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Mark digs in the vault (Actor Rob Reiner Interview). · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: In Mark on Demand by setting up preset for his
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  Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Now back to Mark Simon on woor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the terrible, tragic Rob Reiner situation. So it happened, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was on when it happened that week, so I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's three weeks ago, this horrible situation. But Rob
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  Speaker 1: Reiner in real life a great guy. Now, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these people that are completely nuts when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to politics, I mean raving lunatics, and Rob Reiner became
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  Speaker 1: one of them. They just it's like in your own family,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you get together for Thanksgiving a Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: the whole family gets together, and you got an uncle
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  Speaker 1: or a cousin or somebody who's a crazy left wing
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  Speaker 1: and you get into these fights with them. But aside
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  Speaker 1: from that, they're normal, nice people that you like a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But when it comes to politics, they're crazy. They're just childish,
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  Speaker 1: just nuts, over the top crazy when it comes to politics.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Reiner used to be a regular guest on the show.
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  Speaker 1: We lost a lot of regular guests when Trump came along.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need to mention all the names, but there
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of people that were regular guests on
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  Speaker 1: this show. But that kind of stopped in twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump took over. That was the end of those gus.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them we just couldn't put on anymore,
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  Speaker 1: or they got so mad at us that they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: come on anymore. So that was the end of that.
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  Speaker 1: But Rob Reiner, I just want you to hear this interview.
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  Speaker 1: This I just went back and found an interview from
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago, just right before Trump. But a
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  Speaker 1: good guy in real life, and again, take away the politics.
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  Speaker 1: He was a normal, nice guy. He was a brilliant director, writer, producer, actor.
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  Speaker 1: So here is a conversation with Rob Reiner. Well with
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  Speaker 1: us right now is what a talented guy, What a
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  Speaker 1: career he's had. I'd call him a legend, but he's
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  Speaker 1: way too young for that. But what a brilliant director,
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  Speaker 1: a writer, performer. Rob Reiner's great to have him on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Rob Reiner, how are you hi?
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  Speaker 2: Mark, Thank you very much, and thank you for calling
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  Speaker 2: me too young.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know you're one of those guys. Years from now,
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  Speaker 1: when you're an old guy, you're gonna be the living legend.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be doing these tributes to you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, I mean, yeah, well, I'm in
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  Speaker 2: my sixties, so I consider myself a very very young
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  Speaker 2: old person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but years ago, sixty was an old guy. Today
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  Speaker 1: it's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I love I love hearing that.
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  Speaker 1: So or it's other Rob Reiner. The new movie is
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  Speaker 1: called Flipped. There's no better subject ever than that first love.
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  Speaker 1: And you, obviously when you made this, so somebody was
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  Speaker 1: in your mind, some first love of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Well it was I mean when I when I was
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  Speaker 2: twelve going on thirteen. It was Kathy Schrilloh, and she
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  Speaker 2: she was adorable. She looked like Hayley Mills and the
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  Speaker 2: old parent trap, you know. She had the blonde, curly hair,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a tomboy. And we exchanged id bracelets. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember when I went the first kisser, she hit
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  Speaker 2: me with a hair brush. And see that's that's when
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  Speaker 2: I knew it was true love, because I was willing
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  Speaker 2: to endure pain in order to get a kiss.
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  Speaker 1: You ever go on like Facebook to see what where
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Schrillo is today.
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't done it, you know, but I do
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  Speaker 2: pass by her house every once in a while. It's
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  Speaker 2: about two blocks from where I work now, and it's
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  Speaker 2: actually just to remember that time when I was in love,
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  Speaker 2: and you never forget that.
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  Speaker 1: You never forget your first love, so you're not curious
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  Speaker 1: to see if she now looks like Madeline Albright or
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  Speaker 1: something there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you don't do that to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no kid wants to learn anything in school,
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  Speaker 1: but the one thing we all wanted to learn was
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  Speaker 1: how to talk to a girl. And it's one thing
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  Speaker 1: no one ever could teach you.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I mean I think that, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: this day, you know, even as adults, men are just
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  Speaker 2: totally clueless when it comes I mean, we spend our
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  Speaker 2: entire lives trying to figure out, you know, what we
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  Speaker 2: should be doing with women, and hopefully they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out what to do with us, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: it just doesn't get any easier. I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's tough, you know, like even a guy
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  Speaker 1: like you in Hollywood, it must have been tough as
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  Speaker 1: a young guy. And then even when you get all
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  Speaker 1: in the family, you're there, the biggest stars in the world,
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  Speaker 1: it was no easier to approach a woman.
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  Speaker 2: It never is. It never is, and I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I keep making the same film over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure it out. I mean, essentially, the girl
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  Speaker 2: is always so much more mature, She has much more
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  Speaker 2: of a sense of herself and very settled with it.
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  Speaker 2: And the boy is always running around like an idiot,
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what's going on, and he's usually dragged,
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  Speaker 2: kicking and screaming into maturity by the girl.
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  Speaker 1: So and Rob Ryder, look at these films. If you
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  Speaker 1: had just made any one of these, you'd be your legend.
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  Speaker 1: But from a few good men to Misery to when
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  Speaker 1: Harry met Sally and stand by me, now, Misery, what
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  Speaker 1: were you reflecting on there?
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  Speaker 2: Well that you know, oddly enough, it sounds weird for
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  Speaker 2: me to be making a film like that. But at
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  Speaker 2: the time, you know, I, when I became a director,
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  Speaker 2: the people from television just were not thought of as
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  Speaker 2: being movie people. We were looked down upon like second
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  Speaker 2: class citizens and you know, the lesser of you know,
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  Speaker 2: the lesser show business people. And so it was hard
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  Speaker 2: for me to make the trans is to become a director.
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  Speaker 2: And I related to the guy in the in the
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  Speaker 2: movie who was a success doing one kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: who wanted to do something else and was being held
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  Speaker 2: down by these fans that wanted to keep him trapped
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  Speaker 2: in that one, you know, one area, so I kind
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  Speaker 2: of related to that character.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. There are scenes in Misery I
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  Speaker 1: cannot watch certain moments. I can't look at you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you have a problem with that ankle break.
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  Speaker 1: I can't what you are?
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  Speaker 2: You a woos? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: How did you look at it? Take? After it takes?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? No? Well, you know, I mean wow, because I
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  Speaker 2: know what went into it. I know we didn't actually
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  Speaker 2: break his ankle, so I but it is. It is
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  Speaker 2: pretty gruesome, and most people have When we first screened it,
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  Speaker 2: people were just WHOA they would crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Rob Brian are one of the great directors in the world.
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  Speaker 1: What's tougher to direct a guy like Jack Nicholson or
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  Speaker 1: one of these kids in the movie? You know.
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  Speaker 2: Jack's gonna kill me Jack? No, they're both. They're all professionals.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, oddly enough, these two kids were as developed
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  Speaker 2: as any adult I've ever worked with. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I did stand by Me, it was it was
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  Speaker 2: tougher because the kids were not as experienced, and some
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  Speaker 2: of them hadn't never acted before. But in this case,
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  Speaker 2: the kids were Their craft was as developed as any
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  Speaker 2: adult I've worked with, so I would say even even
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  Speaker 2: between Jack Nicholson and the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. But so you've got such a track record of
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  Speaker 1: the guys like you, very few, but guys like you
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  Speaker 1: who everything they pick, every project, it's brilliant, it's great,
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  Speaker 1: it's this. And then you get other guys who even
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  Speaker 1: top stars, who one movie's great, one movie is just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: You wonder what made them even do it? What does
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  Speaker 1: that all come from?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's just instinct. You have an indet Listen.
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  Speaker 2: I've had some flops too, you know, everybody does. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just an instinct. You go with what you think
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  Speaker 2: you like and hopefully the audience likes it. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been lucky more often than not that the audience
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  Speaker 2: did like what I liked.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're talking with Rob Reiner. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 1: all in the family question. We were arguing about this before.
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  Speaker 1: It was a revolution breakthrough show is brilliant. But what
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  Speaker 1: we were saying was you couldn't do that show today.
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  Speaker 1: You would never get it on the air.
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  Speaker 2: No. No, we're living in two pc a world for
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  Speaker 2: that for that to happen. And I think also attitudes
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  Speaker 2: have changed. I mean It's not to say we couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have a show where there was the issues of the
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  Speaker 2: day debated. You know, we are living in a very
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  Speaker 2: divided country, you know, red state, blue state and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the arguments would not be there, would
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more pc. I mean, the racism
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  Speaker 2: has not completely gone away, but obviously we have elected
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  Speaker 2: a black president and so things have changed dramatically since
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  Speaker 2: the early seventies, but they raised, you know, the arguments
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  Speaker 2: would be much more muted. I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And even if normally were trying to use Archie
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  Speaker 1: Bunger to expose what was wrong today, you'd have sponsored boycot,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have everything.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, no, you couldn't. You couldn't have that
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  Speaker 2: kind of And people don't really talk like that now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's changed a lot. I mean people may
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  Speaker 2: still feel those things, but they are at least smart.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you're lawss Lessons, then you don't know that you
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't talk like that.
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  Speaker 1: Who's that doctor Laura? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you remember?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know her last name? Yeah, doctor Laura y. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, she pulled the N word out of the hat
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  Speaker 2: there and basically joined a long line of people who
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  Speaker 2: have destroyed their careers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she seemed like a combination Archie and Edith Punker
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  Speaker 1: all at once. There you go, Hey, let me make
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  Speaker 1: you one with it, because you were talking about your judgment.
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  Speaker 1: You're great at So this this company you formed, castle Rock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: every time I see something brilliant, even Seinfeld, there's that
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  Speaker 1: name castle Rock at the end of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We named it actually after the town in stand
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  Speaker 2: By Me, which was Stephen King's creation. You know. It
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  Speaker 2: was the stand by Me was taken from a Stephen
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  Speaker 2: King novella called The Body, and so I loved making
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  Speaker 2: that movie. It meant so much to me, like Flipped,
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  Speaker 2: and they're very similar in that way. And so we
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  Speaker 2: named our company that. And we've been around the twenty
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  Speaker 2: three years now. We've made like over one hundred movies.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, And you're in part responsible for Sign.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that was our That was our TV show that
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  Speaker 2: we that we produced, and we we you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: very proud of a lot of the films. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we had Shoushank Redemption, which was one of our favorite
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  Speaker 2: films that we've done, and it's been, you know, on
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  Speaker 2: all these top ten lists, and so we've done we're
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  Speaker 2: very happy with what we've done.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, amazing career. And I guess it runs in the
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  Speaker 1: family too, because normally, when there's a great guy like
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  Speaker 1: your father, the son's never quite as good. But in
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  Speaker 1: this case, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Funny that you mentioned that, because I've had this conversation
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  Speaker 2: with Michael Douglas. You know, on a number of occasions,
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  Speaker 2: there's very few you can count them on one hand,
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  Speaker 2: of the children of very successful people in show business
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  Speaker 2: who you know, achieved at a at a very high level,
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  Speaker 2: whose children have survived and done well. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: a small, small list.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, usually it's more, I hit to say it,
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  Speaker 1: like a Frank Sinuder junior kind of deal. And so
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  Speaker 1: you must have worried about that, the comparison I did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's it's a tough road to hoe.
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  Speaker 2: And but my dad tells this story all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't really remember it, but he tells it.
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  Speaker 2: When I was eight years old, apparently I went up
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  Speaker 2: to him and you know, I said, Dad, I want
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  Speaker 2: to change my name, and he got all worried. He thought,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, this poor kid is worried about having
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  Speaker 2: to live up to the you know, to Carl Reiner
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  Speaker 2: and all this stuff. And so he said, well, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want to change your name to? And I
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  Speaker 2: said Carl Basically, I love being a Reiner and I
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to be like him, you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: I loved him so much, and I looked up to
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  Speaker 2: him so much. I just wanted to be him.
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  Speaker 1: So now you you have to have a child that's
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  Speaker 1: going to take over the family business.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. And I have three kids, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever they choose, and as long as they're happy
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  Speaker 2: in doing what they like, I'm I'm happy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well, Rob Reiner, congratulations on an absolutely amazing career,
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  Speaker 1: and keep up all the good work.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me Mark.
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  Speaker 1: All right, take care, okay, bye bye. Well Rob Reyner
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, did you hear that part
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  Speaker 1: at the end were about his kids? So he said,
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  Speaker 1: I have three kids. I don't know what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. WHOA anyway, then Nick Reiner in custody. He'll
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  Speaker 1: go to trial. Both sides have asked to delay it.
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  Speaker 1: So normally be happening this week. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of the month they'll start. Nobody knows
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  Speaker 1: what the sun will plead. Could be not guilty, could
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  Speaker 1: be insanity. You know these drugs they put kids on
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  Speaker 1: that have all kinds of mental troubles the side effects,
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  Speaker 1: and it says right in the side effects these psychotropic drugs,
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  Speaker 1: it says could cause homicidal behavior, suicidal behavior, could cause
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff like that. So they may go
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  Speaker 1: after that use that as the defense that it was
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  Speaker 1: the drugs that did this to them. But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Today's the anniversary, one year anniversary of congestion pricing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats yell and scream about affordability, then they hit
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  Speaker 1: you with congestion pricing, which affects a lot of people working.
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  Speaker 1: People the drive trucks or cabs or stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: or need to commute in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. So a year anniversary and today
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  Speaker 1: the MTA tolls go up. Fair hike, MTA fair hike
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  Speaker 1: begins today. So this is of course typical democratic left
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  Speaker 1: wing socialist definitely, you know, totally hypocritical yelling about afford
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  Speaker 1: to building and then raising the price on everything. Now,
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  Speaker 1: where's mum Dannie on this. Why hasn't he getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of the congestion pricing? Why is he speaking of about
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  Speaker 1: this toll increase which affects everybody, you know, the MTA
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  Speaker 1: raising the tolls. It doesn't affect a lot of billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: It really doesn't bother them at all. It's people that
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  Speaker 1: are working hard or struggling, that's who suffers from this.
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  Speaker 1: But not a word from Mumdani about it. His inauguration
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  Speaker 1: a mess. Hey Curtis was there at the inauguration. Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer was there but left in the middle. Typical rude
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer just left right in the middle. Mandy Patinkin
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  Speaker 1: performed there. If you love Mandy Patinkin, think twice about it.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody worked harder to get Mom Donnie elected than this
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  Speaker 1: lunatic Mandy Patinkin. Anyway, we got a lot to Uh well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll wrap it up in a moment. Buck and Clay
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  Speaker 1: are back, they'll be here today and uh Sean Hannity
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  Speaker 1: back at three, Jimmy Fayla back tonight, coming up on
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten. Wor