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hey everybody welcome to Superfly there's Dana here and his Stark pad
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here's Spade and his pea soup green backdrop he keeps threatening to change
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but he hasn't yet i'm a minimalist i figured that out i'm a minimalist i
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think as you go along and you get to buy things you like and you do things you start to get that way and that's what
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I'm starting to get you don't need a ton of things i need elbow room uh you like your freedom like different things but
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once you have a car you got some clothes it's good for the economy you know that's all I can say if the whole
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country was me we'd be in a deep depression oh yeah i'm out there i do throw some
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back into the econ but I try not to get too uh too uh pushy about it this is
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literally not the word I'm looking for you were pretty close and it was kind of clear you don't want to say "Hey I got
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some beans in my jeans." Even though I'm showing off a teal pullover today
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do you want to mention the maker of the said sweater so that you may get a free
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one in the mail or I don't think I know i know it's teal and I know it's for real and I know I saw a basketball by
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even after a big meal i'm not made of steel but this is for real with teal
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dude we just lost a thousand viewers it's a big deal they haven't even gotten focused yet we're on in the background
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they're flipping a smash dude don't squeal
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so dumb adjust my camera yeah so here we are we made it to another Superfly
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everyone's stoked we do have a guest later and uh but right now I want to hear about anything that happened in the
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last week of note and it better be of note should we test should we tease
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tease the guests sure no go ahead ladies and gentlemen can you do a drum roll
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sometime ladies and gentlemen in a little bit
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we're going to have our good buddy the one and only really the hardest working man in show business been with us
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america been a star for a long time still looks like he's an high high
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school senior rob Low roblo Brett Packac roblo Brett Packac um but first
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well D I I had an observation oh good okay
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so what do you do like there's this really nice guy at this place I go to for breakfast and stuff and he's one of
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those people that really likes to laugh okay so he'll say something but it's just prefuncter information but he'll
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laugh like as if it's a joke and am I supposed to laugh like like I walk in he goes "Hey pal normally you come
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earlier." [Laughter] That's awesome that's awesome i'm like
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and then we're leaving he goes "You know you should adopt
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me." What the [ __ ] i mean he's the greatest guy with
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an incredible sense of humor but it's just informational i want to give him a joke or something i know well I think
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the problem is we're comedians and the same pilot that said
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when I got on he saw me and then he goes "Hey we got our 737 on the LEGO hope our door doesn't fly off." You can't do
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jokes like that just for me because everyone goes "What the fuck?" You know it's not funny to some people and then
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when I'm also ordering and if you're a comedian anything you say you go "Do you
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guys have eggs here uh before 10?" And they go "Yeah."
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What just You mean Yeah just Yes is fine he just likes to laugh i think it's very
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sweet but I um Yeah i like that he's laughing at everything that's like people that write LOL but after what
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they say yeah i mean it's it's it's sweet but I feel like I I want to give
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my like my joke with him is like "Hey where where's Bob cuz you can't be him
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cuz you must be his younger brother you know you look so much younger um than I
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when I saw you last time and it wasn't my best joke but at least it was somewhat humorous yeah you're at least
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some reason to laugh like a Q- line like here we go yeah I know it's awkward
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sometimes but it's still it's fun sometimes like people text and they go "Hey like I get an offender banner with
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a guy and he's like "Hey I guess I should get your insurance lol." And I'm like "Yeah." And he goes "You weren't
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hurt at all were you lol." I'm like I don't know where we're stopped joking and it's serious i don't know what's
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going on you can't put LOL on everything well laugh out loud used to be a big bar laugh out loud funny before these little
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memes came in so most things are slightly humorous we got to We got to
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come up with something I guess sh slightly humorous that doesn't have to
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mh minimally humorous minimally humorous or KF be good kind of funny
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not a put down but not a compliment but laugh out loud an almost nothing
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i made almost no reaction by the way no one's making reactions they're just saying they bother putting ro
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mapping my [ __ ] ass i go you don't have to go through all those hyronics to tell me you're not even laughing at
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all well I don't know where were you do you remember the first time you realized you could add these little hearts or
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little pictures a little dog or the first moment you said "Hey wait a minute i can tag this just English language
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print with all this stuff." I used to put like 50 in there for my age I spent
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way too much of a part of my day looking for emojis maybe two that's what they're called emojis emojis no I put R O I put
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roll on floor falling on ground lit on fire with a bear trap on my nuts that's how hard I laugh did you just make that
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up that's pretty good not bad right usually I think your libids are kind of
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pre-planned you know you got little note card up yeah Heather's holding a note she scribbles a joke and holds it up
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read it yeah but that was that was actually was pretty good yeah I'm always looking for where's the parachute
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where's the [ __ ] big rock where's the ball of yarn the [ __ ] I send people to this you put all your work into this
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stupid [ __ ] time it's always funny to say "What's up [ __ ] face?" You know just always good you know i like that or
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That's good my pronouns are um what's up [ __ ]
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those are your pronouns yeah those are my pronouns i put my pronouns are and I put
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yarn and then the [ __ ] alien guy let's be honest your pronoun is teal
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sweater dude everyone's buzzing about this uh call back yeah it's pretty sweet
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but I don't want to overdo it i don't want to hear it in the comments i'll block you by the way i'll block the [ __ ] out of you i don't take Have you ever
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read the comments and then realized the next morning damn I cried myself to sleep last night yeah I think we overall
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I figure that people watch them and do comments as it's going because it's as the show goes on it's now new subjects
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they're talking about sitting there like yeah they're just like kind of
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funny don't care for that one and then they're like teal actually isn't a color of the
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rainbow boy I'm just glad they're engaging that's the thing you know I guess it's good
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yeah it is fun to hear the thoughts because I'll read the thoughts but if they get too out of control and too
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rough then you got to because people go "Why would you block me?" I go "Well I
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I'm here to have fun i don't need someone saying something horribly crazily negative and threatening or
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something." You go "Obviously I'll block you." Obviously I assume it's two high school kids let's get the Tommy boy and
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the Wayne's World guy man he goes "Shut up Ryan i'm typing just shut up tell them literally anyone I DM that that I
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get pissed off if I really can't take it they're like "Oh my god I'm the biggest fan in the
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world." Are you though and that's what you chose to write that's what you
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picked and you thought that would fly have you ever posted something critical
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online of sane an article YouTube yeah
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no I could I could imagine saying I disagree or I don't know what you're But I wouldn't say anything where it would
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be so rough this guy in Michigan was writing me saying "I'm going to bust
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every bone near your body with a baseball." He was like literally threatening to kill me over and over and I just wanted to I should have posted it
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just to say because he's in a band and I wanted to say "Hey this is I'm just
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posting this to show your friends this is what you do in between band breaks you've got a psycho behind you on the
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drums cuz he's writing all this [ __ ] he's like then you see his pictures he's
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at practice i'm like quit acting like you're a nice guy fish it's usually like a wedding or
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something the girls that send me the dirtiest ones you should go to their page it's like them at their wedding a week ago i go
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I just the anonymity hey look at that word you know can do whatever you want i
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mean I I feel less alone i get inspired by the comments if I'm watching a Beatle
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thing because you know I'm kind of that's fanatic and it's like John Lennon's in my life or whatever it is
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and then the comments are just like I thought I was the only one they're just like "Oh these this band is a miracle
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that you know." By the way I swear to God and it sounds like I'm lying i was going to dinner we talked about the Beatles so much i thought I've never
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asked Dana because you like so many Beatles songs if you had to love in my
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life in my life but we never mention it but it's a
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great one is it Lennon I
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remember I loved you it was in an old Jodie Foster movie I think and I remember hearing it going it's a you
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know the silliness is that John Lennon is like 25 you know and it's about his life he's
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just a kid yeah um and you know obviously it's the melody and the lyric now that is the one Beatles song or
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there might be just a couple where Paul and John remembered it differently so
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Paul remembers you know there's the middle eight lovers and friends i
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went I love you more so Paul feels like
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he was a a big contributor or an important contributor it's it's very len
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you know that that first part is so len you know I don't there are places I
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remember you know just but um that's one we're going to have Paul back on oh yeah
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we're going to ask Paul to come back on i want to get Ringo on too cuz when they came out of the gate after the Beatles
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I don't think it was John or Paul that had the first hit was it i thought Ringo sort of came out big and no one expected
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it and so did George Harrison is that true no okay but they're they
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were Thank God it wasn't Paul I was saying this [ __ ] to i just remember
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that Ringo I I think would have been the one they wouldn't have expected from and then he had Photograph which is a
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[ __ ] killer oh that was in the that was in the the 70s he Ringo had Ringo a
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true star I think it was called big hit albums for sure but back at the
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beginning you know they had Pete Best and they had to let him go and they Ringo always was a fan of theirs like in
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Hamburg Ringo is with Rory and the Hurricanes and he would he would hang out at the club brought someone from the
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fan club in he he just liked them and Paul they didn't see Selena John would
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would bring the songs to Ringo and George Harrison in the early days it goes like this goes like this then
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Ringo's genius was picking the perfect drum thing to that song thom
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they were like me brothers they were like me brothers love me brothers who had the first hit after the You got
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balloons who had the first hit when the Beatles broke up go obviously I don't The first mega hit was I think um Band
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on the Run no George Harrison's All Things Must Pass his double album is
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still the number one selling post beetle album and he had a hit on My Sweet Lord
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oh that was a [ __ ] killer yeah McCartney did had massive hits and Ringo
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and John i mean if you you look at Dream Number Nine and Imagine and uh Watching
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the Wheels you know Lennon had his you know I love that song i'm just sitting
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there watching the wheels go round and round no but Gervitz took me to see Beatles
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not Beatles but a McCartney and Wings Killer
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what year was that i'm sorry am I rich we're sitting up close i'm sorry are these good seats must have been the
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Wings wings broke up in the 80s I think as a band but the latest incarnation of Paul McCartney's
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really I couldn't have seen Wings at the beginning i thought this is where people in the comments i thought Paul McCarten
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Wings was in it was this band has a name of a band but you know well I would have
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been I can't even say these numbers it's too embarrassing uh but okay let's do a
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few stories and I'll leave should I do any stories yeah oh no we got to do um
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Should we just bring out our guest and and end it there yeah and just so that just so people know and more of a tease
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don't don't do the laundry right now oh I don't do laundry we're just going to discuss a little bit the recession
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that's happening for all the different people who work in Hollywood not not the movie stars and so Rob's very uh he has
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some insight into that he does his hit game show in Ireland for a reason it's
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much you know you you listen to the podcast yeah and I'm going to ask him a real question is Bulgaria a real place
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because I always hear that country and I I got into my head I couldn't find it on a map
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money rob Low likes money you don't like money i was just on the phone with him i said "I got to go go you know go help
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team team Gervitz with the two star clients." You know you do that you call me right back you are the right You're the star
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client because you're you're a hard worker we like to take naps and take months off at a time you actually work i
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I I What is it he goes "Rob Low he always made He always made money for his partners likes money."
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Yeah rob Low he always tells me I could tell Rob low and he'd say yes right now you don't like to do anything he You
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hate money yeah I guess you just don't like money just don't like it rob I just did a
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thing i ran into Shaquille O'Neal and he goes "I don't know if I like that sweater you got on." I go "This is teal
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man it's for real." And uh and teal's a very expensive color i tried to trick him and uh he goes "Man you walking
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around trying to look like Rob Low." Why would way for real
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oh that's so Isn't that funny the last thing I saw Robbie was running on the beach with a shirt off because of course
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I go on Daily Mail because I'm addicted to the Sure you got it to the madness
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and it's not You don't look average you don't look normal no you look you're
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looking good he's He goes that Tom Cruz like whatever that is tom Cruz i I love
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Tom Cruz the guy's brilliant but he doesn't take his shirt off anymore does he in movies no well cuz he's smart i I
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took a lot of [ __ ] i was like my wife was like you did really god damn it i I
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would you know it's like I I said frame it correctly like there's there's a certain level with
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which the framing reveals you know that I'm in my third
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trimester that I'm you know of life or your
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pregnancy but my of my um of my donut belly you were coming right at the
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camera side angles are the worst you can look in the mirror and look at yourself and go "Damn." Then go side angle whoops
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that's where all the sins are you know Tom Cruz runs with his hands straight up and down like this for less wind
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resistance in case he has to crush somebody and he usually runs for about roughly 15 to 20 minutes through every
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movie in a full sprint every take yep i'm like "Okay well I want to ask Rob he
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knows his way around the movie business." And I have a question for Rob do because I would say if I ran into Tom
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I'd say the most impressive thing if it's real is not hanging off the
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airplane it's sprinting with that kind of authority at 60some because the hip
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flexors so do you think they do slightly speed it up a little bit
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no um I was I Tom and I I think both I think I I could be wrong but I
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think we both initially learned to run from Alio
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Estz's running coach there's a guy named I like how you're the only one that calls him Estee was this for The
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Outsiders what What movie was this this was it would have been post outsiders and it was a guy named Milan Tiff and he
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won the triple jump okay in the uh he was in the 1968 uh famous
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1968 American Olympic team you know the Mexico City where Bob he went 292
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bob Beam set the record i guess the triple jump may also have been a world record or close yeah i'm not sure if he
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won there but he was on that team and then and anyway we were all training with Milan and he was a big the hand
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thing was the big thing and then you also make it a flap by the way there's this and then you make it like here you
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make it a little flat flap down yeah dolphin move yeah um Hey what about this
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uh Breakfast Club reunion did Why don't you guys have an outsiders reunion um
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well we're do you know we're doing St elma's fire part two we are going to do that what no you are st elmer's FUD St
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elmer's FUD and everyone's coming back for this everybody's coming back i mean we we got to get the script right i mean
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you know we've all we've all been there for that one have you got a draft that you read and said "No no draft yet it's
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due any day." You you were never really a Brett Packac guy per se right because you had too many other things going on i
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don't I don't consider you part of it but you crossed over with it or were you i mean I think I I I mean I know this
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that I'm I'm on the cover of that New York magazine article that coined the
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Brat Pack okay so then you were part of the Brat Pack i mean as much as I would
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like to deny it but you know what i I like I I think it's cool but having a totally a name like those were great
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movies they were John Hughes movies and great movies great movies hookie Hookie
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uh name for your club mayor Winningham Ali Shidi yep she's a great actress ali
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I know it all you know you know who's in the St elmer's Fud yeah now that's good but did you see this Breakfast Club that
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was kind of cool it was great it was so cool to see them on stage i haven't been able to to see or find the entirety of
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the interview i've only seen the clips but it was super super sweet to see everybody together and hear them talk
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about the movie it's Eclipse World which one of those if any have blocked you go ahead all of them
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anthony Michael Hall has blocked you that I find hard he is a nice dude i
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did have him on Literally we had him on Fly i did he was great he Fly he was He
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was great he And um charming smart yep great actor always was a great actor
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he's amazing in that movie breakfast Club for me is the best of that moment
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in time that was a Yeah that movie holds up pretty cool idea thatgeist of the 80s
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perfectly that was the one if you have Teacher Paul Gleason was great
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amazing [ __ ] grab some wood bub why they don't make movies like that anymore
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i don't like it it's all dog [ __ ] how about they don't how do you like that
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i'll sign you up for a movie like that you want to do a movie sorry go back into Gerbitz all right uh now Rob we
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were going to talk to you a little bit about the state of the state because nothing too heavy because we're all a
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bunch of idiots we literally don't know we started with his comment about the floor it's hard to interject but that was interesting
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right the floor is shot on Mars with the space origin it's easier for us to shoot
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on the outer rings of Mars no [ __ ] than
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it is turns out that that's less cost prohibitive than shooting it in Los
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Angeles um you know I will tell you this Rob just to for sure interrupt you yes i
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did a game show which those game shows are kind of interesting because they can always come back snake out snake eyes snake oil don't No don't do that uh
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snake oil and uh you know David uh the thing is you need to be careful when you
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wear a hat on a on the the one sheet
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is that is that a Lauren thing it should be cuz it's true i saw you in the in the
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straw hat boater and I thought Oh that's right i had a straw hat going snake oil riverboat gambler maybe um not sure you
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know it's the hat and cane thing it's It's very stubby K uh it's very early
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it's fine if you're Hugh Jackman and you're in the music man but if you're you're This is your best Lauren i
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haven't heard you do it in a while it's actually a good one admonishing me for my poster
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but but outman was that's where because it fits Lauren's rhythm so you Jack you
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know it's just unless you're tap dancing Jackman but I think what you'll find
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is you're not you don't want to be Clue Gallagher before 1960
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so only Rob knows who Clue I do not know who that is i like the idea that Gallagher how does Tarantino do it he
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gets these guys from nowhere puts Clue Gallagher in I don't know if it was Once
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Upon a Time but whatever but anyway it was Once Upon a Time yeah my story was before I was so rudely rudely made fun
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of it's your turn go it's not really any story it's kind of like Rob's the funny thing about that was we met one night to
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talk about doing the game show first of all these guys are all great at Fox and then they said it's you know we talked
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about what it would be and it's sort of kind of interesting idea and they go we do it in LA which is not that hard i was like great so the next day we go to make
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the deal and Gervitz goes okay here's the deal points and you shoot it in Ireland i go wait this wasn't even 24
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hours later Mark it's been already even moved to Ireland so the joke was you were hoping Tarzana like what Rob said
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is that they just said well it's it's cheaper and the bigger picture here is I
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get a lot of complaints and a lot of concerns of course we've got a lot of talented makeup people here we've got a
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lot of union guys why aren't we doing more here and it's really a big problem
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that everyone kind of skim jobs over but it's a problem and people are leaving town this is what I'm here for i've been
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able to a number of times say if I'm doing it I'm going to do it only in LA i
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did that with 911 Lonear that was going to move to
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um it was going to be in where it took place in Texas it was going to be in Austin sure and I was able to keep that
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production that's Unreal seasons right five seasons i was I turned down an
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amazing U series that was going to shoot in New
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York i asked them to move that to LA and they couldn't do it so they just didn't make it at all um and because I have we
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know those people that make the you make the make the movie business work the technicians the grips the the electrics
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the drivers the caterers um they all moved here for one reason everyone's here because it's Hollywood
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it's tinsel town and we're losing that and we can't just have high taxes and crime you got to have something to
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offset it and it's like oh it's Hollywood we make movies we got to be here and it's hard to keep arguing that
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when they keep going we got to make it incentivize it right and listen it's not
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like California is gunshy about throwing money at people no [ __ ] so I like what I
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like my favorite is the way they draw the line here exactly we'll throw money at every in class of person that's ever
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been invented but when it comes to the people that make Hollywood go that's the most famous thing about the country i
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think they're going to have to prove their Here's 20 billion for homeless actually we lost but it's somewhere and
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then they go Hollywood you're going to get 750 million aren't you excited i'm like for the whole [ __ ] we can't have a
00:28:37
B in front of it nothing that's like four shows you do one Avatar that's 400
00:28:43
million well and also you don't know if you're going to get it that's the other thing right it's that's really the other
00:28:48
thing because you you can't even What are you going to do to go into
00:28:53
casting pre-production all of that stuff hoping you literally hoping you literally actually win the lottery and
00:28:59
it is it's a lot yes it's bananas it's like I mean look don't get me started on
00:29:08
the state of the state this is the idea what are the There is one metric that
00:29:13
that is a little a side step i read about that the cost of living in LA you
00:29:19
know for all the people we're talking about a basic home is about a million bucks in Los Angeles County i believe
00:29:26
that and so that's another driver of people kind of going I don't know if actually all these people who make
00:29:33
movies the grips the crews everything whether they're moving out of state cuz well there's more production in Atlanta so I'll just I'll step outside that
00:29:40
thing but uh Austin it has to be a cause select it would have to be someone tanking it on and funding it that we
00:29:48
have to at least match the incentives sure which there is a bill and as state assembly yeah even if it's a push yeah
00:29:55
there's a bill there's a bill now um that apparently is going to be really really helpful my understanding of it
00:30:01
and I haven't I haven't read the bill itself but my understanding of it is that it would make California at least
00:30:07
on par with New York yeah New York does more than us right
00:30:12
right now oh god yeah because I never hear I hear Boston a lot i hear New
00:30:18
Orleans i hear Austin um a lot where they're making it very easy eric
00:30:24
there's there's also things like this is where you know there's a there's there's enough blame to go around equally and
00:30:29
look I'm I'm a believe I the IATS crew are the
00:30:35
greatest artisans and technicians in in the world but the unions I think also
00:30:40
have to come to play ball i I I I just saw a study of a movie that was you know
00:30:46
granted I don't know how long the shooting schedule would have been for because that would affect the number but
00:30:52
their number for their grip grip department which for those of you who don't know the the grips are the people that build the sets move the walls do
00:31:00
all the construction the budget was $59,000 for run of the movie in Hungary
00:31:08
in LA it's $59,000 for the key grip
00:31:16
so and how many grips average yeah i mean 10 you can see you can you can see
00:31:22
why you know if your goal is to get your movie made your goal is to get your movie made right yeah i mean we did a
00:31:30
small movie Bus Boys that Theo and I wrote and we I asked said "Can we do it in uh LA?" And Theo was nice enough to
00:31:38
say cuz he's he's out in Nashville spends a lot of time in Austin and we were talking about Austin then I said
00:31:44
"Is there any way we can do it here i know it's just a drop in the bucket it's a small movie but just the idea we're
00:31:49
doing it here." And selfishly I like it here but it's also like I can't I got to practice what I preach i got to try some
00:31:56
movies are set other places and it's hard to cheat but uh it's hard to cheat Hawaii if you're in LA you know whatever
00:32:03
but we did it here and every single person on that crew is coming up going I love that you guys are doing it here i
00:32:09
love cuz we have nothing we just it's everyone's scraping by and I think we're not here to really complain and [ __ ]
00:32:15
about everything we're just trying to say people should just know about this and I don't even know the easy fix
00:32:20
there's no easy fix but [ __ ] it's Hollywood the other thing I would add I would add is is we're going to be fine
00:32:27
we you know it's sure we have the ability to to go to different places and do things like that and we fight to keep
00:32:32
it in LA and sometimes we have the weight to do it other times we don't and
00:32:38
these subsidies don't go to the stars they're not subsidizing you or me or
00:32:43
there's what they are subsidizing are the working men and women that make this industry work and I I think that there
00:32:49
can be a misconception it's like all these you know very famous actors are getting subsidi it's not us that are
00:32:56
getting subsidized it's it's the the people that that need it the people getting crushed i think 18,000 jobs have
00:33:03
been lost in the last few years we had the pandemic and then we had sort of a recession and we had the strikes and I
00:33:09
don't I don't have enough information to know the input of that whether some of the studios said okay we get that we'll
00:33:16
just go to London we'll go to Ireland so it is very complex but those are the people we're talking about who laid down
00:33:22
roots in LA have worked here for maybe multiple generations and the work is
00:33:27
really dried up it's a severe recession in the interior of that business i mean studios have never been this actual
00:33:33
physical studios are just sitting there so um we you know we want to keep it and
00:33:39
we want to do it in the smart way but I if Rob wants to run for mayor next time
00:33:45
the cycle's up i'm you know Karen Bass is you know she's doing fine but I I think that I would I would support He
00:33:52
hasn't read this bill so it'll fit right in great i'm I'm already I haven't read
00:33:57
what's in it but I like it i love it yeah I'm with you guys like the three of
00:34:02
us don't get affected as much even Buzz Boys we funded ourselves so it was a little more but at that level it wasn't
00:34:09
uh that much more but when you get these budgets that are you know 50 million obviously these movies are getting
00:34:15
bigger and bigger and 50 100 million the competitive threshold is 30%
00:34:23
you can get 30% of your book back it's that high wow yes that's that's sort of
00:34:31
the stand that's that's you know basically Atlanta England Hungary
00:34:38
Canada and look it it fluctuates a little bit sometimes it's a little bit less sometimes a little bit more my
00:34:44
favorite is now is "Hey you're going to go shoot it in Toronto." And then you get to Toronto and they go "Well actually you're shooting it in
00:34:50
Hamilton." That's outside of that's the new Toronto there's no Hamilton is the new Toronto
00:34:56
because there's even more money to be picked up more nickels more nickels lying under the maples up there in
00:35:03
Hamilton because you're 60 miles outside of Toronto so even Toronto's not good
00:35:09
enough now i mean when the bean counters finally have their way with us we literally will be shooting in space
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business terms with that tax credit say you're going to make a movie and your budget is is 10 million and you go to
00:38:11
one of these countries with this this tax break all of a sudden you have maybe 30 you have 15 million in in a sense to
00:38:18
spend okay so that's right on actors on grip and and on housing i mean I I think
00:38:25
um I forgot well the other no also also what it does Oh Rob this is what I was
00:38:30
going to say sorry is that it benefits are let's say you're doing it in Boston
00:38:36
we did grown-ups out there the benefits are there's the tax break for the city which they have to cover but all
00:38:42
everybody comes to stay in their hotels they make money everyone goes to eat every night they make money you're going
00:38:48
around the city you're buying groceries everything is being helped in that city and that's the idea to get you there and
00:38:53
then you see the city maybe you want to move there one day so all that is a plus so that's kind of how they rationalize
00:39:00
it but here we have so many facilities and so many ways to make a movie make it really really easy and then it just
00:39:07
starts to dry out and I'm not going to say it's fully gone but it is it is alert it's in distress i mean we it it
00:39:14
is our tax base it it it creates a lot of revenue and it is global fame it's a global attraction um although I've been
00:39:22
you know I mean the Hollywood side is still there yeah but but the ecosystem of it you know um
00:39:28
the car wash that goes out of business the the the smaller restaurants the catering companies that go for
00:39:35
every it trickles down that people don't really understand they they think
00:39:42
Hollywood and they think stars and and it really isn't about that it truly isn't because like I said we'll always
00:39:48
get the phone call to go somewhere but you know my my guy that does all the wardrobe for
00:39:55
my show or who does uh you know does all the lighting that phone is not ringing
00:40:01
and they got kids in school and it's brutal it's brutal so something will be done because it has
00:40:07
to be done and uh hope who could who could be listening to this podcast governor News who can do something new
00:40:14
so what are your analytics like on this podcast who who's who's listening who's in that like could they give you that
00:40:20
sample single women under 25 no it's uh we have a mature audience people who
00:40:26
vote and pay taxes and you know I'd say no we have a we have a pretty older crowd it's probably split down the
00:40:32
middle men and women and uh in all seriousness since we're doing it
00:40:38
if you're listening to this in California and you're so inclined uh
00:40:43
pick up the phone and call your uh congressman uh or more importantly it
00:40:50
would be your state it would be your state representative because right now it's a state issue so call your your
00:40:56
state representative really seriously just email them drop them a line that that really moves the needle people
00:41:01
always think "Oh well I'm just one person." But you know they you know I was on a I I was on a show called The West Wing and I learned a little bit
00:41:07
about politics and they have a metric it's probably changed in the 25 years but if one person f calls they look at
00:41:15
it mathematically that that means that is the way that at least 10 other people
00:41:21
are feeling who didn't call makes sense yeah well what about the governor is
00:41:28
that another is that a place to start too yeah it seems like it seems like he's on board with this now um but he's
00:41:34
going to need the votes that's my understanding so I think we we I think the governor is on board it's but we're
00:41:40
going to need the votes i've seen like I said I think there are people that don't want to help Hollywood even in California i mean Hollywood does a great
00:41:47
job sometimes of stepping in it and making us all look like buffoons and sometimes it comes back up and I think
00:41:54
that there are people that don't want to throw a lifeline to what they consider Hollywood frivolous yeah it has a bad
00:42:01
image doesn't it n listen you watch you watch enough award shows and I can understand these pampered self righteous
00:42:09
clueless mory said it all at the his famous so good oh my god one of the
00:42:14
great and funniest moments you could ever see on a YouTube clip i could never not love it thank you God and [ __ ] off
00:42:22
you know nothing you've been nowhere it's like you know nothing you've seen nothing you people tell you what to say
00:42:28
they tell you where to go they tell you what to wear don't tell us anything about anything so get your little award
00:42:35
thank you God and [ __ ] off amazing i love him well maybe we'll let
00:42:41
Rob go because he's very nice to jump on and talk to us uh Rob we miss you just quickly anything else i mean you always
00:42:49
have so much going on don't you do other another podcast no whatever
00:42:54
seven things literally is is going strong um I'm loving doing it get it
00:43:00
wherever you get your podcast i started really paying attention to filming it like you guys do um which is a bummer
00:43:08
because now I have to make sure my toup pay is I mean I met my and my hair was I
00:43:13
give you my guy you're the one who said the best hair in Hollywood in history
00:43:18
was it who has it well I think I I thought it was Richard Gear but you said it was someone else something O'Brien I
00:43:25
think i don't know maybe I'm transposing different conan Conan's hair is pretty [ __ ] good conan's hair on the Oscars
00:43:32
was amazing that's my hair per That's my hair girl oh she did a great job on it i
00:43:37
like on one specific thing he was great on the Oscars sometimes on his podcast it's not his best day but he's always
00:43:45
great but he was great on the Oscars yeah I love him he's insane you always have You always look at mine's not too
00:43:51
bad today they get mad when I say I look at my hair but Dane and I were arguing that when you're in here my face looks
00:43:56
all all bright from the goddamn uh light in my eyes and then the hair but the hair's got a little flip to it
00:44:04
Rob has such good hair he covers it up he doesn't give a [ __ ] i'm like [ __ ] if I had that hair I would never put a hat on again i know that's that's a great
00:44:11
irony is is I I've got good hair but I do like my Well when the Dodgers win the World Series I got a sport they got a
00:44:18
good They got a good chance they're they're pretty Then you have the uh the hat that said NFL on it or something
00:44:26
just go teams it's actually funny go teams go teams i want everybody to win
00:44:31
we did uh we did one movie up in Toronto but we were pretty much in Toronto i did
00:44:37
two in Toronto it was a Tommy Boy story tommy Boy was in Toronto and I'll tell you another thing all of the Brat Pack
00:44:43
movies you talk about all of those all John Hughes movies were in Chicago
00:44:48
they they were in Chicago yes there were tax breaks there's always been tax breaks this is not a new thing which has
00:44:55
gotten way way way way out of control yeah global thing now but there was a
00:45:00
thing where everybody everything shot in Chicago for in the 80s um but it wasn't
00:45:06
it for every one movie that shot in Chicago there were still five or 10 shooting
00:45:12
there's a Chicago backdrop too to some of those Blues Brothers out there yeah john Houston is there he was Yeah i have
00:45:20
one question before we let you go do you literally no pun intended or whatever
00:45:27
does the show The floor take a a hundred Americans and put them up in Dublin or
00:45:33
where so you import this audience and obviously they don't have Irish accents when they win or they come up and that's
00:45:40
still cheaper to bring a hundred people on and put them up uh yes and um and
00:45:48
listen Gordon Ramsay did all the all his Master Chef stuff was in Ireland for
00:45:53
years some of it still is but um you would be uh I think I think beat Shazam
00:46:01
i mean you it's it's a it's right now they do it first of all they do it very very well they know what they're doing
00:46:08
they're top of their class the experience is great um and I love it
00:46:15
but at the end of the day I you know I would like to you know keep our our industry alive if we could but at the
00:46:21
Listen these companies have a fiduciary responsibility they're they're not in the charity business they never will be
00:46:28
they never were and you know I I I get why they why they flee California by the
00:46:35
way all businesses California makes it impossible california makes it impossible exactly if you're a
00:46:41
successful business you're kind sort of on the enemy's list we don't they don't like that yes 100% and how do we squash
00:46:49
it i tell you what you do nobody changes until they're in enough pain right
00:46:56
whether you're whatever your thing is in your life change is hard a lot of times it makes requires tough choices facing
00:47:03
truths you don't want to face whatever it is and it takes being in enough pain to do it maybe our industry and
00:47:12
California in particular is in enough pain to finally make some changes to
00:47:18
what is unsustainable uns absolutely unsustainable absolutely and just compete in the free market you know
00:47:23
we've got places to compete let's let's keep stacking the whatever they're doing we should do like let's make an even
00:47:28
playing field when Chuck Chaplan When Chucky Chaplan Yeah chaz came to LA and
00:47:33
the Hollywood Renaissance there and Buster Keaton they like the weather play like you know I mean those are romantic
00:47:39
times but we just have to compete and I know we can and um I want to thank you
00:47:44
both for being um on Dana today this is a sub podcast we have now let's start
00:47:50
the uh superfly thanks for being on David and Kelly
00:47:58
Rob great to see you bud if you ever No straw hats I got the message this is all about telling me no straw hats no you
00:48:05
know the cane was really the bridge too far i mean they say hold it for one
00:48:10
picture out of a thousand they only need one i literally was like I'll hold this for
00:48:15
two seconds they're like we'll never use it we'll never use it if you were driving down the box lot and you see
00:48:22
that huge you're like "Hey is that Jiminy Cricket
00:48:28
was that also a Was there a chicken in the background nice try Rob let's not make it worse than it was there was no
00:48:35
chicken i think there was a farm animal i said no to the chicken i think I'm just saying if you're listening to this
00:48:40
podcast please Google spade snake oil poster yeah yeah yeah
00:48:49
lauren had a whole It's a killer you know David the other
00:48:57
thing is um barbershop quartet is a line that
00:49:02
it doesn't scream comedy it sings it
00:49:08
uh okay that's enough out of Rob i'm now getting mad okay thanks bye Crazy Man
00:49:15
this has been a presentation of Odyssey Superfly is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade Jenna Weiss
00:49:21
Berman of Odyssey Heather Santoro and Greg Holtzman hope you liked it
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