Before The Room became a cult classic, it was a billboard in Hollywood—unexplained, unforgettable, and funded by a man with no past. Was Tommy Wiseau just a mysterious filmmaker… or something stranger? In this episode, we unravel the origin theories, funding rumors, and ritualistic undertones of one of the weirdest pop culture phenomena ever made.

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