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All right, delicious. Grab a plate.
It is the delicious culture. We would love to have your
tongue on this culture. Not us, but just the culture.
I am John Francois. Today I'm Don Lemon.
Don Lemon, the disgrace CNN anchor.
How did he get in your good graces?

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I don't know why he's disgraced.So for me, I just love watching
Don Lemon on TikTok. And right now he's covering the
Epstein victim speaking about wanting the Epstein's, oh, I
forgot what the ACT is, but there there's a new act in
Congress to get the files released.
Yeah, I I saw that there was like, like, like they it's a

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partial release, right, Not the full release.
It's the full release that they won in the ACT, the Epstein
Transparency Act, that's what it's called.
OK, wonderful. Yeah, Don Lemon is OK.
So it's he he seems to be redeeming himself with his
Epstein coverage. So the background is when he was
on Cnni think he was on the morning show.

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And he had said that in relationto either a female politician or
female actors. I can't quite remember.
But essentially he said that women are past their prime at a
certain point in their life, like in their 40s or 50s.
And you could call me out of bounds for, for saying this, but

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I, I, I don't know, maybe as someone from the queer
community, he was, he, he thought he was speaking in a way
that was just, I don't know, like this sort of like playfully
blunt conversational style as opposed to how it would be
perceived by the the general public.
But yeah, I think that happened a couple years ago and there

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were some people that worked with him at CNN maybe that said
that he just wasn't a great guy to work with.
So interesting to see him kind of bounce back with his Epstein
coverage. I didn't know any of that
happened. So, Don, if you were being
shameful to women, shame on you.So what happened?
So if you're if you remember when Tucker Carlson got ousted

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from Fox News for the whole Dominion lawsuit, do you
remember that news story? Oh yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, so that happened the same exact time that Don Lemon got
ousted from CNN. So it was this whole big thing
of like, oh, like toxic news anchors being ousted.
Well, I mean, hey, if you're youstick your foot in your mouth,

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you stick your foot in your mouth.
Damn, Don damn. And and.
And, and I I could be wrong. Maybe he did apologize since I'm
not sure. But yeah, I mean, obviously he
still has the drive of a news anchor.
So I, I would, I, I definitely have to see the Epstein coverage
as from his voice. That might be interesting.

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But any who what a show that we have.
So first of all, we got to talk about, I mean, I don't see too
many movies. So this might be already my top
movie of the year. The the horror movie weapons
from Zach Craiger. Craiger.
There you go. There you go.
Is it your top movie of the yearor are you like, did you have

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other contenders? Well, I'm going to find out if
it's going to be my top movie ofthe year after September 15th.
Gotcha. Well, actually after September
19th, so I can't rule it as my top movie just yet.
All right, wonderful. I also want to talk about the
the SNL casting turnovers that have happened of late and what's
what's on your plate. Give people a tease of that.

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We're going to the courtrooms today, y'all, Cardi B, We're
talking about her civil case. And then Karen Huger, she's out.
So Karen Huger, this is from theReal Housewives franchise.
Yes, Real Housewives of Potomac.OK, wonderful, wonderful.
I think you would love the lost coach Theresa's podcast because
like every episode they're talking about like literally

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every facet of the housewives franchise.
And I don't watch any of it, butI, I just like, there's
something about like listening to people talk about something
that they're really engaged and interested in that just like
makes me a fan even though I don't know what they're talking
about. It's understandable.
Sometimes things just pull you in and if you love it, other

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people somewhere are going to love listening to it.
Love it. We also have our samplers coming
up later on pieces of culture that we would recommend you to
try. So all right, let's start off
with what's on both of our plates because we both want to
talk about Weapons. I saw it and I know by the way
you listening and viewing, maybeyou're shaking your head because
Weapons has been out for a minute.

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So we may be a little bit late on the conversation.
But you know, it's still the topmovie at the box office.
Like even the, the quiet Labor Day weekend it, it was, you know
#1 so people are still talking about it and raving about it.
But yeah, you and I, I, I watched it for the first time
coming out of the movie theater with my wife over the Labor Day
weekend. And then I think you said you

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watched it 2 times so far. I yeah, I watched it 2 times.
I went to the theater the first time and then watched it at home
the other night and I'm just like, oh, this is so good.
Yeah. And, and I'm really curious,
we'll have to get into like whatyou may have noticed the the
second time that you may have not noticed the the first time.
But just a little bit of background for those of you who
may not know, it's basically a movie about like, you know, all

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these children that are mysteriously vanishing on the
same night at exactly the same time, 2:17 in the morning.
And we have this sort of small town community that is left
questioning who or what is behind the disappearance.
As of now, it could have made more money, but over $236
million made at the worldwide box office.

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And this was just on a $38 million budget.
So to echo whoever that guy was with that wrote and directed
American fiction, Hollywood needs to invest more in stories
that don't require a big budget.Because at the end of the day,
if you tell a good story, peoplewill come.

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Original story movies are makingtheir mark this year.
Sinners already did it, and now we have weapons.
I'm loving this original story that we're getting.
It's not a retelling of anything, and I need more of
this. So Hollywood invest in these
films. Absolutely.
And and I think we'll see more of it.
I mean, you know, Sinners, another phenomenal original

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Horror Story from Ryan Coogler. And then you have Weapons with
Zach Kreger. I we're going to hopefully see
more of this and not rely so much on IP like like Marvel.
So that'll be really interestingto see going forward.
And yeah, written, directed, produced and Co scored by Zach
Craigor. He really puts his creative
stamp on this movie. Did you?

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So first of all, are you familiar with his background
prior to making Weapons and the other horror movie Barbarian?
No, all I knew was barbarian andweapons.
I didn't know anything else about him.
So he kind of reminds me of Jordan Peele, where like you
look at Jordan Peele's come up in comedy and you would never
think, oh, this guy would turn out to be a phenomenal horror

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director. Zach Kreger, also a comedy
background. He was a part of the comedy
troupe The Whitest Kids You Knowand start in sitcoms like
Friends with benefits, guys withkids Wrecked and yeah, as I
mentioned before, Weapons. He was also known for directing
and and and writing the movie Barbarian.
Did you see that? Yeah, I've seen barbarian about

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12 times. I just will put it on just to
relax sometimes. You know what And that's and
there's nothing wrong with that.Now what about it relaxes you?
Is it like the calming Airbnb Ness of it that eventually
builds up into something more? It's any horror film I can put
it on as background noise because I love horror that much
that I'm just like, oh, OK, I know when to look up on my

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phone. I know if I'm writing something
to like, pay attention at this moment.
And then the eerie ambiance that's just created, it's just
like, something about this just feels like home.
I love that now. I think it wasn't.
It wasn't until like we were seeing Weapons at the movie
theater and Tony recognized the actor Justin Long, who I think
he played Gary, like one of the many parents whose children

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disappeared. And Tony was like, Oh my God, I
recognize that actor and oh, wow, he was in other things.
And he's also in Barbarian on, on on Netflix.
And that's how we watched the movie.
We didn't watch it in the theater.
We watched it on Netflix. We watched most of it.
Not, not the whole thing. Because we're old people and we
needed to sleep. But I cannot imagine seeing
Barbarians in the movie theater.That's one that's more of an at

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home movie. I couldn't go see that in
theaters. Because it's more calming and
and, and like therapeutic for for you.
For me, it's one of those things, it's one of those movies
where you have to pay attention to the small little changes that
happen on screen. And in a movie theater, I
couldn't do that 'cause, you know, you've got other people

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around who are going to be causing some form of
distraction, and I need to focuson those little intricate detail
scenes. Yeah, hopefully you didn't have
any distractions at the movie theater for weapons when you saw
it the first time. I went and saw it completely
alone. I saw it at 9:00 AM in the
morning on a Monday. Nobody was.
The best, the best, we almost saw weapons to an empty theater.

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There were only maybe like two or three other people.
It was, it was one of those movie theaters where they like,
they'll still assign you seats. Like they'll, they'll have you
select your seats. And I feel like there should be
a rule like if there's only like5 people in the theater, we
could just sit wherever we want.Right.
And I feel the same way. If you're in the movie theater

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by yourself and the movie has gotten all the way through the
credits, and maybe it's you and maybe a group of two or three
other people after the credits, they should be like, hey, y'all,
you can move wherever you want to in here.
We're not selling any more tickets.
Or if anybody else comes in, they just have to figure it out
themselves. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's exactly
like, like, say you go to a Broadway show, you paid God

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knows how much money for your balcony seats.
And then intermission, you realize, oh, wait a minute, the
people in the orchestra seats that paid like $1000, either
they left during intermission orthey did not show up at all.
So maybe we could move up and the ushers would not give a
shit. You know, it's, it's kind of
like that logic. Yeah, I just, I don't understand

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it. I do understand the sign seating
when it's like a premiere or they know they're going to have
a lot of traffic. But I don't know if you have a
movie theater like it in your area.
We have a movie theater here. They used to be called the
Dollar movie theater and like all the late releases and stuff
would go there. But now they've started showing
like recent things and people still don't go to that theater

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because it's like the old theater.
And that's where I will go to watch movies when they premiere
now, because nobody goes there and you can just sit in the
theater room by yourself. So the dollar movie theater, do
they call that? Is it like the dollar store
equivalent of a movie theater where you can like literally see
a movie for a dollar? Yeah, it used to be.

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No, it's not that way anymore, but it used to be you could go
for $1.00 and see any movie you wanted that they had playing.
Wow. All right, well, barbarian, for
those of you that don't know thethe basic summary of it all is
that it's a woman staying at an Airbnb and she discovers that
the house she's rented is not what it seems, which I mean, you

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could describe that for a lot ofhorror movies, but still see
barbarian. I think it's still streaming on
Netflix. It's it's such a great movie
from Zach Kreger, his second movie that we're talking about
with weapons. Let's just kind of go through
the the the main cast breakdown.You have Josh Brolin, who plays
Archer Graff. He's one of the the parents.
He's a construction contractor and and father of Matthew, one

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of the missing children. You have Julia Garner, who's
Justine Gandy. She's the elementary school
teacher who finds out that all but one of the students in her
class has vanished. You have Alden Ehrenreich.
Am I pronouncing that right? I think so.
All right, Paul Morgan. He's a corrupt police officer.
And Justine's ex-boyfriend, Austin Abrams is James, a
homeless drug addict and burglar.

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Kerry Christopher plays Alex Lilly, the only child from
Justine's class who did not disappear.
We have Benedict Wong as Marcus Miller, the school principal who
is sympathetic to Justine. And finally, the phenomenal Amy
Madigan as Gladys, Alex's eccentric great aunt.
I don't know if you're more of ahorror movie than I am.

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For me, the overriding theme was, oh, like what I thought
this movie was going to be was not what it was going to be.
Like starting with the title Weapons.
Like you tell me, like, oh, here, here's this hit movie at
the box office Weapons. And I'm thinking, oh, are we
going to like just see a very violent military industrial type
of movie? Did you get any types of
thoughts like that when you werefirst presented?

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Like, hey, here's a new horror movie out called Weapons.
Now, the first thing that I saw for Weapons was the actual cover
art that's on the movie poster. So I saw these kids in this
weird position and it looks likethey're running, but you can't
tell if they're running. And I'm like, what is about to
happen here? And my mind went to Weapons and

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then when I saw children on the poster I was like, are we
getting a horror themed school shooting?
Movie. Like I didn't know what this was
going to be. Yeah, Yeah, I did not see the
cover art. I think the next step in my
discovery of this movie was finding out, like, all right, it
has to do with the disappearance.
So I'm thinking, all right, disappearance, children,

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weapons. OK, maybe guns are a part of it
still in some way, because I'm just taking it literally.
It's called weapons. And then I sat down at the movie
theater and got something else. What did you think about the
opening narration of this movie?Because that is what got me.

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I don't think I've ever heard a horror movie that starts with a
narration from a child. It kind of reminded me that
like, wow, like you can use children for all kinds of movies
effectively. Like, OK, you know, you want an
adorable Christmas movie, Children love Christmas, boom,
there you go. You want a dysfunctional family
movie where the child is affected, Boom, there you go.

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You get some great drama there. And there's just a specific
haunting way that children are used in horror movies where it's
like, Oh my God, like you tell me this five year old is the
Antichrist and I'm scared. Children are terrifying.
Children are scary. They are very terrifying.

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Especially them little kids thatyou're like, oh, you are weird,
but now we can't say you're weird because that would
ostracize you from the group. But no, some children creepy.
The Omen Creepy. The first time I heard a child
narrate a horror movie was Silent Hill.
It's creepy to hear children talk, especially when it comes

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to adult things where you're like, whoa, how did this kid get
here? And now I'm glued to my seat.
I can't go anywhere. Yeah, you're definitely well
versed in in horror movies more than I am because I like this
was the first movie I heard a child narrate this movie like,
you know, as we're opening and and the actress, I have to shout

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out the actress Scarlett Cher, child actress called Scarlett
Cher. Look her up on IMDb.
She has credits. But you know, just to have her
open the movie like, well, it was a calm day at school, but
then at 2:17 in the morning, it wasn't so calm.
Like she just had this very, I don't know, just, yeah, just
just just a childlike way of that adult bedtime storyteller.

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All right, kids, I'm going to tell you a frightening story.
Just imagine that but a child doing it.
And Scarlett Cher pulled it off greatly.
So I don't know if you had thoughts about it, if you felt
something significant, or was this just another
run-of-the-mill child narration in a horror movie for you?
For me, it didn't feel run-of-the-mill because it was
such a detailed narration to start off our story and I didn't

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find out until later when I was watching some different
breakdowns of the actual movie. She was not planned to do that
narration in the beginning. In the beginning when they were
going to make the movie, there was not going to be narration
because creator wanted to be more ambiguous with the opening.
But then when they heard the narration soundtrack over it,

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they were like, keep it, it's gold.
Oh my God. And I also heard something about
the ending, something about likethe original ending was going to
be like they were going to have a shot of Josh Brolins kid.
But instead what ended up being the more effective ending was
like the blackout and then you've heard the ending
narration from the girl. Did you hear something like

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that? Yeah so the original ending they
were going to stop with the kid Matthew after he's found with
the blood on his hands and spoiler alert y'all, we have
been talking about the movie in detail.
Make sure that, you know, if youdon't want to hear this fast
forwarding, but after they show Matthew with the blood on his

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hands, they were going to go into those final scene cuts with
no narration. It was just going to be just the
images and the music. And that would have been even
more ambiguous for people to understand, like what happened
after this. Yeah, yeah.
And I think it tested poorly, that ending.
So that's why they didn't use it.

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Because people were confused, rightfully so.
I would be so confused on what the fuck did I just see.
Yeah. And on the flip side of that,
did you know that this movie wasnot going to come out until
January of 2026 originally? But because it tested so fucking
well to audiences, you know, I guess the producers were just
like, no, we got to get this outnow.

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Yes, they knew they had gold after the testing and this movie
is a gem in the horror community.
Yeah, now the camera is zooming in on, like, the silent,
emotionally affected face of Julia Garner's Justine teacher
character. I was drawn to that.
This is the town hall meeting where there's obviously angry,

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chaotic voices. All the parents are like, what
the fuck is going on? Like, why aren't we getting this
solved? Our children are gone.
Where? Who's finding our children?
Did you think that Julia Garner's character was going to
kind of carry this silent, low key traumatized thing throughout
the movie? Were you not surprised at all
that she just ends up being likethis obsessed boundary crossing

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like frantic home wrecking alcoholic of a person?
I knew who she was going to be right from the very beginning.
This is a school teacher in a town where everybody blames her.
I knew from the beginning she was overstepping boundaries.
The haircut said it all like, oh, she is that annoying teacher
who is going to try to figure out what the problem is that we

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all end up loving at the end of the day.
But I knew it. And when I loved about this, I
didn't know any of the actors except her and the guy who plays
Archer. Everybody else, I was like, I've
never seen their faces before. So I'm like, what am I about to
get here? Well, the haircut that you speak
of, it's that blonde curly shorthaircut.

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Is it a Karen alternative? Like how do you describe that
haircut? I don't know.
I mean, I describe it as ramen noodle hair, but I don't know
how else to like describe it. But anytime I've met somebody,
no matter their race, if they have the haircut, they're going
to be upping your business. Yeah.
Now what about the evolution of the the Alex Lilly character?

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Obviously the the only child that that did not end up
disappearing into the darkness at 2:17 in the morning.
My wife Tony was like whisperingto me like, oh, that kid is
weird. He's a weirdo.
Like, he's giving me weirdo vibes because you see a shot of
him, like walking in isolation with his thoughts in his head
with his backpack as all the other children are, you know,

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being their energetic selves outside after school or some
shit like that. And my first thought was I was
sympathetic toward the kid. I just figured like, oh, this is
a traumatized kid who has seen his entire class just wiped away
and now he just doesn't know howto deal with it.
And then of course, you see the fucking fucked up haunted home

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that Alex is in with his zombie like parents, the newspapers
covered up on the windows. So I'm like, all right, maybe
Tony is right. Maybe he is a weirdo.
And then like more of a twist that I didn't expect, if you
could call it A twist when you see the the witchy Aunt Gladys
and how she has just fucking warped Alex's parents and Alex

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is just this poor innocent kid. That's just like, what's going
on? What's going on, Aunt Gladys?
Like leave, What are you doing? Alex, that little fucking
weirdo. Oh my God, are you still?
Calling him a weirdo? What makes him a weirdo?
I thought yeah he had weirdo vibes at first, but didn't he

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just seem like a poor innocent kid who didn't deserve all that?
But from the moment that kid goton screen, I was like, why are
they not looking at that family?That little boy was weird.
But now I'm a Scary Movie fan, and it's always the weird kids
in class that are the scariest of the little kids.
And I was looking, I was like, Idon't trust him.

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The fact that he's the only kid that's left.
Either he's got some power that's going against whatever
took these other kids, or he's involved.
And come to find out, he was involved now, rightfully so,
under duress. He was a little scared, but I
was like, Oh no, I don't trust him.
I don't know man, I would be that fucking weird sort of

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antisocial kid myself if my day revolved around coming to class.
I'm the only kid. All the other kids have been
disappeared. And then I go home.
Very quiet newspapers on the windows.
My parents are zombie like. I have to constantly feed them
Campbell soup to keep them going.
And then I got my witchy aunt Gladys just being like yes

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please come on let's reignite the souls.
Like I I I would. I would probably not be the most
normal kid either. I don't expect you to be normal
in that, but I expect the adultsaround to actually go and
pinpoint where this weird energyis coming from because
everyone's like no we just need to make his life normal let's
not stress him out. No find out what's happening.

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Y'all are all weird to try and treat this kid with kid gloves
right now when tons of children are missing.
So, So in that sense, you're in,you're on Justine's side when
she just plays the really, like,aggressive.
No, no, you're not. OK.
So now what's what's what's justfor Dean?
Yeah. Go ahead.
Why are you crossing professional boundaries that way

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when you have connections to thePolice Department that.
Oh like like meaning the the ex-boyfriend police officer?
Is that what you mean or? She got the ex-boyfriend.
Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry.
No. No, you're fine.
You're no you. You just mean the ex-boyfriend
police officer. That's the connection you mean
to the Police Department. That and she has a cell phone.
Pick up your cell phone and communicate the same

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information. Don't keep trying to get in
there and mess things up. When she went to that house and
saw that there was the newspaperon the windows and everything,
instead of calling the police right away, what did she do?
She went home. She didn't say anything until
the morning until the principal and then when talking to the
principal, she's getting pushbacks.
She should have immediately saidI'm going to the police.

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Gotcha. Gotcha.
So you're saying Justine crossedthe boundary and it should have
been more so the parents, the principal, who should have taken
a more active role in really finding out what's going on in
that home? Justine should have picked up
her phone and called the police.Any moment that she had a
question about information that's happening, she should

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have called the police. You're already under
investigation, so you have a connection with them right away.
Call the beliefs that could havesolved so many things here.
But that's not the human response for some people.
Sometimes people want to prove their own innocence because they
think everybody's against them. But if Justine had just picked
up her phone and said, hey, I was just here, I know I did that

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something I should not be doing,but there's something weird
happening, I think we could havestopped a lot of this.
Yeah, I think, and maybe this was like revealed during her
conversation with the the policeofficer that she ends up having
the the affair with. I think there was a sort of
irritated in patients on her part.

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You know, of course she's alcoholic.
She's just kind of crazy in the head.
And she felt like, all right, like this is not happening
quickly enough. I can figure this out myself
because that's the the only choice.
So yeah, what about the drug addict James, the homeless drug
addict character? He has a phenomenal turn for me
because at first I was just like, oh God, I'm cringeing

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because that's just the reactionI have when I see a drug addict.
But then he just turns into thisfantastic Comic Relief.
He ends up discovering in that child's basement that, oh,
there's the rest of the childrenand you know, that's, you know
where. And Gladys is keeping them to I
don't know what, what, what, what are they doing in the

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basement? Like just she, she needs fresh
souls saved up in there. So I know she puts the kiss
under a spell. Yeah.
And I think that Gladys is a succubus form of a witch and
she's siphoning their energy to make herself healthier.
OK, and Speaking of that, I was literally going to my wife Tony,

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like every now and then at the movie theater trying to figure
out like how being a witch works.
And I also didn't know that there were like many different
types of witches. Like I was learning like basic
things like, oh, you know, the the salt that Gladys puts on the
floor like this is the line thatyou don't cross.
And of course, you know, her getting young souls to keep
herself alive. And then the thorn stick with

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the little pear thing wrapped around it, poking the finger for
the blood. And I are you, are you, are you
vaguely familiar with how witchery works?
Because I was just looking at this movie and thinking, oh,
maybe, maybe I need to know somebackground on witches to
understand why Gladys is doing what she's doing.
I got fortunate and had Tumblr when Tumblr was a big thing and

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the witch community is huge on Tumblr so I understood some of
the stuff where I'm like OK thismakes sense that she's using her
blood to bind the ritual. She has a personal item for the
person she wants to affect. Now after rewatching the movie I
kept wondering I was like where are they getting these thorn
sticks from? And I didn't notice that in the

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house she has a plant growing over them.
So I needed to find out what that is and once I found out
like oh this is her, what was the word terminal for her to get
her items for retreat from, I was like, oh this is so cool.
OK, OK, well good to know I got to watch that movie again
because I did not see the plant in which the thorn came from.

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The flamest thing is in the background the entire time.
They show every scene in that house, but she'd never pick up
on it because it just looks likea potty plant.
Oh my God, wow. But what did you think about the
the drug addict James's turn as you know, the guy that discovers
these kids in the basement and then, you know, obviously there
there's this theme of like, oh, you know, a drug addict could be

(28:06):
a very untrustworthy, unreliant person, but he has this truth
that the entire town knows. I just, I don't know.
I just, I loved the the Comic Relief between him and the and
the police officer, the the ex of Justine and and of course,
you know, the drug addict eventually becomes affected by
by the witchery of Gladys. But what do you think about this

(28:28):
character? I think he represents every
person in America. He represents that everyday
basic person who is just trying to get by.
All he's trying to do when he first is found is trying to get
$50.00 so he can get clothes to go to an interview, to get a
job. And it turns into a whirlwind

(28:49):
for him because we have a cop who's extra violent for no
reason. And then on top of that, we've
got everybody just looking at him with disdain because he's
just a person who's living. And he gets roped up all in this
and has the truth to tell. And like every normal person in
this world, nobody's going to believe what he has to say

(29:11):
because it's not affecting them.But they don't believe him also
because they're like, Oh well, he just uses drugs.
He's just a person. That's all he is.
And no one recognizes his humanity to the point that he
gets swept up to completely losing it.
Interesting. Interesting.

(29:31):
Yeah, I, I mean, I, I do remember he was on a phone call
with somebody that was trying toget a job because I just, you
know, the, the way the actor played the character, it just
seemed like, all right, like he's clearly addicted to these
hard drugs and he's, you know, trying to pawn these items that
he stole to get money to get more drugs.

(29:52):
That's the energy that I felt, at least.
He's on the phone with either his mother or brother.
It's somebody he's related to and he's leaving a voicemail and
he asked them for money to get clothes for his job interview.
And then he does actually have ajob interview that he's trying
to go to. So that's why he broke into the
car and stole the iPad and the headphones.

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And then that's how he ended up breaking into Alex's house to
steal the silverware to get money for clothes.
Interesting, interesting. I love the the the arms
stretched out Ron that those kids were doing as they were
disappearing into the night, because maybe it's just me
thinking too much into this. But like kids running like that,
it just gave me this great combination of like childlike

(30:37):
abandoned, but also like, you know, if they're possessed like
that, it it, it has a a hauntingfeel to it.
So I don't know. I whoever choreographed that
run, the way their arms stretched out like that, the
weapons run, so to speak. Great job.
Yeah, whoever did, which makes me think you're a Naruto fan

(30:57):
because that's the Naruto run. And I was just like laughing
when I saw it. At first.
It was like, this looks crazy. God Naruto name I haven't heard
in a while. My my my sister being a big
anime fan I know that that was one of the the shows that she
was into. So is that are they still
running new episodes? There's Beau Ruto now, and Beau
Ruto can be forgotten. Beau Ruto is Naruto's son, and I

(31:21):
don't like Beau Ruto. I don't think it's a good show.
But if you want to see Naruto all grown up and he's Hokage
now, and now he has a son named Beau Ruto, it's out there.
All right, all right. How about this principal Marcus
Miller? God, poor guy.
I mean, he's, I think he's trying his best to, to, to
figure out like, you know, what the fuck is up with this

(31:41):
disappearance shed. And then you have this like one
day off that he has with his partner and they have like 10
mustard filled hot dogs and carrots and chips.
They're trying to enjoy some kind of movie with their Mickey
Mouse shirts on. And then witchy Gladys comes up
to the door to claim innocence and ask for what was she asking
for? Like she just wanted to talk

(32:04):
about the disappearance shit. Or was it something else?
So she wants to talk about the disappearance stuff after Marcus
spoke with her at the school. And I just have to say it.
Any partner who is like Marcus'shusband, I hate you.
I hate you so much because Marcus when she came to that

(32:24):
door at the house was going to say this is unprofessional, you
need to leave. And his husband was like, no,
come on in. What?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, yeah.
No, no, you you crossed the boundary.
Like no, this is not this is this is crossing a boundary.
This is my day off. And what, what we can talk about
Gladys can be talked about at the office.
So yes, I agree The the the husband should have realized

(32:47):
that, but he was trying to be overly nice, inviting company
hosts person. He thought that this was a
harmless old lady and clearly itwasn't because it LED Gladys to
get Marcus all possessed and killed, said husband.
So maybe you were happy when thehusband got his head bashed in
like. Crazy.
I was in to the point where I'm like, see, stupid, why did you

(33:11):
allow this lady in the house? And then the other side of me
was like, man, it looked like they were about to watch a good
show and eat some food. A lot.
I mean, that is a spread I've never seen before.
I was looking at Tony. I'm like, Oh my God, that's like
10 mustard filled hot dogs just like spread out on a line like
that, carrots and chips. I just they they were looking

(33:32):
like they're about to have a good time and now they can't
because one persons dead and theother one is all bloodied in the
face, his eyes all poking out and he's also doing the weapons
run all over the street after being possessed by Gladys.
Part of me didn't feel bad for Marcus on that point where I'm
like, OK, well somebody's got tobe the catalyst here to bring

(33:53):
what's happening out into the open.
And unfortunately it was him. But that moment when he was
chasing Justine down in the the makeup, y'all did amazing
because I was terrified seeing that man's face.
Me too. Me too.
Yep. Absolutely.
And and you were talking about the moment where he ran up to
Justine at the gas station and tackled her.

(34:14):
Like, yeah, Benedict Wong, great, great job.
That was a wonderful performance.
Yeah. So we also, I mean, I am going
to say it right now, I won an Oscar nomination for Amy Madigan
as on Gladys, because I mean, probably first and foremost,

(34:36):
this is the type of actress thatI've seen in other things.
And I didn't know that I saw herin other things because the way
they made her up so well and also with her performance
combined with it, it was just phenomenal.
So I mean, from the first shot, almost the first shot, you get a
good impression of her when she comes into Marcus's office and

(34:56):
she's kind of grotesque looking with her big sunglasses, her bad
wig, her makeup, everything. She kind of reminded me of that
movie. You hated the, the, the
deliverance, right? I, I know you didn't like the
Deliverance on Netflix, Glenn Close's makeup when she was the
the grandmother of the of the lead black lady character or
whatever her name is. But yeah, just Amy Madigan has

(35:18):
sort of gave me those vibes. But what did you think about Amy
Madigan's performance as on Gladys?
Like anything you liked, anything you disliked.
I love that she made me hate her.
I loved that so much because shewas so convincing as this aunt
who was just like intrusive intoeverybody's lives.

(35:41):
Now I wonder if she's actually the aunt of Alex or Alex's
mother or this was just all somespell as she convinced them to
start originally. But I get the feeling it's
there's more to the story than we know.
Yeah, and Alex and on Gladys, their scenes when they're

(36:04):
together, whether it be like silently in the kitchen or
upstairs and on Gladys's bedroom, BB, because it was just
silently chilling. There was clearly manipulation
on Gladys's part. My heart was breaking for Alex
at certain points. It it got me glued to my seat.

(36:25):
So I applaud those actors because I could tell that they
worked on those scenes to make sure that they got it pitch
perfect. Because, you know, here's this
old witchy woman telling this child like this is what's going
to happen. Your life is different and
you're just going to have to putup with it.
Poor Alex. Like, you're still weird, but

(36:48):
man, did they sell. Everybody worked so well in this
movie, and to see a young actor like the boy who played Alex do
it so well, He's going to have aphenomenal career from this
because I was convinced by his energy.
He reminds me, have you seen thethe the miniseries Adolescence

(37:10):
on Netflix? I have.
Yeah, Yeah. So he reminds me of that actor
in the sense of, wow, Like you're clearly a very young kid
and you're given some pretty heavy material and you got to
wonder, like where like, becauseI just feel like maybe the lines
are blurred between like, oh, hey, here's a great professional

(37:31):
actor doing this work. But also here's a kid who's
still developing, who's being asked to absorb and then execute
very heavy material, which couldbe argued like, oh, maybe like
adults should be in charge of this sort of thing.
But yeah, I just, I, I kind of wonder of the behind the scenes
conversations centering around these child actors when they

(37:54):
have to deal with heavy materiallike this.
I wonder. It makes me hope that he doesn't
get typecasted into specific roles because this is definitely
going to be a very memorable thing in his acting history.
And side note, if you have not seen adolescents and you have
young boys, I encourage you to watch it with an open mind and

(38:15):
just take in the message becauseit's very useful.
And I think situations like thiswhere we have kids take on such
an adult but child centered moment in their lives, it's
important now because we're not getting that a lot in media and
this is a good way to start sparking some conversations.

(38:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me and Tony, we recently
finished adolescence and, well, first of all, the actor Stephen
Graham, who plays the the father.
Phenomenal job. I've been a fan of his ever
since Boardwalk Empire. I don't know if you've ever seen
that show. I have not seen it, but I know
about it. Yeah, so Stephen Graham, by the
way, great at accents because inthat show from like the 20 tens

(38:58):
about the prohibition era gangsters, Steven is pretty much
like a Chicago Jersey accented guy.
And the actor I think is originally from the UK because I
remember also seeing him in a like a like a sort of pressure
cookery cooking drama series. And he had the same UK accent
that he has here in adolescence,but he he Co created and wrote

(39:24):
adolescence along with somebody else.
And I would say the camera did really well with the close up
shots of seeing how this father was affected.
I think the shots, the the camera shots that stand out to
me is when you see him being affected by his his son, like
being searched like naked, you know, the cops going through his

(39:46):
penis. And also the the last scene, the
last scene in the show where where Stephen Grahams father
character just breaks down at the bed and covers the the
stuffed animal. And so yes, I probably am
spoiling it for people watching and listening right now.
But yeah, to echo what AJ is saying, Adolescence is a
wonderful show if you really wanna think about boyhood,

(40:10):
manhood, masculinity, insalism, so to speak.
It just has a lot of great themes.
It does. It does.
It's hard. It is not an easy watch.
I'm not going to tell you you'regoing to feel happy after you
finish watching it. But it is one of those ones
where especially if you have young boys or you or somebody
who maybe has not addressed those issues of insullism and

(40:33):
what comes with it, it can be a good starting point to just open
up a conversation. Absolutely, I agree.
I agree. Now, I, I guarantee you like
going back to what's the movie we're talking about weapons on
Gladys herself, Amy Madigan. I, I guarantee you if you see
her face on IMDb, you will be like, Oh my God, I've seen her

(40:55):
in like so many things because the makeup was so good.
And then Tony shows me the picture of the actual actress
and I'm like, Oh my God, what have I seen her in?
What have I seen her in? And you know, she's in
everything from How to Get Away with Murder to Uncle Bug to
Field of Dreams to Law and order.
I mean, I love seeing those actors who I would describe as
like those, like, reliable supporting character actors who

(41:16):
have been in a bunch of things. And you're just like, yeah, I've
seen your face. I don't know your name, but I've
seen your face. I don't remember how to get away
with murder because she's actually one of my favorite
people in the show. And I was like, oh shit, that's
hard. Yeah, it's so awesome.
Well, I guess I want to wrap up this weapons conversation with

(41:38):
any additional thoughts that youhave as regards to like the two
times that you watched it. Because I know that, you know,
if I watch a movie more than once, there may be things that
I've picked up from the subsequent watches that I didn't
pick up the first time. So I'm curious, like when you
watch movies repeatedly, like weapons, are you like, trying to

(42:02):
get a keen eye for things that you may have not seen the first
time? Or are you just coming in as a
viewer that just wants to enjoy it like you did the first time?
I rewatch for the feeling that Iget of the story, so when I'm
rewatching something, sometimes I'll pay attention like, oh, I
didn't notice that little like tidbit here or there with

(42:23):
weapons. What didn't settle in for me the
first time, but settled in for me the second time is the the
ending when some of the kids a year later are just finally
starting to speak and some of them have still not recovered at
all. I was like, Oh my God, Gladys

(42:45):
isn't done. Is she really dead?
Is there going to be more? What comes next?
Because we have Alex's parents, who are now in some kind of
facility. Alex is staying with another
aunt. Yeah.
And the town has not fully recovered.
So is the magic really gone? And that's what got me the

(43:06):
second time rewatching it. Yeah, Zach Kreger, I think, and
I looked this up on Wikipedia, so don't rely on me for the
source here, but I think he had mentioned thinking about writing
a sequel. You would think when the kids
fucking because who, who, who? Who got the kids out of their
trance in the basement? Who was the one?
Was it Julia Garner's character?Who was the one who did it?

(43:29):
Alex did after he broke the stick with Gladys's hair on it.
So they attack her and RIP her to shreds.
Yeah, and the kids get out of their trance.
They attack on Gladys, they chewher out like nobody's business
in someone's yard. Of course, very funny as you see

(43:50):
on Gladys being chased and the kids go, you know, chasing her
and they're going from house to house to house.
And then you just see these people like, what the fuck is
going on? It was.
It was great. There's this moment, y'all when
you see it, after the kids chaseGladys through this one, Italy's
house. Archer comes through the house

(44:11):
and the wife in the background screams.
There's now a random man in our house.
Yeah, never mind the bloody on Gladys scene.
It's like, yo honey, there's a man in our yard.
Like what? There's a man in our living
room. What's going?
On it was the funniest moment. I screamed.
I was like I missed that. Another thing I missed the first

(44:33):
time. Matthew is a little shit.
Archer's son is a bully and I did not feel bad for him after
he disappeared. What, what?
What evidence do you have of himbeing a bully?
I totally did not see that. He kicks Alex in the butt
multiple times and then follows him out to the school at his
dad's car, calling him a loser the entire time.

(44:55):
He. Was the bully.
Oh my God. Wow.
Well, there you go. Karma is a bitch, Matthew.
All right, well, Weapons, we highly recommended go see it.
It's still in theaters. I think there's still the number
one movie out there. It is a great, great, great
watch if you love horror that really gets your attention.

(45:18):
Let's talk about what is on yourplate specifically.
Aji know that Cardi B was on trial for something having to do
with allegedly assaulting her security guard.
Do I have that right? Yes, yes.
So this is my legal watch and I'll kind of like want the SP

(45:39):
sound that Duna. But Cardi B to start us off, she
is well, she had a civil lawsuitfiled against her by her former
security guard for an incident that happened in 2018.
She was still pregnant with her child culture at the time.
And I think they were going to adoctor's appointment and the

(46:02):
security guard, will, the bodyguard said that she
assaulted him by scratching her with scratching him with her
fingernail over an incident thathappened inside of the clinic.
Now, this is a civil case, so there was no criminal
investigation. This was all about suing for
money. And they were suing for $24
million. Crazy.

(46:24):
Crap, holy crap. So we don't know the details of
what incident they were arguing about.
We don't know what they were arguing about.
I think they may have talked about it during the trial, but
that part of the testimony I wasnot Privy to.
But we do know that the court found her not liable, which

(46:44):
means she does not have to pay that money.
How did the court come to that conclusion?
So now during the court case, lawyers presented their case and
then the judge made their final determination on is this
24,000,000 going to be somethingthat Cardi would be liable for
and did she actually assault this bodyguard?
Now, throughout the court case, we had Cardi and her legal team

(47:10):
and then we had the the prosecutors.
The prosecutor in the Silver case, I don't think, was a good
lawyer because they asked very bad questions.
If I were to ask you in court this question, I just want to
know what your response would be.
So, John, when you came to courtyesterday, your hair was brown.

(47:32):
Today it's blonde. On the first day of court, it
was black. Can you tell us what's going on?
Well, Your Honor, it's somethingcalled whatever the fuck I want
to do with my hair. I don't think that has an effect
over whether I'm truth worthy orworthy of assaulting somebody.

(47:54):
I just feel like having my hair color brown on this specific
day. Boom, your cardi BM is phone
because it's almost exactly how she answered.
Oh my God, and go ahead. They tried to use that to call
her a liar, that she changes herhair color and wigs to say, oh,
you're lying. You change all these identities.

(48:14):
So yes, you assaulted your security officer with a nail.
Yeah. All all I was seeing from Reddit
was like the hilarious ways in which Cardi B was responding to
the trial. So it was the hair thing.
And then and what other ways were she responding that that
were viral? So one of the biggest viral ways
that she responded, the lawyer asked her, did you call him fat?

(48:40):
And she said no, I didn't call him that.
I call him a bitch. OK, now maybe you're more
intelligent and legalese like I am.
Does name calling your security guard does?
Is that relevant to the assault thing at hand?

(49:01):
In trying to prove their case that she was violent and
aggressive towards him, it couldhelp.
But name calling is a huge stretch to physically assaulting
somebody. And the thing, the thing in my
head and possibly more people's of did she actually assault this
bodyguard who is almost twice her height and twice her size is

(49:25):
during the incident she was pregnant.
She was very pregnant, yeah. And I can't see somebody as
little as her being pregnant, being able to jump up and
assault this bodyguard who's twice her size.
Right. So I know Cardi B has very long
nails. Would you say that that nail

(49:48):
would be enough to assault anybody, or is it just kind of
blown out of proportion by the media?
I think it's blown out of proportion and the only reason
why I think it's blown out of proportion, she does wear really
long nails and it is possible toscratch somebody.
But when you have acrylic nails on like that, your fingertips
are pretty sensitive. So it would more likely hurt her
more than the security guard to even like attack somebody with

(50:12):
those nails. So it could happen.
And unfortunately, Cardi, I needyou to remember that your Cardi
B, because everything I just said kind of gets thrown out the
window for what happens when sheleaves the courthouse.
What happens? She left the courthouse after
the verdict and a reporter, well, a paparazzo.

(50:35):
I'm not going to call this person a reporter because this
was not a news question. Ask her a question inflamed her.
And the question was about the paternity of her current baby.
And is this offset baby or is this Stefan's baby that she's
currently dating? OK, continue.

(50:55):
Most messy question in the worldAnd what does Cardi do?
She throws a marker at the paparazzo on camera.
Classic Cardi BI mean this is the pro and con of her like she
is she is. She could be a very honest,

(51:18):
impulsive person. And I mean, look, I what you
telling that to me is hilarious.I love her all the more for it.
But yes, you're right. In the case of you just walked
out of a courtroom winning this case, it's not a good look.
It's really nice because you just won saying that you did not
assault somebody and then what do you do?

(51:40):
You assault somebody on camera. She doesn't know the irony.
Oh my God, that's so funny. That's so she doesn't get it.
And I just, I just want to hug her and just say you're Cardi B.
You don't even have to respond because when you leave, you're
still Cardi B. Nobody would know who that man

(52:02):
is until you threw something at him.
So do we want to bet that there's going to be another case
because of this marker throwing incident?
Okay, so I'm going to tell you this now.
If I was that person who she threw the market at, I would
have fallen on the ground. I would have said my neck is
injured, I would have claimed emotional and physical distress

(52:22):
and I would be suing because it's all on camera.
Yeah, yeah, man, you could get that money.
I sure would. If I ever get assaulted by a
celebrity, just know that I don't even care.
We could not be in a car and somehow I will end up through
the sunroof of somebody'd vehicle and say you did it to
me. Yeah, even celebrities Wanna sue

(52:43):
celebrities just so they can getrich.
I remember three years ago when the whole Chris Rock Will Smith
slap thing was big at the Oscarsand Jim Carrey was just like,
you know, what? If Chris Rock did that to me, I
was suing for $10 million. Like, he just said it out,
right? Like, yeah, like on national TV,
like, that kind of embarrassment.
Come on now, $10 million. Yes, I you assault me in front

(53:06):
of cameras and I was not doing anything to you physically to
warrant that assault. I am suing.
I have to say what? Why would I waste my time
fighting you? I'm going to court and I'm
taking your money. There we go.
Do we know what's next for the security guard?
Do we know like how he reacted to the trial and what is

(53:29):
happening with him now? Things have been pretty quiet on
that front as far as a response from the security guard.
But Cardi's team did say that they are going to counter sue
now and go after the security guard.
So I don't know what that lawsuit's going to look like yet
because they've only made a statement after after the trial
before Cardi assaulted the new person, but.

(53:55):
Old assault turns into new assault.
I, I don't even know, like you have to say allegedly for this
one because it's on camera. Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, like, I don't know if we have to if we do allegedly, but
I don't know what's gonna happen.
But if this security guard does get counter sued, I don't really

(54:15):
see it working out well in theirfavor since there's already a
judgement that Cardi was liable.Yeah, yeah.
It reminds me of that moment in adolescence where cuz like
leading, I mean, obviously when they, when they, when the kid
gets escorted out by police and he gets taken to the station and
everything like that, like you're, I don't know how you are
me. I was just kind of wondering

(54:36):
like, oh, I don't know, maybe the kid did do it.
Maybe the kid didn't do it. And then of course they show the
clip of him beating the shit outof that girl.
And it's like, oh, OK, well either there that's an AI
doctored video or I think you might be guilty there.
I am always on the person who isbeing arrested or charged with

(54:57):
the crime side until I see proof.
Yeah, that they did it. And in adolescence I was just
like you. I'm like, no, he didn't do it.
No, he didn't do it. Y'all are being too rough with
this kid. And then when the video came
out, I was like, well, I just learned your information and.
Right, right. Yeah.
Me and Tony were just like oh shit, Well you fucked.

(55:21):
Yeah, sad. For me, that's one of those
things. OK, Once I see the proof, I'm
sorry I can't be on your side anymore.
You did it and now you got to suffer the ramifications.
Yep, innocent until proven guilty.
All right, well, can be posted on the Cardi B of it all because
anything about her, I, I, I'm always fascinated by and
entertained by because you know,she's just she's she's that

(55:43):
personality, that personality. And didn't she start on a
reality show? Wasn't she like like on that
flavor Flav reality show or someshit like that?
No, no. Where was she?
Love and hip hop. OK, OK, gotcha.
That's where she came from. All right.
She started on love and hip hop.Most successful person to ever
come out of the franchise. Love that and do we have any new
music from her or no? Yes, she actually has a new

(56:06):
album out right now. I'm, I'm sorry, I can't think of
the name of it, but yeah, she put out an album.
Finally. Like what?
I thought that we're just gonna get singles, but no, she
actually came out with a second album for once.
She did. She came out a second album and
WAP is on this album. That's how long it's been since

(56:29):
she's put out an album. I haven't listened to it yet.
I can't tell you the new song from it.
It gives me Jay-Z vibes so I'm going to have to listen to it.
Is that a good thing? Because Jay-Z, of course, one of
the most iconic rappers. I'm going to say for Cardi, it's
a good thing we know that she doesn't write her own music so

(56:49):
I've never expected her to be this big lyricist at all but
write any of her songs. I don't think she writes much of
her songs. I know she wrote Bodak Yellow
but she has a team of writers for a lot of her songs, which
y'all is not a bad thing. I think it works out pretty well
for some people because Cardi has the vibe and flow that she
needs and they just give her thelyrics and it works pretty well.

(57:12):
This new single is definitely giving me more Cardi meets Foxy
Brown. Oh, OK, yes, Foxy Brown, Who I
think her career like, got affected by the hearing loss.
Yeah, unfortunately it did. She still, I think, was
producing music or writing music, but she really didn't rap

(57:34):
anymore. Yeah, that's sad.
All right, I got to talk about what's on my plate.
SNL has been having quite a casting turnover lately.
And just to give a little bit ofbackground, I have had a very
Pecan Valley interest in Saturday Night Live going back
to, I don't know, middle school,high school, because like

(57:59):
growing up with the Nickelodeon show, all that as you and I did,
I had always heard that like, oh, all that is SNL junior, SNL
junior. And I think I had reached that
point at middle school and high school where I was like, oh, let
me find out this inspiration forall that.
And I think ever since then I'vejust been kind of keeping up
with all things SNLI. You know, there's something I

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like with SNL that that like it has in common with my background
as a theatrical actor, podcaster, broadcaster.
There's just something about like the grind of putting out
that kind of content regularly, the pressure cooker deadline
that you have to work under, thefact that like, you have to
present it live and there's no edits.
Like if you make a mistake, that's it.
The fuck up is going to be out there for millions to see.

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So that is a big part of what appeals to SNL for me.
I mean, I remember borrowing thefirst season on DVD at my local
library back in high school and just having my sister's friend
be like, what? Why are you watching this thing
from 1975? Like, shouldn't she be watching
like a fucking, I don't know, Snoop Dogg and Pharrell music

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video for the umpteenth time? Like but like, yeah, it was just
that kid with that kind of old school interest, even that 14
and 15 years old. So feel free to say something as
I blow my nose because my nose is a disaster right now.
Look, you touched my heart bringing up the good years of
Snoop and Pharrell and unfortunately, Uncle Snoop, I'm

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sorry I can't be your fan anymore.
I I don't, I don't blame you. What?
Like, what did he fucking say? Like, oh, I, I went to see a
movie with my granddaughter and I saw a queer relationship and I
had a problem explaining it to her.
And I don't want to have to do that when I go to a movie.
And it's like, how fucking difficult is it to just say,

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hey, a man and a man, woman and a woman, they can love each
other in the same way that a manand woman love each other.
Like the the degree to which these older adult figures
things, it's so complicated to explain queer relationships.
It's just so frustrating. It is in the part that got me
the most. I'm like, you do remember that
when you release your first and second studio albums, you were

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encouraging Girl on Girl. Yeah.
I don't understand how this is so hard for you.
Yeah, cuz it just, you know how it is with straight men.
It's like, yeah, like with with lesbians, it only is OK if it's
sexually gratifying to them. But once we get into just simple
human rights and relationships, it's like, Nope, Nope.

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I don't get that. I don't understand that.
And I can't explain that to my kids.
Yeah, I I'm totally with you. When I saw that from Snoop Dogg,
I'm just like, fuck off. Yeah, unfortunately Snoop, fuck
you. The inauguration crap was
already 1 nail in the coffin. This is the other nail.
Seriously. Anyway.

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But yeah. And I think I still owned the
second season of SNL on DVD backin my momma's house in
Connecticut. So anywho, I know, I know it's a
giant, giant box set with photosand DVDs and whatnot.
Were you were, were you also a collector of like, TV shows on
DVD back in the day when that was a thing?

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I still have a pretty massive DVD collection because once all
this technology goes away, y'all, and the cloud is gone,
I'm still going to be able to watch my shows.
Yeah, I mean, as long as you have a DVD player that works the
physical copy, there's somethingto be said about having those
physical copies just in case. But anyway, yeah, so I think I
still have that SNL Season 2 DVDsets and reading the books.

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They had a great book that Tom Schales Co wrote called Live
from New York. I can't remember the rest of the
title, but it was essentially a like a part biography, part cast
and crew interview compilation book about Saturday Night Live
from like the last 40 years or so.
And it's a great book that I've consumed like a couple of times.
And Susan, whatever her last name is, also came out with a

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book about creator Lorne Michaels and his life story and
his career with SNL. So that was great.
They have a Reddit page for SNL freaks like myself called Live
From New York, where you get to,like, keep up on the latest
news. Going back to the last Cultural
Resource podcast. One of the hosts is Bowen Yang,
who is a cast member on SNLI. Think Still.

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And then, yeah, I think I had a moment recently where I kind of,
like, didn't keep up with SNL, but the season 50 of it all got
me back into it. I mean, you remember, I mean,
the 2024 election was the big thing.
Yeah, I know. Season 50, Yeah, insane.
Can you imagine a show being on for 50 fucking years and it's

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still thriving? That is so wild to me.
Yeah, I mean, Sesame Street's been on for 56 years, I think.
So yeah, shows can still thrive.But yeah, I know season 50 is
what kind of got me back into the SNL of it all with the 24,
the the 2024 election skits. Obviously you remember the

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phenomenal Maya Rudolph as, as Kamala Harris.
And then they had the the 50th anniversary special.
And then they had the the Peacock documentaries where it
was like 50 years of musical guests.
And here's all the cast members and their auditions over the
years. Like the one documentary that I
was obsessed with was the documentary about the the

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writers room. Because being an SNL writer, it
can be both rewarding, but it can also be a very pellish
pressure cooker kind of a job. And we got to give it up for
these folks because they, you know, don't have an easy job.
I mean week after week after week, you have to write the hell
out of stuff. Like literally after they meet

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with the host and pitch ideas tothem on Monday, Tuesday is just
all night, writing, writing, writing.
And then next day, Wednesday, you have to present what you're
into the table of cast, crew, producers.
And you know it's a honest table.
If they like it, you'll hear laughter.
If they don't, you won't hear laughter.

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And you could have your sketchesblocked and rewritten and put up
on its feet up to the final dress rehearsal moments.
And you work hard all week. And right up before the live
show, sometimes during the live show, your sketch could be cut.
And there you go. There's your entire work week.
And then you got to do it over again the next week.
So it's a pretty brutal job. It's not easy.

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And for those people that understandably say like SNL
isn't funny anymore and blah blah blah, you know, a large
part of what you may not find funny is just due to the fact
that it's just not an easy job to write sketch comedy every
week. I cannot imagine.
Oh my. Like John, your passion for SNL

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is what keeps me involved in SNLI.
Haven't been the biggest like SNL fan but whenever I know you
send me something about it, I'm like OK, I got check it out.
This has to be something that I need to see.
I want to see it in person. It's my goal, and it's very
difficult to do it, understandably, because it's

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fucking Saturday Night Live. Every August, like right before
the new season starts, they havewhat's called the ticket
lottery. And from like August 1st up
until August 31st, you can send an e-mail saying why you want to
be a part of the studio audience.
And then you just have to wait and hopefully be lucky.
The other part of it, and this actually could be an easier way

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of getting in, is that you can just do like the standby line
where you literally wait outsideRockefeller Plaza like the
Friday before the show. And maybe the people who won
tickets from the lottery could not make it.
But, but you have to be one of those people that you hate AJ,
which is that Beyoncé fan that is like camping out like the
night before for many hours on end when they, when they lost

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their chance to get the ticket online in advance that
Ticketmaster like I'm not, I live in Vermont, New York City
is like 7 hours away from me. I'm not gonna go out of my way
just for the chance to get into Saturday Night Live.
So I'll just take my chances andlike send an e-mail and, and
hope for the best. I had no luck for season 50,
obviously because of season 50, but I may not have any luck for
season 51. I, I submitted right at midnight

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on August 1st. That's when the the entry period
starts and I have not received aresponse back.
So I think that Season 51 is notgoing to be in my in my roster.
OK, I'm crossing my fingers for you.
Can you only submit like one entry or is this like a weekly
thing? I believe it's best that you

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submit one entry. I don't know if they have a
strict rule about that, but I just have this seeking suspicion
that they can suspect if a person is submitting more than
once. I submitted for myself and I
submitted on behalf of of my wife Tony.
So both of us didn't get a response, which the response
could be as simply as confirmingthat we received your ticket

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request. But they probably were so
cluttered at midnight on August 1st that that it's hard to
respond to everybody but any who.
But yeah, no, they, they they had some pretty big cast
announcements ahead of the October 4th premiere that I'll
just quickly run through becauseI know we've been going on for a
while. eight-year veteran Heidi Gardner was seemingly leaving

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the show on her own terms. She talked about having sketch
comedy fatigue. So not surprising.
Devin Walker and Michael Longfellow, they both have been
on the show for the past three seasons.
They've been stand ups and they were let go.
Oh my God. So Emil Joaquin, I don't know if
you remember someone on SNL who looks like Luigi, The the the

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guy who shot the seat. Yeah, yeah.
So Emil Joaquim, he was a featured cast member.
He came out for the first time, new cast member on season 50.
And it might break your heart how this guy found out.
He was like, oh, he got a phone call while he was at Six Flags
during his friend's 36th birthday.
And he talked about how he had to like, walk through Bugs Bunny

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Park and look at Daffy Duck Lake.
And sort of this like, sad, reflective, depressing.
Because obviously, like, this isa big dream job that you got and
you're getting a call in the middle of Six Flags when you're
supposed to be happy that you were not coming back for season
51. So I can only imagine just
getting that a call and my God, everybody's so happy around me,
but I just really wanna just die.

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My God, that's torture. Have you had that happen?
Where have you had that happen? Where you've been around in a
happy environment and you've gotthe worst news while you're in
that happy environment. It is not easy.
One year at Pride, at Festive Pride and I'm in the parade and

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30 seconds before we started marching in the parade, I got a
terrible phone call and everybody around me smiling,
happy, throwing stuff in the air, passing out shots.
And I'm like, Oh my God, I can'tbe the Debbie Downer.
So I had to hide that emotion and it sucks.
And that's hard. I, I don't know if I could do

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that. I'm in a place in my life where
if I got terrible news like that, say, I don't know, on New
Year's Eve when I'm celebrating with everybody, I, I might have
to have to be that person. That's like, OK, excuse me,
y'all can celebrate Happy New Year, but I'm going to go cry in
the bathroom right now because it's just very, very hard for me
these days to pretend that I'm happy when I'm not.

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It's hard. There's one other time that I
can think of, and it's because Iagree with you, John, of what I
would do. I was vacationing in the
Adirondacks. As I'm driving up to meet my
friends, I have three other friends in the car with me.
My job called me and said, hey, just so you know, we're letting

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your position go because of funding.
And mind you, I took a week off vacation from work and we're
driving up to the Adirondics forthis fun weekend.
And I'm driving in the car and Ijust crying, holding on to the
steering wheel. And my friends are like, what's
wrong? And I'm like, I can't talk about
it right now. Let's just pretend this isn't

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happening. Oh God.
And The thing is, is that like these, I don't know, I just wish
there was like a controlled way where these employers would call
you and give you the news when you're ready to hear it.
But it's kind of like, you know,when a family member dies, like
it just could happen when you least expect it.

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And you just have to process and, and, and grieve as much as
you can. These employers don't know that
you're at the Adirondacks or at Six Flags or whatever.
They just are going to give you the news when it's most
convenient for them. And if your vacation is fucked
up, they're gonna be like, well,we didn't know that, sorry, not
our problem. They're just like, well, in your

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contract you say we can terminate you at any time.
Yeah, damn. God fucking damn it anyway, but
my heart goes out to a meal. And with that being said, I mean
they're they had they had announced like 5 new people in
the cast. And the big problem with SNL is
that they have way too big of a cast.
It used to be that you could have like 7 or 8 people in that

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cast, but now you could have as many as like 21 people in the
cast, which is very hard when itcomes to like, you know, making
sure that each person shines. But the creator, Lorne Michaels,
he wants to, you know, have his options wide open, like, oh,
this person may have this uniquevoice for this sort of thing.
And this person may have this unique voice for that sort of
thing. So I can kind of get it.

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But let's see. I mean, they have SNL Rider and
Please Don't Destroy a member Ben Marshall, who's been added
to the cast. Please Don't destroy.
It's a comedy trio that made short videos on SNL much like
The Lonely Island used to do back in the day with like lazy
Sunday and Dick in a Box. And I know, right?
Are you familiar with The LonelyIsland stuff?

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I'm. Not but I know Dick in the box.
I mean, who? How do you not know it?
I mean, that was for me, that was high school.
Just watching that on YouTube and just being like, oh, OK,
we're going to make a song aboutpresenting your penis as a
Christmas present. I love it.
Which is. Hilarious.
Of course it is. I still let it.

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Down, of course it is. And shout out to The Lonely
Island and Seth Meyers. They have a podcast where they
talk about that SNL Digital Shorts era that they were a part
of. Yeah.
I mean, these guys were putting out videos just as YouTube was
popping in the mid 2000s. So they were like right up to
like the digital video revolution that they were just
right there on it. So Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Cole,

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Haine, Cam Patterson, Veronica Sloikowska, If I'm pronouncing
that correct incorrectly, I'm I,I apologize.
Personally, I'm curious as to whether Ashley Padilla, who was
a new cast member from last season, is going to come back.
But yeah, those are some of the big cast changes that are
happening. And my last point about this is

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for those of you who are SNL freaks, if you want to have like
a nice retrospective of the castchanges over the last 50 years,
The Hollywood Reporter came out with a decent article about all
the significant cast changes. So starting from when the
original cast left back in 1980.And then you gave way to the
phenomenon that was Eddie Murphy.

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And then you have like the 1980,four, 1985 season where you had
veterans like Billy Crystal Martin Short.
You had 1995 where the cast overhaul went from like Adam
Sandler and Chris Farley one year to the introduction of Will
Ferrell the the next year. And then you had Tina Fey
departing in 2006. You had Seth Meyers leaving in
like 2013. 2014 you had Colin Jost and Michael Che debuting as

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we can update anchors around that time.
You had Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, 80 Bryant, all those
significant cast members leavingat 2022.
So look at that article online, a Hollywood Reporter that that
would be a great read if you're into all the SNL cast turnovers.
And I think you got some Real Housewives dish to tell me for

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the next item on your plate. We do.
The second part of my legal watch, Karen Huger, the Grand
Dom from Real Housewives of Potomac, just got out of prison
six months early on her sentence.
It was a year and a half that she, I'm sorry, two years, not a

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year and a half, two year sentence that she was going to
do for a DUI charge. OK, so can you give me a
background as to like the personality of Karen from the
Real Housewives franchise? What kind of person is she?
Is it a total surprise that she got a DUI charge?

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No Karen Huger. She also goes by the Grand Dom
which should let you know right away.
She's one of those people who think she's bigger than life and
that her shit does not stink under any circumstances.
She is on the Housewives of Housewives.
She tries to make friends with everybody but secretly she's
shady. Karen is just as shady as the

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rest of these women. As far as expecting her to get a
DUI, it is not a far stretch because she's already had two
before this. Oh my God, now with the Real
Housewives franchises of it all,I got to wonder, as a fan of
this, are you the type that's like, all right, I'm only going

(01:15:50):
to watch Potomac? Are you the type that like wants
it all? You want the Potomac, you want
the Beverly Hills, you want the New York like, like are there
differences enough in each of these franchises where it
becomes entertaining like just because they have a lot of them?
That's what I know is that it's it can be a lot of television to
consume. It's a lot to consume now,
specifically right now. Potomac would be the series that

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I would watch the most, and thenpossibly Atlanta.
I haven't really gotten into theother seasons except for Beverly
Hills. And if you can finish this line,
you know why. Shut your mouth, you filthy
beast. That is an epic line.

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I've heard Salt Lake City is is also a good franchise.
No Salt Lake City I've heard is good.
I tried to get into season 1, but I just couldn't.
A lot of the women for me on that one, they're all Mormon.
So it was a very unbearable castfor me.
I was like, oh, I don't know if I like this, but we did get the

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one housewife. What is her name?
I can't think of her name. I'm sorry y'all, but she went to
prison and she's still in prisonright now for, I think, money
laundering. So that was one of the
highlights of that series and I've got to get back into it.
Miami is a good one. Dubai, I didn't really get into.

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I didn't really relate to any ofthese women, but we'll see if I
get into more of them. All right, all right, so as
someone new like myself to this franchise, like, you know, I'm
looking at this Karen story and I want to find out more like how
can I watch the Real Housewives?When do new episodes come on
that sort of thing. AMC and AM CS app, but you have

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to look at the Bravo section because it's technically Bravo
TV and you can watch it there. If you also just, I mean, follow
the housewives on YouTube, you're going to get some great
clips because there's so many things that branch out from
housewives that it's worth watching.
The new season is coming up in October for Potomac and Karen

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just got released just in time to be a part of that season.
And when she stepped out of thatprison, the cameras were right
there. So I know we're going to hear
something from her. Where did she have this DUI
charge? What state?
So this was in I think Maryland,right outside of Potomac and the
charge, the videos out there, ifyou want to see it, you can see

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her run into a median and then take out a few traffic signs and
then the police pull her over and she's drunk.
Y'all She is. She's drunk when she is talking
to those police officers. Jesus.
All right, well, Karen from the Real Housewives, we'll keep her.
Well, we'll keep it posted on onhow she's doing with that DUI.
I am just gonna say stay from behind the wheel of a car even

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though she's released, she can'tdrive for a year and DUI is
unacceptable for anybody especially in this day and age.
If you drink, get an Uber, catchthe bus or walk home.
Yeah, yeah. I, I don't know if you saw the
show Succession, but that actor who played Greg on the show
Succession got arrested for suspicion of DUI in New

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Hampshire. And New Hampshire just seems to
be in the news for, like, tragicdriving incidents because I know
Rudy Giuliani got himself into aterrible car accident.
And not coincidentally, like, itseemed like the next day he's
being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
So I wonder if those are related.
I'm sorry, I don't feel bad for that.

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I don't, I don't, I don't know what happened to Rudy Gianni.
He went from being this great person to who he is now.
But yes, also he's in the Presidential Medal of Freedom
because he was stopping a domestic violence incident
before the crash. I remember that story being
layered. I was like, Oh yeah, there was a
domestic violence part of it. Not just that Rudy got badly

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hurt in that in that crash. But yeah.
So the trajectory of Rudy Giuliani is interesting because
there's like Rudy Giuliani before 911 and then Rudy
Giuliani after 911. Because I know before 9/11 he,
you know, he, he was still fairly polarizing as as a mayor
because, you know, he was a verylaw and order kind of guy when

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it came to New York City. And when you are very much the
law and order person in a place like New York City, it can get
into racism territory. I know he ran against someone of
color in the mayoral, mayoral election in some year and and
there was some racist stuff there, according to a
documentary that I saw. And then, yeah, 911, he just

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became America's mayor. He showed a certain leadership
that I thought, like, if he justleft it at that, maybe the Medal
of Freedom would have been more deserved.
But ever since he just wanted tobuild up on his legacy and be
associated with Trump. It's just like, what are you
doing? What are you laughing at?

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The day he spoke at that tractorcompany and his hair dye was
melting down the side of his face, I was like, yeah, Rudy
Giuliani is gone. This is the same man.
He's not, he's not. His ego got the best of him
anyway. All right.
Shall we get into our samplers? Let's get into them.

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Yeah, this is a pieces of culture that AJ and I consumed
that we recommend you try, kind of like the samplers that you
try at Gasco. Mine's just really quick.
The show on Netflix, My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2
recently came out and my wife Tony and I binged a good portion
of it over the Labor Day weekend.

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A basic summary, if you don't know what the show is about,
Jackie Howard's life, it's disrupted by this freak
accident. She's ripped from her home.
I mean, she's, she looks like she's 10, but she's more on the
teenager East side. So she's ripped from her home.
She has to start over on a ranchin Colorado with these parental
guardians. And they're rather large family.
We're talking 9 teenage boys andone girl.

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So this is a person of color teenager and she's moving in
with this completely white family, rural Colorado, 9
teenage boys, one girl. So if you're into rural small
town culture, like, and there's a lot of that to be found in
media, either a romanticism of rural small hometown culture or

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say something like a sex in a City where it's like New York
City, it's the greatest city in the world.
Like it's just like those in those those big contrasts.
So rural small hometown culture is is prominent in this show.
If you love your alcoholic teenage heart throbs, which is
both present in my life with theWalter Boys and another show on
Netflix, Ginny and Georgia, there you go.

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This show has it and then you have this ridiculous love
triangle with Jackie and two of the teenage Walter boys where
you're just like, you know what?This is another reason why I
hate love triangles because especially when all three of
y'all live in the same damn house.
Like the tension is just going to go off on a way where you're
just like, is it worth it? Y'all live in the same damn

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house. So My Life with the Walter Boys
streaming on Netflix. I recommend it, it's a good
watch. I am going to watch this.
This gives me good old down homevibes of like, yeah, we're going
to the corn husking field. Yep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's and look, I get it.

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I mean, I'm from rural Vermont right now.
That's where I live. I'm not originally from here,
but I live here. So I get the the greatness about
living in a rural small hometown, but then, you know,
you also see the downsides of that people being in your
business and people not being soprogressively minded.

(01:23:55):
So there's, there's pros and cons.
There's pros and cons, but I'm so curious about your sampler.
Oh my God, you got like some anime stuff coming out.
So this is my favorite time of year.
Every year in September is when we get the fall releases of new
animes. There's a couple that I'm gonna
focus on specifically. So if you like Pokémon, Pokémon

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Concierge Season 2 is premieringon Netflix, and that's actually
tomorrow, September 4th. If you like claymation
animation, everything's in claymation.
Our main characters Haru, Satoshi or Ash Ketchum is not in
this show at all, but it's a slice of life anime at a Pokémon

(01:24:41):
resort where Haru has to make all the Pokémon comfortable at
this resort and it's tons of funto watch.
I love that. So how is is Pokémon like the
Power Rangers universe where youjust have so many like
interpretations of it, Like where, where are we at right
now? The Pokémon universe.
Well, it's coming to that now. So the main Canon Pokémon that

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we all grew up with with Ash Ketchum that ended Ash Ketchum
is on his own journey now. You've got Concierge and you've
got a few other offshoots of different Pokémon trainers, and
now we're getting this Pokémon universe built for us, which
there's a new video game coming out in a couple of months too.
I love that. What's your other

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recommendation? Next recommendation, Demon
Slayer, the new movie Commence no Yaiba, if you go by the
Japanese name in Fiddy Castle comes out on September 15th and
it's what we've all been waitingfor.
John, you may not be familiar with Demon Slayer, but the fight
sequences in the show are amazing.

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And if anybody is wondering, allof our Hashira get to fight a
demon in this movie, so it's going to be amazing.
That's awesome. Yeah.
I, I, I, I need to get back intoanime.
I keep on telling myself that. Because for me it was like, and
this might be basic of me, but my experience with anime was
the, the Tsunami programming block on Cartoon Network back in

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like the late 90s, early 2000s when I was in elementary school.
So I was into like, you know, Dragon Ball and Tengxi and
Zoids, those those kind of shows.
Inuyasha, I think my sister is still into anime.
But yeah, I, I, you know, from what I've seen, I mean, they,
they produced a lot of great work.

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They do, and the fact that you know Inuyasha John puts you
leaps and bounds ahead of peoplewho have never watched an anime
in their life. Yeah, I think my sister still
owns an Inuyasha DVD. Yeah, she and her friend Diane,
and they're still friends to this day.
They were very big on Inuyasha. There was also another one yo-yo

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Hockey show or something like that.
I forgot. I totally forgot.
You, you hockey show you're right on the money.
There you go. Yu-gi-oh.
Like, yeah, yeah. I, I I'm surprised at how much
anime I've still retained in my memory because no, I I had great
memories of that when I was in elementary school.
Did you also have an anime club in your high school?
Because there was one in my highschool.

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We did. We had an anime club and I loved
it every. They started it in my 11th grade
year, so I didn't get to like get all four years, but the last
two years, amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
My God. Do they still have Toonami on?
Cuz I think it moved to Adult Swim.
Is it still? No, they cancelled it.
So they got rid of Toonami and then anime went more towards

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Adult Swim because Cartoon Network realized that their
bigger audience for anime were people who wanted more adult
oriented anime stories. So Toonami, that kind of block
fell off and it's OK because they replaced Toonami with
original animated series here infrom the United States and they

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were still really good all. Right.
Wonderful, wonderful. You have any other
recommendations? A last anime recommendation I'm
going to give you guys to watch is One Punch Man.
We are finally getting season 3.If you're not familiar with One
Punch Man, it's about Earth and how all these people have
different superpowers. But the main character, One

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Punch Man, who is kind of a parody of Goku from Dragon Ball,
can defeat any person no matter how strong they are with one
punch, and it's so good. That's so funny.
I love that. My God.
All right. I'll definitely have to take a
look into those anime samplers. Those are wonderful, wonderful
recommendations. Yeah.

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The start of fall. It just means so many things.
Go ahead. Yeah.
It does. It means so many things.
And this is gonna go back to what I talked to earlier about
movies that are coming out. And that's why I can't say
Weapons is my number one right now.
We got 2 movies that I encourageeverybody to look into and go
see. The first ones coming out on
September 12th is a Stephen Kingmovie called The Long Walk and

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it's going to be phenomenal. It's about a group of young men
who go on a walk and they are followed by somebody who's
encouraging them to go on this walk and they will win a prize
at the end. But only one person can survive
the walk. And if you don't complete the
walk, you're eliminated. And that could be death.

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So that's one. Wow.
All right, so I'm, I'm getting like a Hunger Games, Squid Cam
kind of competitive horror reality show vibe here, OK.
This was given us and then the second everybody needs to go see
this movie. Jordan Peele is giving us
another gem called Him on September 19th and Marlon

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Wayne's is in the Scary Movie and Him is about this guy who
wants to be the best. Yes, I saw that preview again
before we saw Weapons, because we saw that preview, fittingly
enough, before we saw Sinners inthe theater.
Yeah. That that movie mixes like the

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pressure of football, the concussion part of it, and then
a horror element. I know Jordan, Jordan Peele has
a producer credit on it. So yeah, that should be an
interesting movie. I I know Marlon Wayans.
I mean, he's already proved himself to be a good dramatic
actor. So this one, this this one might
be a good one. And also, I know this is fitting

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because like these, these are previews before we see a horror
movie, but literally when we were seeing the previews before
weapons, I was like, oh, every preview is a horror movie.
Like there's still previews for anything else.
I mean, which makes sense. I mean, like, you know, hey, if
you like this horror movie, thenyou may like these other horror
movies, But just, I don't know, I, I just, I guess I'm used to
like going into a movie theater and getting a mix like, Oh,

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here's a comedy preview, here's a horror preview, here's an
action preview. But no, like literally every
preview was a horror movie. And why not when you're going to
see weapons and also Halloween'saround the corner, so.
I I've noticed something and I'mso happy that you said that
specifically for horror movies. It's only horror movies that

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they preview in the beginning, But I've noticed if I go see an
action or comedy or romance movie or even a kids movie,
there is a mix of every kind of trailer that happens before that
movie starts. But horror movies, they're like,
Nope, you're here to be scared, so we're going to scare you in
the previews. I think these people that create

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these previews, maybe they just sense that there's no audience
like a horror audience. The horror audience can be a
very dedicated, intense audience.
So yeah, I mean, maybe they justthink, you know what?
Like if you're coming to see weapons, then you are probably
obsessed with horror and want tosee more.
And here's more options that youcould see.

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I saw your TikTok, Tony is also.Did you create a TikTok where
you were like looking forward toThe Conjuring last rites or am I
going crazy? I cannot wait to go see this
movie. They were handing out holy
water. There was a priest at one of the
premieres and they said somebodygot possessed by a demon during

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the movie. I yes it's on my TikTok and I
can't wait. Yeah, Oh my God.
If movie theaters want to survive, I think action and
horror are the way to go. And I would put horror at the
top. There's just something very
community friendly and also effective about seeing a horror

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movie on the the big screen. There's just nothing like it.
I love it. There's nothing like it.
I I'm telling y'all, and this may sound like a stereotype, you
need to go to a horror movie theater showing where there are
black people in that theater. You need those black people
saying don't go in there. Yeah, I told.

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You Yep, Yep. I one of Jordan Peele's movies.
Us. I remember seeing that movie in
a theater in Connecticut, this like Hartford area.
Lots of black people went there with my family and I enjoy the
reaction of everybody around me as much as I enjoyed the movie.
Like it's just because, you know, black people will get

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riled up. They'll just be like, no, no,
no, don't go in there, you know,but, and they're also get easily
scared as well. It's just, yeah.
Going back to the community friendliness of all like horror
movies. I, I don't really like to watch
them alone. I like to watch them with other
people because there's just thatcomforting thing that you get
when you're scared or shocked orin suspense with somebody else.

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And, or, or if you're, if you'vealready watched the movie and
you just want to see it, just tosee the other person's reaction.
I mean, it's just, it's so it's so much fun to see it with
people. If there's a community in horror
movies and horror movies are theway to go right now, I'm
enjoying them. I'm loving that we're getting so
many creative takes on horror. And just like you said, it's

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there's something about going tothe movie theater and seeing
that. My reaction is not a lone
reaction, because at home when Iwas watching Weapons, I was
screaming at my television of don't you go into that damn
house. And I know other people in the

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theater would be screaming it too.
Yeah, it's wonderful. I cannot wait.
I look, maybe it's because I'm just tired of the summer heat,
but I'm looking forward to fall.I'm looking forward to putting
up the Halloween decorations up.I'm looking forward to all the
horror movies that we get to watch.
So it's gonna be a good time of year.
It is. I'm excited.
And by the way, y'all, 28 years later, it's not a bad movie.

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I've heard a lot of people discussing it.
It's just a lead in to the next film.
So just treat as a trailer, a very extended long trailer, and
then the next film is going to flush it all out.
Wonderful. All right, well, that's our
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(01:36:14):
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You'll see me there. And yes on TikTok I now have two
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outside of politics for y'all. Nice, so is it the?
So there are two different handles then.

(01:36:35):
It's just AJ Vanderton, but bothof me will come up because
they're under the same thing. I see.
I see. Very cool.
Very cool. Yeah.
When you were pausing, trying tosearch for words, I was almost
gonna say Truth Social. Like we can find you on Truth
Social. On true social I have a hidden
account. I don't have a username that's

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searchable or anything because Iuse true social to troll people.
Are you serious? Oh 100% I am a true social troll
and it is so much fun some days when you just go on there and
debunk the lies that are posted and see people get inflamed by
facts. Love it, love it.
Doing the good work out there. All right, shall we let some

(01:37:19):
deliciousness ring? You guys, the next time he goes
to the movie theater, leave yourkids at home, it's a horror
movie, and put your phone on silent.
Let that deliciousness ring.