recognized films in the last few decades from ace ventura pet detective series to the nutty professor movies to liar liar and bruce almighty his most recent film i am he takes us on a journey in search of the nature of humanity what it means to live a truly fulfilling life on this topic will definitely get into a little later in the interview carly is a professor of communications and teaches screenwriting pepperdine university seaver college i'm pleased to welcome from our studios in los angeles tom shadyac tom welcome. tom it's great to be here and just for a point of clarification a class i teach at pepperdine is actually called film and life because it's a conversation that i don't think we have with our youth which is we use films as an access point to start a conversation about the seasons and choices that our youth are going to make. in their when they're graduate from college and when they move on with their lives so that's a conversation that i also wanted to start with i am...