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Stunt Performers (feat. Zac Oyama) · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists.
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  Speaker 1: This week, we're flipping, we're falling, we're kicking, and you
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  Speaker 1: better believe we're screaming. Uh. This is Stunt Performers Week
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  Speaker 1: at aaaay Away.
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  Speaker 2: Stunt performers are some of the unsung heroes of Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: While the actors are sitting in their trailers, the stunt
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  Speaker 2: performers are ripping their bodies up for that cinema.
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  Speaker 3: So let's strap up, find our marks, do a safety
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  Speaker 3: run and listen in.
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  Speaker 4: How's everybody doing?
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  Speaker 5: Fine?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? Good, good it awesome? Yeah awesome.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: We're from all different parts of this industry. We should
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  Speaker 3: all go around. This is incredible.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of like the Who's who of breaking your body?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely totally sure.
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  Speaker 6: I'll start. I felt the eyes on me.
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  Speaker 4: You are all we're gonna use all right?
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  Speaker 6: Hi guys.
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  Speaker 2: So my name is Trev Trev Dinkle, but usually people
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  Speaker 2: just call me Big Tea on set, and what I
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  Speaker 2: do is I kind of get blown up.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of jump into things, I kind of jump
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  Speaker 6: out of things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of your average stunt guy, but nothing's average
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  Speaker 2: about being stunt guys.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, that's me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, great to great to see you you. My
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  Speaker 1: name is DJ T and I am a stunt performer.
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  Speaker 1: I primarily specialize in doing handshake stunts for Hollywood's germophobes.
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  Speaker 4: So anytime that there.
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  Speaker 1: Is an actor who doesn't like touching other people, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like hugging other people, I usually hop in and do
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  Speaker 1: that for them, for those insert shots of the hands
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  Speaker 1: coming together or the hugs behind.
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  Speaker 4: The back stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, legally it's considered a stunt for those people because
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  Speaker 1: they think it's very dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, stunt stunts of stunt at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 7: Stunt to stunt.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, guys, I'm April Shan and I am a stunt performer.
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  Speaker 3: I primarily play children. I was started my career in
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  Speaker 3: Cheaper by the dos in one. All those kids are
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  Speaker 3: flying through those those hallways.
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  Speaker 7: That's all me. I'm petite and I won't let you
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  Speaker 7: forget it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you are really small, Sorry, not small petit please?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, thank you, so glad to be here.
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  Speaker 5: Hi.
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  Speaker 8: Uh it's my turn, go for it. My name is
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  Speaker 8: Curtis Suzuki. I am a stunt performer primarily in the past,
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  Speaker 8: I would be hit, punched, kicked, you know in the face,
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  Speaker 8: until we hit a point where it would not let
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  Speaker 8: me do close ups anymore. So now it's more wide
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  Speaker 8: shots of and you know, missing the train, trying to
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  Speaker 8: jump from car to car, missing the other car, kind
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  Speaker 8: of underwheel stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, underwheels.
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  Speaker 7: I've seen it work. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 5: It's a brutal day when you lose the close up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's a brutal days SAT day when you lose the
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  Speaker 5: close up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And uh, you know, I'm just making it work because
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  Speaker 8: a stuntman or stunt per performer is nothing if not adaptable.
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  Speaker 6: So you're doing a lot of the like in the
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  Speaker 6: movie The Unsuccessful Stunt.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, like when a henchman is chasing our lead of
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  Speaker 8: the film and then they shoot something that like blows
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  Speaker 8: up and then hits a piece of shrapnel and cuts
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  Speaker 8: someone's foot off and then they get sucked underneath like
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  Speaker 8: some kind of turbine.
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  Speaker 3: You've done that multiple So you're doing kind of the
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  Speaker 3: the bubble.
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  Speaker 8: There's sort of machinery around that looks like a guy
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  Speaker 8: could be just thrown into.
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  Speaker 4: You're doing You're doing woodchipper stuff.
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  Speaker 8: Wood chippers, anything that looks like it's gonna be like
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  Speaker 8: they're they're building a house here, and they gotta they
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  Speaker 8: gotta do a lot of ground covered. I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 8: sucked into that machine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I was on Titanic and I was I mean the
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  Speaker 8: movie or the movie. Yeah, I was on Titanic. I
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  Speaker 8: got hit by that. Uh the furnace I believe fell over.
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  Speaker 7: Weren't you in them?
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  Speaker 3: I saw your work on snakes in a plane where
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  Speaker 3: you're in the propeller.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so a snake bit me in the eye and
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  Speaker 8: then it got your eye right, It sucked up my
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  Speaker 8: eye and I was like, it's sucking out. And then
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  Speaker 8: just then the little you know, like the little plane
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  Speaker 8: window gets burst open by a snake biting it. That
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  Speaker 8: sucks me. I'm flying and then there's just one quick
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  Speaker 8: shot of you know, the actual jet engine that sucks
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  Speaker 8: me in.
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  Speaker 5: So do you have a rig so they pulled you
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  Speaker 5: through the window. How'd you fold your body over to
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  Speaker 5: go through one of those?
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  Speaker 8: Don't get me started? Okay, so you know you got
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  Speaker 8: your regular harness first one. It's a little practical squib
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  Speaker 8: right here. So that does damage my cornea permanently. And
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  Speaker 8: then after that goes off, I'm blind.
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  Speaker 6: I can't see anything.
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  Speaker 8: And then they yank. They think me raising the hands
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  Speaker 8: the signal, and I was raising my hand to cover
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  Speaker 8: my eye. And then so they you know, the team
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  Speaker 8: six guys on the on the you know, the flies
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  Speaker 8: pull it.
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  Speaker 6: I get ripped through.
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  Speaker 8: I actually get ripped through the porthole.
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  Speaker 6: That's not an effect. Oh wow, not an effect. That
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  Speaker 6: is your body folding you.
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  Speaker 4: But I think I read that interview with you.
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  Speaker 1: It's so inspiring what you're doing, because I like, you
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  Speaker 1: really came back from so much having your eyebrows permanently
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  Speaker 1: flipped upside down because of all the stunt mishaps that's
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  Speaker 1: going on. So you permanently do look a little bit angry.
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  Speaker 6: Why did the doctors say that was the solution.
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  Speaker 8: Well, they just had to take my whole forehead and
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  Speaker 8: flip it upside down. And you know that that led
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  Speaker 8: to the eyebrows being the wrong way.
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  Speaker 5: To put the more damage for the word on the
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  Speaker 5: top of it.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you know that, you know that story about
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  Speaker 8: the the little girl has a ribbon around her neck.
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  Speaker 8: If you take it off, her head falls off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: it's kind of the same situation up here. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 8: bandana's load bearing, so yeaha and so they just thought,
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  Speaker 8: you know, with a lot of therapy, you can rework
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  Speaker 8: your facial expressions to be the opposite of what you mean.
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  Speaker 8: So right now I'm obviously happy. Yeah, and oh sorry,
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  Speaker 8: I'm happy.
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  Speaker 7: Oh wow, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: One of those. It felt ballpark somewhere in the middle
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  Speaker 6: of there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's why they're you know, I think it makes
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  Speaker 8: sense to me. Directors have a problem with it. That's
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  Speaker 8: again why I'm not doing the close.
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  Speaker 3: Ups action in the wide legend over here to the last.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Champ Sergeant. I was a stunt performer
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  Speaker 5: on some of the greatest westerns of all time the
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  Speaker 5: fifties and sixties. I was in The Great Train Robbery
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of other ones. Big Rig. I was
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  Speaker 5: on Big Rig, I was on The Shadow Man, I
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  Speaker 5: was on Night Fighter, and I of course was on
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  Speaker 5: The Crying Man, which was one of John Wayne's last films.
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  Speaker 5: Me and John were really close. I love him, and
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  Speaker 5: he's supposed to be a good guy, right yeah, to me,
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  Speaker 5: nothing but the best guy. And I was around him
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  Speaker 5: all the time, so you saw it all I saw everything.
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  Speaker 4: And you're coming out on pro he's.
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  Speaker 7: A good guy. You're retired now, right.
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  Speaker 5: I was retired. I was retired for a long period
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  Speaker 5: of time until recently.
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  Speaker 8: You're in Grandpa.
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  Speaker 5: I was well bad. Grandpa brought me back into the
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  Speaker 5: career life. And also all of these movies, these action
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  Speaker 5: movies where old people are in action movies, movies like
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  Speaker 5: Red and other films. If you see an old person fighting,
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  Speaker 5: I'm usually there too. And you know, because old people
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  Speaker 5: need stunt people.
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  Speaker 1: To that's good that movie Red, I mean you you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have them.
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  Speaker 6: But I miss the old hotel.
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  Speaker 5: And I was Maggie Smith's stunt double for the Grand
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  Speaker 5: Marygold Hotel. I fell down a flight of stairs for her.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Did anyone say that movie Red?
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  Speaker 5: I saw it?
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  Speaker 4: Did you did you go out for it?
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  Speaker 5: Or the movie Red?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I was in it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I on Malkovich's guy and then I switched over to
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  Speaker 5: Helen Mirren's guy for a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you guys love when they like use you in
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  Speaker 3: one day for multiple people and you have to put
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  Speaker 3: the wigs on. It's so silly.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like wiggs. I like to dress like a man.
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  Speaker 4: Oh okay, and.
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  Speaker 5: When I play women on set, I have to make
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  Speaker 5: it clear that I'm not a woman.
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  Speaker 6: Oh so you do a lot of like kind of
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  Speaker 6: deflating humor about it.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, no, I say it. I'm a man under here.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't want to make sure everyone knows that I
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  Speaker 5: didn't choose to put this outfit on it.
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  Speaker 4: I actually heard that you do that before every take.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, you have to look.
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  Speaker 1: Down the barrel of the lens and say, just so
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  Speaker 1: everybody knows.
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  Speaker 4: In the edit, bay, I am a man.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a man under here, and I don't want this
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  Speaker 5: on me.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine being Helen Mirren and being that talented
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  Speaker 3: of an actress. Meanwhile, your stunt double like has to
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  Speaker 3: stop take and say that they're a woman.
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  Speaker 5: Well, she needs me, so she has to put up
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  Speaker 5: with me.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a good point.
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  Speaker 8: You're the only performer her exact height exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there are no women body frame.
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  Speaker 5: Too exactly bust.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I would love to know from y'all, what is uh,
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  Speaker 1: what is your most dangerous stunt?
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  Speaker 6: You had to get into it, let's get into it
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  Speaker 6: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I would say my most dangerous stunt was when Jerry Seinfeld.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing his stunt because he doesn't like to touch.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't like to shake people's hands. And I had
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  Speaker 1: to shake the hand of uh, you know when uh
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  Speaker 1: the girl who played a Wednesday, Jenna Ortega, she had
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  Speaker 1: COVID that day and I had to shake her hand.
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  Speaker 4: Jerry Seidfeld and.
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  Speaker 1: Jenna Ortager doing this hilarious commercial. It's gonna come out soon, which.
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  Speaker 4: Why you haven't seen it. But I had to shake
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  Speaker 4: her hand.
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  Speaker 8: No, and he doesn't sound like a germophobe. That sounds
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  Speaker 8: like that's all great.
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  Speaker 6: Should have got home. They should have pushed that commercial.
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  Speaker 6: She has COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she really should have gone home, but she didn't.
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  Speaker 8: They couldn't lose it.
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  Speaker 4: Or yeah they.
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  Speaker 1: Were so they were filming on top of Mount Everest.
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  Speaker 1: Everest is booked three hundred and sixty days of the year.
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  Speaker 4: She cannot. She is addicted to having it so much.
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  Speaker 4: I've been brought in a few times for her, uh
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  Speaker 4: or people.
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  Speaker 6: For interactional people.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I did paint it as germophobes, but now
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  Speaker 1: that I think about it, the request is pretty reasonable.
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  Speaker 8: Did you did you get COVID?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: No, So, because I trained. You know, I've been training.
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  Speaker 4: I've done immunity.
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  Speaker 1: Exposure training to pretty much every disease.
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  Speaker 4: Known to man.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why it's so important to like have
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  Speaker 1: professionals doing this, you know, because you can't be exposed
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  Speaker 1: to like swine flu or something like a normal person
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  Speaker 1: who hasn't trained, who hasn't done that training. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: actors think they can do their own stunts, you know,
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  Speaker 1: interact with people with swine flu, but I but they can't.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry I marked earlier miss because I definitely couldn't
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  Speaker 5: do those sons. It would take me out. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Then Hey, there's a lot of there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: misconceptions out there, and I totally get it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was probably my most dangerous one. But I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get COVID so far can't taste or smell anything for
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  Speaker 1: a different reason. Oh okay, okay, what about you guys,
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  Speaker 1: what's your most dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go So I was working on the Diary of
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  Speaker 3: a Wimpy Kid and yeah, yeah, so I was working
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  Speaker 3: a Diary of a Wimpy Kids, one.
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  Speaker 5: Of the best movies the last ten years.
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  Speaker 6: Oh really, I.
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  Speaker 7: You're a fan.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So there was a kid named Paul Boober and
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  Speaker 3: he had to fly through the hallway, fly through the
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  Speaker 3: school hallway and land somehow through the door, land on
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  Speaker 3: top of the school bus ten yards down.
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  Speaker 7: And of course, I mean I work a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Because legally, these kids can't even go like ten feet
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  Speaker 3: off the ground without.
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  Speaker 7: It being a stunt performer.
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  Speaker 3: So you can't even like put them on a stair
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  Speaker 3: like a staircase. You just can't do that because it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: So they shoved me through the hallway, landed on top
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  Speaker 3: of the school bus, and in the last take, the
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  Speaker 3: director said, let's fuck it, let's make the school bus
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  Speaker 3: drive after you land on it. And that had to
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  Speaker 3: be the mouse dangerous because landing full throttle after going
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  Speaker 3: through a full school hallway, landing on top of a
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  Speaker 3: school bus and then the school bus going full speed
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  Speaker 3: I had was just absolutely dangerous.
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  Speaker 4: Did they not do like a safety rehearsal for that?
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  Speaker 7: So of course we had to. We had to.
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  Speaker 3: So the director was like, let's just let's let's get
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  Speaker 3: one where the bus moves, and of course, like legally,
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  Speaker 3: I had to do a run through before we did it.
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  Speaker 6: And you were playing the kid with the curly hair,
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  Speaker 6: the kind of silly.
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  Speaker 7: One, yeah, and the nervous one exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And I had Cheetos all over my body.
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  Speaker 7: I had Cheetahs all over me.
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  Speaker 3: So when we ran it, I didn't have the Cheetos
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  Speaker 3: the Cheeto fuzz and crumbs everywhere. So I landed and
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  Speaker 3: the bus moved. But when we did it with the Cheetos,
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  Speaker 3: I was slippery mass.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, notoriously slippery snack.
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  Speaker 7: No, it's so slippery. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, it was like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was really dangerous, but thank god I'm small,
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  Speaker 3: they got my ass.
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  Speaker 6: One of my favorite sequences in.
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  Speaker 2: Diary of the Wimpy Kid, I'll say, is when the
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  Speaker 2: silly nervous kid flies out of that window and lands
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  Speaker 2: on the bus and it keeps moving.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Best movie in the last ten years. Now, Can I
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  Speaker 1: ask you, when you're on set and stuff, do people
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  Speaker 1: actually think that you are a kid?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, the the amount of times I've had to tell
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  Speaker 3: a school tutor, that's that tutor, don't talk to me.
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  Speaker 7: Shoo shoot, bitch, shoo shoot.
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  Speaker 5: All the time?
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  Speaker 4: You should? You should?
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  Speaker 7: I can say shoe, bitch, you can't. So yeah, that
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  Speaker 7: has to be the most dangerous. What about you.
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  Speaker 8: Guys, like an incredible opportunity being like a classic film
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  Speaker 8: like that.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean it's cannon. It's like my great
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  Speaker 7: grandfather was in The Godfather.
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  Speaker 6: He did the Wow, great grand.
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  Speaker 5: You're making me feel like dust. My son was in
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  Speaker 5: The Godfather.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: Well he played a baby when he was born.
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  Speaker 8: But the craziest stunt, my craziest stunt, probably the last
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  Speaker 8: one I did, was I was in that did you
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  Speaker 8: see Bullet train?
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  Speaker 6: You see?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, a great stunt performer. Basically all of our.
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  Speaker 6: Friends are in that one.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But it was like a party kind of you know,
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  Speaker 8: it was a great shoot. We were in you know,
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  Speaker 8: Japan for a couple of months. It was an incredible time.
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  Speaker 8: I had to be one of the henchmen who was
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  Speaker 8: on top of the train. There's a little there's a
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  Speaker 8: sequence on top of the train where you know, it's windy,
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  Speaker 8: they're going the train's going, you know, four hundred miles
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  Speaker 8: an hour, and there there's a moment where I'm facing
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  Speaker 8: the wrong way and I turn around. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 8: wearing a mask. You can't really tell who I am. Uh,
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  Speaker 8: And they've all laid you know, they all get flat
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  Speaker 8: as a tunnel comes. You know, it's the reason.
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  Speaker 5: It looks so good.
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  Speaker 8: Is practically yeah, and I try to I tried to
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  Speaker 8: duck the last minute, but I don't get I don't
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  Speaker 8: get low enough, so I just hit knees first.
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  Speaker 5: Into this.
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  Speaker 8: Area. Is just shot so hard the.
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  Speaker 7: Boobs of a step performer.
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  Speaker 5: And was that was that planned on the outset that
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  Speaker 5: you were going to have to do?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 8: I knew that I was going to be probably the
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: guy there was kind of going around as sort of
• 17:16
  Speaker 8: a short straw situation. Everyone else kind of it gets
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: killed in a more safer way for your overall livelihood.
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: But uh yeah, my my knees are they shattered so
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: completely that you can find pieces of telling my floating
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: through my head.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: It absorbed your knees, just been taking the rest of
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: your body, you know the Big bang theory.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: You know what that is familiar?
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, same exact thing.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: What of your how much of your body is bionic?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Would you say bionic like like not like replacement but
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: not organic?
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: I got about well, really, you know my tibia, myphibia,
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: my radius, my own.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Radius, half of the circular parts of your body the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: distance between.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Those slag tights and the slagmites. The ribs on the
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: left side.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Were the selectits and slagmites made in the big bang
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: of your knees.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Those those that's what I call the ptella sharks that
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: are floating around.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: Some of those got replaced to the sharks.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a lot of good guys on that movie.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: You have a stitch Head. He's a good guy.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Together extra drumk he is.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: He's a good guy.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Talk later. Yeah, stitch Head on Last Vegas. Really fun guy, incredible.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: What's the most dangerous you've done?
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Probably in The Lonely Man nineteen sixty four. I was
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: on top of a train on a horse and the
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: horse got shot and so I had to fall off
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: the side. And so it was on a horse falling
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: off a moving train, and we did that practical. We
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: didn't kill the horse.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Horse.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: No, there's a thing, an old movie trick. We didn't
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: shoot the horse. But if you make a horse go
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: to sleep really fast when it falls, it doesn't hurt itself.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Tranquilized the horse, and.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: The horse didn't get hurt.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: How we know it doesn't hurt.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: The horse woke up feeling fine and dandy. The horse
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: woke up the next day and actually ran in the
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: Kentucky Derby.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, story.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: That's like a cat.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: When you drop it from such a high space, it
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: relaxes something.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: But the carse it's relaxed, it's not gonna get hurt.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: So we shot it with a big tranquilizer and then
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: it fell off the moving train.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Did you get hurt?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: I got hurt. I got a road rash all over
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: my body. I hit one of the spikes of the
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: railroad spikes that went through my head Phineas Gage style.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: But wow, you're sticking out. Yeah, got it taken out,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: got a bump of my skull here, got a bump
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: of my chain here, got a road rash here that
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: never healed. And uh, through healing, I go through eight
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: shirts to day. I'm always losing something.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: And then yeah, I hurt my pride as well because
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: the director didn't compliment me.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: And yeah, do you do you guys ever get a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: stun adjustment for when your pride is hurt because.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: We used to pride was big back in on the Western.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard they're kind of doing away with that,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: but uh it, I've heard of people in the older
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: generations getting a little bit of like, oh no, your
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: ego is kind of shattered in this one.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Here's an extra one hundred.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Extra one hundred bucks or something that would be nice.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they should bring that ball.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: I would love a kit fee for my pride.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Well that is that I got a bump. I work
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: a lot actually on the Transformers movies.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: And man, that's a huge franchise.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so thank you, thank you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: It's all practice, all practice.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: So when the cars are turning into robots.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, that's all practical.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: So that's practical.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it looks so real.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the best franchises.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say one of the best. And Michael Bay,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the Bay guy. He loves tea, which is me, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: he loves you know, throwing me in and getting me involved.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: The robots are all practical, the bullets are all practical.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It's kind of just you know, you're an active war
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: when you're on a set like that. So the craziest
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: situation for me, which actually plays into the Pride thing,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: was one time Bumblebee transformed throwing out like the bad
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: guy in Bumblebee, I got thrown out.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Bullets were firing me.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I got shot in the arm, and then Shilah buff
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and Mark Wahlberg, who joined up for that movie, both
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: look at and go, now, that's a dumb guy.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: I'm appointed to me. And that was hard, you know,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: to hear that line four or five times over and
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: over again. So they bumped me. My pride was injured.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: My pride was hurt.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: That's incredible.
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: So they established the bullet shot, so they had to
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: do it over and over again.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, first one I got shot, so I had
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: to keep over.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: It was one of those things like on Michael Bay,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you hope to not get shot first take, you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: because every other shot. If they get it the first
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: take and Michael Bay likes it, then you're good, you know.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But if you know, sometimes we'll learn to take three
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and he goes, I need one of my men to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: go down, and we'll pick straws.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: And you know, it's crazy how much of this industry
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: is drawing straws.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, more regulated than that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: But that brings up a great point, like what are
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: actors you guys love doing stunts with? Because some of
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: these guys they love to throw their hat in the
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: ring and sometimes that's it makes some other stunt performers upset.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And I'm curious how you guys feel like if you
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: like working with actors.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I'll throw out a name, the kind
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: of the king of the guys who who get it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: I feel like Tom Cruise.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: King Tom King of the guys who.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Get it, the guys I have actually done some stuff
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: for him because uh, scientology has made him afraid of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: catching thetans. So anytime he interacts with someone with negative vibes,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: who they believe is running rampant with negative thetans and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: negative energy, I have to do any sort of hug
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: or handshake for that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: I was. I was Paul Newman's stun double on the
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Color of Money. I did a lot of the pool
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: shots stuff. I did a lot of the pool stuff
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: with Tom, and Tom said, I do my own stunts
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: on this, and he did his own pool Paul didn't
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: want to hurt his fingers, but Tom.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: Tom felt when you're not paying attention at like a
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: party and someone's playing pool and you just get.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you get engaged hurt.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: That could set you back ten thirty minutes truly, oh god,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: half an hour, half an hour with a sore finger
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Oh my god, a sore finger ten minutes is awful.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Once I add I dub I doubled for Joe Jusa
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: at the Nickelodeon Choice Awards.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: The Nickelodeon Choice Awards.
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: Right that one the kids don't choose.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So one year they were like, let's make the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: studio vote. It was crazy, but the studio voted on
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: who they wanted to dump with slime, and they damp
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: so much slime on Judjo.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: See while they were worried about her brain, so they
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: had me.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Sounds vindictive for the studio.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: No, I've heard most Kids Choice Awards winners they always
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: worry about the brain.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Slime is bad for you, and.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: It's heavy, it's a concussion waiting to happen. It's bad
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: for your brain. So I did it, and she begged
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: me to let her do one. And legally I shouldn't
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: have done this, but I was like, go for it.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: And she's a strong cookie. She's got tom Cruise energy
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that Jojo.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: She's in Mission Impossible seven.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: No way, yeah, bad guy, she's the bad guy whoa.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah spoiler alert, we got spoilers.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: About spoilers nowadays.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I know, you can't even spoil a good movie.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Any spoil anything anymore.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean they couldn't spoil much back in the day,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: but now we can spoil things like with Twitter.
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: And no one knew what was going to happen, and
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: you couldn't spoil a western. Also, a Stranger comes down,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Stranger leaves town.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: No no, no, I mean you talking about Nickelodeon Choice
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Awards brings up a good point, you know that I've
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: been thinking about, and it's when are we gonna get
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: nominated for Oscars?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, about it, because I like, I am putting in
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: some Oscar work, in some stuff because I uh doubled
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: for Justin Timberlake in an upcoming movie that's like really
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it's Oscar Bait.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: It's about a single dad and his son.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: The Social network too, Yes, the Social Network too. I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: took over for Jesse Eisenberg and so there's this really
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: devastating scene where he and Brenda Song are breaking up,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and they had me go in for Justin Timberlake because
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake was afraid of catching feelings, and so I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: had to do a lot of the stunts where he
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: was like really fallen in love with Brenda Song all
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: over again.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: I've heard.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I've heard that that's a common problem for Justin Timberlake,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: him catching feelings on set.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's addicted to it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: He is a really weak immune system, and so he's
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: constantly fallen in love.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Back in the day, we had a Carrie Grant had
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: that too. It was an affection double oh wow, affection
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: instead of stunts. It was affection.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's hard work because sometimes I do
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: get those sort of butterflies in my stomach where I'm like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I know I'm acting, but are me
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and Brenda Song kind.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Of an item? And then you have to go no, no, no, no,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: what you trained for?
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: She's hypnotic.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's beautiful.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I've got a question for you guys. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: we talked about our most dangerous stun. But let's talk
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: about the big elephant room when a stunt goes wrong,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: because it does go wrong.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Okay, let's be respeckfu.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, I'll start. Yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: I think one of the biggest stunts that went wrong
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: was for me. Uh there was a big elephant in
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: a room and we weren't ready for it. If you
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: weren't prepped, there wasn't ventilation, and like you know, it
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: was it was rushed. It was rushed. It was a
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: director last minute said I found this elephant, let's try
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: him on.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: And what was the context of that.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Well, it was it was a late uh, late sixties,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: early seventies, experimental avant garde movie. This Italian director came over, uh,
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: worked with the same production house that Roger Corman was
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: putting together. And he got a bunch of people. And
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: you know, Roger Corman made things fast, he made things cheap,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: and if something fucked up, you moved on. That's what
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: he did. And so you got an elephant in the room.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: The elephant's hot, The elephant starts getting pissed off, starts
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: stomping elf in the room. Yeah, exactly, passes out.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: The elephant passed out, hits.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: The camop cam up, falls over, knocks into craft services.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: That flies spaghetti across the room.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, spaghetti at craft service.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well this was the sixties.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Spaghetti.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Just reach into a bowl of spaghetti, gumbies and bags.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Let me get my gummies are for kids. Gummies are
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: for babies. We had spaghetti like men, glasses and milk,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: glasses of milk and spaghetti. That's what we had. Anyways,
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: the elephant died and we had to chop him up.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Why did you have to We.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Had to chop him up because we couldn't get him
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: out of the out of the laying down. You couldn't
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: get him out of the doors. After that, they had
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: to build doors big enough to get elephants in pieces. Yeah, no,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: now it's for elephants. Wow. It was rough and technically
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: I wasn't even there to do a stunt. As we mentioned,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: I wasn't there for a stunt. We were just kind
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: of getting a shot for this expressionistic movie.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: And uh uh.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: That was one of the worst things I've ever seen.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: You know that and the hundreds of horses who didn't
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: wake up from falling off trains, but you know that
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: is at least they weren't exactly at least they died
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: peacefully in their sleep.
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: Oh man, I'm trying to think. I think the worst
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: stunt performance, or you know, the most arious stunt has
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: gone for me was in Rush Hour two. I was
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: doubling zang Zy and you know she she comes in
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: at the end of the bomb and.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: This is a spoiler.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: Sorry guys for a.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Rush hour, get over it.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: If it was into a stunt performers round table and
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: you haven't seen the Great rush Hour, to do your homework,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: get home.
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: So yeah, I mean I double her as she explodes
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: with a bomb and they run out of the way.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: Oh no, the I was supposed to get blown to pieces,
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: absolutely shredded, and instead when I got hit by the blast,
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: it sent me straight down a hallway into just a
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: room filled with temper pedic mattresses and shot.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: Oh no, you were fine. You didn't get hurt at.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: All, not at all ruined.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: The shot ruined because they were supposed to see me
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: get absolutely I signed something that said I'm okay with
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: it for the film.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: I'm good to die for a would you you die
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: for a film?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And they only had one shot of that because I
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: remember that movie now thinking back, it's christ Yeah the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: whole thing got cut.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, well they just cut to Chris Tucker and
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Jackie Chan flying down. Yeah the zip line.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, not my part got cut.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Well that's so funny because now thinking back, I do
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't notice just a body flying through a hallway
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: just at the end there.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: Free you have to like stutter the frames across and
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: you see just this bullet into a mattress store, and uh,
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: you know, so sorry about that.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: It was the loss a loss.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: What movie would you guys die for?
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: Aquila and the Bee? Personally? What Aquila and the Bee
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: you die for?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: That?
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Die for that movie?
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: That's one of the best movies the last twenty five years.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: I think it's one of the bravest movies.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: When you say you would die for it, do you
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: mean die performing in it or just to save the movie?
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: Just save the movie? Okay, I thought. I think I'm.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Confused by the If there was a truck full of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: copies of DVDs of Aquila and the Bee and it
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: was headed for a ravine, you would throw your body
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: in front.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Of the body and it hopes to stop it, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: it hopes to hit the brake.
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: Yes, that's that's for me. I just love that movie
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: so much.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: How did you guys get started in stunt performing?
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: When when did you know you wanted to be doing this?
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: My gosh, my family home.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I was about ten years old and my mom locked
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: us out of the door. We like we accidentally left
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: our key inside and we had to get back, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I slipped through the mailbox. Believe it or not, our mailbox.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: You were small.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: You into our home and we were there's a little
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: slit in there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: So I went. I was like, Mom, maybe I'll try this.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll just try to go inside, go through the
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: door so I can open the door up so we
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: can get to my piano recital on time. She was
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: so amazed that I fit through the mailbox that we
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: never went to my piano recital. I immediately went into
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: gymnastics class because.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: So she turned the car around.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: We can't be Yeah.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: My torso was halfway through the mailbox and she said,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: oh my god, my kid's genius. And I realized that
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: is one of those moments you know your kid's a genius, like.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: When you throw a towel over a dog and they
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: figure out their way out.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: So that in that moment, it was like immediate to
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: me and my mom that I was going to be
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: a stunt performer.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Wow, did you get you in classes or yeah?
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: She put me in gymnastics classes. And then my brothers
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: just started throwing shit at me. Wow, And I got
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: really good at feeling something about to hit me and
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: standing there, because that's also another thing we should talk about,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: fight or flight, where sometimes you're about to do a
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: stunt and your body wants to save itself right, it
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: doesn't want to get hit. But I thank God for
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: my bully asshole brothers. I can now take the impact
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: of anything coming towards me, and I'm thankful for that.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: And it's a great upbringing.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: That's me for sure. I just knew how to take
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: a punch. I knew how to get my ass kicked.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: You know, in bars, I'd run my mouth and I'd
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: get my ass kicked.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: How old were you when you found stunt performing?
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: Fourteen fourteen, I was in Cecil b De Mills, the
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Greatest Show on Earth, and I played a clown that
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: got shot in the face. Wow.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Wow, that's incredible, pretty great.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: Seysoul was a great guy, another great guy. Everyone I
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: worked with was a great guy who'd hold up. Now, Wow,
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Trev you shruck me.
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: As a college boy, I got into it at college.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: I got into it a college.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I was kind of known as the guy who would
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: just jump off of anything on purpose. So I'd be
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: jumping off of mattresses, I'd be jumping off of stairs.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: I'd be jumping off of buildings. I'd be jumping off
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: of classes.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Do you do what do they call it parkour?
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: So I came from basically a college. I was studying
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: parkour at Tulane University.
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: I heard about two lanes.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's a major. They love parkour down in Tulane.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: So it's good in human parkour is best when you're
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: limber because of the humidity.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: It makes me scared though. New Orleans got a lot
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: of old buildings. You ever jump out of building that
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: falls apart.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: All the time, you would not believe. But that's kind
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: of where you get started. This is kind of kind
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: of where you get started. You know, the men you
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: realize there's more to parkour than just jumping on a
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: good building. What what can you do if you jump
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: on a bad building, they can shoot that and they
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: can use it.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I've heard people say parker is what happens when
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: you jump off a bad building.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's when it comes to life.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: That's what it comes to life. Park We we used
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: to say tou lane when we were in class. You know,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: parkour isn't parkour until you're scared. And once you get
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: used to it, you're not scared anymore until you know something,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: you know, something starts crumbling.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I give it up to Tulane. That kind
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: of was like they had.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: A showcase where a bunch of Hollywood producers came in
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: and we got to show them our stunt performance and
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: that was really fun and exciting.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: So yeah, that's how I got into it. What about you?
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: Kind of similar to your story, I you know, I
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: was I read about Steven Spielberg and how he you know, got.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: His not really not very legendary.
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: To me, like, okay, not not I'm not huge in
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: the stunt community.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: But Indiana Jones Week not a lot of stunts running
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: from a boulder. I do that every day in my life, saying.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Where do you live?
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: Your husband?
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah he's been Bowler's balls are huge.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: Anyway, continue exactly.
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: So, you know, I didn't always know I wanted to
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: be something. I thought I wanted to be a director,
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: so I went I went wow, And you know, I
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: heard the stories about Spielberg kind of sneaking his way
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: onto onto the lot, pretending he was part of the
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: the you know, people doing their jobs and stuff and
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: just get you learning by being around, and so I
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: did a similar thing.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: I went to the Universal Studios and I rode the
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: tram and I tried to sneak off the tram and
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: that's when I got sucked into the Jaws rides and
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: as it was kind of ripping, ripping me apart, uh,
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: they and they pulled me out, and I was, I thought,
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: I thought it was dead. I thought the shark ate me.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: I didn't know that shark machine had a suction to it.
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: No, I mean it's it's not supposed to. That was
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: the thing, and that day it had. Yeah, someone accidentally
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: flipped flipper.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: I want imagine your wet road.
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: So I'm swimming away but I can't and then I
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: get sucked into it. But part of the lawsuit, and
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: then you know, the settlement was that I didn't hate
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: the experience and I was. I was willing to admit that,
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: and so frustrating for your lawyer. Yeah, he was mad
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: because we had a pretty good case. I was going
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: to get I don't know, twenty million dollars, but I
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: was like, get me an audition.
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: Would you say that on the stand?
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, And then I didn't tell my lawyer before because
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: I thought I thought he would think it was really
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: interesting and cool, and then I saw his face fall
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: and he was.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: So the jury just kind of went never mind.
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: I not often to do to you know, people fully
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: changed their mind in court like that.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: That's incredible.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, but Hollywood is so cut throat that that's
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: one of that's a huge story of someone in Hollywood
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: begging for a job.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: How did you get started?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: It's such a you know, interesting fast yeahforming So.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: I got started pretty early.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I think I knew I wanted to do this when
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: it was I was in middle school and my boyfriend
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: got Mono and he was sick for like a full year,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and so I was just constantly like making out with
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: this kid with Mono. I was a kid too, but
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: we were just to clarify, that's really just like, I
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: don't want anything to be taken out of context.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: That's the last thing I want. That is my fear.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: I need a stunt double for saying, yeah, yeah, it's scary,
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: scary to be talking.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Honestly, but yeah, So I had a boyfriend with Mono,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: and so I was constantly around him, constantly kissing him,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: shaking his hand, hugging him all kinds of stuff. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: then one of my teachers, UH noticed this, and she said, hey,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you for a second because
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I want to get out of teaching eighth grade.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: I want to become an agent for stunt doubles.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: And she talked to you about yes, she said.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: And then she had an idea for She had an
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: idea big conversation to have with a teacher.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: She kind of saw something in me. I was kind
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of one of those precocious kids.
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: Who I saw you guys making out a lot, shaking hands.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: She was by the lockers a bit because she had
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: her teacher locker. There was a mix up and hers
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: was next to all the students lockers because they didn't
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: have enough room in the teacher's lounge. We were really close.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: So I didn't alarm you. Then your teacher said, I
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: want to pivot careers to you as an adult. If
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: someone immediately tells them i'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm going
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: to move to and I'm going to open a bar.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: I said, oh, you're going through some sort of mental crisis.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I could kind of sense that on her,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: But at that point she was promising me stardom or
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: startom adjacent stuff. So I was kind of I had
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the stars in my eyes. I had that sort of
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: that feeling where I'm like.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: All swept up by it, and luckily it worked out.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: By the very next year, I was on Wizards of
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Waverley Place hugging Selena Gomez as her friend Harper with
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: all the weird outfits because she didn't like hugging. She
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: was afraid of getting a skin disease. She had a
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: very specific spirit Jennifer Stone. Yeah, Jennifer Stone, she was
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: really scared.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Isn't that how a teacher can change your life? That's
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: what I always say specific similar to.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: Stunt performers, I would say teachers are underappreciated.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, well that's why we always all hang
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: out together.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: It's like you when you go to a stunt bar,
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: it's half a teacher bar.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: I mean the amount of stunt performers I know who
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: are romantically involved with a teacher because we just get
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: each other.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: I always say, what is so wrong with me that
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I'm constantly dating teachers? There's something you know, not no, no,
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: But it's like, oh, that's all I'm in practice?
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: Too, you know what I mean, the adrenaline junkie.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's the same dating patterns every time I'm
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: dating a teacher. They don't have enough time for me.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: The only with their kids. They just want to borrow
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: pins from me to papers.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: But on the other side, I mean they have to
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: deal with us, you know, Somer Sultan everywhere right and
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: falling and doing all that stuff.
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: When's the last time you walked?
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: I can't remember?
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, guys, what's your dream stunt?
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: God?
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: Oh god, dream stunt, dream past, dream rags or anything.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: You want for me?
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I would like to park Or in space because I
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: know we're getting close with Space X and all these projects,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: and I think with Mission Impossible and all these things,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: we're getting really close to space. And if I could
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: park Or in space, I think I would really make
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: my my friends are two lane proud, you know.
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: Can I see your question about that?
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Parker in space it seems like it kind of
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: loses sort of what is zero stakes of falling down?
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: Park in space seems like just kind of moving around
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: in space.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: And that's that's the most interesting thing about it is
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: because it's gonna flip Parkour in its head. Wow, rather
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: than the fear of falling down, your fear the fear
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: of getting stuck. You know what if you don't what
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: if you miss the handhold and you just start floating
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: in space for the rest of your life.
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: Wow, that is actually very frightened.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: That will keep me up at night.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: So space, PARKERP Is kind of like my big, big
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: dream right now.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So yeah, wow, I want to open mouth kiss John mulaney.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Lots of people don't know this. He gets more colds
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: than anybody in the industry, so.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: I would know that. He looks like a guy who
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: gets cold.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: He not major ones, he just you know, seasonal stuff.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: It seems like, yeah, you just comedians get sick a lot,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and musicians because you know they're in they're in hotels.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: They're in hotels all the time.
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: Tails all this time.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my dreams time.
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: I've thought about it for so long.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: It's really specific, but dream rolls be specific, manifest Okay,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: So it's a car with the window open a little bit,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: just a tad bit, like.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: The driver forgot to put it all the way up.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: And in the movie for some reason, the characters like
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: we got to get in that car.
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: I slide through the car. I make my ass I
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: can't wait.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Wow, do you slide through the car? Through through the window?
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: Okay, I make my body so petite. I go through
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: the window. I get in the car.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: We drive, and then I drive over the Brooklyn Bridge.
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: Land in the land, in the in the ocean, in
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: the river.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I want to drive over the bridge, then turn around
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: and then get back.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: In the ocean.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Land and the ocean and need to get out of
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: the car because it's sinking and have to go back
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: through the window, slice fly up land.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, you should.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Write that movie. It seems like very specific. I don't
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: know if it's just going to come around by chair.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: This is one of those things where it's like, those
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: are my gifts. So I would think of a stunt
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: that's like based off of my gifts.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: You know. Well, I did hear about this movie that's
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: coming out called kid Heist. Maybe you could pitch that
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: to them.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Oh that's incredible. I'll pitch that to the movie. I've
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: always wanted to pitch to a movie a big stunt.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's incredible. What about you, guys?
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: God, I mean.
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: I'd love to be blown out of something at this point.
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: I've been sucked into a lot of machinery.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: It would be good to expand.
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: And to that end, I think I want to be
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: in a quantum mania, you know. Uh, I want to
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: be shrunking down and putting a bullet and shot out
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: of a gun.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: And because I've heard that movie, it's all practical and you've.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Got to be practical. They got.
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: You should see these little cameras they got.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: I wish I could. I can't. I can't with my
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: I can't even it's right there.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, shooting in eight k.
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: Crazy. Tell me when I'm touching it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: Hey, watch out.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Okay, you broke it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: I just let you have one of those.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: They how do you feel it?
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: They didn't know she replaced it with a crumb?
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: What kind of crumb it was? Yeah? What kind of crumb?
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: Was the crust of a peach cobbler?
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: One of the most iconic crumbs, I'll.
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: Say the Yeah, it's amazing.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: I want to do some deathbed stuff. I'm tired of
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: running around. I think I'd love to do some sort
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: of stunt where I'm just lying in bed.
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah that's a stunt person.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can hold my breath for about twenty five minutes.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: So right now, I'd like to transition to just playing
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: dead bodies. God, you know what.
• 45:58
  Speaker 8: That reminds me of. I would love to see you
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: die in Avatar.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: I would love to die in Avatar. He'd be thank
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: you guys. You guys really think I could die in Avatar.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: If you could not tell everybody you're a woman, like
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: it would be a little off putting if you kept
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: reminding everyone you're a gender.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: I will not die as a woman. Why because I
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: will die as a man. Because I couldn't die as
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: a woman. I'm not a woman, and I don't want
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: people to think I am.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, different different times.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel like I should be dead, you know,
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: all the times I was thrown off trains or shot
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: in the head, or.
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: You're one hundred and twenty three years old.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: I'm one hundred and twenty three and the oldest man alive.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel like I should be dead. So maybe
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: I should just go ahead and take one final stunt.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: And go, yeah, do your Swan song exactly.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: I'm the past. Avatar, that's the future, you know, Avatar,
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: That's That's one of the best movies of the next
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: ten years, I guarantee you.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Wow yeah, waits Oh my gosh, it looks like somebody
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: with a gun is walked in.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: What wait, what the fuck are you talking about?
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: Like we should use our stunts to get him out
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: of here? Uh parcourut me in your gun?
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: Okay here, see you later, fucker.
• 47:26
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• 47:30
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• 47:31
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• 47:33
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• 47:35
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