Speaker 1: We're taking bathwater of howt Girls That Can Act.
Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to a much anticipated return at the Paparazzi Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am Jedi, he is Mark. We've been making plans
Speaker 2: to do this podcast, but the last like it seems
Speaker 2: like five weeks, we're like, yes, let's do it today.
Speaker 2: Can't do it today, Let's do it tomorrow. Tomorrow comes,
Speaker 2: something's come up. Can't do it tomorrow. How about Thursday.
Speaker 2: I'm on a plane, Friday, I'm on another plane. Saturday,
Speaker 2: I'm still in it. I'm still flying. But we've managed
Speaker 2: to clear our diaries and get one in and we're
Speaker 2: going to go a little old school and start this
Speaker 2: one off with a crack.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if we can get the mic to
Speaker 3: pick it up like, because I know zoom cuts out
Speaker 3: the cracks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first, let's just see hold on, here
Speaker 1: we go. You can't talk.
Speaker 3: I think everything just has to be silent. Ready, it's
Speaker 3: got to be like a long like draw that one.
Speaker 1: Ready.
Speaker 3: Oh, that was like record breaking crack right there, bro,
Speaker 3: I had the came out.
Speaker 1: I hope that comes out.
Speaker 2: Nothing's ever going to beat the Guinness one. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you remember that it sounded like a bunch
Speaker 2: of birds singing as I.
Speaker 1: Well remember we we wrote to Guinness and asked them
Speaker 1: if they would do a best Crack contest and they
Speaker 1: said no, and I said, well wait yours.
Speaker 3: It would win the fucking Guinness and they would not
Speaker 3: reward themselves with the Guinness Best Crack.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, those guys, what are you drinking?
Speaker 3: I am drinking a a can pie crush, oh sushi
Speaker 3: rice lagger.
Speaker 1: This is like full on Japanese bear right here, dude.
Speaker 2: That is that sounds that ship. Yeah, it's making me
Speaker 2: hungry for some shashimi nice and in a second what
Speaker 2: I'm drinking is going to make me hungry for some
Speaker 2: ice cream later. I think I pulled into my hotel
Speaker 2: earlier and the first thing I noticed was a dispensary
Speaker 2: across the street. And I've got quite into the thhc
Speaker 2: seltzers and drinks lately. I find that I have been well,
Speaker 2: I've been having great night's sleep after just one of
Speaker 2: these bad boys. So I was up at three o'clock
Speaker 2: this morning to get a five am flight to my
Speaker 2: current location, which is undersclosed for the time being. But
Speaker 2: I'm going to practice one and hopefully I have a
Speaker 2: very good night's sleep later. It is a crescent nine
Speaker 2: tropical thc Seltzer. It sounded lovely on this end.
Speaker 3: I did not hear a thing over here. Well, from
Speaker 3: the looks of those drapes, I'm going to say, you're
Speaker 3: in Middle America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you may be right. Actually, you know what, let's
Speaker 2: let's start off with a with a where is Jedi?
Speaker 2: With the state I am in? I have ticked off
Speaker 2: my forty ninth out of fifty states. Wow. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you can remember which two it was that
Speaker 2: I needed, but I am in one of them and
Speaker 2: I now have only one left to go.
Speaker 3: Well, I definitely can't remember the two that you were
Speaker 3: that you talked about, if and when you ever did.
Speaker 1: But if there's only one left, I'm gonna have to say,
Speaker 1: take a sip of my beer from my PPC Mark
Speaker 1: beer glass. Here you go.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say you have not been to Canada.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, that would be the fifty first date.
Speaker 2: Sorry sorry, sorry, not quite there. And you know what
Speaker 2: I was in Canada last week?
Speaker 3: You were well, I mean, you live. You could just
Speaker 3: still stone over there, right, I could.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, perhaps Alaska.
Speaker 2: I am not in Alaska.
Speaker 1: Oh damn.
Speaker 2: Alaska is the one state that I need to compete
Speaker 2: to complete the mission. I was talking to my dad
Speaker 2: earlier on you know, saying that you know, I've got
Speaker 2: one more state to go, and then we got talking
Speaker 2: about the states and Americans traveling within the states, and
Speaker 2: I asked him, do you want to have a guess
Speaker 2: the percentage of Americans that have visited all fifty states
Speaker 2: and Washington d C. And he had a guess, and
Speaker 2: I had a guess, and I was closer. I'm going
Speaker 2: to ask you. I'm going to ask you the same
Speaker 2: question I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna say.
Speaker 3: I didn't want you to answer that without Yeah, percent
Speaker 3: of Americans that have gone.
Speaker 2: To all fifty states and Washington, d C and Washington.
Speaker 3: D Okay, is it less than twenty Yes, Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: going to say seven percent.
Speaker 2: It's less than seven percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I figure I was trying to go low on
Speaker 3: that one one percent.
Speaker 2: According to this survey, it is less than one percent.
Speaker 1: Wow. That puts you. That puts you in the less
Speaker 1: than one percent group.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I'm not even American yet. So according
Speaker 2: to the AI Overview, when you stick it in Google.
Speaker 2: Fewer than two percent of Americans report having visited all
Speaker 2: fifty states and Washington DC. The average American visits only
Speaker 2: about twelve states in their lifetime, with less than one
Speaker 2: percent completing all fifty.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, that sounds about right, bunch of lazy, fucking Americans. Now,
Speaker 3: what would be even better is to find out the
Speaker 3: amount of Brits that have been to all fifty states.
Speaker 3: That percentage has to be lower than the percentage of
Speaker 3: fresh water in our clean water supply.
Speaker 2: It's difficult to pinpoint an exact percentage of British citizens
Speaker 2: who have visited every US state, however significantly, However, if
Speaker 2: you talk to Jedi, a significant portion of British tourists
Speaker 2: do visit the US and never leave. Yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 2: many British people do travel with The number who have
Speaker 2: visited all fifty states is likely a smaller fraction of
Speaker 2: the population. Well, it's not quite me yet. I'm going
Speaker 2: to have to arrange a trip to Alaska for myself.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I could always ask my assistant over here.
Speaker 1: I should sure it with an attitude, because that's always
Speaker 1: a good time.
Speaker 4: Sounds like you're in the mood for fun. I want
Speaker 4: to hear what kind of good time you're thinking about.
Speaker 4: Maybe a night out, a cozy movie marathon, or something
Speaker 4: totally wild.
Speaker 1: Wow, you picked up the wrong message there are. Uh,
Speaker 1: what I wanted to ask was how many British citizens
Speaker 1: have visited all fifty states in the United States.
Speaker 4: There's no exact number on British citizens who visited all
Speaker 4: fifty US states, as this kind of specific data isn't trapped.
Speaker 4: Best guest, it's probably tiny fraction, way less than one percent,
Speaker 4: since it takes serious time, money, and dedication to hit
Speaker 4: every state.
Speaker 1: Con all you guys broke.
Speaker 2: I'm dedicated, and I broke.
Speaker 1: I liked her. I liked her better saying it than
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: She she's sassy, I know, yeah, he Doess these days,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I wonder what you and I
Speaker 2: get up to in your fast time and your free time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I'm driving around. Yeah, she's my little companion.
Speaker 2: There you go. I guess we should probably talk about
Speaker 2: what we've been up to. Huh.
Speaker 1: This is a paparazzi podcast, right it is.
Speaker 2: What have you been what have you been doing? You've
Speaker 2: been taking any pictures?
Speaker 1: I actually have been pretty busy lately.
Speaker 3: I had an you know, the business is very weird
Speaker 3: right now, and you have to really dig deep. Unless
Speaker 3: you know Sidney Sweeney's crossing the parking lot in front
Speaker 3: of you with ex boyfriend randomly, you.
Speaker 1: Actually have to dig really deep. So I was watching movies.
Speaker 1: This is what I do.
Speaker 3: You know, I think we talked about this before that
Speaker 3: what I do now is I watch old movies and
Speaker 3: come up with ideas to get these people right. And
Speaker 3: I was watching Dazed and Confused the other day. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's a classic.
Speaker 1: You know. I actually have a script written that I
Speaker 1: would love to get to Richard link letter that I
Speaker 1: think he would definitely want to make my TV show.
Speaker 3: If you're out there listening, Richard, hit me up. But
Speaker 3: I was watching the movie for the two hundredth time, probably,
Speaker 3: and I was looking for people that are of interest
Speaker 3: in that where are they now? That kind of thing,
Speaker 3: And a lot of people have already been shot, you know,
Speaker 3: the randoms in that, because you know, you've got McConaughey,
Speaker 3: you've got London, you know all those people that were
Speaker 3: you know, in that movie, some big, some big names.
Speaker 3: But then there's the people that aren't. But specifically, do
Speaker 3: you remember that movie Jedi?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think i've ever seen it.
Speaker 1: Why do we even do what? You watch it? I
Speaker 1: don't even know.
Speaker 2: Well, because I watched some stuff.
Speaker 1: Well you have seen it, right, I don't think so. Okay,
Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey's first movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've definitely all right, all right, No, I don't
Speaker 2: think i've seen it.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a redhead in that movie. That is Matthew
Speaker 3: McConaughey's kind of interest. She's just a teenager. She's kind
Speaker 3: of friends with the nerdy group, but McConaughey will just
Speaker 3: take anything. And she's redhead, she's curly hair, and I
Speaker 3: kind of looked her up amongst the rest of the
Speaker 3: cast and came across her name, which was very interesting.
Speaker 3: Marissa Rabbisi thought she might be, you know, related to
Speaker 3: Giovanni Rabisi.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and then realized she's his twin sister. Oh no,
Speaker 1: Shudn't that kind of interested me right there saying okay,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I can make a story out of this.
Speaker 1: But as I dug deeper, she had multiple ties to
Speaker 1: multiple different kinds of the industry. She was married to
Speaker 1: Beck for fifteen years, had two kids. She has another sister,
Speaker 1: another sibling. She is a scientologist, she has a pretty successful.
Speaker 3: Skincare line, and she's just you know, she's just all around.
Speaker 3: And she looked really unrecognizable to the role she had
Speaker 3: in Yeah, in the movie. You know, so I thought,
Speaker 3: with all those factors in there, maybe I can get
Speaker 3: a shot of her now not looking like the character,
Speaker 3: and with all the rest of the information, just kind
Speaker 3: of you know, make a story out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: worked on her for a couple of days. The first day,
Speaker 3: thought I got her, but it turned out to be
Speaker 3: her sister who looks just like her. And then went
Speaker 3: back another day, thought Bbi Rexa, came down the hill,
Speaker 3: followed the car, realized it wasn't her, went back, car's
Speaker 3: gone done for the day. And then went back the
Speaker 3: third day and finally got her. She came out, she
Speaker 3: went to like a looked like another celebrities kind of
Speaker 3: kid's party or baby shower or something like that, and
Speaker 3: got her there.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, put the story in and that's
Speaker 1: the rest is history.
Speaker 2: Looking at the pictures now, I see them on a
Speaker 2: couple of websites, A couple.
Speaker 1: Of websites on nice. I didn't see them anywhere.
Speaker 2: The sun and the mail.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, mail took them nice. Yeah, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked great.
Speaker 1: Great, that's good to hear. So then a few days
Speaker 1: later I actually kind of went outside of the pay zone,
Speaker 1: I guess, which means I was interested in trying to
Speaker 1: shoot something that I knew wouldn't make money. But the
Speaker 1: ties to it was my daughter's favorite country singer.
Speaker 3: I figured, I can go work on this video, this
Speaker 3: music view because he was shooting a music video.
Speaker 1: I can go work on this video.
Speaker 3: I can get some shots, maybe possibly sell them, but
Speaker 3: probably not, but also maybe get him to say something
Speaker 3: on video to her because he's kind of a young guy.
Speaker 1: He's kind of starting out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guards would be down, maybe it wouldn't be so
Speaker 3: difficult to get close.
Speaker 1: And just you know, ask that kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: So it was an end of a day type of thing.
Speaker 3: Permits were for three o'clock in the afternoon, so I
Speaker 3: waited around there and it was on Windsor Boulevard, which
Speaker 3: is you know where our podcast picture of the Hollywood
Speaker 3: Sign is. Oh yeah, and it's a classic shot when
Speaker 3: you're doing a driving scene or something like that.
Speaker 1: And the video is called I'm the Boulevard. So there
Speaker 1: you go. I show up there.
Speaker 3: Three o'clock nothing, four o'clock, nothing, four point thirty. There's
Speaker 3: a film my leg guy kind of walking up and
Speaker 3: down the street there, and I kind of pull him
Speaker 3: aside and I'm like, hey, is this time Myers video happening.
Speaker 1: He's like I'm waiting for him too. You know, they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be around here sometime whatever five o'clock rolls around.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like it's happening, right. I don't see
Speaker 1: the film.
Speaker 3: La guy anywhere anymore, walking up and down the street.
Speaker 3: So I decided to leave. And this is, you know,
Speaker 3: up at mid Wiltshire area. So I get down around
Speaker 3: Peico and I'm like, man, you know, I really want
Speaker 3: to do this for my daughter.
Speaker 1: I really want to, you know.
Speaker 3: See this guy and try and get this at least
Speaker 3: a picture of him for you know. So I actually
Speaker 3: do what I do every once in a while when
Speaker 3: I'm undecided on what to do. I flip a coin.
Speaker 3: Shit coin told me to go back. So I turn around,
Speaker 3: I go back right. I go all the way to
Speaker 3: the end of Windsor Boulevard and I see just a van,
Speaker 3: an old classic Mustang and like a small little crew, right,
Speaker 3: but I see him standing alongside over there, so I
Speaker 3: get out of my car and I kind of stand around.
Speaker 3: It's very awkward because he's pretty new to the business.
Speaker 3: There's a small crew, and I'm just a guy standing
Speaker 3: there with a bag.
Speaker 1: You know. It's one of the you know, when I
Speaker 1: get to these movie sets, there's there's always that first
Speaker 1: kind of impression awkwardness, you know, where they're like, well,
Speaker 1: who is this guy? What's he doing? And then when
Speaker 1: I pull out a camera, it's like, why is this
Speaker 1: guy here? What's going on? You know?
Speaker 3: And it's either I'm gonna be cool with this guy
Speaker 3: and asked, you know, what's going on, how's it going?
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah, or it's just going to stay awkward
Speaker 3: the entire time, where it's like, you know, I'm uncomfortable
Speaker 3: with this guy shooting me and blah blah blah, even
Speaker 3: though they should be very comfortable getting free promotion or
Speaker 3: Nazi exactly, So very awkward. For the first like half hour,
Speaker 3: they do a couple of driving scenes. He stops and
Speaker 3: he's kind of hanging out right around where I am.
Speaker 3: So I just kind of walk over to him and
Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, man, how's it going.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just kind of want to break the icy.
Speaker 1: It's obviously a little a little awkward. You know.
Speaker 3: My name's Mark. I'm a fan. My daughter is a
Speaker 3: huge fan of yours. And he was, you know, right
Speaker 3: when I started talking. He was really actually really cool
Speaker 3: and got comfortable, and I'm like, my daughter is a
Speaker 3: huge fan, and I think she's going to your show,
Speaker 3: you know, coming up here there. Anyway I can get, like,
Speaker 3: you know, you to do a little shout to her
Speaker 3: on video or something like that, and he's.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, no, for no problem. So it comes over,
Speaker 1: makes a really cool little video for her. I send
Speaker 1: it right over to her.
Speaker 3: And then after the ice was broken, it was really
Speaker 3: nice because I kind of could kind of like stand around,
Speaker 3: started talking to everybody. Everybody kind of was asking me questions,
Speaker 3: obviously curious, blah blah blah. Turns out there was kind
Speaker 3: of the love interest or the girl that was in
Speaker 3: the video. The girl interest in the video was kind
Speaker 3: of hanging out on set. She was talking to the
Speaker 3: rest of the crew, and she started talking about golf,
Speaker 3: and my daughter's a big golfer, so I always kind
Speaker 3: of got to, you know, interject and say what's up.
Speaker 3: And I started talking to her and it was kind
Speaker 3: of weird because I'm like, you know, so, you know,
Speaker 3: how's it going. I'm like, are you you know? Aspiring
Speaker 3: actor too? I'm like, did you want me to put
Speaker 3: your name into the caption anything like that? And she
Speaker 3: gave me this look like do you not know who
Speaker 3: I am?
Speaker 1: Type of you know.
Speaker 3: She's like, oh, yeah, here's I'll just you know, give
Speaker 3: you my my TikTok handle and stuff. So I go
Speaker 3: and she grabs my phone, she types it in, she comes,
Speaker 3: she hands it back to me.
Speaker 1: She's got two.
Speaker 3: Point two two point three million followers on TikTok, so
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, okay, you're kind of a big deal.
Speaker 2: You know, she's probably got more more of a following
Speaker 2: than the dude who's doing the music video.
Speaker 1: She does exactly so it's his name again, Ti Meyers
Speaker 1: Ty Mayers. So I'm like, I apologize. I'm like this,
Speaker 1: you know, my business.
Speaker 3: I'm like the influencers and TikTok people stuff like that,
Speaker 3: they're not really on our radar.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's kind of weird. You would
Speaker 1: think that you guys would sell right and left, but
Speaker 1: you know, every time I shoot.
Speaker 3: Anybody, it never never works out. Yeah, rest of the
Speaker 3: day shot.
Speaker 1: It got a bunch of good pictures, good video, but
Speaker 1: I think all it was good for was our social
Speaker 1: media and we'll see on the sales report. This week.
Speaker 3: Also random dropped my son off at soccer practice around
Speaker 3: where I live. Right, decided I was going to go
Speaker 3: for a walk down on the beach.
Speaker 1: Until his soccer practice was done. Yeah, I drive down
Speaker 1: to the beach.
Speaker 3: This is late in the afternoon to six o'clock, you know,
Speaker 3: six fifteen. I drive down to the beach, start seeing
Speaker 3: yellow science around by the beach. So I go down there.
Speaker 3: There's a parking attendant, a lot of trucks, and I'm
Speaker 3: unarmed at this point, you know, I have nothing, of.
Speaker 1: Course, so I go down there.
Speaker 3: The guy wants like seven bucks to park down there,
Speaker 3: normally you know, really pay anything. And so I run
Speaker 3: back home, grab my gear, head back down there again
Speaker 3: and do some.
Speaker 1: Investigating walk out on the beach and it's getting late.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like one of those where I
Speaker 3: don't have time to really mess around or anything. The
Speaker 3: first thing they start doing, I'm gonna have to shoot
Speaker 3: it and start figuring out what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot first, ask questions later, exactly.
Speaker 3: So, they're doing a scene where this woman's walking out
Speaker 3: on the jetty and she's in like a dress, kind
Speaker 3: of a maybe futuristic looking dress, can't really tell, and
Speaker 3: she walks out, she walks back.
Speaker 1: I pull my camera out. Immediately everybody starts freaking out, right,
Speaker 1: oh shit.
Speaker 3: I hear on the radio, paparazzi over your paparazzi over here,
Speaker 3: and then they all just start looking. They all start looking,
Speaker 3: which is a giveaway in this business.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: If everybody would have just remained calm, you know, and
Speaker 3: acted like it was a mayonnaise commercial like they always
Speaker 3: tell me that it is, if they're trying to throw
Speaker 3: people off, it would have been fine. But since they
Speaker 3: were freaking out about it, the security guard trying to
Speaker 3: stop me, saying, you can't shoot, you can't shoot. I
Speaker 3: start really trying to figure out what's going on. I
Speaker 3: hear Julia over the radio, and I'm looking at her,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, that's not Julia Roberts and I start
Speaker 3: searching Julia, and the first person that comes up on
Speaker 3: Julia if you'd search that these days, is Julia Garner. Yes,
Speaker 3: she's a big up and comer right now. I think
Speaker 3: she's British, right, I don't know, Okay, And she's been
Speaker 3: in a lot of stuff. She's coming out and a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff. But she's also in the new Fantastic
Speaker 3: four coming out. She's playing the new Silver Surfer, which
Speaker 3: is normally played by a dude. Ah, So I guess
Speaker 3: the story goes that the Silver Surfer, the normal silver
Speaker 3: Surfer in the franchise, has a sister or a girlfriend
Speaker 3: or something like that, and she's playing that part of
Speaker 3: that and they're just playing on the whole female's silver Surfer.
Speaker 3: So it's a scene where she's walking out of the things,
Speaker 3: she looks up to the heavens and she puts her
Speaker 3: arms up and that's it, right, So I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 3: it's like an ending scene or you know, a final scene.
Speaker 3: She's in human form, because you know, the Silver Surfer
Speaker 3: is all silver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, would be.
Speaker 3: Cool if she was in silver though, and just got
Speaker 3: those shots and they obviously went because it's a new
Speaker 3: movie coming out it's a Marvel movie.
Speaker 1: It's a superhero movie.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at them now. They look great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Got a couple of pictures with you know, my
Speaker 1: hometown in the background and stuff. It's kind of nice.
Speaker 2: The comments are pretty funny, are they The comments are
Speaker 2: pretty funny. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I rat a old a couple off.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a woke disaster. Another flop for Disney.
Speaker 2: Silver Surfer is a dude? Why is Silver Surfer a chick?
Speaker 1: Yeah? These sound like really cool smart people.
Speaker 2: First impressions aren't great if I'm honest.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm glad I'm starting controversies here.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's gonna be it's gonna be funny
Speaker 3: because I honestly you know. And we'll get into some
Speaker 3: what you're watching maybe later if we can find some time.
Speaker 3: But I watched Thunderbolts and it was pretty bad. Moving
Speaker 3: on from that, I was listening to Joe Rogan the
Speaker 3: other day with Aaron Rodgers. Okay, Rogan, do you listen
Speaker 3: to Joe Rogan at all?
Speaker 1: Every once in a while?
Speaker 4: Maybe?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Aaron Rodgers was on and it was a
Speaker 1: crazy interview of just tons of conspiracy theories between the
Speaker 1: two of them. Oh okay, it was really crazy to
Speaker 1: listen to these two, like, you know, super successful guys
Speaker 1: talk about the craziest shit you can imagine all the time.
Speaker 1: But it gave me an idea to go work on
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he's still undecided as to where
Speaker 2: he's playing next season, right everybody's thinking Pittsburgh, but he's
Speaker 2: yet to sign anywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The last thing he was shot was at the Kentucky
Speaker 3: Derby and he had like some sort of ring on
Speaker 3: his finger and people were thinking he was maybe engaged,
Speaker 3: So there was a there was kind of a story
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: So I went to work on him.
Speaker 3: And he lives in Malibu, and to get anywhere these
Speaker 3: days in Malibu, you don't want to go up, and
Speaker 3: you don't want to go down p because you're gonna
Speaker 3: get stuck in the fire zone and it's just traffic everywhere.
Speaker 3: So but he was headed to the valley anyway, And
Speaker 3: following Aaron Rodgers from you know, North Malibu all the
Speaker 3: way over to freaking Calabasas area is a pain in
Speaker 3: the ass.
Speaker 2: I imagine he drives quite fast.
Speaker 1: He drives like he plays.
Speaker 3: Yes, for sure, he looks like he looks like a
Speaker 3: range Rover version of Aaron Rodgers playing.
Speaker 2: So he didn't like get a blowout tire on like
Speaker 2: the first few minutes into the first curves curve going up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yeah, that's funny. No, but he did get
Speaker 1: stuck behind a trash truck, which actually allowed me to
Speaker 1: catch up with him. Oh that's good because he was flying.
Speaker 1: But yeah, following him up over to Calabasas.
Speaker 3: He went to a gym and I got him there
Speaker 3: going in and out and there was no ring on
Speaker 3: his finger.
Speaker 2: So did you try and did you talk to him?
Speaker 2: Or were you full stealth?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 3: I you know, he was my hero for many years,
Speaker 3: and you know I did it did cross my mind
Speaker 3: to try and meet him and maybe get a selfie
Speaker 3: or something like that for the thing. But now I
Speaker 3: just didn't do it.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, totally, I know. But I've seen other photographers
Speaker 2: who we've had on the podcast before shoot Aaron and
Speaker 2: and talk to him and he's quite chatty like on video.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, the thought did cross my mind.
Speaker 3: I just didn't didn't have the balls, you know.
Speaker 2: No, I understand it. Maybe so like, what's the thing
Speaker 2: they say, like, never meet your heroes as well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for some reason, he'd be a dick to me
Speaker 1: that day. And I'm and I'm his biggest fan, you know,
Speaker 1: biggest fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I could also you know, I also have
Speaker 3: the ultimate if he is a dig to be like,
Speaker 3: fuck you, Trader.
Speaker 1: Hope. I mean, if you know, if you saw Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: would you would you just walk right up to him
Speaker 1: and go, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 2: No? I wouldn't. I wouldn't even photograph him either. But
Speaker 2: that's funny you say that about Josh Allen because the
Speaker 2: other week I was on a plane. I can't remember
Speaker 2: where I was coming from, but I was going back
Speaker 2: to Buffalo, and I didn't notice him until the until
Speaker 2: he landed and he stood up and got off in
Speaker 2: front of me. But Jim Kelly, the old Bills quarterback
Speaker 2: that took us to four Super Bowls, yea, was on
Speaker 2: my plane and you know, nobody bothered him. And he
Speaker 2: got off, walked through you know, through the airport down
Speaker 2: to baggage claim and just sat there and I questioned
Speaker 2: him by himself, and I you know, I thought about
Speaker 2: it and questioned it and I'm like, and I just
Speaker 2: I just carried on walking right past and I and
Speaker 2: I regret it. I wish I'd gone and said hello.
Speaker 1: I know right, I see that it eats it you.
Speaker 1: I should have said something here.
Speaker 2: But somebody I did say hello to on a plane
Speaker 2: last week, well, a couple of weeks ago. I was
Speaker 2: flying into New York City, which I'll talk about in
Speaker 2: a bit. But as I was going through TSA, I like,
Speaker 2: see this, well, I just know there's a big looming,
Speaker 2: a big figure behind me. I could just tell, like,
Speaker 2: without looking behind, there was a big, a big guy
Speaker 2: behind me. So I go through security and I look
Speaker 2: back and as he's putting his bags through, I know
Speaker 2: who it is instantly. It was fucking Steve Nash, the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, fucking basketball.
Speaker 1: Player lives down here. He lives right here.
Speaker 2: Does he really live here?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: I don't know where he lands politically, but you know,
Speaker 3: he was always seen up and down my hand beach
Speaker 3: else a going Monica.
Speaker 2: He was nice. I had a quick chat with him.
Speaker 2: I'm like Steve Nash and he's like Jedi.
Speaker 1: Fuck wow, listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah your voice. I had like a quick minute or
Speaker 2: so chat with him as we waited for our bags,
Speaker 2: and he was really pleasant, really nice guy nice, So
Speaker 2: it was good. And he did get noticed a lot
Speaker 2: at Buffalo Airport and I was taking selfies and people
Speaker 2: were asking him to do video calls and stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: messages to their loved ones as well, which was kind
Speaker 2: of fun, and he obliged and did everything for everybody.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's that's pretty cool, you know like that. I
Speaker 3: don't know if Aaron would do all that. But and
Speaker 3: then I ended my week yesterday with Goldie doing a
Speaker 3: story on the Palisades and Malibu fires, which I gotta say,
Speaker 3: if you're going to be riding around as a reporter
Speaker 3: with somebody who knows something about the Malibou and Palisades fire,
Speaker 3: there is maybe no better person except for maybe Spencer Pratt. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that knows more about that fire and those those areas
Speaker 3: than me. We went out on a mission to try
Speaker 3: and find some locals to interview, maybe some store owners
Speaker 3: something like that, talking about the progress.
Speaker 1: And you know where they're at.
Speaker 3: And we went into Malibu, took some pictures, kind of
Speaker 3: updated pictures, video stuff like that, and ended back in
Speaker 3: Palisades where we came across the ultimate of locals and
Speaker 3: progress and store owners, which was a Rick Caruso press conference.
Speaker 2: He owns Palisades, right pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you want the store owner, how about the
Speaker 1: guy who owns everything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Goldie got to interview him, which was cool.
Speaker 1: We just walked up. It was an invite only thing.
Speaker 3: I just pulled up and let her out, and by
Speaker 3: the time I got his parking space and then walked over,
Speaker 3: they're like, no, so you can't you know, we don't
Speaker 3: allow KVS media And I'm like, now I'm with her,
Speaker 3: I'm with the Sun. Oh okay, cool, come on in.
Speaker 3: So she got to interview Caruso and during her Caruso interview,
Speaker 3: Dennis Quaid comes walking up and arrives.
Speaker 1: To show his support for, you know, the Caruso projects,
Speaker 1: and Goldie got to interview Dennis Quaid as well.
Speaker 2: That's so cool.
Speaker 3: Everybody welcomed our our party crashing, so which is it's
Speaker 3: kind of cool. And she got all the stories she
Speaker 3: needed out of that. She got all the interviews and
Speaker 3: all the all the all the dialogue and everything she
Speaker 3: needed for that.
Speaker 2: So that's what happens when when you get hired.
Speaker 3: The day race that's right, but let's take a quick
Speaker 3: break and the second half is all Jedi.
Speaker 1: How are you feeling?
Speaker 2: That's coming back for everybody? The ice cream shop closes in.
Speaker 1: One hour, so oh ship, Yeah, let's wrap it up.
Speaker 2: We've gotta be done, and it's only across the street,
Speaker 2: so I can make it easy.
Speaker 1: Okay, good.
Speaker 2: I've had an interesting few weeks since we since we've
Speaker 2: done one last I joined in Miss America's pageant circuit nice,
Speaker 2: which was lots of fun. Yes, so Bill Belichick's young girlfriend,
Speaker 2: Jordan Hudson was signed up for Miss Maine. She wanted
Speaker 2: to try and become Miss Maine. She is currently Miss Hancock,
Speaker 2: which is the very small town within Maine where she
Speaker 2: grew up and her father still lives. So yeah, she
Speaker 2: was Miss Hancock buying for Miss Maine. So this was
Speaker 2: a a two day event a Saturday, was it Saturday?
Speaker 2: And a Sunday? It was? Yeah, I think it was
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday. I think Saturday is like the pre limbs.
Speaker 2: You meet all the girls and you know that they're
Speaker 2: in meetings with people all day doing their you know,
Speaker 2: question and answers part of the pageant, and then then
Speaker 2: on Saturday night they struck their stuff in a swim
Speaker 2: suit and dinnerware for like thirty forty minutes, and then
Speaker 2: Sunday they come and do it all again. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I it was a five day job for me because
Speaker 2: we didn't know when Jordan was going to arrive and
Speaker 2: whether Bill Belichick was going to be there with her.
Speaker 2: So we got into town nice and early. You know,
Speaker 2: wreckied the whole place. I was staying in the same
Speaker 2: hotel as the pageant was taking place, and the reporter
Speaker 2: I was with was staying in a separate hotel, a
Speaker 2: fancy hotel where we anticipated that mister Belichick and Miss
Speaker 2: Hudson would would show.
Speaker 1: Up Miss Hancock.
Speaker 2: So I get in on the Thursday, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: do them well, maybe the Wednesday, I can't remember. I
Speaker 2: get in a day or two early, full reck of
Speaker 2: the place. Nothing's happening anywhere, no nice cars in the
Speaker 2: holiday in parking lot, which is where the pageant was
Speaker 2: taking place, and the reporters hotel was a valet, so
Speaker 2: she was just watching for cars coming in, and we're
Speaker 2: checking flight radar for any private jets coming in to Portland,
Speaker 2: Maine as well, So you know, we were all over it,
Speaker 2: and anytime a jet from any kind of area where
Speaker 2: they could be associated with was coming in, I'd rolled
Speaker 2: down to the airport, watch people get off, photograph, et cetera.
Speaker 2: You know, we had it down to a t. We
Speaker 2: had it perfect. So no sign of them Wednesday, Thursday
Speaker 2: or Friday actually, and the pageants happening the next day,
Speaker 2: we didn't know whether going to be coming from or
Speaker 2: any of it. So I guess so Saturday we'd applied
Speaker 2: for a press pass as well, so we could, you know,
Speaker 2: hopefully go in and photograph the pageant, and in all
Speaker 2: its glory, we got denied. The press past got denied.
Speaker 2: But at the bottom of the of the rejection it
Speaker 2: did say photographers are welcome on site.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm like, hang on, yeah, what is that.
Speaker 2: What does that mean? It says we're allowed on the
Speaker 2: premise premises. I'm like, well, we can just fucking We'll
Speaker 2: sit in the lobby, We'll stand in the hallway because
Speaker 2: I've already seen that. You know, I know where the
Speaker 2: pageant's taking place, I know where rehearsals are, and I
Speaker 2: know where they've got these little rooms where they're doing
Speaker 2: their pieces to camera. And all that stuff. So some
Speaker 2: of it's upstairs and some of it's downstairs around the hallway.
Speaker 2: So if we stand in the lobby or sitting near
Speaker 2: the elevators, we're going to see girls coming and going
Speaker 2: all day surely, and Saturday morning rolls round and I
Speaker 2: think it was actually I think nine o'clock was a
Speaker 2: check in, so we thought we were going to see
Speaker 2: these these girls. Anyway, nine o'clock comes, Miss Banger walks in,
Speaker 2: Miss Miss Portland walks in, Miss someone else walks in.
Speaker 2: Everybody walks in, Miss Banger, Miss Banger, Banger Maine. Oh Banger,
Speaker 2: mind o the gutterre you hey?
Speaker 1: You know I forgot there was a Banger Maine.
Speaker 2: So they all walk in, you know, there's because it
Speaker 2: was miss miss teen Maine as well. So I think
Speaker 2: there were seven or nine miss teens going for the
Speaker 2: their accolade, and I think there was seventeen or eighteen
Speaker 2: women vying for Miss Maine. So you know, it's a
Speaker 2: lot of a lot of women walking around in sashes
Speaker 2: and fancy robes, and all of them have checked in,
Speaker 2: apart from Miss Hancock. Okay, like, where the fuck is
Speaker 2: she is? She is she using a service? Elevator. Is
Speaker 2: there a secret stairwell that we don't know about, or like,
Speaker 2: does she even care that much to be using any
Speaker 2: of that kind of stuff? Said, like five minutes after
Speaker 2: check in for the girls comes and then the elevator
Speaker 2: comes down and there's Jordan Hudson in an all green
Speaker 2: outfit with her own security guard, last man on the bus,
Speaker 2: last minute, last man on the bus exactly, with her
Speaker 2: own security guard, Chad. So they walked in together, and
Speaker 2: you know, we rattled off a couple of frames, nothing
Speaker 2: great because we were ready, but we weren't ready ready,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, she goes in, goes and does her her signing,
Speaker 2: then comes out a little bit later and you know, hey, Jordan,
Speaker 2: how's it going. She just smiles, doesn't say anything. You know,
Speaker 2: we nail the pictures and she goes up the stairs
Speaker 2: and then comes down an hour later in a different outfit.
Speaker 2: And I felt bad for all of the other girls
Speaker 2: because like, I was there for the mail, My buddy
Speaker 2: Toby was there for New York Post. I had a
Speaker 2: report with me, Toby had a report with him. People
Speaker 2: Magazine were there. New York Magazine was there. New York
Speaker 2: Times was there, The Washington Post were there, and they
Speaker 2: were all only interested in one person. Of course, it
Speaker 2: was all Jordan's so like they walked down the stairs,
Speaker 2: not information, but they're all kind of you know, they're
Speaker 2: following each other one by one, and we're just all
Speaker 2: like this not taking pictures.
Speaker 3: You know, you guys could just be cool and just
Speaker 3: and just rattle off a few just to make them
Speaker 3: feel good.
Speaker 1: That is.
Speaker 2: That's what we ended up doing later on in the
Speaker 2: day and all throughout day two. But it was like nothing, nothing, nothing, Jordan, Hey, Jordan, Hey, Jordan,
Speaker 2: has a go you know all that it was. It
Speaker 2: was quite funny.
Speaker 1: All of them know what it feels to be walking
Speaker 1: out of a club if you're Tory Spelling walking out
Speaker 1: behind Britney Spears exactly.
Speaker 2: But this was this is quite different for me as well,
Speaker 2: because I've photographed Jordan and Bill a Ton.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're like a personal unofficial photographer.
Speaker 2: All over the place, and before they'd never seen me,
Speaker 2: so it was quite weird to be naked, you know,
Speaker 2: out in the out in the open lens drooping.
Speaker 1: Well, and Chad too write like you know Chad but
Speaker 1: you don't know him.
Speaker 2: Well, I'd never seen him before. They'd never been a
Speaker 2: security chat with him before.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe they got that because of you.
Speaker 2: Well maybe maybe I don't know what they were expecting,
Speaker 2: because like it's not like we were rushing them or anything.
Speaker 2: But anyway, like tons of pictures. And then we had
Speaker 2: tickets for the show, not press passes, but we bought
Speaker 2: kits and yeah, exactly iPhone and point and shoot and
Speaker 2: on the next day, big camera. But we didn't know
Speaker 2: if Bill was going to be there still, so we
Speaker 2: go in. I don't see any of Jordan's family. And
Speaker 2: then just as it's about to start, Chad walks across
Speaker 2: the front stage basically just in front of the stage
Speaker 2: escorting Belichick, who's in like a full suit. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm in there in T shirt and shorts and everybody
Speaker 2: else is not dressed great, and poor old Bill's in
Speaker 2: there in his suit. And my seat is actually two
Speaker 2: rows behind Bill, just a little bit to the left.
Speaker 2: So as soon as Bill sits down, just pick the
Speaker 2: iPhone up, get over the people in front of me,
Speaker 2: and just rattle off a couple of pictures from of
Speaker 2: him from a side and like the pictures were published
Speaker 2: on the website before the contest it even started. It
Speaker 2: was so ridiculous. And then Jordan comes out in a
Speaker 2: swimsuit and we lift, you know, we're taking pictures. We're
Speaker 2: getting getting yelled at, getting eyes from from the staff
Speaker 2: because we're not supposed to be taking any pictures. But
Speaker 2: we you know, we nail it all. And day two
Speaker 2: follows similar suit. They wore exactly the same outfits for
Speaker 2: day one into day two, which was really frustrating. The
Speaker 2: only difference in day two was Bill wore a different
Speaker 2: shirt and Jordan's dad came and watched and sat next
Speaker 2: to Bill.
Speaker 1: You couldn't tell the difference between the two.
Speaker 2: Yeah you could. Jordan's dad's twenty years younger. Yeah. So.
Speaker 2: And the good thing was I'd gone and door knocked
Speaker 2: Jordan's dad the week before with the reporter, so I
Speaker 2: knew what he looked like. I didn't see him, and
Speaker 2: it was like a slam of the door with the
Speaker 2: reporter laid eyes on him. So she pointed him out
Speaker 2: to me, you know, and nobody else knew who it was.
Speaker 2: And again I took a picture of that on the phone,
Speaker 2: and that again published before any of the girls walk
Speaker 2: the wrong way, And what quite funny is the reporter
Speaker 2: actually noticed Chad pull up the article on his phone, really,
Speaker 2: which is quite funny. So he had like some Google
Speaker 2: alerts set up for Bill and Jordan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because and that actually kind of solidifies what we
Speaker 3: think about these people or at least their security being
Speaker 3: up to date on these types of things. Do they
Speaker 3: look do they see these articles? Because when they go
Speaker 3: up practically live like that, I always wonder like do.
Speaker 2: They see it? Do they see it? Yeah, they absolutely do.
Speaker 2: And so the contest that the contest ended around three
Speaker 2: in the afternoon on the Sunday, Jordan made the final three.
Speaker 2: She came third.
Speaker 1: You think Belichick maybe Jay z that a little bit.
Speaker 2: No, I think she would have done better if it
Speaker 2: weren't for the Belichick and all the stories that had
Speaker 2: been out in the past couple of weeks, because Jordan
Speaker 2: also hadn't been seen since she interrupted that CBS interview.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this was.
Speaker 2: Like the first coming out of after that. Okay, So no,
Speaker 2: I think Jordan would have done better if Bill wasn't there. Interesting,
Speaker 2: and I also think Bill was quite happy that Jordan
Speaker 2: didn't win because the winner of Miss Maine obviously goes
Speaker 2: on to represent that state. In the Miss America pageant,
Speaker 2: which is in Vegas I think every year, and then
Speaker 2: Sir Jordan would have would be going and competing there,
Speaker 2: so Bill would obviously be there if you win. If
Speaker 2: you win Miss America, then you got a Miss Universe. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like it could have been, you know, Bill, Bill and
Speaker 2: Jordan kept this relationship undercover for a good couple of
Speaker 2: years until until you know, it was cracked and I
Speaker 2: got the first set and then for it to be
Speaker 2: so public and then could be even like worldwide, it's
Speaker 2: kind of nuts. It's a whole new ball game for Bill,
Speaker 2: who's just you know, used to being an asshole coach. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's opened.
Speaker 1: Up massive, reclusive to be honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. But contest ended. She came third or they.
Speaker 1: Called it real quick, so he so he did the opposite.
Speaker 1: He didn't Jay's ear and like pump her up and
Speaker 1: pay to have her move up. He's actually paying her
Speaker 1: to lose.
Speaker 2: Probably, but she was devastated, like she was there to win.
Speaker 2: She wanted to win. She placed second last year, so
Speaker 2: she's slipped a place now, and you know what, I
Speaker 2: can't imagine she's going to do it again. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one more chance that.
Speaker 2: I'd be up for it. So yeah, contest's over. We
Speaker 2: go down in the parking garage to try an idea
Speaker 2: car because they are staying at the hotel, and we
Speaker 2: see nothing on level one, nothing on level two. Come
Speaker 2: back up and there's a really nice car parked by
Speaker 2: the service elevator, so which means that you know, old
Speaker 2: Bill was using that the whole time. We see Chad
Speaker 2: come out with some clothes, loads them in the trunk.
Speaker 2: He doesn't see us because we were doing a drive by,
Speaker 2: so we take the car, drop the car off, go
Speaker 2: down on foot kind of just it's a door with
Speaker 2: a very small like a fire fire door, just a
Speaker 2: teeny little window that we can see out, but they'd
Speaker 2: have to be looking for us. Sorry, we can see in,
Speaker 2: but they'd have to be looking for us to see us.
Speaker 2: So we see Toby myself, We see see Chad coming
Speaker 2: towards the door, and some figures behind him, so we
Speaker 2: know it's Bill and Jordan. Jordan leads Bill out holding
Speaker 2: his hand. She's still in her competition dress with her
Speaker 2: Miss Hancock sash around, so why she didn't get changed,
Speaker 2: I don't know. Because she wanted to be photographed like it,
Speaker 2: I guess maybe, and Bill was wearing his. They walk
Speaker 2: hand in hand and she's carrying a purse which we
Speaker 2: we'd photographed her earlier in the day. It's a lobster
Speaker 2: perse a purse shaped as a lobster, and on the
Speaker 2: back she's written save main Fisherman. Her dad was a
Speaker 2: main fisherman. So you know, she's using the press to
Speaker 2: her advantage to you know, push this main fisherman ship
Speaker 2: that she's talking about as well. So she gets it, man,
Speaker 2: she gets it.
Speaker 3: We know what's going on here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: She still has a life to live. Bill is on
Speaker 3: his way out, you know, pretty much, and you know
Speaker 3: she's got a she's got a plan for the future.
Speaker 3: But what I think would have been funnier is if
Speaker 3: Bill came out with her sash on that said.
Speaker 2: It would have been amazing, you know, that would have
Speaker 2: been What's funny, Like, multiple times during this this weekend,
Speaker 2: I take the elevator up to my room or the
Speaker 2: elevator down, and a lot of the time I'd end
Speaker 2: up in the elevator with the girls or with some
Speaker 2: of the girls. So like day one, there were like
Speaker 2: five or six girls coming down in the elevator with me,
Speaker 2: and I said, oh, actually we were going up and
Speaker 2: I said, you know, can you can one of you
Speaker 2: press floor number seven? Please? Oh my god, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: where are you from? Like all of that. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm from England, you know. And they're like, what are
Speaker 2: you here? What are you here for? What? I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm here for the pageant actually, and they're like oh,
Speaker 2: and I'm saying yeah, I'm with I'm with the Daily Mail.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, we can't talk to you, we can't
Speaker 2: talk to you. Yeah. It was so funny. And then
Speaker 2: on the last day, after Jordan and Bill had left,
Speaker 2: I took the elevator back up to my room to
Speaker 2: start sending and it was just me and the winner
Speaker 2: of Miss Maine in the elevator and I thought, again,
Speaker 2: I didn't ask for a picture by I wanted to
Speaker 2: wear the I wanted to get a picture with her
Speaker 2: and me, but with me with her crown on and
Speaker 2: the Miss Maine sash. I thought that I would have
Speaker 2: been hilarious.
Speaker 1: That would have been great.
Speaker 2: I should have done.
Speaker 3: I also think that if you could bottle the smell
Speaker 3: in that elevator. Of all those girls being in there,
Speaker 3: you'd probably have a pretty good scent.
Speaker 2: They smelled and looked beautiful, yes, all of them. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that was a really fun gig, really fun. I think
Speaker 2: it was five days I was up there for and Portland,
Speaker 2: Maine is such a beautiful town. It's it reminded me
Speaker 2: so much of the UK. It was walkable, and there
Speaker 2: were restaurants and bars and the sound of seagulls constantly.
Speaker 2: It really it made me miss home. It was great.
Speaker 2: The next job I had after that, I was asked
Speaker 2: if I could fly into New York City for a
Speaker 2: couple of days, and I'm never going to say no
Speaker 2: to that. I've got a bunch of friends there, and
Speaker 2: again there's there's great bars and restaurants. So I was
Speaker 2: being flown in for a specific job in the afternoon
Speaker 2: on on the second day I was there, but I
Speaker 2: got a call from a picture editor the night that
Speaker 2: I arrived asking if I could go to Cassie Ventura's house.
Speaker 2: It would have been Friday morning because it was her
Speaker 2: last day testifying in the Diddy trial, about eight o'clock
Speaker 2: at night, and I got this call that you know,
Speaker 2: she gets there or she leaves her house around eight fifteen,
Speaker 2: eight thirty in the morning, so that, you know, that
Speaker 2: made me have a bit of an early night. I
Speaker 2: couldn't couldn't go out drinking and having fun in New
Speaker 2: York and New York and having to get up early.
Speaker 2: So I said, yeah, I'll go do that. The previous
Speaker 2: days it had all rained, and security were coming out
Speaker 2: with umbrellas and covering up her up completely, and you
Speaker 2: couldn't get shit. So, you know, I get down Saturday
Speaker 2: competition there as well. Yeah, so I get down, leave
Speaker 2: my hotel Friday morning. Don't really know my way around
Speaker 2: New York to get tubes and stuff everywhere, so I
Speaker 2: just I just called an uber and I got the
Speaker 2: uber to head to her address. And as I'm two
Speaker 2: miles away, no less than that a mile away, like
Speaker 2: five minutes away from the address, I get another call
Speaker 2: from a picture editor. Hey, Bill Belichick's on Good Morning
Speaker 2: America right now. I'm watching it. I'm watching it. Are
Speaker 2: you close to the Good Morning America studio? I don't
Speaker 2: know New York Maybe, I asked the uber driver, you know,
Speaker 2: how close are we to the GMA Times Square studio.
Speaker 2: He's like seven minutes away. I'm like, okay, I'm going
Speaker 2: to cancel this uber ride and put in another address
Speaker 2: for you. Can you do that, yes, so cancel it.
Speaker 2: Put in the address. Uber ride takes me to GMA
Speaker 2: and the picture editors text me he's finished. The interview's finished, Like,
Speaker 2: ah fuck, I don't have anything set up, so jump
Speaker 2: out of the uber set up a short lens the car.
Speaker 2: There's a nice car to the left of the studio
Speaker 2: and a couple I guess, like you say, security guys
Speaker 2: lurking around, no sign of Chad, and there's no there's
Speaker 2: no photographers or video people or anything out there, so
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've missed him in this car
Speaker 2: could be straight hands or it could be for somebody
Speaker 2: else on GMA. But literally, as soon as I set
Speaker 2: up my camera did a test shot to check my settings,
Speaker 2: maybe twenty seconds later, Belichick just walks out straight towards me.
Speaker 2: It's just me, so he's like, not this motherfucker again,
Speaker 2: ratt off. Some I did did wide pictures, just some
Speaker 2: nice wide stuff of him coming out and then a
Speaker 2: couple you know, I went in tighter. As he got
Speaker 2: to the car, he smiled, which was nice. And I
Speaker 2: quickly pulled out my laptop, filed everything over to the office,
Speaker 2: didn't even write a caption, just just filed and jumped
Speaker 2: straight in it in the in another uber and went
Speaker 2: to Cassies. So I show up a Cassies at about
Speaker 2: quarter past eight again, like five minutes. I talk with
Speaker 2: another a partner who I'm working with covering two angles.
Speaker 2: She takes an angle on the corner. There's another guy
Speaker 2: on the other corner, and I say, I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: go and stand right outside the door across the street.
Speaker 2: What's the worst is going to happen if they come
Speaker 2: out with umbrellas, I'm just gonna get nothing. But nobody's
Speaker 2: gonna get anything. So a couple of minutes later, she
Speaker 2: comes out all but straight down the barrel, no umbrellas,
Speaker 2: no nothing. The security guy, her security guy is walking
Speaker 2: to her left, which is blocking the New York Post
Speaker 2: guy from a full length, blocking the splash guy from
Speaker 2: a clean full length, and partially blocking the person I'm
Speaker 2: working with for a full length. So then I'm just
Speaker 2: rattling off clean full length straight down the barrel. Probably
Speaker 2: saw the picture, like, yeah, the male splashed them. They
Speaker 2: used that picture in a bunch of.
Speaker 1: A different like I did see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, any stories throughout the day, So that was that
Speaker 2: was really good. And then they also as I'm filing that,
Speaker 2: I go on the website and check out the Bill
Speaker 2: Belichick story that went.
Speaker 1: Up and just destroying New York.
Speaker 2: They ran a headline as Belichick's girlfriend Hudson has replaced
Speaker 2: his side by new nemesis. And again I didn't realize
Speaker 2: I'd got this in the frame, but it was Bill
Speaker 2: with his new PR guy walking right.
Speaker 1: Wow. Glad you went wide.
Speaker 2: So that was two stories nailed before eight thirty in
Speaker 2: the morning. Yeah, it was five thirty your time. You
Speaker 2: were still sleeping.
Speaker 1: Murdering the photographers.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then the final story of the day, which
Speaker 2: was the one I was actually flown in to do,
Speaker 2: was we were working on it. I can talk about it.
Speaker 2: The story came out today. You were working on a
Speaker 2: secret Hadid sister. Oh.
Speaker 1: I saw that today. Wow.
Speaker 2: So the secret sister to Gig and Bella fathered by Muhammad.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So I basically I had this girl's Instagram page that
Speaker 2: I was given by the office and told she's graduating
Speaker 2: today from her college and they're having the graduation at
Speaker 2: Berkley Center in Brooklyn. See if you can spot her
Speaker 2: going into graduation with about five thousand other students. Okay,
Speaker 2: and there were supposed to be three of us on
Speaker 2: the job, but the two other people got pulled off
Speaker 2: to go and do other things. So it's me by
Speaker 2: myself in Brooklyn looking out for a needle in a haystack.
Speaker 2: Twenty minutes after I got there, I spotted her. Wow,
Speaker 2: what Yeah, I spied her with a couple of buddy
Speaker 2: she on her Instagram page you can see some like
Speaker 2: noticeable tattoos. So I was just looking out for for
Speaker 2: tattoos and I spotted the tattoos, like I was eyeballing
Speaker 2: everybody anyway. But she walked past me, spotted them, went
Speaker 2: across the street, and she's like posing up for her friends,
Speaker 2: taking pictures of her and her graduation gear. I'm just
Speaker 2: across the street on the one to five, just just
Speaker 2: railing it off as she's she's posing with her friends. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that was that was a three for one that day.
Speaker 1: So that's insane. I mean, you know, for you to
Speaker 1: just stroll in in New York, it felt good and
Speaker 1: just nail the whole city and in one morning, I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna say a day.
Speaker 2: No, it was the third set was in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Whatever. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty it's pretty impressive. That's you know,
Speaker 1: that's why they call them the Jedi people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, it was a great day. Like, you don't
Speaker 2: have a hat trick very often, so to score three
Speaker 2: get a good result on all.
Speaker 1: Three was especially when you're living in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And it was like my uber bill
Speaker 2: for those two and a half days while I was there,
Speaker 2: I did three hundred and sixty bucks in ubers.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, that's okay, though, you know, it was nailed.
Speaker 2: It's pretty crazy. And then this last one I was on,
Speaker 2: I'll wrap it up real quick, this last one because
Speaker 2: the ice cream shops closing soon. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw the story that David Geffen had filed for
Speaker 2: divorce from his husband of two years, who is fifty
Speaker 2: years younger than him.
Speaker 1: I did not see that. No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they'd be married for two years and Geffen
Speaker 2: is done citing irreconcilable differences. I think so myself and
Speaker 2: a journalist to Michigan, where David Armstrong is from, to
Speaker 2: try and do that's the guy that getting married. To
Speaker 2: try and do a background or on him of David interesting,
Speaker 2: David's yeah, double David, David squared, Yes, So try and
Speaker 2: do a background on him, find out, you know, what
Speaker 2: makes him tick. And we actually wet. We found an
Speaker 2: ex girlfriend of the guy who spoke to us for
Speaker 2: a little bit and offer record, you know, gave us
Speaker 2: some gave us some really good stuff. And then we
Speaker 2: went and knocked an address for his mother and father.
Speaker 2: He's an adopted kid, like fostered and adopted and they
Speaker 2: had like fifteen or sixteen kids at the same time.
Speaker 2: So we knocked the door and this old boy answers
Speaker 2: and he's talking to the reporter for like forty five
Speaker 2: fifty minutes, which is great, and I'm in the car.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've done many of these draw
Speaker 2: knocks with the report, but a lot of the times,
Speaker 2: you know, the reporters will knock and the photographer will
Speaker 2: be hiding in the car. Yeah, just trying to get
Speaker 2: a snatch shot as they opened the door. Basically because
Speaker 2: a lot of the times they opened the door, the
Speaker 2: reporters introduced themselves and then they close the door very quickly.
Speaker 2: It doesn't often go where they stand outside talking to
Speaker 2: the report for forty five minutes. But that's what happened
Speaker 2: with this guy. The light wasn't great. It was dark,
Speaker 2: the sun was down, and he was standing inside his
Speaker 2: door like you could barely make him out. So like,
Speaker 2: you know, crank the ISO, you know, slow shutter speed bang.
Speaker 2: Managed managed to get a couple of nice frames and
Speaker 2: they splashed that story as well, you know, top of
Speaker 2: the website. So it's been it's been a decent couple
Speaker 2: of couple of weeks with these hits. I do have
Speaker 2: some other stuff. I'll be able to talk about it
Speaker 2: a later date. I did something really good yesterday in Buffalo,
Speaker 2: and then the two days before then, I was somewhere
Speaker 2: else in the state doing something else, which is quite
Speaker 2: good as well. But both good stories, when I can
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 1: Them, are all the other day raiders. Do you think
Speaker 1: they get upset when they hear your stories about especially
Speaker 1: when you just destroy New York stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I hope not. Well it's not so happy.
Speaker 3: For you, or do they go, oh, this fucking Jedi
Speaker 3: just god damn him, dude, it's fucking getting everything.
Speaker 2: I hope they don't think that, Like I'm friends with
Speaker 2: a lot of them, or I consider myself friends with
Speaker 2: a bunch of them. So I don't want to be
Speaker 2: coming on here and have it seem like I'm boasting.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: You know, if I'm put on a job, I'm always
Speaker 2: going to try my darndest to get it.
Speaker 1: I think if it was me doing the jobs, they
Speaker 1: would be upset. But sauce it's you, it.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't maybe, And I'm not trying to tread on anybody's toes.
Speaker 2: You know that there were other day rate photographers that were,
Speaker 2: you know, at the Cassie thing in New York, and
Speaker 2: I know, like there aren't as many day rate photographers
Speaker 2: now as they used to be in New York. Like
Speaker 2: hence me flying in from Buffalo when things got tough
Speaker 2: this time last year, you know, twelve to fifteen months ago,
Speaker 2: a lot of photographers in the city dropped out of
Speaker 2: the business. Yeah, so you know, it does leave an
Speaker 2: opening for me to fly in when extras are needed.
Speaker 1: For sure.
Speaker 3: And this whole new thing, it's a whole new kind
Speaker 3: of game too, you know. I mean it's the X
Speaker 3: paps becoming day raiders and the jobs.
Speaker 1: That are it's a whole new game out there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it is are you available? Are you ready
Speaker 1: to work? Do you nail it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, also, it's like how many you know, how many
Speaker 2: days are you available? Because a lot of these guys,
Speaker 2: well a lot of us, you know, we we have
Speaker 2: families and we can't be available all day every day, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: although I tried to make myself as available as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's just it's a whole
Speaker 1: new game, and it is what it is. You can't
Speaker 1: you know, you can't complain it away.
Speaker 2: You know, it absolutely kills me to say no to anything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and if i'm if I'm free, I'm not saying no
Speaker 2: to anything. I'm only saying no if I'm already on one.
Speaker 1: Well, and you've also you know, established yourself in so
Speaker 1: many cities and so many places where wherever you go,
Speaker 1: you're kind of like a secret agent, you know. You
Speaker 1: know I did. I did sneak in to see the
Speaker 1: first twenty minutes of Mission Impossible the other day, and
Speaker 1: it makes me think of you where it's like you're,
Speaker 1: you know, you're the photographer version of Tom Cruise and
Speaker 1: Mission Impossible.
Speaker 2: You know, you do my own stunts exactly. Yeah, No,
Speaker 2: like jumping in and out of Yeah, there's one job
Speaker 2: i'd like to be on at the moment that I'm
Speaker 2: obviously can't because I'm here. But you'd see Todd and
Speaker 2: Julie Chrisly were both pardoned this week, and I was
Speaker 2: in Nashville to get the send off basically two years ago.
Speaker 2: I got you know, I was there for a week
Speaker 2: and got a bunch of the pictures leading up to
Speaker 2: when they both went into their respective prisons. So I
Speaker 2: would like to be doing that one, but you know,
Speaker 2: I can't be everywhere everywhere at once unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Now without a clone like Tom Cruise exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: But go check out that episode of People because Jedi
Speaker 3: talked about it.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have to find it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good luck. One thing we probably should talk about
Speaker 2: before we you know, we've got a few minutes left.
Speaker 2: I know you saw this story earlier on. I saw
Speaker 2: the story earlier on as well. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: I feel about it.
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney, soap Jedi, I use this soap Okay, it's
Speaker 1: smart brand.
Speaker 2: What's the name of the brand? I forgot? Doctor Squatch,
Speaker 2: Doctor Squatch.
Speaker 1: That's right, Doctor Squatch. My son uses this brand. I
Speaker 1: use this brand, you know, and my son is you know,
Speaker 1: just starting out puberty, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: like we go with a brand that you know, it's
Speaker 1: all natural, it's it's it's one of those soaps where
Speaker 1: you know, they're promoting it is all natural stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And Sydney's been, you know, a spokesperson for it for
Speaker 1: a couple of years now. I think it's been doing it.
Speaker 3: It's not a surprise that she would do this. But
Speaker 3: I read an article about her in the Bathwater without
Speaker 3: knowing what brand it was first, and then I went
Speaker 3: on and saw her post of.
Speaker 1: The advertisement of doctor Squatches. So I immediately went into
Speaker 1: my thirteen year old son. I was like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: I got a new I got the new scent for you.
Speaker 1: He knows who Sidney Sweeney is. He knows everybody, does
Speaker 1: you know? Every thirteen year old fourteen year old boy
Speaker 1: knows who Sydney Sweeney is. And girl that Matner And
Speaker 1: it's it's very interesting now, Jedi, there is no way
Speaker 1: she's just mailing buckets of her bath water to Doctor Squatched,
Speaker 1: a multi million dollar company, they're in Target, they're in
Speaker 1: you know, multiple. There's no way that her real bath
Speaker 1: water is in that fucking bar selp.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm guessing maybe they've got like a big vat
Speaker 2: of water with bubbles in their like with in their
Speaker 2: main warehouse, and maybe they just took Sweeney there and
Speaker 2: she dipped her toes in or something or kicked around
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Like that there, she might have dumped a tablespoon, you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: or something just just so they can prove that it's
Speaker 3: real or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a given.
Speaker 2: So the bar is called Sydney's Bathwater Bliss, and they
Speaker 2: created a limited edition soap infused with her actual bathwater,
Speaker 2: is what they're saying. Yes, so, I mean, and.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do that without actually having in the bathwater.
Speaker 2: She must have actually been in it. And actually it
Speaker 2: says purchasers must purchasers must be eighteen years or older
Speaker 2: as well. Are they're gonna I d you to id
Speaker 2: you to buy soap?
Speaker 1: Very interesting. I didn't know that it's.
Speaker 2: Available June sixth, so I'll be on the website refreshing constantly.
Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna sell out, and it'll sell out within
Speaker 1: minutes because all these frip Sydney Sweeney freaks out there
Speaker 1: are gonna you know they I mean, my god, but
Speaker 1: it's obviously testing. They're gonna do it again. They will
Speaker 1: do they will be limited. It'll it'll, it'll come back again.
Speaker 1: People have a second chance to get that stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you know what they've put It smells like as well,
Speaker 2: what does it say? Morning wood home?
Speaker 1: God? I mean, how are they going to prove unless
Speaker 1: they did a video of her scooping bathwater out of
Speaker 1: her bath that she was bathing in and then you know,
Speaker 1: following it with a GoPro camera to the vat and
Speaker 1: then pouring it in there, how are they going to
Speaker 1: prove it?
Speaker 2: You know, Well, it looks like it says very limited stop.
Speaker 2: So maybe that I don't know, I have.
Speaker 1: It was just a tea spoon. They're like, Sidney, we'll
Speaker 1: pay you a million dollars if you give us a
Speaker 1: teaspoon of your bath water.
Speaker 2: Oh she's getting more than that, I'm sure. Two minute warning.
Speaker 3: This is where we're at right now, jeddih we're taking
Speaker 3: bathwater of hawkgirls that can act, she can act.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 3: I knew you were going to say that, how dare you?
Speaker 3: How dare you never see a Star Wars movie and
Speaker 3: defend Sidney.
Speaker 2: Swingey toche toche.
Speaker 1: All right, on that note, if we have offended anybody
Speaker 1: on this episode, including Sydney, Sidney, you are our breadlet letter.
Speaker 1: We love you so much. We honestly contributed to your success.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was the first to find your address, the
Speaker 2: first to get to the first paps out.
Speaker 1: Ever, you're the first one out of all that stuff.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with you showing your boobs
Speaker 1: in any of those productions. Okay, Jedi calling you the
Speaker 1: next big thing. If we've offended anybody in this episode,
Speaker 1: we do apologize, but for myself and for Jedi.
Speaker 2: Who shoes on to go get ice cream.
Speaker 3: Who is now a member of the one percent crew. Yes,
Speaker 3: you have to listen to the whole episode to understand
Speaker 3: what that means.
Speaker 1: But take care and be well, oh my god, oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 2: Shoot first, ask questions later. This is going to be
Speaker 2: a woke disaster.