Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Ashley
How did you meet John? How did you guys become friends so?
Greg Porper
We were real-life co-workers. John is an editor on, at the time, he was an editor on a reality show called Mystery Diners that was being produced by T Group Productions. That was the name of the production company where we were working. Also, it’s the same place where we met Kyle. So all three of us were real-life co-workers. And around the time that, again, as working in development, I was pushing for scripted content. And John caught wind of this from someone. I don’t know who, but he’s like, hey, do you know that there’s like Greg in development? Like he also likes scripted stuff in movies. And John liked movies. And I actually don’t remember who introduced us, but they’re like, oh, you guys both seem to like the same thing. You both have like similar sense of humor you should meet. And we met. And at the time I was working on that proof of concept version of worst birthday ever that I was ultimately pitching to the CW. And John wanted to see it. And I showed it to him. And I showed it was a cut that was a very early cut. And he’s like, oh, I have an idea. Like, can I try something? I was like, of course. That’s just always been my approach. It’s like two heads are better than one. I love outside input. And especially when it’s someone who had not seen the project before. And John just said, you know, you don’t have to keep this. But he took like, like one of the last moments that we had in that rough cut and like moved it to the top. And he like moved a few other things around and tried a few edits. He’s like, let’s watch it now and watch it now. I’m like, this is like 10 times better. Like this is great. And he’s such a strong editor. And just from there, I think that we realized we kind of had a shorthand and we were both laughing at the same stuff. And I think that’s kind of just how it started. We there was a similar sensibility. It was two people working in reality TV that whose passion was really, you know, outside of that. And then we started working on various web series together that we filmed. We both were making stuff on the side on our own. And then we were like, well, why not do it together?
