00:00So John and I were friends, acquaintances, we knew each other a little bit, and another friend of ours was involved in making the Usain Bolt documentary, I don't know if you remember it, it was about ten years ago, and we went to the premiere of that doc, and then went to a club afterwards for the after party, and you know, two old white guys in a nightclub, sort of like, alright, how long did we stay, and I asked him about how he got into comedy, because I hadn't really heard the story, and he told it to me, and I said okay, well that's a movie, and so we started developing,
00:30I said listen, do you mind if I, you know, can I have your life rights if you like, to kind of go out and do this, and we started looking around for writers and how to do it, I always thought it would probably be a good idea to move it to America, so it didn't, I don't know if I said John, but it didn't become a very small British story, but something that was more universal.
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