00:15:37.680Are you ready for the craziest part? That's just like truth behind the scenes is Greg actually knew the twins from a previous friend of a friend
00:15:45.480Kyle was a friend of the twins. I was the only random one
00:15:50.580Everyone else was like and you're the only one that's stuck
00:15:53.820Think about that. Oh, so interesting. Well cuz my dad for the longest time was he's like yo that Danny girl
00:15:59.640She works really hard like you should you should maybe talk about bringing her on the team
00:16:03.120and i'm like okay like we got we got our uh assistant position filled currently you know
00:16:07.860i think it was ayla you know so many plates uh that she cleaned up so many yeah and then lydia
00:16:13.720just more plates yeah uh and we had a couple not like issues i'd say but like maybe like hiccups
00:16:20.120and there comes a time where you know both people just just graduate i was ready to to go to the
00:16:25.620next level and i needed a bit more uh like professionalism nothing against them i just
00:16:31.120wasn't running a professional organization like bro i'd break plates and it's like hey that's
00:16:34.620that's the assistant job now it's like i the the your scope of work is unlimited you your podcast
00:16:41.460engineer you're taking notes uh you're helping me organizing produce shoots all it's hard to
00:16:46.320describe what my job is i think that's it's almost frustrating what do you do yeah i'm like so many
00:16:52.420hats i wear so many i don't know and it's just such a wide scope of work which is cool it keeps
00:16:57.540it keeps me entertained i'd say it's like a house manager mixed with producer yeah i describe it
00:17:02.600production coordinator house manager travel coordinator logan's assistant you're an exec
00:17:07.560assistant you're an exec assistant when i and i remember when i first met you the the time that0.97
00:17:13.340you were being vetted to be brought on was a what was a time of turmoil absolute fucking turmoil0.71
00:17:20.680within the organization when was it it was it was just wasn't it just post tokyo uh yeah no0.74
00:17:26.600you know what's crazy is we met up once before pre-Tokyo right in December I drove you to a
00:17:32.000script reading or something I came by the house and then after that I came in like January February
00:17:37.740Mike was there was at a studio I remember it with Jitten Kwan yep I remember it very very clearly
00:17:44.960and and and as I said it was during a time of infighting restructuring yeah you clearly I'm
00:17:51.640sure remember how much fucking turmoil was within the organization with me specifically because i
00:17:57.660remember when i when i started here in april of that year mike was written on the the no-go list0.80
00:18:03.180right which was so crazy because you were there originally when i like met with logan and the
00:18:07.700team the first time so it's just funny then two months later to see you integrated back in and i
00:18:11.780remember you're standing up on the balcony and you're just like hey by the way if you ever need
00:18:15.400anything you can come to me people regard me as like someone that they can like come to if they
00:18:20.000anything and literally in my head i was like he said the same thing except he said come on and i0.99
00:18:25.180was like what the fuck and you and you made that that funny face but now you learned over the past0.99
00:18:30.560three years that i am that person 100 that you come to me for any problem you have if there's0.99
00:18:35.580an issue with a a co-worker a colleague anything that i'll handle it with you and you've been
00:18:39.860absolutely fucking incredible but what what was it like you you were um there for that trajectory0.70
00:18:47.680from the pits of hell back to where we are now what is what was it what has it been like being0.84
00:18:52.460on that roller coaster ride that some of us have been on for the past couple years
00:18:56.220it's an interesting take from the inside because i feel like it's much more like a small smaller
00:19:03.920magnifying glass on it like you're focusing on these little things that eventually build you
00:19:07.640into like the bigger picture that we are today that's a bigger better production all around
00:19:12.540you've grown we've all grown but at the time we're just working on little projects and so i
00:19:17.060don't think i even looking back i don't even think i see it or saw it as it being messier or harder
00:19:24.880than it is now it's just like it's hard it does what you're saying is this when you plant the
00:19:31.600apple seed it's hard to visualize the tree right it's hard to imagine that this tiny little seed
00:19:37.840sad guru said this will grow into a tree if you told me if i showed you this and said this will
00:19:42.720be that outside see that 10 foot tall blossoming beautiful tree with fruit on it you have to be
00:19:47.800crazy to believe me especially if you haven't seen it happen yet right yeah and we were in
00:19:51.120i totally get what you're saying focusing on a lot of uh we were doing best friends right around
00:19:56.840then too right it was a lot of experimentation sales that's yeah that's why we were in what0.73
00:20:01.200you said it was just like let's throw shit at the wall and see what sticks and and we found some
00:20:06.720stuff and uh we learned a lot about each other and i wanted to ask you i'm afraid to know the0.66
00:20:11.780answer this question uh what what has what are some of the hardest tasks that you've had to do
00:20:19.400here or the most frustrating difficult like i hate this job i'm gonna rip my hair out
00:20:24.840type things that i've asked you to do yeah um she pulls out a list she's like okay no i i wrote a
00:20:31.740couple things down just to try to like think about it and the funny thing about me and the way my
00:20:35.420brain works is that i'll be so frustrated in the moment or i'll call my parents or i'll drive home
01:12:37.500that not a lot of other places do which is this calling to people it's a calling that exists that
01:12:42.240says hey you have a dream and and this city is here to help you facilitate that and it's it's
01:12:48.200it's it's something that that unless you unless you feel that uh innately within you uh it's not
01:12:55.960something that a lot of people understand i think it's a place that you can just come and go but i
01:12:59.000remember the first time i got here and this was in this what i wrote as well uh i got a feeling
01:13:03.720that never got anywhere else in my entire life i felt um alive i felt like being near the ocean
01:13:09.240the palm trees the hills i was always so intrigued by the hills by the rolling landscape bro some
01:13:15.540boys from brooklyn my brooklyn boys came to hang out we took them on the super 73 rides cruising
01:13:20.500around the streets up and down the hills he's like yo this is crazy i'm like what do you mean
01:13:26.040we're just riding bikes around the neighborhood like you know boys and they're like no dude in
01:13:30.360brooklyn you can't do this there's there's cops there's not enough uh there's too many people on
01:13:34.640the streets there's no clear paths the weather isn't nice like it's insane succinctly i don't
01:13:39.440know if you were going to say it but you said it like this california isn't a state it's a state
01:13:43.920of mind yeah that's what i thought it was beautiful i thought that's a beautiful little
01:13:46.940little summation i love how i leave the one part out i was hoping you'd say that you literally0.68
01:13:51.100fucking alley-ooped me that was technically like the title of it of this but it's it's beautiful0.79
01:13:55.580that's honestly that's what it is it's you you don't come here to pay 52 plus percent taxes if0.99
01:14:02.220you're in the top bracket no you come here because you are the outcast of every town that you're from
01:14:07.260the one person in my town i mean i could literally count them that you know left and that did
01:14:13.660something else and that is is and you could pinpoint me oddly enough you probably couldn't
01:14:18.780have guessed la because i was wearing sweatpants and basketball shorts and not like like honing
01:14:24.060into who i was you know but all these kids no no one's from here everyone is just they felt not
01:14:30.200right for where they were and so they came here and it felt right yeah and it's a and i it's a
01:14:35.080home for the weirdos for the drifters for the dreamers for the aspiring people for the people
01:14:41.220who think they can build something great yeah and uh there's a lot of you know weirdly and
01:14:47.820coincidentally the homeless problem we deal with is a result of the people who came here and didn't
01:14:52.600make it there's a lot of the people people that came here and had that calling to come here and
01:14:55.680be the next actor be the next brand builder and and and we're lost in the process you know and
01:15:00.700it's a it's a strange place but Jim Morrison always said it said it the best in one of the
01:15:05.180songs I forget what song it was um he said the west is the best get here and we'll do the rest
01:15:10.160and I don't talk about that a lot because I don't want people showing up at the Maverick house don't
01:15:13.860come here we're not going to do anything for you except call the cops but but but California very
01:15:19.060much is is you know get here and you'll be inspired by the west coast you will be you will
01:15:24.100be uh a a different person when you come here it's a it's a great place i think yeah it's crazy
01:15:30.320too to see how many people are from like the midwest also here or new york right because
01:15:36.120there are these like hard who's here from kansas by the way oh sorry i know um you know and it's
01:15:42.820because we're all raised hard-working people yep and then we're like this isn't quite right you
01:15:47.860good yeah i'm just putting on socks just making sure yeah um we are raised as hard-working people
01:15:53.680and then we're like but i don't want to be here so we go to a city and work just as hard you know
01:15:57.460that's the cheat code that's yeah that's honestly crazy right yeah i was gonna ask you i have two
01:16:02.960uh final questions i want to ask you um speaking of dreamers you you strike me very much so as a
01:16:10.460dreamer as a person who beat the odds you beat the odds danny you know and you're just getting
01:16:16.160started you already you beat the odds so what advice do you have for the dreamers for the
01:16:20.580small town folk who uh maybe are afraid to take that leap or you know finding that right that
01:16:27.360next chapter of their life it it definitely starts with yourself that's my biggest thing
01:16:32.920is it starts with you in school not being afraid to be like authentically yourself that was
01:16:39.420something i was afraid to do so i'm i've still gotten to where i am with completely being
01:16:43.900terrified of who i was and so like be that person in the hallway i envy the people who'd walk like
01:16:49.980there's like the weird kids who wore the funky hats or like the cool leggings or like whatever
01:16:54.340i wouldn't i didn't do that i was like terrified of doing that and i think it continues into who
01:16:58.480i am today being a little scared of like branching out and so i always said the same thing yeah i i
01:17:04.580was i was so afraid to like really lean into my interests yeah i wanted to make youtube videos
01:17:11.580an act yeah i was like no the theater kids like oh i was a theater kid though so i at least did
01:17:15.820that no i thought i i thought i don't know i thought they wouldn't like me i thought i wouldn't
01:17:19.080fit in like i envy the people who like embody who they are from day from day one yeah but some of
01:17:25.180them are scarred and then never went on to do what they uh what they meant to do and so so my advice
01:17:29.920to you is is really follow that twinge in your heart and like have it if you want have a conversation
01:17:34.240with your parents or whoever is like holding you back from that and just be really really honest
01:17:38.020with them we're in the day and age where you can truly do or at least start what you want to do
01:17:44.140even young even as a kid even on your computer expressing yourself online whatever it is in
01:17:49.440school trying out different things I did this um this zoom call with my college my college invited
01:17:56.580me back my the film and communications department they invited me back to be a panel like a panelist
01:18:01.400for the capstone class how cool is that right and the biggest thing I realized was how uninterested
01:18:07.860they were and like they were there it's their capstone they're about to graduate and they're
01:18:12.140all like what do we do and I'm like awesome are you in student media and they're like no none of
01:18:18.760them are you have you seen the television department down in the bottom of this building
01:18:23.380or whatever and like no one answered yes I said okay okay get out there like go try it and do it
01:18:31.280and experience what it's like because you could get in front of a camera and realize you didn't
01:18:34.580want to do it you know but in college i was part of the like tv production group i was a radio host
01:18:40.140for three years you know i did all these things that i was like this is fun i like doing this
01:18:44.160and so that's my advice to the dreamers is to keep dreaming summarize would your advice to
01:18:49.860the dreamers be to get on the bus yeah like i love that danny by the way i really do love that get on0.88
01:18:56.120the fucking bus and it's another it's another morrison line he said in a lot of his songs too0.74
01:19:01.480the magic uh or the blue bus which is hilarious i'll play the song for you but oh yeah also we0.99
01:19:07.680forgot to say we towed it out of here yesterday yeah it's gone it's next life which is why the
01:19:11.880story mattered we just forgot to complete but yeah get on the bus for sure if you're that's
01:19:15.900if you're watching this listen to danny i said that at one point and then i just forgot about
01:19:19.740it because i wanted to be like i didn't get on the bus right you gotta be proud of what you do
01:19:23.940guys but it's also scary it's also scary and and and and listen like just to tap on it and put my
01:19:29.640final cornerstone on her and cap none of us are ever completely sure about anything you know what
01:19:36.260i'm saying maybe logan has a couple things that he's he's definitive on but like a lot of things
01:19:40.380that we approach even at the level of success that we're at feel not that great or you're a
01:19:45.620little anxious or you're a little scared to do it i say this all the time and and to use your words
01:19:51.340just get on the bus get on the bus try it honestly the biggest the biggest thing that can happen is
01:19:57.460you can fail and you get on the next bus that comes through town that's it you gotta try stuff
01:20:01.740i come across so many of these like inspirational uh you know 60 to 120 second videos on instagram
01:20:08.060on my explore page and it's crazy how all the successful people are saying the same thing like
01:20:15.380yo they're saying the same exact thing and both of you just said it and it's like how many times
01:20:23.380just need to be hammered in the layman's head i've been saying that recently a lot i like it
01:20:27.920the layman the average man with the dream uh before they before they they grasp it and run
01:20:33.060with it second thing i want to ask you final question uh in a world where again you're just
01:20:41.880surrounded by lunacy and chaos and testosterone and the sin a lot of sin we've gotten better
01:20:54.060we didn't even get it bro it's it's too easy to sin could they have made it
01:20:57.960a little bit easier to not sin it's too easy we're born in it we all we're born it's
01:21:03.520how you maintain these uh incredible moral values that you have is beyond me do you have any advice
01:21:12.820to young women the one woman in this organization and you've you've been able to like stay this
01:21:21.020strong independent creative woman pure that is the word that she is danny is so pure and in the
01:21:27.720age of tick tock and you know only fans it's working only fans like please danny like
01:21:33.680preach to the young women out there that's great um i think part of it has to do with the uh
01:21:44.660uh what we kind of talked about earlier and like the the vanity sake you know i'm not willing to
01:21:50.240sacrifice my you know those numbers or like the tick tock you know people will will sacrifice
01:21:57.520a version of like a level of self-respect or they'll sacrifice of like they are they will
01:22:03.060you know fall into these uh low-hanging fruit type traps they'll grab those because because
01:22:10.720they want to feel validated or they want to feel like with a lot of with guys for example people
01:22:17.080will latch on to whatever's next to them to feel validated to feel seen you know that's something
01:22:21.540that i i talk about i want to feel seen and a lot of people find that in in men um
01:22:26.900I think for me, I, I, I, for the longest time have valued figuring myself out that there hasn't been much room for, I want to put this into good words.
01:27:35.280He gets right up next to the microphone.
01:27:36.980I hear you can almost hear the eyelashes hit each other.
01:27:40.100You've never seen Italy so quiet as when the Pope gets up to wink on Halloween.
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