WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.839 From Workhouse Connect and aj Benza fame. Uh he'd liked 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.119 to be walked on a leash and play really dirty, 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:12.519 kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock 4 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:17.839 in the Peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody, aj Ben's 5 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:19.839 are here with famous a bitch. This is your daily 6 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:26.000 Unfiltered podcast for August twelfth, twenty twenty five eight one 7 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:30.280 two two oh two five A very special date for 8 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:34.600 a number of reasons which I'll get to soon. Oh 9 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.759 big date. I don't think you even understand how big 10 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:43.520 this date is. I don't like that we're uh twelve 11 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:48.399 hours no more, we're more than twelve hours since my 12 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:54.079 podcast landed on Patreon and I got two fucking comments too. 13 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:57.439 I don't like that shit at all. What are you 14 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.439 busy today? Something going on? It's not tax Day? What's 15 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:04.680 going on? Why is nobody talking? I don't like that 16 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:09.599 shit I'm reading here. Well, let me start by saying, 17 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.159 I don't think I don't think many of you have 18 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.400 heard of the name of somebody called Lil Tay, right. 19 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:19.319 I mean, I know there was like some controversy a 20 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:23.280 couple of years back, some young influencer and her parents 21 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:27.319 and all this kind of shit. But what is this? 22 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:32.879 Lil Tay is now eighteen, and she says her only 23 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.439 fans account broke the record. And this is after she 24 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:43.680 turned eighteen. Her only fans account broke the record to 25 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:48.280 the point where her only fans numbers when it comes 26 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:51.519 to like the first day of Going Up is equivalent 27 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.920 to Sidney Sweeney and Sabrina Carmenteron. Lil Tay is a nothing, 28 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:02.959 little eighteen year old nothing. She got the single day 29 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:10.080 subscription Crown, not only fan, she took it from Bad Barbie. 30 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:15.319 Cash me outside, girl. I mean, this is insane. This 31 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:19.520 goes eighteen years old, and she says her dms are 32 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:24.280 flooded with celebrities and athletes looking to get a piece 33 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:30.560 of her. She's eighteen, she doesn't even look eighteen. She 34 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:37.439 got her first seven figure payout within three hours, not 35 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:44.680 thirty hours, three hours. This ship's gonna be starring a 36 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:48.800 movie soon, this little girl, because that's all Hollywood cares about. 37 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.400 Now she has a music career. She thinks she's gonna 38 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:59.080 get to She's channeling Tellus Swift, using the Taylor Swift 39 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:04.280 blueprint as a pop star, but she's not getting anywhere 40 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:07.840 near the amount of traction she did with music as 41 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.639 she does on only fans. She's a little, tiny kid, 42 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:14.439 she's eighteen. And I know there's stories about heard in 43 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:17.159 the past from two to three years ago where people 44 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:22.479 said her father and her mother were, you know, using 45 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.520 her life to get money, and they're pushing her and 46 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:29.240 prodding her and exploiting her. But I don't think so. 47 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:31.919 I see the way this girl operates. I don't think 48 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:34.159 there are many kids out there who are doing well 49 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:38.120 on OnlyFans where their parents are forcing them to do it. 50 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.639 I don't believe that. I can't believe even kids who 51 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:48.759 were born into a great life, like the Charlie Sheen daughter, 52 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.719 money for decades, money for a generation. But yet let 53 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.479 me get my tits blown up and go on only fans. 54 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:00.919 Oh no, oh no, let me get the implants out. 55 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.719 They hurt me, they bother me. But my mother's doing it, 56 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.680 so I got to do it. This is the most 57 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:11.840 disgusting breakdown of the American family, if you could even 58 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:17.639 consider Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen an American family. But 59 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.600 this is the breakdown. It's disgusting. Mommy, you're doing only offense. 60 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:26.319 Why can't I daddy has tiger blood and aids. Why 61 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:33.439 can't I go bananas? It's just so disgusting. But look 62 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:35.759 up for little Tay if you like that little eighteen 63 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.959 year old, disgusting little sexuality. The girl can barely do 64 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.079 anything outside of sucking on a blowpop. But if that 65 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.600 makes you horny, oh my god, you're sick. You're sick. 66 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.040 She's not even I hate to even say this, she's 67 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.639 not even an eighteen year old who has Like I 68 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.399 remember Courtney Stodden, who blossomed in sixteen, You go, oh 69 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:03.120 my god, this girl, no, Lill Tay is nothing. And 70 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.439 yet there's some creepy motherfuckers out there who want to 71 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:14.600 see everything about her so gross. By the way, as 72 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:19.040 often as the case, I watched movies galore, you know, 73 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:24.639 I watched all sorts of stuff on Prime and Netflix 74 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:28.439 and Hulu and Apple, you name it. I did catch 75 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.279 a documentary on Prime over the weekend, and it's a 76 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.199 story I already knew about. We did this on Mysteries 77 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:41.360 and Scandals, and it's the story of this crazy nineteen 78 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:46.240 fifty sixth movie called a Conqueror. And that movie has 79 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:51.160 become infamous among people who love movies not only for 80 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:57.399 its casting of John Wayne as the Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan. 81 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:05.800 Also there are a number of suspicious deaths that followed 82 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.759 the filming of this movie, which was done downwind of 83 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:15.800 a nuclear testing site. And here we are nearly seventy 84 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:20.160 years later. That's why I had to watch this, this documentary, 85 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:26.480 because this is the most this is the biggest Hollywood 86 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.240 fuck up of all time. It's one thing to produce 87 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:33.399 a bomb, but to produce a bomb that kills actors 88 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:38.160 and everybody else on the staff, on the crew, You've 89 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:44.040 never seen that before. You'll never see it since. So 90 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:48.920 seventy years later and the makers of this documentary, The 91 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:53.199 Conqueror Hollywood fall Out on Prime, I suggest you see it. 92 00:06:53.720 --> 00:07:00.319 And it tells the story of this community of Saint George, Utah, 93 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:06.319 which was what they call a down wind community from 94 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:14.040 where our government was conducting nuclear power tests. And every 95 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:18.000 bomb day dropped there was stronger, like I said the 96 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.720 other day, bigger than Eiroshima, bigger than Nagasaki. And they 97 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:26.720 let everybody in America, especially Utah, Nevada, think there's nothing 98 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:30.800 to worry about, you know, just go about your business, 99 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:32.759 you guys, know we all did it when it came 100 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:35.680 to the Cold War. We all were supposed to get 101 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:38.839 under our desk and hold our head, or lay out 102 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.800 in the hallway and keep our heads against the wall. 103 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.959 All horseshit. There were even videos we saw of if 104 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.639 you're riding your bike outside and you hear a horn, 105 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:53.680 drop the bike, jump outside, get down beneath the picnic table, anything, 106 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.959 even a curb, hold your head. You might survive such horseshit. 107 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.480 But this documentary is really good, tells the story about 108 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:10.399 these bombs that were set off near where the film 109 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:15.600 was shot, and at the time the Conqueror was filming 110 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.040 in the Utah Desert just outside the town of Saint 111 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:21.360 George was Saint George was one hundred and thirty seven 112 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:25.759 miles downwind from this Nevada test site where the government 113 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:31.160 conducted more than how many do you think, twenty thirty fifty, 114 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:38.080 one hundred and twenty tests, nine hundred nuclear tests, nine 115 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:41.799 hundred some of those tests, some of those mushroom clouds 116 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:49.480 went as high as forty thousand feet. The Atomic Energy 117 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:53.639 Commission the AEC, for years had told the locals there 118 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:57.559 was not to worry about. It's nothing to way no. 119 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.679 And then some ranchers be again to complain about their sheep. 120 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.399 There was a big sheep hurting crowd, and they're like, hey, 121 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.639 my sheep were dying. Not only that they gave these 122 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:15.200 mysterious blemishes and blotches and infections on their skin. No, no, no, no, 123 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.600 that's just a happenstance. There must be something in the earth, 124 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.799 must be what you're feeding them now, I don't think so. 125 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:26.600 They're all dying mysteriously, dozens and dozens and hundreds, and 126 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:31.679 the hundreds of sheep are dying. And a bunch of 127 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:36.600 ranchers who would raised these sheeps for decades, they knew, 128 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:40.240 they knew what they were doing. But at one point 129 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:43.440 most of their sheep were dying with these big, ugly 130 00:09:43.639 --> 00:09:47.080 lesions on their bodies. It didn't make any sense. They'd 131 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:54.440 never seen this before, hundreds of dead sheep at their ranch. Now, 132 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:59.080 sheep were one thing. But after the movie was completely shot, 133 00:09:59.399 --> 00:10:03.200 people in town began to notice that a very high 134 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.320 rate of cancer among people involved with the filming. Ninety 135 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.000 one out of two hundred and twenty crew members developed 136 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.919 the illness that's almost fifty percent forty six and died 137 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:21.759 the director was named Dick Powell. John Wayne was the star, 138 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.320 Susan Hayward was the star. Agnes moorehead All three of 139 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.000 them eventually died of cancer as well, even Pedro armand Dadis. 140 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.960 He was a very accomplished Mexican actor and the only 141 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.720 non white member of the film's cast. He died by 142 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.080 suicide when his cancer became terminal and he could no 143 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:49.399 longer take it. Not for nothing, there were a bunch 144 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:53.480 of local Native Americans. I forget the name of the tribe, 145 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:58.840 but they were used as extras for a huge crown, 146 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:03.240 a crowd in battle scenes. They didn't keep records of 147 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.360 the people's names who worked as extras, but the cancer 148 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.320 rates among them was sky high, and tons of them 149 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:15.879 died of cancer. I mean, you watched the film, which 150 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:18.519 I did over the weekend, if you have the patience, 151 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:23.639 it's awful. I mean, it's just really bad. I'll take 152 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.759 you as my wife. See that's supposed to be John 153 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.559 Wayne acting as Ganga's Khan. I take you as my wife. 154 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:42.279 See no, no, it doesn't really work. So bad absurd features, 155 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:47.759 the eyes, the slits, the high eyebra. It was so bad. Meanwhile, 156 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.840 there was like a Shakespearean kind of dialogue. And they 157 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.759 wrote this with Marlon Brando in mind, because he was 158 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.120 the first one they looked after. And they then Brando 159 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.600 finally crapped out after he saw face and what it 160 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:04.559 would look like to try to look like Genghis Khan. 161 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:06.159 He said, now I want nothing to do with this. 162 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:12.799 John Wayne stepped in, and you know, with him there, 163 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:16.600 the tough guy from the tough guy from Hollywood making 164 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.639 those cowboy movies and shit, maybe he could change his 165 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:26.000 screenplay and make it fun. He was the duke after all. 166 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:33.159 The producer is Howard Hughes. Okay, he produced The Conqueror, 167 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:39.879 and he was nuts. As we know, around this time 168 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:45.000 he began to He didn't hide, he wasn't disappearing, but 169 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:48.360 he did want to have an affair with Susan Hayward, 170 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.320 one of the stars he made that very well known. 171 00:12:51.720 --> 00:12:55.320 Matter of fact, people think he cast her with that 172 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:58.840 in mind period, which happened all the time in Hollywood. 173 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:02.559 He got his way and had a fleet with her, 174 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:05.600 like he did with every one of his leading ladies. 175 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.039 But this movie began to be such a failure for 176 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:12.799 how it used that it almost it probably began his 177 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:17.720 descent into staying alone in a hotel room watching a 178 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:22.879 movie over and over again, his nails growing longer. People 179 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:30.799 assistance making him tuna fish sandwiches by first cleaning the 180 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:35.080 can of tuna fish, pouring the tuna fish out, throwing 181 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.320 the can away, making sure the bread was clean. I mean, 182 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:45.279 this guy was a fucking nut. But one thing Howard 183 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:52.159 used did was he took sixty tons of the desert 184 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:57.480 sand from this area and he delivered it to the 185 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:01.840 RKO Pictures soundstage and Hollywood so they can film the 186 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.639 interior scenes with the dancers and et cetera, a lot 187 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:10.240 of dance numbers. Instead of flying them out to Utah, 188 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:15.120 let's keep them on the lot, throw some you know, 189 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:19.679 real live sand, and let them do their dance numbers 190 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:30.759 there now. According to the documentary, epidemiologists warned of the 191 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:36.639 difficulty of, you know, identifying a single cause for one cancer. 192 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:41.960 John Wayne himself was very skeptical of a connection between 193 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:45.799 the filming and the disease striking the cast and crew. 194 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.919 He even said, look, you know, Dick Powell and armand 195 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.960 Derrees and me, we're all heavy smokers. I mean, come on, 196 00:14:53.039 --> 00:14:55.799 you can't lay this on the dirt and on the 197 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.720 nuclear testing we smoked two three packs a day. By 198 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:05.000 the way, I heard Jason Momoa on the SmartLess podcast 199 00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:10.360 today saying that he was smoking three packs of cigarettes 200 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.159 a day during Game of Thrones. I want to throw up. 201 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:23.799 That's disgusting. Oh god, three packs a day. Anyhow, Susan 202 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:28.039 Edward Dick Powell both died in their fifties, way too 203 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:33.480 young to develop cancer. And as this documentary begins to 204 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:36.279 make clear the longer you watch it, all the people 205 00:15:36.279 --> 00:15:40.600 who lived in Saint George, Utah who developed cancer during 206 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:44.279 the same period. A lot of young children were involved 207 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:49.879 as well. And like I said, Howard used was hell 208 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:53.519 bent on having Susan Hayward cast because he was wanted 209 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:55.519 nothing more than to have an affair with the which 210 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.519 he did. But there were weeks and weeks when so 211 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.320 many of the stars of the film, they weren't staying 212 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:05.559 at motels and hotels in this little town, but people 213 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.720 around town and Saint George gave up their homes or 214 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.279 or at least got paid for these movie stars to 215 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:14.960 rent their homes out for the next four or five 216 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:19.360 six weeks. And that's what they did. I mean, it 217 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:22.240 was like crazy, like Susan Hayward and John Wayne are 218 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:25.679 living on the same block, and John Wayne's son is there, 219 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.679 and he admitted later in the documentary he saw on 220 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.960 nights where Susan Hayward would be running in the backyard 221 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:36.120 half naked, meeting her dad in the backyard by a pool, 222 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.240 and they'd have sex. And John Wayne's son knew about this. 223 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:45.759 It was a wild, crazy time. Howard Hughes eventually said 224 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.799 he felt very guilty, he said, actually guilty as hell 225 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:53.000 about the production of this movie. And as he became 226 00:16:53.080 --> 00:16:58.240 increasingly reclusive, he ended up buying every single print of 227 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:01.279 this film and watched it on a loop in his 228 00:17:01.399 --> 00:17:04.640 hotel suite in Las Vegas, where he lived out his 229 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:10.400 last days of insanity. And then there were questions about 230 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:15.000 John Wayne's death. People magazine brought it up to begin with, 231 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:19.200 and people in Utah began to investigate, maybe there's a 232 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:23.759 connection between their medical histories aid this movie. They began 233 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.799 to get smart. Lawyers walked in, began to have meetings 234 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.599 and let's talk about class action. This class action that 235 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:35.960 you've seen movies, you know how it goes. Senator Orrin 236 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:41.079 Hatch Utah came to their defense, and back in nineteen 237 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:47.960 ninety eight they passed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act r ECA, 238 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:54.640 now recently expired, but that was so anybody who lived 239 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.000 in that area. A lot of these people assumed that, well, 240 00:17:58.079 --> 00:18:00.440 if you're doing these tests in Saint Joe, I know 241 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.799 it's not going to get the Salt Lake City. And 242 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:10.200 people would tell these Utahns, what are you crazy? You 243 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.119 think that the radiation material knows to stop at the 244 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.640 border of the next city or the next county. No, 245 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.480 it gets up in the jet stream and it goes 246 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:25.279 across America and it wraps around the world. Matter of fact, 247 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.200 there's a lot of blowback that landed in California too, 248 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.680 Southern California. It goes everywhere. That's how stupid we were 249 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.920 back then. But this movie is going to go down 250 00:18:37.960 --> 00:18:42.960 on history as the film that kill John Wayne. But 251 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:46.319 I love this whole thing about the sixty tons of 252 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:50.279 dirt that was taken from the radioactive site and then 253 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.480 he dropped it at the lot at Archao. But then 254 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.039 John Wayne's son tells us that he and a friend 255 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:59.359 went there with a Geiger copter right to check for 256 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.519 radio acts activity. And many years later the Geiger Counter 257 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:10.960 was going bananas. That dirt was still very radioactive sitting 258 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.799 on a Hollywood lot. Some people said that dirt was 259 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.920 then moved to some studio in Culver City, and then 260 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:22.680 finally Susan Haywood's son said that most of it was 261 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:26.839 delivered to some ranch and semi valley. Who the hell knows, 262 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:32.160 But what a story. All these people dying of cancer, 263 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.200 and all these people in Utah they called the down windows, 264 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:38.720 the people who never thought they'd be affected by it. 265 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:43.160 Boy were they ever. So many of them in this 266 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:46.920 documentary you'll see came down with all sorts of cancer. 267 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:54.400 Everybody in their family did. Makes you sick? How lied 268 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:59.160 to we are? I mean just fucking lied to. You 269 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:04.000 See the whole that these these bombs put in the 270 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:06.960 desert in Utah, you can't. It's like looking at the 271 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:12.240 Grand Canyon. These are like two hundred three hundred foot holes. 272 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:17.640 And like I said yesterday, soldiers who came to watch 273 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.559 this were laying lying in trenches that were built. And 274 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:24.559 one guy said, when the bomb went off, even though 275 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:27.039 his hands were covering his eyes, he could see through 276 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:31.000 his fingers, through his bones, through his friend's work boots. 277 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:34.279 That he could spot the skeletal toes of his friend. 278 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:38.000 That's how whatever kind of light that is from a 279 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:47.640 nuclear bomb? Can you imagine that? But it, uh, it 280 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:50.920 was something else, and then you match that up against 281 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:54.680 something else. I saw this weekend. I've seen it many times, 282 00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:01.440 but I saw Sunset Boulevard and by then away. It's 283 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:08.880 August tenth is when this movie opened, and three hundred 284 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:13.759 of Hollywood's most important studio execs, producers, directors, and stars 285 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:20.240 crowdled into one theater to see Sunset Boulevard. And boy 286 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:23.200 did it just take off? And as the end, and 287 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:25.960 I hope you guys have seen it, the story of 288 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.359 an old Hollywood star was trying to make it back, 289 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.039 clawing away back to the big time with a young 290 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:37.640 Screenrid Bilt, William Holden, and Gloria Swanson playing Norman Desmond. 291 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:40.359 It's one of the greatest, fucking it's the greatest film 292 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:44.200 nor movie of all time. Sums up fame like you 293 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:49.279 have no idea, and those end credits come up over 294 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:53.359 the final image of who was this silent film star 295 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:59.920 has been Norma Desmond crawling or slowly walking toward the cat. 296 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:06.079 Fingers are curled up in this demented manner, and these 297 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:11.359 people outside the paparazzi, there's photo photographers outside, and she 298 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.599 keeps moving forward, and it's just so sad when she said, 299 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.000 mister the Milla, I'm ready for my close up. It's 300 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:25.640 so sad. But this is what it's like. This is 301 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:28.480 what it's like for so many Hollywood stars who get. 302 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:35.119 Past their past, their by on date, if you know 303 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:38.640 what I mean, and they're trying to scrape anything they 304 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:40.759 can from what they used to be. 305 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:48.319 And be a star again. It's very sad, but you know, 306 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.759 many of these people like Glorious Watson playing Norman Desmond. 307 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:58.279 You look at all our major Hollywood stars going back 308 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:02.680 from the twenties and moving forward, especially in that Hollywood 309 00:23:02.720 --> 00:23:07.119 Gilded Age, were they not gods? I mean, come on, 310 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:17.400 Hetty Lamar, Betty Crabel, Glorious Wantson, so many actresses who 311 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:22.039 you couldn't get Molina Dietrich, so many of them were 312 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:27.160 like goods, John Crawford, Betty Davis. Couldn't get near them. 313 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:31.400 And the films they made are eternal. They still play 314 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:36.440 every day, and we watched them. I mean, will you 315 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:40.279 ever get bored of seeing Humphrey Bolgron and Ingrid Bergen 316 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:48.119 on the tarmac of Casablanca. Of course you will. But 317 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:50.680 the thing about Sunset Boulevard was it was the first 318 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:58.039 film where it really showed proof that stars get old 319 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:03.279 and the business begins to surpass them. And that's such 320 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:08.960 a scary moment for a big star. We know it now, 321 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:13.000 we've seen it happen to many of our favorite actors 322 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:15.839 and actresses. But you know, back in nineteen fifty, it 323 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:20.079 didn't happen so often. There are second acts and third 324 00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:25.599 acts and sometimes even fourth acts in pop culture. People 325 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:32.119 reinvent themselves. They have fresh personas, new mediums. Some of 326 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:37.480 them age with grace or good plastic surgery. But back 327 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:42.640 in nineteen fifty, it was shocking that an actress who 328 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:47.839 was so great and beautiful could grow old. It was 329 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:54.880 very disarming to females in the business. I mean, you 330 00:24:54.920 --> 00:25:01.480 know the talking pictures in the late nineteen twenties. Once 331 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:04.359 that ended and Hollywood took these women, it was like 332 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:11.160 we lost a dozens of dinosaurs, people that so many 333 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:16.279 moviegoers loved. They were all gone when the medium changed 334 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:20.599 to talkies. Some survived, Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Joe Crawford. 335 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.200 You know, a couple of handfuls of them survived, they 336 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:29.400 made a big life for themselves, but many didn't. But 337 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:32.400 the point was, back then, the way Hollywood did things 338 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.240 is no one saw the movie stars age. And that 339 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:39.720 was the town's big secret. It was a big lie, 340 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:43.680 but it was also a big secret. But by the 341 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:48.519 late nineteen forties there was, you know, some rumors, some rumblings. 342 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:54.319 Betty Davis, may West, Jimmy Cagney, Katherine Hepburn, whose actors 343 00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:59.599 who sounded like nobody but themselves, they're turning into their forties. Now. 344 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:04.160 Now the men were allowed to get older, Beaugart could 345 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:10.880 get older, you know, men were treated like scotch. The 346 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:15.319 older the better. The women couldn't get past their horizons 347 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:19.519 of aging. And the fifties would be an era where 348 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:25.640 a beautiful woman like Audrey Hepburn would have to play 349 00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:31.920 a love interest to Humphrey Bogart who was thirty years 350 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:35.920 older than her in Sabrina, or Gary Cooper who was 351 00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:40.880 twenty eight years older in Love in the Afternoon. That's 352 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:45.440 just the way it was. It still happens nowadays. But 353 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:49.559 you got to watch these two films, the Big irony 354 00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:54.759 is that while Sunset Boulevard was looked up to in 355 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:58.160 the movie industry as a big hit, a triumph for 356 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:03.599 Glorious Wantson, but the message to audiences and the future 357 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:07.720 was not great. It was the opposite. It was that 358 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:14.960 movie stars will continue on even after we're done with them. 359 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.960 And that kind of dips into what we're talking about 360 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:22.559 with Ai now, which I mentioned the other day. Just 361 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:26.720 as he went from talkie, from silent films to talkies, 362 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:31.319 now we're going from talkies to this AI era and 363 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:37.359 it's pretty goddamn scary. I mean, you look at the like. 364 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:43.039 As much as I loved Sunset Boulevard, I always will, 365 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.279 it wasn't lost on me that when I watched Demi 366 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:52.480 Moore's movie The Substance three times several months ago, it's 367 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:57.119 the same kind of movie. It's just done differently. Glorius 368 00:27:57.160 --> 00:28:00.880 Watson was being edged out for younger actresses to mean more, 369 00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:08.200 and The Substance is being edged out chemically, same movie, 370 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:13.319 just different tactics. But the more they make these movies, 371 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.680 the more they're telling you that the old has to 372 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:17.759 go and the new has to come in. I'm not 373 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:22.200 sure what that's going to mean. You know, I'm not 374 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:27.640 sure what that's gonna mean moving forward. So many beautiful 375 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:29.920 actresses I don't want to see their careers cut short 376 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.599 five years from now. But like I said yesterday, there 377 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:37.000 were meetings at big time agencies saying, do not treat 378 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:40.319 your actors and actresses your clients like they have thirty 379 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:45.160 year careers. They might have five years and they're done. 380 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:47.880 You got to change your business plan. And that's what 381 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:55.799 everybody's doing now. I want you to watch these movies. 382 00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:02.079 I want you to watch the documentary about The Conqueror 383 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:07.200 just see how crazy Hollywood was back then, and then 384 00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:10.880 do the best you can to watch Sunset Boulevard if 385 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.680 you haven't seen yet. It's the best film warrant movie 386 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:17.759 of all time. William Holden and Glorious Wantson are insane together. 387 00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:24.519 And you know, I wish it made more of a 388 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:29.279 splash on pop culture. I know it did to a degree, 389 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:32.119 but sometimes I talk about it and people don't know 390 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:34.240 what movie I'm speaking about. It gets me pissed off 391 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:41.119 because it's so important. It's so important if you think 392 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:44.680 about Hollywood and you think about where we're headed, what 393 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:47.799 we're losing, what it's going to all amount to be. 394 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:54.799 But Norma Desmond was Glorious Swanson's last major role, and 395 00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:58.799 it totally embodied all the aspects of celebrity that the 396 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:02.400 culture avoids until time to feed on the bones. Like 397 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:09.559 we see all the time. Sunset Boulevard is about well, 398 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:16.920 it's about madness. It's about getting what you want and 399 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:21.839 then the madness that comes with it. It's about absolute 400 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:27.200 egotism and what it takes to remain a star. And 401 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:30.359