Live At The Dallas International Film Festival 2018

It is seven o'clock on the east coast.
It is four o'clock on the west coast.
It is Cinco de Mayo.
It is the fifth of May in the year of our Lord 2018.
And it sounds a little funny
because we're on the road again.
It is season eight, episode 36, 439 times this voice
has welcomed you to the clubhouse podcast.
Normally live every Sunday night,
seven Eastern four Pacific,
but like I said a minute ago,
we're on the road again.
Welcome.
My name is Rob.
I am the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast
and I've already gotten to see a couple of movies today.
So I'm happy.
But I'm not alone joining me to my right
instead of across the desk as he tends to do
when we're on the road is my co-host
and a man who probably said at least once yesterday
to may the fourth be with you.
He is Chad.
Welcome, sir.
Oh yeah, I lost track.
I lost track.
I mean, times I got told that and I had to return.
Yeah.
I just responded to all of them and also with you
because I'm a Methodist.
Across from him is the official fact checker of this show
and a man who's very decorative today.
And he was told by at least three people
since I've been around him today.
There have been some stealer fans
that have given him some love.
You may know him as Fondango,
but his mama named him Don Ford.
I'm gonna call him Don Ford.
Welcome, sir.
We're back.
We are back.
I do this every year and here's the thing.
I cried.
I cried today.
I know you did.
Okay, all right.
We're gonna talk about that a minute.
I know, I gotta go.
You know me later, guys.
Well, we gotta say why we're here.
It is the 2018 Dallas International Film Festival
and kind of a milestone for us.
This is our fifth year in a row covering the festival.
First podcast to ever do it.
Still the only and the most important.
My mother told me that, so I believe it.
And the worst important here.
Now that's true.
We're like to we're like to Brett Farve of a podcast.
We have the good records in the bedroom.
And where the maybe the unofficial Pittsburgh
Steeler podcast of the day.
No, we are not.
I knew that ain't happened.
All right, so I gotta go.
You know me, bye bye.
Absolutely.
We always start every show with updates or corrections.
We want to send a couple of shout outs.
We're actually live at the Magnolia.
landmarks, the Magnolia Theater in Dallas.
We're most of the Dallas International Film Festival.
It's gonna be taking place.
We're upstairs in the lobby.
Don is the light on.
Are we good?
All right.
So if you're in the neighborhood, come by and see us.
We're gonna be hanging out here for the next couple of hours.
We want to send a shout out to another theater
that just opened the Alamo Draft House in Los Colinas.
Just opened this past week.
And they had us out for a big shindig Tuesday night
where I finally got to see Infinity War.
So that was a good time.
Also shout out to Donovan,
friend of the show Jason Bees film that came out last year.
It was at the Bear Bones Film Festival last weekend.
And it brought home some hardware, brother.
Didn't really.
Like three or four awards.
Well congrats to that.
Congrats to Bee.
And he's out there making it happen.
And a quick shout out to Cornerstone Baptist Church
where Grace D played last night for their youth lock-in.
Had a great time.
I'm very tired.
But I wasn't there for the whole thing.
So I actually we went home after we played
because I was not gonna be there till seven in the morning
and then drive home from Allen.
Because that would have been very disastrous to today.
But we are live.
Let's get to the Dallas International Film Festival.
One of our favorite shows to do.
I don't know, do you have any?
No, that's not true.
Is he on track for action?
So I'll be fact-tacking.
Yeah, from here on.
We may have to replace Don.
I don't know what's going on today.
But we are at the Dallas International Film Festival.
One of our favorite shows to do every year.
We already have guests joining us.
So gentlemen, please introduce yourselves.
Hi, I'm Chris Gardner.
I am a local actor and writer
and I've been making movies with my best friend Blair
since we were 14.
I'm Blair Rowan and we have a short in the festival
called Heavy Chemistry.
Heavy Chemistry, is it tonight's block?
It is in...
Go ahead and talk right into that thing if you was sorry.
There you go.
It is in the Narrative Shorts 2 block,
which is actually tomorrow at noon
and then Monday at 8.15 p.m.
Well, tell us about the short.
It's a split.
We have, I have yet to actually figure out a way
to fully explain it without spoiling it.
Well, you know what, this is the second week in a row
that we did the USA Film Festival last weekend
and we got that a lot too.
Or it's like, I could tell you about it,
but then I'd ruin it because how long is it?
It's only six minutes and 40 seconds.
Yeah, so it's a low investment of time for you to really.
If you're disappointed by it, it's over before you know it.
It's very easy to forget.
Easy disappointment as much as you can.
Exactly, every disappointment should be easier than the last.
It's not the first time I've been asked.
I've been referred to in that way.
But, so you said you guys have been making films
to go this since you were 14.
That's right.
I mean, is it all been here?
Have you followed each other at a college
or have you been here the whole time?
Well, we were so good at high school,
we didn't feel that college was necessary.
And there's nothing wrong with that, sir.
Now we've been, yeah, primarily in Dallas.
He moved away to California for a while,
but we managed to write a script via the early days of South
Island lines.
Yeah, landlines and cell phones.
That movie, you know, was actually premiered
when this was AFI many years ago.
Many years that was the first.
This is year 12.
Yeah, yeah, we put that out there.
It was the very first film.
This is the very first festival we played.
And we were like, making movies is easy.
This is the easiest.
Why doesn't everybody just do this?
This is insanely easy.
And then many years passed.
12 years later, you're broke as hell.
People don't understand like, yes, six, less than seven minutes long,
but how would it take you to shoot it?
We talked about that last year.
Exactly.
We talked about that on the show.
It's like, oh, people just got there
and they shoot for 20 minutes.
And there's a film.
I'm like, no, it actually shows real time.
It took a six minutes to shoot it.
Over four years, that's right.
We're doing one minute this year.
30 second blocks.
We did a whole boyhood thing.
You could watch me the age and dog ears sounds for you.
And honestly, I mean, we did shoot it in a day and a half.
It was primarily one full shoot day and then a pick up.
And it was a very easy shoot.
We didn't even plan on submitting its festivals.
We were just going to drop it online and then
like most of our films, it was going to be just for us.
So.
Well, on a terms of that, that's kind of cool.
You make the art and you're like, you know what?
I'm going to throw it on YouTube.
And if people want to watch it, that's fine.
In this age that we live in, it's easy to do.
And that's why we have this.
Yes, we weren't good enough to be in radio.
So we just said, you know what?
We can do this online ourselves.
I think you're selling yourself short.
I think you're bigger than radio.
You're better, better than radio.
I will take that.
Come on guys.
I've got that on.
You've got a really oversolder.
I'm going to turn that into a loop and just play it
in the background of our show.
But that's what I love about it is it's not just for the quote
unquote, elite anymore.
It's for anybody that has a dream and has an artistic talent
that just wants to go out there and shoot stuff.
Especially in festivals like this where you have,
you can take seven minutes and you can combine it
with six or seven other solid hour and a half block
programming out of it.
Yeah.
And the accessibility and affordability
of equipment these days.
I mean, the fact that there are people out there
actually making quality short films on just their phone.
Because there's a feature that's out now,
Steven Soderberg did.
Oh, the same that was completely shot on the iPhone.
And two years ago, it's an incredible movie, yeah.
And it's just being able to do that
and encouraging people from all walks of life
and all ages that are able to do that.
I think it's just awesome because we're really
fostering that next generation where I don't know
that we did that when he and I were kids.
No.
In fact, it was quite the opposite of that.
Mostly it was like, was like,
why are there shapes in it now?
Yeah, I thought you lost me.
I mean, of course my mom's like a math wizard.
I'm like, can I just go to the history class
and learn about like how we screwed things up over.
Learn from those mistakes.
So who are the filmmakers and the actors
that inspire you?
Go ahead, Blair.
I would say my biggest inspiration.
So ever since middle school,
I've been in the Cohen brothers.
Don't know if that's somebody that gets them
to where they are.
You know, for me, for this thing,
like I didn't even know Pining,
and I was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
And then I heard Smodcast for the first time,
and I was like, we could probably
wait for that to be back on that whole, you know.
I had just retired from the DJ business
and I'm like, I've got the equipment.
Let's just plug it in and see what happens.
And now it's almost eight years later.
A lot of the nice thing is we've got a really tight knit group
that we work with primarily, you know, just this group.
And most of us, I mean, most of our crew,
we've been friends with for the same amount of time.
A team that are, you know, one of our primary,
kind of swing people, same, same there since we were 14.
We don't like to meet new people.
We have very volatile personalities.
We just like to ask a lot of favors.
Yeah, we know we don't have to pay our friends
and they love that.
So we just,
Well, you look at, well, a documentary
that was here two or three years ago,
the Raiders documentary.
Oh, yeah.
You look at those kids.
You know, they just, have you seen the documentary?
Oh, yeah.
It's great.
Like how, watching the differences
because of the ages they were, like in one scene,
he's running and he's like this tall
and he's like a foot taller in the next scene.
But getting to do that with your friends,
it's, it's that experience that you look back
and you go holy crap, we did that.
Yeah.
And you know that you get a call too,
like, yes, let's just,
we did this like seven years ago, let's watch it.
Yeah, well, we started with sketch comedy
was where, where we started.
So we learned early on how to take a bad idea
and make it worse.
You know, so, you know, that's that sort of
parlayed into short films and we spend a lot of time,
you know, doing things that weren't necessarily funny
and more like, let's really rip people's hearts out.
People love that.
So, and that didn't get quite the attention
as being funny.
So people, people only want one thing from us.
People just want the one thing.
Like don't do anything else.
This is what you do.
Well, we're gonna do what we're gonna do,
but we'll let you do that.
Yeah, right?
You guys can, yeah, you guys can do that later.
Well, I mean, well, the summer movie season in full swing,
which is where I love how Diff falls this year
right in that time.
I mean, what kind of things are you guys looking for?
Like, what are the things that are like,
I need this movie out right now so I can go see it?
I'm, yes.
That's one that's high up on my list.
I don't like scary movies, but this one,
I would watch that one.
Yeah, that one, that one is supposed to be
genuinely interesting.
Well, I have genuinely terrified.
We talk about this in the show.
I have a policy I live by code.
I refuse to pay someone to try to make me pee on myself.
Yeah.
But he loves rollercoasters.
But you know what that word is?
The rollercoasters aren't meant to make me feel like
someone's gonna do like, cut me and do mean things to me.
That's just gravity doing whatever you see in movies.
I grew up at a level of danger, I grew up in the 80s,
and then the disaster movie was a thing.
Did people just come up and jam pen knives
in the back of your neck?
I was building them on the chisels.
That's all I'm saying, kind of thing.
But yeah, it looks like really interesting.
It looks great.
There's another film that's actually playing in the festival
that is being co-presented by the Eocliff Film Festival
called Sherkers.
That's really cool.
Yeah, that does sound.
That sounds really terrifying and amazing.
Gosh, I, I'm having a number one.
I mean, I just saw, you were never really here.
I really did that.
It was a great film.
Yeah, that was one of those, I went into
and I wasn't sure what my expectations were going to be.
And then I was like, I was like,
first I was walking Phoenix Action Star.
He's anything you wanted to be.
And then I got told me that I'm like,
this is so not that.
No.
We talked about this last week on the show
that it's like watching a graphic novel.
There's not a ton of dialogue and he makes,
it makes it work for an hour and a half.
And I walked out and I was like, that was cool.
Yeah, like it got kind of trippy there
in the last 20 minutes.
But yeah, I agree with you.
I loved you were never really here.
Did anybody see you?
We didn't talk about Kevin.
I, it's been forever.
I saw it like when it first started making the circuit
and I need to go back and watch it again.
Worth a rewatch.
Same thing for those people, the same director
do both films.
Yeah.
Anything else you guys want to plug?
Because I know you guys, it's getting close to time
for you to shake hands and kiss babies and things like that.
Well, I look forward to kissing a lot of babies
in a platonic way.
In that swingers kind of way.
In a Vinspawn, Vinspawn John Favreau.
Oh, okay.
Like we say, what do you say?
We mean like 1990s adult baby.
That's right.
Yeah, no, we are RDP along with our long time friend Yen Tan
has a film called 1985.
Saw it today.
Beautiful heart, heartbreaking and amazing film.
The only words I could come up worth were
Gothic, stoic, heavy.
Yeah.
Those are three solid descriptors.
And a friend of the show is actually in it,
plays the very brief scene with the pastor, Brian Massey.
Oh, yeah.
He's a friend of the show.
Yeah, Brian's gonna have John's our show at 10 o'clock.
If you look close, you'll see both of us in it as well.
And I wrote the music for it.
It's all about the scores haunting.
Do I know?
The score is haunting.
Oh, I didn't do any.
I'm not a part of the haunting part of the music.
Well, great score though.
I wrote the Christian rock song.
All right.
Oh, everybody prays.
Yeah, I think I sing in a Christian rock band.
Well, you know what, you might pass it along
because there's a very specific career for me there.
So this show is founded on one thing and one thing only
and it's blatant self promotion.
Please see it.
So it is playing tomorrow at the Magnolia noon.
It is playing again on Monday at eight.
If you come see it, we will personally match your 401k.
Hey, now, how can you say no to that?
It's about love.
It's about laughter.
It's about learning to go off to war.
It's about probably some sort of illness,
maybe like a Legionnaires disease.
It's about anything you like.
That's what it is.
Okay, website, social media, Facebook.
It's maybe heard of it.
Okay, you know, slash heavy chemistry.
Heavy chemistry, okay.
Well, let's see, twice in the next two days,
these guys are going to be here for Q&A obviously
because they're hanging out with us here tonight.
Thank you guys so much for hanging out with us.
Go and try the festival.
I'm so much for having us.
Thank you, Rob and Chad.
Oh, see, I love it when people name drop us.
It makes me feel better.
Thank you, Rob and Chad.
You guys, it is the clubhouse podcast.
We're live at the Magnolia, the landmark Magnolia theater
in Dallas and what they call the West Village.
Makes me feel very important to see the West Village.
But now we are, hold on, let her sit down first.
Can I run my show?
Can I run my show?
It's our show.
As the executive producer, I am the host of the show.
I run the show.
This is how this will be over here.
The only person that's literally been on every episode
in the history of ever of this show.
He needs a hug.
Hi, guys.
Now, because one of our favorite people has sat down.
That's why you want to introduce her.
That's what I wanted to do is interview.
Because it's how the kitchen is with us.
And a lot earlier in the show that she normally is.
But it's not to dip without her.
So we have to have her on.
Absolutely.
How are you, friend?
I'm so fabulous.
Kelly Kitschens, in case you didn't catch that.
One of the hardest working women in show business.
Oh.
I'm not lying.
And not just because we know you and we love you.
Probably 90% of what we have is because of you.
Of course.
But I mean, to see Kelly take a day off,
if you ever see that, gather your belongings
because Jesus is coming.
That's the only, because you work all the time, dude.
I do, I do indeed.
And your husband's here with you, Mark's here.
You guys just got back from TCM.
How was it?
Yes, it was amazing.
As it always is for you guys.
How many years now in a row?
Nine.
This was the ninth year.
And it was all been on for nine years.
And the last day off was just was our wedding.
Yeah.
Don says I think he thinks that your last day off
was for his wedding.
Oh, yes.
Which is by the way, creeping up on the year.
Yes, yes.
I remember that day well.
I was there.
I was there.
And boy, it was a lot.
Let's get married outside in July.
Let's do that.
I know.
Whose idea was that?
You know I'm going to keep you creep about that, dude.
Whose idea was that?
Family, if I didn't love him, I wouldn't come up
with this kind of stuff.
But tell me what's been going on.
Oh, I am so thrilled.
I am working on two films at Diff.
And one of them is going on right now.
It's the Iron Orchard.
Iron Orchard.
And it will also be playing on Monday night at 5 o'clock.
It's 12 o'clock five.
Take your tickets if you're done already.
And the other one, which played this afternoon,
was a family-friendly film.
And it had a slight faith-based angle to it.
It was called Edge of the World.
And oh, my gosh.
OK.
It is gorgeous.
It is well-acted.
There is not a weak spot in this film at all.
Wow.
It's beautiful.
And it's got, so let me tell you,
it is about a boy's ranch.
I didn't read about this immediately, I got it.
Yeah, an emerald Texas.
And it's kind of a generalized boy's ranch.
And it's about a coach of the track team.
And this kind of rag tag team.
And the reason that these guys are at a boy's ranch
is because so many in their family who love them
is unable to care for them anymore.
And so they're growing up at the boy's ranch.
They're going to school.
And they're on this track team.
And it's about the crisis of faith that the track coach has.
And about dealing with these kids and issues
of feeling abandoned, feeling just left by their family.
And so it's becoming a family themselves.
And the amazing thing is I've got two of the actors with us.
They were about 15, I think, when they did this movie,
and they're now 18, and they are remarkable.
They are so good.
Are they going to sit down with us for a minute?
Yes.
All right, well, come on, have a seat.
And you guys can introduce yourselves.
Hi, I am Will Myers.
And I'm Noah Alford.
Make sure you guys are right on top of those things.
Everybody can hear you.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
You couldn't have a better person intro in you.
I'm not going to lie to you.
Kelly is one of the most amazing people
I know on God's green earth.
And she takes care of us a lot better
than she ever, ever, ever has ever had to.
And I'm not lying when I say most of the stuff
that we get to do is because Kelly opened doors for us.
So we're so thankful for her.
You know, there's her and one other person
that have really been the reason that we've actually
taken this out of a studio every once in a while.
And so it's kind of cool, some of the stuff
that we've gotten to do.
So three years ago, almost three years.
Public school man, did he write on that?
Talk about that experience.
How much do you remember of it coming back?
Is it one of those things that when you watch the film,
did a lot of stuff come back to you?
Or was it when you go and you're like, oh my God,
I remember doing this?
Yeah, yeah.
It was, well, yeah, it was a long, long time ago.
So seeing some of the scenes and the locations and everything,
I remember, obviously now since I've seen it.
But before that, all of it was kind of a blur.
And I knew what it was about, what the experience was like.
But just mainly the locations and stuff.
Seeing certain shots, it brought a lot of very specific
memories back.
Was it all shot in Amarillo?
Most pretty much.
Yeah.
There were some shots for flashbacks and stuff
that were shot in LA, I think, for some of the characters.
But yeah, it's pretty like all of the shooting I did.
And I think you as well, right?
Yep, you too.
We're in Amarillo on the Voice Ranch.
So I'm going to assume both of you
play just two of the ways that live at the ranch in this.
Right, yes.
That's what's correct.
Yeah, I play Jeremy.
He came from, his dad wasn't in the picture.
His mom was struggling with drug addiction.
And she wasn't able to take care of him.
She couldn't even take care of herself.
So he ended up at the Voice Ranch.
And I really found his place on the cross-country team
with the Rough Riders.
And he became really close with the chaplain there.
And found some really strong ties in his faith that really
helped him through everything and find his way.
So.
And then so my character Dwight, his mom
is actually a student counselor on the ranch.
So he's one of the few characters who actually has parents.
It sounds weird.
Yeah.
There's that house parents over there.
But yeah.
So his struggle is, it's more with his mom's two commitments.
And she has to sort of split her time
between the students on the ranch and her son.
And he's also going through a similar problem
with the coach of the cross-country team.
Oh, that sounds like a struggle for that character, too,
because that's my mom.
And I want her to be my mom.
But I also have to understand that balance
that she has to juggle to you of she's
got to be here for these other kids as well.
Being a faith-based film.
How does that plan to who you are?
Well, I wouldn't say, I mean, it is a faith-based film.
But that's not necessarily what the film is about.
OK.
I mean, in the spiritual sense, I'd say.
There are tests of faith in the people around you,
in yourself, for the characters, and just life.
And whether all of it is worth it,
or if you should just give up.
The movie, the director Randy kept saying,
was it's primarily about showing up.
And despite all of the setbacks that you have,
all of the things that put you down in life,
are you going to show up for the next race?
Which is, like the cross-country team,
they're all struggling with their own things.
And they all are struggling to stay committed to the team
and not give up on their teammates and show up for each race,
no matter how the last one went, or how this one will go.
So would you say it's more about perseverance, then?
Yeah, perseverance, support, finding your place,
and sticking to that, and committing to that,
and holding yourself to that level, yeah.
In this process of telling the story and doing the film,
did it change anything about you guys personally
from the time you started it to the time you finished it
and even to now?
No, I mean, the interesting thing is,
I went through the process of the film
and studying the character and getting
to know the character that I was playing.
And things started happening after production, after we
wrapped to me personally, that the experience of, oh, wow.
Yeah, so that's what was interesting about this.
Yeah, I mean, the fact on all of us.
And also, like, the friendship that we have in the movie
was 100% genuine.
We got a lot of time to spend before we started shooting
with the four boys that, and they really formed
like a strong relationship through the team.
And through that, we got to know each other really well, too.
So that definitely had a lasting effect.
And we're still all great friends to this day.
And unfortunately, one couldn't be here for the festival,
but we're all missing them and thinking of them.
But yeah, yeah, it just, it added experiences.
And we got to meet the kids at the ranch,
the people who worked there, and they were all so welcoming,
and so just excited to have us there.
And it felt so good to be part of that.
Does that add any pressure to you knowing
them while you were filming it?
Or I think if anything, it made us feel, I think it made us
feel better about it.
Yeah, I think a lot of the pressure were so willing.
Yeah, OK, that they were so willing to have us there.
And so just excited for this to be made and for us
to be part of it, like that was like, OK, you know,
I feel like we can really, we feel like we can do this.
Was this the first time you guys actually watched it
as a completed product?
Today was our first time watching it, which was cool,
because we got to see how the rest of the audience took it
in at the same time as us.
I've always been interested in, because people don't
understand that it is rare that a film shoots in sequence.
Right.
So you're shooting the end of it and you're shooting the middle
and then you're shooting scene two and then 19 and four.
When you see it cut together into that narrative,
does it change what you saw when you did it?
Absolutely.
Yeah, it's talk about that a little bit.
Yeah, like the last shot of the movie, I think,
was like halfway through shooting.
Yeah, and it's also the first shot of the movie, too.
It like starts.
OK, it's told it flashback.
Yeah, OK.
Yeah, well, it's kind of like a flash forward
at the beginning of the movie.
Right.
But that was, so that was cool.
And then there were some moments from my character
that we did it the way beginning of the way end that I think
my last shot was in the middle of the movie.
So you're right.
Yeah, just seeing it was all out of order.
I mean, we had a general idea of how the film was going to go.
But we had noticed how the director's vision for it
and what the full picture would look like we could never.
Because that's our job.
Yeah.
Oh, but yeah, seeing everything stitched together,
it was a completely different experience.
What kind of movies you guys like to watch?
Like, you're sitting around.
You've got nothing to do.
What comes out and gets popped into Blu-ray player?
Y'all see Infinity War?
I saw it Tuesday, my god.
I have many, many, many, many discussion points
about that film because I am a huge fan of the source material.
No spoilers.
Oh, I'm not making any spoilers, but there's definitely.
It's one of those films that I have to look at
through two different lenses, like Ready Player One
was for me because I read the book.
And as a film-going experience, I was incredibly impressed.
As a fanboy, there's some issues I have with both of those films.
Sure, but this cuts they have to make this change
for the storytelling perspective.
And visually unreal.
Yeah.
You see Berlin in the performance of Thanos.
Yeah.
And that's just so rare for them to be able to pull off.
I think the first time I ever saw that,
and I'm going to go back a ways for you on this one, sir.
Okay.
Dragonheart.
When Sean Connery played the CGI, you're acting.
Yeah.
Like, that was the first time I could see the actor in it.
But it's rare that you can see the performance
through the motion capture.
And you really do it in this.
Speaking of that, I think Circus does that pretty well, too.
Yeah.
And he circuses.
And he's really good at that.
And he's been in the Cumberbatch's smog.
Yeah, that sound.
Yeah, that was incredible.
That was amazing.
But Andy Circus, there's no comparison.
But do you have any like go-tos like you're at the house
and you're kind of bored?
You know, I haven't watched this in a while
and you pop that in a player.
I'm always in the mood for Harry Potter marathon.
I don't know about you.
Harry Potter's good.
Yeah.
The trailer's out for the new Fantastic Beasts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm excited to see how that turns out.
November, I think, doesn't it?
Yes.
I'm not sure.
But it sounds right.
They're aiming for a holiday release.
No, what about you?
Anything Marvel, especially Deadpool.
Deadpool is great.
So ready for the sequel.
It's going to be so good.
Um, yeah, Lord of the Rings.
That's always, I need to go back and watch that.
That's something I need to go back and watch right now.
See, that's why every city should have an Alamo.
Because Alamo Drafthouse is a chain that's nationwide.
We have like four of them here now in Alamo.
I think it's just called the Alamo.
Right.
I think there's one by my house, actually.
If there is, wait until they do.
They'll do all three Lord of the Rings in a row.
Whoa.
And they'll do a feast that runs through the whole thing.
Yeah, it's right up here.
I remember hearing about that.
Yeah.
Right as the hobbit movies were coming out.
I know.
I wanted to go so bad, but I didn't have the time.
What?
And it's, yeah, those, those, that chain is probably, I mean, we
love the Magnolia.
Don't get me wrong.
Oh, but the Alamo is one of my go-to's.
Yeah.
Because, you know, you get there half an hour early and they make a custom
pre-show for the movie you're watching.
So I went and saw Infinity War.
That's sick.
The entire pre-show was previously on the Avengers.
And they went through the entire MCU.
Oh, wow.
In 30 minutes, just giving you the plot points you need to know as you went into Infinity
War.
Wow.
And they've already got the Chimichanga's ready for the deadpool.
Yes.
They are.
And they do specialty menus for that.
Like they had a whole shake for Infinity War and stuff like that.
Oh, that's amazing.
That's amazing.
I just, I don't know that I could do the entire Lord of the Rings in a theater.
Oh, I could.
In that theater?
Yeah.
Yeah.
In that theater, I could.
I mean, we did.
I mean, they've got mechanical reclining seats.
Well, before Ultron came out, remember we all got together.
My house.
So we did all of phase two and then we saw Ultron.
Right.
That's a good idea.
Oh, see, phase one.
I did all of phase one in a theater.
Wow.
One of our local AMCs the day before Avengers came out.
It started at 11.30 in the morning with a bare man.
Whoa.
And at midnight, we watched Avengers as it came out.
So we were in the theater from 11.30 in the morning until like three in the morning.
Whoa.
Yeah.
It was.
And then I was like, I think one of the theaters in LA.
I want to see C.L. Capitan, Mark Bernardin.
They did 13 films leading up to Infinity War.
They did like one one film from each.
Like they didn't do all of Captain America, all of Iron Man.
Iron Man, they just said like the first Iron Man that did the first Avenger.
They did the first Guardians.
They did.
Probably the ones that that focused the most.
Right.
They did all of the Avengers films.
Right.
But they did one of each.
Right.
And he was like 31 hours.
They probably had to do Thor the Dark World because that was the only time we saw the red stones.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you had to leave it in.
That is easily my least favorite of the entire MCU.
Yeah.
Thor two.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Really?
And plus the fact that Ragnarok was so amazing.
So good.
So good.
So just buried the other two.
Yeah.
And you got to see the comedic side of Hensworth.
Yeah.
Which I like.
Well, the improv was like a big part of that.
Like Tyco a TD.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
That G.
Plumeo.
Yeah.
He's directing.
Well, Cork too.
He's impersonation.
What?
Of Cork.
No.
Ty Middelsen doesn't impersonation.
Yeah.
He's impersonation.
They were doing like a press junk.
And I can't remember who I was sitting there with him.
But he just goes, you know, just goes full.
Hey, man.
You go on that sheet and get out of here.
You know.
Kill on the room.
Oh, man.
I just, I also don't understand.
I do, but I don't.
And staying spoiler free because that's what we do on this show.
Sure.
There's a lot of decisions made in this film.
That's have gotten the non fanboys and kind of an uproar.
Yeah.
And I'm like, guys, just calm down.
There's another part of this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, we knew it was going to be a cliff.
Yeah.
Are they established at a long time ago?
This is going to be a two part of this other from the get go.
And people were just like, I'm like, no, there's another.
You just have to wait.
They're making it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's coming in here.
I can't not imagine what they would have gone through after the Empire Strikes back in 1980.
Well, that's because we didn't have the internet back then.
But I'm just saying I'm like, just do it.
Just wine about things to wine up.
But I'm just saying to wait was a lot longer back then.
These guys would lose their minds.
Yeah.
We weren't even sure we were going to get jet eyes.
This is true.
I mean, what is it?
The MCU is now planned out to like 2023.
Something like that.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
So who inspires you guys from our over March standpoint?
Uh, Heath Ledger.
He's my hero.
Good call.
He is the Joker.
Yeah.
That is the perfect superhero film.
Yeah.
The Dark Knight is the perfect.
I can't argue with you.
Christopher Nolan.
Yeah.
He's like a very.
It's not it.
Yeah.
Nolan made a very full different choice.
Yeah.
To say, I'm going to take this superhero.
And I'm going to put him in his real of a world as well.
Yeah.
He's going to ground him in as much reality as possible.
He has to be practical.
Yeah.
And I am a unapologetic Batman fanboy.
Like Batman has been my favorite hero since I was semi-idograssob.
Yeah.
No powers.
Unlimited resources.
Huge chip on his shoulder.
Yeah.
That's a superhero.
Superman is cheating.
Yeah.
But for him to tell, like I knew no one could do it based on, you know, some of the work
he done before.
I knew that Bale was going to be the guy after I saw American Psycho.
Like I saw like that dude as Bruce Wayne.
And people looked at me like I was crazy.
But I also, I was in on Keaton from jump.
Yeah.
So was I.
And I enjoy, I'm like that one of the five people that enjoy the DCEU.
Like people that are dogging on BVS like to do.
I enjoyed that film.
I enjoyed it very much.
And the ultimate edition makes that film even better.
That's true.
That is true.
I enjoyed the ultimate edition a lot.
It's better.
It's better.
It is.
Which is weird.
Like I was watching at home and I'm like, we're an hour and 15 in.
How did this happen?
Yeah.
And it's just, a lot of people, I just don't think are ready for what DCEU is trying to do
and then abandoning and then trying to come back.
Yeah.
And I also think them separating their TV and movie universes was a bad idea.
Yeah.
Like Marvel's doing it right where they're putting threads through it.
Well, they're taking time with it.
And it started out as just, like they didn't know how Iron Man was going to be received.
And I thought Iron Man was a bold choice for their first movie.
It was a great one.
That's true.
I mean, it was what 10 years ago last weekend.
Yes, it was.
Was the release of Iron Man.
Yeah, yeah.
And I waited.
It was probably six weeks before I saw it because I was just like, I don't know how this is
going to go.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm a huge comic nerd.
And I just happened to be on a business trip in Oklahoma City with a good buddy of mine.
He's like, dude, we're going today.
And I was like, all right, but don't expect me to care.
Yeah.
And I was the same.
And I was like, what is this wonderment?
Why have I not seen this before now?
I mean, I saw it as part of a double feature at a local drive-in.
And I went for the other, I can't even remember what the other movie was.
It would be quite honest with you.
That's the one I remember.
I just, I was knocked out.
I was like, I cannot believe that they took a character that most people would consider one of the lesser characters,
although it's kind of funny to say that.
It's kind of strange to say that now, because it's hard to imagine the MCU without him,
because he's the centerpiece of it.
Yeah.
And it worked so well and casting him was such a brave, bold choice.
You could not have found a better person to play that part, because he is Tony Stark.
Yeah.
On multiple levels, right?
I mean, he encompasses who Tony is so well.
What else has been going on?
I think you guys want to plug while you're here.
I did an episode of Bluebloods recently.
I saw that.
I was checking out your IMDB picture.
Congratulations, sir.
Think you guys have proved to me wrong.
About what?
When that show first debuted, my original co-host before Chad came onboarded,
we each picked a show at the start of the TV season,
and it was like, all right, we're going to have a contest, we're each going to pick a show
and whoever's show lasts longer wins.
I think mine didn't make it through season one!
Koate-ez was Bluebloods.
Awesome.
And I was like, I don't know if this works.
works. And here we are in like season seven and it's still going strong. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, they're going
that great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Donnie Wahlberg was so fun to work with. He was he was such a sweet and like I had two little
siblings that weren't, you know, they didn't have as big of a speaking role, but like they were on set just having a
great time and like Donnie was talking to them about like you see the new Star Wars movie and like he was he was super
great about it. He was made sure they felt like like they were, you know, isn't included his boss. Meanwhile, their
parents were like, do you know who that is? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I screamed like a little girl for him. Yeah.
So yeah, and then so that was super fun. That aired back in 2017 at the end of the year. And then I was in an
episode of Fresh Off The Boat as well. Another show doing very, very well for you. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
So after that, I've been living in New York just doing NYU film, short film, student films. And I have an
audition for something coming up, which is positively pretty exciting. And hopefully I'll have more news about that. But
yeah, yeah, it's been it's been going pretty well. Just staying busy. Any interest in stage work or anything?
I actually was in a it was a musical. It was in New York musical New York musical festival. Nymphs they
call it. It was called Generation Me. It was last summer. I think I heard of that. Yeah, it was a it was a
whole team. It was about a kid who goes through just all like everything goes wrong in over the
course of the musical and call that Thursday. Yeah. And he ends up committing suicide at the
beginning of the musical. And it's it's it's it's it paces through the way it tells time is a
little funky. It like it starts at the beginning of freshman year. And like a week before
homecoming at the same time. Or no, after home the weekend after homecoming at the same time. And
they all pace forward at the same time. But they flash in between. Oh, wow. It's in between the
past and present after he's dead. And before he's dead. And just seeing how that affects everybody. His
sister I played his best friend, his ex-girlfriend. And a girl that he became acquainted with a couple
weeks before his passing. And it really talks about how important it is just to you know address
what you're going through and not sit in silence while you're dealing with these problems. And I
that really resonated with me because I lost somebody very close to me growing up before I came
out to L.A. And that shook the whole town that I grew up in. It was a very small close-knit
community when she passed and everybody was affected by it. Was that therapeutic for you?
Doing that that short musical? It I wouldn't say therapeutic but
more cathartic maybe. Yeah, I mean I was telling an important message and that felt which is
great because I'm actually with an organization called the Jordan Porco Foundation which stress is
the importance of mental health awareness and suicide awareness prevention of it. And I've been
working with them for a couple years now as their celebrity ambassador. So yeah we're just trying
to spread the word and you know it's it's important just to reach out and help just talk about
stuff you know what I mean? It can go a long way and so yeah they they're based in Boston or
I'm sorry not Boston. I'm sorry they're based in Hartford okay yeah but they're spreading to
high schools and colleges all around the country with their programs fresh check day 9 out of 10
which talks about how 9 out of 10 college students have not contemplated suicide and then
therefore can can soul the one. Oh wow. Oh wow. So like we basically have an army of people who
can help these people who are struggling and that's kind of their message and so yeah it was I'm
so glad to be working with them and yeah so that's that's an impressive move. No what about you
what you got going on brother? Right now things have been pretty chill lately. I took a break
from acting for a little bit to finish high school but I graduated last May. Congratulations sir.
I'm I'm I'm back at it auditioning hopefully have some some cool stuff coming out soon. Awesome.
So I know we kept you guys probably longer than we should have but we want to we always talk
about where we founded this show on Shameless Self Promotion so websites social media put it out
there. Well my Instagram is at Will Meyers official if anyone wants to hit them.
And EY ERS. Yes Twitter W Meyers official Facebook just Will Meyers. I don't have a website at the
moment but I'm on IMDB you guys want to check me out. Know what? Instagram at Noah underscore
offered ALF O R D and then Facebook know all for the official and that's it.
It's the world is the film. Do you guys know where it's going from here?
We have not heard a whole lot about the release of any other festivals that people can catch
the film at. I know it's playing here again correct. I don't think it's playing here again.
Is the plane is the film playing here again? Okay. It aired today actually earlier today.
I want to clap. But it was at the Christian film festival. It was a Christian international film.
That's what it was. Yeah it was in that was in Florida. Our director went to that.
That was on the second or first. Oh yes. I'm not sure. I think we weren't able to make it.
Was it yesterday? Oh wow. So yeah there's that but other than that we haven't heard yet but
hopefully we'll be able to appear at more festivals. Yeah. Keep your eyes off for edge of the
world. Will Myers know all for guys. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Go enjoy the festival.
Go watch the movies tonight. There's a lot of good stuff tonight. You can count on it.
All right. You are listening to the clubhouse podcast. We're live at the magnolia
in the West Village is what the kids call this area. A lot of stuff to do. And apparently we
were watching movies today. If you've got your festival pass there are many restaurants in the area
where you can get a discount. Really? The part of the West Village thing. So that's kind of neat.
Oh there's a lot going on. The festival runs through Thursday. It's a little shorter than it was
last week. So they're they're compressing a couple of things of note. Tomorrow night
studio movie grill. I believe on spring valley. Did I get that right? For Jurassic Park.
Is there celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park? And our boy Dave Scott is going to be
out there with his Jurassic Park Jeep. I can so excited for him. He works very very hard on keeping
that thing up. He's also got a Toyota that they've converted into an Ecto which looks great.
He's got a couple of cool things coming on the pike. We can't talk about yet. Oh really?
So if you want to see Jurassic Park in the big screen you can do that tomorrow night. Tonight
we do have a movie coming up called Loud Crazy Love. That's crazy with a K because it is about
Brian head Welch from Corn. And I know a lot about his story because as you know I follow Christian
music and he he got saved and has done some Christian work. And now he's still back working
with Corn kind of doing both at the same time. Oh I didn't know that. Yes. Yes he is touring with Corn
again. I thought he was pretty much done with them. I thought he'd move on. So let's do some you
want to do some some TV headlines. Yeah we haven't had a chance to do this in a while. So
arrested development season five is coming this summer. Season back on Netflix again. Season four
also on Netflix was received not as well as they were hoping it was because it was told it was not
very told very linearly. The story was kind of scattershot a lot of it. So what they're going back
and doing is they're remixing season four by making it more linear as we prepare for season five
which I believe drops next month. It's an interesting choice. But CBS All Access has renewed the
spin-off from the good wife called the good fight for season three. Not paying for their app.
Are you still on board with Empire? Yeah it's been a struggle. Fox has renewed for season five.
Okay so you got that going for you. This has not been a particularly strong season. Season three
for Westworld is official. It's going to be a thing. I'm caught up on Westworld but man we're time
jumping a lot. I haven't watched last week. Season one was a bit of time jumping but it wasn't what
you were prepared for. I think now that they've established that they can time jump they're doing
it a lot. They're abusing it a little bit. Be prepared for that. Don's here. What's that dude? Okay.
I'm working on something big. Okay as you always are. We were just talking about that. Yeah so
give it some time. Will Dabs going to come and say hey because one of our favorite people on
God's green earth Dev Shapiro is here from Zileg Film. So we'll be back. How are you sir?
I'm pretty good. How are you? Get right up on that microphone if you wish. I'm pretty good. How are you guys doing?
Probably not as busy as you. Very busy. You've been running around like a chicken with his head cut
off for three days and you got five more to go. I know. So you are all for people that don't know who
Dev is. Dev is the master of everything. We were talking last week in the USA Film Festival. He
is like yeah I got like a bazillion films that I've got to get rendered for the festival like in
the next week. Yeah. So you basically have seen everything. Yeah I have. Can you talk about anything
that stood out to you at this point? Or do you want to do you have to wait on that?
You know I can. I am orchard. You know reminds me which is on right now. Which is on right now.
Reminds me a giant. You know it's basically you know typical of Texas. And that's showing again isn't it?
Yes it is. I think it Tuesday. Okay. Roxanne Roxanne stood out to me last night. I was bummed
I would miss that because I was elsewhere. You know I am. Did she do a set outside?
Because I walked up and there was a there was a stage set up and it's in Roxanne Roxanne. I was like
can she do a set? She did a set and they had other DJs and they did everything from the you know
80s and 90s and early 2000s. They did some Dr. Dre and stuped out easy and ghetto boys from Houston.
That would have been amazing. Yeah. I'm so sorry I missed that. The other big film I think is the
sons of St. Clair which is the bone that's showing twice if I'm not mistaken. One of them is in
the middle of the day. I thought it was showing in the middle of the day showing and then
an evening showing. Yeah there's an evening showing and bone thugs in a harmony will be here. Oh
really? Yeah. So I just think Claire's showing Wednesday at eight. Yeah. That was showing in the
middle. It's also showing Thursday at two thirty. Yeah so sons of St. Clair the story of bone thugs
army which I really like about this one. You know I grew up with now I was in junior high high
school when first and month crossroads thugs ragged for love money came out and basically the
first half of the film talks about the history of bone thugs army talks about easy and the
NWA connection and then he goes into you know most people think that there's rap groups out
there because there's no rap group new there's no new rap groups out there. You're right. I mean we
had two live crew 90 by nature on eggs ghetto boys down Houston. Wu Tang. Wu Tang Clan we had
NWA outcast out of Atlanta so you TFO you're going to go that far back treacherous five underground keys
you GK you know so they had they came out with a new album back in December of 2017 and did
and this is their you know how they had to work through that and how did they introduce today's
generation to who bone thugs in a harmony so that they just recently did a an episode of TV
ones unsung yes about them as well yes another film I really like is the corn film that's coming up
later today the loud crazy loud crazy love that's good air not that long after we get off air tonight
right so it is produced by the IM Second Ministry which is based out here at Dallas
fan of IM Second I know they were based out of Dallas I know I based out of Plano and I know they
have offices up in Nashville and so they're premiering this film here in Dallas in the national
and national international film festival and it basically talks about his life and how he became
saved and his life after becoming saved and I think it's a real important film for everyone to
see it's and I've seen some of some of his music videos and I am told now I did say this
earlier Chad wasn't sure but I'm pretty sure he is still working with corn here and there
he is I think it's more behind the scenes consulting basis you know producing basis I don't think
he's performed really really nice guy we met him earlier today but I think it's an important
film for everyone to see I mean what I really like about the festival this year you know I've been
here since literally day one you are you are OG death even before was called the death brother
yeah but what it's but I really like about this year's film festival is that they went from 11 days
to seven eight days so they didn't have any filler to put in so everything is just so wonderful
you know there's hits after hits and we've had more sell-out crowds than any other
well I'll tell you when I was at uh won't you be my neighbor earlier yeah there wasn't an empty
they had to bring chairs in yeah that deal which is amazing and I saw 1985 earlier today and
at a new showing that was very very very full what what did you think of the Mr. Rogers talking
in I love to come theatrically in June June eight yeah the week before incredible which is the
then the week before Jurassic World right and the PBS guy rap here locally told me the programmer
told me that it's gonna probably on PBS this fall I'm in between thanks given in Christmas I loved
it so much and I think it's very pertinent for the time we live it to be reminded of you know
just the the messages that Fred Rogers put forth and I I'm not gonna lie to you I got a little
weepy more than once thank god for people like James Faust who actually walked up the aisle and
was giving packages of Kleenext to people out there were sitting on the aisle so I took one out
and we passed it down the row but it's not it wasn't like I wasn't weepy from sadness it was just weepy
from like I need that time back you know I want to go back to that time and to be to say that I
could say that I was part of that generation you know one of my one of the things that really
blew my mind about that documentary is and they showed this scene in the trailer where he decided
right after Bobby Kennedy got shot to talk about what assassination is and cut to the guy that's
the co-curator of his museum it goes that was our first week on the air like he was right out of the
gate taking on stuff which I absolutely love I saw 1985 earlier today very good film it was one
of those like it is a true independent film and I love that about like it knew exactly what it was
and it stayed right where he needed and a lot and that was by the way filmed here sir 1985 was
filmed here in Dallas really yeah like you can see DFW Airport in the beginning and at the end
and they're certain they said going in the the one of the producers Hutch was here and he was
like you're going to see stuff places that you that you recognize and there were so I know we've
got animal houses going to be on the closing night right alamos cedars you know and that really
brings us to another friend of the show Gary Murray you know you know we think about him every day
every film festival that goes by not only DF but Asian and South Asian pretty much any any any
movie I go to yeah yeah because he was I mean I could probably count the number of screenings that
we went to that he wasn't at on one hand with fingers left over you know the thing about Gary was
is that you know he he would show up he would be like in the hospital for like two weeks you know
toes being amputated and their stuff he went through then he would be hobbling in be released
on Sunday and be at a screening on Monday yeah absolutely you're absolutely yeah yeah yeah we talk
about Kelly being one of the most instrument of people in getting us to where we are and I said
there was two people Gary's the other one yeah you know he was one of those guys that he never held
his cards close to the best you know he was very passionate about about what he loved and what he
didn't but he was a guy that was like no I mean let me help you open these doors because you guys
should be part of this and he helped us get some of the vendors that we have and he vouched for us
when he really didn't have to and you know he he and Don were best friends and you know Don always
tell such great stories about Gary too I want to share one story about please do sir please
and Kelly the Kelly was very instrumental so the last roundtable interview that we did was for
a David Arquette film and it was it let's be honest it was a real weird film and you know
Kelly fetus pizza but Gary showed up and it was like 738 pm right after red carpet and
Kelly was worried that no one would show up so Gary showed up and I would say about 15 people
showed up but two girls showed up they were with a community college and they didn't know what
they're doing this first roundtable they've been to but David Arquette was there this is big for
them and Kelly will throw a roundtable on you oh yeah she will she's throwing many round tables
on me she like calls and like says hey come and you know no one's coming to my roundtable please
come and it's like Kelly people come to your roundtable you feed people you stop feeding them no
one will come oh I was told there would be punch and pot I know I know you know but no so the round
table happens a lot of great questions Gary's involved after the roundtable Gary sits there for
30 40 minutes with these two college girls they were probably not older than 21 years old and he
was telling them what what they needed to do what equipment that they needed to buy what to do
even a little bit before the roundtable is telling them what questions because they were a little
nervous and what are we doing he was telling but afterwards he stood there he sat there for 45
minutes chatting with these two young women and telling them what they needed to do and how he
did roundtables and he showed them the little recording he had you can get this on Amazon so he
was that guy he was you know I always remember the first real in-depth conversation I had with Gary
we were we were at a Chick-fil-A and we had this we were doing double duty that night Don and Gary
had gone to see a screening of a hobbit right and I was at another screening we met up for dinner
and get one of Gary's issues with the film was the visual effects and how you say he just wasn't
realistic I'm like Gary Middlehurst doesn't exist I'm gonna not be realistic that was me don't
want there for that was it okay yeah but he was just so passionate and he talked about film so
intelligently while at the same time respecting the the opinions of everybody around him and he was
genuine that's what he was he was real absolutely you're not that you nailed it you nailed it you did not
care about if you were Walt Disney 20th Century Fox Film Corps Metro Universal Paramount XYZ
Independence Studio if he didn't like the film he was going to tell you he didn't like the film
I remember one this last Disney review he just trashed it I I can't think what what it was but that's
also the greatness of our vendors too because we trash films you know and the fact that that we
have vendors that are opening up to say no if it sucks we want you to tell us it sucks and I don't
have to blow smoke and Gary helped us a lot with that too of guys just be yourself and that's
really helped us as as critics it's helped us as on air personalities it's it's just it's kind of
helped us keep refining who we are and whenever he was you know I know I know he was always like you
running around 19 different directions but when he had a breathing moment one of these festivals
you better believe he was sitting right there absolutely he was running around 19 different
directions with a cane can and pain but you never never never never never knew it he was always
just rip or and ready to go where am I going next what do I get to see so we got Animal House
Animal House and the Blues Brothers were two of his favorite films of all absolutely so we're
going to get to see Animal House at the end of the week here with John Landis and crew and
do it a Q&A so I think this is good looking forward we got we got let's the Oakland film festival
in June we got the Asian Film Festival Dallas which I'm also to involve in July but it will
be there for that which is always a great great film and let's talk about next weekend
next Saturday night we are going to be at Garland High School yeah very excited about that are
you guys you guys are going to be there again uh last year we met some great people from Garland
High School at at the USA Film Festival and they're like hey Garland High School has a film
department which I was like okay you have my attention right really do you really and every year
our students make films and then one night in May we have like our own version of our award show
and they get dressed up and we show all of the films and we'd like you guys to come do the show
and we were like sure and then the next thing I know we're being asked to be judges and I'm like
okay and I'll never forget showing I remember we showed up to the to the cafeteria to set up and we
got our badges and it's an industry judge and I was like who am I fooling right we all look at
each other just pointed each other right we got the show set up and the way it works is we're
gonna go in we're gonna watch the films now we're gonna we're gonna actually be able to watch a
few of them beforehand because we're gonna have to leave a little bit early to go get to show up
in running so we're ready when they get there but we walk into the auditorium and we find our
little bench where the three of us are gonna stay which by the way that picture is on my desk
get work of the three of us from that and who do we see as we walk in Kelly and Mark are also
there being judges so we were like okay so we're all in this boat together and we had such an
amazing time and we're gonna do it again next Saturday next Saturday all right does gotta go we've
got we've got we've got people we got some of the crew we're bringing the rest of the crew in
just a few minutes all right well we're gonna let the come on over have a seat we got guests after
guests after guest gentlemen if you would please introduce yourselves I'm Sam Datori producer
I love crazy love and I'm John Humphrey another producer with love crazy I am excited for this film
because and I'm just gonna put this out there on front street I am the lead singer of a Christian
rock band really yes so knowing this I know a little bit about this story going in there was
there's been a time not anymore because I don't have the channel anymore but I was pretty much
locked into juice TV a lot before we cut the cable and they don't have it on direct TV now but
seeing the subject of your film on that channel is not only from the video aspect but from the
interview aspect and I'm gonna let you guys I'm not gonna dominate this thing because I want you guys
to talk about the film fill everybody in from what I'm alluding to and not talking about
yeah we would love to loud crazy love is the story of Brian headwell good talk right into that
like this there you go that better much much more good okay thanks uh loud crazy love
story of Brian head Welch uh founding guitarist of corn which is why the
crazy is spelled with a K in the correct we try to put a K on everything we can
found a guitarist of corn uh father to uh a daughter named Janaya and this this is the story of
his journey through being a rock star being a methodic becoming a single dad walking away from
it all 23 million dollar record deal on the table he said I'm out I want to be a dad I want
to figure this out and then things got crazy absolutely and uh you know the for us get right
up on that thing if you would right here interesting get right here oh I'm sorry there you go
because I want to hear you so the story for us is that uh most people would think of
Brian's career with corn and we weren't as interested as out as anybody and when he went back to
corn uh that set up a whole series of questions and people's minds as to what was going to happen
and we found that to be the opportune time to go in and check in with Brian and to really see
what was happening and tell the story from his perspective and not what people might be judging him
about and see and I love that you guys address that in this film because when I read that headline
that he had gone back to the band what do you think my first reaction was aren't he's taking it
back to them like there was I never had that thought of he's going back to who he was my thought
processes is no this is who I am now and I want to share that with the guys that I spent all
these years and going all over the globe but now there's this version of me that I want to share
with them and they've actually done shows with bands like red who are very unapologetic about
about their faith that have opened for bands like them and and I'm going to be really interested
in how this story unfolds because I know enough about it to be dangerous but I don't know I'm not
that deep into the story and so I'm really excited that you guys are here what brought you to
want to tell the story well we've known Brian for about 10 years and we helped tell us a short film
that we produced within about 10 years ago for I'm second and big fan of I'm second by the way
thank you thank you and as the filmmakers you know for I'm second you know we developed trust with
Brian over these years and when we heard that he was going back to the band that was our thought
was how can we document what is taking place we don't know where this is going to go we don't
know what the ending is going to be but we know that somebody needs to document this and we didn't
even know it would turn into a full-length feature but it had enough material to do so how long
did it take you to put it together once you started filming we started in May of 2013 and then
ended when we ended filming in about yeah about May of 2015 60 50 wow yeah it was two years on
the filming two years filming and now three years to actually put the movie together which is
insane that's as the film shown before tonight no so this is the world premiere tonight
here at the Dallas International Film Festival technically the text is premiere but yes
yes technically yes if we have not sat in a dark room with a lot of people we don't know yet
what is really a little scary but when you finally sat down you said okay this is the finished
product that was an odyssey I mean was it was it an exhale moment for you or were those okay now
I've watched it but now how's it going to be when I'm in a room full of people yeah absolutely we're
we're exhilarated and terrified by that prospect and it's been a crazy process the first time we
sat and watched it with a very small group of ten of us twelve of us it was a two and a half
hour movie and it was very much about corn today it's not as much about corn that's still in there
but now it's an eighty seven minute movie and it's about a father and daughter so it's been a
dramatic couple of years how to get to that absolutely there were some tears about losing some
great footage and great we would have the best DVD extras it's people still bought DVDs
you can still do it put it out on a blue right I'm telling you there's there's mountains of amazing
things has he watched the film in his final project product yet oh yeah well he made a decision
about about six weeks ago to stop though really yeah so so he hasn't seen the tweet
he hasn't seen the perfected tweet mixed colored all the details now he he's kind of said like
it's like he was going to the altar I'm gonna just wait now how was it I mean did he fully
let you guys completely in as the as the oddity because you you had done some short films with him
which I've seen some of those from I am second which by the way I love the short films the
vulnerability that you're able to get from your subjects is fascinating to me what did that help
you when you decided to do this documentary that to help him keep that guard down yeah I think
a couple things Brian is an incredibly authentic person and our experience with him in 2008
showed us that he was willing to go there so to speak speaking of which he's walking up for
right now you got to get him on because he's a lot cooler than us ask him about that ask him about
that so wrap it up Sam yes right here right here come in here and tell him how authentic you are
these are telling me joining us right now is the subject of loud crazy love and a man I am
every year at the dip we have one of those really cool surprises and this is it Brian headwelt
welcome sir thank you I'm so excited that you're here I'm excited for this film I was just telling
the guys I'm hoping I was just telling the guys I'm the lead singer of a Christian rock band so
this is watching your journey has actually been something I've been keeping an eye on for the last
few years so we're so excited to have you here and what we were talking about as you walked up
was you'd worked with I am second a little bit before and having worked with them and then going
to this documentary did that help help you keep your guard down a little bit and kind of let them
into to show some of the vulnerabilities that you've had in this journey totally the whole movies
vulnerable for me it's like I can't I can't believe I'm going to go in there and watch it with
a couple hundred people right now man so yeah it's it's humbling and I'm a fan of these guys
because they told the stories and I am second films you know which I'm a huge fan of as well yeah
so you know I'm in one there's multiple right that I'm just it's there's told so well so it was
a no-brainer for me and I've kind of gotten to watch your journey a little bit I'm a big kind of
juice TV and they've done a lot of interviews with you yeah I love that and shown some of your videos
as well from that album how much perspective has that given you now that you've kind of sort of
rejoined corn on a certain level how much perspective do you have now versus when you were back
doing that doing your own thing there for like uh now that I joined corn yeah yeah perspective on
what I'm sorry just in general like how is your perspective now versus when you were doing your own
thing um I've learned so much man I've learned so much like I went through a hell before uh I left
the band and then I found faith then I went through hell with the Lord with my faith and I uh I
struggled with myself failure not seeing things happen like I thought they would so my perspective
now is amazing because you know all that was fuel to get me to where I'm at now you know and so
man if it was success success success all the time then it wouldn't mean as much you know
lose loss failure and going through these hardships makes it so much so much more special when
you have successes you know so if you don't have the values you can't appreciate the mountaintops
as much clearly as much it's so true man so when they came to you they said we want to turn this
into a documentary where you just like you guys are out of your mind or where you just like hey let's
just do this let's go honestly I felt like um that was supposed to happen sometime in my life and I
when I got the you know when you get ideas and you're like oh this can happen now
now it's like Joseph you know he was like he said something and then to chuck what two decades later
or something it's always like not my time but yours but could they overlap just a little bit yeah
oh yeah so I had there was a couple times where a documentary was just discussed and actually worked
and drama happened and it fell apart so I gave up and so when we talked to these guys about
possibly doing it I was like you know it's just it's not gonna happen like the other times you know
but then it started to happen and I was like wow and then and then it went year by year like every
year it seemed like it was just never gonna happen again right so I just I've been writing that
that's why I wasn't I wasn't like on your guys' backs all the time I'm talking to the directors
saying hey let's do this let's do this I would I would check you guys checking with you guys once
in a while but I had been through the process of stopping go for so long I was just like oh okay
oh we've got the directors here guys talk a little bit introduce yourselves if you would
hey I'm Scott male my name is Tray Hill Scott and Tray are here talk about that from your side of it
as this thing was starting to come together how did that work for y'all and talk right into the
microphone so everybody can hear you um we had done that story in 2008 so we built the
relationship in like 2011 we actually flew up the Nashville and consider doing like kind of like
this version of his life story but we were like there's nothing going on right now and we left
feeling like timing doesn't feel right and then in 2013 he called and said guys I'm I'm going
back to corn I think maybe you guys should come out for a little while and we were like we're
there and I was told it took about two years to get all the footage shot is that correct
three and a half okay but it was like three and a half years and uh you know in terms of
that our perspective of what Brian was just talking about about it just seemed like it was never
going to happen huge credit to him is early on we'd asked him hey uh we don't want to show you
we want to wait until uh we have a chance to string your story together as we understand it
and he was very patient with us as we figured out exactly what our perspective on his story was
going to be as we uh as we shaped and crafted that and uh I guess it was close to two years ago
we shared with him the first cut of the film which was like two hours 12 minutes long
you the producers were talking about that earlier and but but that also said that about six weeks
ago you made a commitment like I don't want to watch anything else again until I can see it finished
is that correct yeah yes totally well not finished but you know because I've seen it finished
like uh I don't know weeks ago or months ago or something and they were doing I think you guys
were doing the finish yeah we were like finishing touch like a final sound mix the final color like
hey do you want to speak into this and at some point he's like no just I'm walking enough and
tonight tonight is the world premiere correct no it's not technically Dallas premiere okay okay we'll
take it how are you guys feeling right now come I'm gonna talk right into it it's uh it's a it's a
frightening thing as a as an artist to work for as long as we have on this invest as much as we have
personally emotionally financially and and put it on display um thankfully we've been taught
for the last five years how to be raw and vulnerable and put yourself on display because of
Brian's example and the way he goes about living his life um but I I can't I'd lie to you if I
said I wasn't super nervous but that's a good thing though we we made a bet on that Brian's you
like you don't have to be a corn fan to like this story or to to appreciate the story so we made
a bet on this is really a universal story about a father and a daughter about sacrificial love and
triumph over evil and the bet is once you get past the the near the you know the the cover like
this is really for everybody and I'm anxious to see people that would never listen to Brian's
albums or hang out with them on a Friday night but I would also say the people that don't know who he
is first of all welcome back from the cave you know but let's talk about the fatherhood aspect of
this because we really haven't discussed that what how was your daughter during this process especially
of making the film was she's kind of like when can we not have cameras around I mean how old is
she by the way she's almost 20 in July oh okay so well when we started filming the deep stuff
with her in the in the movie and so we had I had to talk with her and her counselor and I was like
listen we have we have some awesome awesome people that are willing to do this and and so I
I went to her and I said are you would you be comfortable with this because this is stories basically
about her you know it's my stories in there cornstab backdrop but it's is it's about my love for my
child you know she was born into the chaotic rock and roll world yeah because what 20 years ago
you're looking at 98 like that was really when the ship just took off for you yes like you guys were
headed to the stratosphere you know from people that like I knew who you guys were before
follow the leader happened but once that album dropped it was just like here we go so she was
right in the middle of that I mean I was she was born with like Aussie criticizing me being at her
birth because we had a we had a osfest thing and he's like who's having the baby Brian Woltz
or his wife he was like criticizing me for canceling the show to be at the birth and so that's
he was nuts and so so yeah it's just her entrance into the world was it was it was allowed
it was a loud loud voice and so yeah I'm just a loud painful birth on multiple levels here exactly
and with hers and Brian's permission I mean there's footage of Janaya out on the road at like
three years old with giant headphones on stage oh wow on stage like and then the camera you know
sort of pans and you see 30,000 people going absolutely bunker how much footage did you guys go
through yeah I think it's 29 terabytes over two decades plus we shot for right that's just
the stuff you didn't shoot okay I'm getting the high sign that you guys have to go because it's
trying to shake hands and kiss babies right because this thing starts in 30 minutes so before we
go shameless self promotion websites social media how can people get in contact with this film
loud crazy love crazy with the K everywhere dot com at ahead of it just at loud crazy love loud crazy
love dot com anywhere you can possibly imagine and Brian for you crazy with the K mine is
tray hill dot com no I'm just joking Brian head Welch one word everything just like loud crazy
and you can get everything on iTunes right now especially the solo stuff that you've done
oh yeah well not the movie but yeah but but all of your your musical work as well especially the
solo stuff that I want we want people to yeah yeah it's great stuff I love what I've seen I want
to hear your stuff oh grace descending dot com everything's there we're kind of a cover band
right now we're kind of just old guys doing what we do but last time we played a youth lock-in
and had a great time absolutely good having fun praising God I just one thing I had to say to
Brian earlier freak on the leash the Dante Ross mix was the best version I don't so okay that's
our that's our marketing on a lake sir we cannot thank you enough for sitting down with us go
enjoy the film we can't wait to see it I don't know if we're gonna get in tonight but I'm
gonna try to make sure I see it please thank you so much listen I'm gonna tell you the film is
not what you expect cool Brian head Welch dude thank you sir so much love you guys love you man
every year we have that weird moment where we get we have that crazy left turn moment we just
had it sir I'm kind of fanboying a little bit that was amazing you are listening to the clubhouse
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all right I'm gonna take a breath real quick because we have more guests joining us right now
if y'all would just introduce your sales force talk right to that microphone sir hey I'm Jordan
Belfee and I'm going to do that I'm the director of America and American curious American curious
American curious and we have to follow the rock star you have to worry about that man so no I'm not
worried to us you guys are rock stars because your guests on our show Don is asking me for something
I don't know what's going on so I think tell us about the film because I've read about it on
the website but tell our so so very very quickly American curious is it's a movie about a guy
named David Green who's from Chicago he's an American guy who's always known he's adopted
always thought that the biological parents he never knew died when he was born but he gets
his call that the biological mother that he never knew has just died and she's left him her
restaurant in her house but also that she was Mexican so he's also finding out wait a minute
I'm Mexican so goes down to Mexico city he does go down there to find out more about
city to deal with the restaurant and it's that journey and stranger and stranger land fish
out of water but also this sort of journey towards identity and roots and a sense of home and a
sense of place and in a time where we we talk a lot about diversity and knowing who you are and
where you came from I think this is a very important style of film from what I've read and I'm very
intrigued what brought you to it well I mean the movies the movie both in its in its story and
in its production is this beautiful cross cultural story and experience it's a Mexican film
Gabi Lou wrote and directed it it's a Mexican cast crew except for me except with an American
lead and it's in both Spanish and English and so it's about so many things it's about identity it's
about you know finding finding a sense of home it's about food and food is love and life it's a
love letter to Mexico City and I got to I got to experience it all as an actor I got to live
the I got to live the whole experience and so it's a really special journey well Gabi Lou talk
about you and your journey to to make this film happen yeah this is a process of reconciliation
that I have right up on it's everybody here perfect perfect okay it's a process of reconciliation
that I had to go through like with my own mother and then I also wanted to talk about Mexico City in
a different way as it's shown everywhere in news and media and everywhere so I wanted to show
like the the colors and the textures and the warmth and like I used to like the soups and the
mother as a metaphor for warmth and generosity and all this like a welcoming to this American to
Mexico City and make him like a whole road trip to find about who he is his roots his origin
how long did it take to shoot it shooting it took six weeks on oh wow but the whole
process of writing and financing I know that took eight years in a half so definitely a labor of
love at this point has the show has the film shown before the festival yeah how many times have
you shown it and other festivals I hear in this festival no we haven't shown in this so this is
the premiere tomorrow tomorrow it's just the premiere no it's it's shown in a couple other festivals
and it's played in Mexico oh okay so one of the beautiful experiences of the movie is getting
to show it to American audiences and also experience it with Mexican audiences and to see that the
experience of the movie really does what the movie is about which is transcend culture transcend
language so tomorrow here at two thirty tomorrow it's a magnolia three yeah to thirty magnolia three
like everybody that wants to connect bring your mother bring your sons bring your you know like all
the if they're like any Mexican living around here so come to the right it's simple to my it is
think of to my out today I just completely lost my train of thought as I was thinking about it um
how do you feel now versus the first time you saw it or do you still have the butterflies or is
it still that fear of the unknown or are you just like you know what we're going to do this thing
I mean we're going to the Q&A it's a good question it's a super good question I'm sure there's
lots of filmmakers out there who can relate to that experience it evolves you know and I think
you kind of you really you're able to see a movie almost for the first time through the eyes of
a new audience and it's what the movie is changes it morphs a little bit uh the audience of
their relation to it and their experience of it changes how you experience it and so
for me getting to see it with an American audience and then getting to see it with Mexican audiences
now back to America how does that how how what was the vibe difference there but you can see
with an American audience to see with the Mexican audience different like what what each audience
connects like either with the food or with the city for example Mexicans of course connect a lot
with Mexico City and what they see and what they hear and that but then also like people from
abroad like connecting another way in the origins and the identity and like a guy that is an
American comes to a place to find his origins so that's like a whole new identity process you know
and people different eyes is find different things funny the humor where they find humor is different
but to what Gabi Lujas said you know if you're a Mexican audience and you in the stories about an
American guy coming to Mexico it's inherently a different experience than if you're an American
audience watching an American guy go to Mexico um and so they each come you know add it from
different angles but ultimately I think it does what movies are so beautiful at which is create
understanding create empathy create you get to live in the shoes of another person another character
and understand someone else what I think you're talking about we had some guests here earlier
and we talked about how films are shot out of sequence and not a lot of people know that
very rarely is a shot a film shot the way the script goes when you finally got to sit down and watch
it as a finished product was it what you saw in your head when you read the script knowing that
you didn't shoot it in that order well that's an interesting experience because it always changes
but I think artistically speaking as a performer I always have to keep particularly with this movie
where I am in every single scene um I have to keep the big picture the whole movie in my head always
when making the movie so in a sense I'm seeing how she put it together um but I always have to
keep that in my head while I'm shooting the movie fortunately because there's also a love story
you know with the girl who's now the head chef of that restaurant um fortunately we were able
to shoot generally in enough order okay that the sequence of our relationship growing and our
connection mirrored me and anaclodia who plays the lily female in the movie it mirrored our
experience getting to know one another so by the end of the movie you know we had really formed
this deep bond in the same way that we as performers had so that chemistry between the characters
almost seems a little bit more organic as you watch the film because you're you're on that same
journey I think that's I think that's that on and I think people feel that in the movie it's
tangible and to be honest that was part of like my idea yeah so you're the director you did the
take credit for that to shoot it you know like kind of in order so that they're like this fish out
of water like could like start like with at some point part of it yeah if like if locations and
you know there are so many things but financing locations and all that but if those things like
could work as that then I really wanted to do it like that and it kind of worked it's not completely
in order but but as you know I mean it's one of the challenges of filmmaking in general which is
when you're shooting you know non-linearly out of order the challenge is to always know where you are
yes when you're making the movie always as an actor do you go and do you is there like a technique
where you read the scene before and the scene after to help you remember where you are in continuity
or just focus on the senior shooting well I mean both and and also you got to know in my opinion
you got to know the script backwards and forwards for that very reason is that you always have to
know exactly where you are what's happened where you're coming from where you are emotionally so the
audience you got to know where the audience is in relation to that so that's what I meant by
keeping the whole movie in your head always throughout the whole movie as an actor who influences you
oh man so many people but Gary Oldman has always been
since I was a kid oh I got the I got the darkest hour just destroyed me
huge fan of that guy I mean I remember as a as a young teenager seeing the professional
and it became one of my favorite films of all time and he is he is well because that movie has almost
everything I love about movies in it and his performance is so insane and beautiful and colorful
and scary and I just thought there's something and he's one of those actors that like is a
complete chameleon and disappears into every role I didn't even know what his actual voice and accent
was until the Oscars this whole yeah until you actually see him in every because he's never
speaks the same so he's one of those actors and in that way I've always admired and and looked
up to who's able to just sort of disappear and take on whatever the milieu is whatever the time
period whatever the accent is the best commission Gordon would ever seen I mean I wouldn't
to darkest hour like like I've seen this guy do so much I just don't know that there's a level
that he can take this role to that'll knock me out and then he did yeah like that movie like
when they announced his name I was like yeah there's no where he doesn't win this as a director who
influences you I said direct a director Terence Malik is one of my favorite directors and
really like I love going old school with it I had to take a film I took a film school in college in
the fight well the way it worked was every week we had a different genre and then we had to write
a paper on that genre our final was we had to watch Berkman's seven seal in the room and
write the paper at the same I did that I was in film school too and we had to do the same thing
for me it was pitchcock you had to we you know it all culminated in rear window I knew he was
going to say well because it's sort of the definition of cinema movie and Hitchcock's one of those
guys that you kind of have to separate the man from the art because he was so nuts like when I
watch a Hitchcock film I just I have to just take him out of it and enjoy a film for what it was
because when you watch movies like a she that HBO did with Toby Hooper with where they talked about
the making of the birds and his obsession with to be hedgering and things like that but you look
at the art and you're like this is just still brilliant yeah oh hey I mean he's called the master
for a reason I mean I remember the first time I saw a rear window I remember the first time I saw
vertical very very palpably and just he just talk about someone who knows where his audience is
at every moment he knows exactly where you are exactly what he's allowing you to see exactly
where he's placing and he knows what you want before you do exactly which I think is the brilliance of
the ways and again I lost my train of thought because we're having so much fun talking about this
stuff anything coming up you want to talk about well for me personally I I've just finished a
couple projects I just I recently finished a movie called Foster Boy with Matthew Modine oh big fan
yeah yeah me too I always I don't know why but for him I always go to Memphis Bell like that's
the film I go to with somebody says you are rare in that way because everyone usually goes I think
to full mental jacket hmm something but also a good choice which one something wild what something
wild something wild birdie there's all these great movies but I know for me personally as like
a film buff a film scholar for someone who loves cinema spending you know weeks with him
all these stories about Kubrick and you know all of these directors that he's worked with
I eat that stuff up just feel absolutely like crazy something while I'm married to the mob married
to the mob well I don't know where something wild came from I actually done sir and now a whole
new generation with stranger things obviously I love that I have a buddy of mine's daughter she's
about to graduate high school and both of the first two seasons of stranger things we've just planned
Rob and Maddie's weekend of fun where we just lock ourselves in the house and we just watch stranger
things all the way through and she's getting ready to graduate high school and I said what are we
gonna do for season three you're gonna be a way of college and she goes oh no no I'm coming home
that weekend and we're gonna we're gonna find some weird stuff on tasty that we're gonna make and
we're just gonna be in our pajamas the whole weekend I said I'm holding isn't that the beauty of
movies of cinema of television that like absolutely we still have that impulse to want to be with
others and experience it's a shared experience yeah yeah it's a this day I mean the fact that
people are watching movies at home so much just like we do but I still love that theater experience
and the fact that the theater experience is evolving itself yeah with places like the Alamo draft
house or studio movie grill where you can go and enjoy film for what it is now I I have to say
something about your career because if I don't my wife is going to bury me in the and the
shallow gray by the side of the who's gonna my wife okay she's a huge Gray's Anatomy fan oh so I
have to say that you that you were Nick on Gray's Anatomy I was think so that way my wife doesn't kill
me when I don't tell her Jen Jen hey Jen would Jen be listening she will if I tell her to
as she needs to listen to the bus I want to thank you so much I'm so touched yeah we we recently
cut the cable I went to the direct TV now service and her biggest thing was I can't watch Gray's
when in air so I'm like oh honey you can just watch it the next day it's tough for people
that are yeah she is committed to that show also because the show has been on for what like
14 years 14 15 seasons now something like that she sounds like someone who's probably been with
it since the very beginning I can imagine a day would mean something different to her oh she's
she's gotten used to it because it's saving us like 1800 bucks a year so she's kind of like I
couldn't live with it for sure now what's up next for you I'm writing the script of my new film
what I'm also doing a documentary on ancestral wisdom so I already went to shoot in
oh wow now I'm going to Brazil and yeah that doesn't suck oh let me go to Brazil for a
little while that's not a bad idea so tomorrow at 2.30 is it isn't it showing twice during the
festival no it's for some reason I thought it was showing once tomorrow at 2.30 here at the
magnolia before we let you go enjoy the festival we have founded this show on shameless self-promotion
okay so give us websites social media everything that people can get in contact with you guys
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instagram is american curious as well I am at jordan belfee on instagram that's the one that I
use the most that's j-o-r-d-a-n-b as a boy el f-i and i'm on facebook under that as well and
twitter at jordan c belfee we're so glad you guys sat down with this thank you for having us
all the best to you guys tomorrow with the film i'm assuming q and a afterwards absolutely all right
so get here for that so you can ask these guys all the questions that we didn't ask about you're
sitting behind your computer right now going why didn't you ask from that you can do that tomorrow
take a chance you'll enjoy enjoy the festival guys we're so happy to sat down with this you are
listening to the clubhouse podcast i'm gonna take another breath real quick because we have been
non-stop sir and we're we're just we've cleared the hour 30 mark god that was quick i know that
we always have so much fun at the festivals and the time goes so fast this lobby is packed full of
people and i guarantee you we've got at least one more guest coming because the hour in order
to just got out and kill us can we supposed to be bringing us some of the people involved with that
film all right i i i had to i had to slide that note to you because i know that both my wife and
your wife are huge grace fans i'm not to tell my wife when i get home i just i just message jules
she's probably like what i just a couple more headlines from the world of television while we
got a breathing moment um hulu has renewed the hands-made tale for season three
i've heard great things about that show by hands you didn't see that coming since it killed at
the golden lobe um american god season two it's in production but we're not getting it so much
here i never finished the first season i need to finish that that's a good show it got really
weird but as tv tends to do it yes it does uh so dc has named their online streaming service uh
it's now going to be called dc universe service okay and i saw the announcement they are developing
a live action swamp thing exactly i'm and i saw that james one is is behind it okay the guy that's
kind of was was steering the ship for aqua man for a while i don't know if he still is uh i'm not
paying for it well but what if they decide to move everything to that service is that i don't
think they will cw want what that happened now yeah uh they they they they stand to lose too much so
won't another one of my wife's favorite shows may be getting a revival on a different network
as that does tend to happen from fox looking to bring back last man standing and apparently
Tim Allen is attached on fox okay so you got that going for you so you're going to have last
man on earth and last man standing on the same network possible this past week the great
le camper had a birthday you know i'm a big fan of her how you doing uh her show the unbreakable
kimi shmit is going to end after season four but they're talking about doing a film length ending
for it okay good good uh for the second week in a row let's talk about tremors again with
sci fi sci fi has put the kai Bosch on the tremors series oh wow that was quick so well no
just there's a movie so she's not doing it as a television series and i didn't know this
did you know that the paramount network delayed the premiere of the heathers series
i saw the story but i didn't read the in the wake of farcoin
go kay i thought it had already premiered and they just halted production oh they have
needed but it will premiere now July the 10th okay because i remember seeing all the ads for it
and i was like kind of a good move on their part i think only one uh tv and blue ray new release
this week for television and it is biniculous season one i didn't know that this was a thing i know
was a you remember the book binicula when you were a kid about the bunny that sucked all the he was
like a vampire bunny but he only like sucked all this stuff out of vegetables are you serious this was
i read it in the third grade apparently they made it into a tv like an anime it's so fun no idea
i did that's a thing you know i i just work here it's all i'm saying i just work here
did you wear a cape i'm no he did not he's just a bunny you got buddy with things
you know he's not just a bunny like this yeah if i say he's not just a bunny he's a vampire
but he he doesn't he doesn't suck a lot of humans he just sucks the nutrients out of extra
punicula you got no that's really a thing that sounds like a roman emperor or something
that's really a thing that just made a uh you're welcome i don't forget tomorrow night the
official unofficial ww backlash pre show will be on the air at seven eastern four pacific
boy wrestle mania killed everybody boy wrestle mania killed everybody
uh let's see some music headlines real quick rumors of now we've had the gnr reunion
but it hasn't been complete rumors now circulating that the original lineup will be getting
back together as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of appetite for destruction okay that makes
sense apparently somebody found a billboard in the in the uk that each one of the all five of them
from that cover with all the skulls uh-huh all five of them on a billboard at what it looks
like on playing cards so that's leading people to believe we're going to get the original lineup
i didn't think that was ever gonna happen i'll believe it when i see it i'll put it this way
we're gonna get back together and this is true hell did freeze over once uh reanna says her next album
will be reggae oh no well she is she is from an island nation so i guess it kind of in a headline
that i blame li4 and i have told him i blame for him for this remember wrestle mania he kept showing
that video of yodel kid yes he's got a record yeah i know have you heard the song no it's called
famous it was written by one of the dudes from florida george align and it's exactly what you think
it yeah i'm i'm i'm girl i'm i want to be famous for loving you that's a thing i'm so out on this
i mean i mean i'm telling you that song is exactly what you hear in your head like
they played it on bobbin time in the day i was like yeah that's about what i figured
just makes you want to grab a pitchfork and dig your ear drum out wait six months i look on
music new releases this Tuesday the return of belly sir seriously yeah with an album called
dove uh leon bridges new album drops this week called good thing mat kerny with a new album called
crazy talk that's all one word matten kim back with almost every day
roise de five nine he's big with the kids with the clothes in the hair with book of ryan
roise de and back with a new album this week shine down
wow new album called attention attention
so let's talk a little bit of movies since we're in a movie theater
very exciting things going on in the film industry right now not only just because we're out
to the 2018 Dallas International Film Festival which is amazing our fifth year in a row can
you believe it sir we can we can take our experience and send it to
send it to kindergarten and we can also say that we've never done the show twice in the same
place two years in a row which is pretty awesome like we've never done a show here at the magnolia
before not inside the next door yeah we were outside but we've never been in the magnolia itself
and this is really cool man there's there's a buzz that's all I'm saying this lobby is a bud
and the smell from the popcorn stand is killing me right no popcorn so much
and infinity war expect across the one billion dollar mark worldwide probably today
that's not a big shock I need to go see it again I've seen it twice ready so I'm probably
going to do that here in the next few days when I get some breathing time we do have the
casting for your door of the explorer in the live action film now not being directed by Michael
Bay he's producing it it's an Isabella Mona Mo M O N E R she voiced Kate in the door
and friends into the city and she's done a bunch of kid shows okay uh John Lithgaugh joining
the pet cemetery remake he's gonna be playing Judd Crandal that's gonna be a thing you know
we're talking about this like six months I but I just don't well I guess sterike while they
aren't hot and I know last week we were asked by our guests to get rid of all of our encyclable
remake headlines which brought us down to like three but an interesting John who's
remaking the killer with Lupita Nyongo really that's a thing sir okay I am on board and you're
getting a sequel to happy death day Donald will be happy with that that doesn't surprise me either
movie new releases this coming week because movie new releases came on yesterday we're right
a life of the party with most of McCarthy I'll be screening that Tuesday night so you'll get a
review on that from us breaking in which Donald be screening Wednesday night with Gabrielle Union
uh basically it's a story of a woman who goes to her childhood home because her parents have
passed away and she finds out that her dad has gotten in with some really bad people and he has
something they want and they lock her out of the house with her kids in the house so it's like
reverse home alone or reverse panic room yeah a movie called revenge which I didn't I meant to pull
up the synopsis on yeah I saw the trailer for that that looks real dark what do you remember
about pulling this out it's not a remake of the 80s film no no it's yeah there's no Kevin
Costner Madeline Stowe in sight never take your mistress on annual guys get away especially one
devoted to hunting yeah it it looks very I spit on your gravis I spit in your garage
that's it's a line from the first screen okay a movie called terminal have you heard about this no
you pull up the hopefully not a remake of the Spielberg Tom thanks film no no no no this has the
uh this has the Margot Robbie the dark part of a sprawling anonymous city terminal follows the
twisting tails of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission a teacher battling a fatal illness
an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress leading a dangerous double life okay kind of a
crossing section storyline kind of a film I got you okay we got about 10 people from the tahto
movie coming right off the red carpet right now this is the director I don't know for 10 people
down yeah go ahead and introduce yourself sir talk right into the microphone a few because we're
live right now we're live right now we're live right now yes sir hey this is David Blugarsia
producer and director of Tejano showing right here at the Dallas International Film Festival tomorrow
is there something showing Sunday at 4.45 pm all right you'll get right up on the microphone
and tell everybody about the film all right get right up here get right up here it might not there
there you go now we got you no now we got tell everybody about the film okay so Tejano is my
directorial debut congratulations thank you very much and it's a film set in south Texas about a
character named hobby who's so desperate for cash to save his dying grandfather that he breaks his
own arm it smuggles a cast made of cocaine across the Texas Mexico border as you do as you do
and this is based on my story no hey you know what the real life takes the best stories this is
not something that actually happened to me it's based on a news article we read a newspaper in
2010 and written by a screenwriter Kyle Bogart okay so did you come to that or did it come to you
so I kind of came up with the story and the characters and I collaborate with Kyle as a screen
writer to bring it to life how long did it take you to film it we filmed in 23 days in
wow December of 2015 down in south Texas all along the Texas Mexico border we were never within
you know further than a few miles from the border with a story like this
were there any major hurdles you had to go through with people that you were working with in those
cities or was everybody's like yeah cool do whatever you want um I mean this is not this is not
your normal type of story and there might be some people that might kind of take this a little sideways
you know oh we were I was surprised that you know people were so open to helping the film
down in south Texas I guess you know people are I'm from there I grew I was born and raised
in Harlingen okay so close to Brownsville close to Cal and so I was kind of a local story and it
was kind of a grassroots effort to kind of bring this story to life we cast a lot of local talent
actors some crew members and all of our locations were basically free you know we got to shoot
also we got it to shoot in places that nobody else gets to shoot in like we shot on a working
international bridge to Mexico and to whoever progressive and that's something that a lot of
producers told me this is going to be impossible this location you can't get the Cohen brothers had
to build a set to be able to film on a bridge for no country-throwed men but we just asked so you
got scoreboard on the Cohen brothers at this point exactly that's awesome we're like we're like
because they were we're also such a small film that we could say we're not we're not shutting down
the bridge we're just gonna go on there with a few actors and a couple of crew members and
and make a scene oh who else is joining us introduce yourselves right get right in the microphone
introduce yourself yeah my name is Brian Bogart I play Duke Whitmer in the film I am a corrupt
board of patrol agents this Patrick Mackie the star of the film he doesn't he doesn't want to talk
he's like I'm on the way you know what we'll podcast you got to play your strength it's all I'm
saying you got it that that's why I always say we have the perfect faces for radio I have to play
to my strengths you see what I'm saying I'm just kidding I love podcasts I listen to probably
five or ten of them a week is one of my favorite media at ours to your list and we love you if
you would I can't hear where you're saying over there it's super loud it is really loud in here
so David's got the headphones I'm I'm I'm deaf you can add ours to your list now all right yeah
so this is what I have though so I can't hear it myself but I know we're gonna be on it we're on
iTunes yeah we'll have it uploaded tomorrow talk about your experiences on this film South Texas
luckily in December because nobody wants to film in South Texas in August nobody wants to film
anywhere in Texas in August talk about your experiences with the film yeah so I actually grew up
born and raised in this area I'm from McCall in Texas it's a border it's a border town I
ever I'm I have no Hispanic blood in me whatsoever as far as I know but I speak fluent Spanish
because I was born and raised 10 minutes from Mexico so this was deeply personal for me and the
what I what I really want people to know about this film going into it is that it's not just your
everyday border town thriller shoot them up you know we've seen that done time and time again
there's nothing new about it but there's never been one that truly captured the valley and what
we call the valley isms that this movie does because most maybe not most of us but David certainly
from the valley I'm from the valley so we really understand what it's like to capture the quintessential
things that make the valley the valley and we injected that into this movie like crazy hopefully
tastefully but that is not for us to decide but ultimately I really feel that there's some things
in this movie that no one has ever seen before in in films like it so I've got the the protagonists
for me I've got one of the antagonists to my right to say that yeah yeah talk about I like to say
ethically complex I'll take I'm gonna use that right pardon me I'm gonna use that yeah yeah no
please use that the promo this is like ethically complex show of Robin Chad morally compromised I
always like to say like I quote the Bob and Tom show where they talk about how their show is
where maturity goes to die that's what this show is this is where your ethics go to get complicated yes
so talk about your experiences on the film as well because they said that everybody was local home grown
yes so I'm originally from Austin but I have a lot of family from the Rio Grande Valley so when I
was shooting in the valley I was able to go stay with them I got in contact with David through a
mutual friend and this guy was working on the film and he had mentioned that they were shooting
something in the valley I told him to keep me in mind and then a year later I got a message from
David saying my name is David Gugarcia I'm shooting this film I'd like you to audition for it
and you know a few video auditions later David offered me the role over a beer I was incredibly
excited because when I saw David's real and his his proof of concept video for this film I knew it
was something that I really wanted to get involved with and David is one of those few people who
lived up to the hype when I actually met him because I had this idea of what he could accomplish
and when I saw the progress get made incrementally over time between shooting and getting to see
a screening myself I realized that David put his money where his mouth is and the product was a
fantastic film how many times has the film shown before or tomorrow never oh this is all right
this is the world premiere I love it when people repair things at the diff it makes us feel
important to ourselves yeah what made you choose the Delta National Film Festival uh well I uh
James reached out to me I have James Fouse artistic director they chose you one of our favorite
humans he emailed me and he was just so excited about the film and just said he felt like it was
really strong strong film and uh he convinced me to to premiere it here you know can I say something
about James Fouse real quick and you don't know about this yeah earlier today excuse me my allergies
are killing me we saw the uh dot the mr. Rogers documentary won't you be my neighbor right oh yeah
Fouse introduced the film started talking it's like I'm James I take hold on
goes behind him on a chair there was a red cardigan and a pair of shoes stop so he changed
into the cardigan and his shoes at the intro that's the kind of human James Fouse is
and that's what I'm the voice and say welcome to the movie premiere we're happy to see you
now it was I'm telling you that movie's amazing yeah like it just it hit me right where I live
but let's get back to you guys as far as one it's just an illustration of the quality
human that James Fouse is yeah so he got a hold of you said I love your film I won it in the film
festival yes was it your intent for this to be the first time it showed um I mean it just seemed
like the the right choice at the right time and uh you know wait it was it's time to get this film
out I've been working on it for two and a half years I was gonna say like we were in films
it two and a half years ago and then all the posts after that yeah we were in post for two and a
half years and it almost took getting accepted and James calling me for us to finish the movie because
it wasn't done yet so he was the motivation was the motivation sure well we're good to go everybody
get to the editing back exactly I was able to tell my color is my sound designer my musicians
all right we got to we got to finish this let's go and uh I really wanted to finish it just so
that there's fine actors that worked on it could see it before they're so they haven't you guys
haven't even seen the finished product no not the finished product you saw the rough cuts are not
to finish so are you removed far enough from it yet or is it still freshen up in your mind that
when you watch this tomorrow it is tomorrow correct I got that right tomorrow okay so is it
still freshen up in your mind or when you watch it tomorrow do you think there's gonna be things
that are gonna come back to you that you've forgotten about in the last two and a half years oh
definitely it's gonna be like a brand new experience it's what it it feels like one of those
movies that you love so much but you don't want to watch it too many times because you want to feel
somewhat novel the next time you do so you kind of space it out hook is that movie for me even though
I've seen it like 45 times probably at this point I tried to space out the Robin Williams
the Robin Williams hook yeah it's it's actually I don't know why it probably has something to do
with my childhood but it's my favorite movie in the world and I therefore watch it probably every
other month but I have to keep myself from watching it every week so it feels kind of like that
with this I definitely feel like there's gonna be a whole lot that I don't remember that's gonna
come rushing back to me when I watch it and I'm super excited for that how's the anxiety level of
being the first time you watch the final product in a room with a bunch of people you don't know
can't be nearly as high as David's you know that's a valid point at the end of the day I am a
supporting character so I you know my all I could do is the best that I can in the limited parameters
that I have to contribute to this film but Patrick and David have a higher stake in the game because
of what they personally put in but all that being said they they put the they put their best
foot forward when it came to executing this film unless you think I slept in which case I
wasn't really trying to talk about the fact that all of this was local talent local crews local
people talk about how how different that feels from being one of these we're gonna pull people
from all over the country and put them all together the pride I would say is the most genuine sense
of pride you could possibly conjure in this situation because for a place that isn't really
known for its filmmaking like the Rio Grande Valley to execute a film at the level that they did
is no small feat because you don't have a lot of local quote unquote talent experience talent
to lean on so to be able to find those diamond in the ruffs and not just from a talent perspective
but from a location perspective the valley is kind of a small little space but in order to bring
the best fast to the valley to light it took a lot of digging on David's behalf you know he
knew the local spots going on Patrick too but to be able to ask these these people to use their
location to be able to ask the US Mexican government can we use your border you know that's the
most unified decision we've made as two countries in a long time and it's kind of a baller move to
on the field like you're going to be able to launch probably careers from this too that people
may have not gotten about that attention otherwise which I think is awesome like when you can
make art with people you know or people that that can relate to your experiences geographically
there's just a whole different vibe when you see that finish product but you're like yes these
people know the locations they're in and they there's that comfort level that maybe if it was
somebody from Arizona that wouldn't quite understand the land the way you guys do yeah absolutely
I think that film is to to make a film is so expensive so that really cuts out a lot of
a lot of communities that would want to make a really quality film that don't have the means
and I think that the Rio Grande Valley is one of those communities that really has a lot to say
that really has a lot of that has a vision the community is very vibrant absolutely and they are
artistic if you just go down there and talk to some people and see what they're doing down there
it's pretty it's pretty incredible so to the fact that David was able to pull this off
the way he did and really incorporate all the true valleyisms and just shine the light on
an underserved community and I think that that's one of the most important things about this film is
that it's it just I just really haven't seen quality like this in that area and I think that
people are going to be pretty impressed by what it can bring do you know where the film's going
from here no idea yeah and this is step one this is world premier tomorrow and then we'll see
we'll see what happens from there we're on we're on the ride right now and we're taking it wherever
it goes and then I would safely assume that you guys have you're rolling about 15 deep that
there's going to be a Q&A tomorrow as well yeah there's probably some questions and answering
and some interviews yeah tomorrow at 4.45 it's going to show I was told that we were on a countdown
clock with you guys but since we have founded this show on shameless self promotion give us
everything give us websites give us social media how people can get on contact with you and the
film before we let you go you're pretty active on social media right but the I don't know we
all are to some degree I don't know the film what's a what's the Facebook for Tejano
Tejano the movie is the Facebook so that's where most of the updates come through first I don't
think we have a website or anything is there what there's there's the GoFundMe page there's
the good and you know what it got us here so yeah this is a shock and inspiration it's a freaking
blast though and what about for you guys personally David you know all the promotional sites he's
asking for all the promotional stuff you know like social media pages they hung on the movie I'm
going to the Facebook page I got a Facebook page on that very much so oh yeah we're coming
up on a thousand I don't know if we haven't done we did because they've been launched to like
get us to a thousand lives campaign yeah and then we're in the 2020 he literally I have a massive
family and he told me if every single one of your family members likes the Facebook page we'll
get a thousand likes and I was like all right I'll start making this mission a combo three years
thousand likes well best of all places people best of luck to you guys tomorrow not that you're
going to need it because you're going to impact the house it's going to be amazing tomorrow Tejano
come see it at the Dowsard National Film Festival guys go enjoy the festival thank you so much thank
you down with us we are moving to shake it sir I'm out of breath is watching and listening to you
talk what are we what are we doing what are we doing oh yes I know who this individual is because
he's been here he's been here longer than me today go ahead and introduce yourself right in
the microphone if you would my name is Hutch and I am the director of photography producer and
co-editor of 1985 which I watched this morning we watched yet we were there fantastic pay for it
first of all we have you have a friend of our show in your film Brian Massey oh yeah love
brought I was hoping he'd be here today he'd do the show so much to go by haven't seen him today
this film first of all very very bold choices made in this film and they pay off
oh the film is it's about an hour and a half about a young man played 85 minutes young man
played by Corey Michael Smith did I get that right who you might know as the riddler on Gotham
really yes he plays a young man that comes home to his family in Fort Worth it was all filmed
here as you said in your intro to the film today and over the holidays of course oddly enough
in 1985 and some of the things that he deals with and some of the the his choices coming back to
haunt him on a certain level and him confronting some of the choices he's made checklist places
dad so you know I'm his shield yeah also got the commission I was going I'm see I'm a
commission guy too I was like when he had hair Virginia Madsen plays his mom oh wow Jamie Chung plays
his former friend from high school that he lost touch with we joke that we had a Batman happy
meal basically yeah she's on it yeah because she she she played like in three episodes of Gotham and
Michael and Michael Chichlis was on Gotham and yes we're real real fast two nights ago I got the
director on the red carpet I have a timidly audio will upload later on the site yeah but we do
our wrap up yeah absolutely yeah shot completely in black and white on film in four three sir
one six six is it one six six it's really really I mean it's it's it's in flat
so really it's really capturing the decade does and it's it's to me your film is a true indie film
on every level and I mean that as the highest form of praise thank you I really really enjoyed your
film how was it for it because that you now watched it it's now aired twice during the festival correct
yes yeah how are you feeling now I mean we this is this is kind of our homecoming of sorts
since we shot it here we premiered at South by which is where it was discovered for the Dallas
International Film Festival yep and I don't know it's it's it's it's been wonderful I I think I've
done I've had films play at diff for the past four or five years so shorts and features and so
it's just kind of at least that kind of a homecoming so it's nice to be able to show it to the
cast and crew that are in town you had a whole row of them too yeah we did we did and we had some
yet unfortunately had to go back to Austin for work so you couldn't be here and I did catch his Easter
egg by the way the name of the diner oh you know it's funny because we actually didn't know that
until we shot the seal like yeah because the our production designer Brittany she did a great job
she she put those on the menus and Yen was like crap do we have other menus to use because he
was really afraid that people were gonna like the diner is called Yen's diner oh for real yeah
and it's it's you can't see it in a film but I wish I had a copy of them but each of the different
meals was a different crew members name oh that's cool yeah and so actually the real Easter egg
which a lot of people probably don't know is that the scene in the dance club where Corey looks
and sees the two guys kissing is actually our two lead stars from Yen's previous feature pitstop
oh okay that played here uh in 2013 which is the reason why we got to make this as well is
because we won the uh Texas competition and got a Panavision grant they talked about that in the
intro that they won the the Texas competition in 13 to get the Panavision cameras package uh-huh
which they used to shoot this film nice they were like you know we're not sure that she should
qualify to get the award this year but you're up for it so so it was it it was it just south by in
here or is it showing all the places uh show we we did um now facing out we Yen just got back from
the Miami uh LGBT festival okay um which he said there was a really big emotional uh pull from
oh I'm sure um and we did Sarasota film festival which uh they gave Virginia Matson a lifetime
achievement award she's amazing and she uh she showed three three other feature films that uh
of her picking uh to be able to show there as well which is really cool um and we're excuse me
we're about to go to uh inside out which is the Toronto International Gay Festival and uh we
just found out our international premiere is we're playing at the Shampai Jose in France wow
is there going to be a premiere so that'll be in like a month and a half I think so it's just it's
blowing it going when did you guys film this uh we filmed it last summer wow because looking at
Smith in this he looks so much younger like I was like did he film this like three four years
because when I watch him on Gotham oh yeah I don't I don't maybe it's just because it's black and
white versus color oh yeah that's it's a thing that he also said and it's also 16 millimeters so
it's a little softer and uh but I remember when we showed it to him the first time he's like I love
the contrast in this movie it makes my cheekbones look so amazing um and so yeah it's we shot it
last summer of course it's it's set in uh December uh so it was really brutal shooting here and
hundred degree weather and all of our actors had to wear sweaters and jackets and so we actually
had to add a line in the movie where they're like saying this is a light Texas winter um just
because it it was too hot looking and we we talked about to somebody earlier in the show tonight
that had something to do with some of the music and we got to talking a little bit about the score to
this the score to this film like it literally sets a tone yeah and it's very minimalist and when
I say this is an indie film I like it's got that it's it's just like the score is used right at
the right moments right in the right doses right on the right beats it's just this film works on
so many levels and what I liked about it too was how the stories told in its own subtle kind of
away yeah where you're kind of seeing little glimpses here and there of what his character's dealing
with but they don't really truly tackle it until the third act well and they also is a very uh
you know important for us that they never mentioned the word gay and they never mentioned the word
AIDS or HIV in the whole movie and that's but it's but it's the way it's a joke for sure you know
especially one might probably my favorite scene in the film is Smith and Chick-loss on the back porch
like the power of that scene it just like it really just it kind of knocks me back a little bit
I was like wow like that was intense yeah I mean it's it when you have such great actors it makes
being able to do like those long takes you know we for that scene and in the post ecstasy scene
with Jamie at her apartment uh we really wanted the audience to kind of feel what the character
Adrian is going through and so there's that we don't cut away we don't give we don't let it let
up like in the Michael Chick-loss scene we do towards the end when it kind of gets more confrontational
but um we we try to leave it so that they the audience is kind of almost squirming in their seat
just like Adrian is I love the scene in the record store yeah have you heard of the cure are you
but I also want to talk a little bit about Jamie Chung's performance as well real fast
not a record store where was that was that bills or was that someplace different that was a good
records on uh lower deep album yeah uh lower group okay uh now I just like lower lower
Jamie Chung Jamie Chung's performance I was really impressed and I'm I'll let you I'll follow you
as far as how spoilers go in this film okay but when they meet up where she says I've got to get
ready to do this thing and then that's the thing happens I was really impressed with her
I guess I guess for a lack of a better word naturalness yeah to that thing that she does yeah
had she had any kind of experience in that beforehand because it just seemed like
because I don't what's just saying she does stand up comedy yeah yeah so so here's the funny
thing she was terrified terrified as a matter of fact she originally said so we're just doing one
take of this right and we're like um no um I do have to say that it's it's across her monologue is
and she did two we did it three times and she did um two separate jokes um and this one
just kind of ended up being funnier and kind of hitting it just the right spot but uh I'd say
30% of it was improvised from her and then the 70% was kind of like the shit like bullet points
to go from and just took it away we had we had it written out for her and then she just kind of
made it her own like you do any joke you know you don't you don't ever want to read from a script
to joke so she kind of made it her own and she added her own kind of familial stuff to it like
with her own upbringing and stuff like that into it so um it it's kind of funny because when we had
to do for the international um sales we had to put together a dialogue list for subtitles and
we like I texted her because it was like I don't know how to phonetically spell out your Korean name
because it's not what we had in the script because oh shit I don't know uh if you send me
the audio clip I can spell it out for you but yeah she didn't even remember wow it's just
and I don't know if you can talk about this but if I don't ask you can't tell me any talk of
larger distribution for the film so I can't I can't talk a lot but I can give you a little bit so
um right now we have an international sales agent who is taking it to um their can market right now
so they're shopping it around there um and that will hopefully help us with international
sales um I think the the film festival in Paris I think will also help us um maybe find some
distribution uh and we're really close designing a deal domestically um which would include and
this is really important to us it will be a small theatrical um it'll start out probably in
New York LA and probably Dallas um and then if it does well we'll expand and then it also is
going to include aside from VOD and that we're also going to do probably a physical blu-ray release as well
which is really kind of important to us well I'll tell you you talk about the small distributions
there was a film here last year that turned into Donna my favorite film of the year and they
went that same bomb city oh yeah went that same route and a really good friend of mine uh shot that
what a great film that is too wonderful what's next on the dog and for you um well we're this
movie has been my life for about two years so I'm just now kind of like decompressing a little bit
you know and then going with the festival route um but Yun and I are actually developing his next
script right now um so it's going to be more of a genre film for him but still
Yun's style so um that's kind of next and uh we're also kind of toying around this is kind of far
in the future but we're toying around with uh doing a this is a trilogy um and doing it like
Richard link later did with the before trilogy and like in ten years oh wow do 1995 and and
revisit some of these characters and then doing like 2005 and uh just like actually having the
actors age in real time and for those of you that don't know what he's talking about you had the
uh before sunrise before sunset and then before midnight which uh Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpey
those films right right because yeah people you know we don't want to make sure that everybody's
on board um you're like an hour sixteen today I'm sure and we want to give you some time to rest
but before you go we talk about how this show is founded on shameless self promotion the film is
1985 give everybody websites uh social media anything of how they can get in contact yeah sure
yeah it's real easy uh it's 1985 the film.com and uh you can find us on Facebook under that we've
got Twitter's the same Instagram um and we update all of those anytime we've got new festivals or
any kind of distribution we'll put that on there as well congratulations to you guys what a great
film thank you so much we watched it earlier today and really really enjoyed it and we can't wait
to see where it goes from here awesome they're still in hutch joining us as we're winding down I
think I think we're winding down ourselves so uh don yeah how you feeling brother yeah it's
what you do man what you did I'm there's a bucket cranberry club soda waiting for me at the lounge
oh that sounds amazing there's something anything else that the fantastic three fourth once
oh yeah because you used your word I'm going to say something there's a film or two I want to
see tomorrow okay I might not do the show tomorrow night I'll send the pics in all right that's
fair that's a honor looks interesting I'm sorry how it looks great yeah so I know you guys with that
I mean I've got I've got to actually do the show tomorrow right so I got it at my house like I
kind of have to uh but we got some of our friends from the press here Daniel's here Marcus is here
some of our friends we'd love to see at the uh the festivals every year and and I'll hug you
to hug one as a wrap and I'll be fine stay here every once in a while Daniel can sit where you're
sitting if you want to see how you doing brother always wonderful to see y'all always
always wonderful to see you all right so anything else before we do the plugs and get out of here
I'm wiped I had to start off today we're bad we have had so much fun and we always do our fifth
year in a row with the Dallas International Film Festival and we can say we were the first
and we're still the only this is not the Avengers Infinity War spoiler show oh come on I did
listen to Bernardin's uh review of it that he did for Fat Man and I agree with most of it
Kevin's just dropped today and then I tell you though it was Kevin's as an hour long it was the
Don Ford in the Don Ford Stone of Beolarism that's your boy you couldn't help yourself you had to do
this you had to do this sometimes I don't even know what he's talking about and I like to think
I can translate Don Ford my my pillows in my immediate future I got to get it for church in the
morning all right let's do the plugs visit our website www.theclubhousepodcast.com find out
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you are a friend of the show sir I love the show why could you not love the show and we saw
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you got to hear Brian more than we saw him no we didn't hear him at all oh it was he the voice
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