[SPEAKER_01]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.
[SPEAKER_08]: I had to get it again, and now he'll all be here.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's quiet with us.
[SPEAKER_08]: We will start the show.
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[SPEAKER_11]: Friday, flashback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We don't football today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Who's ball?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like reviewing football today.
[SPEAKER_09]: The picks came in an hour before the show started.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_09]: The results.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's so great.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll do that tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember also tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_10]: And we'll also do picks tomorrow because of our travel schedule.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, getting it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We tell them already that we're not getting it.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I told I held off.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we will have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Crazy week.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very much.
[SPEAKER_02]: On the upcoming 19th season of the British reality show, I'm a celebrity get me out of here.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the show where a group of celebrities live in a remote place together, kind of like survivor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, even though it's airing in the UK, it's worth mentioning because when pseudo celebrities do British reality shows, they sometimes end up revealing a bunch of stuff to get attention.
[SPEAKER_02]: Caitlin should be able to handle the camping.
[SPEAKER_02]: She did the American version of the show back in 2003.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was back in the Bruce Jenner days and the other cast members included Robin Leach, Melissa Rivers and Chris Judge.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that show failed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that's the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: It not work out The late Robin Leach Mike.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you can talk popular.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be based on our response
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone Mike Tyson bit a chunk out of Evander Hollyfield's earring.
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, the 90s, 97, specifically.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, they got over that a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're cool now.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, Evander was just on Mike's podcast, Hot Box and with uh, Mike Toses, uh, and he admitted that Blockbuster, Hollyfield, Evander Hollyfield once bit an ear to what?
[SPEAKER_02]: He said, not an ear, but he bit a guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said, quote, people keep asking, how are you going to forgive somebody?
[SPEAKER_02]: I say everything that ever happened at some point in time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did it, Mike bit me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I say, I bit somebody too.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just wasn't on TV.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bit a guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I bit a guy and his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_02]: He dropped me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I didn't know when you had a concussion.
[SPEAKER_02]: You'll bite too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's why Mike.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't listen to hotbox.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I just get the transcript.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you know Tyson is in the pot business now and he and his co-host discussed making a mold of Avengers damaged ear and making edibles from it.
[SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Camus.
[SPEAKER_02]: What a lovely idea.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was at that fight but left before the bite happened.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, you did.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I wasn't that fight in Memphis with one of those HBO deals that trickle down to me.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, we saw a lot of great celebrities We saw Samuel all jacks in there, but there was a long long undercard and carry was ripe with child It was the kind of thing that if like three more weeks you really leave before it happened if you go in at all
[SPEAKER_10]: No, we were there.
[SPEAKER_10]: We were there at the pyramid.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was a metaphor for you left a Tyson fight.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, well, she was Fort Tyson fought.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was, it was a, wow.
[SPEAKER_10]: Not a great decision.
[SPEAKER_02]: The fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, by.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people have strange holiday traditions and a Kendrick.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like Kendrick.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like TV commercials.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, her family's no exception.
[SPEAKER_02]: They like to celebrate Christmas by watching football on mute while listening to the nutcracker.
[SPEAKER_02]: This just made me laugh.
[SPEAKER_02]: She said, we turned the sound off of football and we play the nutcracker because every now and then, it lines up perfectly.
[SPEAKER_02]: I encourage you to do this at home.
[SPEAKER_02]: I might do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so much fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: A football play will align perfectly as the music crescendo's.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone cheers.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's a unique watch story.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the painful listening to Pink Floyd and watching the Wizard of Oz, but different.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're supposed to line up with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you load a dishwasher, should you put in the silverware so it's pointing up or down?
[SPEAKER_02]: I love this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a stronger opinion about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't even matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Someone track down as close to an expert on the topic as they could find a guy named Ashley Iardale as a degree in industrial design and he makes a living
[SPEAKER_02]: Writing about appliances like dishwashers and washing machines.
[SPEAKER_02]: According to him, it does matter which way you do it, and if you want to do it right, the silverware should be pointing down.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, my God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the handles are on the top.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here's why.
[SPEAKER_02]: First, it's a little safer, especially with knives, because it's easier to cut yourself if you put them blade up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Plus, it's just more hygienic.
[SPEAKER_02]: If they're facing down, you'll only touch the handles, so the part of a spoon or fork that goes in your mouth won't get germs or smudges on it when you take them back out.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, listen here, Airdale.
[SPEAKER_10]: How come you want the water?
[SPEAKER_02]: Airdale.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, you don't want the water to drip from the handle down to the eating surface.
[SPEAKER_10]: You wanted to dry away from the eating surface.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I'm glad to agree with Rob.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was there and also, you know what, it is safer.
[SPEAKER_10]: Be careful.
[SPEAKER_10]: Just don't go in there blindly swinging your hand or anyone cut yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was he says if there's a difference in cleaning it's marginal.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Rob, I'm with Rob on that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I just always felt like most of the, I guess, the breed would be at the top of, or the sharp part or pointy part of the utensils.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you want that exposed, so more jets get too drained down.
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, no, no, he's saying that he thinks it should be pointing down so the jets are close to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it might just happen on a dishwasher.
[SPEAKER_10]: The jets are above it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Ooh, it's fancy.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where the jets are.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, where the jets are.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't matter where the jets are, the still still beat the giants.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: We both lost.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did anyone have a better veteran stay than this guy?
[SPEAKER_02]: 70 year old Ernest Dodson served in the US Army and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he just came forward after winning a quarter of a million dollars in the North Carolina lottery.
[SPEAKER_02]: He bought a cash five ticket for a dollar last Thursday and didn't realize he'd won until the following day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lottery officials announced his winning yesterday for Veterans Day.
[SPEAKER_02]: He won just under $277,000 and took home $196,000 after taxes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: He says he'll use the money to pay off his house, his car, and buy a new TV.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he can't believe he's finally dead free.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a great story.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, we can't finish with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's story on the three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's finish with a story from Florida, shall we go like a you live there police and Florida Seeking information on the disappearance of an unusual piece of property a 300-pound big-foot statue Bointen Beach my favorite town of Florida, Bointen, Bointen, Bointen, Bointen Beach police say the eight-foot tall Sasquatch statue was stolen from in front of a store called mattress monsties
[SPEAKER_02]: Big foot is missing the department tweeted police are asking anyone with information on the missing statue to contact effective detectives I'm sorry effective detectives That's Florida Come on police use your heads mattress monsters figure it out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's under the bat
[SPEAKER_02]: It's $300,000 over here now, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, he's under the bed day.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm over here now, I'm over here now, I'm over here now.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're looking for the monster, the road faces.
[SPEAKER_02]: Check out of the bed, it's a mattress, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are plenty of British tabloids that'll tell you that they saw this coming, Prince Harry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Megan Markle, the announced yesterday that they're going to step back as senior members of the Royal Family.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't ask me why this annoys me.
[SPEAKER_10]: But it does me tell some reason I know I can't put my finger on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's her.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah That doesn't mean they're quitting or renouncing their fancy titles as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex They're just decided to quote carve out a progressive new role within this institution
[SPEAKER_02]: Part of that carving includes becoming financially independent.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're also going to split their time between the UK and North America.
[SPEAKER_02]: Harry has a series on mental health in the works for Apple TV.
[SPEAKER_02]: They also want to be free to interact with the median anywhere they see fit.
[SPEAKER_02]: The family currently participates in something called the Royal Rotta System.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's basically a pool of British press that gets exclusive access to official engagements of the royal family.
[SPEAKER_02]: Harry and Megan haven't been happy with how the British media have treated them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Harry recently complained about the way they've been trying to juice up a feud between him and his brother Prince William and Megan said, quote, the biggest thing that I know is that I never thought this would be easy, but I thought it would be fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the part that's really hard to reconcile.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can park off.
[SPEAKER_02]: I so agree with right or quote again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just it's even.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the phrase like trouble Why the biggest thing the biggest thing that I know is that I never thought it would be easy But I thought it would be fair and that's the part that's really hard to reconcile Yeah, yeah, let's go ahead
[SPEAKER_09]: If every little girl's, and now boys, a dream, growing up is to be a princess, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Why all of a sudden when she gets that dream, that she decide?
[SPEAKER_09]: The reality shows are better in northern America because this isn't a money thing They have money regardless right.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is a
[SPEAKER_09]: This is what's wrong with these millennial Because they don't realize how good they got it Yep, I'm there.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're all you know rarely are the three of us lately a unified front But we all feel I get this irritated me here's what it let me kid you issue a statement to the world that starts out with the biggest thing
[SPEAKER_02]: right uh no matter what happens uh they say they still plan to quote honor our duty to the queen uh the commonwealth in our patronages uh that means their charities sources say Harry and Meghan didn't clear any of this with the fam beforehand and threw it uh threw it out there and threw them for a loop the response from Buckingham Palace kind of backs that up they said quote discussions with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are at an early stage
[SPEAKER_02]: We understand they're desired to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right, this was so shocking.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm making it.
[SPEAKER_10]: That it does.
[SPEAKER_10]: Just dinner.
[SPEAKER_10]: But Prince Philip released.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I watch if you watch the crown, which is a great series with different actors that they put into the roles this year, you get a handle on the amazing heavy burden of being in this family and their responsibilities.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they also the trappings that go along with it are pretty spectacular.
[SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time,
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got this lady that got to, you know, people through World War II and has been there for her country and look, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm an Irishman.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm from Irish descendants.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not like the British tyrants of history.
[SPEAKER_02]: But as far as this, Megan Markle, the one who asked who was big and barkl, it's just,
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're in there for five minutes, and you're bitching about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got the grand-am who's 150 years old, who's sitting up there suffering in silence for her entire life.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think she's doing it because she digs it?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: you're barking up the wrong tree.
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's part of me that says it's great for the country of England that they've had this royalty and it's a consistent tradition they've had, you know, screw your personal happiness.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can find go to go to, you know, centropay and hide out there or it just rotates me a little bit.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you're that, if you're that against this whole process, why not pay back the kingdom for the wedding?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, I'm Palace.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what happened?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no good that's going to come of this.
[SPEAKER_10]: What happened to the Harry of a few years ago when he was in Vegas with hookers?
[SPEAKER_10]: That's the Harry I like.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you have a history with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that going to get a marker now?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get a marker.
[SPEAKER_02]: You had a Queen Elizabeth's uncle, abdicate the throne for the woman he loves.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not unusual.
[SPEAKER_09]: Big dummy.
[SPEAKER_09]: I saw that on the crown.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: But here's the thing, but what you do is, and I believe this, there had a, I think your name was Tina Brown, who is a royal writer about the rights about the royal family, she gets where they're coming from, but also says, there, you don't do it halfway.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're out, you're out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you're in, you're in.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can't be in sales and programming.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: be the top of your own sales.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love doing this show.
[SPEAKER_02]: God, I'm glad to be back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just in the beaver has been working on his mental health lately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, excuse me, I don't know why I hit the frog.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That is a long fraud.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just in Bieber, in an Instagram post, you should say, he put it all out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said, well, a lot of people keep saying Justin Bieber looks like poop on meth, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_02]: They failed to realize I've been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease, not only that, but I had a serious case of chronic mono, which affected my skin, brain function, energy, and overall health.
[SPEAKER_02]: These things will be explained further in a docu-series.
[SPEAKER_10]: I have one question about the alarm disease.
[SPEAKER_10]: Is the tick okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's strong outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he is.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can learn all that I've been battling and overcoming.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been... Look, when they say that, they're not... Oh, anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: I spent enough of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: What PR person says, hey, let's go out on the limb with alarm disease.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been around a couple of years, aren't we, cruel.
[SPEAKER_02]: But getting the right treatment that will help treat this so far in curable disease, and I will be back and better than ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's...
[SPEAKER_02]: Hold it.
[SPEAKER_10]: You mean better than ever?
[SPEAKER_02]: Better than ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: How could that be better be better be better be better be better be better be better be better be better be better be better.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Leonardo DiCaprio was on a private yacht and the crew picked up a guy that almost drowned.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks, Leo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_02]: Technology is getting us closer and closer to the point where we'll be able to have conversations with our dogs.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the very first step.
[SPEAKER_02]: A Japanese company called Languolis just created a harness for dogs with a sensor that changes color based on how the dog is feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because dogs are so hard to read, relaxed, excited, happy, interested, or stressed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those are categories.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the harness connects to an app on your phone so you can track your dog's moods over time.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, why don't we get some harness on Justin Bieber?
[SPEAKER_02]: The track is health.
[SPEAKER_02]: The company says they figured out how to detect a dog's emotions by studying heart rate pant patterns for dogs in different situations.
[SPEAKER_02]: The harnesses should go on sale in the US sometime later this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're already on sale in Japan for around $37 isn't that exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now a little something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, there's a 28 year old woman named Shana Joseph from Jersey City, New Jersey.
[SPEAKER_02]: She went to the DMV on Tuesday afternoon and apparently she got very frustrated with the long line in front of her.
[SPEAKER_02]: So she did what everybody does.
[SPEAKER_02]: She started beating up the employees.
[SPEAKER_02]: She also smashed $23,000 worth of computers and equipment.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she kicked the police officers who came to a restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: The cops found a cigarette on her that was laced with PCP.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shocker.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's still a thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... she was arrested for criminal mischief drug possession aggravated assault and hindering apprehension uh... when asked for comment a rep from the dmv said d thirty six d thirty six t mo s classic
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you do a nostalgia corner about a catty shack?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or animal house?
[SPEAKER_02]: Something that has chocolate or something about Mary.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you have to go back to the Marks Brothers and Gloria Swanson and people that are not only they're long since been warm food, it's all dust now.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's skeletons.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, the beautiful thing about the nostalgia corner is that there are no limits.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we're setting limits on it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay Oscar shut the f**k. Oh, yes, and passion.
[SPEAKER_10]: She's right though.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're giving you parameters.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, but the thing about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't color like the line gives you feed positive feedback on this tells you corner.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you do one like the Marks Brothers or because I read them, I read there.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's some nice comments on mine.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't I don't pay attention.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't pay attention to comments Jack.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't pay attention to movie magazines They're all junk nothing jumps out really, but I'll say this my interests are varied Incredibly.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I like modern stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: I do, but I do also like older stuff So I can do Newer stuff too, and it's just as entertainment.
[SPEAKER_10]: No talk newer stuff
[SPEAKER_10]: No, no, no, this is between me and Mike right now and you are like nails on a child for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, good.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is going to be good.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll be worth it, good.
[SPEAKER_09]: What is nostalgia to you?
[SPEAKER_09]: Like what are we talking about?
[SPEAKER_09]: 70 years, 100 years.
[SPEAKER_10]: What nostalgia is me thinking back to the great times before I knew you.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what 2004.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I would say nostalgia in those back.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, I would say nostalgia.
[SPEAKER_10]: It would be defined by me as bringing back something that doesn't exist anymore in a fall.
[SPEAKER_02]: How long will you nostalgia corner?
[SPEAKER_10]: Today's probably eight or nine ten minutes ten minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: after he's ever made after and I've seen the movie and it is a good movie after giving him that hard time ladies and gentlemen I now present Rob speedwacks and I'll give you one sunset boulevard for one relatively modern history comedy all right you know what I've got I know what I'll do I will do next week I'll do the blues brothers because it's one of
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it was a trendy movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a I'm talking about great classic comedies.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something about Mary catty shack catty shack It's a normal house.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think catty shack is probably got the best back story the replacements of the one of we're going to read from Gene Hackley.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very good blues brothers immediately goes with his
[SPEAKER_02]: Narrow little world one of the greatest makes me never made it was not the blues brothers Music in the blues brothers are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on you bad thing think about let your dad a dare to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, all right But I know this is going to be what I feel
[SPEAKER_10]: All right, go, I'm ready first thing you need to know about before we talk about since at Boulevard, which came out in 1950, it's an example of a genre called film noir film noir sort of was birthed in the early 40s and it had certain characteristics the easiest way to think about it is a hard boiled like detective movie like a multi-variant very lit with lots of shadows exactly exactly the theme the thematics of film noir are predestination like persons in the movie you already know at the beginning
[SPEAKER_10]: There's this music from this this is the overture from sensible idea Like Avengers, you already know the characters and the Avengers in a way Yeah, you understand that there's always a femme fatale some evil woman that's going to have to do with the undoing of the man There's also a lot of mirrors and reflections showing the dual sides of man and that's not only done with mirrors But with two face and that like with water you never notice in an old movie the streets are always wet
[SPEAKER_10]: like at night.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, that makes the, uh, makes it, uh, with the streets look better on the camera, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: What what it does is also shows reflections of light, which is another theme of film noir, and also just plain evil people.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now when the movie, Sunset Boulevard starts is not a spoiler alert.
[SPEAKER_10]: The lead character is floating dead in a swimming pool.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you already know it's beginning of the movie that he's going to meet a bad ending, but Phil Hartman sadly enough.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, a little bit more like Mrs. Shattner got you guys.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know that Phil Hartman had a pool involved, but anyhow, so he starts with the voiceover.
[SPEAKER_10]: So he narrates the movie about his own death and
[SPEAKER_10]: he tells a story about a failed it's talking about himself he's a failed screenwriter who has to try to keep his car because they're gonna repossess his car so he is actually out trying to sell a script the repossession man the repo guys see him and chase him so he pulls off the road on sunset boulevard into what he thinks is in abandoned house oh and he hides the car and that way he'll get to keep it right realistic already because that's pricey property why
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, the house looks abandoned and this is also remember 1950 Hollywood was sort of going through transition got it You say I get it and so he pulls in there and he's immediately mistaken as an undertaker Because this crazy old lady wants to bury a champ She's got a dead monkey and she brings a key
[SPEAKER_10]: And there are elements of dark comedy here because it's funny, you know, she's talking about the funeral for the monkey and the color that she wants for the coffin and all of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: So he comes in and he finally reveals to her.
[SPEAKER_10]: He says, I'm not an undertaker.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm a screenwriter.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then he recognizes the crazy lady.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wait a minute, I haven't seen you before.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know your face.
[SPEAKER_08]: Get out or shall I call my son?
[SPEAKER_04]: You're normal Desmond.
[SPEAKER_04]: Used to be in silent pictures.
[SPEAKER_04]: Used to be big.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am big.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's the pictures that got small.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew there was something wrong.
[SPEAKER_08]: They did.
[SPEAKER_08]: They finished.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was our time in this business when they had the eyes of the whole world.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I had to wasn't good enough for them all though.
[SPEAKER_08]: They had to have the ears of the world too.
[SPEAKER_08]: The same old world.
[SPEAKER_08]: They now came talk, talk, talk.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where the PupCon business comes in by yourself a bag and plug up your ears.
[SPEAKER_10]: The thing about it is the overacting that you hear there actually works in this motion picture because she's nuts and the whole movie is her unraveling and thinking she's going to make her big Hollywood comeback.
[SPEAKER_10]: She hires him to work on a script that she's working on.
[SPEAKER_09]: She mad that she used to be a silent film star and now that there's talkies.
[SPEAKER_09]: audio?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's what makes her mad.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's so weird.
[SPEAKER_10]: And so another neat thing, this is a movie of Hollywood looking at itself.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's one of the first movies that actually used this movie.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she couldn't talk?
[SPEAKER_10]: No, she could talk.
[SPEAKER_10]: But there was a time about 1927 when a lot of Hollywood stars just sort of went away because they couldn't act and talk.
[SPEAKER_09]: They weren't, that's not how they were talking about going from black and white to color.
[SPEAKER_09]: Did that affect Hollywood that way?
[SPEAKER_10]: Not as much, but this movie was purposely shot in black and white, and although Paramount wanted to do it in color to make it a bigger movie, but about 1080 to 4K.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know if that affects his Hollywood as he's- Like someone's Pockmark, as television, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, more of a television thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: So this is Hollywood looking at itself.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are people in here that actually play themselves that are Hollywood greats, had a hopper, the most important advice collar.
[SPEAKER_10]: Happy!
[SPEAKER_10]: Hopper, the most important gossip columnists at the time, even Cecil B. Demil plays himself in this movie.
[SPEAKER_10]: so she goes on and on and what happens is she hires William Holden and Mike you're remember William Holden from network who is a great in that movie as well but he's young in this movie and he also a people like him also in the bridge on the river quote bridge on the river quiet and stall like 17 and he had a great role on i love Lucy playing himself he's a very funny guy and he's good in this movie she hires him to be like a script doctor
[SPEAKER_10]: And he's a young buck in this point.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, definitely a leading man type.
[SPEAKER_10]: But what he does like Ryan Reynolds leading.
[SPEAKER_02]: Real noted alcoholic and heavy smokers.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, and also there was a Hollywood, uh, a Hollywood motto back then was a call Bill Holden for Hookers.
[SPEAKER_10]: He was also quite a really he knew how to do that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, he was quite the Lothario.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what's a Lothario?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the dictionary that that definition?
[SPEAKER_09]: I think it's type of watch.
[SPEAKER_10]: I know it's a lover, uh, sort of a guy who can get things done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, like, uh, p-tips.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, about them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, why we do a lover and get a guy's not a guy that would go on get the hookers.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, he was connected in that way.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think he was noted as a, uh, impractical authority was misuse.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm, I, I, I withdraw.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm, I'll look it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: So there was a lot of, uh,
[SPEAKER_10]: Action between the two of them as he's rewriting the script.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's really using her for money.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's getting paid to rewrite her script, but she's falling in love with him.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there's like date nights and it's very creepy and very, uh, you make you very uneasy and every night, they actually watch a movie, a silent movie in her living room, which is another chance to hear her do this great overact.
[SPEAKER_06]: The just aren't any faces like that anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe one, go above.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, there's any.
[SPEAKER_02]: Talk about herself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Those in this hills, empty got any eyes.
[SPEAKER_06]: If they forgotten what a star looks like, I'll show them.
[UNKNOWN]: I may be up there again, so help me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, as you know, the dating doesn't go well, is a man who behaved selfishly and irresponsibly in his sexual relationships with women.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I guess it could be part of the abuse.
[SPEAKER_10]: I also know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_10]: this as the ultimate Hollywood film because it celebrates Hollywood while simultaneously showing how it destroys itself because of her vanity and all of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_10]: It hung around.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards.
[SPEAKER_10]: It ended up winning four.
[SPEAKER_10]: it is very highly rated.
[SPEAKER_10]: The library of Congress has preserved it.
[SPEAKER_10]: The thing about it is that it has remained sort of in the national consciousness.
[SPEAKER_10]: As recently, let me get the date right in 1993, they did a Broadway adaptation of it in London with Glenn Close playing Norma Desmond, and it ran for 100 in perfect casting for the modern Nora Desmond.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think it ran for like a hundred and ninety three performances.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was a hit and it's a great, great film.
[SPEAKER_10]: It leaves you feeling unsettled.
[SPEAKER_10]: It leaves you feeling uneasy.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you're a person who loves classic movies, it has a modern feeling while showing old Hollywood and Oscar.
[SPEAKER_10]: You actually toured Paramount Studios.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: Great behind the scenes stuff at Paramount where you see the gate and the motion picture studios and as I said, Cecil B. Demill, one of the great directors of all time, we did the Ten Commandments, plays himself.
[SPEAKER_10]: But the ending of the movie is killer.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it is the recent set Boulevard that Rob is talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we've got to go back to that occasionally, say we're talking about sunset, you're assuming everybody knows what you know, but they don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we've got to remind people, here's a movie you need to watch.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I can back Rob up on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is an entertaining film.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's an entertaining black and white movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: 1950 is when it was made and this last nine years before I was born.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm 62.
[SPEAKER_09]: This is like the modern This is an earlier version of bookie nights when they went from film to video tape.
[SPEAKER_10]: You know actually that is a the first valid thing you've said during the entire conversation.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's not your line
[SPEAKER_10]: But the ending where and you already know that Joe Gillis is dead.
[SPEAKER_10]: I won't all spare you how she died out of Joe Gillis.
[SPEAKER_10]: The guy, the lead character that was in the pool.
[SPEAKER_10]: Remember he had to move me open.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that part I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just remember that it's like a CSI.
[SPEAKER_09]: You see the crime before in the end.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, the show is really emboldened.
[SPEAKER_02]: And more is why it's a serious monster.
[SPEAKER_10]: William Holden is the one who's found dead in the pool in the first scene of the movie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is CSI film noir?
[SPEAKER_10]: No, there are aspects of it.
[SPEAKER_10]: You could say but not really just glorious swans and older than Greta Garbo Yes, but she's not that old in this movie.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think she was only like 50 in this movie, which is okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: I get I get is this normal I get glorious swans and then Greta Garbo confused absolutely 100% okay 100% that very common so at the end What about hunts and hines catch up the only way to get
[SPEAKER_02]: That's actually what Rob and I a lot of people don't realize Rob and I just took a really brief respite.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's actually right after the layoff and Rob and I went over to Munich where we had a wonderful show.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were known as a comedy team of Hunts and Hines, and it was great.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it was great.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did all the stuff we normally did, you know, we did the, but we did it with those accents too, you know.
[SPEAKER_10]: That was a great day, this one's, hey, I want to ask you Hines, what if Charlie was running the tank?
[SPEAKER_11]: What would be a disaster?
[SPEAKER_10]: He could not have told a disaster once.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_10]: A fetal saying.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good night.
[SPEAKER_10]: So the final scene, the lead character, Norma Desmond, is played by Gloria Swanson, has totally lost her mind.
[SPEAKER_10]: The only way to get her to leave her house.
[SPEAKER_10]: And she's a little scary.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's a horror.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a horror element to this old like like 1920s mansion she lives in and it's dark and it's generally is a skim right our famous film writer named Richard Coralis who describes sunset Boulevard as the ultimate Hollywood horror film
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, because it really is, there are horrific things.
[SPEAKER_10]: So the only way they can get her to leave the house, press corps is there because there's been a horrible murder.
[SPEAKER_02]: To tell her that something special is happening.
[SPEAKER_10]: Because she's going to suit her last close-up.
[SPEAKER_10]: They have to let her think she's making a movie.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did a meal of your mind, if I say a few words, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just want to tell you all how happy I am to be back in the studio, making a picture again.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't know how much I've missed all of you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I promise you I'll never desert you again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because after salony, we'll make another picture on another picture.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see, this is my life.
[SPEAKER_05]: It always will be.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's nothing else.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just us.
[SPEAKER_05]: In the camera.
[SPEAKER_05]: And those wonderful people are there in the dark.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that creeping this is how Sunset Boulevard ends who killed the person in the pool.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, you know what?
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't I don't I won't even say spoiler or because the movie is 71 years old Gloria Swanson shot him Shot him to death because it was Gloria Swanson shot William Holden because he spurned her advances There's another romantic sub plot that she finds out about that I left out in the interest of time
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, she murders William Holden.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she said, I wasn't driving.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now I get it with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: One criticism with the film.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, it's all the films of that era.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, overbearing soundtrack.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that sounds right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Score.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for a person.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bearing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not necessary without...
[SPEAKER_10]: Although I will say this.
[SPEAKER_10]: There is one effective device that you sound track wise is they the house You talked about the creepy house is almost a character in the movie because it is so big and so large and such a part of the story There's a pipe organ and when the wind blows they set this up early on when the wind blows the pipe organ makes eerie sounds So they have actual eerie sounds that are lightly in the background made by the organ that are actually built in We have a clip.
[SPEAKER_11]: I have a I have a paper organ
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, let me play a clip of it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Ms. Watson.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[UNKNOWN]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ha-ha-ha-ha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ms. Watson, what a great sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you have to say to that, William, all of you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, good for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think we brought that in in under 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: I look and like it always is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I always give you a hard time better than I get a little sucked in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your brother doesn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: He doesn't know what we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's especially helpful today, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_10]: I feel like you were watching a TV and you had the primary audio and the secondary audio on at the same time.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's how that felt.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now I routinely watch everything I watch, which is disturbing me a little bit with subtitles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Julie is really starting to freak me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I why because why do you do it because modern Hollywood is the land of mumbles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is the land of mumbles?
[SPEAKER_02]: The younger the actor, the more they mumbles.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the way it goes.
[SPEAKER_09]: I actually disagree because Rob is right.
[SPEAKER_09]: The technology that we currently have, even if you have a soundbar.
[SPEAKER_09]: If you don't soundbar, if you don't tune your soundbar correctly, you're going to get a lot of imperceptible speech.
[SPEAKER_09]: When I was in Los Angeles, they have the whole setup and the kids watch TV with the subtitles on because the televisions that are now built, unless you have one of those $5,000 Sony XBRs, whatever they're called, where the speakers are behind the screen and they're coming out at you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_09]: The speakers are shooting down.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, what's the world mind you mind you saying I have what I have the speakers shooting down and it is not when we We were younger think about the TVs.
[SPEAKER_09]: We had even the square was up front.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, oh, but sometimes a panel Yeah, side of the of the TV and you would go and you would go over to change it and you change the channel and your father would say not so fast You'll strip it
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this house came with a phenomenal sense and however I have on my little remote for the program So I can do I can do drama sports
[SPEAKER_02]: Senate was, but they're there four or five, and then you have contouring porn, concert hall at a low end, you know, oh, by the way, I got in trouble yesterday, because I flipped on Monsters ball and it's where Billy Bob is, is taking the trip, let me see how how do I phrase this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's after their first initial, which I did that was that's loud, and I understand that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's when Billy Bob Thornton and Hallie Barry,
[SPEAKER_02]: Billy is introducing Halley to the ways of cutting magic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_02]: and she's reacting very loudly to this is a funny how a really well recognized piece of art something that was embraced by critics and public alone that when you can turn on to one moment and it ruins it for forever make me feel good maybe maybe you could could you chop up the that scene uh and just just the uh just the hallyberry parts
[SPEAKER_02]: where she says make me for the show for the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love I love one or two of those I think it'd be fun.
[SPEAKER_09]: What happened?
[SPEAKER_02]: I got yelled at because you know, I believe the comment from Carla was, we have a chart in the house and like force around town in New York, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because I'm deaf.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I have it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's blaring out so you're like some titles that said make what I mean good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't that scene.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're too all pretty heavy-duty sex scenes with Hallie Barry Which is a very weird movie very dark.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, it's weird again like the time.
[SPEAKER_10]: What was that series that was so hot about?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's months ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be looking over your show.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll tell you later.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: There was
[SPEAKER_10]: The movie there was a it was a team of activity the streaming series about six months ago where the guy actually Deficated in the suitcase of the hotel.
[SPEAKER_10]: What was that show called oh Yeah, why?
[SPEAKER_02]: The white lotus.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, that was the one security had been streaming it all day I came into the room knowing that one scene and it's so nasty.
[SPEAKER_11]: Why are you watching?
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's it that 20 years ago that never would have been allowed in a movie at all and now you see it on a right They did it on in some training show.
[SPEAKER_02]: They did it on since at both My god, but no more older than a hot biscuit like the luggage was beautiful.
[SPEAKER_10]: It was a steamer truck
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