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Real with Mario a little

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bit. It's up a Mario

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Lopez joining me now in studio, acting

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icon and one of our greatest movie presidents

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ever, Mr Bill Pullman, Welcome to the

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show. How are you very good? Mario?

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Nice to be here. Thank you, thank you.

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I see a little there's a little there's dupil

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kids, that's the Mario Pinata.

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He fills in when I'm feeling under

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the weather to have to leave. I gotta tell you,

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I'm very excited for you to be here. I'm a huge fan

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of the Center. I was telling these guys about it

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from season one. Such a great show

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in season two as well. And I love

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it because it's if you're not familiar with it,

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it's it's it's sort of like True Detective, where

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each year is it's its own

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case. But yet you're the constant, which is great.

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Yeah. Yeah, I get to rotate

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there and then yeah, I don't feel

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bad saying to people if you haven't seen anything,

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you can still see the first the third season,

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but if you watch,

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yeah, you get this whole Ambrose Park

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of starting out trying

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to trying to kind of get

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get get himself together, you know.

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Yeah, And I love how it's all all tied

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together. I was like, Wow, USA Network really stepping it

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up doing something, did some nice uh nice

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programming right there. How how was it pitched to you or

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how what what appealed to Uh? What was I

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got a script you know from Derek

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Simon's who's the showrunner, and a great

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letter and I was really

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intrigued. I think it was the first time

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anybody wrote a letter sometimes this, you

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know, for a director or obviously I

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want to work with you on this. Look at the scripting.

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But he was citing uh Broadway

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play that I did. Nobody

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does that. They always talked about other movies

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stuff. Yeah, he really did so.

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Yeah, it was very intriguing. And then it's

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continued to be more and more.

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Each season gets more intricate, and it's

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really good thing to

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dig into for four and a half months. Yeah,

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I love it. I love it, and um season

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three I assuming it again. One

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case that you're you're focusing on for them. Are

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you able to talk about the premise

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at all? Sure? Yeah, it's a you

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know, and Broce's

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uh called to you know, the middle of

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the night in his small town where he's and

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he's on duty and there's a car accident

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and the driver dies, died in

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it, but the passenger lived, and

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because there was an open container, it becomes

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a matter of law enforcement. And uh,

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in the deposition with the

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guy who who lived, you know, his condolences

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and said this had to happen, but can

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you answer a few questions? And

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his answers don't fit

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the situation And it takes

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takes eight episodes figure out the

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mystery starts to unfold. Who he's in the

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cast this season. Uh, Matt

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Bohmer, the man

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lives and uh he seems to

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be, uh, you know one of those people

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recently may al right, his wife's expecting

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a baby, teaches at the girls school, you

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know, upright citizens in so many ways,

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but then not what it appears his life

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is almost too perfect. Yeah,

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yeah, he says a few things,

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what's that about? Okay, So Matt Bomer,

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anybody else we might recognize? And Chrismassina

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really excellent as a dark

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force who comes back into

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Boehmer's life after long

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break after college. Had known each other

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in college and had gone through some things

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then and he brings it back and

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uh, then

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Parissa, because there's

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so many good actors in this

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is so good. Yeah, because all

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all the both two seasons had you guys had a great

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cast, great great actors, great cast that surrounded

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with and um, when when

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is it? When is it dropping as the kids?

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Oh? Yeah, I guess I forgot that

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Jessica Hect is in this because she's an

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interesting character that Ambrose

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tries to, you know, break

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out of is isolated state, and

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the engages with her in an interesting

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way too. So bring

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that Jessica Bill

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is still involved. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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that's great. So have

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you ever talked to her? And probably a thousand

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times? You know how good temperature

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is. He's awesome And she was great in the first season, isn't he? Yeah?

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Man, Now he was a producer. I

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guess you normally expect producer

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shows up. Oh, somebody's gonna get fired. But

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she lifts the spirit, She

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talks to all the crew. She you

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know, kind of just I think she sees

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her leadership is you know, uplifting

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and respecting. That's fantastic. And

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um, and when does it premier season

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three against That's Thursday today?

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That's right, that's right. It's

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oh, good, good, good, because this is a couple's watch.

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Show at Costa Lopez. My wife has our shows

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that you watched individually and my shows, and then

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we have our couples watch shows. I can't

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cheat on her on the show, have to wait

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for her. So this is one of the couple's watching. The

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list of shows that they cheat on each other with, that's a whole

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another list. I don't do that anymore. I

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can't cheat on this and we enjoins. Oh good.

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And then another thing. You can't binge this one either.

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You have to watch. It's on actual TV. Right's

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school, so you gotta watch it, which makes it They're like,

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oh, you want to get to it because you get spoiled. But

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if I haven't seen the first season yet, I can binge

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it can't be available, which

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I suggest to check out first and second the

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first time. Completely different, completely different.

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Congrats. I love those um. Also on

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the works, you got a comedy called Covers. What

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can you tell us about that? Ah,

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I've almost forgot about that. We

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shot last summer and it's a

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movie set in l A. And the music scene,

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you know, and the Indian music scene and

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UH and and the music business and Dakota

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Johnson is struggling

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UH to get her purchase into the producing

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aspect of music,

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and she aligns herself with a with

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a veteran who's kind of on the slip

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free slope of success and uh

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and then a certain point she falls

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apart and who she come to is her the

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DJ and a low low

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frequency radio station on Catalina.

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That's her dad is the DJ, and

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that's me and you know, we we kind

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of put the pieces back together so you can get

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back into her life. Nice playing DJ.

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I got interest And it's

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about cover, so you know, you think about

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who did the original song and then that

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way that certain covers, you know that you can

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start with just one or two notes

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and you know this person

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is now owning this song. Yeah,

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I think of like, uh,

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you're listening to Al Green do Chris

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Christofferson song, you know, and you just

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think the cover of that is

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so good much, you know, sometimes better than

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the original, but the original he kind of is like

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me and Bobby McGhee are a little

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bit in that group. But how Marine took

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it to another love? Oh yeah, the reverence great.

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Now I don't see you on Twitter or Instagram.

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You you're not a social media guy. Yeah,

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socially illiterate scentist.

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I think, yeah, who was that somebody's saying.

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I think I'm the last generation that

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can take a pass on. They

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can just so. Oh he's old school.

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You guys can't handle it. Oh God bless

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him. Jealous. Yeah, I think you start

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with great a vision and then it's

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a hard thing to help keep up

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with, right, and it keeps It becomes like a part time

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job and you gotta keep it up. It is. It

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has its benefits, and that you can keep up with people that

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you necessarily have to talk to. It's kind

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of nice. You know what they're doing. You're

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not the big of the phone. I know what's going on with you? Um

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what about music? What are you listening to these days? Well,

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I just was listening to uh, you

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know, I was just listening to a bunch of interesting

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things. Uh, my son,

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you know, he's good to have sons in the music

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interested in music. And uh

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there's a group out of Canada called

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the Saxophones and it's spelt s a

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e X

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oh you know it's and they did

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an album of Kurt Vile songs and it's

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just like a small combo of sacks

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playing these songs. It's so tasty.

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And the version of Yesterday that you

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know, you think you've heard that song enough and

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some group just like comes in and

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makes sexy version with the sax I ached

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with Yesterday. I was so it

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just was so painful. You know how a sax can just

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when it just barely blowing. Yeah,

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yeah, and you can make you weak at

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the least. Oh yeah, you mentioned

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um um your kids. How many kids? You have? Three?

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You? Three? Ok? Yeah, And that's kind of

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another reason why I like covered, because a

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lot of story happens, and some of these clubs

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like the Eco Plex and things like

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that that they're playing in, so you

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know, it felt like an interesting thing to do.

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But the daughter is a singer song writer,

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Mason, and the middle son he they

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play together, all musicians and with

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their cousin and they have the whole

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damn fam and everyone. So while they play is

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nice, the whole fan that's

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great. That's great. And and your son Louis

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is going to be in the new Top Gun sequel. Yeah,

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he's the drummer and but he's acting.

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Yeah, that's awesome. He's getting

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ready that scaring up for June. I think

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that's a bad it's gonna be a big one, much anticipated, right

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there, I anticipated, I should say. Um,

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speaking of sequels, the new Star Wars movies

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have obviously been so big. Would you consider doing

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on other Spaceballs? Oh, you

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know the Search for More Money

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he named it. You know your sequel

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has that's you know, a little kind of

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dark motive. Maybe, yeah, but

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that would be amazing, so curious.

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Yeah, with the

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interesting amazing how generations find

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that movie come along and it means

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something. Yeah, a lot of people

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don't even some that don't even

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know the original Star Wars and

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they got into Spaceballs

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And is this true? You've lost

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her sense of smell? Yeah? Yeah,

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well thank god, because my friend here does not

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like it seems

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clean. Yeah. I got to tell your audience

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that it's looking bad. Four

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days ago there was a sewage problem outside. You

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would have not been affected at all. Oh my

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god, something from an accident.

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I fell and from high

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up and hit my head. It was in a coma

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for two and a half days when I was twenty one. Oh

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wow. Then I haven't been able

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to get it back. But then we were just you end

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up having these conversations and somebody

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say, oh yeah, I had

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had a virus. Sometimes a virus

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will knock it out. And the

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common thing is if you had

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loose one, that's probably the best one to

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lose, which is not a insulation. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah. However, it does have his

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advantages because sometimes when you travel there's certain

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individuals that you would rather Yeah.

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I wish I didn't smell when

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you were So you were in a comment for two and a half days.

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Do you remember anything from that? I?

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Uh, I remember coming to

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twice, but it was the second time. It was my

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father was a doctor, and uh I

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was in Cooperstune, New York, in the hospital

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and he had come like four hour drive and

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I came to and he was standing

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just the other side of a curtain with another doctor

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and I heard him say, so you

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think it's about a fifty fifty chance,

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And I just said, I'm out of here. Yeah,

11:43

I went back under I guess,

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but yeah it was. And you're

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you know, like, uh in yourysm. So it

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was good

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that it was. And it was just connected

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to the concussion and not to kind

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of chronic problem of you

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know, blee in the brain. Is that

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where you grew up in New York? Yeah, Western

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New York State. And then don't

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you know, I'm dealing with Derek Simon's the show

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runner and the center. You actually

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bring it close to the bone. So the second season,

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Ambrose goes back to his hometown in western New

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York State and has to face his demons

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true to life.

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It was really being an interesting

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I've never had a project like this before. Yeah.

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No, it's got a great showcase for you. Before

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you go, I want to put you on the spot. Quick questions, quick answers.

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Okay, song, you

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know all the words too, Oh,

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you know, amazing grace. It's always

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a good one. Okay, all

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time favorite set that you worked on. Favorite

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said, Oh my gosh, this is gonna

12:48

offensive people because there

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are so many good ones. But

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you know, I think when

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you're first starting out the atmosphere

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being in a movie, and for me, Spaceballs

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was my second movie. First movie was Ruthless

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People, and I was in some scenes

13:06

and around l A locations. But MGM

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Lot the last movie that was made on

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the lot when it was still called MGM

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and b M Golden Yeah,

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yeah, and they you know, we shot

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on the same the omage

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scene too. Wizard of Oz we shot on

13:23

the same sound stage that they

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shot on, you know, the makeup

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department, the guy that came at worst

13:30

sport coat and tie, and so I got

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to see that all that studio system

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just before. It's

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awesome. Celebrity crush,

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growing up celebrity crush,

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I guess you could put it that way. Was Robert

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Logja. I

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had a thing with my brother where we just

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loved him so much. He

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would play kind of universal

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ethnic people that we really dug.

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You know, yeah, he did even in Scarface, Scarface,

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nine Lines Lopez. Yeah

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to Waca. You know, the nine Lines of Waca.

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He was this you know, Tino in

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the swamps of Louisiana, and

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uh he really was. And

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then too, you know, we

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we saw that movie Big, and you know, the

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only team time we ever talked about movies,

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I say, did you see Robert Loja?

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Big? What about Tom Hanks? We forgot

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all about it? And then I show

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up on the set of Independs Day and Robert

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Loja is my chief of stad That's right,

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he was in that. It's the only

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time I've ever asked. You know, I get to embarrass

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sometimes people say, can you say happy birthday to

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my brother? He loves you and

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it's not the favorite thing to do, you know, but

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I did that to Robert. I said

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with this, Yeah,

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that's great. It was a big phone, then

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hoisted over to him. And last question,

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who play as you in the Bill Pullman

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story? And I

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tell you there's somebody in

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the sound department of the Center that's doing

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my voice is tempt track and

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it's pretty good. You

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know. I thought, I it's

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a little amusing, and I'd say, you know, I

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know that's not me saying that line.

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I didn't say that that way

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or something, or sometimes they'll add a

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line, you know, to cover an exposition

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or something. And it's always

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good to know that I can tell myself

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from a face. But he's

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very good. All right, So we're gonna cast an unknown. Yeah,

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we gotta cast on unknown. But how

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he sounds exactly like? I

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love it. Meanwhile, The Center

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air's Thursdays on USA. Bill

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thanks so much for stopping by. Great to be here. Mario

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Yes with

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Mario Lopez