September 12, 2025 ⢠32 mins
Actor, Billy Zane joins Conway to discuss his new film, Waltzing with Brandon
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's I Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio appf I am sick mourning.
It is the Conway Show. They found the guy that
killed Charlie Kirtin, a young man who grew up in
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a Mormon household. His dad was a cop and they
knew he was. They had seven thousand calls, seven thousand
calls dropping a dime on this guy, and so he
was eventually gonna get caught. I'm surprised the FBI took
as long as they did. Name was Tyler Robinson and
they're gonna seek the death penalty. And in Utah that's
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a firing squad, so I might be a pay per
view on that one. And Alex Jone with ABC News
has been on top of this since it happened. Man,
you've not I don't think you've slept since this happened.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's been a busy couple of days.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But but yeah, this this doesn't put an end to it,
but at least it ends the unknown and the emergency
finding him situation. But yeah, we're tim We're learning a
lot about this guy now, and one is that it
really came last night after they held the late news
conference where they put out more videos and enhanced images
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of the suspected shooter, and within ninety minutes they had
a call that there was a father in Washington, Utah,
near Saint George who said that is his son. And
it really goes back to that. You know, earlier in
the day they had talked about not wanting to put
out any videos to tip the shooter at what they knew,
and that they were only going to put out videos
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or more photos if they they thought that they had
gotten to that point and that they needed the help
of the media. And in the end last night when
they did the whatever it was Pacific time, six thirty
seven o'clock at night, kind of surprise news conference and
they put this out, it was almost immediate and so
his father contact.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The call came in from Tyler's dad after that press conference.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah minutes later, wow, Yeah, And then they they knew
who they were going for. So apparently he went he
talked to his son. Can you imagine you turn on
the news and that's a picture of your son who
they're they're hunting in that moment?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
How about dad watching TV? And he says to his wife.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, sweet, ain't co here.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Look look, look, look, look, you're not gonna believe this.
What can you imagine the reaction?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh yes, you know, and the death penalty and you
know the federal charges are I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's it's gonna be bad. And so he apparently went to.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
His son and said, hey, look, you know I just
saw on the news and that Tyler Robinson did not
want to turn himself in made some comment to the effect,
I'd rather commit suicide. Uh, And he convinced him that
that's what they were going to do. And so they
went to their youth pastor, who is a member of
the US Marshal's Fugitive Task Force, is a member of
law enforcement, and that pastor said, all right, keep your
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son there, we'll take it from here. And then the
arrest was made and then he didn't put up a
fight or anything. He went willingly at that point. And
so today Utah's Governor, Spencer Cox, he said, kudos to Dad.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I want to thank the family members of Tyler Robinson
who did the right thing in this case and were
able to bring him into law enforcement as well.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So they've talked to Robinson's roommate and he showed the
messages on the platform discord that the robinson had told
the roommate that he needed a rifle retrieved from a
drop point that was in a bush in the Salt
Lake City area. No indication the roommate ever did anything
with that, and police ended up finding it on its own.
But we also now know, and I was telling you
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last night that telling Michael that there was some engraving
on the bullets, and now we know what it said.
That one of the bullets read, hey, fascist, catch as
in catch the bullet. Another one said if you read this,
you are gay. And then there was another one with
a reference to an Italian song that he had allegedly
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engraved onto these bullets. But the FBI Director Cash Betel
today sam.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
In less than thirty six thirty three to be precise,
thanks to the full weight of the federal government and
leading out with the partners here in the state of
Utah and Governor Cox, the suspect was apprehended in historic
time period.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So one thing we found out a little while ago
from law enforcement is there were some questions. TMS had
video surveillance camera of the shooter arriving, and he had
a pretty big limp as he was coming in, which
the shooter did not have running away in the video
they put out last night, and law enforcement is telling
us they believe he had the rifle down his pants
as he was arriving and that created that limp that
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he couldn't bend his knee because the rifle was down
his pants, and then leaving, they think he added it
aside the opposite side of the camera where you know,
the President said today looked like an ant running away.
You can't see any detail. Did they think it was
at the side there even though you can't see it.
But they now believe he arrived at six twenty nine
in the morning ahead of the shooting to scope everything
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out and figure out what he was going to do.
He wore the clothes that we now know him to
be in that American flag shared with the eagle on it,
and then changed, according to police, during the shooting, went
into all black clothing and then changed back into the
American flag clothing, and he was still in that clothing
when he was arrested overnight.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
He was still wearing that same thing.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But yeah, the friends and family are saying this was
a quiet dude, is a quiet dude that a good student,
really good act scores, extremely smart, always did well in school,
was always very polite. His brother was a troublemaker in
the family, but he was always kind of on the
up and up. This woman has lived next to them
for twenty some odd years, was the custodian at his
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elementary school.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
She's really shocked by it.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I'm just heartsick for it. That's not who he was,
That's not who he was raised to be.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I think social media and friends that have gotten it wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
She thinks that it was social media that led to
mental illness in this and friends and family have said
that he became more political in recent years. He had
mentioned during a dinner recently, a family dinner that Charlie
Kirk was going to be at Utah Valley University. He
didn't like him, didn't like his viewpoints, but nothing indicating
that he was going to carry something out. And he
grew up around guns. He would go hunting with his
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dad and he was around them, so you can see
he had some expertise in them, or at least some
experience in them over the years to pull off that shot.
But he's booked at the Utah County jail. They're going
to file charges on Tuesday. Right now, it's on suspicion
of murder, but it'll be official on Friday, and federal
charges are probably coming as well, and the death penalty
is likely going to be on the table, at least
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on the state side.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What a surprise though, you know that he was raised
in this neighborhood. Smart kid, had a lot of things
going for him. Parents, they're conservative Mormons, and he just
flipped out, you know, the kid. But you know what,
you've got kids. I have a daughter, and I think that,
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you know, we have a pretty good shot at raising
kids properly, but you never know. When it comes to
brain chemistry, you never know.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And yeah, this is one of those where it wasn't
somebody who you know, look the Colorado school shooter this
week that a lot of people don't even know about
because it was overshadowed by this, but where he opened
fire on the school campus in Jefferson County, that is
we found out more about him today and that was
the traditional you know, had been going down a bad
road and I had been radicalized, as police saying that
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everybody saw he was buying tactical gear with all kinds
of white supremacist stuff on it and different things. That
is where you go, Okay, there were warning signs, but
this one those around him say, no, he wasn't buying anything.
He wasn't really other than saying he didn't like Charlie Kirk,
he wasn't expressing anything. That's saying he was going to
drive four hours and do this. And yeah, by all accounts,
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a pretty buttoned up family. And yet it seems like
that they were very quick to go to law enforcement.
They were not going to hide him out, not going
to answer for what he allegedly did, but that he
went this way for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He does take a lot to turn your kids in.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Can you imagine knowing that the death penalty is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh yeah, by firing squad. Yeah, but they were going
to catch him anyway. I mean, they would eventually gotten there.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And it also, by the.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Way, brings you, you know, to putting information out in
the media. And there's two schools that thought there for
law enforcement. Either you do it and then you get
the globe kind of being investigators and finding the person,
or hold on to it and try to do it yourself.
That didn't work. In the second they put it out there.
Within ninety minutes they knew who it was.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Do you think that I look, I don't really believe
in coincidences a lot. I think that there is. Well,
here's something interesting. Charlie Kirk was a huge believer in
Jesus Christ, talked about him all the time, talk about
his religion all the time. And Jesus Christ was thirty
three years old when he was crucified, and they took
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thirty three hours to find this kid.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Interesting, Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Interesting, you know for us believers. It's interesting for people
out there, you know, like you and Krozier and Robin
and I you know BELLI, oh, who aren't like me
and Charlie Kirk And that's just a coincidence. But for me, yeah, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know what it is. And
you had he been thirty three, I would have given
you another thing. But he was thirty one. But I
have a friend, I'm not a friend, an acquaintance who's
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an actor. And he did pretty well. He was he
was in Seinfeld. He did a lot of you know,
a series, a couple of movies. His younger brother is
a rabbi, and his older brother is in New Jersey
on death row for killing two guys in a hold
up in a liquor store. Again, a rabbi, an actor
and a death row inmate. Sounds like a set up
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to a joke, but it's not. All three of those
and all Jewish, all raised in the same household, under
the same roof, by the same parents, and you get
three radically different kids.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Any parent knows every kid's gonna be a little bit different.
It's not only how they're raised, but they're going to
do their own thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And and I and I think there might be something
you know, with social media. I get that, you know,
we were I got this social media like you did
little late in life where we were already set. But
these kids are, their minds are being developed by social media.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And with the algorithms that when you open it up,
you know, I mean, you see it. Whatever you're into,
you open up YouTube or Instagram or TikTok or Facebook,
you're going to see what it is you're into. It's
more videos of fill in the blank. You know, if
you're in the yeah watching donkeys run, you're gonna get
a whole bunch of running Donkey video.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, say, by the way, I'm into that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I knew you were, but that's what you're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And if you've got ideology of some kind, you're gonna
get that and it's going to reinforce every time you
open up that app.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. But yeah, it's been a long week.
I know you've been on top of this the entire time.
Really appreciate you coming on with us. Man, You're the best.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thanks Jim.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So there he goes Alex Stone with ABC News. That
guy has not slept since Charlie Kirk got a shot.
He's been up twenty four hours a day. Text me
at three thirty of the morning, you know, hey, this
is what I heard. The guy's not slept a minute
since Charlie Kirk got the assassinate. All right, welcome back.
We have a very popular, very famous actor who's gonna
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be on with us. So we're gonna have more on
Charlie Kirk and what happened with the arrest today. But
we are going to take a pause here to talk
to a very famous actor who's in a brand new
movie that and he's playing another actor and he looks
exactly like the guy. So when we come back, should
we tell him everybody who it is? Or you're okay,
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it's Billy Zain who is in a new movie called
Waltzing with Brando and he plays Marlon Brando and got
him mighty the phantom. It looks exactly like him. Is
he coming in as well as Marlon Brando?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
He is?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Okay? Now, okay? Waltzing and is Marlon Brando? Billy Zain's
gonna be.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We will have more information on Charlie Kirk and the
assassination and the arrest of Tyler Robinson, but first we
like to do with a lighter things on Friday. And
one of the great actors is whether this a guy
named Billy Zayan? How are you, sir?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
How are you there?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You go all right? Tom?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
By the way? Are you?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You're a local guy?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Right? I am?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You live in the I don't want to say where,
but you live in within ten miles of here, fifteen
miles of here?
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Where is the crew flow?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But I love I was born and raised in the
San Fernano Valley and I like guys that are like local.
You know, you don't live in you know, in Beverly
Hills or in you know, in West Los Angeles. You're like,
it's like a valley guy.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I'm in Pasadena. I got nothing height. I'm proud, that's right. Pasadene.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, Pasadena is great. Pasaden is beautiful. It's one of
my favorite towns. I love going there, you know, downtown
Colorado Street there, it's just awesome.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Yeah, it's really cool. It's cool because it's like the
prevailing winds are you know, blow academia. Like the conversation
over the neighbor's hedge is not about I got this
screenplay of trying to set up it's my deep space
telescope has gone asunder. I can't my thrusters aren't working,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So you Waltzing with Brando is an unbelievable movie. Everybody
who's seen it says they go away thinking that they've
just been an hour and a half with with Brando
on holiday.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
May I just add to go you know, you basically
go to Tahiti for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But that's a vacation of a movie. How did you
get involved? Did they come after you or.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
I am they. I've produced it with them and it's
been a labor of love for over six years. I
had worked with the writer director Bill Fishman on a
film called Posse back in the nineties. We've remained friends
but reunited truly around this project some years later, and
and I just I fell in love with the narrative.
He had such a smart take on telling this story
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about Brando in his happy place. It's not a cradle
to grave biopic, you know, you know, we're not trying
to take on the man life. It's a five year
slice between let's say, The Godfather and Tango if you
were going to use movies to you know, as benchmarks,
but it's when he told Hollywood to you know, take
a powder and go move to Tahiti to chill.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Didn't he buy his own island?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
He did right after mutiny on the Bounty and you know,
maybe known for his incredible work he did for civil
rights and indigenous rights, this focus is on the little
known fact that he was quite possibly the godfather of
the environmentalist movement. Oh that's right, which was you know,
not really a thing in nineteen sixty nine, but he
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had it in his mind that he wanted to figure
out how to bring power and water to this atoll,
to this island without using fossil fuels then, which was
unheard of. And he hires an architect named Bernard Judge,
whom the memoirs Bernard's Memoirs the film is based upon,
who also worked with Buckminster Fuller and was doing geodesic
domes and experimental architecture here in La to conceive how
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to achieve this goal hemorrhaging all of his money he
was making in the R and D I bet and
having to go do movies like The Godfather and such
to pay for it. So it's a very interesting look
behind the curtain of this mad genius we think we know,
and his humor is at times, you know, complex and
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tumultuous relationship with his buddy and architect.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And billy'zay and is with us. It's so funny you
say that you know the godfather of the environment, because literally,
I mean just my skin is crawling him.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
My wife.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I was at the mall last weekend with my wife
and we had just eaten something there and I go
to throw away the trash and I'm putting plastics in
one can paper and another food in another. I'm spending
like ten minutes dividing my trash up. And she said
to me, you're not the godfather of the environment. Let's
get out of here. Come on, Is that unbelievable She
said that to me.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Well, she's right, because I am, apparently, But we thank
you for separating your garden.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I feel like the godfather of the environment with you.
Has been twenty minutes. I spent more time dividing my
trash and I didn't eating at this stupid place. So
now this this movie was not up for some awards,
but was up for an Oscar.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
It was a weird thing. It was a weird thing.
We put it out in Uh well, we didn't put
it up forgive me. It's released September nineteenth in theaters.
We had finished it in December, just before Oscar eligibility,
and had been working on it for years. We started
during COVID, we stopped because of COVID. We finished the
film and because there was such a vociferous support by
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the public, we thought, God, we better put this, We
better go for OSCAR eligibility last year and we weren't
in release yet, and we did. We went we were
eligible for an Oscar, assuming we still would be for
SAG and Independent Spirit and a Golden Globe. Not realizing
we missed those deadlines, We're like, oh oops, and so
we was gonna have to be evolved it all to
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be in release. So we didn't really want to hold
it another year, but I guess we should have because
here we are, and while we are eligible for those others,
we might have to ask, you know, Mia Kopa for
a waiver now that we're in release, to see if
we can for an oscar. They I believe they have
career circums.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Why can you stay with us? I'm not going in Okay,
all right, Billy says, here till seven o'clock, we're gonna
we're gonna play some of the movie Waltzing with Brando.
We'll play it on audio, but you can also see
the trailer on YouTube.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
It's all over the place on YouTube. You can see
it on my Instagram. You can see it at Waltz
at Waltz with Brando.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And what's your Instagram.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I'm at Billy Zane at.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Billy's a all right, excellent, all right, Billy Zaye's wetherus.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Hey, brand new movie, well not brand new. It's gonna
premiere on Monday. It's been out for a while, but
it's complicated. Waltzing with Brando and you shot this in Tahiti.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Shot in Tahiti. It's about him building his the world's
first sustainable compound. Ever, he was about him as an
environmentalist and when it was not a thing back in
nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Did you drag a crew down with your.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
We did both. We we had some key department heads
from LA but we also hired a very capable and
wonderful crew there who also doubled as some of our
cast members. You know, the authenticity was great. They were
inherently very good actors as well.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Did you did you put your kids in this point there?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Our director Bill Fishman suggested that the role of Sabrina,
the daughter of the architect, who was about twelve and
she was at the time, that she should that she
should perhaps audition. I think really it's you know, okay,
And she knocked it out of the park. She was great,
did not need much coaching from Pop and just kind
of flowed in a very similar manner. I was very
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impressed by her.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You open on Monday, we do, and no independent film
has ever done this. The big theme.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
We premiere on Monday, premiere on Monday. We opened Sometmber nineteenth.
We premiere on Monday at the Chinese Theater.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But not just the Chinese Theater, but the overflow.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The well, we're in the Imax theater. I guess the
big the big theater to start and uh, and we've
we've over subscribed. Apparently we've you know, sold out. I
guess it's not. Their tickets are sold as a for
a premiere. But let's just say subscribe nine hundred and
thirty six seats.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But that's not that's first time an independent film's ever
done that.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
As build over into a second screen. Yes, that's we're
making history. That's huge, that is huge. You never met
Brando though I have not. Yeah, I mean I had.
I was certainly one degree away a few times, and
I always wanted to as a younger actor. But when
it came time to play him in a way, I
was glad I didn't because it would have affirmed the
otherness of it, you know what I mean, I didn't.
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I didn't approach it in a way I had to.
I had. The biggest effort was not playing. It was
resisting the the inherent intention of the the adulation that
actors have. I had to kind of park that, and
I didn't really want to keep I had to approach
it very counterintuitively in order to kind of be him.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, it's opening in two unred and fifty theaters, but
it could quickly go you know, a great opening week.
It could go up to a thousand.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, we we have dry powder for one thousand, but
we're gonna we started two fifty.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's awesome. Yeah, let me so make up every day
was what six hours?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
No, we had much short, much shorter. The Brando makeup.
The Brando the Godfather makeup took about three hours because
even Marlon wore prosthetic pieces. He was about forty nine
when he did that role playing. It was Don north
of sixty, so he had he had quite a few
pieces on and we actually got to work with the
similar molds. Our makeup team were shortlisted for an Oscar,
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which was amazing.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And did I heard he turned that down originally Godfather?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Is that true? Not? To my knowledge, I think he.
I think he wanted it, but what was interesting is
that he kind of he needed it. And that's what
our story is about. Really, he was he would have
liked to have probably not done another movie at that time,
but because he was so passionate about about this, this
commitment to forging this new science of sustainability then, which
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again was unheard of, but he was hemorrhaging a lot
of money doing the research and development. And Richard Dreyfus,
who's wonderful in the film, plays his accountant, you know,
tells him, you know, you're broke. The gangster picture, a
gangster picture, you know, is it?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is it true?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Then?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What you know when he bought the island, you know,
he's trying to have a self sustained island without you know,
any input, uh, you know, and and every diesel generators, nothing.
But he spent most of the time just running nude
through the ocean.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Half the time I think, I think he's allowed half
the time. There's there, there's it's the seventies. Man. There
was some skinny dipping, and we've got you know, we're
swimming with sharks, which I have to say is adds
a dimension to naked swimming with sharks takes on a
whole other paranoia. I mean getting bits one well, you
know you're getting bids one thing, but where you get
bid becomes a whole other.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Let me play a little bit of the trailer here.
You can see it on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It's Billy zaying waltzing with brand Oh, here we go.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You're you're Marlon Brando. Can you swim? Yes? Drop those drawers.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
It's Maddie, not one of those uptide la architects ay,
oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Everybody's naked. I own an island nearby.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
It is a.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
But I want to build a home there.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
You want to live on an abandoned island with no
potable water or food source or electricity?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Quotes.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Cannot go it? Then I'll just swim there. Yeah, he
gets it. I want to build a hotel right here,
right hotel?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
What hotel?
Speaker 8 (23:03):
From that height?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I could create an imy details. Now, I don't care.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I can't believe you try to outswim a shark. My
staff is overwhelmed. We do not have the funds.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Never feels the size paycheck with a s. The will's
going to judge us by our success. You gotta get
this right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
How is this an oscar? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Burning The decisions you make profoundly change my legacy. Oh disappointment.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That's great man, that's a great lie.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
What what does it mean? Did you?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Did you end up writing it as well?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
I added, you know, a bit of dialogue and certainly
some ideas for scenes.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
But that's a great fish.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
That was that was mine.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's right, that's a very funny.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'll take I'll take that credit, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So Monday at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, it's uh,
people get there at six and well.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
I mean it's not I mean they are, We're over subscribed.
This isn't it not a general invitation to the public
to descend upon the Chinese. Love to have you there, folks,
come on, say.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Hi, see the red tickets are spoking for but.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
You know, you never, I mean, look, you gotta, you'll gotta.
You'll get a look at a lot of celebs and uh,
it might be fun. We'd love to have you there.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm sure everyone's gonna be covering it too, all the locals.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
They'll be there. It's gonna be true, it's gonna be
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But I appreciate you coming in. I know it's uh,
you know, it was a crazy week, and I know
you're doing a lot of publicity for this thing, and uh,
you know, and to meet certain dates with SAG Awards
and Oscars and all that stuff. It's complicated. But I
hope this movie, you know, makes a trillion dollars.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
You know, I do too. I mean, I'm really proud
of the performance, certainly, but I'm I'm most proud producorially
to make a piece of entertainment that's devoid of the
usual trauma drama or vengeance play or predict well three
XT structure that you see. I've seen every trailer I
see involve some level of bludgeoning or sociopathic kind of
(25:07):
I don't know, examples of its excuse for heroism or
something like that. It's just flatlining. I just I love
the fact that it's it's entertaining, it's escapist's it feels
it's a feel good, genuinely feel good movie, and I'm
really happy for putting that out.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And it's perfect timing. It absolutely is.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
It's unifying, it's fun, and you literally feel like you've
gone and it's beautiful to see. It's Tahaiti. I mean
see it on the big screen and do support uh
cinema and collective cinema, enjoy this experience together.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Excellent and please come back anytime, any anytime you're producing
anything or excellent.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Huge fan.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh you're the best, Billy zay and on social media
and Billy zay.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
At Billy zayns. Nice to see a man appreciate it.
Pleasures my thanks for you're the best.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Very nice of Billy Zaying to stop by a very
huge actor. And in this brand new movie Waltzing with Brando.
You got to see the trailer and then when it
comes out next week go look at it. I think
you'll enjoy it. More information is coming in every minute,
every hour on the Charlie Kirk killer. The father of
the suspect, the father of Tyler Robinson, the suspect in
(26:27):
the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the father played a
very big role in getting his son to turn himself in.
Let's find out more information on what's going on here.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Those here in orum Utah, they are relieved that Charlie
Kirk's alled shooter is now in custody. This is we're
learning more about twenty two year old Tyler Robinson.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
He lives in Washington County, Utah.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
For reference, Washington County, Utah is not far from Zion
National Park. It's about four hours from Utah Valley University.
But Robinson he was once a student here. Now, this
is what we've learned about the arrest. Robinson was taken
into custody last night around ten pm, and his father
played a critical role in convincing his son to turn
(27:13):
himself in. Robinson initially said no, but changed his mind.
His father called a youth pastor who was also a
US Marshall's Task Force officer.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
The task force officer.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
Advised him to have his son stay in place. The
US Marshals took Robinson into custody and then contacted the FBI.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Hey, Cross, do you think your dad would have turned
you in? I know my dad would have dropped a
dime on me. Ah, that's a good question. I really
don't know if he would really say no. Really, I
respect that. I respect that my dad would have dropped
the dime on me in a hard feat. What oh, yeah, yeah,
come get him. This is where this a hole lives.
(27:52):
But hey, what my dad would say, Uh, you're not
coming home right. I mean, I'm not gonna I ain't
gonna drop a dime, but you ain't coming home right.
But see now, now conversely, I would never turn my
dad in for anything. I don't think I think I
would have. You know, is it I don't think he
did it?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
No, no, well, I see your dad would have taken
the money.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Jack, you were taking the money and ran belly.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh you think your dad would have turned you in?
Oh yes, oh yeah, yes, you're probably posthumism posthumously, he
probably would have turned you in. Absolutely, Angel, would your
dad turn you in? Would you He'd come back from
the grave and totally haul me in, and that's what
he should do.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Although I respect Crozier's dad not dropping a dime on him,
I don't know. I'm torn. I'm torn. It's ding dong
with these guys.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Robinson had become more political in recent years. According to authorities.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
It's much more political, by the way, not more political,
like radically political.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
Robinson had become more political in recent years. According to authorities.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's you know what I think more political is walking
around door to door and dropping off flyers to people,
registering people to vote. Yeah right, maybe donating handling the
phones on a weekend before an election. That's more political.
Assassinating a guy in front of three thousand students who
is a national icon to a lot of people. That's
(29:23):
more than just a little political. Got mighty.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
It's unclear exactly what that entailed, but Robinson had been
a user of the widely popular online platform Discord.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
An average of nearly.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Five million people use Discord each day, according to the company.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
After allegedly shooting, I.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Don't know what that is. What is Discord? It's an app.
It's an app, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's more like deep Oh it is, Yeah, I see.
It's for playing games and chilling her friends. YadA Yadam
shocked that I'm not on it.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
After allegedly shooting Kirk and hiding the gun in the woods,
Robinson messaged his roommate on Discord, asking his roommate to
retrieve the weapon. The roommate told authorities that Robinson had
sent him messages through Discord.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh wait, she can send messages that are encrypted through Discord,
so nobody else can read them other than the person
getting them. Is that how it works? That works much o.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
The roommate told authorities that Robin.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Not that much on discord. Okay, key text me and said,
you have it wrong. Wait, I have it wrong? Yeah?
Who text you? Kik Kiky's sitting next to you. She
text you, then left, Oh she left. She was only
here to meet Billy Zane and then she's out.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh really, but she said nope, that's not what discord is.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, get her on the horn, then, man, let's explain
what discord is.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
The roommate told authorities that Robinson had sent him messages
through discord stating a need to retrieve a rifle from
the drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush. The
messages also referred to engraving bullets and a mention of
a scope and the rifle being unique, and authorities noted
that Robinson had changed outfits.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson, who stated that
Robinson had become more political in recent years.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Again, with that more political in recent years.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson
came to dinner prior to September tenth and in that
conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was
coming to UVU. They talked about why they didn't like
him and the viewpoints that he had. The family member
also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.
(31:43):
The family member also confirmed Robinson had a Gray Dodge Challenger.
I absolutely believe that this is a watershed in American history. Yes,
the question is what kind of watershed, and that chapter
remains to be written. Is this the end of a
dark chapter in our history or the begin probably the
beginning of a darker chapter in our history.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's right, that's my prediction. All right, we'll come back
with more of that one Conway Show on demand on
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It's I Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio appf I am sick mourning.
It is the Conway Show. They found the guy that
killed Charlie Kirtin, a young man who grew up in
(00:22):
a Mormon household. His dad was a cop and they
knew he was. They had seven thousand calls, seven thousand
calls dropping a dime on this guy, and so he
was eventually gonna get caught. I'm surprised the FBI took
as long as they did. Name was Tyler Robinson and
they're gonna seek the death penalty. And in Utah that's
(00:43):
a firing squad, so I might be a pay per
view on that one. And Alex Jone with ABC News
has been on top of this since it happened. Man,
you've not I don't think you've slept since this happened.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's been a busy couple of days.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But but yeah, this this doesn't put an end to it,
but at least it ends the unknown and the emergency
finding him situation. But yeah, we're tim We're learning a
lot about this guy now, and one is that it
really came last night after they held the late news
conference where they put out more videos and enhanced images
(01:17):
of the suspected shooter, and within ninety minutes they had
a call that there was a father in Washington, Utah,
near Saint George who said that is his son. And
it really goes back to that. You know, earlier in
the day they had talked about not wanting to put
out any videos to tip the shooter at what they knew,
and that they were only going to put out videos
(01:37):
or more photos if they they thought that they had
gotten to that point and that they needed the help
of the media. And in the end last night when
they did the whatever it was Pacific time, six thirty
seven o'clock at night, kind of surprise news conference and
they put this out, it was almost immediate and so
his father contact.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
The call came in from Tyler's dad after that press conference.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah minutes later, wow, Yeah, And then they they knew
who they were going for. So apparently he went he
talked to his son. Can you imagine you turn on
the news and that's a picture of your son who
they're they're hunting in that moment?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
How about dad watching TV? And he says to his wife.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Hey, sweet, ain't co here.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Look look, look, look, look, you're not gonna believe this.
What can you imagine the reaction?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh yes, you know, and the death penalty and you
know the federal charges are I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's it's gonna be bad. And so he apparently went to.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
His son and said, hey, look, you know I just
saw on the news and that Tyler Robinson did not
want to turn himself in made some comment to the effect,
I'd rather commit suicide. Uh, And he convinced him that
that's what they were going to do. And so they
went to their youth pastor, who is a member of
the US Marshal's Fugitive Task Force, is a member of
law enforcement, and that pastor said, all right, keep your
(02:51):
son there, we'll take it from here. And then the
arrest was made and then he didn't put up a
fight or anything. He went willingly at that point. And
so today Utah's Governor, Spencer Cox, he said, kudos to Dad.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I want to thank the family members of Tyler Robinson
who did the right thing in this case and were
able to bring him into law enforcement as well.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
So they've talked to Robinson's roommate and he showed the
messages on the platform discord that the robinson had told
the roommate that he needed a rifle retrieved from a
drop point that was in a bush in the Salt
Lake City area. No indication the roommate ever did anything
with that, and police ended up finding it on its own.
But we also now know, and I was telling you
(03:34):
last night that telling Michael that there was some engraving
on the bullets, and now we know what it said.
That one of the bullets read, hey, fascist, catch as
in catch the bullet. Another one said if you read this,
you are gay. And then there was another one with
a reference to an Italian song that he had allegedly
(03:55):
engraved onto these bullets. But the FBI Director Cash Betel
today sam.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
In less than thirty six thirty three to be precise,
thanks to the full weight of the federal government and
leading out with the partners here in the state of
Utah and Governor Cox, the suspect was apprehended in historic
time period.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So one thing we found out a little while ago
from law enforcement is there were some questions. TMS had
video surveillance camera of the shooter arriving, and he had
a pretty big limp as he was coming in, which
the shooter did not have running away in the video
they put out last night, and law enforcement is telling
us they believe he had the rifle down his pants
as he was arriving and that created that limp that
(04:34):
he couldn't bend his knee because the rifle was down
his pants, and then leaving, they think he added it
aside the opposite side of the camera where you know,
the President said today looked like an ant running away.
You can't see any detail. Did they think it was
at the side there even though you can't see it.
But they now believe he arrived at six twenty nine
in the morning ahead of the shooting to scope everything
(04:57):
out and figure out what he was going to do.
He wore the clothes that we now know him to
be in that American flag shared with the eagle on it,
and then changed, according to police, during the shooting, went
into all black clothing and then changed back into the
American flag clothing, and he was still in that clothing
when he was arrested overnight.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
He was still wearing that same thing.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
But yeah, the friends and family are saying this was
a quiet dude, is a quiet dude that a good student,
really good act scores, extremely smart, always did well in school,
was always very polite. His brother was a troublemaker in
the family, but he was always kind of on the
up and up. This woman has lived next to them
for twenty some odd years, was the custodian at his
(05:39):
elementary school.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
She's really shocked by it.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
I'm just heartsick for it. That's not who he was,
That's not who he was raised to be.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I think social media and friends that have gotten it wrong.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
She thinks that it was social media that led to
mental illness in this and friends and family have said
that he became more political in recent years. He had
mentioned during a dinner recently, a family dinner that Charlie
Kirk was going to be at Utah Valley University. He
didn't like him, didn't like his viewpoints, but nothing indicating
that he was going to carry something out. And he
grew up around guns. He would go hunting with his
(06:16):
dad and he was around them, so you can see
he had some expertise in them, or at least some
experience in them over the years to pull off that shot.
But he's booked at the Utah County jail. They're going
to file charges on Tuesday. Right now, it's on suspicion
of murder, but it'll be official on Friday, and federal
charges are probably coming as well, and the death penalty
is likely going to be on the table, at least
(06:38):
on the state side.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
What a surprise though, you know that he was raised
in this neighborhood. Smart kid, had a lot of things
going for him. Parents, they're conservative Mormons, and he just
flipped out, you know, the kid. But you know what,
you've got kids. I have a daughter, and I think that,
(07:00):
you know, we have a pretty good shot at raising
kids properly, but you never know. When it comes to
brain chemistry, you never know.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And yeah, this is one of those where it wasn't
somebody who you know, look the Colorado school shooter this
week that a lot of people don't even know about
because it was overshadowed by this, but where he opened
fire on the school campus in Jefferson County, that is
we found out more about him today and that was
the traditional you know, had been going down a bad
road and I had been radicalized, as police saying that
(07:31):
everybody saw he was buying tactical gear with all kinds
of white supremacist stuff on it and different things. That
is where you go, Okay, there were warning signs, but
this one those around him say, no, he wasn't buying anything.
He wasn't really other than saying he didn't like Charlie Kirk,
he wasn't expressing anything. That's saying he was going to
drive four hours and do this. And yeah, by all accounts,
(07:52):
a pretty buttoned up family. And yet it seems like
that they were very quick to go to law enforcement.
They were not going to hide him out, not going
to answer for what he allegedly did, but that he
went this way for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
He does take a lot to turn your kids in.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Can you imagine knowing that the death penalty is going
to be.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Oh yeah, by firing squad. Yeah, but they were going
to catch him anyway. I mean, they would eventually gotten there.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
And it also, by the.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Way, brings you, you know, to putting information out in
the media. And there's two schools that thought there for
law enforcement. Either you do it and then you get
the globe kind of being investigators and finding the person,
or hold on to it and try to do it yourself.
That didn't work. In the second they put it out there.
Within ninety minutes they knew who it was.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Do you think that I look, I don't really believe
in coincidences a lot. I think that there is. Well,
here's something interesting. Charlie Kirk was a huge believer in
Jesus Christ, talked about him all the time, talk about
his religion all the time. And Jesus Christ was thirty
three years old when he was crucified, and they took
(08:58):
thirty three hours to find this kid.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Interesting, Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Interesting, you know for us believers. It's interesting for people
out there, you know, like you and Krozier and Robin
and I you know BELLI, oh, who aren't like me
and Charlie Kirk And that's just a coincidence. But for me, yeah, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know what it is. And
you had he been thirty three, I would have given
you another thing. But he was thirty one. But I
have a friend, I'm not a friend, an acquaintance who's
(09:25):
an actor. And he did pretty well. He was he
was in Seinfeld. He did a lot of you know,
a series, a couple of movies. His younger brother is
a rabbi, and his older brother is in New Jersey
on death row for killing two guys in a hold
up in a liquor store. Again, a rabbi, an actor
and a death row inmate. Sounds like a set up
(09:45):
to a joke, but it's not. All three of those
and all Jewish, all raised in the same household, under
the same roof, by the same parents, and you get
three radically different kids.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Any parent knows every kid's gonna be a little bit different.
It's not only how they're raised, but they're going to
do their own thing.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And and I and I think there might be something
you know, with social media. I get that, you know,
we were I got this social media like you did
little late in life where we were already set. But
these kids are, their minds are being developed by social media.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
And with the algorithms that when you open it up,
you know, I mean, you see it. Whatever you're into,
you open up YouTube or Instagram or TikTok or Facebook,
you're going to see what it is you're into. It's
more videos of fill in the blank. You know, if
you're in the yeah watching donkeys run, you're gonna get
a whole bunch of running Donkey video.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, say, by the way, I'm into that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I knew you were, but that's what you're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And if you've got ideology of some kind, you're gonna
get that and it's going to reinforce every time you
open up that app.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, it's unbelievable. But yeah, it's been a long week.
I know you've been on top of this the entire time.
Really appreciate you coming on with us. Man, You're the best.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Thanks Jim.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So there he goes Alex Stone with ABC News. That
guy has not slept since Charlie Kirk got a shot.
He's been up twenty four hours a day. Text me
at three thirty of the morning, you know, hey, this
is what I heard. The guy's not slept a minute
since Charlie Kirk got the assassinate. All right, welcome back.
We have a very popular, very famous actor who's gonna
(11:10):
be on with us. So we're gonna have more on
Charlie Kirk and what happened with the arrest today. But
we are going to take a pause here to talk
to a very famous actor who's in a brand new
movie that and he's playing another actor and he looks
exactly like the guy. So when we come back, should
we tell him everybody who it is? Or you're okay,
(11:32):
it's Billy Zain who is in a new movie called
Waltzing with Brando and he plays Marlon Brando and got
him mighty the phantom. It looks exactly like him. Is
he coming in as well as Marlon Brando?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
He is?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Okay? Now, okay? Waltzing and is Marlon Brando? Billy Zain's
gonna be.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
We will have more information on Charlie Kirk and the
assassination and the arrest of Tyler Robinson, but first we
like to do with a lighter things on Friday. And
one of the great actors is whether this a guy
named Billy Zayan? How are you, sir?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
How are you there?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You go all right? Tom?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
By the way? Are you?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You're a local guy?
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Right? I am?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
You live in the I don't want to say where,
but you live in within ten miles of here, fifteen
miles of here?
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Where is the crew flow?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (12:25):
Right?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
But I love I was born and raised in the
San Fernano Valley and I like guys that are like local.
You know, you don't live in you know, in Beverly
Hills or in you know, in West Los Angeles. You're like,
it's like a valley guy.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
I'm in Pasadena. I got nothing height. I'm proud, that's right. Pasadene.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, Pasadena is great. Pasaden is beautiful. It's one of
my favorite towns. I love going there, you know, downtown
Colorado Street there, it's just awesome.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Yeah, it's really cool. It's cool because it's like the
prevailing winds are you know, blow academia. Like the conversation
over the neighbor's hedge is not about I got this
screenplay of trying to set up it's my deep space
telescope has gone asunder. I can't my thrusters aren't working,
you know.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
So you Waltzing with Brando is an unbelievable movie. Everybody
who's seen it says they go away thinking that they've
just been an hour and a half with with Brando
on holiday.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
May I just add to go you know, you basically
go to Tahiti for an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But that's a vacation of a movie. How did you
get involved? Did they come after you or.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
I am they. I've produced it with them and it's
been a labor of love for over six years. I
had worked with the writer director Bill Fishman on a
film called Posse back in the nineties. We've remained friends
but reunited truly around this project some years later, and
and I just I fell in love with the narrative.
He had such a smart take on telling this story
(13:53):
about Brando in his happy place. It's not a cradle
to grave biopic, you know, you know, we're not trying
to take on the man life. It's a five year
slice between let's say, The Godfather and Tango if you
were going to use movies to you know, as benchmarks,
but it's when he told Hollywood to you know, take
a powder and go move to Tahiti to chill.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Didn't he buy his own island?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
He did right after mutiny on the Bounty and you know,
maybe known for his incredible work he did for civil
rights and indigenous rights, this focus is on the little
known fact that he was quite possibly the godfather of
the environmentalist movement. Oh that's right, which was you know,
not really a thing in nineteen sixty nine, but he
(14:36):
had it in his mind that he wanted to figure
out how to bring power and water to this atoll,
to this island without using fossil fuels then, which was
unheard of. And he hires an architect named Bernard Judge,
whom the memoirs Bernard's Memoirs the film is based upon,
who also worked with Buckminster Fuller and was doing geodesic
domes and experimental architecture here in La to conceive how
(14:59):
to achieve this goal hemorrhaging all of his money he
was making in the R and D I bet and
having to go do movies like The Godfather and such
to pay for it. So it's a very interesting look
behind the curtain of this mad genius we think we know,
and his humor is at times, you know, complex and
(15:19):
tumultuous relationship with his buddy and architect.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
And billy'zay and is with us. It's so funny you
say that you know the godfather of the environment, because literally,
I mean just my skin is crawling him.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
My wife.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I was at the mall last weekend with my wife
and we had just eaten something there and I go
to throw away the trash and I'm putting plastics in
one can paper and another food in another. I'm spending
like ten minutes dividing my trash up. And she said
to me, you're not the godfather of the environment. Let's
get out of here. Come on, Is that unbelievable She
said that to me.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Well, she's right, because I am, apparently, But we thank
you for separating your garden.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I feel like the godfather of the environment with you.
Has been twenty minutes. I spent more time dividing my
trash and I didn't eating at this stupid place. So
now this this movie was not up for some awards,
but was up for an Oscar.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
It was a weird thing. It was a weird thing.
We put it out in Uh well, we didn't put
it up forgive me. It's released September nineteenth in theaters.
We had finished it in December, just before Oscar eligibility,
and had been working on it for years. We started
during COVID, we stopped because of COVID. We finished the
film and because there was such a vociferous support by
(16:36):
the public, we thought, God, we better put this, We
better go for OSCAR eligibility last year and we weren't
in release yet, and we did. We went we were
eligible for an Oscar, assuming we still would be for
SAG and Independent Spirit and a Golden Globe. Not realizing
we missed those deadlines, We're like, oh oops, and so
we was gonna have to be evolved it all to
(17:00):
be in release. So we didn't really want to hold
it another year, but I guess we should have because
here we are, and while we are eligible for those others,
we might have to ask, you know, Mia Kopa for
a waiver now that we're in release, to see if
we can for an oscar. They I believe they have
career circums.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Why can you stay with us? I'm not going in Okay,
all right, Billy says, here till seven o'clock, we're gonna
we're gonna play some of the movie Waltzing with Brando.
We'll play it on audio, but you can also see
the trailer on YouTube.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
It's all over the place on YouTube. You can see
it on my Instagram. You can see it at Waltz
at Waltz with Brando.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
And what's your Instagram.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I'm at Billy Zane at.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Billy's a all right, excellent, all right, Billy Zaye's wetherus.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Hey, brand new movie, well not brand new. It's gonna
premiere on Monday. It's been out for a while, but
it's complicated. Waltzing with Brando and you shot this in Tahiti.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
Shot in Tahiti. It's about him building his the world's
first sustainable compound. Ever, he was about him as an
environmentalist and when it was not a thing back in
nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Did you drag a crew down with your.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
We did both. We we had some key department heads
from LA but we also hired a very capable and
wonderful crew there who also doubled as some of our
cast members. You know, the authenticity was great. They were
inherently very good actors as well.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Did you did you put your kids in this point there?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Our director Bill Fishman suggested that the role of Sabrina,
the daughter of the architect, who was about twelve and
she was at the time, that she should that she
should perhaps audition. I think really it's you know, okay,
And she knocked it out of the park. She was great,
did not need much coaching from Pop and just kind
of flowed in a very similar manner. I was very
(18:50):
impressed by her.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
You open on Monday, we do, and no independent film
has ever done this. The big theme.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
We premiere on Monday, premiere on Monday. We opened Sometmber nineteenth.
We premiere on Monday at the Chinese Theater.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
But not just the Chinese Theater, but the overflow.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
The well, we're in the Imax theater. I guess the
big the big theater to start and uh, and we've
we've over subscribed. Apparently we've you know, sold out. I
guess it's not. Their tickets are sold as a for
a premiere. But let's just say subscribe nine hundred and
thirty six seats.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But that's not that's first time an independent film's ever
done that.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
As build over into a second screen. Yes, that's we're
making history. That's huge, that is huge. You never met
Brando though I have not. Yeah, I mean I had.
I was certainly one degree away a few times, and
I always wanted to as a younger actor. But when
it came time to play him in a way, I
was glad I didn't because it would have affirmed the
otherness of it, you know what I mean, I didn't.
(19:45):
I didn't approach it in a way I had to.
I had. The biggest effort was not playing. It was
resisting the the inherent intention of the the adulation that
actors have. I had to kind of park that, and
I didn't really want to keep I had to approach
it very counterintuitively in order to kind of be him.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Now, it's opening in two unred and fifty theaters, but
it could quickly go you know, a great opening week.
It could go up to a thousand.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Yeah, we we have dry powder for one thousand, but
we're gonna we started two fifty.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's awesome. Yeah, let me so make up every day
was what six hours?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
No, we had much short, much shorter. The Brando makeup.
The Brando the Godfather makeup took about three hours because
even Marlon wore prosthetic pieces. He was about forty nine
when he did that role playing. It was Don north
of sixty, so he had he had quite a few
pieces on and we actually got to work with the
similar molds. Our makeup team were shortlisted for an Oscar,
(20:43):
which was amazing.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And did I heard he turned that down originally Godfather?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Is that true? Not? To my knowledge, I think he.
I think he wanted it, but what was interesting is
that he kind of he needed it. And that's what
our story is about. Really, he was he would have
liked to have probably not done another movie at that time,
but because he was so passionate about about this, this
commitment to forging this new science of sustainability then, which
(21:13):
again was unheard of, but he was hemorrhaging a lot
of money doing the research and development. And Richard Dreyfus,
who's wonderful in the film, plays his accountant, you know,
tells him, you know, you're broke. The gangster picture, a
gangster picture, you know, is it?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Is it true?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Then?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
What you know when he bought the island, you know,
he's trying to have a self sustained island without you know,
any input, uh, you know, and and every diesel generators, nothing.
But he spent most of the time just running nude
through the ocean.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Half the time I think, I think he's allowed half
the time. There's there, there's it's the seventies. Man. There
was some skinny dipping, and we've got you know, we're
swimming with sharks, which I have to say is adds
a dimension to naked swimming with sharks takes on a
whole other paranoia. I mean getting bits one well, you
know you're getting bids one thing, but where you get
bid becomes a whole other.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Let me play a little bit of the trailer here.
You can see it on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It's Billy zaying waltzing with brand Oh, here we go.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
You're you're Marlon Brando. Can you swim? Yes? Drop those drawers.
Speaker 9 (22:20):
It's Maddie, not one of those uptide la architects ay,
oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Everybody's naked. I own an island nearby.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
It is a.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
But I want to build a home there.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
You want to live on an abandoned island with no
potable water or food source or electricity?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Quotes.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Cannot go it? Then I'll just swim there. Yeah, he
gets it. I want to build a hotel right here,
right hotel?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
What hotel?
Speaker 8 (23:03):
From that height?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I could create an imy details. Now, I don't care.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I can't believe you try to outswim a shark. My
staff is overwhelmed. We do not have the funds.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Never feels the size paycheck with a s. The will's
going to judge us by our success. You gotta get
this right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
How is this an oscar? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (23:34):
Burning The decisions you make profoundly change my legacy. Oh disappointment.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
That's great man, that's a great lie.
Speaker 7 (23:42):
What what does it mean? Did you?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Did you end up writing it as well?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
I added, you know, a bit of dialogue and certainly
some ideas for scenes.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
But that's a great fish.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
That was that was mine.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That's right, that's a very funny.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'll take I'll take that credit, all right.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So Monday at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, it's uh,
people get there at six and well.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
I mean it's not I mean they are, We're over subscribed.
This isn't it not a general invitation to the public
to descend upon the Chinese. Love to have you there, folks,
come on, say.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Hi, see the red tickets are spoking for but.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
You know, you never, I mean, look, you gotta, you'll gotta.
You'll get a look at a lot of celebs and uh,
it might be fun. We'd love to have you there.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm sure everyone's gonna be covering it too, all the locals.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
They'll be there. It's gonna be true, it's gonna be
a big deal.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But I appreciate you coming in. I know it's uh,
you know, it was a crazy week, and I know
you're doing a lot of publicity for this thing, and uh,
you know, and to meet certain dates with SAG Awards
and Oscars and all that stuff. It's complicated. But I
hope this movie, you know, makes a trillion dollars.
Speaker 7 (24:47):
You know, I do too. I mean, I'm really proud
of the performance, certainly, but I'm I'm most proud producorially
to make a piece of entertainment that's devoid of the
usual trauma drama or vengeance play or predict well three
XT structure that you see. I've seen every trailer I
see involve some level of bludgeoning or sociopathic kind of
(25:07):
I don't know, examples of its excuse for heroism or
something like that. It's just flatlining. I just I love
the fact that it's it's entertaining, it's escapist's it feels
it's a feel good, genuinely feel good movie, and I'm
really happy for putting that out.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And it's perfect timing. It absolutely is.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
It's unifying, it's fun, and you literally feel like you've
gone and it's beautiful to see. It's Tahaiti. I mean
see it on the big screen and do support uh
cinema and collective cinema, enjoy this experience together.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Excellent and please come back anytime, any anytime you're producing
anything or excellent.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Huge fan.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Oh you're the best, Billy zay and on social media
and Billy zay.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
At Billy zayns. Nice to see a man appreciate it.
Pleasures my thanks for you're the best.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Very nice of Billy Zaying to stop by a very
huge actor. And in this brand new movie Waltzing with Brando.
You got to see the trailer and then when it
comes out next week go look at it. I think
you'll enjoy it. More information is coming in every minute,
every hour on the Charlie Kirk killer. The father of
the suspect, the father of Tyler Robinson, the suspect in
(26:27):
the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the father played a
very big role in getting his son to turn himself in.
Let's find out more information on what's going on here.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
Those here in orum Utah, they are relieved that Charlie
Kirk's alled shooter is now in custody. This is we're
learning more about twenty two year old Tyler Robinson.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
He lives in Washington County, Utah.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
For reference, Washington County, Utah is not far from Zion
National Park. It's about four hours from Utah Valley University.
But Robinson he was once a student here. Now, this
is what we've learned about the arrest. Robinson was taken
into custody last night around ten pm, and his father
played a critical role in convincing his son to turn
(27:13):
himself in. Robinson initially said no, but changed his mind.
His father called a youth pastor who was also a
US Marshall's Task Force officer.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
The task force officer.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
Advised him to have his son stay in place. The
US Marshals took Robinson into custody and then contacted the FBI.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Hey, Cross, do you think your dad would have turned
you in? I know my dad would have dropped a
dime on me. Ah, that's a good question. I really
don't know if he would really say no. Really, I
respect that. I respect that my dad would have dropped
the dime on me in a hard feat. What oh, yeah, yeah,
come get him. This is where this a hole lives.
(27:52):
But hey, what my dad would say, Uh, you're not
coming home right. I mean, I'm not gonna I ain't
gonna drop a dime, but you ain't coming home right.
But see now, now conversely, I would never turn my
dad in for anything. I don't think I think I
would have. You know, is it I don't think he
did it?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
No, no, well, I see your dad would have taken
the money.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Jack, you were taking the money and ran belly.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Oh you think your dad would have turned you in?
Oh yes, oh yeah, yes, you're probably posthumism posthumously, he
probably would have turned you in. Absolutely, Angel, would your
dad turn you in? Would you He'd come back from
the grave and totally haul me in, and that's what
he should do.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Although I respect Crozier's dad not dropping a dime on him,
I don't know. I'm torn. I'm torn. It's ding dong
with these guys.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Robinson had become more political in recent years. According to authorities.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
It's much more political, by the way, not more political,
like radically political.
Speaker 10 (28:56):
Robinson had become more political in recent years. According to authorities.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's you know what I think more political is walking
around door to door and dropping off flyers to people,
registering people to vote. Yeah right, maybe donating handling the
phones on a weekend before an election. That's more political.
Assassinating a guy in front of three thousand students who
is a national icon to a lot of people. That's
(29:23):
more than just a little political. Got mighty.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
It's unclear exactly what that entailed, but Robinson had been
a user of the widely popular online platform Discord.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
An average of nearly.
Speaker 10 (29:35):
Five million people use Discord each day, according to the company.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
After allegedly shooting, I.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Don't know what that is. What is Discord? It's an app.
It's an app, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
But.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
It's more like deep Oh it is, Yeah, I see.
It's for playing games and chilling her friends. YadA Yadam
shocked that I'm not on it.
Speaker 10 (29:59):
After allegedly shooting Kirk and hiding the gun in the woods,
Robinson messaged his roommate on Discord, asking his roommate to
retrieve the weapon. The roommate told authorities that Robinson had
sent him messages through Discord.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Oh wait, she can send messages that are encrypted through Discord,
so nobody else can read them other than the person
getting them. Is that how it works? That works much o.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
The roommate told authorities that Robin.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Not that much on discord. Okay, key text me and said,
you have it wrong. Wait, I have it wrong? Yeah?
Who text you? Kik Kiky's sitting next to you. She
text you, then left, Oh she left. She was only
here to meet Billy Zane and then she's out.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh really, but she said nope, that's not what discord is.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, get her on the horn, then, man, let's explain
what discord is.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
The roommate told authorities that Robinson had sent him messages
through discord stating a need to retrieve a rifle from
the drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush. The
messages also referred to engraving bullets and a mention of
a scope and the rifle being unique, and authorities noted
that Robinson had changed outfits.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson, who stated that
Robinson had become more political in recent years.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Again, with that more political in recent years.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson
came to dinner prior to September tenth and in that
conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was
coming to UVU. They talked about why they didn't like
him and the viewpoints that he had. The family member
also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.
(31:43):
The family member also confirmed Robinson had a Gray Dodge Challenger.
I absolutely believe that this is a watershed in American history. Yes,
the question is what kind of watershed, and that chapter
remains to be written. Is this the end of a
dark chapter in our history or the begin probably the
beginning of a darker chapter in our history.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
That's right, that's my prediction. All right, we'll come back
with more of that one Conway Show on demand on
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