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Speaker 1: What. This is Michael Rappaport and you're now tuning into

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Speaker 1: the I Am Rappaport podcast in stereo. I don't care

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Speaker 1: what kind of headphones, kind of car you're in, what

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Speaker 1: kind of uh people listen to this podcast and coffee shops.

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Speaker 1: It's a worldwide fucking phenomenon. Okay, The Iron Rapp Report

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Speaker 1: podcast has been dubbed a worldwide fucking phenomenon. I've gotten

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Speaker 1: great feedback from the first few episodes. I got people

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Speaker 1: in Northern Korea, Southern Korea, the northern part of Eastern Korea.

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Speaker 1: You motherfucker's are going crazy all over the world, all right,

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate it because I love doing the I

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Speaker 1: m Rappaport podcast. You know why, Because I am Michael Rappaport.

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Speaker 1: I want to make a confession today. I spent so

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Speaker 1: much more money than I ever should have spent on something.

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Speaker 1: But I'm wearing them and I'm enjoying them. It's definitely

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Speaker 1: not like me to do this. I bought a pair.

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Speaker 1: I've never done this in my life. It might be

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Speaker 1: the single most luxurious fucking thing I've ever bought in

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Speaker 1: my life, like indulgent, Like I didn't need to buy these,

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Speaker 1: but I spent three hundred and five dollars. I know

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Speaker 1: some people are like, that's it for me on a

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Speaker 1: pair of I am a little embarrassed to say it,

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Speaker 1: but I'll just say it on a pair of Kashmere sweatpants. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but I am wearing them right now. It's probably the

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Speaker 1: first night that it's been cool in this global warming

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Speaker 1: fucking ship storm that's been going on in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Los Angeles the last two weeks.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, man, a fucking global warming ship storm. And

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Speaker 1: I'll have my brother on the show. I have a

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Speaker 1: brother who is a professor. He and he studies and teaches.

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Speaker 1: He teaches global warming at a college. If you could

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Speaker 1: believe that ship. I got a brother who teaches global

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Speaker 1: warming at a college, Eric Kennedy Rappaport, and he'll come

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Speaker 1: on this show to educate you fucking people. He's been

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Speaker 1: telling me. I remember when I saw when I saw

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Speaker 1: um inconvenient truth fuck and I was like, oh, ship

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Speaker 1: the environment, And I emailed my brother and I was like,

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Speaker 1: did you see this movie? You gotta see. He's like,

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Speaker 1: I've been telling you, I've been this is what I study,

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Speaker 1: You fucking idiot. That's the first time you're ever gonna

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Speaker 1: was like, what the fund do you do? Is that?

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Speaker 1: I t I don't. People would say, what does your

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Speaker 1: but he now I know what he does. I was

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Speaker 1: a motherfucker. We're gonna get into that later. I was

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Speaker 1: a motherfucker growing up anyway. So I bought a pair

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Speaker 1: of three hundred and five dollar Kashmere sweatpants from a

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Speaker 1: place called Ron Herman. I usually just call it Fred Siegells.

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Speaker 1: It's it's Fred Siegells or Ron Herman. It's like a

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Speaker 1: go to the restaurant and I eat all the time.

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Speaker 1: They have great food there. Great food is fred Segulls

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Speaker 1: slushies made at fred Siegel. Life is good, folks. I'm

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Speaker 1: So I bought these sweatpants. They're Kashmir. I have them

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Speaker 1: I'm the motherfucker wearing the Kashmere sweatpants. But ass naked

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Speaker 1: And I'm breaking this right now on the I M.

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Speaker 1: But for me, it was a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm an actor. It's crazy, man, you gotta

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Speaker 1: So I get the goddamn glass clown, all right, And uh,

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Speaker 1: over to glass clown story. Um Paul Shows. He's an actor.

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Speaker 1: The crazy thing about some of Scorsese's early films, they're

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Speaker 1: essentially independent films. I know that they were put out

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Speaker 1: by studios, but these are small movies. Mean Streets is

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Speaker 1: a small movie. I don't know what the budget was,

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Speaker 1: but I guarantee you it it couldn't have been more

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Speaker 1: than ten million dollars if that. If that, I could

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Speaker 1: do the research to find out how much it was.

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Speaker 1: But it's a small film. But it was just so

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Speaker 1: well crafted, so unique, so original and um and it

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00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: was just like a burst of energy. I think that

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Speaker 1: Main Streets isn't even a perfect film. There's some perfection

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Speaker 1: in it, but as a film itself, I don't think

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Speaker 1: personally it's a perfect film. But it's engaging. It's got

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Speaker 1: an energy, it's got a style, and it's got this

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Speaker 1: this authenticity that you know, set the tone. You know,

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Speaker 1: The Godfather was around then, and of course James Cohn

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Speaker 1: and The Godfather as Sonny Corleone, he sort of had

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Speaker 1: that botto being I'm calling it that that you know,

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00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: that ao yo, that ship, that Italian ship, that street ship,

436
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: that Italian street ship that is so synonymous and I

437
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 1: mean everything for you know, what was the movie with

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Speaker 1: Johnny Depp Donnie Brasco. But but DeNiro set it off.

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00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: So the DeNiro line of the week comes in um

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Speaker 1: the last the last third of the film or the

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Speaker 1: last act of the film. De Niro's character, who's you know,

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00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: basically a funk up Johnny boy and and kit tell

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Speaker 1: his characters the straight guy, and you know, he keeps

444
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: tell him, you gotta you know, you gotta pay this

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Speaker 1: guy back. The guy's name is Mikey and uh and uh.

446
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,400
Speaker 1: There's a showdown in the bar and Harvey Keitel show

447
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: because he keeps saying, I'm gonna pay him. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: pay him. He says, it's so beautifully so I'm gonna

449
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: pay him. I'm gonna pay him. Earlier in a great

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Speaker 1: scene earlier in the back room with him and Kitel

451
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: that had to have been partially improved, not necessarily improved

452
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: on the spot. One thing about film acting, it's rarely

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Speaker 1: something is improved on the spot. It's like rehearsed improv.

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Speaker 1: You know, Um, you rehearse and then you kind of

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00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: find stuff within within the scene in the rehearsal, and

456
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: then you do it and you kind of lay uh

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Speaker 1: colors and and tweet and and sort of back and forth.

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00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure that Scorsese he would shoot with

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Speaker 1: two cameras, which definitely lends to improvisation, because if you

460
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: don't have two cameras, it's harder to improv. But that's

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00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: a whole other conversation anyway. The DeNiro line of the week.

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Speaker 1: It comes when Kitel and this character Mikey show up

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Speaker 1: at the bar and DeNiro and David pro vall I

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00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: can't remember his name in the in the film, but

465
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: he had a great season or two on The Sopranos

466
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: as the gangster that came out of jail. Was when

467
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: he was really young, I mean really really, he brought

468
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: the he brought the fucking noise that year. Actor David

469
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: Provoll excellent actor, has been around for since Ship Main

470
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Speaker 1: Streets in before. Al Right, So in this scene, de Niro,

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Speaker 1: who owes this character Mike who's like a you know,

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00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: like a gangster, you know, a tough guy, a real

473
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: like a threat. He owes him. I don't know, a

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Speaker 1: few hundred dollars. DeNiro gives him ten dollars al right,

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00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: which which is already a bad sign. All right, he's

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Speaker 1: being disrespectful. So Mikey the gamester, throws the ten dollars

477
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: at DeNiro and you're like, oh ship. DeNiro picks up

478
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: the ten dollarge, goes Mikey, you know what, you're really something.

479
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: What's the matter. You're too good for this ten dollars?

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00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: You know? You make me laugh? Ha ha ha. And

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Speaker 1: DeNiro looks good, he looks young. He says, you know what,

482
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Speaker 1: I borrow money from people all over this neighborhood. I

483
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: borrow money from everybody, and I never pay him back.

484
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,239
Speaker 1: So I can't borrow money from nobody anymore. So who

485
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: does that leave me? Borrow money from now? You? Because

486
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: you're a jerk off, and you only jerk off. I

487
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: could borrow money from around here without paying back, you

488
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Speaker 1: know why, because that's what you are. That's what I

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Speaker 1: think of you. You're a jerk off. Yeah, you're smiling

490
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Speaker 1: because you're a jerk off. That's what you are, huh,

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Speaker 1: A jerk off. And I'll tell you something else, Mikey,

492
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: I fuck you right where you breathe because I don't

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Speaker 1: give two ships about you or nobody else. That fucking

494
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Speaker 1: line right there. I'll tell you something else, Mikey. I

495
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: fuck you right where you breathe because I don't give

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Speaker 1: two ships about you or nobody else. Robert DeNiro was

497
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: a fucking star. I'll fuck you right where you breathe

498
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: because I don't give two ships about you or nobody else.

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Speaker 1: That's the fucking DeNiro line of the week from Mean Streets.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that's so fucking great about this, like

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00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: this has had to have been all made up in

502
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Speaker 1: improv and loosely scripted, but Robert de Niro is like

503
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: literally like a fucking firecracker during that scene. He's smiling,

504
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: he looks good, he's got this like you know, hair

505
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: coming down in his face, and he's you could see

506
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: the other actors are almost like watching him. That. That's

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00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: the the impressive thing. And these are great actors, Harvey

508
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: Kitel and David pro Bole and the actor who I

509
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Speaker 1: can't remember his name, who's playing Mikey, who's there like

510
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: almost in shot, and you know there's been different. You know,

511
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: you hear all these sort of folk laws about this scene,

512
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: and you know DeNiro was agitating this actor so much

513
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Speaker 1: that he jumped across the bar to try to get

514
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Speaker 1: him because he was insulting him so much. I mean this,

515
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Speaker 1: when you talk about a starmaking performance, and you talk

516
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: about a iconic performance, and you talk about a steak

517
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Speaker 1: in the ground and a pillar of of of the

518
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Speaker 1: new acting movement, this this, this performance by Robert DeNiro

519
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: is Johnny Boy in Main Streets is all of that,

520
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: and the language and the gestures and his outfit, the

521
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: creativity and the originality of it. It's just it's bar none.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like it really is a landmark performance

523
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Speaker 1: in terms of bringing in the authenticity and and and

524
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: and like the realness. Because as great as Brando was,

525
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: and as great as Paul Newman was, and as great

526
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Speaker 1: as all the actors before before Danira, Oh, before Pacino,

527
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: before Dustin Hoffman, before that next phase of people that

528
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: were all heavily influenced by James Dean, Marlon Brando, and

529
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 1: Paul Newman, it was still a little bit Wooden. The

530
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: language that they used in film, the way they spoke,

531
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Speaker 1: it wasn't totally authentic. To me, this performance is one

532
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: of the most authentic. It brought in just this tenacity,

533
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,479
Speaker 1: and it brought in this vivaciousness, and it brought in

534
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: this just this color that wasn't in films, especially New

535
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Speaker 1: York films. So that's my line of the week from

536
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Speaker 1: Robert Dunio in mean Streets. Mikey, you know you're something else.

537
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: I borrow money from everybody, and I never pay him back.

538
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: So you know what, you know what that leads me to.

539
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: That leads me to borrow money from you because I

540
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: don't have to pay you back. You know why, Because

541
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: you're a jerk off. You know that. That's what I think.

542
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: You're a jerk off. He's smiling. You're smiling because you're

543
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: a jerk off. Because that's what I think of you.

544
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something else, Mikey, I fuck you

545
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: right where you breathe because I don't give two ships

546
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:09,959
Speaker 1: about you or nobody else. How many fucking times would

547
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 1: you have wanted to say that to a person. I

548
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: don't give two ships about you or nobody else. And

549
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: you know what else. I fuck you right where you breathe.

550
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro, You mean so much to me, you

551
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: read so much to so many people. You're just the

552
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: fucking you're You're You're one of the best. You're one

553
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: of the best. All right. For this week's segment of

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00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: Wigga please. I had heard about this a couple of

555
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: months ago. These two teenage girls from Austria decided to

556
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: say fuck it and and they wanted to leave their

557
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,439
Speaker 1: comfor two white girls. Pretty they look like they never

558
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: did a hard day's work in their life, that's all.

559
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: They look like middle school girls. I don't know, No,

560
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 1: we're probably high school fifteen seventeen year old two teenage

561
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: girls decided to leave their homes in Austria because they

562
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: wanted to be Jihatti brides, these fucking dingbats, these chicken heads.

563
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: They wanted to leave their families and become ISIS you

564
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 1: know group They're like ISIS groupies. These two fucking girls,

565
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:23,240
Speaker 1: these dummies wanted to become ISIS groupies, and uh they did.

566
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,879
Speaker 1: They fucking left their homes, they left Austria and they

567
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: wound up hooking up with ISIS and they were down

568
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: there and they were gonna die for Jihati, and they

569
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: were gonna fucking live for Jihati, and they were gonna

570
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: suck as much Isis cock as they possibly could get

571
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: their hands on. And apparently these two fucking dingbat chicken heads,

572
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: they they did that. And now you two uh, you

573
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: two knuckle heads, you two fucking chicken heads. Now they

574
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: they've they've they've swallowed a little bit more than uh

575
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: than they could they bargained for. Now, these two Isis groupies,

576
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: I want to come back home to Austria and to

577
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: their families and then and and it ain't they don't

578
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: funk around in Austria. Apparently it ain't as easy to

579
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: just you know, you can't just dip your wick in

580
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: the ices pool and then come back to Austria. So

581
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: apparently they're knocked up. They're they're they're pregnant. They got

582
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Speaker 1: some nice ices babies inside of them, and uh, Austria

583
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: is like, We're not so fast. You can't just you know,

584
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: think you're gonna fucking become an Isis groupie, you know,

585
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: become like a little chicken head, like like like you

586
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: think they're going to a fucking a rap concert. They

587
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: thought they were going to see like fucking Coldplay perform

588
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: or I don't know, fucking Adam Levine and and in

589
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: Maroon five and they were gonna hook up with the

590
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: band and then like, oh, I'm done with this, I

591
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: want to go see someone else performed. No, Sugar, you're

592
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: fucking locked and loaded now, So YouTube Dingbats get wigga,

593
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: motherfucking lease, you fucking fools. And they would went down there.

594
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: The reason why I'm doing this, even though they're young girls,

595
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: they went down they were bad intentions. They went down there.

596
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: They said they would live and die for for for jihad,

597
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: and that they fucking wanted to, you know, juggle as

598
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: many IIS balls as they possibly could. And now they

599
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: finished juggling, and now they're they want back home. No no, no, no,

600
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: no no. So YouTube Dingbats you get Wigga please, the

601
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: second and final Wigga please out A week goes to

602
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: these three assholes down to New Orleans. These three assholes. Uh,

603
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: these these fucking genius criminals. They robbed some girl, of

604
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: course it was a girl, a couple of girls. They

605
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,399
Speaker 1: robbed them for their purses in their phones. And then

606
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: these jerk offs they ran away and uh, they went

607
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: into the bush somewhere, and I'm explained why I know

608
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: they went into the bush somewhere. And then these assholes

609
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: with the stolen phones took pictures of themselves with guns

610
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: in their hands, smoking weed with stolen phones. These dumb motherfucker's.

611
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: The phones were connected to the E cloud. Okay, you assholes,

612
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: don't you know what happened to Jennifer Lawrence? And you

613
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: see those photos. The phones were connected to the I cloud.

614
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: The I cloud, the girls got the pictures. Oh, these

615
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: are the assholes that stole our phones, gave it to

616
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: the police. Police find these three dickheads. Wigga, Please let

617
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: me tell you something, you dumbass criminal. How fucking dumb look?

618
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: Real gangsters, they used to say, real gangsters live in silence.

619
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: Now they say, real gangsters don't funk with cell phones.

620
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,720
Speaker 1: You gotta be an asshole. Why are you taking pictures

621
00:38:54,760 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: of yourself, you fucking moron with guns and weed stolen phones.

622
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna get what you deserve. Okay, So and

623
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: and now not only do you get what you deserve,

624
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: you get wiggle please all threees? All right. So that

625
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: brings us to the close of yet another iconic epic

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Speaker 1: gigantic I Am Rappaport podcast. Some people have called this

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Speaker 1: the Titanic of podcasts, not like it's a sinking ship

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Speaker 1: like the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. I didn't say it. I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying. One person in uh, the southern part of Arizona,

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Speaker 1: near the eastern part of Phoenix said the I Am

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Speaker 1: rapp Report podcast is sort of like the Titanic of podcasts. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I'm just reading what some of the fans have said.

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Speaker 1: This is Michael Rappaport. I'm glad you tuned in. I

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Speaker 1: hope you like it. I'm glad to be here. Next

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Speaker 1: week's podcast is going to be all on the thirty

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Speaker 1: for thirty film I had the honor and pleasure of

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Speaker 1: directing called When the Garden Was Eaten. It's not just

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Speaker 1: a basketball film, but it's focuses on the nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three New York Knicks teams. It's part of

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Speaker 1: the very classy, prestigious ESPN thirty for thirty series. It's

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Speaker 1: the teams with Willis Reid, Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier, Earl

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Speaker 1: the Pearl, Monroe, Dave de Busher, Phil Jackson, Uh, Dean

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Speaker 1: Mementer and I got a chance to direct this film.

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Speaker 1: It's premiering October twenty one on ESPN, and next week's

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Speaker 1: podcast will be premiering on the same day. It'll be

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Speaker 1: the All I Am Rappaport When the Garden Was Eating podcast. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: this is Michael Rappaport. Thanks for listening. I appreciate the

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Speaker 1: support and UH keep coming back. He Ma