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December 23, 2019 15 mins

Garrett and Rob Shuter talk about the AMAZING Elvis and Alex wedding. Demi Moore's new book and who has a broadway show??

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two and one to three. Alright, Rob Shooter, Garrett, here
you are listening right on I Heart Radio to the
number seventy one ranked podcast in all of the I
Heart Radio lands. How was that fun? We need to
put that on a teachers, We should put it on
a day. Thank you for listening. We started this podcast

(00:22):
a couple of years ago as just two friends with
the Oddist Couple. We should have nothing in common, we
really shouldn't be mate, and we became friends very quickly.
We started this podcast, and the fact that you were
listening to it, thank you. We appreciate jo. You know,
it's CBS rebooted The Odd Couple already, So maybe we
bring it to like a streaming network, maybe like Amazon
or Netflix. I think we're Jurassic Park, the Odd Couple percnosaurs,

(00:49):
just goll Bloom, Jurassic Car, the original. All right, So,
Rob Shooter, you're a busy, busy busy bee. It's a
fun it's a fun gig. So I'm a gossip columnist.
I'm running around time trying to get gossip and stories
and lots of stuff happening. What do you want to
kick off? First, let's talk about the fact that your
your husband is doing something pretty amazing that many hope

(01:09):
to some never get to do. Others husband is putting
on a freaking broad wahich is. Here is the reason
I've got a sore throat today is I was up
late last night not drinking. Unfortunately, Bruce is having auditions.
So Bruce and his songwriting partner Barry Manilow that that
guy you've heard of him. They read a musical and

(01:29):
it's taken them a process to get it to New York.
It's coming to New York in February. And they're in
the middle of auditions right now. Is the last night
say Harmony Musical dot com. And so they had auditions
last night and I'm so lucky. I have nothing to
do for the show. I have no business in it,

(01:49):
but they allowed me to sit in on the auditions
and I've never seen anything like it. I felt like
I was in an episode a Fussy Verden. It's exactly
what you see something very well at the It's a big,
scary room with a with a piano and a table
at the front, like American Idol. And there's three or
four people sitting there and these actors walk in and

(02:11):
they sing sixteen bars of a song, and then they
read several pages of the script and then they're told
to or asked please wait outside for a couple of minutes,
and then somebody comes out and tells them either goodbye
or hang out for an hour and you'll do a
dance audition. So you being the the fly on the
wall for a Broadway audition, essentially in your mind where

(02:34):
you're going no no. I got told off all the
time because I wanted to clap every time someone gave
you no. I was. I was the Paula Abdual of this.
I was so into it and I've never seen it before,
and in life, when you get to experience something really new,
it's really fresh. And so I sat there with big
eyes and every time someone came in and I was like,

(02:57):
and it is the cast is I think of like
in I would have cast seventy five people like it
would have been Grand Opera, And so I just it's amazing,
but you don't want this. It's a really good lesson
out of this though, too, is that we audition every day,
maybe not like that, but the job interviews or we
go and it's so interesting. You're on from the minute

(03:18):
you arrive. So there's somebody that sits outside the audition
rooms and a sistant with a pen and paper and
a clipboard, and she reports back everything you say outside
to the people inside. So when people come in, there
was one girl who came in and was like, I
don't know why I'm here. I don't even like theater.
The lady outside, the assistant made a note of that

(03:38):
and passed it onto the people inside. When I went
to Jennifer Lopez, j Jaylo used to always say, the
minute she left her house, her apartment, she was j Loo.
In the car, she was Jlo in the elevator, she
was j Loo, and she was not not j Loo
until she's got her It's fascinating. The other thing, too,
is the people that are going to get offered the
parts are not just talented. They fit into the puzzle.

(04:03):
Of course, often in life you go for an interview
and you don't get the job, and you're devastated and
you think you're not very talented or not very good.
It's not true. They're looking for something and there's people
there that they loved. They just wasn't a role for them.
If it was a different show at a different time,
and they had if it was a bigger bunch and
they had like a hundred casts members. Jerry O'Connell, let's

(04:26):
literaliantly talented, brilliantly talented. Probably he was top four or
five to get the job that Ryan Secrets has right
now with Kelly Rivers. Yes, so he was great, great talented,
looked good on TV, just didn't fit with there. And
part of the reason it's ABC was looking to do
a deal with Ryan to keep Idle and to keep

(04:46):
all this stuff. So Ryan had an advantage. Ryan's very talented,
and he always does on many of us, but it
was a big Deally had with the network, So you're
not going to beat that. I went up run into
you recently. Yes, he's doing a morning show. So he's
doing a Wanning show here in New York and they
asked me to go into audition for it, and I
went up to thirty Rockies, part of NBC Universal, and
I went up there and did like a conference call

(05:08):
video and I did a tap dance. From the minute
I walked in the door, I've seen the right I
can put on a show. It's it's the equivalent of
walking into you know when you walk into your house
and it's the lights are all off, the lights turn
on and now it's your house. That's I will put
on a show. So I did my tap dance and

(05:29):
now ultimately I was good. If they're looking for a
British guy who's forty six years old, I'm gonna get
this job. If they're looking for someone that's twenty two younger,
I would have put a like forty six, I know,
but I would have pulled you. I'm going to be
thirty five in a few weeks. I would have put
you at twelve. Thanks. But it's such a good lesson

(05:55):
because I do know. We all go on interviews. We
go on job interviews were on days. What do you
think you got the No, I don't think this is
the right fit for me. But what it is is
he wants to do a whole twenty four hour of
life programming. Actually, so just the fact that they now
know who I am, I'm not going to get this job.
But a really interesting Broadway story Ben Platt, who became

(06:15):
a starff from Evan Hansen and now he's in the
Politician and he has an album out. He auditioned for
for a show years ago and he didn't get it,
but they remembered him. So when the songwriters, when the
creative team wrote Evan Hanson, they were remember that kid
we saw five years ago. He was in Pitch Perfect.
That's how they found him. Yeah, he was like a
background actor or a small small role in Pitch Perfect one.

(06:37):
Because you've been here so long, like, what is it
gone on seventeen? So you've not really been on a
big job interview in seventeen. Yeah, I've done it. I've
done auditions for things here and there. You tend to
because it's new. When when something so new you you
tend to don't know what to think and expect him.
But I've learned you just kind of have to go

(06:57):
in there kind of like you said, turn it on
and turn but be yourself, of course. And so I'm
I'm a fifty Yeah, maybe I'm a fifty percent more
heightened version of how ridiculous I really am. So I
don't pretend to be somebody else, but I do turn
it up and knock right maybe several, maybe too many notches. Well,
let's jump into some things that are happening right now.
Let's start off with the Demi Moore book Pretty much

(07:21):
is throwing Ashton Kutcher under the bus? Yeah, I don't know.
It's end to the bus. So just telling the truth,
like we were talking about Rob. But at what expense
She's benefiting off of it? She's making money off of
the story Ashton Kutcher's relationship. It's it's it's the equivalent
of the X that wouldn't let go. I feel like
this is her story to tell, this happened. I believe

(07:42):
every word of it, and I think that I'm happy
she told it. I think it's really cathartic to tell
your story. Could as she told it to her therapist
or girlfriend. Exactly did you have to do it in
a book? I don't know about that? And how does Ashton?
Could you play it off? We're talking about that. What
should he do? So yesterday in my office we had
reporting that he will not respond. So you can't it
can't respond. And but he's been asked. Everyone's calling him, ABC,

(08:04):
every networks wants to sit down with with Ashton. It
will be interesting next time he does press for a
movie or a TV show. This is all anyone's going
to talk about. I predict he will never speak about this.
He was almost yesterday he sent out a tease of
a tweet. Did you see this? He said, I nearly
posted a snarky tweet. However, I just looked at my

(08:25):
family and my wife and well, that's the thing, Like
you know, That's why I say it's the equivalent of
an old relationship, your your ex holding onto the past.
It happened what five six years ago, where a lot
of things have happened in the middle of that have grown,
people have moved on, people aren't the same person as

(08:45):
they were. In her defense, because at the moment, all
we've seen is the is the excerpts from a book.
So when we write a book, the most juicy stuff.
I'm told if you sit down and read the entire memoir,
it's much more in text, and it's her whole life.
Like she talks about being so poor as a child,
she talks about abuse to what her mother did, talks

(09:06):
about being raped. It's an extraordinary, honest memoir and I
think you know, Ashton was a big part of that
that we're interesting to see. How does he responct What
would you do if somebody comes at you and X
comes at you with the truth right, comes at you
and tells stuff that you did that you shouldn't be
terribly proud of. Do you respond and you ignore it?

(09:26):
You see, as as as I've been thinking about this situation,
I've learned you want to get in front of it.
But at what expends you know what I mean? You
don't see anything. It tells. It tells a story. But
not saying anything is a response, Like that is a
response to It's like when people come at you on
social media, do you I want to fire back? Right?

(09:46):
So part of me is like I make it worse,
I make it big, like I don't know. I'm not
at the school where I don't I don't punch back
that hard. I don't punch back that hard except when
you get close to the family and friends like our
friend and you know, boss Elvis got married and you
know there were some articles here he was in freaking
people and it was fantastic. So the I'll call him

(10:09):
out by name. Uh the Staten Island Advance posts a
great article they did the great job husband Alex from
that mass as am I and uh boy, am I
ashamed to be from from Stanard the So once you
post things on Facebook, you know how it works. People
can leave comments the the derogatory dummies idiots that you

(10:31):
know everything from game memes to to saying the F word. Um,
just just stupid stuff. Where if you you're listening to
this right now, when you're from the Stan Allen Advance,
if those comments aren't deleted, you should be ashamed of
yourself as a reporter. Um. And if you are listening
to this and left those comments, you're a dirt bag.

(10:52):
So it's very very tricky, and people say awful things.
It's awful. It's truth and be honest, my website, nody
go dot com, you no longer can comment. I deleted
the comment section because what happened is all the people
that wanted to comment wouldn't were bombarded by this negative
stuff really means stuff and not truth. And I just like,

(11:13):
I don't need this. And it's actually my readers who
sent me text or private message saying we don't want
to read your site with all these comments. Didn't invent
the Internet for this, right right, right, Well, let's let's
end that on a nice note. I couldn't go to
the wedding, so I was working because of Bruce's show,
and it's so important, like for you to Bruce, that's

(11:35):
so little of me, and he's such a great husband
that I had to be here for my my husband's darling,
and so I couldn't be there. But the wedding was glorious.
I just kissed and and hugged Elvis and and he's
flying high. Remember being on that high right after I'm
still on it. I got married six years, yes, but

(11:55):
not as much as you. I don't know. I have
a really lovely life and you and I just say too.
I saw a wedding photographs and you look very dap
at my friend salmon suit that it was like a
salmon piece and a three piece. I said, race coast
to sweating. Your wife looked that's nice. Well, but thank you.
I talk about beautiful. You want balls, And in part

(12:15):
of the conversation it was very hot, and thank you
it was I shouldn't want to piece. You should have
gotten I should have won two people on your birthday suits. No,
not would have been running the wedding. Your wife looks beautiful.
What was your favorite moment of the wedding. The favorite
moment just I think when doctor Oz was sitting up
there and he was giving the analogy of you know

(12:36):
how did they say one plus one equals to uh?
And he said that's faulty math, and everybody was like,
don't us he's a doctor math stupid but he goes
one plus one equals everyone's awfully sweet, which I hit
hit me home. It's very sweet holding my wife's hand.

(12:57):
Are you having another baby? No way? Oh, shop to
the wedding of course, many of times during the wedding,
because you know that was because I was wearing a
three piece suit. It was a bad move. You wear
a wool three it was cotton, but the three two

(13:19):
piece probably would have been the way to go, honestly.
But the the wedding was the reception was in the hotel,
so there was a very long extended time from the
salad and the main course that no one knew what
was going on, so we figured stuff to do. Thank
you very much. There you go. That's how it happened
during the wedding. I hope he watched, of course I

(13:41):
did everywhere else. But you know, just thinking about it now,
taking off the three piece suit, put it back on.
I had the option to take off the damn vest
and I put it back on. You know why, because
I didn't want anybody to know. Everybody I didn't want. Well,
it's too late. Now everybody knows. Now it's out there,
sex stew That's why this is the seventy one most.

(14:05):
Let's try and get to sixty nine. Let's get sixty
nine above. Thank you for listening. We appreciating this, listening
to this dog and Pony of a podcast. Thank you.
Go see Rob Shooters. Go see Rob Shooters. Husband's many
tic tickets on sale now. Rob Shooter will hire you

(14:25):
on the spot if you go seot well, no you'll
You'll put them in the cast. That's right. No one's
going to make money on the show. Believe. I went
to the auditions whenever in my life, and I said
this to Bruce less Night. I was so grateful, But
when ever in my life am I going to sit
in on Broadway, New York, ver ever and to see
them come in. I was there for like three hours,

(14:46):
and I saw people that were nervous. I knew the
one people think you were a part of, like and
just keep looking at the floor. And there was one
person who recognized me from doing TV Stiff and Hi Rob,
and I was like, I'm not here, I'm not being invisible.
I'm not for your hands. And there was one person
who came in and sang directly to me and ignored
the director, the writers. I was like, what's going on.

(15:08):
I'm to see. If I was your husband, if I
was Bruce, I would I would take that person and
say no to that person. Should be hired immediately, great taste.
That's the most talented person I've ever chalented person on
the national tour. Never in New York. It's a lot
of really talented people in New York. Well, you know,
I can't wait to see the show. Congratulation, thank you,

(15:30):
thank you for listening, and we will talk again. It
has nothing to do with me, but thank you very much.
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