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hey what's going on everybody what's up it's Friday February 26th it's time for the fluorophore show I am Jeff Bakalar I'm Russ rush there you certain is that what we're doing now I don't know I don't know if you were too certain about that well we don't generally do like a formal introduction oh we don't either of us know we don't know you know we're changing things though usually we do it at the end so we are changing it up just for you Steve they were changing things up because we're in the presence of greatness mr. Steve Guttenberg hey aka Speer yes what's up man I'm here thank you Steve comes in today and he goes up to me and he goes Jeff how many how many days old do you think I am and I did like quick math in my head and I said like 18,000 and he goes no no I'm what 24,000 actually 24,000 ninety well it may actually be in there a couple of hundred something like that so then my thing is like whatever who cares right like what do you do with that yes I can add 62 times 365 that's how that works yeah so why are you so fascinated with that it's just interesting it's like another day you know is the best one yet potentially a really good one whoa yeah certain things happen today that I can't discuss right now all right so 24,000 days in change how many of those days have been like good ones I can just say good versus bad make you pine area oh oh what's the breakdown well how do you define good that's your definition yeah a good day is one where I'm not bored hmm where I'm not in emotional physical or mental pain or and I'm I'm busy and how I don't like not like what percentage of those days are good days of my whole life yeah I'd say maybe a quarter that's a drag yeah that's like 25% your daddy I want to or juhi per spec week that goes by you get like a day and a half a good and for this what is maybe the bars say a little too high for your nebbish sensibilities I remember thinking in my first marriage you know like how many days were good versus how many days were paid so this is the first marriage mean like all those days were bet a lot of movie started out really good yeah and we met as those were like you know when high person how many years before when it started to shift I'd say two years in okay was it was definitely in the negative overwhelmingly that's that's a drag that's a bummer I'm sorry we've got things off to say anyway but we wait dark so though I'll do a segue okay sure by all means the best thing that came out of being married the first time yeah was that I became a movie theater projection okay so there you go I wouldn't have done it if I wasn't married just worked out though is it just cuz you were did you meet at the convention there might just be like meeting everything in focus news guys that was a common phrase you guys know it's just an empty room dying breathe just computers facing each other it's it's just a bunch of robots talking to each other so so that if you're twenty four thousand that means Russ and I are roughly twelve pretty good yeah yes that's depressing yeah it's like Groundhog Day do you ever think like is it like the same day over and over sometimes nope I have a pretty firm grasp on reality what do you want firm grass I think so if I can't come I guess what's gonna happen it's probably a different day right yeah I can't go like you're not doing the show cuz you know that today is February 26 but there are there many things but you don't actually know the date no I have a no that's a reasonable question I I think not for people in New York I think of people in New York there's so much structure and calendar-based sort of like day-to-day stuff for me personally I have like a tiny fascination with like the day and date and calendars okay that so for me personally I always kind of know what day it really like when you're on vacation you would know if it's Thursday or Wednesday I would but I would like maybe lose the number I would know the name of the day of the week but I would lose like is this the 23rd or the 22nd i-i've that don't know for sure I've very rarely am I like yeah what day is it that's because you're working but if weird you're not because things would have to be there or not be there right like my retired in-laws don't know where or when because the second you lose that day-to-day structure it all just falls doesn't matter it falls apart cuz it doesn't matter because what's this between Sunday and Tuesday survivor on tonight I was gonna say taped it people still say tape that that's yes so weird I say to and I catch the HOD kiss is kind of weird too right cause like pods what is a pod it was iPod I know right kind of irrelevant right you call this what would you call them have a cast fine yours your objective for the rest of the show is to invent a better word dr k dr p digital radio program dr p embed dr p is right I'm into it okay how can I make money on it I just I want to know but I really think I kind of always have hated the word podcast yeah I think there's this inherent stigma attached to it yeah it's the same it's just it's actually ipod was not attractive I said that's terrible yeah Pont de board pod you guys are idiots clearly they knew what they were doing marketing wise they were okay well you're saying it now so in 2007 it sold massively in 2007 to that product did not live by the name no not as though not initially it didn't so well and now they have a whole brand with the eyes they do but they got rid of the pod that's true I think they saw that they do but that's come on you know do you tape shows I do I say a tape or film like film that mm-hmm you know yeah it is weird uh yeah it's completely irrelevant terminology but I guess people say they DVR it I'm trying to correct myself I'm trying to evolve as a human oh yeah I'd say that kind of stuff right even what my parents say like oh I DVR'd it I'm like that's not I mean like I'm like hang up the phone is still a thing so I know but hanging up like the button on my phone says hang up it does yeah because you are hanging up visca laughter singing something yeah yeah in the call okay so um all right so we got a lot to talk about obviously when Steve's here it's a it's a cluster F in a good way yeah he's gonna tell us about how much he loves Donald Trump and then but first I wanna I want to let like Russ have the stage for a second cuz Russ's russ has found himself in a very it's a it's a dicey pickle I mean I mean I'm no well yes I am in a pickle yes and I described and I just want to preface this in saying like we should all be very grateful and appreciative of Russ opening the door to his he's sort of like a private life a little more we're gonna get a little personal yeah feel free to skip ahead to the more fun stuff but right but interesting it's interesting because I've never been in this situation before sure okay take it away so my dad died like a year or a little bit ago I've talked briefly about it on the show but that's just sort of a background information my mom has been living in this house up in Westchester we've I mean it's my childhood house so we were there for 30 years she's don't you know they've owned the house for 30 years and it's gotten to the point where the house is too big and it's ridiculous that she's living there and she wants to move into the city great I've always known that my mom has a lot of stuff specifically like dolls but not just dolls like she loves toys old toy is that sort of thing and it's always been a thing in the background it was like cute when we were growing up and she'd you know as I got older she would like try to buy me stuff and I'd be like I don't really have room for it I'm an apartment whatever and I'd be nice about it but but clearly saying like that's not really for me and also I'm not a cluttery kind of guy like my apartments pretty relatively sparse my fiancee lives like that as well so it just doesn't really jive with our life so we need to get the house on the market because there's this whole tax thing regarding like a death in the family and if you sell the asset with us or Matt time there's a huge tax break and you know it's money for her retirement so it's very important that like we secure this so the house needs to be sold in a very quick amount of time I was up there two weeks ago and I walk into the house and it's like a bomb went off it's like mercifully it's not like it's not like on hoarders when you watch it and there's like rot rotting food or a dead cat underneath a bunch of stuff not unhealthy it's not unhealthy it's I would argue mentally unhealthy potentially but like that's sort of whatever and you know we'd been talking or a while about you know getting the house ready and stuff like that and she's been kind of resistant to doing the work because it's very overwhelming I don't blame her it's a lot of work and it's also if you're kind of a collector it's tough to get rid of stuff mm-hmm sort of got to a point where we were talking to her you know me and my brother were talking to her on a day-to-day basis saying like hey what can we do is there anything we can do and she was giving like a lot of push back and we sort of got to the point where we didn't really know how to handle the situation so she so I don't interrupt sure she understood that the house needed to be ready to be shown yes we were we repeatedly yet kept giving her dates so so when you would say hey mom the house in its current state right cannot be shown what was her response that they couldn't show the house and its current state but she's like well we've got you know we basically made a very hard date at the end of March and there was really no progress being towards that much and whenever we'd bring it up she'd get very defensive and like be very push back on it okay so it sort of got to a point where things were reaching this like oh it's never gonna get done but you know we need to sell the house in the spring ish because that's when people move in cuz it's for the school districts and stuff like that so we know that my mom is taking a vacation actually this week right now as we're recording it she's in Florida right now my brother and I I think we see where this is going my brother and I decide really the only way that this problem can be solved in an expeditious manner is to hire a company and be there while it gets cleaned out so so you're basically packed up to take all these toys and dolls let's have them put them in box right well that's part of it so so the other part of it is like so half of it is like she buys these nice dolls that are in boxes and she buys them on eBay with the intention of selling them that whether that happens or not is neither here nor there but she has like a lot of nice boxes she also we have like a basement and the basement has just like nothing's been thrown out in 30 years so there was like I found a six foot tall coca-cola bottle with like pennies in it know that you would like that you would see in a store as like it would be filled with bottles of coke and rice like but it was just sitting in the basement right like it liked the burger John right it would have or we had like giant stuffed animals from our like it was like a Bugs Bunny from one of our bar mitzvahs yeah that was sitting in there but so imagine that spread across I would say probably a thousand square feet wow that's a lot pretty it's just like a lot of SH it's just a lot of so so some of it a lot of it really needed to just be thrown out yeah so I spoke to a lot of companies I'm like searching online like organizers not really doing it I spoke to some organizers they're like that's gonna take three to four weeks oh because the problem is they're dealing with these people that that don't want to give anything away because it's like a big part of whatever so you need to they're like that's sort of the like hand-holding like what does this mean to you what is it like is an important thing that you're gonna use and we just didn't have time for that so I found this company I'm gonna give them a plug they obviously haven't paid us but they were tremendous called address our mess you can google it they're in a bunch of states actually and the guys that came were tremendous but essentially I mean the whole house had cause it's filled to the brim with stuff not to mention the basement we filled so this started on Monday and I did it Monday Tuesday Wednesday and I was commuting in Queens it took like two hours to get there and back you know two hours back and we filled 325 by 8-foot dumpsters Wow build build felt so you but you didn't throw everything away no so that's just what we threw out that show you Wow yeah so you threw out three dumpsters worth of crap yes and then that was just the stuff that was like the crowd you just didn't want yes nothing to had no value no worth okay Wow like think about like on the street dumpster yeah build now one of them had some exercise like a treadmill okay go buy large what that was it like we weren't throwing out furniture it was just stopped off stuff and then I spine my house piles of like rugs with tags though on them just like sitting there I it was was there anything you you're like you pulled out for yourself so I yeah I'm doing this work and I'm like well I might see some things that so I like three things out of the three dumpsters yeah a wrapped untouched ironing board because I need an iron a a nutribullet like blender sure which was again in a box in a box and a set of sheets for when guests come over so what about that was also like what about the address your mess people were you're like you guys can take whatever you want to yes oh I told me whatever they got yes oh but they didn't I mean there wasn't as I'm saying like yeah it was like kids toys to find out a crook but most of it was not why goods that I was like just junk here's this Doug doll from 1995 yeah I sent you a picture of who was it Jessica right that's a wrap which I hope you held I did not throw it out but I might throw it out well Stacy really wants um so yeah so it was the most harrowing like three days it was you know ten hours a day of just like bringing stuff down these three guys three guys were great they were tremendous but it was such a like an intense experience and it's not done yet cuz like we're Evan and I are gonna go off this is just a basement no this is the way it's done relatively done what but it's like clean yeah oh sorry I should say it's clean it looks like a normal house now it doesn't look like it's not like we robbed the place in its barren but on Monday she gets back so my brother and I are gonna go up there we're gonna read there oh yeah and the hope is like look you know it's obviously gonna be an intense experience for her but my hope is that she can focus on the like a the amount of effort that we put in be the concern that we had right and seeing the practicality and the practicality of it like she no longer has to worry about this thing she can move right to the city it's taken care of it's done now now you that you talk about this of you threw away but yeah stuff you did you are keeping a lot of the dolls yes so anything in boxes was saved and put into the basement in boxes there are about so you didn't get like a storage unit or something like that I got a storage unit as well so this is so there was some stuff that was like in the basement that I wasn't sure about so that was moved into a storage unit and then all the boxed dolls were are in the basement large boxes I would say three by four by four whatever large boxes there's about 40 of them what of just box I was blown away Wow I do want to say though I was talking to one of the guys that was working it and I wrote this down just so I wouldn't forget I asked him because they do this for a living I asked him how many cats have they found uh-huh dead cats dead cats and he said I don't want to make up a number nothing that's a big that I would I could say would be would sound realistic essentially Wow nothing I could say would sound real so they deal with like hoarders and yeah so that's their typical I ask them what's like three dumpsters seems like a lot what's the most you've done they've done 11 dumpsters on a house that was considerably smaller than my house and most of that was just the garage it was like three dumpsters just from the garage of just like stuff and that's the thing like you like the situation because I had seen your house the situation there was not what you see on hoarders where it's like right oh my god this is a hazard I mean it been cleaned up that you know that yeah it'd been clean up a little bit but right but it was all in cause it's you know behind closed doors amazing but like when you're selling a house you need to open a closet and it can't be pouring out a stuff yeah so it needed to happen but it wow I can't wait to hear about next week you need to give her like xanax or something like you you might get her flowers and we're again like it's gonna be it's gonna focus on it it's gonna be intense we're just gonna focus on the positive elements of it like hey man and I've spoken to the neighbors and hopefully they're well it's just you know it'll be a really intense experience oh and hopefully you're very brave man does your mom have like a best friend yeah can we get her yeah get her on the show no yeah so I've already spoken to her oh you did yeah she said you know she definitely agreed it needed to happen the house looks great and very supportive but she also I think realizes what is the potential reactions yeah did you do any like before-and-after photos no I probably I have some after obviously but whatever okay yeah it's I hope it all works out on Monday I want you to text me regardless yeah it'll be late yeah it's gonna be a late night but I will definitely let you know you are brave and put your good side did a good thing yeah yeah Wow all right everyone everyone got that digesting there I would say that's the only thing my wife and I argue about is getting rid of stuff right she tends towards hoarding and I'm like get rid of things are you in an apartment yeah that's the thing you need to like there's like in seeing all that stuff like house by mindset and apartment mindset it's like totally different because if you live in an apartment chances are whatever you have is going to be visible right it's it's there you can there's no where like magic like zone where you can just drop stuff and it's gone right and for me yeah I don't want to be staring it junk or whatever it is not junk but like clutter slots of clutter I can deal with yeah you know I just look and say you know you like we look at our closet yeah the whole thing is like this big yeah which is like five feet wide I was like but you don't we're like a third or maybe even hats how it goes I can't get you know my things in and out because it's so tight in there and I said no when I see stuff in my closet I'm never gonna wear I toss you toss it yeah it's stuff I have like shoes we did his thing I'm shoes a long time ago on the forums about how many shoes we do yeah I'm in have i have a house living mentality in my apartment like that's what I know but we actually do have a considerable considerable of storage well introducing the baby to the home right has been that's that's a lot harder but but we're making it work yeah um yeah that's that's that's intense it's a lot of stuff to consider it's uh it's heavy yeah it's it's weird my general mindset is like that mentality of like I might be able to use this at some point like this might have value at some point you just have that divorce yourself from that right I would much rather pay a premium on the 5% chance of having to rebuy something I threw out thanks then just savor it make sense some people it's an emotional thing yeah absolutely makes perfect and I get that I I like I love getting rid of things yes oh I lowered it for you right it's it's liberating yeah it was great yeah it's good stuff I like that I'm glad I hope that all works out it's the in rail we're gonna pivot over to Steve you told us you want to talk all about Donald Trump right what was that yeah you know I'm a big supporter right and I'm gonna do my hair like I want to do that I want to see if I can cuz it's very complicated yeah it looks like like a magician does he let people touch it I don't think so but he wears that cap when he's outside I thought so I saw someone wearing that cap at a hockey game like a makeup make America great yeah and I was like I didn't want to go up to them because I don't trust anyone who supports Don John and I and I want to like go up and be like is this ironic is this a joke cuz like you live in New York you don't ladies not what we you know what I find the thing that maybe this is all just a secret plot to elect Hillary I would love I mean I'm gonna be honest I'm gonna be honest I'm in terms of the like the Democratic candidates I will fully admit both of them have their issues I'm like bernie is a guy but there's issues certainly there and I you know Hillary again certainly issues like there's I would vote 15 times if it meant preventing Trump of course like but you know that you know the the the man who's behind the curtain right now who's get to this is a you know be visible right who's that who's that Bloomberg oh you really think that the other billion what does that mean that the thing absolutely positively wait when Hillary what do you centers you think the line is gonna pop out apps and what let into what he's gonna be the next president and destroy the election yes no he'll be the next president because you know election this election well he's not gonna be waiting for there's an independent yes so you're telling me people are gonna vote for it when Hillary falters yeah if Hillary's bogged down in court if Hillary starts losing primaries Mike will pop out mathematically she has a very good shot at being the catch yeah but if if the well the cheese hit the fan she won't be the next president right I guess when Mike pops out are all right he's a billionaire - I know matter of fact he's a much bigger billion yes yeah anymore we're successful run the toughest city in the world yeah 4:12 sure sure the charm yeah I don't necessarily have an opinion on Bloomberg so but you're in terms of like recently I kind of just wanted I kind of just brought this up because I wanted you to just like make fun way for politics on the you think he's gonna so you're saying he's gonna get the nomination and then be like vote for Hillary JK yeah he destroyed that would be like the ultimate reality TV play where he like she would be remembered forever for forever in huge and that's what he wanted he would go down as a hero Yeah right you good Jose here but the thing is is like I don't like doing politics on the shine right but there comes I draw a line when it comes to someone like Donald Trump where it's like oh I don't care if I charge like you know the thing I've lived 24,000 days yeah I can't you can't this is like a reality show and that Republican debate last night was it last yeah you can't believe what you're seeing it's like what yeah yeah these are people who want to be the president of the United States but and they have the guy with the suitcase with the button and yeah you can't what one of these people you can't believe what you're seeing it's it's really it's really if someone a year ago tell you I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen and you know it's that kind of lunacy it's unbelievable this is all a bad dream man is this embarrassing it's only embarrassing if he does well he's doing great yeah but he's doing well among a bunch of he's he's up against people that no one likes right even Republicans don't like the candidates like the options so him doing well in the Republican primaries fine if he does well in the general that's even if he doesn't win but he still gets like a sizable vote that's embarrass its ups it's too too deep into it but I like I said I'll draw the line when it comes to this guy because if we are insulting your tendencies but thumb I'm sorry just turn this off and never come back welcome you know welcome back I'm actually gonna play this game you're not welcome here get out get out build a wall along so yeah man what do you got for us today so I may have mentioned this in the past that I'm writing my autobiography mm-hmm not about all 24,000 days just the 25 years of me being a movie theater projections which is a sizable in that it's a sizable chunk yes and a lot of things happen do you ever give a crazy story share with us well he's got plenty of stories yeah well I'll tell you that I'll tell you the one if I'm going to limit it to one I'll start with this one and then you can tell me if this I've actually told this to write a straight story yeah so Steven Spielberg rented my theater a baronet coronet which no longer exists on 3rd Avenue across from bloomin where Bloomingdale's I think we may have heard this but let's let's let's do it it's good yeah so this was maybe a month or six weeks before Schindler's List and premiered and he had a benefit screening and there were a thousand seats and each seat was $1,000 so he raised a million dollars pretty good show and you know it's a really big deal so that morning so the theater was gonna be open that day I think I was going to do screenings or something for people during the day and then have the big premiere at night so that morning when I arrived at the theater there were the cans with the film it was a 70 millimeter film and a man standing next to the cans and he introduced himself to me and he said that he was Steven Spielberg's editor his personal editor okay okay and he edited Schindler's List any editor Chandler's List and he only he could touch this print this print was Spielberg's personal sure and only he could touch it me huh I couldn't touch it right you could obstacle load it you can load it he wouldn't let the projector right that's all so I said up I don't care yeah do my job fine yeah so you know we spent a day together and that the film is on reels in each reel is about 20 minutes long and the movie is 3 hours and 15 minutes or so we have to splice all these reels together so we're you know working he's splicing the reels together and then it loads on one gigantic reloads on a platter which is an aluminum disc that's 5 feet in diameter oh my god spins from the center and the film comes out of the center goes up across rollers over to the projector through the projector back across rollers and to another platter on this this spinning table no yeah that's way better than HDMI come on it's higher right I get it but you way higher I know it's way higher res but is it worth it way beyond 4k it's Tarantino yeah he hit 70 millimeter hateful eight right yeah no I cut about half and no one saw that movie so doughnut 45 millimeters I'm not iLike Quentin Tarantino half the time but his heart why do you think he did such a hard thing I mean I understand he has a love for old you don't want to make movies he wants to make film but I said it no no that's fine but I saw revenant like two days after that about as good I couldn't tell different I don't want to get this into the into this conversation but uh I used to be the first guy to be like no no digital digital nothing is as good as film essentially that's technically true mm-hmm but there comes a point where like you you couldn't pick this out of a lineup if your life depended on it right well I'm sure an expert could but I don't know most be like what is that at 0.001 percent of the population properly I guess you know anyway this was before so the things there's a five foot diameter real it's loading up and and everything's going all right yeah and actually I just take one little side step yeah there's two theaters one theaters on top of the other okay twin and I'm showing him both eaters because so when we started the one in the top theater which is the bigger theater the editor and I were in the bottom theater okay preparing for that show and someone runs in this is during the day we're doing like a screening for press press or whatever and they say the pictures off the screen upstairs so we run upstairs and the film had spices spices and he made I never tell you're not allowed to touch anything so what the guys do to yell at you known as I go I start the show then we go back down to the other so then we fast-forward to 8 o'clock that night big screen the million-dollar screening and though I had asked for there to be two projectionists for this very very very important show one downstairs and went upstairs they said no you can't do that they meaning who owned owners of owners of here ok so if the show starts how many upstairs at the big booth and guess what happened oh and this was something he loaded and there's the same thing he loaded right again in a broke during the millions in the audience the movie ends with the Nazis winning and terrible there with him and the film breaks and instantly you know there's you know what kinds of people run into booth yelling Oh son of a bitch and I look at him and think yeah my job and what do you go and he said basically no he said it's guys drive me crazy was gonna thread the platter that big disc yeah he was gonna hand it to me I was gonna thread the projector I was gonna hand it back to him and then we'd start mm-hmm a nice phases well it wasn't any time to discuss you know we did this yeah and I start the projector put the picture back on the screen and I look over at the platter which is supposed to be turning feeding film to the projector yeah and it's standing so run over the platter now I stop for a second and tell you that 70 millimeter film is very heavy yes every other 35 millimeter film I would imagine twice and now more than twice okay definitely okay but and there's three hours of it on the platter and that weighs about 150 pounds okay so I go over to platter with this hundred and fifty pounds of film on it and I start turning it with my hand man you pushing against this platter right feed film to the projector it was about to break because it didn't feed it would the tension beat anyway so I look and I see that he had miss threaded it so it wouldn't feed and I said to him we got a problem we got a big problem yeah and he said it's on the screen now and I said it's on the screen now for now but this 150 pound weight which is going to get lighter and lighter as the film goes through we got it we got to stop you have to break the film rethread the platter part splice it and then we can continue and he said no no no no no we can't do that yeah I said okay trust so what we're gonna do then is you and I for the next three are gonna push this we're gonna push this this metal disc and by the way you have to push it at pretty much a very precise rate if you push it too slow the film gets too tight break you push it too fast as in the dull no fall off the roller yes and then it'll break so you know that the chances of it breaking over the next three hours are really really high because one of those two things is likely to have so what happened and he said no we're gonna we're gonna go for the manual push and I said here's what we're gonna do we're gonna take five minute turns I'm gonna turn it for five minutes and then I'm gonna rest because it's hard yeah it's heavy yeah it's not like you're picking it up and now it's a heavy thing to push and push you know an exact speed and then I'm gonna take you know break then you do it for five minutes and another and that's what we did for the next three hours and it didn't and it didn't break Wow good baby as all this is going down yeah I said to him now when this is all over you're gonna tell Steven Spielberg and everybody else at whatever movie company that was did it was your fault that it broke yeah and it goes no I'll give you 20 grand if I don't because I said if you say it was my fault yeah I'm gonna get fired right right and I'm gonna be pissed because I lost my job and I'm never gonna get another job right even at that point getting another steady job at a movie theater was a really difficult thing to do yeah so so what did he offer to buy you off like what did he know he said don't worry inand in fact that's what happened is he thought I never got any crap for it yeah but it was I didn't know that at that time you know right my heart was like pounding through the whole thing did you meet Steven Spielberg no no I think you deserve to meet him I think so too I think pleasure to meet you hate your work hate your work and you but pleasure to meet you actually Jurassic Park Joe I know jaws created a close encounter yeah close think I did enjoy a close encounter I think it's up to 41 yeah just kind of boring yeah yeah mashed potatoes yeah that's a movie yeah it's a great it's a great stories that star shape you can read that in the book the title kickstart the working title yes I projectionists you get it like I the I like I wrote legally blind projection right well that's the ultimate irony of it all is that there's a legally blind objection is how you pitch this yeah it's funny with the the place important to know if the barns the one they don't publish but how they do it oh they bought this book 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to use a teleporter is an analog or digital teleporter matter that should matter shouldn't how many people have to use a teleporter whatever it is before you feel comfortable using the teleporter well it would be tested and approved by our government okay but you so so invited a guinea pig but I don't know I wouldn't imagine that you would ever be the first person I would be like okay I'm gonna use the teleporter and I don't know if it does need to be tested by the government I'm not sure there is legislation in place yeah probably how doesn't have to be ul approved yeah I don't think I can face thing they were just flying there to invent a new regulatory committee yeah to look at that just for help okay well regardless so in that sense I wasn't too expensive I'd be right up there so white because in the world I I don't want to go because I don't want to sit in a plane that long so but the teleporter that's I mean where New Zealand I mean well I I'm supposed to go to Munich for something and I really don't want it that's like a nine-hour dude you would rather you'd be in the first like dozen people oh yeah if you could you wanna go to Mars would you go to Mars well I saw the movie it sucked I don't like the Martian though much but would you go you wouldn't go to Mars if I could not die when I went to my anatella teleport yeah yeah that's the only thing about the teleportation thing there's got to be a teleport he's got another one and then my second question I'm glad that you're very cavalier about using second question you are cavalier teleporters essentially are the key won't answer you're like the first person getting on that they do trip it one of them came out now you're revealing more well I'm just saying okay so teleporters aren't they essentially just cloning machines in which case like wouldn't the original person still be there no what no teleporters imply like we're moving and reconstructing you really so why do the atoms neat the aren't you just copying like think of it like looks like 3d printing I don't think that is what the idea of teleportation is it's actual movement you should just somehow beaming it over why particle bipartisan aren't you just digitizing like Tron it's not a machine it's not like a Xerox machine it's not a copy it's not a copy it's it's a transportation yeah it is a place shifting device but that's like adds so much more work no what no right now we have the technology to send data right sure so you can basically your body is made up what your body is and everything is essentially I mean it is but it's not zeroes in one yes it is you know whatever no one's good but there's organic living breathing matter all that stuff can be broken working down into zeros and ones okay arguably we'll argue about that so it's easier to you're saying it's easier to send all of those little particles and everything through the air than it is to just say oh that's what everything's here we'll just take this like data chunk and send it over here no I don't like what you're really yeah I don't so you think nobody is who said it was a B every time that they use a teleporter in like Star Trek or whatever the first guy is dying it's like the prestige the first guy dies and then the second guy is essentially the first guy but is he you're just you're just taking the plot to the prestige and like getting nuts with it right yeah is what you're doing I think it's interesting and it is interesting people use teleporters so cavalierly in sci-fi sci-fi all the time it's a good part of Isis but but technologically I really think that my way is the way they're doing it no you're fine what does it matter them like so your dies the world of the original of you dies and the clone lives on so where is your right and where does your conscience go though like it's your consciousness that gets sent with the data so then the first one is the bum who cares he's a dummy is that vessel well no it's not like it removes it it's just it's like a 3d crunchers it scans it and sends it I think you need to read out Jeff - yeah I think and I realized that matter can't be created out of nothing so we need to come from somewhere but essentially a 3d printer has like printing material so you would be made from that parameter or your mostly water right you're mostly made from like whatever's read up more on teleportation technology I've read forget theory I've read literal books on it have you know literal that's so no they were teleported all right I didn't know if we'd go down that hole but we did we came back yeah I was surprised like within a dozen nothing to lose I've been here twenty four thousand days they can go really bad it could go like your arm is growing out of your chest Seymour is being by the way that's the name of the show that was it fine print and I'm blind so I just said you're using tell where I didn't say how it go I asked if it was tightenin and I said no no barely anyone is that except on animals I thought that will rework the history by the way we just need the show it's twenty four thousand days with Steve alright what else you got cuz I got a quick story yeah like 20 minutes or so okay that's a lot I know but you do have a lot of stuff that's just it's just a security blanket I don't want to run out of things okay okay can you read that the top one behemoth screen behind the screen behind the screen is that Bruce Willis Willis Paul McCartney and then it's just twenty four thousand days says Schindler's List 1 million okay yeah I got it okay I'm sorry I'm running the first die hard okay and when did that come out by that was that a Christmas already fine but did it come out in December do you remember it was it was a Christmas Highway must've been right yeah hohoho now I have a machine gun oh that's uh well died or two came out in the summer and that was a Chris you know it was Christmas themed but that was like I know that's terrible I hate that but that was like a blockbuster was the first one yes oh well Sonya I'm running the first one and I don't remember who was the winter but anyway it was a maybe a month into the run so it was not super busy that's what movies used to run for a month yeah crazy so standing in like the doorway of the theater talking to the Usher standing there yeah and who shows up but Bruce Willis and Demi Moore nice and they're in like running okay well that's weird but okay just is they approached me actually us me and the door guy he gets a call like there's a call in the box office right next to the box okay and just as Bruce was about to speak to me right he has to go into the box to answer that call what so so doors like the doorman is goes into the box well first answer the phone that's ringing okay so it's just me Bruce Willis and Demi Moore oh I understand I am Bruce Willis says to me hey do you think it'd be okay if I went to the theater from and I just want to see you know the crowd or sure and I don't know that it's Bruce Willis that's hilarious fine then of course I've always been fun for all 24000 save Steve how do you know when the pictures in focus right like how do you know I teleport down and you put your nose all right I just didn't have my binocular swellest so Bruce Willis is standing in front of me and he's got a cap on and stuff you know so so who'd you think he was I just thought he was a god did he have sunglasses on you didn't know his do me more than me more no well she he was doing the talking he was in my face so you so are you didn't real up all right okay go with the flow yeah I'm with it it's hilarious it is funny to me wasn't like was a big star before die hard he was a star performer yeah okay so anyway so he's like I'm saying oh so he says and I just went for a minute or two yeah and I'm saying I'm sorry so the box office is closed I can't sell you a ticket and you know sure come back tomorrow and he's like no no you don't understand I'm saying I do understand I'm sorry I can't let you in meanwhile let the guy the guy in the box office sees this whole thing going down he sees no he knows that it's Bruce well obviously obviously knows he pops out and says oh that's okay mr. Willis you please please go in you know and then they go off really oh holy I don't know have you do you ever at recognize celebrities like but I have been in rooms with people that are so distinct I mean he had a thing on his head yeah because they kind of like I was in a room with Woody Allen for an hour and I know who he was okay well how wide were slots was that when did that happen it was when Annie Hall came out oh my god and he did a talk at the new school yeah and before the talk they put him in a room just because he doesn't want to be around Peter right like a green room a green yeah they put him in the right and I was in that room and they told me that that was likely where they were gonna put them and when you guys looked at each other you're like oh we're basically the same yeah but they said don't talk to him sure don't don't talk to him don't make eyes I'm right don't do that look at him come on look it's gonna make them weird whatever if it's a green room I don't know green room if you're in the same green room with someone yeah that's right yes yeah well that's you and why are you why are we there I knew people that worked at the at the new school and they tell me that what he was gonna be talking so I said hey I want to come and they said well you're not gonna buy a ticket just hanging out with us and then you can just watch it from you know okay like Compton there you got like oh yeah and they're like just wait in this greenroom yeah and then woody comes in and it's just you and woody if someone brings him in okay yeah and he had a magazine or something he's reading a magazine yeah and I pretended to read a magazine and look at him ya know I just wanted to breathe the same air oh yeah so wait so so you guys are in the room together for an hour an hour and I know I desperately wanted enough not a word was spoken and that's when I realized Woody Allen story ever really I believe you had to deal with that that's terrorist that's horrific the worst meeting that I ever had with a super celebrity that I couldn't talk to uh my favorites John Lennon's story yeah and then you really look like you're looking in the mirror is that because I think a young Steve Guttenberg is a spitting into that I was like 23 so he was 30 or 31 yeah and I sat in a seat next to him in my movie theater okay and we stared at each other what we stared at each other he stared at me to make me leave basically so so is it a packed theater no it was an empty theater it's an empty theater John Lennon sitting there with Yoko with Yoko with yoga so it's just them two right up against the wall up against the wall you know in a nearly empty theater well I sit one seat away from him why did you do that why did you do that because I wanted to get close to John Leonard creep them out yeah yeah well you can't go around creeping out be there's like there's a there's a middle ground right there's a billion Woody Allen and and you're John Lennon situation which is like you got a no boundaries yeah I think the person you'd most want to meet in your entire life who was this it was the equivalent of John Lennon for you of all the human beings on the planet that would be number one for me and I was two feet away from him for five to say a word to him well he would like turn away and whisper things to Yoko oh I don't look this cool and then you knew he walked in like you saw him walking you know someone told me he came they buzzed me they told me okay and since there were only like five people in the theater yeah easy to pick them you couldn't just do binoculars from you're like no I looked to see where he was I'm up in the booth okay I walked in yeah I mean he didn't know I was a projectionist sure of course not that it really matters because what are the chances so I so you sat next to him in the same one seat away and you turned 90 degrees to your right yes and just stared at him I stared I was like I'm I'm two feet away from a Beatle the best Beatle right yeah well not morally but I've never heard that applied to people your life is a series of dysfunctional Forrest Gump story yes that's your life yes it's amazing yeah it is you know you put it that way yeah and I hate them right but you know one hates that movie Steve you can't did I take my Forrest Gump story oh boy yes you did I did okay don't go so I just I'll just I said I did screenings for Forrest Gump before it came out yeah and I used to do a lot of screening for you know before the film's came out and I remember telling the guy from the movie company I do trust me big trusty bullet now save save yourself yeah 80 million Oscars later you know he was originally gonna do the Forrest Gump voice in just normal Tom Hanks voice but like dumber uh-huh and he decided against that so like I don't think that movie would like know that this footage of him reading lines Forrest Gump in normal Tom Hanks voice but just like kind of slower wow I don't look for that and then they cast the kid who played young Forrest Gump and the kid his natural accent was this ridiculous accent that's in the movie and he mimicked the kids accent for the movie but really genius dude I guess he is a genius a boring genius high genius complex isn't boring he is so bland he is so nothing I don't know money pit Tom Hanks isn't boring Joe rose bouquet no no that's not boring Tom Hanks mine and he seems like a nice guy yeah like the money but he's not that nice no you know when his son wanted to make that movie about Tower Records okay he said you could have said hey dad give me like 50 grand to make this movie but he didn't do that he had to go hustle on kicks oh come on of course the sun's not gonna just take the money from his day he's trying to make it on his own wait Collin Hanks is doing okay Collin Hanks out oh he kind of creeped me out he told me that he called me on it on a dial phone just to prove we were analog but Collin Hanks Colin Hanks you have a relationship with dial-up well I did yeah there's when he needed me he needed me he needed he needed promotion he wasn't getting close to his Kickstarter goal yeah this is for the Tower Records thing yeah did he make it yeah thanks to me it's a good movie I have it on my cube we don't have too much time left do you want to do one more story so you know what's coming next week yeah next week the technique the return of the techniques turntable this is big this is a big deal they've been selling turntables forever they they had been and then they stopped hmm so this is the reintroduction of the techniques like DJ style turntable okay this is a big deal all right so why don't why is it a big deal because it's it's like it's an iconic turntable it's like the silver AJ's used like that silver one not anymore you know DJ's like to play vinyl records and by the way that vinyl the TV show yeah I was I I watched the first episode and it was very long it's a very long hour well I think it was two hours felt like two felt like three yeah I didn't idea I wasn't grabbed by the first two hours a lot of people will one no one's watching it the ratings were it's and I think finally I would do a a Trump and I would like bomb the out of him what I'm talking about this show bomb the show you know like he's up by Isis yeah I was president I'd like bomb that out yeah I think people aren't watching it I don't I I just think there's cuz I'm part like I feel like I'm part of the demographic who's like should be in - yeah well yes but I'm also part of the demographic where I'm like I don't care about this or you don't want to see sex drugs and it's not you're like you can't relate to it necessary and it's not so far removed that it's quasi interesting so like boardwalk at least I was engaged by like oh there's a time period I've never seen in my life right whereas 70s rock and roll on paper sounds interesting but like I can't really relate to it I think there's something else though because you know on its face yeah there's the right people invite their very talented the right actors involved in front of and behind the camera HBO everything clicks with this but why yeah he's no one watch I mean Boardwalk was kind of a slow but are you asking yeah days sitting here yeah that's my period and it doesn't ring true it's just fake oh this is if like someone who wasn't twenty been on the planet long enough was writing about it as if is what he thought it was sure that era absolutely okay it's really lame when the characters are just stock please shake yeah I that I agree with that really really bad they're not even two-dimensional they're one-dimensional yes awful and then Mick Jagger's son who's probably you know 65 who's the rite-aid yeah and he plays this Punk who's gonna play it like this is so that he's gonna be he's gonna be his son that's his song he looks like I would have guessed literally that McGee a curse on is 50 no he's like thirty so I think supposed to be like 25 or prolific guy yeah Mick Jagger has many children that's crazy I can't believe that almost as many children as your mother has dolls mr. tile together will say yeah it's weird it's weird that it's just not popular like people don't seem to be in to know what's the best part of it the credits see I don't think the first episode had credits a credit sequence circa the beginning or closing of the opening ok the opening credit is like a CD I think of a diamond stylus racing through a groove hmm ok it's like very cool on the actual like from like my perspective like looking up it's like going through the godswood get off yeah that's the best it's the best acting it's almost genuine it seemed like Scorsese like what has he done since taxi drive oh stop it however long it's been many days it's been a lot a lot of good Steve what's your best picture of the year uh three days a Martian no come on I hate from Marcia I don't hate it but it wasn't by the way I don't ask a question yeah it's Matt Damon an actor or a movie made that argument right that you don't think he's really acting I think I think for the Martian Matt Damon played Matt Damon yeah and I don't what about in behind the candy people love that I have no idea why aren't you showing ranged range just yes it wasn't Liberace was this something I think he's probably a good dude he makes me laugh occasionally Damon yeah I just don't I don't know if I'm buying what he sell not for you he's just not my he's a lightweight pretty face okay I don't know I think he's better than that and as he is he and Ben Affleck the same person no aren't they like forever tied together alright they do have this like buddy-buddy thing but I mean they've they both hi I can tell the difference written anything has he been writing I mean Ben Affleck has but well maybe that that's just like the trajectory that he didn't really find himself fallen in wanting to do that that's easy to make I'm moving into rights good show up you say some lines Wow look at the camera he's like look I've done enough projections where I know no I projected enough movies I know what it takes I know cinema is in my blood it is sprach got nothing but film and splicing I can't wait for that HBO show to come out and no one you mean - yeah my projections you want just a movie you don't want a whole series about you and the sex in the cinema park exit get to the setting somebody that'll have to be for next time okay I think we covered a lot of there was a lot of sex in cinemas not on the screen no like in this room in on around under it's a dark room it's a dark room you know a lot of position options though surprise call the show one dark a big dark room big dark room yeah something like that it was a dark night it was a dark stormy night always a pleasure Steve good thank you so much for being here what do you got coming on seen it were you writing I'm writing about young projection who just pushed the play button on the digital No the young the young ones are in stuff into the vinyls yeah into the analog stuff yeah yeah why why cuz they listen ah because they when they play files that's just sort of their ya gotta love those analog truth those analog people up and coming down a lot of people are evil yeah I guess so that'll they'll do us in alright alright follow Steve on Twitter audio feely AK man read all of his contributions to cnet.com we're back next week with a brand new show eight six six four four Cena that's the phone number you can shoot us an email the four four at cnet.com make sure you subscribe and listen to Russ's new show where can we find that it's called west wing history class if you like to show the west wing Steve I'm sure you hate it I like house of cards okay you segue into no because that show get too awful after the first season I'm violently disagree if you like West Wing or your interest in West Wing watch them watch on Netflix just watching the show and then you can listen to our companion podcast called the west wing 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