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April 2, 2025 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He was in nineteen ninety three, and that was the

(00:03):
year Quentin Tarantino finally got a movie made. He didn't
direct it, though he wrote it, and the film starred
This Is Crazy, Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper,
Brad Pitt, Christopher Walking, James Kandalfini, Michael Rappaport, Samuel L. Jackson,

(00:27):
Chris Penn. There's some more, Tom Sizemore, Jack Black, lesser
stars obviously. Oh and this guy, I'm sorry. Val Kilmer
as Elvis Presley.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was not a big role, but it was impactful.
Let's say, as el Kilmer often was.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Usually, when you have a movie with that many stars
in it, it is hot garbage, right, None of them
actually try.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Luckily, a lot of them weren't big names back then,
like Brad Pitt laying on the couch as a stoner.
Nobody really, you know, they really make a big deal
about Brad Pitt back then.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Val Kilmer had a cameo in the film as Elvis.
If you've never seen True Romance, I assure you you're
gonna have a great night watching this movie. Get some
popcorn in order repizza. In the movie, Val Kilmer plays Elvis.
He mentors Christian Slater's character. It was a cameo and
this was just a classic role, quirky little role, and
it showed Val Kilmer had this brilliant ability to leave

(01:31):
a mark even in small parts. It was one of
the most memorable parts of the movie. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, that fight between Tony Soprano and Patricia ar Kitt
was pretty memorable.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Unbelievable. James Gandolfini just crazy, right.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh, it was awesome. She she put up a damn
good fight too.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah. Last night, after a long fight with cancer. Val Kilmer,
star of Top Gun, The Doors, Batman, Forever, Top Six, Tombstone,
real genius, true romance Willow. That's just to scratch the
surface there. Val Kilmer passed away one of the greatest

(02:11):
American actors of our lifetime. It's weird.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
They say he died of pneumonia, which I guess is
medically correct, after a long battle with throat cancer. Yeah,
so really did the pneumonia? Is that what we're gonna blame? Sure, dude,
what a legend Val Kilmer was. You remember him in
the Top Gun sequel, right, Sure? Show it up there.
Towards the end, and that wasn't really something he wanted

(02:37):
to do, I guess, But then him and Tom Cruise
had that, you know, that little special relationship, so he.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Did and that was pretty damn good. One of the
weirdest things about Tom Cruise is that it's it's my
understanding he's actually a pretty good guy. Doesn't it seem
like he'd be a douche. Yeah, but actually him and
Val Kilmer were really close. Apparently he fought to have
Val Kilmer in the film, and then look how good
he did in it. Yeah. A lot of people think
that Val Kilmer's character in the movie Top Gun is

(03:05):
what Val Kilmer's like in real life. Right, No, he's
not iceman. No, he was a hippie and an artist
and you know, it's nothing like that at all.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
And he was away from Hollywood, not in a film.
He kind of let himself go a little bit. You know,
people noticed he did not look healthy for a long time.
Sometimes it was just he was fat. He just let
that go and then you could get back in shape.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Celebrities come and go, they pass away and stuff like that.
But when you rarely look back at Val Kilmer's body
of work, I don't for me, and I'm sure you too.
It just goes to show you across generations. Oh yeah,
Usually when someone does a biopic film about a band,
it's a total trash and garbage. The Doors was outstanding

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at a time when like a biopic film about musicians
was never good. His was incredible. Yeah, it's truly a loss.
Absolutely And by the way, in two thousand and nine,
for our New Orleans listeners, a little tip of the
hat here to you. He was the what is it,
Grand Marshall of Bacchus, So you know, no stranger to

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our neck of the woods places where our listeners live.
Certainly spent some time there hanging out with people in
New Orleans. After two thousand and five, the Hurricane Katrina
disaster relief, he played a big role in it. He
was a supporter of Native American affairs, an advocate for environmentalism,
real environmentalism. He briefly considered running for governor in New
Mexico in twenty ten, decided against it. And yeah, just

(04:40):
a good guy all around. Probably wouldn't have agreed with
all of his politics, but he wasn't real political, right
at least not that I'm aware of. And as for
the cancer thing. I think most of us found out
about it in twenty fifteen, so that's you know how
long he's been dealing with that. And like you pointed out,
he had over forty vocal models generated to find the

(05:01):
closest match computer software a few years back when they
were working on top Gun Maverick, which is just cool.
I want, like, if you must have cancer of the throat, boy,
get a computer generated robot to make your voice sound
exactly the way it did twenty years ago. That's what
we plan to do here. So if you're not at

(05:22):
work today or you're working from home, you may be
wondering what day is it. It's humped Games, Wolton and
Johnson Radio Network, Peter Tinklice and the snow White producer
screwed over recently. That's right when they decided not to
use real dwarves. It all comes back to snow White,
doesn't it. You know, I haven't had a little conversation

(05:43):
with some people at the gym yesterday about that. You go,
you go, Jim. Had you heard I lift weights starting
strength on Shepherd in Houston? Heavy windsor it's a barbell gym? Yeah?
Pretty heavy? Yeah? You picked heavy stuff up. That's it
and let and lift it up and then said it
and then it down. And it's not that Rachel Zeggler's ugly.
In fact, I don't agree with people making that point.

(06:06):
They're saying, Ah, the movie sucks because she's ugly. She's
not ugly. Come on, maybe it's her personality. Yes, und percent.
Somebody pointed out they're like, well, she's not as pretty
as Gal Gadot. Now that's a problem with casting. I'm
with you on that one. I happen to agree. I
do wonder what would Sidney Sweeney have looked like if
we put her in a little brunette wig. Think about

(06:26):
how easy it was for that hair. They dye their
hair all the time, you know, do you know how
easy it would have been for them to make a
ton of money off That money would have fallen from
the sky instead of getting someone that actually looks like
snow White. Yeah. I know it's a touchy subject, but
it is a film about a little German girl. They
go out and they find a Hispanic girl who hates
snow White right proudly, very openly talks about how the

(06:49):
movie sucked, And then they don't use any of the
original songs. That would have been so easy. Just hi ho,
that's not in the song. Shut the movie. Yeah, why
bother making the movie? And then no little people, no dwarves,
and no dwarves that would have been fun. What did
they end up doing with a computerizing like regular height? Yes,

(07:10):
they shrunk them down, but that's only half the embarrassing
story because originally they didn't want They let Peter Tinklice
bully them into not hiring dwarves. Yeah, and frankly, I
don't blame him. I wouldn't want there to be more.
It's like competition for him if I was him. How
many roles for dwarves and midgets and little people in
general are there? Plus how many of them are there?

(07:33):
And there's more of them than there are roles to fill.
So they originally got tall people to play the dwarves,
and then that was so unpopular they went back and
redid it with CGI, so then it just looked like
snow white in front of a green screen, which is
what it is, and then really not making me want
to see it. You and anybody else, no, nobody did.
The Number one film in America is Hemorrhaging money right now,

(07:56):
nobody's saying I'm sure it'll eventually make something, but it
needs to make el was.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Number one for like the first week, I think, and
then something past it.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I forget because I don't even go to the movies.
Who does. Yeah, it would have needed to make hundreds
of millions of dollars opening weekend, and it didn't make that.
It made tens of millions, and now from here I
think eventually something on streaming. I don't know how they
make the money back on that. It's probably already on
streaming somewhere or coming out today. I think you're right.
I think I saw an ad for it, would doubt it. Well,

(08:26):
you know, what else are they going to do. They're
having trouble getting people to go to the movies now.
They're also having trouble people for getting people to drink
alcohol now, Yeah, which is kind of weird. Young people
no longer go out to bo This is crazy to me.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
They par of COVID for you know, a few years
there people were just instructed not to go out then.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
But then apparently the other thing that's preventing young people
from it's a dating app. I'm showing your dating app
on my phone. The thing that's preventing people from People
don't need alcohol to lower their inhibitions to get laid
anymore because they have dating apps. Yeah, that's what people theorize.
I mean, who knows if that's really what it is.
But this new generation doesn't need to get drunk at
a bar to work up the courage to talk to

(09:08):
a girl because now they just well, she swiped right
on me. I know she likes me.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
A bunch of different distilleries have actually declared bankruptcy recently
since COVID, some during COVID, some just after. Of course,
it's also not helpful that for the last four years
we've had a pretty tough economy on some of these businesses.
So now Craft Spirits producer, Boston Harbor Distillery, Whiskey rum

(09:34):
Gin Liqueurs, they do a distilled beer. All of that
bankruptcy protection, and that's.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
One of the big ones. What do they make something
anything we'd know or.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
They just they don't list brand names specifically, Well, they
might somewhere along here.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
But part of the craft liquor and beer industry it's
so misleading is some of these brands got bought up,
Like yeah, there's still people that think Carbok is a
craft beer. No, that's Budweiser. You remember Dan Frendshaw shot
himself in the foot. Everybody was protesting Budweiser, and so
he did a social media post He's like, I never
drink Budweiser. I only drink Texas beer. That's why my

(10:10):
mini fridge is full of Carbock. Cute, cute, idiot.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
It was a little bit of not even research, just
one little research, a search on the internet.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
In his defense, I think the word Anheuser Busch was
written on the right side of the bottle. Yeah, so
you know he wouldn't see it with them.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Okay, poor God good, I'm glad you threw a you know,
a one eyed joke in there. Montana Distillery produces a
dozen different varieties vodka, Jim whiskey. They filed for Chapter
eleven bankruptcy April of last year, shut down trying to
relocate Lee Spirits ceased operation couldn't overcome the prolonged impact

(10:50):
of COVID and the ever changing industry landscape. So a
lot of different ones that have gone under and then
some of been bought up by the bigger companies. They
what do you think the idea of you know, the
weight loss drugs.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
They have not semi glue, tide or tide whatever it is,
we go V and izpeg. There's a bunch of them now,
all kind of the same thing with different brand names.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
From people that we know that have used that for
weight loss, they also use it to curb your addiction
diiction maybe or at least your enjoyment.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
That's a new thing thing.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I've talked to people who have done that drug for
weight loss, and they have a very little appetite for
wine anymore.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Then you used to drink a lot of wine. I
can see that. It's like after a glass, I.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Really don't want any I think it's pre curbing your
addiction to alcohol.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Now this is anecdotal, but historically doesn't a suffering economy
actually usually increase the sales of liquor. Yeah, so this
is really throwing everything into a mix because they say
the economy is slowing down right now. This new jobs
report just came out. The thing they blame it on
is cannabis products that like, well, think about it. You
want to just get a little buzz going. Do you

(12:07):
want to gain weight? Do you want more inflammation? Do
you want I mean, I know there's people out there
that still think it's the devil's lettuce. But there are
at least a few health benefits to cannabis. There's virtually
none for beer and wine. That's just a thing that
you remember the thing about blood pressure and wine. Drink
a half a glass a day. Sure, there's still for
your heart health. People still claim that's true, but there's

(12:29):
been like a thousand studies since then claiming that's actually
probably not act or you get the same benefits from
grape juice. Have you heard that. I was like, well,
that's one of the same thing. Ruins the whole funder
go back to saying I need temporno that I do
wonder if the cannabis thing is actually hurting the liquor
industry or if that's just if that's just a thing
that people suggest, maybe they're looking for some sympathy. Yeah,

(12:52):
don't don't do pod anymore. Come back, alcohol misses you.
I bet. The other part of it is, uh, you know,
at the end of the day, I think Americans maybe
are trying to be healthier. I mean, Republicans are now
down with granola and getting rid of you know, it
didn't used to be that way if you went back
in time ten years ago, Republicans were defending the soda

(13:15):
pop industry. They didn't want Remember the coke tax in
Philadelphia and.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Then the giant big gulp sized drinks had to be
taxed and all that.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, nobody is taking out outlawed. Yeah, nobody's trying to
defend that anymore. You know, I who's going to stand
up for Coca Cola? I will? Yeah, me too? Do
like coke? Yeah, let's all do coke.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, it is Wednesday, We're like halfway through the week.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
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