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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, our friend Stephen Presley from app thunder Pop
TV joins us, who does it every single Friday, And
of course we're going a long weekend with Memorial Day
this weekend. Be careful of your head and out doing stuff.
You guys are adults. You know how to behave, most
of you know how to behave. But Steven joined just
talk pop culture, Hollywood things going on. Let's talk about
last week we talked about Miami Vice getting another another movie,
(00:25):
and now there's a prequel from an eighties movie that's
going to be made. What is it?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, a new Rambo prequel film is awesome? Y, Yeah,
John Rambo. This will be during Vietnam War, so we'll
see the young John Rambo for the first time during
the war. They may have done some flashbacks to the
old movies. Possibly, I'm trying to remember there was any flashbacks.
This is going to come from the Black Adams screenwriter,
(00:51):
which you know Black Adams a little camp here superhero film,
So it'll be interesting to see if you can bring
that wartime grittiness to the film. But it'll be, of
course to be set. They're gonna film in Thailand. It's
set for a filming in fall of twenty twenty five.
Sylvester Stallone is aware of the project, but he apparently
(01:12):
has no involvement in it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh really, I know. I was gonna say, who plays
a young Sylvester Stallone?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Right, Yeah, that's a hard role to film. Yeah, yeah,
they're still they're still casting. There's that guy that plays
the chef for the waiter in that cable that series.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He's really hot. He's playing Springs Team Breece Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was shameless and he was great.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm trying to think his name. He's a coome,
blighter haired guy. But the bear, yeah, the bear. Yeah, yeah,
he's great.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Maybe him, I don't know. He has different color eyes,
I think.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Yeah, I mean, but you got to be super ripped
like Stallone too, right, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Don't know that that's interesting. It'd be great to hear
the backstory of John.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Rambo Jeremy Allen White, thank you, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
How he got there and all that stuff. Interesting story
about Rambo that I heard Stallone tell once is that
if you noticed in the first Rambo, John Rambo did
not have many lines, and the character had very very
few lines and That's was kind of by design because
when Stallone got it, he was like, this guy talks
too much. He's not a you know, let the other
(02:21):
people characters like Colonel Troutman and stuff tell the audience. Yeah,
what a badass he is. Don't have him telling it.
So when you watch the movie, there are very few
lines from the character in that. I thought that was
pretty interesting. So when so that starts filming? When in Thailand?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Film in the fall, So should be maybe a year
at later. We'll see it in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Don't you hope it's good?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
JB.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I think everyone has a soft spot for that character. Yeah, yeah, right,
so we'll see I've seen anything like that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Brian Dennehy, though, is the sheriff that ran him out
of town. Loved his character. Not in that movie, but
I just loved him. That'll be hard to I feel
like it's gonna be hard to put the right characters
in because the ones that played the original win are
so iconic and core so good.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, moving a long stain. But on the movie theme,
Tom Cruise is out shaking hands, kissing babies all over Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, he's here today, San Antonio and Dallas gonna have
some barbecue. But yeah, he's already been making the rounds
around the country. There's already a lot of viral videos
of him popping up at movie theaters and they give
out free popcorn whenever Tom shows up. Tom treats everyone
to popcorn. But one of the funnier videos was people
were making fun of He's getting a lot of blowback
for how he eats popcorn. I saw this, yeah, where
(03:42):
he takes the popcorn, throws it one at a time,
throws it up in the air, and tries to catch
it with his mouth.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He's that guy.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh god, a dad, they said, Yeah, his dad eating
the popcorn.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I've been watching some of his promotion for this film,
and it's hard to tell. And you're the perfect person
to ask if he is just clamored when he shows
up in person because he's a star, or he's generating
the scene to show everyone that he's still a star.
You follow me, h, Yeah, it's like he's generating his
(04:16):
own hype, he's calling his own press conference all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Or is he still just that big of a star
and people are showing up.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh, I think he's that big of a star.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Don't you saw a quote from him He said he
wants to be the first actions lead over one hundred
years old.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, wow, said that recently.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
So I think it's a little bit of him generating
the hype because at one of the movie premieres at
one of the theaters where the movie was going to
be playing, he just appeared on the roof and just
stood on the roof.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh really, that's it. People were going nuts on the grounds.
So I think he definitely generates some of it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I mean Tom Cruise is on my list of
people that if he peeled off his face and you
found out he was an alien all this time, wouldn't
be surprised at all, Like you know what Scooby Doo
when they peel the mask off that it's like him.
Tiger Woods is one of those, wouldn't surprise me if
he was an alien.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Osbourne, that's how he stayed alive all this time.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And also Serena Jordans.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They've been an alien the whole time and just hiding
amongst us. And Tom Cruise is on that list too.
I think Christopher Walking it's also on that list. All right,
So but no, no, no, stop in Texas's coolest city.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Huh, yeah, he should be if he wants some barbecue
and he needs to come to Austin.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We just got number one. Yeah, Austin just drinking number
one for barbecue, Dallas instead for barbecue. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Maybe he'll surprise Austin because it's in between. He'd like
land his plane here for a few hours and dropped in,
So I don't know. One of the more uncomfortable moments
was when an E News reporter asked him what he
is fought was his father's day plays were are going
to be and that He just sort of quickly changed
(06:05):
the subject and started talking about how he's just going
to have a fun day and go to the movies.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, because he and Surrey are estranged, but they always
make it clear he pays his child support, he does
all the things, the legal things question.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Yeah, they just and and and it's because of scientology, right,
I mean, that's what everybody thinks.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It has to be.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
There's probably some deal where they don't allow you to
interact with family members that are not in the that thing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Why wouldn't it be cool if Tom Cruise he's doing
all this stuff, talk about generating hype if he, let's say,
did it in Austin, right, he was going to do
the promo here and at the parachuted into like d
k R and showed the clips on the jumbo Tron
and all that'd be pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And then took his mask off.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah yeah, the ship comes and sucks him up out
of d k R and he's onto this next stop.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
They realize Arch Manning is also an alien. Oh yeah,
I love this alien list now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, there's certain people that just wouldn't surprise you
if they were an alien.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Have you heard anything about the movie, Steve, Yeah, just
getting great reviews, great buzz. I mean this is supposed
to be the last one, is called the Final Reckoning.
I mean, could this be the last time we'll ever
see Tom Cruise running that historic run on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I don't know the way he runs, the way he
rise to about running. I think Miles Teller.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I feel like he gave advice to Miles Teller, who
just landed a role, like a pretty big leading role
in a in a classic remake of a movie, and
he said that Tom Cruise was like, look, what you
need to do is go film yourself running because I
promise you don't look as cool as you think you do.
And he's like, then you got to work on your
form so you do look cool running. Yeah, he's mastered
(07:54):
the cool running.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
We did that. It's a whole radio bit.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Once you remember, it's like, oh yeah, that's we We filmed
ourselves running because we were like, you forget how to
run as an adult. And then also we filmed ourselves
jumping off like a medium sized ledge, which was hysterical.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh man, you still have that ta medium site. Oh,
we should do it again. This is twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Then do you remember the time when we remember the
time when we threw a baby doll off the balcony
to see if we could catch it because some firefighter
caught a baby create it. Yeah, and we were throwing
a baby doll off the balcony at the raad three
stories up on the balcony to see if we could
catch it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Did did you catch that baby?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Die?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
We caught it, he did. Yeah, we caught the baby.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Finally, Dwayne the Rock Johnson is going artsy fartsy on us.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Huh, yeah, he's you know, he's been you know, accused,
so many times of playing himself in every single role,
playing a version of himself. But then he's making this move,
of course, the Smashing Machine, which is supposed to be
his first Some people call it his acting debut, but
that's rude. But he's now going to stick around at
a twenty four after Smashing Machine and work on a
(09:13):
movie where he's gonna be playing a battie and a
psychological thriller. Get this a self help guru in a
dark thriller.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
By the way, eight twenty four is the studio that's
making it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, their artsy fartsy studio. Okay, now it's called Breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Would you guys take that chance if you were Dwayne
the Rock Johnson, He's one of the highest paid performers
in Hollywood to step out of it. I mean, what
you've got going pretty damn it works? It works, right.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
But that doesn't mean you wouldn't be able to go
back if this major win bombs, like a serious acting
role bombs, and he's like, well, I guess I'll go
back to pounding things. I guess she's got that. Yeah,
they'd bring him back for that stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
When's the Smashing Machine out? That's our UFC movie.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, they're wrapped up on that. I don't know that.
I think before the end of the year. You know what,
you make a good point.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Remember Vin Diesel tried to venture out from Fast Cars
getting sick. Yeah, and then came right back. They took
him right back with open arms. Yeah, because it worked, right.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, you're the fast You're the fast and furious guy.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yep. Gradual still to come.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We'll take a quick break, but coming up next more
with Steve and Chances are if you've been in Austin
at all for any amount of time, you've heard about
the the rumor of the One World Theater, that it
was founded and started by a cult leader and a
cult and cult followers. It was always kind of one
of those things. Jimmy, would you agree that when you
(10:41):
heard it, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I kind of always disregarded that.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I've toured it, I've I've met the founders and oh
yeah yeah. I always thought they were creepy, but I
didn't suspect anything other than creepiness.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You could have been sucked in.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
There was actually he was going to tell us more
about it, but it was the BEAUTI Field cult.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right, yeah, Boodha Field, I think boota Field cult.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It was led by a man who they called sometimes
the teacher, but he had several name change changes, and
that seems to be them of cult leaders, is they
changed their name every few years to try to throw
off people off the track.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I learned that at a conference they were a cult leader.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Conference number one, and there was a big keynote about
the importance of changing your name.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah yeah, when you go train to become a cult
leader as one of the key things. He started off
in California as Michelle one one name, and he was
a He was a struggling actor that started this field
with what originally originated.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Of course, they called it a feel good cult.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And the documentary I watched it yesterday, they they they
would hang around on the beach and do a lot
of like weird meditation and running in the water. So
what happened is it started to kind of grow and
grow and grow, and then a lot of people there
was some they started to get the heat on him
in California and he started to get a little bit worried.
So they moved and they spent six months finding a
(12:08):
new location to move their cult.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
That was the session right after name change at the conference.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Quick every few years, move back up and move everything.
So he took his right hand man, and I think
it's like two or three of his top like you know,
sid sidekicks whatever you call him in the cult that
the second accomplices, the accomplices. He brought his top people
and they searched for a new place and they landed
in Austin in the nineties and they spent oh about
(12:38):
fifteen years here. But while they're here, they one of
his disciples owned some land. Say hey, I own this
land I inherited, come and check it out. They showed
it to him and says, we're going to build a
theater here. There was nothing, not much out there back then,
going out b caves.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I don't remember why I met them and got a
tour of the place. The guy's name was Hart. Is
that the guy changed his name a lot, remember, Yeah,
heard something like that and it was him and his
wife or girlfriend and it was super I think Gary
Keller owns that place now now.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
They bought it from them, I think twenty only, not
very many years ago though they bought it.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I was just saying those who don't know Gary Keller
is you know the name from Keller Williams real Estate.
But what you may not know about Gary Keller is
he has been somewhat on a one man mission to
preserve a lot of arts in Austin, especially music, and
so he's bought venues to save them. He bought Saxon
pub to save it. Thank you Want World Theater to
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probably save it, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He's doing some cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So the Joe Rogan tells a funny story about the
one World Theater. That's why he didn't buy it, Yeah,
because he found out the backstory of the cult. Because
he was going to have his I guess what is
now the Mothership on Sixth Street, the comedy club, that's
where it was gonna be, and he backed out on
buying it once he heard the whole backstory about the
cult and all that kind of stuff. So doesn't Austin
(14:11):
seem like a just ripe for colts though?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Doesn't it? I'm serious, It seems like.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Especially in the sixties and seventies, it was a hippie town.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah that when Madeline Murie O'Hare was running around the
Atheist remember her, Oh, yeah, and all that she was.
But let me ask you, guys, be host. You have
the name names, but do you know anyone that is
a prime candidate to fall into a cult? I do,
totally do. I mean I totally do too.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just like I always searching for something. Yes, yes, I
know two people now well too.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, I know a guy that almost joined this cult.
Oh really, he knew some of these people and to
Barton Springs. So they'll show this in the documentary. It's
called Holy Hell. By the way, you can watch it
for free on Prime Video now. But yeah, the guy,
the teacher would walk around Barton Springs with you know,
his cult, and they would follow him around, and and
(15:15):
he had a guy who would carry a chair around
for him and would set the chair down whenever he
wanted to sit down.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's pretty low on the wrong and the cult the chareholder.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
To really sit down and make a list, a proper
list of pros and cons. Where I joined a colt
the prose is usually unlimited sex. Yeah, yeah, that's where
they get people.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's right, that's right. It's not possessions. It's not a fire.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, they're not even the best looking, but unlimited all
you can eat.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But fee it's like Jason's Deli's solid bar, unstoppable where they.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Get it, I don't.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I mean that's a powerful, powerful play, right, you know,
and not a lot of people are gonna be like,
I think I'm interested in that.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I mean, you got a bunch of dudes that haven't
scored with a chick in their entire life, and how
they've got an op sign And one of.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
The guys is like, you might have to carry a chair,
and he's like, but you get to have all the
sex you want.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I mean, you're excited we were when we got unlimited
cellular data.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
This is a whole new level.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I mean those guys already failed when they tried the
book clubs the singles, right, they said, what's next?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh so the name again is called Holy Hell. You
can watch it free on Prime. I'm watching that. I
got to see that. Yeah, I love that cult stuff, man,
But freak you out answered.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The question, JB. Do you know I wonder I do?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
If you don't can think of one, it's probably you, right,
it might be me searching for I have friends of
their their daughter got married, and then I'm gonna have
to send them a link to this documentary video.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Mm hm oh gorgeous venue. Yeah that was.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Gorgeous, beautiful. Uh, finally a name you that doesn't come
up anymore. But Ann Richards Stevens got us an Ann
Richards story, former governor of the great State of Texas,
by the way, who had one of my favorite lines
ever about the lotto when they passed the lotto law.
She said, I always said there ought to be at
a fine on stupid people, tax on stupid people. And
(17:34):
now we've got one the greatest line up. Yeah, what
story about going to the movie.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, so former Texas governor Rest in peace, Ann Richards. Uh,
you know she had legendary sass like you like you
were saying, and a great taste in Blockbuster. So my
friend Jeff, who's worked at Magnolia down the old Magnolia
down to Lake Austin when it was still there. He
recalled a Friday where it was packed for brunch. This
(18:00):
was in their early two thousands. So and Richards comes
in with a friend, sits down and they're ordering and
then they get their their coffee or tea or whatever
it was, and there he said, there was a really
hectic morning. They were short staffed. The place was packed.
It was a Friday where if anybody ever frequented Magnolia
back in the day remembers how that place used to
get on the Fridays. So Richard's getting a little impatient
(18:25):
waiting on her order. She looks up and she says,
can we get this move in? I've got tickets for
Bad Boys too, and that gonna be late.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I love her.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
There's one of my favorite photos, celebrity photos.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I guess I'll put it in that category.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
It's hanging at Flows wine Bar in Terrytown, which is
a fairly new wine bar if you haven't been there.
And it's a picture of uh, Anne Richards and Dolly
Parton together having a chat and they both had like
at the height of their hair.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, their big hair.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
It's just an I want to get a copy of
that print of that photo somehow because it you know,
my wife loves both of those, He really loves Dolly.
But it's just it's just an incredible two iconic women,
powerful like it's it's just a great photo.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Bigger the hair, the closer to God, the powers.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, Uh, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Stephen. Always a pleasure talking to you guys. Follow Steven
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All right, our friend Stephen Presley from app thunder Pop
TV joins us, who does it every single Friday, And
of course we're going a long weekend with Memorial Day
this weekend. Be careful of your head and out doing stuff.
You guys are adults. You know how to behave, most
of you know how to behave. But Steven joined just
talk pop culture, Hollywood things going on. Let's talk about
last week we talked about Miami Vice getting another another movie,
(00:25):
and now there's a prequel from an eighties movie that's
going to be made. What is it?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, a new Rambo prequel film is awesome? Y, Yeah,
John Rambo. This will be during Vietnam War, so we'll
see the young John Rambo for the first time during
the war. They may have done some flashbacks to the
old movies. Possibly, I'm trying to remember there was any flashbacks.
This is going to come from the Black Adams screenwriter,
(00:51):
which you know Black Adams a little camp here superhero film,
So it'll be interesting to see if you can bring
that wartime grittiness to the film. But it'll be, of
course to be set. They're gonna film in Thailand. It's
set for a filming in fall of twenty twenty five.
Sylvester Stallone is aware of the project, but he apparently
(01:12):
has no involvement in it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh really, I know. I was gonna say, who plays
a young Sylvester Stallone?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Right, Yeah, that's a hard role to film. Yeah, yeah,
they're still they're still casting. There's that guy that plays
the chef for the waiter in that cable that series.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
He's really hot. He's playing Springs Team Breece Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was shameless and he was great.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I'm trying to think his name. He's a coome,
blighter haired guy. But the bear, yeah, the bear. Yeah, yeah,
he's great.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Maybe him, I don't know. He has different color eyes,
I think.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Yeah, I mean, but you got to be super ripped
like Stallone too, right, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Don't know that that's interesting. It'd be great to hear
the backstory of John.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Rambo Jeremy Allen White, thank you, yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
How he got there and all that stuff. Interesting story
about Rambo that I heard Stallone tell once is that
if you noticed in the first Rambo, John Rambo did
not have many lines, and the character had very very
few lines and That's was kind of by design because
when Stallone got it, he was like, this guy talks
too much. He's not a you know, let the other
(02:21):
people characters like Colonel Troutman and stuff tell the audience. Yeah,
what a badass he is. Don't have him telling it.
So when you watch the movie, there are very few
lines from the character in that. I thought that was
pretty interesting. So when so that starts filming? When in Thailand?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Film in the fall, So should be maybe a year
at later. We'll see it in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Don't you hope it's good?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
JB.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I did.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I think everyone has a soft spot for that character. Yeah, yeah, right,
so we'll see I've seen anything like that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Brian Dennehy, though, is the sheriff that ran him out
of town. Loved his character. Not in that movie, but
I just loved him. That'll be hard to I feel
like it's gonna be hard to put the right characters
in because the ones that played the original win are
so iconic and core so good.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, moving a long stain. But on the movie theme,
Tom Cruise is out shaking hands, kissing babies all over Texas.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, he's here today, San Antonio and Dallas gonna have
some barbecue. But yeah, he's already been making the rounds
around the country. There's already a lot of viral videos
of him popping up at movie theaters and they give
out free popcorn whenever Tom shows up. Tom treats everyone
to popcorn. But one of the funnier videos was people
were making fun of He's getting a lot of blowback
for how he eats popcorn. I saw this, yeah, where
(03:42):
he takes the popcorn, throws it one at a time,
throws it up in the air, and tries to catch
it with his mouth.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He's that guy.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh god, a dad, they said, Yeah, his dad eating
the popcorn.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I've been watching some of his promotion for this film,
and it's hard to tell. And you're the perfect person
to ask if he is just clamored when he shows
up in person because he's a star, or he's generating
the scene to show everyone that he's still a star.
You follow me, h, Yeah, it's like he's generating his
(04:16):
own hype, he's calling his own press conference all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Or is he still just that big of a star
and people are showing up.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh, I think he's that big of a star.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Don't you saw a quote from him He said he
wants to be the first actions lead over one hundred
years old.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, wow, said that recently.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
So I think it's a little bit of him generating
the hype because at one of the movie premieres at
one of the theaters where the movie was going to
be playing, he just appeared on the roof and just
stood on the roof.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh really, that's it. People were going nuts on the grounds.
So I think he definitely generates some of it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, I mean Tom Cruise is on my list of
people that if he peeled off his face and you
found out he was an alien all this time, wouldn't
be surprised at all, Like you know what Scooby Doo
when they peel the mask off that it's like him.
Tiger Woods is one of those, wouldn't surprise me if
he was an alien.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Osbourne, that's how he stayed alive all this time.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And also Serena Jordans.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They've been an alien the whole time and just hiding
amongst us. And Tom Cruise is on that list too.
I think Christopher Walking it's also on that list. All right,
So but no, no, no, stop in Texas's coolest city.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Huh, yeah, he should be if he wants some barbecue
and he needs to come to Austin.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We just got number one. Yeah, Austin just drinking number
one for barbecue, Dallas instead for barbecue. So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Maybe he'll surprise Austin because it's in between. He'd like
land his plane here for a few hours and dropped in,
So I don't know. One of the more uncomfortable moments
was when an E News reporter asked him what he
is fought was his father's day plays were are going
to be and that He just sort of quickly changed
(06:05):
the subject and started talking about how he's just going
to have a fun day and go to the movies.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, because he and Surrey are estranged, but they always
make it clear he pays his child support, he does
all the things, the legal things question.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Yeah, they just and and and it's because of scientology, right,
I mean, that's what everybody thinks.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It has to be.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
There's probably some deal where they don't allow you to
interact with family members that are not in the that thing.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Why wouldn't it be cool if Tom Cruise he's doing
all this stuff, talk about generating hype if he, let's say,
did it in Austin, right, he was going to do
the promo here and at the parachuted into like d
k R and showed the clips on the jumbo Tron
and all that'd be pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And then took his mask off.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah yeah, the ship comes and sucks him up out
of d k R and he's onto this next stop.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
They realize Arch Manning is also an alien. Oh yeah,
I love this alien list now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, there's certain people that just wouldn't surprise you
if they were an alien.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Have you heard anything about the movie, Steve, Yeah, just
getting great reviews, great buzz. I mean this is supposed
to be the last one, is called the Final Reckoning.
I mean, could this be the last time we'll ever
see Tom Cruise running that historic run on the big screen.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I don't know the way he runs, the way he
rise to about running. I think Miles Teller.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I feel like he gave advice to Miles Teller, who
just landed a role, like a pretty big leading role
in a in a classic remake of a movie, and
he said that Tom Cruise was like, look, what you
need to do is go film yourself running because I
promise you don't look as cool as you think you do.
And he's like, then you got to work on your
form so you do look cool running. Yeah, he's mastered
(07:54):
the cool running.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
We did that. It's a whole radio bit.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Once you remember, it's like, oh yeah, that's we We filmed
ourselves running because we were like, you forget how to
run as an adult. And then also we filmed ourselves
jumping off like a medium sized ledge, which was hysterical.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh man, you still have that ta medium site. Oh,
we should do it again. This is twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Then do you remember the time when we remember the
time when we threw a baby doll off the balcony
to see if we could catch it because some firefighter
caught a baby create it. Yeah, and we were throwing
a baby doll off the balcony at the raad three
stories up on the balcony to see if we could
catch it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Did did you catch that baby?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Die?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:43):
We caught it, he did. Yeah, we caught the baby.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Finally, Dwayne the Rock Johnson is going artsy fartsy on us.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Huh, yeah, he's you know, he's been you know, accused,
so many times of playing himself in every single role,
playing a version of himself. But then he's making this move,
of course, the Smashing Machine, which is supposed to be
his first Some people call it his acting debut, but
that's rude. But he's now going to stick around at
a twenty four after Smashing Machine and work on a
(09:13):
movie where he's gonna be playing a battie and a
psychological thriller. Get this a self help guru in a
dark thriller.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
By the way, eight twenty four is the studio that's
making it.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah, their artsy fartsy studio. Okay, now it's called Breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Would you guys take that chance if you were Dwayne
the Rock Johnson, He's one of the highest paid performers
in Hollywood to step out of it. I mean, what
you've got going pretty damn it works? It works, right.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
But that doesn't mean you wouldn't be able to go
back if this major win bombs, like a serious acting
role bombs, and he's like, well, I guess I'll go
back to pounding things. I guess she's got that. Yeah,
they'd bring him back for that stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
When's the Smashing Machine out? That's our UFC movie.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, they're wrapped up on that. I don't know that.
I think before the end of the year. You know what,
you make a good point.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Remember Vin Diesel tried to venture out from Fast Cars
getting sick. Yeah, and then came right back. They took
him right back with open arms. Yeah, because it worked, right.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, you're the fast You're the fast and furious guy.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yep. Gradual still to come.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We'll take a quick break, but coming up next more
with Steve and Chances are if you've been in Austin
at all for any amount of time, you've heard about
the the rumor of the One World Theater, that it
was founded and started by a cult leader and a
cult and cult followers. It was always kind of one
of those things. Jimmy, would you agree that when you
(10:41):
heard it, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I kind of always disregarded that.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I've toured it, I've I've met the founders and oh
yeah yeah. I always thought they were creepy, but I
didn't suspect anything other than creepiness.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You could have been sucked in.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
There was actually he was going to tell us more
about it, but it was the BEAUTI Field cult.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right, yeah, Boodha Field, I think boota Field cult.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It was led by a man who they called sometimes
the teacher, but he had several name change changes, and
that seems to be them of cult leaders, is they
changed their name every few years to try to throw
off people off the track.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I learned that at a conference they were a cult leader.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Conference number one, and there was a big keynote about
the importance of changing your name.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah yeah, when you go train to become a cult
leader as one of the key things. He started off
in California as Michelle one one name, and he was
a He was a struggling actor that started this field
with what originally originated.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Of course, they called it a feel good cult.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And the documentary I watched it yesterday, they they they
would hang around on the beach and do a lot
of like weird meditation and running in the water. So
what happened is it started to kind of grow and
grow and grow, and then a lot of people there
was some they started to get the heat on him
in California and he started to get a little bit worried.
So they moved and they spent six months finding a
(12:08):
new location to move their cult.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
That was the session right after name change at the conference.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Quick every few years, move back up and move everything.
So he took his right hand man, and I think
it's like two or three of his top like you know,
sid sidekicks whatever you call him in the cult that
the second accomplices, the accomplices. He brought his top people
and they searched for a new place and they landed
in Austin in the nineties and they spent oh about
(12:38):
fifteen years here. But while they're here, they one of
his disciples owned some land. Say hey, I own this
land I inherited, come and check it out. They showed
it to him and says, we're going to build a
theater here. There was nothing, not much out there back then,
going out b caves.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I don't remember why I met them and got a
tour of the place. The guy's name was Hart. Is
that the guy changed his name a lot, remember, Yeah,
heard something like that and it was him and his
wife or girlfriend and it was super I think Gary
Keller owns that place now now.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
They bought it from them, I think twenty only, not
very many years ago though they bought it.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I was just saying those who don't know Gary Keller
is you know the name from Keller Williams real Estate.
But what you may not know about Gary Keller is
he has been somewhat on a one man mission to
preserve a lot of arts in Austin, especially music, and
so he's bought venues to save them. He bought Saxon
pub to save it. Thank you Want World Theater to
(13:44):
probably save it, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
He's doing some cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So the Joe Rogan tells a funny story about the
one World Theater. That's why he didn't buy it, Yeah,
because he found out the backstory of the cult. Because
he was going to have his I guess what is
now the Mothership on Sixth Street, the comedy club, that's
where it was gonna be, and he backed out on
buying it once he heard the whole backstory about the
cult and all that kind of stuff. So doesn't Austin
(14:11):
seem like a just ripe for colts though?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Doesn't it? I'm serious, It seems like.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Especially in the sixties and seventies, it was a hippie town.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah that when Madeline Murie O'Hare was running around the
Atheist remember her, Oh, yeah, and all that she was.
But let me ask you, guys, be host. You have
the name names, but do you know anyone that is
a prime candidate to fall into a cult? I do,
totally do. I mean I totally do too.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just like I always searching for something. Yes, yes, I
know two people now well too.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, I know a guy that almost joined this cult.
Oh really, he knew some of these people and to
Barton Springs. So they'll show this in the documentary. It's
called Holy Hell. By the way, you can watch it
for free on Prime Video now. But yeah, the guy,
the teacher would walk around Barton Springs with you know,
his cult, and they would follow him around, and and
(15:15):
he had a guy who would carry a chair around
for him and would set the chair down whenever he
wanted to sit down.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It's pretty low on the wrong and the cult the chareholder.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
To really sit down and make a list, a proper
list of pros and cons. Where I joined a colt
the prose is usually unlimited sex. Yeah, yeah, that's where
they get people.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
That's right, that's right. It's not possessions. It's not a fire.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
No, they're not even the best looking, but unlimited all
you can eat.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But fee it's like Jason's Deli's solid bar, unstoppable where they.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Get it, I don't.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I mean that's a powerful, powerful play, right, you know,
and not a lot of people are gonna be like,
I think I'm interested in that.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I mean, you got a bunch of dudes that haven't
scored with a chick in their entire life, and how
they've got an op sign And one of.
Speaker 6 (16:15):
The guys is like, you might have to carry a chair,
and he's like, but you get to have all the
sex you want.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I mean, you're excited we were when we got unlimited
cellular data.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
This is a whole new level.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I mean those guys already failed when they tried the
book clubs the singles, right, they said, what's next?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh so the name again is called Holy Hell. You
can watch it free on Prime. I'm watching that. I
got to see that. Yeah, I love that cult stuff, man,
But freak you out answered.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
The question, JB. Do you know I wonder I do?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
If you don't can think of one, it's probably you, right,
it might be me searching for I have friends of
their their daughter got married, and then I'm gonna have
to send them a link to this documentary video.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Mm hm oh gorgeous venue. Yeah that was.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Gorgeous, beautiful. Uh, finally a name you that doesn't come
up anymore. But Ann Richards Stevens got us an Ann
Richards story, former governor of the great State of Texas,
by the way, who had one of my favorite lines
ever about the lotto when they passed the lotto law.
She said, I always said there ought to be at
a fine on stupid people, tax on stupid people. And
(17:34):
now we've got one the greatest line up. Yeah, what
story about going to the movie.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, so former Texas governor Rest in peace, Ann Richards. Uh,
you know she had legendary sass like you like you
were saying, and a great taste in Blockbuster. So my
friend Jeff, who's worked at Magnolia down the old Magnolia
down to Lake Austin when it was still there. He
recalled a Friday where it was packed for brunch. This
(18:00):
was in their early two thousands. So and Richards comes
in with a friend, sits down and they're ordering and
then they get their their coffee or tea or whatever
it was, and there he said, there was a really
hectic morning. They were short staffed. The place was packed.
It was a Friday where if anybody ever frequented Magnolia
back in the day remembers how that place used to
get on the Fridays. So Richard's getting a little impatient
(18:25):
waiting on her order. She looks up and she says,
can we get this move in? I've got tickets for
Bad Boys too, and that gonna be late.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I love her.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
There's one of my favorite photos, celebrity photos.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I guess I'll put it in that category.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
It's hanging at Flows wine Bar in Terrytown, which is
a fairly new wine bar if you haven't been there.
And it's a picture of uh, Anne Richards and Dolly
Parton together having a chat and they both had like
at the height of their hair.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, their big hair.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
It's just an I want to get a copy of
that print of that photo somehow because it you know,
my wife loves both of those, He really loves Dolly.
But it's just it's just an incredible two iconic women,
powerful like it's it's just a great photo.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Bigger the hair, the closer to God, the powers.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, Uh, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Stephen. Always a pleasure talking to you guys. Follow Steven
on Instagram. He puts on some great stuff. It's at
thunder Pop TV. Same thing on YouTube again at thunder
Pop TV, and we'll do it again next week. More
coming up on Austin's eighties station one oh three point
one and streaming on the iHeartRadio app
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