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Old folks. It's show people fake
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they go out to a theater,
they want cold sodas Hoffcorner and no monsters

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in the Projection Booth. Everyone for
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Hey, folks, Welcome to a
special episode of The Projection Booth.

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I'm your else Mike White. On
this special episode, I'm talking with Jonathan

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Penner all about the Tribeca Film Festival
and their Escape from Tribeca series. The

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festival runs from June seventh through eighteenth, twenty twenty three, and if you

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are anywhere near New York, you
really need to go and try to get

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tickets for these screenings. They sound
amazing by those and learn more via Tribeca

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Film dot org. Enjoy the interview. Jonathan Panner, We've spoke last year

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about Tribe Exploitation, which is a
little bit of a mouthful, yes,

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but it was a success. Tell
me a little bit about how last year

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went down and what is happening this
year for Tribeca. Glad to be back

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to talk about this year the twenty
seconds running of the Triedbecta Festival, and

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last year we showed three New York
exploitation movies movies made by New York filmmakers

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shot in New York. And it
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as fully integrated in the festival as
I had hoped it would be as I

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tried to make it. Anyway,
it was a different audience than the Tribeca

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audience was appealing to. So this
year they asked me to kind of expand

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on it, cut back on the
exploitation, which is fine. And what

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I've created is something that we're calling
Escape from Tribeca, and Escape from Tribeca

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is movies that make you screen.
The idea is and what I sold to

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them is, you know, though
these are not your classic Tribeca movies or

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for your classic Tribeca audience, there's
a huge audience like the folks that we're

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talking to right now who love genre
movies, action movies, horror movies that

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you want to see in a pack
theater and yell at the screen and get

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to have events screenings that essentially are
what we're calling eventized. That is,

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every time you come to a Tribe
Escape from Tribeca screening, you're going to

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get some swag where you're going to
get some special surprise something like that.

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It's not your classic feeling festival where
we'll show the movie and then we'll sit

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and talk to the filmmakers afterwards,
and then you all go home. So

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we have a program of five movies
with a couple of extras. So the

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movie these are the fiftieth Anniversary,
Have Entered the Dragon Credible and Angela Mao,

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Superstar. Angela Mao is coming out
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right exactly how that's great. We're
so excited that we tracked her down and

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she said, she's so funny.
She said, yes, I will come.

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But the deal breaker is I need
a photo with Robert de Niro,

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my favorite actor. And we said
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what, she's got some balls,
balls of steel. Absolutely, Agela,

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we will make that happen. So
she's and Andre Morgan, the producer who

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worked at Golden Harvest, who's still
in the business. He's coming out and

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he has unbelievable stories about Bruce Lee
in the making of this movie. Shannon

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Lee, Bruce Lee's daughter, may
come. We're hoping that she does,

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and that's going to be a great
night. And we have a whole demonstration

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of Ki Kundo, and we have
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So that's going to be a great
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movie called Enter the Clones of Bruce. Enter the Clones of Bruce, made

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by a gun named David Gregory,
who made Lost Soul, the Making of

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the Island of Doctor Moreau, Richard
Stanley's and he made a movie about al

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Adamson, the great genre filmmaker who
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Anyway, he loves seenre movies.
He spent six years putting together this

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movie about Bruce ployitation films, the
movies with Bruce Lai and Bruce Lowe and

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Dragon Lee that followed Bruce Lee's death, and he was able to track down

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three or four of these guys well, of course, or as old as

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Bruce Lee would have been if he
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impacted their lives and their careers.
So it's a really fun, really kind

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of brilliant documentary that we're gonna show
several films. Is bringing swag. Every

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audience member is going to get some
cool shit if they come and see movie.

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Joe Lydge, fabulous guy, great
director. He's made a movie.

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There was an old Dennis Powley sprint. I actually read years ago that Stuart

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Gordon was going to direct one of
the follow ups to Reanimator and From Beyond,

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and of course Stewart Gordon died.
Dennis Powley switched the sexes of the

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leads, so instead of two men, it's two women. Barbara Crampton came

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on board and Heather Graham, and
the two of them are in this outrageous

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HP Lovecraft, body swapping, demon
possession, lots of fucking and death movie

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called Suitable Flesh. So we're going
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They're all coming out and in conjunction
with the Brooklyn Horrorfest, we're gonna

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show Reanimator and Barbara Crampton is gonna
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Nighthawks Cinema. It's gonna be amazing, right, Like we're showing a movie

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Cold Final Cut. Your audience is
going to know this movie. It's a

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movie from Japan called One Cut of
the Dead, which is this really funny

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zombie movie making farce. The guy
named Michael has A. Benicus, who

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made the Artist won the Oscar for
the Artist has done what we're calling a

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requel, which is a remake and
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made in France. And we're going
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of this movie, and we're going
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I just was in touch with Steve
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Damian Leone, the Leone from Terrifier, may come out and be the judges

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of our zombie contest. Anyway,
it's going to be really, really fun.

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And the Japan Society is going to
show one cut of the Dead,

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so you can see two versions of
that same story if you want that escape

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from Tribeca. And then the big
movie that we're showing, we have the

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world premiere in three D of a
Hollywood or Bollywood, an Indian movie called

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Addie poorsh which is a seventy five
million dollar VFX Uber production. If you're

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a fan of R r R,
this is going to be as big as

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that, we hope. A guy
named rob Us is the star of it,

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who's brilliant, huge star. He's
coming the entire casting crew are coming

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all the way from India to be
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a huge, huge, huge event. So that's really exciting, right,

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That's what we've put together. And
then we have a panel, two panels.

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We have Mike Flanagan who's going to
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We're out to Joe Ill to be
his interviewer. I'm not sure Joe will

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do it, but wouldn't that be
amazing to get Joe Hill and Mike Flanagan

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on stage talking about all things scary. And there's a panel discussion women in

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horror, gender and genre. Hate
Siegel, who's Mike's wife, who's the

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actress and the writer Barbara Crampton,
and a couple of the directors of two

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of our midnight movies who are women
horror filmed directors are going to be on

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that table. So we have an
incredible collection of stuff that we're doing.

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And I hope everybody who's watching this, I know I talked a lot and

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very fast. But if you like
horror, if you like action, martial

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arts and bear breasts, please come
to Escape from tredbeca with us, and

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there'll be a couple of parties,
a lot to giveaway to trivia contests.

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It's really going to be a ball
that is so stacked. And I love

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all the synergy with all you know, the Japan Society and this festival and

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these people over here. I mean, it's amazing. Wow, what a

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what an effort you did with this. Yeah, yeah, we're putting really

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been so much fun. I'm working
with a guy named Matt Drone who he's

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one of the directors of the Brooklyn
horror Fest and he's been helping me program

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this. He's been invaluable. So
we're going to have posters, we hope,

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all around New York and hopefully they'll
be merch for people if they are

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interested in Escape from TREDBECA. Are
you dealing at all with the guys that

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wrote these Fist Break Bricks? Yes, yes, yes, these Fist Break

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Bricks is Grady Hendry, Sad and
Chris. We were desperate to have them

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come out and run the panel on
the rust Ploytation movies. Unfortunately they're not

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available. But literally before I got
on the phone with you, they said

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that they're going to send over some
signed editions as giveaways for some lucky audience

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members. That's the kind of stuff
that we're going to be giving away.

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I mean, if you guys,
you haven't read that book or picked it

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up, it is fantastic book on
the kung fu movie explosion of the early

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seventies called The Spiss Break Bricks.
And of course Grady Hendricks is a really

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funny, really smart horror author as
well and before so check that out if

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you can. And yeah, we're
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That's amazing. So when when are
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this happening? The festival is from
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In Tripbeca tickets you're going to go
on sale. You know they'll be

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on sale at this when when this
goes live, you'll be able to go

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to tribbecafest dot com or triedbeca dot
com and find them. We are escape

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from Triedbackcat. Tickets are going to
go fast, so please please check it

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out. And there may be some
tickets available sort of on the day of,

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but don't take my word for it. Really try to get tickets because

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there's some of these things are going
to be pretty tightly packed. We're gonna

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try to fill every house that we
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screenings of almost all these movies.
Into the Dragon we have the one screening,

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but the other films will screen at
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I wish I was in New York
for this. That sounds so good.

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I'm so glad. If you think
so, then other people are going to

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think so. You're you're one of
the tastemakers. You know, we've really

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no honestly, I mean, we've
really worked hard, and it's been very

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interesting putting this sort of festival together. Some of it is my dreams of

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like fiftieth anniversary event of The Dragon. Can we get Angela? Mao,

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it's not worth doing it? We
can't. And we got her, you

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know, and how do we make
an incredible evening around her. What are

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the best horror movies available to us
that will let us World premiere them?

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There were very few, honestly,
that we're going to hold out for October.

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You know, when we tried to
get the Last Voyage of the Demeter,

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we tried to get the insidious Red
Door things like that, and you

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know, for whatever reason, they
they're just not available. So suitable flesh

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is incredibly exciting audiences who loved Reanimator. We are going to have an absolute

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ball with this movie. So,
you know, learning how this sausage has

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made how a festivals put together has
been a really really interesting experience for me

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and very rewarding, a lot of
fun. I hope you get to be

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there when Angelo Mao meets Robert de
Niro. Well, do you know I'm

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going to be there. Then I'll
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with them as well. You know
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she said that she saw The Godfather
Part two when it came out, which

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was right around the time that that
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was a big star. You know. She said she saw it ten times

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in the movie theater in Hong Kong, that she like worships this guy,

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and I'm hoping, you know,
I'm believe me. I'll make sure he

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knows exactly who she is, and
he actually is. I've had a chance

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to meet him a couple of times. He's lovely his public persona, I

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mean, he can be very shy
and you know, kind of like this

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you know in person too. But
the truth is He's incredibly bright, incredibly

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well read, informed person you know
who just isn't that comfortable in crowds.

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He's not that comfortable like okay,
Robert DeNiro, be Robert DeNiro, you

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know. Whereas when you get him
alone, he's very interested and very engaged.

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So that's that's actually been really really
cool find out Alert Well, Jonathan,

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thank you so much and good luck
with this. I wish you the

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best. I hope that you have
a fantastic festival. Thanks buddy, appreciate

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it. Everybody come out of you
can love to see you say say hi,

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okay, show one one one.
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