conversations take place that involve compensation for the eight shows that we were slated to do because when i came back and said guys, now i'm prepared. andles mr. chow called me his clean-up hitter and it's late august and i'm sitting on 64 bombs at 4:20 and 17 op driven in and we're not even in the playoffs yet. so i'm sitting there and there's a tarp over the infield, i got no team to play for. so i became very prepared and focused and driven and hungry and in shape and a new tattoo like let's do this, right? so chuck lorre told me there's no scripts. so i said there's no scripts. wait a minute wait a minute, you're a writer. i need cameras and a taken to act. you need, i don't know, a piece of paperen a bic. there's no scripts. where were the scripts going to be if we hadn't shut down? this basically turned into a two-week hiatus. >> do you believe that there was