Speaker 1: From workhouse connect in aj Benza fame Uh, he'd liked
Speaker 1: to be walked on a leash and play really dirty
Speaker 1: kinky sex games. Is uh the guy put the cock
Speaker 1: in the peacock network. Okay, bitch, Hey, everybody, aj Ben's
Speaker 1: are here with fame as a bitch. This is your
Speaker 1: daily Unfiltered podcast for July thirtieth, twenty twenty six, seven
Speaker 1: thirty twenty twenty six, Looking Good thirty twenty Almost on
Speaker 1: the dog days of August are merely a couple of
Speaker 1: days away. Get ready, that's when thing could really nut sew.
Speaker 1: This has been a crazy years, a crazy long time.
Speaker 1: Typically when the sun gets really hot, specifically in August,
Speaker 1: murder rates go up, the rates of rape go up, burglories,
Speaker 1: all kind of misconduct. Sends tends to go way up
Speaker 1: because people can't take the heat. And as we get
Speaker 1: further along August, you look at the September for the
Speaker 1: Indian summer, I think things begin to kind of calm down,
Speaker 1: but around the holidays the craziness picks up, So be
Speaker 1: careful out there the next month. We've seen so many
Speaker 1: examples of innocent people being killed, stabbed, thrown off a train, platforms.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Most of these things happen immediately after hearing
Speaker 1: aloa akbar the worst two fucking words in the world.
Speaker 1: I like the other. I saw a video of a
Speaker 1: mosque in Iran and they're playing the big sound system,
Speaker 1: oh lot bah and the missile hits. It just disintegrates,
Speaker 1: blew the shit out of him. And I love the Trump.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fucking bomb the shit good enough talk knock
Speaker 1: them the fuck out. By the way, did you see
Speaker 1: the worm understand one hundre eleven times? He played the
Speaker 1: fifth one hundred and eleven times. Here's an asshole who.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty two, Andy One, smiling to the press,
Speaker 1: assured every person in the press and those of us
Speaker 1: watching on TV that he has no problem telling the truth.
Speaker 1: I have no problem speaking the truth to Congress. I've
Speaker 1: done it hundreds and hundreds of times since the last
Speaker 1: forty years i've been in public service. I've got no problem.
Speaker 1: You're bullshit. You got a big problem because you know
Speaker 1: you're guilty. This mf mine, my mom am, I saying
Speaker 1: that this motherfucker what he did to us, just I
Speaker 1: think of kids, and I had kids at the age
Speaker 1: where you don't want to miss out on memories from
Speaker 1: school sports, even littlely if they had to cancel. We
Speaker 1: were eight to o Rockeers football team. Those couldn't play
Speaker 1: the last two games. They put tape around the basketball courts.
Speaker 1: We used to rip it on purpose and play basketball
Speaker 1: just to shove it up their ass. Police tape around
Speaker 1: a basketball court outside. And there's a famous story this
Speaker 1: many of them where a husband and a wife and
Speaker 1: I think one of their little kids went to go
Speaker 1: see their older kid play some kind of sport at
Speaker 1: US High school and it was the height of COVID
Speaker 1: people wearing masks in the stands. This couple sat very
Speaker 1: far away from the group of people in the stands,
Speaker 1: let's call it fifty sixty feet with no mask on
Speaker 1: because they're outside. You know, the cops came and arrested them.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of shit to want
Speaker 1: on not to mention. Our kids didn't graduate, didn't have proms,
Speaker 1: couldn't play sports, Scholarships were left unfulfilled, and the mere
Speaker 1: thought of not being able to flirt with the pretty
Speaker 1: girl or the handsome guy next to you or passing
Speaker 1: you in the hallways because you can't see their smile
Speaker 1: or their nose. You know how much that takes away
Speaker 1: from high school. If you told me I couldn't have
Speaker 1: flirted in high school for all those years, I would
Speaker 1: never would have went. I would have dropped out. What's
Speaker 1: high school without flirting with a pretty girl and playing ball,
Speaker 1: seeing your buddies and causing some have But that's high school,
Speaker 1: No fouch, you got rid of all of it. So
Speaker 1: I want this guy to go to prison. But something
Speaker 1: tells me he's such a pussy and I called it
Speaker 1: from day one, a big FOURD. Something tells me he
Speaker 1: might kill himself before this thing is over. He's eighty
Speaker 1: four years old, eighty five, whatever hell he is is,
Speaker 1: you want to go to prison because it looks like
Speaker 1: he might. I think a guy like him who's lived
Speaker 1: a long life and made a ton of money and
Speaker 1: just kill yourself can't go to prison at your age.
Speaker 1: They'll beat the shit out of you anyhow. Big story today,
Speaker 1: Jared Leto has joined the ranks of those who sexually
Speaker 1: assault girls. This time it's young girls. Four girls. I've
Speaker 1: accused them of sexual misconduct. They said the acts took
Speaker 1: place when they were teenagers. This is from a new
Speaker 1: BBC documentary called Jared Letto Hollywood's Dark Secret, and these
Speaker 1: encounters are between twenty two and twenty sixteen, fourteen years
Speaker 1: of this kind of rat scallion behavior. He was in
Speaker 1: his thirties and forties during that time. The four women
Speaker 1: were between the ages of sixteen and nineteen. Let's call
Speaker 1: him for girls, not women sixteen and nineteen at the time.
Speaker 1: In the documentary, they're called Isabelle, Alex, Clara, and Edda,
Speaker 1: not their real names, of course. Isabelle says that Letto
Speaker 1: assaulted her in a motel bathroom when she was seventeen
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and two. Clara says she had
Speaker 1: sex with Little when she was seventeen out in la
Speaker 1: where the age of consent is eighteen. That happened in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six. That's not good. She claimed that
Speaker 1: Leto actually shrugged off a conversation she began about the
Speaker 1: state's age of consent. That sounds like a big shot
Speaker 1: Hollywood started me. The other chick named Alex claimed that
Speaker 1: Leto threatened her with sexual assault when she was nineteen
Speaker 1: and she was unexpectedly left alone with him in a
Speaker 1: hotel room back in twenty thirteen, unexpectedly left alone. I
Speaker 1: don't like that phrase she went there with him. I
Speaker 1: don't like the left alone. You went there with them, Honey,
Speaker 1: you thought he was cute. I'm not going to see
Speaker 1: her and say every one of these girls is right.
Speaker 1: I'm not. You're nineteen, you're old enough to know the
Speaker 1: difference between right and wrong. But you see a Hollywood
Speaker 1: star and a rock star and you're thinking, I'd love
Speaker 1: to get next to this guy, and then you were
Speaker 1: left alone in the whole Terel room. That's what you wanted
Speaker 1: before you left your house. You can't believe your good
Speaker 1: fortune that you could finally be left alone in a
Speaker 1: hotel room with your hero. But then he went too far.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to deal with her right now.
Speaker 1: Alex can kiss my ass right now. Eda has more
Speaker 1: of an issue. Edda says that she was groomed by
Speaker 1: Little when she was sixteen. He made a bunch of
Speaker 1: sexually explicit phone calls and on one occasion said they
Speaker 1: should have sex not good. Two years later. Eda also
Speaker 1: says she received an NDA, which was supposed to prevent
Speaker 1: her from discussing their relationship, but she didn't sign it.
Speaker 1: Good for her four other women also say they received
Speaker 1: the unusual and often sexually explicive phone calls from Leto
Speaker 1: when they were younger. The woman named Taylor in the
Speaker 1: documentary says that Letto instructed a security god to take
Speaker 1: her backstage at a music festival when she was just
Speaker 1: fourteen after he made a sexual comment about her chest
Speaker 1: storing an autograph signing she just as her mom confronted
Speaker 1: him and he said the same thing back. He probably said,
Speaker 1: nice cans, nice tits, nice cannons. Not good. She's fourteen, bro,
Speaker 1: it's not generally not good at all. To say that
Speaker 1: to even someone thirty five, it's a stupid thing to say.
Speaker 1: But he's a big star. So we figured, hey, I
Speaker 1: can see what I want. What's gonna happen to me? Well,
Speaker 1: here's what's happening. All this is twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1: He got away with it, you know, I mean so.
Speaker 1: The BBC has corroborated a number of the women's accounts
Speaker 1: through their friends and family members and photographers. Also, there
Speaker 1: was messages other material that supports their cause or their case.
Speaker 1: The documentary also features two guys who worked with lettos
Speaker 1: band Thirty Seconds to mars I couldn't tell you one song.
Speaker 1: They say, I have no desire to hear them. I
Speaker 1: have no desire to hear Keanu Reeves band, Billy Bob
Speaker 1: Thornton's band, Kevin Bacon's band. I don't care, just act.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear you singing. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: You're not gonna blow me away. These people, these two men,
Speaker 1: said that the staff was very uncomfortable with the actors
Speaker 1: interactions with teenage girls. They said that sometimes you'd invite
Speaker 1: them backstage to his dressing room, all to the house
Speaker 1: where he was recording. Of course he did, but they said,
Speaker 1: we all thought the age gap was too big, but
Speaker 1: you kept your mouth shut, your accessories. You're complicit this.
Speaker 1: He's been through this for years. Little last year, even
Speaker 1: a DJ in La named Ali teals She wrote on
Speaker 1: social media that he assaulted them when she was seventeen,
Speaker 1: and then other women started coming forward. So nine women
Speaker 1: in total accused Lettle of sexual impropriety. That was in
Speaker 1: an article published by Airmail back June of last year.
Speaker 1: Lettle denied everything. He's still denying everything right now. He
Speaker 1: made a comment today statement even the New York Posts
Speaker 1: said back in twenty oh five in September that Letto
Speaker 1: was hitting on all the teen models at New York
Speaker 1: City's Maritime Hotel and constantly texting these others sixteen and
Speaker 1: seventeen year olds that I believe, and I know these
Speaker 1: accusations are gross and maybe to some even eye opening,
Speaker 1: But you know, some of these girls I'm not gonna believe.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now. I mean, even the ones
Speaker 1: who were seventh, eighteen, fourteen, sixteen, wrong, seventeen on the edge,
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen. Technically that's legal, so we can disagree with it,
Speaker 1: we can not like it, but it is legal. But
Speaker 1: I mean, these girls, I don't care how you're raised,
Speaker 1: but you know, if it looks like a creep, dresses
Speaker 1: like a creep, and acts like a creep, it's a creep.
Speaker 1: Here's the guy who carried his own head, a paper
Speaker 1: mache or late text head of himself to the met
Speaker 1: Ball several years ago. Is somebody seventeen or eighteen too
Speaker 1: young to understand this shit? That that's what creepiness is. No,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not a shock of that. Hollywood and
Speaker 1: the music industry got a big problem. It's very clear.
Speaker 1: I can't believe all the other men across America aren't
Speaker 1: more upset because think it's basically, look, the greatest dream
Speaker 1: of basically every woman and every girl in the United
Speaker 1: States is to become famous as an actress or a
Speaker 1: singer and their lord to California. But the promise that
Speaker 1: this could happen, We've seen it. We've played a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the past casting couch situations. Harvey Weinstein
Speaker 1: comes to mind, of course, and many others way back
Speaker 1: when Hollywood just began, Harry Cohen. They're all doing it,
Speaker 1: from Mary pick with the Shirley Temple to here we
Speaker 1: are now. But the age of consent to me is
Speaker 1: it's a weird thing. It's eighteen in California, seventeen New
Speaker 1: York sixteen. New Jersey. You could have six. You can
Speaker 1: have sex with a sixteen year old in New Jersey,
Speaker 1: no problem. But if you take pictures then it's a
Speaker 1: federal crime. What the fuck? Or if you cross the
Speaker 1: border it may be a crime. I think we all
Speaker 1: gotta sit down and figure out a uniform standard. How
Speaker 1: about just making eighteen for the whole country. Why does
Speaker 1: each state have to what's New Jersey's problem? Sixteen is
Speaker 1: not too young man. But let's see, Jared Leto was
Speaker 1: also a rock star. That band's thirty Seconds to Mars
Speaker 1: has sold fifteen million records. That's not a slouchy band.
Speaker 1: So you got a combination Hollywood star plus a rock star.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know he's gonna be like a kid
Speaker 1: in the candy shop with all these young girls coming
Speaker 1: at him. You think Justin Bieber only had sets for
Speaker 1: girls who were over the legal age limit. Of course
Speaker 1: he didn't, did it. The Mit Jagger, Billy Squier, David
Speaker 1: Bell list goes on and on. Robert Plant, I've told
Speaker 1: you before. Whenever Robert Plant, whatever you see him in
Speaker 1: the video singing a song in concert, he always tends
Speaker 1: to wear shirts that are too small for him. Even
Speaker 1: though he's very thin, his shirts are always like force
Speaker 1: us too small. That's because legend has it. The young
Speaker 1: girl he was with the night before, and not all
Speaker 1: of them were young, but the girl he was with
Speaker 1: the night before, he demanded they gave him his top,
Speaker 1: their top so we could wear them on stage the
Speaker 1: next day. That was his thing. That was his closing move.
Speaker 1: Apparently it worked a lot, and tons of actors double
Speaker 1: as musicians as I've said, they got bands that tour
Speaker 1: the world. Johnny Depp, Jack Black, Keano, Billy, Bob Thornton,
Speaker 1: Michael Shall from Dexter. The list goes on and on,
Speaker 1: and I think that has a lot to do with
Speaker 1: how so many of these guys are insecure. And also
Speaker 1: they need to feel loved or desired or just hear
Speaker 1: applause in their heads, which is what they used to
Speaker 1: They all this need to be desired. And by the way,
Speaker 1: have you guys heard about the story about the house
Speaker 1: Jared Letto owns at the top of Laurel Canyon off
Speaker 1: Sunset Boulevard and West Hollywood. Well, yeah, that's a pretty
Speaker 1: crazy story. But he has some sort of ancestral connection
Speaker 1: to this, to these Laurel Canyon conspiracies. There's been a
Speaker 1: buck or two written about this, and it all comes
Speaker 1: down to this area. Jared Lettle owns the house. It's
Speaker 1: an historic house on Lookout Mountains called Lookout Mountain Air
Speaker 1: Force Station, and this property he bought eleven years ago
Speaker 1: hisself for five million bucks. And back in the Cold War,
Speaker 1: from the fifties to the seventies, this huge forty thousand
Speaker 1: square foot heavily fortified compound. It's got concrete blast walls,
Speaker 1: underground space. It was a top secret US Air Force
Speaker 1: facility that produced thousands of classified propaganda and nuclear test films.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of conspiracy theories based on this. Other people, actors,
Speaker 1: rockstars lived in that area. Somehow they're all connected through
Speaker 1: their fathers being working in the military or the secret
Speaker 1: service of the CIA. There's a psyop theory around this thing.
Speaker 1: There's people online who'll tell you stories that they'll say
Speaker 1: that the nineteen sixties counterculture and music scene and Laurel
Speaker 1: Canyon were engineered by military intelligence or the CIA to
Speaker 1: steer them or neutralize the anti war movement. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: put it past our government. And because conspiracy researchers like
Speaker 1: the point to look Out Mountain as the big place,
Speaker 1: the hub, the operational hub of the supposed psychological operations.
Speaker 1: The fact that Letto owns it, owns this secret of compound,
Speaker 1: that's put out a lot of Internet speculation that ties
Speaker 1: him to the government conspiracy law. Who knows, but that's
Speaker 1: part of something that follows him around as well. And
Speaker 1: speaking of leading men Hollywood stars that have problems, we
Speaker 1: all know about Brad Pitt's brainwashed children with Angeline and
Speaker 1: Joe Lee that they've dropped Pitt from their last names
Speaker 1: and are role moving forward with Joe Lee as their
Speaker 1: new last name. Every time one of them hits eighteen boom,
Speaker 1: they get it done. They go to court and get
Speaker 1: it done. Now we know apparently Brad and Angie had
Speaker 1: a tempestuous relationship, and apparently it all culminated inside an
Speaker 1: airplane ride when the shit really hit the fan. And
Speaker 1: we've been told, not that we've seen videos or any
Speaker 1: kind of proof, we've been told he poured a beer
Speaker 1: or a drink over Angeline's head, was rough with her
Speaker 1: because he was drunk. Could be, but I haven't seen
Speaker 1: any proof, but you know it could be, so I
Speaker 1: guess in this case, I can kind of understand his
Speaker 1: kids wanting to rid themself of his last name. But
Speaker 1: could you imagine if you're a bad pit, you're maybe
Speaker 1: the most beautiful, charming leading man in Hollywood, and to
Speaker 1: have your kids want nothing to do with you. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that he was that much of a bad guy,
Speaker 1: And that's going to be a big part of his
Speaker 1: legacy moving forward. And when there is some other gossip columnsts.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's five years old right now. He's going to
Speaker 1: point to this out and he'll be on some TV
Speaker 1: show that mimics mysteries and scandals. He'll be the new
Speaker 1: aj Benzon and he'll talk about it. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how many of you see this, but I post
Speaker 1: a lot of Instagram stories. I like to take old
Speaker 1: stars that I used on Mysteries and scandals as material
Speaker 1: and right off a short paragraph next to their picture
Speaker 1: about their lives or their deaths and the scandals, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And I think James Garner the other day, which is
Speaker 1: a great story. James Garner an evil stepmother who used
Speaker 1: to beat him all the time and actually made him
Speaker 1: wear dresses in public because he said he wanted to
Speaker 1: be a star. She didn't like that. Well, he ended
Speaker 1: up winning an Emmy and being quite a big star,
Speaker 1: you know, so he proved a bit wrong. But you know,
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt's not going down on history as the only
Speaker 1: star who lost his kids. Love. We got to throw
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise his name on the pile too, what I
Speaker 1: didn't expect, but it's kind of a move I totally support.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with Tom's been a shitfather disappeared
Speaker 1: and now they're saying he's devastated because Surry, his daughter
Speaker 1: with Katie Holmes, made her name change official. She dropped
Speaker 1: Cruise and that's the god that hurts. It hurts, so
Speaker 1: sorry was born unless she's twenty now, back when they
Speaker 1: had the big, high profile matter. Now she's using the
Speaker 1: name Surrey Noel Noe Lle. That's her mother's middle name,
Speaker 1: Katie Noel Holmes. She said, Carnegie Mellon. She looks good.
Speaker 1: She looks like Tom Cruise and her mom. She registered
Speaker 1: to vote in Pennsylvania under the name Suri Noel after
Speaker 1: she left New York, and Pennsylvania requires voters to register
Speaker 1: under their legal names. So that's the fact that you
Speaker 1: change the name. It's formally completed and Cruise is gone.
Speaker 1: Chieve used Noel in a high school graduation program back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. Maybe I reported that I forget,
Speaker 1: but now this is from Radar magazine, so we're not
Speaker 1: quite sure if this next part of the story is true.
Speaker 1: Don't forget I worked there. I told you what goes
Speaker 1: on there at times. The source close to the family
Speaker 1: said Tom is deeply said by this development. While he understand, sorry,
Speaker 1: is an adult making your own decisions. Seeing his surname
Speaker 1: disappear from her legal identity has been incredibly painful for him.
Speaker 1: He never imagined things would reach this point. Well, but
Speaker 1: you don't see your daughter for eighteen years and don't
Speaker 1: even talk about her on TV or an interviews or nothing.
Speaker 1: I know she's getting a big check every month. That's
Speaker 1: all he can do. She'll never want for money, neither
Speaker 1: will Katie Holmes. In fact, I think Katie signs something
Speaker 1: that she can never get married if she does the
Speaker 1: check stop. I think I think that came through his
Speaker 1: legal people at Scientology. I think that's true. I'm not
Speaker 1: quite sure, but this is the latest chapter in the
Speaker 1: relationship between these two idiots. That's just sad, man really said.
Speaker 1: Thomas deeply said, Well, you know he could have done
Speaker 1: something about it, right, I mean, I mean sometimes kids
Speaker 1: want to give her that last name to stand down
Speaker 1: on their own, like, what's his name, Jason Schwartzman. He's not,
Speaker 1: he's a couple. He's Talia. Shaia's brother didn't want to
Speaker 1: use that. I mean, plenty of actors do that. They
Speaker 1: take get rid of the neck. The uh nepotism. Name
Speaker 1: the nepo name and go it alone. Like Nick Cage,
Speaker 1: He's a Coppola. He made his way without using that name.
Speaker 1: I'm sure people in the industry knew eventually, But your
Speaker 1: name is one thing. You got to bring talent into
Speaker 1: that room. Let me tell you something about I think
Speaker 1: that name can open the door for sure. If you're
Speaker 1: a Cruise or a Cage or whoever the hell a pit,
Speaker 1: you'll get the audition. But it's more out of curiosity
Speaker 1: than we're definitely casting this person. You got to bring
Speaker 1: it in the audition. You can't just use your name
Speaker 1: to go forward. It's too much money at stake. What
Speaker 1: are the chances there's two people in the Cruise family
Speaker 1: that are great actors. Pretty low. Tom is our biggest
Speaker 1: movie star I got. Don't call him saying that I
Speaker 1: always run to see his movies. His next movie coming
Speaker 1: out as this traumatic role that is said to be
Speaker 1: probably the Oscar he needed to win for many years
Speaker 1: that this might be the one he wins it for.
Speaker 1: I thought he should have won for Magnolia. That great
Speaker 1: scene crying to his dying father was amazing. But you know,
Speaker 1: Katie Holmes doesn't talk much about it about her daughter's
Speaker 1: personal life. Of course she's proud, but she told Town
Speaker 1: and Country, I'm proud of my daughter. Of Course I'll
Speaker 1: miss the close proximity, but I'm really proud of her,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy I remember being the same. This time
Speaker 1: of beginnings, it's exciting to learn about yourself, and I
Speaker 1: love that time. So it makes me happy to think
Speaker 1: about it like that. I never watched Dawson's Creek, so
Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say, oh, Katie Holmes is great.
Speaker 1: I watched Ray Donovan. She had a good part in that,
Speaker 1: but she had braces on. Kind of threw me off.
Speaker 1: When people get braces in their forties, it's kind of
Speaker 1: weird to me. But let's tuck it into teeth because
Speaker 1: I lose that argument. Christ So you know, that's part
Speaker 1: of his legacy as greatest, as great a movie star
Speaker 1: as he is, great the movie star Brad pitt is.
Speaker 1: This stuff is, you know, kind of follow them around
Speaker 1: and be in stories beneath their names forever. And finally,
Speaker 1: Robert Danny Jr. Is allegedly being paid one hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars to star in the next two Avengers movies, which
Speaker 1: I will never see. Now. I don't begrudge him making
Speaker 1: that kind of money. Our DJ is great, even though
Speaker 1: that's a crazy amount of money. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: what athletes get. But you do realize this is the
Speaker 1: end of Hollywood. This is part of the end of Hollywood.
Speaker 1: You know. Somebody sent me a text I haven't ready yet,
Speaker 1: but the Hollywood Reporter, which is the bible out here
Speaker 1: for out in LA for movies and actors, they have
Speaker 1: a cover with Robert Evans given the finger. I think
Speaker 1: he's hugging of female. He's given the finger to the
Speaker 1: camera and the headline is bring back the assholes, meaning
Speaker 1: bring back the guys who made great movies. But to
Speaker 1: put Evans on the cover and call him an asshole
Speaker 1: when he was the most brilliant, brave maverick in terms
Speaker 1: of making a movie, buying the right book, optioning the
Speaker 1: right project, and I mean his his career speaks for itself,
Speaker 1: the movies he put together speaks for itself. I'll call
Speaker 1: him an asshole that This is what I can't How
Speaker 1: does Hollywood turn against somebody like him who brought us
Speaker 1: some of the best movies of that era. The fucking
Speaker 1: twenty five year old asshole writing this story, and then
Speaker 1: some of the jerk off was twenty nine is the
Speaker 1: artist for the cover. They don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: they're doing. They never saw the kid Stays in the picture.
Speaker 1: They never met him, never slept in his guest house.
Speaker 1: I bet they haven't seen Harold and Moore at the
Speaker 1: end of Hollywood, because now these blockbusters like The Avengers
Speaker 1: were pumped out with bullshit plot lines, plenty of cgi AI,
Speaker 1: loud loud explosions. You gotta cover your ears in the theater.
Speaker 1: But like I said the other day, that wonderful year
Speaker 1: in filmmaking of nineteen seventy five. Everything changed after Jaws
Speaker 1: and Rocky Made were made and began to make a fortune.
Speaker 1: But before that we had one flow of the kookas This,
Speaker 1: Barry Lindon, Nashville, Monty Python and the Holy Grill, Dark
Speaker 1: Day Afternoon Shampoo, Rocky Arm Picture Show, Three Days of
Speaker 1: the Condor, Love and Death, Smile, The Passenger, and of
Speaker 1: course Coolly High, all exquisite films that tell real believable
Speaker 1: stories to kind of make you take stock of your life.
Speaker 1: Do The Avengers make you take stock of your life?
Speaker 1: But why don't we dwell in this area of superheroes.
Speaker 1: What good is it? Are the plots really that different
Speaker 1: from the last extravaganza fucking movie we were told we
Speaker 1: had to see all this focus. It's all formulaic repetition.
Speaker 1: They saturate the markets. But what it comes down to
Speaker 1: to me is just no one's taking risks anymore. I've
Speaker 1: often said this phrase many times over the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Studios and people in Hollywood tend to go where Lightning's
Speaker 1: already struck because they want to keep their job. If
Speaker 1: they pick a couple of losers, they're off that position.
Speaker 1: They're not picking movies, they're out of the studio. That
Speaker 1: means they might not be able to make the car
Speaker 1: payments on three of their fancy Rose Royce's. If God
Speaker 1: knows what else they got. Maybe they can't keep the
Speaker 1: pool warm, or the hot tub inside the pool, or
Speaker 1: the cold plunge. I mean, you know, can't shop at
Speaker 1: Bristol Farms or Whole Foods anymore, God forbid, we gotta
Speaker 1: go to Ralfs. It's also the lack of balls on
Speaker 1: so many producers, great filmmakers, filmmakers like Martin SQUASESE Clenton, Tarantino,
Speaker 1: they've argued that these stupid blockbusters are like more like
Speaker 1: corporate theme park products than emotional human art, and I agree.
Speaker 1: And over the last twenty years, most of the superhero
Speaker 1: movies were made by three major studios, and those studios
Speaker 1: always put you know, they prioritize those movies over original ideas,
Speaker 1: movies for adults, something with a diverse narrative. And because
Speaker 1: of that, we're missing out. We're missing out on an
Speaker 1: entire generation of storytellers. Some of these guys can't get
Speaker 1: movies made. They're going to go back to directing TV
Speaker 1: commercials or maybe change careers period, and we will never
Speaker 1: have seen what they can produce on the big screen
Speaker 1: because the balls are gone, the studios and the producers
Speaker 1: have been castrated. It's all about money now, not about art. Plus,
Speaker 1: we have a shit ton of over produced narratives. Who's
Speaker 1: let's face it, the only purpose they serve is not
Speaker 1: to rock the boat and make people think, but just
Speaker 1: to earn money. If that's what you want, it's not
Speaker 1: what movies are. I understand superhero movies make money, and
Speaker 1: they've been a major box office shower for Holly, But
Speaker 1: over the last twenty something years, so I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say they're bad for the industry as a whole. But
Speaker 1: when I look up movie times and these titles are
Speaker 1: taking up all the screens, it's the pain less, it's exhausting.
Speaker 1: I want to see movies for adults, and these are
Speaker 1: not made for us. These are designed to appeal to
Speaker 1: kids and become parts of theme parks. That's just the truth.
Speaker 1: They're not delivering complex emotions, they're not asking difficult questions
Speaker 1: of someone's live, not doing anything but giving you a
Speaker 1: thrill for two hours and change. That's great, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, But where is the substance. And I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say that comic book movies are not artistic.
Speaker 1: Of course they can be. I see it. I know
Speaker 1: many of you guys like it. But they rely on
Speaker 1: so many special effects, and when you do that, you
Speaker 1: lose the other elements of a film that make going
Speaker 1: to the theater seeing a movie just a unique and
Speaker 1: powerful art form. It's the reason why when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, and so those wonderful movies of my youth,
Speaker 1: I just said, forget being a cop, forget being a lawyer,
Speaker 1: forget everything. I want to work in advertising. No, I
Speaker 1: want to be on the screen. I want to be
Speaker 1: one of those people who make people remember. I want
Speaker 1: to be remembered. I want to be I didn't say famous,
Speaker 1: I want to be known. I want to do good
Speaker 1: work up there forty foot high. I did it a
Speaker 1: good handful of times. I'm happy. But that's what drew
Speaker 1: me to the screen man. But these movies, now, yeah,
Speaker 1: they entertain you, guys, I get it. Kids like them.
Speaker 1: It gives you a two hour break for the kids
Speaker 1: to go to the theater and get out of your hair.
Speaker 1: But they lack depth. There's no nuance, there's no complexity.
Speaker 1: You gotta admit that. And on top of all this,
Speaker 1: the way studios are investing all this money into these
Speaker 1: big budget blockbusters, you know, like I said, that's a
Speaker 1: big risk. That's smaller independent films are gonna get overlooked
Speaker 1: and were made, and that's going to lead to the
Speaker 1: film industry getting more narrow and more narrow and more narrow.
Speaker 1: That means fewer opportunities for new and new filmmakers who
Speaker 1: have great ideas how they're going to break through and
Speaker 1: tell their stories. Where Quentin Tarantino have been able to
Speaker 1: break through a reservoir dogs today. No way, no way.
Speaker 1: So many movies you love that would never have been
Speaker 1: made today. A little Pushing Miss Daisy couldn't be made today.
Speaker 1: I mean, beautiful films could not be made. There's hundreds
Speaker 1: of examples. But if they keep doing this, if audiences
Speaker 1: keep becoming accustomed or getting used to spectacle over substance,
Speaker 1: or prioritizing the familiar over the challenging or innovative, then
Speaker 1: you know what, Cinema is going to be devalued and
Speaker 1: probably diminish. And this is going to be a loss,
Speaker 1: not just for film lovers, but for a culture as
Speaker 1: a whole. And I, for one, hadn't been so close
Speaker 1: and been on movie sets and on some work and
Speaker 1: met the people who make the big movies. I've worked
Speaker 1: with six Oscar winners. There's such a thrill to be
Speaker 1: on set with them and on camera with them. For me,
Speaker 1: it went a long way, having done it in twenty years,
Speaker 1: believing not Rocky Balbo was two thousand and six. But
Speaker 1: I still remember everything I wrote to Steve Gudenberg. Yesterday
Speaker 1: I put up a picture of him, and I am
Speaker 1: making ps shrecats that he played Jimmy zool I played
Speaker 1: Crazy Karman, a really tough gay guy who I said
Speaker 1: wants to fight as much as he wants to fuck,
Speaker 1: and Steve loved that. We have to go home and
Speaker 1: come up with a narrative for our character. I said,
Speaker 1: crazy Common wants to fight as much as fuck. Steve
Speaker 1: loved it, and I was a very tough kind of
Speaker 1: gay guy trying to get over on Steve. I actually
Speaker 1: think in the audition I kissed him on the mouth unannounced,
Speaker 1: not that I had to, but I did, just to
Speaker 1: make a mark and it worked. That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: the complexities of a role, of a character of a drama,
Speaker 1: even a comedy. You think they can make Fatso again
Speaker 1: or twenty ninth Street again. No, those things are gone.
Speaker 1: Harold and Mood can't be made. And Neil and I
Speaker 1: are sitting on whole self in which is brilliant as
Speaker 1: is I think seventy four and Sunny with some fine tuning.
Speaker 1: Now that I read it again, I want to fine
Speaker 1: tune it. Those things are going to be very hard
Speaker 1: to be made nowadays. Unless I make my father a
Speaker 1: fucking spider man and my mother catwoman. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do but try to go watch turn the
Speaker 1: classic movies go on to the final film noirs. There's
Speaker 1: so much more entertaining. I watched the Sweet Smelling Success
Speaker 1: last night instead of the shit that was on the apps.
Speaker 1: Give me the old days over the new makes me
Speaker 1: more than happy, all right, gang aj Benzi here famous
Speaker 1: of bits. That was your daily Unfiltered podcast for July thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Good talking. We'll do it again tomorrow.