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1:41

about something Aaron Rodgers related

1:43

here. that I was

1:45

laughing because the other day

1:47

Mina Kimes was sort of dragged

1:49

away from Aaron Rodgers has

1:51

spoken on Pat McAfee and retired

1:53

quarterback who's not retired, who

1:56

is not that wanted and not

1:58

that good anymore trying to make

2:00

a decision on a lot of

2:02

bad offers and maybe one in Pittsburgh

2:04

but not one in Minnesota. The

2:06

free agency of Aaron Rodgers who would

2:08

play if somebody appeared with a

2:11

job offer that made him feel like

2:13

a good quarterback, but instead he

2:15

is only in the news to continually

2:17

make news. Mina Kimes was pulled

2:19

away from the conversation we were having

2:21

to react to the breaking news

2:23

of Aaron Rodgers is speaking. and

2:26

has done it so many

2:28

times that she has made weary

2:30

by there is no new ground

2:32

to be covered here. He was

2:34

bad at playing quarterback last year.

2:36

And now he's not terribly

2:38

wanted, but he's famous and he's

2:40

infamous. And this ending is going

2:42

to be intriguing if unwanted.

2:45

And so now Aaron Rodgers exists

2:47

basically says to just be something.

2:49

that is the last embers

2:51

of what kind of conversation can

2:53

we make around old, famous, tired

2:55

quarterback? I think he's gonna retire.

2:58

I don't think he's playing anymore. I think he's

3:00

gonna retire, and I think stringing it out

3:02

like this. Works in his favor

3:04

where he can make it sound

3:06

like I decided I just I don't

3:08

want to play football anymore Like he

3:11

said with the Jets the Jets asked

3:13

you you want to play football? He

3:15

said I'm interested and now he doesn't

3:17

know because he's got things going on

3:19

in his personal life That's why there's

3:21

no timetable with the Pittsburgh Steelers I

3:24

think he's going to eventually make it

3:26

sound like not that he was pushed

3:28

out But he ultimately decided heads not

3:30

in anymore. I think he's a retire.

3:32

I found his quotes on His ending

3:34

with the New York Jets be pretty

3:36

fascinating and like is usually the case

3:39

when he joins Pat McAfee totally lacking

3:41

in self -awareness He took exception to being

3:43

flown in across the country on his

3:45

own time to meet with Aaron Glenn

3:47

and have Aaron Glenn not waste his

3:49

time like erin glenn just said hang

3:52

on one second let me go bring

3:54

the gm in here um well he

3:56

made it sound like they were mid

3:58

conversation and erin glenn ran out and

4:00

he's like let me get our gm

4:02

look erin our plan here is to

4:05

not bring you back now it's weird

4:07

that erin rogers of all people takes

4:09

exception to this could have been an

4:11

email considering how much he likes to

4:13

draw things out i imagine he was

4:15

stunned that not everybody else operates that

4:18

way. And I would get it, Aaron,

4:20

if this were Green Bay. But

4:22

to Aaron Glenn, you're Tim

4:24

Boyle. You're very clearly not

4:26

a part of their plans. If anything, they

4:29

did you a great service, so you can

4:31

draw this out however long you want. They didn't

4:33

waste any of your time. I found it

4:35

to be very weird. It

4:37

sounded like he was taking a shot at

4:39

Aaron Glenn for how Aaron Glenn treated him.

4:41

Aaron Glenn knows you nothing. He was very

4:43

disrespectful. to me was the

4:45

tack that he took. The Jets

4:47

owe him nothing, Aaron Glenn owes

4:49

him less than nothing, and by

4:51

the way, if this took place

4:53

over a phone call, you

4:55

know. Aaron Rodgers would have said

4:58

you didn't even have the guts

5:00

to tell me face let me

5:02

take up the other position though

5:04

here because I do understand how

5:06

it is that Aaron Rodgers would

5:08

receive all of that coldly and

5:10

you guys saying he owes them

5:12

nothing they owe him nothing he

5:14

gave two years at the end

5:16

of his career to that franchise

5:18

and thought he did so with

5:20

all of the power in the

5:22

world that he would not be

5:24

disabused in those two years you

5:26

don't have that power anymore. You

5:28

deserve the respect of this meeting

5:30

to be more human. I understand

5:32

why he would crave a two

5:34

hour conversation, a human connection, but

5:36

you guys are saying, nope, at

5:38

the end, this is how cold

5:40

employment gets. We just sever our

5:43

ties. And in this instance, it's

5:45

interesting for to hear Aaron Rogers

5:47

plead for humanity and respect. He's

5:49

asking, he's feeling that's all disrespectful

5:51

in its coldness. It sounds like

5:53

he was craving a preamble. Like

5:55

he didn't like what he was

5:57

being told and then took exception

5:59

to how quick it was. Zaz

6:01

is on the money. He would have been

6:03

insulted if they didn't bring him in for

6:05

this meeting and he would have made a

6:07

whole deal of it. He just didn't like

6:09

the breakup, but it's a weird fixation that

6:11

he has with drawing things out. Like

6:14

they know that about you. They actually

6:16

made this super efficient so you can take

6:18

all the time that you want and

6:20

also a little awareness that this didn't work

6:22

out the way that anybody wanted. not

6:25

them in New York, and

6:27

this is how a breakup happens.

6:29

You guys don't find it

6:31

funny, though, that basically all that's

6:33

actually happening here at the

6:35

end is that giant legend, Aaron

6:37

Rodgers, or Packer's legend, Aaron

6:39

Rodgers, just wanted a hug at

6:41

the end. It wouldn't have

6:43

just been about a hug. He

6:45

would have found something else

6:47

to complain about. It's just he,

6:50

I understand why he feels like his

6:52

time is wasted. But it's just a

6:54

weird messenger from a guy that's been

6:56

wasting our time now for he's doing

6:58

the farve thing over and over again

7:00

Will he or won't he only he

7:02

doesn't have the suitors I'm at the

7:04

point where my eyes just gloss over

7:07

when I see any bit of text

7:09

written about Aaron Rodgers. I just like

7:11

I don't I don't want to cover

7:13

everything he says like it's news anymore.

7:15

And my eyes just gloss over it.

7:17

I'm like, I just play, don't play.

7:19

I don't care. Let me know in

7:21

September what team he's at. I think

7:23

you speak for everybody there. And it

7:25

was just weird that I've seen the

7:27

career arc of Mina Kimes once upon

7:29

a time. Aaron Rogers showed up at

7:31

her apartment to do a magazine profile

7:33

because he wanted to be seen by

7:35

the world. To Mina Kimes is now

7:37

on Celebrity Jeopardy saying, uh, scared money

7:39

don't make money and saying, I don't

7:42

want to talk about Aaron Rodgers anymore.

7:44

That became boring two years ago. Like,

7:46

let's talk about the quarterbacks who were

7:48

good last year. Let's talk about the

7:50

quarterbacks who weren't all in the 20s

7:52

in what the advanced metrics are. For

7:54

me, it's the respect part that I

7:56

think stands out the most. Like, wouldn't

7:58

you quantify the way his relationship, at

8:00

least publicly with Robert Solowes, was pretty

8:02

disrespectful? That, to

8:05

me, is what I'm seizing on

8:07

here. It's a weird message coming from

8:09

Aaron Rodgers. Like often, he exposes

8:11

his own hypocrisies and that's fine. We

8:13

can be hypocritical people, but at

8:15

least have the self -awareness here that

8:17

they are very clearly. Starting

8:19

a new chapter. OK, but can you

8:21

just allow this one thing, right?

8:23

I don't know how people become egomaniacs.

8:25

I don't know what it is

8:27

to be as great at anything as

8:29

Aaron Rodgers was at quarterback. But

8:32

if he still thinks that he is

8:34

a talent to be respected throughout

8:36

that sport for having a mastery of

8:38

that position that very few have

8:40

ever had, my guess is I

8:42

understand why he would have blind spots where

8:44

his arrogance is about, I'm the greatest.

8:46

treat me like I'm the greatest. Well, the

8:48

market's not treating him like that. Understood.

8:51

But you understand how he arrives at

8:53

the blind spot when I know how he

8:55

became an egomaniac and kept finding out

8:58

algorithms that just fortified his own beliefs. Like

9:00

a red book on the guy with

9:02

my ears. Like I understand how this came

9:04

to be. but I don't like

9:06

it and I really take exception to

9:08

it when you start taking shots at people

9:10

because like he on his way out the

9:12

door he wanted to make one more mess

9:14

for the Jets and say the guy that

9:16

you hired he's not a good people

9:18

person this is how he treated me like

9:21

Dude, it didn't work out. They did you

9:23

a great service by telling you directly to

9:25

your face, your future is not with

9:27

us anymore. For you to still be taking

9:29

potshots out of what history will reflect on

9:31

your time over there with the New York

9:33

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9:35

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14:45

it's fast and furious Billy. It's

14:47

Carlitos way Billy. It's Andy loves

14:49

baseball and it's bad monkey Billy

14:51

It's John Ortiz. Are you excited

14:53

fast in the furious? I figured

14:55

you'd be sniffing around this one.

14:57

I'm so excited It's great to

14:59

see you John Ortiz. How are

15:02

you? It's great to see you

15:04

guys. This is amazing. I'm like

15:06

completely Like a kid in a

15:08

candy shop in here watching you

15:10

guys and hearing you guys what

15:12

piece of candy am I? You

15:15

are a jolly rancher. Uh,

15:17

wow, good guess. I would have

15:19

gone candy corn. I would

15:21

have gone, uh... not

15:24

nice, Dan. Yeah, Dan. What do you mean?

15:26

It's not nice. That's terrible candy. That's a color

15:28

thing? I like candy corn. Why don't you

15:30

do Roy next? But a lot of people hate

15:32

corn. Please don't. But

15:34

I love candy corn, but you know what

15:37

you're doing. Yeah, I'm just trying to

15:39

sit I'm just collecting daddy here do Roy

15:41

next please don't just do Roy John

15:43

how do you feel about? Candy

15:45

corn Candy corn on a scale

15:47

of one to ten is about

15:49

a one point eight. Wow. John,

15:52

when you did Bad Monkey and

15:54

thank you for joining us, I want

15:56

to talk about this dream project

15:58

that you're presently doing because I did

16:00

not know that you were a

16:02

baseball fan, but I enjoyed Bad Monkey

16:05

for a number of reasons. One

16:07

of them because you guys really honored

16:09

Carl Hyacin and because you really

16:11

honored Miami and Key West. And I've

16:13

rarely seen anything on television that

16:15

had that kind of touch. on things,

16:17

so thank you for making it,

16:19

but what was your experience with making

16:21

it? I loved making that show.

16:24

It's so great. It really was an

16:26

experience that's right up there with

16:28

all the best ones I've had, and

16:30

I've had a few. You

16:33

know, I think it's challenging

16:36

to shoot in Miami in the

16:38

middle of the summer. That

16:40

is correct. It's challenging

16:42

to do just about anything outdoors. in

16:45

Miami in the middle of

16:47

the summer. But shooting a

16:49

series, you know, when

16:51

you work in the 12,

16:53

16 hours a day, it gets

16:55

on you, you know. But

16:57

we shot the entire series, including

16:59

the interiors there. We

17:02

did, you know,

17:05

Carl's stories and

17:07

books are also

17:09

very challenging. capture

17:12

so I honestly didn't

17:14

know how it was

17:16

going to all come

17:18

together because of the

17:20

tone that's kind of

17:22

nuanced and just tricky

17:25

you know it's funny

17:27

but there's serious undertones

17:29

in there and it's

17:31

so geographic heavy And

17:34

when it all came together, I

17:36

was really pleasantly surprised, and then

17:38

the audiences loved it as much

17:40

as they did, was just a

17:42

cherry on top. You've

17:45

done so much work, so much

17:47

award -winning work. When I present you

17:49

with American Fiction, Silver Linings Playbook,

17:51

when I put your history in

17:53

front of you, is there something

17:55

that you thought while you were

17:57

making it that was going to

17:59

stink? And then you couldn't believe

18:01

how it came together, because you

18:03

doubted it throughout. Not

18:06

necessarily I doubted it, but

18:08

I just didn't know, kind

18:10

of like Bad Monkey, how

18:12

it was going to come

18:14

out. Because we were doing

18:16

so many different takes. We

18:18

were just going for stuff

18:20

without too much thought. We

18:22

just trusted whatever was put in

18:24

front of us. bad

18:27

monkey and the second one that's

18:29

right up there and they're similar

18:31

in the way we Attacked it

18:33

was so silver linings playbook We

18:35

just I had no idea. I

18:37

knew we had a great time

18:39

doing it We believed in everything

18:41

that we were doing but in

18:43

terms of what the hell is

18:46

this gonna feel like or look

18:48

like I had We had David

18:50

O 'Russell just behind a camera,

18:52

just throwing lines out at us

18:54

and we would just say them. And

18:57

then Fast and Furious. I

18:59

like actually, you know, the

19:02

first time I was offered the

19:04

role, I turned it down. Are

19:06

you crazy? Well,

19:09

if you recall, that's

19:11

the first time in four

19:13

was when Vin Diesel

19:16

and Paul Walker were gonna

19:18

come back. So Tokyo

19:20

Drift, they weren't in. And

19:23

it wasn't that much of a hit.

19:25

And I had just done Miami Vice,

19:27

another 305 plug. And

19:31

the roles were similar. So I said

19:33

nah, and I was convinced to do

19:35

it. And that was a shocker that

19:37

it was that big of a hit.

19:39

Billy, what are you shaking your head

19:41

about? Tokyo Drift was not that important.

19:43

Some would argue Tokyo Drift holds the

19:46

entire framework of the franchise together. There

19:48

are so many plot points that go

19:50

through Tokyo Drift. And then you look

19:52

at the different timelines. You

19:54

sound like a fool, John. I don't think

19:56

you know what the hell you're talking about. You

19:58

sound like a fool. Billy! You don't understand

20:01

what you're talking about. You disrespect. Well,

20:04

I tell you, I didn't say

20:06

it wasn't important. I just said it

20:08

wasn't that big of a hit. Who

20:11

do you side with the Rock of Indies on this few

20:13

that was going on? You were there, you probably got to

20:15

know both of them. Whose side were you on? Thankfully,

20:18

I wasn't there. So I

20:20

plead the fifth on that

20:22

one. Alright, that stinks because

20:24

we needed to know what

20:26

the truth was there. John,

20:30

you're... in the opening scene of

20:32

Carlitos Way, which is really

20:34

one of my all -time favorite

20:36

movie scenes in the billiard room

20:38

with the drug dealers. What

20:40

do you remember about filming that scene?

20:42

Oh, my God. You know, first of

20:44

all, that was my first movie ever.

20:47

So as you can probably imagine, I

20:49

was nervous as hell. And

20:51

right before the very

20:53

first take of that scene,

20:56

We were shooting it in a studio,

20:58

so we were outside the door,

21:00

you know, the entrance, which

21:03

wasn't real, you know, it

21:05

was built. And

21:07

so we're like halfway

21:09

in a club and

21:12

halfway in just a

21:14

makeshift space. And

21:16

I'm... trying to be serious

21:18

actor because I'm right

21:20

next to the legend Al

21:22

Pacino. And lo

21:24

and behold, he's chitchatting me. And I'm

21:27

like, this guy, I can't believe

21:29

it. I was just like so surprised

21:31

that he would just be talking

21:33

about whatever as we're preparing to get

21:35

in. Yeah, I stole it from

21:37

the earlier segment. You

21:40

stole the chitchat from you

21:42

were listening to the boost

21:44

mobile hotline. I love

21:47

the boost mobile hotline. That

21:49

thing was just so entertaining. I

21:51

was just like, give me more. And

21:53

now I'm just obsessed with shit. Anyway,

21:57

so we're hanging

21:59

out, which seems

22:01

like forever, but it's really

22:03

like three minutes before they

22:05

get the cameras going and

22:07

waiting for action. Very

22:10

first action I hear ever professionally

22:12

from Brian De Palma. I'm

22:14

just waiting, but I can't because

22:16

Al Pacino is chit -chatting. And

22:19

he's like, so what'd you do this

22:21

weekend? And I'm like,

22:23

I took my girlfriend out for

22:25

her birthday. We went to

22:27

the movies and had dinner. And

22:29

he's like, how old did

22:32

she turn? And I'm like 23.

22:34

And there's a light pause. And then he

22:37

says, good age. Action!

22:43

This project that you're now doing,

22:45

John, the Diamond King, your love

22:47

of baseball before we get to

22:49

it, how much could we badger

22:51

you right now on the Knicks

22:53

and have you run scared because

22:55

your confidence is shaken after last

22:58

night? Yeah, I'm kind of pissed.

23:00

A buddy of mine who's a

23:02

Clippers fan just texted me at

23:04

seven in the morning out here. And

23:07

I just responded by saying,

23:09

I hate basketball. which

23:12

is of course not true, but I'm

23:14

really down, but I'm not nervous at

23:16

all. We're definitely gonna take the series.

23:19

So what I'm loving about it is

23:21

that it's a real throwback to when

23:23

I first fell in love with the

23:25

Knicks, which was when Bernard King was

23:27

dropping 50 every night. I don't think

23:29

you can feel like you definitely anything.

23:31

Like definitely gonna take the series from

23:33

the Pistons. You have not earned that

23:35

confidence. Why would you have that confidence? Because...

23:39

The Pistons are talented, but they're a

23:41

young team, and I think they're just gonna

23:43

fold. John, can you rate my Al

23:45

Pacino from that billiard scene in Carlito's way

23:48

if I do it for you? I

23:50

think it's pretty good. Yeah, okay.

23:52

Do you need any help? Do you want me to

23:54

throw you behind or something? No, you're already dead

23:56

at this point. Your character's already dead. Oh, okay. Yeah.

23:58

Yeah, he's in the bathroom. You know, he's hiding

24:00

out. He's gonna go out. All right, ready? Yeah.

24:03

You think you'll big time? Or

24:06

you're gonna die? On

24:13

my infamous scale

24:16

of one to ten

24:18

that's a that's

24:20

a seven point six

24:22

The next time

24:24

I come on the

24:26

show if I'm

24:28

fortunate enough to ever

24:30

be invited I

24:32

gotta tell you one

24:34

of the best

24:37

stories of that scene,

24:39

of that moment, actually. All right,

24:41

we need it right now,

24:43

and we'll wait, because I want

24:45

to have you on again,

24:47

but I want that story right

24:49

now. I'll give you the

24:51

very short version, but I couldn't...

24:53

I was on very little

24:55

sleep, because we shot that over

24:57

the course of two days,

24:59

and it took way over the

25:01

12 hours to complete the

25:03

first day, and they called me

25:05

in in like a

25:07

six to seven hour break the

25:10

next day because I had to put

25:12

on the prosthetic for my neck. And

25:14

that took a long time. So

25:17

I had very little sleep, maybe like

25:19

an hour. So I was on caffeine

25:21

the whole day. And when

25:23

we finally got to that

25:25

scene, which was at the very,

25:27

very end of the night,

25:29

Pacino needed to fly to LA

25:31

for the Oscars. He was

25:33

nominated for two that year. And

25:36

for anyone who can answer

25:38

the two movies that he was

25:40

nominated for, I'll send you

25:42

a prize. And I'll give

25:44

you a couple of minutes. Roy, go

25:46

ahead and take your guess. A scent of a

25:48

woman. A scent of a woman is what

25:50

he has guessed. But there's two.

25:52

Roy, he's trapped you because the difficult

25:54

one was not the first one. You

25:56

jumped into the breach. You're like, I

25:58

got it, Dan. And then you had

26:00

number two. Glenn, Gary, Glenn, and Ross. You're

26:06

stuck out there now, Roy. Now what do you do?

26:08

I lost. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

26:10

You lost because it was a really

26:13

nice prize that was coming at you

26:15

and I was afraid to, um, to

26:18

depart with it. So thank, thank you for,

26:20

uh... Oh, you're welcome. But what is the

26:22

second movie? Are you gonna tell us? Dick

26:25

Tracy. Oh, yeah. Who would have guessed

26:27

that? That's right. Well, that's why he was

26:29

doing that, Toss. Your

26:31

Pacino was great. I'm sorry,

26:33

we interrupted you. No, no, no,

26:35

that was nice. That was a nice little break. So,

26:38

so, you know, there's a lot of pressure

26:40

to get him on the plane. And

26:42

right after he does that

26:44

speech, he bangs open the

26:46

door and there's a beautiful

26:49

long crane shot that goes

26:51

through the bathroom, through the

26:53

doorway and lands on me

26:55

and then pans to him.

26:57

lands on me dead, pans

26:59

to him, and he says

27:01

there are no friends in

27:03

this business, Primo. And he

27:05

takes the money and leaves.

27:07

Well, when the camera got

27:09

to me, my

27:11

eyes were blinking because I

27:13

was so jittery on caffeine

27:15

that the palma would yell

27:17

cut. And it happened four

27:19

or five times. And by the

27:21

fifth time, it was like... decided

27:23

to take Pacino aside and I

27:25

could hear the conversation because I

27:27

was stuck in a pool of

27:29

fake blood and He says I'm

27:31

just I'm sorry about this I

27:33

know you got a plane to

27:35

catch but I'm just gonna like

27:37

not go to the kid and

27:39

I'm gonna just stay on you

27:41

And I was devastated. I

27:43

thought for sure my acting career was going

27:45

to be over. I'm playing

27:48

dead. I can't even do that. You're

27:52

disappointing Pacino while just laying

27:54

on your side trying not to

27:56

get in the way, trying

27:59

to hide under the floor. And

28:01

a pool of blood. Dude,

28:03

so embarrassed, so embarrassed.

28:05

Shame, shame. And

28:07

Pacino says, give me a minute. clears

28:10

the entire room. Everyone leaves. So I'm like,

28:12

uh, guess I got to get out of

28:14

this sticky fake blood and I'm starting to

28:16

move. And he's like, no, no, no, stay,

28:18

stay. I'm going to have a, I just

28:20

needed everyone to get out of here. I'm

28:22

going to have a, I'm going to have

28:24

an espresso. Do you want one? That's

28:28

the last thing I should be drinking,

28:30

but I'm not going to say no

28:32

to. an espresso from Al Pacino. I'm

28:35

like, uh, yeah, sure. And we

28:37

have an espresso. I don't know what

28:39

we talked about, um, but it

28:41

lasted maybe, you know, 45

28:44

seconds. And, uh, he's

28:46

like, all right, let's do this. And

28:48

we go back in and it

28:50

gets to that moment where I was

28:52

hearing cut over and over again,

28:54

and I don't hear cut and it

28:56

continues. And I hear his line

28:58

and I feel his, you know, his.

29:00

his fingers taking the money.

29:04

And he leaves. I hear

29:06

his footsteps. And then I

29:08

hear a cut and Varian

29:10

saying, we got it. That's it.

29:12

It's a wrap. And then Pacino,

29:14

as everyone is wishing him good

29:16

luck and surrounding him, I'm just

29:19

looking at him from afar,

29:21

still on the floor covered in

29:23

fake blood. And he turns around

29:25

and this is like, an

29:27

iconic moment for me but

29:29

he turns around just as he's

29:31

leaving the room and he

29:33

and and he shouts out to

29:36

the room if I win

29:38

him both I ain't coming back

29:40

and he leaves and I

29:42

was like that's my man you

29:44

think you're big time you're

29:46

gonna die big time the diamond

29:49

king is available Friday April

29:51

25th uh why does the project

29:53

mean something

29:55

to you because uh... i'm

29:57

being told it's a

29:59

dream project for you yeah

30:01

i'd love documentaries man

30:03

i'm a documentary nerd uh...

30:05

i love sports documentaries

30:07

uh... and i love baseball

30:09

and i always you

30:11

know wanted to be morgan

30:13

freeman and narrate a

30:15

movie so all those three

30:17

things came together And

30:20

then they told me what

30:22

the project was about, the subject.

30:24

And it's a baseball artist

30:26

named Dick Perez who's Puerto Rican.

30:29

He grew up in New York City

30:31

and I didn't know who he

30:33

was. and I used to

30:35

collect baseball cards, so when I found

30:38

out who he was, there were

30:40

parallels to my life, and I jumped

30:42

right in and did it, and

30:44

I'm so glad because I think it's

30:46

a beautiful film. Is it true

30:48

that your son is named Clemente after

30:50

Roberto Clemente? He is named Clemente.

30:52

My cousin's name is Roberto after Roberto

30:54

Clemente. Really? Yeah. If you combined

30:56

them, you'd have Roberto Clemente. There

30:58

you go. We gotta get some

31:00

together. His middle name is Fenway for

31:02

some reason, but we don't talk

31:04

about that. It's fine. The Diamond King

31:06

on video, on demand, on Apple

31:08

TV, Prime Video, Google TV, and more.

31:10

Thank you, John. Appreciate your work,

31:12

Bad Monkey, and elsewhere. Carlitos way, most

31:14

of all. Thanks so much.

31:16

It was a pleasure being here. Thank

31:18

you, sir. Appreciate your time. That

31:21

was great. Big time pleasure. It's

31:24

an excellent Pacino that you did.

31:26

I meant to ask him. whether a

31:28

legacy game can be inconclusive, because

31:31

I don't feel like we attacked that

31:33

subject enough. I don't

31:35

think, also, we talked enough about

31:37

the Knicks and the Pistons, and

31:39

the NBA players have voted Tyrese

31:41

Halliburton, the most overrated player in

31:43

the league. Really? Which seems unfair.

31:45

He's a really good player. That

31:48

just means they don't like him.

31:50

But it's so strange. He's

31:52

an excellent player. It's hallmark

31:54

of a good show, and you have so

31:56

many things he wanted to get to. We

31:58

didn't even dive deep at all in the

32:00

new dangerous alliance between Seth Frick and Rollins

32:02

and Bron Breaker. And also JD Vance and

32:04

the Pope. And the Cavender

32:06

Twins video. Also, Kanye used to

32:08

suck his cousins. No, let's not

32:10

do that. Let's not do that. The

32:14

Cavender Twins and

32:16

JD Vance. JD Vance

32:18

killed the Pope? Well,

32:20

there's a lot of memes going around because

32:23

JD Vance met with the Pope obviously a

32:25

few hours before he died and the memes

32:27

are things like What is JD Vance's full

32:29

name and it's just killed the Pope Vance

32:31

and things of that nature So he's getting

32:33

a lot of flak for it. I've seen

32:35

a lot of people also saying he didn't

32:37

kill the Pope the Pope met him and

32:40

then killed himself which is very dark but

32:42

That's not what happened. A lot of people

32:44

are able to meet with him that if

32:46

this were a veep episode It would have,

32:48

it would have crushed, which that I do

32:50

agree with. And how about the timing for

32:52

our partners over at Peacock with Conclave premiering

32:54

soon? I was gonna say, if you've seen

32:57

Conclave, that movie's awesome. Dude, I've never been

32:59

so enraptured with a bunch of old dudes

33:01

voting. Movie's awesome. I would vote for Ray

33:03

Fiennes to be the new Pope. Is

33:06

Conclave a movie? I thought it was a

33:08

series. I didn't know it was just one

33:10

movie. No, it's a movie. Okay, and it's

33:12

not made for Best Picture. Yeah, yeah. You'll

33:15

be totally gripped by this

33:17

movie about voting. Yeah. I'm

33:20

surprised that Zaslow got

33:22

ensnared. Yeah. I don't know

33:24

anything about that process. This is incredible. I

33:26

couldn't believe how many times I went during

33:28

a movie about... old guys voting it's a

33:30

it's like a mystery thriller about electing a

33:32

pope and it's great it was not i

33:34

think it won best adapted screenplay right because

33:37

it was based off of a book and

33:39

the ending is a there's a twist at

33:41

the end ending in the twist in the

33:43

end of the book apparently is different than

33:45

the movie i haven't read the book now

33:47

i don't think i am going to read

33:49

the book because i've seen the movie but

33:51

anyways i digress ray finds stanley tucci which

33:53

one would you vote for dan or mystery

33:56

third pope uh... italian guy who vapes or I'm

33:59

a big fan. Who would you vote

34:01

for pick one? I'm gonna I'm gonna try

34:03

and watch conclave pick one Italian guy

34:06

who vapes Stanley Tucci Ray finds John look

34:08

I thought it wasn't Ray finds. I

34:10

thought it was Ralph. I thought it's right.

34:12

I thought it was this friend's calling right? Oh, I

34:14

think it's Ralph. I'm picking finds Wow

34:16

Oh, I wanted you to say the Italian

34:18

guy because then I would have said you're

34:20

a fascist well, why don't you just tell

34:22

me what they they say the Italian guy?

34:26

It's still very fine though. I

34:28

thought it's still Ralph. It's neither.

34:30

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34:33

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