Bobby Bones joins Movie Mike on this episode to talk about his 3 favorite movies from his life which include Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Man on The Moon plus some honorable mentions. Bobby and Mike debate why Thanos from the Avengers can be seen as a good guy. Bobby also compares what Thanos did in his ideology to what is going on now with the coronavirus and places opening back up. Mike also talks to Bobby about the movie he starred in back in 2009 called Bandslam. Bobby reveals how much he made, what his audition was like and getting to hang out with Lisa Kudrow.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what up, guys, It's Mike d thanks for listening
to the Bobby Bones Show. And we have a bunch
of podcasts here on the Nashville Podcast Network, and I
wanted to share an episode of my podcast with you guys.
It's called Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, where all I do
is talk about movies, and in this episode, I got
to interview Bobby, which is a rare kind of turn
of events of me getting to ask him questions. And
what I did. I just asked him about his favorite
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movies from his life, and it ended up getting pretty
personal and I found out some things about him that
I didn't even know, so who knew asking Bobby about
his favorite movies would reveal some stuff. And I also
got to ask him about the movie he did back
in the day called Bandslam, and he actually told me
how much he made on that, how he got cast
in that it had to do an audition for it.
So I thought this was a pretty cool episode to
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share with you guys, just a taste of kind of
what I do on my podcast, just bringing on people
to talk about movies. I talk about different kind of
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part of it. So here's the episode with Bobby. Hope
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at Mike dstro That's Mike d e s t r O.
All right, here we go in a world where everyone
and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to
infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a
movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge. He's
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basically like a walking on MTV with dues from the
Nashville Podcast Networks Movie a movie Podcast. All right, joining
me now on the podcast, we have Bobby Bones. Never
heard of them, never heard of this guy. I've never
interviewed you before, so it'll be a bit different today. Well,
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I tend to take it my own way, so feel
free to stop me. But let me start by saying it. Okay,
I started watching the movie about the Beastie Boys last night. Yeah,
I know it's a movie. Podcast started it last night too.
I don't like how I don't like how they put
it together, how it's a live show. I want a
documentary the Best Boys. Yeah, that got me a bit off,
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and I was trying to watch with Kalin and I
would have been into it enough to sit through all
of it like that, but that was a struggle for her.
I just I don't like how it's format it now.
I only watched again right a sixth of it. That's
it well, because she wasn't feeling it, okay, she didn't
know the guys on stage. I think if it were
a documentary, a good documentary, you can watch without knowing
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anything personally about it. You can just jump in and
go while I'm learning something. Yeah, but you kind of
needed to know who those guys were when they're out,
because if you haven't seen it yet, you probably haven't
because I'm a big Beastie Boys fan and I had
it's until last night. It's a in a theater and
it's a live recording of the Beastie Boys showing pictures
and telling stories of their life. Does it ever get
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more as a documentary or does it stay like that?
It stays like I've watched an hour of it and
it stays like that the whole time, and I think
it's still interesting. But yeah, like you said, it feels
like you're not really getting the whole story because they're
kind of just telling it and lets you know them already. Yeah,
you don't feel it's connected, like, oh, you could just
go into this without knowing anything about them. And I
love the Beastie Boys, one of the most influential musical
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groups of my life when it comes to how I
modeled any of my career, not just broadcasting, but the music.
I like the music that I do kind of funny,
and for a while I was a funny hip hop
artist and you know, being a white kid, and you
see other white guys that were funny but could still
be cool. So uh yeah, So I'm not throughout one
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on how you felt about that. Will you finish them?
I will, but I won't with her. Okay, I'll probably
finish it tonight. Did your girl watch it with you? Yeah?
She liked it, but she liked but she likes the
best boys she her older brothers. Yeah yeah, Okay, Well
that's all. That's my movie topic that I brought in
for discussion. But I'm not all the way there yet,
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so I'll give you an update later, all right. So
what I want to do is get to know you
more through movies. So I guess I want to know
your favorite movies from your life and like why they
affected you. And you call them your favorite movies. Well,
it's interesting because I'm not a movie guy as much
as you are this as much as i'm not. Just
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I mean, I guess I watch them, but I never
really care to sit down for that long unless it
was a true story I could get more. It's like books.
I can very much get into a non fiction book
because I feel like i'm learning. Even if it's not
great a great book, I still feel like i'm learning.
I would compare all my media consumption for movies or
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book like to The Queen. So the movie that shows
on Netflix is called The Queen, The Queen, the Crown, Yeah,
the Crown, thank you, because it's kind of boring, but
it's just good enough. But because you're learning, you stay in.
That's how I kind of feel about my movies. So
I was thinking about this. My top three movies at
number three is probably Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Oh
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interesting because not sense I want to watch over and
over again. But that's not in my criteria for best movies.
My criteria is stages of my life, movies that affected
me the most in what way? And Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure was met for two reasons. One because it
was funny, but two I learned something in it because
in this movie, Bill and Ted are two idiot kids
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who have to go back in time to create like
an spoken report in a theater to pass and if
they don't get a great or so they fail out
of school. I have to go to a boarding school.
I haven't seen it so long, I'm yeah, yeah. So
what they do is they find this time machine with
George Carlin and they go back through history and they
meet all these famous people and Napoleon, which I was like, okay,
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I know a lord about Napoleon, but maybe you want
to learn more about Napoleon. So creates Who's also soccer
team who I? So you learn about all these folks
Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln as you're laughing and it's
a really stupid movie. I also felt myself learning and
that for the much much of my life until it
was probably nineteen or twenty was my favorite movie. I
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was just that was it. That's what I just stuck with.
The movie came out eighty nine. Were probably nine ye
watch it when it came out or would you watch
it later? Like it's a teenager? Probably when it came
out to rent because we really couldn't afford to go
the movie. It's true I went to as a young kid.
I would say twelve or below. I probably went to
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two movies, and it was they were both when my
mom met my stepdad. He took me to watch The
Babe with John Goodman because we were both big baseball
fans and a white man can't jump and enjoy both
of them, and they were sports movies and that's really
how we bonded was through sports. But I can't really
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remember going to any movie other than him taking me
to my first movies at twelve, and those were the
two that I went to. I guess that was the
same way because I remember I had I didn't go
to the movies a lot of the kid but I
had a cousin who would get everything on VHS and
that's kind of where I got all my movies from.
Like I'd be like, oh, you have all these movies
I get to watch now. Yeah, we would go to
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on because what would happen at the movie store, which
was on the way to town. You could stop at
the movie store and you could rent a movie on
Friday and pay the two ninety nine and you'd get
to keep it till Sunday. However, if you went on
Saturday and the movies were left over, because Saturday wasn't
a big, big rental day because it only got one
day to keep it, Like Thursday was Friday, Wednesday was Thursday,
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but Friday was you can bring it back Sunday. You
got that extra day because it was the same movie.
You got a half off, So if you want so,
we would go on Saturday see what was left and
we would rent movies from the you know, dollar ninety
nine or dollar twenty nine movie rental. You never got
the big ones. But I'm positive that I saw Bill
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and Ted on VHS for the first time, and it
watched it a lot of the kid I think kind
of buying it, which was crazy because I don't think
we had a VCR for a lot of time. But
that's at number three and that's really the only movie
that I'm bringing in from Childhood. So Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure that I mean, Bill and Ted's two was okay,
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wasn't that great? It was Bill and Ted and the
Grim Reaper was in it, Like I don't remember. I
remember being excited for it to come out, watch it
on VHS and it was like, it was okay. I
still loved it was Bill and Ted, but there they
just made Bill and Ted three. Yeah, hopefully they finished it.
Do we know if they finished it. I think it's
close to being finished, but it's obviously delayed to come out.
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So that number three, that number two. Well, this is
where it kind of got tricky with me because like
what movies just hit me the hardest? I guess because
I definitely wouldn't put down movies I've seen the most
as my favorite movies because that would be something on
TBS that I would stop. Hitch. I've probably seen more.
I've probably seen Hitch more than any movie just because
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it's been on so many times. So I took that
out of my sort of list of things I needed
to have my favorite movie. So then I go, okay,
what movie? Just when I finished it, I was like, oh,
and it had two I guess I can put them
bath to number two. But the one that almost made
the list was Her. It didn't make the list. But
the other one, the other one I want to pick
it takes its spot is that movie. When it finished,
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I went thank I felt that because Her before I
honorable mention. Her is about a guy who just can't
find love because he's odd, so he finds love with
an outside It was an outsider. That's really the over
art of the story. It's not so much that's an
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operating system. That's a big part of it. But the
real part of the story is guy doesn't fit in.
He finds some other way to find somebody he loves,
and it turns out it's you know, basically fall in
love with Safari on your computer. And so if you
look at it from you know, above the forest instead
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of in the trees, it's a sad romantic story. If
you look at it from in the trees, it's a
weird old guy who falls in love with a computer. Um.
I loved Her because when I turned it off, I
was like, dang, I kind of felt that I could
never fit in, never had girls. Was always like I'm
gonna have to fall in love with something or someone different. Um,
but I watched that and there's a great movie. I
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loved it that you either loved that or hated that. Yeah.
Did Spike Jones do that movie? Did it? Yeah? And
he did the Beastie Boys documents we're talking about. But
what did he do? Because here's a documentary, what does
Spike Jones do? Buy a ticket and watch it in
the theater. I think he's like doing all the stage
direction because they like call him out like during the
later on. Okay, I must not hitting the sound effects
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and like running the slides and all that he put
all that together. Okay, I was gonna say stage direction.
They just stand up the pictures. Um. So Her didn't
make it. But this movie that gave me the same
kind of feeling did, which was Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, which is the gym Ry movie. And I'm
not a big Jim Carrey guy, but I'll watch that movie.
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And it was would you eliminate all of these toxic, sad,
unworthy feelings that you have accumulated? And with him it
was her if you could like would or would you
keep them all and grow from it? And it didn't
hit me on a romantic level, but him on a
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personal level. It was like, dang, I've been to a
much crap in my life. Would I get rid of that?
Or would I am not? And you know, I thought
about it for a long time because that movie. Maybe
think about it for a long time. I still think
about that based on the movie. I may I may
have only seen that movie once or twice. Wow, but
I'm just going from the lasting feeling that it gave
me when it finished. So number two is eternal Sunshine
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of the Spotless Mind because of I still feel a
scar from that movie, like it cut me in the
right way, and that scar is still there. Have you
ever seen it? Yeah, I've probably watched it pretty recently,
like maybe within the year really, and it's I think
it still holds up. Yeah, And I remember it kind
of hit me like that too, that first line where
he like he's sitting on that train and that line
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he says about he falls in love with like any girl.
I was like, dang, that kind of hit me pretty hard. See,
I don't remember anything about it because I've only seen
it once or twice. Yeah, and I don't know if
it holds up. Almost don't want to watch it again
because and in the same way i'd never listened to
my favorite interviews on the radio show. I don't want
to remember it differently than I felt it, especially if
I felt something that a feeling that was so distinct,
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like I can remember how I felt when the movie finished.
So there are interviews in my career, Kevin Smith early,
a John Mayer interview that we did my first timeime
into Garth Brooks. I won't go back and look at
or listen to it anyway because I don't want to
look at and go, oh, that's kind of stupid. I
shouldn't have said that, or same way with probably this
movie unless someone just wanted to see it. I don't
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want to go back and go like this movie kinds
all his lame now, like it didn't hold up that well.
So that's why I seeing a movie over and over
doesn't have to fall into my category of my favorite movies.
Now I'm pricing old school thirty times. You know, if
we look at movies and go old school hitch comedies,
you can kind of watch over and over. Yeah, I
think hold up a little bit better. Yeah, Yeah, that's
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number two. Do you have any questions about that one.
I think I want to get to number one. Well,
and I'm just not a Jim Carrey fan and not
a hater, but my top two movies or Jim Carrey movies. Yeah, listen,
you like the series Steven carry though, right? Yeah? Because
you know what would be in the top five if
I were doing top five, would for sure be The
Truman Show. It's not number one, but it's in that
honorable mention because it's that you have to think outside
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of what you know. And then that's when it gets
scary for people, gets scary for me too, Like I
know what I can see in touch and I've been taught,
but what if there's something that we have no idea?
That's what Truman Show is. He has He's part of
a freaking he was born. They're watching him the whole time.
He has no idea, finally figures it out, takes a
bigger could die, you know, And if you don't look
at it as here's a guy on a boat going
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at the end and going like, here's a guy that's
risking everything to go find out what's true. People have
to do that on a much larger level a lot
of times, leaving their cultures leaving and so that movie
hit me pretty hard. That would be in top five,
but my number one have three Jim. That's crazy, and
I don't don't I'm not an anti Jim Carrey guy.
I just wouldn't think I'm a huge Jim Carrey guy.
I guess I'm a huge serious Jim Carrey guy because
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Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman and Man on the Moon
is my favorite movie ever for a couple of reasons. One,
I love Andy Kaufman. Not the funniest of performers. Andy
Kaufman never set out to be the funniest, but Andy Kaufman,
the performer who died when I was zero. Ver one
wanted to be someone who was noticed, wanted to be
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someone who was always pushing it, even if people didn't
like it. And I, of I didn't always love the
bits that Andy Kaufman did something I thought were lame,
but I think that that's pretty amazing that he would
go out and try stuff that could bomb their face
off and be like, well that didn't work, what else
can I do to see? I admired that about him
as a performer, and all the stuffs highlighted that we
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worked really great for him, the wrestling, the having an
opening act in front of him that was actually him,
and then later got um, you know, he got one
of his buddies in it too, his manager. So I
loved Andy Kaufman now to make that story because I
was already such a big Andy Kaufman fan, But like history,
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it would be like somebody now loving like a musician
now who's thirty years old, loving Johnny Cash and like
watching Johnny Cash documentaries. That that's what it was like
with Andy Kaufman. Because I knew I wanted to be
a performer. I knew I was never gonna be a
straight stand up because that was not the skill that
I decided to pursue early on. And I'm not particularly
talented at writing jokes with punchlines. I think you're a
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far better writer of jokes than I am. But I
knew I could go out, get on a stage and
perform doing whatever I needed to do. Some stand up sure,
some music sure, some improv absolutely, and some even the
jokes that I would do in my early attempts when
I was touring at comedy. I just love to make
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the audience feel awkward. I just I love that feeling
of like the air being sucked out of the room.
And I had a couple of jokes that I would do.
I don't do them any more books. I wrote them
in my last book. But it was by the way
that the setup is. You know, on Facebook, you get
to think friends you may know, and it's like all
these people that aren't your friends right now, but it
goes friends you may know, all the pictures and I
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just a little bit about Facebook, and I was like,
you know, I just got one of those friends you
may know notifications and it was my biological father. The
weird thing is I don't And then I would just
sit and it was really uncomfortable. Sometimes thatsep really uncontable.
Some people would laugh and I'd be like, this is
a messed up it. Sometimes you hear laughing. Some people
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wouldn't get it. It would just be weird. But I
would just sit so long to let people figure it out.
And then you'd hear some booze or or come on
or groans, and I'm like, all right, sorry, sorry, sorry,
And I would follow that up with the joke. Fine,
we'll do something. We'll break it up here. I'll do
an impression, not the best of impressions, but I'm now
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going to do an impression of my biological father, and
I'd walk off the stage and leave and I would
just sit on the side. You see me do it
something that sit out there longer than others, and the
crowd didn't know how to react. And I love it,
and I would love it when it would be the
most uncomfortable. And but that's one one one thousandth of
what Andy Kaufman did. And you know, he's kind of
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what inspired me even in my earliest radio days early
to mid when we would do really uncomfortable stuff on
the air, meaning we wanted to see reactions people alive.
But so I'm a big Andy Kaufman fan for someone
to go into that movie and nail it like Jim
Carrey did with a bit of his own spin. But
I don't think he put that much on it because
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I think he also was a massive Andy Kaufman fan,
so he wanted to keep it as true as possible.
For the movie to be good and written, well, big
big deal for Jim Carrey to nail it and for
it just to come together. I thought, who I was
nervous watching it, but it was so good it meant
everything that I want. It was somebody I already loved.
It was a great story about him, and it was
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an actor nailing it. It was The Three Things You Want.
So that's my favorite movie because of that. I don't
know that if Andy Kaufman wasn't someone that I admired
and Jim Carrey didn't nail him, that I would feel
that way about that movie. But I went into it
going love it. I loved Howard Stern's private parts. Oh yeah,
don't know. If I never had known Howard Stern wasn't
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he wasn't a big influence on how I do radio,
that I would have felt the way about them. I
don't know. Maybe it gets people love it, but it's
just people who love Stern. I love Howard Stern, but
that's it. It's those three. It's number three Bill and
Ted's exle Adventure because of the funny and the learning.
Number two Jim Carrey an Eternal Sunshine at the Spotless
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Mind because it cut me and there's still a scar
that I can see today. And then number one is
Andy coffin Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey in that
because he nailed the character. I love Andy coffin. It
was a well written story, and then it just heads
a perfect ending, a perfect ending for that movie and
that story. What I want to get into now is
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one of I think the arguments that we've We've had
some arguments, but I think this one's the biggest one
we've ever had, and I wanted to get into it
about the Marvel Universe cool of that. Yeah. Now, I'm
not a Marvel expert by any means. Okay, I don't
know that. I haven't seen all the movies. I've seen
all the Avengers and not I didn't rush to see them.
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So you will win this argument because I don't have
enough history. I don't know the fact. Okay, I haven't
seen I've price seen half of them. Okay, so go
hit me with it. I'm going into this though, Okay,
a little underweight, all right. Well, the thing is, I've
had this idea of an episode that I'm going to
do of retelling. Instead of remaking a movie and rebooting
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a movie, you do a movie from a different perspective.
So I was thinking of, like if you took the
Avengers and switched it as Danos is the good guy, yes,
and it's the Avengers trying to stop his plan. But
you have a theory that Danos is actually a good
guy in the Avengers movies. Well, and I said this
as soon as I finished the movie. I was like, wow, man,
if you just tell the story on the other side
of it, Danos is not the bad guy. And people
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act like I'd kicked their puppy man because in the
version we see Thanos is the bad guy. Because we
have a relationship with all the quote unquote good characters.
We know them, we know their backstories. Again, you can
crepe me on facts because I've only seen it once. Okay,
but I just think I remember in US went and
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destroyed a bunch of planets, right, Yes, killed lots of
people to collect stones, because once you have enough stones,
you then have control of the universe, control everything. Yet right,
and the reason he wanted control of everything is because
back on his planet, he saw it die because it
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was overpopulated. There weren't enough resources for everyone, and so
not only did see everybody die, he saw everybody struggling
for a long time until they died. And so he goes,
I don't want that to happen to the world. So
he had to make the decision of I would rather
collect all the stones and eliminate half the people, and
those people have a real shot to thrive and keep
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the planets going than to not and let everything die
by itself. Anyway, Now, I don't know that he was
right or wrong ideologically, he has a point. I would
even compare it too rough comparison. Here, here's here's your
headlines to this podcast. But by the way, I don't think.
I think Thanos had a different idea. And I think
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if we saw before I get to my point, if
we saw Thanos as a kid growing up and why
he had to make tough decisions and the abuse that
he went through to get to this point and feel
this way, if that movie was from the very start
and Thanos was beat and it's hungry, and he's like,
when I grew up, I'm not gonna let this happen
to the planet. I have to make the tough choice
that some people have to die to save the others.
I will rather than everyone die because I don't want
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to see everyone die, because that's what was gonna happen.
He saw that happen on this planet. Him seeing hardship
inspired him to do this. That's what's forgotten in this movie.
Him seeing people struggling and dying, him seeing the super
bad made him want to go and stop that. So
ideologically he was different. We just saw the Avengers as
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the good guys. We grew up with them. We know, Yeah,
you know how you're gonna root against somebody from America
when you're in America. I would say in a different
way the people. Now, let's say, with coronavirus going on,
people that are like, you know what, let's just let
people go out and run the account. We'd rather have
the economy stay up and have people go out and
if they get sick, they get sick. But we'd rather
see the economy thrive. If people get sick and some die,
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that's just what happens. I think that's a bit of
just two ideological differences. Some people go and keep everybody in,
nobody gets sick, the economy crashes. Some go, you know what,
if some have to die so the economy can stay up,
then that's like Thanos. Yeah, it's weird having that parallels
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now it Yeah, Thanos is like I would rather see
some people go down. But the basis like the reason
that we exist as a society like to have a
shot rather than not the perfect analogy. But still I
can see two ideals competing with each other, and depending
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who's telling the story and what their situation is, it
could be right from either side. I don't think Thanos
was just a pure villain, And I think if you
saw him growing up and I had to make those decisions,
because again, the core of his decision was he saw
people dying and didn't want that to happen everybody else,
that's it. There's no it gets no more core than
that he saw death and destruction and didn't want that
for everybody. See I could see that, but I think
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there's a point where he kind of turns and he
ends up doing it at a spite rather than him
trying to save people. And I think it's more becomes
that he wants to have all the power. And there's
really nothing saying that by eliminating half the population that
everything will be able to sustain itself. But there is
saying that if you don't eliminate and there isn't overpopulation,
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that nothing will sustain itself. But when if he took
that power and doubled resources, there is something else like that,
and did it for good, created a new planet. I
don't remember the whole story here, and what all I'm
saying is at the core Thanos, that's not a villain.
He only did all of that because he saw death, sadness, poverty.
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That's so why did everything? Now, he may have made
some wrong decisions amongst the way it could have been.
We all are polluted with different I've been guilty of
it too, killing people. But you know, as you grow,
you have good things that come to you and bad
and you're trying to figure it out as you go.
My only thing one and I may not be right
on all those facts. I haven't seen the movie, but
once is that Thanos, if shown from a different director writer,
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he's a good guy. But that's just the killing part
that messes with people. Yeah, but if you don't think everything,
all these countries are killing people for their own causes anyway,
every country, they're all killing people for their own causes. Well,
because then what they don't what he wanted to do
an endgame was I don't you're now you're out of it.
I don't even know. I'm not even talking about the storylines.
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All I remember is going Danos a gatting a bad Rector.
He was only doing all of this so everyone didn't suffer.
He made the tough decision. In his heart, he'd rather
see some people die so some people could thrive rather
than everybody dies slowly. So right or wrong, I'm not
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on team Thanos, but I definitely didn't think he deserved
to be the super villain that he was. When the
movie was out and all I said, and it's it's funny,
this is lastic because it gets brought to me all
the time. All I said was, I don't think he's
the villain if you tell that story from his side.
But throughout history you can tell the story from almost
any one side that's the villain, and they're the good guy.
No villain ever thinks they're the bad guy. By the way.
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They're all fighting for a just cause in their mind.
So and the good guys are the ones that win,
by the way, throughout history, the stories that we know
of the good guys we won. That's why that's why
we're here, if we I just drank a big sparkling
water for this thing, okay, but then that's that's not
really where he wanted to go. But that's why I
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think that is was probably a bad dude by the
end of it, But I don't think he was a
bad I don't think he was a villain for his cause.
That's right. You've been You've been changed a little bit
by not a lot a bit. Yeah, okay, all right.
The last thing I want to get into is I
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did an episode a couple of weeks ago about one
Hit Wonder actors, and you actually submitted yourself for Bandslam?
Did I? Yeah? Was that on Instagram story? On Instagram story.
So people may not know, but back in two thousand
and nine, you were in a movie called band Slam.
So I had five questions for you about that movie.
That was two thousand and nine. Two thousand and nine.
I had that dopey hair at twenty nine years old.
Holy crap. Wow, okay, go ahead, all right, So band
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Slam two thousand and nine. Did you audition for it? Yeah?
He did? I did. Man, I haven't thought about this
since that. Wow, I did audition for that movie. What
was that? Like? Someone called me and said, Hey, they're
doing this movie. They're shooting it in Austin because they
can use the University of Texas there in musicum and
it was cheaper to shoot movies and Texas at the time.
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Now Louisiana's a big hub for movies, but it was
until recently. It's all about taxes, right, That's why a
lot of stuff is in Canada. Yeah, you can shoot
it for less. So they're like, they're shooting this, but
they have a role of a guy named Gordy which
was my name at first, who hosts a big competition.
You have some lines you're it's like at the time,
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it was like nineteen lines. He got cut weight down
to nine I think by the time it was over.
But you have like nineteen lines. But they need someone
who's like, you know, in his twenties and it's cool,
and I was like, well that. So I went and
there was a long line wrapped around the building of
guys that were good looking, like lots of hair, jail,
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lots of the actor type. And so I went a
pair of jeans and a white T shirt because I
didn't know what I was doing. I remember thinking I
was gonna be the only one the audition because I
thought they just hadn't ready for me. I was like, oh,
I gotta by to do this movie with a bunch
of people. So I went into this room. This is
just a room, like a bedroom at a house. And
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there were two people sitting behind the long table and
they're like, okay, ridge lines. I didn't memorize mine. I
guess most people did because I'm a script in my hand.
And so I was like, oh, can you belie the
gonna play the show here? This one man, They're never
gonna be And they were like all right, thank you
very much, and I left. That was it. I never
thought I was gonna get a call back because it
didn't go well in the room. I thought because they
showed me no emotion, nothing. It was like, wow, that
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was great. They didn't say it was great, it was good.
They was like, all right, thanks a lot. Now walking
I was like, dang, I must have really sucked. And
they called me back and they said, hey, you're one
of the best ones. Come back again. I went back again.
I was the only person there at the second time.
I think they were they just had to spread out
a little more. And I gotta call and said, hey,
you're in, and you're considered because you have this many
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many lines, you're a principal actor. And so I had
my own trailer I had. I was on the biggest
level with the lowest amount of work and money. Wow,
Like I was if in the a less part of
that movie. It was Vanessa Hudgins, it was Lisa kudro
Phoebe from Friends. It was Scott who was in Finding
at Lights. Yeah, I forgot Scott's last name. So there
were these actors and of the principles, I was the
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bottom of the barrel, but I was higher than all
the extras and mids. So I had my own umbrella
carrier to make sure my makeup would sweat. I had
got on my clothes, I had a trailer. It was crazy.
I got paid three or four thousand dollars a day.
Oh wow, for about seven days. I remember making about
twenty twenty eight twenty nine thousand dollars on that movie
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for a week's work. That's pretty good. Yeah, it wasn't
what they made obvious. Yeah, but that's what I got.
Do you still get checks from it? Yeah, but it's
like sins. Yeah, three cents, twelve cents. Sometimes I'll get
a dollar ten or something like that. So that was
that movie. How many days did you actually film a week?
I mean it was a week straight. The thing that
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stunk was again I was a principal, so they kept
us all together. We ate together, and again I didn't
know anybody because I wasn't a real actor. I didn't
know any of them, so they didn't really let me
in their cool group, and they would all pretty much
all the princes blocks be like, all right, we're gonna
go play Super Nintendo and we're gonna have at this party.
I was never invited anything because they didn't know me.
And I also had the radio show, so I did
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the radio show all the morning and go straight over
so some of the bonding stuff it was late at
night I couldn't go to anyway. But I never really
got invited to do anything. Did you end up meeting
all the co stars? Yeah, at least Coucho was really nice.
We sat in a makeup chair beside each other for
like an hour one day and she was super nice.
It was really going. She played the mom on that movie. Yeah,
it's one of the only time we spoke, but yeah,
I met her. Vanessa Hudgens was okay. Um the Scott
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I wish I had his last name, but he was.
He was really nice. Are you surprised that it has
an eighty one percent rating on Ryan Tomatoes. Yeah. Wow,
I'm I was surprised that it when it came out
that it didn't make more at the box office, because
I don't think it did well. I made five million
opening weekend and twelve million throughout the run while it
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was up. Yeah, so you're talking about movie. They didn't
do that well financially, but it kept getting shown everywhere.
Every time I would see like a weekend of rare
weird movies on Disney that would be like showing movies
all it would pop up. That's why I first I
saw it on TV, and now I would get checks
on it would air on TBS, so it would for
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some reason. It still airs now occasionly because people keep
sending me pictures of me with my big curly hair. Yeah.
Sometimes movie channels will repick it back up and put
it into rotation, which sometimes people say, like these movies bomb,
but they end up making money back when they get
put into syndication and stuff like that. Well, this was
no big financial risk for the movie makers. I mean,
for making a movie was expensive, I'm sure, but I'm
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saying it wasn't like one hundred million dollars movie. And
it's twenty million. It wasn't water World. Yeah, so yeah,
that was fun. I forgot it has been a long time.
And then, um, would you ever do another movie? It's
just the time you have to be on set and
shoot things ten eleven, twelve times. Sure, it'll be tough
to do it right now, but I could if it
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was the right role. You get offered stuff, some small stuff,
but I don't put myself in the mix for it either.
You mostly have to audition. Even some of the big
actors have to go on audition for stuff. Yeah, and
so I don't get offered stuff, no, as far as
movies that people would see. But I do get offered
to go audition for stuff, and I just never want
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to go do it. The only things I get offered
are like super Indica type stuff. Can They just want
anyone to be in it, will promote it. So that's like, hey,
let's go buy a real because if he talks about it,
people might see it. So the answer is no, not really.
All right, Well there we go. I'm big movie star,
movie star, first movie star, first actor. Nice. All right,
Well thanks for hanging out, Yeah, all right, we'll talk
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to you later. All right, that's the episode for this week.
Hope you enjoyed that one. Before I get out of here,
I gotta do my Instagram shout out of the week today.
It's going to at Voting Words on Instagram aka Ryan Garcia,
who posted on his Instagram story that he was listening
to last week's episode. He says, this Monday morning ritual.
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So thanks Ryan for listening every single week. If you
want an Instagram shout out or a Twitter shout out,
all you have to do is either tag me in
your Instagram story or tweet me at Mike Distro. I'll
try to retweet and post those in my story as
I see them, and then I'll give you a shout
out on next week's episode. And I got one other
thing to ask you, guys, So I want Bobby to
(34:38):
know that people listen to this episode, that I didn't
waste his time, and that I can get him to
come back on another episode. But what I need you
guys to do is go to his Instagram at mister
Bobby Bones and tag me in a comment saying that
you listen to this week's episode. So just whatever post
is up there right now, when you listen to this episode,
(34:58):
just go say hey, I listened to you on Movie
Mike's podcast and tag me in that so we can
let them know that you should come back and do
another episode. All right, go do that for me. Thanks
for listening. I will talk to you guys next week
later
Hey, what up, guys, It's Mike d thanks for listening
to the Bobby Bones Show. And we have a bunch
of podcasts here on the Nashville Podcast Network, and I
wanted to share an episode of my podcast with you guys.
It's called Movie Mike's Movie Podcast, where all I do
is talk about movies, and in this episode, I got
to interview Bobby, which is a rare kind of turn
of events of me getting to ask him questions. And
what I did. I just asked him about his favorite
(00:21):
movies from his life, and it ended up getting pretty
personal and I found out some things about him that
I didn't even know, so who knew asking Bobby about
his favorite movies would reveal some stuff. And I also
got to ask him about the movie he did back
in the day called Bandslam, and he actually told me
how much he made on that, how he got cast
in that it had to do an audition for it.
So I thought this was a pretty cool episode to
(00:41):
share with you guys, just a taste of kind of
what I do on my podcast, just bringing on people
to talk about movies. I talk about different kind of
topics and movies. So if you enjoyed this episode and
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Podcast wherever you're listening to this right now, hit that
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love for you to come hang out and be a
(01:02):
part of it. So here's the episode with Bobby. Hope
you enjoy it. You can also follow me on Instagram
at Mike dstro That's Mike d e s t r O.
All right, here we go in a world where everyone
and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to
infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a
movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge. He's
(01:26):
basically like a walking on MTV with dues from the
Nashville Podcast Networks Movie a movie Podcast. All right, joining
me now on the podcast, we have Bobby Bones. Never
heard of them, never heard of this guy. I've never
interviewed you before, so it'll be a bit different today. Well,
(01:46):
I tend to take it my own way, so feel
free to stop me. But let me start by saying it. Okay,
I started watching the movie about the Beastie Boys last night. Yeah,
I know it's a movie. Podcast started it last night too.
I don't like how I don't like how they put
it together, how it's a live show. I want a
documentary the Best Boys. Yeah, that got me a bit off,
(02:08):
and I was trying to watch with Kalin and I
would have been into it enough to sit through all
of it like that, but that was a struggle for her.
I just I don't like how it's format it now.
I only watched again right a sixth of it. That's
it well, because she wasn't feeling it, okay, she didn't
know the guys on stage. I think if it were
a documentary, a good documentary, you can watch without knowing
(02:30):
anything personally about it. You can just jump in and
go while I'm learning something. Yeah, but you kind of
needed to know who those guys were when they're out,
because if you haven't seen it yet, you probably haven't
because I'm a big Beastie Boys fan and I had
it's until last night. It's a in a theater and
it's a live recording of the Beastie Boys showing pictures
and telling stories of their life. Does it ever get
(02:51):
more as a documentary or does it stay like that?
It stays like I've watched an hour of it and
it stays like that the whole time, and I think
it's still interesting. But yeah, like you said, it feels
like you're not really getting the whole story because they're
kind of just telling it and lets you know them already. Yeah,
you don't feel it's connected, like, oh, you could just
go into this without knowing anything about them. And I
love the Beastie Boys, one of the most influential musical
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groups of my life when it comes to how I
modeled any of my career, not just broadcasting, but the music.
I like the music that I do kind of funny,
and for a while I was a funny hip hop
artist and you know, being a white kid, and you
see other white guys that were funny but could still
be cool. So uh yeah, So I'm not throughout one
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on how you felt about that. Will you finish them?
I will, but I won't with her. Okay, I'll probably
finish it tonight. Did your girl watch it with you? Yeah?
She liked it, but she liked but she likes the
best boys she her older brothers. Yeah yeah, Okay, Well
that's all. That's my movie topic that I brought in
for discussion. But I'm not all the way there yet,
(03:57):
so I'll give you an update later, all right. So
what I want to do is get to know you
more through movies. So I guess I want to know
your favorite movies from your life and like why they
affected you. And you call them your favorite movies. Well,
it's interesting because I'm not a movie guy as much
as you are this as much as i'm not. Just
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I mean, I guess I watch them, but I never
really care to sit down for that long unless it
was a true story I could get more. It's like books.
I can very much get into a non fiction book
because I feel like i'm learning. Even if it's not
great a great book, I still feel like i'm learning.
I would compare all my media consumption for movies or
(04:38):
book like to The Queen. So the movie that shows
on Netflix is called The Queen, The Queen, the Crown, Yeah,
the Crown, thank you, because it's kind of boring, but
it's just good enough. But because you're learning, you stay in.
That's how I kind of feel about my movies. So
I was thinking about this. My top three movies at
number three is probably Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Oh
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interesting because not sense I want to watch over and
over again. But that's not in my criteria for best movies.
My criteria is stages of my life, movies that affected
me the most in what way? And Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure was met for two reasons. One because it
was funny, but two I learned something in it because
in this movie, Bill and Ted are two idiot kids
(05:23):
who have to go back in time to create like
an spoken report in a theater to pass and if
they don't get a great or so they fail out
of school. I have to go to a boarding school.
I haven't seen it so long, I'm yeah, yeah. So
what they do is they find this time machine with
George Carlin and they go back through history and they
meet all these famous people and Napoleon, which I was like, okay,
(05:47):
I know a lord about Napoleon, but maybe you want
to learn more about Napoleon. So creates Who's also soccer
team who I? So you learn about all these folks
Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln as you're laughing and it's
a really stupid movie. I also felt myself learning and
that for the much much of my life until it
was probably nineteen or twenty was my favorite movie. I
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was just that was it. That's what I just stuck with.
The movie came out eighty nine. Were probably nine ye
watch it when it came out or would you watch
it later? Like it's a teenager? Probably when it came
out to rent because we really couldn't afford to go
the movie. It's true I went to as a young kid.
I would say twelve or below. I probably went to
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two movies, and it was they were both when my
mom met my stepdad. He took me to watch The
Babe with John Goodman because we were both big baseball
fans and a white man can't jump and enjoy both
of them, and they were sports movies and that's really
how we bonded was through sports. But I can't really
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remember going to any movie other than him taking me
to my first movies at twelve, and those were the
two that I went to. I guess that was the
same way because I remember I had I didn't go
to the movies a lot of the kid but I
had a cousin who would get everything on VHS and
that's kind of where I got all my movies from.
Like I'd be like, oh, you have all these movies
I get to watch now. Yeah, we would go to
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on because what would happen at the movie store, which
was on the way to town. You could stop at
the movie store and you could rent a movie on
Friday and pay the two ninety nine and you'd get
to keep it till Sunday. However, if you went on
Saturday and the movies were left over, because Saturday wasn't
a big, big rental day because it only got one
day to keep it, Like Thursday was Friday, Wednesday was Thursday,
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but Friday was you can bring it back Sunday. You
got that extra day because it was the same movie.
You got a half off, So if you want so,
we would go on Saturday see what was left and
we would rent movies from the you know, dollar ninety
nine or dollar twenty nine movie rental. You never got
the big ones. But I'm positive that I saw Bill
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and Ted on VHS for the first time, and it
watched it a lot of the kid I think kind
of buying it, which was crazy because I don't think
we had a VCR for a lot of time. But
that's at number three and that's really the only movie
that I'm bringing in from Childhood. So Bill and Ted's
Excellent Adventure that I mean, Bill and Ted's two was okay,
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wasn't that great? It was Bill and Ted and the
Grim Reaper was in it, Like I don't remember. I
remember being excited for it to come out, watch it
on VHS and it was like, it was okay. I
still loved it was Bill and Ted, but there they
just made Bill and Ted three. Yeah, hopefully they finished it.
Do we know if they finished it. I think it's
close to being finished, but it's obviously delayed to come out.
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So that number three, that number two. Well, this is
where it kind of got tricky with me because like
what movies just hit me the hardest? I guess because
I definitely wouldn't put down movies I've seen the most
as my favorite movies because that would be something on
TBS that I would stop. Hitch. I've probably seen more.
I've probably seen Hitch more than any movie just because
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it's been on so many times. So I took that
out of my sort of list of things I needed
to have my favorite movie. So then I go, okay,
what movie? Just when I finished it, I was like, oh,
and it had two I guess I can put them
bath to number two. But the one that almost made
the list was Her. It didn't make the list. But
the other one, the other one I want to pick
it takes its spot is that movie. When it finished,
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I went thank I felt that because Her before I
honorable mention. Her is about a guy who just can't
find love because he's odd, so he finds love with
an outside It was an outsider. That's really the over
art of the story. It's not so much that's an
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operating system. That's a big part of it. But the
real part of the story is guy doesn't fit in.
He finds some other way to find somebody he loves,
and it turns out it's you know, basically fall in
love with Safari on your computer. And so if you
look at it from you know, above the forest instead
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of in the trees, it's a sad romantic story. If
you look at it from in the trees, it's a
weird old guy who falls in love with a computer. Um.
I loved Her because when I turned it off, I
was like, dang, I kind of felt that I could
never fit in, never had girls. Was always like I'm
gonna have to fall in love with something or someone different. Um,
but I watched that and there's a great movie. I
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loved it that you either loved that or hated that. Yeah.
Did Spike Jones do that movie? Did it? Yeah? And
he did the Beastie Boys documents we're talking about. But
what did he do? Because here's a documentary, what does
Spike Jones do? Buy a ticket and watch it in
the theater. I think he's like doing all the stage
direction because they like call him out like during the
later on. Okay, I must not hitting the sound effects
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and like running the slides and all that he put
all that together. Okay, I was gonna say stage direction.
They just stand up the pictures. Um. So Her didn't
make it. But this movie that gave me the same
kind of feeling did, which was Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, which is the gym Ry movie. And I'm
not a big Jim Carrey guy, but I'll watch that movie.
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And it was would you eliminate all of these toxic, sad,
unworthy feelings that you have accumulated? And with him it
was her if you could like would or would you
keep them all and grow from it? And it didn't
hit me on a romantic level, but him on a
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personal level. It was like, dang, I've been to a
much crap in my life. Would I get rid of that?
Or would I am not? And you know, I thought
about it for a long time because that movie. Maybe
think about it for a long time. I still think
about that based on the movie. I may I may
have only seen that movie once or twice. Wow, but
I'm just going from the lasting feeling that it gave
me when it finished. So number two is eternal Sunshine
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of the Spotless Mind because of I still feel a
scar from that movie, like it cut me in the
right way, and that scar is still there. Have you
ever seen it? Yeah, I've probably watched it pretty recently,
like maybe within the year really, and it's I think
it still holds up. Yeah, And I remember it kind
of hit me like that too, that first line where
he like he's sitting on that train and that line
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he says about he falls in love with like any girl.
I was like, dang, that kind of hit me pretty hard. See,
I don't remember anything about it because I've only seen
it once or twice. Yeah, and I don't know if
it holds up. Almost don't want to watch it again
because and in the same way i'd never listened to
my favorite interviews on the radio show. I don't want
to remember it differently than I felt it, especially if
I felt something that a feeling that was so distinct,
(12:36):
like I can remember how I felt when the movie finished.
So there are interviews in my career, Kevin Smith early,
a John Mayer interview that we did my first timeime
into Garth Brooks. I won't go back and look at
or listen to it anyway because I don't want to
look at and go, oh, that's kind of stupid. I
shouldn't have said that, or same way with probably this
movie unless someone just wanted to see it. I don't
(12:58):
want to go back and go like this movie kinds
all his lame now, like it didn't hold up that well.
So that's why I seeing a movie over and over
doesn't have to fall into my category of my favorite movies.
Now I'm pricing old school thirty times. You know, if
we look at movies and go old school hitch comedies,
you can kind of watch over and over. Yeah, I
think hold up a little bit better. Yeah, Yeah, that's
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number two. Do you have any questions about that one.
I think I want to get to number one. Well,
and I'm just not a Jim Carrey fan and not
a hater, but my top two movies or Jim Carrey movies. Yeah, listen,
you like the series Steven carry though, right? Yeah? Because
you know what would be in the top five if
I were doing top five, would for sure be The
Truman Show. It's not number one, but it's in that
honorable mention because it's that you have to think outside
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of what you know. And then that's when it gets
scary for people, gets scary for me too, Like I
know what I can see in touch and I've been taught,
but what if there's something that we have no idea?
That's what Truman Show is. He has He's part of
a freaking he was born. They're watching him the whole time.
He has no idea, finally figures it out, takes a
bigger could die, you know, And if you don't look
at it as here's a guy on a boat going
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at the end and going like, here's a guy that's
risking everything to go find out what's true. People have
to do that on a much larger level a lot
of times, leaving their cultures leaving and so that movie
hit me pretty hard. That would be in top five,
but my number one have three Jim. That's crazy, and
I don't don't I'm not an anti Jim Carrey guy.
I just wouldn't think I'm a huge Jim Carrey guy.
I guess I'm a huge serious Jim Carrey guy because
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Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman and Man on the Moon
is my favorite movie ever for a couple of reasons. One,
I love Andy Kaufman. Not the funniest of performers. Andy
Kaufman never set out to be the funniest, but Andy Kaufman,
the performer who died when I was zero. Ver one
wanted to be someone who was noticed, wanted to be
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someone who was always pushing it, even if people didn't
like it. And I, of I didn't always love the
bits that Andy Kaufman did something I thought were lame,
but I think that that's pretty amazing that he would
go out and try stuff that could bomb their face
off and be like, well that didn't work, what else
can I do to see? I admired that about him
as a performer, and all the stuffs highlighted that we
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worked really great for him, the wrestling, the having an
opening act in front of him that was actually him,
and then later got um, you know, he got one
of his buddies in it too, his manager. So I
loved Andy Kaufman now to make that story because I
was already such a big Andy Kaufman fan, But like history,
(15:38):
it would be like somebody now loving like a musician
now who's thirty years old, loving Johnny Cash and like
watching Johnny Cash documentaries. That that's what it was like
with Andy Kaufman. Because I knew I wanted to be
a performer. I knew I was never gonna be a
straight stand up because that was not the skill that
I decided to pursue early on. And I'm not particularly
talented at writing jokes with punchlines. I think you're a
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far better writer of jokes than I am. But I
knew I could go out, get on a stage and
perform doing whatever I needed to do. Some stand up sure,
some music sure, some improv absolutely, and some even the
jokes that I would do in my early attempts when
I was touring at comedy. I just love to make
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the audience feel awkward. I just I love that feeling
of like the air being sucked out of the room.
And I had a couple of jokes that I would do.
I don't do them any more books. I wrote them
in my last book. But it was by the way
that the setup is. You know, on Facebook, you get
to think friends you may know, and it's like all
these people that aren't your friends right now, but it
goes friends you may know, all the pictures and I
(16:42):
just a little bit about Facebook, and I was like,
you know, I just got one of those friends you
may know notifications and it was my biological father. The
weird thing is I don't And then I would just
sit and it was really uncomfortable. Sometimes thatsep really uncontable.
Some people would laugh and I'd be like, this is
a messed up it. Sometimes you hear laughing. Some people
(17:02):
wouldn't get it. It would just be weird. But I
would just sit so long to let people figure it out.
And then you'd hear some booze or or come on
or groans, and I'm like, all right, sorry, sorry, sorry,
And I would follow that up with the joke. Fine,
we'll do something. We'll break it up here. I'll do
an impression, not the best of impressions, but I'm now
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going to do an impression of my biological father, and
I'd walk off the stage and leave and I would
just sit on the side. You see me do it
something that sit out there longer than others, and the
crowd didn't know how to react. And I love it,
and I would love it when it would be the
most uncomfortable. And but that's one one one thousandth of
what Andy Kaufman did. And you know, he's kind of
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what inspired me even in my earliest radio days early
to mid when we would do really uncomfortable stuff on
the air, meaning we wanted to see reactions people alive.
But so I'm a big Andy Kaufman fan for someone
to go into that movie and nail it like Jim
Carrey did with a bit of his own spin. But
I don't think he put that much on it because
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I think he also was a massive Andy Kaufman fan,
so he wanted to keep it as true as possible.
For the movie to be good and written, well, big
big deal for Jim Carrey to nail it and for
it just to come together. I thought, who I was
nervous watching it, but it was so good it meant
everything that I want. It was somebody I already loved.
It was a great story about him, and it was
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an actor nailing it. It was The Three Things You Want.
So that's my favorite movie because of that. I don't
know that if Andy Kaufman wasn't someone that I admired
and Jim Carrey didn't nail him, that I would feel
that way about that movie. But I went into it
going love it. I loved Howard Stern's private parts. Oh yeah,
don't know. If I never had known Howard Stern wasn't
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he wasn't a big influence on how I do radio,
that I would have felt the way about them. I
don't know. Maybe it gets people love it, but it's
just people who love Stern. I love Howard Stern, but
that's it. It's those three. It's number three Bill and
Ted's exle Adventure because of the funny and the learning.
Number two Jim Carrey an Eternal Sunshine at the Spotless
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Mind because it cut me and there's still a scar
that I can see today. And then number one is
Andy coffin Man on the Moon, Jim Carrey in that
because he nailed the character. I love Andy coffin. It
was a well written story, and then it just heads
a perfect ending, a perfect ending for that movie and
that story. What I want to get into now is
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one of I think the arguments that we've We've had
some arguments, but I think this one's the biggest one
we've ever had, and I wanted to get into it
about the Marvel Universe cool of that. Yeah. Now, I'm
not a Marvel expert by any means. Okay, I don't
know that. I haven't seen all the movies. I've seen
all the Avengers and not I didn't rush to see them.
(19:55):
So you will win this argument because I don't have
enough history. I don't know the fact. Okay, I haven't
seen I've price seen half of them. Okay, so go
hit me with it. I'm going into this though, Okay,
a little underweight, all right. Well, the thing is, I've
had this idea of an episode that I'm going to
do of retelling. Instead of remaking a movie and rebooting
(20:17):
a movie, you do a movie from a different perspective.
So I was thinking of, like if you took the
Avengers and switched it as Danos is the good guy, yes,
and it's the Avengers trying to stop his plan. But
you have a theory that Danos is actually a good
guy in the Avengers movies. Well, and I said this
as soon as I finished the movie. I was like, wow, man,
if you just tell the story on the other side
of it, Danos is not the bad guy. And people
(20:38):
act like I'd kicked their puppy man because in the
version we see Thanos is the bad guy. Because we
have a relationship with all the quote unquote good characters.
We know them, we know their backstories. Again, you can
crepe me on facts because I've only seen it once. Okay,
but I just think I remember in US went and
(21:02):
destroyed a bunch of planets, right, Yes, killed lots of
people to collect stones, because once you have enough stones,
you then have control of the universe, control everything. Yet right,
and the reason he wanted control of everything is because
back on his planet, he saw it die because it
(21:24):
was overpopulated. There weren't enough resources for everyone, and so
not only did see everybody die, he saw everybody struggling
for a long time until they died. And so he goes,
I don't want that to happen to the world. So
he had to make the decision of I would rather
collect all the stones and eliminate half the people, and
those people have a real shot to thrive and keep
(21:45):
the planets going than to not and let everything die
by itself. Anyway, Now, I don't know that he was
right or wrong ideologically, he has a point. I would
even compare it too rough comparison. Here, here's here's your
headlines to this podcast. But by the way, I don't think.
I think Thanos had a different idea. And I think
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if we saw before I get to my point, if
we saw Thanos as a kid growing up and why
he had to make tough decisions and the abuse that
he went through to get to this point and feel
this way, if that movie was from the very start
and Thanos was beat and it's hungry, and he's like,
when I grew up, I'm not gonna let this happen
to the planet. I have to make the tough choice
that some people have to die to save the others.
I will rather than everyone die because I don't want
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to see everyone die, because that's what was gonna happen.
He saw that happen on this planet. Him seeing hardship
inspired him to do this. That's what's forgotten in this movie.
Him seeing people struggling and dying, him seeing the super
bad made him want to go and stop that. So
ideologically he was different. We just saw the Avengers as
(22:48):
the good guys. We grew up with them. We know, Yeah,
you know how you're gonna root against somebody from America
when you're in America. I would say in a different
way the people. Now, let's say, with coronavirus going on,
people that are like, you know what, let's just let
people go out and run the account. We'd rather have
the economy stay up and have people go out and
if they get sick, they get sick. But we'd rather
see the economy thrive. If people get sick and some die,
(23:11):
that's just what happens. I think that's a bit of
just two ideological differences. Some people go and keep everybody in,
nobody gets sick, the economy crashes. Some go, you know what,
if some have to die so the economy can stay up,
then that's like Thanos. Yeah, it's weird having that parallels
(23:32):
now it Yeah, Thanos is like I would rather see
some people go down. But the basis like the reason
that we exist as a society like to have a
shot rather than not the perfect analogy. But still I
can see two ideals competing with each other, and depending
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who's telling the story and what their situation is, it
could be right from either side. I don't think Thanos
was just a pure villain, And I think if you
saw him growing up and I had to make those decisions,
because again, the core of his decision was he saw
people dying and didn't want that to happen everybody else,
that's it. There's no it gets no more core than
that he saw death and destruction and didn't want that
for everybody. See I could see that, but I think
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there's a point where he kind of turns and he
ends up doing it at a spite rather than him
trying to save people. And I think it's more becomes
that he wants to have all the power. And there's
really nothing saying that by eliminating half the population that
everything will be able to sustain itself. But there is
saying that if you don't eliminate and there isn't overpopulation,
(24:40):
that nothing will sustain itself. But when if he took
that power and doubled resources, there is something else like that,
and did it for good, created a new planet. I
don't remember the whole story here, and what all I'm
saying is at the core Thanos, that's not a villain.
He only did all of that because he saw death, sadness, poverty.
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That's so why did everything? Now, he may have made
some wrong decisions amongst the way it could have been.
We all are polluted with different I've been guilty of
it too, killing people. But you know, as you grow,
you have good things that come to you and bad
and you're trying to figure it out as you go.
My only thing one and I may not be right
on all those facts. I haven't seen the movie, but
once is that Thanos, if shown from a different director writer,
(25:27):
he's a good guy. But that's just the killing part
that messes with people. Yeah, but if you don't think everything,
all these countries are killing people for their own causes anyway,
every country, they're all killing people for their own causes. Well,
because then what they don't what he wanted to do
an endgame was I don't you're now you're out of it.
I don't even know. I'm not even talking about the storylines.
(25:52):
All I remember is going Danos a gatting a bad Rector.
He was only doing all of this so everyone didn't suffer.
He made the tough decision. In his heart, he'd rather
see some people die so some people could thrive rather
than everybody dies slowly. So right or wrong, I'm not
(26:14):
on team Thanos, but I definitely didn't think he deserved
to be the super villain that he was. When the
movie was out and all I said, and it's it's funny,
this is lastic because it gets brought to me all
the time. All I said was, I don't think he's
the villain if you tell that story from his side.
But throughout history you can tell the story from almost
any one side that's the villain, and they're the good guy.
No villain ever thinks they're the bad guy. By the way.
(26:37):
They're all fighting for a just cause in their mind.
So and the good guys are the ones that win,
by the way, throughout history, the stories that we know
of the good guys we won. That's why that's why
we're here, if we I just drank a big sparkling
water for this thing, okay, but then that's that's not
really where he wanted to go. But that's why I
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think that is was probably a bad dude by the
end of it, But I don't think he was a
bad I don't think he was a villain for his cause.
That's right. You've been You've been changed a little bit
by not a lot a bit. Yeah, okay, all right.
The last thing I want to get into is I
(27:21):
did an episode a couple of weeks ago about one
Hit Wonder actors, and you actually submitted yourself for Bandslam?
Did I? Yeah? Was that on Instagram story? On Instagram story.
So people may not know, but back in two thousand
and nine, you were in a movie called band Slam.
So I had five questions for you about that movie.
That was two thousand and nine. Two thousand and nine.
I had that dopey hair at twenty nine years old.
Holy crap. Wow, okay, go ahead, all right, So band
(27:43):
Slam two thousand and nine. Did you audition for it? Yeah?
He did? I did. Man, I haven't thought about this
since that. Wow, I did audition for that movie. What
was that? Like? Someone called me and said, Hey, they're
doing this movie. They're shooting it in Austin because they
can use the University of Texas there in musicum and
it was cheaper to shoot movies and Texas at the time.
(28:05):
Now Louisiana's a big hub for movies, but it was
until recently. It's all about taxes, right, That's why a
lot of stuff is in Canada. Yeah, you can shoot
it for less. So they're like, they're shooting this, but
they have a role of a guy named Gordy which
was my name at first, who hosts a big competition.
You have some lines you're it's like at the time,
(28:26):
it was like nineteen lines. He got cut weight down
to nine I think by the time it was over.
But you have like nineteen lines. But they need someone
who's like, you know, in his twenties and it's cool,
and I was like, well that. So I went and
there was a long line wrapped around the building of
guys that were good looking, like lots of hair, jail,
(28:50):
lots of the actor type. And so I went a
pair of jeans and a white T shirt because I
didn't know what I was doing. I remember thinking I
was gonna be the only one the audition because I
thought they just hadn't ready for me. I was like, oh,
I gotta by to do this movie with a bunch
of people. So I went into this room. This is
just a room, like a bedroom at a house. And
(29:10):
there were two people sitting behind the long table and
they're like, okay, ridge lines. I didn't memorize mine. I
guess most people did because I'm a script in my hand.
And so I was like, oh, can you belie the
gonna play the show here? This one man, They're never
gonna be And they were like all right, thank you
very much, and I left. That was it. I never
thought I was gonna get a call back because it
didn't go well in the room. I thought because they
showed me no emotion, nothing. It was like, wow, that
(29:31):
was great. They didn't say it was great, it was good.
They was like, all right, thanks a lot. Now walking
I was like, dang, I must have really sucked. And
they called me back and they said, hey, you're one
of the best ones. Come back again. I went back again.
I was the only person there at the second time.
I think they were they just had to spread out
a little more. And I gotta call and said, hey,
you're in, and you're considered because you have this many
(29:52):
many lines, you're a principal actor. And so I had
my own trailer I had. I was on the biggest
level with the lowest amount of work and money. Wow,
Like I was if in the a less part of
that movie. It was Vanessa Hudgins, it was Lisa kudro
Phoebe from Friends. It was Scott who was in Finding
at Lights. Yeah, I forgot Scott's last name. So there
were these actors and of the principles, I was the
(30:17):
bottom of the barrel, but I was higher than all
the extras and mids. So I had my own umbrella
carrier to make sure my makeup would sweat. I had
got on my clothes, I had a trailer. It was crazy.
I got paid three or four thousand dollars a day.
Oh wow, for about seven days. I remember making about
twenty twenty eight twenty nine thousand dollars on that movie
(30:39):
for a week's work. That's pretty good. Yeah, it wasn't
what they made obvious. Yeah, but that's what I got.
Do you still get checks from it? Yeah, but it's
like sins. Yeah, three cents, twelve cents. Sometimes I'll get
a dollar ten or something like that. So that was
that movie. How many days did you actually film a week?
I mean it was a week straight. The thing that
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stunk was again I was a principal, so they kept
us all together. We ate together, and again I didn't
know anybody because I wasn't a real actor. I didn't
know any of them, so they didn't really let me
in their cool group, and they would all pretty much
all the princes blocks be like, all right, we're gonna
go play Super Nintendo and we're gonna have at this party.
I was never invited anything because they didn't know me.
And I also had the radio show, so I did
(31:20):
the radio show all the morning and go straight over
so some of the bonding stuff it was late at
night I couldn't go to anyway. But I never really
got invited to do anything. Did you end up meeting
all the co stars? Yeah, at least Coucho was really nice.
We sat in a makeup chair beside each other for
like an hour one day and she was super nice.
It was really going. She played the mom on that movie. Yeah,
it's one of the only time we spoke, but yeah,
I met her. Vanessa Hudgens was okay. Um the Scott
(31:46):
I wish I had his last name, but he was.
He was really nice. Are you surprised that it has
an eighty one percent rating on Ryan Tomatoes. Yeah. Wow,
I'm I was surprised that it when it came out
that it didn't make more at the box office, because
I don't think it did well. I made five million
opening weekend and twelve million throughout the run while it
(32:07):
was up. Yeah, so you're talking about movie. They didn't
do that well financially, but it kept getting shown everywhere.
Every time I would see like a weekend of rare
weird movies on Disney that would be like showing movies
all it would pop up. That's why I first I
saw it on TV, and now I would get checks
on it would air on TBS, so it would for
(32:27):
some reason. It still airs now occasionly because people keep
sending me pictures of me with my big curly hair. Yeah.
Sometimes movie channels will repick it back up and put
it into rotation, which sometimes people say, like these movies bomb,
but they end up making money back when they get
put into syndication and stuff like that. Well, this was
no big financial risk for the movie makers. I mean,
for making a movie was expensive, I'm sure, but I'm
(32:48):
saying it wasn't like one hundred million dollars movie. And
it's twenty million. It wasn't water World. Yeah, so yeah,
that was fun. I forgot it has been a long time.
And then, um, would you ever do another movie? It's
just the time you have to be on set and
shoot things ten eleven, twelve times. Sure, it'll be tough
to do it right now, but I could if it
(33:11):
was the right role. You get offered stuff, some small stuff,
but I don't put myself in the mix for it either.
You mostly have to audition. Even some of the big
actors have to go on audition for stuff. Yeah, and
so I don't get offered stuff, no, as far as
movies that people would see. But I do get offered
to go audition for stuff, and I just never want
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to go do it. The only things I get offered
are like super Indica type stuff. Can They just want
anyone to be in it, will promote it. So that's like, hey,
let's go buy a real because if he talks about it,
people might see it. So the answer is no, not really.
All right, Well there we go. I'm big movie star,
movie star, first movie star, first actor. Nice. All right,
Well thanks for hanging out, Yeah, all right, we'll talk
(33:53):
to you later. All right, that's the episode for this week.
Hope you enjoyed that one. Before I get out of here,
I gotta do my Instagram shout out of the week today.
It's going to at Voting Words on Instagram aka Ryan Garcia,
who posted on his Instagram story that he was listening
to last week's episode. He says, this Monday morning ritual.
(34:16):
So thanks Ryan for listening every single week. If you
want an Instagram shout out or a Twitter shout out,
all you have to do is either tag me in
your Instagram story or tweet me at Mike Distro. I'll
try to retweet and post those in my story as
I see them, and then I'll give you a shout
out on next week's episode. And I got one other
thing to ask you, guys, So I want Bobby to
(34:38):
know that people listen to this episode, that I didn't
waste his time, and that I can get him to
come back on another episode. But what I need you
guys to do is go to his Instagram at mister
Bobby Bones and tag me in a comment saying that
you listen to this week's episode. So just whatever post
is up there right now, when you listen to this episode,
(34:58):
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Mike's podcast and tag me in that so we can
let them know that you should come back and do
another episode. All right, go do that for me. Thanks
for listening. I will talk to you guys next week
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