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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Back now to the

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Speaker 1: wr Saturday Morning Show with Larry MINTI. Welcome back. There's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of hype about the new Springsteen movie,

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Speaker 1: Deliver Me from Nowhere. It's now in theaters, shot in

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, but John Crowley, executive director of the New

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Speaker 1: Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission, says, we almost lost it. John.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've probably seen the movie already, but you've

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Speaker 1: got to be just glowing with pride at this point.

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Speaker 2: Bursting with pride, Larry, I'm like a dad rocking the

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Speaker 2: hallways of the hospital handing out cigars.

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Speaker 1: No, it's quite an accomplishment. Now, how long have you

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Speaker 1: been talking to the filmmakers about this project?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Boys, So I've been in my position now with

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Speaker 2: the film commission for about a year and a half,

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Speaker 2: and so easily we go back a year and we

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Speaker 2: were filming. They were filming, i should say, at the

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Speaker 2: beginning of this year. I mean, they had a really

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Speaker 2: quick turnaround in post and we were I think in March.

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Speaker 2: Here's the crazy part. It was only March that I

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Speaker 2: walked into the Meadowlands Arena, which you know used to

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Speaker 2: be Ayzod and what have you. And they had dressed

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Speaker 2: that to look like the sports arena in Los Angeles Circle,

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Speaker 2: like nineteen eighty one or eighty two, I believe. And

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Speaker 2: that was a time warp, Larry. That was really odd,

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Speaker 2: odd sensation to walk in there and see that place

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Speaker 2: dressed like the sports arena and then filled with two

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Speaker 2: three hundred extras that are all wearing remember those concert

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Speaker 2: tees that you buy in the parking lot with the

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Speaker 2: black sleeves. Yeah, and the big hair and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Walked in everybody cheering, and I sat down at one

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Speaker 2: point Larry onto a seat, and they were in between takes,

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Speaker 2: and I looked. I was on my phone, of course,

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Speaker 2: and I looked in and I see a pair of

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Speaker 2: boots walk up next to me. But they're no standing

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Speaker 2: parallel to me. They're pointing. The toes are pointing at me.

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Speaker 2: And I thought, well, who's standing six inches away looking

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Speaker 2: at me? And I looked up and I hear this, Hey,

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Speaker 2: how are you? And it was Springsteen. He was there.

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Speaker 2: He was there most days of filming. So that you

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Speaker 2: talk about a meta experience of like there's Jeremy Allen

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Speaker 2: why playing Springsteen and six inches away is the real Springsteen.

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Speaker 2: But you know, they talk for like a half minute

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Speaker 2: Larry about moving this film from the beginning to Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 2: and Springsteen himself said no, and the director said no,

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Speaker 2: this is going to be an authentically, you know, authentically

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Speaker 2: about Springsteen. So it's got to be authentically Springsteen, authentically Jersey.

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Speaker 2: And so it stayed. And Jersey is a character in

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Speaker 2: this movie. I did, I did. I saw it on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: and and Jersey's never looked better in so many scenes.

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Speaker 1: That's wonderful in so many regards, except for the fact, now, John,

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Speaker 1: I've worked with John. John was a producer at a

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Speaker 1: TV station I worked at. And never never have I

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Speaker 1: really felt the envy I've felt for John until now

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Speaker 1: I am. I am bursting with envy. The fact that

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Speaker 1: not only did you meet Bruce Springsteen, but Bruce Springsteen

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Speaker 1: came up to you to initiate a conversation.

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Speaker 2: That strangest moment, strangest moment in this in this job, Larry,

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Speaker 2: I tell you, but you know, breaking news. If they

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Speaker 2: do a sequel, I'm going to put you up to

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Speaker 2: play the older Springsteen. So we talked about getting you

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Speaker 2: more parts. We're working on that.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. Now let's talk about numbers. How

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Speaker 1: much money does this mean for the state of New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: Well, this film in particular, they filmed for thirty one

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Speaker 2: days and they spent almost forty two million dollars and

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Speaker 2: they were all around the state. They were Jersey. They're

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Speaker 2: in Central Jersey, so you know obviously Asbury Park and

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Speaker 2: Free Old but Bayone, Denville, Newark. So they averaged when

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Speaker 2: you break that down, that's one point three million every

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Speaker 2: single day that they spent around the state. So that's

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Speaker 2: you know, look, when these productions come into the state, right,

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Speaker 2: they're not bringing hotel rooms obviously, they're not bringing rental

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Speaker 2: cars or groceries to feed the crew, or paint and

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Speaker 2: brushes to do set construction. They spent two million dollars

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Speaker 2: on location fees, and they spent almost a half million

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Speaker 2: on food one point seven million. They spent on extras

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Speaker 2: and on set construction almost two million dollars one point

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Speaker 2: eight million. How many people who have three million on

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Speaker 2: just dressing the sets Larry, just dressing them with props

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Speaker 2: and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's a that's a wholehole lot of money on

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Speaker 1: things you wouldn't even think about it.

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Speaker 2: Hires too, but they so, you know, the hires a.

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Speaker 1: Local, Okay, all yeah, oh yeah, that's amazing New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: And New York. New Jersey and New York. But you know,

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Speaker 2: there's a there's an agreement, you know, with our unions

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Speaker 2: that we try to front load as much as we

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Speaker 2: can with New Jersey residents while they're filming in New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, the New Jersey residents

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Speaker 2: that are working on these films love not having to

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Speaker 2: get onto a bridge or tunnel to go to work.

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Speaker 2: It's like a twenty year reversal in job flow, you know.

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Speaker 2: Because we were the only state larry out of the

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Speaker 2: top ten domestic production hubs, we were the only one

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Speaker 2: that had a forty one percent double digit increase in

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Speaker 2: production last year. AGNET. Yeah, it's great news. I mean

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Speaker 2: La was down, Chicago was down, New Mexico, Georgia, they

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Speaker 2: were all down. We're the only one that was down.

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Speaker 2: We went from six hundred million dollar qualified spend in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three to eight hundred and thirty three million

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Speaker 2: dollars in qualified spend. So that's what it's all about.

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Speaker 2: It's about making jobs for our New Jersey residents on

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Speaker 2: his talent and getting that spend all throughout the state

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Speaker 2: on all these different things that they need to support production.

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Speaker 1: Hey, John, I want to have you back real soon

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Speaker 1: because I know a lot of people out there want

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Speaker 1: to know how they can be an extra, how they

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Speaker 1: get and get involved in these things. But running out

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Speaker 1: of time right now, So let's have you back soon

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Speaker 1: so we can talk about that. Is that okay?

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Speaker 2: I love it, And tell them to just go to

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Speaker 2: our website. We have casting notices all the time on

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Speaker 2: the Film Commission website.

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Speaker 1: John Crowley, Executive director of the New Jersey Motion Picture

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Speaker 1: and Television Commission. This has been a podcast from wor