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One Buddy After Another · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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All right. Yes, yes, yes, yes. What's going on, y'all? This is your man,
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Buddy Rammy, and we are back at it with an all-new episode and all-new season
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of the Yeah, Buddy podcast.
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All right, so if y'all are a returning friend, I thank y'all for tuning in.
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I know we've been on a little bit of hiatus, but we back up and running.
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And if you are a new friend, tuning into the podcast, welcome,
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man. Take a seat and grab a listen.
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You know how we do, like every episode, I try to bring my friend in from the
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entertainment business, actor, comedian, filmmaker, and we just sit down,
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chop it up, and just see what we got going on in the entertainment business.
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This is going to be a little special couple of episodes that we got going on
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because it's award seasons right now and in Hollywood.
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So in Sacramento, last year, a year and a half ago, we made the movie One Battle After Another.
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And right now it's one of the heavy favorites for this award season.
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So we're just going to bring on my friend Brandon Larson.
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He was on the show previously, so y'all might remember him. And we're just going
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to talk about one, our experience working on the movie One Battle After Another.
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And then we're just going to get into select awards predictions,
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how we think it's going to go compared to some of our other favorite movies
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that we may have or may have not seen this year.
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So, yeah, we're going to get it started right now, man. I want y'all to make
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it live and make it live for my good friend, Mr. Brandon Larson in the building, actor, filmmaker.
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Hey, everybody. Hey, I really thought that I'm doing well, and I like your new theme music.
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So, awesome. I enjoyed it. Yeah, man, don't tell nobody. It's AI.
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Yeah, don't tell nobody. It's AI, though. Yeah. Well, they just listen,
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but it's all good. For sure.
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Yeah let's do a deep diver quickly yeah
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let's do a deep diver quickly uh before we do i know we're going
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to get into one battle after the other but talk
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a little bit i know we did talk about this like pre-record but just
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give people a little update about what you have what you've been up to
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since the last time you've been on the podcast because you have a
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lot of cool stuff going on especially if we're talking about scar and
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then even the other productions that you got started working on absolutely yeah
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so my next film that's pretty much done is raven
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motel so that's just nearly
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finished it's loosely based on
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the raven from edgar allen poe so we got that going and then i've got two other
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films as well in the works so that's coming too so like to keep it local here
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in sacramento so that's that's what i'm about yes sir man we're looking forward
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to So he was like, you got a busy, busy 2026.
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But let's take it back. Let's take it back a little bit to working on one battle after another.
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Nobody knows what one battle after another is. It is a movie that was written
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and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tiana Taylor.
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Regina Hall. Sean Penn. Yeah, Sean Penn's a crazy character in that movie.
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And the new actress on the scene, Chase Infinity.
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So yeah. Oh, and Benicio Del Toro. So star-studded cast, star-studded cast.
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And they filmed that here in Northern California.
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They filmed it like the Humboldt area for like a little while.
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They filmed the downtown Sacramento area for about 30 days.
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And then I know when you was working on it, they had filmed out. It was Stockton?
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Yeah, that's where I was. I had to go out in the pouring rain.
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It was like crazy conditions. And you wake up really early.
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You get your wardrobe ready. You check in. I think that's the hardest part is
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just getting the wardrobe together.
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But my experience was a lot of waiting around. And then when they're ready, you got to be ready to go.
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And getting to see people like Leo in person at work is just...
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It's quite an experience.
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I don't know if you had a similar experience, but for me, I had a lot of takeaways
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as an actor getting to watch him work.
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Actually, I apply what I learned just by watching him, getting that opportunity to watch him.
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And so he's very specific with his movements and he does it the same way every
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time, but he allows for a new emotional response each different take.
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So that's what he does and I really enjoyed
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that plus getting to see Paul Thomas Anderson direct
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in person was awesome he's very giving to his actors so getting to witness that
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was obviously a dream come true too yeah that is one thing I will take away
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from being on the set and working with the actors and the crew in general because
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um a lot of times I feel like when,
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productions come from LA, they come up here to Northern California or just anywhere
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outside of LA they kind of.
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Don't have a certain level of respect for like the filmmakers like
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in the community or whatever because you know it's la it's hollywood
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or whatever but i will say like working on all that
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film set that was one of the ones where like as big
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uh like a-list stars that you know was in that movie that
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they was all pretty down to earth and pretty pretty
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chill if you want to like talk to them they was pretty cool with.
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Answering questions they was understanding that like hey i'm like a guest in your
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home kind of thing for sure for sure
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but yeah no i i really enjoyed the experience and
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that was my first time on a major motion picture
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so getting that opportunity doesn't come
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around for us here up in northern california like you said
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and so i think that that's what makes this makes this movie
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special to a lot of us and to see it doing so
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well that's great i mean so many standout
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performances too like you were saying chase
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infinity she's gonna have a
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big big acting career like i
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can predict that for her after that she's i'm
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sure people are calling her agent left and
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right right and then
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tiana taylor too oh yeah yeah
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did you see tiana on set yes i did yeah
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i got her and yeah her and
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leo were in a scene and what's interesting
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about that that you mention it when we watched
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the film in imax they
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cut so much out of it so i expected to see like you know a couple minutes but
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they get it down to the second so uh but i can pinpoint each scene that i was
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In and where they cut So that's That was an interesting Quote-unquote take That I have,
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Yeah That is one thing I'll take away from like When you're working on.
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Like movies and just how like
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precision and just precise everything
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is because like that like you said they cut out a lot of stuff you know
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scenes that you that you was in not to tell you that you was in but you
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know the scenes that you was watching you see like the finished result like
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it kind of got cut but at the same time like that movie
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didn't feel like it was really missing anything or it also didn't feel
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like it needed to add anything to it you know oh yeah
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definitely not adding anything to it in fact they
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they could have cut a little bit more and i
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think the story would have worked you know because
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it takes so many different turns twists and turns
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but at the heart of the story it's about
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a father who's trying to find his daughter that that
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was my take like that's that's the heart of the story right
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and it's just some beautiful moments in the
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film i really love the shot of leo and
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tiana taylor's character with their baby you
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know with their baby girl like that's just such a lovely
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moment in the film probably my favorite
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my favorite like picture if you will yeah yeah i definitely need to go back
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and give it a re-watch but i think probably like my favorite i guess you would
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say like my favorite part is just the dynamic the relationship between leo and
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his daughter and then also with benicio del toro i think that was.
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Like a little i'd say that'd be like a little buddy cop movie or not a cop movie
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but just a little you know buddy road trip type of movie or something it was
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weird like every character that interact yeah every character that like interacted
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with each other could have like,
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their own like spin-off movie or something like you could do a whole you could
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do a whole spin-off of like sean pitt's character how he even how he got that
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walk because i'm pretty sure that that wasn't no normal walk he had to get that
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walk from some sort of accident for sure.
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But yeah then when i was working on the movie so yeah i was i was working on
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when they was filming down here and um in the downtown sack area so it was in
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the courthouse or whatever you could actually see me in the movie like i got
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a quick quick split second like you could see me walking across the street right
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before the title card comes up and stuff like that so,
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that that that right there i would say it was pretty cool really cool even if
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it's only for like 0.5 seconds or whatever it may be you know i'll freeze frame
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that it'd be all like here we are, you know, you're in it. It was cool. It was cool.
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Yeah, I'm in it. I'm in it. And I got proof and I got proof, you know, so.
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That was cool. And then I honestly, I was bored, but I was upset because one
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of my favorite TV shows growing up was watching The Wire.
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Well, not growing up, but once I got older, I was able to go back and re-watch The Wire.
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And so seeing Wood Harris, that to me was kind of like, if I had to meet the
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Order of Actions, I wanted to meet Regina, didn't get a chance to.
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I wanted to meet Tiana, didn't get a chance to. But I at least met Wood,
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so that was cool. I'll take that. That's awesome.
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And it was cool because during the all the stuff like
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during downtown we got to see and we're not spoiling too much of the
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movie but we was able to see the car
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chase scenes and a lot of the stunt work oh yeah and seeing
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how that works that that's that's like like seeing
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the stunts go that's almost like yeah you're on the movie set but it's almost
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like you're watching you're watching a movie you know you're on a movie watching
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a movie type of thing it's crazy yeah the car chase scenes were extremely well
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done and it just thinking about all the logistics that have to go into that you know,
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the safety concerns that you might have with, with some of these things,
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but they're, they're pros, right?
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That when you go, when you get to set and you know, like you're,
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you know, you're at the top of your game when you're there.
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And even if you're an extra, you're still a part of it. You get to experience
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it. That's, you've got to start somewhere.
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Right. And so I think just being able to have that opportunity to see if it's
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something that you really like is it's special.
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And so it just confirmed for me that this is the industry that I want to be in.
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Yeah. Yeah. What were you able to take away from like working on that film that
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you was able to take away to apply to like the other films that you have produced?
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Right. Yeah. And, and that's a good question. I would say how Paul Thomas Anderson
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is with his actors, but also how things are organized on set from food, you know,
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you got to bring in the food And when you're an independent filmmaker,
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you're having to do all these things yourself.
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So you're wearing multiple hats to save costs.
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We don't have millions of dollars when we're making short films.
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But something like this, I found it interesting that even with the millions of dollars,
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there's certain departments in major motion pictures that need more help,
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like wardrobe, for instance.
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They only had two people to do everybody. You know what's weird?
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That's almost how it usually is. That's almost how it usually is on a film set.
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There's usually only about maybe two or three people that manage the whole wardrobe,
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which is crazy. That's why, like I say, like, when you watch like the credits
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at the end of the movie, like, bro.
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People don't understand just how much hard work goes into making the movie outside
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of just, you know, see the people who work on the in front of the camera,
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like all the stuff like well, of course, be busting their ass.
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Exactly. That's exactly right. And so and but it prepares you,
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I feel you can take what you learn from that experience, like you were saying,
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and and apply that to the next time you're on set and what the expectations
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are of how to be professional on set.
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But, you know, we really can't go up to Leo and start having a long conversation
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because everybody wants their photo with Leo to talk to Leo.
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But it's it's against the rules, at least for us to, you know,
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talk to him unless he comes up to us and and asks us something like he came
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up to me and asked me where the restroom was.
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And so, you know, I can talk to him in that case.
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But but, you know, we're we all have our job to do.
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Right. So we report to an assistant director and they tell us what to do.
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And so there's a chain of command involved. And I think that that's what really
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makes things go smoothly, not only on that set, but on my sets, too.
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So just letting people do their job, right, and trying not to interrupt people's process.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right, Matt. So you want to take a deep dive into this awards season?
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Absolutely. yeah we just had the we'll follow back up later with the Critics
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Choice Award but we'll start with the most relevant one the Golden Globes Golden
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Globes was just this past weekend one battle after another it was nominated for was it about nine.
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Nine nominations and it won four Golden Globes yeah and that was the most for that night right,
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Yeah, that's my understanding is that it was the most.
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And so that that kind of gives you an idea of where this is going when it's doing well like this.
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Yeah, good. It's a good indication for what the Oscars are going to look like.
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You know me i personally i'm team sinners but because one battle
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after another i gotta give to the whole team but i'm i'm
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rooted for sinners and i was rooting for
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frankenstein i really liked frankenstein a
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lot i i love the art and the makeup and the
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whole just the acting everything about
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it it just it really sucked me into the story so
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yeah and the thing the unfortunate thing
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about like frankenstein as sinners is that like these award shows
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they don't really understand horror movies you
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know this so so like just like i
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mean it's hard to have a good storyline in a horror movie you
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know let alone it be something like on this this type of magnitude and stuff
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like that so yeah i just think that's that's the only well that's not the only
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thing we can get into that later but that's that's one of the things that i
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feel that's that would be holding back those films but no let's get into it
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with the one battle after another the first award that it had won was, oh,
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best, what was it? Best performance.
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Oh yeah, we'll start with best picture. So yeah, it won best picture for a musical or comedy.
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And one thing that's interesting about the Golden Globes is when it comes to
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the movies and the TV, they divide it up between drama and then musical slash comedy.
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So that almost makes it a very tight race when it comes down to the Oscars.
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So let's get into the nominees real quickly for best motion picture, musical, or comedy.
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We had Blue Moon, Sony Pictures Classic, Begonia from Focus Features, Marty Supreme from A24,
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No Other Choice from Neon, Novel Beg from Netflix, and then of course One Battle
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After Another from Warner Brothers, which won for Best Musical or Comedy.
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I don't think there was really any two surprises there.
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No, I don't think so either. Yeah, that was pretty... No surprises there, like you said.
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Have you got a chance to see any of these other movies that was nominated?
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Yeah, I've seen four of them. I still need to see Marty Supreme.
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So I want to definitely check that out, especially since Timothee Chalamet took it down for Best Actor.
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Yeah, man. He's been on a run, too. I feel like ever since last year at the
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Academy Awards, I think he was nominated, but he lost.
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I think ever since that he's been on a tear like he's basically been campaigning
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for you know the best actor for this
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year's Oscars he's basically been campaigning for it since last year so.
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From that standpoint I haven't seen Marty Supreme either but I know Timothy
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Chalamet he's doing his thing with that as far as promoting it and marketing
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it and you know make sure it's out there because it hasn't really gone,
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a wide release yet I don't think not too much of a wide release,
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but just enough to get some buzz around it because a lot of people are like
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I never heard of that movie, I never heard of that movie but 824 do what 824 does 824 does.
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Yeah. Begonia. Did you see Begonia? I did. Yeah, that was a weird one.
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I thought, yeah, I saw bits and bits of it.
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Yeah, it's pretty good. It's different. It's unlike anything I've seen.
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So I think it was interesting and I do think that it deserved a nomination.
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But in terms of actually winning anything, I don't know.
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I was impressed by Jesse Plemons, the actor.
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I thought he was like the standout for me in terms of acting wise,
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but I thought it was an interesting script and interesting premise,
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but I just think it's too weird to win any awards, to be honest.
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I think Frankenstein's going to win.
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If Frankenstein doesn't win for best start, there's something wrong because
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they built a life-size ship for that and they built it in a parking lot.
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So if you go to that trouble to building a big vessel, I think you should win an award, don't you?
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Yeah. No, yeah, most definitely. Most definitely. And we'll see.
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Like I said, Begonia kind of falls.
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I feel like it falls in with Sinners and Frankenstein, where it's those kind
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of sci-fi type of thing where the people that are voted, they don't really get it.
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But, yeah, like I said, we don't really got too much. Yeah, one map to another
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is probably going to clear it. He's probably going to take on all the awards for Best Picture.
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I agree. Yeah.
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But the one that did sneak up and surprise me was when Hamnet won for Best Drama.
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I know there's totally different categories, but now I got to go back and watch
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that one because I'm all like, wait a minute.
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Because that's what, you know, the Academy Awards, they tend to lean more towards,
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you know the the films that they recognize is those dramas and
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those those romance movies so now i kind of got to go
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back and watch this one just to just to see that was like all
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competitions get it stiff for sure yeah no
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you're absolutely right i saw sentimental value
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i thought that was a good i think that's something that
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might be a sleeper because it was really well
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shot and the acting was incredible uh stellan
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scarzard won for best actors so he
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he was a surprise i think in the golden
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globe for me uh winning best supporting actor yeah
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yeah and so that and him winning and
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also tiana taylor getting the win for best supporting actress was a nice surprise
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for me i don't know about you but it was a really nice surprise to see her win
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you know what's interesting is that they people have been saying that for a
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long time they were saying whoever gets the nominee for Best Supporting Actress,
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whether it's Tiana or Regina.
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They said those were kind of like the lock. One of those two is going to be
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the lock-ins for it. It's great to see Tiana doing her thing.
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Because she's had a long journey, right? She started in the music industry.
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She started in the music industry, yeah. And most people would remember her
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from, she was on that MTV show, Super Sweet 16.
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Like, you know, that's, you know, so.
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See her go through just her journey in the entertainment we're
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not gonna talk about like you know personal stuff or anything like that but just her journey
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growing through the through the entertainment business it's
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a wonderful thing to see well yeah and you see that
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so often like even will smith like you can
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go down the line of what i find interesting is
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those starting out in the music industry and then becoming actors i think that's
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interesting to me i don't know about you no i feel like it's the same thing
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with even like stand-up comedians you People would be surprised how many actors
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started off at least trying to do state-up comedy.
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I mean, Tom Hanks had tried to do a state-up comedy at one point.
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A lot of actors, you'd be surprised, all these dramatic actors,
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the character actors, these character actors, all have some sort of background.
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I think you almost have to have that sort of other artistic switch or whatever
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that you could kind of lean into, too, especially if you're not,
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like, the classically trained actor.
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You know, just having that little bag that you can get into,
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because, you know, Will Smith having that history of being in...
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There's a certain type of swag that comes with being in rap or,
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you know, being around hip-hop that it just shows on screen.
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Same thing with, like, Tiana Taylor.
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You could tell, like, her character was a badass, but you could tell Tiana kind
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of got, like, some hood in her from her time in hip-hop and shit like that.
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Yeah, it was really real. She deserves the award because she embodied the character.
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And I just really enjoyed seeing her on screen and to hear that she's going to be in more movies.
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I was looking her up and seeing kind of what's next for her.
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And I'm just interested to see what's next.
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And she's been quietly doing her thing. Quietly doing her thing on the movie side.
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If you go into her IMDb page, she's been doing her thing active for a cool minute.
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And so I said, yeah, like how you were saying, it's good for her to finally
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get that recognition, get those flowers that she deserves.
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And hopefully it carries over to SAG Awards and the Oscars. So we'll see about that.
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And absolutely. And you kind of make me think, too, about Paul Thomas Anderson,
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because he's been going since the 90s.
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And I remember his first film, his first feature film, Boogie Nights.
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And so going from that in the 90s, you know, he had Magnolia.
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He had all these other big names. but he
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hasn't he hasn't been really he hasn't
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really received the type of accolades until now and
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so yeah just to see his whole journey he's
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had an even longer journey i feel like and so to see him winning best director
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and best screenplay that he wrote because he writes and he directs and he produces
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and he does it all right like this guy is super talented and so to see him get to this place where.
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He's being recognized finally.
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I think that he's going to win an Oscar would be my prediction that he'll end
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up winning for this film.
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Yeah, that was something I was thinking about earlier too because Warner Brothers
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put out a lot of movies this year and then when it comes to,
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with Sinners and One Battle After Another, where I feel like One Battle After
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Another has the leg up as far as like,
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campaigning for this awards season it's kind of like Warner Brothers kind of
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went in with the expectation that like okay this is going to be the movie that,
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we used to you know solidify paul thomas and it's gonna be the movie that's gonna get him as oscars
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and all that type of stuff i think like with sinners because like
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i said going back to like it being a horror movie or if you want to talk you
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know be a predominantly black
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they didn't really know what to do with it until they saw the results of it
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and then once they saw the results up they're like okay yeah we could really
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push this for award season and stuff like that but by the time that already
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happened you know one battle after the other that was even though it hadn't
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been released yet as far as like one of the studios goes there's they already
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had in their mind they're,
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planning for this year that One Battle After Another is going to be our big,
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award season campaign movie.
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What did you think of Sinners? Did you enjoy Ryan Coogler's film?
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Did you think that they did a really good job with it?
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Yeah, I had to watch it at least, I think it's two times in theaters and.
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Streaming streaming the previous the other times but what's
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your movie go ahead no what are you saying i
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was gonna say the movie that it reminded me of was from
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dust till dawn and so
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i don't know if i could give any spoiler about
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it but because i don't want to ruin the movie for people
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if they haven't seen it but i just see a lot of parallels
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with you know those two films for me but
25:04
i i enjoyed their take on it and I was glad to see that it won for best music
25:10
because I felt that their music was the strongest whereas my biggest criticism
25:17
for one battle after another was their musical score.
25:22
I'm sorry man but I just wasn't a fan of It was so wonky out there of a movie
25:29
that's so weird of a movie that's one battle after another I get that the score
25:33
is kind of weird to match the vibe,
25:35
but it was so weird that it was almost off-putty.
25:38
Yeah, like the notes didn't sound right, you know, at times.
25:43
Yeah. Yeah, you know what I mean? And so, not to put him down,
25:46
not to put down the composer, but I was glad to hear that Sinner's won for that.
25:52
Yeah, yeah. I think Sinner's is going to take that, and then,
25:54
oh, let's go back over with Check Out, the.
25:59
Other nominees that was for, that they was also nominated for,
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so Oh, for best, because you said Stellan Skarsgård went for best belt supporting role.
26:10
That's right. And that was a stat cast too, man. That was, because he had two
26:14
people for one battle after.
26:15
They had Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn.
26:19
Then you had Paul Best Scout for Hamnet that won the best drama.
26:22
And then you got Jacob Lorty for Frankenstein and Adam Sandler for,
26:26
Jay Kelly. Yeah, that's a stiff competition, especially because with the supporting
26:30
roles, they don't separate those from musical comedy drama.
26:35
It's just all one thing. So that's a bit cooler, I feel like,
26:39
as far as if you win that award.
26:41
Oh yeah, that's a big deal. It's
26:44
way stiffer competition to win the supporting role than the lead role.
26:48
Oh, I agree. Yeah. Cause it, it was stacked to be up against Sean Penn,
26:52
who I felt was a standout in one battle after another.
26:56
I felt like his character work was extremely strong and that I,
27:01
it was so interesting to watch as an actor, you know, you studied people like that.
27:07
So, uh, his choices, his physicality that he embodies.
27:11
And then, yeah, just to take
27:14
it a step further i feel like if you
27:17
beat out people like that that that really goes to
27:20
show that hey you you're doing a
27:23
stellar job right because you said
27:26
you saw sentimental value did did you do you think that his
27:28
performance you think his performance stellan's performance was
27:32
worthy of winning over like champion or is that
27:34
more of a surprise to you i i thought
27:37
it was a surprise but i do see why he
27:40
won because his performance came across more natural
27:44
so it didn't you didn't really see
27:46
the acting right and that's that's what
27:50
good acting is right that you don't see the acting
27:53
or the choices that the actor is making and so
27:57
i think i believe that he was this film director that had a falling out with
28:03
his daughter is essentially what the film is about And so I believe that And
28:09
I felt that it was well deserving I don't think that it was Something where I would say No,
28:15
he didn't deserve it Because I've seen him in other films And I think that it's
28:21
also his time And who knows He could potentially take down the Oscar Right?
28:26
Like if he's won the Golden Globe Chances are he's going to get An Oscar nomination
28:31
for this And like I said When it comes down to supporting roles.
28:36
That's way different because the people you see nominated for the supporter
28:40
roles could be the same people for the Oscars.
28:44
The best actors, they got to cut down those to half. So see how that goes.
28:51
And then one battle after another also won for best screenplay and best director.
28:59
Like we said, no real surprise there. I felt that I don't think the other actors,
29:04
the actors in the film outside of Tiana, I feel like they're all so accomplished
29:08
that they don't really care about winning the award.
29:11
I feel like they all got on board just to make this all about Paul Thomas Anderson.
29:16
So if any more is that they do consistently win, yeah.
29:20
Because I feel like if Leo wanted to really campaign for the best lead actor,
29:24
he could really be doing that, but he's not really doing that.
29:28
Say with Benicio or Sean Penn, they could really be out there doing interviews,
29:33
whatever, maybe really campaigning for their thing, but they're just chilling.
29:36
Well, they've already won the awards, right? All three of those actors you just
29:41
mentioned have won Oscars.
29:43
So all of them have had their moment. And I think that with awards.
29:52
There's that sense of who's next, like who do we recognize next, right?
30:01
Yeah. And it's cool because you can see When you see people that big put their
30:06
ego to the side just to kind of help out, not to help out, but,
30:10
you know, just say, OK, this is this is all about Paul Thomas.
30:12
So we got his back, which is cool, which is cool. It's cool to see that in Hollywood.
30:18
Absolutely, yeah. I thought it was nice, his speech, how he recognized Adam
30:24
Somner, who I guess passed away.
30:28
He mentioned that without him being the assistant director, he wasn't just an assistant director.
30:37
He made the film possible. It sounded like he took on so much to make the film
30:43
possible and what it was. So to hear that he's very selfless,
30:48
you know, he's giving props to people that deserve it.
30:53
And I appreciate that because it's not all about the individual,
30:57
right? It's about the team. Mm-hmm.
31:00
And then they also won Best Screenplay.
31:05
That was interesting, too, because they was up against Marty Supreme,
31:08
Ryan Coogler, Jafar Panahi. for It Was Just an Accident, Eskil Vaught,
31:14
and Joe Chim Trier for Sentimental Value, and then Chloe Zhao for,
31:18
oh, and Maggie O'Farrell for Hamnet.
31:20
Best Screenplay, that's going to be, well, I think for the Oscars,
31:24
though, don't they separate it from Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay?
31:28
Yeah, they separate the two.
31:31
Okay, yeah, I think they're going to win for, I think Paul Thomas Anderson probably
31:34
went for Best Adapted Screenplay. Yeah. Yeah.
31:38
Then I'm going to probably go with Sinners for Original Screenplay.
31:42
Yeah, I agree with that. And Ryan Coogler wrote it.
31:45
So what was interesting was he, Ryan Coogler, received the Critics' Choice Award
31:51
for Best Writing, but he didn't get it for the Golden Globes.
31:56
But I still think that he has an opportunity to win an Oscar.
32:01
I'd like to see him win something for Sinners. Yeah.
32:06
But they made up for Sinners because they gave them the award for,
32:10
was it Cinematic and Box Office Achievement or whatever?
32:14
Yeah. I've never seen that award until now. Have you?
32:18
I think that was the first year they did it. That and the podcast was the first
32:21
year that they did those awards.
32:22
I thought that was funny because, you know, when Sinners first came out,
32:25
they was trying to devalue. It's a compliment at the the box office.
32:30
So to kind of give them that award is kind of the cherry on the top to all the haters.
32:38
And then yeah I believe those are all the awards that they have won and that
32:41
they was nominated for yeah oh best female motion picture oh yeah Chase Affinity
32:48
Sheila but she'll be back she definitely has more awards yeah.
32:53
The other line right you know because this
32:56
is this was her breakout performance like this is
32:59
just her start so the fact that she gets nominated
33:02
is is outstanding i mean because i
33:06
don't recall her being in anything else i
33:08
believe she she was in a series before but
33:12
outside of that she wasn't really in anything major
33:15
like this was her first big movie role as
33:18
i recall yeah so if
33:22
you start off being nominated for all these awards you're at
33:24
least going somewhere yeah you're destined for greatness
33:28
for sure yeah but i'm definitely i'm gonna have to check
33:30
out that rose burn movie if i
33:33
had legs i'd kick you and then oh and then
33:36
amanda cyphrey she wasn't nominated for the testament
33:39
of ann lee actually i got to go see um uh for
33:43
your consideration screening of the testament of ann lee
33:46
i think last thursday and then the director
33:49
it was pretty i didn't i had no idea what the movie
33:51
was you know but i was just out there just doing the networking thing that
33:55
you know we're supposed to do as actors and um oh absolutely so so i had no
33:59
idea what the movie was about it was a long ass movie i don't lie it was good
34:02
but i fell asleep a couple times but that's only because i drove a long way
34:05
out as well because i drove a long way out it wasn't it wasn't like a it wasn't
34:08
a bad movie i just had drove a long way out so i wish i had been more
34:13
more awake to really grasp the movie but it was it was pretty good it was pretty
34:18
good i mean if you're into like.
34:20
Because I believe she's like a...
34:23
A shaker was that religion or
34:26
whatever like that she has shaker but yeah you got to watch the movie i'm not going
34:29
to dive into it i'm not going to dive into it this is all about one battle after another for
34:32
sure but yeah but if you get a chance to yeah check it
34:35
out and then yeah those are all the movies that it was nominated
34:38
for and the movies that it won we could
34:42
kind of compare it to to the critics choice because those
34:45
are you know the movie critics that get to vote on it and
34:48
stuff like that you they won three awards right yeah they
34:51
won three awards and they had more nominations so they
34:54
had 14 nominations whereas you know in
34:57
the golden globes they only had nine but i still
35:00
think it's important to note that that that even
35:03
with the more nominations they still
35:06
won three awards you know
35:09
and then compare that to less nominations
35:13
and and winning more awards it obviously did
35:16
better at the golden globe globes it did better yeah
35:19
there so that i think is a good indication that
35:23
it's going to do even better at the oscars yeah yeah because we have as far
35:28
as the movie awards go we have oh we have the actors they changed the name of
35:32
the sag after awards the actors awards so they have the actors awards and then
35:37
after that it's the uh the oscars i believe.
35:42
So, yeah, from the Critics' Choice, the Golden Globes, the SAG,
35:47
well, not necessarily SAG Awards, because the nominees will already be announced
35:51
by the time we have the SAG, the Actors' Awards, but the final voting won't be in.
35:56
So the final voting from those movies will, from those awards will all dictate
36:00
how one battle after another performs.
36:04
And what was the awards that it won at the Critics' Choice? yeah so
36:08
it was nominated for 14 it won for
36:12
best director paul thomas anderson
36:15
it won for best picture and then
36:18
it also won for best screenplay paul thomas
36:21
anderson so it was just paul thomas anderson and
36:25
then pretty much everybody else only got nominated for
36:28
their acting and so that was
36:31
the only three awards that it won for critics choice
36:34
out of the 14 nominations so
36:37
i hope they weren't disappointed with that
36:41
result only winning three out of
36:44
14 nominations yeah i mean you could
36:47
take that in a negative view that that's not
36:49
good but from my perspective it's like well it did
36:52
win for best picture though so yeah
36:55
and one though and one the for what it for what one
36:59
battle after or another was supposed to be as far as like award season goes
37:02
everybody knows it's all about paul thomas anderson so him
37:06
went like any awards that it wins for like best director best
37:08
screenplay it's not really going to be a surprise i think where
37:11
it gets iffy is where it comes down to like the best picture that's about it
37:16
but i think any any any award that you know paul thomas anderson is nominated
37:21
for is probably going to win which is which is interesting you'll see we'll
37:24
see how that plays out with the actors awards because the director's not nominated.
37:30
Usually it's just like best ensemble or something like that. So.
37:35
We'll see how many awards it wins with that.
37:39
Because, yeah, there's no Paul Thomas Anderson or anything like that.
37:41
It's just strictly about the actors.
37:43
So that'll be interesting to see how that awards, how one battle after another
37:48
plays out with that awards show.
37:50
Because I know, I think they just had the directors, something for the directors
37:54
or whatever, but that's neither here or there. But, yeah, no, yeah.
37:59
Anything director-related, screenwriter-related, anything connected directly
38:02
to the Paul Thomas Anderson, I think he's got that in the bag.
38:04
Anything else would be a surprise.
38:05
I would really, which is why I was really happy to see Sianna Taylor win.
38:09
Oh, yeah. That was what was so shocking for me because I didn't,
38:13
and even I heard her say it herself that she was shocked, right?
38:17
She just prepared a speech in time, it sounded like.
38:21
So I think that's awesome that she won, to be honest. And I think that's only
38:26
going to help her further.
38:28
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I said, because you see, she's been putting it in the
38:31
work. So it's definitely good to see her getting her just dues.
38:37
Then let me see. Was there anything else we had going on with one battle after
38:41
another for this holiday season? I mean, for this awards season?
38:45
You know what I wish they would do? Is this like, but like, cause they're doing
38:49
a lot of, um, like I said, like the, like for like the movie campaigning for
38:53
like the awards or whatever.
38:54
They, you know, they produce directors or stars in movies.
38:58
They'll pop up in different locations around the U S to show the movie,
39:01
you know, talk about the movie, do Q and A's.
39:04
I really hope they do something up here in Sacramento for that.
39:07
Especially if it gets closer to like the Oscars or something like that,
39:09
that they do like, um, a screening up here.
39:12
And like Paul Thomas, they'd have like Paul Thomas Anderson up here,
39:14
or maybe like Leo, just to talk about what it was like to make this movie up here in Sacramento.
39:19
Yeah, the only screenings that I've been to here locally, they'll have it where
39:25
it just comes out just right before I went to one here locally and saw it before it came out.
39:33
You're cordially invited. It was with Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon.
39:38
So I got to attend that for free. And then you basically speak to somebody after
39:45
you watch the movie and they ask you what you thought of it so that they kind
39:50
of get an idea of what the audience is thinking about it.
39:57
Yeah, so I think those are fun. But outside of that, I haven't really experienced
40:03
something bigger like I have in L.A.
40:07
Where it's a bigger – if you're in L.A., you've got a chance to maybe experience more, certainly.
40:18
But but that's not a knock on Sacramento or
40:21
anything because I think it's just
40:24
a smaller market but but yeah and I
40:27
was looking you know on IMDB buddy and I was I saw that like it's been one battle
40:36
after another has been nominated 389 times and it's won 168 times excuse me 186 wins.
40:48
So 186 that's almost like 50 huh yeah and
40:52
so that's good you can't be mad at that yeah and
40:56
so i was going through and it's like nationwide so it's
40:59
you know with having a film of your own you wonder do they have to pay the festival
41:06
submission fees or do they just get in i wonder i think that i think that they
41:13
have to to some degree i think that would be applied to the budget, you know?
41:17
Like, let's say they wanted the film to close out Sundance or something like that.
41:21
I'm pretty sure that they have to, that's all, that goes into part of the budget of,
41:26
Because I think, let's break it down from, like, even, like,
41:28
with you doing Scar and then me doing, like, putting almost 30 out to the film
41:31
festivals, you know? Right.
41:33
I would imagine they'd have to pay some sort of stipend to get their films shot at the theater.
41:39
But it's nothing to them. Yeah. But it would be nothing to them. They're like, okay.
41:44
Yeah, because they're going to pay the same rate, aren't they, as we would? No.
41:48
I think they—no, not for us, because we're not doing—they're not putting it
41:51
in a short film, you know?
41:52
They're putting it like a they probably got to pay a good amount of money a good amount of money,
41:58
i could i could imagine that um i think it'd be yeah i think it'd be but who
42:02
knows we got to get to that level to find out yeah it'll be interesting to see
42:06
but i think you're right i think it's got to be a little bit more wouldn't you
42:10
think i would imagine so because you're dealing because like for business wise it's like.
42:15
It's like, it's, it's part of like the promotion and marketing of the film.
42:18
So I'm pretty sure that's part of that.
42:20
Even if they do have to put something up for it, that's all like pre-planned.
42:25
It part of like, it part of the budget.
42:27
So they already know like going in like, okay, we're going to aim for this film.
42:31
That's where at least put the money aside for it. I'm not sure.
42:33
We'll figure it out. And they must've spent, they must've spent a ton of money
42:37
on marketing this film because I remember so many ads on one battle after another.
42:43
They put it on your phone. They put it on the TV. They put it everywhere now.
42:48
So I don't think you could have avoided knowing about this movie unless you're
42:54
completely not on social media, not, you know, watching TV or anything like that.
43:00
That would be the only way. But even then, I feel like it was in the newspapers here locally.
43:05
It talked about how they were in town, you know.
43:09
Shopping for props and wardrobe and going to like Goodwills and going to different
43:16
stores and things locally around the area to find certain things.
43:21
So there was a lot of buzz about it in the area. And people knew that it was
43:25
here and people knew that it was starring Leo, that we just didn't know what it was called.
43:31
Didn't know what it was about nothing like that what was it called like
43:34
highway something it was referred to as the bc
43:37
project at but you're right it was highway
43:40
something at 1.2 and how i got how i got my extra spot was off casting network
43:48
so i had applied there and then i actually had to talk to the uh casting director
43:55
too so i had to actually have a phone call.
43:59
And, and, and so that was interesting, you know, to have that chat.
44:04
It was a pretty quick conversation though.
44:07
Yeah, they probably want to just test because like I said, filming up here,
44:11
they have like their certain standards of what professionalism is.
44:14
So that probably was just a quick
44:15
phone call just to check your level of professionalism. So you passed.
44:19
But yeah, that's, that's interesting. That's interesting.
44:22
For sure yeah and the whole process was
44:25
because it was pouring down rain when i was
44:28
there it was like flooding and i remember having
44:31
to leave my apartment and there was two feet of water so i had to put on some
44:36
cowboy boots and trudge through this water just to get to my car and then there
44:41
was a tree that fell down right near my car so i was lucky to get out of there
44:46
like just to get out and get on the highway and get there safely.
44:53
We're going to get ready to wrap up this episode. We'll be back,
44:59
I think, what's the next big thing? Oh, I think they're doing the awards,
45:02
the nominations for the Oscars coming up.
45:06
So we'll either be back for the Oscars or talking about the set, the Actors Awards.
45:10
Yeah, either the Oscar nominations or the Actors Awards. We'll be back for,
45:14
well, for both of those. I just don't know which episode's coming first.
45:17
So yeah, we'll see you then. But besides that, other than one battle after another,
45:21
was there anything else that you wanted that people know that you got going on?
45:24
No, I just appreciate you having me on your podcast, buddy. It's always a good
45:28
time. and look forward to next time.
45:31
No, yeah, I appreciate you being the special co-host during this.
45:34
I'm going to call this series One Buddy After Another.
45:37
Instead of one battle after another, we're just going to call this One Buddy
45:39
After Another. Oh, that's perfect, buddy.
45:44
Yeah. So, yeah, no, so, yeah, thanks for tuning in.
45:47
Brandon's going to be here throughout the whole awards season,
45:50
chopping it up, and we're going to be giving you all the spill.
45:52
It's weird, because I don't know why nobody from Sacramento even thought about
45:55
talking about the movie shit.
45:57
But, um... Well, you thought about it. yeah we here you thought about it buddy so that,
46:02
that's all that matters but yeah it'll be interesting to see where this goes
46:05
in the award season yeah yeah so oh yeah tell people where they can find you
46:11
at follow you on social media on that good jazz that will log up out of here,
46:15
yeah you guys can follow me on Instagram at Brando Larson L-A-R-S-O-N so appreciate
46:22
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46:24
So you already know, you can follow the Yeah Buddy podcast at yeahbuddyent.com
46:30
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46:35
But we'll get there eventually. I'm team Android right now, but we'll get there
46:38
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46:41
And then, oh, then, well, this is down the road, but in April,
46:44
you can check out our movies premiering at the Sacktown Film Festival at the
46:49
IMAX where we saw One Battle After Another.
46:51
So yeah Brandon has Scar premiere there and I have my short film Almost 30 premiere
46:56
there so we just like one bout after another we got an IMAX movie they got an IMAX movie shoot.
47:03
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47:14
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47:17
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47:22
It's hard times out there. I want to see y'all make it into 2027.
47:26
So let's keep it rocking. Keep it rolling. Brandon, I'll catch you next time, man. All right. Peace.
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