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February 21, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Apparently Ryan Reynolds had a staged paparazzi event.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
We'll get to that in just a second.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Stephen Presley is our guest to fight him on Instagram
at thunder Pop TV.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
He's also on YouTube same handle.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
There.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's start.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Let's talk about Netflix canceling the documentary about the life of.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Prince Yeah, and this has been back and forth for
a while. We've been hearing stories of conflict behind the scenes.
You know, Prince thing has always been weird, like since
he passed away. You know, Prince had no will, there
was no like, no pl like, nothing was laid out
about how he would want his estate to be handled
after he passed away. The other part of the perfect

(00:37):
storm is is he's got a lot of siblings. Yeah,
a lot of siblings and half siblings. I think he
had like ten siblings and with Wow, and.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
When they're fighting over his estate, they've been fighting over
the estate.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
They had one person that the lawyers put in charge
was one of his half sisters, I think. But that's
been part of the problem with his documentary, is there
there's been all this divisiveness, some different factions prints people
in the estate and they're not on the same page.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Wow, I had no idea you ever will.

Speaker 5 (01:08):
No, And it's probably already been pretty messy since his
passing because he was the ultimate holdout, like more so
than the Beatles on licensing and distribution and all that.
He was pretty adamant about own everything.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Oh yeah, So there's no telling how much more is
a state could be worth because they I feel like
they've teased, like releasing unheard songs, like songs he composed,
songs he made and put together and just had him
in as an a vault, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
And while he was alive, he turned down a lot
of money, like you mentioned, Like he was offered a
bunch of money for guitar hero turned that down.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Like he was very big at protecting his image and rights,
like bigger than most, if not till they get out
there in the industry.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
To the point where he made his last album on
the contract that he had, but with another whatever record
company he had, he purposely made it horrible. He was like,
I'm not going to give him my best stuff. His
last of the contract he said himself, was back in
the day. Yeah, back in the day when he was
under contract with Ye Universal or whoever it was.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
That was when he changed his name to the symbol
and no longer Prints, and.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
So they did.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
So did Netflix have the rights to this or that?
Was this an unauthorized thing? And now they they've just
decided not to do it or do you know why
it was canceled?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I think they had an agreement.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
They had an agreement to green light it and start
to shoot stuff for it and create and start editing,
and they had put together I mean, I think it
was all all but finished, but they couldn't agree on
whether they were going to allow it to give it
final approval to go on the streamer.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh wow, do you know who was playing? Was there?
Was this like one of those biopics.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
A documentary like a doc series about his life?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So my question, I guess is was there an actor
that was going to play Prints or was it just
like footage.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Unlust They did a reenactment maybe here and there, but
I think they might have done some stuff like that.
They might have, but I think it was gonna be
a lot of footage that was already existing from his vault.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, okay, let's talk about Ryan Reynolds. He had a
stage paparazzi even got called out on it.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
What's going on? Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, And it's been a it's been a bad stretch
for Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively through this whole mess
they've been going through with Justin Baldoni. And you know,
if you look at the threads now when you read
the when you see a news story posted about this
or meme posted about this on on socials, that the
opinions have shifted heavily away from and in favor away

(03:41):
from Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively and in favor of
Justin Baldoni. Now that's pretty pretty it's like pretty surprising
to see that shift happening over the course of three
or four months. It's made a complete three sixty. But
now there's you know, some accusations that Ryan Reynolds staged
a pr move by having a fake vire, a fake

(04:02):
paparazzi event. He was getting out of a car going
into a random building in New York and a lot
of people showed up, Fans were they're waiting for him,
and they were all waiting to get him, to sign
autographs for him on cardboard cutouts and the things that
in the Popologist podcast to give him a shout out.
They discussed this, and they said, first of all, a
lot of the cardboard cutouts that people were holding were

(04:23):
very similar, almost like it like it was pre planned,
Like they.

Speaker 6 (04:27):
Were all like handed out to him.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Another thing they pointed out is people don't really ask
for the autographs on the cardboards anymore, or on a
picture anymore.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
They want a selfie.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
That'd been very twenty twenty five thing now is to
ask for a selfie from a celebrity. Nobody was asking
for selfies. People were wanting him to sign this random cardboard.
And the fact that people in New York, say, Ryan
Reynolds walks around all the time and no one ever
even bothers him or makes a big deal about it.
And then suddenly he's going into a building and there's
his mob waiting for him.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, that definitely sounds like it was funded by somebody.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Yeah, that sounds weird.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Why would he do it though, Why would he do
a paparazzi thing?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, here's a interesting twist.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Some people have said online that did justin Baldoni's prt
PR people stage it as kind of a reverse That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I love that to make him look bad.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, oh maybe maybe Justin Baldoni's people staged it, not
Ryan Reynolds.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Evil Hollywood strategists. I know, we could have been really
good at that. I mean, that's that's evil and I
love it.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's a good series, an idea for a series.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
This is the series I want to see.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, right, how manipulating Hollywood?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yes, pr Machine, Oh yeah, probably have been something like it.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
I'm so good at that. Y'all have some twisted ideas.
J done some twisted things I know.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
And the great things that we done, the people that
we did it who had no idea it was us?

Speaker 6 (06:04):
Do you hate not being able to tell him that
was us?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
No, it's our thing.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
I love more when they don't know where the sabotage
is coming from.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
Is it even better?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm evil. JB's more evil than me, believe
it or not. I'm straight up.

Speaker 6 (06:19):
No, I've heard. I know, I've I've heard.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Straight demon right there?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yeah, well Jamie, listen, man, I'm free for lunch today.
If you want to go ahead and write out this show, we.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
Can get it.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Stephen you interested, Yeah, we'll go pitch it to somebody, Steve.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It'll come with one of his funny hats.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
On and.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
We got to come up with a name. We'll need
a logo, website. We'll get to all that stuff today
at lunch. You want to guys, want to meet it
Chewy's on Barton Springs or something. Yeah, okay, we'll just
knock it out. Steve had always good business with you.
Man find Steve and he makes great videos and great
content on thunder at Thunderpot tv, Instagram and YouTube.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
How's your YouTube channel? Is it growing well?

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Over?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I hit the thousand subscriber mark. I thought it was
going to be able to start monetizing. Then I found
out you have to do long form content.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
To get Oh really, yeah that sucks because you're a
short form guy.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, I've done the short even know it's faster, quicker
to get it out.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
So how many videos have you had over a million views? Oh? Gosh,
I don't know a lot? Really had a lot?

Speaker 7 (07:25):
Really?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, I've had ten? Maybe that hit over a million.
The most viewed was three three point five or three
point seven million?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Did you make any money off of that?

Speaker 3 (07:34):
You know Instagram used to pay They paid me for
a while Instagram for my reels. Oh really, they were
testing a bonus program and I was I was making
like one thousand dollars a month. I think one month
I made two thousand. And then they said this is
just a test program. We're going to stop it now. Oh,
this test is over stopped doing it went on for
like six months.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh good seeing you man. We'll do it again next week. Okay,
we'll see all.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
There's really no other way to explain this other than
that JB sent Tricia and I and Instagram rail and
it cracked us up, and we've been talking about it.
It just keeps coming up over and over again. Right, Yes,
so JB described the visual of the of the reel
that you sent.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
I mean, it's the clip is no different than any
sort of public altercation that you see on social media
every day. Now, you know, people people getting in fights
on the sidewalk or traffic or whatever. Shopping mall pretty normal.
But I have just you know, typical mindless scrolling. I
stumble across this clip that's got to be from the sixties,

(08:40):
like the sixties, early seventies, and it's a guy all irritated.
It he references more than one person, but he's talking
to one person who's filming him, which that took.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
A lot of work back then to just film a stranger.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yeah, but what's so funny to me is the vintage dialogue,
like we've we've joked about, you know, the old movie
dialogue from the twenties scene. Yeah, stuff, I knew you
were so rap. Yeah, it's just so funny the dialogue.
And I stumbled across this, and I think it's late sixties,

(09:15):
early seventies, and this guy's irritated with this guy filming him,
and just the names that he uses in the dialogues
that he uses is so funny. I've watched this so
many times. Here you go, and it's a phrase we
need to bring back. Okay, No, well know they won't
know how to react. Here he is as he's walking
down the sidewalk.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
Okay, you're a crumb creep. And I wouldn't take that
off of nobody. And there's three of you and I'm
by myself, and when it's over, there'll be nothing to it,
win or lose. Okay, but you don't have the courage.
You're a real crumb bumb. Put that on camera. You're
a crumb bumb. The three of yous and I challenge it.

(09:56):
You're a coward, you're a yellow sneak, and you want
to I say, let's forget all the rules of this
great country we live in. I will go back of
that wall with the three of you.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Is just me.

Speaker 7 (10:09):
Crum creep, coward.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Crumb creep, coward, I tell you, like my gun, is
that Howard Cosell.

Speaker 6 (10:16):
It's very howardlish. And he couldn't let it go.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
The video goes on longer, like he could not get
it out. He had so many words for this guy
and not one bad word. Cum crumbum, crum creep.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
It's like he grew up in a household where swearing
had the ultimate penalty, right right, So he just learned
these creative ways of being angry. You're a crumbumb, I
tell you, you're a yellow snake, You're a coward.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
He was ready to take them all on. He was
going to go on the other side of the fence.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
He had to go put his dog up first.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, he had to put his dog up, and then
he's gonna wear them out rum bump.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
So classic. Just so I just loved when did change?
Like when did the you you know I knew you
was a rat. See that all that stop and then
it became.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
So common just use the F word all the time
when you were mad.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, yeah, I know. It's very funny though. It's funny
just scrolling through Instagram. What'll make you like? Because first,
and I've been laughing about ever since you sent it,
Chap like I crossed her in the hallway.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I go, you're a crumb bump.

Speaker 6 (11:30):
We're on board with you trying to bring it back.
That's a good way.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Gosh, funny,
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