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George Clooney and Brad Pitt's new movie, Wolves, is on

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Apple TV Plus September 27. That's where I want you

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to be now. So

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if you want to see George Clooney and Brad Pitt go to

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Apple TV Plus. You got to start the story there. Or

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if you want to see Brad Pitt and George Clooney

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go to Apple TV Plus. I am enjoying the show.

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And if you want to see their new movie, Wolves. You can't do it.

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We're going to help you out. I can do it. Do

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it. Definitely go to Apple TV

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Plus. Admit it. It's cool. Okay, fine. It

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was very cool. Wolves. Upstream September

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27 on Apple TV Plus. Rated

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R. FX

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stream on Hulu. Hi,

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this is Gilbert Gottfried.

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And this is Gilbert

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Gottfried's amazing Colossal Podcast

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with my co-host, Frank

1:40

Santopadre. Our guest this

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week is the author of the

1:44

New York Times bestselling memoirs, Kick

1:47

Me and Super Stud, or

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How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin. In

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his spare time when he's not

1:57

writing hilariously funny books, he's an

1:59

absolute actor, producer,

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screenwriter, Emmy-nominated

2:03

television writer and director,

2:06

and one of the

2:08

industry's busiest filmmakers whose

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pictures have grossed over

2:13

a billion dollars

2:16

worldwide. As

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an actor, you've seen him in

2:20

feature films like Bad

2:22

Teacher, Knocked Up, Heavyweights,

2:26

and Walk Hard, The Dewey

2:28

Cop Story, and in

2:30

TV shows such as New

2:33

Heart, Get a Lipe, It's

2:35

Gary Shanling Show, and Sabrina

2:38

the Teenage Witch. He's

2:41

also the creator of the

2:43

admired and much beloved high

2:46

school comedy, Freaks

2:48

and Geeks, named

2:50

one of the best television

2:52

shows of all

2:54

time by TV Guide and

2:57

Time Magazine. But

2:59

his work in the director's

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chair that's brought him the

3:04

most acclaim, helming

3:06

episodes of TV shows

3:08

like The Office,

3:10

Mad Men, Nurse

3:12

Jackie, and Arrested

3:14

Development, as well

3:16

as the feature films Spy,

3:19

The Heath, Ghostbusters,

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and one of the

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most popular and

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profitable comedies of all

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time, Bridesmaids.

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His new comedy thriller,

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A Simple Favor, opened

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September 14th and

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starts Blake Lively and

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Anna Kendrick. Both

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Frank and I saw it last

3:46

night and it's terrific. Please

3:49

welcome to the podcast an artist

3:52

of many talents, and

3:56

a man who says he

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was almost killed

4:01

by a mechanical shark

4:04

at the Universal Theme

4:06

Park's Jaws

4:09

attraction. The

4:11

best dressed man in show business,

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Paul Feve. Oh my,

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Gilbert's Wow. I

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can't follow that intro. Yeah. Okay, well, it's pretty

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much me. Yeah, so I was not seeing you

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guys. Thanks so much. Help me take it off

4:25

now. Thank you. First of

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all, I have to say, Gilbert, what an enormous enormous

4:30

fan. I've been of years forever. I just think you're

4:32

so great. So funny. So it's a real true honor

4:34

to be here on your show. Oh,

4:36

thank you. How about that, Gil? Yes.

4:39

And you could tell by all of the Paul

4:41

Feve films I've written. I'm

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too intimidated by you to work with you. We'll

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have to solve that. So

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we saw a simple

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favor. Yes. Thank you for coming.

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And yeah, and it's just

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it's it is great. It's a million

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twists and turns. I was

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just talking to Paul out in the hallway and I was

5:09

saying, you're talking about the twists and turns in the movie.

5:11

And I was saying my wife and I pride ourselves on

5:13

figuring these things out. And you were 20 steps ahead. Oh,

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good. I mean, I had no idea where it

5:18

was going. Thank you. Music's my ears. Well, I

5:20

mean, it's a great script. It was based on

5:22

a really good book. And then Jessica Scharzer, this

5:24

amazing writer, did that adaptation and just killed it.

5:27

She's a school teacher. She was a school teacher

5:29

in Chicago. This is the woman who

5:31

wrote the book. Yes,

5:33

technically. Interesting. Yes. Yes. Yes.

5:35

There's a lot of mystery around. You like to

5:37

who Darcy Bill. You like to genre jump. I

5:40

do like to do that. You did your spy

5:42

movie. You did your wedding movie, your buddy

5:44

cop movie. And then you wanted to make a thriller.

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Yeah. I mean, I love old Hitchcock movies. That's

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my favorite. That's the tone of thriller

5:51

that I like. I like modern thrillers, but I think

5:54

they take themselves a little too seriously sometimes. But I

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like making people laugh and be

5:58

scared and all that and having fun. characters

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around them. Love the soundtrack

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too. That's interesting. See

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now years ago there was the

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Raquel Welch TV special where

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she sang and danced and

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told jokes and

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and did everything except of course

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your tits which is the reason

6:20

the audience was watching. But

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at the same time, afterwards

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I guess that they got

6:28

enough ratings with Raquel that

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they had the Brigitte Bardot

6:33

special. Oh. Now the

6:36

Brigitte Bardot TV special I

6:38

saw this once a thousand

6:41

years ago and I still remember

6:43

it and they

6:45

have her and a guy dressed

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in 1930s gangster outfits

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holding machine guns and

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they sing in French but

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the only English part is

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Brigitte Bardot going the

7:01

nyenclaat. Exactly.

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The nyenclaat.

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And that was in the movie. Yes,

7:10

the Serge Gainsborough. Serge Gainsborough. Yeah exactly.

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That video is great. I didn't I

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mean I wonder if

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they made that video because it's online but it's

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not from a show. I wonder if they made

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it for that show to show on the show

7:23

because it's awesome. Yeah. Huh. Interesting. Very peculiar. Yeah.

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Well that song, are you gonna hear it in

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my movie? Yeah. Yeah. How do you go about

7:29

selecting songs for a movie like that? You just

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you had an idea in your head that because

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obviously I'm not giving anything away. Most of the

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songs are French songs. Yeah exactly. Is it to

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set a tone? Is it to just that's what

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you heard when you read the script? Well it's

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everything. I always try to find a sound for

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the movie that I'm doing and when I was

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working on this and developing it with Jessica,

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my wife and I are just in the old

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60s like European pop and so we just had

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a lot of French pop playing and

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just I was starting going, God this this just feels like

7:59

this movie. And so then I put on a thing where

8:01

the thing where Blake Lively's character after

8:03

Anna says she likes the music. She says, Oh,

8:05

yeah, thanks. It reminds me that I'm not stuck

8:08

in the shithole. So that I'm stuck in the

8:10

shithole. So it felt like it's it

8:12

was her way to sort of feel like she's

8:14

in another world. And and I did think it

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just tonally, it just felt right. It sets this

8:18

alien world for Anna's character because you know, Blake

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Lively's character is so out of out

8:23

of the ordinary for her, you know, in

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this sort of suburban Lululemon tights world that

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she lives in with the other parents. And

8:29

this is a Diablo League reference to in

8:31

the movie. And that music just I think

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it works. Oh, thanks. It works so well.

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It's a fun soundtrack. I'll tell you that. Listening

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to freaks and geeks to what my wife and

8:40

I went back and binged freaks and geeks, which

8:42

I had seen before too, and the music and

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I know you were you were uncompromising. You did

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not want to take the music out when the

8:49

when you had the yeah, that's difficulties in going

8:51

to DVD in four years to get that DVD

8:53

out because they all wanted to just replace the

8:55

music with sort of generic music and all

8:57

those songs were written into the into the

9:00

script. Like it's great. That happened with Fast

9:04

Times at Ridgemont High. Oh, really? They

9:06

had to change all of the songs.

9:09

It just ruins it. I always remember

9:11

once I bought like the Andy Griffith

9:13

show on DVD in the early

9:15

days of DVD and it didn't they this theme

9:17

song wasn't in it. He like changed the theme.

9:19

Oh, my God. Like they couldn't clear the theme

9:21

song. They couldn't have that whistling. Yeah, that really

9:24

that guy. Earl Hagan. Oh, he was the guy

9:26

doing the whistling. Well, apparently Earl Hagan put the

9:28

kibosh on it. Couldn't clear it. That's weird. In

9:30

that wild. Yeah. And it's hard to watch the

9:32

Andy Griffith show. It's great. But for some reason,

9:34

it doesn't start with that. It feels like a

9:37

different show. It's a cheat when used to buy

9:39

those TV theme albums and some of them were

9:41

sound alike. Well, no, remember by the original artists.

9:44

They would go the hits of the day by the original artists, which

9:46

is the name of the band. Well,

9:49

that's like I heard they

9:51

had for a while. You

9:53

know, when you call up and want to

9:55

make a long distance call on a pay

9:57

phone, they go, well, what would you. what

10:00

company would you like to use and

10:02

people would say it doesn't matter any

10:05

one of them and they

10:07

started making company names doesn't

10:10

matter any one of them

10:12

oh my god that's fantastic and then they would

10:15

the money would go to them oh my

10:17

god that's see there's always somebody that can

10:19

exploit the system in some way so there

10:21

you go now how did you almost

10:24

get killed by this show back

10:27

to that because I was a

10:29

tour guide at Universal Studios yeah

10:31

and they have the jaws that

10:34

was like the big kind of attraction back in

10:36

81 when I was the tour guide there and

10:38

basically what it is like the you know the

10:41

tram goes out on the on the dock and

10:43

then the dock kind of collapses side or tip

10:45

sideways and then the shark comes and you know

10:47

blows water all over everybody so when

10:49

it tipped there was a woman in the front row

10:51

wearing like a clog and she was kind of dangling

10:54

it and it fell into the water so

10:56

then we pulled off the bridge she's like a nice shoes

10:58

I was like so let me go get and it was

11:00

just close enough where I thought I could reach it so

11:02

I was going out of the dock reaching out in the

11:05

dock resets back up and

11:07

it and then tossed me off into the

11:09

water and then the shark

11:11

was was backing up to reset and

11:13

I was kind of in the gears

11:15

and everything so it was almost kind of ran

11:17

me over I just kind of swam around at

11:20

the last minute but uh yeah almost almost got

11:22

taken out by the back of jaws that would

11:24

have been a great way to die because if

11:26

you gotta die he got

11:28

run over backwards the only

11:31

real-life death from jaws but

11:33

I would basically

11:35

been going up his ass because his tail was coming

11:37

at me so oh well that's

11:39

one of the stories in Paul's book in

11:41

the second book super stud which is very

11:43

very funny I was discussing outside I just

11:45

did one as long as we're mentioning

11:47

it I just want to mention this paragraph too at

11:50

one point I moved into a boarding house Gilbert like

11:52

this I moved into a boarding house in a scary

11:54

part of Hollywood and I shared with my landlady a

11:56

huge Mexican man and a 70 year old dwarf