In this clip, I sit down with Adam Johnston (YMS) and do what any responsible Shrek Retold director does: I dig up ancient receipts and confront him about why he “wasn’t in the first one.” Adam swears he has zero memory of me reaching out, so I go full detective mode—Twitter DMs, Gmail, the whole embarrassing timeline—until we find the 2017 email chain where he politely hits me with the “too much of a commitment” classic. It’s genuinely hilarious watching his brain reboot in real time while I’m like, “Grant was telling this story all day yesterday, man.” Before we get too deep in the swamp, Adam also tells a painfully relatable film festival horror story: a full-on seat-kicking war that turns into a curb-your-enthusiasm moment where somehow you’re the villain for reacting like a human. Then we pivot back to Shrek stuff—why he joined Shrek 2 Retold (peer pressure, obviously), what it’s like seeing the first Retold and instantly thinking “why wasn’t I in this,” and we cap it off with a little sneak peek/ending segment Conner throws together mid-call. Takeaway: comedy fan films are built on chaos, collaboration, and receipts you forgot existed.