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On.
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On this week's show at C2E2, I
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founder Mark Weiss.
We didn't get the invite to C2E2

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Mark.
No.

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Why?
Why weren't we there?

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'Cause I, I, I wasn't in charge
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I just, I just, I just drove.
Did you want to drive 14 hours?

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I would have driven.
Really I would have.

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I would have gladly driven.
I just.

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Want the deep dish pizza?
Man, yeah, exactly.

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I don't even want to go to the
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I just want the pizza.
So on this week's show, I'm at

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C2E2 I meaning Mark interview
comic book for kids is founder

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Mark Weiss and Elman Daniel
Feldy interviews filmmaker

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George Taramas TARAMAS.
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to make it or not, but good.
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But it will be ready for Free
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having a a signing for at Mid
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Broadway Mall on May the 2nd.
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coming out.
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And you're doing the signing
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Yeah, we're doing the signing.
You're autographing and taking

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photos.
We're autographing and I know

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Jen's gonna be taking photos.
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Jenny Feldy is the cover model
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We'll be there signing.
Over there, I hope you take some

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photos with me.
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Should take some photos.
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want to take a photo with me
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I'll take a photo with you.
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Take a photo with Mark anyone
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That's right.
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uncomfortable about it.
So as always, we start off with

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these sad news.
We have a couple of bits of sad

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news for this week's show.
We have actress Lorraine Daphne

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Bailey died recently as this
recording no because of death

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has been announced while she was
in a handful of movies and TV

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shows.
Lorraine Birth perhaps best

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known for her role of Faye
Hudson for 48 episodes of the

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British series Neighbors.
Jennifer Carson in 184 episodes

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of the British series Carson's
Law and four 594 episodes of the

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British series The Sullivans as
Grace Sullivans.

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So she was Australian?
Was dating?

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Yeah, sure.
British.

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Yeah, she was.
Australian?

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Sure.
Why not?

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She was 89.
Canadian.

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Was she Canadian man?
I'm running up for the more sad

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news actor and martial artist
Carlos Ray.

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Chuck Norris also died recently.
I did not know his name was

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Carlos following a sudden
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While appearing in a handful of
movies and TV shows, Chuck is

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perhaps best known for being
Chuck Norris.

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One thing about growing up at a
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I remember Chuck Norris as being
Chuck Norris, right?

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And that they made a big thing
about him being a martial

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artist, that he was a action
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And then he did infomercials.
And I had found out as I was

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growing up that he was the guy
that beat that fought Bruce Lee

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in the movie.
But I didn't know that that was

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him because he didn't have the
the the facial hair.

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So I was like, oh, that's that
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You know, I didn't make the
connection because I was a

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little kid watching it.
And so when I saw Chuck Norris,

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I always felt that he was kind
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Norris because his finishing
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to to beat the bad guys.
And I remember them, everybody

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was making a big think about
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I'm like, oh, I got to see Chuck
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Went to the theaters to see the
hero and the terror, which was

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him versus the guy who played
Jaws.

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And I went to see this movie.
I'm I'm, I'm a kid.

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I'm all excited and I'm watching
this on like he's not doing

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anything.
Chuck Norris was an amazing

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athlete and he was, you know, he
was a guy who was really serious

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about the the craft and respect.
He had a lot of respect for the

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other champions in the genre,
right?

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But he was not a great actor.
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one expression for every, every
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But he was in the scariest movie
I ever saw when I was a kid.

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What was?
That silent rage, that movie

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destroyed me when I was a child.
What was the synopsis?

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Quick synopsis.
Synopsis is there was this guy

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he caught in the very beginning
and he they, the cops killed him

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because he was just too tough
for everybody.

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And then he went to the hospital
and ran and rogue doctors pumped

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him up with this stuff that made
him into Wolverine or more like

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Michael Myers.
And he could not be killed and

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his he healed instantly, but he
was also mute.

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And he would, he would just
randomly murder people.

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And he was gigantic.
He was like, I think 7 feet

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tall.
And he just scared the crap out

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of me when I was a kid.
Wow, I forgot him.

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And then that ending was like,
oh, he got him, he saved him.

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He, he, he, he destroyed the bad
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Oh, no, he didn't.
And that was the classic horror

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movie ending.
That's so funny, I forgot about

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that.
Movie completely yeah.

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It is free on YouTube by the
way, so when you get home.

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I don't need to see that one
again.

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You know, I think I sort when
was it the 1980s?

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Or it was 80.
Yeah, it was.

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It was easy 80s.
It was amazing 80s.

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Right, right.
And Chuck Norris isn't dead.

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He levelled up.
Right.

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Yeah, I'm sorry.
We're not supposed to talk about

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that.
Though we're bored on Earth.

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And yeah, he's just, he's
fighting the Viltrumites now.

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Right, exactly.
The last thing I want to mention

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is that as like I said, I just
knew of Chuck Norris and I was

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overwhelmingly disappointed with
seeing Chuck Norris right and

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there was a crossover on his
very famous TV show called

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Walker Texas Range.
Walker, Texas Range, yes.

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Where he teamed up with Sam O
Hung, who was working with

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Jackie Chan at the time back in
the day.

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And he had his own show called
Martial Law, which I used to

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love seeing martial law, seeing
Samuel Hung, who people who

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don't know is a is a large
statue of man doing ninja flip

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style Kung Fu things all over
the place.

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So they had a crossover martial
law Walker takes his Ranger

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where they each character
swapped on the other guy's show.

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And they had the finale where
both Samuel Hung and Chuck

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Norris are fighting all the bad
guys and you see Samuel Hung

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doing flips and this and that
and Chuck Norris is going, I'm

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like, oh, come on, man.
So that that that's solidified

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like.
Zatuichi versus Sanjoro or

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Zatuichi meets Sanjoro, which
was basically like 2 huge

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samurai classics at the time
right they they came face to

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face and every time we do this
like the war with with Jet Li

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yes and.
Jason Statham.

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Jason Statham.
They never really.

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Disappointed that one.
Because they they can't.

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Both of their reputations are so
high.

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They're such at a level that you
can't actually we risk one's

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reputation by letting one
overpower the other.

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Like with Vin Diesel and The
Rock when they in their

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contracts had to have the same
amount of punches and recovers.

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They can so.
So those fights are never really

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satisfying, but it is a cool
piece of nostalgia.

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It's a cool piece of trivia.
Yes, so he was 86.

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So moving on for the last bit of
sadness.

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Rough, rough couple a week.
TV host Chiquita Renee Shepherd,

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known professionally as Kiki
Shepherd, also died recently

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from a heart attack.
My name was Chiquita.

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Her name was Chiquita.
See this is like wow Carlos and

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Chiquita.
She knew that she was best known

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for being a Co host on Showtime
at the Apollo from 1987 to 2000

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and.
They called her affectionately.

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Black Vanna.
White, yes.

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That was that was like the
highlight of the show, beyond

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the theme song, 'cause I love
the.

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Showtime at the Apollo.
Showtime at the Apollo tonight.

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And all those stars and they had
in the first season, but like

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then like during the six or
seven season, you never saw us

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stars of that calibre anymore.
I'm sorry, that's.

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A good point, yeah.
I've got I've got nothing but

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negative things to say today.
I'm very sorry.

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Today was great.
I always fell asleep because

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it's on so late.
Yeah.

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That's why I was like, well,
131, no 1:30.

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Yeah, it was.
After, I think it was after

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Saturday Night Live.
Either right after Saturday

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Night Live or after something
that was after Saturday.

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Night Live.
Yeah.

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It was like maybe the
honeymooners.

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Or something was like way it was
really late but but we stayed up

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to watch it, yeah.
Shepherd like hey.

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Yeah, Kiki Shepherd.
That's so funny.

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Chiquita Shepherd.
No wonder she turned it into

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Kiki.
So she was 74.

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So yeah.
So that's it for us.

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Sad news.
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This is jealous Mark Torres
speaking along with Mr. Hassan,

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who's been insulting media in
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So sorry Break on this video, as
well as filmmaker Lee Klinsky.

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Who was who was not who?
Did not insult.

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No insulting mark at all.
Because Hassan is making up for

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all the time he has not been in
the studio to to I'm doing over.

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The phone.
Quiet, but I I didn't hear you.

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I see.
Moving on, shots fired for the

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for the not as sad news from the
ready Brian.

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No, Brian, Brian's not ready
from the that's a lot of there

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you go.
We are live on.

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Someone made a lot of money.
Who made the money show?

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Me the money mark one more time
from the That's a lot of

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department.
The new sci-fi film project Hail

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Mary was the Hidden held on to
the number one spot in domestic

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box office, pulling in an
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sales in its second week of
release and beating out the new

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animated film Hoppers, which
came in at the number two spot,

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making an additional $12.1
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release.
Good for Andy Weir.

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For those of you keeping track,
the aforementioned project Hail

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Mary is now the highest grossing
film of this year so far with

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$186.5 million, followed by
Avatar with $404.2 million, of

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which $153.8 million was this
year.

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So have you seen?
I have not.

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I like Andy Weir.
I, I, I kind of like the guy

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who's in the movie.
Ryan.

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Gosling, Ryan Gosling.
I just haven't, I mean, I've

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been having a week.
So you know, I haven't been able

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to get to the movies.
You know, I have read the book

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and I, you know, I'm and Andy
rears of the the guy who wrote

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The Martian, which was another
phenomenon.

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So I mean, the fact that he is
his legend continues.

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That's pretty good.
I'm happy for him on that.

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Lee Movie.
Yeah.

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No, I saw it, Yeah.
I saw it and.

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I thought it was pretty good.
I mean, it was a little long for

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me, but I overall I thought it
was good.

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The character as Ryan Gosling as
the main guy was pretty good,

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you know, and he and I didn't
feel like he was like, he wasn't

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a tough guy, which was kind of
cool.

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It wasn't like, yeah, I'm going
to space.

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You know, he, he, he was on what
I've seen in the commercials, he

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didn't really want to go.
No, they're like, you know,

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we're dragging you up.
There, we don't care what you're

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doing you.
Know you're helping us.

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Reluctant astronaut.
That's that's new.

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That's a new one.
I mean, there was a lot of holes

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in there that we were kind of
like, you know, why can't you do

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this, you know, remember?
But it was a good movie.

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He didn't.
They didn't science the heck out

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of this one.
Apparently, right.

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Apparently you're kind of like,
you know, all right, this is you

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got to, you got to kind of
suspend disbelief a little bit.

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But it was a good movie.
So you contributed to the money

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right there.
See.

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Good job.
That was that was.

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Tribute.
I didn't, yes.

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Me and my other people and
family, kind of.

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Contributed your people.
I didn't know he had an

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entourage.
Had.

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An entourage, yeah.
He took his people.

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I see the bill.
Did you?

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Did you have to make
reservations for your people

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people and then call up the
people to get your in there?

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Well, you have to sign your
seat, right?

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That's.
Are you people?

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It is the reservation I.
Don't want to tell you people

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again, right?
Go see Hail Mary.

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I have yet to see either one.
I haven't seen Avatar yet.

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I'm getting on it.
I actually have to watch the

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Hudsucker Proxy before I watch.
Avatar is like free everywhere

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now.
Well, so is the Hudsucker Proxy.

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Why do you have to see Hudsucker
Proxy?

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Because Hassan and I had an
agreement that he has to watch a

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movie and I have to watch a
movie.

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And don't watch that one.
Deny won, right?

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Weren't we supposed to have?
Yeah, well.

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Did you see it?
You didn't see it.

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Remember what?
He was supposed to see it.

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Yeah, exactly.
Boy kills.

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World boy kills world.
Oh, that was good actually.

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I think I saw that.
Yeah, I see.

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Well, he didn't see Hudsucker
Proxy.

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But I will.
So we have.

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We have that's.
A good wow I know it's like what

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Coen brothers right and the
whole.

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Thing don't know anything about
Hudson Brocky.

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All I know is that it has Tim
Robbins on the cover box and he

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looks like he's falling
somewhere, no?

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Or holding a hula hoop or
something there.

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Were fun parts in that.
Movie and I do remember so I

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just remember the the the cover
box when I used to work at

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Blockbuster for 10 years, I was
staring at my face.

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I was like I.
Was like a brilliant movie.

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Picture embedded in.
My yeah, I think, 'cause he's

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also a brilliant movie.
OK.

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All right, brilliant.
OK.

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It's brilliant, darn it.
Moving conversation again.

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Moving on.
Actually I wanted this would

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make.
Actually, no, I wouldn't make

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because it didn't come out this
year because I'm like, I could

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be like either the best or worst
that we've seen this year, but

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it didn't.
Come out?

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No, it did not come out this
year.

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Didn't even come out 10 years
ago.

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It's been a while.
Did you?

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See The Big Lebowski.
Yes, I saw The Big Lebowski.

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Did you like The Big Lebowski?
I did like The Big Lebowski.

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Then you same people made
Hudsucker.

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Yeah.
You might like it then.

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Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

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Host.
Moving on, let's see from the if

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you like the show, read the
comic department.

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None other than Marvel has
announced that they will debut a

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new Wonder Man in comics.
Who will be black.

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More closely related to the on
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Man on Disney Plus.
His first appearance is on the

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cover of Reborn, The Ultimate
Impact due out in May of this

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year.
Did you guys see the new Wonder

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Man series Assad?
I did not, did not.

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It's on my list to things to see
because I'm surprisingly a lot

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of people who I wouldn't have
expected to even watch it and

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for no other reason than it was
just a Disney Plus Marvel show.

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Yeah, have seen it and they've
that's really good.

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I really like it.
So you know, I'm like, alright.

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Did you see it, Lee?
I haven't seen it.

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I heard it started off slow but
is good.

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But I don't know, I'm kind of a
Marvel burnout a little bit, so

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I haven't really been watching
too much.

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So I saw it.
Yeah.

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I thought it was pretty good.
But it wasn't a Marvel show.

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That was the problem with me.
Like, I want to go see a Marvel

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show.
I want to see pals ZAP bang, you

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know?
And nobody pals.

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Zapdor Bang.
Not really.

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There was not a lot of pals
zapping or banging very, very

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low on the.
Pals, now I'm not.

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Going to see it, but the drama
was good, the acting was good,

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the chemistry was great, and if
it was self-contained, a little

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bit amazing piece of artwork.
But because it's tied to the

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Marvel Universe, I felt like it
was lacking.

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So it's a weird, weird balance
of what I got.

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You were a victim of your own
expectation.

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Now that's the problem.
This is also true, but as as you

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are very well aware, I don't
watch the trailers.

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So I came in cold.
The only thing I knew about is

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that he's a black guy instead of
a white guy.

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And I was like, why did they
make him black guy?

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They really didn't address.
He was just, he's just a black

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guy, OK?
And we moved on.

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It was just like when.
Michael B Jordan was a Human

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Torch.
I was like, why did they make

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him black?
And they was like, hey, it's

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adopted.
It's like, all right, we moved

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on.
It wasn't a big deal if.

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Only that was a good movie, you
know?

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Yeah, that would have.
That's a.

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That's another.
Thing that would have been a

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thing that would have.
They could have made that a

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thing.
Get to see what I'm saying.

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We got it.
We don't have.

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That on purpose.
Let's see if we can do fantastic

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form.
I liked the the recent one, I

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didn't mind that one.
Yeah, that was the best one.

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I think, yeah.
I mean, of all the Fantastic

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Four movies, of which now it is
a genre in and of itself, that

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was the best one they'd made.
And it was slick, it was nice,

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it was pretty. 4th one.
That's true.

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No, the fifth one.
It's the 5th Fantastic Four

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movie.
It's Roger Corman.

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The two hot just got album ones.
The the one that had Miles

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Teller, Right.
And this one, Yeah, it's 5.

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This is the this is the 5th.
The 5th.

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That's what it's moving genre in
and of itself at this point.

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I do have guilty pleasures on
the other ones with like the

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Chris Evans ones and, you know,
like those what we're I'll watch

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those again, you know, even
though I didn't think you're the

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best.
All right, so let's see what we

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got.
We have enough time.

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All right, so moving on from the
Barbie nightmare fest

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department.
Wow, the Mattel department, the

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Mattel quote sanctioned Barbie
dream fest happened recently.

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The event was promoted as the
Ultimate Barbie Fan Fest with a

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real life-size Barbie Dream
House, a neon filled 1980s

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roller disco, photo OPS with
Serena Williams, Angel Reese,

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Marlee Matlin, and Quote, stars
of the Netflix animated series

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Barbie Life and the Dream House
and others.

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Tickets started at $149 for
adult admission and went all the

454
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,240
way up to $449, with the higher
priced tickets including a swag

455
00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,960
bag based on social media photos
and videos.

456
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,960
Turns out that while some of the
celebrities did appear, the rest

457
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,280
of the event was held in a quote
sparsely filled warehouse,

458
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,640
complete with a 2D cardboard cut
out of a pink Volkswagen bus

459
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,560
parked out front, representing
the Dream House.

460
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,520
Of note, guests were not allowed
inside the vehicle.

461
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,320
The roller disco was a pinned
off area at the center's

462
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,240
concrete floors, with metal
beams forming a tent but no

463
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,400
canvas overhead and a small
disco ball.

464
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,840
And the swag bag contained a
plastic pouch with a bottle of

465
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,240
Barbie branded hand sanitizer.
While full remnants were given

466
00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:34,800
to all attendees who asked for
it, nowhere on the website or

467
00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:36,680
social media reflects that
information.

468
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,320
Mattel says Barbie's Dream
Festival is created by Mischief

469
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,400
Management, which licensed the
Barbie brand from Mattel.

470
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,160
We are working with missive
management who are managing

471
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,920
attendee feedback and issuing
full refunds to anyone who

472
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,520
purchased tickets.
We want every fan experience to

473
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,080
be an excellent.
One working with who?

474
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:54,760
Who would it work with?
Mischief.

475
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,400
Management.
Not mischief.

476
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:05,720
Managerial management mischief.
Management says Barbie Dream

477
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,880
Fest was created as an intimate
fan convention designed to

478
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,000
foster meaningful connections,
inspiration, and closer access

479
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,960
to Barbie and her world.
We will provide full refunds to

480
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,160
everyone who purchased tickets.
So this isn't the first time

481
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,120
something like this has
happened.

482
00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:23,440
We've talked about Gene Wilder,
Oompa Loompas, Willie Walker in

483
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,080
the Chocolate Factory.
They had an event and it was

484
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,880
just a disaster.
Most famously, the Fire Fest was

485
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,640
a big deal with this.
If you look at the pictures and

486
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,520
all that stuff, it it looked
pretty bad.

487
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,560
And why?
Why I found fun because I did my

488
00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,240
research on this.
They had invited influencers and

489
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,680
they had videos and pictures and
they tried to make it look as

490
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,800
good as possible with their
influencing stuff.

491
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:51,600
But I've been to some pretty bad
conventions, so I know how to

492
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,760
make a bad convention look like
it's not a bad convention, and

493
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,520
they were doing worse jobs than
I usually do with that sort of

494
00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:01,440
thing, so it looked pretty bad.
So, so people.

495
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,440
So it was just, it was just
supposed to be like a variety,

496
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,560
like a, a.
Of the convention event for for

497
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,120
just for fans of Barbie and they
had all this stuff.

498
00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,360
And Barbie dolls or Barbie?
The bands of Barbie dolls, Yes.

499
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,000
General fans of Barbie, Yeah.
And no one showed up because no

500
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:18,560
one.
Was right.

501
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,880
No one showed up.
No one paid the ticket.

502
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,560
Where did this take place?
Fort Lauderdale, FL.

503
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,400
Hand sanitizer.
They got a Barbie hand sanitizer

504
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,040
which is quote in this way you
could have gotten for a dollar.

505
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,960
The dollar should have.
Done it in California.

506
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,160
Should have done it.
It's it's a crazy situation.

507
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,120
And I would say that there's
three different types of events,

508
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,320
versions of an event that
happens.

509
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,320
It's the OR event organizers
that make the convention.

510
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,280
It's the people who are there
vendoring and it's the

511
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,200
attendees.
I've seen all different types.

512
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,040
So I mean, if you go to
convention, which is a quote UN

513
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,280
quote bad convention, you can go
there and have an amazing

514
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,800
experience because you have
access to everybody and

515
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,040
everything is great.
But then the vendors like we

516
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:54,800
didn't make any money and
organized like we didn't make

517
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,080
any money.
So it's very weird how this

518
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,760
happened and the fact that it
was sanctioned by Barbie made it

519
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,840
a very interesting thing you.
Know it makes it a controversial

520
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,560
thing.
Which celebrities showed up?

521
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,000
I guess is.
The question?

522
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,720
Well, Serena.
Serena that Williams did show up

523
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,440
and she did make a speech, but
now she has not been talking

524
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,280
about it ever since.
Well, yeah.

525
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,240
So almost that time.
So what do you think of the

526
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,880
Barbie Fire Fest and do you have
any fun?

527
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,520
I I was supposed to go, but it
didn't, you know, And I'm kind

528
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,120
of glad I didn't go now that no
one went.

529
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,440
And that's my final thought.
Lee.

530
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,800
Yeah, I'm OK with the not going.
To that, that's fine, you know.

531
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:37,240
Excited.
Could that be how many?

532
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,240
I was like, oh, there's a doll.
There's another doll.

533
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,120
But it wasn't even a doll.
It's a cut out cardboard.

534
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,720
Cut out.
Yeah, and an empty warehouse

535
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,160
with like, little stick.
You're not gonna.

536
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,760
Get anything like it's not even
vintage stuff where you could

537
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,520
find like really old.
No, no.

538
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,680
Have something for the fans if
you want fans to be there.

539
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,480
So that is it for this segment
of the show.

540
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:56,760
So anybody listen to us on the
air.

541
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,440
We'll see you next time.
For everybody else, stay tuned

542
00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,760
for more.
It came from the radio.

543
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,080
Hi, I'm Olivia Yonkers from Star
Trek Picard, and you're

544
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,160
listening to It Came from the
Radio.

545
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,000
Now back to our show.
And welcome back to what came

546
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,880
from the radio, the official
show, the Big Apple Con.

547
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,400
This is your host, Mark Torres
speaking.

548
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:18,200
I'm here live on tape on day #2
of C2E2 in Chicago.

549
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,560
I drove all the way to Chicago
for a completely different

550
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,400
reason.
But I'm here with these great

551
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,880
guys who I've met in 2020, and
they're still going strong and

552
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,080
they're bigger than ever.
It is the Kongos for kids, and

553
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,080
I'm here with Mark Weiss.
Hey everybody.

554
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:39,000
I'm here with Michelle Weiss.
Oh well, that's So why don't you

555
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,480
just quickly tell us what is
comic books for kids about and

556
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,160
how has it changed from when I
first met you guys six years

557
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,800
ago, which I cannot believe, to
now?

558
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,120
Listen, I Mark, thank you so
much and hello everybody.

559
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,440
So our mission is to provide
comic books and pop culture

560
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,920
items to children in hospitals
and cancer centers.

561
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,720
We started with humble
beginnings just thinking that we

562
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,760
were going to do this part time
and provide these materials to a

563
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,520
few hospitals.
And Mark, I think when we met, I

564
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,160
was 2020, right?
2020, just before the pandemic

565
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,920
hit, it was the week before.
It was an amazing, my first time

566
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,120
ever in Chicago.
And that's why I remembered you

567
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,160
because you were so friendly, so
kind, so nice.

568
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,080
It was a really cool idea.
I was like, wow, this is really

569
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,440
cool.
But I'm like, I'm all the way in

570
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,080
New York.
I'm not really sure what we can

571
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,080
do, but I have you in the back
of my head.

572
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,960
So yes, it was that long ago.
Well, the reason I was so nice

573
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,960
is I knew that six years in the
future you were going to

574
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:36,960
interview us.
So I decided I'd better be nice

575
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,200
right now.
But you know, our goal and our

576
00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:45,560
mission was to provide comic
books to kids in every state of

577
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,520
the country.
And we were.

578
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,680
I mean, we had started in 2017
as a charity.

579
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,560
We were growing.
We really didn't get going to

580
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,760
2018-2019.
So when you really met us, it

581
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,840
was, I want to almost say our
formative years, we really had a

582
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:08,080
very small booth, a very small
table with just a few comics and

583
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,120
trying to raise money.
And thanks to the support of

584
00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,640
incredible people like you and
the people who are listening to

585
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,840
your show, we're now the largest
charity in the industry and

586
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,640
literally in the world for comic
books and pop culture items to

587
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,480
children in hospitals and cancer
centers.

588
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,600
We support over 200 hospitals in
all 50 states.

589
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:31,120
We support Canada, multiple
provinces in Canada, and we

590
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:36,840
opened up a branch in the UK
where even though I, Michelle

591
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:40,240
and I are on the board and we're
the executives, obviously we

592
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,560
have a individual volunteers run
it.

593
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,120
But we never expected the
outpouring of support to be as

594
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,080
wonderful and as incredible as
it is.

595
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,560
And that, again, that's a
compliment to people like you

596
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,840
who have helped promote us, as
well as the people who are

597
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,640
listening.
So.

598
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,840
We started in a 10 by 10 as
well.

599
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,720
It was in a storage unit, 10 by
10 storage unit.

600
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,800
And I remember you might have
our packing boxes, we're

601
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,600
tripping over each other because
this, you know, the storage unit

602
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:16,160
was so tiny and I never thought
it would grow to be what it is

603
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,400
today because of the support
from the entire industry.

604
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,680
And now we've been able to move
out of a 10 by 10 and our boxes

605
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,480
have become much bigger now.
We've been able to put so many

606
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,000
more things in those boxes
because of the sport.

607
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,360
So it's been really great
experience from the beginning

608
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,640
and to see where we are now.
So why comics?

609
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,880
Why not, I don't know,
sandwiches or why?

610
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,800
Why comics?
What was the the genesis of

611
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:49,880
comics for kids?
So for those of you who you

612
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,520
know, this is a radio show, but
I'm in my 60s.

613
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,920
Michelle's a, you know,
Michelle's going to be 20

614
00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,640
forever.
And I've enjoyed comics my whole

615
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,760
life.
And the thought was as I was

616
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,680
getting ready to retire, I would
pare down my collection and I

617
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,840
was trying to find hospital or
another organization like ours

618
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,840
just to give these two so that
we could make a difference and

619
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:20,560
give them the kids in hospitals.
Unfortunately, what I found as I

620
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,840
went on Google is I could not
find another organization that

621
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,480
did this.
Now, my conclusion clearly was

622
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,240
that my Google search skills
were abysmal because I felt that

623
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,360
there had to be, come on, there
had to be somebody doing this,

624
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,240
but there just wasn't.
So we figured we would start

625
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,840
this.
And again, remember how I said I

626
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,160
was retired?
So the thought was, I'm going to

627
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,640
pay, play a little God of War, a
little Witcher 3 for like the

628
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,520
seventh time, and maybe do some
exercise and just do this one or

629
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,440
two days a week for a couple
hours.

630
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,080
And that was really the thought,
Mark, never, ever expecting this

631
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:59,200
to become the wonderful thing it
has morphed into.

632
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,560
For those who are listening.
Yeah, the exercise went that

633
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,880
that quit, that never happened.
And the gaming has taken a

634
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:12,280
backseat because we probably do
this 60 hours a week in between

635
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,120
packing boxes to kids in
hospitals and, you know,

636
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,760
responding to the wonderful
people who helped support us.

637
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,400
Can you talk a little bit about
the process of how the comics

638
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:24,720
come in?
Because if people can donate

639
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,920
comics, is there like a
guideline?

640
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,000
Is there like a process where
they has to go through before it

641
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,120
gets to the hostels or you just
take it in and it goes right

642
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,120
back out?
We started getting materials for

643
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,640
the kids and all of a sudden
we're getting a lot of

644
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,440
Wolverine.
And now all of a sudden I've got

645
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,440
Wolverine popping claws or
somebody's head and we're

646
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,480
thinking, OK, what do we do with
that?

647
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,920
Because we certainly don't want
to provide that to children.

648
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,240
So we started a sister charity a
few years ago called Comic Book

649
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,880
for Troops.
It's still within our umbrella.

650
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,320
We're A5O1C3, meaning we're a
full IRS charity.

651
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,800
And for those of you who may not
be aware of the the legal

652
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,880
gobbledygook, it means we can
provide a donation receipt to

653
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,560
anyone who donates.
So we have a sister charity

654
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,480
called Comic Book for Troops.
People who donate can just take

655
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,080
whatever they want, put it in
the box, ship it to us.

656
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,560
They don't even need to bag and
board.

657
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,400
Board it and we can get it to
the troops or we can get it to

658
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,360
the kids.
We go through everything to make

659
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,160
sure that, you know, it's
appropriate.

660
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,680
We don't deal with mature
comics.

661
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,080
That's the one thing we'd stay
away from.

662
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,760
And if somebody says, well, I
don't have comics, but I'd love

663
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:38,200
to give you about $300,000 cash,
we promise that we will

664
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,400
graciously accept that.
We may put up, we may protest

665
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,200
just a tiny bit, but not for too
long.

666
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,080
So final question, how did you
transition?

667
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,720
Well, not transition, I guess
expand from just comics to Funko

668
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,680
Pops toys?
Like, was that an idea that it

669
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,320
was in the back of your head, we
want to do more?

670
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,880
Or is it just let's do comics?
I remember we were, I was

671
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,280
talking to my dad and he, we
were going through the comics

672
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,400
and he goes, what if we, what if
we could get Funko to donate

673
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,840
some stuff, You know, because,
you know, kids love the Funko

674
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,880
Pops.
No way, dad, Funko pops.

675
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,880
I mean, I collect Funko pops,
but there's no way we're going

676
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,280
to be able to get Funko and I
don't you you reached out and

677
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:23,800
they they responded and.
All of a sudden Funko starts

678
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,240
sending us cases and cases of
Funko Pops and people started

679
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,680
responding.
So then we thought, well this is

680
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,080
kind of cool.
What if we created and morphed

681
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,320
into basically comic shop in a
box, if you will.

682
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,560
And So what we try to do is
recreate in a box the kids in

683
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:48,760
hospitals what they might see in
a comic shop on Halloween.

684
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,480
We actually have Halloween
comics because in the industry

685
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,440
we do Halloween comic fest.
So we have Halloween books that

686
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:58,440
we will ship out that we will
ship out to, to to the kids.

687
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,680
So we're really just, I mean,
think back, think back about

688
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:06,720
Loot Crate, you know, years ago.
So, so expand that dramatically.

689
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,040
Our boxes are 30 lbs now and
coloring books, toys, action

690
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,560
figures, T-shirts, Legos, now
obviously comics, graphic

691
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,560
novels.
It has really morphed into, as I

692
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,840
said, the comic shop in a box
concept.

693
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,840
So I guess what is the future?
What are what are you planning

694
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,679
to go?
You're going to be a global

695
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,440
conglomerate of a of a charity
organization.

696
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,840
What's the plan the.
The Moon is next.

697
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,120
We are going to be the first
charity on the moon.

698
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,560
We're working on that.
That's just a wonderful

699
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:43,239
question.
You know, this organization has

700
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:48,600
just evolved just organically, I
guess is the right way of saying

701
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,239
it.
So we never really know where

702
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,199
this goes.
We we respond to the needs of

703
00:34:54,199 --> 00:34:56,800
the hospital.
And if, if any of your listeners

704
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,840
say, hey, you know, what might
be fun is what if, what if you

705
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,760
added here?
We, we, we added Pez a couple

706
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,800
years back.
Some hospitals accept candy,

707
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,920
some don't.
But someone would say, Hey, what

708
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,320
have you thought about this?
We respond to our followers and,

709
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,680
and the people who make
suggestions to us with anything

710
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,960
that might be fun.
If another country reached out

711
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,520
to us and was willing to do
this, we would absolutely

712
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,640
continue the, the global work.
You know, we want to make a

713
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,360
difference for kids in
hospitals.

714
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:33,280
So where this goes again?
If you had told us where we

715
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,600
would be today when we met you 6
years ago, none of us expected

716
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:37,960
this all.
Right.

717
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:39,200
So where can people find out
more?

718
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,000
Where the website, all that fun
stuff, Where can they donate all

719
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,400
that stuff go?
So our organization is called

720
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,160
Comic Book for Kids, but
everybody knows this as CB4K.

721
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,840
That's the letter C for comic,
letter B for book the number

722
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:58,120
four, and the letter K for kids.
So cb#4k.org.

723
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,720
And from there on that website,
you can see a little bit about

724
00:36:02,720 --> 00:36:04,640
what we're donating.
You can see what's going to

725
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,520
hospitals.
You can make donations, be it

726
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:13,680
PayPal, be it, you know, Venmo,
be it cash app, be it check or

727
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,960
you just reach out to us and say
hello.

728
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,920
We're always happy to say hello
to any of our followers.

729
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,880
We're.
On Facebook and Instagram as

730
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,520
well so feel free to message us
and so you'll be you'll be

731
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,560
talking to me on Instagram or
Facebook so.

732
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,440
Do you have any final thoughts?
No, it's just I this has been

733
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:31,920
really great.
This whole show has been great.

734
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,560
This whole, I don't come from
this industry, so it's been

735
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,640
amazing.
Everyone's so nice to work with

736
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,600
so this has just been a great
experience for me all.

737
00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:42,680
Right, so guys, make sure you
guys check in out.

738
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:46,200
It's comic books for kids.
It's a really great organization

739
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,160
and I hope to see them in New
York so I can don't have to

740
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,200
travel and drive 12 hours to
calm down and do an interview.

741
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,000
So with that, we'll take a break
and we'll be right back with

742
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,360
more.
It came from the radio.

743
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:01,480
This is Michael Bell, the voice
of Duke from GI Joe and I am

744
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,400
here at Cradle Com and I am with
It came from the radio.

745
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:11,520
Now back to our show.
I spent 15 years in the TV and

746
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,120
film industry.
The more successful I got at

747
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,800
editing and producing other
people's movies, the more I

748
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,440
neglected my own.
I decided to change that.

749
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,760
Five years of writer's block, 4
screenplays abandoned.

750
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,880
Then one night an idea showed up
and wouldn't leave.

751
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,960
Now I'm writing a feature.
Dark, strange mine.

752
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,200
Hollywood doesn't want you to
make their own films.

753
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,680
They won't you to ask for
permission.

754
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,480
But I'm not asking for
permission.

755
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,960
I'm building it myself one page
at a time.

756
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:46,120
That was my crappy impersonation
of the Gangs of the Today.

757
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:49,200
He's a reality TV editor, film
editor much more.

758
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,760
He's a new dad.
He's a filmmaker.

759
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,200
He's a very talented guy.
He does some of my favorite

760
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,240
editing.
Not that I'm God and, you know,

761
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,760
decide who's a great editor, but
Bravo thinks he's one of the

762
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,960
best editors.
So he obviously, you know, knows

763
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:01,040
a thing or two by a thing or
two.

764
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,680
He's the head of Night Dr.
Productions.

765
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,280
George, for people who've been
sleeping under a rock, who are

766
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,280
you?
Thank you.

767
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,360
Thank you.
That was a really good

768
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,000
impression, by the way.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah.

769
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,440
So, I mean, I think you covered
all of it.

770
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,080
I'm a I'm a independent
filmmaker and I'm a working

771
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:22,760
reality TV and a film editor.
That's the bread and butter of

772
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,880
my of the stuff that I work on
is editorial.

773
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,000
I cut Bravo shows.
I've done a couple of Netflix

774
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,680
shows and Travel Channel shows.
And I also have been filmmaking

775
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,880
since I dropped out of college
20 years ago.

776
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,680
Oh, well, I didn't know you
dropped out of college.

777
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,360
Well, Speaking of that, because,
you know, some people nowadays,

778
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,120
I think it's becoming more
trendy to be like colleges scam.

779
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,600
And I've thought that for years
and it's a business and you

780
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,520
know, if you're going to be a
dentist, you got to go to

781
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,280
college.
But college it might be a scam.

782
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,480
So speaking, you know, for
people who have dropped out of

783
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,320
college and don't aren't aware
of Microsoft and other

784
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,040
companies.
You created the first film that

785
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,840
I ever saw made by some when I
knew we went to high school

786
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,560
together and it's called
Demented.

787
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,800
And I thought it was so
incredible.

788
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,440
The lead actress was beautiful
and sexy and she was engaging.

789
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,120
And I was like, I'm not gay, but
I could understand, you know,

790
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,720
people switching for this girl.
And it was really just so well

791
00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:22,920
done.
And I was in DC teaching workout

792
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,600
classes and I, you know, I did
some Fox 5 News stuff and, you

793
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,640
know, Avon and live events, but
I was not in the film industry

794
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,800
at all.
And I thought this was so cool.

795
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,040
I'm like, how did they do this?
So yeah, Demented was a really

796
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,600
cool short film.
You did it what, 2009 ish.

797
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,880
Can you tell us a little bit
about?

798
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,040
That yeah, 2010.
And.

799
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,360
I got to give credit to my
partner on that movie, Michael

800
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,560
Russo.
The year before that we made a

801
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:54,160
super ultra low budget feature
film that was really bad.

802
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,880
It was so bad that Bloody
Disgusting called it the worst

803
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,360
movie of 2000. 9 I got to see
this.

804
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,520
I try to scrub it from the
Internet.

805
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,000
It's pretty bad.
Let's say this I, I actually

806
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,040
found the stack of DVDs and I'm
thinking about remastering it

807
00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,920
because that was the first thing
that we that I did.

808
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,640
And I dropped out of college,
got a regular job, bought a

809
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,040
camera and just started
shooting.

810
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,640
That was my film school.
You know, I emptied the bank

811
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,240
account, teamed up with Mike and
we shot this feature film.

812
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:30,120
Super low budget and it was fun,
but I learned a lot.

813
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:36,240
But I was so gut punched by the
disgusting the website that I I

814
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:42,440
read every day they find cover,
you know, my our movie and just

815
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,360
completely dragged it through
hell.

816
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,680
I was really upset for for a
while I was I actually was

817
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,920
considering not making movies
anymore.

818
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,240
And then I had that moment to
myself.

819
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:54,880
I think I was like driving at
night.

820
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,920
That's what I do to get ideas.
Night drive, Yeah.

821
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:01,880
And it's cool visuals.
Yes, it is.

822
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,280
I was like, you know what, I
could level up.

823
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,160
And that's what I that's what me
and Mike did with Demented.

824
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,320
We were like something shorter
and let's like really dial it in

825
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,920
and make something really good.
Funny enough, Dread Central saw

826
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,760
the trailer for it.
It's a short film about the

827
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,440
particulars make a trailer, Dred
said.

828
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,560
Somehow saw the trailer and like
wrote about it and like how cool

829
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,960
of the trailer it was then buddy
disgusting writes, hey look, the

830
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,640
night the night of the living
heads guys just made a really

831
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,600
cool looking film.
How's that go?

832
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,160
It just kind of came full
circle, so.

833
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,280
You know what though?
For comeback stories.

834
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,480
I love a comeback.
I wonder if you would have tried

835
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:48,280
as hard if you didn't have your
ego gut punch so badly.

836
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,440
Would you have tried that hard
to make demented and all your

837
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,440
other films if you weren't like,
oh, I'm a freaking loser.

838
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:55,560
It's.
A good question.

839
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,600
I don't have a crystal ball, but
who knows?

840
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,840
Like I really was feeling like
like crap.

841
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:02,840
I internalize a lot of stuff.
Like I could be going through

842
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,240
hell and you just wouldn't know
it.

843
00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,760
I just got a thick skin or
whatever.

844
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,560
So it speaks to like, something
I've kind of been a message I'm

845
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,840
trying to been making with some
of the videos I've been posting

846
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:19,040
on my YouTube recently, which is
don't give up, don't stop.

847
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,120
You know, just keep going.
Like the worst things could

848
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,000
happen to you, especially as a
creative.

849
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,360
And you got to remember why
you're doing this and it's for

850
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,560
yourself, you know?
Yeah, we want to make money.

851
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,080
You know, like, obviously I
wanted to be a filmmaker because

852
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:35,320
I wanted to move to Hollywood
and, you know, become a big time

853
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,720
producer.
That didn't happen.

854
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:40,120
But like, at the heart of it, I
still just love telling stories

855
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,800
and entertaining people.
So so you.

856
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,040
Just can't give up.
You know what?

857
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,160
Your family's here.
I believe in family.

858
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,800
Your family's here.
And if you go to Hollywood, my

859
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,120
uncle's in Hollywood, you know,
he's he was a camera opera

860
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,920
doctor Phil and Oprah.
You don't need to be in

861
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,120
Hollywood.
And I will say, you know, as far

862
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,040
as being gut punched, I had one
guy break up with me.

863
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,800
He did come back.
And, you know, so I technically

864
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,880
have never lost a single guy in
my life, you know, whatever.

865
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,360
But the point is, I'm not going
to say what year it is so no one

866
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,480
can figure it out.
But he's the only guy that ever

867
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,080
broke up with me.
And yet he came back.

868
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,080
But the way he broke up with me
was basic.

869
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,040
I was disabled at the time.
I couldn't really walk.

870
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,160
I couldn't work a job.
I wasn't really doing much with

871
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,720
my life at all.
And he basically, in so many

872
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:25,720
words, right around Valentine's
Day was like then he he was very

873
00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:27,160
successful.
You know, he's voted all these

874
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,800
different, different things and
like, probably multimillionaire

875
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,040
all this stuff, you know,
whatever.

876
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:32,760
I don't go for money.
But he went after me, OK.

877
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,320
The point is he basically broke
up with me being like, yeah,

878
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:37,480
what are you doing with your
life?

879
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,240
Even one of the things he said
was like, yeah, you're modeling

880
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:42,320
or something, but you're not
modeling for Adidas.

881
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,000
Like if you're modeling for
Adidas or like some $10,000

882
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,000
deal, he's a very superficial, a
rich, you know, like Elon Muskie

883
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,240
type of guy.
And I was just like, I can't

884
00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:54,640
walk, I'm in pain every day, I'm
disabled, I'm depressed.

885
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,280
I just moved back to New York.
So I started my life over again

886
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,040
after being pretty successful in
the fitness industry and not

887
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,240
being disabled and being a
little conceited and I have my

888
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:04,640
own supply and it brought me
down.

889
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:09,080
But I will say the point is that
if I wasn't dobsmacked and just

890
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,240
like so feeling like such a
loser, I wouldn't have tried so

891
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:17,080
hard back around 2013 ish for
that comeback.

892
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,320
So it was actually one of the
best things that ever happened

893
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:20,680
to me.
And again, he came back so I was

894
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:23,160
like whatever.
So sometimes I think it might be

895
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,840
a good thing if you feel like
that in life, that you need to

896
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,720
do more, do more.
But I, I say, I say I said this

897
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:32,080
to my nephew once.
I was like, failures are a good,

898
00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:34,120
you know, it's a good setup for
a comeback.

899
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:38,000
That's all a failure is.
It's that, you know, just

900
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,760
because you fail in class or at
a job or that's something you're

901
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,560
trying to do, doesn't mean it's
over.

902
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,440
It just means it's time to come
back.

903
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,120
And everybody loves a comeback
story.

904
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,880
And maybe you wouldn't get to
level 25 if you weren't knocked

905
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:56,160
down to level -35 S switching
gears entirely now, you are the

906
00:44:56,240 --> 00:44:59,520
editor of one of the most
successful shows on TV, of

907
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,240
reality TV, also a Southern
hospitality.

908
00:45:02,240 --> 00:45:05,600
And also you edited the
Housewives of Atlanta for Bravo.

909
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,720
I watched a lot of Bravo, mostly
Vander, you know, no Shay Tio

910
00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:12,280
and Housewives during the
pandemic, eating bowls of cheese

911
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,760
just to just to like, forget
about the pandemic because I

912
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,320
thought I was going to die.
You know, I, I bought into all

913
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,280
the BS of the pandemic stuff.
So now as far as editing goes,

914
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,360
I'm sure there is a lot of nip
slips.

915
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,720
Like I imagine there's boobs
flying all over the place.

916
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:28,440
Like how many nip slips do you
think you had to edit out of

917
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:33,160
this Real Housewives alone?
Some shows on Housewives yeah,

918
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,320
because the women are very.
They got different, they got

919
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,720
great figures, OK, and and
they're beautiful women as well.

920
00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:46,480
Housewives Atlanta love the cast
and working editing that show a

921
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,000
lot of the outfits very form
fitting.

922
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,800
So a nip slip will pop up or,
you know, some of the antics

923
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,680
that they get into gets a little
more, you know, the partying

924
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,560
goes hard sometimes.
Although they they kind of

925
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:04,560
matured a little bit by the time
I I the last season I I edited.

926
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:11,240
But the biggest thing I had to
cut around was like a 12 inch,

927
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:15,680
but at a bachelor part at a
Bachelorette party, yeah.

928
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:18,760
A real 1.
Oh yeah, and there's no blurs on

929
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,680
the camera footage, obviously.
So when I get the raw footage,

930
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:23,440
I'm like, oh, OK.
Oh.

931
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:24,880
Wow.
And they couldn't.

932
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:29,680
The male stripper came and and
danced around and I was, yeah,

933
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,680
he's, he's not going to get
naked like, and he got naked.

934
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:35,440
You don't think it was a
prosthetic that because if I was

935
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:37,120
a male stripper I would put it
that on.

936
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,720
That wasn't I, I.
No.

937
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,040
Not a prosthetic.
That was impressive.

938
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,920
Well, that's that's something
I've never seen.

939
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,000
I don't know if I'll ever see
it, but he's seen it.

940
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:49,280
So you could ask him all about
it.

941
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,880
All right, that and back to less
trashy questions.

942
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,840
Now what's what's just one more
interesting thing about this

943
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:59,320
Bravo editing process that was
interesting to you?

944
00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:03,640
That was interesting to me that
has that I encountered, but one

945
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,560
thing was really cool and I
totally wasn't expecting this.

946
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,600
This came out of straight out of
left field and this is actually

947
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,240
how I am in an episode of Black
Mirror.

948
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:15,760
Oh.
Rach, I love that show.

949
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,760
The second part to the to the s
s McAllister.

950
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,400
Do you watch it?
The space.

951
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,560
The Star Trek.
I'm going to be honest with you,

952
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,720
I watched one episode, throw it
in, no shade to Matt Damon.

953
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,520
I just, there's a guy who rhymed
me of Matt Damon and I just

954
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,680
wasn't enjoying looking at it
And I I just didn't want to

955
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,840
watch it and I just got turned
off, sorry.

956
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,440
The McAllister story with the
the spaceship and then the the

957
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:45,320
people that like Jack into it's
a video game and you know, you

958
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:48,720
Jack into it and like these
people are trapped in it by this

959
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:52,080
bad guy.
So the people on the spaceship,

960
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,400
they're watching Real Housewives
of Atlanta season 14.

961
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,760
And I was like, oh, look,
they're watching Housewives

962
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,400
because I see like the bumper.
Come on.

963
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:01,040
Oh.
Cool.

964
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,680
Go to the scene and I was like,
that's my scene.

965
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,720
Like I added, that's the episode
I added.

966
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:09,040
So that's cool.
That was like a real straight

967
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,400
out of left field.
I can't believe this is on Black

968
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,320
Mirror and it's the show.
It's the episode that I worked

969
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,680
on.
Wow, OK And also sorry, Matt

970
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,840
Damon, it really doesn't bring
me any joy to insult anyone and

971
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,080
to redeem myself.
I'm watching Behind the

972
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,200
Candelabra, which is the
Liberace biopic, or I don't.

973
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,280
I can't tell the satire or real.
I think it's satire.

974
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,440
It's insane.
But Matt Damon is in it and he's

975
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,960
killing it and he's amazing and
he's fantastic.

976
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,280
And Michael Douglas is in.
If you're not watching this

977
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,240
Liberace Behind the Candelabra,
I don't know what you're doing.

978
00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:40,320
This is fantastic.
It's hilarious.

979
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,040
I don't know if I'm supposed to
laugh.

980
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,560
I don't know if I'm supposed to
laugh or I don't know.

981
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,360
Back to you, George.
What do you have going on

982
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,200
creatively, personally, right
now?

983
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:51,520
Yeah.
It's a good question.

984
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,640
I've, I've got something in the
pipeline, you know, I, I pivoted

985
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:59,520
to TV editing and film editing
at other independent films for

986
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,840
people as the means to like
survive as you get older and pay

987
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,960
the bills.
And so I kind of lost track of

988
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,200
lost control of my own personal
projects for a little bit.

989
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:13,360
And every time I tried to write
something, I just never really,

990
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,600
I just had a long time of not
really loving what I write or

991
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:23,320
following the end.
So just this year I had a not a

992
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,840
aha moment, but what I call like
a download where you're just

993
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,600
like, the idea just comes to you
even like not when you're not

994
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,680
necessarily at your desk or you
know, it just it comes to you

995
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,360
because you know, you've been
failing at seeing a project

996
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,080
through or, or you still put
the, the effort in to work.

997
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,160
The universe sees that and is
like, here you go and they just

998
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,960
download and it's all I call up
the download because it's like

999
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,880
almost the whole concept just
just comes into your brain in

1000
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,760
that second and you just see it.
So like that kind of happened to

1001
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,280
me.
I went down on this little

1002
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:02,000
rabbit hole and came up with
this awesome concept for a

1003
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:05,400
feature film that I'm currently
writing right now.

1004
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:10,840
I'll keep the the name and the
con and the plot to myself just

1005
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,080
for a little bit because,
because I want to get further

1006
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,680
along in the, in the script.
I'm in the middle of the second

1007
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,800
draft.
So like I'm almost there.

1008
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,600
As I was writing it, I said to
myself, you know what?

1009
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,880
Now's a good time to just why
don't I document this?

1010
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,000
Been so long since I've written
something that I was really

1011
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:32,400
motivated for and also since I
actually created something for

1012
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,160
myself.
I sit in this office 10/12/14

1013
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,000
hours a day with cameras around
collecting dust.

1014
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,440
I started recording myself going
through the process.

1015
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,880
Just B roll, grab the microphone
every now and then and just like

1016
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,240
say what's on my mind and what
stage I'm at.

1017
00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:50,840
And I started posting that on my
YouTube channel.

1018
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,480
Just kind of like documenting
the process.

1019
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,280
And if anyone's out there that
cares about it, they can tag

1020
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:59,080
along and follow.
So that's what I'm working on.

1021
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:02,680
It's a it's a self-contained
World War Two movie,

1022
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,680
self-contained because it's all
takes place in one location at a

1023
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,520
secret military laboratory
during World War 2.

1024
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:16,040
And it has to deal a lot with
the business of war.

1025
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:21,960
And when like protocol and
bureaucracy of the army beats

1026
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,000
something they can't really
contain, there's like a secret

1027
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,640
experiment going on.
Oh, interesting.

1028
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:33,040
It deals a lot with grief duty.
And yeah, it's it's really good.

1029
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,560
And I'm hoping.
I know World War 2 is ambitious,

1030
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,080
but everyone people hear that
and they think like beaches and

1031
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:44,000
bombs and war.
So that's why I think having it

1032
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:48,240
self-contained in one laboratory
location will help me when it

1033
00:51:48,240 --> 00:51:51,560
comes time to, you know, start
planning how I'm going to make

1034
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,480
it.
Yeah, one location is.

1035
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:57,040
I try to always make the least
amount of locations the least

1036
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:00,320
amount of people.
Yeah, because the locations

1037
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:02,320
won't contribute.
Yeah, you want you want to do

1038
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,240
that, especially on a low budget
scale.

1039
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,200
But I think I think this also
lends it lends to the whole

1040
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:11,920
story as well, because these
people are kind of like locked

1041
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,640
in this room, this laboratory
dealing with something that they

1042
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,600
created.
And the war is like the

1043
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:21,920
backdrop.
It's just OK.

1044
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,920
So it's really, I love it.
I hope other people love it as

1045
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,680
well.
Honestly, everything you've I've

1046
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,120
seen you do, I think I've really
enjoyed it.

1047
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,120
I don't know if I'd say I love
everything you do, but I really

1048
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:36,920
liked almost everything you've
done.

1049
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:40,880
It's not boring.
Well, the best people do, But

1050
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,360
maybe I'm, I'm really horrible
because I like a lot of my

1051
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,200
stuff.
I I'm very, but I also hate a

1052
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,080
lot of my stuff.
So there's a balance.

1053
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,280
I I hate a lot of my stuff.
I was just thinking, but anyway,

1054
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,720
we have a couple minutes left,
so I'm going to get a little woo

1055
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,080
woo metaphysical on you.
So you said you had like

1056
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,600
downloads.
I totally understand that.

1057
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,240
I woke up with some my best
jokes in the world just like

1058
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,960
crazy.
It just in a dream or it, it

1059
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,560
almost feels like someone gave
it to me.

1060
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,240
And then weird things happened
and weird synchronicity.

1061
00:53:06,240 --> 00:53:08,200
You know, I'll mention someone's
name and then they'll call me,

1062
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,280
you know, very specific people.
I haven't heard from them in

1063
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,000
years.
Weird things that happened right

1064
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,320
before people died.
I had like 7 people all

1065
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,440
basically give me the same
message to basically make funny

1066
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,720
videos and then they died and
maybe I didn't hear from him for

1067
00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:21,240
three years.
And that's a whole nother thing.

1068
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,640
So there's a lot of metaphysical
stuff that I've experienced

1069
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,120
personally.
Now, you said you got this

1070
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,200
download and I don't think you
were around in World War 2.

1071
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:34,440
Do you think that it was given
to you or do you think it's just

1072
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,920
coincidence?
Or do you think there's someone

1073
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,920
that is like around you that's a
ghost?

1074
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:40,440
Do you believe in ghosts?
Like what's the deal?

1075
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,200
100% I do.
I do believe in ghosts,

1076
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:51,680
thoroughly paranormal and UFO
ology is a strong hobby of mine.

1077
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:52,120
Me.
Too.

1078
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:56,160
So so I definitely believe in
spirits and all that.

1079
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,760
Did someone send that to me?
Not sure.

1080
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:03,200
But I do also believe in the
power of the universe.

1081
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:08,640
And the more you stay true and
honest to it and you keep

1082
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:13,000
pushing yourself through the
obstacles, the universe

1083
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,880
acknowledges that and finally
sends you a bone and says, here

1084
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:21,560
you go.
We saw you struggling with X

1085
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:25,760
problem and you ate it for a
while and you probably didn't

1086
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,520
understand why we put you
through it, but you had to go

1087
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,080
through that.
And here you go.

1088
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,080
Here's the download.
So and you know, like I went on

1089
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,120
a went on a rabbit hole.
I always go on rabbit holes when

1090
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,240
I'm scrolling and researching
ideas and stuff.

1091
00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:43,440
And I came across one thing that
was just really fascinating.

1092
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:47,720
And as I got deeper and deeper,
it's like in the back of my

1093
00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:52,200
head, in my subconscious, it was
just fleshing out the story.

1094
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:57,960
I didn't even know it so that
the next day I woke up and I was

1095
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,080
just like, that's a, that's a
movie and that's a, that's a

1096
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:02,840
full idea.
And the boom, boom, boom, just

1097
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,800
little by little, the more I sat
with it and started taking

1098
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:10,240
notes, it just kept coming.
Very rarely do you hit that

1099
00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:14,000
moment where everything jives
that you're putting down and

1100
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,960
everything is tracking.
But usually there's, you know,

1101
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,480
weeks of just tinkering and does
this work.

1102
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,320
If this was just like, no, this,
I can't take full credit because

1103
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,720
I have a colleague, a friend of
mine, Jason Rice, who's a

1104
00:55:26,720 --> 00:55:28,960
screenwriter that did help me
with the ending.

1105
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,200
I have to give him full credit
for that.

1106
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,120
But he thought it was an awesome
idea.

1107
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:37,440
And then I was just bouncing
stuff with him back and forth

1108
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:39,920
and he's like, dude, this is
your ending right here.

1109
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,600
And he's threw it on me.
I was like, holy, but I didn't

1110
00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:44,360
even.
So it's fun.

1111
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:45,640
It's all that stuff comes
together.

1112
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:49,480
And that's why that's part of
why I love doing what we do.

1113
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,680
Yeah, no, very cool.
I have so many metaphysical

1114
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,480
stories, but I'm actually
waiting till I look a little

1115
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,760
older to share some and I'm
waiting till things come true.

1116
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,440
But I've had a lot of, I
sometimes I'll just ask for

1117
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,800
something and then within 30
seconds I'll, I'll get it.

1118
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:06,440
And like really specific, like
even a person's name.

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It's, it's, it's a little bit
weird.

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Some people around me have a
little scared.

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The power of intention and
positivity is really strong.

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Like I speak with younger people
or other people that are just

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negative and dealing with really
trivial problems.

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And I'm just like, stop dwelling
on that and just.

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Like, and one quick note, my
final thought will be because we

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are overtime is that, you know,
I've played around with karma.

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There's a book called Power
Karma and my mom sent to me like

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2007 and I was like, this lady's
crazy.

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I thought she was dumb or
whatever.

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You know, I've played around
with it, but there's two times

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in my life, maybe 3, where I've
knowingly did bad things.

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You know, where no one's
perfect, but I knowingly knew

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this was bad.
I did at least three times, but

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the one time it was bad, bad,
bad.

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It felt like God.
I remember thinking, it feels

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like God is pissing on ME3 of my
tires popped on my car.

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In a month, I gained 20 lbs.
I became disabled.

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I got leveled.
I was getting high on my own

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supply and I got levels and I, I
do think karma comes for you

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00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,800
because again, I'm not saying
I'm a St., but I'm a pretty

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great person.
I, I help a lot of people.

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I, I don't do too many bad
things.

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But those times I did bad
things, it was like instant

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karma, man.
So if you don't want to be

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disabled and, you know, fat and
disgusting and lonely and lose

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00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:20,360
your job and lose your house and
lose your car and lose your, get

1147
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,440
your car broken into, maybe they
don't do bad things.

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That's my final thought.
So, George, tell us where to

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find you.
OK, yeah, well, since I I

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mentioned that I'm documenting
this process as I go along, you

1151
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,960
could go to my YouTube channel,
The Night Drive Live channel on

1152
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,400
YouTube and you could subscribe
and check out all the updates

1153
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,120
and videos.
And behind the scenes, I'm not

1154
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:47,840
going to say the word behind the
scenes coverage of going like

1155
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:51,840
the actual process of making an
indie film from soup to nuts.

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00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:56,960
And then I'm on social media.
Also Night Drive NYC and that's

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00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,920
where you can find me.
I hope you enjoy the ride and,

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00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:02,920
you know, look forward to the
future.

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Love it, thanks so much for
being on It came from the radio

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00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,920
and back to the studio with Mark
Torres for more.

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00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:15,720
Deeparta, if you had any honor,
you would listen to Sci-fi dot

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00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,240
radio the sci-fi for your Wi-Fi
Kapla.

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Now back to our show.
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00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,640
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00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,960
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00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,000
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00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,520
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00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,160
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00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,600
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00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,440
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00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,960
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