April 21, 2025 • 56 mins
Featuring: Sydney Sweeney, Taylor Swift, Sue's Turkey Melt and more. In this #Papisode the planets align for both Jedi and Mark as they nail a couple good stories. We discuss Blue Origin, Coachella and the NEW Bodygaurd cast. Plus much more. For the content in this papisode please visit the socials @paparazzipodcast. Thank you for listening and sharring. Be Well!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A bowl of French onion soup, chicken pop pie with
garlic bread, and a skillet cookie with vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So you're trying to put yourself to sleep for the podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Is what you're trying to put me to? Put me
to bed?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Someone's missed being in a hotel.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Welcome everybody to the Paparazzi Podcast. I am Jed.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I here is Mark. We are your trusted hosts telling
you the stories as when and how they happen in Hollywood.
We've taken a brief hiatus over the last month or so. Unfortunately,
(00:39):
we generally generally do the podcasts when I'm at work
so as to not do this to disturb my wife
and child, because I do get loud and animated, So
we tend to do them when I'm in hotel rooms.
And the work's not been coming in lately, so there's
(01:00):
been no jobs for the Jedi.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's we're going for a weird time again at the moment.
We had this in the early months of twenty four
and it kind of corrected itself.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Everybody got busy, very busy, and.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It seemed to be on a downslope at the moment,
which is not good for any of us. But I'm
away and we are here at the moment, so let's
get rolling with this one.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I mean in the state of the business right now,
because I mean obviously week by week, day by day,
month by month, especially if we haven't seen or talked
on the podcast in a month and a half, the
state of the business. We've got two sides of the
business that we're talking about here. My side of the business,
which is celebrity photos. I think you know, I was
(01:53):
comparing it to you the other day saying, you know,
thirty five of my last one hundred photos have sold,
when normally, you know, ninety eight of my last hundred
sets of photos would have sold. So my side of
the business is nobody's buying celebrity photos. If you go
to something like a daily mail and you scroll down
(02:15):
the showbiz part of that, you're not going to see
many PAP style photos, especially from LA and normally you
would see you know, eighty percent PAP photos down that side.
And on Jedi side of it, I mean, you explain
to Jedi, well, yeah, I'm not offending anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, I'm doing you know, the news, the news side
of it, and some celebrity stuff occasionally, but yeah, it's
been it's been odd, like the there's not been enough
worthy jobs that have required sending a photo journalist on. Unfortunately,
(03:00):
you know a lot of stories recently that the journalists
have just been able to kind of do the story
and use collect pictures or you know, some pictures from
a social media account or yeah, just stories that just
haven't required you know, new or you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Know, fresh pictures to go with the story. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And I'm hoping this isn't a trend that continues, and
you know, I can get back to being as busy
as I have been.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, exactly like today today, I was actually trolling around
a little bit and saw news helicopters above me and
decided to go investigate, which, you know, if it's close
to me, I'll go investigate.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Who knows what you're going to see.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know, you might see the rock pulled over by
police or something, you know, and you never know. So
I did go to investigate, and there was a high
speed chase that ended, and so I actually pulled over
and you know, just decided to get some footage. You know,
maybe I can even though the news helicopters were on
(04:13):
it just try and get some ground footage because it
was pretty close and it was easy to easy spot
to pull over, and I got some really interesting footage
because you know, I started shooting and I realized that,
I mean, there was probably twenty five cop cars maybe
more that that were on this chase and at least
(04:35):
twenty or thirty officers that were out guns drawn, you know,
shields up, trying to get this guy out of the car.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I realized I.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Was in a place that if the cops started shooting
at this guy, they would be.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Shooting at me.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh geez, no jokes, no joke at all, dude. Like
I was actually kind of scared. I'm like, okay, well,
maybe I shouldn't be here, but there was no other
place to be, and there was people that were standing
around me. So I actually felt the need to go
up and tell them to say, hey, we're actually in
the crossfire right here.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
People.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If they start shooting, because this guy wasn't getting out
of the car, he would get out, and then he'd
get back in and get out and he'd get back in.
For those oh god, And I wouldn't put it past
them that they start shooting on me. I even had
a thought in my head where I'm like, do I feel.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Like I'm gonna die today?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But I ended up getting behind an electrical box, and
then I thought to myself, well, you know, a bullet
would probably go through this electrical box, so I got
behind my car instead. But I got some footage and
then realized there was a better angle that was out
of harm's way that I went over to to get.
I posted that on the Instagram so you can kind
(05:45):
of see, you know, the angle I was at. But
trying to sell those photos or sorry, those the video
afterwards to news agencies, they just didn't care. I mean,
obviously the news helicopters had their footage and those are
always always good footage, but I had ground level footage
that was, you know, on a good camera, that that
(06:06):
they might have wanted, and I mean they wanted it,
they just didn't want to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, it's something a bit different as well. You shot
stills as well as video or just fit.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I shot a couple of stills.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I was on a video camera, so I just shot
whatever stills I could on the video camera.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But that was it.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, it kind of happened really fast, but it was something, Yeah,
something different, something, you know, something a little bit of action.
It's just kind of the right place, right time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But it was good stuff to put on on our
social media.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
So yeah, I know, you guys want to see some
of that action police action, then go check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's a bit different and nice to get some action, right,
some kind of action.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Has that been much filming much, you know, TV movie
shooting in LA lately?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, there's been some stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Nothing really relevant as far as you know, people caring
too much about.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're not buying anything.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
That's the whole thing, right, you know, right, there's stuff around,
people aren't buying it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
They're not buying.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Footage or pictures from either my competition as well, because
I keep looking on there for anything, and I you know,
pictures will always sell. They'll always sell somewhere. Someone will
pick up something somewhere. But the normal kind of you
know route you take to look to see where your
stuff goes. Yeah, you know, the the daily mails, the
(07:33):
people's the the Page six is the New York Posts,
you know that kind of stuff. You don't really see
it too much, and you really have to, you really
have to get something good for it to sell these days.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, You're right, you really do.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And then you know there's.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Always the you know, the night kind of you know
TV shows stuff like that will pick stuff up, you
know a little bit later on and everything. But but yeah,
I want to kind of switch up the format a
little bit and go to kind of some some notes
I did about things that have been happening, you know,
in the news kind of lately before it gets irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
First on my list, and I doubt if anybody would
be surprised about this. You know, we try and keep
everything celebrity here, nothing political. And the first story that
you would think of Jedi that happened in the last
week that that has been dominating the news as far
as celebrities go.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What would you think that I'm that I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Thinking, well, I know where you're going. It can only
be one thing. It's going to be Blue Origin.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Surely Blue Origin. You got it?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
The dildo rocket exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
What did you think of that whole chebaccle.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'm starting to.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I hate I'm doing this, but I'm starting to go
with the conspiracy theorists that I don't think it was real.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, I mean, the whole door opening thing. It kind
of speaks for itself. It is kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I was.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I was, actually because anything that happens with space, anything
that happens with like kind of space progression or that
kind of thing, kind of brings a little tear to
my eye, and I like seeing it. So in real time,
I was actually kind of stoked that these girls were
going up there and they were having a good ride
and stuff like that. But then all the messages from
everybody else started coming in, even though I felt the
(09:30):
same as they did as far as you know, all
these rich billionaire women, you know, obviously getting a free
ride in this thing, when eventually it's going to be
space tourism and yeah, people are going to have to
buy it. The more that came out about it, and
the more people started talking about how it was kind
(09:53):
of against the progression of society.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You know, I kind of agreed with it.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know, money spent, money could have spent somewhere else,
money could know, a.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Million dollars a minute or something, right, is what it costs?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Is that? What is that? What they said?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, yeah, so obviously a million dollars a minute, and
we're talking an eleven minute trip eleven million, but all
in all, it's probably thirty minutes, forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, you would think that that money could be
put some somewhere else. I started hearing about the hair
and makeup that they had to go through, the special
suits that they wore, which I mean, if you're going
up in that kind of a situation where you're not
really actually going to space, you're going kind of to
the edge of the atmosphere, because there is if.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
They actually did, if they actually did.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Right, yeah, they need they need suits for that, but
they could golts and helmets and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah they could.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
They could go in like board shorts and or bikinis
and it could have been fine, right Yeah, so yeah,
you know, the I think the suits were made by
some sort of designers. And and then the door afterwards,
when when Jeff Bezos was sitting there with that big
rod that he had to open from the outside and
(11:17):
you can open it from the inside.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That was crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, I don't understand it man.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And the whole you know, Katy Perry coming out and
kissing the ground as if she's been you know, she
was up. You know, it was an eleven minute total ride,
and you've got these NASA astronauts that were just bought
home recently after being in space for like six to
nine months or whatever, and she's she's coming out and
kissing the ground like she's she's been gone for the
(11:44):
whole time.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Like yeah, just a total insult.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And then them calling the astronauts, I mean, you saw
we post your zoo trip and wondering if you're a
zoologist now have you applied for zoology.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Musicians I'm going to be close to applying for It's
also fucking jobs if things don't pick up well.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Like I said, you know, like you've been flying a
lot lately, you know, in the last couple of years,
so you can you could obviously put down you're a
pilot now because absolutely yeah, and then zoology since you've
been to the zoo, you'll be fine, right.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Because exactly I'm as much of a pilot and a
zoologist as Katy Perry is an astronaut exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
And what's funny is when Katie Perry not only did
she come out and kiss the ground, but the first
thing she did was take a little flower and point
it up towards the sky and then kiss the ground.
Which is kind of you know, I don't know, like kind.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Of weird either way. You know, you're going up and
you're going down. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So hopefully it dies down and we're done with this
and we don't have to deal with it again because
obviously the next person going up will be like Kanye
and then.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well hopefully they'll leave him up there as well. But
I mean it's not the end of it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Obviously. You know that there'll be.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
More people going up on elon Rocket, There'll be more
people going up on bezos Is, and who knows, maybe
Branson's Virgin Galactic would be going up again.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, some other celebs, you.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Know, And it's interesting to see the celebrities that are
commenting on it. Specifically, I'm talking about Emily Radakowski.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I saw she had something to say.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
She ripped it and she was talking about how, you know,
a guy who got rich off of everybody's greed is
doing this kind of a thing. But then she got
rich off of getting her tits out in a music video.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So really, I mean an.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Eye for an eye right there you go exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So yeah, from so from Blue Origin and the Giant
Dildo to the music version of that, which I would
think would be Coachella.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's going on again at the moment, right, it is.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Going on again at the moment, And it's just funny
because did you have anything to do with it?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Did you watch it on YouTube?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Did you no zero interest.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
In any of the bands at all? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, the only person I know that's playing is Lady Gaga,
and that's a friend from a friend's Instagram. I don't
I have no idea who else was there, And to
be honest, i'm not. Actually, you know, the websites that
we mentioned earlier on that they used to like just be.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Dominated by Coachella. I barely saw anything at all from the.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
First weekend, which I mean I wouldn't have clicked on
it anyway, but like there was nothing there.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Just goes to show that the photographers that are going
out there to get that, or even the agencies that
are sending photographers out there to get that, are losing money,
because I mean the stuff that I did see was
like cell phone video or pictures of like Timothy Shalomet
and Kylie walking in front of them like they're just
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outside of a gate, like walking by, and it's just
like a like a blur photo.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You know, yeah, you know, it's a punter. It's somebody
with an iPhone that sold it. It's a background I believe,
or somebody else or TMZ or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So the photographers are there with all the gear are
not getting anything, and it's an expensive ticket like Coachella's
expensive to go to the festival, and the hotels are
fucking ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I mean we're talking probably five grand for you know,
a photographer, three to five grand for a photographer to
get out there, stay there, food, staying, you know, all
the expenses to get there and do that.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
They're not going to make three to five grand back.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
There's no way, especially with the amount of and and
you know, this is where we've been talking about this
for years. The iPhone technology or the phone technology getting
so good that normal people will be able to shoot
whatever they're going to shoot, and it's going to be
better than any professional photography equipment that you're going to
get out there because they have more access.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With their phone.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
The people that do that, and then they're gonna post
it on a Twitter or something like that, and then
they're gonna take that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, and it's been seen by ten million people before
you've even sent your pictures out from the back of your.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Camera exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
And yeah, so it's interesting how that's all that's all
playing out. Well, I did watch Lady Gaga. I'm a
Lady Gaga fan. I wouldn't go to a show or
anything like that. I mean, I'm just a fan because
she's talented.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But I didn't. But I did.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I did watch her performance. It got a little annoying.
I did turn it off after.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
A little bit. She she gave it all. I gotta say,
she gave it all.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
The best song that she performed last weekend and she's
going to do this weekend as well, is what do
you think song?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Paparazzi?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
There you go. That was the best song she performed
the whole time.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
And and you know, I was going to post a
little bit from it last week, and I just didn't
do it because there was so much Coachella stuff coming out.
But what's interesting to see with Coachella is the different generations.
You know, the people that you know are out there
that have been out there. Like let's take Paris Hilton
for example. Okay, Paris Hilton has been going there since
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day one.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
She doesn't.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
She doesn't look any older, she doesn't seem any older,
she doesn't dress any older. She looks exactly the same
as she did. But her aside. You know, we're talking
like a like a Jenna Dewan, you know who brought
her and Channing's kid out there. People that are too
old to go, you just got to cut it off.
I know you're probably invited. I know you're probably not
paying for it. You're being schmoozed out there. But the youngsters,
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it's all for the youngsters, and it's it's pretty funny
to see.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know. I was just googling.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Then I went to Coachella and I couldn't remember the year,
so I just go with the headliner that I saw.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I went to Coachella sixteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow, that was That was my one and only Cochella,
and I didn't go for work. I went for fun.
And it was when Sir Paul McCartney was headlining. Wow,
And from what I remember, it was fucking awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But I was slightly slightly inebriated. But from what I
remember it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, that was my one and only Coachella experience you used.
Did you used to go and shoot it? You did, right? No?
Never did, No, you never did.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I followed Tom Brady out there one time and he
went into a gated community which is across the street
from Coachella. Okay, I think it was probably a twelve
million dollar mansion. I think every home in this neighborhood
is all twelve million dollar mansions on a golf course.
And never got a shot of him, but follow him
all the way out. There was a great follow Oh Jesus,
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we actually pulled off and and then he got back
on the following game.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I know in years gone by, Nate Dog, our buddy,
sometimes comes on with us.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
He used to go and do Cochella quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And you know, there was a lot of money to
be made back in the day because everything would sell.
It was just Coachella would dominate, you know, the mail,
the Sun, the post people they just do like Couchella everything.
And the Mighty Mofo was always out there as well,
covering Coachella as well.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, the Mighty Mofo is good because he can get
an angle over anybody's head and get a shot.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, he's got the best pair of eyes in the
business as well. You can spot anybody from a mile
away exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
And there was one there was one thing that stood
out on Coachella, and then we'll move on here. There's
one thing that stood out where I forget who it
was that said it during the like the middle you know,
during the night one of the night performances, when it
was just the most crowded. You know, they try and
pump up the crowd and they say, you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It's just who's out there doing this? Who's out there?
And one thing they said was.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Who's out there on mental health medication? And the whole
crowd just erupted in cheers. And I was like, maybe
that's not a good thing, and it doesn't make me
want to go to Coachella.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And that's you know, one more thing I saw before
we wrap up with Coachella, was it like ninety two
Perchella tickets were bought on installments. It was installment payments,
Like people are going people are going in debt. Every
like ninety of the people there are going in debt
to attend to Cochella.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I have heard that a lot of the young generation
what are they called Generation.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Alpha now knows what they're called these days.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, they I heard they're just going into debt because
they're going to ship about anything because the don't think
the world's going to answer.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Well, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
You know, cool, this might be the last Coella. Let's
just fuck it, you know. Oh my god, do you
have any stories, Jedi?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I do.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I mean, the last couple of jobs I've been on
haven't been celebrity based jobs.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
They'd be news stories.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So I'll get into one and then maybe I'll think
about getting into the other.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
There was a story out of.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Out of Illinois, you know, like a forty minute drive
from Chicago the other week. It was the same kind
of thing I've covered before with a female teacher getting
on with a student. So this was a teacher called
Christina for Mella. She was a soccer coach at the
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school and a teacher. This kid was a kid with
a soccer player, I guess, and they had some extra curricula.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But yeah, she got.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
She got arrested, and the court case actually just happened
on Monday, so I mean it's not settled yet. But
she was non house arrest, but she was. She was
on bail basically, So I went out there to try
and get the first pictures of her.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Since the since the arrest, and I flew into Chicago.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I was on a It's one of the few direct
flights from Buffalo, so I got eight minutes past five
in the morning flight into Chicago.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I landed in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
At six point thirty, went straight to my rental car,
drove to the house, did one lap to try and
figure out where I was going to park. On the
second lap, I went to pull over and as I'm
about to pull over, the garages opening, and I knew
what the car was because they had it in the
police video of them pulling her.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Over and getting her out of the car.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So I went to the end of the road, knowing
that the car would have to come past me, and
it did come past me, and it was her and
her husband, because she was married as well. And you know,
there was no story as to whether they were staying together,
you know, if he was standing by her, if he'd
left or whatever. And you know, obviously the pictures I
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got were of them together, which cemented the fact that
you know, he was standing by his wife, who was
his college sweetheart, a high school sweetheart, even at.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Least standing next to her.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, yeah, he didn't look too happy. Neither of them did,
not that they saw me either. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It was like a thirty or forty mile follow that
I had to tell them, you know, on the freeway
in Chicago, freeways are busy and trafficky and congested, so
I had to do a discrete follow all the way
to His family had like a food business in an
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industrial site on the outskirts of the city.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So I managed to tell them to.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
There and then get pictures of them going in the
pair of them together. Hey, this guy standing by his wife, YadA, YadA, YadA.
And they did well, great traffic.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
The desk was.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Super happy with them, which is always nice. And you know,
I got the pictures an hour and a half after landing.
You know, it doesn't get better than that, It really doesn't. Like,
you know, before the desk had called to check in,
I'd called them.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Saying, hey, yeah, I've nailed it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You know it was it was a nice one to
get back into the mix.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
With something like that too, Like you pull up, you know,
just from our perspective, you know, you pull up. They
they they're coming out. You get on a follow, and
the first thing you think is great, a quick set
of photos. Cool, done and done. But then they drive
thirty forty miles.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh exactly. I was thinking it's going to be like
a Starbucks or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You know, yeah, exactly. But then you know, and in
the thirty second mile. I can't tell you how many times.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You lose to follow, Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Just because a FedEx truck comes, you know, and uh
pulls in front of you and stops at a freaking
stop light.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Mate, it was. It was brutal, Like, it was absolutely brutal.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Like, no, there's very few follows that are actually like easy,
and this one was an absolute ballbuster, Like it was
one of the hardest I've done, because you know, there
were spurts on the freeway where we'd be going, you know,
just above the speed.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Limit, and.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Not that they were cutting in and out of cars,
but you know, cars got in between us multiple times,
and it was you know, sometimes I was four or
five six cars behind and I could only see them
in the distance. And you know, I think the only
time I was actually behind them was when they exited
it was an impeccable follow they really were.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It was.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was done to a t, and it was It
was nice to know that I've still got it, you know,
because I hadn't been on that long of a tail
for quite some time.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Well, and they probably knew too that there was some
heat on him as well, so absolutely they might have
been even expecting something like that. So you couldn't get
too close. It's not like it's just a no name
that you know, you could just get on the whole
time and they wouldn't notice. You know, that's a heat.
That's a heated story, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well, and you know what's crazy as well, the desk
decided to put the pictures out while I was there
and while they was while they were still on the inside,
and about about twenty minutes after the pictures dropped, he
poked his head out of the door kind of looking
around to see where I was, and he didn't see me,
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had no idea where I was.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But they pulled.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
The car around the back for the exit, so there
was no no no exit picture unfortunately. I mean I
nailed it already, like it was, it was done. Yeah,
you know, I banged them to rights.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It was Yeah, you're not going to get any better,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
No, exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, Yeah, that's insane. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, it was a really really good one. And we're
gonna have to take a quick break because we're running
out of time on this one. But I'll tell my
other story of action when we get back. We're back
from a little break. Mark is drinking something that looks fantastic.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's a neat bourbon from Mountain West.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Love a bourbon I've got. I've got a cup of
water from a hotel lobby. I haven't had a beer
in a minute. I might treat myself to one after
we finish the podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I think you should.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
The other job that I was on recently took me
north of the border into Canada. I was tasked with
photographing a chap called Hassan dab Lebanese Canadian citizen who
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was convicted in April twenty twenty three at a court
in Paris of having planted an explosive device in the
nineteen eighties, which it was outside of Paris Synagogue and
a bomber went off and killed a bunch of people.
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He faced like a trial through it many years ago,
was found not guilty, then moved in Paris, France, moved
back to Canada and was since retried again. And he
didn't show up to the trial because obviously he knew
that he could get arrested and thrown away, so he
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stayed in Canada and got found guilty and is still
in Canada. But the reason they wanted this story covered
was with the Trudeau leaving office and you know the
possibility of these which other new chap coming in that
they could extradite the guy back to Paris.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So they basically wanted to do a story on you know, the.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Bomber living amongst us. So I got pictures of the
guy walking around the streets. I got pictures of him
cycling around, I got pictures of him in a coffee shop,
all you know, good stuff. Again pleasing, pleasing the client
that I was working for. So yeah, nothing that was
like overly exciting, No thirty mile follows. But I did
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have to chase the guy on foot while he was
on a bicycle. Wow, because I like followed briefly in
my car and he like cut through an alleyway.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well obviously my car couldn't go through an alleyway.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, I pulled over, left the car running, and then
proceeded to jog for like fifteen minutes after him on
foot with my car running with my camera on the
driver's seat of a car.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's like Tom Cruise a mission impossible. Shit.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And I was on the phone to on my A
the AirPods in as I'm running, trying to explain to
the reporter which way we'd gone, So he was trying
to catch up in his car while I'm literally running
after the guy, and I chased him. Literally, I fucking
chased him to a coffee shop where then you know,
my reporter was able to pull up and keep watch
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on him while I jogged back to my car and
then drove over there to get a position to get photos.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Did you take your phone with you while you were
running or was the yeah that class?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Oh god, no, I had.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I had my phone with me, and I was very
very much out of breath as I was running back
to my car, and I had to, like I just
down and sweated it out for like fifteen minutes before
like getting my breath back.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But it worked out nicely.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Because you know, my reporter had to approach the guy
as well, so we had to, you know, get where
he was going.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I couldn't lose that bicycle. So it's quite fun.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
In all my twenty years of working, I'd never chased
a bicycle on foot before.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I don't think I've ever done that either. I mean
there has been an occasion where I've had to pull
out the electric skateboard to chase like Matthew McConaughey on
a bike. Yeah, and I think we have a picture
of that. But that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I I've never chased anybody, especially you know, jumped out
my car, left the car because it was an alley.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
That is such a movie scene. It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was pretty funny. And I'm sure shit wasn't
dressed for jogging. You know, it was in Canada. It
was fucking freezing still, there was still snow on the ground.
You know. I was in jeans, a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Big sweater and bundled up with a jacket as well,
just running through the streets.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So did he know that you were jogging behind him trying? Yeah,
so that's even better.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was discreetly jogging.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, that's funny because like in the Mission Impossible movies,
they know that those people are chasing after him, but
in this situation, they didn't even know you were after him.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
That's right, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Got a nice spread out of it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
So what have you been chasing and following and shooting?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well, it's gonna sound like a lot, but since it's
been a month and a half since we've done a podcast,
it's not a lot. In our business, there's sometimes where
and it's the only business. I mean, you tell me
if there's another business, Jedi, where just being in the
right place at the right time gets you that part
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of your business, you know what I mean? Yeah, obviously,
either sales or something like that. And say if you
you know, you walk into the right business to sell,
you know, some sort of product or something maybe, But
we're talking about, you know, the planets aligning either for
you or against you.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Right, Yeah, more often than against us.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, exactly. Well.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I tracked down Channing Tatum. I tracked down I tracked
down where he was. I'm not going to get into
depth about you know how, but the thing right, exactly right.
I tracked down where he was, right where he was living.
I worked on him for a couple of days, and
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you know, it obviously takes a day or two to
kind of figure out their routines, what cars they're driving,
what they're you know, what's going on. And on the
fourth day, I had started driving up towards where he
was living, and he was actually coming down the hill
and we passed by each other there kind of how
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I found him on the first day, which was I
was just driving around and he was coming down the
hill and the car looked like it could be somebody's car,
and uh, and so I got on the follow followed
it down to the city, drove around a little bit,
and he was on one of those modes where he,
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you know, he didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Know where he was going.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Like when you're following somebody, you think that they're trying
to lose you, but they just they're just lost and
they don't know where they're going.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
So yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
And the more you are making turns that they're making,
and the more you have to keep up, Like the
followers we're talking about with you where you have to
be closer because you know the traffic's going to fuck
you you. You have to get as close as possible.
But if anybody knows Channing Tatum in our business. The
guy is a freakin' like night owl. He's a he's
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a hawk. You know, he will he will spot you
and uh and and you know, I try and lose you.
But he didn't in this case, and I actually ended
up getting him. He was out with the daughter and
a friend and when he got out of the car,
he had a big trophy in his hand and he
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was looking around. They were trying to find the trophy shop.
I guessed maybe that they were going to go try
and get this the trophy kind of engraved or.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Something they got engraved in place or something like that.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
And it was just nice photos of him. He hasn't
been shot in a while. He never gets shot, honestly,
Like you know, you tell me listeners, when you see
pictures of Chanting Taineham out there, it's like twice a
year something like that. You never see him. So and
there's a reason for that. So good pictures. I was
really satisfied with him. He's with the daughter, but I
got pictures of him without the daughter, so they can obviously,
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the outlets that use pictures with kids and the outlets
that don't use pictures with kids they can have their
choice of whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
So I was happy turn the pictures in.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Later that day, I look online and I see pictures
of Channing with the new girlfriend in the exact same
outfit that pottom it. Yeah together, they were at Melrose Place.
Oh come on, and it's heartbreaking when that kind of
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a thing happens. You know, you get somebody, you track
them down, you find out something that nobody else really knows,
and then you get pictures. And then they go and
do something so stupid, which is to go to the
most populated pat populated area in Los Angeles and tipster
populated area in Los Angeles and they get photographed together.
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The pictures that I actually wanted, those are the pictures
I was going for. But I had to settle for
these pictures with the trophy, and it completely destroyed my pictures.
They would not they nobody picked up anything that.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I know of. Are you seeing Are you seeing him
right there?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I'm looking for them as you I google Channing tae
him in pictures of his acts. Jenna popped up with
the daughter at Cochella Atella.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, of course, well it's a it's a couple of
weeks back, so you'll you'll have to, you know, search
a little bit. But so those are heartbreaking and those
are those are how the business can go against you
in in those moments, but a story where they kind
of go for you in those instances. A couple of
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weeks ago, I was out on a Sunday. I wasn't
going to go out on a Sunday. I rarely go out. Yep,
that's it right there, same outfit, same out. Now imagine
him without imagine him without the girlfriend next to him,
and then just holding a giant trophy in his hand.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's a more interesting picture the trophy.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, yeah, you would think so. But he's got a
new young girlfriend, so you know, obviously that's gonna be it.
So I'm out on a Sunday, wasn't even gonna go out.
Decided to go out because my plans for the day
for the family had fallen through.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
So I went out.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
I was gonna shoot a movie set and the movie
set didn't happen. Heading back and this is out in
the valley, far out in the valley, so I was
heading back up over the hill and this is a Sunday.
Obviously we're talking midday Sunday. Decided to take Cold Water
right Sunday, going Sunday, going over the hill on cold Water.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah you missed that right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I'm at the bottom of the hill about to go
up the hill. And if anybody knows Cold Water Canyon,
going from the valley over the hill, it's you know,
it gets a little trafficky during that time because of
the light that's at the top of the hill, and
the traffic was all the way to the bottom of
the hill. So I immediately turned around, maybe a U turn.
I'm like, I'm not going to deal with this, and
decided to go back towards the four or five on Ventura.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
So I'm heading down Ventura and I'm.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Getting to the and I'm getting to the Beverly Glen area,
you know, to decide whether I'm going to go up
and over that hill. And I think to myself because
I used to go there before I was in the business.
I used to go up and hang out at the
Beverly Glen Market and get a sandwich there, and it's
my favorite sandwich that I get there. And mind you,
it's a twenty five dollars sandwich.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
So I was gonna say it's probably through the roof.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Yeah, but it is good. It is that good.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
So I was I was willing to splurge on a
little bit, and I.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Was, I'm interested to know what's in the sandwich.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Well, it's turkey, bacon, avocado, and it's and it's melted
together in a grilled cheese on sour dough.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Oh shit, that sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
And it's just I mean, it's all the best ingredients
there and stuff. I mean, the avocado is just prying.
Everything is great and melted together and they put it
with some fries and it is just it's just.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Ace from the Beverly Glen Deli, from.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
The Beverly Glendeli.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
But I had also hung out at Beverly Glenn a
lot when I started the business. You know, it's kind
of a place where a lot of paps would hang out.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
You'd just sit there.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
And honestly, maybe eight times out of ten you would
see somebody if you gave it an hour or two there,
you would see somebody that would pop out going to
the deli or going to the market there and Starbucks
Starbucks exactly, and you would you would get somebody there.
So I was feeling nostalgic there you go all around.
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So I went up there. I'm sitting there for maybe
a half hour, and I got the prime spot. I
pulled up there, and the car in the front pulled
out as I'm pulling in. And the old way of
thinking in our business is, if that car pulls out
in the prime spot, it's meant to be.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I pulled in there, and I'm looking out my front
windshield and I'm watching everybody. I'm watching everything going on
and forth, and it's busy up there on a Sunday,
you know, back and forth, back and forth, and I'm
shooting everybody. I'm just kind of shooting everybody coming in
and out, you know, pulling it up on the back
of the foot, on the back of the camera. Who's this,
who's this? This is nobody.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Everybody looks like somebody right maybe maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
A half hour into sitting up there, I decide to
order my sandwich, right, and I order because it's super
busy in that place. I'm not gonna go and order it.
I'm gonna order it online and then I'm just gonna
go in and pick it up and eat it in.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
The car, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah, that's my plan. So I go, I order the sandwich.
You tell me, Jedi, when you order a sandwich from somewhere,
And I'm not saying Beverly Glen Deli. I'm just saying,
anywhere you order something online and you're sitting out in front,
how much time would you give it before you would
actually go pick up the order.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
It's Bevely Glendeli.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Probably ten minutes, okay, And yeah, because I have I
have a you know, I have a time limit in
my head which I normally do with like pretty much everywhere,
which is about fifteen minutes, fifteen minut and it's maybe
twenty something like that, and then I'll go and I'll
get it, cause I'm not gonna I don't want to
walk in there and then have to wait another ten minutes,
you know what I mean, of course.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
But then at the end of the order, it says,
give us thirty minutes to prepare this order, right yeah,
And so I'm like, okay, fine, I was gonna give
it fifteen or twenty, but I'm gonna give it to thirty,
you know. So I'm sitting around watching everybody shooting this person,
shooting this person whatever, and probably about twenty minutes into
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the wait. I see this couple kind of just pop
around the corner. They were sitting in the deli, and
they start walking towards me, and I pop down my
window because I was shooting everybody through my windshield. Yeah,
I popped down my window because they were at the
angle that I could shoot out my window. But I
just rolled down a little bit. I don't want them
to see me, and I don't think that it's anybody.
I'm just shooting just to do a test shot and
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kind of get the lighting and stuff like that. So
I shoot this couple coming out, and as I'm shooting them,
I'm focused on the girl and the next to them,
but I'm focused on the girl, and as I'm shooting her,
I'm thinking to myself, this person is a little too
low key, right, They're looking like they're too low key
to be there, like.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
They're hiding, right.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
So they walk towards me and they walk past my car,
and as I'm as they do that, I'm looking at
the photos and I'm pulling up the image, right, and
I zoom in on the girl's face and I'm like,
that's that's fucking Sydney Sweeney, right. So I immediately just
take a picture of the back of my camera and
I send it to the agency and I'm like, is
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this Sydney Sweeney? Because these days and I'm not getting
many pictures these days and stuff like that. I've found
myself in a a in a rut where I think
people are people and they're not those people. And I'll
send images in all the time and they're like, that's
not who that is.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
You're fucking crazy, you know, you're seeing You're seeing mirages.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm seeing mirages.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
And at Beverly Glen Delli, everybody looks like everybody. They
all look like somebody, you know. So I'm totally confused
after sitting there for forty five minutes or so, you know.
So I send it in and they say, yes, that
looks like her, and I'm like, Fox, she's with a guy,
you know, because I know the story of her, you know,
and the breakup and the calling off.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
The fucking uh, the engagement.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Engagement and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
So I'm like, Oh, she's with a guy and they
and he's got a dog with her, you know. So
immediately and I start thinking about Jedi and his old
pictures of you.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Should have sent the picture to me a second.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
I did, but they did too, though, honestly, because when
it comes to Cidey Sweeney, everybody knows. Yeah, even even
as low key as she was, they knew right away.
But I started thinking about the Jedi photos of Sidney
Sweeney when she used to walk her dog and stuff
like that, and I'm thinking, that is her fucking dog.
So I just went online real quick. I checked it out.
I looked at it and it and it was and
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it was it.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
And I only got three fucking pictures of that. But
they were right down the barrel and they walked right
towards me, that walk across, and they left, and I
got some video of them going out, just in case
it was somebody, and I wanted to, you know, the
plate or something like that. I should have followed, Yes,
I should have, but I was not even close to
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one hundred percent sure at that moment, you know, So
I didn't follow and Sandwich and I got my twenty
five dollars sandwich that's about to come out, so I
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
So they're like, yeah, that's her, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
And so I sent in the pictures immediately and I
go get my sandwich, and I still had to wait
like seven minutes when I went in there to.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Get the fucking sandwich.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
And during those seven minutes, I'm back and forth with
the agency and they're like, this is nail, this is great,
this is awesome, you know, and I'm thinking, yes, finally
I got something really really juicy, you know, and it's
totally random, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
And so I get back to my.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Car and I'm not even I'm not even gonna eat
my sandwich at this point, Like I'm so I want
to eat the sandwich so bad at this point, but
I'm not even gonna eat it. I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna try and find them. I'm gonna go see
if I can see the car. I got a couple
of addresses on her, so I wanted to go to
check those just to see if the car is there.
And I went into full on, you know, kind of
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reconnaissance mode at that point. And so as I'm going
down Beverly Glenn to go check on these addresses, I'm
munching on the sandwich as I'm going down there, you know.
So I go, I check the addresses. There's nothing in
either of them. I don't see a car anywhere, and
probably an hour or two goes by and I get
a phone call from the agency and they go, hey,
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you know, Mark, you know, those are great pictures. You know,
really appreciate it. Those are great pictures. But I'm sorry
to say there.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Was another photographer there, No and Beverly Glenn.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
It was honestly a thought that, like, there was no
way that I nailed these frames without somebody being there,
you know, just because there's guys that hang out there
all the time. There's people that are in and out
of that place all the time. They're not like me,
where they haven't been there in six years, and then
they obviously you know, just went and popped in there. Luckily,
this other photographer gives to the agency that I do,
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and we were able to and he's a cool guy
and I respect the guy, and we were able to
keep it exclusive because if it had been anybody else,
and it had been with another compete uh competing agency,
it could have been a total mess and it would
have driven the prices way way down. That it worked
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out that, you know, and he works with another partner,
so it was unfortunately it had to have been It
had to have been split three ways, but that kind
of a photo at that moment, it's going to pay
off for everybody. And the other photographer was act working
on her at the time followed her there, and you
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can imagine how more heartbreaking it was for him to
find out that I was there rather than you know
how I was just randomly, you know, going in there
and getting the sandwich and getting the photos, you know.
So yeah, so sometimes in this business, it you know,
the stars aligned to completely screw you, and sometimes the
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stars aligned to completely hook you up, you know, absolutely,
And there's not many businesses that are out there that
are like that. But when it does benefit you, it's
a great feeling.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Oh it's best in the world's best getting in the world.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Yeah, especially when you when you when you go on
a forty minute follow and it works out as well.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
After being there for an hour.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Nothing better.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah. So yeah, that's it. Uhh. I do have something
for what you watch. I know we're running a little
lolong here, Jedi, but we'll wrap it up with this.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
But I do have a what you're watching, which is
nothing what I'm watching, But I did hear something today
that you know, you and I could both kind of
discuss that maybe you know something about and I know
you're going to have an opinion on it. So have
you heard anything on the casting of the new Bodyguard?
Speaker 3 (49:22):
I saw something.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
I did see something, and for the life of me,
I can't remember what it was. Somebody that was being
cast in the Whitney Houston role, right, and I'm having
a brain fought and can't remember.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
Who it was.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
It's a she's a no name. She's a no name,
she's just breaking out in this business. Her name is
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
Oh, for fox sake, of course, it was. Yeah, I
don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
Well, so I heard, okay, and you know this is
this is Mark, you know, the guy who's got his
ear to the ground of Hollywood. I did hear that
Taylor Swift is gonna play the Whitney Houston role and
Idris Elba might play the bodyguard role. Really and when
(50:14):
I first when I first heard about this, which was
this morning, when I first heard about this, I thought,
that is great casting. Even though I don't like Taylor
Swift and I don't really care about her being in
that role, it is a big role because she is
as big as Whitney Houston.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Was back then, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
Yeah, And Idris.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Alba, I love that guy.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
And if we're gonna go with the whole white girl,
black guy, like we went with the whole white guy
black girl, you know, because you obviously have to mix
it all in with race and all that stuff whatever.
Those are two great people to be in those roles, right,
But Jedi, as much as I like those two being
in the being in the movie together, right, can you
(50:56):
see them like getting intimate.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Don't see any chemistry at all, But saying I can't
see any chemistry with anybody in Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (51:05):
She just seems like a fucking dead fish to me.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
It'll just be all her, Like, it'll just be all her.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well and she's not like what she
hasn't acted since what fucking Crossroads or whatever the movies.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
That was pretty That was prettey spears.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
I know, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
Yeah, Like, no, I just can't see it.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
And I just parted Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
She was in Valentine's Day. I just had a quick
Google of it. And it seems like the only news.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Out there that that's pitted these two in these roles
is Tyra Banks saying that she thinks they'd be good
in the roles?
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Really?
Speaker 3 (51:41):
Yeah, so it's coming from Tyra Banks.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Wow, who's got no pull or no saying no matter whatsoever?
I mean ship with you know, with Travis Kelcey's acting
that he's been doing lately. Maybe maybe Travis will be
auditioning for the bodyguard role.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
It could be the power of them.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Not if they only want Swifties to go to this
fucking movie.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
I mean that there's enough of them, but could you
know the movie could fucking make money with just the
Swifties going.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
Yeah, I mean that that would be actually interesting to
see if they did that and how that would work
out and how much money they would actually make, because
they probably would. You're right, Yeah, I like the dynamic
of those two, but there's no way I can see
them making out on screen. It would be way awkward.
My wife said, Michael B.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Jordan Okay, And I said, okay, maybe you know.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
I mean, I definitely I could see them making out
more than Michael.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Ye. They're closer in age.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
They're closer in age, and they just seem like well
and and and Michael B.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Jordan's in a movie.
Speaker 4 (52:48):
Coming out called Sinners with Steinfeld. I guess he gets
a little crazy with Hailey Steinfeld too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:56):
Josh Allen, Josh Allen's fiance.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, full circle.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
Hallmark actually came out and they're doing a Bill's Love Story.
Speaker 3 (53:11):
Hallmark movie, just like the Kansas City One. Yeah, they're
doing a Bills one. Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
So and I'm actually I'm following a Buffalo casting company
on Twitter. So I'm keeping my eyes out for the
casting for extras and they're.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
Going to see if I can pop up in the
Bills Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
That would be good, even though they're probably in a
film at all in Burbank.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, probably probably probably, you know what, They have been
shooting another movie in Buffalo recently. Mario Lopez has been
in Buffalo the last couple of weeks shooting shooting a movie.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
Okay, Yeah, Well, they are a couple of years too
late on the Hallmark movie with all this stuff, because
they should have gone with Aaron Rodgers and Lane Woodley
or Olivia Munn back in the day, you know, when
when those people were in their relationships, because it's not
the original. Yeah, and can you imagine Taylor Swift's song
(54:11):
that she would come out with for that, I mean,
would she would she cover Whitney Houston, Like, would she
just cover that song? Or would she come out with
her own version that would you know.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
You'd have to cover it, You'd have to You'd have.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
To cover it, right.
Speaker 4 (54:27):
I think I think she would come out with something
completely new because it would be her movie. She wouldn't
want Whitney Houston to be involved, you know, at all,
no reminiscence of it, nothing. I think it would just
have to all be and then she would do the
Bodyguard tour after that, you know. Oh God, Anyway, I
guess we can wrap this one up. I do want
(54:47):
to apologize. The PPC did do a few interviews recently
about Harry and Meghan and you know, our experience in
the business and stuff like that, and we did make
some comments about Harry and Meghan, and I do want
to apologize number one to the listeners, because we did
(55:07):
have a couple of links in those articles and we
got we have got a few new listeners out there
that our last episode called Aura was you know, obviously
a concept that I came up with after you know,
learning about AI and actually having a conversation with Ai
(55:28):
and figured I could do an interview with Ai. But
there was an unhinged grow interview that we did and
she was very offensive and she had a lot of
shit about Hollywood, and I just thought it was funny.
So if anybody was offended to that, I do want
to apologize, and I do want to apologize to Harry
and Meghan for calling them slightly irrelevant now and how
(55:50):
there the paps don't really want to work on them
because it's a big hassle.
Speaker 3 (55:54):
And that it is though like they are, and it is.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Exactly and wouldn't apologize.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
I want apologizing just because that's what we do at
the end of our episodes, just in case we've offended anybody.
And I have had a few listeners reach out to
me saying, you better watch out, you better watch out
for Megan because she'll send her her goons after you.
So I'm just apologizing to her. And if she ever
wants to contact us and come on the podcast and
(56:23):
just discuss, you know, the truth about you know, what
they're doing and what we do and stuff like that,
we welcome them to come on the podcast and discuss anything.
Speaker 3 (56:32):
Absolutely, we welcome anybody exactly.
Speaker 4 (56:35):
So anyway, that's it. I hope everybody enjoyed it. And
if we were defending anybody on this podcast, we do apologize,
but for myself and for Jedi. Good luck, Jedi, take
care and be well. She's a no name Taylor Swift
A bowl of French onion soup, chicken pop pie with
garlic bread, and a skillet cookie with vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So you're trying to put yourself to sleep for the podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Is what you're trying to put me to? Put me
to bed?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Someone's missed being in a hotel.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Welcome everybody to the Paparazzi Podcast. I am Jed.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I here is Mark. We are your trusted hosts telling
you the stories as when and how they happen in Hollywood.
We've taken a brief hiatus over the last month or so. Unfortunately,
(00:39):
we generally generally do the podcasts when I'm at work
so as to not do this to disturb my wife
and child, because I do get loud and animated, So
we tend to do them when I'm in hotel rooms.
And the work's not been coming in lately, so there's
(01:00):
been no jobs for the Jedi.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's we're going for a weird time again at the moment.
We had this in the early months of twenty four
and it kind of corrected itself.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Everybody got busy, very busy, and.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It seemed to be on a downslope at the moment,
which is not good for any of us. But I'm
away and we are here at the moment, so let's
get rolling with this one.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, I mean in the state of the business right now,
because I mean obviously week by week, day by day,
month by month, especially if we haven't seen or talked
on the podcast in a month and a half, the
state of the business. We've got two sides of the
business that we're talking about here. My side of the business,
which is celebrity photos. I think you know, I was
(01:53):
comparing it to you the other day saying, you know,
thirty five of my last one hundred photos have sold,
when normally, you know, ninety eight of my last hundred
sets of photos would have sold. So my side of
the business is nobody's buying celebrity photos. If you go
to something like a daily mail and you scroll down
(02:15):
the showbiz part of that, you're not going to see
many PAP style photos, especially from LA and normally you
would see you know, eighty percent PAP photos down that side.
And on Jedi side of it, I mean, you explain
to Jedi, well, yeah, I'm not offending anybody.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, I'm doing you know, the news, the news side
of it, and some celebrity stuff occasionally, but yeah, it's
been it's been odd, like the there's not been enough
worthy jobs that have required sending a photo journalist on. Unfortunately,
(03:00):
you know a lot of stories recently that the journalists
have just been able to kind of do the story
and use collect pictures or you know, some pictures from
a social media account or yeah, just stories that just
haven't required you know, new or you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Know, fresh pictures to go with the story. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And I'm hoping this isn't a trend that continues, and
you know, I can get back to being as busy
as I have been.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah, exactly like today today, I was actually trolling around
a little bit and saw news helicopters above me and
decided to go investigate, which, you know, if it's close
to me, I'll go investigate.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Who knows what you're going to see.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You know, you might see the rock pulled over by
police or something, you know, and you never know. So
I did go to investigate, and there was a high
speed chase that ended, and so I actually pulled over
and you know, just decided to get some footage. You know,
maybe I can even though the news helicopters were on
(04:13):
it just try and get some ground footage because it
was pretty close and it was easy to easy spot
to pull over, and I got some really interesting footage
because you know, I started shooting and I realized that,
I mean, there was probably twenty five cop cars maybe
more that that were on this chase and at least
(04:35):
twenty or thirty officers that were out guns drawn, you know,
shields up, trying to get this guy out of the car.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And I realized I.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Was in a place that if the cops started shooting
at this guy, they would be.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Shooting at me.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Oh geez, no jokes, no joke at all, dude. Like
I was actually kind of scared. I'm like, okay, well,
maybe I shouldn't be here, but there was no other
place to be, and there was people that were standing
around me. So I actually felt the need to go
up and tell them to say, hey, we're actually in
the crossfire right here.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
People.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If they start shooting, because this guy wasn't getting out
of the car, he would get out, and then he'd
get back in and get out and he'd get back in.
For those oh god, And I wouldn't put it past
them that they start shooting on me. I even had
a thought in my head where I'm like, do I feel.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Like I'm gonna die today?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But I ended up getting behind an electrical box, and
then I thought to myself, well, you know, a bullet
would probably go through this electrical box, so I got
behind my car instead. But I got some footage and
then realized there was a better angle that was out
of harm's way that I went over to to get.
I posted that on the Instagram so you can kind
(05:45):
of see, you know, the angle I was at. But
trying to sell those photos or sorry, those the video
afterwards to news agencies, they just didn't care. I mean,
obviously the news helicopters had their footage and those are
always always good footage, but I had ground level footage
that was, you know, on a good camera, that that
(06:06):
they might have wanted, and I mean they wanted it,
they just didn't want to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, it's something a bit different as well. You shot
stills as well as video or just fit.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I shot a couple of stills.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I was on a video camera, so I just shot
whatever stills I could on the video camera.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
But that was it.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Yeah, it kind of happened really fast, but it was something, Yeah,
something different, something, you know, something a little bit of action.
It's just kind of the right place, right time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But it was good stuff to put on on our
social media.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
So yeah, I know, you guys want to see some
of that action police action, then go check it out.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
It's a bit different and nice to get some action, right,
some kind of action.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Has that been much filming much, you know, TV movie
shooting in LA lately?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, there's been some stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Nothing really relevant as far as you know, people caring
too much about.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
They're not buying anything.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
That's the whole thing, right, you know, right, there's stuff around,
people aren't buying it.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
They're not buying.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Footage or pictures from either my competition as well, because
I keep looking on there for anything, and I you know,
pictures will always sell. They'll always sell somewhere. Someone will
pick up something somewhere. But the normal kind of you
know route you take to look to see where your
stuff goes. Yeah, you know, the the daily mails, the
(07:33):
people's the the Page six is the New York Posts,
you know that kind of stuff. You don't really see
it too much, and you really have to, you really
have to get something good for it to sell these days.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, You're right, you really do.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And then you know there's.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Always the you know, the night kind of you know
TV shows stuff like that will pick stuff up, you
know a little bit later on and everything. But but yeah,
I want to kind of switch up the format a
little bit and go to kind of some some notes
I did about things that have been happening, you know,
in the news kind of lately before it gets irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
First on my list, and I doubt if anybody would
be surprised about this. You know, we try and keep
everything celebrity here, nothing political. And the first story that
you would think of Jedi that happened in the last
week that that has been dominating the news as far
as celebrities go.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What would you think that I'm that I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Thinking, well, I know where you're going. It can only
be one thing. It's going to be Blue Origin.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Surely Blue Origin. You got it?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
The dildo rocket exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
What did you think of that whole chebaccle.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I'm starting to.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I hate I'm doing this, but I'm starting to go
with the conspiracy theorists that I don't think it was real.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, I mean, the whole door opening thing. It kind
of speaks for itself. It is kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I was.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I was, actually because anything that happens with space, anything
that happens with like kind of space progression or that
kind of thing, kind of brings a little tear to
my eye, and I like seeing it. So in real time,
I was actually kind of stoked that these girls were
going up there and they were having a good ride
and stuff like that. But then all the messages from
everybody else started coming in, even though I felt the
(09:30):
same as they did as far as you know, all
these rich billionaire women, you know, obviously getting a free
ride in this thing, when eventually it's going to be
space tourism and yeah, people are going to have to
buy it. The more that came out about it, and
the more people started talking about how it was kind
(09:53):
of against the progression of society.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
You know, I kind of agreed with it.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You know, money spent, money could have spent somewhere else,
money could know, a.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Million dollars a minute or something, right, is what it costs?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Is that? What is that? What they said?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Yeah, yeah, so obviously a million dollars a minute, and
we're talking an eleven minute trip eleven million, but all
in all, it's probably thirty minutes, forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yeah, yeah, you would think that that money could be
put some somewhere else. I started hearing about the hair
and makeup that they had to go through, the special
suits that they wore, which I mean, if you're going
up in that kind of a situation where you're not
really actually going to space, you're going kind of to
the edge of the atmosphere, because there is if.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
They actually did, if they actually did.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Right, yeah, they need they need suits for that, but
they could golts and helmets and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah they could.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
They could go in like board shorts and or bikinis
and it could have been fine, right Yeah, so yeah,
you know, the I think the suits were made by
some sort of designers. And and then the door afterwards,
when when Jeff Bezos was sitting there with that big
rod that he had to open from the outside and
(11:17):
you can open it from the inside.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That was crazy.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, I don't understand it man.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And the whole you know, Katy Perry coming out and
kissing the ground as if she's been you know, she
was up. You know, it was an eleven minute total ride,
and you've got these NASA astronauts that were just bought
home recently after being in space for like six to
nine months or whatever, and she's she's coming out and
kissing the ground like she's she's been gone for the
(11:44):
whole time.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Like yeah, just a total insult.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
And then them calling the astronauts, I mean, you saw
we post your zoo trip and wondering if you're a
zoologist now have you applied for zoology.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Musicians I'm going to be close to applying for It's
also fucking jobs if things don't pick up well.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Like I said, you know, like you've been flying a
lot lately, you know, in the last couple of years,
so you can you could obviously put down you're a
pilot now because absolutely yeah, and then zoology since you've
been to the zoo, you'll be fine, right.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Because exactly I'm as much of a pilot and a
zoologist as Katy Perry is an astronaut exactly.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
And what's funny is when Katie Perry not only did
she come out and kiss the ground, but the first
thing she did was take a little flower and point
it up towards the sky and then kiss the ground.
Which is kind of you know, I don't know, like kind.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Of weird either way. You know, you're going up and
you're going down. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
So hopefully it dies down and we're done with this
and we don't have to deal with it again because
obviously the next person going up will be like Kanye
and then.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well hopefully they'll leave him up there as well. But
I mean it's not the end of it.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Obviously. You know that there'll be.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
More people going up on elon Rocket, There'll be more
people going up on bezos Is, and who knows, maybe
Branson's Virgin Galactic would be going up again.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Yeah, some other celebs, you.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Know, And it's interesting to see the celebrities that are
commenting on it. Specifically, I'm talking about Emily Radakowski.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yeah, I saw she had something to say.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
She ripped it and she was talking about how, you know,
a guy who got rich off of everybody's greed is
doing this kind of a thing. But then she got
rich off of getting her tits out in a music video.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So really, I mean an.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Eye for an eye right there you go exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
So yeah, from so from Blue Origin and the Giant
Dildo to the music version of that, which I would
think would be Coachella.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's going on again at the moment, right, it is.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Going on again at the moment, And it's just funny
because did you have anything to do with it?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Did you watch it on YouTube?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Did you no zero interest.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
In any of the bands at all? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Well, the only person I know that's playing is Lady Gaga,
and that's a friend from a friend's Instagram. I don't
I have no idea who else was there, And to
be honest, i'm not. Actually, you know, the websites that
we mentioned earlier on that they used to like just be.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Dominated by Coachella. I barely saw anything at all from the.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
First weekend, which I mean I wouldn't have clicked on
it anyway, but like there was nothing there.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Just goes to show that the photographers that are going
out there to get that, or even the agencies that
are sending photographers out there to get that, are losing money,
because I mean the stuff that I did see was
like cell phone video or pictures of like Timothy Shalomet
and Kylie walking in front of them like they're just
(15:02):
outside of a gate, like walking by, and it's just
like a like a blur photo.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
You know, yeah, you know, it's a punter. It's somebody
with an iPhone that sold it. It's a background I believe,
or somebody else or TMZ or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
So the photographers are there with all the gear are
not getting anything, and it's an expensive ticket like Coachella's
expensive to go to the festival, and the hotels are
fucking ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I mean we're talking probably five grand for you know,
a photographer, three to five grand for a photographer to
get out there, stay there, food, staying, you know, all
the expenses to get there and do that.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
They're not going to make three to five grand back.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
There's no way, especially with the amount of and and
you know, this is where we've been talking about this
for years. The iPhone technology or the phone technology getting
so good that normal people will be able to shoot
whatever they're going to shoot, and it's going to be
better than any professional photography equipment that you're going to
get out there because they have more access.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
With their phone.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
The people that do that, and then they're gonna post
it on a Twitter or something like that, and then
they're gonna take that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, and it's been seen by ten million people before
you've even sent your pictures out from the back of your.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Camera exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
And yeah, so it's interesting how that's all that's all
playing out. Well, I did watch Lady Gaga. I'm a
Lady Gaga fan. I wouldn't go to a show or
anything like that. I mean, I'm just a fan because
she's talented.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But I didn't. But I did.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
I did watch her performance. It got a little annoying.
I did turn it off after.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
A little bit. She she gave it all. I gotta say,
she gave it all.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
The best song that she performed last weekend and she's
going to do this weekend as well, is what do
you think song?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Paparazzi?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
There you go. That was the best song she performed
the whole time.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
And and you know, I was going to post a
little bit from it last week, and I just didn't
do it because there was so much Coachella stuff coming out.
But what's interesting to see with Coachella is the different generations.
You know, the people that you know are out there
that have been out there. Like let's take Paris Hilton
for example. Okay, Paris Hilton has been going there since
(17:22):
day one.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
She doesn't.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
She doesn't look any older, she doesn't seem any older,
she doesn't dress any older. She looks exactly the same
as she did. But her aside. You know, we're talking
like a like a Jenna Dewan, you know who brought
her and Channing's kid out there. People that are too
old to go, you just got to cut it off.
I know you're probably invited. I know you're probably not
paying for it. You're being schmoozed out there. But the youngsters,
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it's all for the youngsters, and it's it's pretty funny
to see.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know. I was just googling.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Then I went to Coachella and I couldn't remember the year,
so I just go with the headliner that I saw.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I went to Coachella sixteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow, that was That was my one and only Cochella,
and I didn't go for work. I went for fun.
And it was when Sir Paul McCartney was headlining. Wow,
And from what I remember, it was fucking awesome.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But I was slightly slightly inebriated. But from what I
remember it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, that was my one and only Coachella experience you used.
Did you used to go and shoot it? You did, right? No?
Never did, No, you never did.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I followed Tom Brady out there one time and he
went into a gated community which is across the street
from Coachella. Okay, I think it was probably a twelve
million dollar mansion. I think every home in this neighborhood
is all twelve million dollar mansions on a golf course.
And never got a shot of him, but follow him
all the way out. There was a great follow Oh Jesus,
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we actually pulled off and and then he got back
on the following game.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I know in years gone by, Nate Dog, our buddy,
sometimes comes on with us.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
He used to go and do Cochella quite a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
And you know, there was a lot of money to
be made back in the day because everything would sell.
It was just Coachella would dominate, you know, the mail,
the Sun, the post people they just do like Couchella everything.
And the Mighty Mofo was always out there as well,
covering Coachella as well.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, the Mighty Mofo is good because he can get
an angle over anybody's head and get a shot.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, he's got the best pair of eyes in the
business as well. You can spot anybody from a mile
away exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
And there was one there was one thing that stood
out on Coachella, and then we'll move on here. There's
one thing that stood out where I forget who it
was that said it during the like the middle you know,
during the night one of the night performances, when it
was just the most crowded. You know, they try and
pump up the crowd and they say, you know, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
It's just who's out there doing this? Who's out there?
And one thing they said was.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Who's out there on mental health medication? And the whole
crowd just erupted in cheers. And I was like, maybe
that's not a good thing, and it doesn't make me
want to go to Coachella.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And that's you know, one more thing I saw before
we wrap up with Coachella, was it like ninety two
Perchella tickets were bought on installments. It was installment payments,
Like people are going people are going in debt. Every
like ninety of the people there are going in debt
to attend to Cochella.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I have heard that a lot of the young generation
what are they called Generation.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Alpha now knows what they're called these days.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, they I heard they're just going into debt because
they're going to ship about anything because the don't think
the world's going to answer.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Well, yeah, so it's.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
You know, cool, this might be the last Coella. Let's
just fuck it, you know. Oh my god, do you
have any stories, Jedi?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I do.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I mean, the last couple of jobs I've been on
haven't been celebrity based jobs.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
They'd be news stories.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So I'll get into one and then maybe I'll think
about getting into the other.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
There was a story out of.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Out of Illinois, you know, like a forty minute drive
from Chicago the other week. It was the same kind
of thing I've covered before with a female teacher getting
on with a student. So this was a teacher called
Christina for Mella. She was a soccer coach at the
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school and a teacher. This kid was a kid with
a soccer player, I guess, and they had some extra curricula.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But yeah, she got.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
She got arrested, and the court case actually just happened
on Monday, so I mean it's not settled yet. But
she was non house arrest, but she was. She was
on bail basically, So I went out there to try
and get the first pictures of her.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Since the since the arrest, and I flew into Chicago.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I was on a It's one of the few direct
flights from Buffalo, so I got eight minutes past five
in the morning flight into Chicago.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I landed in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
At six point thirty, went straight to my rental car,
drove to the house, did one lap to try and
figure out where I was going to park. On the
second lap, I went to pull over and as I'm
about to pull over, the garages opening, and I knew
what the car was because they had it in the
police video of them pulling her.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Over and getting her out of the car.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
So I went to the end of the road, knowing
that the car would have to come past me, and
it did come past me, and it was her and
her husband, because she was married as well. And you know,
there was no story as to whether they were staying together,
you know, if he was standing by her, if he'd
left or whatever. And you know, obviously the pictures I
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got were of them together, which cemented the fact that
you know, he was standing by his wife, who was
his college sweetheart, a high school sweetheart, even at.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Least standing next to her.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Well, yeah, he didn't look too happy. Neither of them did,
not that they saw me either. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It was like a thirty or forty mile follow that
I had to tell them, you know, on the freeway
in Chicago, freeways are busy and trafficky and congested, so
I had to do a discrete follow all the way
to His family had like a food business in an
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industrial site on the outskirts of the city.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So I managed to tell them to.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
There and then get pictures of them going in the
pair of them together. Hey, this guy standing by his wife, YadA, YadA, YadA.
And they did well, great traffic.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
The desk was.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Super happy with them, which is always nice. And you know,
I got the pictures an hour and a half after landing.
You know, it doesn't get better than that, It really doesn't. Like,
you know, before the desk had called to check in,
I'd called them.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Saying, hey, yeah, I've nailed it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You know it was it was a nice one to
get back into the mix.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
With something like that too, Like you pull up, you know,
just from our perspective, you know, you pull up. They
they they're coming out. You get on a follow, and
the first thing you think is great, a quick set
of photos. Cool, done and done. But then they drive
thirty forty miles.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Oh exactly. I was thinking it's going to be like
a Starbucks or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
You know, yeah, exactly. But then you know, and in
the thirty second mile. I can't tell you how many times.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
You lose to follow, Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Just because a FedEx truck comes, you know, and uh
pulls in front of you and stops at a freaking
stop light.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Mate, it was. It was brutal, Like, it was absolutely brutal.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Like, no, there's very few follows that are actually like easy,
and this one was an absolute ballbuster, Like it was
one of the hardest I've done, because you know, there
were spurts on the freeway where we'd be going, you know,
just above the speed.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Limit, and.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Not that they were cutting in and out of cars,
but you know, cars got in between us multiple times,
and it was you know, sometimes I was four or
five six cars behind and I could only see them
in the distance. And you know, I think the only
time I was actually behind them was when they exited
it was an impeccable follow they really were.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It was.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It was done to a t, and it was It
was nice to know that I've still got it, you know,
because I hadn't been on that long of a tail
for quite some time.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Well, and they probably knew too that there was some
heat on him as well, so absolutely they might have
been even expecting something like that. So you couldn't get
too close. It's not like it's just a no name
that you know, you could just get on the whole
time and they wouldn't notice. You know, that's a heat.
That's a heated story, you know.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well, and you know what's crazy as well, the desk
decided to put the pictures out while I was there
and while they was while they were still on the inside,
and about about twenty minutes after the pictures dropped, he
poked his head out of the door kind of looking
around to see where I was, and he didn't see me,
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had no idea where I was.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But they pulled.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
The car around the back for the exit, so there
was no no no exit picture unfortunately. I mean I
nailed it already, like it was, it was done. Yeah,
you know, I banged them to rights.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
It was Yeah, you're not going to get any better,
is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
No, exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, Yeah, that's insane. That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah, it was a really really good one. And we're
gonna have to take a quick break because we're running
out of time on this one. But I'll tell my
other story of action when we get back. We're back
from a little break. Mark is drinking something that looks fantastic.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
It's a neat bourbon from Mountain West.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Love a bourbon I've got. I've got a cup of
water from a hotel lobby. I haven't had a beer
in a minute. I might treat myself to one after
we finish the podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I think you should.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
The other job that I was on recently took me
north of the border into Canada. I was tasked with
photographing a chap called Hassan dab Lebanese Canadian citizen who
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was convicted in April twenty twenty three at a court
in Paris of having planted an explosive device in the
nineteen eighties, which it was outside of Paris Synagogue and
a bomber went off and killed a bunch of people.
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He faced like a trial through it many years ago,
was found not guilty, then moved in Paris, France, moved
back to Canada and was since retried again. And he
didn't show up to the trial because obviously he knew
that he could get arrested and thrown away, so he
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stayed in Canada and got found guilty and is still
in Canada. But the reason they wanted this story covered
was with the Trudeau leaving office and you know the
possibility of these which other new chap coming in that
they could extradite the guy back to Paris.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
So they basically wanted to do a story on you know, the.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Bomber living amongst us. So I got pictures of the
guy walking around the streets. I got pictures of him
cycling around, I got pictures of him in a coffee shop,
all you know, good stuff. Again pleasing, pleasing the client
that I was working for. So yeah, nothing that was
like overly exciting, No thirty mile follows. But I did
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have to chase the guy on foot while he was
on a bicycle. Wow, because I like followed briefly in
my car and he like cut through an alleyway.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Well obviously my car couldn't go through an alleyway.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, I pulled over, left the car running, and then
proceeded to jog for like fifteen minutes after him on
foot with my car running with my camera on the
driver's seat of a car.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's like Tom Cruise a mission impossible. Shit.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
And I was on the phone to on my A
the AirPods in as I'm running, trying to explain to
the reporter which way we'd gone, So he was trying
to catch up in his car while I'm literally running
after the guy, and I chased him. Literally, I fucking
chased him to a coffee shop where then you know,
my reporter was able to pull up and keep watch
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on him while I jogged back to my car and
then drove over there to get a position to get photos.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Did you take your phone with you while you were
running or was the yeah that class?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Oh god, no, I had.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I had my phone with me, and I was very
very much out of breath as I was running back
to my car, and I had to, like I just
down and sweated it out for like fifteen minutes before
like getting my breath back.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
But it worked out nicely.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Because you know, my reporter had to approach the guy
as well, so we had to, you know, get where
he was going.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
I couldn't lose that bicycle. So it's quite fun.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
In all my twenty years of working, I'd never chased
a bicycle on foot before.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I don't think I've ever done that either. I mean
there has been an occasion where I've had to pull
out the electric skateboard to chase like Matthew McConaughey on
a bike. Yeah, and I think we have a picture
of that. But that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
I I've never chased anybody, especially you know, jumped out
my car, left the car because it was an alley.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
That is such a movie scene. It's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, it was pretty funny. And I'm sure shit wasn't
dressed for jogging. You know, it was in Canada. It
was fucking freezing still, there was still snow on the ground.
You know. I was in jeans, a.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Big sweater and bundled up with a jacket as well,
just running through the streets.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So did he know that you were jogging behind him trying? Yeah,
so that's even better.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was discreetly jogging.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Yeah, that's funny because like in the Mission Impossible movies,
they know that those people are chasing after him, but
in this situation, they didn't even know you were after him.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
That's right, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Got a nice spread out of it.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
So what have you been chasing and following and shooting?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Well, it's gonna sound like a lot, but since it's
been a month and a half since we've done a podcast,
it's not a lot. In our business, there's sometimes where
and it's the only business. I mean, you tell me
if there's another business, Jedi, where just being in the
right place at the right time gets you that part
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of your business, you know what I mean? Yeah, obviously,
either sales or something like that. And say if you
you know, you walk into the right business to sell,
you know, some sort of product or something maybe, But
we're talking about, you know, the planets aligning either for
you or against you.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Right, Yeah, more often than against us.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, exactly. Well.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
I tracked down Channing Tatum. I tracked down I tracked
down where he was. I'm not going to get into
depth about you know how, but the thing right, exactly right.
I tracked down where he was, right where he was living.
I worked on him for a couple of days, and
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you know, it obviously takes a day or two to
kind of figure out their routines, what cars they're driving,
what they're you know, what's going on. And on the
fourth day, I had started driving up towards where he
was living, and he was actually coming down the hill
and we passed by each other there kind of how
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I found him on the first day, which was I
was just driving around and he was coming down the
hill and the car looked like it could be somebody's car,
and uh, and so I got on the follow followed
it down to the city, drove around a little bit,
and he was on one of those modes where he,
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you know, he didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Know where he was going.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Like when you're following somebody, you think that they're trying
to lose you, but they just they're just lost and
they don't know where they're going.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
So yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
And the more you are making turns that they're making,
and the more you have to keep up, Like the
followers we're talking about with you where you have to
be closer because you know the traffic's going to fuck
you you. You have to get as close as possible.
But if anybody knows Channing Tatum in our business. The
guy is a freakin' like night owl. He's a he's
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a hawk. You know, he will he will spot you
and uh and and you know, I try and lose you.
But he didn't in this case, and I actually ended
up getting him. He was out with the daughter and
a friend and when he got out of the car,
he had a big trophy in his hand and he
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was looking around. They were trying to find the trophy shop.
I guessed maybe that they were going to go try
and get this the trophy kind of engraved or.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Something they got engraved in place or something like that.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
And it was just nice photos of him. He hasn't
been shot in a while. He never gets shot, honestly,
Like you know, you tell me listeners, when you see
pictures of Chanting Taineham out there, it's like twice a
year something like that. You never see him. So and
there's a reason for that. So good pictures. I was
really satisfied with him. He's with the daughter, but I
got pictures of him without the daughter, so they can obviously,
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the outlets that use pictures with kids and the outlets
that don't use pictures with kids they can have their
choice of whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
So I was happy turn the pictures in.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Later that day, I look online and I see pictures
of Channing with the new girlfriend in the exact same
outfit that pottom it. Yeah together, they were at Melrose Place.
Oh come on, and it's heartbreaking when that kind of
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a thing happens. You know, you get somebody, you track
them down, you find out something that nobody else really knows,
and then you get pictures. And then they go and
do something so stupid, which is to go to the
most populated pat populated area in Los Angeles and tipster
populated area in Los Angeles and they get photographed together.
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The pictures that I actually wanted, those are the pictures
I was going for. But I had to settle for
these pictures with the trophy, and it completely destroyed my pictures.
They would not they nobody picked up anything that.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
I know of. Are you seeing Are you seeing him
right there?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I'm looking for them as you I google Channing tae
him in pictures of his acts. Jenna popped up with
the daughter at Cochella Atella.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, of course, well it's a it's a couple of
weeks back, so you'll you'll have to, you know, search
a little bit. But so those are heartbreaking and those
are those are how the business can go against you
in in those moments, but a story where they kind
of go for you in those instances. A couple of
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weeks ago, I was out on a Sunday. I wasn't
going to go out on a Sunday. I rarely go out. Yep,
that's it right there, same outfit, same out. Now imagine
him without imagine him without the girlfriend next to him,
and then just holding a giant trophy in his hand.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's a more interesting picture the trophy.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, yeah, you would think so. But he's got a
new young girlfriend, so you know, obviously that's gonna be it.
So I'm out on a Sunday, wasn't even gonna go out.
Decided to go out because my plans for the day
for the family had fallen through.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
So I went out.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
I was gonna shoot a movie set and the movie
set didn't happen. Heading back and this is out in
the valley, far out in the valley, so I was
heading back up over the hill and this is a Sunday.
Obviously we're talking midday Sunday. Decided to take Cold Water
right Sunday, going Sunday, going over the hill on cold Water.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yeah you missed that right. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I'm at the bottom of the hill about to go
up the hill. And if anybody knows Cold Water Canyon,
going from the valley over the hill, it's you know,
it gets a little trafficky during that time because of
the light that's at the top of the hill, and
the traffic was all the way to the bottom of
the hill. So I immediately turned around, maybe a U turn.
I'm like, I'm not going to deal with this, and
decided to go back towards the four or five on Ventura.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
So I'm heading down Ventura and I'm.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Getting to the and I'm getting to the Beverly Glen area,
you know, to decide whether I'm going to go up
and over that hill. And I think to myself because
I used to go there before I was in the business.
I used to go up and hang out at the
Beverly Glen Market and get a sandwich there, and it's
my favorite sandwich that I get there. And mind you,
it's a twenty five dollars sandwich.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
So I was gonna say it's probably through the roof.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
Yeah, but it is good. It is that good.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
So I was I was willing to splurge on a
little bit, and I.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Was, I'm interested to know what's in the sandwich.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Well, it's turkey, bacon, avocado, and it's and it's melted
together in a grilled cheese on sour dough.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Oh shit, that sounds really good.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
And it's just I mean, it's all the best ingredients
there and stuff. I mean, the avocado is just prying.
Everything is great and melted together and they put it
with some fries and it is just it's just.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Ace from the Beverly Glen Deli, from.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
The Beverly Glendeli.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
But I had also hung out at Beverly Glenn a
lot when I started the business. You know, it's kind
of a place where a lot of paps would hang out.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
You'd just sit there.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
And honestly, maybe eight times out of ten you would
see somebody if you gave it an hour or two there,
you would see somebody that would pop out going to
the deli or going to the market there and Starbucks
Starbucks exactly, and you would you would get somebody there.
So I was feeling nostalgic there you go all around.
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So I went up there. I'm sitting there for maybe
a half hour, and I got the prime spot. I
pulled up there, and the car in the front pulled
out as I'm pulling in. And the old way of
thinking in our business is, if that car pulls out
in the prime spot, it's meant to be.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I pulled in there, and I'm looking out my front
windshield and I'm watching everybody. I'm watching everything going on
and forth, and it's busy up there on a Sunday,
you know, back and forth, back and forth, and I'm
shooting everybody. I'm just kind of shooting everybody coming in
and out, you know, pulling it up on the back
of the foot, on the back of the camera. Who's this,
who's this? This is nobody.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Everybody looks like somebody right maybe maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
A half hour into sitting up there, I decide to
order my sandwich, right, and I order because it's super
busy in that place. I'm not gonna go and order it.
I'm gonna order it online and then I'm just gonna
go in and pick it up and eat it in.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
The car, you know.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah, that's my plan. So I go, I order the sandwich.
You tell me, Jedi, when you order a sandwich from somewhere,
And I'm not saying Beverly Glen Deli. I'm just saying,
anywhere you order something online and you're sitting out in front,
how much time would you give it before you would
actually go pick up the order.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
It's Bevely Glendeli.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Probably ten minutes, okay, And yeah, because I have I
have a you know, I have a time limit in
my head which I normally do with like pretty much everywhere,
which is about fifteen minutes, fifteen minut and it's maybe
twenty something like that, and then I'll go and I'll
get it, cause I'm not gonna I don't want to
walk in there and then have to wait another ten minutes,
you know what I mean, of course.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
But then at the end of the order, it says,
give us thirty minutes to prepare this order, right yeah,
And so I'm like, okay, fine, I was gonna give
it fifteen or twenty, but I'm gonna give it to thirty,
you know. So I'm sitting around watching everybody shooting this person,
shooting this person whatever, and probably about twenty minutes into
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the wait. I see this couple kind of just pop
around the corner. They were sitting in the deli, and
they start walking towards me, and I pop down my
window because I was shooting everybody through my windshield. Yeah,
I popped down my window because they were at the
angle that I could shoot out my window. But I
just rolled down a little bit. I don't want them
to see me, and I don't think that it's anybody.
I'm just shooting just to do a test shot and
(42:51):
kind of get the lighting and stuff like that. So
I shoot this couple coming out, and as I'm shooting them,
I'm focused on the girl and the next to them,
but I'm focused on the girl, and as I'm shooting her,
I'm thinking to myself, this person is a little too
low key, right, They're looking like they're too low key
to be there, like.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
They're hiding, right.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
So they walk towards me and they walk past my car,
and as I'm as they do that, I'm looking at
the photos and I'm pulling up the image, right, and
I zoom in on the girl's face and I'm like,
that's that's fucking Sydney Sweeney, right. So I immediately just
take a picture of the back of my camera and
I send it to the agency and I'm like, is
(43:35):
this Sydney Sweeney? Because these days and I'm not getting
many pictures these days and stuff like that. I've found
myself in a a in a rut where I think
people are people and they're not those people. And I'll
send images in all the time and they're like, that's
not who that is.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
You're fucking crazy, you know, you're seeing You're seeing mirages.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm seeing mirages.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
And at Beverly Glen Delli, everybody looks like everybody. They
all look like somebody, you know. So I'm totally confused
after sitting there for forty five minutes or so, you know.
So I send it in and they say, yes, that
looks like her, and I'm like, Fox, she's with a guy,
you know, because I know the story of her, you know,
and the breakup and the calling off.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
The fucking uh, the engagement.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
Engagement and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (44:18):
So I'm like, Oh, she's with a guy and they
and he's got a dog with her, you know. So
immediately and I start thinking about Jedi and his old
pictures of you.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Should have sent the picture to me a second.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
I did, but they did too, though, honestly, because when
it comes to Cidey Sweeney, everybody knows. Yeah, even even
as low key as she was, they knew right away.
But I started thinking about the Jedi photos of Sidney
Sweeney when she used to walk her dog and stuff
like that, and I'm thinking, that is her fucking dog.
So I just went online real quick. I checked it out.
I looked at it and it and it was and
(44:58):
it was it.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
And I only got three fucking pictures of that. But
they were right down the barrel and they walked right
towards me, that walk across, and they left, and I
got some video of them going out, just in case
it was somebody, and I wanted to, you know, the
plate or something like that. I should have followed, Yes,
I should have, but I was not even close to
(45:20):
one hundred percent sure at that moment, you know, So
I didn't follow and Sandwich and I got my twenty
five dollars sandwich that's about to come out, so I
so yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
So they're like, yeah, that's her, let's do it.
Speaker 4 (45:34):
And so I sent in the pictures immediately and I
go get my sandwich, and I still had to wait
like seven minutes when I went in there to.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Get the fucking sandwich.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
And during those seven minutes, I'm back and forth with
the agency and they're like, this is nail, this is great,
this is awesome, you know, and I'm thinking, yes, finally
I got something really really juicy, you know, and it's
totally random, you know.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
And so I get back to my.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Car and I'm not even I'm not even gonna eat
my sandwich at this point, Like I'm so I want
to eat the sandwich so bad at this point, but
I'm not even gonna eat it. I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna try and find them. I'm gonna go see
if I can see the car. I got a couple
of addresses on her, so I wanted to go to
check those just to see if the car is there.
And I went into full on, you know, kind of
(46:21):
reconnaissance mode at that point. And so as I'm going
down Beverly Glenn to go check on these addresses, I'm
munching on the sandwich as I'm going down there, you know.
So I go, I check the addresses. There's nothing in
either of them. I don't see a car anywhere, and
probably an hour or two goes by and I get
a phone call from the agency and they go, hey,
(46:43):
you know, Mark, you know, those are great pictures. You know,
really appreciate it. Those are great pictures. But I'm sorry
to say there.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Was another photographer there, No and Beverly Glenn.
Speaker 4 (46:57):
It was honestly a thought that, like, there was no
way that I nailed these frames without somebody being there,
you know, just because there's guys that hang out there
all the time. There's people that are in and out
of that place all the time. They're not like me,
where they haven't been there in six years, and then
they obviously you know, just went and popped in there. Luckily,
this other photographer gives to the agency that I do,
(47:20):
and we were able to and he's a cool guy
and I respect the guy, and we were able to
keep it exclusive because if it had been anybody else,
and it had been with another compete uh competing agency,
it could have been a total mess and it would
have driven the prices way way down. That it worked
(47:41):
out that, you know, and he works with another partner,
so it was unfortunately it had to have been It
had to have been split three ways, but that kind
of a photo at that moment, it's going to pay
off for everybody. And the other photographer was act working
on her at the time followed her there, and you
(48:04):
can imagine how more heartbreaking it was for him to
find out that I was there rather than you know
how I was just randomly, you know, going in there
and getting the sandwich and getting the photos, you know.
So yeah, so sometimes in this business, it you know,
the stars aligned to completely screw you, and sometimes the
(48:28):
stars aligned to completely hook you up, you know, absolutely,
And there's not many businesses that are out there that
are like that. But when it does benefit you, it's
a great feeling.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
Oh it's best in the world's best getting in the world.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Yeah, especially when you when you when you go on
a forty minute follow and it works out as well.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
After being there for an hour.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Nothing better.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah. So yeah, that's it. Uhh. I do have something
for what you watch. I know we're running a little
lolong here, Jedi, but we'll wrap it up with this.
Speaker 4 (49:01):
But I do have a what you're watching, which is
nothing what I'm watching, But I did hear something today
that you know, you and I could both kind of
discuss that maybe you know something about and I know
you're going to have an opinion on it. So have
you heard anything on the casting of the new Bodyguard?
Speaker 3 (49:22):
I saw something.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
I did see something, and for the life of me,
I can't remember what it was. Somebody that was being
cast in the Whitney Houston role, right, and I'm having
a brain fought and can't remember.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
Who it was.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
It's a she's a no name. She's a no name,
she's just breaking out in this business. Her name is
Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
Oh, for fox sake, of course, it was. Yeah, I
don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
Well, so I heard, okay, and you know this is
this is Mark, you know, the guy who's got his
ear to the ground of Hollywood. I did hear that
Taylor Swift is gonna play the Whitney Houston role and
Idris Elba might play the bodyguard role. Really and when
(50:14):
I first when I first heard about this, which was
this morning, when I first heard about this, I thought,
that is great casting. Even though I don't like Taylor
Swift and I don't really care about her being in
that role, it is a big role because she is
as big as Whitney Houston.
Speaker 2 (50:28):
Was back then, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
Yeah, And Idris.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
Alba, I love that guy.
Speaker 4 (50:33):
And if we're gonna go with the whole white girl,
black guy, like we went with the whole white guy
black girl, you know, because you obviously have to mix
it all in with race and all that stuff whatever.
Those are two great people to be in those roles, right,
But Jedi, as much as I like those two being
in the being in the movie together, right, can you
(50:56):
see them like getting intimate.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
Don't see any chemistry at all, But saying I can't
see any chemistry with anybody in Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (51:05):
She just seems like a fucking dead fish to me.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
It'll just be all her, Like, it'll just be all her.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well and she's not like what she
hasn't acted since what fucking Crossroads or whatever the movies.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
That was pretty That was prettey spears.
Speaker 2 (51:21):
I know, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (51:22):
Yeah, Like, no, I just can't see it.
Speaker 2 (51:25):
And I just parted Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (51:27):
She was in Valentine's Day. I just had a quick
Google of it. And it seems like the only news.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
Out there that that's pitted these two in these roles
is Tyra Banks saying that she thinks they'd be good
in the roles?
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Really?
Speaker 3 (51:41):
Yeah, so it's coming from Tyra Banks.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
Wow, who's got no pull or no saying no matter whatsoever?
I mean ship with you know, with Travis Kelcey's acting
that he's been doing lately. Maybe maybe Travis will be
auditioning for the bodyguard role.
Speaker 3 (52:00):
It could be the power of them.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Not if they only want Swifties to go to this
fucking movie.
Speaker 1 (52:07):
I mean that there's enough of them, but could you
know the movie could fucking make money with just the
Swifties going.
Speaker 4 (52:13):
Yeah, I mean that that would be actually interesting to
see if they did that and how that would work
out and how much money they would actually make, because
they probably would. You're right, Yeah, I like the dynamic
of those two, but there's no way I can see
them making out on screen. It would be way awkward.
My wife said, Michael B.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
Jordan Okay, And I said, okay, maybe you know.
Speaker 4 (52:36):
I mean, I definitely I could see them making out
more than Michael.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
Ye. They're closer in age.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
They're closer in age, and they just seem like well
and and and Michael B.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
Jordan's in a movie.
Speaker 4 (52:48):
Coming out called Sinners with Steinfeld. I guess he gets
a little crazy with Hailey Steinfeld too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (52:56):
Josh Allen, Josh Allen's fiance.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yeah, exactly, yeah, full circle.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (53:04):
Hallmark actually came out and they're doing a Bill's Love Story.
Speaker 3 (53:11):
Hallmark movie, just like the Kansas City One. Yeah, they're
doing a Bills one. Wow.
Speaker 2 (53:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (53:18):
So and I'm actually I'm following a Buffalo casting company
on Twitter. So I'm keeping my eyes out for the
casting for extras and they're.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
Going to see if I can pop up in the
Bills Christmas movie.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
That would be good, even though they're probably in a
film at all in Burbank.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, probably probably probably, you know what, They have been
shooting another movie in Buffalo recently. Mario Lopez has been
in Buffalo the last couple of weeks shooting shooting a movie.
Speaker 2 (53:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
Okay, Yeah, Well, they are a couple of years too
late on the Hallmark movie with all this stuff, because
they should have gone with Aaron Rodgers and Lane Woodley
or Olivia Munn back in the day, you know, when
when those people were in their relationships, because it's not
the original. Yeah, and can you imagine Taylor Swift's song
(54:11):
that she would come out with for that, I mean,
would she would she cover Whitney Houston, Like, would she
just cover that song? Or would she come out with
her own version that would you know.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
You'd have to cover it, You'd have to You'd have.
Speaker 2 (54:25):
To cover it, right.
Speaker 4 (54:27):
I think I think she would come out with something
completely new because it would be her movie. She wouldn't
want Whitney Houston to be involved, you know, at all,
no reminiscence of it, nothing. I think it would just
have to all be and then she would do the
Bodyguard tour after that, you know. Oh God, Anyway, I
guess we can wrap this one up. I do want
(54:47):
to apologize. The PPC did do a few interviews recently
about Harry and Meghan and you know, our experience in
the business and stuff like that, and we did make
some comments about Harry and Meghan, and I do want
to apologize number one to the listeners, because we did
(55:07):
have a couple of links in those articles and we
got we have got a few new listeners out there
that our last episode called Aura was you know, obviously
a concept that I came up with after you know,
learning about AI and actually having a conversation with Ai
(55:28):
and figured I could do an interview with Ai. But
there was an unhinged grow interview that we did and
she was very offensive and she had a lot of
shit about Hollywood, and I just thought it was funny.
So if anybody was offended to that, I do want
to apologize, and I do want to apologize to Harry
and Meghan for calling them slightly irrelevant now and how
(55:50):
there the paps don't really want to work on them
because it's a big hassle.
Speaker 3 (55:54):
And that it is though like they are, and it is.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
Exactly and wouldn't apologize.
Speaker 4 (56:00):
I want apologizing just because that's what we do at
the end of our episodes, just in case we've offended anybody.
And I have had a few listeners reach out to
me saying, you better watch out, you better watch out
for Megan because she'll send her her goons after you.
So I'm just apologizing to her. And if she ever
wants to contact us and come on the podcast and
(56:23):
just discuss, you know, the truth about you know, what
they're doing and what we do and stuff like that,
we welcome them to come on the podcast and discuss anything.
Speaker 3 (56:32):
Absolutely, we welcome anybody exactly.
Speaker 4 (56:35):
So anyway, that's it. I hope everybody enjoyed it. And
if we were defending anybody on this podcast, we do apologize,
but for myself and for Jedi. Good luck, Jedi, take
care and be well. She's a no name Taylor Swift
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