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January 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Featuring: The Palisades Fires, Speidi, Camron Diaz, Drew Barry and more. In this #Papisode, Mark talks more about covering the fires, Jedi gets sent home to cover LA fires and tells a good Diaz story. Plus much more. For the contant in this papisode, please visit the socials @paparazzipodcast on YouTube and Instagram. Thank you for listening and sharing. Be Well!

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Check check check check check my check.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I think I looks wod.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome everybody to the Paparazzi Podcast. I am Jedi, he
is Mark. Hello, we're together. We're together together again, together again.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We are in the hotel room studio. Yeah, the regular
studio was full. We had double triple booked the studio,
so we didn't have any space. So I had to
join Jedi in his hotel room that he came to
visit because of these fires that every photographer in the

(00:58):
world wants to come get a piece of.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah, I got flown in. It's it's Wednesday at the moment.
I flew in Monday night, late Monday night, and I
have seen zero fires.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Jet I put out the fires when he flew in.
His jet was so powerful of flower palastades and just
blew out the fires.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah. Kind of a shame, really, I'm it's kind of crazy.
I listened to the Solo podcast earlier on today as
I was driving down from from Santa Barbara into the
Los Angeles area, and it was it was haunting listening

(01:41):
to your first hand experience. It was, you know, you.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Painted the perfect picture.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Everything was there. It was just you know, it was
you could see everything so vivid in my mind. It
was crazy. So I didn't have to see it in
person because I felt I lived it through your storytelling,
which was great. Everybody, anybody that hasn't listened to the
podcast yet, please please go and listen to it. It
was I thought it was great stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Well that's high praise coming from the Jedi, because Jedi's
journeys are always out doing my journeys, so it's it's
nice to just go on a solo pod and to actually,
you know, because obviously to me it didn't sound like that.
Obviously I'm critical of myself and the storytelling of it.
So thank you for you know, saying that that was good.

(02:28):
But yeah, go back and listen to it, because honestly,
it's still affecting me and it's gonna affect me for
a long time, the story, so yeah, go check it out.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, and in the story, you mentioned you, you know,
you and you and Giles were driving around together, and
I spoke to Giles earlier on today and he said
he mentioned that you guys like saw a dead body
as well.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh yeah, I mean we didn't see the actual dead body,
but we saw the sheet over the body. And they
were the investigators were taking pictures of it. Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, that's heavy, man.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, it was so Yeah. And we were going just
you know, to tell the story. We were going up PCH.
We had already been through you know, three hours four
hours of you know, destruction and carnage and you know
everything else. And then we came across a few news
out you know, a few news crews with their with
their cameras kind of set up alongside the road filming this.

(03:23):
There's really like when you're going up PCH. Most of
the beach houses, you know, are on the left going
up along the beach, but when you every once in
a while, you'll come across a little house, you know,
a little house that's on the right, that's just on
the right side of the road, not up in the
hills because those are the big ones. But these are
like the old original Malibu homes that are that are there,

(03:45):
and you know, they've withstood many fires. So this one
they got. Both of these houses, they were next to
each other, and uh and one of the guys, Giles
told me today was just like a legendary surfer up
there that had been around forever and decided to stick
around because he could he thought he could beat the fire. Wow,

(04:06):
but obviously that didn't work. He wasn't really old either,
Like he wasn't really old guy, maybe in his fifties
or something like that. So yeah, that's pretty sad.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean I wonder why, you know, like like the
when the fires happened in Hawaii, everybody kind of ran
to the ocean and jumped in the ocean. I wonder why,
like that wasn't done in Malibu, whether that you don't
haven't heard any stories of like people running and saving
themselves by jumping in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, it just goes to show that all those houses
along there are like vacation homes. Yeah, yeah, there's nobody home,
because yeah, you would have heard that, because I mean
the way those went up, you know, I always thought
it would be interesting to see, like you know, like
a satellite, you know, time laps or something of how

(04:52):
quickly those things went up, you know, how it just
kind of went started at the bottom and then just
you know, because it had to have started it in
in like one place maybe and just kept going up
up the coast wherever the wind was going, and maybe
you know spotty here and there but yeah, it was.
It's really weird and it's a shame. But you know,

(05:13):
I've been calling it like our nine to eleven yeah,
where you know, you look at these views that you
used to have. I was just coming. I actually went
to go donate some supplies to the Red Cross up
in Westwood with my daughter and then we were driving
back along the coast and we looked back and we
didn't really realize it. You know, you don't realize it

(05:35):
until you actually see it at night. But the you know,
the the bay view from the top of either Palisades
or the top of Palace Verdes, you look out over
the view, it's called the Queen's Necklace. That's what they
called it, okay, And because when you look at it,
it looks like a jeweled necklace that goes out into

(05:57):
the city and it dips down like you know, where
the chest would be like, and there's a whole section
of that Queen's Necklace view that's just gone. Now. Wow.
So like you look out and the lights just end
at Santa Monica, where normally there would be houses and
lights all over the hillside all the way out to Malibu,
and you would see the Yeah, you'd see the silhouette

(06:19):
of the hillside by the lights, and now it's just black.
Maybe a couple of little dots of lights, but those
are just like street workers or something, you know, So
it's just black out there. It's really eerie.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's just crazy, isn't it. Utter devastation, And it still
hasn't kind of hit home to me because it still
feels surreal because I've heard your stories, I've seen the pictures.
I'm close to it now, but I can't get in
the area to see. You know, I don't have the
credentials that are needed unfortunately, and as soon as I

(06:52):
do get home to Buffalo, I get home, I fly
home tomorrow. But Friday, I'm going to apply for every
single press pass that I can so that in the future,
any you know, natural disaster or any story that needs
that those credentials I will be able to get into
because I, you know, I feel like I'm missing out

(07:14):
as a as a photojournalist. There's some great pictures to
be taken, sad pictures to be taken, but pictures that
the world needs to see.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, you know, Fortunately, Giles and I had some kind
of shitty old press passes that got us into those
first couple of days. But then as soon as the
looting started and you know, people were fucking around in there,
they started only taking you know, police issued you know,

(07:42):
sheriff press passes. And I was talking to Giles today
and he was in the in the end process of
getting his YAH so that he could go back in
because there's still more to be photographed.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Oh for sure, and that will be for quite some time.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, exactly, And so I probably should do the same thing, yeah,
because I had one at one time.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
But yeah, they won't let anybody in, which is which
is crazy. And there they arrested a lot of people,
you know, I think what like forty people or something,
twenty three people, and I heard all of them were
out of towners. I heard all of them came in
for like vacation looting. It's disgusting, isn't it? Just the
lowest of the low. I never thought I would even

(08:22):
hear the phrase vacation looting or vacation crime. It's horrific.
That says a lot for your city when you have
vacation criminals.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
But what's good is for like I know, there's been
looting in la and surrounding areas for the longest time,
people walking in and out of stores, you know, arms
full of shit that I've stolen, and you know, it's
slap on the wrist. But for the looters that are
going into the evacuated areas, they're giving hefty sentences. I
saw some today. I think two people got twenty two

(08:54):
years and another person got life.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
So it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
So they're coming down on these people heavy, which rightly.
So scumbags, Yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I mean I heard some guys stole an Emmy Award
out of one of the houses. Wow. What the fuck
are you gonna do with an Emmy? Wow? I mean
it's annoying enough to see someone get one, like I
would want one, and what are you gonna do? Like,
you know, put it up in your house and then
like your bros come over and they're like, hey, that's
fucking Sally Fields. Say it's got the name on You're
just gonna look like a dick, what an idiot? Yeah? Yeah,

(09:25):
people with no brains, Well, that seems like a good
time for a crack. What do you think? Absolutely, mate,
let's see if we can hear this this time. I'll
even try and keep it off my computer.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Now a little bit of get it a little bit.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Cheers, cheers.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Good to see.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Ye that tastes good. I've been doing dry January, so
oh really it's feels good. Well, they're calling it damp January.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
If you cheat a little, there you go. There's nothing
wrong with that. I've actually I've already had a margarita
this evening.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I had had a little happy hour.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Tipple right, so versify stuff out of the way.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Tipple, tickle, tipple, tipple tipple, A little tip, tickle, little tipple.
Did you see tickle tipple? It is tipple tip. Okay,
I've got an exciting job coming up. I fly back
to Buffalo tomorrow. I'm going to be in Buffalo for
a day and then I head to the nation's capital.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I am heading to d C to photograph the inauguration.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
I do actually have a press pass for that, which
I'm very excited for. I'm not quite sure exactly where
I'll be situated. I've googled Google imaged the last inauguration
and like put in where do the media stand, and
it looks like they're pretty close.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
So I'm really excited.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
I'm hoping to get some some great pictures of Trump
being inaugurated. It's just I think I've said on the
podcast before, it's very exciting to me to photograph history
and past president's presidents to be you know, any of
that stuff really excites me. You know, I photographed Trump

(11:12):
in the past, but I've never got anything picture wise
that I'm.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Super proud of of him.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know, I photographed Tiffany Trump's wedding last year from
a boat, and the pictures it was super far away,
super far away. And I photographed Trump's mothers no, Trump's
ex wife's funeral, but I was far away and didn't
have a good angle of him there either. So hope,
I'm really hoping to get something, you know, kind of

(11:39):
up close or you know, a historic picture. Podcast past
i've spoken about. You know, I was on vacation in
Nantucket with the Bidens just now for Thanksgiving. I've also
done the Bidens on in Kiowa Island, South Carolina, on

(11:59):
another the vacation, and I photographed Barak after the mysterious
death of his chef. I photographed him on Martha's vineyards.
The death of a chef, death of a chef, So
you know, that's that's the last three presidents now that
I would have shot, and it's a thrill every single time.
So I'm very excited to be a part of history.
And hopefully there's not gonna be too much trouble going

(12:22):
on decent.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's what I was gonna say, you want something to photograph,
to be careful what you ask for exactly. She can
get weird out there these days.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, my mother is absolutely terrified. She thinks something's gonna
go down, and I'm gonna be in trouble, but I
will obviously play it as safe as possible. And yeah,
I'm excited to be a part of history.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Well, if it's if anything's been proven, whatever happens, it's
not the obvious places that it happens. They you know,
everybody's gonna think that something's gonna happen in the inauguration,
but there's gonna be so much freaking security, satellites, everything
that's going to be dedicated to that that no one's
going to mess around with it. I mean, look at
what they did to Palisades. No one thought that the

(13:07):
terrorists could get the Palisades, but somehow they cranked up
the wind and they lit a fire and look what happened, yeah,
you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I was in Florida the other week for another
job that didn't pan out, but I swung by Mara
Lago just to have a look because it's cool, you know.
And Trump was there at the time, and approaching mar Lago.
There's you know, two bridges that you go over to
get over there, and mar Lago is completely closed off.

(13:36):
They've even closed off the road that runs parallel to
it and runs along the beach. But there's police check points,
there's guys with guys on boats with machine guns. They're
just service and cops everywhere. And I've heard that he's
rolling at the moment while he's not president yet, he's

(13:56):
rolling with like a sixteen car onto at the moment.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yeah, So he's rolling real deep.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
So come Monday, there's going to be it's going to
be the most service I've ever seen in my life.
They're going to be everywhere. I may stand a good
chance of getting a pin with that many being around.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
What seems like they've just given up on that. I
don't know what the deal is. Maybe Trump needs to
order more pins when he's yah.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
When I was in Nantucket and asking around, like a
lot of them were saying, oh, yeah, it's in my
other jacket, or yeah, I've given them out to kids already,
so yeah, we'll see. I'm hoping for something else.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
M Yeah, No, that should be interesting and it'll be
like the icing on the cake. Yeah, even though your
career is not over anything. I'm just saying, like, you
know that doing an inauguration. Yeah, as far as shooting
presidents is probably the best, you.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Know, photographing presidents, let's not say shooting presidents presidents. Yeah,
I'm excited. I say it to be a part of
something historic is it excites me. So I'm really looking
forward to that. I don't really have anything else lined
up at the moment. I usually like to have two
or three things in the pipeline, but this one's been

(15:11):
in the been there for a while and I'm excited
for its good. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Well, I don't have anything really lined up either. It
seems like, oh, shooting is is done. Today I went
to go look for a movie set at the oldest
police precinct in the city, and then I went to
go look at a set at the newest police precinct
in the city. So that was kind of interesting, but

(15:38):
there was no shooting going on, nothing at all.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Now, I wonder, like when it is going to kick
back into effect. I understand, like I mean, if it's
even shut down, I don't know. But as a kind
of respect thing, you know, you'd imagine that there's so
many crew people and obviously actors and actresses that have
been affected by both the Eaten fire and the Palisades fire,

(16:03):
that maybe they've just shut down all production right now.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I think so. I think there's just been too many
people affected. This is you know, it's touched too many
people in one way or another that you can't just
get a full crew together, or like you said, out
of respect, they're just not I mean, Jennifer Garner has
to get she has to feed more people, right, so

(16:26):
she can't work No, no, no, she's busy doing her
real job, which is helping other people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Do you think out out of respect or you know,
for everything that's happened the Oscars that you think they're
still going to go ahead.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Or you think they're going to I hope not. I
don't think.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
I don't think they should either. I don't think I
don't think these individuals should be celebrated, right, now when
there's you know, thousands of people in mourning, you know morning,
their homes, their businesses, their jobs, their possessions, you know,
their their lives basically, and then to throw this outrageous celebration,

(17:10):
which you know, I've never been a fan of award
shows anyway. I just think it would be in bad
taste right now for them to to celebrate.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Well, I think it's in bad taste all the time,
and especially and it's not just because of it's a
bad time now. It's just I think I feel like
it's always a bad time because our country is always
in a bad time, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah, there's always something, isn't there.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
And I always think when you watch award shows, like
how much people are suffering around the world or around
the country, and you watch this and you're like, wait,
because it used to be something different. It used to
be you watch these people and you maybe think that
you had to you know, you could maybe become them
one day, or you had because it was a cool

(17:54):
thing to do. It's just not cool anymore, no, you know.
And I don't think anybody he's fooled by it anymore.
And there's just too many like narcissistic pricks in the business.
I mean, yeah, just not good people. Yeah, I mean
you think as well that.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Every single speech would be exactly the same, right, Yeah,
the hearts go out this, that and the other.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's what it would be. Yeah. Yeah, and then they
would do probably a half an hour on tributes. And
you know, I mean all the sporting events are doing
it anyway, but which is fine, you know, but the
real the real people we need to be celebrated. That
what we need is it is like a firefighter oscars that.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Would be great. They should be celebrated.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
First responders oscars that would be insane, where we could
actually just be like, here, this is Jimmy Jimmy Jones.
He saved four lives, he freed a dog, he put
out a fire, he saved this house. So we give
him best you know, house saver awar or you know
another guy who maybe found a fire hydrant that worked, yeah,

(19:02):
you know, and you give him an award for you know,
the luckiest man alive.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
You know, I did see a story, I think I
saw it yesterday or today that there was a firefighter
who worked a sixteen or an eighteen hour shift, you know,
saving homes and putting out fires, and then he went
back to his house, which was reduced to rubble. Yeah,
his home was burnt down. Yeah yeah, fucking hell man,
they're so heavy.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And it's not like that was his first fire either. No,
he's probably been fighting him for thirty years.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
And yeah, his house was burned in the fire. That
is crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I also I saw something as well that I think
it was they're planning like a tribute concert at the.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
At the Forum. I think it was going to be
like a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
LA artists, you know, a fundraiser for you know, people
that have lost their homes in both of the fires,
which I think is a great idea.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
I'm not a war shows, no, but fundraising concerts and
all that kind of stuff. Yes, absolutely, And I think
they said that they're trying to get twenty five to
twenty eight LA based artists to do this this concert,
and they've already got fifty though want to do it.
And it did actually say that although they both have

(20:19):
homes here, Taylor Swift and Beyonce had not reached out
to be a part of it.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Interesting. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're not. They're transplants, so
you know, they have some of the biggest houses here,
but you know they don't live in them ever. Yeah, yeah,
that'd be good. I think top of the list. I
think the first person to sign up would probably be
Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
I was going to say the same thing.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, they're always the they're always the LA guys, So yeah,
we'll see. But yeah, no, I like that idea. And
like I said, I donated some stuff today and it
was funny because, you know when I pulled up, because
I went through three different kind of areas to ask

(21:04):
people where I go, and this was the Westwood you know,
evacuation area, and I pulled it to the first guy
and I go, oh, hey, I've got some food to donate,
and they just kind of rolled their eyes a little
bit and they're like, oh, well, we're parking. You got
to go over to these guys. So then I went
over to the next group and they're like, oh, yeah,
you got to go around the corner to the to

(21:26):
the Red Cross. You know, they were fine, but then
I pulled up to the Red Cross and you know,
they were the same way. They're like, oh food, Well,
we're almost closing, like we're almost and I'm like well,
I just drove all the way up here. I got
to you know, twenty thirty minutes, you know, like I
want to unload it, just take it.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Surely there's some displaced people that are hungry and need goods,
any kind of food.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
And it's not like there was a million people around.
There was tons of people around. So anyway, I just
pulled up and just got out of my car. I
walked over to the front desk and I go, uh, yeah,
I've got some food to donate. And she kind of
rolled her eyes too and was like, uh so, what
do you have. And I'm like, I've got a crate
full of Costco food. And her eyes just got super

(22:08):
bright and she's like Costco. I said, yeah, Costco, and
she's like, okay, you know, Billy, hold on, come over here.
He's gonna help you. He's gonna help you carry it in.
So they got excited about the Costco food. I don't
know exactly why, but I just imagined that that maybe
people are bringing like like their second half of their

(22:29):
sandwich from the day or something, or like you know,
a half eaten fucking salad, you know, and they're like,
I'll donate this. So when they hear something like you know,
big boxes of you know, tons of food, They're like,
oh yeah, that'd be great. Wow, Oh good for you man,
that's great. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
I mean I've not gone to the levels of donating
you know, piles of food to people the need before,
but I've tried to donate sandwiches and stuff to humeless
people before. And that's the ways the noses always turned up.
Because yeah, but that's great. No, I've all done, mate.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I've had plenty of homeless deny my offerings, yeah, because
they just want money instead of Yeah, even though they're
science says I'm hungry.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, that's good that you're doing that. I spoke to
another friend today that had done interviews with He was
on for another paper and was doing on camera interviews
with one of their journalists, and.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
They were out at one of the one of.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
The churches that had set up a donation center and
they had you know, food being cooked, and they had
diapers and toilet paper and you know, crates of bottled
water and all other bits and pieces. And he said,
every single person in line were people that were definitely

(23:53):
not displaced.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Really yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
So there was there's a lot of people out there
taking advantage of you know, the good nature of others.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, which is you know, not too great to be honest. Now,
that's pretty unfortunate. And and I'm gonna take the time
to actually to crown a phrase. Okay, I've been saying
this one for a little while, and because we can't
you know now that now that half of rich La
is homeless, you can't call them homeless because they are

(24:27):
a bunch of rich people that are going to rebuild
and they're gonna be just fine. I even I even
you know, had some friends that were saying, oh, yeah,
it's bummer my house burned down. But you know, in
the meantime, I'm gonna go to Aspen and I'm going
to spend a week there. Then I'm going to go
to the Caribbean and spend a week there, and then

(24:48):
I'm gonna come back and and I'm gonna have to
move to Manhattan Beach for like a year or two
while they while I rebuild my house. And that was
pretty interesting. But we can't call them homeless, you know,
homeless people, because then you're wrapped up with the drug
addicts and you know, the assholes that are out there
just want to be you know, so I call them evacs.

(25:09):
There you go to the evac and so I'm crowning
the phrase evacs hashtag evacs. I sound like Spencer Pratt
by saying that. But actually, let me ask you about
Spencer Pratt because since we're on that subject. Yeah, have
you seen Spencer Pratt's uh stuff lately?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I've seen, you know, I log onto the Paparazzi podcast
Instagram account every now and then and I go through,
you know, people that that we follow on there. I
have seen some of Spencer's stuff. Yeah, that the world
has kind of fallen in love again. It seems like

(25:47):
with with Heidi and Spencer.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Man, I don't know what I mean. Obviously this has
something to do with the fires.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, the house was destroyed.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Their house was destroyed, and you know, you would think
that that wouldn't turn around to be a promotional thing.
And I don't think they really intended it to be.
I don't think they just wanted to, you know, tell
their story and yeah, I mean because they do that anyway.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, And I think they've been They've been real. They've
been really real, They've been emotional, they've put their hearts
on their sleeves. You know, they've cried, they've laughed, and
you know, they've you know, they they they're getting through
it with humor and fun. I think, yeah, I've enjoyed seeing,
you know, seeing some of their postings. And what's funny is,

(26:33):
you know Heidi's album in Singles from fifteen years ago
at the top of top of the iTunes charts.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I was. I was in the studio with them shooting
the photo shoot for their her studio recording of that
album when it happened. And it's just amazing that this is,
this has come back around. She's she's she's kind of repopulated, Yeah,
populated the the you know, the radio. Yeah, yeah, I

(27:04):
think it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Like I've seen Spencer's been like reposting other celebrities like
listening to it as well. Like I saw Diplow, Oh
my God, was listening to it on the plane and
you know, yeah, I played to them.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Yeah. We posted a picture a couple of days ago,
but I didn't I didn't tag Spencer in it, so
he didn't you know, he didn't repost it. But we've
got an insane picture that I took of them, her
in Mexico. It's probably the best picture of Heidi anybody's
ever taken of her, and it's just that kind of

(27:36):
a picture. It's an iconic picture that only would do
good with promoting a new album. Yeah, yeah, grabs your attention,
just like her songs do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
And what's funny as well, I saw I sort of
posting on des moy de Moux.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
It was it was a pic.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
It was a pap set of pictures of Heidi and
Spencer in Santa Barbara going to a CBS and Spencer
commented on it, this is the first time we've been
papped and not having cooled.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I was thinking that I didn't even know he said that,
but I was thinking that when I saw those pictures,
I'm like, those actually.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Look past Yeah they were, but you know that they
can laugh at themselves, which is great. Yeah, obviously it's
no laughing matter having lost your home and all your possessions.
But yeah, they're just they're they're real. Yeah, exactly, You're
seeing them as they are.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
And honestly, you would think that that they are fake
because they they do promote like that, they do put
themselves out there like that. But I'm going to tell
you from experience with these two that they are totally
real and they are not faking anything, you know. So yeah,
hats off to them, and I hope Heidi's album just

(28:55):
completely takes over just because that's the world we live
in now where you can just you know, put out
some put out some music fifteen years later and everybody's
in the mood and everybody's loving it because because it's
kind of a healing time. It's it's a time. You know,
they're victims. Yeah, you know, whether you want to believe

(29:16):
it or not, they're victims. You you you, you know,
you develop a relationship with them, you know, through social
media of them telling their story and you think about
how many other people are in their situation. Yeah, and
then you add some music that's just uplifting music. It's

(29:37):
fun and it heals and that's why I think everybody's
loving it right now. It makes them feel good. I
saw a story today.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I don't know how much truth there is to it,
but I saw that they're in talks already with Hulu
to start to you know, bring out a new reality
show about how they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Rebuild rebuilding Spidey. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
I mean, I don't have much, but everybody seems to
want a piece with them right now.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah. Well, and he's talking about suing the city and yeah,
he's talking about going to court and his lawyers and
how he's gonna be posting every step of the way
of the whole thing. I don't know if I can
talk about this, but I'm gonna do it anyway type
of stuff. Best of lots of them. I've had some
great times yea with them. Yeah you got and you know,
hit us up, Spencer, you know, I mean, you know,

(30:23):
we can get back into our old groove and you
know we can. You know we can, we can Spidey
two point hight. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
I saw Nate Dog posted an old picture of hiding
Spencer today and then Spencer reposted it as well. Yeah,
so yeah, yeah, shout.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Out Nate Dog. Yep. Should we take a quick break?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yep, We'll take a quick break and we right back.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
How long has that been? Okay, welcome back? So I
would ask what to watching, but we've all been watching
the same ship for the past fucking you know, six days, Yeah,
which is fires. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
I was I was at home watching all the LA news. Basically,
I was flipping between you know, on the websites you
can go on to, you know, k calf was it,
Kekel five, ABC seven and Fox eleven, and just just
cycling between those three and streaming it to my to
my TV. And I was driving my wife absolutely crazy

(31:31):
because I think I was watching. I watched one for
like twelve hours straight. Yeah. It was like just compelling viewing.
And I was, you know, hoping and praying for hopes
and press thoughts and press you know, but people were
going to be you know, safe and whatnot. But I
was also hoping that my phone would ring for me

(31:54):
to get here. Yeah, and of course when it did,
it was it was too little, too late, little too late.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, well we didn't know that at the time. Yeah,
things happened. They changed so quickly they did.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
I've not really been watching anything else I can think of.
I know, there's there's a new Netflix movie coming out
Cameron Diaz and Jamie Fox. I just saw them walk
in the red carpet a premiere in Coming Back Man
in Berlin, Yeah, which I thought was kind of odd
timing as well to be you know, like we talked

(32:25):
about the Oscars and not to be celebrating that kind
of ship after all that's gone down, But yeah, they're
coming back. I think don't think Cameron's done anything in
five plus years. And this is the movie that Jamie
Fox was halfway through when he had a stroke or
whatever it was and completely changed how he looked and
he was possibly cloned.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Right, Yeah, well yeah, did you did you watch the
Jamie Fox especially yet? I haven't seen that yet, and
I know that was my homework. It was the homework. Yeah,
we're tying perfectly right now, so you're kind of killing it.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
But I don't think I've ever actually photographed Jamie. Have
you photographed Jamie.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
For I photographed Jamie on the set of Oh I
have actually that Violinist movie whatever with Adrian Brodie.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, yeah, I did.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I did as well Downtown. I think that's the only
time though, Yeah, same, And I've I've photographed Cameron Diaz
a couple of times, but the only one that's coming
in my mind right now is on the set of
Night and Day with Tom Cruise.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
See, I don't think I've photographed on set, but she
is the celebrity that has flipped me off the most times.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Really.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, I've definitely been flipped off by her at least
three times. First time was I was outside the Chateau
Moment and she drove past me and I pulled on
the follow really quickly and I got the finger out.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Of out the window. Wow.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Second time was shoe shopping at Barney's New York. I
followed her there and was shooting through one of the
front windows, and she went saw me and flipped me
the bird. And then the third time was Whole Foods
in Beverly Hills, where she's looking through the produce, sees

(34:10):
me in the window photographing her, and gives me the
finger again. She's also one of the celebrities that I've
actually kind of had the most fun with shooting as well,
many many years ago. We're probably going about fifteen eighteen years.
I followed I was driving around, driving around LA and

(34:31):
I drove up past the Chateau Momont near where she
used to live, and there was a limo parked outside
of her house. So I went down a hill a
bit watched for the limo. You know, she obviously got
in it, not that I saw, But then I followed
the limo to Lax and it dropped off the suitcases
because I jumped out of the car actually to photograph her

(34:54):
getting out, and then she didn't get out of the car.
The suitcases got out of the car, and then she
took off. Car took off all the way around LAX
and I ran following the car from Terminal two all
the way to seven. And then I'm like, what the
fuck am I doing. It's obviously obviously going to go
back to two where it dropped off.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
The suitcases.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Ran all the way back to two, and the car's
passing me after having dropped her off. Then I ran in,
ran into two, found her at the ticket counter, absolutely
nailed her, posed her down really well, and saw that
she was checking in for a flight to Hawaii to
to Maui, I think it was. And I called up

(35:33):
the agency agency and they said, okay, get their next
flight to Hawaii, and they sent us to Hawaii to.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Follow her there. That's great.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
It was because unbelievable, and I can't remember how we
tracked her down, but we found her a beach house
and she was staying with It was Drew Barrymore and
another girlfriend, and we you know, we'd been working the
beach kind of discrete, getting getting some some some shots,
getting some you know, discrete shots, and the guy I

(36:06):
was working with at the time actually managed to get
a frame of her I think it was smoking weed.
He there was like a shot of her with a
joint as well, and that did really well. Then a
couple of days later, we're out on the beach, you know,
staking it out and Golden I was just past the
sun's just starting to come down, and Cameron, Drew and

(36:27):
the third friend come out in bikinis like giggling. They were,
you know, they're probably probably a little high, probably a
little inebriated from wine. And then they all run out
straight into the water. Hi boys, Like they saw us.
They completely absolutely just gave it up with just absolutely
hosing them in the water. They're splashing each other, splashing around, playing,

(36:51):
doing the little kind of dolphin dives where their heads
are going under and their butts are coming up.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
And there nice.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
So yeah, she's been like one of the one of
the nastiest people to meet to photograph, but then also
one of the sets I've had.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
The most fun shooting because they were drunk basically, and
she took it to Hawaii and she took me to
Hawaii for a week. Or so. Yeah, that's always, never,
never a bad thing. Well, Cameron and I remember seeing
those pictures. Yeah, they were great. That's such a good set.
They were out in the ocean like the whole time.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Uh, I looked at my list on what you're watching?
Hold on or did I? Oh? Yeah, good girl, this
is the old stuff. Finally to the Moon all that ship.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yeah, yeah, we talked about that one.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
There's one more thing I was going to talk about.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Have you seen, you know, to about Drew Barrymore? Just
then with Cameron, have you seen Drew Barrymore's Have you
seen Drew Barrymore's talk show at all?

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I mean I've seen it, but I've never watched it. Yeah,
I've never I've never watched it and listened to it.
I dont no.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
But working out with the gym, you know, they occasionally
have it on the TV there.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Maybe I should the gym, the gym.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I need to need to get back into it. It
seems kind of so crazy, like all the interviewers usually
on talk shows, you know, behind the desk or whatever
that they're they're separated from the people they're interviewing. But
with Drew, like she comes across to me, is so awkward.
She's like sat next to the people almost on their laps,

(38:44):
like reaching out or leaning right into their faces, holding
their hands. It just looks so awkward.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
It does. It's it's the most awkward thing. I don't know.
I don't know how anybody can go on that show.
I mean, obviously it's got of you know, it's got viewers,
and yeah, you go on it for that for whatever reason.
But yeah, every time I watch it, it's the most
awkward thing. She gets made fun of all the time. Yeah,
on all other you know, podcasts and stuff, I hear

(39:11):
it all the time about her getting made fun of
and the way she talks and the way that, you know,
the way the whole thing is with all the feelings
and the you know, the the baby talk. Almost it's
just like I remember seeing it, seeing it.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
She was I think she was interviewing Demi Lovato and
like she was sat like facing her legs crossed, like
holding both of her hands like almost just it just
doesn't seem right.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
It doesn't seem real at all, Like it looks like
it's all staged. It sounds like like their conversations are
way over emphasized. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like,
it's it's meant to feel a certain way, so they
have to make their voices a certain way, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
No, it's super awkward and I can't stand to berrymore.
It's simply because of that show. Yeah. I didn't mind
her in the movies hardly. Ever, I didn't mind her
in any of her movies. Yeah, she's always been, you know,
kind of a fun person to watch. But yeah, I
can't stand her because of that, and she needs to stop.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah it's weird.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Just stop taking the paycheck. Go back to regular Drew.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Yeah, go back to like doing Adam Sandler movies.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Go back to getting high in Hawaii and jumping around
on the surf. Yes, please send me back to Hawaii.
Yeah yeah, Yeah, Well, I think we're probably gonna wrap
this one up. It's rare that Jedi and I are
actually together in the same room. So we're glad that
we're glad that we had so many people lose their

(40:45):
homes so that we could get Jedi here to do
a podcast in this gorgeous hotel room. Yeah, we're just playing. Yeah. Yeah,
that's why we always say if we have offended anybody
on this episode, we do apologize, but we are just joking. Yeah,
you know that, but for myself and for Jedi, take

(41:06):
care of you. Well, why can't we be friends? Why
can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? Whack
can't we be friends?
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