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Actor Jimmy Stewart's Real Story Unveiled In Jimmy Starring Christopher McDonald · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: That voice. Only on Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for this movie. This is
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  Speaker 1: everything that I grew up with, with my father who
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  Speaker 1: fought in World War II. And he just said, don't
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  Speaker 1: you ever forget. Don't you ever forget. And when you
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  Speaker 1: do a movie like this, Christopher, I hear my father
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  Speaker 1: so loudly in my voice and in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: Arrow, absolutely right. I feel the same way. And although
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  Speaker 2: my dad's not around, he was in the good war,
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  Speaker 2: as they say. And I'm glad I could be part
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  Speaker 2: of this movie because it's so spot on, wonderful, and really,
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed doing it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that I grew up
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  Speaker 1: always wanting, I always wanted Jimmy Stewart and Ted Williams
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  Speaker 1: to get together. I always wanted to just sit with
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  Speaker 1: them and just listen to their war stories. We knew
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  Speaker 1: what they did with sports and movies, but I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hear what was going on over there. And
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  Speaker 1: this is giving me something that I've just cherished my
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  Speaker 1: entire life.
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  Speaker 2: Cool. You get it. This is a literally behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes kind of movie. It starts with this guy who's
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  Speaker 2: just won his Academy Award and it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: big deal. Then the war happens and they're starting to
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  Speaker 2: talk about it. Like, oh, and Jimmy's not doing it.
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  Speaker 2: We can't send him over because he's a movie star.
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  Speaker 2: But no, he chooses to do it. And he also
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  Speaker 2: had a pilot as a pilot. He was a. young
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  Speaker 2: man and he was a good pilot and he just
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  Speaker 2: said I'm going to do it and they wouldn't let
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  Speaker 2: him do it and so he started at the ground
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  Speaker 2: level came over and the rest is history because when
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  Speaker 2: he did all those sorties of flying over oh my
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  Speaker 2: god it was horrible what he had to deal with
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  Speaker 2: and back in PTSD and then by the time he
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  Speaker 2: comes and gets and says yes to Frank Capra that
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  Speaker 2: yeah I will do this it's a wonderful life but
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  Speaker 2: because you know it's basically because I love you man
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  Speaker 2: and we'll do it because nobody wanted him anymore so
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  Speaker 2: That is such a cool peek behind the scenes to
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  Speaker 2: see what happens to this guy after you went through. Incredible.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to think I'm really weird, but I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen It's a Wonderful Life. And the reason why is
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  Speaker 1: because I love living off everybody else's excitement. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: so afraid that if I go see it, like seeing
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  Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac in concert, I'm going to lose that excitement
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  Speaker 1: that I have in my heart. I just love listening
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  Speaker 1: to people talk about that movie. And then you've got
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  Speaker 1: this and you're exposing what you are with this story
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  Speaker 1: and how it came into being. This just makes it
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  Speaker 1: even more special for us.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. That's amazing. You're the first who said
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  Speaker 2: that to me because it's the antithesis of what I
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  Speaker 2: think this Christmas movie, what it was, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more than that. And if you love Jimmy Stewart,
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to miss this great movie. So that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Not just love Jimmy Stewart, but wouldn't you say that
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  Speaker 1: we come from the generation where we are probably the
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  Speaker 1: ones who impersonated him the most?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Who didn't want to do that? It was so good.
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  Speaker 2: He had so many cool parts. Oh my God. Harvey,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I could pull that off, but man,
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  Speaker 2: Philadelphia story, the Glenn Miller story. He worked with Frank
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  Speaker 2: Capra a couple of times before that, Hitchcock doing Vertigo
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  Speaker 2: and Rear Window. It was just, Just a very, very
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  Speaker 2: talented man. I could watch him all day long.
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  Speaker 1: That is so funny that you brought up Hitchcock because
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  Speaker 1: I just did a conversation about a book that's out
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  Speaker 1: where Hitchcock could not have been Hitchcock without a Jimmy Stewart.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the impact that this man had on
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood and as authors and writers.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, well said. Absolutely right. And Hitchcock was nobody's fool.
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  Speaker 2: He chose people that he knew would lift the material
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  Speaker 2: off the page and put it up on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: So that's awesome. He's another one of my favorites. But
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, even when Jimmy went out and
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  Speaker 2: did Westerns, the man who shot Liberty Balance, for example.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: How is he doing that after playing all those great
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  Speaker 2: lawyers and coming doing filibusters and things like that? And
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  Speaker 2: I just love that whole thing. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Glenn Miller's story.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. So fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But see, you know what? You know what's interesting about this, though, Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that this is the movie I want
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  Speaker 1: to go see at a drive in because that's where
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  Speaker 1: I saw all my Jimmy Stewart movies was at a
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  Speaker 1: drive in. And I really feel that in my heart
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  Speaker 1: I need to go because we have three of them
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  Speaker 1: in this area and I've just got to go. And
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  Speaker 1: that's where I have to experience this movie.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I heard something interesting about drive ins because
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely loved it, too. It was when we were
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  Speaker 2: growing up, you get four or five people in the car,
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  Speaker 2: you squeeze in and walk. Put the thing up on
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  Speaker 2: your window. But now they don't put that little speaker
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  Speaker 2: up on your window. It always comes through Bluetooth. And
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  Speaker 2: then at the end, they said, we'll supply you with
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  Speaker 2: a battery jump if you have issues with your car.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny?
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: You know, during the lockdown, because I work for a
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  Speaker 1: movie promotion company and we did all of our movie
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  Speaker 1: promotions at the drive-in. And you should have seen us
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  Speaker 1: out there at one, two o'clock in the morning trying
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  Speaker 1: to get those cars started. That's exactly what happened, dude.
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  Speaker 1: It was so funny.
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  Speaker 2: Very funny. Yes. I just thought it was hysterical.
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. We are talking about the movie
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy with actor Christopher McDonald. The movie we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: is Jimmy starring Christopher McDonald. We are back. When you
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  Speaker 1: do a movie like this, I'm sure you do the research.
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  Speaker 1: What do you personally put inside your heart? Because you
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  Speaker 1: yourself have got movie experiences. Do you learn new tricks
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  Speaker 1: of the trade or who they were as people?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, you do. First of all, you do your research.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the activities to do and to get
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  Speaker 2: yourself into that mindset of the period, of what the
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  Speaker 2: stakes are, things like that. But it ultimately comes down
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  Speaker 2: to between action and cut. And that can... also be
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different than what's on the page it
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  Speaker 2: can be a little bit more um story take a
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  Speaker 2: little tweak like a left turn and i think that's
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  Speaker 2: that's what's great about our director aaron burns he just
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  Speaker 2: uh allowed me to do that and i thought wow
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  Speaker 2: this is good this is gonna this is really play
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  Speaker 2: off because i give i give him the feeling of
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  Speaker 2: what it's really like uh yes it's important to be
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  Speaker 2: an actor it's important that the people to recognize how
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  Speaker 2: the meaning of of something big And that kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff is what feeds me. So you don't get to
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  Speaker 2: do it very often, but when they're open to that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: As that actor, what was it like for you to
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  Speaker 1: step into a world that the rest of us have
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  Speaker 1: seen only in black and white photos, but yet in
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  Speaker 1: this movie, it's colorized? I think that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that blows my imagination away the most about this.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that moment when you watched The Wizard of Oz
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  Speaker 2: and it went from hot and then boom, there it was.
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  Speaker 2: kind of like that it's fleeting but at the same
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  Speaker 2: time it's just beautiful and we shot it in ireland
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  Speaker 2: which is you know is green and lovely and beautiful
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  Speaker 2: people and wonderful except for you know driving the wrong
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  Speaker 2: side of the road but uh really fun uh place
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  Speaker 2: to shoot it we had beautiful uh a beautiful uh
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  Speaker 2: stage and and just all kinds of uh really good
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  Speaker 2: vibes coming from that place. I had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to shoot there again.
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  Speaker 1: So now I, now what I want to do because
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  Speaker 1: of this movie and because of your acting and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else involved, Lionel Barrymore, I got to find out more
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  Speaker 1: about him because I, for some reason, that name has
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  Speaker 1: never just been on the tip of my tongue, but
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  Speaker 1: it sure opens up my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Lionel was a very, very accomplished man. He
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  Speaker 2: just wrote, he wrote books. He directed movies. He got very, uh,
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  Speaker 2: He got a little crippled when he was a younger
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  Speaker 2: man at 38. I think 1938, he stopped doing anything
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  Speaker 2: but only had to have a wheelchair. But he kept
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  Speaker 2: working for 20. He did 20 more years of acting
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  Speaker 2: just because he hurt his hip. And then he had some,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some other thing, ailments. But he just kept
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  Speaker 2: powering on. And that family is a legend. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: all those Barry Moores, all the way down to Drew.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. They're a player. That's right. They're really, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And probably one of the most unbelievable quotes in the
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  Speaker 1: movies where he's talking about, you know, dropping the bombs.
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  Speaker 1: And yet through movies, you know, you can add sunshine
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  Speaker 1: to people's lives. I mean, I can't imagine what was
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  Speaker 1: going through Jimmy's heart in a situation such as that. Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's two different personalities, one body.
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  Speaker 2: True. Well said. And I think that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that really affected Jimmy the most was having to
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  Speaker 2: do that and do it again and again and again
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  Speaker 2: and then lose a soldier here or lose a pilot there,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. writing to the parents, do things like,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, please help me, Lord, help me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. And it's, uh, it's just, it's
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  Speaker 2: just really, really good. It's a peek at what's, what
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  Speaker 2: goes on in the thing and the filming, how they
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  Speaker 2: did that. I still don't know how they got all
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  Speaker 2: those beautiful, beautiful, uh, war pictures and get those old
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  Speaker 2: planes up in their hair and all that stuff. I just,
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  Speaker 2: that to me was like, wow. Wow time. Wow. Fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future. The door is always going to be open
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  Speaker 1: for you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Aaron. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today, and thank you for giving
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  Speaker 1: yourself permission to do this movie. You're going to be
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  Speaker 1: changing people's lives.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. That's music to my ears.
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  Speaker 1: Be brilliant today, okay, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. You too. Have a good one, Aaron.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.