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Joe Manganiello Talks New Movie 'Shoplifters of the World' & Marriage to Sofía Vergara
Mar 26, 2021
Joe Manganiello shocks the world when he started rapping Chuck D verses on Sway In The Morning while talking about his new movie Shoplifters of The World'.
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Joe Manganiello Talks New Movie 'Shoplifters of the World' & Marriage to Sofía Vergara
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[Applause]
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yeah man that's
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that's a clip from a a new movie i i
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feel like
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i feel like we could have been in this
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movie and i i know our next guest
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i thought he was like a family member to
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us joe i thought he was like a family
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member to us but he didn't ask us for
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any help on this movie where he actually
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plays a radio personality
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uh but he does a lot more db break it
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down for us real quick about our next
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guest
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well he's been on the show before when
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he came by to promote the sequel to
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magic
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mike and i mean there's very few people
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in the world that i would want to trade
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places with
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he is on that list because he's been a
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part of some movies that i love
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including working with sam raimi
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and spider-man he he got to start with
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peewee and big holiday
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he was on true blood where he played a
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werewolf he's in this
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new zack snyder cut of justice league
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and the original one so he's been in
0:49
marvel and dc he's a comic book fan he
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knows a lot of stuff and and don't test
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his knowledge
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about dungeons and dragons but right now
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he's here to talk about
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the movie that he's producing and
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starring in shoplifters of the world
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please welcome him back to the show
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joe manganiello
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[Applause]
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mary thursday
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all right all right man how you been bro
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you're you're you're you're you're
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you're you're you're you're
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great how are you doing it's sway man
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you remember me joe
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of course i do
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i couldn't tell man if i left an
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impression on you or not because i know
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shoplifters of the world you playing a
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radio jock and i
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i know yeah man i i knew that was coming
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down the pipeline and i was telling db
1:34
and the team yo joe's gonna call us he's
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gonna do some research
1:37
he's gonna call us he's going to bring
1:39
us on board joe what happened i didn't
1:41
get the call
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i was channeling i was just channeling
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you know i mean it wasn't so much
1:46
performing as i was just a vessel i was
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an instrument
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and and you were the wind that blew
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through that instrument
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wow man thank you you guys heard that
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right listen man thank you
1:59
hey make sure you say that when you win
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these awards for this movie
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all right uh man good to have you back
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on this show
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it's very good to have you back on the
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show how you been you know
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in these pandemic times you know how
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how's the household you guys haven't
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got got at each other's necks yet no man
2:18
we've been doing all right
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you know just making the most of it you
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know and um
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and just doing our best and doing our
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part to get through it and be
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responsible
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and uh no man we've actually i i
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couldn't have had a better partner
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through the
2:31
through covet um you know my wife's
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awesome uh we have a great time together
2:36
we laugh all day um you know
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she we went through a lot of golden era
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tv together that she hadn't seen so that
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was actually fun
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so and then we have a little dog that we
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uh that we love
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and uh so yeah man we've we've made the
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most of it
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you can always tell when a man is still
2:57
deeply in love because when he talks
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about his his wife or his queen
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his voice changes it goes up a octave
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like did you did y'all hear that
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he started smiling yeah he hit a smile
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in his words
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okay okay well man that's good to know
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um you know a lot of folks had a lot of
3:16
challenges during this time but you know
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how was work effective for you at all
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did you find yourself working more joe
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or or
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how did you adjust to work yeah working
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more
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and in different ways so you know coming
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into the pandemic i had
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three movies to release uh the sleepover
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then
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arch enemy and then now shoplifter so
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pretty much
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every like three or four months i've had
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a press you know big press tour you know
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something uh something to take out
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and uh and so um i was fortunate for
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that
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and then aside from that you know for
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example there was a
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you know movie that that zack snyder had
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talked about
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shooting and when when the pandemic hit
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he called me up and said hey
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we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna film
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it as
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a 3d animated film so we're going to
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send you this magic briefcase you open
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it up there's a computer in it you'll
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set it up
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set up the microphone you know and i
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went into have a soundproof room
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in my basement we went in and recorded
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this entire animated series that i star
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in for
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zack snyder that takes place in his army
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of the dead
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uh world so for example there was that
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uh then i recorded
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the voiceover i play the the big bad guy
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in the new dungeons and dragons video
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game so i recorded that there's a
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tv show cartoon called big city greens
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where i play
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my character it's cartoon my character
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viper fang is the nemesis
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of danny trejo's tiger fang so we
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recorded some episodes of that
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you know so it's just like you know we
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inhibited and then of course like i was
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part of um
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you know part of the first groups that
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were getting back out and filming under
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covid protocol
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so you know you know zack snyder again
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called me said hey you know how'd you
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like to put the deathstroke suit back on
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and so
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went out and filmed the new the new
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footage
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for the snyder cut um you know safely
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and then i have a secret project with
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tim miller that we went out and filmed
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uh uh you know under coven protocol so i
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mean i've been really busy
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damn really busy that's better than some
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people's pre-covered careers
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[Applause]
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right
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wow that's um that's very impressive
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man it makes me because you you're
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working so much and we
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you know it made me think of because i
5:32
know sophia and you have such an
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amazing relationship that's i think
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something else that db would like to
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switch
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places with in terms of uh
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but you're absolutely right 100
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um joe you just spoke about working with
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tim miller and
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um for those who don't know he was the
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guy who directed deadpool and i remember
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we had ryan reynolds up and he was
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talking about how many years it took
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to bring deadpool to the screen and i
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know you're heavily invested in
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deathstroke so
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could you maybe give some light about
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what it takes
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for when you yourself or an actor really
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wants to bring a character
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to the big screen but there's so many
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hurdles you got to jump through
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and and you know people you have to get
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approval from you have to get the rights
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from you know the comic books
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so on and so forth can you shed some
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light as far as like how long and why it
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takes
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so much work to to get these characters
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onto the big screen
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well if they're seen as a priority by
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the studio then they'll go
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you know bottom line um you know i was
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i was hired to play the villain in ben
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affleck's batman
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um but that film didn't happen
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so that's really i think the inciting
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event that kind of
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threw off the character you know in
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another universe
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the fans would have been treated to a
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batman versus deathstroke movie two
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years ago
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but uh but you know in this universe it
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didn't go that way so
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you know it's uh it's tricky when a
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studio only films four movies a year
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they slayed up on
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on certain ones and um you know for
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example like after batman was cancelled
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i wrote the
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the story for a deathstroke origin film
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and then um i spoke to gareth evans the
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guy who directed the the raid and raid 2
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for people out there who love action
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movies um he's very you know prolific
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action movie director he wanted to
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direct a death stroke origin film but
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but that you know wasn't seen as a
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priority for the studio at the time
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um and then of course you know a couple
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years later
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you know a lower budget really stripped
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down movie about a villain won a bunch
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of oscars and made a billion dollars
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uh in joker so um you know maybe their
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minds will change
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okay joel be working hb
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[Laughter]
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i i love it joe what's up this is
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heather b how
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are you thank you so much for joining us
7:56
again um you talked about sitting home
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watching television and i want to switch
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gears just a little bit because we have
8:01
fun here
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um being really competitive sway and
8:04
tracy and i
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about sports and i was just wondering
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have you and sophia
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been watching the college tournaments if
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you've got you got a horse in the race
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uh what are your thoughts on on all of
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that as well as an nba who do you think
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going to take the titles
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well uh yeah sophia is not a sports
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person that that's that's
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so um yeah i don't know i mean um
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no i guess i guess it'd be you know i
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get i have a lot of friends of mine who
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are ucla fans
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um so yeah we'll see you know um
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and then like my lawyer went to ucla um
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but uh aside from that i mean nba wise i
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mean
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yeah let's see i mean nba wise
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i'm interested to see what happens with
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brooklyn i'm interested to see what
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happens when kd comes back
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oh my gosh
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hey hey hey joe i'm a seasoned ticket
9:11
holder man if you ever want to go to a
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game let me know brother
9:14
hey all right i'll come back barclays
9:16
you and me let's go
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joe oh my gosh since um heather
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mentioned your wife and let me think
9:24
about um
9:24
a story that we touched on yesterday
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with some peers in hollywood of yours
9:29
anna faris
9:30
and she was very very honest in an
9:32
interview
9:33
and said that part of what led to her
9:35
divorce with chris pratt was
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in her part a sense of competitiveness
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since they're both
9:40
in the same field and she didn't expound
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upon that
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but it made me wonder because we are
9:46
seeing outside of hollywood
9:48
i see all the time on social media just
9:50
couples working together
9:52
you know where they add an additional
9:54
element to their
9:55
relationship what would you say is the
9:58
key to keeping competitiveness
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out especially since you and sophia are
10:02
both within the same
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circle um
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you know i just think that what we do we
10:09
do two very
10:10
different things i i think you know um i
10:13
think that um
10:14
you know our careers are different i
10:16
think the kinds of things that
10:18
that i think that um you know the lane
10:20
that she's in is is
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you know somewhat different from the
10:22
lane that i'm in and um
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you know you just who cares what does
10:27
anything have to do with anything
10:28
you know like i i just don't what am i
10:31
i'm a
10:32
six five 240 pound guy like there's no
10:35
you know what i mean like there's no
10:37
competition
10:38
there for for anything you know and also
10:41
like you know i produce films and
10:43
yeah my own street wear line and you
10:45
know i'm over here doing this
10:47
you know they're just they're just
10:48
different things you know it's like you
10:49
just
10:50
you just be the you just do you be the
10:53
best
10:53
you don't worry about anybody else and
10:57
you know that that's just good advice
10:59
for anybody who's an entertainment
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like don't start looking around at what
11:02
everybody else is doing just do what
11:04
you're doing be the best
11:05
you you're not in competition with
11:06
anybody else but you
11:08
you know whether that's in the gym or in
11:10
your career or whatever
11:13
hmm that sounds like i don't love that
11:15
that's a
11:16
sound like some dad advice right there
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joe there you go that's me
11:22
all right bars right there these are
11:25
bars man you ever write a rap have i
11:28
ever written a rap no
11:29
but uh i mean like i was known back in
11:31
the day like my my friends my dj friends
11:33
would like
11:34
come on do public enemy and i would just
11:36
like you know tear in
11:37
like i could do like you know fear of a
11:39
black planet back and forth
11:40
i could do like back in the day i would
11:42
do like like iced tea the iceberg or
11:45
like
11:45
og like i would do like the whole album
11:47
like we would just walk around new york
11:49
at night and they would just
11:50
laugh their asses off wow
11:53
i just took requests and i could do any
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you know so that was like one of like
11:57
growing up
11:58
like i was really big into like late 80s
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and early 90s
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uh-oh hustler
12:05
you hear that man
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[Music]
12:22
disco do you know that one joe
12:26
i did i'd have to brush up you have to
12:29
brush
12:29
oh okay man
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[Music]
12:35
crack it truck up man
12:38
i thought she was about to hit us with
12:39
some chuck d that would have been crazy
12:42
uh let's talk about this this movie
12:44
shoplifter
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shoplifters of the world it's about a
12:47
crazy night some friends
12:49
um who was just really missing the
12:52
iconic british band the smiths
12:54
now not a lot of people know who the
12:57
smiths are who are the smiths joe
12:59
what can you tell us about them oh man
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well the smiths are
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uh they they they were only together
13:05
from 1984 to 1987 and they were a hugely
13:08
influential band they were
13:10
they kind of started off the british
13:12
indie movement
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um and uh people worshipped them like
13:17
worshiped at the altar of of this ban
13:20
and when they broke up uh people lost
13:23
their minds
13:24
and still even to this day like they've
13:26
just got a rabid following people go to
13:28
their concerts and just like
13:29
cry you know like even morrissey uh the
13:31
lead singer you know he tours out and
13:34
you know you'll see people in the front
13:35
row just just crying and throwing
13:37
flowers and you know he's so meaningful
13:39
to
13:39
to so many people and when this band
13:41
broke up in 1987
13:43
there was a story in denver colorado
13:45
that there was a man who was so
13:47
distraught
13:48
over the breakup that he went to a
13:50
denver radio station
13:51
with a gun and uh was going to hold up
13:54
the station and force the
13:55
the hair metal dj to play nothing but
13:58
smith's all night long to impress this
13:59
girl that he was in love with
14:01
and this movie is based on that
14:05
that attempt
14:08
okay and is there is what was it about
14:11
this movie that appealed to you because
14:12
you're a producer on this film as well
14:14
and
14:15
you starring in it what was it about it
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like yeah i love
14:19
the smiths i love their music i think uh
14:22
morrissey and and johnny moore
14:24
especially they're brilliant brilliant
14:26
musicians and morsi was just this
14:27
incredible poet
14:28
and uh so i was a huge fan of the band
14:31
and uh
14:32
and i loved this script you know it it
14:34
was there hasn't been a great
14:35
you know high school movie in a while
14:38
and this was like a great movie about
14:40
about young people and also about what
14:43
was going on in 1987
14:45
um you know it was a different time you
14:47
know uh
14:48
clicks you know people were people fit
14:50
into categories
14:53
at that time and you had to be a part of
14:55
a clique and you know if you watch like
14:57
old 80s movies
14:58
like you know like for example like
14:59
breakfast club you know there's the jock
15:01
the nerd the prince everybody's in their
15:04
own category but
15:05
some of those uh uh some of the people
15:09
from that era weren't really represented
15:11
back then you know
15:12
and this film is more about the goths
15:14
the punkers the new waves the mods
15:16
and um some of the some of the kids that
15:18
didn't necessarily get representation
15:20
back in those films and and i really
15:22
thought this was like a really fun uh
15:24
uh fun exploration of that shoplifters
15:26
of the world man uh and i saw some clips
15:29
of it and
15:30
i saw your your radio guy personality um
15:33
can can we hear a little bit of full
15:35
metal mickey
15:38
full metal mickey's full metal marathon
15:40
kiss 101 fm
15:42
denver bang your heads
15:46
okay okay jump right in this way
15:49
no hesitation you saw that i like that
15:53
hey man i was hoping you could do the
15:55
same thing but say
15:56
sway in the morning instead of kiss or
15:59
whatever that station was okay is that
16:00
possible
16:02
is that okay is that possible sway
16:03
anymore this is full metal mickey
16:05
sway in the morning
16:09
there you go my man all right there you
16:11
go full metal mickey ladies and
16:12
gentlemen now
16:14
it's only popping hey uh well joe man
16:16
i'm looking forward man to seeing you
16:18
when you come back in the studio
16:20
and congratulations on all the success
16:22
man i want to say congratulations to you
16:24
thanks man thanks i appreciate it man
16:27
all right appreciate you
16:28
anything you want to say in closing i
16:30
just want to say base
16:31
how low can you go death row what a
16:34
brother knows once again back here's the
16:35
incredible
16:36
rhyme animal the incredible d public
16:38
enemy number one
16:39
bobo should freeze and then i got numb
16:42
all right there we go
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[Music]
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