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November 7, 2025 60 mins
Featuring: The cast of Love is Blind, Sydney Sweeney, The Rookies and more. In this #papisode Jedi journeys to Idaho and Colorado to find blind love. Mark shoots some rookies and a virgin. We discuss the Sweeney affect and what will happen to New York. Plus much more. For the content in this papisode pleasae visit our socials @paparazzipodcast. Thank you for listeing and sharing. Be well!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Paparassi Podcast. I am Jedi. Heres
Mark and it's been a minute again. I don't know
why we keep taking these little breaks. It's tough. We're
back with lots of stuff to talk about, and we
both should be full of energy as well, because this
is an afternoon podcast today, not a late at night podcast.

(00:24):
So no yawning, no tiredness.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well you've got no excuse because you've got a coffee
in your hand. Yeah, I had to put I had
to put some some tarping up in the studio here
to block the light coming in through the window so
you can see the screen behind me. I I'm going
to try something new here. If we're going to put that,
put out this video, and I'm gonna put some photos
up at least on from my end of the things

(00:52):
I've been doing as I go through it. See how
that work. So anything you want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I mean, we can get into work in a minute.
But in my personal life, something very exciting has happened.
I soon will be broadcasting from my own studio in
my own house. We bought a house, so that's very exciting.
So I will be turning one of the rooms in

(01:19):
the basement into Jedi's podcast studio. So I'm very excited
about that.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
You could name it a planet in the Star Wars universe.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I could do, I could do. I wouldn't know any
of them, but yes.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Because since you are a Jedi, you know, Jedi's come
from different planets all over the all over the galaxy,
so you can or maybe just call it the Galaxy Studios.
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I was thinking I was thinking something just like Jedi's
Buffalo studio. Okay, yeah, so I'm oh, I'm very excited
for that. The gol Bill's studio exactly the go Bill studio.
So that's very exciting. But as anybody who's watching, if
we put this little clip out, I am not at

(02:07):
home right now. I am in a hotel room on
on Zie Road, so yeah, yeah, I am in Idaho,
so I'm not too far away from you, really, only
one time zone away.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
And there's anything going on there that you can talk about.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, not much really. I mean this trip was booked
months ago. I was originally set to come out here
for the Brian Coburger trial, the Idaho murders trial, but
as Brian pled guilty and they did you know, they

(02:51):
didn't have to go forward with the trial. We've just
pushed the flights back and back and back, and now
they just said, look, just just go to Idaho. We
got a few different things you can check out, really
and do that, and then just go to the maximum
security prison and see you know what photographs you can

(03:11):
get just gv's basically at the prison as well. So
I've gone and done that this morning. I was actually
really surprised how close to the prison I could get.
It's in the middle of nowhere, so I was and
I didn't think I could get close at all. So
I did gvs from fucking miles away because there's like

(03:32):
a long driveway up to the prison, which I presumed
was private property. But as the gv's from far away
were so shit, I said to the reporter with me, like,
do you think we can just drive up that road,
like go right up to the prison. He's like, I
don't know, And I'm like, you know what, I don't
see any no trespassing signs. I'm just gonna I'm just

(03:55):
gonna drive up there and if I see somebody up there,
I'll just ask. So I drove right up to the
prison passed a sign that said, you know, maximum security
Idaho Prison. Whatever parked the car, walked over to a
guard that worked there. He was just getting out of

(04:15):
his car to go to work. Said Hey, I'm Jedi
from a paparazzi podcast. You've probably heard of me. I'm
here to, you know, just take some photos of the
outside of the prison. Is that allowed? He's like, yeah,
go ahead, okay, cheers, because I'd even googled the prison
before and looked at images to see what there was,

(04:36):
and the only pictures I saw were just like just
gv's the little sign that says Idaho Maximum Security Prison.
So I basically went right up to the building and
was shooting you know, the barmped wire and whatever I could,
which was, you know, quite cool.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Nobody, sorry, I said, they know who's in there, right,
they do.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Coburger's in there.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, so you're not You're probably not the first.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
No, probably not. But I've not seen any pictures in there, sorry,
of the outside before. I don't know if I've been
like in the right place. So that was fun.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
And what's the layout like there? I mean, is it
flat cold? I saw you posted on your personal instagram,
you know, just obviously obvious Idaho. Just yeah, snowy, icy looking. Yeah, wasteland,
is that what it is?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, I mean there's I mean not really. That was
like four hours away from where I am now. But yeah,
it's farmland.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
The prison is literally in the middle of nowhere. We
drove for five miles down the road and we didn't
see anything else until we hit like the prison. Okay, yeah,
like nobody's fucking escaping from there, that's for sure. Yeah,
but yeah, it's you know, it looked it looked cold.
I mean it did look cold. It looked shit. It

(06:06):
doesn't look like they have a yard. They're not allowed
outside there. It's you know, extremely secure. You actually drive
past a women's prison on that that road leading you know,
the wifele was a private road. There's a women's prison
on the left first, then the max, and then there's
another prison further up the street. And if if you
don't turn up the street to go to those prisons,

(06:28):
there's actually another prison down the road on the right
hand side.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a kind of an interesting setup.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Like prison city, prison city.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Prison County exactly. It's bashed all that out this morning
and now I'm free. I'm booked to go home tomorrow.
But I mean, I don't know if you've heard, or
you must have heard, and the listeners, i'd imagine are
aware of the government shut down we have in the

(06:59):
US at the moment, and tomorrow is supposed to be
the start of flights being canceled. I think tomorrow they're
rolling out five percent of all flights are being canceled tomorrow,
and then Saturday is another five percent of all flights

(07:20):
being canceled, to make that ten percent on Saturday. So
I'm really hoping that my flight isn't affected tomorrow. I
connect through Dallas, which is one of the forty airports
that is supposed to be receiving cancelations. So I really
hope this government shutdown finishes soon because I'm supposed to

(07:43):
be going on vacation on Monday. Oh nice family vacation,
and that is flying through Charlotte, which is another airport
that's supposed to be affected by the shutdown, into Orlando,
which is another airport that is supposed to be affected
by the fucking the shutdown. But I've got to get
home tomorrow first, so we'll see.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
And you're talking about lax around here, Ontario.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Lax and Ontario as well, San Diego as well as
one of them.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh yeah, I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere
anytime soon. If I do, I'm driving.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
So yeah, what's a bit worrying for me as well,
because you know, I have to fly for work basically,
So if all of these airports start, you know, restricting
flights and shutting down and you know, canceling more and
more flights, there's not too much for me to do
in Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, I'm a little worried about it.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
If I'm honest, Well, duck, yeah, cheers. I'm gonna need it,
I think, mate.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Is there anything else you've been working on?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yes? Last week I was in Denver, Colorado for I mean,
I don't know if this isn't really the kind of
shows that I think our listeners are watching. Basically, I
was there to cover the cast of the Netflix show

(09:13):
Love Is Blind.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, I think everybody's watching that's listening to this.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, So I was out there before the finale, so
just to kind of, you know, get the inside scoop
on what people were up to before the weddings. Basically,
So the premise of love is blind for yourself or
for anyone else that hasn't doesn't know, hasn't seen it.
A bunch of guys put in one house, a bunch

(09:40):
of girls put in another house. They go on dates
with a wall in between them, basically, so they get
to know each other without seeing what each other looks like,
and they fall in love. They the chaps usually proposed
to the women that they meet in the pods, and

(10:00):
then they meet them after they're already proposed, and then
they go from there go on a honeymoon, and the
finale is usually they go to the altar with their
families and friends. You know, they've already picked out wedding dresses.
And then the finale of the show is do the
couple say? I do? So we've basically got all of

(10:21):
these couples that are lined up ready to go to
the altar, and I fly in then to Denver to
try and photograph these couples to see if they're still
together before the finale. So I had the list of
addresses and the majority of the house the places where
they people on the show lived were apartment buildings. Apart
from one woman on the show Megan something or other,

(10:45):
but she goes by Sparkle Megan. So she was the
only contestant that had a house basically, and that is
for any photographers listening, watching a house is a lot
easier than watching and I'm a building. So I'm like,
I'm going to start on that one. So I pull
up to the house. I fly into Denver from Buffalo

(11:07):
early morning flight, so I get in to Denver before noon,
roll up to the house, you know, pick up a
rental car, roll up to the house, and within ninety
seconds of me being at the house, the front door
opens and a guy comes out that is not the
guy that she's dating in the show and going to
the altar with. It's a new guy. He comes out

(11:29):
and he's carrying a baby. Wow. So I photographed for
doing the baby call the office and say, hey, I'm
hoping this is the right address, but I've just seen
a guy come out of the house and he's carrying
what has got to be a three month old baby.
You know, this guy is not the guy that she's

(11:49):
engaged to on the show. And they're like, what the fuck? Wow, Okay,
well stick on that address. Don't look at any others
because there's a list of like ten different people there
have addresses for to check out. So I end up
being there for five days and I watched just watch
that one house for five days, trying to get Megan,

(12:09):
the contestant on the show, together with this chat and
the baby. So I get the guy and the baby.
The first day, I get Megan as well, but not
with the girl the baby. She goes out by herself.
She goes and what does she do. She went to
a gym the first day, so I get her at
the gym. Second day, I get the guy and the
baby again, and I get her again. She goes and

(12:30):
gets her nails done, so they're still not together. Third day,
I don't see the baby, but I see her. She
goes and picks up like a Wendy's drive through, and
I think she went she went for lunch or something
like that by herself. I'm like, what the fuck do
these people? Are they together? Are they not together? Day

(12:51):
four olds around baby.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Let me guess, Let me guess. The baby comes out
by itself.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, the baby walks out by itself, riding her pony.
No so Dave. Before she goes to ups picks up
a package and then sits in her car for like
thirty minutes. So I'm just I'm just sat waiting, watching
ready to go to a follow and the car in
the spot next to her back's out and leaves, and
then an elderly woman goes to attempt to park into

(13:18):
the spot next to her, hits her car and she's
trying to get into the spot. So Megan comes out.
I rattle off the frames, get some video you they're
exchanging details with It would be great she'd hit the
old lady or showered at her, but no, they just
exchanged details. Like it's right in front of me. So
I'm just like absolutely nailing it. And day five comes

(13:38):
around and I leave, and then so the next day,
like the picture, we put the pictures out, really early
three of the trip. We put the pictures out, which
I thought was kind of a crazy decision because it stops,
you know, it makes her aware that there's somebody working it,
and you know, I think decreases the odds of her

(13:59):
car coming out with said baby. But like the day
after I leave the show, as the show'd already had,
so she didn't say that. She was like that wasn't
dating this guy? She said Noah the altar. Then so
I'm back in Buffalo and the reunion as and she's like, oh,

(14:21):
I've got a big surprise. I'm a mom. Now here's
my boyfriend whatever he's called in the audience, any waves
And I'm like straight onto the desk. Yeah, we were
fucking right. We nailed it, broke the story, YadA, YadA, YadA.
But even now on our Instagram, she's like acting like
the story wasn't broken by me and and the son

(14:43):
she's which is really pissing me off.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Do you think she had to say that because of
the pictures that came out?

Speaker 1 (14:50):
I think it right, Yeah, I think so. I ruined
it for them basically, which is it's kind of sad
ruining a baby reveal, but.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Kind of like the Applegate with me when I got
her on the set in the wheelchair, and I thought
it was just because of the show because she was
in a car accident, but then she said that she
has a mass.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so it was. It was. It was
fun to break that story. And actually for being, you know,
a reality show on Netflix, it did crazy traffic for
the Sun, which is which made them like super happy.
And I looked just yesterday, I think on their reels

(15:31):
on their Instagram, and they usually have like two or
three thousand views per reel. The first one that we
they did of the baby and the guy and you know,
outside the House, did almost a million views, and then
the second one of the car accident did like seven
hundred thousand. So I did stupid traffic for them, which

(15:52):
is great.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
That show has a huge audience. I see people my
algorithms all the time saying I'm watching that, I'm watching that.
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, my wife watches and enjoys the show, so I
told her, Actually I broke the broke the story to
her before i'd even put it into the office, so
she knew first. She was very excited for that, but
that's what I'd been up to. I did go and
do a job for somebody else. I did three days

(16:19):
somewhere else in the world, but came away empty handed.
So there's nothing to talk about there, unfortunately, And like
I say, yeah, hopefully go home tomorrow and off to
off to Orlando with a family on Monday. All right,
Hopefully some more jobs were rolling after that.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
We will have a guess later on on how many
flights you've taken this year, because I know you're about
it the other day.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
At the end of the year, we should run a competition.
But yeah, we will do Jedi's flight count at the
end of the year.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I guess the amount of jellybeans in.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Exactly What have you been up to? I do know
what you were doing today because you went live briefly
on Instagram, so I watched a bit of that. I
was asking you questions, but you weren't responding no, which
I was very upset about. I thought you should have
been talking to the hundreds of followers that were watching

(17:13):
at the time.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, I put my phone in the bag and was
just walking around. I wasn't. I kept hearing it because
with the metaglasses, it tells you that you have messages,
and you have and people are signing on and this,
and that it's actually Kristen Bell that tells me yes,
which will later because I'm going to do it on
what you're watching, because I have been watching Kristen Bell.

(17:37):
But yeah, I was on the Rookie set. It was
kind of a last minute thing. I'd been planning on
stopping by there and I was actually going to take
the day off today, so I was actually sitting on
the couch I was starting. I was restarting Entourage at home.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
I love Entourage.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
It I had to do at home. And then I remembered, No,
Then I saw Jenna posting from the set the bat signal,
A bat signal exactly. So then I hopped in my
car and h and went out to the set when
it was downtown, so you know, for all you rookie
fans out there, just so you know, you know, I

(18:13):
go out of my way to go and do this
for the fans. I'm trying this new thing. Here. We
can see behind me, see the screen behind me, and
I'll just play a little bit of you know, when
I showed up there and stuff. I'll post more later.
But it was Jenna and Nathan on set. It was
just a kind of a car crash scene. They were
chasing after a chasing after a motorcycle. Obviously a criminal.

(18:37):
They're in street clothes. I didn't see much of it.
They'd been filming all morning, so I don't know, but
ye got a few pictures, got a little bit of video,
and you know, it'll be we'll post it in a
day or so, maybe a little teasers here and there.
But I did get the rookie also a couple of
couple of weeks ago, the pictures of Liz and Lucy

(19:05):
chent God damn's what's their like a name? Oh my god,
Rickey fans are going crazy right now. They're going shut
the fuck up, asshole. But I got them in one
of their police cruisers going out for a driving scene
and it was just really cool pictures. Pictures didn't sell,
I don't think, but it was just really nice pictures.

(19:26):
They saw me, so they waved. I was actually window down.
I was really close to them right across the street,
so I was hoping that they noticed because I know
they're really friendly, so they waved. It was a really
nice picture. And the Instagram and the TikTok have gone
kind of crazy with the amount of views and comments
and stuff, so that was pretty cool. I did actually

(19:47):
go on vacation this last last week or so, and
it was kind of a work vacation. Ended up to
be kind of a work vacation. It was my wife
and I was twentieth anniversary congrats, thank you, and we

(20:07):
decided to go to the Packer Steeler football game in Pittsburgh. Yeah,
because our teams were. You know, we're really into our
teams and they only play every four years, and we've
said for years that we're going to go to these games.
I've been waiting for him to come to Green Bay,
but for some reason, they just keep avoiding doing it.

(20:28):
So we went to Pittsburgh and day two into Pittsburgh,
I found out that Chrissy Metz was filming a show
in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Your buddy Chrissy Metz, chrisy.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Metz, Yeah, I haven't seen her in a while. Used
to work on her on This Is Us all the time.
But I did end up kind of driving around trying
to find the set, couldn't find it. And we had
planned a dinner out at a restaurant called a La
Familia in Pittsburgh. It's an old school, really kind of

(21:03):
have to go Italian restaurant in Pittsburgh, kind of famous.
A lot of celebrities have been going there lately. And
about halfway through the meal, our waitress kind of alluded
to the fact that there was other people there, that
there was some celebrities there and we had just missed
Chrissy mets by five minutes.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Oh that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
So and there was packers there dining as well the
night we were there, so I missed out on seeing
some of my packers, and I missed out on Chrissy
mets But I did spend off and on, you know,
off and on the rest of the time there. I
just kind of woke up early in the morning, went
to go try and find the set. Couldn't find it anywhere,
So no pictures from that set. But it was a

(21:47):
good vacation otherwise. You know, it's my first time in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I love Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
And it was just great food, great people, packer fans everywhere,
ye stuff and everywhere as well. The game was insane.
We ended up winning, which makes it even better. Love that.
But all in all, really great trip and shout out
to Pittsburgh and Allah Familia and Chrissy Metz.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
What's the show she's filming? Did you know?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
It's a detective show?

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Is it Lazarus?

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Kind of a missing maybe?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, I'm just looking at the cast, Leave Schreiber, Stephen Graham,
you know the brit that was in the Wonner.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
What was that show called the Netflix? Yeah, with the
Young Lads who Adolescence. Yeah, yeah, that's a decent looking,
decent looking cast.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, so it would have been good to get any
of these people here I'm showing. I'm showing some some
pictures of Pittsburgh right here in the background.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah, Pittsburgh's great. It's a blue collar city. They love
their sports there, they love their family. I've done done
quite a few jobs there, and I really do enjoy
and in time in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
And I will definitely be back.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Did you go to Permancy Brothers.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yes, we actually after getting the car, my wife wanted
to drive in through the tunnel from the airport and
just come out to Pittsburgh. But there was tons and
tons of traffic when we got there, so I'm like,
let's just take the kind of the scenic route coming
along the river, that kind of thing. And as we
were just driving through the woods, kind of randomly, Permanty

(23:30):
Brothers popped up just in the middle of the woods,
and so we went to that one, which was kind
of cool.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
But they're everywhere, so yeah, yeah, yeah, the original location
is my favorite, but yeah, that sandwich is a fucking killer.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
They are, yeah, really good. But before I left for Pittsburgh,
I revisited kind of my local around here. Gina Rodriguez ah, Virgin,
Jane the Virgin, That's what I was trying to think of. Yeah,
she hadn't been shot in a while, and you know
her Instagram's been popping up lately, and she's pregnant, and

(24:08):
I know she was pregnant again, and remember us talking
about it. But I got her the first time, the
first pregnancy. I got a really good maybe bump the
shirt kind of up out hiking and those pictures did
really well. And I saw she was pregnant again, and
she was really big. She looked like she was, you know,

(24:29):
getting close. Yeah, I worked on her for a day.
She came out and she went to a pumpkin patch.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Okay, it's been.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
A while since I've shot anybody at a pumpkin patch.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, I love, but I always used to love pumpkin patch.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah shoots, that's the old school. But she wore all black,
black leggings, black tank top kind of a thing, and
she went with her daughter and an assistant or the nanny,
and she kind of was carrying the daughter on her
her on her side, so there was really no baby
bump shots to be had. And once she went into
the pumpkin patches, it was just all kind of sealed off.

(25:08):
I couldn't really get anything. It was just arriving and leaving.
But then I go to Pittsburgh for five days, five
six days, and then I come back and it's Halloween
and she's close by. I figure, oh, okay, she's probably
going to go out in some costume that's going to

(25:29):
accent her baby bump, and I can get her trick
or treating because she's not far from my house. I
have stuff to do here at my house with my kids,
trick or treating and all that. So I figured it
would just be a nice quick little get in, get out,
And I show up there maybe twenty thirty minutes, you know,
just about five o'clock, six o'clock when they would be

(25:52):
you would be taking out a little kid like that. Yeah,
And I see a couple of people coming in and
out of her house going to their cars, and they're
in costume. So I'm like, oh, okay, cool, here we go.
It's gonna happen. So they come out and they start
loading up into the car.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Okay, that's good.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's some friends, it's the husband. And then she comes out.
She's dressed in like a go go girls outfit. Right,
and I look and she's kind of saying goodbye to
the nanny, the same nanny that was there. And the
nanny's got this little teeny baby in her in her arms.

(26:28):
So here's the pictures of Gina back here. Yeah, I
could probably go back here a little bit and show
you the see these are the pictures from the pumpkin patch.
You know, nothing really to get right there. So she's
in this outfit like this. She's had the child, she's
had the kid. Oh shit, this is first kind of

(26:49):
post baby pictures of her. But she's going out and
she gets in the car and she goes out, like
to a party. You know, my question is, how can
you leave your I mean, the baby couldn't have been
bored more than four or five days before, right, Yeah,
you're leaving your brand new four day old, five day old,
three day old baby home with the nanny and you're

(27:11):
going out to party on Halloween. I don't know. I
just thought that was kind of strange. I probably wouldn't
leave my kid after four days, but you know it's
the second kid.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, incredible.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, and then obviously I'm wearing the hat here the
Dodgers won the Super Bowl. I mean sorry, the World.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Series and the North American Series, and I went.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Out and I shot the parade. I had an idea.
I saw the route that morning, and I knew that
that there was an angle that I could fly a
drone and get a nice shot of them driving down
Grand with the buildings in the background and stuff. So
I knew a long shot. I figured there would be
no fly zone, the drone wouldn't even fly, but it did,

(28:00):
and it was kind of kind of sketchy to fly it.
It was kind of got away from me a little bit,
and it kind of lost connection here and there. But
I did get a few pictures as I'm putting up here.
But someone pointed out that on our that you can
see pig Pen in some of these pictures. And I

(28:20):
saw her Instagram and she absolutely just drilled it.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
The picture of k like blowing out water or champagne
like a whale from the phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, she makes she makes other photographers feel bad when
she nails stuff like that. So and then I just
you know, obviously, traffic is crazy down there. You can't
get from one side of the other unless you have
like a press pass and you're walking with them like
she was. But then I went down some cool pictures
of them, like as they got on the freeway, which
is like these right hair. You know, there's Smith kind

(28:54):
of doing his thing, and you know, it's kind of
cool with a with a traffic stop right here, with
the HP stopping traffic. It's kind of cool. But go Dodgers.
Really cool to go and and shoot this out there
with the fans. I don't think there was any any
kind of weirdness happening out there. No, it's good to

(29:16):
see La United for at least a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah, Parade parades are really fun to photograph. I photographed
that one of the Lakers parades. God, it must have
been fifteen or more years ago, you know, with Kobe
and Powell with the trophy, and it was. It was
fucking awesome. It was so much fun, such a cool experience.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Did you do the same thing, like just walk alongside
them and walk with them?

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh goodness, No, there was no press pass for me.
I was just I think I went down there hours
before it started, picked a picked a spot and just
kind of stayed there.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
I just stood it, stood stood in there with the
with the fans. Yeah, and it was. It was a
day off. I remember because I remember it was when
we were with the agency and I pitched it, and
now I don't go into it. It was my day off,
so I just went into it anyway.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Nice, Nice, all right, Well, let's take a quick break
and we'll we'll come back. Let's talk a couple of
subjects out there. I've got a lot of things to
talk about. We're back, and we're back, and so is.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
This a who's that little monkey?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Hi, buddy, this is Barley Bally.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh he's a little cutie.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Yeah to the PPC family exactly. We put him back inside.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
For anybody wondering what Mark was showing me, it was
not part of his body. It was a dog.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Well, you can always go check the YouTube. There you go,
because I think we're gonna actually post this one.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh my goodness, way too much production value going on
to not incredible.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, the part of the show, everybody wants to
hear our subjects and our bitching and our moaning and
our news and all that business. I'd like to start,
if you don't mind.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Knook yourself out with Sidney Sweeney.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh, friend of Sydney Sweeney always makes an appearance always
is a good subject I can talk about because she's
freaking everywhere she is. She I posted the other day,
there must be you know how many of them are there?
Because she's in La, she's at the Dodger game, she's

(31:44):
in New York. She's doing this. She's a boxer, she's fat,
she's not, she's dating this guy. She's not. But specifically,
I mean obviously the game that she went to, the
Dodger games she went to and they lost.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
You know, I've blame No, you can't blame anything on Sweeney.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well, she's distracting. I blame that on her. But I
did see this morning on my algorithm, just NonStop footage
of her kissing Scooter Brawn on a rock in Central Park.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
I know what a fucking setup? Like?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (32:27):
It's I mean, it screams set up, doesn't it? Like?
The day before she was shot in La ducking down
in the car of her ex fiance. She obviously didn't
like that picture being out there, so she flies to
New York to see Scooter and makes out with him
on a rock in Central Park. I actually hadn't seen

(32:50):
I saw one picture of this. I hadn't actually seen
the full set, which is it just I mean, it
just screams set.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Well, I mean I think there was multiple photographers. I
think it was. I think it was like a photo shoot.
I mean, not an actual photo shoot, not a real
photo shoot. But I mean there's tons of footage of
her coming out of that building wearing that outfit, and
I know the New York photographers are all on it. Yeah,
I know they're all on it. I know they're you know,
they're they're all over her. So I think she just

(33:25):
went out to Central Park they followed her out there.
I don't think it's one photographer. I think multiple New
York photographers, and the looks on their faces are I
know I'm being shot and I'm doing it anyway, you know.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah. To me, I think Scooter has texted his friend
over at Backgrid and they've just they've just completely set
it up. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Well, either way, it is a setup, and either way,
it's pretty darn cheesy. And it's starting to piss me
off because we called her the next big thing, and honestly,
I was saying the other day she might be the
last big thing, yeah, because I don't think there's gonna
be anything bigger than her. That comes out because she's

(34:12):
bigger than Jennifer Lawrence was, because Jennifer Lawrence was the
one before her.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah. She she is, like you said, she's everywhere. She is,
She's here that she's everywhere. She's got a movie coming
out tomorrow, I think the the one where she plays
the boxer Chrissy Chrissy something or other.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yeah, and you know what, I have a strange feeling
that movie's gonna be shit.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I have a strange feeling it's gonna be the only
movie I see in theaters this year. Io A Naked Gun.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah for sure. But I think I think it's gonna
be just as bad as Naked Gun. Maybe, I don't know, maybe,
but not comedy wise, stupid comedy wise. But all the
hype that this that she is, she's doing promoting this
movie is going to ruin at least my liking of

(35:05):
the movie, because I'm going to go into it with
so much frick and hype. Yeah, and I'm gonna go like,
oh man, really.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I mean, I'm sure I read somewhere that it was
going Oscar buzz as well.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Well. Of course, she changed her body, she changed herself.
That always gets you Oscar buzz. You know, I just
feel like it's gonna be Sidney Sweeney and like in
like a fat lesbian boxer steup.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
You know, it does in fact come out tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, you're going to see right through it, you know
what I mean? And I don't think this is a
movie that I'm gonna go see in the movie.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, talking of seeing what right through it, leading right
into the dress that she wore the other day, right
the women in film event that she absolutely upstaged every
single woman there with her breast space on full view.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah for sure. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. And I
understand the whole you know, feminism, proud of your body,
proud of this, proud of that. And now if she
would have come out in that dress the way she
looked in the Boxer movie, yeah, then I would say

(36:23):
you're a hero, you know, and you're Sydney Sweeney, and
you've got the body that everybody's addicted to, men, women, dogs,
everything that you come out looking like that Number one,
there's nothing there we haven't seen already anyway.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yeah, exactly, she's been topless in both movies and TV.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
But then you're also standing on stage with a bunch
of women who have actually shown a lot as well.
You know, you're up there with Jamie Lee Curtis, who
you know obviously got hers out. Yeah times, Sharon Stone,
we all know what happened with her, right, and then
I forget, I forget who else was there.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
But yeah, I mean it was done purposely, right, there's
no way that she didn't know that this stress was
see through.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I mean it would have been good to do it
at the Dodger game, too, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
I mean that would have been even more distracted to
the boys in Blue.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
But they, but they just they, I don't know. She's
getting rammed down our throats so bad, so hard that
it's hard for me to like her. You know. It's
just I know you've got a thing because you know,
you started her off, you discovered her, you made her big.
But I don't know, it just there's there's too much.

(37:46):
I don't like hype, and I don't like over hyping,
and I don't like it being rammed down my throat
for at least a movie that I'm not sure is
even gonna be that good. You know, Yeah, I might
see the movie and I might change my mind on everything.
But for her to show up in that dress, in
that outfit, I don't know. It was just just a
little too much.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I think.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I think everybody got that. Even the women on stage,
I think thought that. But they're going for shock value
and they got it.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Sure ship did.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, what else has been going on? Well?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
I did make a few notes here. Let me see.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
I mean you mentioned k Bell earlier on is that?
Is that in relation to what you're watching?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
I want to get one in into what you're watching.
But I did hear an interview speaking of Jennifer Lawrence.
Actually it's one of my notes here. I did see
that she is done talking about politics.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
I didn't even know she she talked about it, but
I don't really pay too much attention to her, to
be honest.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I heard see Jennifer Lawrence is my Sydney swing, you know,
so you know, it's tough not to like her for me,
even though she's been political lately and stuff. But she
said she's not gonna do any more political talk. She
says it kind of it's just adds to the fuel
of dividing everybody, which is fine. But then she also
added that she would rather focus on being an artist

(39:13):
and make movies that change the world.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Now, okay, that's a bit too far, Yeah, just a bit.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
I mean, a movie's a movie. I don't care what
you know, if it's groundbreaking, I don't care if it
actually does change the world. It's not changing the world.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
I don't think any movies these days a change in
the world. In the olden days, yes, I've been life
changing or world changing. But now, but movies in general,
viewer ship is down right. People aren't going to the movies.
It's hard, I think for people to concentrate for longer
than ten, twelve, fifteen seconds watching a video on their phone,

(39:52):
let alone focus in a movie theater theater for two hours.
The newer generation of people anyway, I'm sure as oldies
can still enjoy and take a two and a half
hour movie. But the kids of today, I don't think
have the attention span.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Love it when the kids interrupt, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Talking of kids with attention spans.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
So I did make some notes of I mean, you
know how much I love celebrity ads, right, celebrity stsman's
stuff like that. I obviously posted on the Instagram the
other day of the crumble cookies. I do that every
once in a while when something pops up. Yeah, I
was watching the Dodger game, I think it was, and
these two commercials came up, like back to back, and

(40:38):
number one it was Kevin Hart for a betting app.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
I think it's DraftKings Draft Kings, right, Yeah, he's usually
usually does them with Lebron.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, And I mean, I don't know what's worse Kardashians.
Are Jenner's doing crumble cookies or Kevin Hart doing you know,
betting apps which they don't use, or Jennifer Garner doing
credit cards which she.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Doesn't use, you know, yeah, yeah, no shit.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
It was the Kevin Hart online betting followed by the
Jennifer Garner Capital one credit card, you know. And she's, yeah,
she's in the commercial with a bunch of fake friends
hanging out in a fake I mean the last time
I followed her to the airport, she went to private suites,
which is not a part of Capital one service, right,

(41:27):
And she's like in the she's in the airport lounge
for Capital One, and she's like, oh, I can get
used to this. Well, jen you were just in the
private suites and you know that's what you do. And
then you get a ride out to the airplane. Yeah,
no shit, And she's not using any kind of capital one.
She probably has five of them. She probably gives them
out to her kids to use. But and just like

(41:48):
Kevin Hart not betting, I guarantee Kevin Hart has never
placed a bet on DraftKings.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
You think he has.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I think he's probably He probably gets it like a
free roll.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
So yeah, he probably has his own algorithm, right yeah, yeah,
where he just can bet and win like wins even
when he loses. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. So
I have been watching some things lately. I did come
across something and it kind of made me a little irritated.

(42:23):
It's I don't know if you've seen this new game show.
I forget what it's called now. I didn't make a
note of what it's called because I just noted that
it's Aaron Andrews. And what's his name? From the Hangover?

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Is that Galafanakis?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
No? No, the Asian dude? Oh Ken Jong Ken Jong?
I think yeah, I think it's them. Have you seen
this show?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Id?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Like all I watch on TV is sport.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Let me try and find it. Can you look it
up real quick and see what it's called. But Aaron
Andrews and Ken I think it's Ken Jong, and they're
kind of up in this like little tower looking down
on these people, and they do these contexts. It's a
big group of people, like one hundred people, and.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Then they see nine two beat okay, and yeah it's
Ken John, Yeah and yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
They're up in a press box and they're looking down
on these people and it's kind of like a running
Man type of thing where you know, they're all competing
against each other and then when the time is up,
the last person to do it is out, you know,
and then it's just process of elimination. But Aaron Andrews
the other day I was on her Instagram or popped

(43:36):
up on her Instagram, and I was paying attention because
it was you know, she posts just three or four
different things on her Instagram. She'll ei they posts some
family stuff of maybe her kid wearing the most perfect
outfit ever. You remember me getting pictures of her out
walking the kid where the nanny was pushing the kid along.
The nanny would feed the kid, then nanny would do
everything and Aaron would just kind of walk alongside.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Absolutely hilarious.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
But then she'll also post her where by EA.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Stuff, Yeah, the clothing line, she'll.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Post tailor she'll post that she knows Taylor Swift. Yeah,
you know, every once in a while when there's Taylor
news that comes up, she'll post a picture of her
and Taylor or Taylor wearing some EA stuff and she'll
prove she knows her total blow hard. But she'll also
post some stuff of her and her podcast. Yeah, and

(44:27):
she's she's does this podcast with that other Fox.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, Chris Thompson.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Chris Thompson NFL. And I got to look at their
backgrounds when they were when they do their podcast, right, Yeah,
And you know, you're obviously in a hotel room. You
can't really control your background except for show what it is, right.
I mean our background here is the old studio and
it's got, you know, a bunch of stuff that I

(44:55):
kind of collected over the time. And yeah, we've got
the Paparazzi podcast, right, We've got my Packers ownership papers
right here. Yeah, Aaron Andrews. Can you guess what Aaron
Andrews background.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Is a picture of a South with Tyler Swift.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
That is probably in the same place that it is.
But no, it's her closet.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
She does it in her closet.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
She does it in her closet. So the background, you know,
obviously we've got these big spaces. Most people have like
you know, some books and maybe some trophies, or they've
got a nice background. You know, she does it in
her closet, and the background in her closet is like
a trophy. It's her clothes and her shoes and all

(45:41):
this shit in the background. Couldn't be more fucking blow
hard to me, right, I just you know, I can't
get over Aaron Andrews. I want to like her. I
used to like her, but the more and more I
see of just the way she acts, the way she is,
you know, how she does the Infinity commercials but she

(46:01):
drives a range Rover. It's just fucking all blow hard
and it's all fake, you know, Oh yeah, and it
bugs the shit out think. But I've also been, like
I said, I started restarting on Entourage.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
So such a good shot, it's.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Such a good show. When is the last time you
watched Entourage?

Speaker 1 (46:21):
It's been a long time. I've watched it all the
way through twice, I think, and I think the last
time was maybe three or four years ago.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
My interest in watching it again is recognizing the things
that you couldn't pull off now that they did then,
you know, and we're only talking about what two thousand
and four, Yeah, something like that. Two thousand and five
is when it started, and then all the years going
through it, and that it enters into when I actually started.
That's right around when you started, right the.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Business twenty two thousand and four, I think.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, yeah, so the times and the way it is
and stuff, it'll take you back through that whole time
because we were working on celebrities the way they're portraying
the celebrities in the show.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah, I mean I remember coming up along, coming up
to coming across the Entourage set on Rodeo Drive, and
like the director said to me and a couple of
the other guys, you guys want to be in the background,
just like.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Shooting guy's name Adrian Grenier.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Shooting, Yeah, shooting Adrian Grenier. Were like, yeah, sure, And
that's why I watched it back, remembering that looking out
for myself, I never saw I never saw it.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Well, I'm going to look this time and see if
I can spot you there. Yeah, and we'll post it
if I if I get it, and so it was.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
It was such a cool guy to photograph as well. Actually,
like me and me and pig Pen photographed in one
time and just outside his house, I think, or his
sister's house, and we just he just sat on the
steps of the porch of the house, like chilling and
talking to us. Yeah, it was such a nice guy.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Yeah, I was thinking of working on a couple of
those guys. Is kind of where are they now type
of stuff. I know that, yeah, they've probably been worked on,
but I haven't seen any pictures of him, and I
know that, you know, it would be interesting to see
where they are now.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Yeah, But like Granier, when was the last time you
heard his name?

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Does he Does he even act anymore?

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:18):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
I looked up Turtle and he has since twenty twenty two. Well,
I don't think I even saw that. I don't think
there was anything that I knew about. But all those guys,
you know huge, I mean, they're obviously just retired on
the residuals. I did hear a Jeremy Piven interview the
other day? Yeah, and he's got a new movie out
that's I think just gone streaming. It was in the

(48:40):
theaters for a little while called like Primal War or something.
It's like Jurassic Park meets Vietnam War. He plays some
kernel or something. It looks kind of looks kind of
corny but kind of cool. And you gotta love Pivot.
I mean, Pivt's just he's yeah, no Pivot.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
You know you used to photograph him in Malibu at
his beach house all the time, all the time, with
a different chick all the time.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
I was just gonna say that I did. I did
see a pap walked up to him on video in
New York, I think just a couple of weeks ago,
and they're like, hey, what's up, my man? I like
your outfit and Pivt's like, yeah cool, Like you know,
have you seen like anything I've done? Ornything is He's like,
you're an actor. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been

(49:26):
in some stuff. And he's like, oh, I'm sorry, I
don't I don't know who you are. I just liked
your outfit. I mean, maybe it was nice, but it
was kind of funny how the guy didn't know who
PIVT was and how PIVN is such a huge part
of my life.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
That's so funny.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
So getting back into Entourage, I'm gonna I'm gonna update,
as you know on the podcast cast as we go.
But I have been binging and I don't binge, but
I have been binging because there's such short episodes the
season of Nobody Wants This.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
Yeah, I love it. I actually loved the show. I've
only seen the first episode of the latest season, so
I do need to catch up on that. And I
did see it's sortad of been picked up for season three.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Oh great. Yeah, it's a it's a great feel good show.
You know, it's got a good topic. You know, it's
it's a good kind of you know, kind of genre
of what it is. Comedy meets romance meets you know,
Rabbi America, really really.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Comedy romance meets rabbi, you know, because all the all
the Israel Jewish talk lately, you know, it kind of
it kind of sets a tone for that kind of
that kind of lifestyle.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
You know. You know, it's a good show when two
people that hate the actress in the show enjoy the show, exactly.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Hate her so much that she's in my she's my
meta voice. Yeah, Yeah, No, it's it's a great show
and we're I think we're on the last episode right now.
But what pisses me off, Jedi is all the exteriors
on that show that I missed.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
Oh I didn't see too much of that show papped
at all, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
No, No, I think it's just during the time where
nobody cares anyway. Yeah, there was an opportunity to get
Kristen Bell in a Cinderella costume and Adrie and and
Adam Brody in a Dracula costume, which would have been good.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Oh, that would have been a good one.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
But nobody seems to care about productions these days. So
that's why.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Well you say that, did you see who got shot
on set in La today? No, Megan Markael.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Oh yeah, she's she's guest starring or she's on step
with somebody.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Jack Quaid, Brie Larsen, Yeah, and another couple of she's
actually playing herself. I think the news came out yesterday
that she she's got this role as herself as a blowhard,
and so she's such a.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
She's such a shitty actor that she can't even actually
has to take roles of herself because that's the only
thing she could act like.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Yeah, so she she got photographed today here wow? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Wow. I guess I missed that one too.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
I know I wished it was it was your byline
when I saw it earlier.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
No, I was out there for the Rocky fans, all right. Yeah,
and missing the money.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Shot, missing the Markle.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Yeah, missing the money Markle shot.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Missing money Markle.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Yeah. And I've seen a few movies. I mean, I
watched some movies on the plane. There's nothing really to
There's nothing really that's that's that stood out. There hasn't
been anything that have come out lately. I think the
next one will probably be the City Swinging movie that
I go to see. And as far as TV shows,
I've just been watching documentaries lately. Okay, So nothing really

(53:11):
to get into on that.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, Kylie Jenner's song, that's what that's a note I
had here?

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Oh geez, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
I didn't hear it. I didn't. I was gonna mention it,
and uh, you know, I guess it's no surprise that
she could do that.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, I don't think. It wasn't like a song release,
was it. It was for her for like a new
makeup line. That she was doing.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, I guess the biggest news of the day are
the biggest news of the which isn't really celebrity news,
but it's kind of celebrity news, because I do want
to spin in into this, which is we just had
an election. Yeah, Okay, New York had an election. California
had an election, obviously for two different things. But California's

(53:57):
election was a little weird because I went off to
go vote and I went to my normal voting center
and yeah, I wasn't there. And then when I had
to look it up, I found out it was at
a hotel nearby. Yeah, and it's not just my local people,
it's all the locals around the city's all going to

(54:18):
one place. So the line was an hour long.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
And it weaved through a hotel lobby and a hotel bar.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Which which is even crazier.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
I'm really bummed that I didn't get a drink and
wait in line, because when is the next time you're
going to be able to say that you had a
drink while waiting to vote. But also the TV that
was on there was ABC and ABC News, and there
was constant ads of voting yes on Prop fifty, which
I was voting no on Prop fifty.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
There's going to be some kind of rule on that, right.
You shouldn't be able to be influenced as you're lining
up to vote.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Yeah, And you know, you could argue everybody's already made
up their mind by the time they get there, but
still it's right there, it's right in front of you,
and it you know, I guess it reassures people, and
it pisses me off that that's how it went. But
it was overwhelming, so it didn't even matter. But and
that's not really celebrity related, but the whole New York

(55:20):
zoron mam Domini Mamdnni election. You know, obviously the big
news is New York turning to socialism, which is going
to be weird, just just to talk about it and
say it is weird to me because I've never heard
of any socialism that's ever worked in any country or

(55:41):
anything at all. So I don't know how New York
is going to be like that. But it makes me think, Yadi,
because you know, I call it Celebritism right on the podcast,
and Celebritism is basically so socialism, but for celebrities like

(56:02):
they make twenty million dollars a picture, one hundred million dollars,
you know, in residuals afterwards, stuff like that. They're all
worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh yeah,
And where does the money go? Who do they help out?
And I'm always complaining about how when they ask us
to donate to things, how you know they're ten thousand
dollars versus what their net worth is or what their

(56:24):
worth is is always something minuscule where change. If I
were to donate the same percentage, I would be donating
like five cents, and then I look like an asshole. Right,
So my whole thing is the celebrities, like Taylor Swift
lives in New York, right, So I understand that that

(56:48):
Taylor Swift is somewhat of a Democrat, and most of
Hollywood is kind of leans.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Left right apart from Sidney Sweeney aspart.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
From Sydney Sweeney, which is what everybody loves was about her.
But if you're voting for socialism to be in New
York and you're you know, you're left leaning, and you
do that, So does that mean the celebrities are gonna
do what I've always said that they should do, which
is they're going to give up part of their or
are they going to move out of New York and

(57:18):
be like the people that are like fuck this, I'm
not paying extra.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Yeah, they'll move to Florida.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
So it's just kind of weird that that they would
you would vote for something like that, even though you
haven't been practicing that your whole careers, are you know,
as long as Hollywood has been around, it'll be interesting
to say who and what does what? And I don't
think the like I asked a photographer. I texted a
photographer the other day and I asked him, I'm like, so,
what's the word. What's the vibe out there? Because of

(57:47):
this whole thing is that I don't it doesn't seem
like Mendanni likes paps. If a if a bill came
across his desk that said, you know, no more street photographer, uh,
something like that, that he would kind of lean that way.
And he was like, no, no, no, First Amendment. First Amendment.

(58:08):
I'm like, Okay, I guess you know that that is
what it is.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
I know who you were talking to.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Just from that answer, are the are the celebrities going
to be as into it as they've like, I don't know,
is it going to affect them? Is what I'm going
to say.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
No, and if it does. If it does, they'll move away, Yeah,
a different city. Like you know, Ma'm Danny. He's the
mayor of New York. That's what it is. He is
the mayor of the city. I don't know who the
fuck he thinks he is, because the first thing he
said was, you know, as soon as he was elected,
he went after the president, the president of the whole country. Yeah,

(58:49):
he's he's a mayor of the city. He's a he's
a tiny little guy. You know.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Well, he's the mayor of New York. You know, I
mean that is a big city.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
It's not like it's it's a it's not a state,
you know. I think the guy thinks he's too big
for his boots already.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
I think so too. Well, he obviously doesn't. He's never
owned a business, he's never worked for anybody, he's never
done anything. So it's really kind of, you know, how
that he's qualified for something like this. But I just
wonder if the celebrities are really backing this guy, if
they're really into it, because I can't see you know,

(59:26):
Taylor Swift giving up you know, forty of not of
her earnings, just just New York and pay for free buses.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
No, I mean she spends the majority of the time
these days in Kansas City anyway with old Travy boy.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Well, and hopefully all of her ties are to that,
and she just lives in New York, so it'll just
be like a property tax thing. But yeah, she can
afford it, I.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Guess, but I think she'll be all right. Yeah, it's
going to be.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Really interesting to see how this whole thing plays out
because I love New York. You know, it's a great city.
I know you love New York and to see what's
going to happen is going to be really interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Yeah, it is. I'll be watching for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Good luck New Yorkers, that's all I got to say.
Good Ye. What do you think should we wrap this
one up? I think so?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
May I think so? We'll we'll come back soon for
another enthralling episode.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
All right, Well, if we've offended anybody on this episode,
we do apologize, but for myself and for Jedi, take
care and be well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
I love it. I love it, I love it. I
love it.
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