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Speaker 5 (00:38):
This is your morning show with Michael o'dill charm so
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
You heard him?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Yeah, Now, when I get to the airport, what do
I do? And I'm not supposed to be worried?
Speaker 6 (00:51):
What do you does?
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Not to get to the ticket counter. He's gonna end
up in Somalia.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
At one point you didn't know how to get to
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man you've raised into this moment. You're gonna cry seven
minutes after the.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Arm time, are you okay?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
No? I mean no, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I am taken by what I'm seeing right now. It
seems like everywhere you know, and I'm always taken by
this that the President is. And it only appears this
way because of the media being in the back pocket
of the left. But you know, president is presumably so
unappreciated and hated at home. Everywhere he travels he gets
a welcome. I never even saw Ronald Reagan get pageantry.
(01:32):
Is not even John Kennedy. All right, So you have
China with the red carpet coming at the airport off
the steps of Air Force One. On the tarmac, it's
lined by all types of military and then there's just
a sea of young people in if they're female, a skirt,
(01:54):
if they're a male, pants white with baby blue. And
then it looks like there's bands, and then there's crowds.
I mean, this president continues to be celebrated everywhere he
goes around the world. This is a very important meeting
with President and she the Air Force One is on
the ground. We're waiting for the President to come down
the stairs and be greeted by the formal welcoming committee
(02:18):
and China. Stephen Bouchi is our colonel joining us, and
you know we're gonna talk a little bit more about
operations Sledgehammer, if that's what's next, or the role China
could play in getting Iran in line. But based on
the CEOs, based on everything we know, this trip is
more than just about Iran, but you might suggest is
(02:40):
a lot more about Iran than these other things. What
would be the preview and the objectives for the president
and this trip and why no?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, first, nice for having me on the show. And
we're praying for your brother. We understand you're going through
something family wise. We're with you by with great understanding
and empathy.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Did you have did you have I mean your your kids?
Did you Did you have kids?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Stephen?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Two sons, two sons, did they both follow your footsteps
in military?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
One did?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And uh that that was it was a lot tougher
to send him off to do things than it was
for me to go and do it myself. I've got
great appreciation for what my wife went through on all
those years.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah, I used to dread the driving, you know, for
the longest time now studying abroad. I mean, it's just
a new parental hurdle. These are tough moments, all right
for the president objectives. What could really incredibly come from
this trip?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, there there seems to be a great potential for
a lot of economic stuff. You know, he's got some
really key CEOs with him.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
If we could entice China to cooperate with us economically first, Uh,
that would incredibly help them and would help them. So
if we can move the needle away from China being
an economic adversary to being a competitor, we can deal
(04:13):
with competition and the competitor the adversary part, it's just
not fruitful. So hopefully we can get there. Anything that
helps our economy is a blessing. We should be happy
with it.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
As far as their influence with Iran.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
As we talked about yesterday, they don't own Iran. Iran
is not like a proxy to them the way Hamas
is to Iran. It's they have influence on them because
they're one of their supporters. And hopefully the President can
convince Gee that what's going on is not helping them,
(04:51):
you know, the Chinese, it certainly isn't because they're not
getting the oil that they need. They'd like to see
that open up in a positive way.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And if we can convince them that they can play
a role in doing that in a positive way, then
that that would be an enormous thing too. Even if
it doesn't immediately cause Iran to change, they will understand
that one of the staffs they were leaning on, i e.
(05:24):
The hope that China is going to somehow come to
their rescue is not going to happen, and that maybe
will be the thing that that pushes them in the
right direction to either stop these ridiculous demands that if
you looked at them, you would think they were winning,
and they're not. That's a delusional view on their part,
(05:47):
but that's the way the Iranians negotiate. They their demands
are over the top, and they look you in the
eye like we're gonna get this, and you're gonna give
it to us. And you know, the president isn't gonna
like quake in his seat the way John Kerry did, uh,
and and the way Barack Obama and Joe Biden did uh.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
So that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And I was gonna say, Colonel Steine Buchi is joining US.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't know if you have access to a television, colonel,
but all of these these Chinese men and women that
were dressed in white and baby blue are now waving
Chinese and US flags and they're doing kind of like
a waving motion.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
This is really I mean, I think back to Nixon's
trip to China or even and Reagan's and others. I
have never seen a president welcomed like this. This is
absolutely It's stunning me and distracting me. And this seems
to be everywhere Donald Trump goes.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
This is a warmest of delegation welcome I think I've
ever seen, especially with these two countries. You know you're
talking earlier about economics. Uh, this there's some his tree
here with China in terms of stealing and stealing and
stealing technologies and copying them and so on. Pirrating AI
(07:12):
is certainly going to be a big conversation and a
big opportunity.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And this is once again an.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Area where we lead, so I know that's going to
be a big part of these economic discussions.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You said something yesterday.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I thought that was really profound, and it actually it
actually informed and educated me. In the big picture, they are.
I mean, Iran is a proxy of Russia and China,
and so is North Korea. However, North Korea is your
traditional proxy and regime that will ultimately want to preserve
(07:43):
its regime, whereas Iran is a little more theocratic and
religiously islamistly motivated, So they're not going to respond. In fact,
they would prefer to either conquer the world or die trying.
In fact, that's their only way of getting eternal light,
which makes it very different. So assuming the pieces out
(08:04):
of the question, because they're never going to give up
on being a nuclear power, They're never going to give
up on destroying Israel, destroying America and controlling the world.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
They'll just die trying. What is next?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
And I think I've had a couple of callers want
me to ask you questions, and it basically rolls out
this way to go in and create regime change. To
go put boots on the ground and just take this
country over would be too many more boots than we
have and could lead to a quagmire. But what about
securing the strait of horror moves That is a mission
(08:35):
that could be.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Done right, absolutely, And I think that's where we should
be moving. We need to completely dissuade them of this
crazy idea that they're going to I mean, they're looking
to gain from this engagement to the point where they
(08:56):
didn't have control of the Straits of Horror Moves Beforeore
own it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's international waters.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They own, you know, slivers of it along their coastline,
but now they want complete control over it. And I
saw one comment, Yeah, I was reading this morning and
it said, to them, now, the control of the Straits
of Horror Moves is the equivalent of having a nuclear device,
because it's a single action that they can take to
(09:27):
radically influence not just the region, but the world. We
have to take that away from them. We have to
remove any thought in their heads that they can in
any way control the Straits of hormones. That is a
significant military mission, but it is a doable mission, and
(09:48):
it's one we can do without putting troops on the ground.
We might try some special op hits here and there,
but we don't need to invade Iran with divisions of
American form.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
No, with a special ops mission on the island. That
may be some feed on the island you could get
cooperations there or other nations that probably would join in,
but I mean, other than that, it would mainly be
just ships in the strait of hormones. But I just
want it for the sake of our time. That's too precious.
Negotiations are off the table. I mean they're trying to
negotiate like they won the war when they lost enough.
(10:22):
If they go trying to retrieve any of that nuclear material,
just vombit. But getting this trait of horror moves opened immediately,
and then ending this saying Okay, you will not be
allowed to be a nuclear weapon, be a nuclear country,
and if you ever seek to seek that power again,
we'll be back. But we're gone for now and the
strait is open. See ya. China though could be added
(10:44):
to this. They're suffering the most from the oil not flowing.
I would think that they're going to want to make
a play here. What do you make of this New
York Times story that intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities.
It sounds like legacy media narrative to me. If they
had these missiles, they'd be using them number one and
(11:07):
number two. If they do have a substantial missile capability,
well maybe that's what sledgehammer is better. You better go
finish the job. But that can all be done with
their strikes.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right absolutely, And and this thing, I'm positive you know
that when the Intel community looks at you know that
what may be happening, what has happened, that sort of stuff,
they look at a range of options. They look at
you know, we got everything, and they're naked in the
(11:37):
brier patch. Uh, they've got some stuff, and they're still
confused about who's in charge, and they have a whole
bunch of stuff, and they're still as deadly as a
you know, a wounded tiger in the corner.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We have to understand that clearly someone leaked.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That last report.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Uh, that is not like that.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The because the CIA says it doesn't mean that's definitive
that that's really what's going on. That's not how Intel works.
And I can guarantee there are three or four alternative
reports that are looked at with just as much weight
as that one. And I'm guessing the one that York
is the information that is probably the least likely one
(12:27):
to be accurate.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Most likely to fit their narrative, Yeah, most likely to
fast likely.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
To be accurate, but needs to be looked at.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
And if it is determined, I'm sure that the air
strikes would follow. Two things I want to say in
closing one, I should probably flat out ask you what
might operation Sledgehammer be? Uh. Secondly, would be the last
time not the last time they were together, but there
was a time when the President was visiting with she
(12:56):
and he leaned over and told him, oh, by the way,
I'm bombing Iran right now. I don't think we shoul
should rule out whatever Sledgehammer is or whatever's coming next
might not happen while he's with President She.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, the last one's easy, absolutely a possibility. The President, uh,
you know, is a guy who's very straight with his
uh counterparts and and isn't afraid to do something like that.
What's she gonna do?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Tell him? Well, okay, that ends our discussion. Is okay?
That's too bad because he's uh see, I got I
got stuff stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You might you might want to reconsider that that eviction
notice until after we talk.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
As far as what Sledgehammer might be, uh, I think
we're going to see massive strikes along the coast line,
taking out every you know, little vessel that's capable of
getting out in the water and causing problems. I think
you're gonna see aircraft used in that regard to They're
going to start heavily patrolling and anything that slides out
(14:02):
onto the water is gonna get sunk. I think you're
going to probably see a move against carg Island, probably
in conjunction with some of the Arab allies in the area.
They have a big interest in getting this open. And
then you're going to see strikes around the country focused
(14:23):
on the IRGC, focused on any storage sites of missiles
that we have any intel on at all. You're going
to see probably things hit that every going why are
they hitting that? Well, then we'll find out after the
fact that it was really something connected with the missile capabilities.
And I think you're going to see some individual hits
(14:46):
go on, taking out more of the so called leadership
in Iran to again start to convince people that having
the title of next is not really a good honorific
to have, and people will start saying.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You know what, I'm really not that interested in doing
this anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And I think you're going to see the assistance of
several of these countries. We've already had the UAE bombing
targets in Iran and potentially having troops on the ground
as well. So all of that's going to be part
of this operation.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
And oh the irrelevance of Europe to have any involvement.
All right, I think that pretty much covers Sad too.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I think that covers the sledgehammer, which is the air
support that will condition the ground movement on the island,
and the precipitation of decapitation and opening of the straight
of horror movies. I think you pretty much covered it all,
Stephen Bouchie, Colonel.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
One last thing, Michael, real quick, and for people worried
about the nuclear material, it's not going anywhere. We should
watch it. If anybody tries to get it, we hit
the people. And then once it's a permissive environment and
the next government of Iran says, please come in and
get all this crap out of our country, that's when
we be able to go in with engineers and get
(16:09):
it out.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Colonel Stephen Bucci has always read his great work at
Heritage dot org along with his colleagues. Thank you so
much for your expertise. As the president has now landed
and the negotiations have begun with China. Thank you, colonel,
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Speaker 5 (18:28):
Jeffreys got the sound red keeping an eye in the
content the president. If you weren't near a television, I
would call that the warmest of formal welcomes arriving in
China with a delegation waiting for him on the tarmac,
waving American flags and Chinese flags. I don't know what
the left that's in a derangement syndrome does with images
(18:48):
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Speaker 3 (19:26):
Well, the Fairly brothers they brought you Shallow.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Hal.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Hall Pass, something about Mary green Book.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
So many great movies, Bobby Fairly, one of the brothers
directed the latest, which is Driver's ed A.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Thrilled to have you, Bobby, good morning.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Great to meet you too.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I was sitting thinking before we started talking about all
my favorite comedies of all time, and you and your
brother occupy a little over half of them, and if
I had to rank them, Hall pass and I think
my son would agree Hall Passes.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Are all time favorite.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
I mean, did you and your brother feel like that
was the masterpiece that turned out to be?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's a masterpiece.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
You know, we've made a lot of movies and honestly,
most of the people wouldn't pick hall pass As as
the one that take Really, I'm gonna get.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
To my ultimate, which is I wouldn't I don't know
that I'd call it a comedy. Is green Book. It's
one of my all time favorite movies. But Hall Pass
just for I mean, that's the closest to when I
think I got to hang out with these guys.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
They're as sick as me.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I mean it was just well, clearly you're married. Yeah,
well there is that yeah, uh never would never, never
desire to hall pass by the way, But I mean
that was but the casting, and I noticed because the
reason we're visiting is Driver's Ads coming out on May fifteenth.
And while that is with the exception of a couple
of names that they'll recognize, mostly people and names they
(20:55):
wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But it's all about the cast, and.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
That really speaks to what you and your brother were
influenced by growing up watching comedies.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Right, yeah, well this one, you know, I didn't write
this script Driver's Ad. I found the script and I thought, wow,
this is this is fun. It reminded me of a
John Hughes movie, you know, from Days of Days of Old,
the Breakfast Club and those kind of things that Ferris
Bueller had that high school feeling where it's just it
was fun to be in high school. But and in
(21:26):
this one, the kids had taken drivers at One of
the guys in the in the car consensed that his girlfriend,
who's a freshman in college, is about to break up
with them, and so he kind of panics steals the
driver's head car to go to save his relationships. She's
about two hours away, and the other three kids go
with them on this road trip and it turns into
(21:49):
a fun adventure, you know, plenty of comedy and all that,
and so it was just fun. It was a well
written script. And yeah, it's because it's high school kids.
There's not that many high school it's that everyone is
actor wise where everyone is totally familiar with So we
kind of went with people that are lesser known, but
they're really good young acus.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I was just gonna say, really, the Bowl is.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
The lead and he's he was in White Lotus and
he's a really good young actor. But the three, the
other three around him are just terrific. So it was
a lot of fun working with people like that that
it was just perfect time to tell their story. And
so and then we got Molly Shannon and Kamail the
Johnny and some older adults that you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Do know, but it's really about the high school kids.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Bobby Fairley joining us. The new movie is called Driver said,
it comes out May fifteenth. I don't know if you
did this intentionally or not, but I'm watching the movie
and I'm getting the cast and the field. It's not
about keeping us laughing every second as much as going
through this life that's clearly going to come to some
comedic collisions. But I found for beginning to end this connection.
(23:03):
All of them start at the start of the movie,
are somewhat socially inept and all tied to their phones.
There is a moment in the movie and I'm trying
not to ruin anything where they no longer are connected
to their phones. And I have seen my teen children
behave this way. I don't know how we would all
behave without our phones for what, But what I saw
(23:24):
is all of their relationships changed. They began to start
having real human connections, real human awareness and awakenings. I
don't know if you meant to do if the script
was written or when you were directing you meant to
do it. You really showed teenagers how to live, and
it starts with putting that freaking phone down.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Well, to be clear, I wasn't doing this as a
tutorial to teenagers.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Right, No, I know about how they should live. But yes,
because they steal the car and they're.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Being chased by the police and everyone else, they have
to abandon their phones because they know that that's how
they'll track them. And exactly right. These are you know,
the one, the one girl Evi and that when she
throws her phone away, she almost has a breakdown. I've
never ever been without my phone for a minute. And
it's true, and you know it's true for that generation.
(24:13):
And so they don't know what to do and and
it is it like the Breakfast Club too, and that
you have these four kids who have nothing to do
with each other. They're just people they recognize in the
high school. They don't they're not friends or anything. And
over the course of a one day trip, they become
great friends and they realize how much.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
They have in common with each other and all that.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
So it's a nice story about just not judging people
that you don't know, particularly in high school.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Fairly Brothers so many legendary comedies, but really Green Book
stands out. We had just recently talked with Mark Harmon
and I brought up his movie Stealing Home that he
did with Jody Foster, and it just brings us to
this notion where really funny people are also really deep
thinkers and they can pull off drama.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And you and your brother you really pulled it off
with Green Book. Where did that come from?
Speaker 7 (25:05):
The Green Book was was actually, like a lot of
our best stories came from someone that we know.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
It was a true story about his dad.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
And he was Tony lipp Uh and he and he
was a kind of almost a mobster type guy.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
He ended up he ended up.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Driving UH and becoming a limo driver for this super
talented pianist and the African American guy and they drove
through the UH through the Deep South in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
And he just told us the story.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
And when when he when he told us the story
about his dad, we thought, wow, what a this would
make a great movie or a play.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
We weren't sure which way to go. But uh, it's
a different It was.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
A different, you know, genre than than what we were
used to doing.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
You know. It was much more of a drama.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Definitely a lot of comedy in there, but more more drama,
you know.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
And Pete and I always loved to mix, you know,
I know, Dumb and.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Dumber was just a lot and all that. But along
the way in our stories, we always felt like there's
got to be a little drama too, Like it can't
just be joke joke, joke, joke, because you won't care
as much and and so you got to mix in
like real, real life stuff. And you know, this one
I've tried to do here and drivers ad is make
sure it's funny and there's a you know, there's it's
fun and it's funny and all that, but you have
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to really believe these kids and oh and you do,
you do, And if you don't believe them, it doesn't work.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
The comedy doesn't work as well. So this one is
not broad.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
As they say, it's not you know these are these
are real kids and real yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
No, and Driver's head, the human connections is what blew
me away. I thought that was the strongest part. I
guess it just fascinates me that Robin Williams would be
a great example. Chris Farley would have been a great example.
He would have gone in that direction. But we were
seeing with John Belushi towards the end, very funny people,
you know, you can always they're very deep. They can
(26:55):
turn around and do the serious. Now, serious people other
than I'm trying to think of who could have done
on another like an airplane. I guess, by and large,
funny people can do drama. Drama people can't always do
comedy and it's because people that do comedy usually lived
through something.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
These are like.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I can tell you that the reason I gravitated towards
comedy was to kind of cheer my mom up from
what I couldn't control. But you and your brother, I
thought in Green Book showed those kinds of chops, that
that's a beautiful movie that should be on everybody's watch list.
What was you mentioned? You wouldn't have put Hall Pass
on top? What would you put on top that you
(27:32):
And I'm.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Saying that I don't usually of all the movies, we
don't hear it as much about what do you hear?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
That's all Pass?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
And you know Jason's the Day because we had such
a great cast, a great Jason Cokeley.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
The Cochley character.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
And yeah, yeah, I mean but I mean, so what
were you and your brother like growing up? I mean,
I guess you were like me, always getting kicked out
of class and the principal's office making people laugh.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
But you know, our parents were pretty were pretty strict,
and we were.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
We were basically near do wells. We are underachievers.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
We never were great students, and we got in trouble
in high school and all that. But we were not
the class clowns and all that. We weren't always getting
sent home because we would getting more.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Trouble at home.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Yeah, but we loved we loved bizarre characters and the
and the people who stood out and uh, who were
like different, and we all for some reason we always
embraced those kind of guys and they became our friends
and we uh and and it's from them that we
we got a lot of our material. Just people that
are just not you know, that just walk on a
(28:37):
different path, just a little bit out there. And so
you know, those are the guys that we would we
would think about when we made Harry and Lloyd.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I think you and your brother made the funniest movies.
You're up there in my life. What did you think
was your funniest movie? I'm just curious.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Uh, well, I you know, I think I.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Have to go back to uh, dumb and dumber in
that in the effect it had on society, Like there
isn't a week goes by that someone doesn't send me
something about you know, so you're telling me there's a
chance just the way it became part of the society,
the lexicon and you know, you're watching the NFL football game.
They're going to reference stuff and dumber. It's something it
(29:17):
happens like all the time. So I would say either
that one or something about Mary because it was it
was an R rated comedy. They had not been made
in a long time when we made that, so we
it was kind of groundbreaking at the time.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
And Drivers said, was it doing without your brother?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
What's that like?
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Well, we, you know, we obviously we as we got older,
we we just thought, you know, we'll go out and
do smaller movies on our own. Drivers, that is a
small movie. Oh yeah, small in that I didn't have
a big budget to work with it. I didn't have
there was a lot, you know, we had. I had
to shoot the whole movie in twenty days, which is
roughly less than half of what I usually have.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
So it was it was a more of an independent movie.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
But you know, you give all your the same amount
of love to it and all that, and I'm very
proud of it and all that. So we don't mind
going out and making movies on our own too, but
we'll probably make something together again.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I can't believe I'm the only one that has said
to you that those kids kind of lost their phone
and found real life that I'm the only one that
made that connection in the movie. I think it was
beautifully told. I mean I had a lot of laughs.
Don't get me wrong. It was a fun ride. Yeah,
but I mean, you know what, that was really powerful.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
That was a student observation because it was never you know,
that wasn't the intention of it.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
But yes, that was like subtext.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
And you're absolutely right though once they had to engage
with each other, Yeah, they had a different they had
a completely different experience.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I would have loved to grown up with you and
your brother Bob Fairley along with his brother Pete. They
gave you hall Pass, something about Mary Shallow Hell, Dumb
and Dumber, The Green Book, and now the latest is
Bobby's project, The Loan Driver's at It opens up on
May fifteenth. I have watched it. I'm not lying. It is.
It is a great, great, great cast. They won't be
unknown when the movie ends, and because they're unknown, I
(31:07):
think you can get lost in the story. And I
think it's a fun journey beyond just funny. I think
it's a fun journey and I think I would love
to see it through the eyes of a teenager. I'm
telling you, this is the kind of movie that hit
is a hit with the teenagers. This is going to
reach them, Thank you, Michael. I hope so, I hope they.
I hope they find it.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
You know, it's it's in the streamers, and you know
it's it's in select theaters and available for download.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
But yeah, I hope they find it because I I
really like it. I love the actors in it, and
they're just terrific.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
So you know, when I think of you welcome, what
a thrill, Bobby Fairley. We often think of movies like
our parents weren't aware of the movies that were really
influencing us. There was a movie called If You Could
Only See What I Hear that I watched as a teenager.
I don't think my parents are even aware of that movie,
or soul Man that I watched as a teenager. The
(31:59):
I don't think my parents were at all aware of
I don't even think it was anything older people watch.
These were movies that really impacted me. Kids will find
this movie, and if they do, by the way, parents,
I mean, I have to tell you it's a it's
a fairly project.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So it's you know, it's definitely.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You know it's a little blue, but I'm telling you
it'll reach kids where they're at and it will show
them that one real connection in reality. In real life,
trump's a thousand likes or hits and fake relationships. The
profound thing about this movie Driver's Ed, Now, Molly Shannon,
(32:44):
the guy who plays the cop, they're priceless, is not
the laughs. It's that you could lose your phone and
find your life. And you know what, I got to
be honest aftery're talking to him now, I don't think
Bobby knew he did that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
The writer might have known it.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I don't know if the director knows until you brought
it to his ad and he did it powerfully. I
mean I kept looking at my son and saying, well,
this is not the funniest Fairly Brothers movie I've ever
seen by any stretch, But oh my gosh, did he
just prove what phones are robbing us of?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
And by the way, if he can rob.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Kids of coming of age, it can rob us of
age as well.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
The movie is.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Called Driver's Head from Bobby Fairley of the Fairly Brothers,
and it's in select theaters, but it'll be streaming everywhere
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The replacement ICE director has been selected. The World Health
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correspondent Roy O'Neil has here with the latest. I don't
(35:57):
know if you saw the I'm sure you had the
television on everywhere this president goes, he gets the most remarkable.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Greeting, right, American and Chinese flags waving by hundreds of
young people. It looks like not sure with their ages,
but all there around eight pm local time in Beijing,
by the way, one time zone in all of China.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Did you know that I do.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Yeah, So there you go. But a big crowd.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Also on Air Force one, some heavy hitters, of course,
including the President his son. We've got Elon Musk on
the plane and two big secretaries, Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegseth.
Sort of unusual for the Secretary of Defense to fly
on a trip like this, but that shows you just
how volatile situation is with Iran.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Kind of a fifty to fifty carrot and stick. We've
got economic things that are going to be covered, and
of course I run.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
Right and again a lot of those business leaders coming in, Musk,
the head of Nvidia, Boeing, Tim Cook from Apple, a
lot of business dealingsas this was supposed to be about
business and tariffs and also agriculture representatives to reboost or
restart sales of agricultural products from the US into China.
A lot of that fell off the grid when tariffs
(37:10):
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Yeah, Now, when I get to the airport, what do
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Speaker 6 (00:51):
What do you does?
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Not to get to the ticket counter. He's gonna end
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At one point you didn't know how to get to
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man you've raised into this moment. You're gonna cry seven
minutes after the.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Arm time, are you okay?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
No? I mean no, I'm not.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I am taken by what I'm seeing right now. It
seems like everywhere you know, and I'm always taken by
this that the President is. And it only appears this
way because of the media being in the back pocket
of the left. But you know, president is presumably so
unappreciated and hated at home. Everywhere he travels he gets
a welcome. I never even saw Ronald Reagan get pageantry.
(01:32):
Is not even John Kennedy. All right, So you have
China with the red carpet coming at the airport off
the steps of Air Force One. On the tarmac, it's
lined by all types of military and then there's just
a sea of young people in if they're female, a skirt,
(01:54):
if they're a male, pants white with baby blue. And
then it looks like there's bands, and then there's crowds.
I mean, this president continues to be celebrated everywhere he
goes around the world. This is a very important meeting
with President and she the Air Force One is on
the ground. We're waiting for the President to come down
the stairs and be greeted by the formal welcoming committee
(02:18):
and China. Stephen Bouchi is our colonel joining us, and
you know we're gonna talk a little bit more about
operations Sledgehammer, if that's what's next, or the role China
could play in getting Iran in line. But based on
the CEOs, based on everything we know, this trip is
more than just about Iran, but you might suggest is
(02:40):
a lot more about Iran than these other things. What
would be the preview and the objectives for the president
and this trip and why no?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Well, first, nice for having me on the show. And
we're praying for your brother. We understand you're going through
something family wise. We're with you by with great understanding
and empathy.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Did you have did you have I mean your your kids?
Did you Did you have kids?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Stephen?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Two sons, two sons, did they both follow your footsteps
in military?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
One did?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And uh that that was it was a lot tougher
to send him off to do things than it was
for me to go and do it myself. I've got
great appreciation for what my wife went through on all
those years.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah, I used to dread the driving, you know, for
the longest time now studying abroad. I mean, it's just
a new parental hurdle. These are tough moments, all right
for the president objectives. What could really incredibly come from
this trip?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, there there seems to be a great potential for
a lot of economic stuff. You know, he's got some
really key CEOs with him.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
If we could entice China to cooperate with us economically first, Uh,
that would incredibly help them and would help them. So
if we can move the needle away from China being
an economic adversary to being a competitor, we can deal
(04:13):
with competition and the competitor the adversary part, it's just
not fruitful. So hopefully we can get there. Anything that
helps our economy is a blessing. We should be happy
with it.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
As far as their influence with Iran.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
As we talked about yesterday, they don't own Iran. Iran
is not like a proxy to them the way Hamas
is to Iran. It's they have influence on them because
they're one of their supporters. And hopefully the President can
convince Gee that what's going on is not helping them,
(04:51):
you know, the Chinese, it certainly isn't because they're not
getting the oil that they need. They'd like to see
that open up in a positive way.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And if we can convince them that they can play
a role in doing that in a positive way, then
that that would be an enormous thing too. Even if
it doesn't immediately cause Iran to change, they will understand
that one of the staffs they were leaning on, i e.
(05:24):
The hope that China is going to somehow come to
their rescue is not going to happen, and that maybe
will be the thing that that pushes them in the
right direction to either stop these ridiculous demands that if
you looked at them, you would think they were winning,
and they're not. That's a delusional view on their part,
(05:47):
but that's the way the Iranians negotiate. They their demands
are over the top, and they look you in the
eye like we're gonna get this, and you're gonna give
it to us. And you know, the president isn't gonna
like quake in his seat the way John Kerry did, uh,
and and the way Barack Obama and Joe Biden did uh.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
So that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And I was gonna say, Colonel Steine Buchi is joining US.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I don't know if you have access to a television, colonel,
but all of these these Chinese men and women that
were dressed in white and baby blue are now waving
Chinese and US flags and they're doing kind of like
a waving motion.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
This is really I mean, I think back to Nixon's
trip to China or even and Reagan's and others. I
have never seen a president welcomed like this. This is
absolutely It's stunning me and distracting me. And this seems
to be everywhere Donald Trump goes.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
This is a warmest of delegation welcome I think I've
ever seen, especially with these two countries. You know you're
talking earlier about economics. Uh, this there's some his tree
here with China in terms of stealing and stealing and
stealing technologies and copying them and so on. Pirrating AI
(07:12):
is certainly going to be a big conversation and a
big opportunity.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And this is once again an.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Area where we lead, so I know that's going to
be a big part of these economic discussions.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You said something yesterday.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I thought that was really profound, and it actually it
actually informed and educated me. In the big picture, they are.
I mean, Iran is a proxy of Russia and China,
and so is North Korea. However, North Korea is your
traditional proxy and regime that will ultimately want to preserve
(07:43):
its regime, whereas Iran is a little more theocratic and
religiously islamistly motivated, So they're not going to respond. In fact,
they would prefer to either conquer the world or die trying.
In fact, that's their only way of getting eternal light,
which makes it very different. So assuming the pieces out
(08:04):
of the question, because they're never going to give up
on being a nuclear power, They're never going to give
up on destroying Israel, destroying America and controlling the world.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
They'll just die trying. What is next?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
And I think I've had a couple of callers want
me to ask you questions, and it basically rolls out
this way to go in and create regime change. To
go put boots on the ground and just take this
country over would be too many more boots than we
have and could lead to a quagmire. But what about
securing the strait of horror moves That is a mission
(08:35):
that could be.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Done right, absolutely, And I think that's where we should
be moving. We need to completely dissuade them of this
crazy idea that they're going to I mean, they're looking
to gain from this engagement to the point where they
(08:56):
didn't have control of the Straits of Horror Moves Beforeore
own it.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's international waters.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They own, you know, slivers of it along their coastline,
but now they want complete control over it. And I
saw one comment, Yeah, I was reading this morning and
it said, to them, now, the control of the Straits
of Horror Moves is the equivalent of having a nuclear device,
because it's a single action that they can take to
(09:27):
radically influence not just the region, but the world. We
have to take that away from them. We have to
remove any thought in their heads that they can in
any way control the Straits of hormones. That is a
significant military mission, but it is a doable mission, and
(09:48):
it's one we can do without putting troops on the ground.
We might try some special op hits here and there,
but we don't need to invade Iran with divisions of
American form.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
No, with a special ops mission on the island. That
may be some feed on the island you could get
cooperations there or other nations that probably would join in,
but I mean, other than that, it would mainly be
just ships in the strait of hormones. But I just
want it for the sake of our time. That's too precious.
Negotiations are off the table. I mean they're trying to
negotiate like they won the war when they lost enough.
(10:22):
If they go trying to retrieve any of that nuclear material,
just vombit. But getting this trait of horror moves opened immediately,
and then ending this saying Okay, you will not be
allowed to be a nuclear weapon, be a nuclear country,
and if you ever seek to seek that power again,
we'll be back. But we're gone for now and the
strait is open. See ya. China though could be added
(10:44):
to this. They're suffering the most from the oil not flowing.
I would think that they're going to want to make
a play here. What do you make of this New
York Times story that intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities.
It sounds like legacy media narrative to me. If they
had these missiles, they'd be using them number one and
(11:07):
number two. If they do have a substantial missile capability,
well maybe that's what sledgehammer is better. You better go
finish the job. But that can all be done with
their strikes.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right absolutely, And and this thing, I'm positive you know
that when the Intel community looks at you know that
what may be happening, what has happened, that sort of stuff,
they look at a range of options. They look at
you know, we got everything, and they're naked in the
(11:37):
brier patch. Uh, they've got some stuff, and they're still
confused about who's in charge, and they have a whole
bunch of stuff, and they're still as deadly as a
you know, a wounded tiger in the corner.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
We have to understand that clearly someone leaked.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That last report.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Uh, that is not like that.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
The because the CIA says it doesn't mean that's definitive
that that's really what's going on. That's not how Intel works.
And I can guarantee there are three or four alternative
reports that are looked at with just as much weight
as that one. And I'm guessing the one that York
is the information that is probably the least likely one
(12:27):
to be accurate.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Most likely to fit their narrative, Yeah, most likely to
fast likely.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
To be accurate, but needs to be looked at.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
And if it is determined, I'm sure that the air
strikes would follow. Two things I want to say in
closing one, I should probably flat out ask you what
might operation Sledgehammer be? Uh. Secondly, would be the last
time not the last time they were together, but there
was a time when the President was visiting with she
(12:56):
and he leaned over and told him, oh, by the way,
I'm bombing Iran right now. I don't think we shoul
should rule out whatever Sledgehammer is or whatever's coming next
might not happen while he's with President She.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, the last one's easy, absolutely a possibility. The President, uh,
you know, is a guy who's very straight with his
uh counterparts and and isn't afraid to do something like that.
What's she gonna do?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Tell him? Well, okay, that ends our discussion. Is okay?
That's too bad because he's uh see, I got I
got stuff stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You might you might want to reconsider that that eviction
notice until after we talk.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
As far as what Sledgehammer might be, uh, I think
we're going to see massive strikes along the coast line,
taking out every you know, little vessel that's capable of
getting out in the water and causing problems. I think
you're gonna see aircraft used in that regard to They're
going to start heavily patrolling and anything that slides out
(14:02):
onto the water is gonna get sunk. I think you're
going to probably see a move against carg Island, probably
in conjunction with some of the Arab allies in the area.
They have a big interest in getting this open. And
then you're going to see strikes around the country focused
(14:23):
on the IRGC, focused on any storage sites of missiles
that we have any intel on at all. You're going
to see probably things hit that every going why are
they hitting that? Well, then we'll find out after the
fact that it was really something connected with the missile capabilities.
And I think you're going to see some individual hits
(14:46):
go on, taking out more of the so called leadership
in Iran to again start to convince people that having
the title of next is not really a good honorific
to have, and people will start saying.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You know what, I'm really not that interested in doing
this anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And I think you're going to see the assistance of
several of these countries. We've already had the UAE bombing
targets in Iran and potentially having troops on the ground
as well. So all of that's going to be part
of this operation.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
And oh the irrelevance of Europe to have any involvement.
All right, I think that pretty much covers Sad too.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
I think that covers the sledgehammer, which is the air
support that will condition the ground movement on the island,
and the precipitation of decapitation and opening of the straight
of horror movies. I think you pretty much covered it all,
Stephen Bouchie, Colonel.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
One last thing, Michael, real quick, and for people worried
about the nuclear material, it's not going anywhere. We should
watch it. If anybody tries to get it, we hit
the people. And then once it's a permissive environment and
the next government of Iran says, please come in and
get all this crap out of our country, that's when
we be able to go in with engineers and get
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it out.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Colonel Stephen Bucci has always read his great work at
Heritage dot org along with his colleagues. Thank you so
much for your expertise. As the president has now landed
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Speaker 5 (18:28):
Jeffreys got the sound red keeping an eye in the
content the president. If you weren't near a television, I
would call that the warmest of formal welcomes arriving in
China with a delegation waiting for him on the tarmac,
waving American flags and Chinese flags. I don't know what
the left that's in a derangement syndrome does with images
(18:48):
like that. The President seemingly celebrated, respected and loved everywhere
he goes, except for the media and the left at home.
The World Health Organization says there's non of the start
of a larger antavirus. It's going to be anything like COVID.
That's now the CDC and the World Health Organization. I
don't know that's going to stop in the matrix the
(19:11):
left and the media from trying to create one. But
there is no medical sign of it whatsoever. And a
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Speaker 3 (19:26):
Well, the Fairly brothers they brought you Shallow.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Hal.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Hall Pass, something about Mary green Book.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
So many great movies, Bobby Fairly, one of the brothers
directed the latest, which is Driver's ed A.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Thrilled to have you, Bobby, good morning.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Great to meet you too.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I was sitting thinking before we started talking about all
my favorite comedies of all time, and you and your
brother occupy a little over half of them, and if
I had to rank them, Hall pass and I think
my son would agree Hall Passes.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Are all time favorite.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
I mean, did you and your brother feel like that
was the masterpiece that turned out to be?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's a masterpiece.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
I appreciate you saying that.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
You know, we've made a lot of movies and honestly,
most of the people wouldn't pick hall pass As as
the one that take Really, I'm gonna get.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
To my ultimate, which is I wouldn't I don't know
that I'd call it a comedy. Is green Book. It's
one of my all time favorite movies. But Hall Pass
just for I mean, that's the closest to when I
think I got to hang out with these guys.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
They're as sick as me.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I mean it was just well, clearly you're married. Yeah,
well there is that yeah, uh never would never, never
desire to hall pass by the way, But I mean
that was but the casting, and I noticed because the
reason we're visiting is Driver's Ads coming out on May fifteenth.
And while that is with the exception of a couple
of names that they'll recognize, mostly people and names they
(20:55):
wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
But it's all about the cast, and.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
That really speaks to what you and your brother were
influenced by growing up watching comedies.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Right, yeah, well this one, you know, I didn't write
this script Driver's Ad. I found the script and I thought, wow,
this is this is fun. It reminded me of a
John Hughes movie, you know, from Days of Days of Old,
the Breakfast Club and those kind of things that Ferris
Bueller had that high school feeling where it's just it
was fun to be in high school. But and in
(21:26):
this one, the kids had taken drivers at One of
the guys in the in the car consensed that his girlfriend,
who's a freshman in college, is about to break up
with them, and so he kind of panics steals the
driver's head car to go to save his relationships. She's
about two hours away, and the other three kids go
with them on this road trip and it turns into
(21:49):
a fun adventure, you know, plenty of comedy and all that,
and so it was just fun. It was a well
written script. And yeah, it's because it's high school kids.
There's not that many high school it's that everyone is
actor wise where everyone is totally familiar with So we
kind of went with people that are lesser known, but
they're really good young acus.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I was just gonna say, really, the Bowl is.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
The lead and he's he was in White Lotus and
he's a really good young actor. But the three, the
other three around him are just terrific. So it was
a lot of fun working with people like that that
it was just perfect time to tell their story. And
so and then we got Molly Shannon and Kamail the
Johnny and some older adults that you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Do know, but it's really about the high school kids.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Bobby Fairley joining us. The new movie is called Driver said,
it comes out May fifteenth. I don't know if you
did this intentionally or not, but I'm watching the movie
and I'm getting the cast and the field. It's not
about keeping us laughing every second as much as going
through this life that's clearly going to come to some
comedic collisions. But I found for beginning to end this connection.
(23:03):
All of them start at the start of the movie,
are somewhat socially inept and all tied to their phones.
There is a moment in the movie and I'm trying
not to ruin anything where they no longer are connected
to their phones. And I have seen my teen children
behave this way. I don't know how we would all
behave without our phones for what, But what I saw
(23:24):
is all of their relationships changed. They began to start
having real human connections, real human awareness and awakenings. I
don't know if you meant to do if the script
was written or when you were directing you meant to
do it. You really showed teenagers how to live, and
it starts with putting that freaking phone down.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Well, to be clear, I wasn't doing this as a
tutorial to teenagers.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Right, No, I know about how they should live. But yes,
because they steal the car and they're.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
Being chased by the police and everyone else, they have
to abandon their phones because they know that that's how
they'll track them. And exactly right. These are you know,
the one, the one girl Evi and that when she
throws her phone away, she almost has a breakdown. I've
never ever been without my phone for a minute. And
it's true, and you know it's true for that generation.
(24:13):
And so they don't know what to do and and
it is it like the Breakfast Club too, and that
you have these four kids who have nothing to do
with each other. They're just people they recognize in the
high school. They don't they're not friends or anything. And
over the course of a one day trip, they become
great friends and they realize how much.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
They have in common with each other and all that.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
So it's a nice story about just not judging people
that you don't know, particularly in high school.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Fairly Brothers so many legendary comedies, but really Green Book
stands out. We had just recently talked with Mark Harmon
and I brought up his movie Stealing Home that he
did with Jody Foster, and it just brings us to
this notion where really funny people are also really deep
thinkers and they can pull off drama.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And you and your brother you really pulled it off
with Green Book. Where did that come from?
Speaker 7 (25:05):
The Green Book was was actually, like a lot of
our best stories came from someone that we know.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
It was a true story about his dad.
Speaker 7 (25:14):
And he was Tony lipp Uh and he and he
was a kind of almost a mobster type guy.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
He ended up he ended up.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Driving UH and becoming a limo driver for this super
talented pianist and the African American guy and they drove
through the UH through the Deep South in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
And he just told us the story.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
And when when he when he told us the story
about his dad, we thought, wow, what a this would
make a great movie or a play.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
We weren't sure which way to go. But uh, it's
a different It was.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
A different, you know, genre than than what we were
used to doing.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
You know. It was much more of a drama.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Definitely a lot of comedy in there, but more more drama,
you know.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
And Pete and I always loved to mix, you know,
I know, Dumb and.
Speaker 7 (25:58):
Dumber was just a lot and all that. But along
the way in our stories, we always felt like there's
got to be a little drama too, Like it can't
just be joke joke, joke, joke, because you won't care
as much and and so you got to mix in
like real, real life stuff. And you know, this one
I've tried to do here and drivers ad is make
sure it's funny and there's a you know, there's it's
fun and it's funny and all that, but you have
(26:20):
to really believe these kids and oh and you do,
you do, And if you don't believe them, it doesn't work.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
The comedy doesn't work as well. So this one is
not broad.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
As they say, it's not you know these are these
are real kids and real yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
No, and Driver's head, the human connections is what blew
me away. I thought that was the strongest part. I
guess it just fascinates me that Robin Williams would be
a great example. Chris Farley would have been a great example.
He would have gone in that direction. But we were
seeing with John Belushi towards the end, very funny people,
you know, you can always they're very deep. They can
(26:55):
turn around and do the serious. Now, serious people other
than I'm trying to think of who could have done
on another like an airplane. I guess, by and large,
funny people can do drama. Drama people can't always do
comedy and it's because people that do comedy usually lived
through something.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
These are like.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I can tell you that the reason I gravitated towards
comedy was to kind of cheer my mom up from
what I couldn't control. But you and your brother, I
thought in Green Book showed those kinds of chops, that
that's a beautiful movie that should be on everybody's watch list.
What was you mentioned? You wouldn't have put Hall Pass
on top? What would you put on top that you
(27:32):
And I'm.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Saying that I don't usually of all the movies, we
don't hear it as much about what do you hear?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
That's all Pass?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (27:39):
And you know Jason's the Day because we had such
a great cast, a great Jason Cokeley.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
The Cochley character.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
And yeah, yeah, I mean but I mean, so what
were you and your brother like growing up? I mean,
I guess you were like me, always getting kicked out
of class and the principal's office making people laugh.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
But you know, our parents were pretty were pretty strict,
and we were.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
We were basically near do wells. We are underachievers.
Speaker 7 (28:05):
We never were great students, and we got in trouble
in high school and all that. But we were not
the class clowns and all that. We weren't always getting
sent home because we would getting more.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Trouble at home.
Speaker 7 (28:17):
Yeah, but we loved we loved bizarre characters and the
and the people who stood out and uh, who were
like different, and we all for some reason we always
embraced those kind of guys and they became our friends
and we uh and and it's from them that we
we got a lot of our material. Just people that
are just not you know, that just walk on a
(28:37):
different path, just a little bit out there. And so
you know, those are the guys that we would we
would think about when we made Harry and Lloyd.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I think you and your brother made the funniest movies.
You're up there in my life. What did you think
was your funniest movie? I'm just curious.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Uh, well, I you know, I think I.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
Have to go back to uh, dumb and dumber in
that in the effect it had on society, Like there
isn't a week goes by that someone doesn't send me
something about you know, so you're telling me there's a
chance just the way it became part of the society,
the lexicon and you know, you're watching the NFL football game.
They're going to reference stuff and dumber. It's something it
(29:17):
happens like all the time. So I would say either
that one or something about Mary because it was it
was an R rated comedy. They had not been made
in a long time when we made that, so we
it was kind of groundbreaking at the time.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
And Drivers said, was it doing without your brother?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
What's that like?
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Well, we, you know, we obviously we as we got older,
we we just thought, you know, we'll go out and
do smaller movies on our own. Drivers, that is a
small movie. Oh yeah, small in that I didn't have
a big budget to work with it. I didn't have
there was a lot, you know, we had. I had
to shoot the whole movie in twenty days, which is
roughly less than half of what I usually have.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
So it was it was a more of an independent movie.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
But you know, you give all your the same amount
of love to it and all that, and I'm very
proud of it and all that. So we don't mind
going out and making movies on our own too, but
we'll probably make something together again.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
I can't believe I'm the only one that has said
to you that those kids kind of lost their phone
and found real life that I'm the only one that
made that connection in the movie. I think it was
beautifully told. I mean I had a lot of laughs.
Don't get me wrong. It was a fun ride. Yeah,
but I mean, you know what, that was really powerful.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
That was a student observation because it was never you know,
that wasn't the intention of it.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
But yes, that was like subtext.
Speaker 7 (30:36):
And you're absolutely right though once they had to engage
with each other, Yeah, they had a different they had
a completely different experience.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I would have loved to grown up with you and
your brother Bob Fairley along with his brother Pete. They
gave you hall Pass, something about Mary Shallow Hell, Dumb
and Dumber, The Green Book, and now the latest is
Bobby's project, The Loan Driver's at It opens up on
May fifteenth. I have watched it. I'm not lying. It is.
It is a great, great, great cast. They won't be
unknown when the movie ends, and because they're unknown, I
(31:07):
think you can get lost in the story. And I
think it's a fun journey beyond just funny. I think
it's a fun journey and I think I would love
to see it through the eyes of a teenager. I'm
telling you, this is the kind of movie that hit
is a hit with the teenagers. This is going to
reach them, Thank you, Michael. I hope so, I hope they.
I hope they find it.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
You know, it's it's in the streamers, and you know
it's it's in select theaters and available for download.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
But yeah, I hope they find it because I I
really like it. I love the actors in it, and
they're just terrific.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
So you know, when I think of you welcome, what
a thrill, Bobby Fairley. We often think of movies like
our parents weren't aware of the movies that were really
influencing us. There was a movie called If You Could
Only See What I Hear that I watched as a teenager.
I don't think my parents are even aware of that movie,
or soul Man that I watched as a teenager. The
(31:59):
I don't think my parents were at all aware of
I don't even think it was anything older people watch.
These were movies that really impacted me. Kids will find
this movie, and if they do, by the way, parents,
I mean, I have to tell you it's a it's
a fairly project.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
So it's you know, it's definitely.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You know it's a little blue, but I'm telling you
it'll reach kids where they're at and it will show
them that one real connection in reality. In real life,
trump's a thousand likes or hits and fake relationships. The
profound thing about this movie Driver's Ed, Now, Molly Shannon,
(32:44):
the guy who plays the cop, they're priceless, is not
the laughs. It's that you could lose your phone and
find your life. And you know what, I got to
be honest aftery're talking to him now, I don't think
Bobby knew he did that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
The writer might have known it.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I don't know if the director knows until you brought
it to his ad and he did it powerfully. I
mean I kept looking at my son and saying, well,
this is not the funniest Fairly Brothers movie I've ever
seen by any stretch, But oh my gosh, did he
just prove what phones are robbing us of?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
And by the way, if he can rob.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Kids of coming of age, it can rob us of
age as well.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
The movie is.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Called Driver's Head from Bobby Fairley of the Fairly Brothers,
and it's in select theaters, but it'll be streaming everywhere
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It's Your Morning Show with Michael del Choano.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Sabers won three two over the Canadians. They're headed home
tomorrow with the series tied to two games at piece.
The replacement ICE director has been selected. The World Health
Organization joins the CDC. There's no signs at the start
of a larger hantavirus outbreak, and the President what a
welcome he was received in China on the tarmac. National
correspondent Roy O'Neil has here with the latest. I don't
(35:57):
know if you saw the I'm sure you had the
television on everywhere this president goes, he gets the most remarkable.
Speaker 8 (36:03):
Greeting, right, American and Chinese flags waving by hundreds of
young people. It looks like not sure with their ages,
but all there around eight pm local time in Beijing,
by the way, one time zone in all of China.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Did you know that I do.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
Yeah, So there you go. But a big crowd.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Also on Air Force one, some heavy hitters, of course,
including the President his son. We've got Elon Musk on
the plane and two big secretaries, Secretary Rubio and Secretary Hegseth.
Sort of unusual for the Secretary of Defense to fly
on a trip like this, but that shows you just
how volatile situation is with Iran.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Kind of a fifty to fifty carrot and stick. We've
got economic things that are going to be covered, and
of course I run.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
Right and again a lot of those business leaders coming in, Musk,
the head of Nvidia, Boeing, Tim Cook from Apple, a
lot of business dealingsas this was supposed to be about
business and tariffs and also agriculture representatives to reboost or
restart sales of agricultural products from the US into China.
A lot of that fell off the grid when tariffs
(37:10):
were imposed.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Well, the visual, the optic was amazing upon arrival. Now
the heavy lifting, the negotiations, great reporting ory. We'll talk
to you again tomorrow. One chance to live this Wednesday,
May the thirteenth, twenty twenty six.
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