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From workhouse connect in AJ Benze fame, He'd like to be walked on a

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leash and play really dirty, kinky
sex games. He's the guy put the

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cock in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody AJ Benze

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here with fame is a bitch.
This is your free show for Wednesday,

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April nineteen, twenty twenty three.
Sorry, it's been a hectic night before

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and a hectic day before. I'm
taking this at two pm Pacific time.

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I apologize. I didn't think it
would take this long, but oh man,

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I was told I had to move
out of a double bedroom in this

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hotel and go across the hotel to
a single bedroom that happened in like Baula.

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Fox had to go to the car
rental place to get the wife another

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rental car for until whatever the hell
hell cars done getting fixed at whatever shop

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it's at. If somebody loose ends, I'm going been so money's flying out

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of my ass every which way.
But I said, let me get home

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and do the free show for you
good people. And then nice zero four

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one nine, two two three.
Not the greatest date, but guess what

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is a great date? Today is
the day that we can talk about.

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The Menendez brothers case is back in
the news because an ex member of Menudo

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is now saying well basically backing the
brothers claim that their father was a pedophile

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and sexually abused him. The ex
member's name is Roy Rosello. He was

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part of a hugely popular boy band
from the eighties. There's a new docuse

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series that's the airing on Peacock Network. It's titled Menendez plus Nuno Cohen Boys

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Betrayed. I don't like the title, but I think it'll be fantastic to

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watch. I'm getting all tired of
all these networks to have the plus signed

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Peacock plus AMC plus Bravo plus ESPN
plus Disney plus. Some of them are

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really good shows up, but I
can't stay want to doing once they are

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they are nine dollaring us to death. Okay, I don't know how much

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I used to have, like you
know, Netflix, Amazon, and then

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I went for Hulu, which I
could really but the way they make these

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shows, there's always a show you
don't want to miss on a streaming platform

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you don't have, so you sign
it for that one, you gotta cancel

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it again because there's nothing else going
on. I'm like, I want to

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I cancel Amazon Prime. I'm just
a Netflix guy right now. Not crazy

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in love with what's on Netflix.
Not enough of the stuff I want to

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look for. But there is something
interesting that I tried to look at.

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I can't do it. It's the
Indian version of Ray Donovan. It's called

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Ray News something. I don't know. He's an Indian actor. They're only

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Indian actors and some subtitles, some
not. But you know, Ray Donovan

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just ended. You can't tell me
you're going to improve upon that show.

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It's just it was one of the
best TV programs I've ever watched in my

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life. And what to an half
years three years later, you know Bally

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Will's gonna do their own interpretation of
it then, more than welcome to do

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it. And it's very popular on
Netflix because they are now on Netflix is

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I'll get to the show in a
second. Netflix is on admission now to

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no longer have you share your Netflix
accounts, but your kid or your husband

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and your wife or your friend,
that's all gonna end very quickly. Now

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they're giving you an option. Look, if there's two people who are auctioning

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with you, we'll charge them eight
bucks apiece. You still got to pay

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the thirteen fourteen bucks, but no
more. We all have the Netflix account

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because right now I share with five
people, my stepson, Rocko, Roxy

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and Logo, and it's like,
you know, we're all just one payment.

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The Netflix is looking at the big
picture, going, oh man,

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we could have so much more dope. Especially in countries like Indian China.

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They have to they have to price
it differently because you know, they're not

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going to charge people whatever. I
don't even know his Netflix fifteen dollars yet

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a thirty. I don't even know
what it is. But I have it,

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can't not have it anyhow. Big
bombshell from former Minudo member Roy Russello.

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He says that Jose Menendez drugged and
secturally assaulted him before he was brutally

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killed alongside his wife by his sons, their sons, Lyle and Eric.

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I worked on this story a lot
at the Daily News. It was a

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national story, probably international in some
aspects. I went to the trial out

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in La not a long time,
but a few times. Met Robert Rand

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who's an author who wrote a great
book about them, then The Brothers,

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one of his books I think was
turned into a TV series or show that

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I do a series, and nice
guy knows an awful lot about this stuff,

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and he's the person who told me, and he's not lying, he

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said. Ricky Martin was on tape
explaining that Jose Menendez sexually assaulted him.

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And I think at the time his
manager was Benny Medina, who was very

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powerful, popular man. J Low's
manager. Benny's had a lot of people.

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He's gay himself, and he did
not want that information that Ricky so

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bravely gave to a well it was
to Robert rant And at the end of

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the day, all the stuff he
had that really would have been such a

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bombshell, it went nowhere. It
just went nowhere. Now with the nuts

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thing about this incident is how exactly
Roy claims to have known Jose during the

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time of this incident. But you
know, it's not outside the realm of

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possibility if the guy was a sex
and a pedophile the way he treated his

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kids, If you are to believe
their testimony in which they crowed, I

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mean I was there when they cried. I mean I saw veins in their

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forehead pop out when they were explaining
what happened to them. The Menendez Murder

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was one of the first podcast I
did way back, almost six years ago.

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The show was very different back then, and I was such a neophyte

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at it. It probably sounds ridiculous
today. I wish I could take back

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the first forty fifty shows I did
and redo them. But it is what

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it is. You know, it's
a new field and you got to feel

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it out. But you know,
when you see two brothers on the stand

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with such agony on their faces,
I don't think you can coach that.

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I don't think you can instill that
in somebody who doesn't have great acting ability,

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and the Menendez brothers did not.
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their dad, you know. And
you gotta remember Lyleman and has worked as

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an executive in the music business during
the eighties and nineties. He was very

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tight with the Latin community. And
look, the fact that he was the

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way it's alleged he was is the
biggest open secret in the music industry.

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Everybody's talked about this, mentioned it
brought it up, then it dies down.

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Well, May second will get to
be able to stream Rossello's story from

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Peacock, but from the trailers and
promos that were released this week. There's

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no doubt that this guy is leveling
a very serious allegation that seems due more

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or less jibe with what Lyle and
Eric also claimed about their dad in the

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nineties, that he would sexually abuse
them for years during their childhood. I

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mean, the lynchpin of their defense, really, what it boiled down to

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was telling the jury that they lived
in fear from the US and they only

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killed their parents after claiming their dad
threaten threatened them when they said they would

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expose what he'd done, and the
mother was like, you know, just

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a shit heead didn't want to know, didn't want to hear. She put

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her head in the ground when the
kids would complain. There was one time,

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but one of their brothers had white
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I forget which brother. One of
them had white shorts on. His father

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had allegedly done something to his anus
and there was a red spot and the

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mother didn't want to know about it. What mother doesn't want to know about

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a red blood spot on your kid's
ass. Fucking people are unbelievable. So

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I believe this story wholeheartedly because I
remember what those kids said that the father

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would take them into the bathroom and
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another man or your father, because
this is what Greek soldiers did before war.

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They got together, and men with
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totally natural. He just drilled this
into the head. Not to mention what

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he drilled into their butts, because
I remember hearing stories about him putting electric

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ructure toothbrushes, anything he could find
he put inside them like a real piece

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of shit. So I'm all for
this story coming out. And you know,

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no one really is ever publicly back
this story that jose might have sexually

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abused minus everybody's thought about it in
Hollywood. Some have the goods, like

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Robert Rand, But the question is
will it have any impact on the Menendez

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brothers taste because their lawyers, they'll
lawyers have been trying for years to secure

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a new trial. They've had a
few unsuccessful appeals. But I'm telling you

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right now, I got a hunch, and I'm good with hunches. I

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gotta hunch this news we'll have them
getting that appeal, and dare I say,

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released from prison? That's the way
I feel. Let's move on to

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some comedians. I was gonna say
comics and comedians. I said. Anyhow,

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Bill Hayder, who I love on
from Saturday Night Live, is officially

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dating the Asian comic Ali Wong,
comic actress whatever, just like Bill Hayter

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is a comic and actor whatever director
to This all began when Hayter confirmed he

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was in a new relationship and mentioned
he had a girlfriend in some interview with

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an outlet called Collider. When they
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he said his girlfriend had been encouraging
him to take a vacation. They after

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letting him know that it's been almost
a decade since he's had any rest and

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relaxation, and it's been confirmed he
was talking about Ali Wong as his girlfriend.

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So they went to San Francisco for
a vacation. That doesn't really count

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though, So now he's going to
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But she's been busy. He's busy
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Barry. Ali Wong is now in
the Netflix series Beef. I'll get to

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that in a second. But these
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They previously said that their romance last
fall was a Rebound because it came on

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the heels of her divorce from Justin
Hakuta and Bill Haters split from Anna Kendrick.

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Bill Harida must have something special.
You know, you just gotta make

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chicks laugh. He's knocking down some
some good looking women. He has done

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it. He really has these asto
guys you like at a steady stream of

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big TV and movie stars coming in, they go to a steady stream of

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events and parties and people just love
to laugh. And Bill Hayter is one

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of the funniest bastards I've ever seen. But I'm only doing this piece simply

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because I don't get Ali Wong at
all. Yes, she's pretties, I'll

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give you that. But I tried
to watch that show Beef on Netflix.

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Have you seen this? I think
Netflix puts that high nineties on so many

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shows that not just not warranted,
but they want you to jump on a

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show right away, keep that streaming
platform going. Have you seen this show

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Beef? It's supposed to be such
a great show and a funny show.

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I don't know what to say it. Bottom line is this, and judge

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me all you want. I can't
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any movie or TV series. It's
really hard for me to do that,

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which is weird because I watched I
Loved Our Are, the Bollywood movie that

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was out and was up for and
I won the Oscar for Best Song.

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I love that movie. I guess
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I don't know what it is,
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I'm just very different than Chinese people, like with just different. Italians are

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different. Like the girlfriend is of
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She deals with anger very differently than
I do. My anger goes outwork.

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I'm a passionate Sicilian Nabolidon. My
anger goes out the Sicilian part of me

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wants to strangle you. The Napolidon
part wants to hug you and say I'm

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sorry. So you're gonna get old
of that. In ten minutes from me,

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the girlfriend retreats and goes back in
her body, in her head,

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she's getting mad and her eyes literally
become a little green. It's a it's

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an unbelievable effect. And her face
goes dead. And I made a joke

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last time, I said, you
looked like one of those miserable women who

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live in Eastern Bloc countries and they're
poor, and they eat hot rocks in

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water for soup, you know,
hot rocks soup. Just trying to make

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her laugh, and she laughed.
So the other day I see a picture

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of Milania. I saw a video
of Milannia and Donald Trump where Donald Trump

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said one of the funniest, most
embarrassing things I've ever heard. Two years

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back. He said, and then
we're gonna go to what do we love?

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What do he? I couldn't believe
he said this. He was so

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happy he said it. Melania went
back into her anger face. So I

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put a picture up and I sent
it to the girlfriend of Milannia's stone cole

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face and no stone cold face,
and they make the same face with him

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in Granted, Melania has had more
reasons to be angry when her husband's shocking

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up everywhere. Don't get me start. There's a new troup that's gonna start

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that he supposedly raped the the writer
Eejeene Carol, the columnist that's still hanging

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around. I guess I know Eugene
Carol. That's not his look. I

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know he's a dog. I know
the girls he's messed with and been with.

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But Eejen Carol is looking for No. It's just no. I don't

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buy it. I don't buy it
anyhow. I don't. I can't get

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behind two Asians. I can't get
like that whole Asian cast, like everything

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everywhere, all at once. I
can't do it. I watched it,

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it was it was a bothersome to
me. I did love Squid Game,

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loved it all Korean. I really
can't tell at that point. I know

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the difference between a Chinese name and
a Japanese name, but you put Ali

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Wong and the other guy that stars
that are on screen, I don't know

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what they are, you know,
I don't. It doesn't it just hit

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me right, you know? I
do like Aquafina, the comedian, Aquafina,

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the actress who that that shows she
has about living in Queens, New

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York and living with her grandmother.
She's very funny, and the way they

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have the old lady being so clueless
and a pain less makes this very enjoyable

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for me. Other than that,
yeah, I like I like Split Game

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a lot. Parasite That was okay
about Parasite, but there's an Asian invasion

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going on and I'm not against them
getting getting more work. That's funny,

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but I just couldn't get behind this
beef show. It all stems around the

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two stars getting into a ridiculous case
of road rage and it keeps escalating.

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Sounds like a funny idea, but
I just I don't find Alley Wang funny.

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you know. On the other hand, Bill Hayter is so funny and so

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good that I could see him in
anything. And if you haven't seen the

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HBO series Barry, you guys start
binging that tonight. I always find it

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very interesting that all he's comedic actors, or a big percentage of them,

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can also do dramatic turns that are
so powerful. Yeah, we've seen Jamie

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Foxx do it time and again.
Adam Sandler has it down. Pat Will

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Ferrell can do drama. Chris Rock. I don't think Chris Rock does a

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good job of drama. I think
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can't help it. His eyes never
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a dramatic show. He looks like
he wants to tell a joke more than

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the line he's got that he has
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rare when a dramatic actor can do
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mean Christopher Walking, but he wasn't
a stand up comic, but he can

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do comedy. Robert de Niro wasn't
a stand up comic, but he's done

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several turns in comedy and been very
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I'm on the topic of Bill Hayes, there's a very it's a funny story

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that Billy Bill Hayes is a huge
fan of Keith Morriston, the guy that

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does the narration for some date Line
episodes. Doing that guy, Oh that

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pesky DNA. He drags everything out. Every read is so dramatic. We

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went to three one five Valley stream
Drive found something like, you know,

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so Bill Hayter does him to a
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Line had seen Hayter's spot on impression
of Morriston, so one day they called

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him down to their office. You
know, it's all NBC, and they

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asked if he could do a couple
of voiceovers on date Line because Morriston wasn't

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able to record anything. He was
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and they said, look, just
come down. We know you're impression is

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spot on. Just come down.
There's like two lines few to read beat

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Keith Morriston. Nobody would ever believe
those lines didn't come from him ability to

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can't believe it because he loves Keith
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of a rock star, loves him. So he goes down and does in

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the vo booth and then across Morrison
walks in. It was all is set

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up because they know how obsessed Bill
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He said he almost had tears in
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You can go to YouTube and type
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There's all sorts of stuff there.
This one YouTube video that has him reading

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a portion of the twenty twenty two
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Empire Avenue two two two eight,
white Water Lane. He does this,

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It's just it's I love it.
Moving on, guys, there's been

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a lot of action in the big
actor Jonathan Major's life Major has got in

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some trouble with a girl. His
girlfriend physical trouble a few weeks back,

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and all sorts of things began happening
to him. First he was told,

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you can't attend the met gallup,
can't go to the met Ball. Now

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his talent manager, Entertainment three sixty
has dropped him. That came three weeks

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after he was arrested on domestic violence
charges in New York City. This guy

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is currently in Creed three and Aunt
Man and the Wasp Fantamania, and his

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departure was due to issues surrounding this
guy's personal behavior. I hit it on

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the head when I first thought to
see him. Why am I so good

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at this? I knew this guy
was a problem as soon as I saw

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him. He comes across thuggish,
not just because he's muscular. He just

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comes to cross buggish, even though
he went to Yale drama School. Can't

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hide it for me, Bro,
you just can't. So not only his

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representation three sixty dropped him, but
the PR firm he works, but the

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lead company also said, look at
leading some space that happened in the last

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month. This is also some minor
elements to this too. Majors and the

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fashion House. Valentino mutually agreed that
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this year. Big deal, Big
deal. This guy shot. He just

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shot his second season of Marvel Disney
plus his series Loki, in which he

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is the uber villain Kang, the
Conqueror. That's not going to go before

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the cameras and avengers the Kang Dynasty
quite some time. But I haven't heard

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so far any conversations that are taking
place in the Marvel camp to say they

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might want to drop him from the
Marvel Comic universe. That would be the

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biggest boat. But going back to
March twenty fifth, this guy was arrested

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over domestic dispute with his thirty year
old girlfriend. They don't give her name,

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obviously, but she was taken to
the hospital with minor injuries to her

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head and neck. Called fingerprints and
Majors has to appear before a judge May

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eighth. He's facing multiple accounts of
arrastment and assault from the New York City

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DA. Of course, his defense
attorneys are saying he is completely innocent and

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is probably the victim of an altercation
with a woman he knows. We are

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quickly gathering and presenting evidence the district
attorney with the expectation that all charges will

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be dropped imminently. That was back
on March twenty seventh. Okay, it's

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three and a half weeks or so. Nothing's happened. No charges have been

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dropped when the defense attorney also said. The evidence includes video footage from the

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vehicle where this episode took place,
witness testimony from the driver and others who

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both saw and heard the episode,
and most importantly, two written statements from

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the woman recanting these allegations. The
problem is his attorney released a bunch of

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text messages to the press. Obviously
they redacted the woman's identity, but she

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took blame for the fight. Some
of that text messages. Some of those

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text message to say, please let
me know you're okay when you get this.

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They assured me that you won't be
charged. They said they had to

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arrest you his protocol when they saw
the injuries on me and they knew we

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had a fight. I'm so angry
that they did this, and I'm sorry

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you're in this position. I'm going
to make sure nothing happens about this to

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you. I told him it was
my fault for trying to grab your phone.

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I only just got out of the
hospital. Now just call me when

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you're done. I love you.
You know it's a very tricky thing.

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But I'll tell you something before I
go on. If anything, those text

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messages do more damage. I know. It's proof that you know, she

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apologized, but so what she comes
off and you read these things as the

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typical victim suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
She says she grabbed his phone and his

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response was to strangle her. I
know what happened. He looked at a

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text message from another girl. She
flipped out and grabbed a phone and got

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crazy in the backseat and he put
hands on it. It's not good,

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but this is some fall from grace. This was the fastest meteoric rise and

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fall I've seen Anyhow, guys in
the midst of such a His career right

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now is insane. In twenty twenty
three, Long Creed three and Aunt Man

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The Wasp of a combined gross of
seven forty five million at the box office.

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He also got rave reviews at a
Sundance for playing this mentally disturbed amateur

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bodybuilder and something called magazine Dreams.
Disney acquired that right out of the festival

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beat a bunch of bidders that's coming
out December of twenty twenty three. Disney

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isn't likely to make a move or
comment on this until season two of Lowky

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Airs because he's the big star.
But the timetable would definitely move up if

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formal charges get filed, or if
he pleads guilty, or if the video

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is sufficiently damning. But given how
strongly the agent and the attorneys came out

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in his defense, I thought this
would already have all blown over and been

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a non issue. But it looks
like everyone is jumping ship even before the

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court date suggest otherwise. Look,
his attorney was all over the news saying

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that the charges would quickly be dropped. No, the only thing dropped so

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far is Major's representation and more opportunities
in different films. So congrats on getting

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roided up, taken all of steroids
an HGH for your movie career, and

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then having life imitate art. That's
where this comes from. Yeah, girl

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texted him. Yeah, he looked
at it. The girls saw it.

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She screamed. He tried to shut
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You can't do that. I think
the drivers said that the girl actually had

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passed out, which meant he choked
her. She could have faked it or

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he could have choked her. It's
all the look. Whatever cops are called

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to a domestic dispute, it happened
to me too. There was no noe

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whould have put a hands on each
other? What's there was nothing to do

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with hands. It was about my
voice being loud. That's why cops were

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called. Because I was loud.
And when everybody split or my kids were

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gonna go with their aunt and my
wife was gonna go with sister, I

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said, I'm on Rocko with me, and I pulled Rocko toward me and

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my index finger and pulling him toward
me. In a moment of such extreme

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anxiety and stress, I put a
fingerprint on his upper shoulder, lower neck,

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like I said to me, a
bud stay with daddy, stayed with

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daddy. Well, police saw that
and they have to get you know,

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the people who take care of children
A volved. It was awful all for

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one fingerprint. Now, Jonathan Major
sounds like he did a hell of a

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lot more so. Never liked him, don't like him in movies, got

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some things coming out. Something else
was called something about the guy in my

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basement, crazy ast movie. He
might be a decent actor. I just

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don't like the guy and I always
knew he'd be a problem and I'm right

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again. And by the way,
time heals all wounds. I never thought

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for a second Charlie Sheen would be
out of television forever. It's been twelve

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years years, but now Charlie Sheen
and Chuck Lorie, the showrunner for Two

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and a Half Men and many other
shows, are getting back in business together.

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They're gonna work together on Chuck Laurie's
first HBO Max comedy series, How

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to Be a Bookie. This sounds
very promising, guys. It's being called

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one of the most anticipated new series
of the year. Charlie Sheen has a

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recurring role single camera comedy My Favorite, headlined by Sebastian Maniscalco, who's like

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unbelievably funny, and Chuck Laurie behind
it as a showrunner and writer. Jesus

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Christ. It's a big TV comeback
for Charlie Sheen. He's also attached to

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something called Rambalan from Entourage's Doug Ellen, which has been shopped around, but

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I know someone the sort of pilot
for this and they stay the script should

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have stayed buried. Not good.
But Charlie Sheen and Chuck Laurie man eight

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year collaboration, one of the most
successful comedy series of the past twenty five

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years, Two and a Half Men, Sheen and Laurie. But they butted

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ahead. Charlie was getting after a
while, you just can't let him keep

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getting hot. It got to a
point where Chuck Laurie said, fuck this,

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this is my life. I mean, I have to create and work

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every day, and I can't work
with some of these irresponsible as is.

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Charlie got carried away. Back in
twenty eleven, a law came to an

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end. Charlie had that tiger blood
public meltdown and was ripping Chuck Laurie in

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Newass all over the press. One
hundred million dollar lawsuit was filed against Chuck

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Laurie was eventually settled. But that's
how bad things got. But now,

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if you've seen Charlie recently, he's
last five six years, he's taking responsibility

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for his crazy shit, his crazy
antics. He's expressed regret over two and

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a half exiting Two and a half
Men, and he wants to make and

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he did make amends with Chuck Lorie, and that's a good thing because he

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has been a top comedy showrunner for
a long ass time. And how to

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be a book he sounds great,
So Chuck Lorie's writing it along with someone

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named Nick McKay. Sebastian Maniscalco plays
a veteran bookmaker who's struggling to survive the

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impending legalization of sports gambling. I
swear I know people. I know guys

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like this. You got unstable clients, You've got families up your ass,

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you've got coworkers you can't work with, and a lifestyle that bounces you all

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over the place, trying to get
money, trying to contact people. Going

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to be set in LA and apparently
it's going to take place in the ritchie

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rich neighborhoods and the ghettos of LA
because gambling is widespread. I'll tell you

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right now, if they would,
if this would be the perfect time to

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reboot Too and a Half Men with
Sheen back as Charlie. Are you kidding

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me, especially now with everything becoming
so super PC politically correct, you bring

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back Trollie and John Cryer. It
would be so refreshing. This country would

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welcome that show back. With open
arms, like they welcomed Rosanne back with

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open arms. But we know what
happened there, you know, I mean,

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I know we're not allowed to say
the same things we used to say

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and see in sitcoms. But they'd
probably have to be a trans writer in

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the writer's room, maybe an Asian, somebody handicap perhaps, because that'lly riders

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rooms are now, even though two
men Laurie and Bikay would essentially be riding

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the whole series. They need that
representation in rider's rooms now. I've been

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saying it forever, and I got
friends who show runners would tell me that's

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exactly what happens. We got people
who wrote on a blog in college,

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but if they're gay or trans,
or handicapped or whatever the hell, they

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have to be hired because a representation
diversity, inclusion, equity bullshit. Speaking

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of that crazy non PC role,
I watched Dumb and Dumber two two mornings

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ago. There were so many jokes
in there you just cannot get away with

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anymore. There's one scene, if
you remember, there was a Stephen Hawking

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type character and he had the voice
box that shit, and he said something

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to Jim Carrey's character and Jim saw
the guy in the chair with the voice

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box and it sounded all garbled,
and Carrie did like a jump like jump

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scared. He was like, what
the fuck is that? He laughed so

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hard the guy and he said,
is that ship coming from you? You

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can't say to them. You can't
ask a handicapped person with a neuron disease,

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is that shit coming from you?
Motor neuron disease. First of all,

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they wouldn't even be able to write
a character in the movie who resembled

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Stephen Hawking and had motor neuron disease. Nowadays you can't do it anymore.

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Lloyd, But Lloyd was funny and
dumb and the Lloyd's the kind of person

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who thinks he can, you know, Jim Carrey thought he could always buy

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by the bar and get a chick. But Harry, you know, Harry

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was different, a lot less secure, and didn't not really have an approach

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women. There's one point where he
does at a party, he delivers one

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of the best dumb and dumber lines, but he does it in a completely

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innocent manner. When the character played
by Lauren Holly is standing alone, Harry

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walks up and says, nice set
of hooters you got there. You can't

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write that. Even though he meant
a pair of owls she was looking at

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in a cage, you still can't
write it. They would never allow it.

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You go back and look at Matt
Damon and something about Mary speaking of

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Farrelly brothers. And you know when
Matt Damon's playing tackle football with Cameron Diaz's

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mentally retarded brother and his friends,
and Matt Damon scores, not Matt Damon,

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Matt Dylan. Matt Dylan scores a
touchdown running in like eighty yards and

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they can't catch him, and he
says out loud in the end zone,

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special, my ass it's over.
Can't do that. Such funny movies gross

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out, un PC look nineteen ninety
four. You have to remember we had

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Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank
Redemption. But it was also the year

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where Jim Carrey did that movie Trifecta
that you know, one Minute's fire Marshal

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Bill on a living Color and he's
an absolute superstar. Aspantur pet Detective in

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February, the Mask in July,
and then Dumb and Dumber in December that

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we haven't seen that since it's the
damn shame we can't see movies written like

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up a forty year old virginal wedding
crash. There's all school, so many

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great films that writers wouldn't even dare
hand in because they might lose their livelihood.

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But there's a lot of history to
Dumb and Dummer. With Pete Farrelly

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and his brother Bobby. There was
the first movie years beforehand, Peter Farrelly

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and his friends and his frequent writing
partner Bennett Gellen. They wrote a screenplay

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about two not very bright funeral home
employees, which was eventually given to Eddie

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Murphy's production company, but it languished
there and nothing got done. Then they

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were joined by Bobby Farrelly and they
wrote Dragnet two, a sequel for the

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comedy starring Tom Hanks and Dan Ackroy. They say it's the best script ever.

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It went nowhere, didn't get made
either, just crazy. Then they're

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looking forward to Dumb and Dummer and
at one point they thought Nick Cage and

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Gary Ulman could be in those roles. But they go back to the drawing

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board because no one's bining this stuff, and they come up with another story

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about two dimwitted buddies Harold and Lloyd, who set off for daring a loss

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briefcase to some rich guy who owned
it. They called it go West.

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They called it a power tool,
is not a toy. But they changed

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the titles because they couldn't get agents
to deliver a script that was called dumb

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and dumber to their clients. Nobody
wanted to read it. It's the nature

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of this business. And by the
way, New Line Cinema, you know,

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they were already nervous letting the Farrelies
direct their their script, first time

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directors directing their script. They didn't
want Jeff Daniels to play Harry. He

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wasn't an obvious choice because he hadn't
done any out and out comedies before that

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in his career. But he was
always kind of funny in his roles.

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You know, I could go back
and look at something Wild. There's a

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funny ask at him there with ray
Leota. Great movie, but the Farrellies

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and you know, once they read
together. Jim Carrey also fought for Jeff

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Daniels to be hard because Jeff Daniels
gets up there and you don't know what

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he's gonna do until he sees what
the other actors gonna do. He's very

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good at reacting. Jeff Daniels,
he's actually a genius at that. Go

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look at the newsroom. Oh my
god, that was so phenomenal. That

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what a great show. That was
so um. Yeah, Daniels was not

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the obvious choice because he hadn't done
any big comedies, so they really wanted

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him badly, and then Jim Carrey
wanted him, and then it thought it

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to become an easier job to get
him on board. But yeah, I'm

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sure you've heard the story about Jim
Carrey writing himself at check. It was

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nineteen ninety Jim Carrey wrote himself at
check for ten million dollars for acting services

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rent by Thanksgiving nineteen ninety five,
And he showed some reporters that check he

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wrote in nineteen ninety four, and
that came right before the news of his

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seven million dollar paid day hit the
press. So that's a remarkable thing for

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him to have done and then made
happen. He said he when he wrote

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the check, it wasn't about the
money. It was a message to himself

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that if he was making that kind
of money, he knew he had to

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be one of the top guys and
the only worry he had then was with

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everybody talking about his salary, is
that he worried that people would start thinking

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of him as a check and not
a character. He didn't want people to,

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you know, be unable to lose
themselves in their mood in his movies

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because all they were thinking about is
the money he was being paid. But

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you know, I mean, Martin
Short and Steve Martin turned down the role

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of Lloyd, and Harris Chris Elliott
rob Lowe were considered for Harry. I

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mean, it's unbelievable when you think
about the Mocking Nations. A movie script

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goes through before it's finally done,
and when you got the people, then

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you still gotta go out and make
it and make sure everything's good on set.

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And Jeff Daniels agents didn't want to
play something called Dumb and Dunner.

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They were begging him not to do
it. You know, he said there

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were He said there were three agents
on the phone the night before he was

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to fly to do wardrobe for Dumb
and Dunner, and the three of them

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one in New York and two in
LA and the guys in La going,

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we're gonna come to your house and
stop you right now. I'm gonna stop

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you. You're not gonna do this
movie. You're a serious, important actor.

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We're trying to get you the Oscars. You keep defeating us. Stop

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doing this shit. It's gonna be
the end of your career. They said,

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Jim Carrey, comedic genius, with
all due respect, he's gonna wipe

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you off the screen. So just
say no. We'll take care of it.

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And Jeff Daniels said, if this
is a mistake, it's my mistake.

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And he turned and went off to
do wardrobe. And boy oh boy,

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didn't work out the way that they
thought it would. It's really great.

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I love stories like that because it's
what I always tell you guys,

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and what you have to remember in
this business. Nobody knows anything, but

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sometimes you get lightning in a bottle
and you run with it and it turns

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out to be a masterpiece. And
that's what a lot of those movies were

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back in those days. I don't
see that happened too often, but I

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do know that all those crazy things
still go on with casting and studio heads

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and first time directors and riot.
It's a mess. It's a mess.

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I know. They make a lot
of money, but they also go through

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a hell of a lot of bullshit
to get to that money. So caught

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them a little bit of slat,
especially the guys behind the scene. That's

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it, that's by show. That's
your free show for Wednesday, April nineteen,

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twenty twenty three. I'll talk to
You is Friday Take It. Thank

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you for listening. Fame as a
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