Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to movie Crush special a dish. Uh.
Speaker 1: It is Monday morning and I am drinking a triple
Speaker 1: latte with a with a healthy splash of booze. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not a morning drinker. Nol. No man, I don't.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine those madmen? No man, I would be
Speaker 1: asleep by lunchtime. I'm not a big day drinker anymore.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. Well, here's the thing. Nothing better
Speaker 1: than a day buds, a day drink um or two
Speaker 1: is great, like son is out. You're on a patio,
Speaker 1: it's nice, get a get a couple of drinks in you.
Speaker 1: That is the best. But you're on a boat. You know, great,
Speaker 1: But you know, I get so tired now and it's
Speaker 1: like it's kind of thing where unless you just keep
Speaker 1: that train going this evening. You have a few drinks
Speaker 1: at two, and then by thirty you're like, come out,
Speaker 1: what do I do? Uh? And then keeping that train going,
Speaker 1: that's a dangerous game too. It's a very dangerous, the
Speaker 1: most dangerous game. It's a gambit gamp. It is that
Speaker 1: is that. The word is absolutely a word. And a
Speaker 1: Marvel character who threw uh fire cards and he's from
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Yeah, a trench coat. I used to like
Speaker 1: him a lot. Let what's the definition here? A device,
Speaker 1: action or opening remark, typically one entailing a degree of risk. Okay,
Speaker 1: that is calculated to gain advantage. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe it may not be a game, but it's a
Speaker 1: living language. My friend Malleable, someone posted a picture of
Speaker 1: Justin Bieber looking like Hi from Raising Arizona. Did you
Speaker 1: see that? Isn't that funny? That is pretty funny. He's
Speaker 1: just like the Hawaiian shirt. Everybody looked that up. That's
Speaker 1: very funny. And his hair is long and he's got
Speaker 1: a mustache. Yeah. Thank I gotta thank Jasmine Spearing for
Speaker 1: this on the Movie Crushers page. Um, she posted, I
Speaker 1: guess Justin Bieber tweeted stop sending me this ship and
Speaker 1: it's a picture of that side by side of of
Speaker 1: Nick Cage as Hi mcdonnov Fromraising Arizona and himself looking
Speaker 1: just like him. So that's pretty funny. I guess Justin
Speaker 1: Bieb the Beabs is getting barraged and is upset, unless
Speaker 1: he's just getting around, but either way, that's great. All right, everyone,
Speaker 1: This is a very special edition, like I said, UM,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you what's going on here. I
Speaker 1: have in my hand a piece of paper, a series
Speaker 1: of pieces of paper, very awkward way to say, a
Speaker 1: stack of paper. And this is UM, I came, here's
Speaker 1: what this is. This is from nineteen the mid nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1: I've gotta be very vague with this, I think, uh.
Speaker 1: And this was a letter to a Hollywood director and
Speaker 1: it is from a Hollywood producer with the subject line
Speaker 1: I wish I could name these names. It's a memo
Speaker 1: to director, memo from producer. Subject line um character casting.
Speaker 1: And it is a inside look at, at least in
Speaker 1: the mid nineties, how men talked about women in Hollywood
Speaker 1: and about casting women in Hollywood. I came into um
Speaker 1: ownership of this memo. Let's call it the casting memo
Speaker 1: that sounds salacious. UH. I came to acquire this many
Speaker 1: many years ago, probably about probably only a few years
Speaker 1: after this memo UH was was sent. And I've always
Speaker 1: read it and thought it was sort of funny. But now,
Speaker 1: in the age of the Me Too movement and Hollywood
Speaker 1: creeps and jerks being exposed, it's I see it in
Speaker 1: a bit of a different light. So here's what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do everyone this episode. I'm just gonna read this
Speaker 1: whole thing to give everyone an inside peak of what
Speaker 1: Hollywood is like on the inside, or at least how
Speaker 1: it was in the mid nineties. And I bet still
Speaker 1: lives in the circles. How about that. I'm readying word forward. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna read the actresses names because uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's important. This is a one two three.
Speaker 1: There's a page memo. Everyone here we go, dear name
Speaker 1: or dacted in the wake of Elizabeth Shoe's decision. So
Speaker 1: here's what happened. I guess is Elizabeth Shoe backed out
Speaker 1: of a MOVI me and they need to recast this
Speaker 1: part in this film. In the wake of Elizabeth Shoo's decision.
Speaker 1: Thought i'd take a moment to recap some of the
Speaker 1: character potentials we discussed last night and a bit more detail,
Speaker 1: and if you'll indulge me, discuss an approach to casting
Speaker 1: this role that I feel would favor us with a
Speaker 1: positive response the next time we pop the question. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming he doesn't mean getting married to one another. This
Speaker 1: list largely the product of brainstorming with name redacted and
Speaker 1: name redacted. Does not take into consideration any availability issues,
Speaker 1: nor does it deal with a matter of price quotes. Uh,
Speaker 1: like they're shopping for a car. It is designed merely
Speaker 1: to generate discussion on two fronts, the suitability of the
Speaker 1: actress for the role and the impact each actress might
Speaker 1: have on the overall profile for the film. Here goes
Speaker 1: in alphabetical order. Patricia Arquette colon. When you indicated that
Speaker 1: she might not be any more interesting than Ashley Judd,
Speaker 1: come inclined to agree. However, my belief is that her
Speaker 1: profile is somewhat higher than Judd's, and that might help
Speaker 1: give the bigger names were considering for supporting casts the
Speaker 1: comfort level they require to jump on board. All right,
Speaker 1: that's not too bad. Maybe not very nice too, called
Speaker 1: Patricia Arquette or Ashley Judd. Uh, not super interesting, But
Speaker 1: that's fine. Drew Barrymore, What do you got? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just feel like this reads like
Speaker 1: some sort of like horse trading document or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit. I mean, we'll just let people
Speaker 1: make it their minds. I'm just gonna read it. Drew Barrymore.
Speaker 1: We didn't discuss her yesterday, but thought we'd mentioned her now.
Speaker 1: She too young, too, TARTI. We certainly could believe her
Speaker 1: as the sort who would bunk with the other character
Speaker 1: or anyone else in the film for that matter, after
Speaker 1: a first meeting, And by bunk with this producer means
Speaker 1: sleep with. But is she capable of holding anything in reserve?
Speaker 1: Or she simply two on the nose and two out there,
Speaker 1: Sandra Bullock, she could do a good job with this,
Speaker 1: but I agree with you when you say it's probably
Speaker 1: not in the cards. However, if you thought she was
Speaker 1: the one, don't see how it hurts to pop the question.
Speaker 1: I don't think this producer knows will pop the question
Speaker 1: means specifically means fucking ask someone to marry. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, but maybe like in the Hollywood parlance, that
Speaker 1: means as them to be in your movie. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a dummy? Uh see how it hurts the pop the question.
Speaker 1: Her people at her agency can and do give quick answers,
Speaker 1: and to the best of my knowledge, she's uh yet
Speaker 1: to work with a world class director. You never know,
Speaker 1: Ellipsus Cameron Diaz believe she's on the brink of becoming
Speaker 1: a very big movie star. And has resisted doing fluff
Speaker 1: parts in stupid movies for big money since her breakout
Speaker 1: roll in The Mask, the Jim Carrey picture. She really
Speaker 1: tries hard and it's very serious about her work. Well,
Speaker 1: that's very nice. This is no actress model bimbo. She's
Speaker 1: good people too. And for the age thing. Remember the
Speaker 1: part uh is part girl, part woman. Switches easily between
Speaker 1: the two. All right, that's actually very kind. Cammie Diaz
Speaker 1: is no actress model. Bimbo's good people know. It's good
Speaker 1: to know. Uh, And Hesh, it's clearly mid nineties. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this is only if we go the no name route.
Speaker 1: Do we know at this point is if such an
Speaker 1: option is even available to us. I've not seen her work,
Speaker 1: but I know a number of people with good taste
Speaker 1: who thinks she's terrific. Definitely a woman on the way up. Okay,
Speaker 1: and Hesh, And by the way, I didn't. This is
Speaker 1: not all just an indictment. This is just an insider peak. Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: how did you acquire this document? Chuck? I can't say.
Speaker 1: You can't say no. I'm just gonna I don't want
Speaker 1: anyone to ever get in trouble, So I'm just uh it.
Speaker 1: I found it in a bottle on a seashore. It
Speaker 1: because that that that is how Hollywood memos are delivered, right,
Speaker 1: Ashley Judd. I think she's okay, but does her participation
Speaker 1: put bigger name supporting potentials out of reach? Does she
Speaker 1: really have the chops? Is she the real stuff? I'm
Speaker 1: not yet convinced. I'm not sure she can bring the layers,
Speaker 1: the mystery, and the uh. He says magic, but I
Speaker 1: assume he means magic to the character that would make
Speaker 1: her truly memorable. I think you should definitely look at
Speaker 1: a good bit of tape on her before committing It.
Speaker 1: Troubles me a bit that her best reviews by a
Speaker 1: wide margin, came in her breakout film, her breakthrough film,
Speaker 1: Ruby in Paradise, and that she hasn't garnered nearly as
Speaker 1: much critical praise since Gwyneth Paltrow after Julia Roberts my
Speaker 1: personal number two choice, audiences adore her, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: this girl is the real deal. I heard you when
Speaker 1: she said that she was in communicado for the next
Speaker 1: three weeks, and I wouldn't dream of suggesting we wait
Speaker 1: for her to surface. Could we consider going outside regular channels?
Speaker 1: I e. Her family rather than her agency to get
Speaker 1: to her quicker Julia Roberts. Everyone we know this person
Speaker 1: wants Julia Roberts as the number one choice. Here's what
Speaker 1: he has to say. Um the name redact, character redacted
Speaker 1: for the ages to the manner born, who writes that
Speaker 1: what does that even mean to the manner born? Have
Speaker 1: no idea, manner m A n O R to the
Speaker 1: manner is that it's saying a manner like a like
Speaker 1: an estate that no, I don't know, I have no idea,
Speaker 1: makes no sense. Yeah, I don't get that. Someone explained
Speaker 1: that to me on Facebook. If if you know what
Speaker 1: that means to the manner born, Julia flat out knows.
Speaker 1: This girl underlined, I promise you. Granted we're talking money,
Speaker 1: we're talking agency posturing, et cetera, but name redacted. I
Speaker 1: truly believe that if you laid out all the parameters
Speaker 1: were dealing with to the agents with a phone call,
Speaker 1: a prompt and positive response is within the realm of possibility.
Speaker 1: Do not forget for a moment that the girl adores
Speaker 1: you and has the utmost respect for you. She also
Speaker 1: guarantees a big opening weekend or two and when we
Speaker 1: make a great film. On top of that, you'll be
Speaker 1: in back end heaven. That sounds like fun, yeah to
Speaker 1: the manner born. Uh yeah it is. It's like I
Speaker 1: think it's a sounds like a British phrase meeting destined
Speaker 1: to be suited to something by virtue of birth or
Speaker 1: custom and practice. So you can actually spell it both
Speaker 1: ways m A n n e r or m A
Speaker 1: n o R m o o r meaning more of
Speaker 1: the birthright and the class kind of of echelon of actress.
Speaker 1: That well, yes, that's a little clue. Everyone, very downtain
Speaker 1: abbey kind. It might be a brit who wrote this memo.
Speaker 1: I know that everyone's gonna take this is just a
Speaker 1: big like puzzle to be solved. Well, you know, and
Speaker 1: I don't like that. Everyone movie crushers, get get out
Speaker 1: on this. Yeah, dudes, get a get a murder wall
Speaker 1: going on this. It would be wonderful. Where were we here?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we were in back in heaven. I could
Speaker 1: have forgetten all, although I know that you could give
Speaker 1: a damn about that score. So another clue. I guess
Speaker 1: a director who doesn't care about money and back end
Speaker 1: this is actually this could be a fun game. Please
Speaker 1: think about this one eclipses when owner writer in my
Speaker 1: book the ultimate woman child child woman in movies today,
Speaker 1: she's a real woman child. What is that from? Is that?
Speaker 1: Don't read? Is that? I think? So? Wow? I'm not
Speaker 1: really sure why you think she's not right for this character.
Speaker 1: I think she has real talent and works very hard.
Speaker 1: What do you got for me? Sorry? Am so it's
Speaker 1: crush with eyeliner. She's a real woman, right. I love
Speaker 1: that song. I sensed the collaboration between you two would
Speaker 1: be extraordinary and would result in her giving a memorable performance. Moreover,
Speaker 1: I think she's one of the handful of people on
Speaker 1: this list would absolutely no problem holding her own with
Speaker 1: lead actor name redacted. People are like, now, just give
Speaker 1: us that glue. Sorry, everyone, mirror Sorvino an intelligent, committed performer.
Speaker 1: Uh think she's about the work and not about price
Speaker 1: and perk jive, perk jive. Yeah, you know all that
Speaker 1: price and perk jive, give me perks, give me money,
Speaker 1: that job, all that job. Now, I don't I have
Speaker 1: no idea where this guy's from now. UH don't know
Speaker 1: that she's among the more natural choices for this particular role.
Speaker 1: But with your help. I'm confident she would be more
Speaker 1: than credible. H if we use her? How do we
Speaker 1: keep her boyfriend off the set? Wow? I don't even
Speaker 1: know because that guy's trouble. I'm gonna look up. Actually, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna break and I'm gonna come back in one
Speaker 1: second because I gotta look up who this who this
Speaker 1: person dated in the mid nineties. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm back everyone. If this memo was written
Speaker 1: when it says, Wow, I'm gonna tell Noel, you all
Speaker 1: are so mad at me right now. I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: that I can't just the bulge clues left and right.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna tell Nol uh. And we're gonna play
Speaker 1: a some elevator music for one moment while while Nolan
Speaker 1: I have a ten second discussion. All right, Nol, He's well,
Speaker 1: I'll say this. He was he It wasn't is a
Speaker 1: very famous director's tour. They didn't want on set. No,
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't want him to like micromanage their shoot. Right.
Speaker 1: He might like you, he was gonna walk in and say, like,
Speaker 1: why is that camera there? Maybe? Man, this is getting good.
Speaker 1: Everything guy's reputation precedes him. Uh, Uma Thurman other producer
Speaker 1: Nam red acted as a big fan. I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1: She's a bit of a cipher to me, and I
Speaker 1: can never tell if she's all on the surface or
Speaker 1: if there's something really going on there. Maybe that's a
Speaker 1: plus for this part. Still don't know if she's a
Speaker 1: real actor, but think she might work. Uma. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: a real actor at this chance. She's great. A cipher
Speaker 1: who was this person? Who was this wizard? Using all
Speaker 1: these weird terms, yeah, cipher's cool. Cipher is means sort
Speaker 1: of like a like a like a husk, right, like
Speaker 1: sort of like a well, the idea of a thing
Speaker 1: and not the actual thing itself. The true cipher is
Speaker 1: a is a like disguising like a code, So she
Speaker 1: just like an enigma. You know what else? I love
Speaker 1: that the use of the word cipher for like a
Speaker 1: rap lyric like a freestyle is called a cipher. Oh,
Speaker 1: really nice, which makes sense because like you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of double entendres and wrap and like a
Speaker 1: lot of like hidden kind of like messages that you
Speaker 1: have to sort of know, you know, the context in
Speaker 1: order to like pull out. So that makes sense they
Speaker 1: would use it for them like a good double entente.
Speaker 1: All right, Charlie Scarren, the girl here refers to as girls.
Speaker 1: That's sort of annoying. The girl from Two Days in
Speaker 1: the Valley I didn't see it, but here she's really good.
Speaker 1: Definitely a babe, definitely capable of the film fatale thing.
Speaker 1: From everything I've heard. Tom Hanks caster in the movie.
Speaker 1: Uh he currently has out and she's the female lead
Speaker 1: opposite either Christian Slater or Jason Patrick. I forget which
Speaker 1: in a high profile movie. Definitely a star ascendant. Maybe
Speaker 1: Two Days in the Valley is worth your having a look.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of feel like the girl
Speaker 1: is sort of like a Hollywood trope in a way.
Speaker 1: I remember in Mulholland Drive where they're like, this is
Speaker 1: the girl, Yeah, this is the girl. Yeah. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling like that said it is, but also just
Speaker 1: sort of an example of Hollywood's just sort of history
Speaker 1: of ownership and misogyny and and more than misogyny, misanthropy,
Speaker 1: you know, in general, like actors are cattle, they're not
Speaker 1: even people. Well they call it a casting call, right,
Speaker 1: which is like a cattle call. Yeah, I mean, and
Speaker 1: I mean some directors are not like that. But I
Speaker 1: know there are many directors very famously that just like
Speaker 1: the thing that always weirds me. I've never I've never
Speaker 1: been to one, but you see him in in movies
Speaker 1: that are depicting this stuff. Like the casting call is
Speaker 1: so strange because you'll have like, you know, dozens of
Speaker 1: women or or or men all look the same and
Speaker 1: they're all auditioning for the same thing, and they're all
Speaker 1: wearing the same kind of like outfit or whatever. Well
Speaker 1: that's a trope, yeah, absolutely, but it's true. It's true.
Speaker 1: But that's what makes it feel like a cow call
Speaker 1: because it's like all of these like very homogeneous looking creatures.
Speaker 1: Just they're kind of moving and doing their lines. You know, man,
Speaker 1: that's what it's like to It's very depressing. And that's
Speaker 1: the trope in movies is it's always very depressing because
Speaker 1: the actor is all excited about the au dish walks
Speaker 1: in and sees thirty of them in the room and
Speaker 1: just is deflated. But they're also the ones that they
Speaker 1: think it's so clever that they wore the vast or
Speaker 1: whatever because it's like a cowboy roll or something, or
Speaker 1: that they like went the extra mon But everyone. I
Speaker 1: think that's actually that's a specific one and I can't
Speaker 1: probably that's from but that's you know, that's been a
Speaker 1: bunch of I think so. Um. I occasionally in my
Speaker 1: old days as a as a p A, would get
Speaker 1: wrangled into shooting auditions and casting sessions and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and uh, I always always just felt bad. There's nothing
Speaker 1: I can't imagine anything in the at least film industry wise,
Speaker 1: quite so intimidating as the audition process just awful. I'll
Speaker 1: never do it, alright. So that's uh. Charlie's Robin Wright.
Speaker 1: One of producer name redacted's faiths favor Raves. I wish
Speaker 1: I want to do some more research on this person
Speaker 1: and their wizardry with the English language. One of the
Speaker 1: producers favor Rapes. But I agree with you when you
Speaker 1: say she's too old. No, would you do me a
Speaker 1: favorite look up how old Robin Wright was in the
Speaker 1: mid nineties and for and by the way, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say like thirty two or thirty five of them,
Speaker 1: Oh dude, I'm gonna say twenty eight. Really yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna go find out. I mean, she was born in
Speaker 1: sixty six, so do the birthday math. She was she
Speaker 1: was twenty nine or thirty, And hey, I'm not saying like,
Speaker 1: oh she said she swold. She may have been too
Speaker 1: old for this part for sure. Um, so I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not being overly crepy. Yeah. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like with dudes, it's it's like that math doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to apply. Like DiCaprio gets to play an old man
Speaker 1: or a young buck still too, they're like, all who
Speaker 1: cares he's Leo? Yeah, yeah, you're right, Um, she's too old.
Speaker 1: I also here that she can be somewhat difficult to
Speaker 1: work with, that she can be a bit of a
Speaker 1: strange one, not necessarily a team player. M hm. Renee Zellwigger,
Speaker 1: the semi unknown who's about to break out and the
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise picture opening in a few weeks. He's talking
Speaker 1: about Jerry McGuire here. I've heard a lot of good
Speaker 1: things about her, but have yet to see her myself.
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you wanted to see the whose picture
Speaker 1: it could be easily arranged. So that's the list. Now,
Speaker 1: let me take a moment to ask you to consider
Speaker 1: a somewhat different approach to getting our character name redacted.
Speaker 1: I think that we might have a few problems getting
Speaker 1: the answer we want if we go through go through
Speaker 1: the through channels agent route. By simply submitting the offer
Speaker 1: and the script and leaving it at that. I realized,
Speaker 1: that's quote how it's done end quote. But it's not
Speaker 1: how you've always done it. How many times have you
Speaker 1: cast major talent over the years without the benefit of
Speaker 1: a completed, finally polished script A lot and you didn't
Speaker 1: always know the actor have previous working experience with him either.
Speaker 1: How did you do it by telling them your vision
Speaker 1: of the film and your take on their character. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, when you communicate in this fashion with an actor,
Speaker 1: it is truly compelling stuff, and they get really excited.
Speaker 1: I did you know It's funny is that at this
Speaker 1: point in this director's career, he's sort of legendary already,
Speaker 1: and this producer is talking to this director about something
Speaker 1: that he's sort of already mastered. Very funny. Uh. They're
Speaker 1: seduced not just by your vision name redacted, but also
Speaker 1: by your considerable charm. I've seen you in this mode,
Speaker 1: and when you've got it going, you could sell Rice
Speaker 1: to the Japanese. Oh lord, I can't help but think
Speaker 1: that if you had the opportunity to meet with Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Sho and then handed her a script, that we would
Speaker 1: have received a different answer. And such an approach will
Speaker 1: give a performer the backbone to stand up to their
Speaker 1: agents and managers when the sons of bitches tell their
Speaker 1: clients to stay away because they're not getting their rate
Speaker 1: or because they don't think the script is quite there yet,
Speaker 1: the sons of bitches nol. I like that. I think
Speaker 1: that this can work, and I think this is a
Speaker 1: valid way to proceed. But I think that way because
Speaker 1: I know that you are all capitals the man. Just
Speaker 1: don't you forget it, ellipsus, never forget oh man, that's
Speaker 1: it everyone, that's the casting papers. And how about this.
Speaker 1: If we have any Hollywood insiders listening out there, and
Speaker 1: you have internal memorandums or letters that are in this spirit,
Speaker 1: send them to me. I will not out you. I
Speaker 1: will redact to all the names. I think this gives
Speaker 1: people a really interesting inside look at kind of what
Speaker 1: goes on behind the scenes, uh in Hollywood. And I
Speaker 1: would love to do more of this stuff. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to look up right now. I don't even
Speaker 1: know who ended up playing this role, and I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think I could tell you because that
Speaker 1: would be probably too much in uh of a clue.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna look right now. Very interesting. Well, they
Speaker 1: went with an actress that uh is not very famous
Speaker 1: at all, um still to this day, and I dare
Speaker 1: I say, is a bit of a niche actor and
Speaker 1: um did not become some big superstar a fine actress,
Speaker 1: to be sure. Very interesting. All right, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: frustrates you even more. And that's part of what this
Speaker 1: is all about, everyone, to kind of tease you a bit.
Speaker 1: This episode is a subtitled movie Crustration, Movie Crustration. I
Speaker 1: like it. That's that should it should be titled movie Crustration.
Speaker 1: Colon the casting memo redacted redacted. I love it, all right, everyone,
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed that. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear some feedback if you were like, no, that
Speaker 1: was kind of a big stup, a waste of time, Chuck,
Speaker 1: I prefer the regular crushes. Don't worry, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: like change up the format. I just thought that was
Speaker 1: kind of a fun thing to do today. So that
Speaker 1: is it for this week. Everyone, oh can I can
Speaker 1: I plug a plug real quick? Oh? No, plug away,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna plug because today in the actual day, in
Speaker 1: real time and space where we occupy. Currently, a show
Speaker 1: that I've been working on for the network called Happy
Speaker 1: Face as Lars this first episode and it's um, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's sort of a true crime show. It is
Speaker 1: a true crime show, but it takes a much different
Speaker 1: approach than what you might expect. It's about a killer
Speaker 1: out of the Pacific Northwest and as the Happy Face Killer,
Speaker 1: but the story centers around his daughter and her experience
Speaker 1: growing up not knowing her father was a killer and
Speaker 1: then turn her life took when she found this out.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's got a beautiful score from an
Speaker 1: amazing band from Athens called Hope for a Golden Summer.
Speaker 1: It's got this real melancholy kind of it's a very beautiful,
Speaker 1: sad and horrific story, but it has a lot of
Speaker 1: heart and it really the way we captured it. I'm
Speaker 1: just so proud of of the work everyone that worked
Speaker 1: on it is done and I really think you guys
Speaker 1: would dig it. It's just it's a very cinematic story. Um,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't lean heavily on like the gory details
Speaker 1: all that stuff in there, but it's really just kind
Speaker 1: of the story about the human cost of these kinds
Speaker 1: of crimes. Yeah, buddy, I've been, uh, the way I've
Speaker 1: been describing it is like, um, a true crime story
Speaker 1: told through the eyes of a different kind of victim,
Speaker 1: which is the daughter of this monster. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: story has twists and turns. It's not what you might
Speaker 1: expect as the story progresses. Yeah. So by now there
Speaker 1: should be a handful of episodes out um, but we're
Speaker 1: doing one a week, I think for twelve episodes. So
Speaker 1: check it out if you get a chance. I think
Speaker 1: you guys will dig it. Yeah, big shout out to
Speaker 1: Noel and Chandler. Who else you want to shout out?
Speaker 1: Nol oh Man, I mean Melissa Moore, who's the killer's daughter,
Speaker 1: who was an amazing subject, an amazing person to work with.
Speaker 1: Lauren Pacheco, who is a producer we're working with on
Speaker 1: this out of New York, fantastic, Matt Riddle, my pal
Speaker 1: who we were able to freelance out to help write
Speaker 1: the thing, and it's just been destroying it and doing
Speaker 1: amazing work with story editing, Will and man Gesh from
Speaker 1: Part Time Genius, who have eped the thing um and
Speaker 1: I've kind of been overseeing the whole thing with them,
Speaker 1: and it's just been a really joyful thing to work on.
Speaker 1: Despite how dark material is. It really it's got a
Speaker 1: lot of hope to the story. And it's crazy because
Speaker 1: the band that worked on it is a hope for
Speaker 1: a golden summer, something that goes hand in hand. What
Speaker 1: do you feel like that Melissa has um She may
Speaker 1: have already gotten some substantial closure in her life previous
Speaker 1: to this, but do you think this helped her cathartically? Oh, hugely?
Speaker 1: And she she just texted me a few minutes ago
Speaker 1: saying how thrilled she was with with what we had
Speaker 1: made together and how yeah, you really experience her growth
Speaker 1: on the show. I mean, I don't want to diminish
Speaker 1: anything about calling these subjects characters, but it's almost like
Speaker 1: the way a character and a film has to change
Speaker 1: and growth in the arc of the film. That's actually
Speaker 1: feel that and it's why they make movies like that.
Speaker 1: That's great. I'm just beyond proud of those things. So
Speaker 1: check it out. Awesome, Everybody go support Happy Face another
Speaker 1: one of our great shows as we expand our network.
Speaker 1: Very proud of Noel and the work he's doing here. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we appreciate your support on all fronts. So with
Speaker 1: that we bid you ado. Noel and I are going
Speaker 1: to go back to the manner in which we had
Speaker 1: been born. Yes to a men are born and are born.
Speaker 1: I've always thought of myself as that I was born
Speaker 1: on the manner with a silver spoon in my mouth.
Speaker 1: Al Right, everyone, we'll see you next week.