, what does your preparation look like for them? You know, like what do you kind of do to make sure that they're successful in your projects, like today? speaker-1: Well I get ⁓ first thing I do is is get ⁓ they lines early. Gotcha. Get ⁓ their lines early to where they could prepare. ⁓ I go over, practice with ⁓ make make sure that they practice and, you know, not just coming there. I don't want ⁓ to look like they reading their lines. Gotcha. So they have to feel natural. And I kinda ⁓ I don't really give ⁓ too much ad-lib room, but As long as they stay on the subject of of what's on the paper, then they could incorporate a little bit of their personality into that to make the role more authentic. speaker-0: Got it, got it. And when you're choosing your ⁓ crew and actors, you know, you know, is it something that you look for in them and you like, okay, yeah, ⁓ they can work with me. Like Yeah. speaker-1: ⁓ I look for team players, ⁓ and people that's good, damn good at what they do. Gotcha. You know, you have to be good at what you do as well as a team player, able to work with the other crew members and able to work with the other actors. Not a bad apple. ⁓ yeah. If you a bad apple, then I can't work with you. ⁓ you'll basically get fired, you know. ⁓ And I mean I but I tell you, you know, if if you're and you'll know, you know, ⁓ if if a if an actor or a crew member is causing waves amongst the other crew members or actors, cause that's contagious because once one start ⁓ doing something, then it's gonna it'll it'll keep spreading. So I I like to nip that in the bud early. If if you have something to say about something, pull me to the side or one of the other producers to the side and let's talk about it. Yeah, right. You know. But ⁓ that ⁓ I look for people with vision. ⁓ and what I mean by vision, you might have a cinema photographer, he might see it a different way. And I consider what they what they ⁓ vision is of of a particular scene, but a cinema photographer that just trying to take over the whole movie and ⁓ it's gotta be shot like this, or the last thing I did was like that and all that, then they'll fall more toward the Can't work with ⁓ not a team player ⁓ thing. I also look for speed, like ⁓ we're not trying to work ourselves to death, but we also gotta move at a great pace. You know, we gotta move at a indie level pace, which is faster than a major studio pace. So ⁓ we move at an indie level pace, and if you able to move at an indie level pace and still ⁓ have the quality. of your work that's new. You gotta know what you're doing. Yeah. One hundred percent. You know, you can't hire a ⁓ boom operator cause he's your friend. Yeah. And then Mike not turn toward the person, mouth or in their chest or, you know, their arms tired or just just using that as an example, you know. But ⁓ yeah, you disrupt the production. So that's that's kind of what I look for to ⁓ and we we are a crew that's jail together. And we done work with each other on different productions before, so but I'm always recruiting, you know, looking for new people 'cause I'm always scaling up. So so that's what I'm looking for. Well speaker-0: I just want to say this, man. You are all about opportunity. You know, ⁓ you gave me my first opportunity, and I'm forever thankful for that and grateful for it from you. ⁓ but yeah, man, you are all about opportunity, bro. ⁓ I remember on one of your sets one time, I just I said it. I say, Dewey Allen is all about opportunity. I didn't care what nobody thinks, and you know, I just wanted to say it because it's the truth. Yeah. ⁓ you know, man, but definitely so like. For anybody that's ⁓ looking to get into it in the industry, ⁓ what would you tell ⁓ Like if they just trying to get into acting, what would you tell them? speaker-1: Be professional. ⁓ if if you want to be an actor, become an actor. You know, don't talk about you wanna do it. ⁓ you're gonna have to spend money too. ⁓ and what I mean by spend money, you're gonna have to get your IMDB page. ⁓ that's your resume basically, ⁓ to let p other producers know you're serious, ⁓ which that's a subscription. ⁓ that's the first thing I look at. to see if you on there. If you not on there then you you what you doing? You know, I could look and see other stuff you done. I can call other people that you didn't work with and ask them how how you acted on the set. Mm you know and all of that. So ⁓ if you wanna get into acting, that's what you do. ⁓ audition, audition, audition. So one of the main things ⁓ that discourage actors or or or actors that wanna get on, they are they are rely on Just one production. So don't rely on just my production, cause I might hire you, I might not. ⁓ got it. You gotta keep getting in other things and and if if you talented enough, then I'll come back to you. Okay. You know, and vice versa. Somebody else might you might have went and tried out for another person movie and they didn't hire you, but Dewey hired you, so now they say, okay, well let me check them out, you know, let me check this actor that cause now they can see you on the screen itself. ⁓ yeah. You know, and be willing to come in as an extra. Got it. You know, you gotta be willing to come in as an extra. You might not get the main role, but if you come in as a extra, that way that producer could see how you work. Yeah. Absolutely. And that's how you get your way through the door. You know, you might not get the main ⁓ I don't wanna mess with that production no more because I didn't get the main role. I believe I deserve it. I'm better than this person. Well, if you better than this person, this person started out by being extra. Right. Right, right, right. So that's that's and they work their way to that role. Right. So that's that's that's what be that'll be my ⁓ immediate immediate short term advice for somebody that speaker-0: Right, right, right. speaker-1: wanna get in there. And and when I say audition, audition, audition, audition for all kind audition for everything. So you can get used to doing it. Yeah. Because you're gonna have to keep auditioning. It's not like you're gonna all of a sudden wake up and have a DM full of producers wanna sign you, you know. ⁓ you gotta keep auditioning, you know, you and you never know which movie gonna be your breakout movie. Right, right, right. So you keep auditioning and and and another thing about auditioning, If you audition for one role and don't get it, you might get another role. Yeah. So just because you go for one role and don't get it, don't mean you might you not gonna be in that particular movie. Because that that director or producer might look at you as another character in the movie. You know, so even like going to Martin Day just just talking like Superman. The ⁓ Lex Luther that's on the new Superman, he auditioned for he auditioned for Superman. speaker-0: See? speaker-1: But ⁓ director saw him as leg loose though. You he shaved his head, now he legs loot though. So he's still he's still in there. I'm sure he had ⁓ when that check came, you know what I mean? So So he good about that. So, you know, you never know what you gonna what you gonna get, you know. Yeah. And what what the other guy name is? ⁓ Captain America. He was ⁓ on the Fantastic Four at first. He was the ⁓ flame own guy. ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, but that wasn't his iconic role. You know, his iconic role is Captain America. So you just keep auditioning. Right. You never know what's gonna be ⁓ the role that's gonna break y'all. So that's I I I I spun a little more time on that 'cause and the reason why I did that is because I really want y'all to We need to hear. Become actors if that's what y'all want to do. Yeah. You know, I re I'm rooting for y'all, you know. speaker-0: Yeah, yeah. No, man. I mean, look, I think that's great that you mentioned that because I truly believe that that's gonna help somebody. What you just said, everything it's spot on it's spot on. So I mean, you know, hey, might have to come in come in as an extra. Right. But hey, people like you do, you get to see what they're about, you get to see what they're doing. Right. And you get to feel more comfortable about ⁓ speaker-1: Yeah. Right. Correct, correct. Cause 'cause I'm investing a lot as a producer. I'm investing my whole production, especially if you get a if you get the main role, now I'm counting on you. Right. You know, so it goes from extra to I'm counting on you. And ⁓ I mean you gotta be there, you know, and I expect you to practice, you know. Yeah, yeah, that's part of it, you know. You know, you gotta get y'all I'm giving my all to make you look good and also making you get other jobs as well. So you gotta give me a hundred percent like I'm giving you a hundred percent. So speaker-0: Absolutely, absolutely, man. Amen to that. Amen to that. ⁓ so one thing I did want to ask, do it. I know you've been working, I know you've been cooking up some new speaker-1: ⁓ man, it's coming. And it's it's something you gotta do something in film that's never been done before. To to get out there, it gotta be something that they never seen. ⁓ can't be the same old, same old. Right on. ⁓ and as a producer, you gotta insert your personality and yourself into your films. So we got a film coming up called Do It Big. And with Can't wait for that one. When do it big come out, ⁓ is it's it's shot on red cam, top of the line ⁓ camera, ⁓ top of the line lenses, top of the line sound. You know, we had three sound guys on there. It wasn't one guy with sound, you know, it was three sound guys. So ⁓ we got the best re-recorder recording it, Shuntay, recording ⁓ doing the re-recording. So in the composing, so it's gonna be ⁓ massive when it comes out. The the aesthetics or Louisiana aesthetics. And that's that's what ⁓ we need more of that. Louisiana aesthetics, you know. I know you know, see, I'm going back to Spider-Man now. He's all good. He can't swing on the trees, you know what I mean? He gotta be in New York, you know. He gotta hit the buildings and stuff like that. But we got the trees though. Yeah. speaker-0: Absolutely. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ speaker-1: Yeah. Yeah, we got the trees. So, you know, I'ma leave I'ma kinda let the audience ponder on that right there, but but do it big gon stress and it's gon emphasize all of that. So that's I'm I'm real excited about Do It Big, ⁓ and I'm excited about it for the state of Louisiana. So that that particular movie right now is in color. ⁓ So it's it's real close. It's real close. It's it's out of the the the the edit is locked, so it's in color right now. ⁓ man. So it's in color. after do it big, we have my first thriller horror called Stab the Balloon. And ⁓ Stab the Balloon is gonna be following that same pattern, something they never seen on screen before. And it's and it's gonna be ⁓ real good, a real good story. something you could just watch over and over. You know, when you get to watching those movies like Truth A Dare, you just have them on in the background running cause you done seen it, but you know what's gonna happen, but you just like the movie. Yeah, absolutely. You know, ⁓ it's it's it it puts me in the mind of something like that. ⁓ or truth of dare or or something, you know, to that nature. ⁓ and it's and it's real good. And then but after that, after that, it's gonna it's gonna get even more crucial. So speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: Those are the all things that we have coming out, so yeah. speaker-0: Look man, ⁓ we ready for it. Can't say enough about your films, man, your projects. I'm look, I'm a fan of it all, bro. I gotta be honest with you. I know, you know, we worked on ⁓ quite a bit of things together, but I'm a fan of your work, my brother. speaker-1: Appreciate it, appreciate it. speaker-0: You're welcome, man. ⁓ I mean, 'cause to me, it it seems like you, you know, you you you kinda block out everything when you're working on projects. Like you don't really be like, ⁓ I gotta try to get this in this amount of time, that amount of time. It seems to me that you like it to be to your liking when it's about to come out. You don't care about, ⁓ I'm trying to race against this time. Right. And and in my opinion, I feel like that would what makes your work so great. speaker-1: Right, right. 'Cause I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm not in a I'm I'm in my own lane. So I'm I'm paving my own way, my own road, so I can go at my own pace. Absolutely. ⁓ and I wanted when I look at my film, I want it to look like I wanted to look. So it don't matter what it takes to make it look like I wanna want it to look. Like ⁓ on one of my first films, ⁓ Mississippi Shakedown, ⁓ it has some guys sitting on the porch. And they looked out at the they they looked out and it cut, you know, it cut back to you, you never the audience never saw what they was looking at. ⁓ okay. So I went back, you know, that's this me watching the cut. So I went back and I filmed what because I want them, I want the audience to see what they was looking at. Yeah. And since they was in a rural area, I filmed something rural and I inserted it in there. So when they look, You saw that rural area, then it cut back to them on the port. So I'ma always put what I want to in there. Absolutely. So now every time I go back and look at that movie, I know I took that extra effort to put that cut in there. So that's what I do with all the cuts. I go, I put that extra oomph in there to get that that extra detail. Yeah. You know, and and it it you might look at it at first and might not ⁓ the audience might not notice it or But when they keep going back and look at, they gonna see something different every time. They gonna keep, they're gonna be, okay, okay, I ain't noticed that the first time, you know, and then ⁓ I ain't know that. I ain't know this person with that person's cousin, or I didn't know this, or I didn't know that, you know. So or or I I didn't know he had the keys in his back pocket or sometimes looked at it again, you know. So cause at the beginning I saw him put it in his pocket, you know, it might be anything. So I'm going back, doing all of that, that detail work. The make sure the movie is tight. Yes. Yes. So it it gotta be tight. It can't have no holes in the movie. Gotcha. So I I can't I don't like a film with with holes in it. So yeah. Gotcha. I gotta be satisfied with it. Yeah, yeah. speaker-0: You like to be satisfied? Yeah, look we'll do it look man. I look bro, so glad to have you on today with us. I mean look man, when y'all see this episode, I'm telling you, gonna love it. We got the one, the only Dewey Allen on this episode. He's dropping a lot of gems. Go back and look at it a bunch of times. speaker-1: bunch of time. The hey, it's the winning culture, baby. It's the winning cul. Can't have it no other way. speaker-0: That's right. That's right. Well, Dewey, thank you, man, so much, bro, for coming on the Winning Culture Podcast, bro. You keep doing what you're doing, man. Keep up the great work, my brother. I know there's a lot of great things coming from you. speaker-1: Hey, look, Dewey Allen Legacy Productions, we in here, and we we really love the community, and it's more to us than just movies. It's about creating opportunity. It's about showcasing Louisiana talent, and it's all about community impact. So you see us out in the community, we working, we networking, and we building the culture, the winning culture. Yeah, ⁓ yeah. speaker-0: Yeah. Thank you so much, Dewey. That's my guy, y'all. ⁓ speaker-1: ⁓ yeah. speaker-0: Winning is all that I think about. I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about it. Winning is all that matters. I don't know nothing else. speaker-1: I really don't speaker-0: All I ever knew was how to win speaker-1: I'm gonna speaker-0: Yeah.