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1:24 The news is brought to you in. Already fine folks at Sci-fi dot Radio that is sci-fi, as well as the fine folks with the Big Apple Corner, which we are the official radio show of celebrating over 26789 years of comic book Ness in pop culture stuff. For more information go to www.bigapplecc.com. The next convention is scheduled all the way in November, the 21st. Tickets are not on sale, right? Now you can't do anything about it. There's nothing you can do. You can go to website. You can, you can check out, you can peruse the website, yeah, and look at all the features that you're not going to be using until around November. Yes. And you can imagine, yes. What how nice it will be to so that you could buy tickets understood we also. Have our shout outs for our Patreons, of which they are Danny Grillo, Worldwind Director Jared Burrell, Newsday, Famous Resident Media, Shadow Rabbit, Art Yasmin and Ray the Huracan, which I believe is next week if I'm not mistaken, and Melia Portez.

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2:57 On Wednesday, May 13th at the E Mill Public Library, we're going to have a 104th show. We're going to have a conflict distributor. That show, we're probably not going. To be here for no Russert and we'll also be he'll be giving away a bundle of all his first issues of all the he's done. So it's like 6 books. And then we're also giving away 2 free tickets to the Elite Comics 11 Expo, which has special guest Jim Lee. Nice. All right, so now we can talk. And I'll start with that. Here comes the news, all righty. Here come the news. TV creator Sid Croft has died recently. As of this recording, no cause of death has been announced. Did, along with his brother Marty, created Sid and Marty Croft Pictures and produced such shows as The Banana Splits, H&R, Puffinstein, You got a name on the Boogaloos, Just some Sigmund and the Sea Monster land of both versions, Alex Woman and Dinah Girl and Pryor's Place just to name a few. He was 96 years old.

3:54 Yeah, I mean, I don't think he I'm sorry, but I think he kind of passed away from being 96. They I mean, all right, I understand. That's a good run. That's it. That's and he gave a lot he. Gave he and his brother did give a lot, yes. Of note, his brother died in 2023. At the age of Super 86, Yeah. So his brother, his brother won that race. Basically I guess. He's still no letters, unfortunately. That's right of them and they deserve letters for all that they've the entertainment that they provided. So you love Sigma and the sea monsters and. Oh my goodness, across Superstar. I don't even understand it because every it's like it was the same intro, but that was the different show every week.

4:37 So I didn't understand. It was like kind of a variety show, but that there were specific episodes made, like, you know, a specific number of episode made for each franchise and that they would intersperse them into. So that was that was a lot to from me to wrap my head around when I was a kid. But I, I remember the craft superstars. I remember that that was like a that was a big part of the afternoon after school. Yeah, I I used to personally love the Boogaloos, that was. The Boogaloos, Yeah. Yeah, so moving on for some more said. And it's too bad that we lost both of them. Thank you. Said Marty Croft. Yes, comic book creator Sam Keith also died recently from complications of Lewid body dementia. Yeah Sam, Louis, Sam.

5:21 Yeah Louis Body Sam was perhaps best known as the creator of the Max and Co creator of the Sandman. That is terrible. I actually met Sam Keith years ago and I remember it was like in the 90s. So he was, when he was, you know, becoming the superstar that he was. And I always found his art to be very distinct and and and. Especially the Max. Especially the Max. And then they made a cartoon out of it, which was which was great for him. I'm sorry that he I'm sorry he passed away. And then and and then the nature of how he passed away. That's yeah, Lewy Body is not it's, it's pretty brutal. So he was 63. He was very young. So yeah, so as. As you know, I'm a very big Peter David Hulk fan. My favorite writer RP Peter David and Sam Keith drew an episode of one an issue of The Incredible Hulk and he had all this hair all over him, which I thought was weird and I asked Sam Keith.

6:13 I said, Hey, Sam Keith, why don't you put all the how do you draw? I said, how do you draw hair? And he goes, I actually draw like each line individual. I was like, Oh my God, that blew my mind. I thought like some technique that he did, but no, he like he drew each little hair strand. No. There's no CG. The art you see is the art. No AI. No. Well, now, but I mean back then there was no, there was no trick. If you wanted it there, you had to put it there. You. Had to draw it so that that blew my mind. He was a very nice guy when I met him. Like I said, this was 100 years ago, but yeah, have you ever got a chance to meet? I never got a chance to meet him. I knew of him. I was enamored with the Max because I've been inspiring pencils for the longest time. And so anyone who was doing it slightly different outside of a house style that of any of the comic book Titans at the time was very interesting to me.

7:02 And I'm like, well, this guy can do it, you know, and I'm not that's not a mockery of his art. His art was really beautiful. It was gorgeous, but it was very stylish. You know, it was very like big feet and you know, like disproportionate, you know, or, or strangely proportioned bodies and stuff like that. But it was it was wonderful. And then I really love the Max cartoon. I thought it was way out there. It's a really way out there piece of, of art of, of motion art. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm, I'm sad that I'm sad to hear of his passing. I'm sad about how he passed and but he he did give me a lot. So moving on for the last for the sad news. Actor William Patrick Muldoon, the third known professionally as just Patrick Muldoon, died recently of a heart attack. While Patrick appeared in a slew of movies and TV shows, he is perhaps best known for his roles of Austin Reed in 496 episodes of the soap Days of Our Lives, which ran which he was on from 1992 to 2012, taking a 16 year hiatus from 1995 to 2011 and that of Xander Barclow Berkeley, which I didn't remember. That was his name in the 19719 Seven 1997. 1990s Star No. Ship troopers, Yeah, No Star troopers. He was 57. 57, very young, super young for a heart attack. I mean, he's in heart attack territory, but it's still, it's still ridiculous how young he

8:32 is. Had to die of a heart attack. Yeah, I remember. I, I remember him from I'm not so much Days of Our Lives, even though, ironically, I used to watch that soap opera because you used to be one of my mother's favorite soaps. But I definitely remember him from Starship Troopers. And it is. That's a shock. That one's a shock. Yeah, so that is it for the sad news. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with more. You came from the radio. Hi, you've heard my voice. Open and close the show. Now we want to hear your voice. If you have a business or product, you can record a commercial here. We offer 30 and 62nd spots. For.

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12:56 So Michael Jackson comes in at #5 so it's already #5 first week in. It's weird because I think once I saw the Weird Yankovic biopic, I am no longer interested in any biopic whatsoever because it kind of just turned the whole thing on its head that the biopic isn't a real movie. It's just kind of like the highlights. I mean, it depends, it depends which which movie lately, yes, that's been the case. But some of them, some of them are pretty in depth. Some of them, I mean, if you have like there's, there's a lot of stuff for Michael Jackson that they depending on the 'cause he had such a long career, depending on what the years that they choose to focus on, they're just, they're just not going to be able to cover it, right? Doesn't do a Part 2 or something like that right and the same with the Bohemian Rhapsody, which was kind of like, wow, this is this is really abbreviated, you know but or they're.

13:55 And then they change something. My point So like they change it for the movie, but they're trying to represent it as it actually happening. So it bothers me that they kind of, it's a fake movie about a real person, but it's not a real thing it that that. I agree with you. Blow my mind. But then when I say when Weird Al Yankovic did it by weird, have you ever seen the Weird Al Yankovic? No, that's it's crazy that he did it about himself and if you're watching it, you're like, I get the joke. And it's completely on par with a biopic that only when I think if it gets you about his own life. I get you. I think, I think it's more of a reflection on us than it is on the, on the stories, you know, because we don't have the attention span for all the, the, the inner details.

14:37 We want the sensationalism. So we reduce a person's life to all the sensational little bits and bobs and and the the moments that we went there to see, like him setting his head on fire and you know, well, not on purpose, but I mean his head setting on fire and him be in thriller and. Yeah, exactly. And some of some of the other things that he did. And then you just want to go to those you want to see those highlighted moments. Yeah. And you don't really want to get in depth. You know, you want to get a little hint of his turmoil with his dad and some of these other things, but you don't want, I mean, we just don't. I mean, they complain about Lord of the Rings 3 hours, you know, you know, and that's about fantasy swords and giant spiders and people getting, you know, attacked by ghosts. So you know.

15:21 Let me throw this out there for you since you have not seen it. Weird Al Yankovic movie, and I don't want to ruin the ending because Oh my God, it's just the greatest. Yeah. Well, if you like Weird Al Yankovic, yeah, I guess it would be great. But in the movie, The Weird Al Yankovic biopic, he created beat it and Michael Jackson stole it and he made beat it. That's there. That's where we're going with that. That's what he does, Yes. So OK, but it's a very. True life. You're a Weird Al fan. I am a weird al. Fan Yeah, that's why that worked. So moving on from the better, double check the e-mail department. How many people we got in that department? I don't know.

16:04 I didn't check the e-mail. Check the e-mail. None other in paramount new avatar movie you walked into. That one was originally to be released on October of last year, which is 2025, only to be pushed back multiple times and is now slated to be released on streaming in October of this year. Has been released entirely online for free as a result of a leak. According to the Internet, the leak was caused by someone emailing the wrong person to film, and that person decided to share it online. Which film? The new Avatar movie, The animated sceneries supposed to be like the release and that's that's now you can see it, it's out there. It's not for long though.

16:46 You can't put it back in. Yeah, you just you, you, you can. It's online. You can see it even if you're not supposed to. So someone who had a copy of it tried to e-mail the copy to or try to e-mail it to a specific person, e-mail it to the wrong person Yep, and then the wrong person e-mail it to decide to steal it Yep and put it Yep. So is that person going to be? They're never going to find that person. So you can find out who you e-mail it to. I guess maybe that you could, you could get, you could totally get the. But it might be like a fake e-mail account and all that, all that stuff. And you have to have emailed it to that person. Well, let's say I want to mail it to hassan@hassan.com and I mailed it to hassani@hassani.com.

17:28 Then that's the person who stole. It right, but we don't know who Hassani is. It seems like it your your web address would would reveal who the heck you are, especially if you're not an if you're just an opportunistic thief and you're not a professional thief, right, you won't be able to stay hidden for long, but. Even if they get him, it's already out there and all the other people. That you got to, you got to take it out on somebody, say. What I just, I just find it interesting that the Internet, which is on top of what had happened, they're they're immediately taking sides. They're saying, Oh, you know, it's right for them to, you know, to leak it online because if they recast all the, the actors, because they're not the descent of the characters that they made. And then some people like, well, they were supposed to be releasing it in theaters and now since they're going to release on streaming, it's it's fine to authorize the leak of the movie. I find that to be very interesting the the the rebuttal of the Internet.

18:27 The Internet is full of boneheads and, you know, people of low character who think that everything that's on the Internet is free and then and then belongs to them. And so I'm not surprised that they're dead wrong about just about everything that they think. All right. So Speaking of people being dead wrong, yes. Everything. 'S segue. Let's see if we get hey, let's see a good one. Find a good one. From the get the AI out of here department. Oh, we fired them all last week. We got the AI out of here. None other than the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that quote only acting and writing for films done by humans will be considered eligible to win an Oscar Good. However, outside of acting and writing, if a film maker use AI tools in their work, such as such tools neither help nor harm the chances of achieving A nomination. The Academy and each branch will judge the achievement taking into account the degree of which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship and choosing to move to choosing which move to forward.

19:32 The questions arise regarding the aforements and use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy reserves the right to request more information about the nature and the issue and the use of human authorship. There you go. There's only a matter of time before everybody has that attitude truly, because I mean, the industries are making their own, since we can't get any kind of regulation on AI in general. And each industry, you know, noting the destructive, you know, the destructive tendencies of AI are starting to exact their own rules for and against it. AI is going to be here. It's going to be, it's, it's here to stay. It's going to be part of everything.

20:13 But everybody has a, everybody has a right to regulate how much it interferes with whatever art that they're trying to make. And so that's just going to get become more and more and and also public backlash against it has not made it easy. It's true. I, I, I think it, I mean, we've always had a dubious relationship with award shows so. You mean us as in human beings? Or you mean us as in came from the radio? From the radio. I mean, because realistically the award show isn't really an award. It's just the popularity contest because you can't really say which is the best thing that of all movies that came out in this year. And also it's.

20:55 Campaign. I think you can narrow it all down. And also people campaign to get the votes for it. So it's not even that it's even the best movie. It's the one that people got the vote. I saw a documentary on how they choose a long time ago and it just destroyed everything. It's so sad. It's really mind blowing. So with this saying, we're not going to do AI. It's like. No, but I mean, look, look, the essence of everything is the human interaction, right? It's the human. It's the human story, the human effort in anything, right? That's the thing that we respond to. No matter whose efforts it is to remove the human experience from all these things, it's just not going to. They're not going to understand why it's not going to work because all the the flashy stuff is going to be there, but they're not going to get why it doesn't work or why people reject it.

21:44 It's the uncanny valley all over again. So it's going to take a long time for these billionaires to kind of realize, yeah, dude, nobody really wants your toys. But we'll see. So Speaking of really wanting their. Stop doing that. From the You didn't think you owned it when you bought it, didn't you? Department what? None other than PlayStation. Stop hiring your cousins. None other than PlayStation. Well, Sony has announced that any games purchased digitally digitally on its system after March of this year. Now we'll have a 30 day timer attached to it, the post reads. What? If the console does not connect to the Internet within 30 days, the license expires and the game may refuse to launch until a connection is restored. Setting a console as a primary does not bypass the restriction, and it's a 30 day is a valid period and is not a sign of an account restriction or anything like that. Wow, that's gonna cripple the industry. So basically, whatever you buy digitally is not yours and they're just telling you it's not yours. Sorry, sorry.

22:52 You're not. It's a creative rental now. Yeah, and that's the thing. And these kids, these millennials and the Gen. ZS or whatever, I remember having this big argument with this millennial once about like, like Spotify. You saw Spotify so much better than, you know, having it because you don't have to have 80 gigs worth of music on you. But I'm like, you own the 80 gigs. No matter what happens. You can listen to that whenever you want. Spotify just decides we don't really like Michael Jackson anymore. Michael Jackson's entire lexicon just disappears. And you're still paying them. So it doesn't make any sense. It's like you're you're not, you're, you're not the owner. Yeah. And so now they're doing that with video games.

23:32 You don't own this. You've paid thank you for your $70.00, right. But if you have, if your Internet goes out for three weeks of, excuse me, 3, three months, right, 90 days, 30 days, 30 days, so your Internet goes out for four weeks, you'd lose everything that you had on that hard. Drive right provided that you bought the game after March, so. That's insane. That's in the March. It's it's, it's already after March. So people who are buying things right now, right now didn't know that that was a deadline, right? Nice. And it's it's so crazy how I guess that the younger generation is starting to go back to physical media. That's why Record Record Store Day is a big deal. Ownership. And it's, it's weird because like if you're paying for a streaming service that you buy something for and that streaming services lose the license to produce to, to air that they take it off their streaming service.

24:23 And even though you bought it from that company, they don't have the right to give it to you. So you can't get it. And that's what I'm talking about, owning your own own things. We don't have a lot to begin with and we can't take any of it with us when we go. So the only thing we could do is when we make sure when we use our money to buy something is make sure that we have access to that thing whenever we want it. That's that's all it is. It's crazy. Right. Well, of course it's crazy. I've been saying that's not a good idea since that they get it. So we're almost out of time. My goodness, did I take a train all the way out here just for that? Do you have a final? Thought my final thought is own your stuff. Buy physical media, stop with this stop.

25:03 Buy DVDs and CDs, buy your music, download your music on a separate hard drive so that they can erase it off of your hard drive, which is a thing that actually does happen. Yep. OK, and have your things. If you're spending your money, what you spent your money on should be yours. That's the, that's the contract. Alright so my final thought, yes, buy my book. You can buy it physically. Also buy Mark's. Book, it came from ao.com, so everybody listening to is on. Yeah, that's it for our new segment, everybody listening to us on the air. We'll see you next time. For everybody else, stay tuned for more. It came from the radio. We need to upgrade your outdoor space. Where products and why has you covered? Our Universal Pagolas are modern, durable aluminum structures designed to withstand the elements while adding style and value.

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26:35 And welcome back to what came from the radio, the official show, the Big Apple Con. This is your host, Mark Torres speaking. Just wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the M Con. This is the East Meadow Public Library convention at the East Meadow Public Library. This will be their. This was their 16th year and we've had a great relationship with the library as well as the event coordinator, Kelly Gordon. This is, as I mentioned, the 16th year. We've been there for 15. Well, I personally been there for 15 out of the 16, but our show has been a part of it for all 16 years.

27:16 This year was a kind of fun because my book issue designated issue 2 was premiered at the Eastman Hog Library. So that also makes it very special place and near and dear to my heart. We actually performed the comic issue 1 as a radio play 3 times at that very same Eastman Hog library. And if not for that we probably would not have done it at New York Comic Con. But this year it was just we premiered the book. No panel, no play for the comic. However, I was given the privilege to host the to moderate the panel with Leslie Carrara Rudolph and she is a comedian, actress and puppeteer most famous for her character Abby Cadabby on Sesame Street.

28:08 One of the things that I was blown back by was that during the panel we were discussing about the insurance and outs of the character and about puppetry in general. And then I had asked her about when she's talking to celebrities or doing in person events as using the puppet. What is the challenges or difficulty of speaking to a celebrity or another person when they're talking to essentially is their hand as opposed to talking to the person which is attached to the puppet, like they're standing right there. And she actually told me that when people, when she does do things like that, she says no more than a minute or two minutes and I just kind of forget that she's there.

28:59 So one of the most interesting things that had happened during that panel that she decided to bring out one of her puppets, Lolli Lollipop, lovely light pop, I believe it was. And what do I do? I take the microphone and I stick it in front of the hand, not just not realizing, Oh yeah, it's the voice isn't coming from the hands, obviously coming from the performer. So that blew my mind that she was correct. And then once she had the puppet out, I was speaking to the puppet and we had an existential discussion about her knowledge of being a puppet, other versions of her about about Leslie doing the puppetry.

29:43 And she answered as the character. It was a very unexpected and awesome experience. And the best thing, the very best thing about the entire panel was that after the panel, she turns to me, she says, Mark, this was probably one of the best interviews I've ever had. And she's been in the business for over 30 years and we've been doing the show. We started out, we just celebrating our 24th, 24th anniversary. So for her to say that to me with no prompting or she just came out on her own and said it, it really meant a lot to me and it really did made me feel really good.

30:27 So Justin to my own horn. But she did say it and I did record the panel. I intend to either show air the entire panel or just highlights of the panel in a future broadcast. Also want to give a shout out to my neighbor which was Francis Bonet. He is a comic book creator and frequent guest and Co host of the show Friends. Brimstone was there, Rizuki Cosley was there, Angel. No not Angel. So Julius was was there, the cosplay judge as I mentioned from Brimstone was there and the they had a band performing and I thought it was I only managed to hear a little bit of the band.

31:18 I do have to say I thought it was going to be louder, but it is a library after all. But other than that, I thought it was a great experience and for the 16th year it it was very pleasurable experience. There was tons of people there. I sold a couple of books, which is always a bonus. But the overall community and the feeling and just the scene, people of all ages coming and enjoy this convention, It's a great thing to have. And there were people that came in not expecting a convention, just to use the library. And it was this one guy. He walked in. I could see it in his eye. She was like, what the hell is going on here? He takes one look, and he turns.

32:01 Around and he walks. Right now, but for the, for as far as conventions go, and as I've mentioned many times on the show, it is a free convention top notch. We're hoping to to make it even bigger next year. I think this the the convention has legs to grow on and it can just build upon itself. And there was tons of things for everybody to enjoy and do. They had video games, they had you make some slime, they had face painting, they had meet and greets, they had a little bit for everybody. They had two levels of artist alley.

32:44 You had artist alley downstairs and artist alley upstairs. Shout out to Rich Resin who had his own a little set up and Fat Guy Ink was there as well. Since the show so many other people that I feel bad. I do not ever be remiss if I mention them. I apologize in advance, but overall it was a great convention. Highlights on the on the Eastern Republic Library Facebook page, DM con Library Facebook page. Since I had a table and I've seen the correspondent Charlie Sonia was not there. We were unable to take pictures. But as I mentioned before, I did manage to do the panel. So make sure you guys go check it out. I know they're going to have a smaller late Halloween event in December, if I'm not mistaken, might be end of November. Make sure you just go to www.email.info For more information and I hope to see all you guys there. And that's another free event.

33:46 So with that, we're going to take a quick break and I'll be right back with more. It came from the radio, so when you go. On. If you said you went to the Olympics. So you go meet celebrities, you go meet other people, and you're there. But you have the public like there. How do you able to convey that this is the public and I'm not here? They ignore us. They totally ignore us a lot of times. You know, sometimes celebrity is shy. I mean, if I'm tango, I just go up and bark and they just pet the dog, like, and they put somebody. Sometimes they'll introduce us.

34:28 I. I just play with them and they like within a minute they're done with us. They could care less and you have to know that. The celebrities. Appear so stand up and just. Pretend I'm on the ground, right? So when the celebrities here and this is what you're seeing. So. I'm looking down in the. Monitor I. Have a hat. This is what I look like all the time. I baseball hat I live in. When I can't, I have a hat and I don't know what to do. So they don't. Really pay attention to it yeah, like it. The hardest thing is if they get a look at the monitor, like when we have kids on the show, they look at the monitor and they won't look at the public because they.

35:09 Just want. To see themselves on the camera. So this is Michael Bell, the voice of. Duke. From GI Joe and I am here at Cradle Comm and I am with it came from the radio. Now back to our show. You're listening to It Came from the Radio. I'm here with Chris Fried. He's currently a stand up comedian, comedy writer, regular panelist on Gutfeld, works for SNL, Conan, WWE. He's a producer and star of a really fun and well done series called Collecting, which I watch. I really, really, really loved it. I really enjoyed it. I got a few laughs I don't usually laugh at. A lot of just a few.

35:51 Yeah, well, I don't usually laugh at a lot of things. I like, like real life things, you know, like maybe something happens right now, I'll laugh. He's got a master in psychology from Harvard. Is that right? It is true. He was close to being in the FBI and he acted in the Bad Bunny movie, which I was in, and that's how we met and it's now getting He murdered me. He murdered you. He threw me in the leaves or I jumped in the leaves. I'm not sure in. The car first. Oh yeah, we had a big we'll get to that. We'll get to we were more intro. What else did he do? Oh, that's it. Yeah. So bad buddies getting our press. It was mentioned in horrornews.net and well, we can't learn what we think we already know. So I might have been killed by him in the Bad Bunny movie, but I don't know him well and I'm not going to pretend to. So let's learn about Press Free you. Covered pretty much everything.

36:43 I think you know me. All right, so get out of here. We're done. Mic drop. All right, so Bad Bunny, now you acted in this gigantic Bad Bunny costume. You must have been like 7 1/2 feet tall. It was very hot. That's really more important than, you know, the, the ears or anything. But it was, it was like 80° at, I think at the time, whatever it was like whatever summer. And I remember just being like I have in between. They wanted me to like growl more and make noises And I was like, I can't, I'm going to pass that. Like I can't, I can't use my voice and wind in my lungs. I have to just do the actions and then like take my head off and breathe for a while. So there was a lot of that, but.

37:30 Yeah, that's when we met for like 90 seconds when you had took your hat. Off Oh yeah, ours was at night so it was slightly better temperature, but I. Walked out of the end, I see this Bunny head like on the floor, and then I see you stand there. I'm like, oh, OK, I guess that's the guy playing the Bunny. Yeah. So wait, so did Chuck. Now Chuck Moringell is a character. Dude. He's like, growl more, growl more, right? He's probably barking at you, right? Well, he you see his he would have been the Bunny, I think if but the suit like he wanted whatever to fit in the suit. So I think he he probably really wanted to do that and crawl around and be weird and growl and do all that stuff. But since since I was doing it or they had to get someone to fit the suit and all that, he yeah, he was doing a lot of the noises and that I, that he wanted me to do. And I was like, I will die though if I And then also the suit was like very, very tight and like, you know, like if there was any, if I did pass out, there is no way that they anyone could could, you know, get in there and RIP the suit. You'd have to get a knife and but anyway. It.

38:41 Would have been a trip to the hospital for sure. But you didn't go to the hospital, right? I did not. Did you overheat any times? Not not to where I was actually harmed, No did. You have trouble peeing? Did you not drink wine? Yeah, luckily I'm pretty good at holding my bladder because there would not have been. There was not a lot of bathroom breaks throughout because like taking it on and off was a long process. It's. Just, it's just really funny. You have to see this buddy suit because it's a lot of people. It's, oh, it's so scary, but to be, it's absolutely hilarious. Now I got two stories. I don't know if I'm supposed to be saying this, but I was told by one party it was $90,000 and then I was told by a different party that it was made by Katalina.

39:24 So I, I, I, the reason why I brought this up is not to out anyone, although I, I do like knowing the truth, even if people don't want the truth out. I was asked how do you obtain this Bunny suit because Co producer Vine wants to make animal costumes and he wants a straight answer and I can't get the straight. Answer I do know when I went for the first meeting of the suit, he did call someone that he was asking questions about it was, you know, an artist guy who designed the the look of it and all that. So I don't know exactly the the behind the scene, but I do know there was others involved. I don't know the money, but.

40:05 Alright, well aside from this Bad Bunny, you know, Oscar winning acting role, you also do stand up. I saw you were doing stand up in Naples. This Yeah. So this Friday to Sunday, I'm with Joe Mackie. He's also a Gutfeld guy. And but yeah, it's at Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, FL. Then I'm doing Orlando the next week, so I'm making a little Florida trip. So what do you like better? Acting or stand up? You had to pick. You have to pick for this year. What you're going to do for this year? Stand up, let's just say. Well, for this year is definitely more stand up. And you like it better. I currently like it better because I believe that I can build and develop and I kind of like the Adam Sandler type Jim Carrey roles of, you know, stand up is what it is and then your goal is to like write a movie, try to be in something or TV show.

41:04 So I I would enjoy in the future more acting if it was an actual, you know, money career that made sense. But you know in the in that process I have gotten way more time with stand up and writing. Now stand up takes up a lot of time. I only did it for two years, so I didn't travel too far. But you're travelling, you know, different states. Do you want to do stand up for your whole life? You think you could maintain? Yeah. I, I mean, I also, I would be the type that you always do it no matter what else.

41:45 Like if I just happened to get very successful and got to make a movie or whatever, that'd be great. But I would always make sure that I don't lose the, you know, you don't want to get to the point where you haven't done it in a year and then you have to kind of get re comfortable. And so but everyone like Sandler did that for two decades. He didn't do stand up. And then he finally came back with that Netflix special. It was really good and cool. So yeah, I want to be the one that you keep keep it going and you always have new stuff you're working on or whatever, so. Yeah, I kind of, I've taken the two year break, but I do plan to go back because my attitude is generally I want to spend a lot of time with my parents. They're both 73 and I figure when my parents are dead, I'm an only child, then I'll want to talk to the public and I'll go back to doing standard.

42:33 But right now, you know I got my priorities straight. I was in a situation where when I came back from Lai was MO. I was living at my parents for a while again, so I pretty much got a lot of my parental time back in and they're old. My dad's like my dad just turned 87 and my mom is 75, so they're older and that's why I take care of things. I'm zipping back and forth. And so luckily I got my parent time in. As long as that goes see you later guys, you're done with the parent. Time. If I get successful, then yeah, I'll say, hey, we had enough time. Oh my God. Oh my God.

43:13 And then I'll but then I'll have I'll have money that I can then pay for their rights, right, right, right, right. Alright, give back a little well. Switching gears now, you went through many interviews to be an FBI agent, So what were some tough things you had to do to show that you were qualified to be FBI? Well, so I had to just show that. I think the confusing part was just they, the way it works is so I got to phase two. It's called the phase two interview. It was to be a special agent in the FBI. So because of the masters in psychology, I guess I sort of qualified or whatever.

43:54 I had a couple of referrals that helped out. So they got me to the first part and the people liked me and I could do the fit test. I was like training for the fitness stuff. And so that got me to the the Phase 2. The problem with this part is that it's a panel interview with three special agents and they don't know anything about you going into it. So it's not like they get to read and hear from these other people that recommended me. They just are have to be bombarded with my situation and wonder what the hell I'm doing there at all. So, and the way it works is that they give you like 13 questions and they're, it's a whole thing where every question is basically, you know, tell us about a time where blank and it's like something life or death or something crazy. And then you have to say like how you handled it, what you did and what the outcome was.

44:51 So they're used to everyone else being like a cop or a military person or whatever. So. So all my stories are like, I had some stories that were, you know, working within psychology and stuff, but for the most part I had to slip in. They don't know like where you went to school, they don't know anything. So I have to you try to name drop things that are good and like Harvard and like I whatever, you know, like shows I was on and stuff. But then once I get into the comedy world, I have to then explain like, why are you interested in it? Like, what are you doing? Like what you know, So all my stories are involved, like, Oh yeah, there was, I don't know, like a drunk guy doing cocaine in the bathroom at the Improv. And I, you know, I'm like everyone's like what the. Fuck is that you mentioned that?

45:40 No, but it was something similar. I don't know like. That's what I was going to say. Because it's about like mediation schedules and different things like that. So my thing, you could tell in their eyes that they were, they just kind of kept looking at each other, like, right, yeah, we're probably not going to go with this guy, but you know. So. Whatever I never got, I never got to go to Quantico, but but it was a good experience are. You sad that you're not an FBI agent, and then you're here in my living room right now. It would have been a fun thing just to see how far I could get. Yeah. Or like, because at the time also the entertainment stuff wasn't like, you know, I was kind of looking for the next big thing or like paid payday or an ongoing job or whatever. So I was like, listen, if this keeps going, that's kind of cool.

46:31 Maybe I could be like undercover. That would be fun. And like, infiltrate, you know? Perverts. In LA or something? You could be undercover or comedy clubs like outing all the. Comedians and like spy on people. I don't know. So it could have been cool, but but then it didn't go. So I went. Well, I guess you know, I'll just do Gutfeld and. Gutfeld, FBI. Yeah. That's a big reason why I don't do stand up. Actually, it's a lot of cokeheads. I've never met so many cokeheads in my life. I like training, like personal training. They they're the biggest pot heads. Lots of marijuana. Still love it. I got some right here. It's great. But yeah, Cocaine Co crazy coke addicts and Alcoholics. I can't do almost anything.

47:12 I freak. I mean, I can drink pretty well. Cocaine. I've never done. I've never done, I think I would freak out weed. I've tried a few times like within relationships where they're into it. So then I say like OK we'll just chill and and I cannot. My anxiety freaks out I just I don't know what to I even micro dosed like mushrooms one time 'cause this girl was very she was like festival chicken and I gave it a try and I just my body is tingling. I can't like walk. It just was not fun so. Well, maybe you have a lot of like issues to revolve and that's what it is because I take out a little time and it forces me to come face to face with things I did in the day and and sometimes it's scary. But you know what?

47:59 It's good though, because I'm constantly you reflecting, but that's my that's my excuse for doing drugs. All right, next topic. So no bad bad Bunny. You're the bad Bunny movie. Back to that. What are some bad things you did on or off camera while shooting this movie? On camera I don't know, just probably not acting well. However they you. Don't really have to no all you're just going like this, I think what you're doing. There was a lot of yelling direction. I'm sure I'm not. Putting in enough something. Oh. Really. The jaw movements and stuff like. You have to move your jaw. Yeah, because it's hooked onto your so like when you're the bunny's teeth can go up and down and stuff.

48:41 So I had to make sure I was like putting that in anyway off I will say well this isn't bad but it's like personal. OK OK. Because I was dating actually the mushroom girl at the time and mushroom girl. So since I was away for a few days, I thought it'd be funny because this whole thing was funny that I'm even in this stupid outfit. And anyway, so I thought it'd be funny if I sent her a particular Wiener photo as the Bunny into a mirror in the one cabin that we were in there. That's great. So I mean, you know, I wasn't like a pervert. There wasn't like crew around or anything. But I was on my personal time and I did. I do have one photo on my phone as me as a Bunny with Wiener out.

49:30 Wow, and it was a well received. Yeah, I mean, she was fun. Like she, you know, it wasn't, we weren't like jerking off or anything crazy. It was just, it was to be silly and funny. She right? Right, right. But yeah, she thought it was amusing. No. This bad Bunny. Could you ever be good Bunny? Is there a way to reform? He was, he was. He was eating people. I think it ripped me apart. Did he eat me or just murdered me? I don't know. He hates some of you. For sure. I mean. He probably probably like your neck. I think I know he saw. He slashed your face and yeah. But I don't know if he slashed me, just ran away for fun or if he. Yeah, you know, most of it. Most of it is just for his own anger, I think.

50:10 Alright. I don't. He really wasn't looking for sustenance, he was just annoyed and bothered by most people and wants to kill. It's 'cause he's territorial. Why was he? Why was he so mad? Because his he grew up with a bad upbringing. I don't know his owner slash guy who birthed him or whatever the hell happened. He was not the most mentally stable and hurt people hurt people. And the Bunny, you know, didn't know how to process that. So he's very territorial. You know, he wants, he wants attention, all the attention from his owner dad. Batman so the tension problem, he didn't get his tension at home and then.

50:53 He's acting out, he's acting out. He wants to show his his home, that he's the one that decide, you know, his security for his gotcha. We could have just like, peed or, you know, defecated all over the place like dogs do instead of actually murdered. Well, because he was beaten, I think growing up, that's why. So he lashes out physically. Yes. Not not like a serial killer, he's more just a straight up doesn't care if he gets caught and goes to jail because he doesn't really know what jail is so. Me. They'll find out in Bad Bunny too. It's true that Bunny goes to jail. That is true and I want to spoil the ending, but it is possible for a sequel. Is it? I'm in like 7 movies I didn't watch. Listen, I'm about making movies, not watching. Well, that's.

51:39 True, I also I was in the ending, so I guess I. All right, so maybe I'll watch it now that we've met. I usually like research people. I usually interview people and then I decide if I want to like watch and or maybe I'll do a movie and then I won't ever watch it, which is becoming a trend. But I do have some tips for bad. But I feel like he could walk to lower the cortisol to get some anger out. Walking is really good if you're angry. Is it? Yes, it helps to just level you out if you walk for more. Than I should look into that. What about what about like just going to the gym and getting a workout? Like what if you're not actually walking, you're just. Here's the deal. Let's say you're really, really revved up and you have to burn yourself out. Then you want to do This is, according to the book Natural Prozac. And I think it's true.

52:20 I read this like 20 years ago. You want to work out more than 45 minutes to burn out and relax. But let's say you're like, oh, I can't get out of bed. Let's say bed Bunny was just like, oh, I'm so depressed. Then you might, I want to do like 5 to 1530 minutes just to get yourself revved up and you know, break down some glycogen to get some sugar in your system. Use low blood sugar probably. I don't know what kind of issues he had. I was going to say bunnies or rabbits or whatever the official zoo name would be, right? Maybe they have a different, you know, a different makeup. Although he is part, he's part human though too. So. Yeah, he's transhuman. So shout out Jeffrey Epstein. He would like that.

53:02 He he funded a lot of the transhuman experiment. Oh. Yeah, that's I guess. Yeah. I heard about that you. Think he's alive? Who? Epstein. Yeah. I don't think he's alive, but I I think I have no idea what the you know, I don't think you're ever going to know really anything. But if I had to bet, I'd say dead. I don't know how. Well, maybe that's a cover up 'cause you are close to the FBI or maybe he's a really good actor, I really don't know. So moving on now, we're almost at the end of this interview now. Once Upon a time when you were a kid, which is very hard to imagine 'cause you have Gray hair now. But you know, Once Upon a time Chris Freud was a child. So what advice would you give to your younger teenage self? Teenage self.

53:45 Yeah, I this is. Well, we'll go back to we'll go back to the weed thing, because I would say because when I was younger, I was very against that. Not, not for like legal reasons or like whatever. I just, I didn't like that that, you know, my friends and I were, we were funny and we would get attention being like the funny guys and whatever. And I didn't like that. Now when you're older at a party, people that weren't funny and we're like didn't have personalities or anything, they would get high and all of a sudden be popular now because because like, you know, you're just doing a fake thing.

54:30 So I was like, well, I don't even have to do that to be, you know. So I, I would say that I should have, I would like to acclimate myself to being OK with experimenting in that way earlier a little bit. I don't want to be like a big pothead or a. Cokehead or anything? Right. I'm just saying that my advice would be I think I would have I would have done socially better in the professional world in my 20s if I had not been so stubborn on the the weed world. Well, I'll give you an alternate perspective. I was like, kind of again, I just didn't understand. Like, oh, it hurts your throat. Like, why would you drink alcohol? It tastes bad. But then I went to College in my first year. I was like, oh, this is really fun.

55:12 And I would say I smoked so much weed and too much because, you know, things just didn't get done. You know, I almost failed out of American University. I could have graduated in 3 1/2 years. I graduated in five. I didn't go to my finals. Hashtag weed. So that would be a reason. Not Wow. Yeah. I was like, what? Well. That's what I mean. That's why I'm not saying I'm not saying I want to be like a pothead in college. I'm just saying I wish I would have mentally been a little more prepared to acclimate to just accepting a normal level of it I guess. Yeah, that makes sense. I could have been like that in high school. Yeah, I was very much like for a while, so.

55:53 And you know, I guess the final thought, the final thought would be me throwing it back to you to close out the interview and tell everyone where to find you and anything that's on your heart right now you'd like to share to the public. I mean, they don't really, I think everyone should just my, my thought would just be with, with all that's going on and I think people should stop giving, but OK, too much on things stop. I I, I would say lessen your amount of social media time by 80%. That's what I would say.

56:33 Stop scrolling and driving yourself insane. Yeah, on whatever you're passionate about. It's beautiful that you're passionate, but keep it to a non criminal level. Yeah, and going out to do dumb shit but for no reason. Lower your passion, but I guess if you're not. Lower your. Passion on social media. Or maybe you're doing a movie with me. Maybe don't go on social media more than once a month. You have to promote the movie. Then I would say please go on social. Media, I would say go on and only follow us. There you go only. Follow our things, which gets me to my plug. Yes. It is Chris with AK dot freed spelled like fried on everything so well. Chris dot freed Instagram Chris freed on all the other things collecting you can look up on YouTube. I have 3 full episodes out now.

57:22 It's really. Fun 25 ish minutes each and hopefully more in the future sometime. Watch it. Albums on Spotify and then check out Gutfeld every now and then when I'm on and tour dates whenever. Tour dates whenever. Well, thank you for being on. It came from the radio. And now back to the studio for more with Mark Torres. If you had any honor, you would listen to Sci-fi dot radio the sci-fi for your Wi-Fi Kapla. Now back to our show.

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