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Speaker 1: Now this is really something.

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Speaker 2: I saw this in the news and I'm just like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I had no idea that it's coming up so soon, Chasta.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know, the Michael Jackson biopic arrives in

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Speaker 2: theaters April the twenty fourth, Can.

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Speaker 1: You believe this? Wow? I didn't know that either. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it just came out in the news that I guess.

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Speaker 2: The movie underwent fifteen million dollars in reshoots to remove

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Speaker 2: any child abuse references they.

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Speaker 1: Sympanitize the movie.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course we wanted to learn more about this,

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Speaker 2: so the source we go on the Newsmaker line, We're

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Speaker 2: going to do something very special today, Chasta. I Am

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Speaker 2: going to summon up the spirit of Michael Jackson up

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Speaker 2: there in Rock and Roll Heaven and talk to him

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Speaker 2: and see his what his thoughts are on this new

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Speaker 2: movie coming out, and also the Santai version.

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Speaker 1: Michael, it's Lamont Please come in. Are you there, Michael? Hello?

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Speaker 1: There he is Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 3: Michael Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Wow, yes, Chester, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for summoning me. Yes, Mamon, uh huh oh. This

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Speaker 3: biopic of me is super duper important, uh huh and

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Speaker 3: sure to be as enjoyable as a pajama tickle party.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is very enjoyable on your part.

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Speaker 3: I guess huh and Chasta? Oh yes, how are you chested? Here?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You know. I have to tell you one thing. You

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Speaker 3: should have never ever broken up with Skeeter.

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Speaker 2: That's what you're doing up there, rock and roll?

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Speaker 1: Heaven't you're thinking of Chastain Skeeter.

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Speaker 3: I learned the hard way letting go of Lisa Marie.

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Speaker 1: Ah, okay, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Just lesson learned.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so he learned the hard way.

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Speaker 2: And well it's a little late to tell her now,

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Speaker 2: a little late to tell her now, a little late.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Lee Marie? Are you here? So listen? Chester? Have

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Speaker 3: I told you? I love hearing your voice on the radio.

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Speaker 4: Oh that's very sweet, thank you, Michael.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it reminds me of a young friend I had

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Speaker 3: named little Billy God. So what so hairless?

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Speaker 1: So hairless? Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 3: Jee. All right, let's get started. So you want to

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Speaker 3: be starting me in if you start to be starting

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Speaker 3: me interview?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that's great. Now, Michael, let's jump right

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Speaker 1: to it. Your biopic.

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Speaker 2: They have to spend an extra fifteen million dollars to

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Speaker 2: reshoot and remove child abuse references from this movie.

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Speaker 1: Now, whose decision was that, Well, it.

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Speaker 3: Was the movie studio's decision, of course, because we had

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Speaker 3: just hired a new executive producer amazing talent was able

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Speaker 3: to scrub out that stuff and pretend like it never existed. Really,

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Speaker 3: and I never heard heard before. Huh her name's Pam Bondy.

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Speaker 2: By Yeah, so you sold that Pam Bondy was in

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Speaker 2: charge of the movie and scrubbed it.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 3: She came highly recommended.

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, hell, this is crazy, Ham Bondy.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand what the big fuss is about the cost.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen million is just a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of

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Speaker 3: a settlement check criminal.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, I don't think that it's the number that's

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Speaker 2: bringing the attention quite honestly, Michael, it's probably the scrubbing

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Speaker 2: of the story to eliminate some of the controversy.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Lemont, you have to keep it a secret. And

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Speaker 3: it's not because the filmmakers are trying to hide anything.

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Speaker 3: It's because they're actually protecting people.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's what they're doing.

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Speaker 3: It's sort of like it's sort of like the Epstein Files.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, right, You obviously don't know anything about multi

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Speaker 3: jillion dollars settlement.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: There is a strict clause that you can't tell anyone anything.

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Speaker 3: It's a super secret fun time that's only shared with

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Speaker 3: those involved, right, and no one is the wiser, right,

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Speaker 3: I see, seriously the court laws. You have to keep

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Speaker 3: these little secrets between you, me and the man in

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Speaker 3: the mirror. Wow, the man and you get it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: So the race shoots and they were done to protect

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Speaker 2: the everyone involved.

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Speaker 1: Then that's what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you just gotta leave those little insignificant details behind

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Speaker 3: and focus on my singing career. Right, you gotta be

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Speaker 3: a thriller?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Ny uh huh.

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Speaker 3: I love Hollywood movies, and I love them almost as

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Speaker 3: much as a good game of truth or triple.

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Speaker 1: There the truth are tripled there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and almost as much as drinking Jesus juice and

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Speaker 3: then playing a game of Dare or there show.

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Speaker 4: Let's changed course just a little bit here, Michael, Uh,

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Speaker 4: I'd like to talk to you about the auditioning process.

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Speaker 1: How extensive was that?

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Speaker 3: Oh, young Billy? It was, Gelly?

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Speaker 4: What? Well?

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Speaker 2: Billy was hairless too? Jastao on the air.

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Speaker 1: I haven't talked about my laser hair before. He reminds

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Speaker 1: you of young Joey.

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Speaker 3: Wow, now it makes all it makes all the sense.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: We were scratching our heads there for a bit too, Michael,

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Speaker 2: But now I think we figured it out.

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Speaker 1: Glad we cleared that up.

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Speaker 3: No, it's good. It's a good thing. I got to

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Speaker 3: watch the whole auditioning process in their search to find

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Speaker 3: it right after right, and there were a lot of

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Speaker 3: criteria involved to play me, really, like the person had

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Speaker 3: to be able to sing, dance, but most importantly properly

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Speaker 3: say shame home and fifty those are.

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Speaker 2: Those are some pretty tough criteria to hit there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thankfully they found that in My Nephew ja'far Oh okay.

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Speaker 3: You had to have the actor with the right energy,

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Speaker 3: otherwise the movie would be boring and put you to

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Speaker 3: sleep faster than doctor Conrad Murray. You don't want that.

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Speaker 1: But Jingo on that one, right, that's true.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Add those into some of your songs up there in

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Speaker 2: Rock and roll Heaven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a dummer. I'm writing that down. But Jingo

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Speaker 3: and I also enjoyed watching them cast the young version

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Speaker 3: of me really lots of lots of children.

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Speaker 2: Right, and now now let me change the subject. Have

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Speaker 2: you seen a cut of the film yet? Have you

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Speaker 2: seen the final products?

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Speaker 3: Lamon? Ye oh yes, And after they cut out the

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Speaker 3: child abuse parts, I was surprised by how short it was. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that was the fastest finished since well since seeing Macaulay

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Speaker 3: Culchin and Webster dancing in Under Roots.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm just kind of curious. What's the rating on

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Speaker 1: this film, jacko.

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Speaker 3: Well, the film is rated PG thirteen. No one under

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Speaker 3: thirteen is admitted. Really exact. It's the exact opposite of

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Speaker 3: the sign that used to hang in front of Neverland

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Speaker 3: Ran right. Have I told you how scorching hot it

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Speaker 3: is in Heaven?

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Speaker 1: No, you haven't in a while.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, dear me, it's I really think it's like

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Speaker 3: one hundred thousand degrees. Wow, the ac has been broken

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Speaker 3: for the past sixteen years. Apparently.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, and apparently on that note, we're getting the

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Speaker 2: wrap up sign. Thank you to the ghost of Michael

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Speaker 2: Jackson for agreeing to this interview from Rock and Roll Heaven.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael, You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: You've got quite the booker. Until next time. I enjoyed

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Speaker 3: my procofol I mean movie yees, movie, right ohen Lamont. Yes,

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Speaker 3: remember Pickle Partners never snitched?

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, well by bye, Pickle Partners never snitch like

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Speaker 4: that Jasta. So I I think we heard the inside

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Speaker 4: poop on that one.

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Speaker 1: So to speak, I would say, uh huh