May 24, 2023 • 42 mins
Join us for an intriguing interview with physician and author Dr. John Reizer. We delve into the thought-provoking movie "Target List," exploring its origin, transformation from novel to film, and the importance of its underlying message. Get ready for an in-depth discussion with this creative mind.
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author, and director Andrew Arguelo.Today we have the opportunity to explore their
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captivating movie it is called target Lists, and dive into the creative process behind
it. So join us as weunravel the inspiration and uncover the powerful message
woven into the film. And withthat, let's welcome them to the show.
Hello, Hello, welcome, Thankyou for having us, Danny.
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I appreciate thing on the platform.Absolutely. How are you. I'm doing
well. I'm doing well. Veryinterested in connecting with your with your audience
and talking about our movie. Absolutely, man, So I guess we can
start right here. You know,in the face of adversity, we often
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discover our true strinth and resilience,and your collaboration with Andrew on Target List
showcases the triumph of the human spirit. Doctor John, what is what personal
life experiences have influenced your work andtaught you the importance of standing up against
powerful forces. Well, I'll tellyou Deany this this movie. First of
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all, it was a novel intwenty nineteen. I wrote the novel.
The novel is called Butt target List, and the movie, as we dropped
the word, it's target List.So it's a it's a long, long
story. I've been a healthcare practitioner, chiropractor, doctor, chiropractic for thirty
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five years. I taught as anassociate professor of clinical sciences at a chiropractic
college for over twelve years, andit was in private practice for many,
many years. So I've seen alot of things in that profession and being
a chiropractor an alternative healthcare practitioner,it allowed me to experience a side of
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healthcare that many people don't get aget a chance to observe. So there
are many things that I have learnedabout health and about the expression of health,
and unfortunately that I mean, that'sa good part of it. The
other unfortunate parts of it, wherethey some of the machinations that take place
behind the scenes that are trying toultimately block that because there are a lot
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of corporate interests I believe in theworld that make a lot of money off
of disease and illness and they don'treally want to see it disappear because it's
very lucrative business. So through theyears I have created a lot of projects,
develops and things, but Target Listwas something that I wanted to write
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for a long time, and thebasic premise of the story is that there
is a group of scientists doctors whocreate this imaginary in the stories world,
it's a it's a device that curescancer, disease tissues of the body,
and it does it through radio frequencies. And as this instrument is brought to
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brought to life in the story,it's called wand it's an acronym wand stands
for wave altering Nanoparticle Disruptor. Andwhat this instrument does is it brings the
pharmaceutical industry in the story. Itbrings them out because they're worried about losing
profits, and they hire an assassinto go after the creative team that created
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wand the instrument, and they wantto get rid of the technology, and
they put the creators of the technologyon the target list. So that's where
that's what the story is about.And there's the biggest story, of course,
is the transformation of this novel intoa feature film. And although I
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wrote the novel, the screenplay waswritten and I co wrote it, but
I was actually more of a standbyand doing some editing. But MJ.
Palla, who I met through theInternet, who's a scientist, she's also
a molecular biologist, besides being atremendous writer. She read the story and
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I convinced her to help me writethis into a into a screenplay. And
she's a tremendous screenwriter. She's gota number of credits to her name.
She's an award winning screenwriter. Andwithout her, this this movie would never
have come to fruition. And ofcourse her colleague is Andrew Arguello. I
think he's going to be joining uson the program if he's not already,
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and he is the co director withMJ. Palo Palo and the producer and
cinematographer, and so so MJ.I wish she was here but she's not
here tonight, but she is theco writer. She's a screenwriter, and
I she taught me a lot aboutscreenwriting. But together we put together,
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what I believe our production team puttogether a tremendous film. And I think
it's it's a film that has avery powerful message and that message is done
in a non threatening way because it'sa fictional film and it's a film that
that speaks Uh. It's it's athriller. It's got um, you know,
moments of suspense, but it's alsogot a you know, a comedic
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beat to it. And there's there'sa lot of fun watching this film.
But in the end, what peoplewhat I hope people will take away from
this is a very important message andthat message is that big pharma is not
your friend. So that's that's whatthis is about. Got the joke.
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Amongst my podcasting network, we havea running joke about which show is going
to set out first, and ofcourse that means getting a big pharmacy company
to of course sponsor the ass sponsorthe show. So right now, that's
a big joke bit that that's arunning between us. Uh, And it's
funny that you're doing a movie aboutthe Target List, which is controlled about
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you know, control from a bigpharmaceutical company and uh wow. So yeah,
so the novel which is called atarget List. What motivated you to
write the story and dive into theworld of medical conspiracies. Well, you
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know, it's it's something that Ihad witnessed firsthand in my experience. Um,
there's you don't you don't exist inthis profession of healthcare, whether you're
a medical doctor. I'm a chiropractic. That's not technically a medical doctor.
I'm a doctor of chiropractic. Thereare differences. A lot of times people
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confuse those, but you don't getinto healthcare without realizing that there are powerful
forces that run the industry. Andyou know, people, it's a very
polarizing issues and as soon as youstart talking about stuff like this, it
you know, they are called aconspiracy theorist or whatever. But it's a
safe love. When I a lotof the things that I write about,
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I always put sprinklets I call themsprinklets of truth in those fictional writings.
And Target List was an opportunity forme to to create a storyline that's probably
not too far from the truth.In my considered opinion, I think it's
happening, and it has happened wherewhere people are you know, are put
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in a situation where they are aninvention or some type of creative thing that
they've done is going to remove theprofitability factor for others. And it's like
if you if you could imagine acompany or a person that would invent an
engine that could run on water,and maybe someone has already, you know,
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you would probably really irritate a lotof oil companies. So the question
always is, or has been,would they sit idle or would they try
to stop you? And the samething we can say, you know,
with pharmaceutical industry, and I'm youknow, listen, this is a fictional
story. But I wanted to putthat out there and I wanted to play
around with it. So that wasthat was the inspiration my years and years
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of being a chiropractor and seeing myown profession attacked um by big industry.
That was, you know, corporateindustry, big medicine. And I'm not
saying that medicine doesn't have a placein the world. That's That's not what
I'm saying. There are many peoplein the medical field that are great positions
and great people trying to help people, but the corporate control of that profession,
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as in my own profession now inthe chiropractic profession, there are very
strong corporate interests. For example,the research that's done in a lot of
these um a lot of these industriesis bought and pay for by the same
people that are making the products.So you know, there's a lot of
conflict of interest in my opinion,and so that's what target list explores.
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It does it in a in afictional safe way because you know, I
think a lot of time, ina lot of situations, when you tell
people things that are really outside theparadigm of conventional thinking, I think you
will find that people will roll theireyes because that's that's what we've been taught
to do. When we see somethingthat goes out of the conventional, you
know, the conventionality of life orwhat we've been taught is possible or not
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possible, people roll their eyes.It's almost like like when you go to
sleep at night, you roll youreyes you go to sleep. It's almost
as if we've been conditioned to fallasleep if we try to think out of
the box and so by by creatinga fictional story, it's safe. It
removes that because it's a fictional story, it's not real, it's a fake
story. And so we can wecan get the story out there and we
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can entertain, but we can wecan deliver a message that hopefully people will
keep with them long after they leavethe theater or in this case it's on
you know, streaming platforms, solong after they turn the film off or
finish watching it. So that's thatwas my that's my hope. Absolutely.
What was the research process like,Well, the research process for me was
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life long because I've been involved inhealthcare for thirty some years, so it's
been ongoing and a lot of thethe story involved in this instrument wand is
actually it's I mean, it's completelymade up, but I believe that the
I believe that there is science behindit based on quantum physics. And the
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theory is is that if you takeif you take disease tissues, this instrument
breaks them down into subatomic particles andthen breaks them down further into frequencies,
and then because they become frequencies,they recalibrate, they reset, and when
the when the instrument allows it toreturn back to tissue. They're healthy.
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And I believe that the I callit's called uh, I named it particle
fluctuation physics. And I think there'sactually probably a lot of research that's been
going into that, and there's there'sprobably technologies that will be built or have
already been built that are you know, you know, capable of doing this.
But again, the research was yearsof experience, years of doing academia
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in the chiropractic profession, and justmy desire to create things out of thin
air. But I think we havea I think we have a really unique
story and a timely one, Astory that I mean, there's no probably
no better time in the history ofthis country or in the world than to
release a movie like this than what'shappened in the past three years. And
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so it's a it's a it's atimely movie, and it's an entertaining one,
if I may say so. Ithink that m J. M.
J. Callow and Andrew, theyreally captured the vision of the movie.
They really got it. In myown personal opinion is that the movie is
other than the book. And Iwrote the book, but I think that
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you know, and the movie isbased on the book, but it's it's
different. It's a lot different insome respects and in other respects it's it's
similar. But I think we cameup with a really good screenplay, and
I think that they executed it,you know, into a film just phenomenally.
I'm so pleased with it. Absolutely. That has to be almost a
dream come true. You write abook and it becomes adapted to the screen.
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While um so from the book,um it evolved into the proof of
concept film and now it's a fullwinked feature. Um how far. Well,
let me ask you this, howdid the story evolve visually on screen
compared to it's written form? IsAndrew is Andrew online? Maybe he can?
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He can? He wants to add, I don't know. I didn't
know if he came on or not, or I don't want to hawk up
all the time. Yeah, okay, all right, well let me just
say this. Okay, So,so your question was, how is it
different? How is the story different? Okay? Well, in the in
the novel, um, I mean, we still have the wand and we
have some of the same characters inthe story, and it's the same premise
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that they're they're going after them andin the book it's a it's a it's
a trip across country, and there'spretty much a similar conclusion in the story.
But because of budget constraints and andand shooting a film like this,
one of the things that MJ andI discussed was trying to write a trying
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to write a script that was muchmore feasible from a production standpoint, and
so we altered some of the things. But there's a few more. There's
a few new characters, well morethan a few. There's there's a number
of new characters in the in theum in the movie than there are in
the book. In the book,and the twist that is in the in
the movie is a lot lot differentand very clever in my opinion, in
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the movie. So so we basicallyafter MJ, after she read the book,
and we discussed it and we decidedthat we were going to collaborate on
this screenplay. And she told methat, well, first we wrote,
we spent we spent several months sheoutlined it and I would look at it,
and then we went and we discussedand changed scenes around, and it
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was a long process and after Iguess it took three or four months to
actually come up with the finished screenplay, and I asked her at the end,
I said, you know this isthis is really I really think it's
it's great, and you think wecan sell this thing? And she says,
well, we wouldn't have worked onthe screenplay if we didn't think we
could sell it. So we needwe need to create a proof of concepts
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them and me, being more ofa novelist than a screenwriter, I don't.
I didn't have much knowledge about themovie industry or anything about it.
So she explained to me what aproof of concept was, and they she
she was working with Andrew Arguello atthe time. Madwife Productions is the name
of the company that um that producedand shot the film, and they created
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and we get a short twelve minuteI think it was eleven twelve minute production
in twenty twenty one. April twentytwenty one. We shot that in Reno,
Nevada and came out on Amazon Primeprobably in August of middle of August
of twenty twenty one, and itgot great traction. It really it really
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showed a lot of good positive reviewsand people liked it. They showed it
to some people and were able toget some investors involved with it. And
then then something happened that was unexpectedand I became very very ill. Um
I got I got sick with UMdiagnosed with with COVID, and I ended
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up in a hospital for ninety fivedays. I was on a respirator for
eighteen days and was told my familywas told that, you know, there
was no way I was going tosurvive. They gave me a one percent
chance of surviving. Well, Isurvived, you know. And so when
I came out of this, Ihad to relearn how to walk. I
had to relearn how to do alot of things. I couldn't even hardly
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hold my hands up. And butone of the first things I did when
I could was I called MJ andI said, what's going on with the
movie? When I when I wascognizant again and I had my whereabouts,
and she said that they wanted tomake the movie. And that was in
probably December, November December of twentytwenty one, and so the movie actually
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was greenlighted to go, and theyactually did casting and they're they're amazing.
They they took the process from thereand I was I think they shot they
shot the film actually in Reno fromApril the middle of April to the middle
of May of last year. Andyou know, the long process, A
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lot of people involved with it obviously, and I got to see I got
to see a lot of the behindthe scenes, you know them, the
casting process I got. I wasable to it kept me very very even
though I couldn't go on set becauseI was recovering from my illness, I
was able to be kept well awareof everything that was going every step of
the way. And you know,it was just an amazing process to see
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your work turn out, your characterscome to life and be put on film.
So it was an amazing thing.And I I just glad that I
survived so I could see it,see it come to fruition. Absolutely.
Wow, I'm so glad you madeit through COVID oh Man Nani Dayyeah.
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It was it was rough. Itwas rough. It was rough. Yeah,
But to come back in your youryour film is ready to go.
There's a green light, man,that has to be incredible. News.
Did you celebrate? I mean,you know, it's it's been a it's
been one thing after the other.Dany, I mean, this this film
has been I feel like I've beenworking on this story for four years because
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I wrote the story in twenty nineteen, and then of course it was turned
into an audible book on the onthe Amazon or the audible platform Amazon,
and then um, you know,and it was a self published book,
so it had minimal It's hard toget people to read your stuff, but
it did. It did get sometraction, and we did get some very
very positive feedback, and of coursethe audible book too. And once once
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the film, once I saw thefinal you know, the final uh well,
actually I saw that, you know. I saw the director's cut probably
last summer. It was after theyafter they home that which was the rough
director's cut, and it didn't haveany the soundtrack hadn't been cut yet or
put in there, and the originalmusic hadn't been written. But I watched
it with my wife, and Ijust couldn't believe how good the film was
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because I'm very critical, and Iusually when I see the stuff that I
do or you know, I'm like, but and I was worried about that,
you know, because I just Ijust I hope this movie is okay.
And when I saw it, Itold my wife, I said,
that's really good, and she says, yeah, it really is. And
that was without the music, andyou know, there were still some some
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rough edits and things that had tobe done. But after after looking what
they did with the sound design andyou know, the VFX and all of
them, all of the score,the score was done. Ryan Clark did
the score. Um did a reallygreat job with it and just really really
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captured what well, I know,what I was going for and what they
were what she was going for.And we've we've had discussions about it.
But she's truly a gifted writer.And I was fortunate to find her and
one of the chances that I foundsomeone that would read my story that was
a molecular biologist. That's that's reallyyou know, I think that's that's a
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state. Yeah, but it's prettywow. Yeah. Well all right,
So did you have any dealings withpicking the cast? Well, you know,
I am. I they did.They they allowed me. Um,
they they sent over casting capes,you know, the all the auditions and
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I got to put you know,I had input into it all. And
um, you know, we wemade one thing about this team. We
collectively, we collectively made these decisions. And but I always yield to the
people or experience in doing this,and you know, I appreciate them given
the input, but I know thatthey're a very talented uh group over there,
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and so I had a lot ofconfidence that they would they knew what
they were doing. And I mean, you know, this is a very
involved project. You know, we'vegot that many people involved in a production
and to be able to put thisthing together and set up the you know,
get the sets all all designed,and it was just an incredible experience.
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But yeah, I had I was. I was present and online for
a lot of the um the tablereads and the you know, preproduction meetings,
and so I got an opportunity toto be involved with this every step
of the way and still am.So it's really really a phenomenal experience.
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One of the it's it's the youknow, the creative, creative effort experience
of my life. Yeah, thisis so cool that you got to do
this. Is there a the rightdirector's chair for John Riazer? It's riser,
it's rish. Is there a director'schair? I don't, I don't
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know. I I mean, youknow, that's that's that's not my that's
not my avenue. But um,I am a I am a creative writer.
I do write, um, someinteresting sports what I think are interesting
stories, but I'm still developed.I'm not a professor. I was never
a professional writer. I I wasnot trained as a writer, you know.
I was a I was a chiropractor. But I've always been able to
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write, and I have been writingstories for for many, many years and
hopefully getting better in the process.It's a I don't think you ever I
don't think you ever have it.I think you just keep on trying to
get better at your craft. Anduh, but you know, when you
surround yourself with so many talented peopleas I did with this story, in
this production, and it goes farto on. I mean, MJ and
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Andrew are, they're they're the trueprofessionals. But they cast and production team
that they assembled was you know,all of it was a team effort to
put this together. Couldn't have beendone without everybody. And I'm just a
part of it, you know,and I'm glad to be a part of
it. I'm proud to have myname on Target lists as a movie you
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know, as a as as coscreenwriter, and you know, it's really
it's really cool. Absolutely well,I think you're a pro Now. According
to Stephen Pressfield, the author ofthe War of Art, once you put
the pin to the paper and youpress the button to publish your pro so,
welcome, Welcome, Welcome to thesay yes so, yeah, yes,
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so okay, why not? Yeah? So? Target List addresses powerful
entities in the pharmaceutical industry. Aswe've been talking about, Um, what
do you hope you whereas will takeaway from the film in terms of understanding
and the awareness that there are somebigger players in this industry. Well,
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I hope that people will wake upand understand that we have a serious problem,
and not only America, this isa glow problem. There's a major
thing going on right now and Idon't know how now. I'm not going
to get into that too deep inthis particular interview, but there's there's something
seriously long h with with healthcare andsome of the things that we're doing to
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mitigate infectious disease and other problems.But that's a that's another issue I want
to so so so hopefully what peoplewill get out of Target List is they'll
get some fun, you know,an hour and it's one hundred minute film
runtime. They'll get they'll get someexcitement, some some laughter, and some
some episodes of somber reality that youknow, there's something seriously u wrong with
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the relationship that big Medicine has withbig Pharma. And in the story we
use a fictional pharmaceutical company. We'renot pointing at the industry per se,
but a fictional company. But whenpeople watch this film, I think they
will be thoroughly entertained and they'll laughtoo. There's there's actually a lot of
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comedy in the film, not toomuch that that, you know, overshadowed
the importance of the other stuff.But I think it's a really unique film
and that it hits a lot ofthings at the same time while still delivering
a very important message. And Ihope people when they walk away with this
from watching this production, that theyjust recognize, Hey, there might be
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something on the side of the roomthere that I never looked at before,
and it's it's hopefully something that they'llbe able to, you know, to
take notice of and say and examineit a little bit more of a of
a of ay that is that theydidn't before. Perhaps maybe you know,
it's something that's real and if theif that film does that, that's great,
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and for others it might just beentertainment. You know, some people
won't see that part of it.Some people will say, hey, it's
just another thriller. It was prettygood and uh, you know whatever.
If somebody will take something out ofit, each person probably taking something a
little bit different out of it.But that's the kind of film it is,
absolutely and lastly, can you giveus a glimpse into the future of
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target Lists? Can we expect anotherbook or another movie or maybe in the
TV series. Well, let mejust say this, and I wanted to
plug. So the official movie websiteis www. The target listmovie dot com
all one word and right now themovie is playing. You can you can
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watch this movie on Amazon Prime,you can rent it there, you can
buy it, but you can alsowatch it for on the Tube network and
target Lists will be coming out onmany different platforms in the in the weeks
and months ahead. Um. Youcan also watch it on Vineo and if
you go to the Targetless movie withthe Targetless Movie dot com, um,
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you will be able to go thereand see all of that. UM.
I don't know what's in the futurefor this. This is something that you
know that the story, the storyis we're hoping that from the from the
early reaction that we're getting and thereviews and um, the feedback we're getting,
we're really getting a lot of positive, positive feedback from it, and
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people seem to like the movie.And uh so we'll see hopefully if we're
if we're talking a sequel or we'retalking additional uh you know, writings of
it. That means it became verysuccessful. So that would be great,
you know, but never say never, because if you would have told me
that we were going to make thisbook into a movie a few years ago,
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you know, three or four yearsago, I would I would have
laughed. But hey, you neversay never. Absolutely never say never.
I think we ought to do awatch party. Well that would be great,
That would be great. And I'lltell you m's it's going to come
out on Apple iTunes probably it's rightnow. It's target list is in like
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twenty two different countries on either twoB or Amazon or Apple iTunes. It's
going to come out on Apple iTunes, m probably within the next couple of
weeks the month in the United States. Right now, we're on TB and
Amazon Prime. So, like Isaid, that is those are the two
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major video platforms that you can streamor watch for free and check it out
because I think you'll, I thinkyou'll really get a kick out of it.
And it's a pretty it's a prettysighting movie. Got a lot of
twists and turns, and it's gota it's got a really good twist of
an ending. And we're proud ofit. We're really proud of it.
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Absolutely. Yeah, I think they'llbe great. Well, we'll schedule at
watch party. Uh. This movie, this movie features the actor Wendy Parker,
Justin Ray and Rachel a League hopefullyI s yeah, Rachel Ale Yeah,
Rachel Alec Justin Justin raye. Um, they are that the mail that
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the two protagonists in the story.And they have great, great chemistry.
Two really good actors. Uh,they they they they really have shined uh
in this movie. And they definitelyshow off their acting talents and uh,
I mean they are they're tremendous together. Nice and you showed off your writing
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abilities and codirecting abilities. Well,I'm not the now, I'm I'm just
I'm a screen I've co screenwriter andMJ. Hello, she's she's she's the
screenwriter as well and Andrew is thehe's the director and cinematographer, which she
would have who was supposed to comeon here. Um, I wish she
would have been on here. Butthose he's he's UM. He's involved in
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a lot of um, a lotof productions and he formerly worked I think
he formerly worked with the Walt DisneyCompany. And he started mad Waite Productions
a few years ago. And theyhave a couple other films that are out
corpet dum uh they did, andthey have another one coming out I think
in the full um Final Girl Halloween. I think it's called that's a new
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production post production. UM. MJhas a movie that she wrote, uh,
this big time movie with the starof the Fear of the Walking Dead,
UM, Danny Garcia called Baby Money. She did that a couple of
years ago and that came out anduh, that's a really good film too.
She's a very talented writer. Um. And she's done some other short
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films and uh. But she's she'suh, she's uh. She's very gifted,
very gifted. And I'm proud tobe able to put my name on
the same screenplay with her, becauseI think you're gonna I think you're gonna
see big things from m J.Pellow in the US in the future.
And Andrew and and Mad White Productions. They are able to put together a
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wonderful product And you know, ourour our production budget, I think was
a little over a quarter of amillion dollars. And I've had people that
have come back and say they thoughtthat this film was you know, in
the in the millions of dollars productions. It's amazing what they can do.
So there they have a they havea knack for doing that. So be
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sure to look out for those filmsin the future as well. They're coming
up. And Clark Adam is Ais a good film that they did that
with that was the predecessor film toum target list and uh and said,
that's a that's a cool film.And yeah, and I'm sure they got
other projects in the still be comingout as well. Absolutely, all that
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sounds incredible. We're rooting for you. Do you want to check out the
Mad Wife production gets as Mad WifeProductions dot com and you can check out
their company and see what they've gotgoing on there as well. I didn't
mean to cut you off. Ijust want to put that in there.
Oh you're good, you're good andlisteners. Just in case you need those
links, I do have them inthe show notes and in the description of
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Just in case you didn't get thelinks, so click them, connect,
watch the movie, let us knowwhat you think. Well, doctor John
Riser, thank you so much forbeing our special guest tonight. It was
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it. So join us as weunravel the inspiration and uncover the powerful message
woven into the film. And withthat, let's welcome them to the show.
Hello, Hello, welcome, Thankyou for having us, Danny.
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I appreciate thing on the platform.Absolutely. How are you. I'm doing
well. I'm doing well. Veryinterested in connecting with your with your audience
and talking about our movie. Absolutely, man, So I guess we can
start right here. You know,in the face of adversity, we often
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discover our true strinth and resilience,and your collaboration with Andrew on Target List
showcases the triumph of the human spirit. Doctor John, what is what personal
life experiences have influenced your work andtaught you the importance of standing up against
powerful forces. Well, I'll tellyou Deany this this movie. First of
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all, it was a novel intwenty nineteen. I wrote the novel.
The novel is called Butt target List, and the movie, as we dropped
the word, it's target List.So it's a it's a long, long
story. I've been a healthcare practitioner, chiropractor, doctor, chiropractic for thirty
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five years. I taught as anassociate professor of clinical sciences at a chiropractic
college for over twelve years, andit was in private practice for many,
many years. So I've seen alot of things in that profession and being
a chiropractor an alternative healthcare practitioner,it allowed me to experience a side of
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healthcare that many people don't get aget a chance to observe. So there
are many things that I have learnedabout health and about the expression of health,
and unfortunately that I mean, that'sa good part of it. The
other unfortunate parts of it, wherethey some of the machinations that take place
behind the scenes that are trying toultimately block that because there are a lot
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of corporate interests I believe in theworld that make a lot of money off
of disease and illness and they don'treally want to see it disappear because it's
very lucrative business. So through theyears I have created a lot of projects,
develops and things, but Target Listwas something that I wanted to write
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for a long time, and thebasic premise of the story is that there
is a group of scientists doctors whocreate this imaginary in the stories world,
it's a it's a device that curescancer, disease tissues of the body,
and it does it through radio frequencies. And as this instrument is brought to
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brought to life in the story,it's called wand it's an acronym wand stands
for wave altering Nanoparticle Disruptor. Andwhat this instrument does is it brings the
pharmaceutical industry in the story. Itbrings them out because they're worried about losing
profits, and they hire an assassinto go after the creative team that created
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wand the instrument, and they wantto get rid of the technology, and
they put the creators of the technologyon the target list. So that's where
that's what the story is about.And there's the biggest story, of course,
is the transformation of this novel intoa feature film. And although I
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wrote the novel, the screenplay waswritten and I co wrote it, but
I was actually more of a standbyand doing some editing. But MJ.
Palla, who I met through theInternet, who's a scientist, she's also
a molecular biologist, besides being atremendous writer. She read the story and
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I convinced her to help me writethis into a into a screenplay. And
she's a tremendous screenwriter. She's gota number of credits to her name.
She's an award winning screenwriter. Andwithout her, this this movie would never
have come to fruition. And ofcourse her colleague is Andrew Arguello. I
think he's going to be joining uson the program if he's not already,
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and he is the co director withMJ. Palo Palo and the producer and
cinematographer, and so so MJ.I wish she was here but she's not
here tonight, but she is theco writer. She's a screenwriter, and
I she taught me a lot aboutscreenwriting. But together we put together,
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what I believe our production team puttogether a tremendous film. And I think
it's it's a film that has avery powerful message and that message is done
in a non threatening way because it'sa fictional film and it's a film that
that speaks Uh. It's it's athriller. It's got um, you know,
moments of suspense, but it's alsogot a you know, a comedic
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beat to it. And there's there'sa lot of fun watching this film.
But in the end, what peoplewhat I hope people will take away from
this is a very important message andthat message is that big pharma is not
your friend. So that's that's whatthis is about. Got the joke.
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Amongst my podcasting network, we havea running joke about which show is going
to set out first, and ofcourse that means getting a big pharmacy company
to of course sponsor the ass sponsorthe show. So right now, that's
a big joke bit that that's arunning between us. Uh, And it's
funny that you're doing a movie aboutthe Target List, which is controlled about
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you know, control from a bigpharmaceutical company and uh wow. So yeah,
so the novel which is called atarget List. What motivated you to
write the story and dive into theworld of medical conspiracies. Well, you
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know, it's it's something that Ihad witnessed firsthand in my experience. Um,
there's you don't you don't exist inthis profession of healthcare, whether you're
a medical doctor. I'm a chiropractic. That's not technically a medical doctor.
I'm a doctor of chiropractic. Thereare differences. A lot of times people
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confuse those, but you don't getinto healthcare without realizing that there are powerful
forces that run the industry. Andyou know, people, it's a very
polarizing issues and as soon as youstart talking about stuff like this, it
you know, they are called aconspiracy theorist or whatever. But it's a
safe love. When I a lotof the things that I write about,
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I always put sprinklets I call themsprinklets of truth in those fictional writings.
And Target List was an opportunity forme to to create a storyline that's probably
not too far from the truth.In my considered opinion, I think it's
happening, and it has happened wherewhere people are you know, are put
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in a situation where they are aninvention or some type of creative thing that
they've done is going to remove theprofitability factor for others. And it's like
if you if you could imagine acompany or a person that would invent an
engine that could run on water,and maybe someone has already, you know,
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you would probably really irritate a lotof oil companies. So the question
always is, or has been,would they sit idle or would they try
to stop you? And the samething we can say, you know,
with pharmaceutical industry, and I'm youknow, listen, this is a fictional
story. But I wanted to putthat out there and I wanted to play
around with it. So that wasthat was the inspiration my years and years
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of being a chiropractor and seeing myown profession attacked um by big industry.
That was, you know, corporateindustry, big medicine. And I'm not
saying that medicine doesn't have a placein the world. That's That's not what
I'm saying. There are many peoplein the medical field that are great positions
and great people trying to help people, but the corporate control of that profession,
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as in my own profession now inthe chiropractic profession, there are very
strong corporate interests. For example,the research that's done in a lot of
these um a lot of these industriesis bought and pay for by the same
people that are making the products.So you know, there's a lot of
conflict of interest in my opinion,and so that's what target list explores.
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It does it in a in afictional safe way because you know, I
think a lot of time, ina lot of situations, when you tell
people things that are really outside theparadigm of conventional thinking, I think you
will find that people will roll theireyes because that's that's what we've been taught
to do. When we see somethingthat goes out of the conventional, you
know, the conventionality of life orwhat we've been taught is possible or not
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possible, people roll their eyes.It's almost like like when you go to
sleep at night, you roll youreyes you go to sleep. It's almost
as if we've been conditioned to fallasleep if we try to think out of
the box and so by by creatinga fictional story, it's safe. It
removes that because it's a fictional story, it's not real, it's a fake
story. And so we can wecan get the story out there and we
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can entertain, but we can wecan deliver a message that hopefully people will
keep with them long after they leavethe theater or in this case it's on
you know, streaming platforms, solong after they turn the film off or
finish watching it. So that's thatwas my that's my hope. Absolutely.
What was the research process like,Well, the research process for me was
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life long because I've been involved inhealthcare for thirty some years, so it's
been ongoing and a lot of thethe story involved in this instrument wand is
actually it's I mean, it's completelymade up, but I believe that the
I believe that there is science behindit based on quantum physics. And the
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theory is is that if you takeif you take disease tissues, this instrument
breaks them down into subatomic particles andthen breaks them down further into frequencies,
and then because they become frequencies,they recalibrate, they reset, and when
the when the instrument allows it toreturn back to tissue. They're healthy.
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And I believe that the I callit's called uh, I named it particle
fluctuation physics. And I think there'sactually probably a lot of research that's been
going into that, and there's there'sprobably technologies that will be built or have
already been built that are you know, you know, capable of doing this.
But again, the research was yearsof experience, years of doing academia
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in the chiropractic profession, and justmy desire to create things out of thin
air. But I think we havea I think we have a really unique
story and a timely one, Astory that I mean, there's no probably
no better time in the history ofthis country or in the world than to
release a movie like this than what'shappened in the past three years. And
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so it's a it's a it's atimely movie, and it's an entertaining one,
if I may say so. Ithink that m J. M.
J. Callow and Andrew, theyreally captured the vision of the movie.
They really got it. In myown personal opinion is that the movie is
other than the book. And Iwrote the book, but I think that
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you know, and the movie isbased on the book, but it's it's
different. It's a lot different insome respects and in other respects it's it's
similar. But I think we cameup with a really good screenplay, and
I think that they executed it,you know, into a film just phenomenally.
I'm so pleased with it. Absolutely. That has to be almost a
dream come true. You write abook and it becomes adapted to the screen.
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While um so from the book,um it evolved into the proof of
concept film and now it's a fullwinked feature. Um how far. Well,
let me ask you this, howdid the story evolve visually on screen
compared to it's written form? IsAndrew is Andrew online? Maybe he can?
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He can? He wants to add, I don't know. I didn't
know if he came on or not, or I don't want to hawk up
all the time. Yeah, okay, all right, well let me just
say this. Okay, So,so your question was, how is it
different? How is the story different? Okay? Well, in the in
the novel, um, I mean, we still have the wand and we
have some of the same characters inthe story, and it's the same premise
(18:15):
that they're they're going after them andin the book it's a it's a it's
a trip across country, and there'spretty much a similar conclusion in the story.
But because of budget constraints and andand shooting a film like this,
one of the things that MJ andI discussed was trying to write a trying
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to write a script that was muchmore feasible from a production standpoint, and
so we altered some of the things. But there's a few more. There's
a few new characters, well morethan a few. There's there's a number
of new characters in the in theum in the movie than there are in
the book. In the book,and the twist that is in the in
the movie is a lot lot differentand very clever in my opinion, in
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the movie. So so we basicallyafter MJ, after she read the book,
and we discussed it and we decidedthat we were going to collaborate on
this screenplay. And she told methat, well, first we wrote,
we spent we spent several months sheoutlined it and I would look at it,
and then we went and we discussedand changed scenes around, and it
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was a long process and after Iguess it took three or four months to
actually come up with the finished screenplay, and I asked her at the end,
I said, you know this isthis is really I really think it's
it's great, and you think wecan sell this thing? And she says,
well, we wouldn't have worked onthe screenplay if we didn't think we
could sell it. So we needwe need to create a proof of concepts
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them and me, being more ofa novelist than a screenwriter, I don't.
I didn't have much knowledge about themovie industry or anything about it.
So she explained to me what aproof of concept was, and they she
she was working with Andrew Arguello atthe time. Madwife Productions is the name
of the company that um that producedand shot the film, and they created
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and we get a short twelve minuteI think it was eleven twelve minute production
in twenty twenty one. April twentytwenty one. We shot that in Reno,
Nevada and came out on Amazon Primeprobably in August of middle of August
of twenty twenty one, and itgot great traction. It really it really
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showed a lot of good positive reviewsand people liked it. They showed it
to some people and were able toget some investors involved with it. And
then then something happened that was unexpectedand I became very very ill. Um
I got I got sick with UMdiagnosed with with COVID, and I ended
(21:00):
up in a hospital for ninety fivedays. I was on a respirator for
eighteen days and was told my familywas told that, you know, there
was no way I was going tosurvive. They gave me a one percent
chance of surviving. Well, Isurvived, you know. And so when
I came out of this, Ihad to relearn how to walk. I
had to relearn how to do alot of things. I couldn't even hardly
(21:22):
hold my hands up. And butone of the first things I did when
I could was I called MJ andI said, what's going on with the
movie? When I when I wascognizant again and I had my whereabouts,
and she said that they wanted tomake the movie. And that was in
probably December, November December of twentytwenty one, and so the movie actually
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was greenlighted to go, and theyactually did casting and they're they're amazing.
They they took the process from thereand I was I think they shot they
shot the film actually in Reno fromApril the middle of April to the middle
of May of last year. Andyou know, the long process, A
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lot of people involved with it obviously, and I got to see I got
to see a lot of the behindthe scenes, you know them, the
casting process I got. I wasable to it kept me very very even
though I couldn't go on set becauseI was recovering from my illness, I
was able to be kept well awareof everything that was going every step of
the way. And you know,it was just an amazing process to see
(22:38):
your work turn out, your characterscome to life and be put on film.
So it was an amazing thing.And I I just glad that I
survived so I could see it,see it come to fruition. Absolutely.
Wow, I'm so glad you madeit through COVID oh Man Nani Dayyeah.
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It was it was rough. Itwas rough. It was rough. Yeah,
But to come back in your youryour film is ready to go.
There's a green light, man,that has to be incredible. News.
Did you celebrate? I mean,you know, it's it's been a it's
been one thing after the other.Dany, I mean, this this film
has been I feel like I've beenworking on this story for four years because
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I wrote the story in twenty nineteen, and then of course it was turned
into an audible book on the onthe Amazon or the audible platform Amazon,
and then um, you know,and it was a self published book,
so it had minimal It's hard toget people to read your stuff, but
it did. It did get sometraction, and we did get some very
very positive feedback, and of coursethe audible book too. And once once
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the film, once I saw thefinal you know, the final uh well,
actually I saw that, you know. I saw the director's cut probably
last summer. It was after theyafter they home that which was the rough
director's cut, and it didn't haveany the soundtrack hadn't been cut yet or
put in there, and the originalmusic hadn't been written. But I watched
it with my wife, and Ijust couldn't believe how good the film was
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because I'm very critical, and Iusually when I see the stuff that I
do or you know, I'm like, but and I was worried about that,
you know, because I just Ijust I hope this movie is okay.
And when I saw it, Itold my wife, I said,
that's really good, and she says, yeah, it really is. And
that was without the music, andyou know, there were still some some
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rough edits and things that had tobe done. But after after looking what
they did with the sound design andyou know, the VFX and all of
them, all of the score,the score was done. Ryan Clark did
the score. Um did a reallygreat job with it and just really really
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captured what well, I know,what I was going for and what they
were what she was going for.And we've we've had discussions about it.
But she's truly a gifted writer.And I was fortunate to find her and
one of the chances that I foundsomeone that would read my story that was
a molecular biologist. That's that's reallyyou know, I think that's that's a
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state. Yeah, but it's prettywow. Yeah. Well all right,
So did you have any dealings withpicking the cast? Well, you know,
I am. I they did.They they allowed me. Um,
they they sent over casting capes,you know, the all the auditions and
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I got to put you know,I had input into it all. And
um, you know, we wemade one thing about this team. We
collectively, we collectively made these decisions. And but I always yield to the
people or experience in doing this,and you know, I appreciate them given
the input, but I know thatthey're a very talented uh group over there,
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and so I had a lot ofconfidence that they would they knew what
they were doing. And I mean, you know, this is a very
involved project. You know, we'vegot that many people involved in a production
and to be able to put thisthing together and set up the you know,
get the sets all all designed,and it was just an incredible experience.
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But yeah, I had I was. I was present and online for
a lot of the um the tablereads and the you know, preproduction meetings,
and so I got an opportunity toto be involved with this every step
of the way and still am.So it's really really a phenomenal experience.
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One of the it's it's the youknow, the creative, creative effort experience
of my life. Yeah, thisis so cool that you got to do
this. Is there a the rightdirector's chair for John Riazer? It's riser,
it's rish. Is there a director'schair? I don't, I don't
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know. I I mean, youknow, that's that's that's not my that's
not my avenue. But um,I am a I am a creative writer.
I do write, um, someinteresting sports what I think are interesting
stories, but I'm still developed.I'm not a professor. I was never
a professional writer. I I wasnot trained as a writer, you know.
I was a I was a chiropractor. But I've always been able to
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write, and I have been writingstories for for many, many years and
hopefully getting better in the process.It's a I don't think you ever I
don't think you ever have it.I think you just keep on trying to
get better at your craft. Anduh, but you know, when you
surround yourself with so many talented peopleas I did with this story, in
this production, and it goes farto on. I mean, MJ and
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Andrew are, they're they're the trueprofessionals. But they cast and production team
that they assembled was you know,all of it was a team effort to
put this together. Couldn't have beendone without everybody. And I'm just a
part of it, you know,and I'm glad to be a part of
it. I'm proud to have myname on Target lists as a movie you
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know, as a as as coscreenwriter, and you know, it's really
it's really cool. Absolutely well,I think you're a pro Now. According
to Stephen Pressfield, the author ofthe War of Art, once you put
the pin to the paper and youpress the button to publish your pro so,
welcome, Welcome, Welcome to thesay yes so, yeah, yes,
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so okay, why not? Yeah? So? Target List addresses powerful
entities in the pharmaceutical industry. Aswe've been talking about, Um, what
do you hope you whereas will takeaway from the film in terms of understanding
and the awareness that there are somebigger players in this industry. Well,
(29:11):
I hope that people will wake upand understand that we have a serious problem,
and not only America, this isa glow problem. There's a major
thing going on right now and Idon't know how now. I'm not going
to get into that too deep inthis particular interview, but there's there's something
seriously long h with with healthcare andsome of the things that we're doing to
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mitigate infectious disease and other problems.But that's a that's another issue I want
to so so so hopefully what peoplewill get out of Target List is they'll
get some fun, you know,an hour and it's one hundred minute film
runtime. They'll get they'll get someexcitement, some some laughter, and some
some episodes of somber reality that youknow, there's something seriously u wrong with
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the relationship that big Medicine has withbig Pharma. And in the story we
use a fictional pharmaceutical company. We'renot pointing at the industry per se,
but a fictional company. But whenpeople watch this film, I think they
will be thoroughly entertained and they'll laughtoo. There's there's actually a lot of
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comedy in the film, not toomuch that that, you know, overshadowed
the importance of the other stuff.But I think it's a really unique film
and that it hits a lot ofthings at the same time while still delivering
a very important message. And Ihope people when they walk away with this
from watching this production, that theyjust recognize, Hey, there might be
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something on the side of the roomthere that I never looked at before,
and it's it's hopefully something that they'llbe able to, you know, to
take notice of and say and examineit a little bit more of a of
a of ay that is that theydidn't before. Perhaps maybe you know,
it's something that's real and if theif that film does that, that's great,
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and for others it might just beentertainment. You know, some people
won't see that part of it.Some people will say, hey, it's
just another thriller. It was prettygood and uh, you know whatever.
If somebody will take something out ofit, each person probably taking something a
little bit different out of it.But that's the kind of film it is,
absolutely and lastly, can you giveus a glimpse into the future of
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target Lists? Can we expect anotherbook or another movie or maybe in the
TV series. Well, let mejust say this, and I wanted to
plug. So the official movie websiteis www. The target listmovie dot com
all one word and right now themovie is playing. You can you can
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watch this movie on Amazon Prime,you can rent it there, you can
buy it, but you can alsowatch it for on the Tube network and
target Lists will be coming out onmany different platforms in the in the weeks
and months ahead. Um. Youcan also watch it on Vineo and if
you go to the Targetless movie withthe Targetless Movie dot com, um,
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you will be able to go thereand see all of that. UM.
I don't know what's in the futurefor this. This is something that you
know that the story, the storyis we're hoping that from the from the
early reaction that we're getting and thereviews and um, the feedback we're getting,
we're really getting a lot of positive, positive feedback from it, and
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people seem to like the movie.And uh so we'll see hopefully if we're
if we're talking a sequel or we'retalking additional uh you know, writings of
it. That means it became verysuccessful. So that would be great,
you know, but never say never, because if you would have told me
that we were going to make thisbook into a movie a few years ago,
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you know, three or four yearsago, I would I would have
laughed. But hey, you neversay never. Absolutely never say never.
I think we ought to do awatch party. Well that would be great,
That would be great. And I'lltell you m's it's going to come
out on Apple iTunes probably it's rightnow. It's target list is in like
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twenty two different countries on either twoB or Amazon or Apple iTunes. It's
going to come out on Apple iTunes, m probably within the next couple of
weeks the month in the United States. Right now, we're on TB and
Amazon Prime. So, like Isaid, that is those are the two
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major video platforms that you can streamor watch for free and check it out
because I think you'll, I thinkyou'll really get a kick out of it.
And it's a pretty it's a prettysighting movie. Got a lot of
twists and turns, and it's gota it's got a really good twist of
an ending. And we're proud ofit. We're really proud of it.
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Absolutely. Yeah, I think they'llbe great. Well, we'll schedule at
watch party. Uh. This movie, this movie features the actor Wendy Parker,
Justin Ray and Rachel a League hopefullyI s yeah, Rachel Ale Yeah,
Rachel Alec Justin Justin raye. Um, they are that the mail that
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the two protagonists in the story.And they have great, great chemistry.
Two really good actors. Uh,they they they they really have shined uh
in this movie. And they definitelyshow off their acting talents and uh,
I mean they are they're tremendous together. Nice and you showed off your writing
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abilities and codirecting abilities. Well,I'm not the now, I'm I'm just
I'm a screen I've co screenwriter andMJ. Hello, she's she's she's the
screenwriter as well and Andrew is thehe's the director and cinematographer, which she
would have who was supposed to comeon here. Um, I wish she
would have been on here. Butthose he's he's UM. He's involved in
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a lot of um, a lotof productions and he formerly worked I think
he formerly worked with the Walt DisneyCompany. And he started mad Waite Productions
a few years ago. And theyhave a couple other films that are out
corpet dum uh they did, andthey have another one coming out I think
in the full um Final Girl Halloween. I think it's called that's a new
(35:40):
production post production. UM. MJhas a movie that she wrote, uh,
this big time movie with the starof the Fear of the Walking Dead,
UM, Danny Garcia called Baby Money. She did that a couple of
years ago and that came out anduh, that's a really good film too.
She's a very talented writer. Um. And she's done some other short
(36:04):
films and uh. But she's she'suh, she's uh. She's very gifted,
very gifted. And I'm proud tobe able to put my name on
the same screenplay with her, becauseI think you're gonna I think you're gonna
see big things from m J.Pellow in the US in the future.
And Andrew and and Mad White Productions. They are able to put together a
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wonderful product And you know, ourour our production budget, I think was
a little over a quarter of amillion dollars. And I've had people that
have come back and say they thoughtthat this film was you know, in
the in the millions of dollars productions. It's amazing what they can do.
So there they have a they havea knack for doing that. So be
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sure to look out for those filmsin the future as well. They're coming
up. And Clark Adam is Ais a good film that they did that
with that was the predecessor film toum target list and uh and said,
that's a that's a cool film.And yeah, and I'm sure they got
other projects in the still be comingout as well. Absolutely, all that
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sounds incredible. We're rooting for you. Do you want to check out the
Mad Wife production gets as Mad WifeProductions dot com and you can check out
their company and see what they've gotgoing on there as well. I didn't
mean to cut you off. Ijust want to put that in there.
Oh you're good, you're good andlisteners. Just in case you need those
links, I do have them inthe show notes and in the description of
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this episode, and it's also onour show social media pages as well.
Just in case you didn't get thelinks, so click them, connect,
watch the movie, let us knowwhat you think. Well, doctor John
Riser, thank you so much forbeing our special guest tonight. It was
truly an honor having you here.And thank you, Dennie. I really
appreciate the opportunity to be on yourshow and to connect with your audience.
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And don't forget check out target liststhe Targetless movie dot com and thanks again,
appreciate it, Take care, Thankyou. This is Coach Deani,
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