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Jaime Pressly & Baron Davis · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, everyone?
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  Speaker 3: Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me right now from the new film, Last Shot,
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  Speaker 2: actress Jamie Presley and former NBA All-Star turned actor, Baron Davis.
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  Speaker 2: How you guys doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for taking the time, you guys. Well, first
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  Speaker 2: of all, congratulations. Excited for this. Your new film, Last Shot,
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  Speaker 2: is out now.
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  Speaker 4: Seen it?
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  Speaker 2: Great movie. So much fun. A lot of heart. My son,
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  Speaker 2: one of them, Dominic, happens to be in it. He
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  Speaker 2: had a blast. Most fun ever he's had on set,
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  Speaker 2: he said. How would you guys describe the overall premise
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  Speaker 2: of this one?
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  Speaker 4: This premise is a heavy one. But like you said,
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  Speaker 4: full of heart. It's, you know, a story about grief
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  Speaker 4: and a kid who not only loses his father, but
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  Speaker 4: has to has to go live with his estranged mother, uh,
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  Speaker 4: 3000 miles across the country in Nashville, where he has
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  Speaker 4: to start over and meet all new friends in middle
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  Speaker 4: school and, uh, joins a club basketball team, um, and
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  Speaker 4: great basketball player and something that he and his father loves,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to do together. And, um, one of the
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  Speaker 4: dreams his dad had for him, um, was for him
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  Speaker 4: to be on a club basketball team.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, Anyway, it's a story, like I said, of.
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  Speaker 4: Grief and my character trying to figure out how to
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  Speaker 4: be a mother for the first time and a son
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  Speaker 4: trying to figure out how to start over again at 12.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It is a lot in a dramatic role for yourself
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  Speaker 2: in particular. And like you said, it is about grief.
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  Speaker 2: And I would also say it's about second chances, too.
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  Speaker 2: And as a mom yourself, Jamie, did you enjoy this
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  Speaker 2: type of role?
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  Speaker 4: I got to say, this is a tough role because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I have three boys and I cannot imagine
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  Speaker 4: as a mother. not raising my kids or having a
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  Speaker 4: relationship or, I mean, having them not live with me
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  Speaker 4: in general. That was, you know, a reach for me
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  Speaker 4: and hard to live in that headspace. But I loved,
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  Speaker 4: I absolutely loved the role. And the script was so
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  Speaker 4: beautifully written by Todd Friedman. I was really excited to
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  Speaker 4: come on board.
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  Speaker 2: And Baron, as a former NBA All-Star, like I mentioned, man, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, the acting was solid, brother. Very
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  Speaker 2: natural right there. Is this something you've always sort of
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do? You just sort of fell into this space?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I got the opportunity to do it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I love acting. I love being on set.
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  Speaker 1: Just I think the greatest part about, you know, our
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  Speaker 1: film was it was a tight knit family.
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  Speaker 3: So like the bowling scene, like we.
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  Speaker 1: Were all really hanging out and, you know, having a,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was it felt real. And so for
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  Speaker 1: me as an actor, you know, to play this role,
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  Speaker 1: to see the importance of the coach and how he
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  Speaker 1: could be a mentor, you know, it just kind of
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  Speaker 1: took me back to my old AAU days, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with seeing like the same story kind of play out
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  Speaker 1: over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: And so I wanted to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: One, you know, so AAU parents or parents that are
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  Speaker 1: coaching or, you know, in the stands with their kids
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  Speaker 1: can sometimes see what they look like.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes from the kids perspective, how we can be
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  Speaker 1: better parents. And so the coaching role for me was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a natural position.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the thing, too. These days, parents, man, they really.
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  Speaker 2: You see videos on social media and they get a
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  Speaker 2: little too invested and sometimes don't let the kids be kids.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a little of that in the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the movie where you see with Michael Rapaport and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But that's a very real life sort of a situation
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  Speaker 2: that unfortunately seems to only be getting worse these days.
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  Speaker 2: Or maybe we're just exposed to it more.
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  Speaker 3: Because of social media. Yeah, I think it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pressure.
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  Speaker 1: You look at NIL now and you just look at
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  Speaker 1: media around basketball and NBA and WNBA.
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  Speaker 3: And so when you.
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  Speaker 1: Look at now the new parents, they are you know,
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  Speaker 1: putting a lot of, I would say they put a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pressure on these kids to be ranked early, right.
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  Speaker 3: To be really good early instead of really enjoying.
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  Speaker 1: Um, like the process and, and, and having their kids
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  Speaker 1: develop the right way.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta, you gotta enjoy that process. Well, the film, uh,
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  Speaker 2: really touches on all these, um, great themes that, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we mentioned. So definitely, uh, check it out. And it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was a lot of fun to sort of, uh,
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  Speaker 2: just to watch as a viewer, being a dad myself.
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  Speaker 2: And Jamie, you wore a few hats on this one, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: You acted in it, produced it. Do you like filling
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  Speaker 2: your plate like that in general, or is it just
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  Speaker 2: sort of a once-in-a-while thing where you want to dive into?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: So this was the first production that my production company,
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  Speaker 4: Liston James, produced. Obviously, we produced with Hemlock Circle. And
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  Speaker 4: I had worked, my producing partner, Kelly Brown, and I
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  Speaker 4: had been looking for the right project to be the
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  Speaker 4: first one because we had so many other things in development.
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  Speaker 4: And development, as we all know, takes forever. So I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to find something that was more of a turnkey situation.
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  Speaker 4: And where we could really come on board and help
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  Speaker 4: out as far as, you know, casting and sponsorships and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, bringing in more money for the budget. And
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  Speaker 4: when Andy Palmer.
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  Speaker 3: Our director.
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  Speaker 4: reached out to me and sent me this script. I
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  Speaker 4: was excited to read it because I had worked with Hemlock,
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  Speaker 4: Todd Friedman, Warner Davis, as well as Andy Palmer on
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  Speaker 4: a prior project that they had done called The Re-Education
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  Speaker 4: of Molly Singer that we did for Netflix. And I
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  Speaker 4: had such an incredible time working with them and really,
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  Speaker 4: truly love Andy Palmer as a director that I was
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  Speaker 4: excited to read whatever they sent, assuming it was a
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  Speaker 4: comedy book. Also, by the way, and I started reading
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  Speaker 4: it a couple of pages in. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: my God, this is a drama.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'd been looking for a great drama in
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  Speaker 4: general because everybody looks at me and wants me to
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  Speaker 4: play the comedy. And I've done that for 30 years.
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  Speaker 4: But what people don't realize is I started out in drama.
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  Speaker 4: And so I was looking for a role so I
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  Speaker 4: could get back into that. And this script was so
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  Speaker 4: beautifully written, again, by Todd Friedman, that I called them immediately.
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  Speaker 4: I read it right away within an hour and I
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  Speaker 4: called him back immediately. And I, in nice terms, said,
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  Speaker 4: Because I don't know if I can cuss on here.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: We got beeps.
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  Speaker 3: You got beep.
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  Speaker 4: I said, let's fucking do this. I was so excited.
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  Speaker 4: It was such a well-written script, such a beautiful story.
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  Speaker 4: I loved the characters. And I said, but the only
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  Speaker 4: caveat is my company has to produce it with you.
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  Speaker 4: And thankfully, they said, yes, absolutely, which was great. really
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  Speaker 4: amazing because it's three men saying yes to two women
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  Speaker 4: and so that was really great um but that's where Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Baron Davis came from and Rappaport and uh when it
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  Speaker 4: came to casting my love interest, the role of Bobby,
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  Speaker 4: I was a stickler and I took forever to pick
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  Speaker 4: who I wanted because if we didn't have the right chemistry,
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  Speaker 4: then it wasn't going to work and had all these options.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, nah. And then I finally, everybody
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  Speaker 4: was like, Jamie, we have a week. And I was like, well,
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  Speaker 4: bring me somebody that's great. I'm like, I don't see
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  Speaker 4: anybody that's great yet. I said, let me see them.
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  Speaker 4: We had a couple of meetings and, um, over Zoom.
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  Speaker 4: And we met with Johnny Simmons, who they had worked
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  Speaker 4: with before. And right after that, it was Andy and
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  Speaker 4: I who met with him. And right after that meeting,
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  Speaker 4: I called Andy. And this was like the second or
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  Speaker 4: third meeting that we'd had. It was the last one.
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  Speaker 4: And he said, well, what do you think? I think
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  Speaker 4: Johnny's great. And I said, oh, no, that's Bobby. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 4: book his ass. That's Bobby. And he could not have
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  Speaker 4: been more phenomenal in the role. I think he absolutely... Um, he,
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  Speaker 4: I think he killed it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: He was so good.
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  Speaker 2: He did have, he did do a really nice job
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  Speaker 2: and you guys did have some nice chemistry.
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  Speaker 3: So that was good.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice.
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  Speaker 2: Um, contrast there with all the other different characters.
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  Speaker 4: And he was so good with Dylan who played my son. He,
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  Speaker 4: that the, the scenes between them were just so, uh,
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  Speaker 4: there was so much heart in him. I think he,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Johnny has a lot of heart and that
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  Speaker 4: really came through on the screen.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was a nice dynamic. But speaking of comedies, um,
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  Speaker 2: you are also in season two of Leanne on Netflix, correct?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
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  Speaker 4: That was a really good time. If they come back
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  Speaker 4: for a third season, I'll go back and play with them.
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  Speaker 4: So it's, you know, most of them are from my
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  Speaker 4: old show, mom, like the crew and the writers. And
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  Speaker 4: then of course I, you know, Kristen Johnston who played
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  Speaker 4: Tammy on mom. So it was a, it was a
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  Speaker 4: joy to be able to not only go to work
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  Speaker 4: with them and, and, And work with Leanne, who's just
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  Speaker 4: an absolute pleasure. But also because I got to shoot
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  Speaker 4: in L.A. Warner Brothers and everything is shooting outside. Like
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  Speaker 4: I just finished a movie uh in uh Georgia this
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  Speaker 4: past Friday I'm in my I'm at my house in
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  Speaker 4: North Carolina um right now but I mean nothing she's
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  Speaker 4: we shot last shot in Birmingham Alabama so it was
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  Speaker 4: a pleasure to be able to actually get up and
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  Speaker 4: drive to Warner Brothers go to work and go home
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  Speaker 4: at night and get in my own bed and see
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  Speaker 4: my kids Yes, that's the best.
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  Speaker 2: You're spoiled for that one. And, Barron, you also host
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  Speaker 2: the show Raiders Talk of the Nation about the Vegas Raiders, man.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know you were a big Raider guy right there.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: They're off to a pretty solid start.
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  Speaker 3: They are.
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  Speaker 1: They're off to a great start, man. You know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of new regime. Coach Kubiak and, you know, bringing in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the old players and mixing them with
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  Speaker 1: some new guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think the energy around the Raiders, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas– You know, it's finally starting to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to give my hopes up too much.
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  Speaker 3: It's early. We'll see. We'll see. But, you know, hosting
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  Speaker 3: the podcast shows, it was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I get to interview old Raider legends, guys
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  Speaker 1: that I grew up watching. And then super fans, fans
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  Speaker 1: that are, you know, some of them are famous. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them are MMA stars. So it's been a great
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  Speaker 1: it's been a great fun ride. And this is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're off to a great season. So I'm super excited about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this team and this organization and being a
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  Speaker 1: part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, NBA season is also about to kick off. Who
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  Speaker 2: are the front runners in your eyes right now?
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  Speaker 1: You got to, you know, Philadelphia, New York, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to go through the champs. So New York Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: number one, Philadelphia, obviously in the East. And then I
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  Speaker 1: would say you want to look out for Minnesota Timberwolves
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  Speaker 1: in the West and the Denver Nuggets.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Denver Nuggets, they can.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge OKC and then also the San Antonio Spurs who
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  Speaker 1: are the defending Western Conference champions.
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  Speaker 3: So It's going to be a good season.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of movement, similar to NFL, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of movement in the NBA. And it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: unpredictable probably for the first couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: Damn, no mention of my Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: Damn.
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  Speaker 3: All right. The Lakers are going to be good. I
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  Speaker 3: actually think.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need no sympathy mention now.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm serious.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Lakers will be a lot better than
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  Speaker 1: what people think. I think they're starting from a position where.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have a lot of expectations, right, as far
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  Speaker 1: as being, you know, considered one of the top teams
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  Speaker 1: in the league. But they will be there. They have
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  Speaker 1: the talent and the versatility. And, you know, I love
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  Speaker 1: Luka Dox's kid.
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  Speaker 4: Also, just to your point, Barron, a lot of the time,
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  Speaker 4: like when there's low expectations, they don't have that pressure.
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  Speaker 4: They end up coming out on top. So you never know.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope. I like that. I like that optimism. And
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  Speaker 2: last thing, Jamie, I can't believe this, but it's been
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  Speaker 2: almost 30 years since we actually first met and worked
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  Speaker 2: together back in the journey.
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  Speaker 3: Absolution.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was like 97.
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  Speaker 4: God, I was hoping you wouldn't say the title because
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  Speaker 4: now people are going to look for that terrible film.
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  Speaker 2: People, I have been, I've been bringing that movie up
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  Speaker 2: for 15 years now on this radio show. He's a
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  Speaker 2: rap bastard.
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  Speaker 1: God. I gotta go watch it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Jamie looks incredible. And because it's Halloween time, also,
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  Speaker 2: Fever Lake is another Mario Lopez movie.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up. Shut up.
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  Speaker 3: Mario.
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  Speaker 2: I was bringing up that's what we met all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I think you look great and you did a great
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  Speaker 2: job in it. Well, we don't need everybody to see
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  Speaker 2: all the things in that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, damn.
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  Speaker 2: I remember all the things.
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  Speaker 3: I remember all the things.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great sci-fi film. So what you're saying is
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  Speaker 2: you're not down for a sequel.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Bless.
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  Speaker 2: God bless it. Journey, absolutely not. Journey, absolutely not. Journey,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: Very good. Very good, Frasier.
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  Speaker 2: Very good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: I love it that we're still hanging around doing the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen.
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  Speaker 2: I know, me too. Everyone, please head over to lastshot.movie
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  Speaker 2: to find which local theaters are playing the new film,
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  Speaker 2: Last Shot, right now. Go check it out. You'll have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Take your kids, especially, if you
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  Speaker 2: got them. Jamie, Barron, thanks so much for checking in.
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  Speaker 3: You guys.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 4: Good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to see you too. On with Mario Lopez.