December 12, 2024 • 16 mins
***SERIES FINALE!***
Welcome back Hollywood Faithful, one last time! This week, we hear the magical, heartwarming tale of an actor who gets invited to a holiday party at a stunning A-lister's mansion... and then learns they have to perform!
"There was a pool and music, and there was a dance floor and a deejay. There were pathways lit, and a tarot reader... a psychic medium... white-jacketed waiters, staff walking around with drinks and hors d’oeuvres... And about two hours into it, [BLEEP] gets up on stage and she says, 'All right, we're going to do a little contest.'"
Luckily our confessor knows how to improv! Through a night of twists, turns, and unexpected laughs, our confessor discovers that taking a risk and letting yourself have fun in Hollywood can lead to a magical happy ending.
"At that point, these two people came out in dinner jackets. And they
have these metal cases like Deal or No Deal – that show was hot back then. You would pick a case, and you’d open it, and it would tell you what the amount was. And you never knew. It could be $5. It could be $5,000. So these two people come up on stage and, you know, they're in front of the stage and they have the cases. And my buddy goes first and opens it up. And he goes, Oh my God..."
"You Never Know Who's Watching" is our final episode of the Hollywood Confessional. And with it, we want to say thank you to all of our listeners -- those who have been with us since the beginning, and all of you that we've met along the way. This has been an incredible journey. We love this show and the community we've built, and we are honored to have served as your podcast priests.
We also want to thank our incredible cast and crew who made this show possible! We couldn't have done it without you.
Please keep in touch with us on socials (find Meagan on Bluesky and J.R. on IG) and help us keep the faith as we all move forward into the new year and beyond. We look forward to continuing to make Hollywood a happier place with all of you!
Happy holidays and love to all,
Meagan & J.R.
Connect with us:
Check out some of our favorite shows:
- Screenwriters' Rant Room
- Screaming into the Hollywood Abyss
- It Happened in Hollywood
- The Secret History of Hollywood
Hollywood Confessional is a Ninth Way Media production, produced by Meagan Daine and J.R. Zamora-Thal.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In nomine Cinema e TV , espiritu Streaming Amen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello Hollywood Faithful.
Oh my God, that's amazing.
I am your podcast priest MeganDane.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And I'm JR Zamora-Thal.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And this is.
We have something a little sadbut also a little happy to
announce.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
This is the final episode of, not just the season
but the entire series.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yep, this is our series finale of the Hollywood
confessional.
We want to thank everyone who'sbeen listening so far.
We love you guys.
You are all amazing and thishas been such an amazing journey
.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Three years of amazing episodes.
Maybe we shouldn't say too much.
Should we just get into it?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, let's, uh, let's do this thing.
We've got a great one coming upfor you guys.
Our final episode it's called.
You Never Know who's Watching.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Let's step into the confessional booth.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I grew up in a city in the Midwest.
Blue collar, had a huge ego andno self-esteem.
At age 15, I got cast asWinthrop, the little kid with a
lisp in the Music man and threerehearsals in, the director said
I'd like to see you in the endof rehearsal.
I said okay, and I go to see himand he says you got a little
something.
I want you to write a biographyof who you are as Winthrop in
(01:57):
this little town and on Saturdayyou'll read it in front of the
whole company.
So I went home and I did it.
You'll read it in front of thewhole company.
So I went home and I did it andI came back on Saturday and I
read it and it was great.
People were laughing.
Girls started to like me.
Then, when we did the show, atthe end of the first act is the
Wells Fargo wagon and in themiddle of it Winthrop, who
(02:21):
hasn't really said much ofanything up to now, bursts into
song.
He has a lyric and everybodylike, oh my god, it's amazing.
Look, he's singing.
And it brings the curtain down.
And I swear to god, when we didthat show and burst out in the
(02:44):
song, I was in Mason City, iowa,in 1910.
It was all real to me.
I believed it and the girlswere all pinching me and saying
how cute I was.
I realized that that directorhad given me a gift.
He had shown me that acting fedmy imagination, my creativity,
(03:06):
and I said I want to do that forthe rest of my life.
I started out going to theAmerican Academy in New York.
Oh, what a letdown.
Oh no, oh yeah, you see thebrochure.
Robert Redford, spencer Tracyall these people I admired as
(03:29):
actors they went there.
It was on Madison Avenue on23rd Street.
The building had been therelike 100 years.
I thought the halls wouldreverberate with Stanislavski
and Strasberg, but no, it waswho's fucking who?
Who has the best weed?
(03:50):
Yeah, it was me.
Where are you going on Fridaynight?
It was worse than high school,but it gave me a way to land in
New York City and a way to meetpeople.
About a year later I'm makingrounds trying to find an agent
my friend Chuck.
He had done a film and he had amanager.
So he took me to the managerone day and introduced me and
(04:12):
the guy said I'd love to workwith you.
That turned into a businesspartnership.
For 30 years, from New York toLA.
I went through a lot of hardtimes and he was right there
with me and eventually we becamefriends.
Somewhere along the way, mymanager now my friend started
doing weekend seminars about howto break into the business.
He'd do it in Pittsburgh,cincinnati, dallas, you know,
(04:37):
and make a lot of money.
He called me one time and saidyou free this afternoon?
I said, yeah, what's up, and hegoes.
I met somebody in Pittsburgh.
She's a model and she's comingto New York to test for a series
.
I want you to read through thescenes with her.
Tell me what you think I'm like, okay.
So I went in and I walked intothe room and, oh my God, it was.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, no way, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
My manager goes this is B****.
She's from B****, which wasalso my hometown.
I said, oh no, kidding.
And I shook her hand and weread through the scenes and she
got up and said it was nice tomeet you and she left and he
turned to me and said what doyou think I go?
What do you think I go?
(05:26):
What do I think?
Are you kidding me?
She's fucking stunning andshe's a really good actor.
If she doesn't swallow hertongue, she'll be a huge star.
Wow, oh my God.
She was stunning to look at.
She was reading for a series onABC called there were four or
(05:48):
five hot young actresses and shewas one of them.
And sure enough, she got itPretty soon.
She was making $100 millionfilms and my friend was
representing her.
Over the years we got to knoweach other a little bit.
He would have Thanksgivingdinner and invite like ten
clients, and she and I wouldeach be a little bit.
He would have Thanksgivingdinner and invite like ten
clients, and she and I wouldeach be one of them.
Her mother still lived in ourhometown, so a couple times she
(06:11):
would say to me Are you goinghome in the summer?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I'd say yeah, and she'd say Could you drop
something off at my mom's house?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Absolutely, are you kidding me?
Eventually she met the guy sheended up marrying.
Aw man, not you.
Nope, well, you can't win themall.
Anyway, they had this house upin the Hollywood Hills and one
New Year's Eve my buddy calls meat like five and says what are
you doing tonight?
I said, uh, nothing.
(06:41):
He goes, you want to go to hishouse for a party.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
She's having a party at herhouse.
He goes, yeah.
I'm like aren't you going withyour girlfriend?
He says no.
So I'm like, okay.
So what am I then?
Your date?
He goes yeah, yeah.
So I said okay, yeah, you'reeasy.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I am A, so I said okay.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, you're easy.
I am A party at house on NewYear's Eve Huh, you never know
who's going to be there.
So I go over to my friend'shouse.
He drives to her place and aswe're coming up the driveway
there are staff people in whitedinner jackets and there's a
(07:22):
huge tree with ornaments hangingon it and somebody is on either
side and they said Hi, welcome,please take an ornament.
And in the foyer of the housethere's another tree.
There's a gift that matches theornament.
You pick?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
How do I never get invited to these parties?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So I grabbed something and went inside.
There's another tree andthere's a table that had a
matching ornament with a gift.
I forgot what it was, but itwas a couple hundred dollar item
.
Oh, wow.
I thought, oh, that's cool.
Then I went out into thebackyard.
There was a pool and music andthere was a dance floor and a DJ
(08:05):
and there were pathways lit andthere was a tarot reader.
There was a psychic medium,there were sitting areas and
heaters.
The doors were open leadinginto the living room.
There's people sitting outside,there's white jacket waiters,
staff walking around with drinksand hors d'oeuvres.
In all my years growing up inthe Midwest, working in New York
and then in LA, I'd never beento a party like this, so I just
(08:29):
stood there and took it all inAbout two hours into it.
Gets up on stage.
There was a little stage in thebackyard, so she gets up on it
and she says All right, we'regoing to do a little contest.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Here it's karaoke and here's the deal You've got to
sing with who you came with.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And I look at my manager and I go oh fuck.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
We'll have one round and then we'll vote and we'll do
a second round to get rid ofsome people.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I look at my buddy.
He's been drinking, so he'sfeeling his oats and I'm sober,
so I'm not.
And I said you want to do it?
And he goes fuck, yeah, what doyou want to do?
And I said I think we should doSonny and Cher.
And he said ugh.
I said well, you have no voice,so you do Sonny and I guess
(09:22):
I'll do Cher.
He goes well, what song do youwant to do?
I said well, I only know two.
I got you babe.
And the beat goes on.
Why don't we do?
The beat goes on, Simple lyrics, and he goes all right.
So we get up in front ofeverybody and there's like 15
couples that said yes, we'll doit.
(09:44):
And we're in the middle.
So we get up there and we'rethe only two guys as a couple
and everybody kind of knows thatmy buddy is manager but nobody
really knows me.
So my friend goes this is, he'swith me and he's going high.
(10:06):
We do, the beat goes on and I'mdoing whatever I can do to be
Cher and the audience is howling, we're having a great time and
there's a vote.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Then got up on stage and said here are the three
couples for round two.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And she mentioned couple number one, couple number
two, and then me and my friendand we're like, oh no, now we
have to keep going.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Here are the rules for round two.
You can't change partners.
You have to keep singing withthe person you sang with before,
but you can't sing the samesong.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I look at my buddy and I go well, I guess it's I
got you, babe.
So we get up on stage, we're inthe middle Again.
The first couple goes and theyget moderate cheers and applause
.
Then we come out and I'm likehi, welcome to the Sunny and
Cher comedy hour.
Woo.
And we do our second song andwe kill it.
(11:05):
And then the third couple comesup and then gets out there
again and says hey, let's hearit.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Bring the three couples up here Now.
Here's how we're going to vote.
I didn't tell you this, but thestaff that has been waiting on
you for the last four hours hasbeen doing the voting.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
When she said this I saw the other two couples went.
Oh they were.
And I went.
Oh, I don't know how I was.
I said to my buddy, how wereyou with them?
And he goes I don't know Prettygood.
So they voted.
And here's couple.
Number three here's third place.
And I look at my friend Well,we're either first or second.
(11:42):
Then she goes.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Second place is a weekend in Palm Springs on me.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I remember saying what the fuck is first place,
and then she goes second placegoes to and she mentions the
second couple.
So I look at my friend andeverybody goes woohoo and he's
laughing and she goes grandprize winner is Anne with the
Sonny and Cher Comedy HourAmazing.
(12:12):
At that point these two peoplecame out in dinner jackets and
they have these metal cases likedeal or no deal.
That show was hot back then.
With the metal briefcase youwould pick a case and you'd open
it and it would tell you whatthe amount was.
It could be $5.
It could be $5,000.
You never knew.
So these two people come up onstage and you know they're in
(12:36):
front of the stage and they havethe cases and my buddy goes
first and he opens it and hegoes.
Oh my God, it was tickets,lottery ticket scratchers.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh man, that is not Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So he goes what's in yours?
And I thought to myself no, no,no, I get the guy in front of
the audience to turn around andopen it out to the audience.
Let them see it first.
He opened it up and I can seethe people in front go oh my God
.
So he turns it and it's allcash.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh my God, better than Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
There's singles, fives, tens, twenties, hundreds,
american Express gift cards andit's full.
It's a briefcase full of $5,000in cash.
I was like, oh my God, do I getto keep this?
And she said yes.
I said I would have been happywith the case.
I mean, I still have the case.
(13:35):
I remember going home, goingnow, that was a great party.
Oh, the best part of the storywas the next day.
You know, I had two friendsthat were struggling and I gave
them each two thousand dollars.
They were like what I go?
(13:56):
It was found money.
You take it.
Oh, I love that.
I don't know if my friends feltawkward about taking it like it
was charity, but they needed itand I I knew they they
appreciate it and I think thefact that it was a gift from.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, my parents taught me never to look a gift
stack of cash in the mouth.
What?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That's one way of putting it.
So the moral of this story, andwhat I've learned throughout my
career, is this Give it allyou've got, because you never
know who's watching and younever know where a performance
is going to take you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh, I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's a great way to end the story and our season and
our series.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Oh my God, I can't believe I'm about to say this,
but that is a wrap on theHollywood confessional.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
We want to thank every one of our confessors who
were generous enough to sharetheir stories, as well as our
incredible cast members, ourcomposer, our social media
coordinator and our co-producer,joelle Garfinkel.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
And, most of all, we want to thank you, our listeners
.
We are so grateful that you'vejoined us on this journey, from
when we started out, with noidea what we were doing, all the
way to now, three years later.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
When we still don't know what we're doing?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's been such an amazing journey and we're so
proud of this thing that we'vecreated in this community that
we've created.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And it's just been incredible to know that there
are people out there that havelistened, that have been touched
by the stories and that haveengaged with the podcast in
exactly the way that we hopedpeople would right when we
started.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Please keep in touch with us.
We'll keep the social mediaaccounts going, or at least open
for a while.
At Fess Up Hollywood and onceand for all, I am your podcast
priest, Megan Dane.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I'm JR Zamorathal Go create in peace.
The Hollywood Confessional isproduced by Megan Dane and JR
Zamorathal.
Our cast for this episode JohnLorenz, kira Nequirk.
Special effects provided byZapSplat and Pixabay.
(16:16):
Hollywood Confessional is aNinth Way Media production.
Follow us on socials, atFessUpHollywood.
In nomine Cinema e TV , espiritu Streaming Amen.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello Hollywood Faithful.
Oh my God, that's amazing.
I am your podcast priest MeganDane.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And I'm JR Zamora-Thal.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
And this is.
We have something a little sadbut also a little happy to
announce.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
This is the final episode of, not just the season
but the entire series.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yep, this is our series finale of the Hollywood
confessional.
We want to thank everyone who'sbeen listening so far.
We love you guys.
You are all amazing and thishas been such an amazing journey
.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Three years of amazing episodes.
Maybe we shouldn't say too much.
Should we just get into it?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, let's, uh, let's do this thing.
We've got a great one coming upfor you guys.
Our final episode it's called.
You Never Know who's Watching.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Let's step into the confessional booth.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I grew up in a city in the Midwest.
Blue collar, had a huge ego andno self-esteem.
At age 15, I got cast asWinthrop, the little kid with a
lisp in the Music man and threerehearsals in, the director said
I'd like to see you in the endof rehearsal.
I said okay, and I go to see himand he says you got a little
something.
I want you to write a biographyof who you are as Winthrop in
(01:57):
this little town and on Saturdayyou'll read it in front of the
whole company.
So I went home and I did it.
You'll read it in front of thewhole company.
So I went home and I did it andI came back on Saturday and I
read it and it was great.
People were laughing.
Girls started to like me.
Then, when we did the show, atthe end of the first act is the
Wells Fargo wagon and in themiddle of it Winthrop, who
(02:21):
hasn't really said much ofanything up to now, bursts into
song.
He has a lyric and everybodylike, oh my god, it's amazing.
Look, he's singing.
And it brings the curtain down.
And I swear to god, when we didthat show and burst out in the
(02:44):
song, I was in Mason City, iowa,in 1910.
It was all real to me.
I believed it and the girlswere all pinching me and saying
how cute I was.
I realized that that directorhad given me a gift.
He had shown me that acting fedmy imagination, my creativity,
(03:06):
and I said I want to do that forthe rest of my life.
I started out going to theAmerican Academy in New York.
Oh, what a letdown.
Oh no, oh yeah, you see thebrochure.
Robert Redford, spencer Tracyall these people I admired as
(03:29):
actors they went there.
It was on Madison Avenue on23rd Street.
The building had been therelike 100 years.
I thought the halls wouldreverberate with Stanislavski
and Strasberg, but no, it waswho's fucking who?
Who has the best weed?
(03:50):
Yeah, it was me.
Where are you going on Fridaynight?
It was worse than high school,but it gave me a way to land in
New York City and a way to meetpeople.
About a year later I'm makingrounds trying to find an agent
my friend Chuck.
He had done a film and he had amanager.
So he took me to the managerone day and introduced me and
(04:12):
the guy said I'd love to workwith you.
That turned into a businesspartnership.
For 30 years, from New York toLA.
I went through a lot of hardtimes and he was right there
with me and eventually we becamefriends.
Somewhere along the way, mymanager now my friend started
doing weekend seminars about howto break into the business.
He'd do it in Pittsburgh,cincinnati, dallas, you know,
(04:37):
and make a lot of money.
He called me one time and saidyou free this afternoon?
I said, yeah, what's up, and hegoes.
I met somebody in Pittsburgh.
She's a model and she's comingto New York to test for a series
.
I want you to read through thescenes with her.
Tell me what you think I'm like, okay.
So I went in and I walked intothe room and, oh my God, it was.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Oh, no way, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
My manager goes this is B****.
She's from B****, which wasalso my hometown.
I said, oh no, kidding.
And I shook her hand and weread through the scenes and she
got up and said it was nice tomeet you and she left and he
turned to me and said what doyou think I go?
What do you think I go?
(05:26):
What do I think?
Are you kidding me?
She's fucking stunning andshe's a really good actor.
If she doesn't swallow hertongue, she'll be a huge star.
Wow, oh my God.
She was stunning to look at.
She was reading for a series onABC called there were four or
(05:48):
five hot young actresses and shewas one of them.
And sure enough, she got itPretty soon.
She was making $100 millionfilms and my friend was
representing her.
Over the years we got to knoweach other a little bit.
He would have Thanksgivingdinner and invite like ten
clients, and she and I wouldeach be a little bit.
He would have Thanksgivingdinner and invite like ten
clients, and she and I wouldeach be one of them.
Her mother still lived in ourhometown, so a couple times she
(06:11):
would say to me Are you goinghome in the summer?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I'd say yeah, and she'd say Could you drop
something off at my mom's house?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Absolutely, are you kidding me?
Eventually she met the guy sheended up marrying.
Aw man, not you.
Nope, well, you can't win themall.
Anyway, they had this house upin the Hollywood Hills and one
New Year's Eve my buddy calls meat like five and says what are
you doing tonight?
I said, uh, nothing.
(06:41):
He goes, you want to go to hishouse for a party.
I'm like, are you kidding me?
She's having a party at herhouse.
He goes, yeah.
I'm like aren't you going withyour girlfriend?
He says no.
So I'm like, okay.
So what am I then?
Your date?
He goes yeah, yeah.
So I said okay, yeah, you'reeasy.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I am A, so I said okay.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah, you're easy.
I am A party at house on NewYear's Eve Huh, you never know
who's going to be there.
So I go over to my friend'shouse.
He drives to her place and aswe're coming up the driveway
there are staff people in whitedinner jackets and there's a
(07:22):
huge tree with ornaments hangingon it and somebody is on either
side and they said Hi, welcome,please take an ornament.
And in the foyer of the housethere's another tree.
There's a gift that matches theornament.
You pick?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
How do I never get invited to these parties?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So I grabbed something and went inside.
There's another tree andthere's a table that had a
matching ornament with a gift.
I forgot what it was, but itwas a couple hundred dollar item
.
Oh, wow.
I thought, oh, that's cool.
Then I went out into thebackyard.
There was a pool and music andthere was a dance floor and a DJ
(08:05):
and there were pathways lit andthere was a tarot reader.
There was a psychic medium,there were sitting areas and
heaters.
The doors were open leadinginto the living room.
There's people sitting outside,there's white jacket waiters,
staff walking around with drinksand hors d'oeuvres.
In all my years growing up inthe Midwest, working in New York
and then in LA, I'd never beento a party like this, so I just
(08:29):
stood there and took it all inAbout two hours into it.
Gets up on stage.
There was a little stage in thebackyard, so she gets up on it
and she says All right, we'regoing to do a little contest.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Here it's karaoke and here's the deal You've got to
sing with who you came with.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And I look at my manager and I go oh fuck.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
We'll have one round and then we'll vote and we'll do
a second round to get rid ofsome people.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
I look at my buddy.
He's been drinking, so he'sfeeling his oats and I'm sober,
so I'm not.
And I said you want to do it?
And he goes fuck, yeah, what doyou want to do?
And I said I think we should doSonny and Cher.
And he said ugh.
I said well, you have no voice,so you do Sonny and I guess
(09:22):
I'll do Cher.
He goes well, what song do youwant to do?
I said well, I only know two.
I got you babe.
And the beat goes on.
Why don't we do?
The beat goes on, Simple lyrics, and he goes all right.
So we get up in front ofeverybody and there's like 15
couples that said yes, we'll doit.
(09:44):
And we're in the middle.
So we get up there and we'rethe only two guys as a couple
and everybody kind of knows thatmy buddy is manager but nobody
really knows me.
So my friend goes this is, he'swith me and he's going high.
(10:06):
We do, the beat goes on and I'mdoing whatever I can do to be
Cher and the audience is howling, we're having a great time and
there's a vote.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Then got up on stage and said here are the three
couples for round two.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And she mentioned couple number one, couple number
two, and then me and my friendand we're like, oh no, now we
have to keep going.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Here are the rules for round two.
You can't change partners.
You have to keep singing withthe person you sang with before,
but you can't sing the samesong.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So I look at my buddy and I go well, I guess it's I
got you, babe.
So we get up on stage, we're inthe middle Again.
The first couple goes and theyget moderate cheers and applause
.
Then we come out and I'm likehi, welcome to the Sunny and
Cher comedy hour.
Woo.
And we do our second song andwe kill it.
(11:05):
And then the third couple comesup and then gets out there
again and says hey, let's hearit.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Bring the three couples up here Now.
Here's how we're going to vote.
I didn't tell you this, but thestaff that has been waiting on
you for the last four hours hasbeen doing the voting.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
When she said this I saw the other two couples went.
Oh they were.
And I went.
Oh, I don't know how I was.
I said to my buddy, how wereyou with them?
And he goes I don't know Prettygood.
So they voted.
And here's couple.
Number three here's third place.
And I look at my friend Well,we're either first or second.
(11:42):
Then she goes.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Second place is a weekend in Palm Springs on me.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I remember saying what the fuck is first place,
and then she goes second placegoes to and she mentions the
second couple.
So I look at my friend andeverybody goes woohoo and he's
laughing and she goes grandprize winner is Anne with the
Sonny and Cher Comedy HourAmazing.
(12:12):
At that point these two peoplecame out in dinner jackets and
they have these metal cases likedeal or no deal.
That show was hot back then.
With the metal briefcase youwould pick a case and you'd open
it and it would tell you whatthe amount was.
It could be $5.
It could be $5,000.
You never knew.
So these two people come up onstage and you know they're in
(12:36):
front of the stage and they havethe cases and my buddy goes
first and he opens it and hegoes.
Oh my God, it was tickets,lottery ticket scratchers.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh man, that is not Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So he goes what's in yours?
And I thought to myself no, no,no, I get the guy in front of
the audience to turn around andopen it out to the audience.
Let them see it first.
He opened it up and I can seethe people in front go oh my God
.
So he turns it and it's allcash.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Oh my God, better than Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
There's singles, fives, tens, twenties, hundreds,
american Express gift cards andit's full.
It's a briefcase full of $5,000in cash.
I was like, oh my God, do I getto keep this?
And she said yes.
I said I would have been happywith the case.
I mean, I still have the case.
(13:35):
I remember going home, goingnow, that was a great party.
Oh, the best part of the storywas the next day.
You know, I had two friendsthat were struggling and I gave
them each two thousand dollars.
They were like what I go?
(13:56):
It was found money.
You take it.
Oh, I love that.
I don't know if my friends feltawkward about taking it like it
was charity, but they needed itand I I knew they they
appreciate it and I think thefact that it was a gift from.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, my parents taught me never to look a gift
stack of cash in the mouth.
What?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That's one way of putting it.
So the moral of this story, andwhat I've learned throughout my
career, is this Give it allyou've got, because you never
know who's watching and younever know where a performance
is going to take you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh, I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's a great way to end the story and our season and
our series.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Oh my God, I can't believe I'm about to say this,
but that is a wrap on theHollywood confessional.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
We want to thank every one of our confessors who
were generous enough to sharetheir stories, as well as our
incredible cast members, ourcomposer, our social media
coordinator and our co-producer,joelle Garfinkel.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
And, most of all, we want to thank you, our listeners
.
We are so grateful that you'vejoined us on this journey, from
when we started out, with noidea what we were doing, all the
way to now, three years later.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
When we still don't know what we're doing?
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It's been such an amazing journey and we're so
proud of this thing that we'vecreated in this community that
we've created.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And it's just been incredible to know that there
are people out there that havelistened, that have been touched
by the stories and that haveengaged with the podcast in
exactly the way that we hopedpeople would right when we
started.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Please keep in touch with us.
We'll keep the social mediaaccounts going, or at least open
for a while.
At Fess Up Hollywood and onceand for all, I am your podcast
priest, Megan Dane.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And I'm JR Zamorathal Go create in peace.
The Hollywood Confessional isproduced by Megan Dane and JR
Zamorathal.
Our cast for this episode JohnLorenz, kira Nequirk.
Special effects provided byZapSplat and Pixabay.
(16:16):
Hollywood Confessional is aNinth Way Media production.
Follow us on socials, atFessUpHollywood.
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