25 Jun 2026 07:51
A Trailer Park Tribute: "We Had No Business Starting a Company"
Trailer Park's theatrical division has closed its doors, so we gathered five of the people who were there at the very beginning. Tim Nett, Jim Hale, Ann Mugglebee, Mike Southerly, and Tommy Gargotta trace the company from a single rented edit bay on Cahuenga to a sign you could spot from miles away. Part origin story, part reunion, and a fitting tribute to where it all started.
In this episode:
- One rented room, one Avid. The whole thing began when Tim rented a single bay from commercial editor Jacques Dury, back when an Avid ran around $150K. The crew grew room by room until they took over the building.
- Culture was the product. Before pleasing clients, the team's first job was making each other laugh. A building so small you could hear every bay (and shout notes through the wall) built a bond that outlasted the company.
- Scrappy beat safe. A handful of clients took a leap of faith on a brand-new shop run by people barely into their thirties, and that trust launched something that ran for decades.
A few lines that landed:
"We were all, like, kids. We had no business starting a company." (Tim Nett)
"We were laying down train track that we didn't even realize we were laying down." (Ann Mugglebee)
"Can you believe we were part of that?" (Tommy Gargotta, on spotting the Trailer Park sign from the freeway)
Brought to you by the Golden Trailer Awards and APM Music.
