Live From The Dallas International Film Festival 2017 Part I

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It is 901 on the East Coast.
It is 601 on the West Coast, I had to do a little bit of math there.
It is the 31st of March in the year of our Lord 2017.
Season 7, Episode 36, 386 times.
This voice has welcomed you to the Clubhouse Podcast.
Normally live every Sunday night, 70s during four Pacific, you are one stop shop for all
things, pop culture.
But if you know what time of year it is, you know why we're on a little bit different
timeslot than normal.
It is part one of two where we are broadcasting live from the lounge at the Dallas International
Film Festival.
This is our fourth year running doing this.
So some could say we're seasoned veterans, others would say we're just rookies.
I tend to lead towards the lander.
My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast and I'm telling
you it's a beautiful night to sit on a potty out and do a little podcasting.
And someday when I learn how to speak English, I will say that properly.
But of course, why would I be alone because that never happens except one time on this
show?
To my right is my co-host and a man who's probably going to roll up these sleeves for too much
longer, do a little warm for him.
He is Chad.
Welcome, sir.
I'm very glad to be here on the patio with you, sir.
The patio.
That was that.
What is that?
That was my New England hipster coming through.
A cross from him is the official fact checker of this show.
And a man who technically is going to be our first guest tonight because he's got someone
he wants to talk about.
You may know him as fond Don Go, but his mama name and Don Ford, I'm going to call him
Don Ford.
Welcome, sir.
We are back.
We are back.
I see that every year.
And it's even great here when he says that because the red light from the on air sign is
like shining on his face just enough.
I wish you hadn't appointed that out to me.
So we have a couple.
It's a dip.
We have a couple of corrections and updates from last week's show again.
Thanks to everybody who came out to the Texas pinball festival to hang out with us.
We had so much fun last week.
I was reeling from that show for like two days.
Thank you to the Sam J Jones, to all the people from Stern, from VP Caz, to Ed Robertson,
from Bearnake and Ladies, from joining us.
That was so awesome, dude.
I think we both got reduced to like.
What time did you leave the pinball thing that night?
We left it about eight.
We stayed till about eight.
Some guys at dinner went home.
We were going to try to make it to midnight and that dog would not get out.
We were worn out.
So some corrections or updates from last week.
We were talking about Black Knight.
I was actually seven when that hit the market.
I did the research on that.
Also Black Knight was the first machine to have a two level playing field.
We were sure about that.
But according to the genius that is Wikipedia, it also was the first to have the Magnus
save feature.
I had the magnet, the pinball that you can hit and stop the ball.
I'll be telling you, I thought both of those features were in pinbots first.
So we were talking about the land disincident.
If you need to go back and check that episode, that was season five, episode 37.
Okay.
I had to go back and look that up.
Our land disincident.
Yes.
Yes.
From two years ago, at this particular festival, yeah, yeah.
So last night was opening night here at the Dallas Air and National Festival.
Do you want to come hang out or down in uptown Dallas tonight?
We're two doors down from the Magnolia Theater.
We're going to be here for the next couple of hours interviewing tons of people.
Don's promised something and I'm a little concerned because he's really excited.
Okay.
No, you're good.
Last night was opening night.
Yeah.
That is screening of Bonnie and Clyde.
Yes.
For the 50th anniversary.
Yes.
Because one of the themes this year is a salute to 1967 and there was a special guest there
as well.
Yeah.
I'm going to go for you last night.
Oh, it was, it was, first time I saw the movie start to finish.
Really?
To see it like that.
Yeah.
I'm honest.
And of course, we had the leading role Miss Faye and, you know, she was there and
It's amazing.
She did a Q&A before.
Oh, really?
It was about 15 minutes before the film.
And she, the guy who did the interview with her, they did more of the talking of that
golden age of the, you know, the 50 years in Hollywood because they're talking about
1967.
No, that's a busy time.
That in the early 70s.
And they brought up Jane Fond and all the other people.
But she talked a little bit about the movie and she even talked about the death scene.
Okay.
You know, it's spoiler alert.
You know, three to learn from 50 years.
Three to don't say the one.
Okay.
That Bonnie and Clyde die, you know, they get killed in the film.
And if you don't know that crack open history, exactly.
But they're talking how they did that scene only twice and they had these things inside
her dress with these lines that you can see that they pulled pop, pop, pop, pop.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, squibs.
Yeah.
Oh, squibs.
Yeah.
Oh, squibs.
Yeah.
Oh, squibs.
Yeah.
Oh, squibs.
Yeah.
Oh, squibs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Also, she got the star award, you know, and the hold on.
I'm trying to figure who it was.
Hang tight.
That's all right, dude.
Just keep going.
Because we have to guess.
But they I've got who's who gave the war to her.
Somebody worked on the film.
I forgot.
I apologize, but we'll get that later.
But no, it was incredible to see her talk about the film and there she is 50 years later,
you know, seeing the lady, what do one of the great classics and she talks about before
you watch it for the first time.
Cool.
So it was cool.
It was cool.
But Dom was there representing us last nights.
Got to switch to you.
That's a yes you did.
Thank you very much for that.
And we already have our first guest.
Oh, yeah.
We know right into the day before we get the first guest.
You guys know me.
I'll be back sometime.
I'll say hi later.
Bye.
Got very beautiful.
A little bit of a win going because we're in kind of a win tunnel.
But that's all right.
We have our first guest with us.
And one thing I love about the Dallas International Film Festival is, yes, it's about
people bringing their films to the festival to try to get distribution.
But it's also about folks focusing on local filmmakers with us as well.
And I'm going to let our first guest introduce herself.
Go ahead, Mayor.
Hi, everybody.
I am Neelu Jalavan.
I am a local multimedia artist and want to be filmmaker.
I also teach film and video editing at Booker T Washington High School for performing
in visual arts.
I just like driving past Booker T Washington because that building is so gorgeous.
And for those of you in the audience, it's great.
For those of you in the Empire that have heard that, you should come in.
You should come in.
It's even better inside.
What they let us in.
Absolutely.
We could do like a podcasting thing.
We could do like a lecture.
Oh my gosh.
You should definitely do that.
I mean, in fact, we've just started a podcast and you know, we're exploring.
And so we have an instructor, Melody Pousel, who would do that.
I would be more than happy because we've been doing this for a long time.
All right.
I'm going to have Donald Book that after the show.
We do have some really, really talented students.
In fact, I'm here to talk about the 10 short films that I co-produced with some other folks,
one of them being Laurie Steadick.
And she's an artistic designer for Neiman Marcus and she had a son that was my student.
Oh, wow.
And so we hit it off.
Our student is very successful and is in film school right now in up north.
And her and I started producing the student shorts because our students had the capability
to actually make a narrative that required a small crew and they needed people to help
them cast and do scouting, locating, and basically everything that a producer does.
So we started doing that for our high school students.
And there's two different short blocks.
This coming Sunday.
Yes.
We have two short blocks.
One is, I think at 1.30 and one is at 3.30.
It is at the...
12.30 and 3.30.
12.30 and 3.30.
Thank you.
And the rate carpet is at 6 p.m.
So come and take pictures with our young, rising superstars film makers.
How many films are total in the shorts, blocks?
Each block has about 15.
And we just happen to have 10.
So we were, in fact, my students and I, not this particular set, but ones that have gone
on and graduated, have been doing this for quite a long time.
Started from Deep Alarm Film Festival in the early 2000s when Michael Cain had just started
that.
And then, of course, moved on to AFI and now with Diff, really excited about that.
And the evolution of the festival has been amazing.
And what I also like about this is, for those of you that don't know, Booker T. Washington
High School is located right across the street from the Dallas City Performance Center.
And so they get to look at it every day, but now this is where the short blocks are going
to be on Sunday.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It's so fun.
There's that connection of, I've been looking at this thing for my entire high school career,
but now I actually get to showcase something that I've worked on.
And first of all, I get a gorgeous building.
Yes.
Yes.
And it was created because of the generosity of Dallas residents, really.
It was just all, not all, but mostly privately donated and the running money was raised
for people that love the arts.
And for people that are interested in the shorts?
Yes.
In creating the shorts?
Yes.
Or the students given any guidelines or was it whatever you want to shoot?
This is what you're going to shoot.
Well, the students go through a very intensive program for two years about film production
and they have assignments where it's very, very specific.
But this is their one big senior thesis where they get to come up with the actual story
treatment script.
And then they sit before a panel of professionals and they pitch their story.
And from that pitch, we selected a group of students that we could produce.
We could produce everyone that pitched, but we did the best we could.
We got as many as we could with the allocated budget.
So when you say it's a two-year program before they get to this point?
Yes.
So do you have, is it all juniors and seniors?
Yes.
They're all juniors and seniors.
It is a dual credit course through the Dallas County Community Colleges.
So they get an additional between six to 12 credits of college credits.
So they're getting a write-up on college just by doing this?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So when do they, how long does it take them to actually get the production done?
Once they get all the approvals, how long are they given to create?
Right.
So of course pre-production is everything.
You have to cast and find your location, make your shot list, have your story board and
everything else.
And then you go to work in a could take anywhere between two or three days to several days,
ten days, depending on how many days you work and how long you work.
We shot all over Dallas and so many people were so kind to us to let us shoot there without
having to pay a large amount of fees.
And you know, that's really, really important Texas, please give us a break.
Let the filmmakers, let the filmmakers make their films.
We want tax breaks.
We want all of the amenities that some of the other, right now, you know, Atlanta is really
hot.
Yeah, that was really hot.
And we don't want people to be discouraged to make films in Texas.
We love films.
In fact, we have so many other film festivals that are coming along.
We have the Pegasus Film Festival that is on May 21st, it launches on May 21st.
That is strictly open to high school filmmakers.
Oh, very nice.
Yeah.
So, these are the filmmakers of tomorrow.
I mean, you know, we have a lot of people at the festival here that come to recruit and
looking for the new talent for that, you know, high rising, the next, you know, Robert
Denero, etc.
And well, hey, we don't have to even talk about Drone, Journalist, that David Lowry.
I mean, you know, his film is going to be playing at the, oh, my gosh.
What is the name of that park?
Like Warren?
No, no, no.
It's the other one this year.
It's not a cook, but a park.
But it's on Main Street.
It's a beautiful park.
It is Saturday night.
It's tomorrow night.
It's free.
Bring your cooler, bring your blanket, hang out there and watch a beautiful movie that David
Lowry.
Oh, the main street art.
Yes, main street art.
The main street art.
The main street art.
Oh, that's right.
Okay.
The new version.
Yes, just a couple of years ago, David Lowry was in my classroom talking to the students
and inspiring them, talking about the art of writing and, you know, to be able to tell
a story and what an art means.
And then right in the middle of his lecture, his phone ran, he says, hey, guys, just wait
one second.
It's Robert Denero.
I mean, I'm sorry.
Robert Edford.
Robert Edford.
And we're like, what?
He's joking.
Everybody burst into laughter.
Oh, he's just playing, you know, no, it really went.
A little bit, you know.
Oh, yeah.
He was getting ready to make Pete's Dragon.
It was a big secret at that time.
Also, there is another wonderful festival coming up.
That is the Women in Film Festival.
Yes.
That is Flicks by Chicks.
This year we changed the name from Chick Flicks to Flicks by Chicks because, you know, we don't
care if it's about women or not, we want it to be made by women.
We are a festival that is about empowering women that want to be in the industry and to
be just as valid as any other person.
So that is happening at the end of August.
We are collaborating.
Is that the second year for that?
Yes.
Yes.
Because John is, yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
We are collaborating with Justina in August.
She started the Texas Women's Film Festival which is in August.
We are collaborating with her.
And we have some of their people on during video fest as well.
Yes, yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Actually, Flicks by Chicks, this is the first year after the change of name.
Chick Flicks was around for 15 years but I think that after last year we really blew it
out of the water.
I think this year we are going to do even better.
We are going to be also partnering with Downs Video Fest, with Rick Hell and Bart.
And they have been great supporters of young filmmakers.
That is what my mission is.
That is my personal agenda here is that I want to empower high school and freshman students
in college to really take this seriously and think of this career just as valid as any
other successful, you know, careers that they might be dreaming about.
I love it when our guests drive the show because I get to sit back and listen.
No, no, don't be.
I like it.
I like it.
Oh, and by the way, let me tell you about the 24-hour film festival.
Yes, please.
So we have a 24-hour video race that is sponsored by the Dallas Video Association.
So that is Bart Wise's brainchild, who is a professor of film at UT Arlington.
And the guy that runs the Dallas Video Fest, who is a great friend of the show, he does
our show every year at Dallas Video Fest, we are a huge fans of Bart.
Yeah, I am sure you are going to be interviewing him before this is over.
I don't want to see him.
I have seen him yet.
The 24-hour video race is happening on, let's see, it is May 13th, May 13th, that night.
So everybody goes over to the Angelica right before midnight on that Friday night and you
go in and they give you the criteria, usually there is like a line that has to be said
at theme and a location, maybe a prom.
It's like a filmmaking scavenger.
Yes, exactly.
So they give you those things and they go, okay, ready, set, go, and you have 24 hours
to go, create the story, write it, shoot it, edit it, all the post production stuff, render
it, deliver an actual little film by midnight the next day, you believe that?
You should see how they are going to get involved in this thing, I mean this is a big deal
and they talk about every year, I don't know if I can pull that off.
It's so fun.
I mean so many people show up in that theater, it packs everybody from high school kids
all the way to veterans that just want to do it for fun and you get into groups and you
have a blast and Bart has a saying, you make best friends and you break up like marriages
in this process.
But it's so cool to see some of the final products and I believe that some of the winners
actually get featured in some of the festivals down the road.
I'm a big fan of the 24 hour video race because to see these people to go from nothing,
they walk in the room, they don't even know what they're going to be filming because
they have to get the rules when they walk in the room and then to see what comes out
of that.
It's kind of like if you watched the Academy Awards this year where they had the Walmart
thing where four different filmmakers were given a Walmart receipt and they were like
make a movie.
I still like Seth Rogan's the best.
That was just me.
We're all about shameless, we want you to enjoy the party but before we do, we're all
about shameless self promotion on this show.
So we want to talk about the short on Sunday, the first ones at 12, 30, the second ones
at 330.
Give us everything people need to know, website, social media, whatever you want to
plug.
This is your time.
Yeah.
So the shorts is the high school shorts.
It is a collection of short films by North Texas high school filmmakers and it is promoted
by Dallas International Film Festival.
We really appreciate you.
One of those shorts are filmmakers that will also need help and with their next projects,
you can donate to Pegasus Film Festival.
We'd really appreciate that.
You can go to PegasusFilmFestival.com, very straightforward, PegasusFilmFestival.com and
you can donate to us there.
And also, I'd like to promote Flicks by Chicks and filmmakers.
You still have time to enter into that competition and also we always need people who have
a love for the art of filmmaking to support female filmmakers.
And we're going to get done to get with you about maybe having us come and speak to you.
We'd love to speak to your students.
We really would be honored to do so.
Yes, yes, yes, please do.
That would be amazing.
And please do.
We would absolutely love that.
Thank you so very much.
Thank you for joining us.
Thank you for being here.
Yeah, thank you.
Go enjoy the party.
Yeah, I'm about to go see a short block over at the end of the day.
All right, we'll go do it.
Oh, yeah, get over there.
Yeah, be safe.
Thanks, guys.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
You are the same as the clubhouse podcast.
We're normally live on Sunday nights, but tonight we are live at the first opening weekend.
There's like a second opening weekend.
I cannot talk today.
The opening weekend of the Dallas International Film Festival.
This is the 11th of one of these things and it's our fourth.
I know, dude, I'm excited.
This is one of my favorite shows that we do every year, both this weekend and next weekend.
We're all, again, like I just said, we're going to be here next Friday nights.
And if you know anything about the history of this show, if there's one show,
you do not want to miss.
It's the one we're going to do next Friday night.
Same place we are right now, where we will be in the post DFS honors show.
And that's going to, that's going to be where the wheels fall off.
But in a good way.
I mean, we never have the wheels on to begin with.
But I'm just saying.
All right, Don's already got us our next guest.
I'm good because that means we don't have to talk very much.
And that's good news.
So we're going to let you guys introduce yourselves because that's kind of become the tradition on this show.
Just talk just right up on it and talk right into it.
Who ever wants to go first?
Just play the chorus.
Ladies first.
Ladies first.
Oh, well, thank you.
My name is Chelsea Lee.
I'm a makeup artist here in Dallas, Texas.
All right.
Right on.
I'm an actor.
My name is Zach Rose.
Thanks for having me.
Well, thank you guys for being with us.
You couldn't have picked a nice tonight to be outside.
That's why we picked it.
We knew exactly what was going to happen tonight.
That's why we showed up.
And this is the first time we've ever done our show outside.
So the planets kind of align nicely for you.
Technically the second night of the festival.
But I really considered this the first night of the festival.
Because last night really, that's the kickoff.
Everybody's doing one thing.
Very.
Tonight is when it's actually a festival because there's like 90 different things going on at one time.
What have you guys been able to do so far?
Or are you just getting started?
Chelsea.
I'm just getting started myself.
But looking for really long time of good times with a lot of people.
And you'll have it for the next 10 days.
Trust me.
Yeah.
Now this is kicking off for me.
And I'm just here to support the local filmmakers.
And it's my first time at Diff.
And I'm excited to be here.
This festival is amazing.
It's what the programming.
If you're this is your first festival, you pick the right one.
This lineup this year.
Every year they raise the bar.
This lineup.
I set it on Facebook and Lee.
Back to me up.
There's only one word to describe this lineup.
And it's stout.
No, absolutely.
No, this isn't my first festival.
I won't name drop other festivals.
I'm going to enjoy the first dip, though.
It's your first dip.
Absolutely.
It's my first dip.
And no, it's exciting to see how it's evolved.
I've been around here for a decade in Dallas.
And it's really exciting to see how the community's grown.
And the artistic output is really grown.
Beyond any measure, we could have expected.
It really has.
And we talk every year about how more and more productions
are coming here.
And it's growing exponentially.
And stuff that you didn't even realize.
I was talking to somebody the other day.
He was somewhere getting his hair cut.
And the lady that was cutting his hair was like, yeah,
I'm just kind of on some downtime.
I do some work in deep element where they were filming Gotham.
And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Back to parade up a couple of floats.
Yeah, certainly.
They were filming Gotham in deep element.
I did not know that.
They apparently did about half this season down there.
You're kidding.
I had no idea.
Yes.
Nobody told nobody.
I didn't get in the memo.
They're not telling the state legislature.
I didn't get in the memo.
They're not telling the state legislature.
I know.
Well, what kind of things, what like right now?
What are you chomping at the bit to see?
Oh, well, I bomb city for me because I.
I'm right there with you.
There's a few that I know that are in it.
And I'm just excited to see you.
And it was shot right here in Dallas.
So that's number one on my list.
I'm definitely looking forward to bomb city.
I kind of like that punk rock feel.
And looking forward to seeing this DP.
I've heard some great things.
I'm hoping to catch it.
I mean, it's on while we're here.
But I'm hoping to catch it on the second go run.
I think it's showing you again later this weekend.
Yeah, I think tomorrow even.
Yeah, we're going to tell everybody that though.
I want to get a good seat.
I want my seat.
And I want to see the bill packs contribute.
I'm excited about that too.
Absolutely.
Goodness.
What an example is especially for other actors.
You know, it's a marathon.
And then the way that he's, you know,
at the character and integrity,
that throughout a career of really fighting a battle
of just trying to stay relevant.
And he's the guy that's got the tri-fectic
as he was killed by an alien.
By a terminator.
And what's the predator?
And by a predator.
I think the only actor that's got all three of them.
I get killed all the time on TV shows.
And nothing cool like that ever happens to me.
Well, there's a new predator.
Confilled coming out.
Hey, I go out with a predator.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I always don't call it a dandelion predator for me.
I did all night.
So, I mean, is there anything outside of bomb city?
Because I mean, there's a ton of movies this year.
Oh, goodness.
I mean, I've seen two tomorrow.
I know for a fact.
I know tomorrow morning.
I'm getting up and getting down to the Angelica
because I, 44 pages.
Yes.
The 75th anniversary issue of highlights
for children's magazines.
Oh, yeah.
Very cool.
You know, if you went to a doctor's office
when you were a kid.
And you were always mad because some other kid
did the puzzle before you.
I know.
A race.
Have some courtesy.
You're race.
Or just give it like multiple issues.
So that's tomorrow.
Adelt.
I'm very interested in tomorrow.
Absolutely.
I've actually got a list of films that I'm going to have to
send to John to see if I can get screener links for
because I have a day job.
And I'm not going to be able to see everything I want to see.
Rob, you got a day job?
I have to.
This is terrible news.
I wish this cut me a check.
But this is, this is a love thing.
This isn't a check thing.
Oh, okay.
We're all on the same boat here, folks.
Let's get to sail, Dylan.
I think this is the first time since we've been here
that, like, the tribute to 1967, which I think is amazing.
There's some great, there's showing the original jungle book
over the next week.
We're getting...
I auditioned for that, too.
Wow.
Didn't book it, of course.
You're...
In 1967, you're doing wow.
Well, I was pulling around somewhere.
I will go to the descriptive, but...
What?
Colonel Hyde?
That was a hype, alright?
Or you caught, I mean...
Don't...
Let's not call it out.
I mean, I could have played all those roles.
You just don't strike me as a mogully type, you know?
Well, yeah, that's a little bit much.
I have range, friend.
I have range.
I have range.
I'm sorry, I forgot who I was talking to.
We're showing the original Camelot this coming week.
That's coming to dinner, cool hand Luke.
And I think this is the most classic films that they've shown
since we've been coming to the festival.
Okay.
Which is kind of a different deal.
Have you guys been able to get down to the performing arts center
at all and see the madness down there?
No, I avoid madness if I can.
Oh, but it's good madness.
And you're an actor.
Absolutely.
See?
Once again, I've got range.
Shit.
There it is.
I just know how this industry can be.
There is no avoiding madness.
No, that's unfortunate.
And I think there's a lot more venues than there's been
as the past two.
Yes.
So, there's going to be a lot of me bouncing back and forth
between here and the Angelica just because there's...
Well, luckily we're only going to be here for the equipment.
Now, it'll have to be in the car for the chunk of the day.
That counts as cardio, right?
Yeah, there.
All this stuff that got a haul on.
I'm counting it as cardio.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's just...
I'm really, really excited for this year.
And I'm such a fan of everybody involved with the festival.
Guys like Lee and James Faust and John Wildman.
I love James and John Wildman.
They are very good friends.
They haven't burned any bridges with me.
I want to tell you.
And let me tell you, Mr. Faust can throw down a mean
when Doves Cry is.
Yes.
He did last a six.
That was two.
That was two years ago.
No, it was last year.
No, it was two years ago, too.
We did it two years ago.
He did it with Doves Cry two years ago.
I remember he did it last year because of...
Yes.
And it was beautiful.
Most times.
And it's...
And guy hosting the show...
The karaoke show next is a dear friend of the show as well,
who I've known for years.
So I'm excited to see Devon next weekend.
I know he's handling fan expo this weekend.
So we're not going to get this evening.
I call the Billy Joel songs right now.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
That's your boy.
I may have to concede because he's a guest.
This is true.
I'm going to have to concede.
But...
The politician too, Rob.
Well, I did karaoke for a living for 16 years.
What?
So yeah, I was a DJ for 21 years.
I was a DJ for 21 years.
Just saying.
There is less madness in your line of work.
The brother is not...
He's not lying.
I don't know.
It's my school necklace or ranger neck, Rob.
I don't know.
My cross protects me from the bad.
That's all I'm saying.
So I mean...
I've...
My brain just locked up on me because there's just so much going on
and I'm so excited for everything.
I want to make sure that you guys get everything out there
and you need to get out there because we're all about
shame, we'll self promotion on this show.
Absolutely.
So give everybody social media.
Give us a website.
Give us everything.
My website is makeup4HD.com, which is a number four.
Okay.
I'm not spelled out.
And I've got some films that will be coming out.
Hoping to have them in Diff next year.
Any that you can talk about right now?
Hopefully the harrowing.
It's a John Keyes film.
Really enjoyed working on it.
I have to say it's one of my very favorites I've ever worked on.
The ghost note is also going to be coming out.
We're hoping to see that.
It's some festivals coming out as well.
And just been doing a lot of fun stuff here and there.
TV shows, stuff like that recently.
Most fun you've had.
I'd say in the last six months on the show.
I did have a really good time on ESPN 30 for 30.
Which one?
Did what Carter lost?
It's not out yet.
I'll just say that one hasn't here.
I've seen every 30 for 30.
So you have my attention.
And we shot it on 16 millimeter.
And it's it's brilliant.
As in Dallas Carter.
Dallas Carter.
So it was about Dallas Carter high.
Yes, we had an 88 Corvette.
Iraq.
That we actually got for the shoot.
We had an old cop car.
We had everything.
It was amazing.
It was it was a flawless shoot.
And really enjoyed all of it.
And that's been kind of that whole story.
If you're talking about the era of the Friday night lights era.
That's been kind of a hot topic in the last few years.
Because there was a narrative film that was done a couple of years ago.
We had a couple of their cast members on at Dallas Video Fest.
Yes.
And it kind of kind of came and went.
I haven't had a chance to see it.
Because I'm not from here originally.
So I wasn't really caught up in all that.
But I did read the book of Friday night lights.
Which is one of the best written books I've ever read.
Wow.
For people around the country.
Don't judge on the movie.
Because the movie misses some very huge points about that whole story.
And it actually twists the end.
Which is kind of weird.
I haven't seen it yet.
The film with the Billy Bob Thornton and everything.
It doesn't.
They change the ending.
Okay.
To read the book and what.
Now you worked on the story.
But knowing the story of Dallas Carter.
Because this is about Odessa Permian.
Where has the Carter stories a different story.
But they do intersect.
Right.
That book.
Because the guy worked for the New York Times, I believe.
And he lived in Odessa for a year.
So write the book.
And so he spends the first 50 pages giving you the history of Midland Odessa.
Wow.
And it's so well written.
I don't read much.
I burned through that book in about three days.
Nice.
So the fact that you guys are doing the Dallas Carter story.
And it's going to be a 30 for 30.
You have any idea when that's going to air?
How they said yet?
Yeah.
Within the next probably three to six months.
All right.
My DVR will catch you.
Because I have it.
I haven't sat in pass on it.
I do.
I'd catch them all.
Sir.
I love that stuff.
Yeah.
I know.
I had a very blessed year as an actor.
I just got back from Al Capoco.
I got to work with Michael Madsen and Paul Sorvino.
And I'm too bad.
Yeah.
Tough game.
I'm living, right?
I'm a big Sorvino fan.
I got to go to Cuba.
I did this movie called Havana Darkness.
It's the first English and Cuban film done in Cuba.
Really?
And yeah.
No.
So I'm excited.
The first one's called Welcome to Al Capoco.
It's an action film.
Kind of action comedy.
I get to drive my car around and get a little crazy.
I get to do my own stunts.
I'll have you know.
And Michael Madsen and Paul Sorvino and Paul Sorvino.
And William Baldwin.
That's not a bad day right there.
And Guillermo Yvonne.
America doesn't know about Guillermo Yvonne just yet.
But they will soon.
And he directed that.
And he plays a part in that as well.
Then Havana Darkness, Guillermo Yvonne directs that.
And it's myself, Carolina Ruvasa and Guillermo Yvonne.
And you know, did Quinn as South and here in Dallas?
Quinn as South, which debuted.
They showed the premiere here last year.
And I forgot about that.
At the Dallas International Film Festival.
So they showed the premiere of this.
Yeah.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
I'm excited.
It's back.
They killed me in the first season.
So I won't be back.
It's television.
Hey.
What are you going to do?
Flashbacks.
I got to work with Alicia Braga.
I'm all right.
You know, I'm doing all right in life.
And you got to get over there and got to check for it.
I did.
That's America.
Yeah.
She was a nice dress too.
She was looking beautiful.
And DJ Scott directed that.
I worked with him on Longmire as well, the director.
And so it's been a very blessed year.
A ton of stuff.
But you know, look me up if you have time to do so.
If not, read something.
Social media.
I mean, you want to throw it out.
Just Zach Rose.
You know, look me up on IMDB and support me if you can.
JCH.
Not a case.
Yeah.
Make sure we got everybody spelled right.
Or O.S.E.
That's crazy.
Very nice.
They're scaring me.
We've got to.
We've got to.
We've got to.
We've got to channel the goose sometimes.
He's with us.
Okay, I'm back.
But we want you guys to go enjoy the party.
But we want to thank you so much for sitting with us.
Oh, absolutely.
And we'll be here next party too if you want to come back and sit again.
Because we're all about anybody that wants to come promote what they've got going on.
Because that's kind of what we're doing.
Yeah.
That's recurring.
I love recurring roles.
We will have more by the end of this.
Oh, absolutely.
Thank you guys so much for stopping by.
Wow.
Thank you.
We're over a quarter of the way done, sir.
Already?
We're at the 35 minute mark.
We're burning through this thing.
Because this is one of two shows we're doing this weekend.
Thank you so much.
We've got another show in less than 48 hours, sir.
How?
We're going to be back at the mothership on Sunday night.
I remember this.
It's WrestleMania weekend.
Indeed.
So Sunday night is WrestleMania 33.
We will be doing our unofficial official live pre show from the studio.
Sunday night, a little earlier than normal.
We'll be on at six Eastern three Pacific.
Because the paper view starts at seven Eastern instead of eight Eastern.
Is that right?
I think I got that right.
Thanks.
It is the ultimate throw ride.
At least that's what they're telling.
We're going to have our unofficial official pre show Sunday night.
So make sure you join us as we're going to prepare you for WrestleMania 33.
There's a lot we're going to need to talk about.
But I will tell you this.
I'm going to say this right out of the box.
This is going to tease the show with.
Both go home shows this week.
The weakest go home shows before a paper view.
Much less a major, much less the major that I've ever seen.
Why do they keep doing this?
I don't know.
You know how many notes I have between both shows?
Two.
And they were both smack down.
Wow.
No raw notes.
Wow.
That's that's an indictment on the industry.
I'm the captain of the silver lining.
I will find the silver lining.
I could not find any.
You couldn't find a silver lining with a pickaxe and a treasure map.
I had an auger and couldn't get it.
Okay.
It's I'm really I'm it's really souring on me to the point where it's just hold it for Sunday night.
We do want to see if you're coming down to the party and you get into the party right here at the press lounge.
We do have an ice chandelier sitting right inside the door.
Where they're still a art wall.
Always a huge sponsor of the festival every year that we've done the festival.
Mm-hmm.
They're actually selling the chalices this year.
Is that what they call them?
Goblets.
Goblets.
Yeah.
Which if you've seen the commercial with Matt Damon where they talk about buying the the the goblet and helping support get clean water for
For people around the world pushed by the Matt Damon.
They're actually selling those this year.
Come on by their 13 bucks a piece and all of that money goes to the cherry that's bringing clean drinking water
To underdeveloped countries around the world. So we want to make sure you get on that.
We have another guest.
I haven't have a chance to have a taste of my tasty beverage because we are full throttle.
Go ahead and put your headphones on so you can hear yourself all right.
Let me turn my kiss on and go ahead and tell everybody who we are.
Hey, I am Ariane Martin.
Okay, fair enough.
We're there.
We're there.
Because I always have this fear of screwing somebody's name up.
I know.
And mine's a tough one.
Well, my last name is Irvin.
And so there's so I've seen it spelled like 19 different ways over over my lifetime and said 20 more.
So I'm always like I think I've got this.
I've got a 50 50 shot.
Yeah.
Well, I like to tell people it's like Marion.
There we go.
Just with no in because people call me Ariana, Adrian, Adriana, Ariel.
I don't know.
There's so many versions.
We've talked to you before.
Have we not?
You probably have.
If I've talked to you, he's talking to you.
He's a veteran to the.
It's okay.
It's a dip.
It's so.
Because I went to go look her up on Facebook and I've already sent her a friend request and it wasn't done today.
Have I done it?
I apologize.
I apologize.
I was like five thousand.
You'll accept Rick Shoes and Devon Pikes, but not mine.
Don't listen to him.
Wow.
He's old and sorry.
Leave him.
Thank you guys so much.
Have a great night.
Wow.
You're scaring off our guests.
I will look forward to getting people to sit down.
Well, they're when they could be party and they're talking to these two slubs.
Don't scare them away.
I'm just saying.
We'll connect later.
Okay.
I just have too many creepers on there.
I don't understand.
I understand.
I can't debate that.
So tell us what's been going on lately.
Like the festival's going on.
Have you had a chance to go to any film jet or are you waiting?
I got to go to the art of film that the Dow's film.
When did they die?
Yeah.
And that was amazing.
That was absolutely.
And usually that's in November.
Yes.
So they scheduled it because it tied into the opening night film this year.
Yeah.
So we kind of got it all in one fell swoop.
We were actually booked for another event that night.
So we even get to go.
Oh, so you missed it.
Yeah.
But tell us how things went.
Oh, it was just fantastic.
And I got to meet Fei down away.
And she was just a pleasure.
Everybody was.
Did she just personify Grace?
She really does.
She just she floats.
She doesn't walk.
She just kind of floats.
Yeah.
And I'm always weird about meeting celebrities anyway because you're like,
I really don't want to bother you.
And you don't want to be that person.
I don't want to be that person.
Exactly.
I don't want to take a picture with you.
I'm sorry.
You know, like I would love to.
But you know, you just don't want to bother them.
But she was so graceful.
It was like absolutely.
And wanted to, you know, her advice was just keep studying.
And, you know, just keep at it.
Keep going.
And yeah, it was a lovely night.
Had a great time.
What's on your agenda to see at the Film Festival this year?
Um, I wanted to see bomb city.
But I know it was jam packed.
So I'm going to try and catch it tomorrow.
I said there is going to be tomorrow night as well.
Yes.
Oh, Don, Don needs a microphone.
Oh, well, I'm going to bomb city tomorrow.
But I, I saw her.
And don't look into basement too.
That was here last year.
You're before.
You're before.
Yeah, I was there.
I stayed late for that one.
Do you remember me now?
Yes.
So that's probably where we talked to you.
Yeah.
So I just had to put that in.
I got to go by.
First to blur.
You know.
And the award for most awkward interview of the year on this show goes to.
You're welcome.
You're absolutely welcome.
So what else are you looking forward to?
Um, I mean, because I've got a list of mile long this year because this lineup is so insane.
Yeah, it's a great.
It's a great one.
I would just be lucky to actually catch anything to be honest.
I've had to make a schedule.
Because if I hadn't made a schedule, I'd be screwed.
Yeah.
Yeah, I sit down when they release the schedule.
And I just open an Excel workbook and I just lay everything out.
So I'm like, OK, I have to work on this day.
So I can't be here.
So I have to request this.
But I mean, this is the craziest schedule I've ever seen in a very, very good way.
Well, that's awesome.
I mean, we were talking earlier.
I was a DJ for 21 years.
I hosted karaoke for 16 years.
They're doing a documentary about cassette tapes this year.
It's called cassette, a mixtape documentary that there is no way in hell I am missing.
You know, 44 pages, I'm going to see that tomorrow morning.
Uh-huh.
About the history of the 75th anniversary issue of highlights for children.
Which, you know, Daniel, Daniel, say, don't not talk.
I was going to say, I'm a huge fan of the idea of taking cassette tapes and sticking them to board
and then framing them like their art and hanging them on the wall the way people do that now.
There used to be a place where a block from where we're sitting right now that had a big Michael Jackson like that.
It's called the retro cafe.
Well, Diggs Tacos does that a lot.
Yeah.
And there's just so much cool stuff.
It's mind blowing.
I mean, I have to take the day after the festival off just so that I can sleep.
Yes.
You know, we met.
Because you're not going to sleep for a whole week.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
I got a three day week at work this week because I'm taking Monday and Friday off.
And then I'm taking the following Monday off and praying that I catch up.
What's been going on since we last saw you?
It's been two years.
I mean, there's got to be stuff going on.
Um, just moved back to Dallas.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It was like a flash.
Or a big sigh of relief.
I just finished a film with Michael Irons side called The Heroing directed by John Keys.
Somebody, one of your co-workers was just here.
Was that Chelsea?
Yes, yes, yes.
She didn't make up.
Yes, she did.
Like the second time in the last ten minutes, we've heard that film mentioned.
Yeah, yes.
So that's in post right now and should be finished close to May, I think.
So that's exciting.
What else?
Yeah.
I mean, again, shame ourselves.
The motion.
Put it off there.
Oh my goodness.
What else?
I have a five and a half year old.
Ah.
I am homeschooling while being, you know, freelance.
So that's awesome.
Um, so what else?
The cutest and most photogenic five year old you'd ever, you'd ever see.
And then you just throw that around.
No, it's true.
Definitely came from parents who understand what a camera is.
Okay, like a little magic fairy that, like, comes into a room and everybody has to touch him.
He's, uh, he looks like the kid from Jerry McGuire.
Okay.
People, yeah, he gets that a lot.
Human headways, he gets that a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, um, Christmas story kit.
Because he has glasses.
Have you prepared him properly as parental family units and made sure he knew the weight of a human head?
No.
Other things like that.
Okay.
No.
He's charming in his own way.
He doesn't need to, like, have movie quotes to make him cute.
Yeah.
These can smell fear.
These can smell fear?
That's a Jerry McGuire line from a little kid.
I haven't seen that film in like 10 years.
Okay, I couldn't quote anything.
I've seen it since it ran theatrically.
Outside of you complete me.
That's pretty much the only one.
Show me the money.
That was a good one.
Actually, most of the lines I remember from that film, I can't say on this show because it's a family show.
I know that I'm your mother ever.
I want to remember.
Yeah, we're just going to not go down this road because it's going to get nothing.
It's a weirder.
You're getting nowhere.
I like to say it, but I kind of know the lines around that one because his response was Troy Ackman's like, you know,
first first four year passing record for like the NFL that like he would tell him a little like side thing is the little kid.
And then his response, one of them was a cowboys statistic.
So unfortunately, I might have just stuck in my brain that way.
One of my favorite stories from that there was a Rolling Stone article where Cameron Crowe who I am a huge fan of.
The man makes me say anything so he gets a lifetime pass with me.
Yeah.
He did a production diary that he gave the Rolling Stone and when he caught when he talked to Cuba, good and junior.
It was a day before his audition.
And he said he was he called me the night before and told me how much he was going to kill this.
And I was like, okay, he would just come in tomorrow.
That'll be fine.
But it was the scene he auditioned for was the scene in the locker room.
And so he walks in.
I like the air dry and he says, so let me make sure I'm clear.
I'm naked in this scene, right?
And I said, yeah, and he just dropped Crowe right in the middle of the room.
I was like, I had to give him the role at that point.
Like when somebody commits like that, you can't not.
It's just, ugh.
I've got the way too much adrenaline flowing for this thing right now because I love this time of year.
It's called day three.
I've got the day three jitters.
I'm only at day three.
And what's really cool is the people that you meet and connect with at this festival too.
Like people like Daniel, we know because of this festival.
People like Marcus that just walked by a little while ago.
We know him because of this.
He's being ninja like.
That's the way.
That's the way you go.
He's lurking over my shoulder here.
You know, and the way you know those things from stage right to stage left.
And the fact that just as press members, we all get to know each other through these things.
And then we see each other throughout the year after this because we're at screenings and things like that.
Let's talk about movies coming up that maybe there aren't in the film festival.
What are you jazzed about right now?
Oh, wow.
We can talk about that.
You know, honestly, I saw Pete Stragon.
This is in the fest, but I'm going to throw it out there.
I saw Pete Stragon way long ago, but only on a screener.
Never really got to see a big screen version.
And so I'm really looking forward to that.
And that makes me think of some of the other stuff because I just saw Batman Lego movie before it.
That movie and I loved it.
The beginning alone was like, black.
Every great movie starts black.
And when he goes to the DCs, like the house that Batman built, that's right.
I said it Superman.
Come at me, bro.
I just will our net kills it in that film.
He pretty much does on it.
And I am biased to anything Batman to begin with.
So I had to wait a couple of weeks to go see it because I was like,
and if this movie sucks, you may see a grown man cry.
I was a huge fan of the first one, though.
And I didn't think it was a movie.
You know, I'm a big video game player.
And I never once really enjoyed the Lego video game.
Really?
I can't do the game.
Oh, the video game movies.
Okay.
Okay.
The ones that they do is theirs as a video game.
The one offs and stuff.
They don't have the same feel, I think, that they're movies.
And their movies are just so beyond.
They really remind me of some of the Warner Brothers cartoons of the 80s
that you'd come home from and had all the in-you-indos and...
Animaniacs, tiny tunes, freak-as-the-way.
Animaniacs, amazing.
I got video tapes full of episodes of those shows to this day that are at my house.
And my wife's like, can we please, no, we're not throwing those away.
We just bought my son DuckTales and...
Which is coming back this summer.
Yeah, Rescue Ranger.
Chip and Dale.
Yes.
And he loves them.
And like, mom and dad grew up with those.
Oh, that's so cool.
Chad's daughter, who's my goddaughter.
She turns 24 this year.
Thank you for reminding me about that.
Oh goodness.
She tells us all the time.
I wish I grew up when you guys grew up.
Yeah.
Because the stuff that I grew up with sucks.
I like your stuff.
Like, she's a huge Phil Collins fan.
Which makes me happy.
That's badass.
Yeah.
And...
And that's why there's a lot of things that are coming out that are based on nostalgia.
Completely.
Because the time that we grew up, it was a little simpler.
There wasn't.
And some of it hits.
And some of it misses.
And I'll tell you why I definitely think that's why it's...
Stranger things.
Stranger things.
Oh my god.
It's so pretty for Halloween.
Yes.
That person is so amazing.
That's why you can do so much more before the time of cell phones.
Mm-hmm.
Because, you know, if you have a ghost or, you know, a bad guy or something,
it's like, well, just call 911 on your cell phone.
Yeah.
Don't run upstairs.
I'm on the rovering phone.
Oh, they ran upstairs.
You know, that should be...
That should be...
I'm probably dropping a million dollar dime here.
But, you know, that should be an app on your phone that you can road around.
I bet there is one.
I bet there is one.
I will tell you something that's coming out.
And we're kind of under embargo, so I can't go real deep into it.
But would you really should go see here?
I think it's next weekend.
Gifted.
What?
I'm sorry.
It's called Gifted.
Gifted.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I was in a commercial with a little girl.
Where are you really?
I was.
She's like Cook's Medical Center.
She absolutely.
I was.
She's fantastic.
And you could tell.
I mean, she was five, I think.
And she had all the dialogue.
It was like pages.
And she just nailed it.
Every single take.
And it was like, who is this child?
Apparently gifted.
Yeah.
So, she's a movie star at like five and a half.
Yeah.
We'll have our review up next week.
We'll have to record that.
We'll have to record that.
Yes.
Great.
It was.
So, it was the guy that directed 500 days of summer.
The Spider-Man film.
Oh, there we go.
That's too easy to understand.
No, stay with me if the guy that directed the Spider-Man films.
Directing Captain America.
And a film that's a Chick Flick version of Logan.
So, it all kind of works out.
Is that gifted?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's gifted in a nutshell.
That's what she needs to know.
What is the Chick Flick version of a Logan movie?
Gifted.
Yeah.
Apparently.
When you see Gifted, you'll get it.
Like, it's that same style of.
Correct.
Correct.
That's a little more credit than in that movie.
But no, Gifted is really, really good.
I was very impressed with that film.
I'm trying to think of what else I'm really, really jazz for that's coming up quick.
I can't see that from here.
Alien?
Oh, Alien!
yes.
That new poster freaks me out.
You just flared to his switch.
I'm an alien junkie.
Damn, oh!
That new poster freaks me out.
It's Pavlovian. Don just appears that in nowhere when someone mentions anything.
What?
What?
Also looking at guardians.
Give it to the view for next.
Oh, are we giving next?
Hey, Don.
I don't know.
Are we?
Oh.
Oh, he fell tired.
That's what that was.
I'm good.
I got my water.
One of the benefits of being on this show.
We're a friend of the show, sir.
Beer caddy.
You know that.
You're a friend of the show.
And we always love having you on.
I'm trying to think of what else we could talk about.
My brain is so fried right now.
And it's way too early for my brain to be this fried.
Day three.
Cheers.
You know.
I know.
I throw this orange juice bottle.
But tomorrow, I'm actually, I'm seeing Delt, which I'm very much looking forward to.
The concept of Delt.
Have you seen this?
Well, I think we ought to talk a little bomb city because it's going on right now.
And we're going to have somebody that's in that screening going to be joining us when
he gets out because Hunter Carson is going to stop by.
Oh.
He does our show every year too.
Yeah.
So he said, as soon as bomb city is over, I'm going to come see you.
Nice.
We can't wait to hang out with him for that panel of Alex press screening.
You know, since he is kind of the sponsor of David Gordon Green coming into town for the
festival.
Yes.
Director of Pineapple Express.
So, you know, that's one of the things I'm definitely looking forward to at this
fest.
And bomb city filmed here in our car bomb city filmed here, which I, and that's one thing
is Dallas is just getting the entertainment industry is getting bigger and bigger and bigger
like.
For years, we were like, yeah, we got the show that was kind of sort of filmed here, but
kind of wasn't.
And then we've got Walker Texas Ranger, like that's the list and Robo and Robo and Robo
got.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm sure you went down for the the film incentives push in Austin, didn't you?
We were represented by the other.
Oh, yeah.
You got I went down, you know, made, made my piece.
So hopefully we, you know, we can get more things like Marvel TV shows shooting here.
Yeah, we were just talking earlier that apparently they filmed some of this season of Gotham
down here in deep element had no clue.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Which that shows really got to get the wheels back on it nice and quiet in and out.
That's, that's like a cool way to do it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, and people don't understand like this is really turning into a big deal
in this town, but this town is really, really coming forward and they're moving forward
quick and they're rolling with the times.
And I'm looking forward to seeing more, more cool stuff happening here.
Well, you know, I also helped co-write a film with Brian Massey and
Fred of the show, Brian Massey, Tom Huckabee, called Dead Fellas.
And it's got a ton of people that were, it were pretty much all locals.
But then we, you know, a few namesakes, Eric Roberts, fair wide is in it.
Fair wide.
That was a chance favorite people in the entire world.
So we had her on the show last year.
And I think Chad's bringing just a locked up when she sat down.
Because she's another one that just kind of glides.
I think she does.
Tom Huckabee says it best when he's like, there's the only movie star in in Dallas.
It's like her feet don't touch the ground when you have walks.
She's gone.
But you just moved back.
You just moved back.
You just moved back though.
No, no, no, no.
It's established thing.
It's his living in Fort Worth that hasn't there.
He still thinks you're in LA.
It's cool.
Well, in a really nice time.
There she goes again.
Hope you all have a really good night.
Okay, we got a hunter coming on.
Oh, yeah, I'll give that seat up.
Okay, before while we're getting that set up, I need shameless little promotion.
Websites, social media, everything.
I mean, I'm on IMDB, Aryan Martin.
And you can try and Facebook friend me.
But it won't accept it unless you have a really cool.
You got your actor page.
Don't you?
I do.
It's really.
I got your actor page.
I'm so glad at this social media.
I'm getting better.
I promise.
I'll post something tonight.
There you go.
There you go.
So, yeah.
If we can change one light.
I'm on Instagram.
You'll see lots of pictures of me.
Really cute son.
But yeah.
So, Aryan Martin.
IMDB.
Actress.
Extraordinary.
And thank you for joining us again.
And we're going to be here next Friday too.
So if you come around, since it comes down with us.
Okay.
Thank you, ma'am.
Let me now bring on the first guy I saw tonight when I got here.
That wasn't Chad because he wrote me here with me.
That's a good start to him.
I know.
And a guy that does our show every year.
And it's nicer to us than he ever has to be.
Oh.
And we're always happy to have Hunter Carson with us.
Welcome back, sir.
Thank you.
So the movie's over?
Yes, Rob.
All right.
I need to know.
I need to know your feelings on.
Because you just saw bomb city.
I saw bomb city.
It's a story about a culture.
Whose pop culture is it.
Invested in loud music.
Sports.
Anger.
Whose subculture.
Is invested in loud music.
Anger.
The culture I've talked about, of course, is American culture.
And this film.
While it is based on true events is.
Thank you so much.
A stunning tour de force for young filmmakers.
Very nice.
Yeah.
And this is a Dallas based group.
These guys.
These young men and young women.
This is Dallas based group.
They put their hearts on the screen.
It shows.
It was packed.
And I don't think there was a dry eye.
Really?
By the end of it.
I'll tell you what.
I will not give any spoilers.
Okay.
If you want to know what the story is about, you can find it out.
It's on the internet.
Let me give kudos to all the actors.
The writer director who is an easily emerging a tour.
Easily emerging a tour.
And the producers.
And I do want to say.
Hey, man.
You know, a major dodge.
It's stunning performance in this thing.
As do all the cast.
I definitely think he has every right to the frosted tips.
Oh, yeah.
All the way to the frosted tips.
And this coming from a man who is a filmmaker in his own right
because I follow you on social media.
Thank you.
You guys are doing work.
The pictures you're putting up.
I'm like, this is kind of asleep.
Yeah.
I do.
I sleep on planes.
You're really used to sleep.
That's my biggest fear.
So I couldn't even sleep on the planes.
Right.
How do you deal with the time zones?
You just kind of sleep when you're tired.
That's kind of how I look at balls with your feet in the carpet.
No, man.
Because then you end up running over the glass.
Yeah.
And you're having to save your wife from a bunch of tearing.
I'm telling you.
So do you want to talk about the project at all?
Because I know you've been doing a lot of work.
You know what?
I've actually been working with a group out of California for a long time.
Sumo Jack productions.
They are wonderful filmmakers.
We like the Sumo Jack.
We love the Sumo Jack.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The name caught my attention.
Wonderful group of filmmakers.
They are all in their own right.
Very talented.
One of the producers, Terry James has several Emmys.
The director out there, Paul Morel.
I've been working for years.
The DP.
Royce Dudley is actually, Royce Dudley is a matter of fact,
runs the Netflix studios out there in California.
Oh really?
Yeah, he was shooting with Rob Snyder.
The week before we came in, he took the weekend off to go shoot with us.
And we had a really, really, really good time.
We have a project that's called Rusty Revolver.
Hashtag Rusty Revolver.
Hey, I'm sorry.
You know us.
We're about self-promotion.
I'm telling you.
So promote a whale friend.
And we had the extremely talented Vernon Wells with us.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
I'm telling you, this guy's all over, so she'll send me with pictures from the set.
And I'll stop down every time.
Oh, well thank you.
Because I mean, I love it when people that we know from the show are continuing to have continued success.
And we want to make sure that we support you as much as we can.
So of course I'm not stopping down.
God bless the Googleable world at a film festival.
Oh yeah.
It keeps me surviving.
Yeah.
You survive on Graham basically.
Yes.
Yes.
Gigabytes.
Well, terabytes at this point.
But pixels.
Pixels and gigabytes and terabytes.
And I may be more machined than man now.
I dig a bite, your gigabyte bite.
Oh god.
I may be more machined than man, but my machine was made in about 82.
So that's the problem.
What else are you looking forward to in the festival, sir?
You know what?
I'm looking forward to a film called Delt.
I'm seeing it tomorrow.
Okay.
Wait.
If I can get in.
If you can get in, it's for real.
And also a film called Gook, which is showing tonight.
Good.
Here in the next couple hours.
Yep.
It also shows tomorrow.
But I think overall this first weekend is really a tour de force.
Well, Gook.
Good guy think has as much buzz this fest as as bomb city.
And that's really kind of saying something.
People that we know like talking to Deb the other day.
That was like, this is the film you have to see.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just telling you right now.
And for those of you that think you just heard a racial story,
that's the name of the film.
Yeah.
So let's just make sure we're clear.
Yeah.
Well, we'll clarify.
But if it's the shock that gets him in a seat in a theater,
I got no problem with that.
That's what works.
And please, everybody listening.
Please come down.
Watch films.
It's a great festival for local filmmakers, for international filmmakers.
Is it great festival?
Please come down.
Everybody.
Support your local artists.
Daniel's going to step away for a minute if I'm going to.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wanted to make sure everybody knows we're going to be putting our footage
up to drivebymovies.com.
Good.
And we've started something new.
We've got our own nonprofit started now called Operation Movie Night.
Currently scheduling a couple of screenings for the for the active duty personnel
down at Fort Hood and some for also some of the active duty personnel,
the flyers out in Randolph Air Force Base down there in San Antonio.
And you've got some personal, you've got some personal background interest in that, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I spent my time in the Navy and I think really we're just doing it here in Texas
to show the Navy what we can bring to their base.
And I've already talked with my old Airbus and he wants to fly us on board and do it in a hangar bay
for some guys that are coming back off a cruise.
Get us the information so we can make sure we promote it on the show for you too.
OperationMovieNight.org and my Twitter handle, if you want to follow it,
is my old ain't it cool news log on film debts.
So it's at film debts and that is also my Instagram.
Daniel Robert Durrett for my Facebook if you're looking for that.
Another friend of the show who we are such fans of.
Well, I love you guys as well.
I think I'm going to give up the chair for the Ninja Marcus.
Marcus going to sit down.
All right.
Marcus Blake from that nerd show.
A lot of cooperative co-ops going on tonight.
All right, so Hunter, we talked about Delts.
Yeah.
Talked about Google.
Yes.
Is there anything else that you're, because my list is like forever long of films I need to see over the next week.
Well, you know, um, banana pineapple express, not banana express.
It's a totally different movie.
Gosh.
Banana.
You call me off guard.
I'm telling you pineapple express is playing playing next weekend.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
There's, and that's one thing we were talking about earlier is.
And maybe I'm not seeing it.
But are, is there a lot more tribute films this year than there have been in recent years?
Like a lot more films that people had recognized from before,
like, especially with like the 1967 tribute.
Uh-huh.
And I think that's cool because they've got a really cool balance of like,
you get, if you want to be ever at the Main Street Garden tomorrow night.
Yeah.
Tomorrow night.
And see Pete's dragon for free.
And that was a movie when we saw it last year.
I have such a special place in my heart for the original.
Sure.
I would be very, very guarded.
And I loved this film.
It's so wide.
I can't watch it.
I did.
I'm not gonna lie.
The director's a great guy.
And he's a local guy too.
And he is a local guy.
Absolutely.
And movies like Cool Hand Luke.
Yep.
And Hamilot.
And Guess Who's coming to dinner.
And so much stuff.
Marcus, welcome, sir.
I'll talk right into that thing, please, sir.
Are you saying you can't hear me?
I can hear you now.
Okay.
Marcus Blake from that nerd show.
One of our favorite people in the world that we do a lot of work with.
And Hunter Carson's here as well.
Thank you.
I need to take a breath for just a minute.
Okay.
I'm back.
You know what?
You mentioned Cool Hand Luke.
And I always remember that movie from the cheers pilot when they're talking about the sweatiest movies.
And that's the one that we really is.
Yeah.
If you think about it.
You know, that's kind of an interesting tribute to it.
But yes.
And what I really like about doing movies like that is you get to have it on a big screen to expose to a new generation of filmgoers that might not know it otherwise.
And I think that's kind of cool too because it gives us gives these young kids with the clothes in the hair and that needs to get off my lawn.
The chance to see films that and appreciate them the way we did growing up.
Right.
Right.
Well, you know, he stands in that movie.
If we could get if we could get all if we get all the kids in our block telling each other, hey, but picking it off boss.
Being good shape.
And it's just and the people involved in this festival.
You know, if you get to come back every year, obviously you're coming back to the people that take care of you like they do here every year.
That's very true.
Because there's there's like the whole I've never met a stranger.
That's the the vibe that we get at the Dallas International Film Festival.
That we have such a great network of people that we go.
What would you say chat about probably 70% of the people we know because of the show are from this particular festival.
Yes.
And to meet great people like you as well, sir.
Well, it also promotes young people wanting to get into this.
Yes, sir.
Understanding that there is true art here.
The film is an art form.
You know, storytelling is an art form.
And it's a great place to learn how to do both.
There are some wonderful screenings.
There are some wonderful talks.
There are some really great people that will donate their time, sit down for an hour or two and talk to whomever has a question.
You know, there's a lot of really good things that are going on this weekend.
And almost every screening will have some form of a Q&A after, which I think is also awesome about this festival.
Especially when you get to see like six months down the road.
You're like, I saw that movie at the diff and now it's getting huge release.
Yes.
One of the prime examples, Oscar nominated film from last year, which is one of my favorite films of the year.
Life animated was here at the Dallas International Film Festival last year.
And to see it get that kind of recognition was amazing.
And you're getting to see films now that people are going to be raving about later in the year.
Whatever kind of films are coming up, it's just in general that you're looking for.
You know what?
I'm actually just really focused on this weekend.
Okay.
And I haven't looked delved too deeply in next week.
I'm keeping it very fluid right now.
But I mean, look, everybody grab a program.
Check out what's coming up.
Absolutely.
And please go to a talk because you know, these guys really want to share their knowledge with everyone that's around.
And it gives you such a deeper understanding of the film.
Not only the film itself, but the motivations behind it.
When you get to hear the stories behind the things that make the film.
It gives you even deeper appreciation for films that you love.
And a better appreciation for films that maybe you were kind of like about.
Right.
I completely agree.
This is a great thing for Dallas.
What are we in the year 11?
Well.
This is year 11.
Oh man.
Our fourth, 11th overall.
And it just keeps getting better.
And I'm sure you're going to be here next Friday night, correct?
I'll be here Friday night for the DFS Honors.
What a wonderful show that will be.
You want to talk about the awards?
The awards.
Well, I'll talk about the LM Kit Carson.
That's the one I'm looking for, sir.
Yeah.
That's the one I'm more than happy to talk about.
I'll let the other folks talk about their awards.
This award happens to be dedicated to LM Kit Carson, my father.
And this year we are giving the award to David Gordon Green, who is just a phenomenal guy,
who's transitioned through features, through serial television.
And it really has what it takes to be a maverick filmmaker.
And he's honestly one of the new mavericks in my opinion.
And that's why I believe he completely deserves this award.
And we'll be doing some of his films.
If I'm not mistaken, aren't you going to be involved in some of the panels for that as well?
A little bit.
Yeah.
And that's all going to be at the Dallas City Performance Center, right?
Right.
And it's going to be next, it's going to be starting on Friday and carrying through
to a Saturday.
And because DFS Honors will be Friday night.
Correct.
So you kind of get to bask in that after glow comes Saturday morning.
Right.
So much going on.
Anything else you want to plug?
I know you're going to get in there and talk to everybody.
Talk to everybody.
And I might be stretching it.
Certainly.
Certainly.
Certainly something happens after that part.
You know, I am kind of curious what your opinion on this would be.
But besides Pineapple Express, is there a movie by him that you really like?
That sticks out in your mind?
You know what?
Honestly, that's the one.
I mean, it really is.
Look, it's Kitch to say it.
But that's it.
Oh, I know.
You know, I mean, but if it's your opinion, it's not Kitch.
It's actually your opinion.
Well, I got to get props to Joe, which was here a few years ago.
Wow.
Yes.
It was, wasn't it?
You know, on that nerd show, we've always had this debate is, you know,
Nicholas Cage really a good actor because he's done a lot of bad films.
But I was a nut in that movie.
Right.
But I mean, that's one of the better films that he's done.
And I don't think he gets recognized for it.
I forgot that was here a few years ago.
And that's, and again, that's one of those things where you see films here.
And you're like, man, I really hope somebody picks that up.
And then they do.
And then you're just like, that is so awesome because we got.
But I wonder how many people realize he did that film if you're a fan of Pineapple Express.
Because I mean, they're so completely different.
But that's what's cool about that is great, great directors, great writers, great producers can make those left turns.
And you go, that was the same guy.
Yeah, that's what it's all about.
It's about telling a story and it doesn't matter what story you're telling.
You know, look at Kubrick, you know, any of the great Coppola, you know, they all told a story.
It didn't matter what the story was.
You know what I mean?
It was a story and they turned it into art.
And these are the guys that helped pave the way.
I mean, you look at, you look at the documentary about the making of the Godfather when you talk about Coppola.
Yeah.
I always go back to that and just to see what they went through to even get Pacino to get to the studio be okay with Pacino.
Yeah.
And it's like, you know, hindsight being what it is.
The guys are the great actors of our generation.
And that they wanted, if I remember correct, they wanted Khan to play Michael.
Right. They were going to flip it around.
And Michael was like, no, I was like, no, I need to be sunny.
This is the guy you want.
And when James Khan, who was like the guy back then, tells you like, you listen to Jimmy Khan.
Yeah.
But you don't know.
They were all together on that for sure.
And you know, as far as collaboration goes, and I'll just speak to it, you know, and David Gordon Green really knows how to collaborate.
I mean, you just, when we delve into a little bit more when we do panels with him and give talks with him, you know, I've got a couple of questions.
You know, just like, did that really happen?
You know, you hear these rumors of these guys and it's like, did that actually happen?
And when Seth Rogan's involved in anything, you know, there's a greater than zero chance the answer is going to be.
Right.
And we said earlier, I thought his commercial at the Academy Awards was the best of the five.
Related to Walmart thing where they gave the five directors the Walmart receipts and they had to make a movie around it.
I thought his was the best one.
Just because they were like, you know what, we're just going to just completely go off the beaten path and we're going to put this stuff in something.
I'm like, see, that's what made it right for me.
Anything else you want to plug before we let you go join the party, sir?
No, I'm going to go join the party.
Thank you.
I will plug the Dallas Film Festival, hashtag Dallas International Film Festival.
You guys, please come down.
Please support your local artists.
Thank you.
Thank you for having.
And come back next Friday if you get a chance after the F1.
Absolutely.
All right.
Hunter Carson was just joining us.
You are listening to the Clubhouse podcast.
We are live at the press lounge from the Dallas International Film Festival.
The 11th Annual.
Thank you so much, sir.
Such an honored always to have you on.
We will be back on the air just so you know in less than 48 hours.
It's WrestleMania weekend.
So we've got to do our unofficial official pre-show.
Are you tired yet, Rob?
No, dude.
I'm feeling good.
Okay.
My adrenaline is flowing.
My brain's kind of locked up.
But my adrenaline's flowing.
So do I have a quick moment to show to tell our best film festival story?
Please do.
Please do.
So, you know, anybody that knows that nerd show, we always have a very nerdy question.
We ask everybody at the end of all of our interviews.
That's how you and I met originally.
We interviewed Christopher McDonald.
Right.
So we're trying to, we're trying to give some of the filmmakers, you know,
we're telling them early so they can really think about it.
This year's question is, you know, what would your superpower be if you were a superhero or a super villain?
And why would you have that power?
And paraphrasing.
So we got to interview Judge Reinhold yesterday.
You've done two red carpets now, correct?
Right.
So we asked him that question.
And this is why I like Judge Reinhold because he has a sense of humor about his own.
Well, let's just say misadventures.
That's fair.
So he gets to the, when we ask him the question, he looks around the camera.
He's like, you know what I want?
I want something to wear when I'm walking through the airport.
TSA looks at me.
I saw this coming up.
Yeah.
They're like, hey, he's a good guy.
High fives all around.
And they just let me through.
But you know what's sad really is of all the things that Judge Reinhold's done.
Whenever somebody mentions his name to me, you know what the first thing that comes to my mind is?
And this is so obscure, she got a role with me for a minute.
There used to be a sketch on in living color called Heyman.
Oh, yeah.
And then what of them was like, I'm Judge Reinhold's makeup man.
And then it was like, I have 19 jobs.
And I am Judge Reinhold.
I have a great makeup man.
I always think of.
And it's so sad because the guy's done so much great stuff.
But that's the one thing that always hits me.
Is that stupid sketch?
Wow.
That's a punch line.
I have a great makeup man.
Well, we ran into him a New Year's Eve weekend.
He was here for the big Marvelous New Year's Eve.
And could not have been a nicer guy.
Oh, yeah.
The lead singer that Blues Brothers covers Ben.
Apparently knew him pretty well.
He wanted me to take him by his table.
Yeah.
And he signed his, he brought a fan with a fan shoe so Judge could sign it.
Really?
Yeah.
I was like, that's thinking outside the box.
But like we said earlier, we met Marcus here three years ago when we did our first red carpet.
And it's been that long.
Yeah, that was the first year we did the dip.
Yeah, probably.
I'm telling you, because I remembered his clear as day because it was our first red carpet ever.
Uh-huh.
And I, I was the only one that could be on the red carpet.
You guys were on the other side of the road behind me.
Standing on the red carpet.
And I was like, okay.
I was like, okay, they've got to work somebody in for me for my first interview.
Maybe just like somebody that nobody's really heard of, they're trying to promise stuff.
I look up and there's Christopher McDonnell or Shooter looking right at you.
And Marcus was to my right.
And so Marcus came up to me and said, hey, can we just kind of tag teams when we get a lecture time?
And I was like, cool.
And having Marcus there helped me out.
I got me through that because I was just nervous as I could possibly be.
And we've gotten to meet such great people at this festival.
And Marcus is one of those people.
And now we have somebody else joining us.
Let me turn the mic on.
I'll talk right into it.
Be right on top of it.
Go ahead and introduce yourself to everybody.
Hi, I'm Carlin Hudson, the curator and director of the Big Spoon.
Great movie, by the way.
Oh, thank you.
Marcus has actually gotten to see him.
We're still trying to get our screeners together.
Yeah, yeah.
Did it show tonight?
It showed at 4.15 today, which was the first screening of the festival we learned on stage.
But you're kicking it off.
Well, welcome to the Dallas Film Festival.
Yeah, I was like, oh, cool.
Yeah, great.
No pressure.
Welcome to the Dallas International Film Festival.
You couldn't have picked the nicer weekend to be here.
It's very nice.
It's the first time we've ever done our show outside.
And the planets really aligned up nicely for us.
Yeah.
Because if this had been like normally, we'd be drenched in sweat.
So how'd the screening go today?
It was great.
It was really well attended.
And people, I gave the most candid Q&A of my life.
I hope I didn't say too much.
Really?
Wow.
Yeah, it was like, it's very difficult.
And I was made a lot of mistakes.
And they were like, oh, cool.
But that color ability is a beautiful thing now.
When you can be that honest with an audience, it makes them appreciate your work that much more.
They respected a lot more.
I hope so.
Yeah, I didn't phone it in.
I'm very tired.
That was good.
Tell us about the film.
Or tell our audience about the film.
Yeah, it's an unromantic comedy.
It's a relationship.
It's like a really grounded relationship comedy about these two couples who are living in this little house together with one bathroom.
And, you know, things kind of fall apart, essentially.
Okay.
Was this the first time the film's been shown?
No, it premiered at Austin Film Festival in October.
Oh, okay.
And this is played in North Carolina, near and some other places.
Talk about the differences in audiences.
Yeah.
From Austin to North Carolina to here.
You know, it's over.
To be frank, this audience was a lot older.
Really?
I don't know why.
I just think that like they're, I think just because one our lead actress and co-writer is from Dallas.
Oh, okay.
So a lot of her mom's friends came.
Which is awesome.
Which of many fans also showed up at the same time.
Pretty much, but like they were so great and they're so sweet.
And I like would love 60 plus people to watch our movie.
They're like, it's so inventive and so cute.
Hey.
Take that all day long, right?
Yes.
Those people go to the movies.
You know what I mean?
It's great.
Now, did you have all your mom's friends asking?
So what's true?
What was true in your life?
Yeah.
What really happened to you?
Even you asked that.
Everyone says that.
Well, we, we, we tried to, you know, ask important questions.
Now you did ask important questions.
Yeah.
It was good.
It went well.
Are you feeling a little bit kind of exhale now or is this kind of become old hat to you at this point?
That's a good question.
I'll, I'll exhale when we have distribution locked down.
But we've just, that's been like a whole nother long journey.
Oh, I'm sure.
Yeah.
It's been crazy.
I think working that festival circuit, though, really gives you that sense that you're going
to get closer every time.
Yeah.
And we were just talking about this.
Well, this is our fourth year doing the festival.
Yeah.
And we love when we get to come see films at the festival that later in the year.
I'm like, oh, I remember that.
Yeah.
That's the distribution.
Well, here's what I think it might be that special moment.
And I was talking, and I mentioned this to a friend on Facebook, whose film was there?
It's when your film hits like a cable channel and it's late one night.
And you're watching it like, oh, my God, I remember seeing that at the film festival.
Because I did that one night with daylight sand.
Yes, sir.
And I was like, wow, this is a great night.
I'm drinking one of my favorite films from last year.
That's cool.
Yeah.
So I mean, when that kind of hits and like, I remember seeing that way back when.
Yeah, totally.
When you're like scrolling through Netflix, you're like, hey, my friend.
I met that girl, whatever.
That'd be cool.
Are you going to get a chance to do anything else for the festival or?
Yeah.
I mean, I guess I'm here at this party slash on this podcast.
Fair enough.
We'll take that.
Yeah.
And then tomorrow, we're going to see some movies and.
What are you looking forward to?
What are you looking forward to?
You know, I love the barbecue lunch.
I live in L.A. now where people eat, you know, bullshit, rabbit food.
That was so nice to eat meat.
Yeah.
And we have plenty of.
It's so good.
I've always told people I moved here about 22 years ago.
And I gained an Olsen twin when I moved here because of the food alone.
Yeah, I do.
It's amazing.
I do it that I like.
When I come to Texas, I'm like, oh, I look so good.
Then, and then I go back to L.A.
I'm like, yeah, I was pretty normal.
I remember, like, whatever.
I think there's a t-shirt you should get to take back to L.A.
It's, it just says, I love cows, but with a picture of a hamburger.
Yes.
That might make a lot of people in L.A. mad.
I saw one at a beef jerky store.
I saw a beef jerky store that said attention vegetarians.
My food poops on your food.
Oh, that's really funny.
That's one of my personal favorites.
So, you're going to have a chance to see some films.
You got another.
It wins the next screening.
I don't have my meat again.
To Maronite at 10 p.m. at the Magnolia.
That's our second meeting.
Which is right.
Two, two doors down from where we are right now.
Great theater.
It's a beautiful theater.
And we've got some really great venues.
A lot more venues than normal at this festival.
Oh, really?
Normally, like, there wasn't much here the last couple of years.
When you got here, the Texas theater.
If you haven't had a chance to get down there,
that is where they arrested Lee Harvey Oswald.
It is still a working movie theater.
A functioning film.
And they do know which scene he was in.
When he was caught, they will tell you.
And on the 50th anniversary, they showed the film he was watching
at the time.
Which film was it?
Which film was it?
But they showed that film at the exact showing from that day.
That's not one.
Yeah, that's not an excuse me.
But they do a lot of really cool retro films, too.
And I was three years ago.
They did the closing film of the festival,
which was space battleship Yamato.
Which is the live-action star blazers from when we were kids.
I really enjoyed that.
I had a lot of fun.
What kind of things are you looking forward to?
Like, what's out there right now that you're chomping at the bit for?
To see or direct?
Oh, even, what do you want to work on?
I'm going to talk about that.
Well, so much.
I mean, I do a lot of commercial and branded content and stuff in L.A.
And I really, this summer, I'm going to direct a short film
that's like super dry comedy and like a little more stylized
and a little more like a rest of development kind of absurd.
Big fan.
Yeah, me too.
I hate even making that comparison.
Because how can I ever hope to create something that amazing.
But you set the bar.
I set the bar.
I'll just tell you what the name is because it gives sort of an idea.
It's called the goose assassin.
And it's based on a true story that my mom's nice.
Yeah, so I'm doing that.
I'm doing tons of stuff.
And yeah, oops, I just almost took my headphones off.
That's all right.
We're here for it.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing my friend Micah's movie tomorrow at noon
called Into the Who Knows.
I have heard great things about that.
That was a good one.
We had a chance to interview him at the early round tables.
Cool.
And he brought Felix with him.
So cute.
Yeah.
There's multiple screenings of that, too, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, there is.
Yeah, there is.
Two, if not three.
See, with like our outlet, we have a few of our bloggers that have kids
so they don't do like, they don't review Game of Thrones because it's too violent
and too much nudity.
Sure.
But this is the one that I've been recommending.
Like this is the one that you can watch with your kids.
Yeah.
That's great.
You know, it has a lot of innocence to it.
And I think it's going to be one of those that's one of those really great, like, camp movies.
I tell you that he was my first TA at film school, Micah.
Really?
The first movie I ever made, Micah, was my teacher at UT Austin.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, and we were talking about it today and he was like, it won like my class's competition.
And he's like, you know, it looked not great and I was like, it looked terrible.
And this really looked and sounded awful.
It was the first thing I ever made.
It was like terrible.
But the content I think was kind of there.
And so we knew as he was thinking about it.
What was it about?
I don't know how Pete, well, I'll just tell you.
I have this older sister who I love her, but she like is a housewife in MacManchinland
and like really conservative and like we're wildly different.
And so I wanted to interview her like the kids in her neighborhood about sex.
Oh, God.
And you're like, yeah.
I already want to see that.
It's pretty funny.
And so I did.
But it was, and it was hilarious.
But the second part of the film, I gave these eight, nine year old boys a book called
It's Not the Stork, thinking that they knew what sex was.
And they didn't.
And so on camera, they're reading this book and they're like, and the goes into the
Oh, and they run out of time.
You are one of the coolest people I've ever met in my life.
And so they're running out of time.
He is standing up applauding her.
It's so funny.
That is worth the price of admission alone right there.
Please tell me there's a copy of this.
What am I clapping about?
It is.
But I need to find it.
It looks and sounds awful, but it is really funny.
I do inserts of the book, which has these really graphic images.
But they're like kid-friendly sort of.
And so it's like makes these funny sounds.
I'm just saying this is bonus content for the big story.
I need to find it.
I need to find it.
I need to be like, what?
It's my first movie everyone.
It's very telling.
What's the craziest question you've gotten into Q&A so far?
Oh.
What's the craziest question we got at a Q&A?
I don't know.
None of that just completely blew your wheels off.
No, not really.
Really?
Actually, today I got a really good question.
Okay.
What was that?
That famous, um, he's like a famous Dallas film critic.
Gary.
Oh.
Kogel.
Kogel.
Yeah.
And he's a very nice guy.
He's very nice.
He's like a movie turned out to be how he thought it would
and what ways was it different.
And I was like, that's a good question.
Wow.
Yeah.
And I said, uh, or how was it, and I was just like, well,
I don't have time to tell you in all the ways.
Like, I changed as a person and whatever.
But it was a good question.
How long did it take you to shoot it?
We shot it in 18 days plus two days of pickups.
Wow.
Very fast.
You didn't have much money.
Full throttle.
Yes.
And where did you film it?
Austin, Texas.
Okay.
So you got to go back to the old stomping grounds a little bit.
I did.
I lived in Austin.
I've only been in LA like a year and a half.
So you've seen all the madness of over the years that Austin has been.
Yeah.
I was wild.
Have you seen the tower documentary yet?
Yes.
I have.
I just watched it this week.
A PBS aired it.
So I TV.
Arted it.
They actually showed it here last year.
Yeah.
And I missed it.
You know what?
We went to the very first screening and that's probably one of the most emotional
screenings I've ever been to.
We had a film.
Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah.
Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Even like I'm not from Texas.
I'm from Chicago.
So I didn't know much about that.
I'm like I'm from Florida.
So I didn't know what I was curious to hear about.
So to to see it that way and for everybody.
Just everything they talked about it was like wow.
I didn't realize.
And I'm not normally a fan of that rotoscoping animation.
Right.
But it worked so well within the story with just a little bits of color here and there.
Yeah.
And there was the actors playing the younger versions were actually telling the stories
word for word that the older versions were telling.
So cool.
Oh.
So so good.
Yeah.
I'm like bummed I didn't get an Oscar nomination.
I know it's a long shot.
You have to spend millions on like K&R or whatever.
But you know what?
We were just talking a little bit ago.
There was a movie that showed here last year.
That was nominated in that category.
Life animated.
Yeah.
Oh.
We actually showed here last year.
And it was one of my top films of the year.
I don't have seen that yet.
Oh wow.
I haven't.
Life animated is absolutely brilliant.
Oh, I have to see it.
It's about a young man who they find out has a level of autism.
Just one day.
I've heard of this.
Like four year old.
And the way they pulled them out of it was with the Disney films.
It destroyed me.
Not as bad as Gleason did.
Gleason absolutely obliterated me.
She might co-writer Mallory said that too.
She was like weeping after the screening.
That's one of those films that if you haven't seen it.
You need to be in the right mood.
Because it is not the feel good movie of the hero.
Right.
But it is absolutely burial.
That was a lion for me this year.
Yes.
Yeah.
I was glad I had a screening.
Screener for lion.
So I could fight through that in my living room.
Because if I'd have been in a theater.
I'd have been like.
We always have a big argument about the Oscars and all the politics behind it.
And I gave up on the Oscars in 98 with.
Saving private ride.
Saving private ride.
Didn't win best picture.
What won that year?
Shakespeare mode.
Yeah.
And I'm like you guys are all high.
Yeah.
But I agree with you.
You know, we were kind of looking at.
Are you going to have your movies that are too PC this year that we.
It's just it's kind of obvious.
I thought line was that movie because they had all the boards around the world.
And if.
And there's only so many movies that I'm going to walk out of the theater.
Cry.
Right.
And.
That's like watching Schindler's list.
It's just.
And I'm not even hiding it.
I went to the pub.
Yeah.
All right.
But yeah.
That movie was just.
Yeah.
My boyfriend was like legit and really worried.
And he was like, are you okay?
Are you okay?
And then the end when they told you the statistic of how many people are still missing, and I was like.
But.
Well, I mean, when you go to IMDB and you read the trivia.
How the end shot was the first thing they shot in the film.
and the film and that's really his mother and his sister in the shot and how how
Nicole Kimmins character does have a cameo in the film when you read through
how everything happened and it's just because I'm a I'm just geeky that way I
went everything so I went straight to that trivia page and I was just like I
now need to watch it again just so I can watch the stuff I didn't see
before that's when the art transcends the art form when it changed when it
can actually change you in a certain way and you talk about films that you
hit at a film festival they get nominated that was at Lone Star yeah back in
November that's when we first saw it and that was one of the brighter spots of
that film festival as it was kind of disorganized when I got that screener in the
mail I was like happy day I get to see this at home right now I'm gonna put you
on the spot okay I give you carte blanche what's the one story you want to tell
right now what's the what's the one story that you okay let's go I'm working
in a script right now that's not based on true story but it's based on where I
grew up which is Seguin Texas oh Seguin okay yeah so it's pretty conservative
town and like anyways I actually I love singing and I I love like the small
town sort of life in a way but anyways one thing that here I bring you back to
sex sorry but like sex ed growing up was just awful you know what I mean like
Seguin is one of the highest pregnancy rates in the state you get that film
should have been in everything I've said it's not all about so like yeah exactly
and we were taught abstinence only but then we had a nursing center on campus
did it's only yeah so it was the baseball so like I want to tell the story of this
woman who's like my mom but she is fighting to change sex ed in her small
town in Texas and it's obviously like a very she becomes she was like very
popular in town it becomes like a pariah and this because it feels like very
relevant it's still funny and like my sensibilities as a filmmaker like
nuance and like smaller moments in small town in Texas and blah blah blah but
like relevant in the today's political climate and telling like strong women
fighting against this system you know well I tell you if you do ever do that you
have to do a little research and all the ridiculous questions that people you
know will ask during a sex ed class like other things they they don't really
know so sad or based on rumors or they're just being stupid sure no yeah it's
like it's me it's like so funny in a way it's hilarious like sex that's
hysterical it's also so serious and make sure that you if you're gonna do a film
like that especially we actually have a festival here in august the
flips with chicks festival talk to just you know what yes please do John
wildman's wife and she and she it's a it's a I think this is the third year
they've taken this a second well the second year but they're actually
melding two festivals together and it's all about women filmmakers and
empowering so make sure you talk to her about that because it's she
is an amazing individual she's such a fan of her and and her husband John
wildman who does all the PR we've been he's been shelling us around doing
interviews and stuff okay so I don't want to keep you too much longer from
the party but before we go I need self with shameless self-promotion is what
we do websites social media give us everything my website is www.carlinhudson.com
C-A-R-L-Y-N-S Hudson yes okay Instagram's that Carlin Hudson Twitter is
Hey Carlin because someone stole my handle before I could get to it and then our
movie The Big Spoon is at on Facebook and everything and then we're playing
tomorrow night at 1015 at the Magnol yeah and where does it go from here we're
going to play Hill Country film festival in a few weeks in Fredericksburg and
then there's more stuff after that that I can't announce but it's got the
full schedule on the website and everything because we want to make sure
because we're all over the world we want to make sure that there's people in
wherever you're going to be there can I see your face I would go to our Facebook
page yeah I've got you linked I've got you linked you and your and your
film link to our page as well cool Big Spoon go see it if you don't you're a
communist I'm putting out there I don't know you've seen it so you
know I'm just saying if you don't see it then you don't like milk and you
shouldn't be around it's very kind no it's an honor to have you're a bad person
that's exactly all right thank you so much thank you for being with us and we're
back here next Friday night so if you come back by if you're here comes this okay
all right well we'll keep promoting you though okay go listen I'll look you
guys up that would be wonderful okay thank you like I said Chad's got your
links so all right no problem we are going strong sir and it is a
gorgeous night it is actually a gorgeous night the wind is being kind to it
really but yeah I went and bought windscreens for the microphones today just
because I know we were going to be outside and we're going to be back here
next Friday night for the post DFS honors show so we're going to tell you all
about the winners and the winners will be showcased next Sunday which I think
is kind of cool because they're kind of like okay these are the winners in
case you didn't get to see them we're going to show them in their own
showings Saturday and Sunday that's greatness yeah so I I feel like if we're
talking about the Dallas International Film Festival and we've been doing this
a number of years how many years is this for you Marcus well it's four red carpet
but actually five because yeah in 2013 we attended and reviewed films but
but anyway favorite like moments like of all the people that we've met and
hold on go ahead let's finish that we've interviewed
geeked out about I still think for me it's got to be John Landis a couple of years ago
that moment on this show that defined this show I'm a guy that's never
short on words yeah but the entire dry plume all I could say was John
blanking landis that's the only words I could say for 20 minutes
uh Don Don's got that look on his face sir
all right a couple of years ago
somebody was at the dip we tried getting on who was dealing with Kelly kitchens
well one of our favorite people in the entire world by the way we love Kelly kitchens
to give you an idea who's going to be on the show next in a couple minutes
okay what not saying sun is that by anarchy not saying the shield
okay what's my all-time favorite show on tv
and what is those two 24 uh-huh uh-huh Mr uh Gwen's gonna be down here in about one
moment today's good day yeah you're surprised I am so excited for this moment
I'm sitting on this one this is two shows in a row that we've had a huge guest
on last week of course Ed Robertson from Bare Naked Ladies an amazing moment
working we're gonna talk to another one of my favorite actors momentarily
that Don's been teasing for the last three hours I do have one complaint about
Glide Moore Shower though oh I hear me out that he's not awesome enough no
because he is he's more than awesome I he is I don't like to see him as a villain
I loved bloodline on Netflix but him playing a bad guy oh no oh he's still always
be here keep him on he's here for bomb city okay oh no we're gonna talk about it
because that that screening apparently went incredibly well I can't
everybody ever talk about yeah I can see it tomorrow but he'll be here in about one
moment yeah that's your surprise all right very excited about all this
and that was yeah I remember I want it was that two years ago was that three
years ago that we we were two ships passing in the night we were loading in as
as he was as he was getting to the parking garage what it was and the
original media lounge well we've actually my co-host
Brendan's talk to him more than I have at various conventions uh-huh so it's
always fun to you know meet see him at a convention
chitchat with him and he doesn't live too far you know
from all of this and that's kind of cool too when we go to the
uh- local conventions and stuff and we get to run into people that we've had on
the show and just to relive that moment with them and talk to them like you
know we had a really great time and just I mean you can look back at the people
that we've had on the show another reason I love him is he's like literally
in everything you know you will just throw something on it's like oh but see
he's been everything but he's not that guy in that thing like right he's the
guy like because if you've ever seen that documentary
right but he's not that guy he's literally the guy
like you can say that name and oh okay right for a hundred years just pops in and out of
stuff and and I love the fact that you know you're going to get a good
honorable character uh the good the good father
uh I I was commenting when we were interviewing the guys from Bob City that
him playing the uh the the attorney is really kind of like the moral epicenter
of the film all of his speech really I think it finds
the morality of that movie and there's this one great line
in which I will not give away the film and I asked him about it yesterday there's
one great line that he looks at the jury his character and says
you know did the person who died did he deserve this
but you know and this is based on true events right but to ask that question of
is it really about deserving am I in the first time I saw the film I went
back immediately to unforgiven
oh I don't deserve this deserving is not my answer is nothing to do with it
get right on top of it so we can hear clearly no right like right here you
right here there you go okay you need directional mics
send the trail off and you go to the side well see we don't use these uh that
nurture you guys have real equipment we're
hello but we do have a new microphone this year uh we have a lightsaber
microphone nice you have my attention yeah well the the the story came
about is I was trying to find a mic for our little recording device
and it has a cord it goes to you know into cell phones and stuff
and I didn't know how to clip it you can't clip it on the guest
and lo and behold there was a cheap lightsaber at fries the the Anakin
Skywalker with a little thing on the side uh-huh and it's like I bet that can
hold the top of the microphone and we can make a handle out of it so that's
our new microphone on the red carpet that's genius I know and you know what
since you mentioned that I want to continue my crusade where's my
episode a trailer it's three guardians chose one of the shouldy trailers yet
by the way I feel like we should be getting it this week because they always
drop a trailer during the film festival and we're right around the corner they're
dropping it during celebration I know which is next which is more we're about
five weeks away yes that's right I don't know we mentioned this in the
week show how weeks go you weren't here uh their celebration is skipping
next year really no celebration next year
why they've got another thing to throw 19 I don't know well the other the other
biggest complaint I have about everything is
this weekend's also the first weekend that Mark Campbell is coming to Dallas
yeah and unfortunately it's in the middle of everything else but it's like a
a lot going on really Metroplex this year we don't really get to enjoy it
yeah so we also do want to promote friend of the show Devon Pike who's
going greatly involved in the fan expel he'll be doing the big Saturday night
Shindig tomorrow nights a lot going and he'll be here next Friday night
because there's going to be some karaoke going on as our tends to be after
DFS honors always tends to shoot the wheels off
and I'm also excited that friend of the show
or he Gutierrez is going to be doing a VR panel
this year wow can't wait to see that dude I know he is one of our favorite
people to have on the show because he always he is one of the nicest people
on God's green earth and I got to tell you I had a little bit of a giggle
moment earlier about six months ago because he's in that
Best Buy commercial where they talk about the windows tab
so speaking I'm looking forward to seeing him as well speaking of trailers
just us nerds here yep am I the only one that
is wasn't really that excited about the Justice League trailer I mean I
would I liked it a lot well I watched it and I'm just lying because Mo Moa has
already given Aquaman more personality than he's ever had in the history of
ever nothing against Mo Moa and including the line in the trailer
dressed as a bat again I know I dig it oh I dig it you're right looks like a
bat I dig it I just I was like yes but you know you know where we stand we
complain about DC Comics it's ruining our childhood
and Batman vs Superman just wasn't what it should have been I like that film
leave that from alone no no I like the extended version I like them both
I had no problems but my point is the extended version does make it a better
film right but like it's weird when you can extend a film 30 minutes and it's
paste better that wasn't weird to me right because it feels like it's a
shorter film but it's 30 minutes longer but my point is I think I feel like
you know we as much as I like you know DC to be dark as I love the
Christopher Nolan movies and and all that there's also a point of being too
dark like I need kind of a campy Superman you know in Henry K.ville never
really smiles unless he's with Lois and I just I don't know how I
truly feel about Justice League I'm like I'm still on the fence well since
we're talking all things geek culture did you see the headline that showed up
yesterday about who's being pursued now to direct the Akira live action film
I did see this if I gave you a million guesses you'll never get there
uh Jordan Peele really is being pursued to direct Akira
okay that's strange I read that I was like I mean get out to make it a
bajillion dollars and congratulations to him because that movie is doing gang
buster business right but Akira like how do we go from get out but I will
hear this I was pleasantly I was glad to hear that Josh we
is going to be directing a back girl living a live action backroom yeah I
didn't care about that girl before but now I do now I do know that directed
the Lego Batman movie is is helming the live action night wing yeah so
my only question is all the women all the women in the
wean universe which beautiful lady are you gonna get to come play back girl
oh oh I need I'm gonna let you guys talk I need to step away for just a
second but I'm gonna let you guys keep talking okay
um I I got I got two thing I got two two choices okay Amy
Acre just because I love Amy Acre it may not be the perfect choice but I'm
just saying it because I love her and she was great on
person of interest uh-huh and why not Marena
background that's that's the first one I thought uh the first one I
thought of now would I mind seeing
cuff hurts since she was in dollhouse uh
can't tell me you can't at least see it you can see her in the suit
I know I know um or you know why why couldn't we have river
as bad girl so we we did an interview at the Dallas Comedy Festival
uh last week and a two of the guys and the guy you know
it was a comedy duo called taboos and we were talking about wean and
they were kind of inspired by his universe so we asked him as nerds you know
who who's your favorite and before I even got the sentence out one of the
guys Elijah Dushko I don't even know what you're
gonna ask but Elijah Dushko that's always the answer
I said I said cuffer didn't I I meant Dushko yeah
well I think I've got to give way here to
this guy over here because I think you guys got a lot to talk about
he said he had to step away for just a second his timing couldn't have
possibly been worse well I'll hold a fort yeah yeah
help me hold quarter for a minute okay I will do that as a as a fellow nerd
there but yeah I'm just I couldn't I agree with this answer
I let Elijah Dushko yeah you know that's that's who I can see there's
just certain things that are extremely nerdy to us that we hold dear to our
heart no where the heck is he everybody disappears of all the time for him to
disappear I know you hear free booze and everybody runs away
all right I knew this was gonna have guys I'm gonna get off
thanks for having me on clubhouse podcast and I'm gonna give away to
I've I've left this year okay okay we're back he's been settling in
I knew I was gonna have a geek out moment so I had to step away for just a minute
because sitting in front of me right now this is again second show in a row
we've had one of my favorite people in the entertainment business on this show
normally I would let him in you know I'm gonna let you introduce yourself sir
because I nobody's gonna believe me if I say it
write it in a thing I'm glad more showered sir I've been a fan of yours for
many many many many years thank you brother we just barely missed you three
years ago you were leaving as we were coming where was it here it did yeah yeah
you were promoting your film and you were you were on your way to the parking
garage as we were hauling our gear yeah that was we were here for a series
called flutter or not a series but a feature film it yeah I remember the
use called flutter but you tonight we're here with bombs say your film right
now is the talk of the town I mean when I say and I'm not exaggerating almost
everybody we've had on the show tonight has said this is the one they're here
to see oh wow so talk about the film talk about your experience in the film
how was the screening first of all uh screening was fabulous it was my second time
to see the movie I saw a much lengthier cut about four months ago that ran
207 and we knew at that time of course they would cut
15 to 20 minutes out of it they wound up cutting about 25
out and so it's tight it's fast moving from a filmmaking perspective I mean
the film is beautiful they told the story
perfectly and a very compelling story very painful story
of Brian Dennyke's death and very much an unfortunate ruling for the sake of
his family and they were in the audience tonight oh really yeah they were
and his mom I actually met in the courtroom
about six months ago when we were shooting the movie and I'm of course playing
the defense attorney which by design would be her
enemy because he's the guy who was responsible for
the verdict turning out the way it was and the young man who was responsible for
Brian's death only had was given 10 months of probation
so it was a really double tragedy for the family
but major dodge who's one of the producers of the movie and I have been friends
for many years and major I was the right age and
I'm a native Texan even though I've lived in California for 35 years
he knows I can do this thing if I'm into
cause ever single person in my family sounds exactly like this
they whistle on their asses and so forth so
I was I was a correct choice I guess visually
and I truly am honored it's it's among one of my favorite films to have done
in a 41 year career can you talk about
since this was a true story and it's not the the feel good ending that you
wish it would be in a case like this no not at all
talk about the weight that you carry any of that weight with you while you're
in the production or are you kind of able to step away from it
and just play it like it needs to be played yeah I do not allow
roles to bother me in that way and there's kind of a joyous disconnect
the moment we're done not when I hear cut on a scene but when we're done for the
day's work I don't take the emotions of that role or the piece I'm
working in home with me ever I've been acting since I was
11 and I'm 57 now so I've been at it a long time
but this one as I said in the screening was different in that
our job as actors were guns for higher our job is to
accept the reality that we're participating in or that our character is
participating in but that does not mean
necessarily agreeing with it so I have I vehemently disagreed with the
verdict and yet I'm playing the man who is
primarily responsible for the facilitation of that verdict that I
disagree with so I don't believe we have to agree at all with the people
that we play but we have to accept it and we have to accept it as them
and justify the choices we make in the same way the human beings always are
in the business of justifying their own behavior
it's always come very naturally for me and I suppose that's why I chose acting
as a career you said you saw the first cut it was over two hours you expected
them to cut it back no I knew they would for sure
did you like the 207 run of it or did you feel that
that it really needed to be cut back no I felt it needed to be cut back but I
think most every film that's that length does not all of them certainly but
but most do you have to it's it's difficult because as a filmmaker which I
also am you've got to be willing to you know the saying is you have to be
willing to kill your babies meaning they're your ideas you created them
and many of them look great on an individualized
basis meaning from scene to scene a scene works
but you take all of those scenes that work and it produces a product that's
simply way too long so from a sacrificial standpoint you have to stop and say
God what can we what can we bear to live without
and and that's where it gets really really tough so there was some great
scenes in the cut that we saw that unfortunately never made it to the film
and I think the film is probably better off without those scenes so you know
God bless the the DVD and the deleted scene section
let me give you a quick story about you guys
years ago I was doing a movie with George Clooney I've worked with George
twice doing a movie with him called The Men Who Stare At Ghosts
oh gosh and George Clooney and Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges and
and a little actor I'm just going to say it very underrated it was actually
there's a funnier script than the finished product turns out to be
but a little known actor in the film by the name of J.K. Simmons
oh so J.K. Simmons he's an up-and-comer
so J.K. Simmons is in the film and he winds up being
without question the funniest actor in this one major scene that takes place
around a big conference table he's playing a military role and
the crew cannot stop laughing for the first three takes
and everyone I mean George is laughing Jeff Bridges at Kevin Spacey's laughing
I'm laughing he's killing it so after the third take the director finally
said guys we really and truly we we can't laugh
we we need this in in the film the ideas for the audience to laugh
not the fellow actors in the scene so takes four and five and then obviously
those were the the wives the masters and then they went in for the close-ups
for subsequent takes and coverage it was seamless
is brilliant and it's the only scene that J.K. has in the movie
and so I'm sitting watching the film waiting telling my wife you're going to
love this this is seem with J.K. is incredible
it's not in the movie now this is a guy who goes on to win the Oscar
for best actor there's a chance I'm just saying
there's a chance that maybe he knows what he's doing as an actor
J.K. was cut from the film so there are times believe it or not
it's and I've known this and I knew this prior to but then I got to see it
once again evidenced first hand which is that there are times
when you can be so good that you wind up pulling focus
from the major stars in the film which they really didn't want
they didn't want J.K. to be the funniest person in the whole movie
so J.K. is not in the film see I don't know I don't know that I could separate
myself like I'm the kind of guy where goods good
right no matter who you are right you know and if something's going to make the
film better or give me a better moment I that's why I don't know that I could
be a director or an editor because I don't know that I could separate
myself from that I'd be like no I want that in there because that's
makes that that right you know you said you are a filmmaker
I am how does I mean is it in moments like that
can you can you change your hats back and forth or as an actor in a scene
are you looking at it from that angle too no I look at things from the angle of
the hat I'm wearing always always have and I direct a lot I have my own studio
here in Dallas teach actors Monday Tuesday and Wednesday every week when I'm
not on a set right I'm often on a set but on week
said I'm not I'm always here at the studio we live in Dallas
so I I am a producer and also a director and I'm getting ready to direct
a project with Olivia Sabini who is in our workshop
here that shoots in Dallas in May oh thank you for the wine
I don't know hey thanks for coming on this is an honor
I don't I've been a fan of years through all the years all the stuff
besides this is a huge honor for us so if a glass of wine is going to keep
here keep it coming no the idea of red wine and radio is just
awesome because you can't do it on television god bless the internet yeah
I'm like a candy candy shop right now yeah I told you I was working this
last night and I watched 24 each week
every week as it came and came and came I even stuck
beyond that you've done some crippled stuff it's just an honor to have
you on literally oh thanks buddy we you know we brought a lot of families
together not that it was a family friendly show but truly families gathered
together on Monday nights to watch and we received some incredible stories
over the years where I would receive email
family and then in person when we're just out in public my wife and I
people stopping us saying you know my dad I'm of all those stories the greatest
24 story I remember is a young lady who said that her dad never missed
an episode and he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and did not expect
to live through the seventh season and when they put him on hospice care
they said you need to get your affairs in order and he told them
I can't die until after Monday because that's the season finale of 24
and she said so help me god when I set with my dad
and we watched the final episode of the season
and he died about two hours later and you know even though we know
it's fantasy certainly and the audience knows intellectually
that it's fantasy on some level people don't want to know
that it's fantasy this is true of of all movies there's a piece of us
that wants to live as an audience member and I speak for all audiences
as reality and the proof that I have of this
is that whenever I'm playing primary characters not so much the smaller
roles support roles but when I'm playing someone primary
how the public treats us in a restaurant walking around here anywhere
is directly proportionate to the last thing they've seen you in
so for seven years we got people who did not want a hug
or excuse me a handshake in public they wanted a hug
that's when I was playing Aaron Pearson 24
prior to that I had done the first season on CSI and was a colossal
jerk and people would steer clear from me on a regular basis
parents would turn their children away and then I started dealing cocaine
and making people go away permanently on the series bloodline
on Netflix and the same thing all of a sudden there
there became a standoffishness and tonight the the defense attorney here is not
a likable man because of the verdict that he's
responsible for and the audience when they heard the verdict
it was a nasty kind of very subtle almost a
boo sound of just disgust in the theater and hatred
and I had I had a few people shoot me the stink eye
which I understand the arm I understand it's a comment see if I'd have been
there I'd have grabbed a look he predicted the president so you leave that man alone
I I mean I understand that on one level it's a compliment but it's really
true I mean so many people throughout the run of 24
dads specifically would come up and say
Aaron I want my boys to be just like you
and and can we take a picture with my sons
and I'm just grateful I'm grateful and if you can indulge me just for one
moment we wanted to promote bomb city but
my wife is very picky about the things she watches our our
venn diagram of programming does not overlap very much
24 is one of probably a handful of shows that was one of those
you don't watch it until I'm in the room to go watching together
and that performance is so strong and but you and you've done so many
things but that's just one of those things that sticks out
because that character was written amazingly well
you took that character gave it life and took it into so many people's homes
on a show that was it was greatly written but you just took it to a different
level because you brought a human aspect to it that's
can be tough to do in some of the situations that they put Aaron in
sure and I just say I have one question
how did I give you some yeah inside for the cool how did they schedule the filming
because I mean it was 12 midnight it was dark outside
when it was 7 a.m. it was dawn outside how did they schedule that that must have
been like a pain to schedule they understandably
scheduled it around the clock there was not an hour
that of the day that I did not report to set two
after we had done seven years I had had a call time
on every single hour of the day I showed up for work a number of days at 3 a.m
some nights midnight some nights 10 p.m. and many days at 6 30 in the morning or
9 30 which you have to do and basically the show is split in half where half
the season is done during the daytime or the other half at night
and we for the most part with the exception of the interiors
but any of the exteriors you have no choice you have to honor your daylight
and nighttime so it was it was split throughout the season we had interesting
things about that one of the the differences of course is wardrobe
you're wearing the same wardrobe the entire year
in terms of weight you have to maintain your body weight
and fox required that we not gain or lose more than two pounds oh my
in the course of a year which you know it's pretty normal for people to gain
up anywhere five to ten pounds if they're not being careful but we
because it's the story of one day situations like putting characters on an
airplane in a normal episodic show you can do that very easily show the
liftoff a conversation or two on board
and a landing all in about 20 minutes in our show
if you fly someone from Washington DC to Los Angeles
that's a five episode commitment yeah indeed because of the story one it's so
a lot of different approach from a filmmaking perspective but you mentioned
Aaron and the human element I had a real unfair advantage
and the the unfair advantage was that Aaron Pierce
is the closest to me of any character I've played in my entire career
the reason for that is the character was only scheduled to last for two weeks
and the audience was never expected to know anything about him
he was he was a utility player that was going to be shot in the second
episode but the producer spotted chemistry between Dennis Hayesberg who played
president David Palmer and Aaron and it was not only a white guy and a black guy
being close friends and brothers but specifically a southern white guy
which made it that much more special and when they asked me to stay around they
had no emotional trajectory planned for this
character because I wasn't going to be there I was going to be extremely dead
and we talked about it and they know that I travel around the world teaching
a program called the extra mile which is all about love
empowerment integrity loyalty purpose power the spoken word
and sternness of backbone and character and they asked what would I think
about playing a guy that embodied all of those things that I talk about
on stage because they had heard me speak uh prior to me being involved with
the show and I said so it sounds like you want to pay me
to play me that's the American dream and they said
pretty much what what would you think about that and I said well with so
many people dying every week every episode
I really feel like Aaron will wind up serving as the moral compass
of the show and indeed that's exactly what happened wow so
for me all I did the only difference between Aaron Pierce and me is that
Aaron wore a suit all the time and I only do
for special occasions which you're doing and he also had an earpiece
which I only wore when my wife and I were having sex
that's how she knew it was me
hello major dogs are producer of bomb city right here major dogs
oh the man who the man of the hour everybody's been talking about this guy
congratulations sir enough I mean we were just talking about this is
come on come join us come get in the hot seat baby
don't gonna give up his seat because this is this is the man of the hour the
tower of power hey my dream came true I'm happy I know you are brother and
you're doing work because this is a big deal for us too
joining us right now the producer of bomb city and a guy who's got a smile a
mile wide welcome sir thank you thank you I we were just talking about the fact
and this is not an exaggeration we've been on the air now for over two
hours every guest we've had this has been the film they've been looking
forward to so you had a full house tonight you can pretty much bet your
bottom dollar you're gonna have a full house tomorrow night as well
how are you feeling right now I'm excited um I'm excited you know that the
story is finally getting told you know it's a story that's been going around
you know for years and and no one's done it had done anything with it
and it was just an honor to get the the blessing from Mike and Denny could be
able to do this so tonight is the is the result of four years of hard work
finally coming to fruition you know a movie it takes an army was this was the
premiere it wasn't not it was okay I was this was first time we've ever
showed it to a public audience so talk about that feeling
just sitting there with people that you knew maybe had at least a rudimentary
knowledge of the story coming in yeah but just being there in that moment with
a theater full of people experiencing this for the first time one second before
major does I'd like to commend you for your use of the word rudimentary that's
a good word that's your five dollar college word that was it that's a great word
you know it's funny you bring that up because tonight I you know I was sitting
next to my date Marcel and I told her so this is the first time I've watched
the film and I've been an audience member
this is the first time I watched the film yesterday
in a theater as well with Mike and Betty Dennyky oh wow yeah so it was a lot of
hug and a lot of crying and that was a a sense of relief but I went home
emotionally drained and it's been you know preparing to get a film
in the theater and open it takes a lot of it takes a toll on you
and so tonight I walked in I looked at the audience I sat back I relaxed and
I got to see the film for the first time
as not a filmmaker but as an audience member and that was a really cool feeling
so are you feeling at this point are you feeling exhaled at all
I am I'm ready to have a great time with my friends I've got family members in
town I've got a lot of my good buddies here and I'm ready for a cold beer
how was the Q&A it was great we can make a cold beer happen right here while
you're on the other side we're done we're done
somebody find done how good is this wine and radio
whatever it takes for you guys to be happy we're happy so now your
actually came over to our home four years ago when they were in the very
earliest stages the script had been written and he wanted to talk about
the early developments of the story I was unaware of the story and so
I've been in the mix with them since very very early on
and the fact that we've taken it from conception to crossing the goal line
it's so rewarding as a fellow filmmaker I appreciate what it's like to
finally say my job is done I get to sit and breathe it all in tonight
I celebrate with you but what brought you to what like what was the thing
that you said this is the thing I want to do like what brought you to this
project gosh there's a there's a lot of answers I could give to that but
ultimately so my business partners Jamie Brooks and Sheldon Chick
they're from Amarillo and so they grew up there when it happened and
they brought me the story and the first thing I said was no one's ever told
the story before because I remembered it I just graduated high school in this
happened at Bryan Relive we would be the same age wow yeah
and there were two two big events from my high school days that I remember
that received national attention one was in Amarillo, Texas and the other one
was in New Albany Indiana where I'm from and it was the Shanda Share story
it was on Oprah Dateline it was uh you know where three girls you know
lured another girl out of her house brutally you know raped her and murdered her
and that happened I just danced with that girl at the school dance
oh my god two weeks before she was the prettiest girl in the school and they're
jealous of her and you know and when I got into filmmaking I thought
you know how can I tell that story but I can never really find a redeeming
message behind it so here it is 17 years later
and I'm doing business in Dallas, Texas with two guys
that went to Amarillo and and I'm like oh my gosh that would happen in your
town I'm from the town where the Shanda Share story happened
so I understood being from a small town and seeing the kind of crazy
stuff that can go on and and you know it was just a similar thing that it
had received so much national attention because there were two things that
really stuck with me from high school so you said four
years and that four years is from the time that you the ball got rolling
until now yeah so um so I actually met Jamie and Sheldon through Mark
Colombo Mark Colombo is a pro-bowl defensive tackle
offensive lineman brother for the Dallas Cowboys I was at a Christmas party at
Mark Colombo's house in 2013
let them take a sip and just take a sip take a drink man you've more than
earned it tonight what's your name brother this is Don these are
marketing guys Don thank you for the beer brother I appreciate that
thank you absolutely awesome I can't wait for you to see it
and so I'm trying to catch up right yeah so we were at we were at Mark's house
and Mark had been telling me about these two guys Jamie and Sheldon or man you
got to meet them you guys got to work together you guys got to work together
because if you remember in 2012 the NFL had gone on strike and uh
market started a band with uh Leonard Davis see a two Dallas Cowboys in a band
and so he um there sounds like the beginning of a great joke right two football
players form a band right and so anyway uh Mark had some across paths with
Jamie and Sheldon and asked him to shoot ask them to shoot a music video
and so they shot a music video that they then played on ESPN when the NFL
went on strike that year it was showing what NFL players were doing during
the strike and a couple of Dallas Cowboys started a rock band but they played
that video and and so that's how Mark met them and um Mark
Mimini's like you got to meet Jamie and Sheldon so we got introduced at his
Christmas party I hooked up with them like the second week of January
and they had already put together like a little pitch deck
and immediately when I read it uh I was like I've got the perfect guy here locally
that has to play the attorney and they're like who and I say Glenn Moore shower
and I brought him over to Glenn's house and Glenn does what Glenn does
you ain't lying he uh he makes people fall in love
and uh they we left their house and they go oh my god you're so right that's
Cameron Wilson I go I told you
and I'm telling you what I say you guys are the talk of the town right now you
really really are everybody is waving about this film
where is it going from here so our next stop we're playing at the Nashville
Film Festival April 23rd and April 25th so three weeks
yeah and I will be there with you I told you I'm gonna fly out to Nashville
oh I mean if I'm not on a set somewhere I will be there
and and and he was supposed to be on his on a job right now but
Glenn put this his priority and I can't think you're not for doing that
because I know you had to change the world premiere baby world premiere
and and then we get to have you with us which is wait a minute let me show you
what it was between Dallas and a world premiere
our my hotel room alone in York
Pennsylvania we win we win that's not even a question
winning right here but we don't want to keep you guys too much longer because
there's a party that you guys get to attend and it's right behind us well
that was one thing that was one thing I had to get in with
please I do hope you guys get a chance to see the movie
I'm gonna do everything very very powerful you had a major impact on my life
back in the early 90s when I was in the Navy oh my god you saw
polyshores in the army now no I've seen that I've seen that no
don't tell anybody no no no inson Taylor I saw
oh is that what it was you were you were my boss
personified you were my inson in the Navy you ready for this please
well then I guess we'll just see what we'll see
there it is and there's just deep fear in me of all the things in
son Taylor could do to me it is such an honor to meet you because
that has been that was such a huge part of our that was like our team
speech on the USS Scott you were our guy you were our
unofficial mascot in 1990 that film actually changed my life
I was already a busy actor but it had not broken out
and in 1992 when I went into that room at Warner Brothers in Andrew Davis the
director and Stephen were both in the room
I understood that something very special was going to happen if they said yes
because at that time Stephen was really at the top of his
hands that's when things were great for him right
and so yeah and and and and in every successful actors life
they will be able to pinpoint exactly which film or tv project it was
when things went up to the stress it's always been a steady ascension but
there was a spike a den of fly identifiably related to
it was also really where on the street recognition began
it doesn't surprise me so that's now 25 years it's
have to believe that was 25 years ago and I tell you something that happened
while we were there that still blows my mind today that it could be
25 years ago but that was shot we were there in March
April and May and I was there all of March and April in
mobile Alabama in 1992 and I was in my hotel room when I heard
that Sam Kenneson had died I was on the court I was in my dorm room in college
I was going to believe he's been gone 25 years I was on watch on
quarter deck watch whenever that got announced in Norfolk when
we got announced oh your station in Norfolk yes sir wow they were
shocked that I knew what a folks all was like how does an actor know what a
folks all is well I saw that on the NOB base movie theater we I saw it
surrounded by squids oh so I mean it was it was electric in that theater
about oh my god of course we're your peeps and I mean I'm there with my whole
division I'm like that's our Ensign that's our Ensign right there
wow so to have you sitting across me it's almost like jumping in the
way back I'm gonna I'm gonna jump in here and just say goodbye see some
well give us give us give us shameless self promotion
everything website social media everything people need to know to get in
contact for the film I'm going with you baby we're www.bombsitifilm.com
you find us on Facebook at bomb city film on Instagram at bomb city film
our company is called third identity third identity films.com
and yeah we'll see you at the movies go enjoy your e-mage and I'm
going to give you guys a plug at bomb city obviously here at the Dallas
International Film Festival tomorrow night at the Magnolia Theater at 5 p.m.
right do you have the other screening announced yet for the following weekend
or is there a slot yeah tickets aren't on sale yet but we are going to play a
third time here on April 8th okay and then we're we're you already said about
Nashville 23rd and 25th let me give two more plugs please do a week from
tonight opening in theaters nationwide and it will be a wide release I have a new
film called Aftermath with Arnold Schwarzenegger and I play Arnold's boss and
the film and then of course the much-awaited transformers five
which will be in theaters June 17th we're excited
to the party to the party now and we must go a great beer now
gentlemen thank you so much thank you so this oh wow
that just happened to you to the beer get to the get to the get to the keg
get to the wine bottle such an honor
this is
go see this film I'm you know what everybody's talking about smoothie
there hasn't been one person that's walked past us or sat here in front of us it
hasn't been singing this praise yeah I mean people that we know that
that's you know markers talked about seeing a screener of it earlier
you know we're gonna have to check out I mean it's on my list for sure
what are we doing oh okay um okay well well
all right we're gonna we're taking a photo I guess okay you go come around
and then I'll come off at the last second
jazz got to walk around the desk got to give him a second um empire just hold on
for one second we're doing a photo op so we'll we're just going to let you
enjoy the ambient noise
okay perfect so we just got some more information from mr.
Morshari's got another new show coming on showtime June 4th called I'm
dying up here with Jim Carrey that he's very very excited about oh wow
really yes so we're gonna have to look that up okay we're still going now
our next guest is about to have a very big moment at the Dallas International
Film Festival I hope so very very soon go ahead introduce yourself sir
hello my name is Brett Haley and I'm the writer and director of the hero with
Sam Elliott I was gonna say you're probably the envy of just about every woman
on the planet right now because you got to work with the great Sam Elliott
I've gotten to work with the great Sam Elliott uh twice so I'm definitely the
envy uh he was in my last film I'll see you in my dreams which opened
which we saw two years you were getting me that was you that's me and I'm
gonna say it sir I loved your film yes I absolutely that is one of those
films that I think took a lot of people by its first of all an amazing cast
yeah but it's one of those films that doesn't go exactly where you
think it's gonna go the whole time and that's what I loved about your film
because I was like oh well fight I said that quite a bit in your film it plays
out a little bit hopefully more like real life but it's I like to play with
what I call a surprising inevitability where you're like I know where this is
going kind of you know I've seen movies before so I know where this is going
because there are tropes you see a couple of flexing but the way it shakes out
is hopefully a little bit more unexpected a little bit more surprising and a
little bit more real and by doing that you're connecting with folks a bit more
you're you're hopefully they're they're connecting with that material because
it relate you they can relate or they can understand it in a way and I think the
hero which is a centerpiece screening yes down through national film festival
let's not sell that short no let's not let's let's let's tell everybody about it
the film is it's playing tomorrow night at 7.30 I believe and then the film is
actually coming out in theaters across the country it'll be in New York and LA
June 9th and then it'll be here in Dallas sometime in June and it'll just keep
hopefully expanding and expanding to be if the folks like it
tell the people about the film because I really did this the synopsis that I've read
yeah the synopsis is basically Sam Elliott plays kind of a sad
version of himself a washed up western icon who's making his living doing
voiceovers for barbecue sauce and like imitating art just a little bit
but but Sam is by no means washed up in real life but his character is and his
character sits around his place in Topanga Canyon smoking weed with his only
friend who play who's played by Nick Offerman big fan of the Nick Offerman is
well Nick Offerman is the best and basically he gets some bad news
and it's about him sort of read you know sort of looking at his life
and his legacy not only as an actor but as a man a family man an ex-husband a
father and sort of saying at the end of the day
what is truly important that's what the movie is about is very simple but it's a
very funny and very heartwarming ride that again like I'll see you in my dreams
to say if you liked I'll see you in my dreams you will like this because it
again it sort of plays into those tropes but it does it in ways that are
very unexpected and surprising and real how long to take you to shoot this
thing well I shoot very quick so I'll see you in my dreams shot in 18 days
and I had more money for this one so I thought oh I'm going to get more days
18 days 18 days is my sweet number hey you know what and it works obviously
it's working I'm hoping for the next one we get a little bit more time but it
was a quick shoot but it was a lovely experience and the cast which also
includes Laura Prepon Kristen Ritter and I maybe you've heard of her names
Catherine Ross she's been in a couple of small films
some of the Indies that maybe you've heard of called Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid in the graduate oh my god stepford wives yeah her that
Catherine Ross so I was very it was sort of a
an embarrassment of riches oh wow I just saw somebody else that you've
got involved in this film who's that Andy L.O. Andy L.O. is in the movie yeah
she's a Prince protege oh she is she was that's Prince fan one sitting next to
me that's obviously yeah it's obviously I will I will put him up against
anybody on God's green earth when it comes to Prince Trinity yes she is a
Prince prodigy and she is great she plays a bartender in the film and she is a
lovely and very beautiful young lady and I just found her post of her singing
your praises in June of last year well that's very nice of her she's a she's a
lovely lady and this was another L.A. movie even though I'm a Brooklyn
I'm a New Yorker beside yep but I keep making movies in L.A. because that's
where all the movies are saying oh there's that hole there's that hole that's
where they are that's where they are so second time
as I guess opening a centerpiece screening so this is your second film that
you've got is a centerpiece screening yes describe how you're feeling now
versus how you felt with else even my dreams I'm a little bit more seasoned I've
got a lot of got a lot of cayenne on me these days you know yeah I you know when
you do these these regional these wonderful regional festivals like Dallas
you you what's lovely about them is the audiences what what you get at these
types of festivals is audiences that love movies they really they're here they're
so excited it's not like going to the cinema normally like they're pumped up
and they're ready to see something that moves them and I there's nothing
better than to show your film in that kind of environment and Dallas for me
opening the festival last year was a wonderful time and I believe we were in
talks for opening or closing but just schedule worked out right but it's
wonderful to be back I I love this festival I love everybody who runs this
festival and it's just it's a it's an honor so much every year this is our
fourth year doing the festival and to say it's a different vibe yes but it's a
different vibe in a better way and just like a bigger and better way as every
good film festival is Robert Redford would tell you about the first couple of
Sundance is I'm sure he's a okay with the way that festival he's doing all right
yeah and I mean Sundance is I've been lucky enough that both of my films
from my last two films premiered at Sundance and sold at Sundance
the and and it has its own energy but it's also very stressful you're like oh
my god am I gonna sell my movie yeah which takes a lot out of you and when you
come to a festival like Dallas the movies hopefully been purchased which
for in my case it has and you're just enjoying it now you're just getting to
share it with people who really want to see it and you're getting to have
that dialogue with them about what they liked what they connected with
hopefully not what they don't like but I'm open to that as well
it's something that I don't know that we've ever asked a filmmaker on this show
and it just kind of hit me can you describe the difference as somebody who
does these things a lot right now you're talking to a couple of
shlobs with a podcast so don't sell yourself so short
but talk about the difference in a situation like this versus a Q&A
where people have just seen your film and you're sitting in a director's
chair on a stage is there is there a more of an
unpredictability to that or when you're sitting down with guys like that
that maybe you don't know as well there's always an unpredictability to a Q&A
always because you don't know what somebody is
how you know if somebody raises their hand you're hoping it's a good thing
but it might be somebody who has a problem with your film or you know there's
all sorts of crazy Q&A stories out there I've been lucky enough that I've made
films that I think are pretty digestible and pretty you know people like
them and and they're just excited and wanting to know
more about kind of where I was coming from and making the film
but it can be an unpredictable experience but that's sort of the joy of it
I love going to these I love supporting
these festivals and supporting my film at these festivals because it's a big
it's it's a it's a way for me to see how people are reacting to the film
and saying real people who go see films who are not
buyers who are not critics just regular film lovers how are they responding
and when you walk in I don't watch my film anymore I also edited my film so
I'm done watching it that's fair that's fair I have to sort of let it go
but because it's what's done is done but when you sit there and you you can feel
it the room is telling you we dug it or we hated it it's
but no matter what the audience gets this moment of it's a moment it's like a
memory where they get to talk to the filmmaker and say hey why did you do
this this way and and I get to and I'm happy to explain I'm happy to at
least describe my personal you know take on these things
trying to keep keep everything up to date here tomorrow nights eight o'clock
yeah that sounds right at the Dallas City Performing Arts Center
we don't want you to enjoy the party oh yes as honored as we are to have you
here because I'm telling you I'll see you in my dreams was amazing thank you
I hope you enjoy the video it's I will say I will say this about the film
if you love Sam Elliott you will love this film it is truly
uh in my humble opinion and yes I wrote it and directed it
it's his best performance ever he's he's incredible and if you don't love
Sam Elliott you mean you reevaluate your life choices yeah that was my that was
my only complaint about your previous film there wasn't enough of him
right so but before we let you go because we're all about shameless self
promotion on the show give us websites give us social media give us
everything people need to know and where else the film is going to be
showing after this weekend so let me start with where it's going next it's
going to be at the Riverrun Film Festival Cleveland Film Festival
Sarasota Nashville San Francisco Seattle Wisconsin
I'm leaving some out or Florida Florida Film Festival
so a lot of different festival stops the film comes out June 9th New York
in LA it will then expand to nationwide by July 4th it should be in the Dallas
area sometime in June I would think um and uh what were the other
questions website social media yeah social media is well the orchard is
putting out our film which uh did uh or fans of the orchard they're
amazing they did a wonderful film last year called The Hunt for the
Wilder People which is amazing if people haven't seen it they should check
that out so the orchards putting out the film so you can check out their
stuff online or our twitter handle is the hero movie 17
as in the year okay uh our uh instagram is the hero movie
and our facebook is the hero movie very easy to remember those things
sir thank you so much for hanging out with us thanks i just arrived in Dallas
and it's wonderful to be here and talk to you fellas it's been great thank you so
much good luck tomorrow night like you're gonna need it because it's
gonna be amazing i hope so i hope to see you guys there and we'll talk
afterwards right hey we ladies and gentlemen thank you guys thanks for being here
i'm glad we got him on because i as much as we'd love to show a couple of
years ago i'm glad we got to talk to him because i really dug that movie
and as soon as he mentioned sam aliens i wonder if he had anything to do with
well yes he did it's what's for the film festival that's all i got
there's a barbecue sauce it's what's on your bed thank you so much sir
thanks honor wow we've got to get down up here and throw what's going on
because sir we're almost two and a half hours yeah we've we've we've shot past
our normal run can you can you poke your head in there and see if he's in there
let me see i don't know if he's here you're listening to the clubhouse podcast
we're live at the press lounge at the Dallas International Film Festival
this is the 11th annual there's so much going on there's people everywhere
we're going to be back here next friday night as well for the post dfs
honor show we're going to be talking to award winners we're going to be talking to
more filmmakers right is this this okay all right we're going to have one more
guest don just let us know and it's a big one
i'm telling you don is getting us the guests sir
just you know we can't talk about this film enough we can't do it
because there's so much to talk about and don's going to bring him to us don't
forget sunday night five p.m. central we're going to be on the air for our
WrestleMania pre show but joining us right now
which i'm excited that you're here sir because
are you talked out yet because this is another one of the men of the hour
introduce yourself to our audience sir if you would i am i'm jameson Brooks i am the
co-writer and director of bomb city which is the talk of what's going on right
now and we've talked about this before almost every gift we've had
tonight on the show your movie is the one they're talking about man no pressure
huh no pressure but you have any now you've already had the screening
yeah which i've told win over like gangbusters
definitely it's it's better sweet it's it's a really powerful and meaningful
story and we're happy to be the ones to tell it for sure
how are you feeling right now i don't know i don't think there's words
even to describe it it's kind of surreal i guess the adrenaline hasn't worn
off yet yeah it's it's weird i've been stuck in a cave
editing for the last year so here we go time to come out of the cave and
and uh you know watching on the big screen we've we've had your your
producer on a little while ago we had mr. more shower on a little while
ago i mean this like i said everybody's been talking about your film what you
had a packed house tonight i can guarantee you you're
going to have a packed house again tomorrow night i'll be there
and don's going to be there tomorrow night if if you can get a seat
i'll give you there i'll say you may as well just stay online
right now just so you can make sure you get it because it's back here
and talk about just being able to debut the
the film in Dallas you shot it here if i'm not we did we uh we
home based out of Dallas a lot of the crew and a lot of the talent came from
Dallas and uh it's it's an amorello story
uh but we we did Texas's Texas really at the end of the day
and uh Dallas is so film-friendly and they helped us out with so many
different logistics and budgeting and uh this
locations and the people here we we kind of had the way we look at it
we had a justice league of local filmmakers involved in those so it's really
cool really cool i mean art do you have i'm my brain's
locking up by apologies because i'm just i'm excited to see the film and
i can't see what you said uh okay okay fair enough
don's showing me notes we want to make sure we get everything and you need
do you do you have the same Q&A tomorrow that you're going to have tonight or
is you're just going to screen the film tomorrow night i have no idea
honestly uh we'll see what happens we'll see happy but react to it but
overwhelmingly yeah it's been great like it's really good to get brined in a
key story out there and and hopefully touch some people and inspire others
what brought you to it i was i was 12 years old and i grew up in amorello and
and i just i i grew up with knowing the tragedy of that story and just how
the more i see a man the more i like dogs is really kind of the the moto behind it
and uh it uh it's just stuck with me and brine's legacy has been something
that i i hope that we can you know pay tribute to and and pass on and
hopefully inspire others to not judge a book by its cover
if you have your druthers where does this film go
i mean you want of course you want to wide theatrical release
but who do you think would be able to handle the film for what it is
and be able to just take it from you and do what you feel it deserves to be
taken to i mean we obviously wanted to go worldwide and global and
and to spread the word all we care about is spreading the word we don't care
you know about playing in big theaters or or whatever like the idea would be
what i think would be really cool is to do some concerts along with the film
oh and uh make it not just a punk rock film but like you know people who
believe in social intolerance and and want to just get behind something and
support um you know just being different altogether you know what and that's
something we haven't talked about yet when we talk about your film is
is the music because the punk rock scene plays such a big
influence in the film talk about the music that you're able to get music that
you wish you could have gotten and couldn't uh actually what's really
cool is the uh a lot of the punk bands brined in a key's favorite punk
bands they contributed free music for us we literally
asked them hey you know we're doing the story
what do you guys think and they said yeah go for it whatever you want to do
and that's what's really cool i didn't know that about punk rock so i figured
that out and now i'm a huge punk rock fan i've got this subhuman shirt on
right now i'm a huge fan and uh it changed my life
we get good we've been working on this for four years and now
i love it i love the community i love everything that punk rock stands for
we're we're being told your time is limited so i want to ask you one more
music question then we're going to let you go party
any possibility of even an iTunes playlist of
songs from the film we haven't thought about soundtrack yet but i know what the score
was made by our wonderful composers Cody and Sheldon Chick they're both
brothers uh and they did a hell of a job and we are so proud of them um
that probably will be available at some point but with the other music we'll
have to figure that out with them maybe it's like a spot-of-flight playlist or
just some of the out there for people to be amazing for sure and you can take the
idea i only work for credit for they've already been talking about it awesome
bomb cities the the movie played tonight it's going to play tomorrow night
i'll be there and next Saturday we found out there's going to be a third
screening i don't even know that but i'll be there tomorrow and
any website you want to plug or place or bombcityfilm.com check it out and
spread the word please and find it on social media out there as well
i've actually got a plastered all over the vehicle you guys had ear alert
that's already on my in my Instagram as well
congratulations we're so happy for you guys go party have a great time
thanks for having thanks for coming on order to do so sir thank you and we
hope that it's everything that you want it to be great it's been great
absolute honor thank you go enjoy yourself
congratulations thank you my friend thank you oh
watching again no bother me not at all
done i feel and brother this is the longest show we've done in a long time
back-to-back solid shows i don't care good was a nice this guy
and i'm in heaven it was amazing and i'm like a kidney candy store
what the crazy part is this is part one this this this is part one this is this
is the same part you try walking through that oh i know earlier when i went
to the restroom before i come down with clinics like where's Rob
where's Rob i wanted to go want to use the bathroom because i knew i wasn't
going to be going anywhere anytime soon
this night has been amazing and again this is part one we're going to be doing
this all again next Friday night from this assuming the weather holds out
from this exact same spot because next Friday night
friend of the show Devon Pike's going to be here too in karaoke inside
so you know the wheels are coming off hopefully we can get in for at least a
and we're going to have returned guests next Friday night at at least one
hunter i know they should use walking behind you right now hey hunter do you
want to take a night we're heading off come on jump in here real fast
we're doing the plugs this an amazing night done a great job as always
no it's a tan so we gotta wait for hunter hunter we're we're
signing up we're wrapping up we're wrapping up we're gonna help us wrap up your
mic's already on sir we're gonna see you next week right you will see me on
Friday yeah all right let me get the right track you up so we can do the
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