Anthony Michael Hall: Stanley Kubrick Phone Calls, Why Movies Lost Suspense & John Hughes Doc

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Music, podcasts, audio books, all in one app. From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, Anthony Michael Hall, plus the news with Andrew Hobson, and now Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get on it. Choice, pick it on, mandate to get on. Good to see you, Anthony. Michael Hall again. I feel like, slide that mic into you. Coming in. Yeah, I mean, we all grew up with Anthony Michael Hall. And, you know, it's kind of interesting as I think about those movies, especially the John Hughes ones and like how they were almost like a soundtrack is when you're young. You know, like you remember those songs from when you're in high school and they're always that kind of imprinted. Yeah. You know, like a weird thing. Like, if I ever smell fresh mowed grass, I just think about football practice. Right. No matter how old, no matter where I am. Right. No matter how much my back hurts, I just go, football. Right. Because you're like a brain. And I feel like so many movies you were in, I mean, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Signs, you know, Lampoon, Vacation and everything. It was just like, it's like imprinted on people. I appreciate it, man. Well, one of the things that, one of his strengths out of John was music and his love of it. But you're right, how we all live in memory, right? How music and films can just bring us back to a place in life. But John was amazing that way. Like, he would integrate all those songs into a soundtrack. When I was a kid making those films with him, I'd often go home to their house on the weekends, the Hughes's, and I'd spend time with he and his wife and his two young kids. But his writing room was amazing, Adam. He had a desktop computer in the corner and then floor to ceiling, 12 inch records, almost looked like a record store. Really? So that was really integral to his process, how he wrote all those music cues into the scripts. But he was also just so cool because the scripts are always great, but then he'd let us ad-lib and try a lot of stuff, too. But I appreciate what you said, man. Well, you know, thinking about it, you know, Weird Science is a really good comedy that maybe gets categorized into a sort of teen, Hughes, angst, something, 80-something. But it really should just be amongst the greatest comedies when you talk about great comedies. Because that movie had more laughs per minute than, you know, I'll put it up against a Woody Allen or Albert Brooks film, even though it's a different category. But that movie had a ton of laughs. And Bill Paxton was out of his mind funny. And you, like when you went to the blues club and got drunk with the brothers, that was just an awesome piece of comedic acting. Thank you. And I don't even know how much of that is scripted or how much of that is you playing. Well, I'll tell you, back to what I had mentioned, like, the scripts are always solid. The writing was always there. But what we would do, his process was like we'd shoot two or three as written, and then we would flow. With respect to that bit, you know, it started on Breakfast Club because I was a huge fan of Carl and as a kid. We're roughly the same age. You're a little older. But he and Richard. And so I would listen to those prior records, and I'd come to the set and I'd imitate them. Or I'd be at the home, you know, of the Hugheses watching live on Sunset Strip. So there was this closeness, this connection we had. He was like a big brother to me where he'd let me just try shit, you know, and he was incredible that way. So that's why he set up that scene, which was pretty great. You're stewed, but what? Bill. Ah, fucking Bill. We all love him, Miss Bill. God, he was so funny in that movie. Yes. And he inserted so much of him. He was from Fort Worth, Texas. You know, there's so much of the real Bill there. You know, the Paxson family was from Texas. So there's so much Bill and Chet, and we all loved Bill. He was such a great and beloved guy, man. He really was. Ah, 16 Candles, of course. Now, as I told you, I must tell you, I grew up up the street from the Ringwald. So I go way back. And we both lived on Hartsook Street in North Hollywood. They lived in their house. By the way, there are not many people who I grew up with where I went to their house and went, oh, shit, their house is smaller than my house. That was one of the few people who had a smaller house than the Corollas had. That's your economics, huh? It was. I mean, sometimes they build houses. A lot of those old valley houses are like, why'd they even bother building a house? Like, you're building it. Just make, add on another 100 square feet. It's easy. Their house was 800 square feet with, like, five people living in it. Wow. And it was against, it was off the alley, too, which never, never a good thing in North Hollywood. And they said this little itty-bitty house with a blind dad who played the piano. Bob. And mom, oh, God. Adele. Adele. Adele who just baked. Yeah. All she did was bake, and she fucking loved me because I was in for pie. Like, I'd show up. She'd be like, oh, finally, someone who appreciates. Corolla taste test. Yeah, I'd be like, give me that pie, Adele. The kitchen was as big as a coffee table, and she's just baking away. Right. And there was no central air, probably, either. Just baking right through the summer. Right. It's permeating. In the neighborhood, yeah. I didn't even know who she was baking. She just never stopped baking. I love it. And I always was there to partake. Yeah, great lady. Very nice lady. And the sister, Beth, who I had a crush on, was in 16 Candles for a moment. That's right. She plays the girl that, it's so funny, when the two parents are trying to bring the nerdy kid and literally force him into the high school dance, she's being carried out by a jock. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. That's Beth. Beth Greenwald. Yeah. I love that family. So you have, and by the way, the TV show, Exiles, it's a SWAT spinoff. It's going to premiere on Star. That'll be coming up in about a month or so, September 25th, just so you know. Correct, yes. Exactly. Also, Halloween Store as well, which is a horror comedy that's going to come out this fall. Right, right. And that's produced by Kenan Thompson's company. Kenan's become a friend, and we have a really great cast, Natalie Lynn in that, and it's a horror comedy we shot in Hawaii last year. Yeah. You know, it's so funny, I sit around and my phone just puts stuff up, algorithm, whatever, for me to watch, and it puts up a lot of big wave surfing videos, which I don't surf, but somehow I think, but I enjoy watching them, so when a guy takes off on an 80-foot wave, I'll watch. Right. I'm with you. Yeah. And it'll bring up car stuff, and it'll bring up SNL sketches, and it'll bring up, you know, it'll bring up Zach Galifianakis' Between the Two Ferns. It just brings it up. And I just go, all right. And I was watching, Andrew, I'm going to ask you to find this, an SNL, I don't know if we can play SNL clips. I think we can. It was an SNL clip, and it was Kenan playing a news reporter on a local news station, and I think the story was there was a flood or a sinkhole or something, and a bunch of cars fell in a puddle. And the sinkhole did a lot of damage, but it was, Margot Robbie was in it, I believe. And anyway, the story became that this super hot chick was with this super nerdy guy, and he couldn't make heads or tails of it, and that became the story. And it's a really funny sketch idea. Not, in fact, the sinkhole tragedy. Not whatever the tragedy was. He couldn't get the fact that this super hot blonde was with this nerdy dude, and it just kept getting funnier. But I was literally watching. watching it going, "Keenan doesn't really get his due." like on that show he is strong on that show and everyone's always talking about Will Ferrell and everyone else and Dan Aykroyd and they should yeah but he was a rock I mean he nailed that stuff when he would be a game show host Steve Harvey or something like that he didn't he didn't hiccup or stumble ever he was always right there with whatever the part was and I was just looking at him going Keenan I mean people appreciate him but he needs to be mentioned I agree with you 100% the reliability and also just the endurance you know he's that he's now become the longest running cast member but I'm with you I think he's brilliant when I was at the SNL 50 a couple years ago Adam it was great and actually very healing for me too because the season I was on was such shit that I think I beat myself up about it for 40 years you know what were you like 19 and a half or something yeah I was 17 I was a kid oh you were 17 yeah yeah I was a kid it is so hard to come into your comedy at that age yeah plus I didn't have a background as a stand-up I didn't go to Second City or any of those you know sort of improv groups but uh but anyway I was just going to mention that sketch that he did with Will and Eddie and Tracy Morgan it was hilarious but I agree with you I mean Keenan is incredible I think we have a great guy the sketch he is he's a sweet guy I've met him a few times but it'll it's just funny you have to watch how he plays it because it's it's a solid premise first sketch but it it didn't necessarily have to land right he landed it right all right we'll watch and and by the way so Margot Robbie's piping hot in this and I can't remember Mikey Day or whoever's playing like Adele Ringwald's baked goods right okay it's his it it's a piping hot wife and husband team and the husband's a nerd right okay okay here we go action nine's Neil McNabb is live on the scene Neil thank you Beth it's quite a chaotic scene here emergency crews are working hard to assess the damage fortunately no one was seriously hurt including these two shoppers uh can you tell us what happened yeah sorry I'm still shaking um I was walking towards my car and all of a sudden it sort of just felt like the ground was melting yeah uh cars fell in it was crazy I'm just very happy my wife and I are okay this is your wife uh yes so you two are married to each other yes sir I'm just making sure I heard that right well a close call here today for this multi-millionaire and his lovely wife nothing about the sinkhole of course yeah yeah and it just keeps going of course he's not he's unemployed he's so great and he just can't figure it out I also want to say too that I think the thing that he shares with Tracy and I love Tracy too it's just that likability yeah I love this guy man he's I love Kenan it really is great what a good dude to partner up with yes sir um so the shout out to Johnny Ryan Jr. who's also his producing partner the SNL pilgrimage back for healing like a like a like a veteran going back to Iwo Jima or something to honor so many so many left behind you know so young yeah that was a different time to laugh at that but anyway yeah I don't know if it's a fair comparison but I get the analogy yes sir well there's an interesting choice because you're you're having so much theatrical success that SNL it's a risk at that stage right it is and as you know I mean you've been there it's it's it's rock and roll theater everything rolled into one and there's no guarantees but having been there it was incredible sorry incredible experience that way incredible experience having been there you know even when I look back it was just I mean it wasn't funny honestly a lot of it was it just kind of fell flat in that year but uh if you see the Peacock documentary about it it really details it you know it was the show was on Shaky Legs itself and there was Dick Ebersole years correct not Lorne Michael that's right so Lorne created it in 75 at NBC and then I think Dick Ebersole took over for five years so the 11th season when I was on Lorne came back and that was his first year back oh he was his first year back when you were on correct oh wow so he's essentially produced 46 of the 51 years or whatever you know Dick Ebersole was sports right right he was such a weird background for comedy but uh and you were on with uh Robert Downey Jr. and uh Dennis Miller Miller a bunch of people yeah Randy Quaid now that's interesting because Miller is sort of prickly like he's just a smart super smart dude but he's just a little bit you know he's just a little bit you know he's just a little bit you know prickly yeah I like him me too but he's just like some guys are a little bit prickly very sarcastic and then there's Randy Quaid but I don't know what version of Randy Quaid you know I mean I don't know if he's in exile in Quebec right now I don't even know where's Randy Quaid a couple weeks ago at a signing we were oh you did no he's a great guy I thought he was like I think what you're referring to is I think Lorne was they were experimenting with actors obviously there was a bunch of right hadn't gone the traditional and then Robert Downey Jr. who who's he oh god I don't think he worked after SNL but he he is one of the most talented actors out there I mean he is just good like really somehow you know doesn't doesn't get mentioned with some of the greats but so versatile and like such a good actor and uh I've only interviewed him once on Loveline I thought he was a real kind of kind Sorry, he almost had a wise spirit to him. There's something like a shaman-like, seems to just, there seems to be wisdom with that guy. It's a life full lived. Yeah, well lived. Absolutely. No, he is. He's a great guy. And his wife, Susan, is great. They've been really impressive in terms of how they've rebuilt their company and what he's done with his career is amazing. Randy Quaid lives in Burlington, Vermont. Does he? Nice. But wasn't he sort of on the lam for a while or something? I had read something about that, yeah. But I didn't know what the full story was. But you saw him a few weeks ago. Yeah, he was great. And he seems normal. He is. He was great. It was great to spend time with him. Huh. What were you guys doing? We were doing a signing. We were doing a Comic-Con. Oh, really? Yeah. Are Comic-Cons all over the place now? They are. I mean, I'll be very upfront about it. I started doing them about 20 years ago. They're great. I go across the country. But as a business, it's really exploded. I mean, when they started, I think in the 60s. In the 70s, they were primarily for comic book artists. But that's obviously changed. I think when you saw a big uptick is after the financial crisis of 08. But it's a very family-friendly thing. I mean, when I go across the country now, I'm in convention centers. I mean, these are huge, huge shows now. So they're a lot of fun. Is the Comic-Con, are they doing, like, I kind of know this from the car world. Because, for instance, there's a huge event in England called the Goodwood. And they have the Goodwood Festival of Speed and then the Goodwood Revival. And it attracts hundreds of thousands of people. And it gets bigger every year. And there's vendors. And next thing you know, there's all these big-name brands and Ford and Lamborghini. And they're all buying booths. And it's turned into a huge thing. And you go, well, how long can that be limited to Chichester, England, you know, before they. And then, of course, now they're doing a Goodwood out here. Right. Right. Right. Got it. Almost sounds like Sturgis with bikes, but for cars. Yeah. But they're going to franchise. Because how long are you just going to have Comic-Con in San Diego before someone goes, why don't we have one somewhere else and make money over there? And then people won't have to come to San Diego. Right. But are they all different Comic-Cons? Is there, like, an, you know, I guess, like, there's cruises. There's 80s rock band cruises. There's stand-up comedian cruises. They're not all the same cruise. Correct. Correct. And I think the scale of them has shifted, as I said. A lot of the big ones that I've done, Fan Expo and a lot of big companies, they're in convention centers. But they'll also be in big hotels. And it's a very family-friendly, very nice environment. I like it. And what do people, when they wait in line to get your autograph, possibly get a picture, what do they most bring up? This sounds stupid. But, I mean, like, for me, I walk around. Some people yell man show sometimes. But then a lot of people yell lovely. And then they're like, oh, I'm going to go to the line, you know, or something like that. And some people like to catch a contractor show or something. I don't know exactly what they're vibing on when I see them. You've done so many things. Yeah. It's probably not SNL. No, it's not SNL. But it's anything from the Hughes stuff to, you know, in recent years when I was in Halloween Kills with Jamie Lee Curtis. I get horror fans. I mean, all kinds of stuff. Fans of different shows that have been on a lot of TV shows over the decades, you know. So it's always fun for me to kind of. You'll never know exactly what they're into when they come on. Come up on you. Right. But it's really nice. You know, it's a fun thing. I enjoy it. I agree. I don't know why anybody would make that kind of adulation that you dreamt of growing up. I mean, I had many more years as a civilian than you did. But just, you know, people wanting to pose for a picture with you. You know what I mean? Like, what could be bad about that? How could that ever be a nuisance? I often think, and there's that great quote of a great writer, Maya Angelou, right? People won't remember what you had or what you did. They'll just remember how you made them feel. Right. So whether you're doing stand-up or what have you, you want to make it a nice experience. people you know so i just enjoy it i have fun with it i'm grateful for it and also i think doing those shows has certainly made me a better person too you're in your shoes you're dealing with people and you're just expressing gratitude and you know doing the thing yeah i i feel that way the the greatest thing about uh i'm on cameo and whenever you're on cameo whenever you get a request and the money part is like it's a hundred bucks a pop and i don't even i check the account twice a year or something but it's not really not count on it it's not like a form of income for me i just go on it but so am i the best part about cameo is the description they go this is my husband it's our 35th wedding anniversary he's your biggest fan he loves he always quotes he listens and then he quotes adam he says this is an atomism and something that's like i should be giving you 100 bucks i've never felt better in my life right right no there you go it's also a reminder just to stay humble you know it really is but also i i like that too because i'm on cameos well it's fun you know and what does it take for us it takes us two minutes i i completely agree but i have like blue collar work at mcdonald's work construction you know five bucks an hour job to compare it to so it's easy for me right it's it's it's so easy for me to go fuck this is nothing compared to what i used to do but you don't have the a and the b because you were off and running i mean at 15 how old were you when you well you know when i started in this in the business i was actually eight years old you know it's been over 50 years now believe it or not even though i'm 58 and i started out doing a play with steve allen i did commercials but back to what you said look the value of a dollar man that's a conversation we all had with our fathers you know and uh i appreciate it so it's nice it's a nice thing to make uh make someone feel good and you get as much out of it as you give you know so didn't uh and you didn't go through the normal trials and tribulations of the child star or did you i mean i don't know was there substance well i was a wild kid no i didn't have anything too intense in terms of substance abuse but dealing with my drinking and dealing with stuff like that in the past absolutely i had to learn to kind of taper that you know and over time you learn to put things in perspective and i mean look i've become a family guy i have a wife and a son now and and that is everything to me so it's certainly shifted me but i was a wild kid growing up i'm not gonna bullshit you know like women yeah i i i definitely uh enjoyed you know my younger days definitely well you had everything going for you because you were you were recognizable you're cute and you're like non-threatening and non-threatening you know that's the key the key is to be non-threatening because women women want to know who you are like that they're not even really the thing about being on tv is people go oh she's attracted that guy because she's famous and it's like no she's attracted him because she knows who he is like if you're just sitting at a bar next to a random dude yeah and you want to come back to my hotel room i don't know there's an issue there's like a safety issue there if they know you like they know you from tv right it's like you went to high school with them and and you're in it's a kind of a threat assessment almost but i also think just despite whatever walk of life you are i mean women respond to a man's vulnerability his humor his sense of humor so i mean i think those things i think i think they like sense of humor because i think that's a marker for smart yeah i think they think you can't be funny and not be smart i think there's an i think there's an element of that and i think i think the smart thing is kind of an attraction but i don't see i don't know if they're making that calculation per se right like i guess i've attracted women because i'm funny but they don't ever really seem to be huge fans comedically but maybe it's it's more that they think i must be smart if someone's paying me to do comedy interesting and we'll be back on the new love line right after this no that's good points no i hear you i hear you uh i was told that stanley kubrick uh was impressed by you on six and candles and wanted you for full metal jacket yeah that was incredible experience what was that well at the time i got a call from my agent it was a gentleman named marty barrow he's no longer with us he was a great guy um and he called me while i was doing word science and he said stanley kubrick is interested in you for this vietnam epic they're going to be making and he's interested in you playing one of the guys in the core and i said that's great and then two days later i got a call saying he was interested in me playing the lead he was going to call me the next day on saturday morning which was kind of crazy so staying up next to the universal tour up there and i was up at like sheridan yeah remember at the top next to the next to the tour it's another hotel now i'm sure but back in the day it was the sheridan next to the universal tour i think telly savalis had a sports bar in the basement of that place telly savalis had a sports bar in the basement sounds good that could have been yeah you got to look that up that could have been the universal marriott or something right who loves you baby that's it who loves you baby so anyway so i got a call from kubrick it was incredible i was up two hours early i'm pacing i'm nervous as hell i'm expecting like the voice of the wizard of oz you know like some deep you know and it's like hey michael at stanley and he said he had just screened 16 candles and you know he paid me an incredible compliment he told me i was his favorite actor he'd seen since he saw nicholson and easy ride wow i was blown away as a kid and i'll say and to this day you know it didn't work out what happened was it became about an eighth month negotiation uh for my contract on that film and it didn't work out um ultimately he got he didn't want to pay me any money really and and and you know when i did my research on his history he would shoot films for up to a year at a time which is crazy not since chaplin anybody done that but in any case all due respect to him he was just one of the greatest and i still watch all his films i mean who can't you can't turn off the shining or if you see one of his great films the movies are amazing shining is great really is shining is great because it it really underscores humans need for delayed gratification and foreplay because our impulse is like we want what we want now you know what i mean like i don't want a bunch of foreplay i want sex like now you know and i don't want i don't want to wait all day for my lunch i want someone to bring it to my door right now you know what i mean so you have that kind of mindset but you don't realize it's the slow burn that is so much more satisfying you know and that movie nothing happening for the first 45 minutes hour i mean i haven't put a clock on it but i mean nothing significant in the horror realm right really going on for a long period of time right by the time shit started happening you were so poised for that like it will say so it's just even in the silences of his films right now yeah they start off movies now with car chases through that it's like oh we're already there right right there was no build at all it's a great point it's a great point that movie was i don't know i don't i don't know that you could do that in modern times in the in the horror genre i think the producers and the studio heads would watch and go listen we got to take like a half hour out of the first half of this film like it's this is yeah well i'm at minute 49 and i just talked the guy's talking to scatman and i'm like oh my god i'm not going to scatman i don't even know what's going on i've not seen a hatchet or any no blood right like i i don't know when you know i think mtv changed all that all the fast writing and everything that predates all that you know that was 1980 that film but i'm with you tell us of silence and the use of suspense and the build up just burn incredible yeah telly savalis's bar was in the sheridan universal basement by the way so uh in full metal jacket there are nothing i mean not nothing happened but they didn't right they didn't even get in country until an hour right into that it was a war movie yeah that wasn't about war for the first hour and arlie ermy man get out he was great i've interviewed that guy a bunch of times he's the greatest he was incredible he was the greatest i mean talk about owning whorehouses in vietnam and shit like that or philippines or wherever it's funny you mentioned it because i i when i did i actually shot an episode of wednesday for tim burton a couple years ago uh right after i shot reacher and uh i was basically i was doing an imitation of him the whole time i was playing a cub scout leader but i just decided to do it like like like lee you know private pile i mean he was just he was incredible he was the best yeah and and then you'd meet him in real life and he was even even better yeah oh reacher with my buddy nick santora yeah nick is such a great guy he gave me that opportunity and i had a great time shooting it we shot up in toronto yeah he's he's a good man oh yeah listen we when we go and play out his neck of the woods we stay we stay in his house nice and and we just hang out awesome then i'd leave at night and go play the gig and then come back at like 12 30 at night i love it i'm sure it looks like a xanadu type mansion he's a cool guy what a great guy you know he has so many shows going he would remotely work from pennsylvania would blew my mind yeah but incredible writer great guy and great that great opportunity so thanks nick - Yeah. - Shout out Pizan. - Yeah, great dude. Um, so it doesn't, you know, you kind of wonder with the Stanley Kubrick's, if they kind of go, you brought up MTV. So like I used to work for MTV and I used to be on MTV and MTV's attitude was a little bit like, look, we don't really have to pay you. We're MTV. You get that. You get to be on MTV. Right. And I wonder if Kubrick had a little bit of that. Look, you're not going to get any money, but you get to work with Stanley Kubrick. I think you're flying over the target there, Adam. Absolutely. I want to say something too, with respect to the text, that movie was based on two things, a book called The Short Timers. I'm talking about Full Metal Jacket now. And another book called Dispatches, which was a letters written from veterans sent home. So back to your point. No, absolutely. I mean, he was, you know, he was truly a great auteur of cinema and has obviously the respect of Hollywood and has for over. You know, 75 years. So I think he, he, he had a lot of latitude and flexibility. Obviously he had moved his family to England. He made a movie once every five years, ostensibly. And he was a brilliant guy, you know, even in the wake of that and having not made that film, I think about him all the time and I still study his films and I love Kubrick. Hughes, uh, man died way before his time. Yeah, man. I mean. Only 60. Was he sick? I didn't even know he made it to 60. Yeah. And at very good at comedy, but very good at family and sort of heartstrings to like kind of interesting that he was very skilled at comedy, but it's also very skilled at sort of family and story and that kind of stuff. Yeah, you're right on it. I, I've very happily reconnected with his eldest of two sons, John Hughes, the third over the last two years. And it's been great reconnecting with him and absolutely 100%. You know, um, I'm happy. I'm happy to share this and I don't think I'm speaking out of school though. John Hughes, the third, when I reconnected with him, we were doing a signing in Chicago with the breakfast club. It was all five of us and Emilio had come out of retirement and joined us. It was great to see him last year. My point was when I spent time with John, I went to dinner with him and my wife Lucia and, uh, we were talking about, he had recently at that point last year, he had seen the John Candy documentary that Ryan Reynolds produced. Oh, sure. Really loved it. Really enjoyed it. And, um, he's now we're in close communication. He's going to be doing one about his father. So I'm happy. I'm happy to share that news too. So he's going through the archives now. Oh, he's going to do a doc about John Hughes. Smart. Very. Yeah. Imagine there's a lot of archival stuff there. That's what he's doing now. He's working with a gentleman named Chris Smith, I believe his name is, who did the film about, uh, Downey and his father called Junior. Oh, right. Really good document too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're going through the archives now. Downey's dad was interesting too. You know, uh, Robert Downey Jr. that is. Yeah. But Senior was a great guy. I mean, as a guy, he's made a few. A few documentaries, you need the family's participation because you need so much archival stuff from them. You can make a doc about anybody. You don't really need permission, but you do need the family. It's helpful when the family opens the scrapbooks and comes on camera, recollections, and just starts providing you with that, this trove of stuff. Because if you're just going to make a John Hughes documentary. And the family is not going to participate, you've limited yourself. I agree. I think it'd be less, less impactful, but you're bringing up a great point. Yeah. So he's doing that. He's going through that process now of going through the archives. He's been sending me Polaroids and pictures from the times when we were working together. But, uh, he's a great guy too. And I'm very happy for him, uh, for John that he's going to make this film about his dad. It's going to be great. Yeah. I, I can't get enough of the, you know, the, you know, whether it's Farley or, or, or John Candy or any fat guy. Yeah. I can't get enough of the, you know, the, you know, whether it's Farley or, or John Candy or any fat guy. No, any comedian, like all those guys, I, I, I love it. I love it all. Well, even when he, when Ethan Hawke did the one about the Newman family and Paul, I mean, that was great. No, no, no. Not enough driving. No. Not enough car. Too much acting in that talk, huh? Too much damn acting and not enough driving. Yeah. Well, mine was all driving, but that's all, I made it about his driving. The thing, it's an interesting, it's an interesting thing with, uh, Ethan Hawke. I watched it. I don't know. I don't know if it's a three-parter or something. How many parts was the Ethan Hawke Newman thing, but here's the whole thing. Ethan Hawke loves acting and probably really appreciates Newman and, and Joanne Woodward, his wife still alive, by the way, um, and all the stage production and all the theater and all that films and everything else. Um, but Ethan Hawke probably doesn't really care about racing. So he makes it. It's a doc. Now Newman cared about racing and that's evidently all he cared about, like for the second half of his career. So everybody was so, and he would say it himself, like, I don't got time for Hollywood. I'll do one movie a year and then I'm racing. And he, he raced full, full time points for national championships, blah, blah, blah. But to Newman racing was wildly, wildly important. Like a few. Oh, six part documentary, six part. If you find the trailer, Andrew, for winning the racing life of Paul Newman, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, it'll encapsulate it in 90 seconds, but simply safe, simply safe is celebrating their 20th year anniversary, you know, 20 years ago, uh, still a few years away from launching my podcast. And I know that simply safe has grown just like the podcast. They've changed the game. They've changed the world. And I think that's a great thing. I think that's a great thing. celebrities they're used to being a winner and in racing you got to pay your dues you're always competing with yourself you're trying to bring a little extra to your performance i think you like the camaraderie the fellowship of that relationship with the fellow drivers there's nothing like it it's not anything you can have in hollywood at all he was really a good driver it's newman's fourth national championship pressure to win grew as he did win and people expected him to win again people didn't even think of him as being a movie star racer he was just a racer he does that classic red blooded american boy paul has a saying i'm sure you've heard where he says winning isn't everything it's just all there is you see it with the oscars people vote they say him or her in this you either cross the finish line first and it's either him or her that looks great i gotta see that ethan hawk come on now come on this is the dude's life right here produce this one right fantastic yeah i made this film fantastic man oh it's great he's he's great you can't go wrong he was a legend man i mean mcqueen's my guy too i love steve mcqueen when i did this movie with brad pitt it was called war machine about 10 years old oh yeah i gave brad as a gift a picture of mcqueen at le mans and uh incredible i still haven't seen f1 but then he made f1 10 years later i watched f1 last night how was it man it's great yeah yeah brad was great but people yeah it's great what else can you say paul loom is a legend such a great actor yeah you know it was funny it was kind of fun i just got back from laguna seca or i did a did a vintage race nice and the his we took his winningest car the winningest car that he ever drove and he drove i don't know probably 15 18. i mean he drove a lot of different cars like a daytona and stuff like that but his winningest car was a little dots and 200 ss and he won 21 i think he won 21 out of 23 races and set a bunch of track records in it and i just looked up and i saw that car going off the track shoot in there right yeah it just slid off the track right uh and that was the run-offs and he should have had the championship but it got pushed off the track and like came in came in third but we had that car back on the track in in the race and i wasn't even driving it i was driving it in the track and i was driving it in the race and i wasn't even driving it i was driving it in the race and i was driving it in the race and i was driving it in the race and i wasn't even driving it i was driving it in the race and i wasn't even driving it i was driving it in the race i wasn't even driving it i was driving it in the race another car i was just had a buddy driving another car i was just had a buddy driving that car but that car has not been on the track i don't think really in years and years and years and we just refreshed everything and brought it out and it was it was out it was out racing it was it was it was pretty big mr newman is smiling down on you from up above awesome i would like to think that keeping his cars going and bringing them out and uh you know one of my one of my best friends i've ever had a car that was a little bit more expensive than a one of my cars which i love the most has a headrest well it's not really a headrest it's kind of like a bump stop for behind your helmet you know because it's like on a firewall a bulkhead behind you the the racing seats low back and it's kind of little and then they just put a pad up top for you to right so you can whack your head against the the aluminum behind you and in red white and blue it's stitched in it says pln in it and and and um i said the guy bob sharp was his partner i said who who made this and it's like um his wife she stitched this up he goes it's kind of interesting yeah because he i've the sister car just says like a rubber pad there you know right so i go uh bob sharp did you guys sew this up or have it made you know out of leather and whatever and he goes now we wouldn't have wasted time we were working on the car we wouldn't around with this stupid embroidery or imagery right right you know what i mean like we're just building race cars his but it was joanne well yeah they would have put a rubber i have another i have the sister car just like a rubber pad it's not it's not leather and embroidered right that that is joanne woodward making that for him and putting it in that car yeah great love story kind of bitching yeah oh it's great yeah i'm friends with the the daughters and stuff now but beautiful i mean the stuff story of that guy's Rolex Daytona watch that auctioned off for like 19 million dollars is that what happened I didn't know that one wow that's Paul Newman's watch wow Joanne Woodward like made up just inscribed it said like drive safe or yeah take it easy out there or something on the bottom of the watch yeah give it to him he wore it all time then he's up there he's in his place and uh you know oh god let's Connecticut right and he's building like a boathouse or something all summer and he's got his uh daughter's boyfriend like from college like hanging out helping and at the end he put him to work building the boathouse he just takes his Rolex off and hands it to him oh wow and goes hey man thanks for the help and the guy keeps it wow and daughter's boyfriend kept yeah yeah yeah he goes I've kept this Rolex and by the way I would I got my apartment robbed three or four times at the time I've had this but the Rolex is like in a drawer right and this guy's apartment and then like five years ago puts it up for sale 19 million dollars wow wow yeah can you imagine that that's a trip what a story what a story yeah that guy was such a dignified quality too I mean he was such a great actor he just jumped off the screen but his life too what he did like the hole in the wall gang and creating those products obviously the salad dressing everything incredible that's all from the track yeah he created incredible he would barbecue and feed the crew right and and he would cook and he would make the salad dressing yeah and he started making the salad dressing at the track wow and they all everybody loved it they all liked it yeah they all loved it and so he decides to you know go into the business but not the business he's going to give it all away to to charity you know speaking of charity I heard something this morning about the you know obviously we lost Dolly Parton yesterday but same thing you know part of her great legacy is the amount of money and gifts she gave to the world you know incredible yeah it's about I mean it's incredible Newman too I mean that's a that's the real legacy incredible oh for sure I mean it's really all sort of people have you know ultimately it's kind of funny that we don't Considering you're dead a lot longer than you're alive, technically. That's what I add to that. There's people who have been dead for millions of years. So you're going to be dead infinitely longer than you're alive. All anyone ever does is tell stories about charity. No one eulogizes anyone and says, he made a lot of money at the track. This guy loves robbing people. They never even really go, he was a great businessman. They just go, he was a great father. Oh, his kids loved him. And then they tell some anecdote where he's walking on his way to the car one night, and he's picking it up, and it's raining outside, and the valet guy's soaking wet because he didn't bring. He's not wearing his poncho, and he takes his jacket off and puts it on the valet. They love that shit. Any story involving humanity, right? Yeah, of course. So considering that's about all you got, people don't participate in enough of those stories, if you really think about it, because all we have, the Dolly Parton stuff is, oh, it's all humanity. Oh, she was great, the charity and the philanthropic and all that kind of stuff. And that's kind of all Newman. And that's kind of all Newman stuff, too. And yet, people seem to be happy to go through life. And look, I'm guilty of this. We're all guilty of this. They seem to go through life with not trying to collect so many of those stories. The object for so many seems to be just the collection of things, materialism, but I'm with you. No, exactly, because it is about giving, right? And also the notion in giving we receive. So, I mean, these people are incredible. The fact that the Sinatra was the same thing. You know, he died, and I think he'd given away hundreds of millions of dollars. So that's great reminders for us. Well, it does. If you get, if you're generous, it's not karma that comes back. It's relationships. Like, I've witnessed, I've been around people that are very generous. It's not so much that they give money to the March of Dimes, but they're just generous. They're generous with their time. You know, like, Jimmy Kimmel's very generous with his time, and he puts people together, and he's just a generous person with his time. And then I've also been around people that are some of the least generous. Like, my family was very ungenerous, you know? I wouldn't call them bad people, but it's like they looked out for themselves, you know? And I grew up with a lot of looking out for yourself kind of people. Those people never had anything. They were so busy looking out. They were so busy looking out for themselves. They were sort of in save a nickel buck, but never earn a buck. They were like save a nickel mode, but not earn a buck mode. Jimmy has relationships. And he loves it. literally is a millionaire because of his relationships you know he he works with the same people that you know i mean i remember he got me into radio and at some point i took over for howard stern and he was a producer he didn't have to leave the house or come to the radio station to do anything he got a lot of money for me because he was the producer of me taking over for stern and it was you know i don't know 10 years earlier he got me onto radio and he was generous with his time and listen he doesn't care about the money i mean he didn't need the money but he got the money right and it was mailbox money i mean it was it was a lot of money for not having to leave the house right but it's only because he had a relationship right and he stuck his neck out for me all those years ago but it's that generosity of spirit too i mean you have two great by the way congrats on getting your hall your star in the walk of fame that was great i watched the coverage it was awesome i loved it but seeing also dr drew there and seeing jimmy there great testament to that you know i don't know them like you do but i just had this experience making the show with dr drew great guy but again generosity of spirit says a lot it says a lot and to see that that you've been those friendships for you have really endured they've been paramount and foundational for you it's beautiful man it's really uh well everybody look you should have good relationships with people and and be kind to them and generous with them for you not for them right i mean right the the people they burn out relationships because they get grabby and asking it becomes sort of lopsided yeah and every time the phone rings it's them you know if if you call somebody and somebody sees your name on their phone and they look at it and they go i don't know i don't know i don't i'm not it's not today the needy ones category right because that person thinks you're asking if the phone rings i see jimmy i think oh we're going out to dinner soon or something nice you know like like something positive is gonna gonna come of this i respect hearing that so much particularly to my age because to be quite honest with you and very forthright like i didn't develop those relationships and friendships as much in the industry as well when i was younger and it's something that i'm grappling with and my heart is open to that because obviously i don't want to be that way now but when i was younger i think it wasn't it wasn't instinctual i didn't i didn't get that i don't but i don't know that anybody could navigate this sort of bizarre environment that you were in starting at such a young age like i i don't like like i would sort of say to people you know i you know i went all the way through high school and walked on a construction site and just drove a truck and had roommates and slept on a futon i had a super low kind of blue collar kind of i had as normal i happen to know all that about you and i respect but but i i'm not yeah subtle bragging i'm just sort of saying i had as normal a life as you could possibly have until i was 30 like it's humble yeah it's fucking foreman going i'm you know hey go to my truck and get my level and i'd go okay mike run i'd like start running i'm 22 you know right right like i didn't go you don't treat you don't speak to me that way old man right like i i was just fucking sleeping on people's sofas and doing what it took and driving a truck and fucking as normal as shit could get and then i was 30 right and then i became a celebrity so by the time i became a celebrity i had so many years of blue collar nothingness that i it didn't really jar me that much but like i remember yeah you know molly ringwell lived up the street and i remember like you know by the time she was 17 18 she was on the cover of time magazine on the cover of life magazine and i kind of remember once talking to somebody kind of doing doing like they're kind of giving the like you know she bought a house up on mall hall and she was like i don't know 18 or 19 you know you go to the party and there's the half the members from the bangles over there and half the go-go's and like someone's like someone like said to me like yeah you know she's changed her attitude i go how would you react what would you be like if you're 15 and like on the cover of time magazine yeah you know what i mean there's no possible way you just be good old steady humble stew right on through you know never change like it's impossible how could that how could that be yeah i mean how could you be this regular humble normal person yeah with so much so soon you know i hear you well my case i had a very strong-willed and tough loving irish italian catholic mother that kept me in line it was your mom yeah she had a lot to do with that my father was great too my stepfather was incredible but you give me that foundation i think also just coming from the east coast i just i also think i've always had sort of a workman's attitude about what i do you know or more even more like an athlete about it you know you go season by season there's no guarantees of shit there's no team to fall back on when you're in show business you know it's it can be very challenging and i think that i had the uh thank god i was given the you know i guess the will and the ability just to outlast that all that uncertainty because by decades you're dealing with it man every year there's no guarantee of anything in my career you know yeah no i know i i thank god that he's given me the tenacity and the strength just to continue you know it is and what about your biological dad he died back in 09 unfortunately i didn't know him i grew up without him i met him twice in my life when i was 22 i went into his house uh with one of my uncles and just took him to dinner and that was the first time i met him yeah he was a mechanic actually yeah and he never um i mean obviously he was aware of your success right yeah you know he grew up without me and i without him you know i had my mother was a single mom she left boston when i was two or three years old drove across the country we moved to north hollywood right here on aqua vista street that is right i came right to your neighborhood buddy yeah i was on houston addison cling street like there's all those north hollywood streets aqua vista so to your point yeah and that always tripped me out when i would think about my father i mean fortunately my stepfather tom chester was really he adopted me when he married my mother i was only 12 they had my sister i'm very close with my sister mary who's a great businesswoman and artist and um you know yeah i i often thought about that that my father must have just kind of must have been difficult for him to see me walking you know on television and movies all those years without ever knowing me you know but that's kind of but he didn't try to pull a you know you know hey let me get reacquainted see if i can borrow some money you know what he did but it was long before i had any success even as a kid i think it was when i was a little kid in the 70s he wanted to come see me in new york city and my mother uh told me the story she kind of disallowed it at the time because it was a good choice i think it would have kind of been too much of a too much to deal with as a little i was a small child i was probably eight or nine you know so she said no to that yeah did you have any other stories you want to share with the audience if you have any other stories well i mean i guess the stepdad coming in adopting and really filling that gap is a big deal but yeah these sort of never you know the the i don't know what you call a voice a void of like your biological dad just doesn't want to hang out or didn't want to raise you or whatever is that i think my parents had some residue no it's a great and very important question thank you adam oh look that you know my parents got married back in the day and i think i was on the way it was the late 60s it was one of those situations they were both kids you know and my mother was one of 30 uh you came from a family of 13 kids and she had her own aspirations as a singer so she was very strong and bold and it didn't work out you know they got a divorced i think in less than a year or something and my mother very courageously took me and moved all across the country drove across america in the early 1970s to aqua vista that's it hey dawson is aqua vista street run well first off aqua vista i guess it means view of the water except for there's no fucking water in north hollywood there's nothing to look at so it's a it's a pretty lofty name it's right up there with san fernando valley yeah it's right up there with the hawaiian gardens like yeah go to hawaiian gardens are there oaks in sherman oaks no there's there's more than 29 palms right right 29 pounds yeah so it's a misnomer yeah like you go to hawaiian gardens you're not gonna mistake that for maui i'll tell you that right now a bunch of drug addicts and graffiti they should be sued for their name aqua vista did aqua vista run along the river like the la river because i remember the the uh yeah that is a flume that takes sewage to the bay that is not a view of the water so funny that what do they call those embankments i remember those as a little baby i remember seeing that you're right because we can see it the la river right through there and i think they named it aqua vista street probably because a million years well i mean technically there was water but it was in a cement flume that to create the illusion that you're somehow near pch yes it's not it's the shopping carts and beer bottles in there it's not a view of the water aqua vista street instead of city and hollywood does not directly run alongside los angeles they're but it's located just one block north of it so they were trying to take the little reflective glory off of being somewhere near water but you know the more this was the 70s in california baby and there's also a street north of it it always made me laugh it was just called clump street it's like that's a more fitting name for north hollywood street just a clump of houses what about cumston cumston is weird i i was i lived on houston street for a long time so that was kind of a smooth name also works out when they do that thing where they go your poor name is your pet's name okay uh kitty houston my cat's name was kitty and i lived on here kitty houston is a fucking hell of a that game is right your childhood pet and your mother's maiden name is your porn name or sometimes they'll go the street you grew up on or whatever i i grew up on yeah i went from where you're glendale where you grew up right i grew up in north hollywood man right right in the middle of it and one from houston street to uh oh past otsego whatever hearts suck right which is kind of a sound and name but then the ring waltz moved in and i was i was good to go at least you had some baked goods oh adele adele man i was always uh i had a funny i had something that i told pen gillette once and it made him laugh so hard that i've i've sort of stuck it got re-stuck in my brain but i i had a it was an interesting thing i've told the story before but but um uh bob ringwald the blind dad with the beard back when it was weird to have a beard uh but a great piano player and we were just standing out in their backyard they're having like a little barbecue or something and we're just standing there and we're just talking and i guess i was like 16 or 17 but i was i was interested in comedy and and and and show business and i wasn't going to do any of it but i was kind of and he was he had a dixieland band you know whatever and so we're talking and and he just goes but it it shows how you can't account for stuff like so i go bob what are you what are you into he goes i love jazz and i love comedy and i said i love jazz and i love comedy and he goes yeah dixieland and gallagher and that's when i realized that every you don't know exactly what everyone's talking about or thinking you might think you're on the same page right right what the fuck does bob ringwald want to listen to gal first off you can't see him jumping up and down on the giant bed you can't see the sledge matic he was the penultimate uh prop comic yes he had a lock on tv man but why why did the blind guy love the comic he didn't see any of gallagher would come in he'd come in on roller skates bob didn't see that he'd get out the sledge matic bob didn't see that he'd jump up and down on a giant bed bob never saw that forgive us for the blind jokes i had a buddy growing up and we used to do the stevie wonder joke you heard stevie wonders in town yeah man he didn't see you sorry forgive us blind folk but also bless us all to give gallagher his due people forget he did a lot of like social commentary and like political stuff as well it wasn't all it's kind of an interesting sad part of life where you just sort of remember for smashing watermelons right but he did a lot of like social political commentary that was like it was strong like it was like he had a little dennis miller streak in him right but he's remembered of course for the roller skates and the sledge matic roller skates i remember right and of course his brother taking over his act and that happened i didn't know that yeah his brother like literally took his act and became gallagher too wow and post-mortem after he passed no oh while he was alive he was yes wow i i didn't even know if he was ripping him off he was just doing his act i i i don't know i it may have been with gallagher's blessing i don't know but at some point it came to a head when they both showed up in the same town to do to play a show together it's one too many gallagher's here yeah yeah and then oasis showed up to play that and now it really got complicated now we got four gallagher's it's hilarious oh wow i i yeah it's a crazy story that it's sort of comics no because it sounds so bizarre i have something i want to ask you who were who was influential to you man who are your favorite comics growing up on tv or stand-ups or i'm just i listened i i of course got a bunch of george carlin albums when i was a kid love george carlin and would listen to like dr demento and all the weird al songs and all that listen faithfully to that yeah and i found myself watching a lot of like get smart and all in the family and stuff and i would really i would watch all in the family when i was 10 you know and get into it like like it wasn't too slow or too adult or over my head or occasionally occasionally be a weird thing like occasionally be a weird one where like i'd be watching it it'd be like an episode of maude and i'd be watching maude you know when i was 11 yeah maude's daughter would be dating a black man or something because it was edgy at the time you know and then at some point b arthur would say to her is it true what they say about the black man and she'd go it's true and then i'd turn to my mom and go what what what what do they say about the black man i don't know if they're saying this and that was one of your first earmuffs moments yeah okay all right we're good we're good that's a trip yeah i i didn't i didn't have any exposure to the arts or to plays or to theater or i didn't have any money my family didn't have any money they didn't have any resolve to do any of that stuff yeah and i wasn't involved with acting or any you know my mom was as far away from like a showbiz mom as you could possibly think of i never discussed it there was no encouragement yeah there was nothing but there was a tv set right and i could sit there and watch that stuff you know the two was not a stage mother but it makes me think hearing you talk about the shows because we're around the same age i mean we owe such a debt of gratitude to norman lear man yes what a life he lived 100 years but those shows right it really formed our oh yeah and i would sanford and son you know everything good times i watched them but as i look back at it now i was probably watching it differently than your average 10 year old and i was kind of studying it a little bit right and humor and the jokes and yeah yeah i was trying to figure it out i was asking questions is there something i didn't get like a big black dick joke you know i was saying i don't i don't what does that mean i want to mom who's mandingo yeah what does that mean nubian warrior what is a giant veiny hog that's so funny i was i must have been trying to make sense of it while i was watching it right because you think about kids in the 70s were gleaning notes about society humor adulthood all that shit especially for his shows they were incredible they were they were groundbreaking shows yeah oh no i interviewed norman lear and the crazy thing about it was great it was a great conversation but the thing that was crazy is his mom never came around on him his mom never gave him a that a boy wow never never came out when that guy was the toast of hollywood yeah didn't budge so funny i was watching never gave a thumbs up same thing with his mom it's interesting right they just never gave it up i think people's fear of success could be as great as their fear of failure you know a lot of people are like i know what you're saying disgruntled relatives or what have you it sucks because you want the people sometimes you want to get that shine from don't give it to you you know yeah i mean he told me a story about her coming out big hollywood party and you know they're sort of like warren baity over there and his mom's like why is warren baity coming to your party you know and it's like wow because i'm i'm a huge tv producer and writer creator you know and it's like but why why would that guy be here why isn't it weird at people's personalities i know some people are just not equipped to uh feel good some people are feeling bad we see them you know no everywhere but it's hard to i i know hard to accept i was literally talking to drew about this on the ride in like really a little gratitude man goes so far you cannot yeah not have gratitude and be happy like you can't simultaneously hate this country and be happy you have to hate this country and be miserable that lesson is resonant across many subjects oh my god i'm really big on that i said i mentioned my wife all the time just living with gratitude it's really important for all of us yeah well you're you're destroying a kid's life if you basically fill their head with all that is wrong with the country they're living in it makes them unhappy and they don't have gratitude and then they don't have appreciation and then they're miserable and that's why so many people seem so miserable and they're young and they're like young women and it's insane that this is something we're doing today them right because it's a it's a psyop i mean it's like we're screwing well it's also that notion of brains which is true and it's resonant like hurt people hurt people people are just miserable they just you know sometimes they can't get they can't find their way out of that and i'm hip i'm with you man i see it you know i know challenges norman lear's mom made me feel happy for my mom i thought my mom was bad norman lear's even worse because actually the difference between my mom and norman lear's mom is norman lear's mom like we there's a difference between poor like modern poor and then dust bowl poor you know what i mean he was like dust bowl poor wow i mean his mom i don't mean financially i just mean it's like there's like mindset there's like 70s moms who don't come to your football games and then there's old school moms that are you know beating you with a spoon constantly yelling you're worthless you know what i mean like like that's old school like eugene o'neill mom yeah i mean there was like poor and then there's i'm gonna boil a shoe with a hobo we're gonna eat it there's that kind of poor we didn't we does you know it's modern times it's like poor people now all have smartphones like they're not they may be poor but they they're still looking at you porn reachable on a smartphone right yes all right this show where did the time go uh swat it's the uh swat exiles and uh that's a spin-off and then there's a show where did the time go swat it's the uh swat exiles and uh that's a spin-off and then there's a show where did the time go uh swat it's the uh swat exiles and uh that's a spin-off and that's on stars that's coming up september 25th the movie's coming out somewhere around the fall right yep halloween store and then i'm doing a picture that i'm producing uh with a group of people kind of todd slater and patty benanti it's called final vision it's a project with emile hirsch myself stephen lang oh yeah for lani another project next year so god is good thank good good goodness good things that come back 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wearing a macon bacon t-shirt check it out get it on you can leave us a message at 888-634-1744 somebody gave me a fly united glass tumbler on the road by the way it's very it's a very precious possession uh all right andrew's here andrew and i are going to be talking tonight we're out on the road and when you're on the road on a saturday or friday i got nothing to do all day and two shows that night i like to treat myself to a matinee very rare that i can go out and see a matinee but i rationalize it because i'm working that night we saw at the end of oak street and it's that dinosaur 80s 70s and a late 70s or 82 it took place a good movie and we both enjoyed it quite a bit and it's it's it has a popcorn score of like 74 on rotten tomatoes which is kind of confusing to me because it was very entertaining and i don't know why people would be in the mid 70s on it it seemed to deliver exactly what it said it was going to deliver yeah i checked all the boxes the trailer it's going to be a bunch of dinosaurs running around the neighborhood i thought it was a cool concept yeah it was also funny because uh the the beginning was the beginning of the movie and i was like oh my god it's going to be a movie and i was like starts with a block party there's no spoiler alerts here and everyone is dressed from like 1980 and every song is from 1980 like turning japanese by the vapors of the date obviously the filmmakers in order to put a time stamp on it just took a bunch of songs from that one early 80s late 70s and that was playing all the they play like five different songs so the filmmaker was going all right i'm gonna let you know when this is but then at some point august leaned over and he goes what year is this like it's the year of all the songs that they're playing plus the way they're dressing and it's 79 80 81 it's it's it's early 80s that's why they're telling you by playing all these songs from then yeah that's how you know now the thing that's kind of making a movie about me in 2026 you'd hear me listening to music from 40 years ago so it wouldn't be a time stamp you wouldn't hear me listen to exactly what's going on right now no there's like a time there's like a five-year time freeze where like they should be listening to music from like 1977 right late 80s late 70s what they do a lot of is people if the movie is made in 82 they make they put a lot of cars from 1982 and it's like it'd be the equivalent of going to l.a and seeing everyone's driving a brand new car yeah that's right and uh no all right but good movie good movie and and enjoy that um also there's that talarico amazon clip that uh made me made me laugh that i was laughing while they're looking for that i found the next movie for laguna seca that's angel we watched i watched it last night it was on youtube yeah now she was a honor role student by day and a private student by day and she was a private student by day and she was a prostitute at night prostitute at night on hollywood boulevard uh great film it really like it's an exploitation movie but a lot like savage streets just the ford momentum of the film is great uh it's not really believable but uh the dad had a stroke and is like out of the picture and the mom left three years ago so she's completely abandoned and when i was watching i was like this is like the adam carolla story the the thing the thing about the story was um we're reading the description on our ride from albuquerque to uh arizona and i was reading we're reading it and it's always freaked me out that they made they made her 15 like it's the same sort of shit that when they write those songs from the 70s and the 80s like she's 15 it's like why not just make her 16 adam it's so much better she'll have a driver's license or 18 i call me crazy she was in high school she was in high school she was in high school she was in high school yeah guess how old she was when she started working the streets nine no she was 12 she was 12 they were like nine no one's gonna believe that they're like we'll make her 15 and i would have been like she's in high school why don't we just make her senior yeah no no 15 yeah like all right that sounds grosser do we have the trailer we have the trailer i think you're gonna watch this and you're gonna be like damn hollywood boulevard looks great and by the way this was supposed to be cd hollywood boulevard what year is this from mike august 84 how would you know her name is angel she's unlike any high school student you've ever met are you having difficulty making friends i'm on top of the honors list there's more to life than getting straight a's her only friends are on the streets her only chance is on her own young attractive healthy you're swimming around in a toilet bowl this guy's great where's your mom angel I came home from school and she was gone. Just that note, a $100 bill. I just put on some sexy clothes and high heels and went out and made a living. Creepy bald guy. She's taking her pants down. Somewhere down the line, you're going to have to pay. It's my life. Angel, her two worlds are about to collide. All right, you can pause it. All I'm saying is, first off, everyone is high on their mind on coke. Somebody came in and pitched a movie to me. It's about a 15-year-old. She's a prostitute. She's having sex with old guys. I'd be like, I don't know. You really want to make that fucking film? How about we just make a western or something? Or sci-fi or fucking surf film. Let's make anything except for this 15-year-old getting fucked by old gross dudes. You don't think it's hot? It feels creepy. To me, I do not know why we would need to make this film. It feels like if you're enjoying this, something's wrong with you. Yeah. It's an interesting plot. It's a group of prostitutes are being stalked by a necrophiliac serial killer. And the sheriff has an awesome opening scene. It's really, I mean, it just delivers. Well, don't ruin it for the next Laguna Seca trip. Yeah. All right. I want to play a quick clip. Maybe I'll let you just get into the news. Oh. Oh, let's do Tallarico and then I'll, whatever. This is Tallarico from Texas. I'm guessing at a black church trying to scare black people. And the reason I have a problem with this is there's this, and I talked about with Gad Sad, this sort of like, why the cruelty? Trump's cruel. You know what Trump's thing is? He hates people that aren't rich and he's cruel and he wants to punish them. It's like, I don't know. I think he's talking about, he's talking about. Not charging taxes on tips. Is that something a cruel person would do to poor people because they hate poor people? This fucking Democrat bullshit. It's an emotional thing. Look, make some policy. Run on your fucking policy. Stop running on the other person hates women or hates blacks or hates gays. But here's the story. And by the way, big cruel company, Amazon. All right, go ahead. An Amazon worker died in one of Amazon's warehouses. And as he lay dying, management told the other workers, turn around, don't look, get back to work. Lordy lord, lord me, lord me, lord me. All right, stop for a second. Amazon has a million employees and more than a million and a half worldwide. But okay. I'm imagining 13 Amazon employees die every month at work. You can't have one. 1.6 million employees have them work 40 hour shifts. They come here five days a week. The Grim Reaper doesn't wait till you're back at home on your own box spring. He'll show up anytime. So it makes sense that lots of people die at work. And then it also makes sense that the Amazon guys would probably say, clear path, go back to your station, make room for the paramedics or whatever it is. By the way, this is. No, they were. They were emergency. Services people there working on this guy. They don't want people to leave this facility and then just basically obfuscate their job. They have to. Right. But people were sent home for pay with pay. Anyway, it's just a misrepresentation. He's full of fucking shit. He's trying to. Okay. But let's hear him. Because what? Amazon is mean because they create tons of jobs and deliver shit to your house. All right. Let's hear it. Let's hear it again. To work. That was. A human being. Oh, man. That was a child of God. That was our sibling. Sacrifice. Lord be. Lord be. On the altar of corporate greed. We don't just. Hold on. Amazon didn't kill him. He died at work of a condition that he had. He wasn't sacrificed at the altar of human greed. What a fucking pussy. This guy's such a fucking puss. I'm so tired of these people. And who the fuck listening to them? What do you mean? Amazon did some sort of. Ritualistic Aztec in type killing of the movie Apocalypto. That's what happened. It was that. Just like that. It was the top. Yeah, they're like center. And then there was a there was an eclipse and they were like, all right, no more today. The foreman came up and said they had the big sign up. But instead of days since last accident, it's a days since last killing at the altar. Jesus Christ. I'll list uninterrupted. Just play it one more time. Listen, what's world class puss is talking about. By the way, hold on a second. What's he trying to get this audience to think? You want to be angry at the man, angry at the system, angry. Tell Rico, you get elected. What are you going to do with the Amazon hub, pussy? What are you going to do? How are you going to save the lives? You just close down the hub. How are you going to save the people with preexisting heart conditions who are in their 70s who come into work and die on the floor? Or. Office or in a cubicle. I just start from the beginning. Let's just listen to this. And as he lay dying, management told the other workers, turn around. Don't look. Get back to work. Get back to work. That was a human being. That was our sibling sacrificed on the altar of corporate. Greed. We don't just have a political struggle in this country. We don't just have an economic struggle. By the way, black people, what's going on? What is it? Eighteen twenty nine in your fucking sharecropper. You can't see this fucking Charlotte and coming in with this fucking line of bullshit. You're just going to sit there like it's 200 years ago. Load be loaded. Be what the fuck is going on? Wake up. This guy's a fucking idiot. He's coming here. He's spreading bullshit. And. What is this? OK, now, Tallarico, what is your solution for people dying at work? Because there's all kinds of work like there's construction jobs, there's airport jobs, there's people working everywhere and they may die at work. What do you think? Yeah. Putting down some foam padding on the floor or something. One can die ever. Right. That's it. No one's allowed to die. He's so clearly a fucking. By the way, all the Democrats have narratives. They have. Remember, everything is a story for them. You know, you have they do it every time a black person gets killed by a cop. They all use a gentle giant to put his hands up. No, he wasn't at all. That's not what happened when Newsom came in here. Like the face of homelessness is a mother, too, who's holding down that full time job. That's a story you're making up. Yeah, that person doesn't exist. And now he's making up a story about Amazon. You fucking lying idiot. It's just it's so insulting, too, because they just expect people to not Google. That actually happened. Right. And none of it ever happened. It's not like this at all. Not at all. All right. Sorry. Your news. Well, speaking of angel and sex on the streets, this is recently proposed in Los Angeles. Taxpayer funded self-relief clinics for the homeless. Oh, so, you know, those at the airport. Right. The lactating pod. Yeah. But it's jerk. It's real jerk off. That's my my theory at the airport is more guys have beat off in those lactating pods than women have pumped. All I do is go to airports. All I do. I live at airports. I pass those pods. I've never seen a woman exit one of those pods or enter one of those pods. I think more guys beat off in those pods with looks of relief on their face like a million bucks. And. And a sheen and a glow about them. And my other theory is that my other theory is those koala changing tables that they have in the men's room. I think more guys have done coke off of those. Yeah. That actually changed a baby. It's a great Mulaney. But I've never seen anybody change a baby on one of those koala. You know who the only one I've ever seen use it. Mike August. Mike. He walks into that bathroom with a Thor. Already Mike August at an airport is a tour de force. First off, he always snatches one of those rolling carts. He never pays for one. He finds one of those carts and he snatches it and he rolls that thing out. And then when he walks into the bathroom, it's like MacArthur returning to the Philippines in one mo one movement, one effortless motion. His right hand flips the switch on, on the quality changing table, it falls down and three pieces of his luggage. Land on it. And then he goes and takes a piss. Nice. So he doesn't have to set the shit on the tile. And then the drug sniffing dogs are like, that's the one we got to get them. Get him. Well, yeah, it's, uh, sexual relief clinics for homeless people spaces where they could pleasure themselves. This is the article. Yeah. Well, this is, this is basically what we're doing, which is they're on the street. All right. My answer is they shouldn't be on the street and they can never be on the street. and they can't be on the street. is is they're on the street so we got to give them places to whack off and we got to give them needles and we got to give them injection zones and we got to give them toilet paper and we got to but no no no we they're not supposed to be on the street you guys are building now an infrastructure about them being on the street and then the infrastructure gets in place and now they're really on the street because we have a whole supporting cast but anyway you have nick shirley was talking about well let me finish where they could pleasure themselves or have consensual sex so it's just a fuck shack out in the middle of the road yeah um but yeah i mean they're saying the quiet part out loud we don't need to play the video it's just it's by the way in the janitorial department in terms of short straw you know what i mean like someone's gonna have to be in charge of cleaning that place you know what i mean yeah like a city guy you know what i mean like a city guy you know what i mean like a city guy like that city guy is gonna be sitting at a park bench at some point he's gonna get next to one of those guys who drives the honey wagon that sucks out the porta potties and he's gonna go what do you do and he's like well i'll tell you what you can't get any worse than my job i drive a fucking honey wagon truck big sewage tank on it suck out all the contents of the porta potties on construction sites and that guy's like yeah i got you beat it's like what oh yeah i got a worse job you we've never seen that before i've never seen that before i've never seen that before i've never we've not trade jobs you wouldn't trade jobs with me what do you do oh man i gotta clean up jizz and these fucking mini space shuttles homeless guys beat off and like oh god damn yeah jesus christ that's a job so yeah that's uh that's down the pike as i say we'll see what happens uh in other news uh 49 40 49ers owner jed york uh was arrested after contacting the prostitution ad three times under an alias to um yeah uh solicit a prostitute i don't like the stings i don't i don't like i remember when i was doing love line once and there was a dude who called in he got busted for soliciting a prostitute and i'm like what happened he's like i just fucking live alone in hollywood in a one-bedroom apartment i'm like kind of a lonely dude and like on a saturday night i just walked out to go get a six-pack and i was like i'm gonna walk back to my apartment and drink and like a hot chick came up to me while i was leaving the liquor store and was like hey you want a date and he was like uh yeah and she was like i'm a cop you're busted it's like i don't know dude does that guy really need to be cleaned up off the street you know what i mean like he's just going out there he's getting a six-pack he's walking back to his fucking one-bedroom apartment of rub one out and a fucking angel comes up to him exactly to know if he's lonely and he's like uh yeah i am lonely and then she's got cuffs on is that what we want them doing i want them going after fucking gangbangers there's a great not spank bankers exactly how many spank bankers have you gotten off the street yeah my quota is pretty high this month there is a great also i don't like that my stepdad is named john i don't like that they have to be named john that sucks yeah that's no fair but my dad's name john great guy you love your dad but um yeah there is a great entrapment scene in angel again it's a must watch well so he was went to like a they set up a sting at like a trailer park yeah and east pal uh east palestine ohio yeah all places uh officers arrested york after he arrived at the agreed upon meeting location the wheat hill mobile home community with both the phone used to communicate with the fictitious prostitute and uh once yeah that's just but you know let me say this like i think people do this all the time they go this guy owns the 49ers guy's a billionaire he's going to a he's going to a trailer park gonna have sex in east palestine what the hell for 150 bucks what the hell's this guy's thinking let me tell you something i'll tell you what he's thinking and and robert craft going to that strip mall orchids of asia you know what's he doing he's got 200 billion dollars i'm telling you when i went out to detroit to hang out with eminem and uh do crank anchors all those years ago uh we ate he ordered taco bell that's what we had for lunch he made 50 million dollars that year and then bought taco bell for everyone you know why because he fucking likes taco bell now you go what's that guy made 50 million dollars that year why is he eating a taco bell fucking taco bell's good that's why and that's what these guys that's how they feel about prostitutes you know what i mean i'm not fucking in it to fuck julia roberts i want i want a little trailer trash that's how guys he likes taco bell and the words of woody allen the heart wants what the heart wants that's true uh rip tim curry tim curry dead at 80 great actor obviously rocky horror picture show one of my favorites the hunt for red october oh yeah also great turn in home alone 2 and in congo so oh yeah congo thank you for your gifts mr curry yeah interesting guy i don't think i ever interviewed him i interviewed knickknack or i did interview a couple of people from rocky horror and they're fucking douchebags they were horrible whoever the bald guy was in rocky horror was a knickknack or a hot job or blow job or something that guy was a fucking prick i recall um but i don't think i ever did curry seemed like a very talented guy yeah also in one of my favorite movies of all time clue which is a oh that's a 70s clue i don't think that was 70s i think there was 80 uh 1985 yeah it was 85 oh is that late yeah god earlier yeah interesting talent yeah super talented dude all right um this is i don't know if you saw the video that uh the iranian media media shared basically targeting baron trump uh okay so the iranian state media aired an insane video about killing baron trump along with reporting a 10 million dollar bounty on his head we have the video it's um we don't have to play the whole thing because i think it's like three minutes but what's really creepy is that it's it's like geolocating baron trump where he's going to school at nyu which is super fucked up because i mean leave kids out of it um but uh yeah yeah where to kill baron trump yeah you don't have to play the audio it's kind of ai it's ai but it's all like this is where he's studying this is where he's sleeping or all this other shit um yeah super ai not great production value uh yeah pretty sloppy but um yeah i don't i don't think this is gonna i don't think it's gonna work out for him that's just my take for iraq no no no no no no but this is coming right after your guy benson uh ratcheted up what are you called economic d-day sanctions against iran kind of at this stage in the uh well i mean look conflict here's the deal and it's something we have to kind of do we have to do something we have to do we have to do something to kind of deal with um first off if i were trump i would just call up zuckerberg and i just go you got that bunker in maui right just go yeah i go you're not there that's been any time there are you no i'm on my yacht why don't i just have like everyone i know just live in that bunker for like three years you got air conditioning right grow your own food we're in maui yeah bring your girlfriend so here's a here's the thing uh whether it's whether it's the homeless or iran um we just have to eradicate there's no more like we're just gonna live with it it never works iran's evil and they they they need to be killed and um you know people always talk about how the people are always good but i don't think the people are great either because uh you don't let evil regimes run your country if all the people are good there's got to be a lot of shit people in there and it's the same with all these shithole countries in the middle east uh but they need to be eliminated essentially because there's really no living with them now as far as them as far as they go this feels very par for the course for them i mean they're religious fanatics and thank god well not thank god thank god what i'm saying is is they're they're not an advanced civilization so they don't have the weapons to do that they don't have the weapons to do that they don't have the weapons we have because we're advanced they're fucking neanderthals so they don't have what we have but what they do have is terror they can work terror out and so if you want to work terror out then you will kind of even the playing score field if you're into suicide bombing then that'll even things out and if you're into 12 year olds doing it then they'll really even things out so i don't expect anything less from them they're going to do everything they can do they they're not going to win a conventional war it's not like they're going to fire up their aircraft carrier and land take off with their own effort f-18s and come bomb our cities they're incapable of all of it but what they can do is basically they can do what the Japanese soldiers did when we were island hopping they're not going to outgun us and they're not going to out technological us but what they can do is in the middle of the night sharpen a bunch of fucking sticks get in their underpants and just charge us and just get mowed over by my uncle Ralph and his browning 50 millimeter but they can do that yeah and that's that's their version of what these guys can do or can be kind of privatized to a very local specific uh plane yeah I wouldn't I wouldn't expect them to you know by the way they don't have any marques of Queensberry or anything like that nothing's fucking beneath them listen everybody let me tell you how you need to judge all cultures all the time are you listening to me Andrew yes it's not oh you judge a culture by how they treat their prisoners no no here's what it is how do you treat women and how do you treat dogs you show me a culture that treats women super fairly and magnanimously and and has a reverence for women treats women well and lets their dogs sleep on their bed I will show you a culture you want to hang out in you show me a culture that is cruel to women subjugates women and doesn't really like dogs and I'll show you a shit culture so you do the math everybody because all dogs and women are is a weaker version of men they're like the reason they treat women like shit is because it'd be like if I said to you know any woman I'm in the mood for Thai food tonight and she said uh I'd like Italian food and I went I weigh 60 pounds more than you so I could beat the shit out of you so we're going to eat Thai food yeah so I would always get my way because I was stronger than they were yeah but advanced cultures go uh well let's flip a coin or fine we'll eat Italian and then pussy whip cultures like ours are like fine we'll eat Italian and I'll pay for it that's that was my culture so and the dog sleeps on the bed that's that's how that's how it works so if you love dogs and you love women you have an advanced culture and if you treat women like shit and treat dogs like shit you have a shit culture and you can go to the Middle East and do a survey and see how they treat dogs and see how they treat women all right Tampa tomorrow night six o'clock at the Motor Enclave doing stand-up and then a whole bunch of stuff great week over there also Point Pleasant Beach New Jersey six o'clock Uncle Vinny's that'll be this Sunday Kimmel's Club the 12th and 13th after that go to our website at www.pointpleasantbeach.com and we'll see you next time. for all the live shows and until next time it's Adam for Anthony Michael Hall and Andrew Sam Mahalo you can leave us a voicemail at 888-634-1744 and get tickets 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